skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> anti-blocking measures are implemented ethically

Your assumption that blocking is somehow ethical by default is not unproblematic.

There's a world wide web built by academics for free exchange of information and there's a closed garden web built by major capitalists.

Just how free that exchange of information should be is not a settled problem. Some very libertarians argue along the lines of information "wanting to be free". Some commercial entities seem to identify copyright and trademark law with moral doctrines. There are plenty of arguments for in-between positions as well.

If we look at less democratic societies, the efforts made to circumnavigate state censorship are publicly lauded as morally good actions by the international community. Could an analogy be drawn to large corporations censoring the less fortunate in a economically uneven societies too, for instance?
> As his gains swelled, so did his spending on everything from sports betting and bars to luxury cars.

The sports betting wasn't part of his investing strategy. This feels like a "No True Scotsman" fallacy to say these people aren't really investors.
Graphs are always hard. I would love seeing graph databases to be more common, but no.
> Don't get the privacy concerns. I'm totally fine if people know what I post on Reddit.

Good for you. But for others, pseudonimity is a way of protecting themselves in real life. There are people who cannot express their views on certain subjects without inviting scrutiny, or even danger, in their real lives.

> It's public.

There are private subreddits.
This incentivizes people to blindly make lots of normally risky and/or stupid investments with no fear of consequences and the potential of high upside if one of them pays off. This lack of consequences is subsidized by someone (taxpayers), who need to fund the burden of all the salaries of the unproductive companies that were paying salaries / buying materials / etc.
I highly recommend this software if its capabilities fall into what you need. It is very fast both in terms of indexing speed and search. It’s relatively simple to setup and start working against, and I have found it very reliable.

It works best when you have a SQL data store you want to index against, but with the real time index you can treat it more like elastic and other searches. However for that first use case of SQL, I don’t know of anything else that comes close to being as easy to use.

Simply point it at your database, give it a query to pull what you want to index and you are done. I suspect that this covers about 90% of use cases out there.

If you need more than what the DB native indexing is giving you give it a try.
Well, today I can't afford to buy anything on either side of the hill on QA.
Equality achieved! I'm only half kidding though.
The question is about Elon. The car I guess is still registered to him. So legally, wouldn’t he still has a claim to it?
I try to do one of these at the first of every month. It's hit-and-miss but you can look for Ask HN on the first of the month. It goes back a while.
Check out Sebastian Lague’s Digital Logic Sim too. Comes with some of my favourite videos!

https://sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-sim
Whoops my bad. I thought I saw crappy beer when I posted. Still stand by my sentiments thought.
Fair enough, didn't think this was spam. I personally thought it'd be interesting to HN.
As a response to the above challenge, this is quite the stretch
A stable society stands on a set of shared principles, not on blind respect of each other traditions, no matter what those are.

That no-cremation rule was made for a good reason, but that reason can't be explained to masses, hence the "just do what the sacred book tells you!" A dead body isn't completely dead, so it's better (more respectful, indeed) to keep it for two months, and then it can be burnt. But you can't keep the rotting corpse for so long due to diseases, so it's better to bury it, and once it's there it's silly to dig it out and burn. To skip these endless arguments, and the futile attemps to reason with common folk, the instructions are put into a sacred book.
We're likely going to move off of them. Last year we were using their Wireguard "peering" feature to connect our RDS DB (as recommended by their blog)[0].

This feature had a multi-hour outage, and when we wrote in for support, we were told "[t]he Wireguard peers are intended to get you development access to your network. We didn't really build them to handle inter service communication that affects uptime. The gateways we run wireguard peers on are not redundant."

We stopped using the feature (using Tailscale instead), but in my opinion, that directly contradicts the spirit of their blog and docs, and it really left a bad taste in our mouth. We're probably going to move to Render or something similar soon.

