skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If by democratic you mean rule by the demos, it has a very long history of at least 3000 years across multiple world regions. Even the much maligned managerial state has a history tracing back to ancient roots.

While history is not a justification for evil, it does mean that extra caution should be taken when making changes to something that is a matter of life and death, such as food security. Often social systems that have evolved over long periods of time have done so for a reason- and in the case of food policy there’s a clear one - social stability.

I’m willing to accept that market based mechanisms could improve food security, but it’s risky. As far as changing the current policy to promote the types of foods urban elites prefer, the result would be catastrophic as most people do not have the caloric needs nor the financial resources that the elites have. People don’t eat burgers because they’re stupid. Obesity is a hormonal disease not a food security one.
> Also note that Vulcan and New Glenn both use Blue Origin's BE-4 engine.

One of those engines destined for Vulcan's maiden flight exploded during qualification testing recently.

I think a lot will have to go right going forward for Amazon to reach the July 2026 deadline for half deployment.
This article seems angry and I’m not so sure it’s justified in its anger
>who wants to defend child pornographers?

What is "child pornographer" btw? Is it the one who produces? Is it the one who distributes?
Sharing CP != child abuse. Viewing CP != child abuse. Storing CP != child abuse. I want to defend CP viewers. Children can suffer during production (but not always: teenagers can film themselves, for example, i.e. make home videos just like adults). But no one suffers directly during the storage, viewing and distribution of files.
I love it that the author says "understand why you're trading", when in reality market makers are usually the least informed players in the market. They don't know what instruments are worth, they mostly just believe whatever "the market" believes, and tweak a bit around that.
I quit smoking this year... by bicycling from SF to LA.

My body was so sore from biking that I didn't even feel the withdrawals!

But I think I was only able to quit smoking because I quit drinking months prior.

Quitting booze and nicotine was probably the best thing I've done for myself as an adult! Highly recommended.

Feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you need support :)
You're somehow ignoring the fact that natural gas is ... an energy source. Cooking uses energy, period, whether it's delivered in a pipe or a wire. The difference is that electricity _can_ be generated in a carbon-neutral way, but methane can't.

The other underlying question is about the conversion efficiency of, e.g., natural gas to electricity to heat (generation station -> house -> induction stove) vs directly burning gas at the stove. And the answer is -- induction often wins out, because gas stoves are pretty inefficient (they let a lot of heat energy bypass the pan). And it wins from an indoor air quality perspective. Where it may not win is cost, depending on the relative prices of gas and electricity where you live. But full electrification of your house allows you to save the costs of the monthly gas hookup and may reduce insurance costs.
Besides echoing the sentiment that PHP ~3-5 was definitely NOT a good language, I don't know what you mean by new shiny. JS is like 6 months newer than PHP and python is like 4 years older.
I’m not sure it’s safe to make that assumption. I really think people just hear the word “leak” and assume the worst.
We already have testimonies from Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter Executives.

If that isn't enough, nothing will be.
I foresee that Netflix etc are gonna become a hell of a lot more expensive.
Yeah, the nuances around movie rentals are absurd. Would love to see more of an exploration around that.
Oooh I totally forgot.
Guess I'm gonna have to rewatch it!
> python or c++ code

Yes. You can use Godot, I have played some great games on the Quest 2 made in Godot.

GDScript is very similar to python, and there is ways to work with cpp as well.
> But I am also kind of "the right tool for the job" proponent. Now is PHP the right tool to build Desktop Apps?

