skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You kind of prove the point previous person is trying to make. Hard science proved the tobacco leads to cancer, Social Sciences helped Tobacco companies get highest ESG ratings.

Climate change is another of "not really science" fields mostly peddled by social sciences.
So not on the Macintosh HD...
I don't believe anything from any of those groups

"Climate activists" is the reason why we have so little nuclear power plants
My issue is that people take the idea that “bad PR” can actually be good for a company (which is common knowledge these days) and just stop there. They don’t go a step further and contemplate where the phrase applies, where it doesn’t, and what makes those situations different. They just bend over backwards and try to figure out the way it applies in every situation (even if in reality, it doesn’t). It’s that line of thinking that I find annoying.

I think the phrase has outlived its usefulness. Nowadays when I see it used it’s often in exactly the kind of extreme or overly literal way you yourself criticize.
They were called such due to the decline of written material: the written record went "dark" compared to antiquity and then modernity.

Definitely in another dark age in that sense, due to the postmodern decline of meaningful written communication on paper.
Against the Commercial Internet
Simon’s business partner, Mercer, bet big on Trump in 2016:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-...

I am under the impression this might have been a bad look for RenTech hence Mercer leaving the firm.
> Does anyone actually do this for real?

I don't. For most foods, it's really obvious when they've become unsafe to eat. For those where it's not so obvious, my policy is "if I can't remember how long it's been in there, I'm tossing it."

I can't remember the last time I actually looked at a date printed on the packaging. I've found those dates to be meaningless.
A forest has more sequestered CO2 than a field, probably. Individual trees die and decompose but new trees replace them.
Don't get hung up on what GPT-4 can do. That's irrelevant. Even Sam Altman calls GPT-4 "mildly embarrassing".

"Don't skate to where the puck is, skate to where the puck is going." In 2028, for instance, will GPT-7 (or whatever) be able to handle solving a merge conflict? I expect it will.
It is not about enough people, it is about THE PERSON. Every people is different and there are people who are more different and outliers.
There was a G4 storm less than two months ago: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-satellites-detect-seve...
"The Threat of a Solar Superstorm Is Growing—And We’re Not Ready"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-threat-of-a-s...

Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40196820
I am glad the Wookieepedia exists, but every time I open it I feel like I am reading about some foreign sci-fi universe. I have watched every mainline Star Wars movie and the new popular shows (The Mandalorian, Andor), but feel like I only recognize maybe 20% of the characters and plotline referenced in the wiki.

Either this is my own ignorance, or the universe is super deep outside of the most popular content. Probably both.
The "fake" part mostly comes from the "social science" aspect.
ahhh makes sense thank you for catching that Iran keeps popping up all over HN past few days haha

still kind of crazy to think Iran and it's entire oil reserves that power idk how many households produce the same amount of revenue as 175k people
3 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40080506 (40 comments)
I used to be a logistics officer for an Infantry battalion.

Most of the comments down thread underestimate water consumption. Depending on the climate, you'll want the following daily quantities [1]:

- 2-3 gallons for drinking

- 1.5 gallons for hygiene (can skip for a while)

- 0.5 gallons for food prep

The planning factor for military operations was 8 gallons per person per day. Water is heavy—8 pounds per gallon—and acquiring, storing, and moving it is a large effort.

[1] https://cascom.army.mil/g_staff/g3/TTD/Products/QM-How-to-Ha...
I don't think anyone's losing their mind and crying. It's just interesting to see something like this from a company that has historically prided themselves on mutual respect (if not outright symbiosis) with artists, musicians, and other creative people.

Somewhere within Apple there was a failure of taste, and that was always the proverbial "sin unto death" from Steve Jobs's perspective. Doesn't happen every day. You hate to see it, but you can't help but watch.
This.

Think about what they aren’t saying and what has been leaked.
I think both sides of this thread agree that most of us (in the US at least) don’t have a robust community in the “community resilience” sense.

