skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a much simpler explanation: people are worried about the environment and global warming, so they are willing to try out a lot of different things that they think might help, but lo and behold, it turns out that some of those things actually help and others turn out not to, and because some of the things that don't help maybe still get a lot of attention or the associated behaviors linger on, well-intentioned people look like idiots. But, realistically, how could any large scale movement to change the way we live be any different? What do you think you are contributing by being smug and cynical?

(By the way, those college-educated Westerners are also choosing to live smaller, use more public transport, drive fewer miles, invest in durable goods, insulate their homes, buy heat pumps and vote for parties that want to do something about industrial pollution. It's not all canvas shopping bag virtue signaling.)
Mostly just riffing on the NYT article that described the emergence of Sydney in Bing Search Preview as being because Sydney was 'too powerful' and kept breaking through, riffing off HP Lovecraft and the machismo-horror that has accompanied the surge in anti-trans panic on HN, Twitter, and everywhere else.

(It's helpful that HP Lovecraft's horror is often motivated by genetic contamination anxiety, i.e. racism, which is a tight analogue for the above, which is also often, at root, a contamination anxiety.)

Focusing specifically on the Sydney issue: Other articles have described the stubborn emergence of 'Sydney' in the latent space (with the persona's particular overreliance on emojis and performed emotional instability) as a sort of 'basin' in the latent space.

As a Trans woman, this description reminded me vividly of transition, which sort of has the same characteristic stubborn emergence of traits, despite frantic attempts to resist -- it wouldn't surprise me if 'basins in the latent space' (basically, a so-called strange attractor) turns out to be a good description of human personalities as well.

Good horror material, esp. if writing for a mostly-male audience. (Sci-fi author here! waves)

I suppose there is some Nietzsche in there as well -- GPT-4 reminds me of (IIRC) _Gotterdammerung_, with its idea that gods are created by collective outflows of human intent and emotion. (Not that I would normally rep Nietzsche, mind you.)
Please be clear about your affiliation with this service (as you were in another thread). Anyway, looks it might be useful with Docker shooting themselves in the foot.
No, money is suppose to exist as solid green paper. The value is imaginary but its existence is physical.

The bank and government claim that if I want my money they can give me my money in green physical paper bills because it exists in the bank.

Problem is that it's a lie. That's why bank runs are possible. And the current bank runs ends with another institution taking over and articulating the same lie.
I could say the same thing about running, overdo it and you’ll hurt yourself.

We don’t need gatekeepers to prescribe these things only when a legitimate medical use demands it. There are countless examples in society where we allow people do things that are dangerous purely for the fun of it. Just because these are drugs we don’t need to justify their use as medicines.

Instead let’s inform the public and have them make their own choice. The regulation should be in proportion to the extent of the harm. In both cannabis use and running, it’s restricted to the individual (and temporary), so we should regulate minimally.
I don't see how coming at a debate from first principles is somehow counter productive?

Shining light on the unsupported parts of the other person's argument is step one of debate.

I contend there is no proof of a machine capable of creation purely from the ether.
Reminds me of this old Fisher Price toy "record player": https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Price-Classics-Record-Player/d...
> companies should just follow the licenses from the beginning

Sure, should. Some don't.
So, developers and activists also need to be policing it.
Singapore is effectively a one party state, with the same group (PAP) in power for over 60 years. They outlawed public protests except for ones specifically sanctioned by them. They control the press. The son of the guy you cited is the current leader of the country. It's nothing like Switzerland at all and never has been, unless your argument is that both countries are capitalist and have leveraged their unique positions as tiny nations between major powers, establishing themselves as banking hubs. Politically, socially and otherwise they're nothing alike.

And just to drive home the point why citing unbiased sources is important: According to the early fascists they were a movement lobbying for democracy and women's rights, among other positive sounding demands. That was right on their manifesto in big letters. It didn't quite turn out that way, and in fact looking back with the power of hindsight people like Mussolini had questionable motives from the start.
An Open Source GPT-Powered (Anti) Recruiting Platform
The Shared Recruiting Co. (SRC) is an open-source, candidate-centric recruiting platform. SRC makes recruiting more efficient and less painful by promoting transparent, opt-in communication between candidates and companies.

For candidates, SRC is an AI-power inbox assistant that manages your inbound job opportunities while you aren't looking for a new role and supercharges your job search once you are.

For companies, SRC is a sourcing sidekick that helps you find the right candidates at the right time without spamming them without follow-up emails.
Like shift the GPS location 1km or rather upload gay porn with Lukashenko?
Did you consume other drugs? Alcohol, coffee, tobacco?
Sounded good, but searching F-droid for "private cam" or "privatecam", etc, yields no result.
I have not that I know of (I don't use social media). My best guess of what happened (little to no evidence) is that it's somehow money laundering related.
Two problems:
Who is going to pay to retrain people for those jobs?

