skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry you had to experience that. Not sure if you still live in Hoboken, but I must say their flood mitigation efforts in recent years have actually helped somewhat during major rainfall events. They added several pumps which direct stormwater to huge underground water storage basins. Meanwhile PSE&G completely relocated some electrical infrastructure to prevent power loss during storms.

I lived in the flood zone during Hurricane Ida (2021), which turned my street into a two-foot-deep river. The water was completely cleared by the pumps within about 16 hours (iirc), and we never lost power.

Still sucked though. We had a boil-water advisory for over 72 hours. And since Hoboken still has a combined sewer system (rather than separate sanitary vs stormwater systems), the whole town smelled like sewage for weeks. Many people had their cars totaled, and below-grade apartments were ruined. But, all things considered, Hoboken fared significantly better than a lot of other towns in NJ.

That said, Hoboken still hasn't done anything to address risk of storm surge from the river, which is what caused the problems during Sandy. So if there is ever a repeat of those conditions, they'd still be screwed.
the human condition has not been addressed successfully. both the creation and mis-utilization of explosives (or similarly explosive “disruptive technology,” as misused as that term is as well) seem inevitable.

bombs are just controlled explosions used for evil. but sometimes it benefits humanity to move mountains, and explosives make that easier.

a daunting task, but not insurmountable. oddly enough, language models could be utilized towards making this an easier problem to solve.

but you aren’t wrong, and the “books” on amazon are proof. misuse already rampant.
Can we DIY an Industrial grade CNC? Lets Build It and find out (2022) [video]
perhaps that is why this one is so stubborn. :)
>people who live in large cities want to spend endless amounts of bond money on programs that give drug addicts $100,000 parking spaces

People who live there != people who own property

People who own property want to be seen to be pro more homelessness but if they want higher asset prices and higher rents then they need to fight for non solutions to homelessness.
Early in the American Revolution, society was quite split between rebels and loyalists. The rebels ultimately won the day by e.g. burning down loyalists’ homes, or tarring and feathering them. This sent many loyalists fleeing to safety in Canada and the West Indies, while the rest were forced to simply keep quiet. Even among the American colonial elites, this split families, the relationship between Benjamin Franklin and his son William being one prominent example.

The French Revolution ushered in the Terror and, within just a few years, an emperor. Over the 19th century the French downplayed and retreated from many aims and outcomes of the revolution, they even restored the monarchy multiple times. The belief that the French Revolution ushered in a lasting democracy is historical. Arguably things like the events of 1848 did more for lasting democracy in Europe.
https://archive.is/M1IWl
Planck length and Planck time.

Not a physicist, but from what I recall, the Planck length is presumed to be the smallest measurable distance before stuff turns into a black hole, which isn't very useful

Planck time is the time required for light in a vacuum to travel the Planck length.

Physics goes to shit if you try to go shorter on either measurement.
As a reMarkable owner, I love it. I want it. gimme gimme gimme.
> You seem to argue that writers don't deserve royalties because all writing is derivative

You're interpreting my words rather creatively there.

And by creatively, I mean "wrong".

I'm being more inclusive, not exclusive, for where the work is done.

To take a different tack: it makes sense for many authors to go to a publisher and have a back-and-forth with an editor and end up with only 10% of the gross sales, and this implies that 90% of the value isn't really coming from the author (in most cases and almost all the famous authors are exceptional).

> The alternative is bleak: if writers are not supported via royalties, then the only financially viable "art" will inevitably be mass-produced, mass-marketed pablum.

I think we already live in such a world: as you agree, most authors cannot sustain themselves from just the writing, only rare exceptions like JK Rowling and Stephen King. As the rest only barely make do, I assert that this demonstrates they are forced to do exactly what you decry.

(There's a lot of free stories distributed on reddit etc., some even have patreon set up. I don't think that makes a difference either way).
I don't mean this as a dig, but I am curious to know what your use case is for launching new browser windows from different environments is. Something along the lines of remote debugging?
The https://datasette.io/ homepage has that video.

I just edited this blog post to link to that.
> One of the metrics for managers running Section 8 is level of occupancy

I do not understand why managers would be incentivized to keep people in who shouldn't be in. Because there is a huge demand on the front end! People are clamoring for vouchers! I was on a waiting list for at least two years. The waiting lists only open at designated times, and for short periods. The number of people who qualify is enormous, and there are various factors in qualifying for how quickly your number comes up.

When I attended an orientation (which was 10 Black men/women and White me) the word was that vacancies were very low, and a lot of participants were having trouble just finding housing that would accept the voucher. I was an outlier because I was merely transferring programs, and had already secured housing of my choice.

