skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to put this on some sites, then I got to:
"If you're going to be using issues for people to sign up," - I have no idea what that means.. but I am leaning toward people must have a github account to add a site..

So I was hoping it would be more like in the old days of just a click here to popup a form, submit, and backend code to send a note to the site owner, along with functionality to check for reciprocal link / webring on sumbitted site - and backend to track date of site added, last known recip link / ring on site.. ability to track clicks and add nofollow or sponsored, etc.

Then I get down to:
"We recommend you use GitHub Actions for automatic" which sounds nice, and I appreciate the docs are written, giving a link, and even how to fork.. cuz that's where I am on my git learning.. so now I have the github actions tab open and I am probably going to learn it..

But, 9 out of 10 of my site visitors who would add a link and webring are not going to read about github actions.

So maybe this could evolve to run with sqlite by default and hook into a wordpress database as an option for data storage and cron?

I'd love to see these come back, and not that people are less scared of google penalties (use nofollow, lazyload imagery / defer loading js) - it could be a thing again..

but it needs to be super easy to add or suggest a site right on site page, not go to github and learn / do things there - I think.
Yeah; it's a good start.

As per the third paragraph of the article: "In New York, Algonquin Power won a $42.9 million grant to install devices that automatically redeploy power when lines are overloaded. Virginia’s Dominion Energy won $33.7 million for a project that includes devices that will let it adjust power distribution in response to changing conditions on the grid. The funds are part of a $3.5 billion program for grid-boosting projects the Energy Department rolled out in October."

To save you a few clicks, that program is funded by the bill in question, as per https://www.energy.gov/gdo/grid-resilience-and-innovation-pa...
20 hours ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604916
Indirect cost, how I loathe thee…
> the victims would assume it's a toy rather than the real thing, and so it wouldn't be as effective of a threat.

I dunno... I was once mugged by a guy holding a gun that I was probably 95% sure didn't work. It was a pistol that was rusted and filthy and looked like he'd found it in the ocean or something...

Nevertheless I have him what (small) money I had.

I don't think a lot of people are willing to risk their life on the chance a gun might be a toy, you know?
I strongly disagree- I have a related academic background and have read the nutrition literature extensively myself, attend nutrition conferences, etc. and don’t agree there is convincing evidence for what you are saying. This narrative is just one of the cherry picked diet fads.

Moreover, saying the history of human diets gives us no information is just incorrect. It’s not the final word on nutrition, but it is the obvious Bayesian prior. When you raise any animal in a zoo, or culture a microbe in a lab the first thing you do is mimic its natural environment as well as you can, at least until you understand more.

Personally- I am much more interested in quality of life aka things like “reproductive success” than lifespan in my own health, but I am also skeptical that they are at odds. I am an active person and enjoy being physically strong, high energy, etc.
What is a good thing here?
If one is the threshold that we're talking about, then no one should care that there is an insane number opposed. It is a useless statement with no relevance on the world outcomes
Here's a comment: we need doping leagues. There should be athletes doped up on 10 different steroids looking like Arnie in the '80s.
I mean, for just one example, the DoT awarded $600 million to replace the I-5 bridge between Washington and Oregon. I don't pretend the funding is perfect but it is reaching real projects.
They clearly did not consider the larger security implications. That is both the point and the problem.

This points to structural issues at Microsoft.
My '85 VW Vanagon/Transporter Westfalia with 80 hp has direct port fuel injection and gets ~25 mpg. I rarely drive it because EVs are so much damn cheaper and less maintenance.
Wait. Holes can be dug?

> Feels like a bad sign for humanity that we're getting this simple in the citizen-science 'laymen' explanations.

I agree. My gut says that if we stop reinventing the wheel and revisit time-tested tools we have at our disposal, there's plenty of low-hanging fruits to pick (in terms of innovation, future proofing, and practical everyday problem-solving.)
OK, I could see that.

> and super lab's auditors promise to check for conflicts of interest

How would this check proceed, then? Accept the self-dealing fact but call it something else, and accept the funding? And just who are these auditors?

(Forgive my naivety regarding human behavior in business as portrayed in books vs real-life!)
I certainly don't want to expose any more surface area than necessary to potential exploits by an attacker who hasn't authenticated successfully.
pissette, gamelle, repêche, rateau...

all of these are extra rules.
Most people drink most people aren't horrible parents. You are working at the extremes.

And yeah some extremes are bad.
Top EU Court Says No Right to Online Anonymity, Copyright Is More Important
"La propriété, c'est le vol." Proudhon :
Property is theft.

It's not quite morally universal that a right to unlimited property exists.
What I would love is something similar that could boot on raspberry pi...
> That's not what I mean. What I mean is that at least some people have to stand up to that unfairness and exploitativeness.

