skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather have my ISP donate 0,1 cent to some national park foundation when I send an email or whatever than have me waste power though.
If they do try to ban VPNs, it will be just like when they tried to block people from using encryption decades ago. People will do it, they won't be able to enforce it, and the people will win. There's too many VPN users these days for government to stop. Government is not "all powerful".
MoonPay has dismissed dozens of staff, while denying those cuts are layoffs
What are the imagining would happen in 6 months' time that somehow is beyond repair once that time is past?
Tit for two tats outperforms tit for tat.
You mean we’re not supposed to run our Active Directory on ‘corp.com’?
I have read that story SO MANY TIMES, but I nearly always click and read again when it comes up.
This is why:

"The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it"

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
As we continue to shift our primary motivation for creating products away from what is best for the consumer towards what is best for an artificially determined goal we will increasingly see the compounding secondary effects of those choices.
Well kids were spending too much time on social media, which is just industrialized gossip. This bill will fix that. All of it.
I’ve noticed quite a jump in PHP composer package spam recently, too. A lot of just ever so slightly renamed popular packages. A couple even had quite a few stars on their repo.
That's only if you take the statement literally, which is done sometimes for comedic purposes, like Carlin does. It's obvious that people talking about saving the planet do not care about a lifeless rock, but they want to preserve it in its entirety.
Show HN: A small utility (repo manager, shortcuts, etc.) I made for devs (macOS)
Hello, DevControls (a temporary-but-permanent name) is a little tool meant to help one manage multiple repositories by providing quick actions, status, links, etc, in an always-present menu bar.

The main website is in the post link, but I added a couple more screenshot i a twitter thread for anyone wanting to see more https://twitter.com/jontelang/status/1640731572159619073.

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Now that the what is out of the way, I can expand on the why. I'm a developer for a long time, and I normally work across multiple repos at my day job. My breaking point came when I worked on a modular application with 20+ repositories, a feature would often span multiple repos, and getting a good overview was difficult. Not to mention navigating across apps, terminal paths, and generally getting everything to work together.

Naturally, I wrote scripts to manage the complexity. And eventually I built a little menu bar application to do those things. DevControls is my attempt to bring the core features I use daily into a nice little package.

I've been using this myself for some months at this point, it's stable and I have all core functionality in the app. So I figured I should send it out to the world and see if it sticks. My next planned features that I miss from my prototypes are: seeing a list of open PRs, checking out branches, stash + checkout master + pull from origin (all in one go), pulling all repos in one go, and honestly a few more things

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Happy to receive any feedback!
I've been surprised several times the past decade by how many people just don't notice the poor quality of light with low CRI, that the light is "hollow" and missing a chunk in the red/yellow part of the spectrum. Thankfully LED bulbs are getting better, and a lot of affordable offerings these days hover around 90 CRI. Same goes for the problem with indirect flickering, which the past few years have mostly gone away thanks to producers finally spending two cents more per bulb to fit them with adequate capacitors.
- teens are immature and ignorant
"Good indoor lightning"

Man I'd love me some indoor lightning, no matter the cost.
even if true which it does not seem to be the case, the whole thing sounds pretty marginal, in order to train a model that is most likely significantly bigger than 100b parameters, one also needs orders of magnitude more training data than the small 120k chat that were shared on the ShareGPT website
Technology Connection had a video about how hard it is to find LEDs which have a more classically warm appearance these days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbvVnOxb1AI
If even the USA criminalizes VPN in some capacity, the rest of the world will follow.
Git and its particular interface aren't deep facets of the universe we need to get used to, building better tools and exploring new interfaces is exactly what we should be doing. Sure, learn Git, but that's not a reason to give up on alternatives.
I'm not really interested in total number of immigrants currently in place, rather, the immigration by year (particularly the current year). Examining that required that we analyze the choices of past administrations and pore through historical events that may have affected immigration. It's much more useful, in my opinion, to look at how the choices governments are making today are affecting their immigration numbers today.

