skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think they're hammering on some component of my metal roof as it has a very metallic sound. I love birds in general but have considered loading my 22 with bird shot on multiple occasions when they wake me out of a deep sleep.
Ask HN: How can I make anonymous Twitter account?
Is there any way that works today to make anonymous Twitter account, that doesn’t involve providing phone number or email address? I suppose I can create a throwaway email but it’s nearly impossible to get a phone number anonymously in EU. TIA!
Conventional cigarettes are of course untouched. By not banning them outright but instead taxing them outrageously, Australia has created a rich black market for cigarettes.
Make sure to also identify all the passengers and any wireless devices they're carrying. You might catch a big crime network of people who hang out in their cars and talk about driving 7 mph over the limit on the highway while not wearing a seatbelt. You could build a big network of connections, maybe it would turn out that speeding is a social contagion and sending the worst speeders to a forced re-education program would deter the rest from speeding!

/s
I’m not sure Bhutan can afford to do that. It reminds me of when Western countries burned coal for 100 years to get where they are and then don’t want other countries to do that. I get it, and I don’t want the earth polluted either but it certainly smacks of colonialism/manifest destiny type thinking.
I believe you can also use SVG’s <foreignObject> to jam all sorts of things into hierarchies HTML and browser DOM doesn’t usually permit. And of course with custom elements + shadow DOM, the rules are only as restrictive as your imagination.

Edit: corrected element name
OP is a manager, good managers look out for their subordinates and surface issues so that they can be solved. Ideally before they become thorny legal issues. From this write up, it looks that OP did exactly this. At the beginning, she surfaced issues with two employees that could cause problems down the line for the company, she highlighted potential issues with documentations, requirements and test cases that would be problematic with the FDA (in any highly regulated environment like medical devices, making sure that the company is compliant is crucial and definitely the responsibility of any project manager).

So, she did exactly what she was hired for.
"I think this is a jam", "...this is an amazing song." -Lizzo, on Nickelback's How You Remind Me

Though I can't remember the last time I heard Gordon Lightfoot on US radio. Which is a shame - he is an astonishing songwriter.
No, because if someone invents a way to power YouTube free of energy, that would be awesome, and it wouldn't detract in any way from the value of YouTube.

But if someone worked out a way to generate BitCoin for free without any energy input, that would destroy BitCoin, because it depends on proof of work, where work is defined as consuming energy.
Note the word "related". It's doing a lot of heavy-lifting in this sentence.

The drivers for the SoC are closed source. Qualcomm refuses to update the drivers, meaning more sales.

The modern Pixel uses Google's Tensor, not Qualcomm's Snapdragon.
Nah, I have access to a lot of storage resources at the moment, not money, that’s why. I want to earn block rewards for storing files.

Also I don’t believe in staking or trading because it’s a zero sum game that you are just as likely to lose as win (if you don’t have an edge). Earlier this year I debated Richard Heart about staking Hex vs actual utility and open source software:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r3eU3hx0U0Y

Although I seem to call it correctly (March 12: buy way out of the money put options at $4 strike on FirstRepublic) I am too busy and overwhelmed to act on it (deposit money into RobinHood, have it clear, time my entry etc.)
It's very plausible to have public transit systems be publicly owned by a mix of local, regional, and national bodies. Each of which might have their own local goals to incentivize with no regard for what a system on the other side of the country wants.

Public ownership and good organization can be, and frequently are, two very different things.
My controversial opinion: most public transport should be free at the point of use. Non-free public transport should be as rare as toll roads.

Of course actually running a public transport system cannot be free, much like paving roads is not free. Pay for those with taxes.
Is there any additional potential wiggle room for local uplift/erosion/etc over time, in some areas, or is that mostly a rounding error?
With the reference to comparing her employer to Alex Jones, I think the author is trying to sway the court of public opinion.

I hope the author has some hard evidence like emails or voice recordings that she's saving for a lawsuit.
It'll be fascinating to hear whether the data shows that the cameras helped with solving violent crimes.
Yep his line of argument is lazy.

This was how France rebuilt its national cinema. Quotas work.
Anyone who ever wants to make an argument against maternity or even paternity leave just needs to experience a kid of their own. Seriously
"ars gratia artis" is something AI is not capable of.
Ok, so when is the actual end of the world if not 2012?
I don't know California, but this reads like a classic & simple cry to suppress people, to take hard lives & make them worse.

You talk about a misguided sense of compassion. But what have we really tried except liberalism? Except allowing whatever happens to happen to people? What have we tried to help, to build possible lives? Even for those not living in homed, what have we tried to keep them from sliding off the edge?

