skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My stance, refined over years and years, is that if you're so desperate for my business, then you're not worth my time. Any site that I click and it immediately comes up with dancing babies and flashing neon "EAT AT JOES" will be closed on sight. If I'm skimming along, innocently reading an article, and you shove an email collector dialog into my face, you're ^W'd. See, it was so low-effort and low-stakes for me to visit there in the first place, I realized I never should've done it in the first place, and with a twinge of regret, the site is off my list.

I've gone further very recently, in exercising the blacklist of my NextDNS service. I've actually started a broad list of paywalling sites. If I got to any site and all its articles are paywalled, then I literally never want to go there again. *PLONK*. I mean not even via archive.is, that's how much I DGAF about the site.

I have the same philosophy with music and art and video. There's plenty of freely-licensed stuff out there. There's PD and there's CC content. A few years ago, I loaded up on all the PD/CC classical music I could find, which was gigabytes worth. And I just transfer that archive to every new device I use, and it's all libre, gratis, and guilt-free to boot.

So if content on the web is gently ad-supported, yes I will open my adblocker to admit you if possible, because I like to support sites which I use and benefit from, and it's not fair to visit them all while wearing a condom. https://xkcd.com/463/

I'm in an abusive relationship with YouTube, but please don't call the cops. I've started paying to rent films too. Just like Video Library, except I don't need to rewind!
Remember the OVHcloud data center fire? Here's why it was so bad (2022)
I plugged it in deepl.com:

The Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty and the Minister attached to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications, have presented the bill to secure and regulate the digital space (SREN) in order to restore the confidence necessary for the success of the digital transition. With this bill, France is adopting a range of bold and unprecedented practical measures aimed at strengthening public order in the digital environment. The result of interministerial work led by Jean-Noël Barrot, the bill contains some twenty proposals aimed in particular at : - implement an anti-scam cybersecurity filter to protect the French against attempts to access their personal or bank details fraudulently for malicious purposes, which have increased in number in recent years; - strengthen penalties for people convicted of cyberbullying, a phenomenon that is spreading on social networks; - strengthen the system for enforcing online age limits for access to pornographic sites, to better protect our children; - penalise sites that fail to remove online child pornography content; - restore commercial fairness to the cloud market, which is currently concentrated in the hands of a handful of players.
Killer in the Kremlin by John Sweeney.

'Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.'
The whole purpose of this lab is to do nuclear weapons research.

Which is very similar to inertial confinement fusion. This is a nice side effect, but don't confuse it with the existence purpose of the lab.
It's okay to have some of those traits, but I've also experienced colleagues which were basically comic book versions of some those types to the point that they ended up being impossible to work with.

While I think that the author could have done a better job at humanizing the engineers, I think the post in general offers some quite reasonable suggestions on how to help the engineers help themselves (rather than traditional micromanagement suggestions).
Shouldn't Dart be merged with Flutter and be thought of as a single animal? There doesn't seem to be any point in thinking up scenarios for Dart that don't relate to Flutter.
That makes no sense. You should at most have a single directory `~/.config` more and I suppose 90% of the tools writing or reading there could be configured to use ~/.${TOOL}rc
>We frequently use aluminum wires with a higher thickness to make up for the lower conductivity as compared to copper.

Aluminum wires even made it into residential housing when copper was expensive/rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_building_wiring
* Blindisght by Peter Watts. Great story with a less "antropomorphic" first contact experience, but also a very modern take on awareness/consciousness/reality from a hard-sci-fi perspective. https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

* Anything by QNTM. You can start with short story Lena which I think would appeal to HN crowd: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Both of these writers make phenomenal amount of their work available for free online; I've also purchased a lot of their hard-copies for friends :)

* Open Borders by SMBC guy. I'm a fairly liberal guy AND I'm an immigrant to North America, and still this very short read transformed my position on immigration: https://www.smbc-comics.com/openborders/

* SnowCrash and Neuromancer; have to put it out there as I re-read them every year or two - I know the story by heart but they are like places and towns and countries I like visiting for the atmosphere and company :)

* In that cyberpunk vein, I only recently read Hardwired and it was surprisingly good; first few pages felt like a bit of a variation on the theme, but then it built its own identity.

* The God Engines by Scalzi. ~50 page novella (novelette?). It's a... sci fi fantasy religious tale of space travel and manifested gods? It's different and inventive and sobering and one of those books that you put down after finishing and just stare at the ceiling for a bit. Cathartic.

