skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Obscene" versus "intimate" both fall into the same trap of requiring more clear definition.

In the first case one has to make a judgement call on whether they personally perceive something as obscene, and whether that means the other party was at fault for creating it. In the case of intimate, you have to define the word clearly and draw a line between what would and would not be considered intimate.

For example, if a fake porn image was made to include a scene of the act happening in a large gathering or public place, does that dodge the word "intimate"? And can the viewer of the image decide whether it is intimate, or would that distinction depend on the feelings of the image's subject at the time it was taken? If the latter, how can that exist when the image was entirely generated and had no living subjects to question?
I do take your point, but the Sherman anti trust act is roughly a page to two pages long[0]

Only wanted to provide an accurate take, your overall point I agree with though

[0]: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-3055/pdf/COMPS-305...
That does sound appealing, but I don't see any information on who owns or maintains it.

You click "@ohfp" and it leads you to an incredibly empty github-ish thing with 7 total followers? That is not a good sign at all.

"About us" is completely missing, and that is extremely important to me.

I would need a bit more trust, maybe even something like EFFs blessing, to use this.

If you were being skeptical, would you trust them? Why?
The Cypress part family you are likely thinking of is the PSoC line, it’s a MCU mixed with very configurable analog front end.
It should gives impetus to further (and more targeted) effort - e.g., the killer evidence would be some kinda fossil, but what mechanisms of fossilisation would we expect to have existed on Mars? Perhaps stromatolites? We're still working out how to identify abiogenic stromatolites from biogenic ones.

And where should we look? It's kinda hard to build a robot that can replicate a sunburned human wandering around hitting rocks with a pickaxe and looking thoughtful, and likewise, a probe that can take a core sample of a former lakebed is a very specialised probe, if it's even possible to build one that could drill deep enough to where any postulated evidence of life might be found.
That was John Kenneth Galbraith, quoted here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_agai...
What indicators? People have been screaming "recession" for two years now, but the economy is strong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/28/global-ec...

Keep laying off people to pump up the stock price, and economic disaster might become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
A lot of people have recently been using Nitter to view tweet threads when they do not have a Twitter account.
I can see both points.

But I agree with this one more so, I did programming as part of my Comp Sci degree and my job doesn't require any programming. I didn't particularly like programming and would end up with 20+ tabs of various questions being asked with most of my time spend finding an answer to my question having to troll through what was often the cesspool of stackoverflow.

But having a tool where I can ask it questions about my code, code in general is hugely beneficial. I can write a block of code, or have it write a block of code, then have it explain to me how it's meant to be working. If I don't understand a particular component I can contextually ask it more questions.

I appreciate the expectation of code quality is higher in production, but from a personal learning standpoint for a learner its great.
"Dumb" is just a projection. It takes a lot of checked boxes to become successful. Yes, one of them just may be a hereditary propensity to value reward more. It's not an incoherent belief any more than that some people could never play in NBA, it just takes another set of boxes, some of them hereditary.
Doesn't matter. Debates can be useful public-speaking training for the participants and entertainment for the audience but as truth-finding exercises, they're useless. It's not the point.
Carvana already IPOed in the US and is also not doing well
Because evidence of life somewhere other than Earth is the sort of scientific event that shakes up, well, a whole lot of related fields.

And besides, exopaleontologist sounds like an awesome career.

And being unable to find any evidence of the place we consider life most likely to have existed, will also change a lot of how we think.
Animals see the world in different colors than humans: camera reveals
Zero Instruction Set Computer
Similarly: no instruction set computer
> But when I see what the kids are up to in the multiplayer cheating forums

The EFI-based cheats, or even the DMA PCI-e hardware streaming memory data out to a second computer are fascinating, to get around ring-0 anticheats like Vanguard
Does duckdb support remote-duckdb as a storage engine? Seems like a way to support distributed duckdbs. Ducks all the way down? :)
Six degrees of Kevin Bacon: each "person" is a vertex (node), how they're connected (co-star? one directed another? dog sitter?) is an "edge", and the series of connections between you and Kevin Bacon is a path. If you can go from one person to Kevin Bacon, and then back to that one person without repeating any people in-between, that's a cycle.

Two sentences, but the second one is a segue to the more useful parts of graph theory if they are interested.
The decline of general aviation unfortunately is not that easy to overcome. Maybe they should consider the Apple News program, but I think AAPL will probably take a big chunk of the profits.
There must be more behind this social good metric that you keep bringing up, care to cite where that comes into play?

