skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why I don't operate in these power structures. From 1995 to 2005 I worked for corporations and seeing it was harmful to my well being, I decide to provide computer services directly to the public. Now I set my own rules, and I work very hard to set my own ethical spaces where people are forced to do the right thing if they want to operate in my world. I have found that people want to do the right things, but that they need people around them for encouragement. Treat everyone, even the most hardened criminals like they have it with in them to change and all the need is people to believe in them.

For me, the dead world of the labor force takes on a symbolic meaning. Words are like super powers, the have resonance and meaning. Look at the etymology of words and the source meaning will always give you the correct answer to what you are energetically putting your life force into.

corporation (n.)

> mid-15c., corporacioun, "persons united in a body for some purpose," from such use in Anglo-Latin, from Late Latin corporationem (nominative corporatio) "assumption of a body" (used of the incarnation of Christ),

> noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin corporare "embody, make or fashion into a body," from corpus (genitive corporis) "body, dead body, animal body," also "a whole composed of united parts, a structure, system,community, corporation, political body, a guild" (from PIE root *kwrep- "body, form, appearance").

Corporations are dead things. Start small and make choices that slowly shifts your energy to people and things that actual have living essence like small business and endeavors that benefit the common good. We can't do in every part of our life, but just a slight shift can be like a cascade effect over time.
Magnus OP, ruins meta. needs nerf in next patch devs PLZ
Interesting in your option is it just a lack of information?
I’m not sure I was suggesting anywhere that we shouldn’t pursue incremental change. Moreso we should pursue incremental change that the public can get behind (private jet emissions charges and such) before pursuing incremental change that the public is hesitant to make when people suggesting the change are the biggest polluters comparatively.

Honestly just think about it. You really think it’s fruitful to try to start solving this problem by convincing someone that they need to no longer use a gas stove when “insert billionaire” is flying around on a private jet? It’s a non-starter. It reeks of injustice even if it’s the right thing to do and the public will instead of cooperate will fight tooth and nail until perceived justice is accomplished.
Say Allo' to the New Inquirer (Node.js CLI)
I suppose too that if something truly is easy or simple, it should be self-evident. What is the purpose of taking the time and energy to point out that something isn’t difficult? If it were true, a person would likely discover it themselves readily enough.

I find this kind of writing (and thinking in general) fairly commonplace. It’s a good exercise to take a step back and wonder: why did I write that? What did I actually mean by it? Is it necessary to state X or Y, or am I using it implicitly for some communicative purpose that should be explicit?

Stuff like this is why writing is actually quite hard, in my opinion.
"Simple" reads "simple for me" (the author). That can be really frustrating at times.

But the real sin here is wasting words on useless bullshit. Just get to the damned point. "Just simply" is 100% waste. I can replace "Just simply verb" with "verb" and the sentence is already better, without putting a bunch of emotional loading into the context of the discussion.
“If Loud Aliens Explain Human Earliness, Quiet Aliens Are Also Rare” by Robin Hanson, Daniel Martin, Calvin McCarter, and Jonathan Paulson, September 7th, 2021

Is what you want to read if you're interested in the fermi paradox.
> the most embarrassing thing is watching people fall over themselves claiming they didn't pay for their checkmark

This hasn't made sense to me. Isn't it more embarrassing that Musk is forcing the blue checkmark on people in order to make it seem more popular? Users aren't buying, and he's trying to astroturf support for it.
Pure Sh Bible
I think he just wants to focus back on Africa since he's deemed a criminal organization since end of January.

The Ukraine war won't last, there's a counter offensive supposedly in the making and he doesn't want to lose face too much.

If the counter offensive is successful, he could claim it was because he wasn't there. And it wouldn't have happened if he had received the resources he wanted.

He is just waiting to retreat before the counter offensive actually starts.