I suppose it could go either way. Are people having trouble finding vacancies because of corrupt managers? Or something else? Anyway, if demand is that far above supply, I don't see any reason why Section 8 couldn't maximize its occupancy year over year no matter, what their turnover rate.
They didn't necessarily choose to live there but like you said might end up there through indirect actions, whereas a nomad takes direct actions, to live out of a backpack. Huge difference. Making a series of choices, which are probably mistakes, and ending up on the streets, is the not the same as walking out of your house to live off the grid and out of the rat race
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The Firefox foundation is the one who ceded power through poor decisions. Devs don't get to decide what users browse on. All users use chrome today and that's it.
Don’t forget Flash.
You are saying engineers should build software, that doesn't frequently require changes to fit some new use case? Outrageous. Then we would have to do proper engineering and make things flexible, anticipating potential use-cases. We would have to heed advice written in books such as PAIP (or more recently "Software Design for Flexibility"). Can we be expected to know literature of our own field?
To anyone interested in learning physics, I suggest reading https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

Do not try to learn anything from the submitted article, it promotes a, shall we say, "non-traditional" view of physics that is unlikely to be helpful.
My experience is that chatgpt consistently showed me API functions that don’t exist. But I tend to do very obscure things in embedded, that googling for can be tricky or impossible. At first I had high hopes, because the shape of the code is good, and the logic looks good, but when I go to look up details of the parts I actually need help with, they’re just made up functions, like placeholders I might write until I can go back and implement them.

Where it’s shined for me was writing code where I couldn’t be bothered to put together ideas from several distinct tutorials. It’s fantastic for writing code that you can basically google for, even if you have to read several disperate pages to get a clear picture of what to do.
> OOP remains the most popular and requested programming paradigm even though it has gradually slid into functional obsolescence more than a decade ago…

I read your link. It was an interesting essay. But how is OOP functionally obsolete?
This isn't how anything works. If you want a better alternative compiler, you build a new compiler. You don't build an entirely new operating system that includes a new compiler. Want a better grep? Make a better grep, not a whole new shell. Forcing everybody to make their own entire browser in order to provide an alternative devtool is ... madness? What does making a devtool have to do with making a browser? Why should making one require making the other?
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L is a path, and W its sum along time, furthermore dW = 0 means W is always minimized (things take the cheapest, lowest .. whatever metaphor for minimum makes sense in a context)

that's my understanding as a non physicist .. but dW means local minima or maxima.. so i'm confused :)
before regulation, I think we have to settle on the moral aspect. It’s not clear for everyone for guns, so don’t rush for «AI» if you want effective results, regardless of the projected risks and the urge that goes with it.
re: eyes: some people get considerable benefit from eye drops containing ketotifen or olopatadine. These have been available OTC for several years.
Not sure what you're implying or responding to, but that _is_ why I listed capable and intelligent separately.
Crypto accounting b2b tool here. We spend 90% of our time doing onboarding of accountants. 2 ppl company, before salary our operating costs are around 5%. We just have a simple Frontend deployed on heroku and then a bunch of nodejs workers pulling the data from various API. Our tech cost are probably less than 1%, the rest are tools and api cost.
B2B is cheap if you don’t do stupid things like running kubernetes :)
Idk why but this comment was hilarious, thanks!
I literally lol'd at the irony of the next headline on the same page: "75% of businesses are implementing or considering bans on ChatGPT"
The reason they're doing it is because it's national security and espionage. It's objectively better to deny 1,000 solid applicants because of something on a polygraph doesn't look right than to allow in one foreign agent, at least that's the idea. So they add this filter, it will filter out some good people but maybe it'll filter out a bad one or two. That one or two makes it worth it in their eyes.

It has nothing to do with "maintaining the shroud of 'this works'" because it does work for the purpose they have. It doesn't need to be 100% accurate or admissible in court.
Shelters have a finite number of beds. You just said homeless people are relocating to SF because "it's the nicest place in the US to be homeless" (you should take a long hard look at what you just tried to excuse) - that sounds like your typical capacity problem except it's one of the few things in SV that won't elastically scale based on demand.
Look at HN. People who are good at programming who know nothing about anything else, but post like they do.
After reading through this, I'm not sure if it's a list of jokes or real information? For example:

> long ints can be entered using hexadecimal notation; for instance,

> long int foo = 07;

