skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no credible person or source that makes this claim.

The issue here is that for many people taking your position, making the claim makes you not credible. By definition, there can be no credible source making that claim, because to make that claim revokes your credibility.
I strongly disagree Netflix isn’t a comparable alternative as it enables me to watch moving pictures to occupy my time. Worse YouTube gets their movies for free.

I understand that they are in a bind. Not my problem, however.
Every "scientist" associated with that fact-free cover-up should have already ended their career in disgrace.
The fact that we still exist speaks strongly against an AGI destroying the entire galaxy.
Fermi Paradox, otoh, suggest that planetwide destruction is not out of the question.
> A Western official told CNN that the UK has received assurances from the Ukrainian government that these missiles will be used only within Ukrainian sovereign territory and not inside Russia.

It's quite well established that the US has been putting safeguards in the systems it sends to Ukraine to prevent even the possibility of them being used against Russian territory, for fear of potential escalation. I wonder if other powers sending support to Ukraine are taking the same precautions. I also wonder if a cruise missile from a NATO country were to strike deep into Russia if it would really matter which country supplied it. While I doubt Russia is in any position to expand the war, anything that can be spun to support the narrative that they are defending against NATO could help them with domestic recruitment and getting more useful aid from countries like China.
The downside would be no vaccines for any diseases, as all vaccines are derived from "gain of function" research. There is also not conclusive evidence that this latest pandemic was the result of a laboratory accident. Every other catastrophic pandemic in human history emerged "naturally", and many more will continue to do so.
Taking slavery out of the question since that is obvious removal of rights of free will..
If someone had the choice between being homeless, of working full time for a small business that in exchange let them sleep in the warehouse and brought them breakfast and dinner each day, but offered zero pay, would that be ok? Because on one end that seems like charity to me, but also others would view it as exploitation.
All that is in reality is employers subsidising people's decision to live somewhere with an outrageous commute (ie generally far away from urban centres). People who chose to live in urban centres close to where they're likely to work with shorter travel times are now being effectively penalised for making a responsible decision.

Alternatively we could force employers to pay for commutes but allow them to factor that into hiring decisions. If I have to pay you as if you worked 60 hours because you have a ridiculous 2 hour each way commute I'm just going to hire someone who lives 30 minutes away instead.
Competition over the past couple decades is less and less of a factor for private companies, however[1].

[1] https://hbr.org/2018/03/is-lack-of-competition-strangling-th...
Is anyone surprised? It's really eye-opening working at a startup making a huge impact and the company is valuated in the hundreds of millions with only a few engineers. And you just make like $150k, a tiny TINY fraction of the value. Even if you make more than most workers, you're still getting robbed of the true value of your labor.
I will translate: People are mostly incapable of splitting work and do proper communication in environments with high(er) latency.

The idea of just throwing stuff "over the fence" so to speak is going to bite you in the rear end in such scenarios, but people pretend there is no difference to having everyone in the same office and then run into a hard wall because reality is saying "hello!"
minimum wage legislation does not have an exception for those in a 'temporary rough spot'

there are lots of businesses which would be profitable if they didn't have to worry about laws or regulations, but which are unviable in the real world. for example, selling methamphetamine to middle school kids in tony neighbourhoods.
I think the core issue is:
* People don't like ads, because ads suck
* Youtube offers premium, an ad-less experience

Never have I seen self-entitled people so furious as when YT requests they buy premium in order to remove ads. What, should YT be hosted for free without ads and without a subscription?

I get that ads suck and companies suck, but self-entitled people suck too; most of us here are devs and we get paid because our company has to make money _somehow_.

YT users have two great options for paying for their access, dealing with ads or paying a subscription. They refuse either option and instead are furious that YT doesn't offer itself completely for free.
You literally cannot absorb significant amounts of vitamin D over winter in vast swathes of the world, including most of Europe.
> it took less than what we are currently facing to throw (European) civilization back for about 1000 years when the Roman Empire fell.

The whole "dark ages" trope is generally understood by people who study that period to be a popular misunderstanding.
How could climate change lead to an extinction event? Seems impossible to me even if it kills billions. Extremely easy to see how AI leads to an extinction event.
Cryptocurrency, part 3: Time to “cash out”
From the small interactions i've had with deliveroo/uber, most of the workers there LOVE the flexibility. It's the main reason they do it and they sacrafice some financial rewards for that flexibility.

So I believe workers should get paid the minimum, but im sure that gig work fills a niche that no other work does. They don't want to negotiate, they want simplicity and flexibility or else they could work as temp staffing or short term work such as call center or gigs, that are paid well but often bad work.
> so that we can be more prepared in terms of creating vaccines and understanding the preventive measures that can be taken in future pandemics.