[0]: https://fly.io/blog/ipv6-wireguard-peering/#wireguard-peerin...
It's also a possibility that Hersh has been a victim of a bullshitter.
Interesting take on tech and Austin over a long period. I was one signature away from moving there in 2019. I had visited Austin on behalf of clients for fours years prior. It has it charms and a Texas-like version of Denver in a way. I passed on Austin because of its subtropical humid climate. My allergies coupled with high humidity made it an unbearable place to be for long periods of time. I put Miami in the same bucket. After years of traveling and experiencing multiple major US cities, I am sticking with Mediterranean climates.
Possibly the family needs thing (which is true for me now, but wasn't then). I'm not sure it would have even worked though. Once they bring up the prospect of a promotion, they've already used a bunch of political capital to open that spot for you and it's an insult to say no. I get is different for other companies or even just other departments, but that's how it was for that one.

The other thing is, my company measures your engagement and potential by how ambitious you are. The reason they wanted to get rid of me is because they thought with an answer like that I would be disengaged and didn't have any potential.
Note:
Historically, outside of concert halls, there are room shapes that redirect sound. [1]

Dynamically changing room accoustics would be an interesting modern take [2], but think that'd have to wait for equivalent of 3d version of eink and/or readily available dynamic mass density and acoustic metamaterials.

[1] From Whispering Galleries to Echo Chambers, These Five Architectural Structures Have Extraordinary Acoustics : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/worlds-weirdest-echoes...

[2] The Effect on Room Acoustical Parameters Using a Combination of Absorbers and Diffusers—An Experimental Study in a Classroom : https://www.mdpi.com/2624-599X/2/3/27
Ah, almost like a little bit of a lower level trino, where DuckDB is able to push out queries to different data storage endpoints?
Yeah, if the fission industry wants to be taken seriously they need to hire assassins to murder Shellenberger in his sleep. I have some sympathy for the scientific and technical justifications for fission, but I have some doubts about the economics and whether capitalist private utilities can be trusted to operate the reactors. I have zero doubts that Shellenberger is a mendacious tool of the fossil fuel industry who will say or do literally anything that will lead to a repeat appearance on Fox News. Therefore with him on the side of fission I am firmly 100% against it.
I like the taste of IPAs but can't stand the hangovers if i have more than one
> is having a well-calibrated sense of your future regret

If there's a single thing you learn from experience is how you feel when things go poorly.

Regret seems to need some sort of hope that if you could go back in time, you could choose a different path purely by your own actions.

That you believe that you are the person who drives your life forward.

On the other hand, I've met a few fatalistic people who had zero regrets, relying on the future to be decided for them whatever their actions are.
I am wondering the same question. I suppose if the decay is totally random throughout any given volume of uranium, then separating it out would have to be chemical or electromagnetic or something?
it was all free to the guests. the passage was in response to how good the miracle wine was to have tasted. it was the end of the night when they were running out of wine, so the expectation would be that they had already long finished off the good stuff. but here they are bringing out the best wine at the end of the shindig.
And in some places it’s illegal to build something like that. Zoning laws can be so restrictive, even in urban areas like those you mention.

I think supermarkets becoming 4-over-1 buildings with living places above them would be fantastic. Walk down to the first floor to get your groceries, walk them up to your home.
Just wanted to chime in to say that it seems like all the puzzles are still solveable without the shift key. (I'm mid-way through the flip-flop section, perhaps there's moments you need it in the final level?)
edit: I take it back, foiled by delay
That isn't a "random listicle", it's a list of major macroeconomic indicators that are very well known. You're free to discover for yourself that housing starts is among the major indicators used by the government and businesses in their determination of the health of the economy.

You're dismissing other indicators, like GDP and unemployment, in favor of the one you personally feel is important; that's called cherry picking. When determining the health of the economy, you need to look at all major indicators.

