skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with flagging this post, it seems like an important discussion based on the large amount of activity.

As for my own views, I think it's fine that the list isn't public, it doesn't make much difference either way. I appreciate knowing that there's a list of banned sites.

My attempt at constructive feedback would be to have some place where a transparency report on moderation activity is shared. Not everything needs to be public nor immediately updated, I trust @dang's discretion on deciding what should be shared. But maybe it would be more ideal if there was a single place where you could find out that there is a moderated domain blacklist, rather than finding out through a random comment.

Overall I'm happy with HN's moderation and wouldn't want to impose too much of a burden on the team.
In the energy world, it's been observed countless times on many different scales and timeframes. Every single item in the typical American household has seen huge improvements in efficiency in my lifetime (lightbulbs, fridges, heat pumps, to name the most prominent) but the average consumption of electricity has increased in that time.

It's really quite intuitive - calling it a "paradox" is a disservice to the simplicity of the idea.

If an energy-intensive technology exists and is generally useful, there will be some demand for it. If there is enough demand, market forces will invest in efficiency which drives down the total cost of ownership. And when prices go down, demand increases. Framed this way, it would be hard to imagine a case where the market put forth the effort to make a technology more efficient and it failed to drive up demand. It's an inevitable consequence of market economics - hardly what one would call a "paradox".
That is the way it used to be. For many of us in high deductible plans, we pay thousands of dollars each year for care before the insurance company pays for anything. Not to mention the thousands of dollars we pay each year in premiums to the insurance company.
100 gecs is too loud for people, lol
Every discussion around subscribing to a SaaS vs. operating it is always reduced to costs on HN. There is another, more critical aspect to why we (and many others) operate their own infrastructure, run their own servers, operate their own Elasticsearch clusters: Keeping ownership of customer data for business continuity and compliance purposes.
Or just electromagnetism. They still take space and bounce around things. If somebody cut you with a jet of liquid helium you couldn't say, not fair, noble gases shouldn't interact with anything
You could set up a collection in memory/SQL with a Status + UpdatedUtc column and poll the collection for incomplete items each loop until all are in the desired state.

Your state machine could be as simple as: New, Processing, Failed, Succeeded. Outer loop will query the collection every ~second for items that are New or Failed and retry them. Items that are stuck Processing for more than X seconds should be forced to Failed each loop through (you'll retry them on the next pass). Each state transition is written to a log with timestamps for downstream reporting. Failures are exclusively set by the HTTP processing machinery with timeouts being detected as noted above.

Using SQL would make iterations of your various batch processing policies substantially easier. Using a SELECT statement to determine your batch at each iteration would permit adding constraints over aggregates. For example, you could cap the # of simultaneous in-flight requests, or abandon all hope & throw if the statistics are looking poor (aka OpenAI outage).
The Chinese economy is running on vapors and if it gets any worse they'll need a distraction.
my point is that I refuse to adjust my expectations to a technological environment in which we are ok with having to pay per API call to use software.

I reject a future in which all software works as a subscription based service; this is just more taxes (in principle)

I see society going down this path and there are no good reasons for this at all (it is just double then triple then mutliplefold taxation on activity; and what for? so that few lucky persons collect rent forever?).
Well consider it this way. If Fanatics produces only garbage that falls apart immediately then there may be a collectors market for it in the future since most of the existing products will have been lost to landfills. The poor quality may ironically increase future resale value, just so long as you tie steps to preserve it.
My town (named after a window system protocol back in 1835) has implemented activated carbon filtration to remove PFAS from municipal well water. After the carbon filter medium has been saturated it will need to be safely disposed of, including its PFAS load.

Being able to dispose of those filters in-situ by ball milling might make sense if the cost of the machine is less than the ongoing disposal costs for the filters. edit: EPA rulemaking for disposal of spent carbon filters is in process.
Unfortunately the money for within Mozilla is not that straightforward in favor of Firefox and I imagine I am not the only Firefox user who is incredibly annoyed with that. I'd rather send money to individual devs' Github Sponsors sounds than give Mozilla a donation the devs will never see a cent of.
> but Switzerland also subsidizes premiums

True, however US spends huge amounts on MedicAid which sort of tries to do the same just seemingly way less efficiently and also less equitably. Capping insurance premiums at 10%(?) of income seems like a better idea than having a byzantine style system which discourages people from ever trying increase their incomes.

