skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...they haven't had anything left over to discover what sorts of things really bring them fulfillment, and it's incredibly disheartening to see.

The buried lede on those stories is they will not spend out of their FIRE budget on activities to bring that fulfillment, leaving them with somewhat limited choices depending upon their personalities and proclivities (see below), and many have not even planned for how much that will cost.

There are very few personality types that would be happy as a clam spending a hundred years puttering around the stacks of libraries researching a particular scholarly pursuit, then spend another hundred on another specific area, for example. The list of what we do not know is practically infinite, and were I immortal, I could burn a few thousand years researching subjects I find fascinating. Cheap for someone on even lean-FIRE.

There are still quite a few areas of the world that are very sparsely-mapped and their microbiomes sparsely-cataloged to help preserve their bio-diversity. I could spend quite a few centuries just doing that, while hiking and camping. Relatively cheap as pursuits go.

Refurbishing and repairing old artifacts would require some spending on tooling and supplies, but still cheaper than say, learning to fly. I could spend a few thousand years just learning different trades to master craftsman skill levels.

I find the RE experiences others relate that they feel aimless baffling, but only due to my personality. So it is not surprising to me that different personalities cannot conceive satisfaction within the same pursuits. Pursuits that could cost far more than they realized they needed to budget for. FIRE is more about knowing your self than hitting an appropriate total that survives a 2% SWR.
ClojErl: Implementation of Clojure on the Erlang Virtual Machine
Because it passes the huge number of integration tests.
Damn you autocorrect. :)
While true restoring privacy has implicit costs. Maybe the author shouldn't have explicitly mentioned money as one of them. I find costs such as "paying more" because you aren't participating in the ad-tracking carousel. Opportunity costs such as opting out of referral codes/links that save 5% on checkout etc. Cost of time, by taking the longer route to access a page in a cleaner non-tracked form. Etc.

Most of the tools that attempt to restore privacy are free open community-driven projects such as pi-hole. Maybe the observed distinction is a marker of class, but money isn't nearly important in the equation for most privacy-seeking folk.
Or you can buy games on GOG instead and support DRM-free (I think they are unfortunately the only fully DRM-free store at this point).
> converting CO2 into mass

CO2 has mass. It's 1 carbon atom and 2 oxygen atoms. The idea there is new mass creation going on here is absurd. Study some physics.
It was the most extreme year so far, and one of the least extreme ones for decades to come...
That's horrible and would not solve the climate change.
"Most of the daily cases in Israel are now among vaccinated people"
It’s also not true. Cars are currently undergoing the single largest revolution since they were invented: electrification. Designs that people have been optimizing over a century are suddenly obviated and new challenges are taking their place.
How much was paid out?
The military isn't all that concerned about a modular enterchangable system that use similar methods between systems.

We have time and available people who are educated, they can learn the some odd 40 systems in 27 weeks (excluding tacSat.)

So all those conveniences, only serve to make it easier for our enemies to understand. Additionally alot of the military communications equipment make use of proprietary hardware that perform functions standard equipment can't and in environmental conditions that would make it impossible for off the shelf equipment.

As for the network over FM they've had that since the late 90s, at the time because of the security and frequency hoping, and it being all done analog, the network could span roughly 15 miles and had a 64kbps backbone.

Just enough to send text file reports over.
Facebook engineer abused access to user data in 2014-15
You summed up my unease about the Austrian School. In my mind it’s on par with the feeling that someone claiming to be an Objectivist gives me.
Yeah it's a really interesting human trait. There's clearly hazard in falling prey to the sunk costs fallacy and spinning your wheels forever, but naive determination is an integral part of the human success story.
Who’s into Crypto?
Share something interesting that you recently discovered related to crypto and blockchain:

- Something you're working on
- DAO/DApps projects
- Twitter profiles
- Tweets
- Books
- Newsletters
- Podcasts

I'll start with this tweet with a list of interesting DAOs sorted by category

https://twitter.com/corbpage/status/1402626913974341636
What is the advantage of this over something like Kiwix, or just using Playwright CLI? It seems useful but a bit unnecessary if just using to create Archive.org links.
Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard stance on remote work
Kind of makes you realize how small Vermont is. I just checked and the city of San Francisco alone has about 300k more residents than the entire state of Vermont; 900k to 600k.
> Unlike most OOP languages, it's true, and not just marketing, for Smalltalk to make the claim that everything is in an object.

Its not uncommon in dynamic OOP (or even object-first multiparadigm languages); it’s true in Python, Ruby, JS, and others.
cdnjs will mirror any npm package

They didn't update any part of cdnjs itself. Instead, they triggered cdnjs on their package.
Even small hikes in food price cause massive local upheavals around the globe. Lots of people who cannot afford to pay more for food than they do now...
Elliptic curve cryptography uses modulo of large prime numbers. Curve25519 uses 2^255 - 19 for example
You know we're all bullshitting here apparently but my guess is that happened relatively little. The PS3 was too exotic of hardware to get useful compute out of it during the length of time that option was arounnd.

