skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before 2008 I used to Tweet by sending an sms to a special phone number. When twitter removed the service, their bloated website cost a lot for a tweet. So I made a Wap service using their api and now tweeting cost me a fraction of what the sms cost me. I built it in a few hours, it was very fun to chop every last byte of html exploiting the flexibility of the browsers (who knew you did not need to close html tags?). That service was used by a few friends on feature phones till 2010. I discovered it when a friend complained that the service did not work anymore. I had completely forgot about it.
Interesting that Paulie from the Sopranos also used to hold his hands in the same way and for the same reason…except he learnt it in prison! https://youtu.be/pg_yTy5qIIg
A few years ago I had trouble with K9 going into "sync disabled mode", for lack of a better term. Push notifications simply didn't work no matter what I tried and I missed lots of emails as a result.

Switched to FairEmail[0] and have been a happy user since.

[0] https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle had a wide range of vintage computers. Since his death, the museum has been closed. Last I checked, the fate of the collection is up in the air. They had a number of working older machines and had a staff capable of working on restoring them and keeping them running. It would be wonderful to get it reanimated. Best contact I have would be Aaron Alcorn at Vulcan (Paul Allen's venture firm).

Bruce Damer's Digibarn Computer Museum in Scotts Valley CA has been looking for someone to take over its collection since Bruce has redirected his personal research effort into AI from digital computer history.

Of course there is also the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.

Wikipedia has a list of computer museums.

The Compuseum in Philadelphia is the latest new museum. (https://thecompuseum.org). It is the brainchild of James Scherrer who has done an amazing job collecting resources and support. Philadelphia is the original home of ENIAC (John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.).

And a word of caution. Real vintage machines are made from parts no longer manufactured, consume large amounts of power, are often water cooled, and need a large amount of physical space. They date from a time when the resource (compute cycles, storage) was so precious that having a staff of hardware engineers to keep the hardware working could be justified. On the software side, most systems were unique, non-standard, and supported by a team of five or more systems programmers. Economics forced a "small is beautiful" style on everything: those gifted programmers who could solve big problems with small speedy programs were in great demand.
Well, the important question is whether the number of deaths and total number of IQ points lost in case of "stopping this theater" would be better or worse compare to the points and lives lost caused by the "theater".
I'm not talking about proving it in court, I'm asking you to consider it in your own mind. When the problem with boron doping was realized, how long do you think it would have taken everyone to go down that column of the periodic table and use gallium instead? It's not like there was a huge selection of elements to chose from.
I assume this was after the linked post then, and it's good to hear that. The problem is that these posts stay online for a loooong time. Thanks for answering.
You could get some of that in a SFH too. It'll be quieter due to the distance though.
Maybe you should have read my comment (or the previous one):

> We agree on iOS, but the grandparent talked about PCs - iOS really does not fall into that category (that's why I explicitly mentioned smartphones).
It’s a single charge for an modern EV side to side, it’s long, but populated area to populated area it would be almost impossible to run a vehicle dead on the highway.
Windows 10 July 2021 Update Breaks Printers and Scanners Functionalities
I found that too, but then my main usage for SD cards would be gone.
After reading, I don't think it's purely an advertisement, but it doesn't feel like a super genuine post with things like the error message being 'SessionStack will help you resolve crashes', and due to the fact that the post was submitted by the Founder of this service and he only posts articles from this blog (all linking back to the service).
I agree with sentiments I've read elsewhere that if Google's infinite money and compute analysis can't write C++ safely, maybe it's not a good language for turning network bytes into local execution
Why overstimulation sucks your happiness?
In your Titanic analogy, you realize you're the Titanic and I'm the iceberg you hit, right?

> ... and earnestly promise I will stop, just as soon as this seventh paragraph's ink dries ...

It often happens that bullshit needs counter-arguments orders of magnitude larger in order to be shown as bullshit. History is full of "Obviously the Earth is flat" - "No, because $300_PAGES_OF_SCIENCE." situations, and I don't see why this is a problem, in fact I see it as a noble pursuit, in some limited respects. Your statement is abject bullshit, and I'm trying to call it out as the ad hominem, freedom-destroying bullshit it is. Stop being weak, evasive, and willfully blind, and actually read my argument instead of being trite. Maybe there's something there.

Or maybe I'm like all those others that disagree with you. I must be stupid. How else could I disagree?

If you don't want a discussion, you don't want to make points, and you don't want to be debated, maybe don't post inflammatory statements like claiming people are stupid for catching a disease. But don't come over and pretend I'm soapboxing when I'm the one calling you out from the crowd, you Very Smart Person.