Did the existing decades of research help with that when COVID-19 organically and naturally spontaneously jumped to human hosts?
I miss those days here in the US were somekind of sexual impropriety would end someone's political career.

Now it seems, at least for one US Political Party, sexual impropriety is a requirement to be considered for higher office.
Yes and:

Visual Basic (and others) were unintentional victims of ODBC, the transition from workgroup-based to client-server.
This is fatalism. The way you "have to deal" with not having food to eat or working infrastructure is that you starve and die, or freeze and die, or get ill and die.

Nobody wants this.
Um, no.

"all 50 states have some provision in their state law, whether it's their state constitution or their state statutes, that prohibits private militia, private paramilitary activity. " [0]

"In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled in a major gun rights case, District of Columbia vs. Heller, that citizens had a right to own a firearm for purposes other than being in a militia, namely for self-defense. The ruling affirmed the right of states to restrict militia-like activity." [1]

So, it is pretty much decided that independent militias, unaccountable to the state(s), can be illegal under the constitution, and are in fact illegal in all 50 states.

So, either the founders were either not actually interested in unregulated militias (hint: they did say "well regulated", not "unregulated, independent"), or SCOTUS has gotten it wrong — very possible, but it is very unlikely that a different SCOTUS would help, as this is the most right-wing SCOTUS in a century and it still upheld outlawing independent militias.

And again, there is nothing that says that independent militias would not, or could not have qualification standards. In fact, they'd be idiots not to.

Again, I do not see any right to buy arms & ammo as easily as a bunch of bananas, or that the right is enshrined for insane, incompetent, or irresponsible people. Being required to pass a background check, not have demonstrated inability to control your own violence, and demonstrate basic safety and skill with firearms is not infringement.

I live in Massachusetts, with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country. It is a minor inconvenience, certainly nothing resembling infringement. We need to attend a 2-3 hour safety session and iirc get the cert signed off by the Chief Of Police in the town[2].

The results are clear [3]. While the nation has hundreds of mass shootings every year, there have been only 2 in MA in this century (the only one in the last two decades being in the Boston Marathon Bombing, an international terrorist act), and only 4 in the last 33 years.

Yet, if I want to, I can go get qualified and get a firearm next week.

Seriously, where is the infringement?

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/30/907720068/are-citizen-militia...

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-09-2...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Massachusetts

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mass_shootings_in_Mas...
So, is Cuis Smalltalk left behind? For a while it seemed to maybe be the path forward for a lean, Free Smalltalk?

https://cuis.st/
Argentina Is Going Broke to Stall a Full-On Currency Collapse
"But I don't expect to convince anyone (over 25) to go out and [ignore ChatGPT]. The purpose of this article is not to change anyone's mind, but to reassure people already interested in [unassisted writing] -- people who know that [writing in isolation] is powerful, but worry because it isn't widely used. In a competitive situation, that's an advantage." -- slightly modified PG drivel on Lisp
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
"Pharo is an open source, cross-platform implementation of the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language and runtime."

So not surprising.
I'd argue being able to stop worrying about your code after writing it and not making decisions like these is a good enough reason to just do it right. Especially when it's not much more additional work
Yes it does. A big gas plant is say about 44% efficient (i.e. 56% lost as heat) so 10% of that electricity getting lost in wires takes you down to 40% of the original input energy.

Heat pumps don't qualify for EU Renewable heat incentives if they get less than 2.5 SFP (COP averaged over the year's seasons).
My dude, I'm an American who has done research to try to find out what's legal or even what the requirements are for some things. I know from experience that it's a mess.

I don't consider "just stay away from the boundary" to be an adequate answer. Avoiding a vaguely defined zone of peril is not freedom. And as a peaceful, law-abiding citizen of a democracy, the law is supposed to work for me, to make my life better. Instead it works for those willing to casually break the law, and makes those rich enough to hire lawyers rich enough. If that doesn't sound like a problem to you, I don't know what else to say.
Another rather important point #4 is no animal has been found as a viable transmission source. The closest relative to COVID, though still not a viable source, was found in bats located some 1000 miles away from Wuhan. Incidentally this has all been true from day one as well, which made the censorship and propaganda as dystopic as usual.
Writing PHP bindings is pretty easy as well (once you manage to sort out build tooling, but that's a mess anywhere in C). Have fun :)
German reporting in. According to Weatherspark [1] starting November to March around 70% of the days are cloudy and it's cold so you would barely expose 15% of your body to the remaining sun. In feburary, around midday, on a cloudy day you don't make enough vitamin d. And even on a cloudless day it takes more than 4 hours around midday to get the daily recommended dose. [2]. Being a dog owner I spend a lot of time outside, also during midday and 3/4 of the year I go for a run around midday every other day. Last year in january I was diagnosed with severe vitamin D deficiency at around 6ng/ml. Took a few months to get that back to normal using supplements.