>But we're not trying to forecast global GDP

This has exactly nothing to do with trying to forecast global GDP; that's not what these indicators are for.
I only point them out to say that nobody should be trusted when the stakes are so high. Not the government nor the press. It always ends poorly.
Anyone who lives Austin able to provide anecdotes?
I can empathise. Telling them that you didn’t want a management-style position was probably the right move given all the reasons you laid out, but it’s also an implicit rejection of everything that the people around you are striving for. They equate management with productivity and respect. You’re thinking of it like the difference between a pilot and an air traffic controller. Jobs with vastly different purposes. But still, your decision called their value system into question in a very profound way. It’s not like saying that you don’t want that kind of job, it’s more like you didn’t want to work with them more closely. And most people, myself included, don’t have the emotional intelligence to handle rejection maturely. It all gets very petty.
SARS-CoV-2 has already spread everywhere. The majority of people worldwide have been infected at least once. Exponential spread is no longer a thing. Transmission will continue forever at lower levels, just like other endemic human coronaviruses such as HCoV-OC43. At this point, giving Paxlovid to a few more COVID-19 patients is unlikely to significantly reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2.

There may be good reasons to prescribe Paxlovid more widely. It's just that reducing transmission probably isn't one of those reasons.
There is so much wrong with this comment I'm not sure where to begin.

0. Nuclear is not forbidden.

1. Nuclear power is exceedingly common in many countries.

2. Electricity production is not (by far) the only source of carbon emissions. Why have we also not seen any major action to reduce emissions from other sources? Or did the treehuggers also force people to fly, eat meat and drive large cars?

3. > Last best hope.

Energy efficiency. Regulation incentivizing fuel efficiency. Low carbon public transportation. Incentives to reduce the carbon emissions from agriculture. Renewables. The list of available remedies is long.

But sure, go ahead and blame environmentalists for the destruction profit driven market capitalism caused. If that soothes your cognitive dissonance.
I didn't feel like I was burning bridges. I obviously worded it more gently and stuff.

It's consistently ranked as a best place to work. The written policies are great, but they don't matter because there are unwritten backroom policies. They are also one of the largest employers in the area and I can't move due to family issues. I was screwed, but sure, if one has other options, one should take them.
Cable wasn’t around long before the ads came along.
To be fair, this sounds like an apples to oranges comparison.

Given any "cloud" instace (VM), it's pretty much guaranteed it will be considerably slower than a dedicated server of same size.

Also, it seems you are comparing a local database (single dedicated server) with a clustered database ("few-node cluster").

That said, I totally get the cost-benefit argument and this is also why I started using dedicated servers for my own projects.
Expiring Central Bank Digital Currency [pdf]
System Design Interview: A Step-by-Step Guide
It is probably the result of military being secretive in nature and civilian efforts being more open so there is more oversight and awareness.
The bugs in this game lead to some of the greatest gameplay of all time.

I think the best bug was the movement possibilities during spell casting from breaking animations. It created one of the most complex and amazing PK (PvP) dynamics of any MMO to exist.

The complexity of being able to move only so much to still get your cast off, and being able to slightly fast-cast or hold long delay-casts to "outplay" your opponents created so much depth to duels it was incredible.

Even after all these years I can still remember the Arc cast I would do, it was the keyboard combo:
Hold Left -> Hold Z -> X -> tap/hold up to control the radius
Then Hold Right -> Hold C -> X -> tap up to reverse the arc to return to where you initiated the cast so the spell could go off.

Man I miss this game, I hope someone creates a wonderfully buggy remake someday!
Show HN: The Generative Review #1
Well, OpenSCAD isn't Turing-complete. What do you mean, you have to write? OpenSCAD focuses on scene description... I'm not sure what you mean here?
Haha. My Chem major roommate and I used to do this in college while hosting house parties. We'd do 3 rounds of filtration using a Britta purifier with Popov Vodka and fill up a sanitized Ketel One bottle with the result.

Popov, Smirnoff, and Ketel One are all owned by Diaego PLC and due to Federal regulations, all vodka is almost basically the same - excluding filtration of course.
where did you end up going? I love Austin but its a little too hot during the summer.
General nuclear paranoia stemming from Cold War M.A.D., Chernobyl and Three Mile Island seem to spring to my mind. Not so much your naked tree-hugger in a historical vacuum theory.
> Why blow up a gas line but not sent ATACMS?

