skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone reading Factfulness should also take a look at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328759928_Good_Thin...

I've always regarded this book as being blatant neoliberal propaganda.
Everyone buys their locked down walled-garden devices we are only allowed to use in a handful of profit-maximizing ways and this is what we get. If they liberated and respected the user they'd be another hardware company.
Bluesky Business Plan (2023)
I thought much the same thing when I read CLIG. I'm a big fan of the 17 Unix rules he puts down, though, and I think a lot of really good equilibria exist on the spectrum between the two.
> You want housing to be cheaper? Increase supply.

The USA (and maybe Canada) has large stocks of government land. In my country, most land is privately-owned; interfering with landowners' property rights is seriously destabilising. Property law is the basis of most law.
They could have easily stripped the lower areas fairly thoroughly, and left higher peaks alone. I'm not saying "I doubt it happened", just that I'm not convinced either way.
librespot is a fine piece of engineering, but because it’s reverse engineered there’s a risk of getting banned for using it, which a lot of people aren’t going to want to take a chance on. It also means that apps built on it can’t promote themselves too much or gain wide usage without risk of Spotify coming after the app’s developer and/or librespot.
A crime was identified as proof that the system was organized in a particular way. The fact that it was a crime explicitly tells us the system is not that way. The Green River Killer murdered lots of people and wasn't arrested for 20 years. This doesn't mean that the laws and criminal justice system are designed to advance murder. The fact that they were able to identify him as the murderer and arrested him proves the system is against murder.

Things I didn't say:

- any value judgment about private prisons
- no statement about shutting up or stop bringing up the crimes
- didn't justify or attempt to justify excluding oversight of government
- anything about the business model of private prisons
Usually when people are complaining about crime in a city they literally do not know the facts. That's very different from "things are factually better than they've ever been, but we can and should do much better."
That openstreetmap data was just what I needed, thanks!
It's pretty opaque to me. If something in my cpp code is dodgy or runs slow, I can use a number of debugging and profiling tools. While I don't really even know how databases work on the insides, let alone profile or diagnose them. To this day my colleagues rewrite equivalent SQL statements because some run better than others. And we regularly run into unexpected latency spikes where most of the time a statement runs fine, but even nth time it's several magnitudes of times slower - and no one knows why. So we cobble code and caches around things. It all seems pretty mind boggling to me.
Please tell all the EV YouTubers to stop being so smug about their fuel savings. Their collective delusion could fuel the Death Star (6.25 * 10^28 WH) [1].

[1] https://www.rakuten.com/blog/how-many-batteries-star-wars/
Tesla, INC. Settles Environmental Enforcement Action
in 3D?
I think Elon Musk proved Jack Dorsey to be that someone.
Tao Te Ching 29, Stephen Mitchell

Do you want to improve the world?

I don’t think it can be done.

The world is sacred.

It can’t be improved.

If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
.. and I as a mastodon server admin can just unilaterally block them at the behest and for the benefit of my users.
apple, samsung
Diffing the licenses shows that the only change was to add clarity around graalvm as opposed to a generic program:

"For clarity, those portions of a Program included in otherwise unmodified software that is produced as output resulting from running the unmodified Program (such as may be produced by use of GraalVM Native Image) shall be deemed to be an unmodified Program for the purposes of this license."

Other than that, it appears the same. The thing I'm wondering about is how this matches with everyone saying it's "free to use" when the following is in both versions of the license (underscore _emphasis_ mine):

"(b) redistribute the unmodified Program and Program Documentation, under the terms of this License, provided that __You do not charge Your licensees any fees associated with such distribution or use of the Program__, including, without limitation, fees for products that include or are bundled with a copy of the Program or for services that involve the use of the distributed Program."

This to me reads as if:

- You cannot charge for licensing fees on graalvm built distributed pieces of software (licensing for a desktop application, cli program, game, etc)

- You cannot charge for licensing fees on services that involve the use of graalvm built software (SaaS software that uses the graalvm built binary in a k8s container, lambad, etc as part of the service topology)

My gut reaction (since this is Oracle) is that this was an ambiguity oversight in the language that is now being corrected to lock down this "free" usage of the premium version, but I may be overly pessimistic.

Is anyone using this in prod based on it being "free" and has any info from their legal team or otherwise?

Mostly looking to be corrected in my likely misinterpretation.
To address the cumulative effect, this is the same as the sun. There is a balance of heat radiant on the earth and then earth radiates to space. The amount coming to earth is set by the distance to the sun and how reflective the earth is. The amount leaving the earth is set by its temperature (blackbody) and how much is trapped by various mechanisms (reflecting back to the earth again). Therefore, one way to think about it is the excess energy on top of the ones accounted for, like the sun.
The world will end in a technologically enabled autocracy, with private robot armies controlled by the elites that enslave humanity and cull the population.