[1] https://weatherspark.com/y/68301/Average-Weather-in-Hamburg-...
[2] https://fastrt.nilu.no/VitD_quartMEDandMED_v2.html
A search engine short-circuiting organic traffic to sites it crawls to this extent seems like playing with fire when you've got a 90%+ market share and are already in the government's headlights.
Show HN: PrintNanny.ai, monitoring for 3D Printers
Hi! I'm the Founder of PrintNanny.ai - monitoring for desktop 3D printers.

I just put together this online demo of PrintNanny's detection system. I'd love to hear what you think!

The detection system usually runs offline on a Raspberry Pi 4. I didn't feel comfortable with other internet-connected solutions, so I built one that works without an internet connection.

I ended up rolling a custom Linux distribution (PrintNanny OS) to package up the detection system and some of my favorite tools, like OctoPrint and Tailscale VPN.

This is the first time I've made the detection available to play with, without having to install the whole PrintNanny operating system.
https://archive.is/mcoKm
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias:

Ozymandias

By Percy Byesshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Wouldn’t touch it with a ten-foot pole, though I understand it is decent technically. There’s just too many great choices, that don’t require submitting to a known abuser.
Quat sanitizer is viewed as completely safe by food service workers and they are encouraged and mandated to slather it all over every surface in the restaurant. Everyone is eating quat constantly.
Aah, it's intentional. :)

> Pharo features

> A dynamic, pure object-oriented programming language in the tradition of Smalltalk
Your coach was right, it was good advice, Olimpic rowers master this to perfection and make it look easy.
"Thomas Midgley Jr. could've been thwarted by worse labor conditions" is certainly an interesting take.
Yes! File systems are hard. My prediction is that it will be *at least* 10 years before this newfangled FS gains both feature- and stability parity with BTRFS and ZFS.

Also, BTRFS (albeit a modified version) has been used successfully in at least one commercial NAS (Synology), for many years. I don't see how that counts as "gone nowhere".
I just turned 50 in October, and have been coding my entire career plus. I still love and enjoy coding, and feel like I have more to contribute by far than I did early in my career. I have founded a smallish dev studio in Cincinnati (Launch Scout) that I started with a few other developers in 2009. I've tried a few different roles as the company has evolved, but eventually realized that I love coding and helping other people get better at coding. Management, organization leadership, etc, are all important but I've had to (with some misgivings at times) allow other people to fill those roles so I can do what I'm really best at. It can be very frustrating to see our industry fail to learn sometimes. I think the lack of TDD being as widely adopted, and the wide embrace of technologies like React that make development incredibly more complex than is necessary are my two big sources of frustration right now. But I still love learning, and love seeing new ways to make things much better. I still love building things. I'm inspired when I remember how my good friend Jim Weirich was actively coding and teaching right up until he passed away. Right now, my hope is to follow in his footsteps. I think there are a few of us who are like minded. A few years back I tried to organize a group I called Geek Geezer Guild. It might be time to resurrect that.
No, I don't think it is remotely likely they did it on purpose. But if it were proved absolutely they did, then I don't think retaliation would be off the table, which is what I responded to. The virus was most likely either natural or an accidental lab leak (I lean slightly towards latter). If anyone released it on purpose, which is unlikely, China's government would not even be my first bet...I am simply saying that if it were found a government entity anywhere did release a massively transmissible bioweapon on purpose, then I think a grave response would be warranted despite possible huge risks.
Most of my closest friends are also older developers, and we talk shop a lot.

Have you accumulated a professional network of colleagues? If so, you might consider adopting a habit of inviting them out to lunch or something every so often, just to shoot the breeze. They may be feeling the same need for casual connection just as you are, and it comes with the benefit of keeping your professional network fresh.
I can't take seriously an article that takes about socialist software engineers and never once mentions or at least hints at Stallman, the FSF, Chaos Computer Club, or many other people and movements that could be considered either straight out socialist or heavily inspired.
But the US insurance market isnt free either, they are heavily regulated in the US as well.
Willingness doesn't really factor into it. Everyone's way of life is going to change, regardless of if they want it to. That's what "dealing with it" like our ancestors refers to.