[EDIT : Speaking of language issues, I should probably have said "I'm not willing to stand here idly..." instead of "I'm not willing to entertain...". Basically, I'll call out BS when I see it.]
Any ideas by how much does this increase cell lifetime?
Dylan is also the author of KISS Linux and the pure {sh,bash} bibles. All interesting projects.

https://k1sslinux.org/
https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-sh-bible
Could that just be... delaying the inevitable? Sorry to phrase it like that. At some point your daughter has to come into contact with others. If it's a social effect -- and I suspect it is -- then exposure to the self-image issues, or bullying, or status competition, or whatever it is at work here, might just lead to suicides when exposed to these things in college, rather than in high school. While the focus is mostly on teenagers, young adult women of college age, also seem to have been strongly affected by the pre-pandemic spike we were seeing already.
Installing bash will be just as hard in those situations.
> Also importantly, the gases are concentrated at power plants.

This is an important observation. With a centralized power plant you can take measures that would not be feasible/economical for individual cars.
It's not so much the Linux kernel that's monolithic, but the Linux source code. Since drivers gets mainlined, they become part of the Linux stability guarantee. When a significant fraction of the source code is drivers for specialized devices (i.e. AMD GPUs), the development process takes on the characteristics of an extreme monolith that requires coordination of many different teams.
Clubhouse didn't have 3.8B users.. why would they have 3.8B phone numbers?

This whole thing seems made up.
Seems the further east the spicer mustard gets - Russian mustard seems to be quite similar to what I tried in Chinese restaurants in US (but a lot thicker, the stuff in Chinese restaurants is runny).

By comparison German stuff is much sweater. Horseradish sauces are another matter though!
The failure of the Greenland settlements on the west coast has been documented: the settlers insisted on raising crops and animals that were not suited to the climate, and eventually they starved or moved east again.

They refused to learn from the Inuit residents of Greenland, who were adapted to those conditions and survived just fine. Why? We can't be certain but probably religious and/or racial prejudice did play some role in that.
be your own phone company
I was just thinking about this today as I prepare for another transatlantic flight: we seem to all be planning for a time when mask mandates and lockdowns are over.

But what if they're never over?

The US and Western Europe have, by now, enough high-quality vaccine for everyone, and we're all stuck at, what, 60% of the population vaccinated?

A bunch of people died, a bunch of people went broke, but during this pandemic the rich have mostly gotten a whole lot richer. Even the rich who don't think of themselves as rich: own a house in Silicon Valley, have a dozen years of 401K and some stock -- these people have done very well.

We have to fight the virus; but we also have to fight the anti-vaxxers and the apathetic, and we have to do it in a world where the people with real power are actually gonna be just fine if everything locks down for four months out of every year.

I've started trying to imagine life in that kind of future. Say two lockdowns every year, in a good year it's a month each time, in a bad year maybe you're locked in your apartment half the time, and that's for people who get their booster shot every year.

Maybe forever. What does society look like in that scenario?
I was about to ask for help understanding why the East India Company needed to sell anything in China? Why not just buy the tea/porcelain/etc in China and sell it in Europe for a profit?

But in writing that question, I think I got the answer. With what money would the company buy the Chinese goods? They can’t pay with European money if there is nothing the Chinese want to buy from Europe. And they can’t acquire Chinese money without selling them something.
looks awesome. thank you
Supports the "Hell is other people" theory.
The former is relevant to the point when the trip itself will take half a decade.
As in other countries, drug law reform is divided along political lines. The center-right president of Colombia favors old school eradication policies; left-leaning parties want to legalize. They both have their constituencies to please, but one has to wonder which constituency benefits from the ongoing war on drugs?
Pick and place was one of the very first of the modern roboticization era in the 80s. That’s more going after an existing market than this.
How would you demonstrate that observationally?

Science isn't just asking "what if...?" It's following up with "... and how could I demonstrate that?" The third step is then "how do I communicate that to others?"

In the domain of chemistry, there's a wonderful example of that in Michael Faraday's "The Chemical History of a Candle". YouTube's EngineerGuy (Bill Hammack) has a wonderful recreation of Faraday's public demonstration of these properties. It seems obvious and pedestrian now, but that's because Faraday introduced us to these concepts and convinced us, collectively, of their fundamental truth. He gives us the hypothesis, he gives us the observable consequence, and he then demonstrates that consequence. Six-part series starting here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RrHnLXMTOWM

I've already answered your question, as it happens:

Looking out in space is looking back in time. Numerous phenomena support very strong consistency of physical constants to all observable levels. lizknope mentioned on HN recently naturally-occurring fission reactions on Earth about a billion years old or so. Those provide direct physical validation of physical constants as well.

That is, we have zoomed out time, using telescopes, looking back in the Universe 13.772 billion years (9.2 billion older than the Earth's own age). And there's no observable change in any of the fundamental physical constants that we can detect over this range.

But since you've repeated the question twice: why do you ask?
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion, from Cialdini.

A good book to grasp the meaning of influence on other people (or from them upon you)
It's not families living in San Francisco. It's single, urban professionals and engineers. I don't like that people aren't really having families anymore, but just pretending that it's still the 70s doesn't exactly work either.
Actually making 0 means you have a rather fixed assets depreciation and some base appreciation that follows the market.

We don't rent a place because there is a cost in managing the renter too, and a single bad renter would probably wipe all the gains.
This is interesting, but I have many questions.