It's May Day. This cry for dispassion & accusation & intolerance, for jailing each other, should not be the go to plan for when situations get bad. Maybe doing nothing hasn't worked, but rather than resort to striking out against those we are afraid of, we should be trying to make possible paths forwards.
GenX alternative subculture in North America in the 90s & early 2000s was very apolitical. It was oppositional to the mainstream but didn't really do so around 'issues' so much as aesthetics and a general hatred for the mainstream. As someone who was quite openly (far) left wing at the time, I felt very much in the minority.

Yes there were anarchist political punks, etc but it wasn't really the focus.

I don't recall finding VICE in the late 90s, early 2000s to be political at all. It was just snarky and sometimes funny. "Dos and Don'ts" etc.

Then again, I don't really recognize what Americans call "left wing" now as "left wing."
You did not dispel his argument, even if biased; how different would it be from North Korea? (That's hyperbole but this person has a good point)
One reason is that you don’t have to put a new registration sticker on the plate each year. The e-ink plate automatically shows the updated registration.
The distinction between code and data is very real, and dates back to at least the original Harvard Architecture machine in 1944. Things like W^X and stack canaries have been around for decades too.

LLMs are trying to essentially undo this by concatenating code and user-provided data and executing it as one. From a security perspective it is just a plainly stupid idea, but I do not believe it is impossible to construct a similar system where those two are separate.
Like the SFO airport that uses the internationally recognized train symbol for the tram to the garage, and the not-recognized-anywhere BART logo for the train to the region's principal city.
Fellow West Coast flame weeder here! Our weeds are especially tenacious, for the reasons you've described and for our boom/bust water cycles.

They tend to store enough excess carbohydrates in their roots to re-sprout three or four times. While this can make them seem utterly invincible, they will in fact deplete their resources if you stick with it long enough. I usually plan two or three flame weeds during spring, followed by some later touch ups if fire season allows. (Always wet the ground beforehand if it's dry out).

This also works with weed whacking. Himalayan blackberries, for instance, seem to only be able to resprout two times. So I knock them down as low as possible with a hedge trimmer, then touch up the new growth with the string trimmer about six weeks later, then again six weeks after that.
Criminality also has a sampling problem -- we generally only hear about crimes that are solved.

Crimes that are solved aren't those perpetrated by the smartest criminals.

See also: how annoyed the police get whenever an unsolved crime goes viral and makes the news
> Criminals in general are not the Professor Moriarty type.

"Criminals who get caught in general are not the Professor Moriarty type."

Who knows about the ones who don't?

In general crime doesn't seem like a great way to make a living but perhaps that just means I am not a Professor Moriarty type.
If everything could be reliably generalized we wouldn’t need appeals/Supreme courts in the first place.

There seems to be little dissent on the “this conviction was unfair” front in this case.
Am I the only Luddite who

Deploys Go app containers. Pick a cloud. Use whatever they offer.

Deploys static JS to cdn

Calls it a day.

I really do not understand these tools. Who is using them?

I’ve built and worked on apps used by millions of people. Really don’t understand where the benefit is or if people are just over complicating basic things to extract money from chump developers?
Phones worked perfectly fine years ago. As soon as you update, suddenly you're RAM is innsufficient and paging slows down the phone. Now you need to buy the new model
innodb supports cross-schema foreign keys, there’s no limitation to tables in a single database

can be terrible in mysql 8 though due to metadata locks now extending across foreign key boundaries. this means alter in one schema can block things in other schema if foreign key across databases

speaking of, am surprised that blog post author doesnt discuss the new mysql 8 metadata locking behavior, is new major problem with mysql foreign keys!
Fun little application puzzle!
It's not like city or bitcoin are the two options. They could be processing bauxite, or something like that. I guess they'd need to invest in some rail first, but building up their industrial capacity should benefit their country more in the long run than printing funny money.
Well, if energy is locally cheap but difficult to export, it's not surprising that somebody tries to find a use for it, and really not that surprising that it's being used for computations. But since mining bitcoins is sort of a zero sum game, it might be better if the energy were used for some computation that actually added value to the world, if such a thing exists.
Any divider of 819 also aligns.

> And 13 cycles of Saturn's 378-day synodic period adds up to 4,914 days, which is the same as six times 819.

6 * 819 = 6 * (3 * 273) = 18 * 273.

All integers that divide 819: 1, 3, 7, 9, 13, 21, 39, 63, 91, 117, 273, 819

How this hypothesis explains why 819 was preferred over those other numbers?
I make no apologies for being a fan of The Weeknd. And Carly Rae Jepsen.
If they are gapped out on transmission capacity, then they can produce it but can't send it to India, in which case doing something locally with it woukd be useful.
Well, good question.

There's a LOT of stuff I'd like to involve in ChatGPT4, pertaining to organization rules. They're so voluminous, that nobody really knows them, especially around "colors of money" and appropriations committees. That sort of thing.

I would love to ingest those rules all in a special enclave of ChatGPT4 run inhouse that we can give it whatever.

