skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Castro then demanded that in addition to their relatives, the boats had to be filled with common prisoners from jails and mental patients, who were given the choice of staying in prison or trying their luck emigrating on those boats. Castro wanted to provoke a crime wave in the US to tarnish the reputations of those Cubans living there.

I can't help but to see a parallel with the out of control flood of migrants (some of them potential legitimate refugees) Turkey let into Europe in order to put pressure on the European Union back in 2015.
Agree that climate change is a bad term. Better term would be anthropogenic crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene).

Because we have much more problems than just fossil fuels.

This is just a short (and incomplete) list of impacts of agriculture:

- Greenhouse gas emissions

- Deforestation (40% of pastures used to be forests)

- Land degradation

- Water pollution

- Water overconsumption

- Loss of biodiversity

- Antibiotic resistance

- Ocean dead zones

- Inefficient land and resource use

- Ethical concerns regarding animal welfare

- Contribution to zoonotic diseases

- Air pollution

- Eutrophication

- Soil erosion

- High energy consumption

- Chemical runoff from pesticides and fertilizers

- Destruction of habitats and ecosystems

- Inequality in global food distribution

- Public health risks from foodborne illnesses

- Nutrient pollution

- Strain on waste management systems

- Overfishing (40-70% of plankton gone, sharks 90% gone, fish almost gone)
Exactly. Good documentation is much harder than you'd think.

I had similar policies. Also periodic reviews and especially during onboarding new devs I had them review the docs and make a list of missing points etc

Its just as important to delete out of date topics. Wrong and stale info is costly, it decreases trust and sends people in wrong directions.

edit: another obvious but surprisingly difficult thing to do is have everything in one system and make sure everything knows where to find it. Especially if your org is a bit bigger everybody will have their own systems and it'll be a big mess before you know it. But even so, within a single project I've often seen 3 to 8 'sources of truth', like trello tickets, images in onedrive, a word doc, markdown files, various propietary formats, pinnend posts in chat system, email archives, etc, etc.
It wasn't just the lab leak theory going around though, it was extremely tightly coupled with the "COVID bioweapon" conspiracy which really tainted it especially in the early days when there really wasn't much more info available other than it was first detected as a big outbreak in the same city as the coronavirus lab. In an ideal situation they'd be separable but they were so closely deployed trying to address the bioweapon conspiracy caught a lot of less out there discussion of the lab leak.

Also important though is it never really went away. For all the talk of censorship and suppression the possibility of a lab leak never left the investigation. It's also a very difficult thing to investigate without access to the labs to see what strains they were working on looked like which we still don't have afaik. It's been a process of eliminating other possiblities to some extent as other vectors that could be looked into were and turned out to be less likely.
Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers.

As this article shows, you can fiddle with Edge and other browsers to try and make them more privacy respecting --- but why bother trying to hit a constantly moving target?

Clearly, your privacy is not in their best interests and they will only continue to circumvent it.
Using a piece of software is not the same as using an online service.

If all those websites are using Flask, that would be the equivalent of centralising on Flask. The opposite of that would be many Flask-compatible yet unrelated other frameworks being used in parallel. A bug in Flask would not affect those not using that very codebase.

The centralisation people are speaking of here is the amount of people all putting their eggs in Cloudflare's basket.
I'd read that PFAS are used in the manufacturing of nonstick pans but aren't present in the final product, but I was wrong. PFAS regularly are found in nonstick pans, even ones labeled PFAS-free, and you eat them when you use that (scratched) pan.

https://www.consumerreports.org/toxic-chemicals-substances/y...
But a Perl object underneath is a hash, or list, or whatever. That abstraction doesn't save you from Perl's "sigil per type" and other oddities. It maybe encapsulates it, but...
Indeed, this sounds like a bad idea not just for the user but for the image host as well. If I post a picture, I post it the way I want it to be seen. I don't want the browser to arbitrarily reinterpret it.
Link to Doctorow's personal blog instead of yet another platform: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Isn't Slashdot a reference to the current directory in Linux?
> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise

That's an excewptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.
> elixir MO is based on, if not copied from, ruby

That's flat out false. Only the syntax is taken from Ruby, that's it. Even the added metaprogramming isn't anything like Ruby's. It otherwise just like Erlang.
>>The Supreme Court called spending money on political campaigns “expression” in the Citizens United decision, do you support that?

Yes... I do.

Why should Donald Trump be able to spend millions of his own money to create political speech, but I can not spend $1 along with 1 million of my friends to counter is. Contrary to what the common tag line is of "corporations are people now" the court recognized that corporations are made up of people, as such the people acting as a group ( corporation) are entitled to protections just as if they were acting alone as an individual.