Except for perhaps doctors (and even then residency is BS) all of those jobs are treated or paid like crap.
As municipalities begin to see more and more tax revenue from Cannabis sales the resistance to legalization will decrease more and more. Here in Michigan local communities are going to be receiving close to $60 million dollars based on 2022 sales. https://www.michigan.gov/treasury/news/2023/02/28/adult-use-...

> Aside from the more than $59.5 million in disbursements to municipalities and counties, $69.4 million was sent to the School Aid Fund for K-12 education and another $69.4 million to the Michigan Transportation Fund.

> In total, more than $1.8 billion in adult-use marijuana sales was reported for Fiscal Year 2022.
Good point. And the price of these goods--beef in particular--is completely decoupled from the disproportionate damage it causes. If it was air pollution, we would call it a market failure.
Image you've got a black patient in front of you and you're choosing between two drugs.

One of the drugs has a greater risk of nasty side affects for the black patient.

Which drug do you give the patient?

Should the research that tells you which drug to give be banned?
Did you consider that you might not have the right contract for this type of situation? There a lot of jobs (hospitals, consultancy, ...) that do not fit the standard work agreement (08:00-17:00, 1h lunch, 40h/week).
The law is strict here for the case that it turns out that your agreement was in fact not mutual and your employer expects you to work normal after your overtime phase without rewarding you for it.
The german law is convoluted and can be inflexible but more often then not there are solutions.
I am also not sure why you would be afraid talking about it?
The feeling you get from deriving these for the first time from Schrodinger's Equation the after 100 sheets of calculations... Pardon my French, but it's almost a mental orgasm
Regarding Docker more than Flatpak, but this is precisely what your comment reminded me of: https://xkcd.com/1988/
So what's the alternative? Do nothing? Spend trillions to enable the poor countries to go first? How would that even work? Would it do anything other than enable the oligarchs to steal the money?
It appears curious that you consider video evidence of an incident “war propaganda”.
Thunderbolt is confusing because of the many roles it can adopt. When Thunderbolt is used to connect a PCIe peripheral to a host, it is tunneling PCIe inside packets on Thunderbolt lower layers. The reason this is confusing is because Thunderbolt can also encapsulate DisplayPort traffic, and it can encapsulate DisplayPort and PCIe traffic at the same time, but Thunderbolt ports can also just be DisplayPort ports, electrically, but they cannot be PCIe ports. If you plug a Thunderbolt ports into a DisplayPort display, the Thunderbolt interface will switch modes and simply become a DisplayPort interface. It has the same ability to become a USB port, if it thinks it is connected to a USB peer. But there is no such way for Thunderbolt to be connected to a PCIe device and act like it is just pure PCIe.
Also true — I had managed to temporarily forget about neural tube birth defects in general and anencephaly in particular (do not look that up unless you are extremely resilient to body horror that makes Cronenburg look like an amateur).

Nevertheless, I think "my skin burned and blistered" is a bit more immediate with the painful feedback, even if it's not as extreme.
Tangential, but the one that sticks in my mind is 七転八起, shichitenhakki, which is basically ‘fall seven times, get up eight.’
Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking
I think this is the salient point:

> Only about 2% of visitors over the past few years have used cash, Bacher said.

Practicality trumps ideology here. Particularly when you can still use cash by stopping and purchasing the pass you need elsewhere.
It cleans its orbit of debris, too. A large space shield.
I backup everything.

The thing is also to delete photos you don't want to keep long term. Most of my photos are only synced when I am on my local wifi, so until then having a good hygiene of deleting badly taken photos right after taking them.

Having said that I have recently started (late december) to do a weekly printing session of my key moments of each weeks. Well there have been weeks in january and february I didn't print anything. I sometimes only have one or two photo per day/event but since I put the date on the notebook next to the photo and keep all other photos it helps me find back the whole event if I want to see them all. I am using smaller photo format than 10x15cm, mostly zink 2"x3" adhesive photos and kodak instant print 3"x3" from instant cameras that have a printer function.

I should blog about that.
I ship almost daily, and post about it on my twitter, yeah
There's nothing wrong with this. IMO, Conda is a general-purpose "system environment" and package manager that happens to be written in Python. The fact that its package ecosystem is oriented towards machine learning with Python is almost an historical coincidence.
The birth of a package manager
Warp AI - AI directly integrated into the terminal
A quarter million is still a big number, but I'll admit to my family having 60,000 photos in storage. They're mostly since we started having kids in 2014, which works out to 20 per day. Of course, some days we take zero photos, and other days we take a bunch on burst because it's hard to get a photo of four kids with none of them picking their noses, let alone looking at the camera. When we go out somewhere, I don't even think we take a lot of photos compared to most people; we're mostly in the moment and trying to wrangle the kids, and I'm shooting with a $200 Android phone. So I can imagine a family with older kids, that's more into photography and social media, easily accumulating 4x our number.

