skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said; I was thinking of Scopes when I said Darwin. It’s hard to really get a feel for history that I didn’t live through and I’m talking about things a bit before my time which began in the Reagan era. I mostly look at the work of Carl Sagan and I get the feeling he really got going in the 70’s and 80’s. Agreed that it seems like tobacco companies wrote the original playbook for weaponizing disinformation for commercial purposes, but it’s fair to say that America’s issues with science denial preceded that as well.

I think the fight over the metric system is instructive - Im not aware of any huge lobbying effort to defeat it, but it became a culture war anyway, and now we have a strange mixed system in the US.
> How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?

There exist many ways for this. Why does this have to be the same provider (if you don't want to self-host this functionality) as the one that hosts the server for the VCS?
I think people also forget that before January 6th we literally had:

* Separatist movements from Antifa and the Left set up autonomous zones within US cities[1].

* Multiple calls for violence from prominent Democrats and other Leftists towards Republican politicians, judges, and a sitting US President [2]

* Billions of damage and looting by Antifa and BLM [3]

* Multiple Antifa and BLM attacks on Federal buildings, including courthouses [4]

I could go on for quite a while, but my point is that any of these events alone is comparable to January 6th. It would have been unimaginable to a 2000s American that any of these things not only take place, but were allowed and even encouraged by a major US political party.

All of these were more violent, damaging, and should carry much stronger legal consequences for the separatists, terrorists, and perpetrators; but because the Democrat-backed groups did it, it is barely even remembered.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5BcU1ZGiA

[3] https://www.axios.com/2020/09/16/riots-cost-property-damage - this is just for the May to June of 2020 time period.

[4] https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/five-individuals-face-fed... and https://www.opb.org/article/2021/03/12/protesters-vandalize-... but there are more.
The future of nuclear energy will be decided in Idaho
Blue Origin will livestream its first launch in over a year tomorrow
Here you go: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/407191/Spelljammer-5E-Theat...

(It's pay what you want, so you can pay zero if you want to try it out.)

This was written by a DM friend of mine who also runs an excellent podcast, if y'all are into that :)
Given the random glitchy nature of technology these days, all of the "unusual" behavior of your hardware falls within the "normal" things I see.

In the last day I found out that there is a setting called "route to voicemail" that can be set with one accidental tap in a contact, and from that point forward, you'll never hear from people again. (It was my Mom.... and I was pissed once I figured out what the fsck was happening, who in their right mind builds in a function like that? And doesn't make a way to manage them collectively, and doesn't show them as a "on/off" flag... just an undecorated bit of status that looks totally like normal text)

But anyway... your beliefs are unfalsifiable. There's no way anyone could prove you right or wrong. All we have are hunches. You state that your family thinks you're imagining it... they are in a far better place to judge you than anyone else in the world, you should weigh their opinion highly.
Is that the brain rape one?
You could freeze it, sorta. So it is 94, then 93, then 92 and so on, years.

People with copyrights today, don't lose anything. Only new ones have shorter terms.
For certain identities, certainly.

If my identity that I choose for myself is "follower of religion X/sports team Y/band Z", then that's completely compatible with financial success.

If I pick "I'm a beach bum", and seriously try to live that out, well, that doesn't pay very well. If I pick "I'm a professional skier", that may pay well, but the odds are it won't, and seriously trying to pursue it is probably going to preclude most well-paying jobs.

So "largely at war with each other" was probably an overstatement. And as I said, they aren't diametrically opposed - they aren't totally at odds with each other. Still, they seem to me to be at least somewhat opposed to each other - if nothing else, both can take our time, attention, and effort, and we are finite. What we give to one, we don't have available for the other.
Maybe I am misreading, but isn't it kinda your fault for not doing the research and filling in all the correct paperwork?

If I messed up travel forms, I wouldn't expect the airline to cover for me. The fact that you got a new flight for free is pretty amazing to be honest.
> the inability of young generation to be able to write and speak proper french

The language isn’t going to stop evolving just because you were born.
Does it need to be in this case?

Does the (real or perceived) need for immediacy justify the incredible level of invasiveness of this mass surveillance?
Just going reiterate that ArtBot is awesome, thanks for developing it.

The AI Horde in general is awesome too. Its such a happy alternative to generation via expensive APIs, especially with nice web front ends like this.
The Germanic vocabulary in French is surprisingly as high as 40–45%, as Fernand Braudel pointed out. French is kind of a hybrid.
And FindAnyFile (https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php), disclosure: happy user with no affiliation.
It’s a guaranteed profit on a very large amount, which isn’t anything to sneeze at, but if you read my comment note that I specifically referred to the financialization. The way the market is structured means that suppliers see very large upsides during high demand. Going back to that 2021 crisis:

> The biggest winners were companies with access to supplies, including leading energy trader Vitol, gas suppliers Kinder Morgan (KMI.N), Enterprise Products Partners (EPD.N) and Energy Transfer (ET.N), oil giant BP plc (BP.L), and banks Goldman Sachs (GS.N), Bank of America (BofA) (BAC.N) and Macquarie Group (MQG.AX).