>>So you’d be ok with someone using AI to generate an image of your self/spouse/child doing something unspeakably awful and putting it up on billboards around town with a suggestion that people take matters into their own hands?

Well that escalated quickly, that said in generally... I would probably consider that protected. The last part would be murky as I so recognize the "True Threat" doctrine, of course I am also a self defense absolutist along with a free expression absolutist, so if the hypothetical bill board expressed a true threat I believe it with in my ethical right to defend myself from that true threat.
If you think "The Good Parts" was a bad idea, I can only assume you didn't work on any large (or even small) coding projects before it was popular. It was the wild, wild west where everyone wrote JS without learning the language and abused/misused the worst features it had to offer (actually, that sounds like a lot of devs today. Somethings never change...)

> Crockford wrote his book "The good parts" that tried to write java in javascript.

This is particularly untrue. At that time (look up his talks), he was always vocal about JS prototypal design being bad BECAUSE it tried to be like Java. He pushed for things like `Object.create()` in ES5 (and opposed the ES6 Java-style class syntax) because it is much closer to how JS prototypes actually work.

He also pushed for closures and higher-order functions as the right way to code JS -- something Java wasn't even capable of. He was very much in favor of things like map/filter/reduce which are functional rather than class-oriented.

There's a LOT of stuff you can criticize about Crockford, but "The Good Parts" certainly isn't one of those things.
No, I'm not going to watch some random youtube video, of unknown length, to try to find out what your point is. If you want to say something, say it.
I fear that this is the year "wet-bulb temperature" becomes a term regular households across the world become deeply familiar with. It may be as ubiquitous as the term "social distancing" became.

I've always naively thought that climate disaster was still 10-20 years out, but it seems like it's going to begin in earnest now and instead be completely catastrophic after these next 10 years.

What can I as an individual do? Move to Saskatchewan or Alaska? I already know from a friend in Alaska that the melting permafrost is causing many native villages to sink and collapse, and it's only gotten worse in the past few years. Check out this article on Newtok, AK by National Geographic from 2019: http://archive.today/1enHh
> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise

That's an exceptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.
I might not have the best take since don't have a huge grudge against javascript but I definitely think there are some concrete problems in its foundations.

Specifically js has very unusual attitudes to basic syntax operations that are at this stage undoable without breaking an insane amount of existing code. For some examples:

- Use of == does not do what it does in almost every other language, but won't flag an error if a user thinks if does. Instead very difficult to track bugs will be introduced.

- Calling nonexistent object keys won't flag an error but return None. I've seen this lead to weird errors that are hard to find a lot of times.

- Duck typing in a lot of operators like + and - can create unexpected results.

At a high level, I think these are all choices to bake "truthyiess" into fundamental operations that often end up masking errors. They could pretty easily be solved if js, with those errors present, wasn't such a massive foundation for so much stuff.

I obviously can't speak for anyone else, but I think those are the kind of things most people are referring to when they talk about js having problematic foundations.
So they still have humans loading up the dough flattener, applying cheese and toppings, taking the pizza out of the oven, putting it in the automatic cutter, and then handling the pizza until it gets to your door? Other than the dough flattener, I don't really see this as a major improvement. Applying sauce takes about two seconds and can be done by the toppings guy. Automatic cutters already exist but are a little faster and more consistent than a human. Getting a dried out pizza that has been driven all over town doesn't seem that appetizing either. I worked in a Sbarro's location in college and we did the same thing with pizzas before the lunch/dinner rush and it just dried them out. Being in a box doesn't help much either but I'd rather have more direct deliveries than my food sitting in a warmer for who knows how long. Paying half a billion for a sauce machine, robot arm for loading the oven, and what is essentially a food truck with a big oven has got to be the biggest waste of money. This has to be some form of money laundering.

If this really was such an obvious innovation, why haven't any of the big chains done the same? The fast food industry is always trying new ideas to help speed up food and make it more consistent so I don't see them missing the idea of something like using a robot arm.

A pizza food truck is probably one of the best ways to enjoy a pizza, outside of an actual restaurant, if you want fresh without the degradation during the trip.
Making death threats is already illegal and is not a "hate crime". You're advocating for governments to make more speech illegal, speech that you don't agree with.

As far as your government turning to tyranny. I can't think of many governments that turned to tyranny multiple times. They are usually removed, or stay in power. "My government is not currently tyrannical so I'm confident it will stay that way", is a strange way to think if you've read much history, imo.
what would be interesting is a feature where the moderators can limit the group size. start with 20, and if that limit is almost reached, have an option to raise it. by that time a moderator will have an idea if the group can handle more growth or not.
I think this is precisely what is missing in so much of the climate communication from scientists in the space, the "so what" moment.

