skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And most of that fighting goes away when parents assume the responsibility of teaching their own children. This particular responsibility is presently only available to those who build their lives around the idea of a nuclear family and home schooling. I used to think that one had to achieve some middle/upper class financial status to make this viable (and having money does make this easier), but I've seen poor families manage home schooling quite well. This requires community (a church with others who are home schooling, a home school co-op) because the kiddos will age out of your ability to teach rather quickly (10-12 and suddenly they're doing math you haven't touched in 2 decades, or more involved history or literature that the average parent may not be equipped to teach well, or electives that fall outside the experience of the parents).
That is a copy of a New York Post article at https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/house-gop-slaps-fbi-with-prese... .

It describes claims made by some House Republicans in response to the Twitter Files.

As far as I can tell, the link you provided does not demonstrate censorship activities.

For example, the NY Post story you linked to has:

> An internal Twitter document published Monday by journalist Michael Shellenberger said that the FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of nearly $3.5 million for time spent processing law enforcement requests around the 2020 election.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files

> Shellenberger shared screenshots of an email from 2021, which included a communication from Twitter's Safety, Content, & Law Enforcement (SCALE) team that Twitter had received $3,415,323 from a 2019 program designed to meet the "statutory right of reimbursement" for the cost of processing requests from the FBI. Musk claimed in a tweet that this payment is proof of the U.S. government bribing the company "to censor info from the public", despite such payments being commonplace for processing legal requests. Twitter's guidelines under law enforcement state that "Twitter may seek reimbursement for costs associated with information produced pursuant to legal process and as permitted by law (e.g., under 18 U.S.C. §2706)". Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook and partner at cyber consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group, wrote that the reimbursements from the FBI have "absolutely nothing to do with content moderation".

At the very least, please point to the specific example of censorship, rather than a set of second- or third-hand claims.
Maybe I'm just getting old but it always makes me skeptical when something is introduced as "Open Source" and then the main landing page includes a pricing tab.
Step back from the Klamath dams and read my comments as regarding the issue more broadly, as there are a lot more dams across the PNW being targeted for removal and/or that will reach functional obsolescence in upcoming decades. By everything I've read the Klamath dams were generally viewed by many parties as having reaching their natural end. Other dams with many decades to go are already being studied for removal (including the one I toured on the Snake), and that's where there's conflict.
Make Your Own Digital Pinhole Camera
#nospoilers :')
The submitted title was "The 7th century Library of Ashurbanipal is the oldest known library in the world" and then it was edited to "7th century BCE Library of Ashurbanipal is the oldest recovered library".

This submission seems great for HN so I've put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308). As part of that, I've reverted the title. Since it will get a random placement on HN's front page, it doesn't need extra help from the title any longer.
Someone should make SoundCloud for the Fediverse.
I recently went down this rabbit hole and assumed the duplicated serial number in the EDID was playing a role in triggering it but even after switching to different monitors later on MacOS would still do this all the time. Just recently I moved my keyboard and mouse to the primary display that's connected over USB C and so far the problem has not reoccurred. No idea if having them on the secondary display was triggering the bug or if moving to the primary is just a way to mitigate it but FWIW, unless I've hit a string of good luck, it seems that for displays that also have USB combined MacOS takes the HIDs connected into account when deciding to flip your displays around every two seconds.
If we produced exactly what we consume then there would still be massive amounts of waste. There would still be pollution on a global scale and still be toxic chemicals pumped into the environment. There would still be a mass extinction level event that is caused by humans.
The I is intersex, not intersexual. It is a term for people who are born biologically with a mixture of male and female traits, through chromosomal abnormalities or otherwise. This is something like 1-2 percent of most human populations, which is relatively significant, but we rarely know about, talk about, or recognize those people, hence the inclusion.
USD isn't supported :(
Camping and ham radio are an excellent combo. Being completely isolated while still being able to communicate with people at a distance. Something very cool about that.
That's very different from the Planning Poker I've played.

Which was: Everyone shows a hand at the same time, and the number of fingers shows the number of days. The high and low bid are discarded, the rest are used. I think we averaged and rounded up to the nearest integer. Individual votes were not recorded. It worked fairly well, IMNSHO.
Now that you've mentioned that, that section is a lot more readable to me. Cheers! My C skills are inversely correlated to my body's uptime and it was probably around 1:30AM when I reached that part of the story
<< I'd expect someone like you to praise OpenAI's willingness to contribute in this space.

Why would you assume OP position in this case? There are multiple valid, albeit unstated reasons, why the company in question may not be the best vessel for those efforts. And, just to make sure that is not left unsaid, it is not like openAI is doing it for altruistic reason.