How is this a good example of hexadecimal input?
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So you’re suggesting that people who do not go through the organizations doing the most of the indoctrination heavy lifting of today somehow end up being more indoctrinated? Interesting.
If the text changes you are not linking to the same thing. That sound like a really hard problem to handle if you are not in control of both sides.
My rabbi used to say that "charity with strings is just a bad job"; it's not charity if it's not given unconditionally.
This doesn't seem accurate, it says that Greece uses 0% coal when I know that at least 660 MW come from coal.
in any situation where i can have others make decisions for me, i encourage / ask them to do so

i focus on what i’m good at

it so happens to be things i like doing

and it also so happens to be things that the market finds valuable

with roommates i find solutions like hiring cleaning staff, for some though it’s the principal of who does the work and you can’t swap the work out

those differences are the things that tear people apart

but that’s just part of life

sometimes someone has to change or accept something if neither can then pain ensues
This is called Payola.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
I wonder how the current support measures up to NATO's forces and the wartime production capabilities of its members. Iirc the support to Ukraine is a fraction of what the coalition employed in the first gulf war.
I use Fedora as my daily driver for work and DNF rollback might as well not exist. It's atrocious. Even when turning on the local repo cache function (which keeps RPM packages on your system for some time in case you want to roll back), I have never been able to successfully roll back an upgrade that contained more than ~10-20 packages.

I love Fedora, but DNF has atrocious UX.
Is anyone buying them?
Must join the choir and say that eventhough I have been a die hard FF fan, its gotten to the point of an impending divorce if performance doesn’t get better. I find myself switching to chromium more and more often. And then there are the extensions, that I sometimes can’t find for Firefox. That’s a minor annoyance than anything else though.

There are also a bunch of things that keeps me with FF. multi container tabs is one of my most loved ones. But I simply don’t get why the Team does make that feature even better. Like making it much easier to distinguish which container tab I am in. And adding even more customisability pr container-type.

Regarding DevTools, I really do t think I have a strong preference at all. But the stronger/more consistent performance the DevTools in chromium comes out slightly ahead.

For me it’s the overall experience which makes it a close race
It is how it works. What's your suggestion for the fancy devtools API? Beg Google?

Making the implementation of the web standard simpler means increasing the options available, meaning more chance of finding a devtools you appreciate and possibly modify.

APIs/Standards deprecate. It is not even a question of "if" but "when". Lowering the barrier of entry is much more sustainable than engineering a whole new spec every time we encounter a problem.
It's disconcerting that those "combatting disinformation" often neglect the vital practice of earnestly challenging their own beliefs.

It seems they're fighting for a change in figures of authority not rationalism.
I'm sure this approach—just regulate the symptoms without thinking too hard about the underlying causes—will yield just as effective a solution as it has with guns. We're doing a great job, let's keep up the momentum.
That feels right. I don't really have direct recall for everything I learn, but it almost always stays lurking in my brain until I run into a specifc problem requiring that information
Interesting to see how data journalism has evolved into uploading CSVs into the cloud.

I remember when the hottest thing at the I.R.E.† conventions was learning how to extract and decipher the data from 9-track tapes.

In the early days of FOIA, governments would try to stymie your reporting by "complying" with data requests by dumping massive amounts of information on you in giant 9-track data reels.

Almost no newsroom had the equipment or technical ability to read them, so we had to figure things out by ourselves, or find friendly businesses and institutions that would help us out.

† https://www.ire.org/
The Apollo Astronaut Who Was Allergic to Moon Dust (2017)
Imagine being blessed with the talent and physical ability to feel young enough to keep doing the things you love to do. Wouldn't you do it?
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...

> For example, when an AI technology receives solely a prompt from a human and produces complex written, visual, or musical works in response, the “traditional elements of authorship” are determined and executed by the technology—not the human user. Based on the Office's understanding of the generative AI technologies currently available, users do not exercise ultimate creative control over how such systems interpret prompts and generate material. Instead, these prompts function more like instructions to a commissioned artist—they identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output.
There's a lot of people here that are opposed to IP restrictions/protections of any kind.
Love the project! Just read about grimoires with prompts by Ethan Mollick https://open.substack.com/pub/oneusefulthing/p/now-is-the-ti... and this looks like one of the ways to store your prompts!
Having a caching layer also seems useful from cost point of view. I can imagine that with sufficiently large number of users their prompts and responses sometimes will be similar, and this provides space for cost savings, nice idea:)
This is line 6. It basically implies[0] a specific form for the electromagnetic Lagrangian from which Maxwell's equations follow immediately.

For the Lagrangian and the derivation of Maxwell's equations see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariant_formulation_of_cla... .

[0]: The author is being very sloppy – tons of additional structure and additional assumptions are silently implied by his "9 lines".
Developing in Chrome doesn’t mean the end result doesn’t work in Firefox. Web standards are there for a reason. I develop in Chrome (by develop I mean the full interactive development cycle) but also check in Firefox and Safari once in a while. This post is explicitly about why people use Chrome’s devtools, so you’re just attacking a strawman.
iPhones are literally a bridge to real social connections.

