skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why are Israel war submissions being flagged?
Seems like THE most important news to me right now. This is not just a tech board but for discussion of major current events as well.

Also, why weren’t Russia-Ukraine war threads being banned in the same way?

Proof:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30549116

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30429192

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Ukraine&sort=byPopularity&type=story
The ground floor really doesn't need to be like the rest.
Yes. I see chromium as the linux kernel. Piece of fundamental infrastructure that does the the heavy lifting and one can reconfigure, tweak, add features or eventually fork if needed. Never been easier to build an independent browser.
A Cheap and Easy Plan to Stop Global Warming (2013)
Seeking to collapse the unique contexts and interplay between 8 billion individuals is incredibly dangerous, leading to things like command-and-control economies, socialism, and genecide.

The information surface area and processing power of 8 billion people far exceeds the few bits representing your “handful of archetypes and social roles”.

Anyone who believes that Western civilization has been largely functional should soundly reject these ideas and agree that individuation is a fundamentally Good Thing.
This isn't a very new concept -- I learned about this in the 90s. Even then the language researchers knew that interaction with the environment was crucial for learning in humans. There were some natural experiments where kids were born without limbs for example and had trouble with early language acquisition because they couldn't experience the environment the same way as most others.

And the AI folks argued even then that the only way to create a language model that truly "understands" would be to put it in a robot that can experience the world in the same way as a human.
Yeah except, how do you manufacture them? And distribute them to where the work needs to be? And what type of fuel do they use - we don’t have infinite free energy for an infinite free workforce.
> I don't have the BOM either, but $400 is very much on the premium side for such a product.

That was really long-winded way to say, "I don't have any more info than you but it looks bad." Sure it looks bad! If I have to guess (and I do) I'd say they're not delivering good value.

But this is supposed to be a website for people building companies! Hardware costs money and has ongoing support costs! These aren't shameful flaws, they're the nature of the business. It's not "more ethical" to use a model that hides the costs of ongoing support for a product by packing extra margin into each sale.

I would not buy this product. I agree it's overpriced (and its subscription is poorly disclosed). I do not care about the high-end features it delivers. But the fact that it has a high cost (and a subscription for ongoing support) is not a problem by itself.
It reminds me of Mr. Rogers' wonderful lifetime achievement award acceptance speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upm9LnuCBUM#t=1m24s
I don’t trust crypto either. My wealth and focus are entirely wrapped up in business ventures which are inflation resistant.

Also, the US is not the country it used to be so past performance shouldn’t be as indicative of future performance. Particularly the Nixon depegging (Nixon shock) from gold substantially changed the character of the market and the US economy. It takes a long time for the effects to be felt in full and it’s my position that a lot of the current problems originate from that event.

From an outsider to the US the US does not look stable, quite the opposite. It’s not even an old government.
Any page with ads, remove it from the results. I'm not saying this would in any way be in Google's interest, but I'd love to see a search engine that did this.
Added, and reached out on Twitter.
Thanks. I fixed the typo.
I double checksd the source and you're right that isn't a misquote, but it isn't quite accurate in the end. A lot of the "undercharging" is essentially not making new taxes. Most of the explicit subsidies are subsidies that pretty much any large business gets, nothing special about the oil industry there. Things like local tax deferments for plants that supposedly bring jobs to an area are common for just about any large employer. Maybe we shouldn't be doing this in general, but it's not something special to oil industries.

We should probably just end all of those "subsidies" and loopholes in general.

Sorry for misunderstanding and missing what you were quoting. My overall point still kind of stands though, a lot of these "the government is subsidizing the oil industry trillions of dollars" is usually talking about these implicit costs that aren't taxed like they'd like.
Looks shiny and cool. What does this offer beyond simply defining functions and aliases in ~/.bashrc?
everybody asks whether exo civilizations are, but nobody asks how exo civilizations are.
“The Covid 19 vaccines just took those vaccines and ran them through clinical trials.”

