skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't post like this to HN—it just leads to flamewar hell. You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in so many other places too that I think we have to ban this account, at least until we get some reason to believe that you'll use the site as intended in the future.

To be honest, I'm not sure what to make of your comments or your profile page—I don't fully understand them (especially the latter) and I'm worried that you might be in distress. If that's true and there's anything we can do to help, you'd be welcome to email me at hn@ycombinator.com. If not, I'm sorry for posting something irrelevant; please ignore.

Either way, we can't have accounts posting flamewar comments and political/national/ideological fulmination to HN, even if you're completely right on the issues (which I'm not saying you aren't).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess I am too slow in that I opened a Facebook account for the first time ever in may 2012 and it was where everybody seemed to be at, only for a couple years later everybody started to open a parallel Instagram account - I never could understand why people would want to use another thing additional to a thing that could do the same?

In those years you could notice Facebook became a wasteland, the Cambridge analytica scandal surfaced and got so stressed just by opening the app - I deleted my account in 2018. But for my surprise, people around here seems to be quite happy with Facebook (which here in Latin America seems to refuse to die!), Instagram, twitter, Snapchat and now tik tok accounts - how do they handle all of that?
I believe I’ve used apple cider vinegar (with the drop of soap) instead.
I see what you're saying .. and yes, it's (obviously) true that in order to protect individuals' rights we necessarily have to restrict some: to protect individuals' property rights means we have to restrict what non-owners are allowed to do with that property.

But to say that Government exists to promote outcomes that benefit everyone against individuals' self-interest is like saying that pit-mines exist because we enjoy creating giant pits. Or that cars exist so that we can burn a bunch of fuel. The restrictions on individuals' rights are necessary evils, which need to be carefully considered and minimized.

Hearing it framed the way you did does help me understand many peoples' points of view better though.
It's nice to live in walking distance of your job, friends, and favourite restaurants. It's nice to be able to visit bars and not worry about how to get home. It's nice to not be stuck on a virtual island without your car.
I met someone that seemed to experience the cognitive dissonance in real time. Voted for people who advocated affordable housing. They built some next to her and she started calling and complaining and going to meetings.

Apparently the building was too tall or too close or too many of the people in it were not the sort she wanted to live next to. But shes is still a fan of affordable housing in other neighborhoods.
getting context on bug reports are such a pain on mobile, replays would be super useful for nailing bug reports
I have posted photos to Instagram but I don’t understand the point. I rarely take picture of myself . Mostly I take photos using my macro camera , cool things I have seen like architecture or the local environment and graffiti and real life stickers. Is it mainly just to share photos of yourself?
It was the same when I deleted all FB properties 3 years ago, except I never went back.
I can't reply to the child comment, but my main point its ridiculous to reduce down human enjoyment into "nothing is strictly necessary and there is no point to human existence or experience" and "you can get all the component pieces of a thing, so what is the benefit of the combined thing" as an argument for cutting things out. But yes, I don't disagree with "you don't need to eat anything complex really if you don't enjoy it and just care about basic sustenance".
Thanks a lot! Yes, we are big believers of open-source :)
Saw six butterflies last night while walking in a highly developed area. I’ll probably see six more tonight. Are anecdotes really how we want to measure this?
The Shield! of course, my favourite show. I've probably watched this about 10 times already.
If an alcoholic tells you he wants to quit but never seems to actually quit, does that make him a liar? Of course not.
It's true that hard borders are a modernish (start of c20th) invention, but they're just as often something that labour asks for in order to prevent labour competition. "Taking our jobs" and all that.

They're also products of both the information-state (being able to know who's in the country through identity document systems) and the jet age. Before the steamship the only real border enforcement was on trade at ports.

The British Empire had "freedom of movement" that effectively lasted only as long as people weren't using it in significant numbers. People could move from the colonies to the centre, and indeed after WW2 the government actively solicited Jamaicans to do so (Empire Windrush), but resistance from the public has increased since then.
Can you explain further, please? I don't doubt what you are saying, but don't know why it is "obvious". Is it, because the amount of sea water is so large, relative to the amount of 'pollution'?

The abstract of the paper linked in the article seems to support your statement, though.

"For the past several hundred million years, oxygen concentrations in Earth's atmosphere have been comparatively high[..]. Yet, the oceans seem never to have been far from anoxia (oxygen depletion)[..] OAEs seem to be promoted by warm climates[...] ocean oxygen concentrations are declining in the modern ocean [...] A full-scale OAE would take thousands of years to develop[...]"
(OAE = oceanic anoxic event)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaj2321

So my layman summary of that particular study, would be, that the oceans have always been one the “edge of anoxia”, and although human activity could push it closer to that, there is no reason to believe that it could happen in our lifetime or that of our grand-grand children.
Sunak is gearing up to spend £800M on UK supercomputer
I bookmarked the messages page in instagram in my web browser and deleted the app, that way I can stay in contact with friends and family without the distraction.