Because the strategic goal is is not to militarily defeat Russia, which would probably be impossible, but to drive a hard geopolitical wedge between the EU and the rising Russia-Iran-India-China Eurasian multipolar order, and thereby secure EU dependence on Washington (rather than losing it to the gravitational pull of Eurasia). A limited proxy war, and blowing up economic links between the two, are two ways of achieving that.
This doesn’t explain Microsoft, which is just as old and laid off as much people.
I wonder how much The Simpsons contributed to nuclear fear.

No, but seriously, I only have one criticism. What about all the rest of the world? The developed world and the big developing countries might be trusted with nuclear fission, but there are still a whole bunch of countries who cannot be. So in some sense this debate is stupid. Deploy nuclear were it makes sense, but there are definitely places where renewables are their only green option. Luckily lots of those places have plenty of sun and wind.
My point is that patents are abused enough already.

We should not allow patenting of genomes/genes. Full stop. We should rely on those other systems of breeder's rights.
I'm still using an iPhone 7 and while it doesn't support the latest iOS, I can still install apps from the app store.
+ if the Toyota engine fails in a car you tow it to a shop -- if the 172 engine fails you emergency land in the best case (or crash in the worst). There is just a whole lot more onus to work on plane engines and that should and does come with a price tag...
My take is that distros are collections of opinions, some with exposed customization allowed.

The package manager is part of it, sure.

The filesystmem is another big part of it (though it's possible most are following XDG now https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-... )

Init system used to be a big point of deleniation, but I think systemd is the standard now (for better or worse)

The filesystem and networking stack still have some variability.

There's still default applications, kernel modules, a gui app installer, the desktop, included drivers, and many more things that go into a distro. If you go with a distro that uses KDE and you switch to GNOME for example, you might lose a lot of GUI support for customization, might have to build addon packages yourself, etc.

It's all open source at the end of the day, but that optionality leads to a less streamlined user experience and lack of guardrails as soon as you step off the beaten path, than you would get with something like OSX
I think you're wrong. These AIs are available to everyone. So anyone can create studio quality audio by clicking around.

If anything, it potentially puts big studios out of business. Itunes and and Spotify and Youtube become the distribution channels.
Saying that a turbine can theoretically be recycled, but at such a high cost that people simple bury them in a field is pretty much the same as saying they can't be recycled.
Thanks! Glad it holds a special place for you :)

In retrospect, I give a lot of credit to the fact that we were young and dumb and didn't know any better. I've been revisiting a lot of the stories from back then and so many of them end up with us saying, "I dunno, let's see what happens!" and not being dissuaded by "best practices" or even common sense.

Also lots of credit goes to the early internet era when people were a LOT more forgiving of, well, everything.
The man behind Trump World’s myth of rigged voting machines
Where is your source for the Pentagon calling it nonsense? Here's George W. Bush publicly apologizing for the abuses on May 7, 2004:

https://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/07/bush.apology/inde...

Hersh's New Yorker article was published April 30. His reporting was based on the Army's Taguba report, which leaked broadly in the first week of May. Other reporters had access to and reported on the leaked report. There's absolutely grounds to criticize the Pentagon in terms of its lack of transparency with regards to the report, but once the story was broken it was way too well-substantiated to outright deny.
It may not be sufficient for a conviction in criminal court, but it goes a long way in the court of public opinion. As well it should.
The surprising part of it is, it took so long to dogfood their products.
Elevenlabs, by some ex-googlers: https://beta.elevenlabs.io/ If anything, the results I've heard from this are better than the demos.