“Just” that, and figuring out manufacturing and distribution at massive scale. Combined that’s billions.
This fuzziness is slowly getting worse in my opinion. I notice it seems like Google had gotten more and more willing to assume unrelated words/concepts are sufficiently interchangeable that it can happily return both in a search query for either … and I’ll be honest here… single behaviour is the number one reason I’m on the edge of leaving google search forever… doing a takeout export of my gmail and fucking the hell off to only using iCloud for personal and Microsoft 365 for work and professional…

Google’s continued erosion of their core user facing product “search” (the real core product is advertising but that’s not the majority of people interacting with google are interacting with google for… and an argument could be made that googles only real product customers care about anymore is YouTube but the quality of that experience fluctuates wildly depending on how stupid they are being any particular day due to asinine policies and abusive relationships where they seem to desperately want to destroy the goodwill of the creators that upload content like it’s some kind of fetish and they just have to know the creators hate them otherwise the job of working at YouTube isn’t satisfying…) is indicative of a complete failure to care about the core competency of the company… and companies that fail to care about their core competency are rotting hulks doomed to die…
Because I’m curious whether this is a pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive social construct. It’s a purely utilitarian question: could a bunch of polyamorous people successfully survive in their own third world village? Would they raise healthy kids that would be able to create civilizational progress? I don’t know the answer to that, hence the experiment.
Early Adopters of Industrial DevOps – IT Revolution
I know but i seriously wish there was a way to end all these boring primordial habits of ours and focus on stuff that matters, as a collective humanity.
Unfortunately there's no room for critizing him here. HN hivemind has become reddit-like and decided who is good and who is not.
Not sure what you mean by "Car crashes are much more debilitating than bicycle crashes."

If a cyclist gets hit by a car at any significant speed, he's likely seriously injured or dead, while the car driver is likely unscathed, at least physically.

If two cars collide, unless they are traveling at quite high speeds or are particularly unlucky, everyone will probably walk away, as they are surrounded by a steel structure that has been specifically engineered to protect vehicle occupants in the most common crash scenarios, in addition to the protection provided by safety belts and airbags. The cyclist has none of this.

If two bicycles collide, well it depends but scrapes and possibly broken bones are likely, along with possible concussion or worse head injury.
>They did append their affiliate id to type-ins for a single crypto exchange once

They didn't do this either. There was an omnibox site suggestion that included an affiliate id. Nothing got appended and people were able to see the affiliate id before hitting enter to visit the site. These site suggestions could also be disabled in the settings.
Show HN: PackagePicker – checklist for bulk installs with your package manager
Hello HN! I created https://packagepicker.co, a website that gives you a big checklist of software and spits out a command to install it using your preferred package manager.

I was always a fan of Ninite (https://ninite.com) for quickly installing software on a new PC. Unfortunately, it's Windows-only and works by giving you a custom .exe.

By using existing package managers, PackagePicker is simpler and can support multiple platforms fairly easily. It installs software in the same way you normally would with a package manager. so things like `brew upgrade` will work on both!

I'm open to feedback. Specifically, I would love to know if there are any must-have apps that I'm missing, or any apps that don't really make sense in 2023.

I also want to know if there are other popular package managers I should add, especially since distro-hopping is probably a big reason people would use something like this.

Thanks!
Do they all do that? Must be a tough business...
> They discovered the immobilised kitten's visual processing did not develop normally whereas the mobile kitten's did, suggesting that it's not just the sensory input, but it being feedback to some internal agency within the brain.

> I suspect the same thing would be true for attempts to develop AGI...

On the other hand, I would not be surprised if this did _not_ generalize and translate to LLMs. Biological entities on earth tend to have tons of fairly arbitrary developmental legacy which may or may not translate well to an artificial one. In the experiment, they didn't make billions of clones of the cat with a variety of different parameters and check which one worked, they just observed that yes, this standard v1 cat has some specific hard-wired developmental tendencies. It is not surprising that taking it out of the environment it was evolved for messes things up, but I would not take the extra step that this means that something is essential in general.
Were there any incidents before your measures? I may face a similar problem and it concerns me because I really don't want to harm anyone, including birds and insects.
For what it's worth, this was a paper I was exposed to during grad school for robotics/CS. I'm not saying one has to go to school to get good curation of content, but it is certainly one way to be exposed to a well structured foundation of knowledge in your field.
Yes, and that was exactly my point (yes, I wrote that SO answer). The indirect addressing mode that were introduced with 68020 are insane. Most people don't know them, as they didn't exist in 68000/68010/68008 and most compilers did not implement them as they were slower to use than using simpler composed addressings.

It is interesting to see what Motorola cut from the instruction set when they defined the Coldfire subset (for those who don't know, the coldfire family of CPU used the same instruction set as 68000 but radically simplified, the indirect addressing methods, the BCD mode, a lot of RMW instructions, etc. were removed. The first coldfire after 68060 which was limited to 75Mhz, ran at up to 300MHz).
Absolutely. Without question.