What merits social good, and who decides it? For example, if I go to a train station and tell people horses have purple hair, is that not free speech? I wouldn't consider that ridiculous statement a social good, it really serves no value and doesn't better society. Am I breaking a law or ethical standard if I do this?
A writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
That part is also automated
While I can't speak to Codeium, you might want to try Copilot in a more mature codebase that reflects your style of composition.

The amazing part for me with the tech is when it matches my style and preferences - naming things the way I want them, correctly using the method I just wrote in place of repeating itself, etc.

I haven't used it much in blank or small projects, but I'd imagine I'd find it much less ideal if it wasn't so strongly biased towards how I already write code given the surrounding context on which it draws.
> I’m afraid that relying on ChatGPT/copilot for _current best practices_ is probably where it works the worst

This matches my experience. When ChatGPT started going viral, I started getting a lot of PRs from juniors who where trying it out. Pretty much every single one was using depreciated API calls or best practices from 5-10 years ago. I'd ask why they chose to use an API that is scheduled to be removed in the next release of whatever library or system we are using.

ChatGPT does have it's place. But you need to understand the tools you're using. It can't be great for a first spike or just getting something working. But then you have to go and look at what it's doing and make sure you understand it.
There's repechage, and there's plenty of repechage in life.
At the same time, yes life is not fair, and that's not really a property of the economic system anyone built.
Amazing that the tip of a led electrode can now casually accommodate a "proper" 1 MHz microcontroller. And most of the hardware is unused!
A good example might be that famous map of the London Underground, which abandons accurate representation of position to instead represent the connections.
Astronaut who spent a year in space discusses readjusting to life back on Earth
I just explain it as something that captures the idea of things being related to each other somehow. The things are the dots, and whatever relation you care about (“friends with”, “next to”, “has flight between”, “pairs well with for dinner”) are the lines between the dots. People usually get it when I explain it with things they’re familiar with, which often isn’t tech related.
The current extinction event is the most depressing part. A lot of environmental changes can be undone, but bringing back thousands of species is impossible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
No opinion on SOLID with regard to your comment. But DRY is foundational to any code because it forces you to find the right abstraction.
I never thought it was market with much room for disruption. There are so many competitors in this market catering to every niche possible. Where’s the inefficiencies?

The market that needs disrupted is the new car market but that’s fraught with legal barriers that are not easily overcome.
The seller tried to only refund half the purchase amount because I didn't have the original box it was sent in. (I threw the box away before I realized the item was counterfeit.) I had to appeal his partial refund to eBay, who agreed with me that if someone sells you counterfeit crap they have to fully refund you even without the box.

After exchanging several emails with the seller, it was clear that he believed that as long as he gave refunds when people sent everything back to him in mint condition, he had done nothing wrong and did not deserve to have his reputation damaged. The problem with that, obviously, is that he wasted the time of dozens/hundreds of people, and defrauded people who did not notice the item was counterfeit. (People only got refunds if they noticed and requested; they were not automatically told they could get one, as an honest seller would have done.)

Under the current system, sellers face little incentive to make sure they aren't unwittingly acting as a fence for stolen/counterfeit good. Without reputational hits, they only have to reimburse buyers for the purchase price, not for the time wasted, and many/most buyers won't bother to return it anyways.
Yes, I unflagged it when I saw it - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39169622 for more information.

> I would hope HN has a policy not to censor negative information about YC

I don't use the word "censor" because it means different things to people, but yes: literally the first rule of HN moderation is that we moderate less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I call it the first rule because it was the first thing that pg firehosed me with on the morning that I walked into moderation "training" with him. He was yelling about it (not in a mean way - in a "you absolutely need to know this" way) before I'd had a chance to grab a chair. And we've stuck to it ever since.

That isn't enough to stop some people from saying we do nefarious things, but it does allow us to answer such claims in good conscience. That alone makes it worth sticking to. More importantly, it seems to be sufficient to earn the provisional trust of the community, as long as we keep answering questions when they come up.

The one nuance I sometimes point out is that "moderating less" doesn't mean "suspending all moderation and doing nothing at all" - that would leave too large a loophole. It means that we take whatever standard practice we would normally apply in a situation, and then do something less than that.

In the present case, I would normally have left the post [flagged] and/or edited the sensational title, but because it was YC related, I turned off the flags and left the title intact—even though that title is about as silly as describing someone who quotes "to be or not to be, that is the question" as "contemplating suicide". Normally we'd never let that stand on HN, but first rule is first rule.
I think the GP misinterprets that bit in the paper and the assumption the author was unaware of the existence of electromechanical cryptographic machines is inaccurate. He’s arguing practical cryptography can be done without machines.
Time Reversibility During the Ageing of Materials
> Twitter has mass play. It's effectively a worldwide public forum. There should be limits to what speech occurs on it, if only to keep the signal-to-noise ratio down so that genuinely important speech is less drowned out.