* And for anybody who hasn't yet, Culture Series by Iain m. Banks. I don't personally love the very first entry, Consider Phlebas, but everything from Player of Games onward is just gold.
Harvesting Water from Desert Air with MIT's Hydrogel
As the article clearly describes, the school district is using ChatGPT to compile a list of books already stocked by the library to be removed. That can correctly be considered "banning" books. No one is claiming the sum total of all books not stocked by the library have been banned from it, or that the school district doesn't have the right to decide what the library does and doesn't carry. What's under debate are the method being used, and the merits of the decision making process.
I’m still actively developing offline and on a temporary domain and using screenshare demos and online surveys to get feedback.

Developing a new approach to the online local business directory portals where we start with the user and their end goal to then suggest businesses and bundle deals

instead of assuming they’ll start with location, category or keywords (plumber, London) and then have to filter based on price and ratings.

The platform encourages local business to cross-promote, cross/upsell and offer bundles with non-competing business.

An example; user wants their pool and garden cleaned and trimmed.

Instead of searching for two businesses and starting two conversations, and payments, the gardener and pool cleaner can come together to offer a Summer clean up.

One click. One payment. Two services. Service is delivered, and we pay out minus a small commission.

It’s more a multivendor e-commerce marketplace focused on local business and cooperation than a listings site.

And already partnered with a B2B2C messaging app that coordinates business and customers via email/SMS - so it doesn’t fall apart once the deal is sold.

I’ll have something to share soon.
Hey! Here that’s called ‘enshittening’
Is there anyone with view history turned off that doesn't have their youtube shortcut go directly to the flow=2 subscription videos page?
Or three, none of the above. Those philosophers are arguing from analogy based on one case - which the smarter ones know is philosophically faulty and really just speculation. The probability of calculating the extermination similarly can't be realistically assumed because this time it's based on zero cases, empirically.

But thinking like that doesn't get the likes of Toby Ord and Nick Bostrom millions in funding...
Tutorial: 15-minute city interactive map
In non trivial code you often need to make coherent atomic updates across a whole section of your state graph. This is very difficult when the code to update state is fragmented across many classes. For me this is where OO really falls down and more functional approaches shine.
How so?

I don’t enable watch history but would still like to see recommendations. Could be based on geography, or overall trends, or time of day. Or whatever.

Also, I find it funny to think Google isn’t tracking my watch history even if they aren’t showing it back to me. So why not try to have a positive user behavior.

I don’t like Google’s attitude of “we’re going to purposely make our product shitty unless you enable all the data settings we want you to and that maximize our revenue.”

They do the same thing with Maps and it’s offputting and one of the main reasons I no longer use them. The idea that I can’t set local cookies for common locations and must enable cloud saving is so stupid. So they made their map client worse by not allowing local places. I don’t mind my own phone knowing my home address, but don’t want it in my google profile.
Cellphone Radiation Is Harmful, but Few Want to Believe It
I'm very suprised to find there is some science to this. I'd assumed the radiation was just too weak.
Sign a certificate expiring in 2070 and delete the CA key. That's all management you need. And if anyone has access to your disk, it's much easier for them to add you their CA certificate than search for your CA key.
The key point about NIF is buried way down in the article:

But the NIF was never “about” societal energy. Its primary purpose is nuclear weapons research. This pesky thing called the nuclear test ban treaty means we can’t just go around detonating nuclear bombs whenever we feel like it. Surely we did not run out of South Pacific island paradises to blow to smithereens. The NIF allows study of matter at extremely high energy density.

NIF was built by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a weapons research and development lab established during the Manhattan Project. Talk of laser fusion as a viable path to commercial fusion reactors is propaganda intended to further the budgetary aims of the nuclear weapons industry. The realistic path to fusion power lies through magnetic confinement reactors (eg. ITER, Wendelstein-7X, etc.)
This guy is a pretty doctrinaire "doomer" with anti-civilization tendencies. Everything he writes is going to go through that lens. Check the other posts.

I knew I recognized the name so I checked and yup it was him. I've seen his stuff before. Summary: "Everything is futile so give up now." He would have been arguing for the impossibility of space flight in the 40s, or small computers in the 60s, etc. His approach is to "do the math" with the most pessimistic assumptions and then conclude it'll never work.

Thing is: if you take that position you will be right more than half the time... probably more than 2/3 of the time. Being a permanent curmudgeon about anything new is a great zero-effort way to seem prescient.

Fusion is obviously monumentally hard, but there is a steady march of gains toward higher and higher energy levels at lower cost. There is no known fundamental physical reason why fusion can't be done in a reactor, and given that it's a path to effectively infinite clean energy it'd be stupid to not keep working on it.
Same for cigars. This comes very close to "taste policing". If you can some ciggies on the street, then you can smoke all things (legal/decriminalized) on the street. Or it becomes whimsy.
Microsoft will let you uninstall more built-in Win 11 apps soon for less bloat
Bae agrees to buy space technology firm Ball Aerospace for $5.6B
This can be countered in many ways, and I presume you realize that 'home' is ventilated into exactly same open air as everything else, basically nobody has carbon filters that would make the smell actually disappear.