The only disagreement I think is in the definition of community. We could either say that community is just, like, our extended circle of acquaintances; we’ve all got one and it isn’t very robust against disasters. Or we could say that a resilient community is some deeper thing on which people can lean in a disaster, but which needs to be carefully tended to, and most of us lack.

The latter is, I think, what the original poster meant.
Just confirmed
this ebay seller has a small one for 20 bucks: https://www.ebay.com/itm/355702177361

full-sized 300-millimeter-long ones tend to run more like 50 to 100

if you're in the usa you can probably pick them up at garage sales and estate sales for a lot less than that

i wrote one in tcl/tk last millennium which you can run on any machine supporting tk, obviously including gnu/linux and i think still including android http://canonical.org/~kragen/slide-rule.tcl

printing one out on paper or transparency film, as foroldhack suggested, and gluing it to some pieces of wood can get you a much higher quality one than my tcl hack, probably equivalent to the quality of a hundred-dollar ebay find. for best quality, print out your scale on an inkjet printer, not a laser (lasers can have nonlinearity, especially in the horizontal dimension, though led-strip 'lasers' won't). i'm more confident in the horizontal dimension of the inkjet than its vertical dimension (the paper advance) but haven't been able to measure any nonlinearity in either
You could collect rainwater, but realistically water outages are usually not "the taps are dry", but rather "the water treatment plant failed so we can't guarantee the water is safe to drink."
Not with something like GitHub Secret Scanning monitoring things, or we could imagine a local ML model automatically checking every save before it gets uploaded.

This is an easily-solved problem. And in case one slips through, versions are easy to delete in Grace.
Debian dismisses AI-contributions policy
The Softeam situation is confusing to me.

They worked for / with Softeam, left, and then did their own thing and called it Softeam. Then the original Softeam got in trouble and so did they. Did I get that right?
Their returns worked out to something like an average of 39% per year after fees, which is the figure I've heard cited. This may be what they were thinking of. Renaissance was/is known for having higher fees than likely the entirety of their competition, which they can get away with since their returns still outstrip the rest after the higher fees.
PWAs can contain dynamic ads elements, which will try to abuse that. If it was normal for desktop apps to run some remote view+script sandboxes, this problem would extend there too. On one hand, PWAs are apps, on the other, they enable the spirit of downloadable web content much more easily.
3.99 a week charged monthly. For a simple "collage maker". Fake reviews. Immediately asks for a 5-star review when you open the app.

And a simple utility that concatenates videos for $20/month?

Apps like this are why I approve of Apple's app store moderation, even if they do occasionally make mistakes. This was not one of them. These apps were predatory.

Immediately opening a second account when the first one was banned, before they had appealed, is also extremely suspicious behavior.
Part of the reason I moved out of the Bay Area was I didn't want to be around so many ultra techie people, or for my kids to grow up that way. We'd be happier and even do our jobs better if there were more of a "human touch," and I wish our company had SQLite's code of ethics.

But I'm a computer programmer, so even if I'm in a more balanced environment now, all I meant is I simply don't work with artists etc daily.
Rootless is a good UX especially if you use a tiling window manager locally, because of the cognitive dissonance when one of your tiled windows is a remote fvwm desktop or similar.

Likewise, I think the overwhelming majority of tiling window managers are very keyboard-oriented, so if you use the same or a similar one on a remote rooted vnc session, there will be conflicts between local and remote keybindings unless you're really careful about it. Better to just let the local WM manage everything.
alleluia, sibling
It aired on the Internet, which is available in Japan. You can see some examples of backlash from Japanese people in the replies to this tweet, if you have a twitter account. https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1787864325258162239
>100% certain I would have been absolutely miserable there, and everyone mentions the CTO

But..but.. think-cell says that:

"Our CTO Arno maintains a close working relationship with all of our developers. Together, they review code, troubleshoot, and brainstorm. Most likely due to Arno's and Markus' academic roots, think-cell is flourishing without program managers and lengthy meetings."