This stipulation would be a problem. For one thing we need to be able to distinguish what is genuinely important speech. For another, we would need some kind of check to prevent someone from tipping the scales by flooding the system with speech that technically meets that bar to tip the scales away from less important speech that would have otherwise been protected. Effectively, this makes free speech a sliding scale based on how much "genuinely important speech" others are sharing.
ah yes, the impetuousness of youth.
pg_analytics looks promising here https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb/tree/dev/pg_analytics
The forerunners are pretty casual.

Like they aren't tiny and they have buttons and a digital display, but they aren't really bulky, especially in comparison to some of the fashion watch trends we have seen not that long ago.
Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
Ancient Martians - was the giant face visible from orbit we made with cleverly aimed meteorite impacts not enough for you? Oh sure, it's just a rock you say. Well duh, we had to make it with _something_.

/s
Parts would be somewhere between $100 and $200.

Someone with the right hardware skillset could put one together in a weekend pretty easily, maybe 10-15 hours work or so. Skills include RaspberryPi experience, Arduino experience, integration between RasPi and Arduino, addressable LED strip driven by Arduino experience, assembly (both electronics/soldering and artistic construction/sourcing of an enclosure and the "pretty looking led strip in aquarium tube with wire stiffeners" bits).

Software is another skill required here, and for this you'll need both RasPi programming and Arduino programming, plus music specific knowledge and skills. That'll be a harder task to become or find someone with both skill sets. I'd expect top maybe be able to get the basic software for the RasPi/Arduino running in a weekend, but that iterating over configurations or "compositions" that look and sound interesting to be a long term ongoing project.

If you don't have all or some those skills, you may find people at a local hackerspace/makerspace who'll help you out with this things, but I'd expect it to take at least 5-10 times as long to build it yourself with volunteer help than it'd take someone who already has all those skills.

If you wanted to just commission someone to build/program one for you as a one off, I know a few people who do that kind of work, and I'd expect them to charge you $5k - $10k for it, if they're expected to provide some sort of warranty and ongoing support to you.

(If you wanted small run production of then, I'd guess at something like $100-250k setup for scrappy startup style hardware manufacturing design, or closer to $250-$500k for contracted industrial design from an experienced industrial design firm. Then you might be able to manufacture them in production runs of 500-1000 for somewhere around $100 each, and six months later there'd be ripoffs on AliExpress for $49 plus shipping.)
I sold my car to Carvana and it was clear to me that they were not pricing cars properly, there is no way they were going to make money on it.
I thought they'd zig, then they zagged xD
I'm not proposing it at all, I'm trying to clarify the comment chain I was replying to.

It sure read to me as though the issue was with the ease of which fake porn can be created and distributed, not the porn itself. I wouldn't agree with that at all and wanted to make sure I understood them right before arguing against something I simply misread or misunderstood.
I do not see how your mechanistic description actually conflicts with my description.

> their brains reward them less

The reward centers show lower activity. This does not have to be some inscrutable thing only noticeable with a fMRI. It could perfectly well be that they're not used to turning extra money into things they like, and so because of that don't show as much activity in the "I just got rewarded" area.
Looks like a pretty nice spot with 9 rotary wing pads and a maintenance shed, basketball court, forty barracks and over a hundred honeymoon suites. It is unclear to me when the Google maps photos were made. Mapcarta shows a less well equiped base and Google Earth has part of the base blurred out.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/9c7XKvkZndm2xUCf7
https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq#/i...
Good ol' Silurian hypothesis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
> emergent properties can exist even in materialism

How would the material as such be aware of these properties?

I'm sincerely questioning here. The accusation of "smugness" up the thread seems a cop-out. The dirt needs to explain its awareness of its dirt-state.

Conversely, any theistic interpretation I could offer is going to have some hand-wavy aspects to it. I freely admit that there is no closed-form, mathematical expression for existence that falls within the scope of human intellect.

To the extent that I have a point, the rejection of the human mind as the measure of all things is my point.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-offered-end-war-if-ukraine-d...

Doesn't sound like much sabotaging was necessary.

> Arakhamia said changing Ukraine's intentions to join NATO would require an amendment to the country's constitution since Kyiv's parliament voted to adopt an amendment in February 2019 that stated Ukraine's goal of becoming a member of both NATO and the European Union. Arakhamia also said that Ukrainian officials did not trust Russia to uphold their end of the bargain.

Russia was, after all, promising not to invade Ukraine just weeks before they went ahead and did exactly that. Trust in Russian promises a few weeks later was justifiably... not high.