How much is "some"? Lots of people bought Affinity products, despite them lacking some critical features that folks need. And now Affinity had been bought by another company that will likely take it the way of Adobe. None of this ever stood a chance of dethroning Adobe before, and it certainly won't now. What percentage of the users do you realistically expect should be willing to risk their income over this, and for how long?
It's already re-created the OneDrive folder, but it hasn't moved any of my libraries back yet. Knock on wood.
If you had screen recording on by default you’d run out of disk space pretty quick.

MS just did what every other micromanagement company did and took screenshots every second or so.
Crypto wallets in web browser extensions seems like an absolutely terrible idea compared to any of my example.
Part of the issue is they are training a pretty tiny model, it's not like GPT-2 ~100M is especially coherent either.
Management could be the most relevant part. A silent alarm is management's fault, a wrongly ignored noisy alarm can be pushed as staff's fault.
I understand that bit, but it's proportional to the shrinkage. If star A is spinning at X turns per unit time, and identical star B is spinning at 4X turns per the same unit time, and they both collapse to the same size neutron star, tiny A' should be spinning at 4X the turns per unit time as little B'.

If the observations in the article are correct, then this neutron star is spinning around 1/10,000th as fast as some others. Neutron star weirdness aside - and that's a whole awful lot of weirdness to set aside - I think that'd mean its earlier version was spinning about 1/10,000th as fast as others. What I don't know, again, as a layman, is whether that's especially unusual or unexpected.

Could it be that instead we're looking at its pole, and the pole has an axial precession of an hour while the little fellow's equator is spinning around quickly?
Why there are no $3k-$4k cars? I am sure most people need cheaper cars, not electric cars, or AI cars, or cars with mobile app and telemetry. Those are toys for the rich.
>> There was a US isolationist strain as strong as it is today

As strong as? I don't see much of an isolationist strain in the US today at all. The paleoconservatives are isolationist, but they barely exist any more. The Biden administration appointed a neoconservative as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
DirectX Automatic Super Resolution
I think I was in my 30s before I found out that with NES Duck Hunt, if you plugged in a controller, player 2 could control the duck.
While I greatly appreciate the coinage "laundry sauce" I think the great majority of people know how to do this stuff and it's not hard to find out how.
That path is riskily close to "shrug God did it! shrug", which is kind of a conversation stopper in science.
Kids spending too much time on TikTok? Won't do their chores on time? Try the ancient and time honored tradition of beating them until they behave as you would like! /s
The origins of Standarddeutsch trace back to Martin Luther's bible translation that exposed a huge audience to a very important text, which was most importantly also written to be approachable to that audience.

The German dialect it used was a colonial dialect that already contained mixed features from multiple dialect area and was thus suitable for a wide audience.

Of course the emerging standard underwent development since then, and low literacy rates meant that few people actually spoke and wrote it.
This is a brilliant overview! i have worked in a small slice of this field for 20 years (genetics of alcoholism). This article provides a much broader context for me to think about my research, and a context and history that I find totally believable.
The problem is some conservative IT orgs will disable this for their suit and tie posturing approach to providing security, while not really securing anything.
Doing laundry is of about the same complexity as boiling an egg.
> When you read industrial accident reports one extremely common theme is some sensor that was notifying the controller of the problem, but …

I remember an accident report. It was about a container ship which had a bad flooding incident in their engineering spaces. One thing the report pointed out that the engineers had ways to fight the flooding, but they were not doing them because they were playing whack-a-mole with all the alarms caused by the flood. If i recall correctly the engineers kept ignoring the waist deep and rising water and prioritised silencing the alarms. (And not because they were stupid, but just because the many independent blaring alarms task-saturated them.)
Don’t think it’s so unrealistic to make a sterile green environment with fake plants. Fairly certain it doesn’t matter too much.
Exactly.

If I can't use TOTP with backup codes, I'm not using MFA.
So the sole legitimate use case for a TPM is when you're somewhere with neither cellular service nor Wi-Fi (rare) and your portable device is off rather than asleep (rare) and you can't remember a long passphrase, which doesn't have to be unmemorable, it's just less convenient to type.

This seems like it isn't worth the cost in authoritarianism?

For that matter you could still implement even that with just a secure enclave that will only release the key given the correct PIN (and then rate limits attempts etc.), but then does actually release the key in that case and doesn't do any kind of remote attestation or signing.
Or that it has slowed down. Maybe two objects with opposite rotations merged, then collapsed into a neutron star?
Yes, but not if you are evicted by the police in 48h?
if the rock is gone....tornado.
That doesn’t make them inherently incorrect, in the same way that oil companies are correct that building more pipelines is safer and more environmentally friendly than oil trains.
I somehow didn't think about that, even if I used that feature just a few hours ago! Now I'm curious about how GitHub handles the ssh infra at that scale...
Yes, adverse possession laws are nothing like that

Here in the US, it is typically must be "open, notorious, exclusive, and unopposed" for like 20 years before you can try for adverse possession.