What seems to be significant is the short timeline ( days not weeks). He knows that won't be possible + in a video of him, he mentioned he didn't send the letter "yet", which is counter intuitive according the claimed urgency.
The illusion is equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome.

> It is clear that this system...

Yes, and that is where Chat-GPT and the newer generation AI's come in. Not on the workers side, but still escaping wage slavery all the same.
You are right about that, and the article doesn't address it.

I think the general idea is still correct. For example, even if the next 200 leads are 50% or even 100% more expensive, that's often still considered a win.
> Did you know that John McCain was a filthy grifting criminal who was involved in the savings and loan scandal,

no, I'm neither from US nor overly informed about politics there but I would have expected to have heard about it from Trump's allies when the two where butting heads
Exactly, I wrote a visual basic program preteen, a little perl a bit later which made me give up.

Later in college I discovered programming and have been since
I don't like the idea that you have to start early to be competent. I've met people in the industry who only got into software development in their late twenties, and were very good at their jobs.
It boils down to trust. A head needs to win the trust of his political overlords as well as, in more limited circumstances the general public. That's why he needs to be good at politics. It's no point appointing a supremely qualified individual if he's poor at communications and relationships.
Honestly - I feel the filter is ahead of us, too. We have to contend with two major issues right now, that may determine the fate of our planet (and subsequently, the human race): climate change, and nuclear war. And soon, maybe AI? But I feel we are still quite a ways off for that.
A Radiohead album is an incredibly sophisticated feat of audio engineering requiring a team of people beyond the band itself to make. The production costs are substantial. It takes more than just practicing enough to make something like that. If AI gets to the point where I can record something in my bedroom with similar production values, I’d count that as democratization.
A classic trilogy. See also this list of films in the category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feature_films_describe...

I can also recommend Manufactured Landscapes.
Koyaanisqatsi is just one of those Magic films that you can start watching and think yeah whatever - and then as it goes on and on you just get more and more blown away by incredible intensity of the soundtrack and visuals. A really transcendental experience.

The backstory that Philip Glass originally didn’t want to score it is also amazing, as is the reason for Francis Ford Coppola’s name being on the artwork even though he had nothing to do with the film.

absolutely awesome
I wouldn't take that headline at face value. Prigozhin periodically releases these statements complaining about lack of ammunition, resources, etc. It's a way to jockey for influence and increase political capital. Next week he'll be back to gloating about Wagner group accomplishments and the cycle will continue.
I talk to a lot of very smart functional programmers, and I'm very glad I've been exposed to it, it's greatly improved how I program things.

But I really wish FP advocates would learn more about paradigms like OO before criticising them. It's too often levelled against the strawman of industry, imperative, pseudo-oo. Take this:

Components in functional programming are essentially just data types and functions, and these functions work without mutable state, he said.

I could make the same arguments for doing "late architecture" with objects:

Components in object-oriented programming are essentially just objects and messages, and these messages work without mutable state, he said.
> many way more relevant factors to the taste of food then which power source was used to provide heat.

Yeah, but not many more relevant ones to the actual cooking.

> I bet if you did a blind tasting you'd not be able to tell the difference.

You can't do a blind cooking. How often do you cook food on the stove yourself? If you do cook quite often and still insist that gas and electric stoves are equivalent, I'd be very surprised.

Now I definitely don't want to say that I definitely can't do without gas stoves — if they have a negative health and environmental impact, I could be easily convinced to switch to induction stoves, for example. But electric really don't cut it in my experience.
True but Youtube UX sucks. I tried it but I prefer my yt-dlp + vlc + syncthing system which just happens to be free.
Sorry for the confusing post, I'm digging into the details and what I said is basically what Kim Dot Com said around a week ago:

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1649574074732154880

> False claim 6: Dotcom claimed that he worked with Seth Rich.

> Truth: Seth Rich contacted me and offered information about the DNC. I rejected receiving the data personally and forwarded him to someone close to Wikileaks. That’s how Wikileaks got the DNC and Hillary Clinton leaks.