> I don't know Swiss politics but I also assume there isn't a bickering back-and-forth by party lines

Yeah, of course that's the real problem since we already know that any system ranging from fully private (with government subsidies) to single payer can work with proper regulation.
I've seen those React projects get rewritten.
>We're all placing bets--just on MSFT or AAPL instead of 14 and 29.

There is a slight difference in the societal utility of those two categories of bets.
My Schizophrenic friend tells me the difference between schizophrenics and normal people is that normal people can hear their own thoughts whilst schizophrenics can hear other peoples.

Serious point, maybe schizophrenic symptoms are cause by a disruption in REM sleep. As in the suffers are experiencing a waking dream. Some time back they did an experiement on students and kept them awake for days-and-nights on end. Eventually they couldn't tell the difference between the dreaming and the real world.
Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
So please explain the difference between censorship and moderation.
Code is rarely meant to be read.

Even when we have to read the code to sort out some problem, or to reuse the principle at the core of it, reading is hard enough. One eggregious example that comes to mind was code released with all comments stripped out and largely obscure variable names.
This is like asking if a recording of the 1996 Olympics should have to include all of the commercials.

For historical purposes, sure, have that as an option, but lil wayne's mixtapes are not better off for the random DJs or website advertisements yelled over them. That's not the music he made.
Please, stop.

If you don't like the genre, then you are absolutely in no position to comment usefully or intelligently on whether it is being preserved properly.
The right time to leave Taiwan is sometime between now and when the first shot is fired.
>Uranium mining has widespread effects, contaminating the environment with radioactive dust, radon gas, water-borne toxins, and increased levels of background radiation...Uranium is an α-particle emitter, as are many of its radioactive decay products, including radon. α-Particles are bulky (2 protons and 2 neutrons) and cannot penetrate human skin. However, when particulate matter containing α-emitters is inhaled or ingested, it results in internal exposure to radiation. The carcinogenicity of inhaled α-emitters is not in dispute. Radon gas is responsible for up to 20% of cases of lung cancer in Canada.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653646/
Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Google Domains?
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Absolute garbage comment. Go listen to some 60s rock and it's nothing but the same themes. Jim Morrison and the Doors wrote songs about explicitly killing your father, doing drugs, etc.
It didn't last 3 days -- the repo now 404s
Just express it as an n-state Turing machine and see if it halts within BB(n) steps. /s
I agree with you and think the eternal september effect is probably the largest factor working against advances in frontend dev but would posit a couple more: 1) front end dev is generally underestimated and under respected in terms of complexity, I have had many devs say “you are basically just building a json viewer” over the years which is somewhat true but a great oversimplification 2) the closer you are to the user the more ephemeral and hard to reuse your components are, and business incentives work more strongly against reuse because the higher ups can actually see the work that is being shared.
In other news, French title for “The Purge” is “American Nightmare”[1].

I hope the talk surrounding this event will focus on the absurdity and cringe of how violence is glorified, especially in the US.

[1]: https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Nightmare_(film,_20...
Thanks for the tip:

Pimavanserin has a unique mechanism
of action relative to other
antipsychotics, behaving as a
selective inverse agonist of the
serotonin 5-HT2A receptor, with
40-fold selectivity for this site
over the 5-HT2C receptor and no
significant affinity or activity
at the 5-HT2B receptor or dopamine
receptors.[2]

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimavanserin
this is how you feed motivation to pirate things.
Not sure he "drove billions in sales". Initial projections were to capture 15% or more of the US sports betting market but reality was somewhere around 3-5%. Major underperformer. There were certainly many problems with the product besides simply the brand but there's little evidence the brand was a net positive.

Great for Portnoy, he got the proceeds from a major "exit" (a few hundred million dollars) and he still owns the company.
Very doubtful that all the money accrued from underground gambling goes into more underground gambling.
Don’t people still talk about “low seratonin levels?” I always found it suspect that we say someone’s levels are low without actually measuring them.
No, in the cases that I'm talking about it gets stuck in one position. If you google "reed switch stuck" you'll see what I'm talking about. I figured that a hall sensor has no moving parts so it should last essentially forever.
Do you think it is a given that they'll attack Taiwan and if not what do you think is the likelihood that this will happen?
It's only running on vapors when compared to itself, though. It's still vastly outperforming e.g. the US. We'd kill for 4.5% growth.
Probably yes. Still, I always thought communists focused too much on capturing the means of production and not enough on direct democracy.