I'm sure internally it was pitched as a neat idea why don't we see what happens (god can you imagine the corporate politics in a decision like that?), but practically it allowed Sony get get special import status.

I'm sure eventually they realized they didn't care about that enough it outweigh allowing those filthy users to possibly do something interesting.

Sony throws a lot of stuff at the wall. There was a good chunk of hardware cut out of later PS3s, not to mention continued attempts and silent canceling of things like those move lightguns, etc.
Refusing all inquiries into group statistics might be a principled intellectual position. Collecting data about some metrics at the group level (salaries, college admissions, ...) and then refusing to inquire about other attributes that might reasonably affect those metrics certainly isn't, for all the reasons you've just given.
It would be an interesting computer model to simulate an infinitely long string
A few years ago, an earthquake proof bed concept was making the rounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-EcuKxykM
> 7" Display | AMD Zen 2 | 16GB Memory | microSD

> Arch Linux

> KDE Plasma

> Will be able to install whatever they like

Is that you smartphone? The one I've been waiting for?
We can just call them a monopoly!
I thought the same at first, but then again, a lot of people play indie games first and foremost which tend to be smaller, and it also has the sd card slot
He was the CEO and creator of Renault-Nissan. For sure he's politically connected in France.
Isn't that only the case when the patents cover two different parts of your own implementation? How could someone patent something that has already been patented?
A big part of the problem is the massive (almost exponential) increase in the complexity of the equipment over just the last few decades. And software. So much that used to be achieved with discreet parts has moved into microcontrollers, FPGAs, etc. which even if the customer had the bitfiles/firmware for, often after loading that (which might require special equipment), it then often requires configuration and calibration etc. that is very specialised (and might even need external equipment...).

The amount of training required to get to that point is just massive. It would take us six months of having field techs putting units together and working with the more experienced guys to work through problems with systems in the factory before they could manage going out to the field to do basic tasks. But even then, the systems were so software-based that eight out of ten times they'd need support from the software team to diagnose and fix the problems...

As a systems architect (this was in SATCOM, small specialist vendor, mostly selling to Navies), I tried to push in the direction of designing the systems to have a small number of interoperable LRUs (line-replaceable units) that the customer could keep spares of and change themselves, then ship back to us for refurbishment, as well as redundancy so the system could keep working when one of a type of unit had failed (for when it was mission-critical). I think it's a pretty good middle ground.

But the problem of course is vendor lock-in where the manufacturer screws them by making replacements extremely expensive. There's not enough recourse against the big companies doing that (like banning them from other acquisition programs). Too much lobbying, back-scratching, revolving doors between military and industry goes on for that I guess...
This civilization IS different.

Not in any magical way just simply in the fact that we are the first who through our combination of wealth and knowledge-creation and with the help of technology and science have the potential of solving the problems we encounter.

It's not a guarantee but it's very different than previous civilizations (just as the challenges are).

In general humans and our ansestors have gradually been turning an environment that was sheer hell in its inception, into a much more habitable environment.
The IGN review says it plays Control at medium settings at 60fps. That's roughly double the performance of a GTX 760 I believe (which is around 30FPS at low settings @ 1080p).
Still can't beat the speed of light...
NeXT retreat and planning (1986) [video]
Started using Harper DB in a side project
> SteamOS 3.0 (Arch-based)

nice
Getting a domain listed is pretty hard.

Getting vendors to update their PSL in less ubiquitous products is near impossible. For instance, 1Password hasn't shipped a new version in years.
Currywurst and Lindt chocolate
Now I, even I, would celebrate
In rhymes unapt, the great
Immortal Syracusan, rivalled (sic) nevermore
Who, in his wondrous lore,
Passed on before,
Left men his guidance
How to circles mensurate.
Inharmonicity means there's almost no fundamental in the notes in that octave.

The low notes on a conventional piano are a rumbly mess, but we're used to them.

Hearing a piano design with much cleaner bass overtones is a real shock.
Show HN: I made an interactive anti-procrastination video course
i bought a ps3 and not a xbox to be able to install linux, and use it as a computer to see later that they disabled it in an update. jailbreaked it. will never buy again a sony product.
Don't think that's relevant since whale and mineral oil are finite natural resources. Governments can't distort them into existence like farm products.
What would likely happen if the SRI hash check triggered? The devs would have to be pretty savvy to suspect CloudFlare has actually been breached and refrain from just remaking the hash for the new updated content, in the middle of a production outage.
If you’re at the point where answering support emails is interfering with your day job, you’re doing pretty well. OP is a long ways off from having this problem.
What chronic issues?
There's a big difference between things a single person remembers, and things that are stored in a database.

