skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My real friends use group text. Nothing fancy. Real names. Real numbers. No data collection. No cost.

Memes flow. Links get posted.

All is just a setup for the next IRL meeting.

I found the end of the internet in '99.

This is the last few sites that have a low bot ratio.
How many terrorist “bombs” do you think it stops? If they had easy access to bombs why would they waste it on planes when they could just go into hospitals, trains, and buses and cause just as much havoc?

There were very few plane bombings even when bombing was popular (Oklahoma city, wtc, etc). Planes are only interesting to terrorists as a weapon, not a target.

Pre-9/11 the assumption was most nut job with guns on a plane wanted to hijack it as part of some heist, etc. 9/11 changed that assumption, locks went on cockpit doors, a few protocols were tweaked, and that actually solved the problem. The naked scanners on the ground were for theater of “being secure”.
> we don't understand the effect of Vitamin C, or D

Sure. But we know they are important. Despite being “single molecules.”

> We have broad strokes - take C for a cold. Take D in winter. But there are trained scientists who disagree with even these statements!

Because they appear unsubstantiated. You’re describing treatments. That’s a different ball game.

> We have people making a mockery of Nobel Prize winners over it

Pauling did not win his Nobel for vitamin C.
The price for clear is negligible—-$190/year which includes all minor family members.

It’s odd take to think that is something that is only attainable for wealthy travelers.

What’s the point of money if it cannot be exchanged for increased convenience?
IMO you do root cause analysis on pretty much any major problem the UK is facing and there, right at the bottom, is FPTP.
Sorry where are these .50c many core servers you speak of exactly?
The UK chipped in a big chunk of their budget, second to Germany. They'd probably like the money even if we are annoying.
The billion dollar question is:

Who is funding this?

Cause if it’s VC then it’s going to have the same fate as everything else after 5-7 years.

I hope y’all have as innovative of a business model. You’ll need it if you want to do what you’re doing now for more than a few years
But they are overwhelmed because they are spending too much time on performance evaluations than on project management. If they actually cut down performance evaluations by 80%, time will reappear magically.
That’s specious reasoning. The TSA is preventing terrorist attacks on airplanes just as much as they are preventing lion attacks in airports.
The difference is busses travel fixed routes and are not on-demand.
Other than everything that they can do today to prevent you from interacting with other governments or with third parties like imprisoning you or worst.
Being a trusted traveler with global entry, I loathe clear with a passion. It means 2 metres from the TSA checkpoint I have to let a family of six randos cut the precheck line I was told to stand in and wait while they fumble for their ID and juggle their shoes.

Just roll them to the back of the line and stop acting like the fact that they surrendered s generation of biometric data to a startup entitles them to anything more than equality.
1. No, because the specifics change every week. One week you're deficient in fiber, the next Vitamin D. Look to the mainstream news or online articles for this ridiculousness.

2. Maybe consider looking at modern research. https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent...

> Nevermind that Pauling's vitamin C theories have been thoroughly disproven.

Nothing in science is proven. Only re-evaluated.
> If you closely observe the TSA process, they check the ID with the name on boarding pass. This is revenue management service for the airlines.

The rationale for checking name match is there there is a separate part of the TSA process which identifies high-risk and prohibited individuals, and that works on name matching.

That has already been completed based on the name on the boarding pass, so using another persons boarding pass/false name would bypass those checks.

You could still bypass the airline's rules by entering with a ticket for another flight in your name (refundable or cheap) and using someone else's ticket at the gate. Couldn't check a bag, however. (although I inadvertently bypassed the checked bag-ID match at DCA last time)
The figures are per week. 14 works out to twice a day, which doesn't seem to outrageous if you're sweaty and exercise daily. The median is 7, which also makes sense because it works out to one application for every day of the week. The 4 participants that don't use any deodorant might be asian[1] or aren't sweaty/active enough to warrant it.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/business/china-consumers-...
IMHO we need a cure that isn't worse than the disease. I think we need to embrace capitalism, up to a point. That is, maximize profit until you hit a certain point, then stop. I call it the policy of "Enough". Make the threshold generous, or even self-declared. I don't think the ideology of capitalism suffers all that much from this adjustment. Once you succeed to a certain point, you leave the game and enjoy your life.

Plus, we don't have to be too draconian about solutions. For example, we can and should mandate that no new vehicles above a certain weight, and no new small jets, should be produced. The ones in existence we leave alone, and let decay take its course. The same with billionaires: leave them alone, and limit the next generation.

I'm happy to hear criticism, but bear in mind that I'm rather attached to this idea. It's novel, as far as I know, and I think it could satisfy both hard-core capitalists AND environmentalists, which is a rare thing. So please, try to offer ideas to improve it. As for the right Enough number, I think for me it's about 10M 2023 USD. I'd like to get to a point in human history where everyone can get there.
Not much research there.