I do agree that it is not a bad starting material, but I think you will agree that it is clearly not targeted at group that gathers at HN.
Addresses are public information
Interesting prompts! IME the quality of the answers the users give to the ChatGPT questions in these prompts will make or break the experience.

I played around with this use case in the spring when my teenage daughter was looking for extra test prep materials. At first the experience was interesting but there was an "AI uncanny valley" shaped problem: the material just didn't seem to fit. It felt wrong.

This uncanny valley was significantly reduced, even eliminated in some instances, by including the entirety of our school district's online material about the course; information about the core competencies (across communication, thinking, personal & societal), the big ideas, the curricular competency & content about the learning standards. Our district has a pretty good website with all of this information laid out for each course and grade level.

Including all of this information in the prompt context resulted in relevant and harmonious content when asking to generate course outlines, student study-prep handouts, and even sample study session pre-tests (although ChatGPT wasn't strong at reliably creating answer sheets for the pre-tests).

Context is key!
It's hard to stare in the face of the abyss.
>But then what is it for?

Setting a national floor.

> It's representatives from California deciding what the minimum wage should be in Texas and not what it will be in California.

No, it is the United States’ representatives setting a floor for the United States.

> If the people in Texas want a higher floor they can enact it themselves.

If the people in Texas want a lower floor, they are welcome to try and leave the US.

>But they don't, and they may not be wrong, because different states have different economies.

So do different counties and cities and parts of cities. It is all arbitrarily defined, and at the end of the day, might makes right. Hence, feds set the floor in Texas (currently).
Calls to mind a Hilfinger quote from my CS61A experience: "Mike Clancy makes the tests; I make them harder."
This article, and Wikipedia, and apparently everyone else, all cite the same 2001 nytimes article regarding the Committee of Ten Million to Oppose All-Number Calling. How influential were they, really, if that is the only remnant of their existence?
So much bluster. How about some cold hard facts? Here's one: In the linked article, the section titled "Fossil CO2 counrries by emissions" lists percentage contributions per country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_...

Check out Canada's rating from 2017. It's 1.66%. The source: A 2022 report commissioned by the EU. Must be a terrible blow to your "absolute distortion of facts." Are you going to try a No True Scotsman fallacy?

Got any data from credible sources to support any of your assertions? Or is it all just dogma? Is it even possible to have a rational discussion on this topic which so much zealotry? Where's the science?

> Alberta must diversify. Amazingly it actually was, at the level of renewable energy production, and ... you can see what a threat that was to established energy sector interests, because one of the first things Smith did was to put an end to that.

If it ended, it was unprofitable, a failed business model. It didn't make money. It's that simple. Businesses chase profit. Oil is pursued because it is profitable. What you are saying is that Alberta should pursue less profitable directions to benefit the world. Why should it do that?

I'm not even going to touch NEP or equalization given how messy it has become over decades of political interference. It's not possible to have such a discussion in the forums.

> Unfortunately that growth is not compatible with the ecological scenario of the planet. And the rest of the country is under no obligation to shift policy and economic planning for it.

You don't know the first part of that. No one does. And the second part, it's more about bringing policy and economic planning to the status quo, rather than destroying the economy of the country which the current climate-driven agenda is achieving. When Alberta sells more oil, our country's tax base benefits as well.

> Absolutely Alberta and others will continue to supply the world with hydrocarbons for generations to come. But that is not the same argument as demanding that the entire nation chip in to ensure that the sector be aggressively expanded.

Forget aggressively expand, it's currently being strangled. If Alberta was a coastal province, this would be a moot point. Right now, the rest of the country is holding Alberta hostage. I can see it and I'm not even Albertan.
This is great, but when is academia, business and government going to finally get off PDF as a typical standard? It's awful, not adaptive for mobile, and a pain in the ass to work with for any kind of development.
Hey Rayuaz, your project is pretty cool, does something simple, very well.

My feedback:
- the black/white aesthetic seems a bit sterile for a RPG character generator, some more colors would make it more fun.

- if the character description is too long, it cuts into the space of the "Go to next table" button

- The UI is a bit unintuitive:

- "Learn More" makes me think it's going to tell me more about the project, rather than more about this particular character

- There's too much visual distance between "Learn More", and the "<" button on the top left, so it's not immediately obvious what the "<" button does, and how to navigate back/forth between the generator view and the detail view

- Maybe you could have a "About" button that explains what this website is, and why you did it.
People are mentioning this was on the Simpsons, but I remember my mom telling me this was how they used to name phone numbers when she was a kid and she wasn't even born until 1961. Lester Freeman in The Wire from 2003ish was still calling the prefix of a phone number the "exchange," even when talking about cellular service.
> If you are a teacher or know a teacher who is struggling to adapt this school year, I'd be honored to speak with them and see if we can help.

