skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget to do a 2 week study on 6 rats, prove that none of the 6 rats die, and then send those results off to the government to get the chemical approved for use in everything.

Then, if later it does cause harm, you can shield yourself behind the fact you were just following government guidelines and the government approved it.
The Saudis were already the top shareholder in Twitter before Elon’s purchase. They were adamantly against it until he let them roll over their stake into X
I was at a barbecue when climate change came up. A lot had been drunk and people spoke freely. One Dad cried, and said he couldn't believe it, because of the future effects on his kids. It was a powerful and enlightening moment.
5mph is nothing at many speed limits. 50, 60, 70, 80mph
My suggestion doesn't matter, because it won't happen. As Carl Sagan mentioned in the video of him testifying before Congress on climate change in the 80s that's currently on the front page, even if the US and Russia agreed to stop burning fossil fuels today, China isn't planning to stop anytime soon, and neither is India or any of the other less rich countries.

So, my prediction is that this will be a self-limiting problem. Unfortunately, the mechanism will be that behind the old saying "The world is only nine missed meals away from revolution." And, at that point, it's going to be so (literally) hot, bloody, and violent that nobody will escape, and the ones who will survive will be the ones who are willing to use the most violence.

I would be surprised if we have 25 years before we hit that point. My 95% confidence interval for when I expect global civilization to collapse into something like what you'd see in a post-apocalyptic movie is currently from 2035-2070.

You heard it here first, folks.

There it is. You heard it here first.
But Zoom just required employees to return to office at least part-time, so it's good to see some remote companies keep the remote work environment.
This invention almost saved our generation. I mean, our parents invented radar, semiconductors, nuclear energy, etc. For us it's back to building social media, adtech, and similar "technology", I guess.
What happens if everybody can be a poet, everybody can paint masterpieces of art, everybody can be a comedian, everybody can make music?

What happens when anyone can speak the prose of Shakespeare, or of Charles Dickens, or Dostoevsky?

What happens if entire art styles are interchangeable? Will it feel different seeing one style from another?
Sir Alex Ferugson. One of the greatest managers for one of the worst clubs.
Rob Pardo on World of Warcraft (2006)
Well, ok, for a small number of items, but not 10. That's incredbily wasteful.
Because all of the people publishing information about this were playing the options market. There was no need to actually educate anyone on anything. This was a scam. It worked.

One person sees the opportunity it creating a hype train and gets a few buddies on board. Loads up on $1 calls for something they feel could be the next meme stock, like AMSC. Options start to load up on 7/18, just a few days before the 7/22 original drop on arxiv. You get the 7/22 drop and then uploads of grainy videos start to show up. Bank a few million in options contracts as the price of AMSC doubles overnight. Other people see the hype train leaving the station and start their own, using the same strategy.

It's how you end up with a dozen potato quality videos and very specific information attached to the comment threads, "This is going to be HUGE for quantum computing @IonQ_Inc if true."

We have seen these types of market manipulation scams in the past. This was the first time we've seen someone use something like arxiv to do this. Brilliant idea, really. We will see more in the future no doubt.
here's the de-debunking: https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...
A breakdown at Bank of Ireland briefly enabled customers with zero balances to access funds.
read more on https://magazineofficial.com/michigan-state-plans-to-sell-al...
> Spring is sort of like cancer.

That itself is kind of polite way of putting it. This thing is freaking pandemic virus. Spreading in all sort of projects including code with single CRUD operation.
The thing you are complaining about is exactly why I like coming here. I want to hear about why the pithy headline and subsequent text is slightly wrong/incorrect. If you don't want to hear opinions about the article in question, why not just read the article and avoid the discussion?
> I still can't see what's the point of it. Why would I want to do it?

It depends on how you like to build projects. If you like the current state of client-side rendering there is no point to using HTMX. If you like server-side rendering (my personal preference) then HTMX fills the gap of doing partial DOM updates without needing to reload the entire page. Some people will argue about perf metrics until they're blue in the face. I mostly rely on personal preferences.
But which one? Next.js, sveltekit, etc. are tied to frontend frameworks. Nest.js seems good, but basically Spring Boot in JS. A lot of JS devs seem to want more FRP based patterns (unless they like Angular), and the rest are just small frameworks that'll be difficult to hire for. Have I missed any? I want something fullstack and so more structured than just Express.
I do work for an American company but with Canadian branches. I doubled my salary over Canadian tech companies but still only make 50-60% what my American peers make.
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> I don’t think the canal theory ever gained much traction.

I'm not sure what you mean by traction. I wanted to show examples of scientific disagreement which made it to the popular press, to argue that it's been happening for a long time.