Isn't the whole point of communism to give power to the people?
Unrelated to Vim but reminds me of https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Wa...
I mean of course he has a right to do it; just like he has a right to throw away the sole valuable part of the thing he paid for (the brand). That doesn't make it any less stupid.
Of course. I was involved in starting several scientific periodicals, and a decent new journal can easily check most of the boxes on https://thinkchecksubmit.org right away: publish contact and publisher info, spell out the reviewing policy and ethics guidelines, apply to be included in DOAJ, etc. Getting into Scopus or Web of Knowledge is a bit trickier: you must show that you can consistently publish on schedule, so you need to find people willing to submit articles for the first several issues, i.e. articles that would be properly indexed only much later on (inclusion into Scopus and WoK works retroactively). The only real barrier to starting a new journal is having enough standing in the community to make people believe that the journal is here to stay and having enough money and human resources to maintain a website.
> That's a cat they can't put back in the bag either

Trivial fix here - split off the non-contentious archiving (the web archive / wayback machine) into a separate legal entity from the contentious archiving.

That preserves the more-irreplaceable material (the web archive.)
google can't seem to find it but it did find this which seems up your alley:

https://danielmiessler.com/p/vim/
> hasn't really been taken seriously in the field for decades, except by naysayers like yourself who continue to use it as a strawman.

…and by basically the entire general public. Big pharma did a great job on the “depression is a just a chemical imbalance…” awareness campaign, but absolutely dropped the ball on the “actually we were wrong about that” campaign, so that’s still what most members of the public tend to believe.
BatteryBoi: A Replacement for the Battery Icon in the macOS Menu Bar
There seem to be practitioners still taking this seriously, and I expect them to continue to do so until they die. According to this article from 2022 it's still "influential": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0
Your point is that the gamble has a positive EV (true), but it's still gambling. Instead of betting against the house, you're betting against other investors, and the "house" (financial institutions) takes a small rake. So OK it's more like poker than roulette.
Corporations (and the wealthy in general) don't do charity. The tacit objetive of every corporation is and will always be profits über alles. Every time you see a corporation donating money to some cause there's an ulterior motive that ultimately grows their bottom line. The most common motives are: pay less taxes (or none at all), PR move to improve their public image, and, finally, publicity (sometimes because of controversy).

Now, of course, Google's financial relationship with Mozilla is no exception. The stated reason is that they give money to Mozilla in exchange for having Google as the default search engine, but its actual purpose is to mitigate claims about Google having a monopoly on the browser market and thereby avoid anti-trust laws.

If Firefox were to gain the majority of the marketshare Google would no longer have an incentive to give them money. Mozilla wouldn't be happy about that because they'd lose their biggest source of income. And Google wouldn't be happy either because they make money through web ads and harvesting data to sell it to ad companies, and there's no better way to go about doing that than creating their own web browser and a whole ecosystem surrounding it, and then making sure it's the most popular one.
You can enforce your own SLAs, manage your own downtime, avoid versions changing under your feet, avoid UI changes to critical apps... It is a cost, but it's also a necessary cost to provide the experience you want to deliver to your clients.
Tell me you don't have children without telling me.

When a child makes it to a top tier of media attention parents are always involved. Children do not have the drive or capability necessary to do such things on their own. Of course the parents say it was all the child's doing, because the real story is not inspiring and actually somewhat ugly.
I don't know. I didn't think a Russia Ukraine conflict was going to happen until troop buildups were on satellite imagery (at which point we facilitated friends' extended Ukrainian family's departure to the US). A Taiwanese friend in the Midwest is bringing their entirely family over preemptively. Really up to your resources and risk tolerance.

How much is Xi like Putin? How much does the CCP want reunification (regardless of reason, internal or messaging)? How much will they attempt to distract from their economy slowly collapsing? I cannot say. I can only share my thoughts on how to best prepare in order to derisk. Can't change the weather, find shelter until the storm passes.
> One of the more popular Schizophrenia drugs also cause diabetes :(

Not to mention, weight gain leading to type two diabetes, thyroid problems leading to fluid retention in the legs and memory loss. Not much of a cure :(
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-history-okinawa-idU...

I believe a parallel debate among historians is whether mass Japanese civilian suicides near battle zones were under Japanese military orders or were merely voluntary. You can be sure the Allied invasion of the home islands would have been desirable for such coerced self killing -- which the Allies tried to prevent -- if it had been the mission to kill as many Japanese people as possible.