If you work in a largely PHP shop and want a quick internal tool to solve some business need or something, sure.
They're not really aiming to achieve all that in one shot. This is an existing research idea that this team will work to make incremental improvements upon.
> Big Tech spent more on federal lobbying from 2010-202 than the nation’s largest banks from 2000-2010 or Big Tobacco from 1996-1999
Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying. $434,474,221 of that total has come since 2010.
Additionally, nine groups that the four Big Tech companies fund have spent $98,061,827 on federal lobbying since 2000. $80,400,019 of that total has come since 2010.
Big Tech’s federal lobbying total eclipses that of other major toxic industries: Since 2010, the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers have spent $282,292,834 on federal lobbying. America’s seven largest banks in the leadup to the financial crisis spent $194,193,858 on federal lobbying from 2000 to 2010. From 1996 to 1999, the nation’s largest tobacco companies spent $155,750,398 on federal lobbying, or $261,306,596 in 2021 dollars.

Very interested, where does this money go?
>Credit cards are very rarely used except in-person

Credit cards give you reward points/money so that's not really a positive.
You’re moving the goal posts. They didn’t even hit the mark on the only thing they tried to do.. they completely lost the Obamacare campaign with the American people as well. During the Obamacare rollout I was actually on the ground in rural Missouri educating people, trying to get them on board with Medicaid expansion. They didn’t want to hear it until I personalized the message, talked about rural healthcare disparities, etc. Instead of doing that, bringing a left wing message to working people, the Dems (including the senator I was working for at the time) just moved to the right. I was there, I remember what happened. I remember Hillary pandering to the right. I remember the moves like the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from Dems. I expect better from the only viable liberal party in America.
In that April slack conversation, the lead author expressed strong, persistent concern about a lab cultured virus that had adapted and become pandemic-ready through that process. Lab culturing = lab manipulation.

Authors have taken their names off papers for much less.
Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations (2011)
Make the transition slower:
Promised discounts with a lot of caveats would hold no appeal. But a blanket “1% cash back” would get my attention, yes.
what i want to know is what "EAs" means in this context?
By talking to multiple sources, preferably ones who are not employed by the same company. If a chemist makes a claim, ask other chemists about it and publish their responses along with the original claim. The personal opinions of the journalist aren't needed or desirable.
Does anyone know how many satellites before things get too crowded? 100,000? 1 million?
I don’t read “have even a middling amount of kitchen experience” as being a decent cook. IMO, a decent cook doesn’t really need full recipes they can just wing it based on a basic idea, but it takes a long time to get to that level.
They also optimize for transportation, which in the US tends to be very far indeed. Many kinds of fruit and veg are picked when they are just ripe, or not yet ripe and artificially ripened with ethylene or similar.
It's not even about optimizing for looks so much as size. A given blueberry bush will grow a certain _number_ of blueberries, while they are sold by weight. For that reason the farmer makes more money by getting the bush to grow the largest blueberries possible, and the larger ones tend to taste less good.
>What Apple gets right

they haven't released anything yet
https://archive.is/12r9Z
And everyone should be skeptical of journalists too.
> I'm the one who said, "Just pay them more"

I'm _not_ the one who said it, rather.
You seem angry. It also sounds like you have never worked seasonal work. I believe you have made a critical error assuming this is the only work they have. They are being paid well for the job compared to other listings. When that job is done they move on to another.

You are also assuming that they are suffering. What do you base this assumption on? Seasonal workers I have met and talked to are generally happy, easy going people. They are not being exploited that is something you read that isn't there.
He’s saying that they aren’t able to properly weigh out the benefits and consequences of their actions. They have a reason behind wanting to kill and that reason outweighs any other desire, despite knowing the risks of killing people (death, prison, etc) which we can assume far outweigh their motivation.
Stimulants improve a lot of things -- ADHD, Depression, Binge Eating Disorder, Narcolepsy, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc..

It wouldn't surprise me if stimulants improved Austism in some individuals because, if I recall correctly, I think 60%-70% of people with Autism have ADHD as well.
Bring back AOL!
At least some telco types absolutely wanted to use ATM for everything. The idea was that instead of the completely anarchy of letting anyone connect to anyone else, you'd use ATM to build up sane, billable virtual circuits between endpoints. Basically, your computer would "call" a server, and Ma Bell would helpfully bill you for the connection and for the amount of data you passed. When you were done, you'd disconnect. I mean, it'd worked for years for voice, so why not data?