Teens use AirDrop and FaceTime a lot. AirDrop is its own social network in some schools and ages.

There's no reason to give a kid one more social hardship when the cheapest iPhones are the same price as passable Android phones. No one is saying you have to drop $1,000 on this. It's like even free from the carrier.
Anti-vax and like positions have been cause-celebre positions for other political leanings, previously and now. I guess the guardian doesn't want to look though it's archives and remember it's part in the affair.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/200...

Course the original article, "New health fears over big surge in autism" is now inaccessible via the guardian.* How positively "fascist", eh guardian?

*Their are dozens of other "supporting" opinion and 'concerned' articles they haven't removed. Just look before 2012 and MMR.
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It might be except LLMs don't predict, they parrot or at best summarize.
You mean the study where the TRFers lost no more weight than the group eating three meals a day, but did lose a disproportionate amount of muscle? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192843
Such a weird flex. Debian sure wasn't Slackware, it was one of the easiest distros to install and manage. It took years until commercial distros like RedHat could catch up.
I seem to recall doing some math and finding out the limit for some models of LLM was pretty close to that. If so, this book is likely the result of a single prompt, which seems to me like a lazy way to be lazy.
Is Iceland really 100% renewable, that's pretty amazing!

I also liked the cross border exports and our dependency on each other.
Blackpool. How is it that these towns are so perfectly named?
Interesting article, but the author seems to repeat themselves quite frequently.

Would have liked to see graphs of temperature variability at the brew head on a machine with and without a PID
as someone from a heavily "guess" culture i'd say it's less about "keeping your desires hidden" and more about we are trained from birth to literally not think about our own desires. Like we would find it difficult to write down on a piece of paper in an empty room. Instead you are supposed to look after the needs of other people even as they look after you.

In some ways its sort of more resillient, like if one person has a critical failure or can't be present, others can help, and because many people know you, it is a web that can witstand the loss of one or several members. You don't have to use your own limited mental capacity to make decisions (especially if you're struggling or need help) and you get warm feeling of connection from helping others.

The guess way of choosing whats for dinner would be if you're feeling good you pick what you know your partner likes. If you're feeling bad or struggling to decide they suggest what you like. Of course, this relies on you actually knowing what they like - remembering times they enjoyed something, knowing what to fall back on when they are vulnerable or struggling. You know the things they like from observing them intently, their body language, their tone of voice, etc when you eat. They will find it difficult to express whether they like something explicitly unless they really hate or love it.

Some may find it exhausting having to intently observe but for the people I know in this sort of culture it's instictive, like you literally couldn't not do that even if you tried.
> For every scientific study that shows X, there will be other studies showing !X

No need for even that, most misinformation cites studies that don't even say what the misinformation is citing them for. Even more common is YouTube videos titled "[something] actually happening!" and in the video a dude will ramble about nothing for an hour and nothing actually happened as far as evidence presented in the video goes.

But passing the YouTube video around with a title like that seems to be equivalent to evidence for the modern internet scroller it seems.
If that's the case, then it's abundantly clear that the reaction is causing even more problems.
Ask HN: Navigating Private Browsing Amidst Google's Shadow
Lately, I've been facing a dilemma when it comes to selecting a web browser.

We're all well aware of the strong influence Google exerts within the Chrome browser, which leads to an ongoing battle for certain features among browsers that are built upon it. Furthermore, there's the complication of Mozilla and Firefox's development trajectory.

My goal is to find a browser that places privacy at the forefront by default. While Brave offers this feature, it's accompanied by an insistence on incorporating cryptocurrency, which might not align with everyone's preferences. On the other hand, Firefox is an option, but it necessitates the management of multiple extensions, introducing another potential weak point in the chain of functionality.

So, the question that lingers is: Which browser truly serves our needs in this complex landscape?
Unfettered and easily triggered emotional responses is poor Mental Health, and a root cause of most of society's ills. I'm not saying don't have emotions, but that people should have perspective and consistency. Being easily triggered and emotionally directed by every shifting breeze, is the problem. This is what drives political polarization and bad policy making. Like a judge that follows their emotions, sentencing someone to death for jaywalking one day and releases murderers the next day.
Can the title please be changed to "’Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline"?
This misses the point. Peer review is just one of many processes that can be used to ensure that good science is more likely to have happened through intentional external analysis and critique. And the idea here is that forensics is not based on good science to begin with, not that lack of peer review is what makes it not good science, but that peer review might have been able to catch the falseness before it entered mainstream judicial use.
I think that would mess up your user profile if two instances tried to handle it at the same time.

Depending on your use case Docker may be a solution.