Now, we select less than 10% for a private Flickr album that we actually enjoy looking at and sharing with the grandparents, etc. But so far it's been easier and safer to store the remainder instead of deleting them. I've gotten into trouble before with my wife when I deleted a photo that I thought was crummy, but she loved for some reason.

Edited to add: We also photograph all of the kids' artwork as a compromise instead of trying to save all that paper or hang it up somewhere in our house, which would be their preference. Those go into their own albums, which has actually turned out to be pretty neat.
Love this! What's your tech stack for all these projects? Also how do you aggregate all those live viewer counts?
Conda does the same job as Pyenv here, with the additional ability to install system-level libraries, compiler toolchains, etc.
Not a hobby - I treat it like a business that doesn't yet get enough revenue to demand my full attention, and I don't draw income from it
Sony had a similar product a decade ago, but on flat screens - PlayStation Home. It was a virtual space where PlayStation users could create an avatar, visit shared spaces and have their private ones as well. A key difference is that is was running on a platform people already had, and most of the users already had a common interest in using it. I wonder if it was made today, with VR compatibility, the popularity and longevity would be different.
First Republic Is Said to Be Exploring a Potential Sale
Now THAT is interesting.

I guess it could also be folded into the plot of we go Terminator and incorporate time travel.

"We went back and tried to warn them even before computers were widespread... All they did was remake the media and left out the clues"
Formulas and tables much more intricate than that of Dennis' PhD, were typeset in metal type and letterpress printed a hundred years ago. It was just so incredibly much work, that the "generation DTP" cannot even imagine the efforts.

I finished my typesetter apprenticeship in 1984. Although we had the most sophisticated fototypesetting systems of the time, we were not able to produce font outlines of arbitrary fonts (we had a few specialised outline font plates, though).

To create an outline, I would typeset the desired text, put it on film, make a negative contact copy of the film and then do a series of contact copies of both the positive and negative film with interlayed dispersion sheets to the effect, that the positive would become leaner and leaner and the negative bolder and bolder. When the desired outline stroke width was reached, I would very carefully assemble both on top of each other, take a photo with the reproduction camera and do a final contact copy to a positive on paper. This would typically occupy me for half a day.

2 years later I was doing desktop publishing and it was possible to create an outline just with a click of the mouse and for any font and possibly with custom stroke width. I was presenting desktop publishing systems at trade shows, and once a dude asked me to do this and this and I complied willingly. Then he wanted me to make an outline, which I did, and then he wanted me to put a color gradient on the outline (which was not possible at the time, but shortly after) and I just had to laugh about the presumptuousness of the people that had no typesetting background. But sure enough, DTP would make all this possible in an incredibly short time...
> I don't see this culture that HN seems so convinced about.

Isn't that perhaps because you're completely immersed in it to the point where it's invisible to you? To borrow David Foster Wallace's metaphor, fish don't see water either.

What outsiders (like us at HN) see is the external manifestation of culture. People naturally speculate about what they think is going on inside the chocolate factory, but the external part is very clear - a self-reinforcing vicious cycle where things get killed off leading to mistrust in the permanence of future things, leading to their failure, leading to them getting killed off.
> There's some source code over here: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2079

But they did not mentioned that they forked Blender, thus they violates GPL.

And as BrickLink Studio based on Blender code, Studio source should be licensed under GPL as well.
Players will detect drama being injected into their randomness (unless it is very gently and rarely done), and over time they will start to be able to predict dice rolls [edit: or even learn to shape their responses to trick the model into generating the rolls they want.] That will ruin the game.
Does somebody know why the manure is not concentrated and shipped to places that need fertilizers, like guano?
No thank you. I appreciate the power, speed, simplicity and flexibility of UNIX/GNU style text tools. I-Also-Don't-Want-To-Be-Locked-Into-This-Ridiculous-Syntax-Nightmare.
Django/Python/Jquery/Javascript/Heroku. Thanks for making Saaspegasus - I used for the last 6 :)
If you are in NYC - https://museumoffailure.com/ Opens tomorrow.
In general you shouldn't need to "activate" a Conda environment in the shell. Things generally "just work" if you use absolute paths. Something like this:

COPY conda.yaml /env/conda.yaml
RUN conda env create -f /env/conda.yaml -p /env/conda

COPY foo.py /env/foo.py
CMD ["/env/conda/bin/python", "/env/foo.py"]

What is a little funny is installing a consistent version of Conda inside a container, because the official Miniconda installers are rolling-release only. However you might be able to downgrade to your desired version of Conda after installation.
It's indeed written in Go now, which indeed has GC, and ultimately all memory is freed ... but there are indeed some issues around intermediate retention of memory, taking more memory than one would have expected.