To talk 'around' where I work, it'd be a felony to do that. But in areas where the data is public , I've played a bit and super surprised at the results.

As an example, look up a game you like with rules publicly available. Ingest it in as a url, and start asking it questions. I think you'll be significantly surprised. Also, try asking it strategy questions on win-optimization and rules exploitation. All these easily extrapolate to the real world.

The real key is to embrace ML in all forms, and use it to leapfrog your skills. And it took can help show you where to focus given your existing skills and abilities. Try telling it about yourself and just ask!
So that makes it intrinsically bad? What is acceptable vs unacceptable uses of energy? Esp. when we're not talking about food production or medicine
For real. This problem exists independent of unions.
So my understanding is that this particular power plant is hard to connect to their grid. Such things tend to be true, for example Kazakstan’s mountainous coal deposits.

Lots of things could prevent the sale of some energy, though. Someone else mentioned the idea that their market is saturated.
Thank you for the valuable reminder that not everyone sees the world identically! To me, an avowed city lover, all of those things are essential to a high(or even medium!)-quality life - well, except "schooling, after-school activities", as I'm not a parent and never will be. Your evaluation's no less valid, though! I hope you get to find and enjoy your ideal rural retreat soon :)
A lot of those artists don’t count as Canadian content because the producer was American.

Musician Bryan Adams has been a vocal opponent of CanCon rules since the 1990s, and it’s largely due to the fact that the federal government keeps ruling that his songs aren’t actually Canadian.

https://nationalpost.com/news/extremely-canadian-media-that-...
I mean, from the article...:

> It’s unclear why Bhutan never disclosed the project to its citizens or international partners.

> Rumors of government-backed bitcoin farms spread across the country in recent years.

So it was secret. They had also been buying hundreds of millions of dollars worth of chips, and not explaining why. So... yes. "Quietly" is apt here.
Occam's razor. Climate change is more likely to do us in.
OV-chipkaart is actually a joint venture between NS, Connexxion, GVB, HTM and RET (all various public transport operators).

The system I like is the London Oyster-derived one, which New York MTA is now also using. It has the advantage of supporting contactless and NFC payments out of the box.
What would be the point of stealing a trillion dollar coin? Who could fence it?
Before the light pollution got really bad where I live due to development, provided it wasn’t cloudy, I could see the Milky Way every night for about 15 years. Now, it’s gone due to lax rules and regulations due to commercial security light fixtures which throw light in all direction at night to deter thieves. It’s pretty upsetting, but even worse, most people I talk to don’t even notice it’s gone. That’s almost more disturbing that the light pollution. We’ve lost something that most people aren’t aware they lost in the first place.
Awesome that they're working on it!

HDR support is sorely needed in linux, but damn it seems complicated.
> I couldn't accept the job and look myself in the mirror while knowing that not only do my direct reports struggle to get by and can't save tax-deferred for retirement, but that I'm one of the only employers in the country who doesn't even pay FICA taxes.

With finance or ad-tech like you are recommending the whole output of the job is often zero or negative sum. That can happen in academia as well but it seems less likely.
I agree that this a perfectly on-topic post and worthy of discussion (in part because it was well written). I was just countering the claim/insuation that people were flagging the story because of their own prejudice against trans people (or whatever).

> But the silence from Rune, and dialogue suppression tactics by mystery parties honestly just make me more inclined to believe there is at least a grain of truth in the original submission.

Hypothetically, if Rune was in the right and the OP had seriously misrepresented the situation, what would be the right thing for Rune to do?
This did happen and it was egregious, but there is slightly more to the story (not that it makes it ok).

Years ago in Arizona I worked with a guy who was a descendant of John D. Lee who was the ringleader and later executed for his role in this attack. Lee's Ferry over the Colorado river is named for him also. So I looked into John D Lee a bit.

Here is his account:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadow...

The people in the wagon train were believed to have been those who had burned the Mormons out in Missouri, and although it seems revenge is a more likely motive then fear, there may have been an element of both. At any rate it wasn't just bushwhacking random wagon trains as many passed through the territory at the time.

I found Lee's account an interesting read and his grandson (or great grandson) looked very much like him.
Mr. Beast was the first YouTuber to really recognize this and pays to have people dub and subtitle his videos into other languages.

His media empire has become absolutely massive.
Name those phones. Contact your device manufacturer and complain if they aren't unrealistically old.
Obviously you haven't read or skimmed the article because the article makes no mention of AGI. However, it is very bland and predictable. I am not sure why any technologists or pioneer would think their technology wouldn't be used for bad. You can probably replace any mention of AI, ML or NN in the article with any other invention in the past 1 billion years and it will still make sense.