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/10/1071766987/u-s-russia-dicuss-...

> Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov emerged from the nearly eight hours of talks and declared, "There are no plans or intentions to attack Ukraine." He went on to say, "There is no reason to fear some kind of escalatory scenario."
I’ve seen it a few times on the web with cookie preferences pop-ups, to set your tracking and personalization preferences. Dark patterns to confuse and trick website visitors into enabling all tracking settings.
Are they affected by radiation?
I think every nix thread could devolve to similar griping but...

Nix is sometimes seems like a very inconsistent/app specific dsl. It's basically like maven, where everything is totally custom, but there's enough of a polite facade to give the impression there's some deeper meaning & purpose. Maybe there is deeper consistency, but it just looks to an outside like a vague dsl.

We have a very senior engineer who uses nix. And they just share their huge huge nixfile or whatever it's called, and are like, somewhere in here is some config that makes machine work. But it never illuminates what is really done, what the real changes are.

We all have to go scatter & try to re-learn what the unabstracted system is. It's such a draining experience, having to de-dsl and unpack some cryptic shit embedded deep in some dudes dsl to root out real revelation & understanding. The ease, I get, but it's all just a masquerade that seems to hide & conceal, that obstructs genuine learning, and I struggle cope with accepting this systems dsl.
That's not how this works in most of the world.
And it's good like that.
Train travel doesn't need to suck as much as flying
The inefficiency is that buying a used car completely sucks from the buyer perspective. It really would be something if you could just like go buy a used car at a fixed fair price with literally zero hassle.

Problem is it doesn’t seem like there’s any way to actually create that business and make any money.
If you were doing a hobbyist project, sure. With something like this which has safety implications, there would be a lot of recertification required, not only of your software but also of the new hardware that it will require. This is not trivial, and would be very resource intensive. And don't forget that you have to roll out the new hardware to the trains.

Or - you can use the existing Win3.11 systems, which are apparently still working just fine, and just update and test a single application.

I can lend you my Petzold, if you like.
With what atmosphere/water?

We can't even keep our current planet habitable.
Russia was demanding Ukraine dearm. Ukraine didn't need any help to turn it down.
Program code can be declarative constraints. As said elsewhere in this thread, Prolog is an example of such a system.
It’s not herd mentality. The covid over hiring layoffs were last year. This year has been mostly related to cash flow drying up and borrowing more being very expensive. Add to it the IRS rules changes re: R&D, companies are now looking to shut down any unprofitable ventures. Profitable companies are canning all experimental projects except the AI hype train. Unprofitable companies are trying to survive by downsizing until they can borrow more money again.
Funny to think about how different people perceive the rate of change. Growing up before they landed on the moon, seeing a smudgy black and white blob walk around in a funny way to getting robots onto MARS, with "realtime" (radio-time) imagery is insane, the stuff of HG Wells.

Growing up after the landing, with science fiction being a pervasive genre, color television, the internet, you can see how to some it might feel like a lot of hurry up and wait.

The perspective of "one day, we might just see that moon up close" to "well duh we are going to mars."
> Making and distributing porn of somebody using their likeness without their consent is unethical behavior

How do you propose we define likeness here? Sure if its shared and claims to be of a named celebrity that must meet the bar, but how much alike the original person must it look like to become unethical?

If a person finds a celebrity attractive and bases a fictitious character on them, is that a problem? What if the haircut is the same, or the eyes and nose are similar? If it goes to court, how personal can the defendant get to show discrepancies between the fake porn and the actual person?

Don't get me wrong I really wish people wouldn't use tech for this kind of stupid shit. I just don't think we will ever be able to draw clear and predictable lines around what does and does not break the law.
Inclusive Language for IT
Always a fun read, thank you so much!

The IC link (sorry, in Rissian):

https://www.microshemca.ru/M.K561IE11/
You're misunderstanding.
The last thing I bought on Amazon was a potato peeler. Instead of the quality European peeler I paid for, I received a cheap Chinese peeler that bent the first time I tried it. No returns allowed because the item was considered "dangerous".

You'd think that a consistent customer would be worth more than $30, but apparently not to Amazon. They wouldn't make it right so I shop elsewhere now.
Real estate giant China Evergrande will be liquidated
Gamifying GitHub Contributions
What on earth are you on about. I just built some classifiers to run in industrial settings, why is it my job to do or say anything about Taylor Swift deepfakes.

> Because it's up to people like you to demonstrate to society that

Condescending as shit.
Probably not, but I don't really see what that has to do with anything.
There's the new Notion calendar that looks interesting. Another calendar app is Grila which is unique.