It's a computer, that's what they're supposed to do. Precision and determinism is what makes them great.

This is like saying if you had say, a pocket calculator but hit a key at an incidental angle and the calculator then presumed you meant the next number over and gave you that answer instead. It's incorrect - that's not what computers are supposed to do.
This is pretty instant to me.
There is no interest in showing Israel being attacked but there is plenty of political discussion such as daily flamewars about ancient misdeeds of US three letter agencies (but almost never discussions when these agencies shut down a botnet or do something positive).

These rules are either applied unfairly or the community is full of shills that make it appear that way.
Canada Plans to Regulate Search and Social Media Use of AI
> Advocates of dynamic typing may argue that rather than spend a lot of time correcting annoying static type errors arising from sound, conservative static type checking algorithms in compilers, it’s better to rely on strong dynamic typing to catch errors as and when they arise.

Why is that a strange statement?

Edit: Of course it is a perfectly valid statement, advocates of dynamic typing may indeed argue that. "It's better" depends on your context, of course. If you have 100 mediocre programmers taking turns on the same code, it's probably not better. One of the great things about TypeScript is that you can decide on the spot when "it's better": Usually it's better when you otherwise have to make a hand stand in the type system to express what you want.
I own stocks that pay me dividends - a share of the company profits. The company manufactures tangible goods, sells them to people, and then distributes some of the profits from these sales to shareholders. The shares I own are a claim on some portion of those profits.

There are plenty of companies that pay dividends. The logic behind stock buybacks is that it achieves a similar end for investors with favorable tax treatment.

In either case I am receiving some portion of the cash flows generated by a business. These cash flows are being generated independently of any stock market activity.

So tell me what claim on an underlying asset / cash flow does a cryptocurrency entitle me to?
It's almost like we'd be better off if the headline simply said "hydrazine".
New Chat Thing Convore Is Google Wave Minus the Suck (2011)
They probably “deserve” to have unicode code points because they existed in pre-unicode character sets.
I think you can just use CONN_01X00 pin header parts to represent tubes on the circuit schematics, then define just the footprint for the tube, either from its datasheet or ANSI/ISO/DIN/GOST connector specification. Then that footprint can be assigned to corresponding J0 on the imported PCB file. You can also print the PCB to visually test fitment. That might not be the correctest way but nor should be the wrongest approach.

One of the most confusing things when I started using KiCad is its two main features, EESchema and PCBnew, are basically two independent open source projects. So they're not tightly coupled, but works by importing and exporting files and manually assigning items in one side to the other.
"Attention is all you need" paper digested (2018)
If you find it crippling, you haven't at all understand what he meant.

It's just gratitude.

Nothing "crippling" about that.
My partner has a very white bicycle helmet and bugs are often flying into it for the same reason I think. Mines darker and it almost never happens other than the occasional and expected collision.
if you keep taking all you red on the internet literally, without applying a grain of your own thinking, you won't maker it far in life.
> Runaway deflation is not only a possibility, it is the goal of all of these projects

Not all of them. One [1] has an emission of one coin per second forever, taking a century to get yearly inflation down to 1%.

[1] https://john-tromp.medium.com/a-case-for-using-soft-total-su...
Created by an actual little known studio, Forgotten Empires, and /published/ by Microsoft
You can buy a UV pen and draw patterns on the windows. You won’t see them but birds will.
Western civilization is literally in the middle of wiping itself out. People have become so individualistic and self-absorbed that they cannot even perpetuate their own civilization and need to import people from the Middle East and Africa to avoid disappearing. The phrase “jump the shark” comes to mind.
I genuinely think there's a super-majority of people who believe Marxism and Anarchism are nothing more than counter-capitalism, and that being Marxist or Anarchist means its your entire personality. That is is the only thing you would ever think about or that it influences every action you take. of course nobody thinks that way about capitalism.

Ignorance is pervasive when it comes to political philosophy or writing, because capitalism has had such an incredibly long run as the 'default' in the first world, for 60+ years.