You certainly do not get rights just for showing up and camping for days. It's quite a different beast.
FBI releases documents on O.J. Simpson
Believes around IQ are completely accurate and based and they do not care about your feelings.
> A fourth way to raise water without electricity: solar concentration to produce steam in a loop

Nice. Perhaps some sort of system leveraging this application be used to charge batteries on a local, distributed grid? Or, simultaneously charge your electric car and heat/cool a home on a sunny day.
Crops patents is not specific to GMO.
Calling the golden rice an edge case is showing you are unaware of all the GMO used to solve locals problems, that is a net benefit for the human and reduce the agriculture impact.
But imagine how much better audio quality we would have if we had gold electrical lines to our houses.
The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias (2012)
I would argue that both of those examples are still , "yes or no" instead of "moderation as part of our views." You can't force a society to be moderate through policy; The problem isn't policy, it's the culture surrounding alcohol.

Think of how many instances of people getting @^*%-faced drunk with a group of friends is the basis of a large-grossing movie in the US. Now think of how many instances having a sip to drink at dinner with friends is the basis of a similarly grossing movie in the US. We glorify drinking to excess in our media/entertainment as well as so many conversations I have been privy to over the years... mostly my younger years but not exclusively.
Please propose a design for better hardware then. You'll make a fortune and do a lot of good in the process.

Seriously, what would motivate you to make a comment like that? Do you think medical device engineers and clinicians are unaware of the false alarm issue and haven't already tried a variety of improvements? There is an inherent trade-off between false alarms and missing a real problem. And devices need to be not only accurate but also affordable, durable, and cost effective. It's not easy to get this right.
Uhm well, 2019 was after 2014. After 2014, Ukraine having some "issues" with Russia was pretty well justified.
I'd like a $4K electric car
Maybe security oversight happens later in the process. No need to bother with that if the feature doesn't even work.
Fundamentally, the human body seems to be an incredibly complex system that is far more dynamic, rapidly changing, and with far more unpredictable interactions than any of those other fields.

It's fascinating that, at least on some axes, we might know less about core processes in our own bodies than we probably have already ascertained about planetary motion or materials composition from millions of miles away.
You have some pretty good death metal bands too, no?
I... yes? I'm sure their ToS covers opening a file. That page is not talking about filesystem access, however.
This is like that chess grandmaster who didn't know how to operate an oven. I hope you're good at chess.
Well, the prior is that our ancestors had to survive on what was available, not live optimally healthy lives even during their reproductive years.

At the end you imply that your preferred diet (presumably high saturated fat, low carb, low fiber) makes you stronger and gives you more energy than the alternatives. But that's not the trade-off nor implication that can be drawn from our ancestors eating what was available to them for survival. We can do better in 2024 than use narratives about the past to dictate how we eat today.

You should listen to this debate between Matthew Nagra and Anthony Chaffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FFV0w55k2I -- You will find yourself making the same points as Chaffee, but go see if you are as equally stumped by the evidence that Nagra provides.
The post I was responding to:

"and in general russians are seen as enemies. Not just russian soldiers, but people with a russian cultural background. Nationalism in all its glory."

is complete BS. My reference regarding attitudes towards Mexicans was a response to that comment, not to the law you just mentioned.

But what a weird argument you make. Canada has numerous laws like these in order to protect French speakers. How much 'expected violence' by Anglo Canadians has that resulted in?

Again, in my experience, every Ukrainian I have met can speak some russian. A good portion can not speak ukrainian. The President of Ukraine's native language is Russian and was a well known Russian language entertainer who stared in 'Servant of the People' a Ukrainian TV show where he spoke Russian. Strange for a country that's being labeled so historically and systemically anti-Russia.

Edit: See also Zelensky performing on Russian state TV New Years special https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTmhTxzAH70
Deimatic Behaviour
I'm an expert at doing my laundry but boy it is hard.

Remembering which clothes I need to wash cold and hang-dry to prevent shrinkage vs. which can be washed warm and dried in the dryer.

Enough detergent that it cleans effectively but not too much that it leaves an irritating layer on your clothes -- obviously the detergent companies are trying to fool you into using too much so that you buy more. Learning to use the "+1 rinse cycle" button to fully get rid of the detergent residue.

Learning not to use fabric softener or dryer sheets. Learning that fragrance-free detergent is an option so your clothes don't smell like a horrid cheap air freshener. Learning how to use bleach and which kind (there are many formulations!) and in which part of the cycle and how much to keep your whites, well, actually white. But not so much it unnecessarily damages them.

Or using a laundry loop to ensure you identify all your white cotton t-shirts that you want to wash and bleach together with your white socks washcloths etc., but then separate so you hang-dry the tees so they don't shrink, without accidentally leaving any in the dryer with your socks etc. and ruining them.