You're not wrong that the numbers on immigration percentages are a bit skewed but that's not a debate that I find worthwhile.
My flair pro combined with a high end hand grinder has led me to never having a better espresso outside of my house. It's a decent amount of manual effort (start to finish time is about 10-15 minutes) but the only reason is to reduce that effort for the same quality.
They don’t ask you to prove anything. You click the refund button, and you get your money back.
You register at Meldebehörde, the letter from Rundfunkbeitrag arrives. Then another one. Increasingly apeshit letters. To every person in the household.
I don't know if it's still the case, but it used to be that if you accidently set a localhost webserver to redirect to HTTPS while you were developing then browsers would remember that and from then on require HTTPS for all of eternity until you could figure out how to make it stop which was mostly impossible. It ended up in some HSTS file somewhere deep in the browsers cache files. Horrible technology.
I am not a practicing mathematician but I have my degree in math, and from that point of view I do not agree at all with you. Symbols are mostly useful for symbolic manipulation, but any good mathematical book will try to keep the number of new symbols introduced at a minimum precisely because they add a lot of cognitive overhead. In fact, you'll hardly find novel symbols, mostly there are shortened function names (e.g., Hom(G) for the set of homomorphisms over a group). Considering how code is read more than written, adding context-dependent symbols that add cognitive overhead isn't really an advantage.

> in "normal" languages we tend to re-encode that extra domain-specific information all over the place at the micro level—within function names, type signatures, and more pertinently in the abstractions we make.

But that's good! It means there are less possible sources of truth, less things to update when something changes, and less context switching.
Seriously, is there any good OSS booking platform (incl. API)?
Seems like cal.com is the only good OSS booking platform, but does only provide an API for enterprise users. Any other OSS booking platform you know, preferably JS?
There is bacteria that survives in lava.
I'm not saying that's the future I want.

I'm simply suggesting we stop talking in vague terms, and be honest.
We want to preserve our lives not the abstract notion of all life on earth.
My comment originated from a place of love :)
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This is the single worst way to address the problem. Just start a new US-based replacement for tiktok. Like tittok or something like that.
I'm just clarifying my interpretation of OP's comment, not necessarily agreeing with it.

Anyway, involving humans (funded by NPM's commercial revenue) doesn't reduce the options to "letting the spam happen and dealing it after the fact" or "holding all submissions until a human reviews [them]".

If I was trying to solve this problem, I'd be open to a solution that tried to automatically classify submissions as either legitimate or spammy, with an associated confidence level. If the confidence level fell below a given threshold then I'd involve a human.
If the musician puts up a sign that says "Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this performance for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted", then yes, it would be ethical to record/stream it for profit - they've explicitly told you it's okay. Substituting "software" for "performance", that's what the curl license says.

https://curl.se/docs/copyright.html
they kinda sorta cheated imo, I watch a lot of top-level diplomacy gameplay and listen to analysis, and the facebook ai was in a blind version with only a minute or so between phases, leaving hardly any time for actual negotiation. It also made use of a lot of human shorthand move codes built for these blind blitz games to simplify it's communication. The mode it played also had some other changes like removing the winter build phase as a time for negotiating. The "normal" version of the game has multiple days between phases, and people write many paragraphs to one another.

It's still pretty cool, but its not like it just convinced people using raw charisma. Yet.
The Myth of Shareholder Ownership and Its Implications for Accounting (2009)
I had a similar reaction to the article.

I actually am opposed to bans on traditional incandescent bulbs but vastly prefer LEDs and have no desire to go back to them.

Using LEDs was a shock to me initially mostly because, as you point out, with traditional household incandescents there wasn't a whole lot of options. So suddenly when I had to pay attention to color profiles and so forth more carefully, I wasn't expecting it.

But I don't see that as a bad thing, I really love all the options, and the better precision in labeling color versus power versus brightness.

One problem I've noted, that others in the thread are pointing to, is that a lot of shoddy manufacturing has taken advantage of many of the claims of LED technology to push unacceptable products. One of my pet peeves is how I've suddenly seen fixtures with integrated bulbs take over lighting departments, poorly constructed and forcing you to remove the entire fixture rather than just the bulb, when it dies after a year, much earlier than promised. But I guess even there it's just moved me to more selective lighting stores where I can still buy better fixtures separately from the bulbs.

I do think there's something to be said about declines or fraud in lightbulb manufacturing quality compared to what is possible, but I see that as a scourge of our age and not something unique to LEDs. I have as much trouble finding a quality lightbulb as I do a quality pair of pants.
When I did a coding boot camp, one of our assignments was to push a package to RubyGems. It didn't matter if the package did anything; just make up a name and publish it. I'm pretty sure this kind of thing was a common practice with other boot camps, and applied to NPM as well. I always despised how this effectively trashes the repository and represents a complete waste of digital space, no matter how insignificant, as well as take up names that could go towards code that is actually useful. I wouldn't be surprised if a significant number of spam NPM packages were these boot camp assignments.
Ah I see your problem, you thought this was Hatcher News.
Its not hard to find the details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Intelligence_Service

https://thewire.in/world/cia-bnd-spying-world-leaders-crypt-...

https://www.justsecurity.org/13995/spying-friends-troubled-w...