The database can be merged with others and queried anonymously without anyone knowing it even exists. The data can be sold, distributed and used against you at a much greater scale, and there is nothing you can do about it.
But you're taking the already discovered "magic bullets" for granted...and are essentially acting like the next one is impossible even though they happen on a semi-regular basis. Science is simply an on-going collection of realizations where the latest realization is considered the end-all-be-all...until it isn't.

The reason they are considered "magic bullets" is because they involve game-changing shifts in technology that couldn't easily be conceived beforehand. Just look at the traveling salesman problem for a sample as to how a handful of input options could output a massive amount of output combinations. Every so often, one of those output combinations turns into a game-changer...then we have people spewing a new version of the rhetoric stated here.

I'd put my money on the game-changer.
US Air Force built a PS3 cluster.
This is an extremely misleading summary of the contents of the tweet.
I have a feeling there isn’t enough power in nuclear at the scale that would fit inside the body with sufficient shielding. Nuclear is surely for low power devices, but human hearts would actually use a great deal of power (estimate 50-100W). It won’t last for years like you’d expect.

Even if you _can_ package it, still needs batteries for redundancy and clearly those don’t fit inside either. Patients with batteries carry around massive backpacks.

Brings a new meaning to ‘having a meltdown’ though. Overheating nuclear heart would literally boil your blood.
I’ve read the other replies but I remember well why it failed: only single precision floats.

You can’t run physics simulations on single precision. So the people who would have bought and tinkered and pushed it forwards were all turned off by it.

The military was allowed double precision; but there was no point making it a compute cluster otherwise.

I don’t know if it was a marketing or budget decision but basically all the early adopters who would have championed doing impressive things on there (I was so hyped at the time for the cell architecture) couldn’t do anything useful with it.
I think having roommates should be the default living situation for people unless/until they have a family (which are technically a form of roommate of course). Besides being wasteful of space and resources, there's the (now well-known) mental health downsides or being alone. Humans aren't really made to live that way long-term. Personally I had roommates when I was single even when I had a good job. I viewed it as a way to meet people when I moved to a new city, which it was. It is important for roommates to view it this way though. People view it as purely financial can make bad roommates.
"Capital != money, value != money, productivity != money."

Yes, we know that.

But you are missing the point of Monetary Policy.

During a crisis for example, we need to 'reallocate' financing faster than the system will allow for it.

A huge natural disaster that hits an otherwise productive economic centre may mean there is never any recovery, because everyone is unwilling to re-invest.

But if the government steps in with $50B in investment, not only does that spark rebuilding directly, but is also brings back investment.

War is another example: if you're invaded, the economy won't react quickly enough to form some kind of physical defence force. That's why you have civic functions i.e. the Army, which needs direct investment, maybe from lose monetary policy.

In normal times, the central bank can made adjustments much more quickly than the economy can react with higher or lower wages.

France/Spain lose competitiveness because their salaries might be too much. Nobody will accept a pay cut. But a little bit of loser monetary policy will take care of that.

Obviously, printing money doesn't cure anything, just like 'Making A Law' doesn't cure anything.

Monetary Policy can be abused just like the Treasury, just like the Judiciary just like Security Forces.

It's just a form of governance, that's it.

But using 'Gold' you lose the ability to have any governance and are guaranteed to fail during disaster like board that you nailed from your boat to the dock will break when the tide comes in. You'd use a rope in that scenario, i.e. 'monetary policy'.
Yes, that standard is what I meant by "OS level features"; no one uses it because they'd rather foist the effort of protecting children to others. Though this is probably more because they dislike free speech and disagree with activities among adults and 'think of the children' is just what gets used to win support.

Your second point is an interesting extension: 'safe for children, in all countries' would lead to a race to the most bland, safe, content: "baaaah" - 1984.
HyperNormalisation is an excellent movie. I don't necessarily agree with everything in it but it gave me something to think about.
This does _a lot more_ than just creating archive.org links. It saves the entire page contents (in multiple formats, including nicely searchable PDF and some embedded media) locally.
I remember reading an article about the US military using a PS3 supercomputer cluster for something, but it was so long ago I don't remember where or if it was a puff piece or something actually significant.
Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany
I really feel for those that receive these implants and live with it for a few days more. The first such implant receiver lived for 3 months only. The next one maybe 1.5 years.

Personally I would have preferred to die rather than put a battery and pump inside my body as a heart.
if anything, facebook showed that the internet gets a lot worse when people are using real identities
Actually in low-tech societies it was the other way around. Rich people had servants who lived in their houses and knew every detail of their lives. If you were rich back then, the servants knew where you ate, what you ate, where you slept, who you met, basically every detail of your life. If you had an argument with your spouse over money the servants could hear every word.