Fortunately, that insanity lost.
I blame the big NFL deal, honestly.
Be careful about visiting in July. Every year there are two massive sailboat races that end at Mackinac Island (one starts in Detroit, the other Chicago). On those two consecutive weeks, the character of the island changes significantly…
USA provided munitions before WW1 and Germans took out the Lusitania after warning Americans not to set sail on that boat.

https://archive.archaeology.org/0901/trenches/lusitania.html

Providing munitions to non-NATO country is meddling and could be considered an act of war. Where is USA Congress to vote on this war?
GameFaqs is an absolute gem. Load everything at once as text, no interstitial ads, no auto playing videos, no bs.
> “What Democrats are doing in Dane County is truly making it impossible for Republicans to win a statewide race.”

Although Republican Senator Ron Johnson somehow won reelection in 2022, albeit by fewer than 27,000 votes.
Interacting with APIs is the old style. The magic of ChatGPT is the same magic as google had back in the day - you ask it in plain english and it has an answer.

I'm guessing the solution looks like a model trained to take actions on the internet. Kinda sucks for those of us on the outside, because whatever we make is going to be the same, brittle, chewing-gum and duct tape approach as usual. Best to wait for the bleeding edge, like what that MinecraftGPT project was aiming at.
Space is really, really big. And, orbits can happen at different distances from the Earth.

As long as we don’t overcommit LEO satellites we can keep putting things in GEO orbit for probably a very long time.
Whatever happened to legislation? I bet most people here would have said the same about Apple's App Store monopoly on iOS, and yet the EU passed the DMA and the matter was closed.

There's no reason why the same can't happen here. The defeatism attitude helps with nothing and is part of the reason why this happens in the first place.
> These companies blew up a successful business model that the public enjoyed, that was immensely profitable, and they replaced it with a mishmash that we have now

They were only "immensely profitable" because they were in an oligopoly with 4.5 players. Netflix disrupted that, and then it was a race to the bottom. Saying the "public enjoyed" network TV is a bit of a stretch, too. For the most part, it was just adequate.
I'm unfamiliar with Blake Smith's work, or with the usual tenor of literary criticism in general. By about the third paragraph I wondered if this was what the word "snark" was invented for, or the phrase "backhanded compliment", and, now, why do I want to emulate it? Just how different from a large language model am I?
An individual neuron has no ethical concerns at all. A talking, thinking Futurama-style "head in a jar" would be obviously awful.

The problem is that I have no clue where to draw the line between these two scenarios. How many neurons does it take for consciousness?
Right, until someone exploits the kernel and it just attests whatever it wants.
All time low - want to go back to 1980s TV? Or 1990s? 1970s? I don't remember those times as being just full of great shows either.
There's a standard for excluding content from indexing via the Robots Exclusion Standard using robots.txt (sitewide) or the <noindex> HTML meta header. The robots.txt standard has existed for nearly 30 years, being first proposed in February 1994.[1]

Should a publisher wish to be excluded from Google's, or any other web index's search and presentation, that's easy enough to specify.

<https://www.intellectualpropertyblawg.com/ip-management/what...>

<https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt>

(And no, I'm not a fan of Google by any stretch, but let's keep the discussion rigorous here.)

________________________________

Notes:

1. You don't feel old. You are old.
Don't forget the blue collar workers being denied breaks in lethal conditions are the same people voting for these people. Zero sympathy at this point. They want it? They can have it.
edit: Tad Williams
Article mentions there will be an attempt to salvage the oil worth 75MM. Is this possible? Totally ignorant how oil is stored and if it is "shelf stable". Is there some sort of cleaning process involved or is crude oil just that, crude?
They do nest in the cracks between the shelf and the wall, under shelf paper, and even between the pages of cookbooks.