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/Volume%201%20int...
tldr; My teammate solved a bug by finding a detailed commit message in Chromium’s repo. High-quality git commits are an underrated form of documentation.
He tells it on stage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AyHH9G9et0
> if you used ai to design a new superhero and then added pink shoes, yellow hair, and a beard

Wouldn't that depend heavily on the prompt used (among other factors such as image to image and ControlNet)? You could be specifying lots of detail about the design in your prompt, and the AI could only be generating concept artwork with little variation from what you already provided.

If I'm already providing the pose, the face, and the outfit for a character (say via ControlNet and Textual Inversion), generating <my_character> should be no different from generating <superman>, that is to say, the copyright already exists thanks to my work and the AI is just a tool, the output of which should have no bearing on who owns that copyright (DC is going to be perfectly able to challenge my commercial use of AI generated superman artwork).
Sure but it’ll cost $100. The efficiency of LEDs is a joke when you factor in materials, manufacturing, and subjective utility. We’re paying more for worse.
That Kang et al. study was 50mg/kg of caffeine administered three times a day. That would be about a hundred cups a day of coffee for my body weight. Don't they say the dose makes the poison?
C is definitely not a good choice for this, I would hate to come back 2 days later to my computation and see “segfault” as the only output.
You do realize that there are clinical uses for opiates right?
Unfortunately when it comes to government abuse vs the People, we're like 0-10 at this point. We know the playbook: roll these ridiculous bills out, spark outrage, shift the Overton Window, either kill the bill or amend it, and in 12-36 months roll it out again until the corrupt politicians and the security state behind this stuff win by attrition.

We lost fucking habeus corpus with the NDAA that gets renewed every year! How are we doing with the Patriot Act? Is James Clapper in prison yet? Assange is. It never ends.
Could be lots of things. The CRI (a measure of how well it reproduce colors across the visible spectrum) of the bulb is a likely candidate.
I think this is great. Well done
Does a cup of water have will? Does a missile have will? Does a thrown hammer have will? I think the problem here is generally “motion with high impact.” Not necessarily that somebody put the thing in motion. And yes, this letter is also requesting accountability (I.e some way of teaching who threw the hammer)
I still don't understand what you're getting at? If you get into a speed trap they also contact the person who registered the car, not the person driving. I don't see how this is any indication of hypocrisy here.
Tell HN: HTTPS://old.reddit.com/.compact redirecting to old.reddit.com
i.reddit.com is officially dead. It was previously accessible by appending the ./compact to old.reddit.com. But it no longer works now.
Remember back when texting and calling cost decent money? People used to differentiate cell plans based on the amount you got. Now it's a free unlimited or practically unlimited inclusion in just about every mobile phone plan and people care about other things.

The same thing happened to lighting.

Back in "the day" nobody cared about light color or light temperature. You bought whatever was cost effective for the amount of light you needed. Nobody cared that sodium bulb lighting was orange and that arc lamps were bright white. They were the economically viable options for their use cases.

Heck, nobody "liked" the florescent lights, especially the early ones but they did the right job at the right price so they got bought in droves.

Now that we have LEDs for everything and the affording the amount of light being scattered is not the primary hurdle anymore so consumers suddenly care about using other performance metrics to differentiate products.
You are basically proposing lobotomy, which was tried.
I hear this all the time, and these workplace-focused descriptions of "phases of underperformance" really apply to me, but I don't think it's ADHD. I can focus on all sorts of things when I try, and when I look up symptoms of ADHD, maybe just 5% apply to me.

For me, I've joined new teams and crushed it for a few weeks where it was at least expected performance, but then I quickly fall off a cliff for seemingly no reason. Anxiety compounds this, and I can identify why I've sometimes been slow to crawl out, but the initial fall is always difficult to diagnose.
> What else should we do? Price controls?

Many modern, western countries have supply management policies in place to help steady commodities markets, e.g. Canadian dairy management.

Heck, US farm subsidies exist specifically for this reason: to help support producers when markets soften. There's just no policies in place to moderate market behaviour when prices swing up (privatize the profits, socialize the losses, baby!)