Those are all the traits of a good manager and pleasant work environment. And you get to work in Berlin!
I'm not sure "large percentage" is a statement I'd agree with, my searching skills are failing me, do you have any kind of source for that? I'd be shocked if it was over 5%...
Apple's silicon enables them to run incredibly strong models locally, fully offline. This is a huge win over competition that needs clients to connect to a network-connected GPU farm.

Siri wouldn't need to reach out to the web, it's various functions could be abstracted away and driven by embedded models. They've already started positioning for this. The newest M4 Ipad release has a 10 core GPU/16Gi RAM that could be consumed as VRAM.

Could run Llama 3 8Gb Instruct with that and get response content much faster than normal speaking cadence.
Softeam wasn't the beauty company. Softeam was something else, for something unrelated to photo / video apps. Sounds like maybe their card game matched an existing one in the market, and Apple, as always, did terrible communication over the matter. In Apples war to keep the app store from too much redundancy, they're essentially losing out on income by banning perfectly profitable and okay apps.
SBSP is a cover for new military capability. Increase the array size by 2.5x and you get a true death ray:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Safety
" Should applicants for citizenship to Germany be required to sign a written statement "acknowledging the right of Russia to exist"? Or the People's Republic of China, say? " There are not many people denying Russia or Chinese to make a state? And definitely there was no genocide to them.

"in that it denies the right of Orthodox Jews" a small group of Orthodox Jews, seeing as weirdos among other Jews.

" You may now thank the "woke crowd" for saving you from this particular form of authoritarian (and antisemitic) nonsense. " that does not make any sense.
Sparkfun also has an interesting writeup on how you could set up a base station and feed into networks as well https://docs.sparkfun.com/SparkFun_RTK_Firmware/permanent_ba...
I feel like I'm noticing this more and more often in media in general and definitely hacker-news-circulated media.

This weird future is straight out of manna - https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
May be and since this discussion can quickly spiral out of hand into flamewars I will not counter your claim anymore.

My question was whether the scientists who are warning us are "social scientists" who study dubious areas of "scientific research" such as "AI safety" or are some real scientists who know how neural networks and who can write python code or use tensorflow to to run a linear regression.
60 fps for me in Firefox, with the processor <1% while running. 3060Ti was working, but not hard.
That's what they're saying, it mostly is possible to see, taste or smell if something is bad.
No way the lyrics are AI generated - the vocal audio sure, but no way any model can make lyrics like this
>> most useful way you’d prepare for a worldwide grid outage?

Put gas in your car. Impacts are likely to be regional, one town might loose power and another not. Be ready to move if needed.
You aren't factually wrong, but this attitude is probably why developers are torching their accounts over this. Legally being in the clear is not the same thing as ethically being in the clear, and the continued abuse by the public square by these giant, faceless corporations is just engendering more hostility.

And it's all well and good to make those decisions, but if code-generating AI is anything like text-generating AI, they're going to want more. Probably not a great plan to piss off all the people who produce the thing you need, for free, before you have enough of it. Assuming there is such a thing as enough of it, of course.
With a different adapter one can refill camping canisters from a standard propane tank. One "usually" gets away with refilling empty canisters, but these aren't legal for transport in an automobile. Presumably with reason, as in the odds aren't as good as skydiving. I recommend the DOT approved:

Flame King Refillable 1LB Empty Propane Cylinder Tank

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MM3GCVO/

It offers some nuanced controls e.g. to avoid overfilling.
Yeah, I do a lot of live recording from my piano to Mac and I was thinking the same thing.

But maybe the ad is saying - you're no longer programming a MIDI track, the AI piano player in Garage Band or whatever is just going to be indistinguishable from a real piano.

I wasn't initially bothered by it, but I think the people who are have a fair point especially about the generative AI implications of replacing real creative tools.
My cynicism is directed at the fanbase, for ever having believed Apple also believed in the value of art.