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/results-tally-up-bil...

My argument is that splitting the market up like that has been better to traders than Texas consumers.
> shows what you should do with it: take something that exists, remix it, release it, and even create a successful media & entertainment company.

and also shows you what to do to prevent other people from doing the same so that you get a monopoly.
> I don't see how one can reconcile his stated values with his actual behavior.

I have walked this earth for nearly 6 decades. I can probably count on one hand with fingers left over the number of people who I have met in all that time who lives up to that standard.

I include myself and my saintly mother among those people who missed the mark.
If I had to hazard a guess on the time requirements for DNA testing, I'd probably put it somewhere between "instantly" and "before the statute of limitations for 'DIY airport abortion' expires"
Super cool that it includes high(ish)-resolution buildings! Folks interested in using this data may also be interested in OpenTopography[0], which is a repository of topographical datasets (some very high resolution) with possibly more friendly licensing terms. I used some data from them to make a physical topographic map of a mountain peak. The tooling is a little opaque from a newcomer's standpoint, so I wrote up a quick howto[1]. In short you go from GeoTIFF to an STL surface with phstl, then extrude into a volume using Meshmixer (could use something else).

0: https://opentopography.org/start
1: https://giferrari.net/blog/2023/1/2023-1-13-printing-lidar-t...
It "should" but in many cases it doesn't

If you have a great idea for an app or a product and you've started developing it but you need to hire more people to bring that idea to fruition. Rather than spending years of your own time and money to maybe get the idea off the ground, if other people like the idea and want to help contribute via an investment, why not?

Surely your business major would have described the idea of seeking an investment or capital via a business plan. The challenge is that these VC vehicles push this idea of providing an investment tenfold and they have their hands across large industries and portfolios. To the point where they can both invest when you grow and when you fail.
Nuclear technology does have its ups and downs as in power generation, medical imaging, and advanced physics experiments versus thermonuclear weapons. If anything you are only highlighting the negative variant in your argument.
it's not like they're going to come out and say, "yup, we dissed you because you were a whiny customer and lodged a complaint". you'd have to sue, and then hope to find some email specific to your case in discovery.

why in the world do you feel it would be anything different?
Very good point.

One thing to add - in my experience, you need to spend money to go from merely superlinear to (locally) exponential.

This is the original reason that VCs exist.

If you go to an intelligent decisionmaker at a VC firm with proof of sustained superlinear growth and plan for how their capital will allow you to increase the rate (and higher derivatives) of your growth, they will almost certainly invest.

The reason that VCs have to specialize by industry or look for signals like Stanford/Harvard/whatever is that it's very difficult to validate or invalidate proof of superlinear growth. This requires specialization or, if lazy, social signals like the university you graduated from.
The global web of science collaboration is expanding
They are still relatively small on the scale of all international trade. This article talks about a $44bn debt.

And a bankruptcy court does not have to write off debts entirely; it could force new interest rate agreements, fractional haircuts, etc.

I think the bigger question is really if people want such a system or not: would the EU be willing to put tariffs on Chinese goods because they were refusing to restructure Argentinian debt? Would China ever sign on to such an agreement?

I do not think they would, but the issue is not that such a system is impossible, it is that people have to want it and be willing to stake something larger as collateral (i.e. trade) in the first place.
You are rate limiting me and not letting the other side post. When someone has multiple responses and comments that's not "low quality" quite the opposite. This is the same responses i gave you in my email and to you. Please stop this! You in particular @dang.
They were looted. Full stop. The British Empire acquired them through conquest, much like most of the contents of the British Museum.

I think I'd have less of a problem with it if they just kind of owned it. Rather than pretend there's some sort of noble intent with keeping the spoils of conquest.
You can build up Kudos with a Horde worker (aka a cloud or local GPU instance) and build up all the generation time you could ever need very quickly.

I love this scheme. It feels like I'm cutting out the middle man, and just paying for the pure inference cost (as well as enjoying the fruits of the pipeline maintainers for free). I also like the idea of "donating" GPU time for those without a inference capable machine.
All this talk about national debt makes me think how janitors argue about the bonds structure of the $1T behemoth they work for.
It depends on what you use it for. I use it as a database of books I've read, and would liek to read, and sort them with tags. I could not give less of a shit about other users on the site.
There used to be duration records but it all stopped because it was getting dangerous and people were just competing on how long they can stay awake for.