We have had some moderate success with the traps, plus storing big bags of rice and flour in picnic coolers and everything else in airtight containers, but they have to be really airtight -- those little buggers can get under the lid of a mason jar or the tops of a canister set. What happens now is like a lesson in public health and contagion: one container will occasionally get a mess of webs and moths, but the scope is limited.
It's mostly useful as a research tool. Figuring out how neurons work so you can replicate them in software.
I agree that the heart it's about privacy, and what compelling reason we would have as a society that would supersede privacy.

I don't think the idea that benefiting one party's negotiation is such a compelling interest. In the case of Disney, it sounds good because it benefits the perceived Underdog, but It can just as easily cut the other way, especially if you extended to how bad you want something as some people in the thread advocate.

Maybe you want to buy a specific house cuz it's next to the Medical Center where you get treatment. That would probably influence how much you're willing to pay.
Good point.. I guess I am looking at just a decline in the last couple decades. You are right plenty of terrible writing in the 70’s, 80,s etc
Depends on execution, we could have billions of satellites without huge problems. But Kessler syndrome could happen even just with the amount of satellites already in orbit if people had been actively malicious. So, the “limits” are mostly just a question of what assumptions you’re making.
Well, if LLM suggests "moves", and an Expert Model judges the whole output, then combining the two with a tree search suspiciously resembles the AlphaGo idea.
February 2020 discount rate was 2.25. March 2020 it was 0.25. Was that the biggest drop ever? Just two weeks to slow the spread, ha!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRUSM193N
I violated our AOL TOS multiple times running scripts (I would spam IMs with my GeoCities site, I was so cool) and had to call in and pretend to be my dad on multiple occasions. Luckily they were more interested in a paying customer than actually enforcing their rules.
Induction uses less electricity than conventional resistance electric stoves, which have been around for a long time. The power usage is high but generally the stove is only on for maybe 15 minutes for most meals. Longer cooking times are more commonly done in an oven.

If you really wanted to cut down on energy used by households then the single biggest thing is making sure all homes are properly insulated to cut down on both heating and cooling.

Electric vehicles are an actual concern, but the issue there can be largely mitigated by making sure they're primarily charged off peak which is also something we have done for a long time with electric water heaters.
It’s the streamers making the black holing decision I think? Like the studios aren’t saying “remove this”, but the streamers deciding to not pay residuals. My guess is the higher profile removals are for shows that had special residual deals but most of it is probably just trying to save cash
The end result of this seems to me like clicking on any link means I’m going to download 50 MB before I can see any content?
Right, the way that residuals played out for syndicated shows is ultimately a large part of the decline for the guild members.

I am still a little curious on a few things in this. For one, I'm not clear on how long residuals can last in a sustainable way. Pretty much no matter how I try and simulate this payment model, it falls on needing more income from future participants. Not quite a ponzi scheme, as you are not asking future members to put money into the pot. You do need them to keep the machine running, though.

Granted, in that framing, the studios are effectively private equity groups that have managed to skim off a ton of value from the creative works? (Saying this as someone that isn't too keen on what a lot of private equity has done.)
Why? I never get the hate for Ayn Rand - aside that it's weirdly cool to hate her books so people jump onto that bandwagon.

I remember really liking Fountainhead.
Google reCaptcha adds half-second global site drag
Science bashing? As in he's bashing the scientific method? Or what is this (noun, proper) "science" you speak of?
Ish? If this was true, then the studios would also be having a revenue problem.
I believe this as well.

I was diagnosed with ADHD a couple years ago and it explained a lot about my life and family. Both of my parents were deeply emotionally disregulated and there was a ton of physical and emotional abuse at home when I was growing up.

Looking back at my parents behavior today, I’m convinced that they would be clinically diagnosed as well. In my case, both things were true and I get the sense that this is a fairly common scenario.