More context: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/04/why-kim-dotcom-connect...

Kim's open letter to Seth Rich family:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3755366-Open-Letter-...
You must be one of those agreeable people.
>> In most US jurisdictions small claims court requires self-representation, so your landlord can’t out spend you on lawyers to win.

Well, if most tenants don't know their rights, then they definitely will not know this either. :)
I disagree.

Most of climate change is caused by fossil fuels. The rest are caused e.g. by factory farming (plant & animal - e.g. pesticide rundown), plastic pollution, etc.

If we had boundless nuclear energy, not only would fossil fuels become price inefficient, we could devote the extra energy we generate into synthetic fossil fuels, carbon capture, reducing pollution, etc. Almost all of these are energy bound right now.
> I do however agree that the current implementation of blue checks is absolutely meaningless and lends credibility to random people

This is the crux of it: anyone get get one now. It no longer means you are verified or a notable person, it now only means you bought the Twitter Blue subscription!
Another noob here. If I had to guess, it's because current models are mostly memory bound. The AI learning gpus (A100, H100 etc.) are not the best TFlop performers, but they have most vram. It seems that researchers found a sweet spot for neural network architectures that perform good on similar configurations, i.e. near real time (reading speed in LLMs).
Once you bring those models to cpu, they might get performance bound again. Llama.cpp somehow illustrates that a bit, for bigger models you tend to wait a lot for the answer. I suspect the story would be similar with igpus
Having worked for airlines or manufacturers in the past doesn't itself present a conflict of interest. Not to say a conflict doesn't exist, but previous employment isn't itself a conflict.
Unless you empty your groceries in your car to leave the bags there, at some point bags need to make it from your house to your car, so that you have some to take into the store.

That's the part I struggle with.

Also, if you order groceries for delivery, they bring your order in reusable bags. Which you then keep.

My point is these re-usable bags have a tendency to accumulate over time. Maybe not at the same rate as plastic bags would otherwise, but once you have dozens of these bags at home it starts to be tempting to just use them as bin liners and toss them, just like we did with plastic bags

Which sort of defeats the whole purpose, right? The ideal is people would buy as many as they need and use them for years.

But that isn't going to happen any time soon imo. If ever.
Dunno if you are aware of the racism behind this. US limits this by country by birth not citizenship. Just being public about this doesn't make it fair or equitable.
It’sa lifetime license for the gui but the AI is annual $49
I’ve been thinking about that on my own lately. It’s like the whole human race has imposter syndrome and thinks there needs to be an “adult” in the room.

I don’t know how many parents feel this way when bringing their first-born home from the hospital, but my spouse and I felt like the doctors were crazy to trust us, a couple of twenty-somethings, to take home a child and actually keep it alive and do all the things adults do for children.

Maybe that was wise of us to realize the level of our inexperience, but I think that feeling of inadequacy applies to most humans in many situations. We look for leaders to follow, intellectuals to learn from, heroes to worship, and monarchs to rule us. Otherwise, who is the adult in the room?
There are other planes.
>Yyyyyeah, classes in js are pretty bad full stop. For instance, passing a method as an argument will do awful things unless you bind it to a this first. Gross.

One of the things that heavy use of JS frameworks will do is make you forget you can pass an object interface to represent continuations. The DOM spec defines the EventListener type, in TypeScript notation, as:

`(event: Event) => void | { handleEvent(event: Event): void }`

What does this type signature instruct us to think?

That a function closure should reference objects in its scope, no need for `this` binding, or an object interface, appropriate to the domain of the deferred caller should be referred to and called (e.g. `handleEvent` in the case of DOM's EventTarget interface, but one could also imagine `{ onTimeout() : void }` if the spec authors were consistent, perhaps accepting a key to differentiate calls in the same vein as event types), also eliminating the need to bind `this`. The addition of `WeakMap`\`WeakSet` to the runtime eliminates the need for manual resource management.