This interaction pattern isn't possible in the app, and users are forced to view the most captivating post in their feed upon opening.
Your link seems to suggest the opposite above that quote.

> They base the need on distance to nearest fire house and nearest credible fire hydrant.

So there are obviously situations where SFHs do not need automatic sprinkler systems.

Most of my subdivision was built after 2006; none of the homes have sprinkler systems but there are also fire hydrants every 5 or 6 homes so I imagine that has something to do with it. The fire house is also a ~90 second drive down one street (at the speed they'd be going).
Good share, I had the same feeling visiting Taiwan and then coming back to California.

But yeah when I was in LA and had to start going to therapy because the neighbors in our orwellian apartment building were making so much noise I was having week-long panic attacks the therapist told me he grew up in S.Korea and people would stab their neighbors over noise regularly.

He was a great guy but that was kind of his only advice? That stuck with me.
That sounds miserable. Is there blog post or something with more details that supports this? I might be having a knee jerk reaction because I can't imagine something like this being easy to work with and maintain but I recognize you were just giving a trivial example.
Can you recommend that app to block non-essential apps? I reflexively open stuff on my phone
Actually, I didn't know about the site, so I'm glad that the comment was posted. It seems like a great resource for project idea prompts that can be taken, modified/customized/generalized/specialized into something new!
I'm still a daily gmane user, thankfully you're mistaken and it's still alive and well, just nntp only (news.gmane.io)! I honestly don't know what I would do if it did die, it's such a large part of how I use the internet.
>> But it's true that colour photography is essentially dead for non billionaires

I prefer B&W. But still admire lots of color photographers. One of them is Christopher Burkett, one of the few folks who still do Cibachrome prints these days. His prints are so marvelous that people may easily mistake them as digital images.

Of course, what he's doing takes lots of expertise and money.
Money buys time and attention.

If you have money, you can go to any restaurant you like and order anything you like and now have to worry. IIRC DHH mentioned something like that happened with him after BaseCamp became popular.

You can avoid waiting in lines. At the airport, instead of waiting in long security lines and crowded terminals, you can buy first class and go through smaller dedicated security lines and wait in a nice lounge. You can even avoid the trip to a crowded airport completely if you fly via private jet.

You can pay someone to clean your home.

All these things buy time and attention. If you use that extra time and attention for something worthwhile - that is up to you
"The sad thing is we may loose the history that came from dejanews ..."

What is the status of usenet archives and backups, circa 2023 ?

I've mentioned this before and will mention it again now:

I am very enthusiastic about preserving usenet/fidonet archives and will contribute cash money as well as free rsync.net storage to any serious endeavors in that realm.
My account will auto delete after 30 days? That’s actually pretty nice if true.
If that's the bar you want to use, then you will discover it is also hard to find anything that matters to happiness. As the authors put it:

"The correlation between average happiness and log(income) is 0.09 in the experience sampling data, for example, and the difference between the medians of happiness at household incomes of $15,000 and $250,000 is about five points on a 100-point scale. The flattening and accelerating patterns are even smaller modulations of a small effect. However, the emotional effects of other circumstances are also small. KD reported that the effect of an approximately fourfold difference in income is about equal to the effect of being a caregiver, twice as large as the effect of being married, about equal to the effect of a weekend, and less than a third as large as the effect of a headache."
This is all true, but the result of social media is that people feel like they’re getting social fulfillment despite, in most cases, getting anything of value. So people are irritable, exhausted, and feel no need for offline socialization.

We’ll eventually come up with ways to resist this, but it’ll be hard. We can’t, if we live in the expensive cities where the jobs are, return to the real physical world, because that place was bought by the rich when we weren’t looking and now they own it.
How is this different from Edge the browser?
This is just the way of capitalism, and it's how the entire economy works. I mean, you're so concerned with the artists work being stolen, but what of the scientists? Yes, the art produced by Stable Diffusion isn't possible without the artists, but it's also not possible without the countless scientists who have worked over decades to get this technology to where it is. I didn't hear artists complaining when they were happily using technologies developed by people who were not compensated when their work was productized by corporations.

Where is their attribution? Should we expect Microsoft and OpenAI et al. to list the authors of the papers they used to work through the technical aspects of their product? Should all of the open source projects they leveraged be attributed and compensated? If we are going to ask Microsoft to share profits with artists, shouldn't we also ask them to share profits with scientists and open source devs?