Drawing a line in the sand is useful for policy (We should target staying under 1.5C above historical records), but the other piece needs to be the why of it all.

So sure, from the figures given in this post we're seeing record antarctic sea ice anomolies, record sea surface temperature anomolies and record temperature mean anomolies.

But what does this mean for the average person?

What portion of our farmland is no longer serviceable? What places can people no longer live, what portion of our fresh water sources no longer work?

How many people will have to move, find other sources of food/water? What other severe downstream effects are coming that I'm not even aware of? Severe weather? Flooding? Ecosystem collapse?

I understand that this blog is likely more dedicated towards the science behind climate rather than communication of the consequences to the layman, but it seems that most science communication is more interested in communicating the science behind predictions (and often failing) than communicating what the outcomes are likely to be.
> We need an operating system that is already hardened, preconfigured with secure defaults, and can be a daily driver. It should not need the user “harden” it.

It'll look like macOS does out-of-the-box. I think everybody here who's not already on macOS hates that, judging from what people post about it. Even though you can disable most of that stuff if you need to.

Probably nigh-impossible to get such a thing working with decent UX all the way up through the GUI layer, on Linux. Too fragmented. The pieces are there, but no-one can say "THIS is how it works". I think we're stuck with the current situation, until/unless RedHat decides to create & push something for this that further cements their control over the Linux userspace (which... yeah, that actually might happen, and it'll probably be pretty bad because they seem to have really poor taste when it comes to software design, but we'll all end up stuck with it regardless). Maybe we'll see most distros shipping and enabling "systemd-security" when RH gets around to making it, and ensures that Gnome is extremely hard to package without it.
As a UK person who always dreamed of moving to the US, how have you found it from a social perspective? I always imagined it would be a much friendlier place than the UK and that there were more things to do regardless of whether you had geek or jock interests, does it match that expectation?
The majority of people are faced with a tough decision: Do the thing that benefits your community to your own (often mild) detriment, or do the thing that benefits you at the cost of the community.

I think generally people are willing to sacrifice a little for the benefit of their community. Let the city tax you more to build a library, pay a bit more at the restaurant so the workers there make a bit more, whatever. But sometimes if we're scared or anxious about the future and our place it in, we lean more into the self-interest category.

You get a few generations of this and it's going sideways. You get a few folks that lean so hard into it, and have enough charisma and opportunity to convince people that what they're doing is great, and it's going sideways very fast.

Tragically, many the benefits that previous generations enjoyed were not a windfall, but a debt that is coming due. And each subsequent generation is borrowing more to pay the inherited debt.
Can't always do that, though. Apple gets especially angy if you're injecting necessary stuff into the page, we found as a general rule they'll fail your app approval for anything like that (unless you're a big boi like FB I guess).
I was also skeptical of this particular venture, but keep in mind that Domino's has a market cap of over $10B. There's a lot of money in ubiquitous things like pizza or laundry detergent. The execution here sounds poor, but the concept of "use technology to revolutionize <common everyday thing that lots of people spend money on>" is not lunacy. Just hard.
> Look at their hilariously terrible acquisition of Dubsmash for $50 million

gah that's frustrating. they could have bought apollo for 10 million probably. (in his own words that would have been life changing money) but instead they go down a darker path.
Just spraying seawater upwards to make clouds might do the trick:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-conceptual-Flettner-sp...
> This is just argument by assertion. We have no good definition of intelligence, so I have no clue how he can be so confident.

Without concrete definitions your assertions are just as correct as theirs. But they have the evidence of absurd tech-bro hype of past technologies to draw on.

> I love Ted Chiang's stories, and some of his takes on AI progress are cited here. However, I also found his extensive conversation with the Financial Times (earlier this month, so published after this) disappointing along similar lines.

"I love Ted Chiang's stories because they jive with my preconceived notions, but I like him less when he says things that I don't believe"

> The thread running through both of these is a complete lack of a positive vision for the future, replaced by an almost smug cynicism that asserts any more technological progress is simply hype, a grift, and bad. Are there any current science fiction authors with a positive vision of the future?

Plenty. They talked about flying cars and living on the moon. Instead we got stagnant wages and a social-media skinner box. All of those wonderfully positive predictions didn't pan out.
Surprisingly sober and non-bombastic commentary. Does a good job of discussing dynamics but it's hard to see how this doesn't suppress market activity and reduce the tacit value and productivity of the population. Said differently: how we avoid a smaller pie.
Here in Norway, I've had to use my banks 2-factor BankID[1] to sign my loan, house purchase contract etc. According to their documentation[2] it absolutely relies on cryptography, including SEID-SDO[3]

[1]: https://www.bankid.no/bedrift/bankid-signering/

[2]: https://confluence.bankidnorge.no/confluence/pdoidclc/techni...