But React, the most popular JavaScript library (and its not alone in this), makes this pattern impossible: you can only pass functions to event listeners. So everyone then growls about `this` binding.
> I thought we already went down this road and remembered where it leads.

This memory is written down on dead leaves and the majority of people don't read anymore, and aren't educated about cyclical things like this because of stage 7.
yes a BBQ does sound like a perfectly good (and fun) solution to this minor hypothetical problem.
not to mention that there is no fundamental problem with open pit mining with recultivation.

the problem is the brine. which is cleanable with a lot of energy.
Freshwater, sufficient land devoted to biodiversity and a functional species food web, topsoil erosion, meat production scaling for carbon and necessary feedstock land.

Simply consider the scaling involved if China and India want US style resource conservation per capita.

China in India are roughly 10 times the amount of people as the US.
I had a similar situation after a "last chance" exam for one course.

The lecturer was unavailable, so he assigned a substitute to grade the exam. There was a problem there similar to the casting problem (assuming each subsequent candidate has probability P to be better than the previous one, when should we make our pick), only the probabilities were different each time - this wasn't covered in the course material. I deconstructed it by calculating all the probabilities by hand, because I didn't know any other way.

The substitute asked me to come by and explain how I solved it, because apparently I was the only one to do so.
Another way to put this advice on how to write with precision is: carefully consider any use of an adverb in formal writing (pun intended). Most adverbs in formal writing can be replaced by using a better adjective or verb. For some reason, adverbs like "simply" and "quickly" make people feel bad when the process isn't simple or quick, but using words like "straightforward" does not.
Seems trivial for landlords to filter with credit and reference checks no?
That's an excellent suggestion. I created a GH issue to keep track of it: https://github.com/plmercereau/chat-dbt/issues/20
this is a cool idea, thanks for sharing
I might go with option that interstellar spreading is just impossible. There might not be ways around physics and sufficient energy budgets might not just be possible.
Dylan is a phenomenon. I feel like most people here would know about his projects, though.
I always feel like these discussions are built upon extrapolating on assumptions based on speculation.

How could we, a species that hasn’t progressed that far, know what advanced civilizations look like?
Ask HN: Mirror Mailchimp newsletter to Squarespace site
I write a weekly newsletter on carbon removal [1]. It's hosted on Mailchimp. I would like to have each newsletter posted to our website [2]. Anyone have a no-code solution for this? This seems like a problem someone here would have solved before...

[1] https://tito.co/newsletter.html
[2] https://airminers.org/
Yes, resources are infinite.
That is why the carrying capacity of the earth is also infinite.
Because the ingenuity of humans is infinite.
Something proudly declaring itself powered by Malwarize, that sounds comforting.
As a European I actually think Snowden's primary motivation was opposition to US foreign policy and control of the world. There is no other reason to contact Glenn Greenwald in late 2012. In 2008-2012 Glenn Greenwald was primarily known as one of the harshest opponents of US foreign policy and someone who didn't shy away from defending Russia, Iran and other geopolitical adversaries of the US.

If it was about anti-surveillance/pro-privacy activism there are so many other ways Snowden could have leaked it and so many other people and organizations he could have leaked to. Snowden would probably be living in Vienna by now and not in Moscow if he was just an anti-surveillance activist. However his primary motivation for the leaks was to lower US influence and control of the rest of the world.

Obviously for the rest of the world Snowden is a net positive that raised awareness about mass surveillance by US Big Tech. But I cringe whenever Americans declare him "an American hero". I am sure Snowden cringe even more at that term to be honest.
this sounds like a good possibility. could you ball park some timings for each? thanks.
My kids (age 3 and 5) wanted to watch a movie and I didn't really want them watching one so I bluffed and put on Koyaanisqatsi. They (and I, for the first time in ~15 years) were enthralled. Ended up talking about poverty, etc.
That's kind of begging the question.