THC oil vapes don't have any typical smell, at least not the ones I've tried. They are superior to smoking plants in many ways, be it health effects, strength of effect or cost. You can have edibles (I don't like how they take very long to manifest but for medicinal use they should be better by principle).

I am not against ban in public per se, but lets be consistent - cigarettes, cigars etc should be handled exactly same, with same punishments.
Fungi of Temperate Europe.

Gorgeous book and immensely satisfying for self-studying mushroom foraging because of its comprehensiveness (thousands of species) and novel accessible organization.
I remember being fascinated by this Cicada story when it came up. if this is true it really deserves a blog post .
I thought they wanted "more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat... https://archive.today/ia2z4
When first heard the song “LEF (loud electronic ferocious)” it occurred to me that LEDs could be backronymed to Loud Electronic Dysphoric. But it seemed pointless because that didn’t describe LEDs. Now it seems like it does!
I was one of the “winners” of the first one (yeah I know, believe it or not, it makes no difference) and I can tell you: there is absolutely nothing interesting on the other side. Don’t hold your breath. :(
>It would set a dangerous precedent

This seems to be false as the precedent already exists.

sources:
Étude d'impact (PDF linked in https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/dossierlegislatif/JORFDOLE000...) says

>Par ses modalités, ce dispositif est à rapprocher du dispositif de filtrage prévu au 1° de l’article L. 521-3-1 du code de la consommation, permettant aux agents de la DGCCRF d’ordonner, selon des conditions et modalités particulières, aux opérateurs de plateformes en ligne, aux fournisseurs d’accès à internet ainsi qu’aux exploitants de navigateurs internet d’afficher un message avertissant les consommateurs du risque de préjudice encouru s’ils accèdent au contenu manifestement illicite, et au b du 2° du même article, qui leur permet d’ordonner à ces mêmes opérateurs et aux hébergeurs de prendre toute mesure utile destinée à limiter l’accès à ces contenus.

Article L. 521-3-1 du code de la consommation: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI0000...
“I’m feeling lucky” and “Just show me a random video” would be fun.

Also just having weird stuff like “show me a video that most closely matches this color scheme” or “find me the antipode of this video”
Normally the technology stack refers to the languages and frameworks underpinning the project.

It is very weird to be in a situation where (for example) we’re working on a project in python and one person refuses to use python. Weird enough that I’ve never seen anyone with a personal tech stack, most people just try to adopt the local custom of the team they’re hired into.
> It's rough being a landlord.

Yeah… if it wasn’t for all that money, I don’t know why anyone would do it.
Neanderthal DNA Kills Superbugs
Addressing a vampire as "they" may be in fact dangerous, for most of the vampires are from the pre-internet age.
Return to the office? No way, say some tech companies
AMD was impacted by a Meltdown-style attack[0], and the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization voltage attack[1] that, recently, was used to jailbreak Teslas.
This culture of corporate fandom "console wars" mentality that has permeated almost every facet of technical discussion makes me nauseated. (not directed at parent
-- just ranting.)

[0] https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.04575.pdf
> that journalist's South Korean birthplace could hardly be any consideration into her journalism

Self-identity can absolutely be relevant, especially if there is a history of anti-white racism.
Everyone mildly interested in the topic knows about what's written in the article. There are popular scientists making youtube videos about what is Q, etc.

It's the gain factor of the fuel itself, not the entire system that achieved positive value. The point is that until 2022, noone was able to achieve any gain at all. So this was a breakthrough (alas many more needed to make it commercially usable) and just because some stupid people misinterpreted it, it doesn't mean it's not important.
3.14 the one you call back one full year after he left because otherwise you're fired as a manager.
Israeli Researchers Produce Green Hydrogen with 90% Efficiency
Might want to rephrase that, because if you go from 10% distance to the goal to 1% to 0.1% etc, but never reach the goal, it doesn't matter if that happens every few years or every second, you still never reach the goal.
All current data still points to college as being the best investment one can make in life, on average.

Check the math on median college cost, vs median gain in income, compared to time spent, investing the cost instead, etc., and you can check it yourself.

Perhaps also factor in lifetime unemployment rates between education classes, and the difference becomes even greater.

Plus the future will likely reward the degreed even more, since that's the trend for decades.
Hi, is there any opening for fully remote?
Heroku Dashboard Is Down
And it looks like pipelines are gone if using CLI to inspect the apps. The error is "Unknown Error. Please contact support."
Is it worth reading if I'm no longer in my 20s?
I think it may have triggered what’s called the Hirnantian glaciation stage, which lasted between 445.2 and 443.8 million years ago...