And VALL-E by Microsoft, which isn't quite as good, but notable because it can clone real voices with only three seconds of training data:
https://valle-demo.github.io/
They don't seem to distinguish it either in price or description. Hopefully it's restocked soon!
I spent 8 months on a death march of a project that colored Austin for me but that aside, infrastructurally, Austin sucked getting around and didn't have a ton to offer that didn't revolve around UT (6th primarily) or Rainey. The public transit (what is that streetcar thing even?) is horribly underdeveloped and heavily car dependent. Downtown is "bridge and tunnel"-y. Maybe if I had ventured out to the burbs more, I would have found more? But it was pretty underwhelming.
Kickstarter and Indiegogo have quite a few charlatans selling a tech version of snake oil, and they don't care because they get 10% (or whatever their fees are).
That doesn't match my experience in Boston.

Multiple neighborhoods I lived in had walking access to Stop & Shop, Star Market, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Target, bfresh, cheap overstock/clearance stores, a farmers market, and other independent grocers, many catering to nationalities/ethnicities with large subcommunities in the area. Just a train or bus ride away I could go to Market Basket, Roche Brothers, Wegmans, a worker owned-co-op, and more farmers markets and independent grocers.

Costco was a longer train ride away, but accessible if you wanted something specifically from there. Delivery is more economical because of the shorter distances involved.

You can see this yourself by doing a map search.

In rural areas I've lived, one is common, sometimes zero within a fifteen minute drive. Suburban areas might have two or three regional supermarkets, plus Walmart, Target, Costco and/or Sam's, but always way fewer within the area covered by the same travel time.
Sen. Josh Hawley wants to create a legal age to be allowed on social media
> International District: Euphemism for Chinatown, not expensive

It’s not a euphemism. Euphemism refers to a word that conceals something unpleasant or embarrassing. It is anything but. It is working class yes but nothing wrong with that.

The full name (since 1999) is Chinatown-ID. The majority of the inhabitants are Chinese but it encompasses Little Saigon and the less prominent but still existing Japantown (Uwajimaya and several Japanese businesses still have a presence).
SF is walkable if elevation is not a problem for you. Some slopes are so steep that it's like hiking up a trail.

At least it isn't like San Jose or Newark, where sidewalks just aren't there along some roads, in residential area, or suddenly cut short in the middle of a block where you have to walk back to the previous crossing for an alternative route. And there are _so many_ dead ends without warning. So many.
If anyone remembers the days when guys like "Rookie" or the UD's figured this out and mastered it, what a time to be alive! Good ol' AB wars... :)
I don't have enough money to be investing in Wagyu beef ranches but I agree with that (especially if they really get cell based meat going, but even without just based on regs and consumer behavior RE animal cruelty). Eventually it'll be just premium meats vs... tbd (plant replacements, bugs, cell based meat off an assembly line)
ChatGPT jokes that don't suck
The answers aren't curated.

Write dad jokes in the ah ah ah youtube format

1. Why did the tomato turn red?
Ah Ah Ah! Because it saw the salad dressing!

2. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
Ah Ah Ah! A gummy bear!

3. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
Ah Ah Ah! Because he was outstanding in his field!

4. Why do seagulls fly over the sea?
Ah Ah Ah! Because if they flew over the bay, they'd be bagels!

5. What do you get when you cross a snowman and a vampire?
Ah Ah Ah! Frostbite!

6. Why do bicycles fall over?
Ah Ah Ah! Because they're two-tired!

7. Why did the chicken cross the playground?
Ah Ah Ah! To get to the other slide!

8. How does a penguin build its house?
Ah Ah Ah! Igloos it together!
Hersh is well connected to the Russian intelligence agencies and has been for his entire career, including before the recently very viable "Debunking" of his Syria story-line (another story that benefited Russia). He's publicly stated he is close friends with Scott Ritter, who recently called for Ukraine's "annihilation", and both are regular guests on propaganda organ RT.

Hersh's previous activity played a key role in eliminating support for anti-Russian forces in Syria. Hundreds of thousands are dying in Ukraine right now. I think it's pretty obvious exactly why Russia would want want to pin these explosions on the USA, and why the USA would take steps to ensure the truth came out,