Essentially you are saying 100% of bad things are bad. Which is true, but also meaningless statement. Since it would still be true in a utopia with no bad things.
If the alternative to flying is not taking the trip at all, then that's certainly safest. And I imagine that's the case for many trips, especially those where the flight is more than an hour and a half or so.

(Consider that I can fly from SF to LA in an hour and a half, but it's a 6-hour drive. If my flight was canceled and I couldn't find an alternative flight, I just wouldn't go at all. Certainly there are some extreme situations where I might bite the bullet and drive, but that'd be rare.)

Put another way: when we know something is unsafe, we shouldn't keep it going just because of the theoretical risk of alternatives. And yes, I know that the risk of driving isn't "theoretical", but we can't fully predict what humans will do absent their first choice of transportation.
this is crazy interesting. but what's can be hypothesized based on that. all of that is basically just circumstantial at that.
Why not let this be installed on Mac devices via test flight?
Just wait until we see an AI crawler the masses can use...

The next conspiracy will be AI code that is delivering information that cant be debunked regardless how (un)true.

Thats the AI we fear.
At this point the value is mostly just symbolic. Russians control most of Bakhmut now but Ukrainians still hold a small piece. At the beginning of the war it had some value as a logistics hub but everything of value was destroyed months ago.
That's a paraphrase, if you read what he said, that quote is not what he said.

That's a major credibility hit there.
Gender Gap in Chess: Is It Just a Statistical Artifact?
What do you think the AI could do that you couldn't by searching the web?

And is the difference between the hypothetical bedroom-produced version of the same Radiohead album and the actual album actually that noticeable?

I work in film/video, and you definitely can produce something that would have cost millions of dollars 10 years ago by yourself, with minimal costs. I struggle to compare the scale of engineering needed to make albums versus movies.
> I'd say the common thread is that they expect you, the tenant, to not understand your rights and the laws that enforce those rights.

I think there's also a cost-benefit evaluation when it comes to deciding where to make use of those laws. I've heard that there are tenant screening services that will report whether you have previously sued a landlord. Is it even worth it to sue if it's going to make it more difficult to find a better place later?
Not sure if you were using Facebook in 2012/2013 but their implementation was horrendous. Everyone bemoaned its lack of true mobile first design while other apps were responsive and sleek.
You're wrong, it's not treason. This is meant to be a legalistic society where crimes are defined by laws, not by how the word for the crime is popularly perceived by laypeople. The US Constitution defines treason. In America, treason is when an American levies war against the United States, or adhering to the Enemies of the US, giving them aid and comfort.

To characterize the UK as an enemy of the US simply isn't true, the US and the UK are not at war; the UK government is not openly hostile to America. If an American gives classified information to the UK they could be convicted of espionage, but treason specifically would not stick. Not even close. Even attempting it would be a complete farce.

Treason charges couldn't even stick during the Cold War, when America and the Soviet Union were engaged in numerous proxy wars but weren't officially at war with each other. Many Americans sold secrets to the Soviet Union, got caught, and were convicted of espionage. But not treason. The Rosenbergs, who gave American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union? Convicted and executed for conspiracy to commit espionage, not treason. John Walker and his son, US Navy officers who helped the Soviets decrypt millions of messages? Convicted of espionage, but not treason. Jerry Whitworth, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen.. the list goes on. Convicted of espionage but not treason. The last treason convictions to ever happen in America were for acts committed during WW2.
Air transportation may be overall safe, but the 737 Max was a dangerous aircraft that resulted in hundreds of deaths. Youer position is extraordinarily peurile.
The airframe was not new, but the overall design was new. GP's overall point still stands, regardless.
I'm not defending the ban on gas stoves, but a much better reason to ban them is their impact on indoor air quality. Burning natural gas indoors emits all kinds of nasty stuff like carbon monoxide, nitric oxides, formaldehyde...stuff linked to all kinds of diseases from asthma to cancer.