This is a worldwide issue.

I think it's great what you two did, maybe it would be more effective if you did a small article or video on it?

Many would be honored to be able to get help from your insights, it's needed. I see how teachers are struggling in Germany, while they are still open to embrace this technology.
Eh, I'm less skeptical. Denuvo has a proven track history of being exceptionally difficult to crack (and last I'd heard, only one hacker even possesses the skill to do so.) If they're as competent with locking down Switch titles (or, as is rumored, future Unreal Engine games) the gaming community at large is in for some chop.
Evennia is an awesome project, and the community is fantastic. I've been working with a blind friend over the past two years to gradually piece together a MUD (the only kind of game he's really able to play), and while we've been very inconsistent, the community has had infinite patience for fielding our questions.

It was also very professionally interesting to me - I'm not sure what the situation is for many of the Hackernews FAANG folks, but most of the corporate offices I've been in only require people to glue together Python libraries badly. There's never any scope for writing anything more complex than that, and many people can barely use Git. I've always done much better than that low standard, but there's a huge gap between trying to be good and learning from someone that's actually good. Evennia is the first codebase where, when doing development in my own time, I found it frequently useful to dig into the library's source code to learn about how something has been implemented.

It really raised the bar in my professional life for what I consider acceptable... and it was also very thought-provoking that a free framework for making MUDs blows up what's being done at most shops around the world. We've got a real problem in industry, but Evennia has always been a little Zen garden for me. So thanks to the developers :)
Not sure on the Docker requirement, but Dbeaver is my go-to for importing and viewing data.
This same article later appeared in Ars Technica as Catching up with the guy who stole Half-Life 2’s source code, 10 years later (2016)

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/what-drove-one-half-l...
Identitarian activists, presumably.
Is there a lot of free cloud hosted open source software as a service that isnt ad supported?
My mother explained this to me (in the '70s or '80s) when I was complaining about them changing or phone number... they took the first three digits of our seven digit number for something. Her number used to be "Tuxedo" (TX) something, something, something.

I don't know if she joined the "Anti-Digit Dialing League" that the article mentions, but I could tell she liked she old number.

Her point was that they'd changed the system before and surely keep changing the system (indeed, some years later they changed our area code).

I wonder what the next change will be?

EDIT: searched... Tuxedo was actually TUxedo, or 88. Also: nemonics can really work. It's weird I can remember the first two digits of a phone number I head about once, that had stopped existing before I was born.
You can say the same things, or even worse, about many countries in the same time frame — China, Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, Chile. South Korea both achieved economy miracle, and transformed itself into a solid democracy, better than any of the others
Because the example is oversimplified for the sake of HN commentary. In the real world it goes more like this:

"Hey, I saw you patched that bug that was causing traffics spikes. That's awesome work and I appreciate your proactivity! The Ops team thought we had to work late tonight to implement mitigations for the problem.

In fact, it looks like we had a communication breakdown and they didn't realize you had fixed the issue until 6 hours later. In the future do you think you could let them know when this sort of problem is fixed, just to make sure we're all on the same page? We'll have to look at a solution
for automated alerts too -- maybe an integration with the ticket system or build system. Do you have any ideas for that so we don't have to rely on manual communication? We're moving so fast that it's hard for everyone to keep up! Thanks again for the great work."
Ooh, all very interesting. I tried a simple experiment about 25 years back with a really, really lightweight green-threads library that I thought might work but I never really understood the synchronisation elements well enough.

I really think the world is kind of ready for a LambdaMOO/JHM system again so I will try to come back to play with it and I wish you well in the meantime!
And I love how they call it "10-digit calling" even though it generally requires 11 digits (or 11 button presses on cell).
> You presumably have a formal name: A B C D, with A and B being your two given names, C and D being your two surnames.

Yes, that's right. That is my full legal name.

> So what does it say on your ID? Your birth certificate if you have no ID?

Same as my full legal name: A B C D.

> Does your countries revenue service address you as "Dear A B", "Mr C D", "Dear A", "Mr D" or something else altogether?

Well, there is no such thing as "my country" because I'm a dual citizen. Born in Spain, currently living in Canada as a naturalized citizen. That is where the troubles begin, because while in Spain IT systems typically assume people have two surnames, in North America they often assume a single surname.

So far it has not a problem when dealing with the various levels of the Canadian government, but for example my bank addresses me as A B C-D due to limitations in their IT infrastructure.