Meanwhile poor people were known to their immediate neighbourhood, but at a much lower level of detail. Yes, local businesses might know customers, but the knowledge was atomic and disconnected: nobody was integrating the information held by the barman and the storekeeper and the newsagent and the neighbours.
It's the first sentence. What's misleading about it?
Toyota demonstrates autonomous shuttle for mobility as a service for Olympic
One of the main properties of many of the communist revolutions of the 20th centuries was the mass killing or removal of property of the landed gentry in those countries - sometimes more directly violent than others. Cambodia, China, Vietnam, N Korea, etc.

I think recent history has shown that simply killing the Bourgeoisie tends to just eventually create another in the form of whoever had the power to do the other killings, and not always to better ends for the people. That form of communism has been shown to not really work. Democratic socialism though seems to work out pretty well for people.
Apply the criteria for criminal attempted crimes. You have to do more than just attempt it, you have to have a realistic possibility of succeeding.

Sticking pins in a voodoo doll isn't attempted murder, no matter how seriously you believe it will kill the person.

So how would that event in the US have succeeded in overthrowing the government? What would the next steps have been? Even if they killed everyone in the building, would the rest of the government/military/courts/etc. agree to follow orders from the new kings? Why?

By the way, they didn't kill that police officer. It turned out later that he died of natural causes. Be careful of fake embellishments of real news.
I can't find it now, but you've reminded me of the description for an experimental optimiser flag on a perl compiler from what must have been 15 years or more ago. It promised it would always deliver a working binary that was functionally identical to the original script, but that it may not do so in finite amounts of time.
Sure, if you just read headlines, skip the content, and form an opinion, you'll be mislead depending on what bias you have. Just like any other title.
https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/linux-for-old-pc-from-2007/en/

The patch prevents eviction of file cache from the RAM, which, when using with zram, makes the system very fast when it is swapping. On regular Linux, when the system is low on RAM, file cache is evicted so quickly and is re-read from the (slow) HDD relatively slowly, that's why the software "lags" (it can't reload the code and resources fast enough to stay fully responsive).

However, with this patch file cache stay in RAM until absolutely necessary to evict it. This GREATLY increases system responsiveness. Even on my old PC from 2007 from the article, swapping hundreds of megabytes to zram is almost unnoticeable process with the patch. The software is so responsive like nothing happens.

Without the patch the PC is uncomfortably slow at times. Swapping process is definitely noticeable, the system may become unresponsive for several seconds (even the mouse doesn't move).

The speedup, however, is a bit of side effect of the patch. It was designed to prevent hard thrashing when the system only evicts and reloads data from the disk for indefinite amount of time.

Watch the video in the linked article above. There's also a LiveCD ISO file to try the patch effect without installing the system/the patched kernel.
Step 2 would require user info from the DB right? That is unless your AuthZ model is simple enough to fit in a JWT.
This looks great! People interested in generally cutting out distractions that lead to procrastination should also check out “indistractable” by Nir Eyal. I found it both entertaining and useful for cutting down on unwanted distractions (like too much HN browsing)
Thanks! I'll watch it tomorrow.
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The senator that wrote it thinks it passed.

>Sinema’s bipartisan CHIPS For America Act - which is now law - restores America’s leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

https://www.sinema.senate.gov/fueled-sinemas-chips-act-intel...
Have you seen all those startups raising money for the most ridiculous things? It seems like getting funding isn’t such a big deal if you know how to sell stuff. So what makes you think you can successfully sell to customers if you can’t sell the business idea to investors?
I would say 10 years ago yes. However now days with the way postgres is developing and with support for python/v8, and postgresREST. For db intensive stuff, it just make sense to do it in DB like postgres.
Yep, it's a good book. We've integrated the main parts of it in the course—like the preview lesson about internal triggers leading us to seek out distractions. That distinction is great.
> To fix this a deliberate decision has to be made to change the force structure to build more technicians and unfortunately people like that don't want to take the pay and lifestyle cut so we just can't fill out the ranks.

This is the part that's making less and less sense to me... we are paying the going rate, just indirectly, in fact we're paying more than the going wage to cover the overhead of using a contractor. why has it become so hard for the federal government to pay a proper wage directly?
Also Windows S, which is the same idea for the Windows OS. Only approved programs from the Microsoft App Store can be run.

Windows 10 S was a trial run. Any PC owner could exit S mode, although you can't go back. In Windows 11 S, you can only get out of S mode if master control at Microsoft lets you. So that privilege can be arbitrarily revoked. Or charged for.

Expect an increasing number of machines to be Windows S only.
Reach Announces Launch of Its Beta: A ‘Second Brain’ to Instantly Recall Content