There is a middle ground between unfettered, free market neoliberalism and full blown state control. Unfortunately, the kind of thought-limiting rhetoric you're demonstrating here shuts down discussions before they get started.
I think it was worse in the past. I had to chose a daylight, warm or soft bulb. Now I buy one bulb capable of changing color temp and brightness from my couch and it lasts way longer. This is exactly the kinda thing sci fi had when I was a kid and now its in every room of my house.
I refuse to believe that that "idiotic yokels" in Ohio are somehow more idiotic and yokely than the ones in Arizona and Texas.
I'm not sure you've seen the scale achievable by modern "social media marketing" firms. Copywriters are so cheap and good at writing posts that the marginal cost of an astroturfing bot in a place like Reddit or Twitter is almost $0 before LLMs. LLMs just reduce the cost a little bit more.
I though I knew a lot about coffee. Enough to know that the simplest processes work best for me. Then I recently learned about green (unroasted) coffee beans. And down the next rabbit hole I go!
Sure, but in my experience US lawmakers act much more hostile towards me as a US citizen than China ever has or will.
Wow, they really don't like being told "you go where you look".
> JavaScript isn't used for any machine learning tasks as far as I'm aware

https://github.com/facebookresearch/shumai
>I was not talking about murder, I was talking about receiving money.

Well, when should it be an excuse? You didn't really seem to offer any bounds, and I put it as "a crime".

>It has to be the least enforced law ever... Because the chances of breaking that law as a phone company, or as a taxi driver are close to 100%.

I don't think the law is really targeting taxi companies or phone companies. It's targeting people who abet criminals by taking their money in exchange for services or goods.

>It's a bit sad that you are an attorney and don't seem to believe in due process.

It's not a surprise that you think that considering you clearly have no idea what due process is.

>If his lawyers "know" that he is guilty, I hope for his sake that he finds lawyers that don't "know" it, given that he is pleading not guilty.

Geez, I can't state it enough for you, huh? "Knowledge" is not an element of the crime. So everytime you say they "know" something, it's completely irrelevant to the issue and only reflects your willful misunderstanding of this entire conversation.
If you mean the first part then here is a quote from John Ehrlichman, the White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon:

> “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

Family members of Ehrlichman reject the veracity of the quote but I see no reason to since it is not about himself, it is about Nixon and his policies. There are some more voices questioning whether he was lying but even those voices admit Nixon was racist. I think it matters not whether introducing those laws had racism as a primary purpose, or whether they "coincidentally" aligned with a hidden agenda. Prohibition might not have had the purpose of creating a mafia network but failure to foresee that and failure to promptly react when the negative side effects of a law become apparent still matter. Prohibition in the US lasted 13 years, the US war on drugs is ongoing since the 70 even after other countries like Portugal demonstrated it is cheaper and more efficient to focus on rehabilitation.

If you mean the second part, see FDR's Circular 3591 from 1941-12-12. September 1942 is when the last slave in the US was freed. Nixon was elected a few decades later.

Feel free to explain which part is an utterly bizarre take.
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For a "lifetime" bulb that doesn't make me crazy, I'd gladly pay $100. Well, maybe not quite, but certainly more than whatever I pay now for mid-grade (by HD/Lowes standards) bulbs.
Ideally, a few people will try to cash in on the high egg prices and more eggs will be produced.
A few people won't be enough to remove government powers once they are granted.
This is a messaging bill - a bill designed to tell something to a constituency, rather than to become law. - It is jockeying to cultivate influence. The idiocy contained within the bill itself probably doesn't even have the sincere support of the signatories... If it is politically aggrandizing, then the text doesn't matter too much.
Gentoo is rice?
An article that just went by on Twitter: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-police-union...

Unaccountable policing strikes again, this time by running organized crime importing fentanyl.
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Not German, but a few things that have creeped me out about Germany's lack of privacy after hearing from people who live there are:

[edit: As pointed out by various commenters below, some of these might not be technically true, or have outs, such as being able to go back home to show your ID. My hypothesis is that common official workflows lead to these perceptions from the outside, e.g. As a foreigner in a country, if an official asks you "Where is your anmeldung?", you are not very likely to challenge them back and say "Actually, it's not required, please use the workflow that allows for absence of one."]

- You have to register your current address with the local authorities (anmeldung) after moving into a new place. By itself this seems fine, but it also seems to bea prerequisite for a lot of life necessities like getting health insurance and a mobile phone number.

- If you are in Germany and run a website, you need to have an Impressum on your website that states your address. So you are pretty much auto-doxxed every time you decide to maintain a personal website or blog. I am not sure how much this is enforced.

- There is a "Stop and Identify" law (Personalausweisgesetz) that requires you to be in possession of an identity document, and hand it over when asked to by any authorities, with substantial fines for noncompliance.

- From my own experience as a visitor, Wi-Fi portals always seem to have a great deal of personal data entry before you can get on the Internet. Apparently there were previously laws that put a great deal of liability on whoever ran a Wi-Fi network, which meant that businesses were naturally loathe to offer one.

It would be interesting to me as well to hear from Germans who grew up with these, and how they perceive their impact on privacy.