Arguably, yes! But if so, then the focus on the poor artists being robbed is misplaced. If artists are being robbed by corporations, then they can get in line if they want a payout, because the rest of us are being robbed too. It's a much larger problem than just artists -- it's that corporations capture all of the downstream benefits of upstream content/science/technology developments, and then refuse to reinvest at a proportional rate back into the system that allowed them to profit so handsomely. This applies to the scientists and the artists.

So yes, be mad at what Microsoft is doing. But the solution isn't to get them to pay artists, that doesn't fix anything. If we want actual change, we need to fundamentally reimagine the relationship between corporations and the rest of us. If the only way to get there is for corporations to screw over more people until enough wake up, then so be it.
I find monk fruit to be utterly unpalatable.
Do you have a source showing that lower income people are the ones who are leaving or are you guessing?

Bloomberg has pretty convincingly argued that it is actually the middle class (the upper-middle class particularly), those who can afford rent and pay the highest tax load to states, who are leaving places like CA and NY. New York has all but admitted that is the case, too:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-02-16/new-yo...

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-31/states-wi...

* https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-mayor-eric-adams-ce...

* https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-remote-work-eric-a...
I didn't want to delete my Instagram account but they went ahead and algo'd it into the trash can anyway, after first making me upload a selfie with a piece of paper with a random code written on it.

Truly a bizarre experience.

After I tweeted about it I discovered there's an underground economy of people claiming to be able to restore your account.
gnarly bug! what's the name of the paper?
I understand what you're attempting here, but invaliding someone's feelings, even if they aren't true, doesn't work and isn't helpful. All it does is make a person not trust their feelings (at best) instead of calibrating their feelings and understanding where they come from.

Instead, accept that they feel some way. And encourage them not to let those feelings hold them back (also, avoid "but"s those also minimize or invalidate feelings).

For example, even if someone is suicidal, psychologists are trained to listen and accept their feelings.

Then help them understand why they feel that way and if other interpretations or actions can make extreme thoughts and feelings more manageable or understandable.

Depressed/suicidal people have the most accurate grasp of reality. Self-delusion and protection from self-harm are built-in into the psyche, so it's not that their feelings are inaccurate, but that unrealistic optimism is the only way humans (and other animals) can cope with reality.
Yes, racial and economic segregation.
> Me: Deletes instagram.
At least the last time I looked, Usenet spam was so lazy that it was pretty easy to filter: the exact same ads posted again and again (filter the article title), or schizophrenics posting under the same username 100 times a day (filter the name). Usenet clients made it pretty easy, once you learned the right commands, to instantly shitcan all future messages which matched [sender/title/some string in the body/etc.]

Unfortunately, while it's easy to filter stuff, it means that every newcomer sees the unfiltered crap and has to figure out filtering for themselves.
Idk, i think borders exist to exclude other groups of peoples. this is why european countries kept splitting up on various racial groups (check and slovaks, all of yugoslavia) Businesses on the other hand would prefer to have access to all peoples. and to have access to cheaper or better labor wherever it is, giving us the success of the european union.
You can puts ducts in a soffit so they don't necessarily need to be inside the walls. I've lived in two apartments with ducts inside soffits. Both were still very loud.
That is ahistorical. Rome, Greece and so on generally required you to file paperwork, pay money and usually join the military if you wanted to be able to move in their borders and have rights.

Even moving to a new tribe in Native peoples in North America required proving a blood relation, having someone vouch for you, or being skilled enough they would accept you in.
I’m not sure what you’re saying. There are other factors that have changed between now and then, such as the general acceptability of being unmarried, family planning tools, reduced religiosity, and woolier stuff like people’s idea of what a good life is.
From what I understand, it's the result of the lack of US vehicle safety standards. Or perhaps a loophole in them.

Trucks have different safety standards than cars, and car manufacturers find the car safety standards annoying, so they started marketing trucks to consumers. They don't have to obey the same regulations as cars, and yet because they're light trucks, they don't require a commercial driving license. That's the loophole through which the US car industry managed to drive their entire industry.
Why Success Doesn’t Lead to Satisfaction
DARPA has been thinking about this: https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/AISS_ProposersDay_LeefSlid...

(aside: fascinating example of a US military slide deck, like a 90s fever dream made in Harvard Graphics)

Here’s also a Voices from DARPA episode, which suggests they’ve been funding research since at least 2012: https://blubrry.com/voices_from_darpa/30975140/episode-17-gu...

In terms of ensuring designs are not tampered with seems like watermarking is the direction they’re exploring.

Another fascinating concept was the “silicon odometer” to ensure recycled chips aren’t reintroduced into the supply chain.