It's more so just a choice if we want to take actions now to attempt to steer things or let things happen and tackle whatever comes.
People often forget to factor in the value of risk. The reason engineers who join startups rather than found them make a fraction of what the founders make is because they didn't take on the initial risk of starting the company, which they are of course free to do anytime they like by starting their own company.
Because they have to, to make ends meet. When you are struggling to feed yourself and maybe a family it leaves little room for learning or enjoying yourself.
How do you generally get new users for this?
The people responsible for the PSL existing would like everybody to stop inventing more uses for it. That is, this is clearly a terrible idea but it is better than nothing, so here it is, but please invent something that's not a terrible idea.
I don’t think pg is talking about the short-term, cognitive deficiencies of using AIs during execution of a specific task. I read it as the long-term decline in capabilities because you don’t regularly exercise certain things:

- being able to organize and compose your thoughts

- being able to synthesize disparate ideas into a cohesive whole

- tuning word choice, diction, and flow for a particular audience

- choosing the narrative frame in which you present your idea (this one is huge)

More concerning than long-term decline is that the next generation never develop these at all.
Of course they don't. This is nonsense.

There are studies that said "if you were on mechanical ventilation early on in the pandemic, you were highly likely to die". Oh my! Ventilators sound bad, right? Doctors were reserving ventilators for the most critically ill people that needed them. The same patients who were most likely to die (ill, old, etc) from COVID were put on ventilators. It wasn't the ventilators, it was the god damned virus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682899/
Where is the self volition following:

> What if there are simply not enough jobs available at the rates that people want to be paid?

Decisions are made by others that put people in a position where there is practically no self volition, only struggle.

There is no shortage of resources or capital that requires us to put these people in that position, as evidenced by the, ever growing, vast sums of wealth controlled by a tiny minority.

We could choose to restructure things in such a way that people are paid more fairly, and everyone works less.
I'm in my 50s. I can't think of any category or dimension of tech resources that would more or less valuable for me in my 50s than they would be if I were in my 30s.

Advice on exercise and eating responsibly might be the category (that you probably didn't have in mind) that would be different. Twenty years ago, I could play a softball doubleheader and hit the pub for a dinner of wings and several beers and be fine the next day. Now, a single game and a single beer is enough to have me a few steps slower the next day. Take care of your health (probably in your 30s as well, but especially as you get older).
> Younger people almost all actually believe the hype of each fad and don’t realize when they’re reinventing the wheel.

I find this an almost endless source of amusement.
Wages, i.e. payment per hour worked, is independent of the number of hours worked. One of the takeaways is that they aren't being paid the legal minimum wage.

The overarching takeaway is that gig work doesn't offer the protections that is extended to other workers. More to your point, understand that one of the issues that Starbucks unions are fighting for is more control over scheduling.
We gonna need to see that tape
Just to compare, Minneapolis gets an average on 2700 hours on sunshine a year. London, home to 9 million people including me, gets about 1700.

Like damn.
You're dead right. This was a no-win situation for any politician.

Had they done little, people would be in hysterics that nothing was being done because $FOREIGN_COUNTRY had stricter rules in place.

Had they done a lot, people would be in hysterics that freedoms were being curtailed unnecessarily because $FOREGN_COUNTRY had weaker rules in place.
> I like how we carve out acceptable targets for exploitation, and it's always young people.

Working is a two-way agreement, not exploitation. The job market "discriminates against" people with little or no experience. Gaining experience is valuable, that's why young people choose to take jobs with low monetary pay.
For writing yes, the more we offload the lazier we will get.

But for reading, I can’t stand most text as it’s way too long and convoluted. I would gladly take a short version most of the time or one that is created just for my level of understanding.
If you can’t lead a comfy life (because house prices are in the millions), and you see everyone here 10-20 years before you leading a comfy life (and capitalizing on housing price growth), you’re going to feel the game is rigged and you’re being played the fool.

So yes, those people are more likely to gravitate towards a personal politics that offers a solution for their personal woes.

It’s not hard to fix as a society. Build enough housing and you’ll find all those busy educated relatively-high-earning folks go off to live a comfy life, like generations of relatively-high-earning folk before them.
> The polling organisation Metropoll predicted late last month that İnce voters would predominantly give their votes to Erdoğan’s AKP, the CHP, with some also going to the far-right Nationalist Movement party and the nationalist IYI (Good party) in the parliamentary race.

> The high-profile deployment of deepfake videos has already hit Turkey’s 45-day election cycle, after Erdoğan played an alleged deepfake that claimed to show banned Kurdish militants declaring their support for Kılıçdaroğlu at a pre-election rally last weekend

This could be the first election results secured through using deep fakes.
I agree. Books are still where its at. Online resources tend to be better for reference than for learning.
A lot of these ventures aren't profitable even while paying their employees a pittance.