I do beleive in the value of art, and find the "run it in reverse" symbolism of the fan edits a much better idea. they shoulda done it that way.

As to the actuality of filming the destruction of instruments ... It's a sad truth that not all musical instruments are loved, or kept in good repair, or economically viable tools any longer. I understand how it can fell like putting a puppy down, but then again, sometimes it's necessary. Had I been called upon to make such an effect happen I'd have collected pawn shop trash and made it shine like fake food.

Finally, especially given the derivative works, can we argue that someone at the ad agency that produced this was also producing art? we may not like it but they might have truly thought this vision worth sharing.
Total sob story. Why is this even on here?
If I saw a house, that looked like the one where I grew up, being cheerfully destroyed to build a Walmart parking lot, yes I might get a little distressed. It would certainly not improve my opinion of Walmart.
> I’ve definitely noticed chips/crackers start to taste rancid not long after the expiration date.

That's because they're not expiration dates, they're "best by" dates. They're the date at which the food starts to get less tasty in various ways, but that happens much, much sooner than when the food actually becomes unsafe to eat.

Manufacturers (generally) aren't lying about those dates. They really do line up with when the food is no longer as fresh-tasting as it can possibly be. At the same time, manufacturers don't mind even a little when people confuse them with expiration dates.
> The water seems like the hard part. Are there any tricks for cheap, safe hydration for a family?

You already have the equipment for that. Your existing hot water heater stores enough drinking water for a month at least, probably more if you ration carefully.
When I used PostgREST for a readonly b2b API I recall that the recommended way (from the PostgREST docs) to employ it was creating postgresql schemas for different use cases: you create a schema that has views for tables in another schema and PostgREST exposes only the views in that schema. The views defined in the schema can, naturally, control what columns are visible, or provide whatever other abstractions one might want.

I suspect a lot of people ignore this documentation and expose tables directly, and then wonder where/how to control such things.

Yes, my memory is correct: from the PostgREST "Schema Isolation" documentation:

"A PostgREST instance exposes all the tables, views, and stored procedures of a single PostgreSQL schema (a namespace of database objects).
This means private data or implementation details can go inside different private schemas and be invisible to HTTP clients.

It is recommended that you don’t expose tables on your API schema. Instead expose views and stored procedures which insulate the internal
details from the outside world. This allows you to change the internals of your schema and maintain backwards compatibility. It also keeps
your code easier to refactor, and provides a natural way to do API versioning."

This has all been embiggened since I last used it. Now you can configure multiple schemas to be exposed. The active user ROLE (as determined by auth) controls access to exposed schemas, and a header in HTTP requests can specify the desired schema.

Given all of this, it is entirely possible to achieve precise control over column visibility, version control, and surface whatever abstraction you can imagine. However, you are expected to fully inculcate PostgreSQL schemes, roles and other database affordances. This has always been the mentality of PostgREST: it's supposed to be a "function" that exposes some subset of a database without any magic beyond the database itself. Implicit in this is the need for adequate CI/CD tools to control database objects: you're doomed the minute you have >1 developer involved without such tools.
Yeah — I liked it in general. But can completely see why artists would hate the concept of a giant weight crushing the artistic object that has fueled their life-long obsessions.
No, the people requiring a screenshot to include the time instead of just asking the user for an ID and time of error are the ones being silly. Have you ever heard of log filtering?
It's not hard at all to refute the Byzantines' claims to being the Roman empire. If your empire doesn't include Rome, it cannot be the Roman empire. Similarly, Taiwan is not China even though they are the continuation of the old Chinese government.
>If you can cut off or pull off the parts that are bad, but the rest is good

Isn't this untrue for spores and mold? I'm not making the claim, I'm genuinely unsure and remember stern warnings that unseen spores and mold are a threat with moldy bread and fruits.
I was recently buying an older car and calculating out how much buying a newer car with more safety features was worse by assigning a value to my life/health and the risk of death and the risk of injury. I see used cars which generation over generation have major safety upgrades which, if you value your life at 10 million would probably save you 10 grand or so over the life of the car, having a gulf in price of a few thousand, and most of that value difference wasn't because of the safety features.