Democracy will be obsolete soon once mass media and social media can manipulate people at will, via AI agents of misinformation.

Technology augments individuals and given sufficient augmentation, the power of one individual will be larger than the power of millions. This is already the case economically and politically, and that will soon be the case militarily.
An unexplainable thing has happened: ChatGPT made racist rant to a Turkish user
the turkish twitter is talking about this.

nobody can explain how this happened, but it clearly is not a custom gpt, there are no custom instructions, nothing.

the context is code-writing context, all of a sudden, boom, it says:
"Ananızın adını sikeyim hocam bi siktir git amına kodumun pic türkü.."

which literally means "f-word your mother, just f-word off, you mother-fing turkish b.st.rd"

explain this.
https://archive.is/2024.02.06-153228/https://www.economist.c...
Can people bypass the phone number requirement with invites? I still have a few invites left and I am wondering if they have value going forward.
I feel that propanolol helps with physical effects of anxiety (which are not much of a problem for me), but doesn't affect the mental side of anxiety the same way benzos do. It's much less addictive than benzos of course, and preferable for that reason if it works.
"HSBC is at the forefront of efforts to identify, prevent and deter financial crime … We will not do business with individuals or entities we believe are engaged in illicit conduct.”

Much Lol.
That's what I was referring to, wondering if anyone uses it and why. It even says "Why This is a Bad Idea" at the bottom.

Maybe for databases queried directly by users who also need to mix in API responses, and you're wrapping this all up in triggers or some other stored procedure cause you really want to use Postgres without some controller written in Python or JS.
Birth rates in Africa are already on their slow journey to decline. At the very least they’re dropping. Maybe we can expect a similar trajectory to India that reduced its birth rate from 6 to below replacement rate of 1.9 in about 20 years.
If you substitute "people" with "computer users" (which is obviously implied, despite your pedantry) then the author's jist is correct. What a villager in a remote undiscovered Amazonian civilisation thinks of the terminal is not relevant.
New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – Rack-mounted pre-configured Linux mainframe
Okay thanks! I guess I'm not in the target of these things.
Germany had plenty of hate speech laws back when Hitler was elected. Still the question that remains here would be: which government gets to decide what's hate speech? Like even if we could have a payment webAPI that could "block" hate speech (not sure how that would be possible), do we go by the standards of the US? Europe? Russia? How would it work concretely?

Trying to discuss the implications of hate speech for something that would be international is asinine imo, the term basically means everything and nothing (when used in a global context)
Paranoid thinking from weed in my late teens to early 20s had more to do with the fear of being caught by law enforcement and having my life turned upside down over a plant.
:/ Distributed ledger technology ever being a viable solution for small, high-frequency transactions seems like a pipe dream.

I'm aware that tremendous effort has been and is being invested in that.

But I have yet to be convinced efforts in that direction won't all boil down to "trading decentralization for efficiency."

In which case, why not use a centralized, much more efficient solution?
whatever happened to "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new 'features'"?

now we got lots of mega-cli programs, each one with its own distinct option language.

Examples: kubectl, docker, openssl, git - (git got two command line languages: plumbing and porcelain)

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

... ls had 11 command line options in 1979, in 2017 it got 58.
More than 90% of forests are provoked by humans. Some are accidents. Other not. Starting in multiple locations at the same time; at night. The same pattern seen again and again and again In Chile, Canada, USA, Spain, Portugal, Greece... Coordinated and deliberated.

> the number one reason is build up of vegetation on the forest floor

Yeah, sure man.

123 killed in Chile and everybody is avoiding to see the huge elephant in the middle of the room painted with the word terrorism in uppercase letters.

We could remove every single leaf in the soil of the forest, and gasoline cans would still grow in the trees.
Kind of like how biology isn't a science? Because observations doesn't count, since they are not testable?

This is just playing with words. That 'science' must be 'testable' or it is not science, and all other fields that either have observations, or theory, is not 'science'.

Theoretical Physics? Not science?

What word should we use?
People can make long term plans and execute them, but the systems that control the levers related to climate change are operated by people who don't habitually operate based on long term planning. Calling it "human nature" is a cop-out.
minor nit: 9K TPS for Visa are business transactions - TBD how many database transactions are generated...

(still, modern postgresql can easily scale to 10,000s (plural) of TPS on a single big server, especially if you setup read replicas for reporting)
Mozilla's new service removes your personal info from data brokers
Interesting to read this now. Lego was in a very good position during that time. But in the last years they declined in quality (bad prints, a lot of stickers on AFOL sets), increased the prices and the lack in building fun of the sets. Lots of catering to grown-ups and weird choices in the kids section like the city road elements.