Some gains were made on
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1133
and
https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1132
Nobody writes about a perfectly average dnd session, so its training data probably has less than usual “average” rolls, which might result in it not understanding that dnd can be average sometimes.
They seem to have mostly stolen votes from another far right party without the convenient cover of being farmers.

It's not clear how much (if at all) the balance has shifted towards or away from their signature policy.
Cluster auto-scaling with DigitalOcean Kubernetes and OpenFaaS
I was also confused but those are jobs he applied for but wasn't hired.
It’s not a significant part of genetic divergence. Humans also have a striking lack of genetic diversity in the first place, due to factors like a severe population bottleneck 2 Mya.

One of the races is “black”, but since most Africans are black, and all humans have African ancestry, the idea of coming up with a genetic basis for “blackness” is completely useless. It would be difficult to come up with some kind of genetic basis for that category that is somehow useful to science, somehow includes most black people, and somehow excludes most non-black people.

It is more useful to talk about genetics in terms of (recent) ancestry. Ancestry is reasonably useful for things like screening for genetic conditions. You want to screen for sickle-cell anemia? Recent African ancestry is a reasonable thing to look for; blackness is a poor proxy. Recall that skin pigmentation is more about what latitude your ancestors are from, and not about what specific part of the world they are from.

(I’ve used the term “African ancestry” to refer both to long-term ancestry and more recent ancestry here, I hope that the usage is clear from context.)
It's all fun and games till all the staff demand their wages, suppliers demand their money, banks call in the loans, etc. That's the real reason such owners want to flee.
You need to have two, a soundmixer and a DMC turntabelist.
People will get defensive and kneejerk some vague response about how it doesn't affect _them_ that way (science!), but I agree 100% with you. It's a drug and it feels like it's being pushed on us these days by states and corporations.
I kind of agree, I don't really even like "coding", I like producing cool products for people to use, the coding bit for me is just like, the worst and also, mostly the easiest part, which is why I think I hardly actually code, mostly it's scaling, deploying, working to gather and design new features from requirements etc.

When I look outside the window I just feel shackled to a desk, I hate it.
See also https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1119
I'm finding it spectacular for generating ideas. Ask it for "40 ideas for plugins I could build for Datasette" for example. The results are comparable to what I've seen from a meeting room full of humans for an hour, but GPT-4 generated them in less than a minute.
I don't want to diminish anyone's accomplishments, as I think they are impressive too. However, it is worth noting that some of these projects are relatively simple and don't require a significant time investment. Additionally, some of the projects never launched and are counted as "fail".
Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI
Do you think half of the people using the tools now want them to have rights once they achieve AGI? The entire point of these people are going for is they want a race of slaves because enslaving humans is now illegal.
I've got a project like that (few years working on it, it's very unique, there's a demo), I talk about it in the comments from time to time but haven't done a dedicated writeup or anything.

I don't think I've ever seen a youtube video get to the front page of HN, and that seems the easiest way for me to broadly communicate all that I've put into it. Some part of me thinks a medium post about it or whatever just wouldn't make sense. I want to present what you're hungry for, haha.
Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
I didn't provide details of the transaction because I was more interested in what to do next and not have people speculate on the reason.

The transactions in the account are rental payments from a tenant and bills paid related to the rental. The account has had the same types of transactions for 4-5 years. It is a shared account with someone else (because I only own part of the rental), so it's possible I am being caught up in something related to them. They are closing that shared account and my personal accounts.
Let's work together to promote this project and provide users with a better experience!

work together how? dont you think the company will see your "hack" and shut it down?
Recycling / remixing content from the past *is* innovation and creativity.
Why Every User Without a Profile Picture on GitHub Was Yehuda Katz
This is overly reductionist. If you are struggling then your notion of recycled is too broad. But your day humans are shockingly unoriginal, I mean this seems to part of this new fashion to downplay anything done by humans as of it us trivial compared to some imagined alien race Kurzweil singularity thing or something. It’s a bit sad but it is not a very well-founded position.
Can you expand on the water at fault lines thing? Sounds interesting
Via is a great service in the areas of Massachusetts that offer it, hopefully this allows both apps to be improved.
Indeed — that's somewhat appealing to me — but it's much easier to sea-stead than to go to Mars and there's hardly any of the former going on either.
Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market with Dagster, Dbt and BigQuery
Common sweetener suppresses mouse immune system in high doses
It's easy for an open-source project to buy fake GitHub stars. We share two approaches for detecting them.