So: one person who might have private sector experience. And you didn't look at the biggest nonprofit. Or the potential for kickbacks from their salaries in the form of campaign contributions.

Recall that the claim was that they could make multiples of those salaries in the private sector. You're not showing much evidence for that.

And of course, the overall question is, is the City getting any value for that money?
Everything I've read concurs with an extreme view. 70% failure is a good day for them. They accomplish very close to nothing. They catch a lot of dumb people that mistakenly packed firearms, and not much else.

"TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints...Two years later, a Red Team test at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport achieved the same 95 percent failure rate to detect explosives, weapons, and illegal drugs. Repeat national tests in 2017 also went badly, "in the ballpark" of an 80 percent failure rate."[1]

[1] https://reason.com/2021/11/19/after-20-years-of-failure-kill...
Also most energy use is by your avg consumer heating cooling and consuming. Yachts and private jets are marginal.
I clarified the submission, yet let me specify a task: CLI tools to fetch, store and manipulate textual data and files. Maybe very simple GUIs.
There is zero connection between WEI existing and browsers being able to restrict fingerprinting.
How can you allow people to get big chunks of GPU’s without a lot of expensive slack in the system?
Node is pretty performant for anything IO related, not compiled and reasonably dynamic.
You are not participating in the discussion then.

> My claim is that we all depend on each other and that if you dropped a gifted person in the woods and isolated them they wouldn't achieve much useful. They might not even survive.

No one is arguing against this, no one. You seemingly joined this discussion out of nowhere. Made this point which is completely unrelated to what we are talking about and are arguing with multiple people.

> As far as your question about the single dollar spent on the non-gifted kid but not spent on the gifted kid, I'm not aware of that happening. Don't all children in the same area have access to the same public education?

No child left behind is exactly this. The non-gifted children get disproportionate amounts of attention.

> As far as metrics or sources, no I don't have any.

Which is exactly what I said....
The picture with the Indo-Europeans becomes a little clearer when you distinguish between Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA. The genetic continuity with pre-Indo-Europeans is entirely on the mothers’ side; the Y-chromosome DNA of that population was entirely replaced with that of Indo-Europeans.
Why? Even if you leased it, you're still paying for it in the end. You're benefiting from using it.
The human diet is probably split into several major categories and I think a one size fits all solution is probably not forthcoming.

The first category which makes up the bulk of our diet are caloric cereal crops, or starchy tubers. In the calorie category it's all about getting the most starch out of a given land area. All these permaculture, food forest idealists, conveniently don't talk much about calories. Starch is a pretty simple molecule/polymer, I wouldn't be surprised if we find a way to synthesize it from energy and hydrogen feedstock.

Then there is protein/nitrogen sources, which today are obtained from animal and legume products. Legumes are undoubtedly more efficient than animal products but are unfortunately still pretty heavy land users. My guess is we'll be eating food fortified with precision fermented proteins pretty soon. Some of those proteins will be mixed with soy, and the synthetic starch and used to produce chicken/fish feed.

And then finally there's the third category, vitamin and mineral containing foods (fresh greens, fruits, nuts etc). This is where "weeds" come in. I think in a lot of ways this is already pretty much solved by glasshouse/hydroponic cultivation and is already being practiced on a huge industrial scale.

At the end of the day I don't think there's really a serious risk that climate change completely disrupts modern agriculture. Yes it will cause massive changes to the varieties, techniques, and distribution of what we grow but we'll be able to work around it.
My workout clothes go in the washer as I get into the shower, I find it too gross to accumulate sweated through workout clothes.
The church has been questioning greed for quite a while. If trends in the west continue the church is going to go away before the instinct to be greedy does. I think this is a fundamental problem for all of the current solutions to our climate crisis. Any strategy which requires everyone to stop being greedy and consider others is most likely going to fail. I think that a lot of people are under the impression that all that needs to happen is things just need to get bad enough and then eventually people will see the error of their ways. Self delusion is such a powerful force in both directions I think it’s unlikely to happen.
I must admit this is pretty rad :)
A retired nurse passed you a rumour about a license revocal, a publicly-documented process. Instead of asking for evidence, you repeated the rumour and then tossed in a CYA disclaimer.
RO membranes typically include a waste path so they're self-cleaning for their lifecycle, but some manufacturers may have flushing procedures to extend service life.

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Libya are almost completely dependent on RO for water.

The Carlsbad plant in San Diego was $1B and costs $80M/y (@ 40 MW) to operate while producing 56k acre-ft/y (7% of demand), enough for about 400k people or 20k acres of farmland with average crops.