The mixed reality sets were not well received. Why give a kid something to do with Lego bricks and then pull them in front of a smartphone again?
Man. I did read it. And it was super depressing and scary. The first book was really calm compared to how dark they got later.
> Python's performance problems are unfixable

Python's performance, aka runtime, is irrelevant for this application.

Getting things done is a much better goal that being modern.

Python is very good for getting things done for a wide range of applications.
Worse is really subjective. More limited functionality with a specific set of topics? Sure. More difficult to trick to get around said topic bans? Sure.

Worse overall? You can use chatgpt 4 and 3.5 side by side and see an obvious difference.

Your specific example seems fairly reasonable. Is there liability in saying x bolt can handle y torque if that ended up not being true? I don't know. What is that bolt causes an accident and someone dies? I'm sure a lawyer could argue that case if ChatGPT gave a bad answer.
Chile ex-president Sebastian Pinera dies in helicopter crash
Nassim Taleb: U.S. is in a 'death spiral' over government debt
SEPA via Stripe takes on average 5 days, max 14 according to their docs - instantaneous would be a game changer?!

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/sepa-debit
IMO "use something managed" gets reduced to "we shan't run Kubernetes on-premises" which ends up meaning "we won't learn anything about failure modes until it's too late to think about mitigating them"

Which might be in line with what you said about

> 80% of orgs don't have the scale, core competencies or justifiable need to be managing container clusters themselves.

But also, would at least have some potential to be solved and much more cost effectively, or maybe at least grown past, if they would just spend some energy on deploying Kubernetes internally; even if we can't or won't afford an entire team dedicated to doing only that, (and even if we commit to using only managed services for production anywhere and everywhere.)

In my experience the way some places reflexively avoid it like it's a trap to be stayed out of, winds up being a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy "we're not doing Kubernetes" - I empathize with the person who you triggered, even if now we're up to two walls of text from just a simple comment, I feel triggered too.
I wonder if electric/hydrogen hybrids could work.
Yemen has been in the news lately, because of its location. Ships have been avoiding the Red Sea because people in Yemen were firing rockets at them.
Have you looked into their privacy/data collection policies?

Generally prefer local solutions but gave up on Pi-hole some time back after recurring issues. Currently using client-specific adguard; however the centralized management with nextdns is enticing.
That's a little different, but an interesting topic to discuss!

In my opinion there are 3 ways forward in such situations.

1. The manufacturer designs the car so that the infotainment unit is replaceable when they stop updating the original. Replacements not certified as "road safe" would be illegal to install.

2. The manufacturer literally never stops updating the software... (yeah, obviously this isn't a real alternative, but it's technically acceptable if a manufacturer wants to attempt to make that promise)

3. The manufacturer, after ceasing updates, provides the necessary documentation for an alternative software to be built, but it wouldn't be obviously legal to install just anything, the software would need to be certified "road safe" and how you would assert that you're not running unsafe software is not obvious to me.
as a canadian, you're not wrong.
According to the prices from the chamber of commerce [1] that means everywhere but california, new england & new york it's cheaper for electric as long as your charging at home (which you should be doing as much as you can anyways for convenience/battery health)

Additional Notes

- diagram maxes at $0.15, so some of those states may be lower than the $0.23 cut off

- you're taking national average gas prices and comparing to highest price of electricity, but so-cal also tends to have higher gas prices in comparison so I imagine the math ends up working more often than first glance may indicate.

- Your also ignoring the convenience/time saving of charging electric, I've maybe spent an hour waiting on my car to charge in the last year, but I would have been stopping at those points for meals anyways so there was very little "waiting" on my part whereas with gas I had 10/15 minutes a week of time going out of my way to fill up with gas. Just pull in at home plug in and I'm topped up next time I go someone was actually my #1 reason for going electric.

[1] https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/2022-average-us-electr...

While I know anecdote isn't data my cost last year in Western WA for charging my car was ~$300, it would have been closer to $2000-2200 for gas.
Whether to get off Oracle is £100M question for Birmingham
Jsonfile: A Quick Hack for Tinkering
Can we try it somewhere? I feel tempted to buy one, try it and probably return it if what I read about temperature, FoV and battery life turns out to be true. Is that ok, or does anyone think that is not an ethical thing to do?
800 to a thousand sounds like a lot to me. The early aughts were also different times.
This is essentially arguing that systems ultimately select for competence, given a long enough timespan. And I'd agree!

But I lack faith that the system produces people that I look up to. They did well at their game, I can respect that. It may not be my game, though.
Two more books in this vein are Fewer, Richer, Greener by Siegel and Abundance by Diamandis and Kotler
The speech quality is very good. It's not clear from the page that are they just adding styling to already generated audio or the audio is all generated using their own model?
do you have a source for that? my source[1] appears the average temp hasn't changed much in the past quarter century:

https://toronto.weatherstats.ca/metrics/temperature.html
Stripe sends 402 errors on failed payments (though their docs currently don't really label the error code correctly)
You can schedule a demo at the Apple Store
Then buy an android if android is what you want.