[3]: https://www.nets.eu/developer/E-Signing/overview/Pages/Signe...
Yep, when I've cut sugar I've noticed things like carrots and even bell peppers actually taste sweet.
I think you missed the

PER YEAR

part. 3500 kwh per year is only 292 kwh per month, which is about three times lower than the US number quoted.
I know, right! Why pilot a spacecraft manually when it can be helmed by Eddie, the Shipboard Computer, with a Genuine People Personality! Why do menial manual labour all over the place, when you can have it done by Marvin, the Paranoid Android!!!
Germany Refuses to Increase Subsidies for Intel's Fab
The over-optimizer in me is screaming "why is the bong on the analog track?"

The simplifier in me is screaming " Cool, less circuitry!"
There's a difference between an admin having mod access to every subforum and being listed in that specific subforum's list of moderators
Still hoping for something other than Firejail to come along: The way profiles are designed is brittle and an order-dependent override hell, and it's common to use denylists vs. allowlists.

Firejail is a setuid binary with tons of attack surface and has had a number of privescs itself[1], unlike something like the lower-level Bubblewrap tool.

I'm glad it exists, though - it's the only mature solution other than Flatpak that has proper dbus filtering, among other things.

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1619...
„Beating“ depends on the perspective. German engineering and marketing approaches are most certainly more conservative, which is important in certain technological advancements such as driving assistance / self-driving.
It's not like they can go grab employees from one of their funded companies to go work on HN, and they've clearly been happy with the results of their level of engineering investment in HN.

(Besides, as Reddit is showing, do you want your discussion site run like a tech unicorn? Arguably things were better for users in the skeleton crew days)
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That makes sense... the realities of modern life make that impossible except in rare circumstances.

I am a single dad with shared custody. The mom helps when she can but her career is very demanding and a top priority for her. Neither of us have any family support- we both had to move to the only city where we were both offered jobs in our respective fields, far away from family.

Compared to my colleagues and co-workers deciding to have kids is seen as an eccentricity. The only people I know that do it in my field are men in their 50s that have cashed out on startups and have stay at home wives. Professional Women having kids is virtually unheard of nowadays... the few that are lucky enough to cash out do so at an age where it's no longer biologically possible.

I'm making things work, but it takes all of the energy and time I have, I couldn't even fathom doing it with 2 kids. And I feel I'm super lucky having a flexible schedule and a strong income. If I couldn't possibly leave work until 5 but had to do child pickup at 2, it would be impossible.
the notion that quality of life could be boiled down to a number, to be put in some ranking for comparison across eras, is ludicrous
Somewhat related, but I'd love for Apolloapp to break free from the Reddit API and simply become its own thing. It's backed by, depending on how you measure things, probably almost 50% of the Reddit community as it is. With some VC backing, or simply just crowdfunding to start things off, and continuous support from the subreddits that have gone dark, it could very well become a thing.
Look Mum No Computer did a really cool hack with one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3EuP7vZRSo
One of the best things you could do is get unflavored whey isolate and just mix it with something you trust, like a bit of juice.

Unflavored isolate is pretty expensive for me, and I often find good proteins on sale (I like ISO100 from Dymatize and buy it whenever it's cheap) but for me, it is sickeningly sweet (and artificial as well). So I've been using 50% flavored protein with 50% unflavored isolate to really reduce the overall sweetness. Add in a spoon of fat-free yogurt, maybe a splash of skim milk, water, it's a good time.
The latest crop of "metaverses" are almost all intertwined with blockchain. It's about buying into the metaverse, buy your plot of land, buy your sneakers, buy your new hairstyle, buy your emote laugh animation. Every possible interaction is monetized. It's baffling, like why would anyone want to spend time in a dystopian capitalism simulator.

VRChat seems to embrace the pure spirit of the thing, from what I can tell as an outsider. People are free to express themselves and be creative, making their own avatars and worlds from scratch if they want. It seems like a wacky hangout space, the whole point is to not have constraints. Trying to turn it into anything beyond that seems like it would fail.

But then again, I also don't understand why people drop thousands of dollars on Fortnite skins. I don't feel out of touch with tech, but this I simply do not get, at all.
I know I uninstalled Apollo this morning. The blackout is just the mild push needed to kick the habit. I'm not interested in racking up API charges for the Apollo dev. I'm not logged in anywhere else and I won't be.
FYI: https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/

> The GDPR does apply outside Europe

> Suppose you run a golf course in Manitoba focused exclusively on your local area, but sometimes people in France stumble across your site. Would you find yourself in the crosshairs of European regulators? It’s not likely. But technically you could be held accountable for tracking these data.