What would cut water use greatly would be the elimination of meat agriculture which depends on crops such as hay, alfalfa, and cow corn. 2/3 of Utah's water goes to irrigating crops to feed cows.
My company paid for me to get precheck/globalentry years ago and I still have it after having left. I can say from my experience about 99% of the time it actually is a shorter line and a much smoother experience. And even in cases where its not shorter, it can still be faster since people don't have to take off shoes, belt, etc.
Catching Brittle SMTP Integrations
This article shows how simulating SMTP errors can help find code that does not handle intermittent network issues when sending emails.
The question was "pray tell are your objections to the economic theory behind the DICE models?" Which Keen's essay addresses.

Addressing the shifted goalposts in your "by Keen's math" follow-up: if you're referring to the "rational function" introduced before the fourth-to-last paragraph, note what the context is:

A model that only applies in conditions where it is not needed, when you don’t have an alternative when it is needed, is worse than useless. ... This can easily be illustrated by replacing Nordhaus’s quadratic with a very similar one that does have tipping points.

And Keen specifically chooses a tipping point of +4°C, based on the paper Nordhaus himself cites and Nordhaus's admission that business as usual (BAU) would lead to a +4°C temperature rise by 2100.

The equation also fits observed data.

The point isn't to demonstrate that this is the correct equation, but to show that on the same basis as Nordhaus used to choose his own modeling function, very different results can be demonstrated.

Which Keen makes more than abundantly clear:

Contrary to Nordhaus’s assertion that caution is needed “when using [his model] for large temperature increases”, his model is unreliable for temperatures that are well within the levels on which he has made pronouncements about what global warming will do to GDP.
If only poor writing was the worst of its qualities :/
I disagree. A solution to the climate crisis needs to face up to the fact that we simply can't continue to consume as we have, if we want a world that's livable for current, much less future generations. It's not that goddamn hard to see.
It's going to be rolled out as the new standard Scala repl and compiler (instead of the current scalac which is a bit weak on features.)
> Google is one of the few services that best support taking your data away by using their "Google Takeout" tool. YouTube videos, Photos, whatever, downloaded from a single website in ZIPs, TARs or whatever.

Agreed. The bigger issue is relying on a broadcast-esque provider as your sole storer of video. If your account gets blocked somehow (or locked out) then you're done for. Have a separate, storage-only video account and push to YouTube as well.
Are you just reading from this data structure? If so I wouldn't do any locking or threading, I'd just use asyncio to serve up read requests to the data and it should scale quite well. Multithreading/processing is best for CPU limited workloads but this sounds like you're really just IO-bound (limited by the very high IO of reading from that data structure in memory).

If you're allowing writes to the shared data structure... I'd ask myself am I using the right tool for the job. A proper database server like postgres will handle concurrent writers much, much better than you could code up hastily. And it will handle failures, backups, storage, security, configuration, etc. far better than an ad hoc solution.
> Tony Blair was the only leader to allow Immigration ["free-movement"] from Eastern Europe the from moment they joined the EU.

That's not true. Bulgaria and Romania were limited for the full seven year period.

> Next election, no-one will be voting FOR Labour, they will be voting AGAINST the Tories.

That's true of most elections where power changes hands. If the party in power is doing an average job, the electorate tends not to replace them with an unknown. They have to be doing badly to get kicked out.
Multiprocessing is not a real solution, it’s a break-glass procedure when you just need to throw some cores at something without any hope for reliability. Unless something has changed since I used python, it is essentially a wrapper on Fork.

This means you need to deal with stuck/dead processes. I’ve used multiprocessing extensively and once you hit a certain amount of usage, even in a pool, you just get hangs and unresponsive processes.

I’ve also written a huge amount of Cython wrapped c++ code which releases the GIL. This never hangs and I can multithread there all I want without issue.
Pretty sure yachts and jets qualify as consumption
> slider and the background (I don’t know the technical terms)

I have seen used “thumb” and “gutter”, respectively.
I was talking about competitive policy debate, which I think I was pretty explicit about. I am unaware of a case of anyone showing up to one of those with a baseball bat, and I don't know where you're getting the "suppression... under threat of censure or harm" thing. Having a debate judge vote against you is not harm (certainly happened to me plenty of times and I'm doing ok). Are you transporting a general sort of culture war fear into the context of debate? The article does seem to be trying to get readers to do that, so it's forgivable, but calling critiques "bullying" is a real stretch at best.
I've never understood how polyester become the defacto choice of fitness/sports/performance clothing. I'm guessing its cheaper to manufacture, but they can still get very expensive.

I made the mistake of buying a bunch of this stuff a while back and I can't bring myself to wear it. I feel like it makes me sweat far more and it stinks very quickly.