What technology/inventions out there that _can't_ and _isn't_ used for bad? AGI is a red herring. Even if AGI is possible, we will soon destroy ourselves through simpler means and those are much more important concerns. It is much sexier to be talking about AGI whichever side you are on. But who wants to talk about solving the issues of the downtrodden?

> I guess the silver lining is that if you're genuinely losing sleep about GPT-4 becoming a general agent that does every job, don't worry -- that'll only last until it gets someone's bank account emptied or until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target. Unless this security problem gets solved, but none of the companies seem to care that much about security or view it as a blocker for launching whatever new product they have to try and drive up stock price or grab VC funding. So I'm not really holding my breath on that.

Have any technologists ever considered what making the lower bound of necessary intelligence higher? Have anyone in SV ever talked or known someone that can't do elementary math? And how common this is? All technological advancement have a long term cost to society. You are making the assumption that the human part is going to be completely removed. This is not true. Of course there will still be human somewhere in the mix. But there will be significantly less. Automating the whole customer service industry wouldn't make every shop void of any human. There will be only a single human, managing all the machines and spend their days looking at gigabytes of generated logs from 9 to 5. Is this a way to live? Yes, for some. But everyone?

Just think about the consequence of having all manual labor jobs getting replaced. Which is probably conceivable in the next 30 years at least. What do you think will happen to these people? Do you think they became manual labor because they wanted to or have to? Now that they can't join the manual labor force, what now? Turn their career around to looking at spreadsheets everyday? Do you seriously think everyone is capable of that? HN folks are probably on the right end of the distribution but refuses to consider the existence of the people at left end of the distribution or even the center.
yes, and what can we infer here? the US is more willing to keep criminals that might harm others locked up, contrasting to europe where the holy goal is to collect >50% of peoples entire existence, regardless of the risk to others.

And also, the US has some slight problems with super corrupt individuals in power like the vice president that hid evidence that would free up wrongly convicted individuals, and hillary clinton that used prison labour to build her vacation homes.

the demographics, for many many reasons, are also more criminal in the US
Quotas are great exactly for this reason. In France before quotas in cinemas, the quality of the films was poor.

But when you he cinemas were forced to show French film in. x amount of screenings, desperate not to lose money they started to fund the films themselves and make films that were as profitable as possible.

This led to a positive loop where 1. The cinemas would look for lucrative films to fund 2. Creating a demand on local filmmakers to make films that people wanted to see 3. Which became hits 5. Leading to cinemas looking for more French films to put on

Etc
I find this position hard to grok. You’re complaining about people worrying about AGI because you view the short-run implications of this tech to be quite bad. To me, a lack of prompt security in the short term bodes poorly for our safety in N generations when these systems are actually powerful. Like, sure, someone is gonna get swatted by an AI in the next year or two, and that sucks, but that is a tiny speck of dust compared to the potential disutility of unaligned powerful AI systems.

Is it that you just think P(AGI) is really low, so worrying about an unlikely future outcome bothers you when there is actual harm now?

> that'll only last until it gets someone's bank account emptied or until some enemy combatant uses prompt injection to get a drone to bomb a different target

If that’s all it would take to prevent AGI I’m sure folks would not be scared. I don’t see why these things would prevent companies/countries from chasing a potential multi-trillion (quintillion?) dollar technology though.
Hydro dams typically store water uphill for later. If you use it now, it's not there to use later.

In the case of a 'stranded' dam, there isn't likely to be a reason to generate power either now or later, so you might as well run BTC generation. I suspect this has been the motivation to build an awful lot of 'stranded' hydro dams, though...
This is very cool. The TL;DR is buried in the middle of the article:

> The team found that within the structure of the interlocked molecules, the [odor receptor, one of a "family of proteins known as G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs)" - gumby] had trapped propionate within a small pocket. When they enlarged the pocket, the receptor lost much of its sensitivity to propionate and to another small molecule that normally activates it. The tweaked receptor preferred larger odor molecules, which confirmed that the size and chemistry of the binding pocket tunes the receptor to detect only a narrow set of molecules.

> The structural analysis also uncovered a small, flexible loop atop the receptor, which locks down like a lid over the pocket once an odor molecule binds inside it. The discovery suggests that this highly variable looping piece may contribute to our ability to detect diverse chemistry, according to Manglik.
I use an Android phone, my wife uses an iPhone. On my phone, if the screen is black, you press the "power" button to make the screen not-black. On her phone, if you pick it up, the screen becomes not-black, and if you then hit the power button (even if the alarm is going off) it locks the screen.

So cue me trying to turn her alarm off while she is in the shower, I pick it up, hit the power button and now have to unlock her phone in order to turn the alarm off. I mostly get it right now, but she's very confused as to why I'm trying to unlock her phone when I should only have to hit "stop"
its kind of rhetorical question.

imagine if TD produced a payment card that worked like a debit card. . . . wouldnt that be a whole lot like a cbdc?
Cables.