Incidentally, in Spain we are typically addressed as A C or Mr. C for brevity, while A B C D would be reserved for formal communications.

I hope this answers your questions.
If you use radarr and sonarr, you can kind of already do it. There are lists that give you feeds of new movies or shows, and things like Plex will alert you about new content, ready to watch
Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme
NYC Subway Will Disable ‘Feature’ That Leaked Trip History
UK plug sockets are rated at 13 A, giving a maximum power rating of 2,990 W. Kettles are consequently amongst the highest-drawing household appliances in the UK.

Back when there were only three television channels, the National Grid planners used to pore over the Radio Times, looking for popular programmes like the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Special (21 to 28 million viewers in 1977), so they could prepare for the demand surge of the entire nation putting the kettle on at the end of the programme.
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> have very little tax for people's primary residence

Homeowners already get crazy tax breaks that our society bears the cost of. This would just be an even bigger shift to funding government services on the backs of renters rather than homeowners, as any increase in taxes that "landlords" are assessed is passed on to renters.
Of course a computer scientist would call out my imprecise language. :)

What I meant was that it's difficulty was in line with expectations for a lower division course given the difficulty of the upper div courses in the same major.
> "your code sucks" is even more concise.

It doesn't convey the same meaning at all though. One is a constructive criticism, one is not. Asking about reasoning for discarding alternative solutions is a perfectly standard part of any review process. It doesn't need to be further elongated and stylized to reduce directness.

> "it's not my fault you feel bad about my abuse"

Nowhere in my post did I justify abuse. Ad hominem is generally out of bounds in professional communication. I'm defending a more direct style that communicates the same message, not a difference message all together.

I'm not saying that praise isn't useful feedback, only that it shouldn't be used in place of criticism as the parent post suggested. A submission is either adequate or not, and a review finding a submission inadequate should lay out its reasoning as clearly as possible.

If you're consistently authoring inadequate contributions, the onus is on you to figure out why, and negative emotion is a powerful tool to motivate an individual to do so. The same applies to teams and organizations that fail to meet their objectives. After all these emotions didn't evolve for no reason or in a vacuum.

> People still want to generally feel like they belong

Some people do, some people understand that they're fulfilling a professional function in exchange for compensation and don't see that their feelings have anything to do with it.
The simple shell model said 'stable' but we can calculate with more detailed models than that one.
But how will I know it's down two blocks, so I still have time to get my cans to the curb?

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Thanks for the compliment!

Content moderation is a nightmare and I've been working in technical/product fields where this is a daily issue. The first choice was to make everything ephemeral: messages are not stored anywhere, and notes expires after n days. At least this covers some part of the issue, but this is only possible in the short term.

In the long term, if things go good for this extension, meaning more users and more things to moderate, I will have to introduce downvotes, reports, and most importantly some sort of authentication. That will still not be enough, and eventually I will have to resolve to text moderation APIs or language models (which we already do at work).

But I hope to stay in a sweet spot with enough users but not too many, and great collaboration! But one can always dream.
Sure, however I want to follow what acquaintances are doing too. It's especially useful if they are in my city and I see that on social media and want to catch up with them.
Oh, I think I just fell for it. I was asking them if they could share their knowledge...
Context - https://www.404media.co/i-tracked-nyc-subway-rider-home-omny... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321595
Related, but not as fancily presented, the startup I’m at just scanned a coffee bean in our micro-CT that we developed. It’s especially good for low-Z (like carbon and silicon) based samples in contrast to normal X-Rays that see right through it (think x-ray images of a broken arm where the tissue is invisible).

https://exciscope.com/applications/food-and-packaging/
Unicode Technology Workshop 2023
> Nuclear and solar can each scale to ~40% of the annual supply for most grids without storage, but for different reasons they both need increasing amounts of storage as you ramp them past that point.

Is that actually true for nuclear? I did a brief search and it seems like in France at least, many reactors can adjust their power output at a rate of about 1% per minute[1], with some even as high as 5% per minute, which seems like plenty to me. You'll probably need some storage, sure, but a heck of lot less when you only need <10 minutes of backup power before the reactors can kick back on (compared to a grid based entirely on unreliable energy sources like solar and wind, for which you could have occasional dry periods of low generation lasting days or weeks).

[1]: https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/pdf/2021-12...
He did so to confess. He has admitted he didn’t want to hide. There’s no strategy to critique here; he wanted to come clean.
Nth Fibonacci number in O(log n)
yeah, and you cant have something like api keys
They started licensing their code before the leak, e.g. to Troika Games. They never released the code publicly.
$5k doesn’t sound too crazy for a custom device like this. If it were Mil-spec it would cost $20k each at least.