I have far less of a problem wearing cotton and and a great experience wearing merino wool.
I'm most productive in the language that I know best. Secondary to that, I'm most productive in the language that has semantics and libraries that do the best at providing useful parts for what I'm trying to write. Third, I'm most productive in a garbage-collected language, unless I'm not allocating memory, or unless I need careful control of memory.

So if the problem I have is pulling pieces out of a text file, I reach for Perl. I know it well enough, and it's great at that problem. For most other things, I reach for either C++ or Java, because they're what I know best.

But if part of the goals of the project is "learn a new language", then that changes the logic. Then I'm explicitly looking for a language that I don't know. At that point, I have to go by what others say about the language, because I don't personally know it's strengths and appropriateness to the thing I'm trying to write.
For fun, I took two shots of Sonia from the third TOTK trailer (who should be novel and not in the model), trained a LoRA for 400 steps on just them (based on the AbyssOrange anime model), then threw it into an entirely different model (Dreamshaper, which mixes anime and realistic models) with some prompting to get something other than the original.

https://imgur.com/a/iPNPojK

I'm not gonna say that it's perfect, but as an interpretation of the character based on exactly two nearly-identical screen grabs trained for a whole 400 steps and some amateur prompting? Not too shabby at all. It hit many of the distinctive points of the character - darker skin, blonde hair with ringlets, the forehead emblem, the tear tattoos under the eyes, even the laurels under the hair. It missed the bell earrings and the secret stone necklace, but given the limited source material, I think it's quite good. With a few more varied screenshots, I'll bet that it could do quite impressively.
They surely meant the "world wide web", which is often used interchangably, and (to some) incorrectly, with "internet"?
Well, any time anyone might be loading up a website for the first time in a coffee shop.

Also, “remember this cert forever” (cert pinning) has been an ops disaster for a lot of sites that have tried it. So in practice “the first time” might be more like every week or every month. What the risk that a coffee shop will not serve you a malicious cert once a week?

Also if they do it and you move back to your home connection… the site is broken there because now it’s returning a different one than was pinned (by the attacker!).
Nah, I'm fine with the vague insinuations.

Have a great day!
It is also because loans are still locked in to ZIRP-era rates. That keeps the cost of capital low and businesses that own those properties have a lot of room for them to be wildly unprofitable. It will take awhile for those loans to roll over to higher rates.
Where can you get 120 cores for $2/hr?
Either they're really good, or really arrogant.
I hate headlines like that. If greed and excess drive the climate crisis then what don’t they drive?
Maximize profit then stop what?
Does anybody know if the actual iris information gets stored, or it’s just a hash of it ?

Seems like there is no reason why the iris picture needs to be stored. But I’m not sure of the whole use case
Why this rather than a tax to achieve your desired externalities? The problem with this kind of policy is it's very arbitrary - some bureaucracy decides what is and isn't allowed. It also usually comes with a subtext of attacking a particular segment of society that you aren't part of.

If we can remove carbon from the atmosphere or offset it, than a tax equal to that expense during production and used to offset should achieve the outcomes you want. (Ignoring how many programs are poorly built for correctly achieving this real offset).
I find it hard to see us rejoining in a hurry but I think we could move to a soft brexit, Norway / Switzerland type deal fairly soon assuming Labour get in.
I find this quite ironic given the astronomical levels of greed of the mainstream churches.
>The propensity to use deodorant instead of soap is plainly baffling

Most people aren't doing that though. The same table also lists "No. of washes/wk", presumably referring to body washing rather than clothes washing. All except three are washing daily. True, you could theoretically be washing twice daily, but if you don't have a work shower you'll be forced to wash at home, which kills most of the point because most people you interact with during the day would have smelled your odor. Most people don't have access to work showers so it's not really realistic to expect people to showers instead of using deodorants/antiperspirants.
On the topic of user freedom, Firefox also doesn't allow installing extensions not signed by Mozilla unless you use a fork, Nightly, or Developer Edition (which is just a badly named beta)[0]. The hilarious thing is that Safari, the web browser from the company infamous for walled gardens and not letting you control your device, does let you install unsigned extensions on desktop[1].

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
The psychiatric classification of homosexuality is not relevant to the anecdote.

That said, scientific endeavors revise themselves when they learn that they are wrong, as was the case with the removal of homosexuality from the DSM.

The many fields of science and medicine went through periods of growth during which they’d be laughed off as “not scientific” or “not medicine” by today’s standards. The mind is a lot harder to measure. There are often answers in principle but not in practice. This gap doesn’t make the entire thing unscientific, but in need of more progress.

How would you classify drugs that are proven to work for a given issue, but for which we have a limited or non-existent understanding of the mechanism of effect? Are these not medicines?