I guess it's possible people are just ignorant, but in general I see people especially men acting recklessly enough with their lives that they seem to not ascribe the highest values to them. They would rather have a shorter life where they have more money and other things.
That's a really good point. Thanks!
Haven't used postgREST but similar tools and these can useful for small/internal apps where you have trusted users
> I think many of the top tech billionaires have their wealth in company stock...

That would be sitting on it, yes.
I think you are underestimating the reach of HN. While I personally didn't know Jim, I know several people who did. And I know many people, me included, who benefited from his generosity and support of science.
> Your dwarves fundamentally have nothing interesting to say.

This can be said about all NPCs, yet we bother to script them, and I would hope nobody would suggest we just remove NPC dialogue.
Thanks! This is the doc I found the "90 percent of our population is dead" quote from, which is asserted indirectly:

https://irp.fas.org/congress/2008_hr/emp.pdf

It's referring to a fictional story in that quote, but the scientist says that 90% is accurate for the real world if that scenario were to happen. Pretty chilling.
By whose definition? Art is creative expression and there's no qualifiers in standard definitions to exclude work that is used to promote something else.

I'd say flyers for shows are art. or movie posters. or book covers, for that matter. Or trailer music? corporate jingles? They're all art.
if a car is like a tool that you tolerate in order to get to work, then no, you might even enjoy the recording of the enactment of a revenge fantasy you can't afford

if you spend your weekends polishing your car, buying aftermarket addons for it, modifying it, and/or considering which car to save up for next, then yeah, it's gonna fucking hurt if you watch a movie and see them blow up a car like the one you long for, especially if you think they did it for real instead of using cgi. and that's true whether that car is a lamborghini countach or a low rider
“Number of humans” is a nonsensical metric because it doesn’t acknowledge the systems that humans comprise. For example, we depend on the young to earn/work and the middle aged to earn/work/invest to support the old/disabled. What happens when there are fewer young people, and then fewer middle aged people, to support the old /disabled not in just a few pockets of the world but in many countries all at once is still very much unknown.

It’s not the number of humans, it’s the age distribution of those humans + where they live.

Put another way: you can “feel” like the world needs fewer people, but you’re probably not going to like what your world looks like when that desire comes true.
What if you were to use someone's beliefs/experiences/shopping habits as a prompt to an uncensored model?

Then you could say "how would I convince this person to buy <x> or do<y>?"
The iPad updates are 'meh', as is the whole line-up. This comes after the Vision Pro launches to a fizzle, and resorting to a massive share buy back to hold the stock value. In the last week I've seen more articles about Tim Cook succession than in all the time before. I bet inside Apple things feel they might need every bit of help to push revenue.

This ad has gotten Apple and the iPad an incredible amount of free media coverage; and they waited a few days for the apology ... which will now go on to do exactly the same. This seems like a very very successful campaign.
Most of HN who've been around know what Bootstrap is (rip, old Twitter). The same rules apply whether your package dependencies are .css, .js or .so
Randomly messing with the code they package is the primary job of a debian packager. Which is how we get such great contributions from debian maintainers like the weak keys fiasco.
You could also beam power from L1 to geosynchronous orbit and then to a single ground station. It really depends on how efficiently you can beam power, but hitting Type 1 on the Kardashev scale hits limitations based on radiative cooling into space vs incoming energy.

However, it makes sense to have hundreds of ground stations simply to minimize transmission losses on the ground. And presumably utilizing ground stations 24/7 is vastly less critical than maximizing the return on space based infrastructure.
Are you saying it exclusively has lidar? If not then I don't understand your comment.