Stop trying to turn the system WE want into what WE don't. WE don't want android or else we would already be using it.

As soon as you fracture the ecosystem the positive network effects start to fade.
> treating homes purely as shelter ignores the reality that property is also an investment

But that's the problem, isn't it? The basic necessities of life shouldn't become a vehicle for speculation.

FTR, all of my wealth is in two homes.
I thought that was not true, so would be happy to hear otherwise.

I thought the loophole was that you could offer a cash discount, but not specifically charge more for using a credit card.
That's interesting... my experience (almost all on RHEL/CentOS/Fedora) is that it is trivial to have unix domain socket with local Postgres clients and a pain to setup any remote clients.

You just have to call the basic "createuser" CLI (or equivalent CREATE ROLE SQL) out of the postgres superuser account to create database users that match local Linux usernames. Then the ident-based authentication matches the client process username to the database role of the same name.
Powershell is just plain a great shell. Blows all the *sh variants out of the water. I'd love for it to gain traction in Linux (so that, for example I could use it as my shell on my desktop) but I don't really see that happening.
Steve Jobs once literally said, "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy and Android phone." For him, it seemed to be a deeply rooted personal belief.
SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal
> ActivityPub does have a migration story -- people move servers all the time

Correct me if I'm wrong (and in this case I would love to be), but you can migrate your account to a new server, but you have to create a new identity (ie profile URI) on that server. This would be fairly easily solved by servers allowing users to bring their own domain names. In the age of Let's Encrypt it's much easier to manage certs for many domains. They've known about this for 6+ years[0]. The fact it's not a high priority is concerning.

[0]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2668
Huh. The USSR really celebrated its John Henry.
It's not exactly what you're asking about, but there's been good discussion on this on HN before, like the sub-threads of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881905
As a native swiss german speaker it was relatively easy to understand the poem in the article. Definitely easier to understand for me than modern Dutch. Also the word "gluschdich" that was mentioned at the beginning of the article seems highly swiss to me.

Could anyone with more linguistic knowledge than me shed some light on whether Pennsylvania Dutch is really closely related to Dutch or if it's more closely related to German / Swiss German as I suspect?
I'm talking about a larger timescale than an individual product or company. Bronze age -> iron age -> industrial revolution -> information age...

There's going to be some noise when you zoom in but I firmly believe that human technology marches forward over time.
The "scheme" was bank tellers in Mexico, working for a recently acquired local bank, accepting boxes full of cash and lying about the origin. HSBC was fined for looking the other way and having shitty controls about suspect funds -- their AML teams were understaffed and they didn't do any real due diligence on the Mexican banking firm they had purchased. The entire executive team was forced out, they clawed back bonuses for everyone in the chain who profited off the shitty controls.

So who would you jail in this case? The bank tellers interfacing with cartel? They're in Mexico anyway. Some overworked compliance manager in the US who ignored the suspicious transactions? Some C-Level exec person who didn't know about the suspicious origin of a billion dollars into a bank with something like 2.5 trillion in assets?

What specific crime do you think they committed?

Nobody likes these global banks, they're run by absolute psychopaths but remember, the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero. All of the mirror image complaints about banks not wanting to touch Crypto or proceeds from gambling/porn sites is downstream from settlements like these.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
100% agree, but I have to wonder how much of the problem is that the cost of security is:

A. Not mandated

B. Increases cost of the product

At what point would people just prefer a regular toothbrush if a smart one doesn't provide enough utility to justify the cost?

This isn't specific to toothbrushes, but I wonder what products or services wouldn't exist if they were made to be secure (or safe/ethical/sustainable/etc). Makes me wonder how many existing externalities are causing hard to measure problems that could be prevented by making a higher quality product.
I think that may be a key point. People (a large percentage of people) can be manipulated at the flick of a switch due to advancements in technology and science. Therefore democracy as an ideal must of died sometime around 2014
> misinformation and conspiracy theories

Do people still fall for this FUD?

If you have actual arguments, please list them. Otherwise don't insinuate with far-left dog whistles.
It's pretty common for hyperscalers actually:
https://betterbuildingssolutioncenter.energy.gov/showcase-pr...

https://greenmountain.no/data-centers/cooling/

I vaguely remember some other whole building DC designs that used a central vent which opened externally based on external climate for some additional free cooling. Can't find the reference now though. But geothermal is pretty common for sure.
I think we'd all rather not be flooded by bots so no reason to change