NZ is great for this.
Your comment seems to have split in two, so I'll respond to this one as it's the longer of the two.

I agree it is annoying when compilers don't support the same features but my point is the question isn't whether there is an unimplemented feature from that revision in many compilers it's whether the feature you want to use is commonly supported. As an example, if you want widely implemented features like <=> from C++20 then it doesn't really matter most compiler stdlibs don't support riemann_zeta from C++17. Waiting for them to do so only sets you behind years or decades because you're looking for arbitrary features you'll likely never use to be universally supported too.
When I was raising funds, the thing that I hated to hear most was "We will give you $X as long as you find a lead" where $x was usually just less than 1/2 of what we were asking for.

That was basically their way of saying "we don't believe in you but we don't want to miss out if someone else does". We didn't really want investors like that so we bootstrapped instead.
Disagree, I’ve heard “no” from dozens of VCs. They sometimes even give a post hoc rationalization.
There has got to be a corollary to Godwin's Law here somewhere. "Any argument about AI will inevitably end up with a comparison to nuclear weapons. The conversation will go south from there," or some such.
Qatar QSuites is the best business class in the world, no?
Then you can call yourself a P.Eng. (i.e. "John Smith, P.Eng." )

But he doesn't do that. He just describes himself as an engineer.
I read The Wager earlier this year and it’s implied that every active wooden ship eventually is a ship of Theseus, for a trip from England to the passage around South America at that time many of the ships had to be repaired along the way, though they didn’t start with all new ships.
That is the secret of writing.
Usually, everything is written in private.
Edited, refined over time.
And then published.
The key is you have to start writing.
Something might sound wrong or feel like sand in your socks.
This is probably the most difficult part of learning to write.
You can't edit and improve what you haven't written yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ship_of_Theseus&o...
You can collect these “soft commits” to make it easier to land a lead.

You can tell the potential lead, “we have $X in soft commits, so if you become our lead, our company will have total $X + $Y funding.” It makes your pitch to the lead more compelling.
It worked fine for graphics chips for a long time. Graphics workloads have embarrassing levels of static ILP.
Health status and certain medical conditions may also influence metabolism. For example, one regulator of metabolism is the thyroid gland, located at the front of the neck just below the Adam’s apple. The more thyroxine a person’s thyroid gland produces, the higher that person’s basal metabolic rate will be.

then why not just inject exogenous thyroxine to fix worldwide obesity? seems obvious enough. it would be cheaper than Wegovy.
Of course and is the world's best airline for some time.
It's them that are making it about religion, as they use it as a foundation for the more unsavoury policies like oppression of women, LGBT etc. Don't forget that these countries explicitly have very little separation between religion and state.

If you let religion dictate laws, then criticism of your laws will reflect on your religion as well.
Yes, that’s an important point. When my kids were small, I remember being struck by how much public-domain material I noticed in Disney videos and at Disneyland. Few of the Disney properties were based on original ideas; almost everything was built quite explicitly on other people’s creations, many of which Disney could use for free. This was in the 1990s, when Disney was lobbying to extend copyright terms in order to protect their rights in Mickey Mouse.
I filled out what was documented at the time I left, including preparing for and acquiring a COVID test while in Egypt 24-48 hours before boarding the flight to Doha.

The Qatar websites were not clear and when I called the Qatar health authorities ahead of the trip to clarify, they refused to give any guidance but assured me that my circumstances would allow me to travel and complete my stopover without an issue.

So I did the best I could and had a 1/2” binder with dozens of pages of documentation with me during the whole trip. At some point there is only so much research you can do and at the end of the day you’re just subject to an arbitrary interpretation of a vague and rapidly changing rules written in a language you don’t understand.
Just like a ship would be "christened" before its maiden voyage, it feels like the very first blob of text added to a draft of an article doesn't really constitute "the original" article. It's still "being built" until it gets a sufficiently decent grade. Right now it is still rated C, even though it's been around for decades. It's like an abandoned half-built ship

(Which is not to say this tweet isn't uninteresting... but it's funnier than it is insightful)
That's a bummer for me. I spent +2 years learning French and now you're telling me this is useless. I'd assume I can talk with older folks and try to practice at restaurants, museums, etc. Prob I won't be able to communicate with GenZ but probably that's not the case for millennials.
That's better than nothing, but since it was pushed so aggressively before, it can as well be pushed backwards the same way.
as far as coups go, this one was pretty tame
That's called disagreeing. Their arguments are:

* They were legally transferred by the govt in power in Greece at the time

* Elgin rescued the marbles from destruction from an apathetic state

* Greek government of today can't speak for the state of Greece then

If you don't consider these valid, then yes, you stand on the "return" side.
I'm sure this is lovely software, and I'll probably try it, but...