What is AFAIK not debated is that Japanese who did surrender, instead of heading for the suicide cliffs in places like Okinawa (I don't know about Saipan), were often murdered from a distance by the Japanese soldiers who wanted everyone to head for the suicide cliffs. It possibly deterred other Japanese who were thinking of surrender. Unfortunately I think that your justified indignation actually overestimates human righteousness and justification, both theirs and ours and our own future descendants'. I think justification is needed and justice/hope is too but it won't come from the likes of us.
> It's perfectly normal to wonder how can one administrate something when one doesn't understand it. Especially when there can be such debilitating effects.

A theoretical/principled understanding of how a drug works has never been required for useful medicine to happen. For example, we don't know how general anaesthesia works. We don't know why some people have extremely bad reactions to certain anaesthetics (and they do). And yet they are used every day, to enormous net benefit.

> finding the base neuro-transmitter levels in and out of psychotic phases for each patient before deciding on the posology of a treatment

Is it actually possible to measure that, non-invasively?
China Abandons Clean Energy Goals Making U.S. Efforts Painful and Pointless
Honestly I wouldn't deal with JSON files on disk except as a last resort. Aside from convenience, you need a DB for transactional reads/writes. But you don't need an ORM for that anymore because Postgres and MySQL have json/jsonb types.
Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo [0].

> This secrecy was maintained long after the end of the war. “Efforts were made to give the message that the uranium came from Canada, as a way of deflecting attention away from the Congo..."

> Under Belgian rule, Congolese workers toiled day and night in the open pit, sending hundreds of tonnes of uranium ore to the US every month.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mi...
I don't like to be that blunt, but it seems like IBM is just re-focusing RedHat to be a middleware and OS provider for their products.

If they use the telemetry in Fedora to autonomously focus efforts, then the picture will be more complete.

I just hope to be very wrong about all these events.
As Mitch Hedberg once said,

:2s/wa/i/g
A big thing in the background of all of this; America, perhaps the world, myself included, really hasn't come to properly reckon with the extent to which we all subconsciously think of Black American art (including hip-hop) as something to be "taken" or "used" or generally not culturally owned by Black folks, usually Americans.

The example that sticks in my head: if I, a black guy, were to get into Irish step-dancing, that's great. I would never, though, suggest that it's "not just Irish, it's universal." I'd respect where it comes from.

Yet we have ALL heard the well-meaning, but ultimately a bit harmful, exact same thing said about Hip-hop.

I think this ends up having real life consequences; see e.g. the rise of (Rap)Genius.com. They got big on the back of rap lyrics without much respecting the artists AT ALL.
Or don't enable institutions that attract the worst elements of society and put them in positions of power over others. The nature of hierarchies is that they distill the power hungry at their top, and lust for the subjugation of others is fundamentally at odds with effective leadership. The taller the hierarchy, the greater the distillation, because those not driven by an intrinsic desire to hierarchy-climb will be weeded out.
It's also nonsense. Who cares if you go through some pointless motions of pretending to be a hard worker?

If it comes easy, why not just let it be. For some people it comes easy simply because they are interested in it. Forcing them into busywork is purpose defeating.

Demanding that someone go do meaningless work so they don't get to coast, while a different student has to bust their ass, is absurd. IMO that's often what it is. Teachers get frustrated by underachievers, and how they're often more successful than people that work very hard.

It's not fair, and it hurts to see, but that's life.
A U.S. Air Force general issued a memo [based on his gut] instructing officers to prepare for a possible military conflict with China over Taiwan in 2025.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Tai...
Here is a better article from NYT with a chart of the numbers:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/china-youth-unem...
It's not very well enforced but the fines are large, and big companies like Zoom will have suitably paranoid legal departments ensuring that it is followed.
If they are going to continue this weird strategy of tanking lawsuits that any competent counsel would advise they're going to lose, they should split off the more-irreplaceable and more frequently used part of the archive (that is, the web archive) into a separate legal entity, so that attacks on one don't endanger the other.

As you seem concerned about the existence of the archive being endangered I presume you agree.
Grafana is basically that now?
Being a successful research mathematician, although I am not one, sounds nowadays like more about figuring out the market for your skills among multitudes of opaque research projects so I imagine following your gut you might just get into a good post if you're lucky.
Neurochemistry isn’t relevant?