Asianometry has a fascinating video on that issue: https://youtu.be/7epnv43jGV8
The primary reason is to make Intel CPU's more competitive compared to ARM. It's not all about the silicon. The compilers and OS code can affect performance in big ways.
Get your nutrients from everything else, you don’t need sugar for nutrients, and that’s not why you put it in a chocolate cookie
Getting some really strong OSINT probe vibes here.

But yes, it's possible that NATO forces could enter the fight. There are already large quantities of NATO troops in Poland, Estonia, etc. Entire US, British, French, etc. brigades on standby.

This isn't new -- we've played these games for damn near 50 years of Cold War. Most of the leaders of NATO, to include Putin and Biden, were Cold Warriors and grew up during that era. They know the game and what's at stake.

But that means lots of staredowns, not necessarily a lot of fighting. Ukraine isn't NATO -- hell, 50 years ago UKR was USSR, and would have been shooting at NATO forces -- and if they need to be sacrificed to collapse the Russian government then so be it. Welcome to Realpolitik.

To that end NATO will prop them up as much as needed to continue grinding down Russian military and economic forces. I believe they will let UKR collapse and be taken over instead of sending troops; only if NATO forces are attacked directly, or maybe if nukes are involved, will NATO do anything more than it is now. Furthermore, it's possible that Ukraine actually wins -- they appear to be absorbing, at high cost mind you, the renewed Russian offensive, and may soon be able to hit back with their own...
I think your dots almost connecting; your points are taken.

A fairly clear threat to any society is masses of un(der)employed young males. People with capability+ambition but no outlet.

So what about all those surplus advanced degrees ? What if they start an evil organisation along the lines of SPECTRE ?
Yeah, I'd ban them by making quality standards high enough to eliminate them. Politically connected contractors working through YIMBYs will never let that happen.
I love how prompts tend to paint a picture of the author's tribulation, their storied journey to getting a workable result - 'do not do [something that went wrong]', etc.
Even in the era of remote work, businesses are attracted to places with strong (as in a well developed & highly skilled workforce) labor markets.

Workers who have high career capital are mobile and can generally choose where they want to live.

Nothing about this is unserious just because it doesn’t fit your worldview.
I had a teacher that in the 80s or something made an experiment where he would drop lots of elements/composites that were "good candidates" in a melting pot and hope that some superconductor material would come out from it.

He made some important discoveries there but no "room temperature" superconductor came from there. I wonder how AI could be used in the "same way" with data and much less effort.
Ans that’s why I said “without the other stuff mixed in”.
It’s tricky. American unions avoid coordinating with their American counterparts because of corruption.

Unions have a very specific set of rules to play by, and these rules are different for each country.
Ring doorbells providing this information to law enforcement quickly and easily is working as intended and is part of the reason it exists at all. Amazon has even used police to sell the doorbells arguing it provides better security [1].

It is great that the people who had their video data provided to law enforcement were notified after the fact in this situation. I wonder how many people never find out due to national security letters not allowing it.

[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-polic...
Why do you assume to know best about what should be everywhere? This thread gives examples of how this is the only level of density that is even being allowed, but why cheer that? People, when left to their own devices, have generally preferred something like von Thunen rings, rather than a single level of density. Letting such decisions play out organically ought to be the default position, unless you have some very strong non-aesthetic reason to do otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_Th%C3%BCne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentric_zone_model
New stories of women founders on Google Play
QuackingDuck: Using OpenAI's ChatGPT as Natural Language Interface for DuckDB
The Facebook experience seems to depends a lot on the age group. For the older than 1970s age group, Facebook experience is very similar to what early Facebook was for high school and universities in the 2000s. With lots of photo updates from friends.
https://groups.io is good for mailing lists, yes.
The difference is that the voice UI didn't require training and is available to everyone, immediately.

Efficient UIs are awesome, but generally require some familiarity. A natural language voice interface is ubiquitous.
I'd sure hope the tutorial gets updated, if that's what the git team decide to change the default to. The people running the main git documentation site seem to do a pretty good job of keeping up to date, though, so I'm optimistic.

This would sort itself out pretty quickly, though. Different aspects of git's usage are constantly changing and any tutorial that doesn't keep up to date would be irrelevant sooner or later.
The Registers of Rust
I would expect “transcribe any audio” to mean music transcription, Personally.
I think having very infrequent large long outages is the norm here actually.

I can't think of any company this size that didn't have some outage of this magnitude at least once.

Facebook BGP for instance, Slack in Feb of '22, Cloudflare in June, YouTube, Twitch, Sony PlayStation etc etc have all had incidents this wide and long.