Learning that you should unbutton your shirts so the buttons don't get pulled off, but zip up all zippers so the teeth don't produce wear and tear catching on other garments. Learning to turn certain pants and other items inside out when washing and drying to lengthen their life, learning to throw in a couple of tennis balls when drying something bulky, and so forth. Or learning to check my dryer every 15 minutes in case my duvet cover has decided to twist itself into a kind of rope, where it turns into this weird boa constrictor that's eaten 3 of my pillowcases that will never every dry until I untwist it and remove them.

It's seriously actually kind of shockingly complicated.
> Anyone using a washer, listens for it.

Currently, I have to set a timer on my phone to go check the washer and dryer because my laundry is in the basement and I'm probably on the 2nd floor or outside.

I would love it if these things would run on my network with simple, published APIs exposed to tell me status so that I could know that I could have automated alerting and know that they wouldn't fail in the future when their manufacturer drops support.
https://vault.fbi.gov/orenthal-james-simpson-oj-simpson/oren...
I agree that older is better, especially in avoiding the data harvestng of newer cars (and everything else)

However, I would disagree that top load washers are better than front load. Front load uses less water and causes less wear of garmets. I bought the last several I've owned used, because odler is better (and cheaper)...
Why...?
IMHO it doesn't matter which kinds of bugs bubble up to daily use. I have no interest in purchasing something at full price when it's stuffed with buggy software that's harvesting my family's data for profit [0].

a bug in a routine to record our private, intimate conversations could put someone's life in danger, and for what? it's revolting enough to put in the work finding and maintaining 20 year old cars.

it'd be one thing if they were like smart TVs - pay $300 for one with a mile long privacy policy or pay $600 for a solid commercial display. but paying $20k+ and having no other option? abso fucking lutely not

[0] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...
I don’t want a new car because I don’t really drive anymore. We work remotely and we have two cars that we rarely drive.

Meanwhile my friends waited a year to get the car they wanted. I’m not even going to bother going to the dealer to wait for a new Toyota at that rate.

Not really motivated to spend much money on something I barely use.
The military in general seem to be more rationally grounded than civilians, as far as work is concerned. Promiscuity with death must encourage a different "work culture".
This was a very interesting read, thank you.
> You would need a modern civilization with at least metallic tools to spread far enough and wide enough to kill off multiple major species.

We know humans spread far enough and wide enough in stone age times. Big animals reproduce slowly, and the extinctions happened over centuries or millennia. Metal tools and large populations weren't needed, just stone age hunting techniques and persistence.

The extinctions correspond to human arrival everywhere homonins weren't already established:
https://ourworldindata.org/quaternary-megafauna-extinction
I'm not sure about other mountains, but the Sherpas were against climbing Mount Everest because they considered it sacrilegious.
It isn't a permissions model, it's explicitly a hack.
If two of these tones sound at the same time, I’m fairly certain I couldn’t distinguish them.
Plus the survivorship bias of those very few. We don’t observe the ones that aren’t spinning much.
Is this a ShowHN or just someone's preferred tool? If a tool, what does it have to recommend itself over clamav?
Is that a standard egg or delicate? Is it hand wash? Maybe dry clean only?
I do want it but I want it to be optional and preferably something built from source. That being said, it won’t be that hard for someone to build their own Recall with an onboard sandboxed LLM. That way users will benefit from the power and know exactly how it works so that they have no questions about the security behind it. It’s a more powerful and useful search.
This has been the situation for years though. Only recently did we get reasonable native support for most new standards by default. Babel compilation down to IE level was really common just few years ago.

Most of the "modern JS" stuff was based on that idea. Teams was released before even the modules existed in the browsers.
> Have you considered spending some time to understand how these machines work?

Yes, and I really don’t care to. I get some joy out of cooking, small mechanical jobs and even doing dishes. I do not from laundry.

My point isn’t that people should love or hate laundry. It’s that the modern technology seems to add no value to either the experts nor amateurs. I vastly prefer simple dials and buttons to the ISS docking procedures some appliances demand for socks.
Yes, call them out -- all of these "amazing AI innovations" are bollocks.

If they're that essential for our existence, then go ahead and sell it to consumers.

As the Rabbit (and Humane) before it demonstrated, none of these things are (a) essential, or (b) polished and ready for daily use.
Got any examples? Name and shame!
My point is that GoodReads isn't popular enough for it to be profitable to sabotage (yet). And there's still a threat of something more relevant coming along. If they actually wanted to improve discovery for something like prime video/shopping, then they could/would copy what works from GoodReads.
What i heard is that it is designed to imitate the stick sensation smaller airplanes have as the wind buffets the controll surfaces when a stall develops.

And pilots from an early stage in their flying training conditioned to push the stick forward when that happens.