This huge glaciation and mass extinction event eliminated about 85% of the planet’s species.

It was more than double the scale of the Chicxulub impact that killed off the dinosaurs.
They're trying to pressure more sellers to consign their inventory at Amazon warehouses. They have two home court advantages: 1. With the 2% hike they are leveraging the power of that 'price rank lowest to highest' display where people pick from the top or close to the top. 2. Consigned items say nebulously 'shipped from Amazon' and the others give a specific location of origin.

I don't play favorites and I've found Amazon consignment to be a reasonable source of high reliability delivery, but I've been burned before as I watch things cross from the far side of the country slowly to arrive at the edge of the date window. When it arrives past the window Amazon is always good and quick on refunds, that is good MIS.

But I will also scan down list and choose a 3rd party seller that is a little more expensive IF it is close to me geographically and promises to ship small items by USPS. USPS has always done right by me, probably because I avoid living in or near big cities.
Microsoft SpeechX [pdf]
Totally unrelated, I had hoped "ish" died. For the unaware, the youths 10 years ago were using that as a substitute for "shit." It is a dumb new word because it already exists and means "approximately" or "slightly" as a suffix. So dopish is slightly dopey (slow/dumb). Yes, I subscribe mostly to words evolving. I don't like this case specifically. </tangent>
It is a nice piece of napkin maths and shows how challenging (nearly impossible?) commercial fusion is in reality. Definitely going to reuse in some arguments.

The computer was in the same category 50 years ago, as was the ball point pen 100. Just making aluminum cheap, was a miracle.

And before you think aluminum isn't a biggie, it revolutionized so many industries. Including airflight, missles, and more at the time.

Things impossible, became possible. And now these things are trivial.

The only question is, when it becomes cheap and easy to use fusion power, will it be the optimal power source at that time?
Demo: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/speechx/
Leaked images reveal Lenovo’s Steam Deck competitor with a hint of the Switch
What you call indoctrination most countries would call learning the ability to reason and escape previous indoctrination. Uneducated people are more easily misled and abused by narcissistic leaders.

Lower wages, more unemployment, and an even larger gap between more educated and less educated, is not that great a plan, on average.
I think there is an important missed point: research funding is rivalrous, and not infinite. NIF is such a dead end that there is a huge risk that the positive result sucks the air out of a crowded room and de facto takes away resources from "societal" fusion energy projects that have a shot at actually being useful.
Sorry for the n00b question here, but how would you prevent the next version of the foundation model from spidering and learning from the exam questions themselves, and thus "cheating" on the exam?
Can't wait for the supreme Court ruling that says AI is just using data, and data is free.
Amazon's overcomplicated new product star ratings are no bright idea
I live in Canada and make a few thousand more than the median income in my current city. It's certainly not 2x as much less 5x what others are making here.

I'f I wanted to buy a house here I'd have to make a minimum of 3x my current salary despite being "well paid".

We're not all rich.
Why not semantic search?
Mandatory Bill Hicks quote:

"Isn't making a plant against the law the same as saying that God made a mistake?"

We need some constitutional guarantee that reschedules all victimless crime to offenses at worst, or not a problem at best.
interesting,using DRF for json and Django for html at the same time for browser and nonbroswer clients.

my use case is embedded systems that can typically do client side rendering in browsers, the only server side rendering I can afford is some simple lua or c/c++ mvc alike backend,Django is too 'fat' on resources. there are some of them but none that is great and actively maintained as far as I know.
But if you read a book called No More Mr. Nice Guy aren’t you implicitly calling yourself a Nice Guy?
In the spirit of enlightenment and the continuing progress of science I would just add to this that current thinking is there are 25 identifiable emotions which are often experienced in combinations together:

https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.0001...
It’s not often I come across someone familiar with Islington. I also highly recommend his books, The Will of the Many is my favorite read this year.

I keep hearing good things about Cradle, I’ll have to give that a read.
You wrote 6 sentences and I still have no idea what it's all about.
Without this protection loans become more costly since you'd move risk to lenders. Where else can an 18 year old get an unsecured loan for this amount and rates? Nowhere, for good reason.
> by basically calling them an unthinking robot

speaking of comments both unfair and incredibly common… this gross oversimplification does a disservice to all parties involved.

op lamented a lack of introspection and a nastiness to judge a thing as useless or bad based upon an individual’s success or lack thereof with the thing.

if you found it offensive, perhaps it’s worth thinking on.
Legalization gives people non-smelly options. Edibles, concentrates, vapes all have no or very subtle smell. It’s really the burning plant matter that causes the smell
If you have to explain that you aren’t being sarcastic when you congratulate an effort, you know you’ve pushed too hard in the other direction.
For point 2, ever seen Door Kickers? https://store.steampowered.com/app/248610/Door_Kickers/