Using one of the sources mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_canals lists several I found this 1902 textbook which suggests it did have traction among astronomers for at least a couple of years, though not general acceptance. Quoting https://archive.org/details/manualofastronom00younrich/page/... :

] These new markings are faint and very difficult to see, and for several years there was a strong suspicion that he was misled by some illusion, — in respect to their "gemination," at least, — which is still ascribed, by some very high authorities, to astigmatism in the eye of the observer or bad focusing of his telescope. Still, the weight of evidence at present favors the reality of the phenomena which Schiaparelli describes. Many observers, both in Europe and the United States, have confirmed his results, and they are now generally accepted, although some of the best, armed with very powerful telescopes, still fail to see the canals as anything but the merest shading

I say "couple of years" because there are several editions of that textbook! In 1904 at https://archive.org/details/atextbookgenera05youngoog/page/3... :

] [Schiaparelli's] observations have since been confirmed and added to by various eminent astronomers in Europe and America, especially by Perrotin at Nice and Lowell in Arizona. But others, equally eminent and apparently under equally favorable conditions, fail to see the reported features.

While in 1888 at https://archive.org/details/textbookofgenera00youn/page/346/...

] "If there is not some fallacy in the observation, the problem as to the nature of these canals, and the cause of their gemination, it is a very important and perplexing one. It is hoped that at the next favorable opposition in 1892 it may find its solution."
I don’t think most Canadians want to migrate to the US. Some do, but most Canadians don’t see the US with good eyes. Especially because of the price of healthcare and the guns.
You're not listening. Someone just told you their personal experience, and you responded by saying they're "probably" wrong.
Yes, this is correct. If you look at the Schwarzschild solution to the Einstein field equations you'll find that there are two apparent singularities: one at the center of the black hole, and another at the event horizon. However, the apparent singularity at the event horizon is not a true singularity because you can perform a coordinate transformation in which it disappears. Mathematically, this is doing what you describe: going from the reference frame of an external observer to one who is falling into the black hole. To the outside observer you appear to take an infinite amount of time to fall in, but from the perspective of the person falling in, it happens in a finite amount of time.

The other singularity at r = 0 is different, though. It is a true singularity because there is no coordinate transformation you can make in which it disappears.
> with the magnitude of the trouble directly related to how willing the USA is to continue to lead NATO.

The US has never led NATO. None of it's Secretary positions have ever been American and it was formed from two European-power instigated treaties combining into one, specifically requesting US-backing during the enjoinment process. It has had a preeminent position in military positions (SACEUR, prominently), for fairly obvious reasons, but even many of those have been pared back since the cessation of Cold War hostilities (mid-90s).

Discuss American hegemony and it's pros/cons however you like, but at least get basic facts correct if you're going to do a "deepdive" into geopolitics.
If you want something easy to deploy, zero maintenance (almost) and with a tiny footprint I can't recommend PiGallery [1] enough. Also good mobile support.

I tried some of the fancy alternatives here suggested, but they insist in doing it their way. PiGallery just displays your folder structure as Albums, simple as that, whereas others like Photoprism keep ruminating in the background doing their AI, which I personally don't need.

Pair that with a good backup strategy with e.g. restic and you're ready to fly.

[1] https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/
The people who made millions off this saw something positive from it.
That's going to make it way easier for large companies who can afford a team of lawyers to hunt through potential infringements (and defend them). The cost of filing a patent is already really high (1000s, 10s of thosands) even without that.
> If they start moving to Canada they take that knowledge gained in the US with them and instead of building the economy here it contributes to building it there.

Which is why I say you have to pair this policy with policies to create local demand.

You've gotta give people a reason to build their business in Canada. Simply having a high quality labour pool isn't enough, especially now that remote work is so much more widely available.

Even basic things like getting funding is much harder in Canada because the center of mass is in SV.

But it's a super hard problem and few other places have cracked it (I'm looking at you, Stockholm!)
If you're MBS and you determine Twitter is the most likely source a the black swan event leading to your regime's overthrow maybe it makes sense to pay the money.
Lithium mine, Chinese coal-driven industrial factory and finally a landfill... you just described the lifecycle of an electric car battery.
> In general, the US legal system legal system does not allow forced taking without appropriate compensation.

Nothing is being taken away. It is closing a loophole.

> If the state want's mike_d's house, They cant impose a 200% property tax on to force him to sell

Because laws can't target individuals, only classes of behavior which a tariff would.
The remains of a corrupt and decadent regime found in Vatican.
I don’t understand how the lockdowns destroyed trust. From my perspective, they saved thousands of lives, buying time for the development of a vaccine. Can you explain?
The original hockey puck mouse had a ball (I had to Google it to confirm my memory, since otherwise it's just your memory against mine!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_puck_mouse

I remember the later G3 education models my school had having a "laser" (I assume LED?) mouse.