Just how someone in a community of 99% the same race will view ANY other race as 'other' and with a hysterical level of ignorance, someone in a society that is 99% capitalist will view ANY other philosophy/system as 'other' and with a hysterical level of ignorance.
Grandparent might be referring to Agaricus bisporus [0]. At least in my and some of the neighboring countries' languages we refer to these as <local transliteration of champignons>.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus
Reevaluate is fine, but I mostly see something like "oh it's all social construct" (somehow this implies it's worthless or even worse, oppressive) and that is considered enough to forego further consideration of comparative benefits. That's not evaluation, that's just hubristic dismissal.
It's also a fair perspective to have "If Google knew what I meant, why didn't they just show me those results and save me the click?"
Boring in the sense that any such threads are predictably flamewar. Not that the tragedy is boring.
If total shrink hasn't changed, then total shrink hasn't changed.
The end.

If total shrink hasn't changed, then neither has any of it's components, of if any has, then something else got better by the same amount, and so what's the problem? If theft losses went up but something else got better by the same amount, then npthing changed, and so why are they closing again?

Target is specifically being targetted? Suffering theft no one else is suffering? Walmart did something new to protect itself better and drove all the theft to Target? There is no reasonable way to have a stable total and yet Taget has some new drastically increased problem.

Total shrinkage not changing means there is no new or increased theft problem.
Most likely because they're off topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

It's important news, and many of people on this site will care deeply about it - but there are plenty of other places that are more suited to discuss it than here.
But it's not only not government revenue, it's not the revenue of any single entity really. It's an aggregate of a bunch of revenues of different entities.
The Divine Judgement: Enforce TypeScript Types at Runtime
The Oceans Are Getting Greener
> To be clear, in my example, polyamorous people are only a problem for society because that society has decided that polyamorous people are a problem

I’m pretty sure that no kid has thought to themselves “I wish my parents had a bunch of unstable relationships with many different people.” That’s not a social construct. Monogamy is one of the most universal practices, embraced by different, unrelated cultures that differ along many other dimensions. How did all those different societies reach the same arbitrary “decision?”

> will counterargue that in a society where divorce is met with social ostracization, this disincentivizes being a good spouse, because you know that your partner is stuck with you even despite your bad behavior.

Empirically, American subcultures in where divorce is taboo, such as Asians, Mormons, etc., are more successful—e.g. their kids have higher economic mobility—than other Americans. Indeed, divorce as a phenomenon has largely affected the lower classes. In affluent WASP circles divorce may not be as openly condemned the way it was, but it’s still taboo in a way that it isn’t among, say, Appalachians.
From reading that, my impression is that there's fair evidence it id toxic to people from the occupational health hazards that have been identified, and if it's toxic to workers, it shouldn't be in food. Sounds like in the US the manufactured food industry got away with using it by not doing much or any testing/research on it.

With no pressure from regulators and no additional research, public opinion was all that was left.

Frankly, "I don't want an industrial plasticizer in my bread" is pretty reasonable.
To me, this seems to vastly underrate the scale of the universe. Even if our galaxy had significant amounts of life in it, and civilizations were sending out hundreds of Von Neumann probes, it feels improbably as heck that we'd have seen any in this brief modern stage of human development where we could spot such things.

Second, life just seems not easy. Intelligent life doesn't necessarily have conditions to be sending out masses of timeless void travelling probes on and on. Probably a lot of the advanced ones struggle or lurch along as we do trying to subsist off the local ecospheres.
I use Firefox now and don’t miss Chrome at all. The ad blocking continues.
Would be perfect advertising to call it Rocket fueled water
Your post goes off the rails on the third word ("probable"). That's not probable, without a whole lot of assumptions, even assuming that Mars did in fact have water for hundreds of millions of years.

You're assuming something. Maybe something like "a world with water has high probability of life emerging". That is a massive assumption.

Given that I find that assumption implausible, I consider the rest of the post to be built on a flawed foundation.
From the article:

> William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven

And the author explains why the others don't qualify, in his opinion.

OTOH, he also mentions that Newton was autistic, without any bloody evidence, except the buzzfeed remark that he was reclusive.
Russia-Ukraine wasn't offtopic?
AI offers improved civility for polarizing online conversations
And that may be permitted under fair use. It is not yet settled law in the US.
But Picasso was also lucky enough to be born in a place and time where he had access to enough economic surplus that he could spend time painting rather than having to spend all his time working the fields just to survive. He also had the extra good fortune of being in a situation where those around him had access to enough economic surplus that they could afford to buy his paintings at a pretty substantial markup over the actual cost of production. None of these things are givens.