The bottom line is that we have to learn to adapt and cope with living in a world that really wasn’t designed for us, and not understanding myself led to addiction and a ton of other bad stuff. I have to remind myself that hardly any of this information existed 30 years ago and that my parents were trying to cope, just as I am today.
Betrayal at Krondor - loved the story and how they turned books into a game

VR Soccer, Fifa and Age of Empires, Warcraft II for lan parties
> But it’s not logically sound

Just saying it doesn't make it so. There is a ton of evidence wage hikes lead to automation (it is not even controversial among economists):

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/16/evidence-minimum-wage-hikes-...

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23667/w236...

> Second, is asparagus harvesting something that can be reasonably automated away at the moment? I’m not sure it is, are you?

Is all farming just asparagus harvesting? Does it need to happen at this moment or not at all?

Good intentions + surface-level thinking don't guarantee good outcomes.

https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/systems-thinking-and-the-cobra-e...
I liked sword of truth but will admit it got a little darker than I'd have liked.
> 2. POSIX compatibility layer. Even embedded OSes without the concept of threads or processes can implement POSIX.

Do you have resources about this? I can't quite fathom how it would work, but then again I have no expertise.

> 3. Hypervisor. They're much easier to add with intel's VT-[xd]. Failing that, fall back to emulation. Translational emulation is very performant.

Speaking of which, QubesOS was on HN recently. The essence is having many VMs to minimize cross-app attack surface and privilege escalation.

> 6. The failure of pure microkernel was the added complexity and management of sequencing multiple resources in a transactional manner. There are great theoretical security and operational advantages in microkernel architectures but they never caught on widely in a pure form.

I recently saw an interesting brief article[0] about how memory-safe languages can supercede the compartmentalization that microkernels provide. I'm reminded of Theseus[1], written in rUsT, which happens to reflect the sentiment. I've actually been putting off rereading the Theseus USENIX paper. Again, I'm not nearly qualified to answer whether the security of this is comparable to the best of that of microkernels, barring formal verification. Still, I think it should be explored more.

[0] https://catern.com/microkernels.html (Write modules, not microkernels)
[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/boos
Any space program which involves a new Rocket is essentially a Rocket program.

- Someone at NASA.
I just read it for the first time, without any spoilers. It took me a second, then I had to laugh loud out at the legendary piss-take at display. Wonderful.
I think you might be reading the wrong journalistic publications.
I am hardly a luminary of my field but if you take a look at some of my features you’ll see they are drastically different from the idea you may have in your head.

Lots of folks more accomplished than me who hit way harder. All the coverage about crunch, for instance, or sexual harassment scandals at big companies—-these are topics broken by games journos.

If your only exposure to this world is shitty SEO spam or cleverly-disguised marketing, I could see why you’d think the way you do. But there is so much good games journalism out there. I don’t recommend writing off the field like that.
Extras have always gotten basically nothing, though? Quite often extras are "allowed to stand around" for filming of a scene that doesn't have a star in it for the chance of being on the big screen.

Or is that no longer the case?
It's addictive. I particularly like the changing game mechanics, instead of the usual one-dimensional "more, bigger" of most clicker/resource type games.

It does have a bug in the rebels phase - they can wipe out your entire fleet, and it's all but impossible to recover from.
Bought some pitcher plants about 2.5 years ago, water with regular tap water and keep some grow lights over them in the kitchen and we haven’t had any real fly problems ever since. They’ve actually overgrown a bit and we need to transplant them soon!
I do sympathise for the poor working arrangements, but I just can’t bring myself to support a return to the status quo that would continue producing more of the same content that Hollywood has been producing.

I certainly don’t blame only the writers. The producers and executives also play a major role in the decline of the quality. But I’ve seen bits and pieces of TV recently, and I do think the writing itself is typically just bad, regardless of other creative constraints.

There’s many ways that a system can fail, and I’m simply not upset to see this system progressing along its path to failure.
Thanks for this interesting info..

Also, Recut looks very nice.
Do you mind if I ask what the full tech stack is for a video-editing app like that?