Why is software so difficult to install these days? Why on earth should one need docker to build and run some C code? Why can't one just download an executable?
Humans, not climate change, explain late Pleistocene megafauna collapse
I will patent that. The judges being bereft of both intelligence and abundantly full of property and pomposity, I do ordane that both parties and judiciary are far outside of the f*king boat in which they are engaged in rowing.

Turn off the machine and show me the circuit? It is not there. It should be copyrightable... But since created by machine, it should not be. Scrooge should come early for them. I shall argue on.
My pet theory is that the only reason we didn't see a copyright extension act this year, like we've seen every time Steamboat Willy was about to enter the public domain in the past, is that Disney ended up on one side of the culture wars with what went on in Florida. It's far more difficult to get bipartisan support for robbing the public of what should be in the public domain once you've involved yourself in partisan politics.
You have been piled on a lot already in this thread but let me add my 2 cents:

- you don’t have to be particularly careful about pickpockets anywhere in Europe, at least not more than anywhere else in the world.

- you always get free tapwater in restaurants if you ask for it anywhere in Europe, also most waiters are also generally pleasant (of course there can be unpleasant people anywhere)

- not sure about the tax thing (why would you care about that as visitor anyway?) - atleast we have free healthcare and free university shrug

- haven’t heard from anyone that got arrested for a „rude“ tweet lolwhat

You don’t have to visit of course but it would surely expand your horizon.
When I visited the US for the first time I realised that most of the prejudices against Americans weren’t true (that most Americans are fat, stupid and greedy for example - sure a lot of them are but not the majority)
I know we could have, but we thought it would be dishonest of us to do so since we had no intention of taking the soft commits. They were always from investors that had nothing to offer and apparently no conviction in their belief either.
As a tech guy, hell, sometimes I wish I had another technical cofounder. A popular combo is usually one 1x dev and a 10x. Zuckerberg could code, Steve Jobs could code. You want to code fast enough to prototype your stuff and sometimes, at least deal with UI things. No code is still development and a lot of no code goes far, but you're probably trying to solve problems that Excel can't.

"How do I find engineers who are leaders and willing to work with me?"

The most efficient I've seen is just blogging. Speak about the problem from your heart. Social media works too including Instagram and TikTok.

For one thing, tech people are just flooded with offers from non-tech cofounders. So we see a lot of people who have ideas and then lose interest after the prototype is complete. After the tech cofounder spends a month or so full time building it. It helps to actually care about the problem and know enough about it for a long time.
(Someone else had referenced this but their comment has vanished for some reason...)

Maybe you can make an FPS game with it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3K-PEEF1c
So because your personal anecdote varies from official data, your stance is that the data is fraudulent? Do you have any proof of that?
I've been playing around with DALL-E 3 a lot recently. One of the things they do is to expand a user's prompt in order to add a lot of detail. Via their API, you can see the expanded prompt (whereas, you can't through the ChatGPT interface).

They obviously have the power of their LLM behind them and can generate some really interesting prompts. There is an open source implementation that the creator of Fooocus made which attempts to expand on prompts using some commonly used keywords[1] with some sort of basic context.

e.g., I typed in "Brisket on a table" and got: "Brisket on a table, product photography, Michelin star, award winning photo, 8k, trending, HD. High quality image, highly detailed, stunning lighting, flawless render, masterpiece, still from the movie directed by Denis Villeneuve with art direction"

You get a much better image with that prompt vs just the basic: "Brisket on a table"

[1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/daspartho/prompt-extend
I don’t know the reason, but I suspect you can reason it out.
If it turns out one of the women is the mother, it would not be trivial to arrest and bring her to trial across international borders. This is also assuming the mother doesn't further vanish into thin air, so to speak.

So while I find the methods questionable, I also accept there is merit in pursuing methods that can give reasonable evidence towards an arrest now before the mother can high tail it.
Planned 1960s self-contained British city off Norfolk coast [video]
I've seen a lot of speculation that they've been slowly pivoting Steamboat Willie in preparation to use trademark litigation where copyright will no longer be effective.
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. As this is what your account has been doing, it's not surprising that it is rate limited.

Number of responses isn't a measure of quality. Flamewar comments routinely get the largest number of responses. On HN, we're trying for quality rather than quantity.
Can PostgreSQL do this?
> The interesting thing is null, because here the distinction sort of breaks down.

Kind of like zero, represents "nothing" but also "something", at the same time.