Likely the iMac went the same way.
I worked closely with Ian at Progeny Linux. He wasn’t an active developer on Debian at that point in time, although he was very technically savvy.
> there are fewer white working class liberals (AKA blue collar) than there were in the past.

This could be because of increased migration into the US and a billion other reasons that have nothing to do with nationalism.

>Also, unlike the capitalist and professional classes, the nationalists are often OK with strong safety nets, as long as these benefits are limited to their tribe. They are really neither conservative or liberal. There are other political dimensions involved.

Agreed
Setting a server_name is something you need to opt into. So I feel it should be required to match to serve that vhost. If you didn't want it to apply only to the right vhost, don't configure it to require a specific vhost?
I said it before, but I bet we will see a major city collapse (1,000,000 people or more) in the next 10 years due to climate change. Something like 1/4 - 1/3 of the population will not return after an extreme weather event. Wildfire like what happened in Hawaii will count as weather events.
Entirely rebuilding the PD just isn't realistic, and I don't see evidence that it'd even help.

Regardless of what happens with the police, again, law abiding citizens should have the option to defend themselves, especially since the police have no obligation to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
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I wouldn't get into beekeeping to make money, it does have the potential to become an expensive hobby. Also honey isn't where money is made easily, the bees are. A family of bees around here sells for around €200. Depending on your location and skills you can make maybe two addition families from each hive each year (I never manage more than one). If you can make your own calm queens even better, but now we're leaving hobby territory.

If you do go this route: Buy used equipment, advertise swarm catching and try to get to a point where you're comfortable selling a few families each year (remember to have them checked for deceases before they leave your apiary).
A comprehensive list comparing features

https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Personally I use Photoprism installed inside TrueNAS Scale. They don't have a good mobile app that syncs with the NAS. So might try Immich in future.
Does this ideology lead to significant technical differences from early versions of Angular 1 and early versions of Vue?
Also, "not a superconductor" means that it can't superconduct at any temperature. Where is the evidence of that? Or it's just clickbait?
US Space Force creates first unit dedicated to targeting adversary satellites
This seems like this might lead to some interesting second-order benefits of single-payer healthcare schemes; is the state of EHRs as bad in the UK? If so, is it because they're buying American EHRs?
I am also interested in answers, so let's assume the answer to this question is "no". In my case, in order to boost my pay, I need to move >=2 hours away, pretty much.
Well, as a lifelong unix sysadmin, it matters, but I'm not sure how much it matters for a typical developer.
Don’t fall for it.
It just means they credit you, it still returns to Amazon (unless it was a shipped by Amazon, sold by someone else, in which case it may be destined for some poor woman in Canada [22]). Some of them Amazon puts in amazon warehouse, some they trash, some they throw in giant bins that get auctioned off to scavengers.

[22] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/amazon-shoe-...
That wasn't my point. Your original comment passively implies people without parenting experience should keep their opinions to themselves.
One person's intentional choice is another's inconsistent mistake. I like to think that's what makes software wonderful yet endlessly frustrating.
> Why does climate change attract all these loonies?

Its not just Climate Change, though its rather stark and obvious there for the listed reasons below, but we've come to realize that 99% of social media based tech has been based on profiting from derision and establishing conflicting identity/tribal mindsets, and it's worked out so exceedingly well that even nation state's Intelligence agencies use it for this purpose (see twitter files).

It has been immensely lucrative, unless you're Elon and bought an over-inflated company and then ran it into the ground proving that when you venture outside of a domain where you cannot take credit for other People's work you show who and what you really are.

Hell, even Dorsey has backed away from Bluesky and is now really backing Nostr, I used to think this was a coup--Dorsey gets to take down the board from Twitter that sullied it and Elon got his next big distraction on the platform he spends shitposting all day on. I was hoping this was to make users migrate to Bluesky and have something really valuable to show for it in the end, but honestly I just expected way too much from Elon and instead he did what all rich idiots do when they are in charge: censor, ban, throttle what he doesn't like.

What has happened instead is way more depressing and makes me think social media should just die already, people's speaking habits have deteriorated so much in these last 15 years that it's hard to have a conversation in person with most people who use it.
I prefer GCP over some other providers as they don’t ask for a copy of passport. Digital Ocean or OVH is a no go because of that
Sad but true. And to make matters worse, those seem to be the same environments where businesspeople make target dates without engineering, and then get angry when the deadlines aren't met.

Put another way, poor management is a human layer problem. No technology (whether process or tool) can solve that for you.
If you are good at security, try bug bounty hunting. Make the web safer and earn some money!
I've walked through the downtown of most major cities in the US, day and night, and the only one I've ever genuinely felt unsafe in is SF.

Being "street smart" and constantly aware of your surroundings/situation will get you through most cities just fine but there is something utterly unpredictable about the street scene in SF that makes this strategy unworkable. It's basically one step above total Mad Max Anarchy.
The iMac was a marketing trick? I dunno about that, it might have been just the right internet appliance at the right time.
> it's about authorities asking for trust that has either not been earned, or has been destroyed

Possibly, although that would imply that you'd see more acceptance at the state, local, and individual level, and I certainly haven't seen that.

What I have seen is people eager to latch on to any narrative that doesn't involve big changes, especially not big preemptive changes.
Yeah I screwed myself over doing that on weed stocks a few years ago.
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Shouldn't they have a reasonable obligation? What's the idea of having police?
I read apiculture as API Culture and was wondering why API consumption needed it.
Fine, so print warnings on the bottle and make me sign a disclaimer. Isn’t it more harmful to create a black market with no quality controls? Isn’t it more harmful to ruin countless lives with felony convictions?
Do physical work like cleaning, painting, building fences, and mowing lawns. You can clean houses, pools, gutters, cars.
There isn’t anywhere normal priced

If you live away from civilization, and I mean really isolated, like 20 hours driving to get to a nice city, you are still gonna pay roughly 1000 dollars for a 1 bedroom apartment
disagree, the excitement led nowhere. We already have high temp superconductors so even if it was real these applications can/are already handled. Its not harmless either, people invested time, money, and effort.

its great to be excited for real science discoveries but hoaxes are not good, and can potentially cripple, crush the industry thats actually developing these things.
So, anyone managed to get it to repeat the deez nutz joke?

(... also, did no one ever think of answering with Kongo?)
Won't obey the law.

Will obey the HN guidelines.

You freedom fighters are funny little creatures.
Lots of superconductors aren't very good superconductors. They have a low critical magnetic field which limits the current they can carry and the magnetic field they can produce.

The liquid helium cooled niobium-titanium can make strong field and is easy to produce. The RBCOs superconductors, YBCO is the main one, are liquid nitrogen cooled and make even higher magnetic fields. It sounds like it took a while to figure out how make them in bulk.

YBCO superconductors are going to be revolution but will take time for the older systems to disappear. Good example is ITER, which was designed for liquid helium magnets cause nothing else was practical at the time. The SPARC tokamak from MIT uses YBCO magnets which means it can be smaller, higher field, and cheaper cooling.
Imagining that attention to this somehow displaces attention those things is beyond dubious. You could pick literally any popular topic and level the same exact criticism.
that said there's more data efficiency to be gained in the smol models space - Phi-1 achieved 51% on HumanEval with only a 5.3x token-param ratio: https://www.latent.space/p/cogrev-tinystories#details
This obviously is an interesting subject useful to study, yet I take it philosophically: both life expectancy and health span are much bigger nowadays than when we had no PFAS so practically PFAS are Okay.
3D objects that move on trajectories determined by their shapes
I agree - I'm a greybeard, so it's a bit of a bizarre world to me where Microsoft is actually a lovely, valued open source brand and probably the most ethical (depending on your definition) of all the big tech companies these days.

Time to go snow skiing in hell, I guess. It's deeply frozen over.
If you're already a software engineer earning a normal salary in the US (several assumptions there), it's really hard to find side hustles that pay at or above the hourly wage that your employer has already committed to. I personally think that it's a good idea to focus on building a small lifestyle software business over the course of several years. I wrote a long series of blog posts about this over here: https://overthinkingmoney.com/2023/05/02/start-a-business-no...

My first company (Skritter.com) fits this mold. It's been growing slowly, but steadily for more than 15 years now. In the first couple of years we were able to generate low five-figures per month, now it's substantially higher.

There are other ways to earn cash outside of tech, but most of the common suggestions (drop shipping, affiliate marketing, laundromats, etc) are mostly terrible if you really do the analysis.

For better or worse, low risk generally means low upside!
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If the ice cream store was selling ice cream on a 70% margin, they wouldn't give a crap about how many licks of a tasting stick that customer would take, as long as they bought a scoop at the end of the day.

Clothing retailers don't, either. They make way more money from someone who buys 50 dresses a year and returns 45 of them, than from you agonizing over a single shirt purchase.
https://archive.ph/bDbZ9
Likely, but for which price?
As of 2019, the US had a population of over half a million H1B. Maybe ten percent are top tier talent the US needs to import. I would argue the rest are simply taking jobs away from citizens.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/reports/U...
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