First of all, as a premise, to me the only practical question of interest is, "which technology is better for the long term health of ecosystems". Greenhouse emissions are one critical factor among many that need to be considered when asking this question.

Given that, how does one accurately compare the relative environmental impact of greenhouse emissions versus that of heavy metals, plastics and other synthetic substances that result from the mass production and distribution of batteries and charging stations? I have never seen a convincing explanation of how this comparison could be done in a principled, empirical way.

Even putting aside the issue of being able to compare across pollutant types, are we able to confidently forecast the potential energy costs associated with the future remediation, reclamation, and/or storage of these substances?

Given that many of these materials and production biproducts (cadmium, mercury, lithium processing biproducts, PCBs, etc.) have catastrophic health effects on both humans and animals, how do we account for the energy costs of attempting to fix, manage or avoid those potential health and long-term ecosystem consequences?

If there is an agreed upon scale for comparing the environmental risk of plastic and heavy metal waste to that of emissions, where can I read about it? How was it determined, by which organizations, and what are the standards? Is there a "time preference" included as a parameter in the risk model? Do we account for worst case potential effects of bioaccumulation? and so on...

tldr: great news for EVs, greenhouse emissions are a serious issue, but how can we be certain that we have the right relative risk model?
Tesla Supercharger network opening to other manufacturers
There is always a reason why <insert groundbreaking and game changing technology> has not been widely adopted.

If it was all upside, the established players, in this case home builders, would have already incorporated it to gain a competitive advantage.

I am guessing there are downsides such as cost of materials, expertise, mold, or something that keeps this from being an economical solution.
How does Jack live with himself? Is Twitter getting paid by publishers? I guess he’s just your typical liberal democrat, after all. All talk no guts.
All the while the long standing institutions that make Harvard Square what it is continue to shut down, only to be replaced by bank branches and national chains. This isn't really a new development, it's been happening since at least the 1980s, but has become much more apparent in the last 15 years.
Floc is rolling out already? Wasn't it delayed until 2023
TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring a VP of Eng for a new product
>One could argue that in person schooling should be an option moving forward.

Would that have an impact longer term / have any other consequences?

I feel like there's just so much more to this than 'more suicides, in person school optional now... problem solved?'

For someone contemplating suicide is just not going to school a solution to their struggles?
This could be a mass or a volume problem, actually there are some other things that could limit the problem statement but those are the obvious ones. But the problem is too general to solve. It really just depends on what you want to do with the ping pong balls and the airplane after you filled the airplane. That’s the critical piece of information that’s missing that should be provided. Otherwise you end up with a bunch of solutions that technically meet the problem parameters but don’t actually solve a real problem
Suppose you have two classes, A and B. They are sufficiently complex to merit their own modules.

Suppose you have some method of A which does something special if it gets an instance of B, and vice versa. Now you have a circular import problem; glhf
It’s not depressing, it’s wonderful. Google’s abject failure in almost every area is great. They have nearly unlimited resources and a fantastic (though but as great as they think) engineering pool. It would suck if they managed to successfully attack adjacencies.
You could said the same for every language.
I suppose I'd agree with that, but then we have to start talking about what we mean by "bad" -- bad for whom; bad to do what with?

I once watched the action movie Pacific Rim with a friend who told me she didn't like it because it didn't have enough story and character development. She's right that it doesn't have much of that, but it also was never trying to. It may not have been the movie for her, but that isn't the same as being a bad - poorly executed - movie. Transformers, on the other hand, is bad at achieving even what it sets out to achieve. Much easier to call that bad, in my view.
Personal Sustainability Quiz
Drug cartels
Weapons dealers
Police, military, prison industrial complex
Most studies are flawed and bias. It is the conclusions that counts even if it is on shaky premises. This study is just to back EU to change their policy more on renewables and support EVs in general. Basically, propaganda disguise in sci-wolf skin.
If there is industry backing, it will happen. The coming generation of programmers (and hence the future of the kernel) are nowhere as near enthused to program in C as they're Rust, so this transition is inevitable given time. Especially if the kernel should not slowly die out over the decades, stuck permanently to a fossilised language.
It’s also, like, trivial: as far as I can tell, this is just a very basic description of how a call stack works mixed in with advertising calls to action.
Umm, the forward limit and forwarded indicator is in place in India for a few years due to mob killings, but IMO it didnt do anything visible.
but this team hasn't shown any quantum effects in their fractal chip that you wouldn't expect from a normal chip, right?

this is analogous to saying that 'all hexagons turn to ice when frozen' and then freezing a hexagon made of water. we already knew that water freezes to ice, we haven't discovered a novel property of hexagons
“Unearthed” Boeing Industrial Film from 1975
There's a perfectly good Saturn V rocket sitting right now at the Rocket Park, NASA Johnson Space Center.

Why didn't they just use that?

What a waste of money.

https://spacecenter.org/exhibits-and-experiences/nasa-tram-t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aAxALzVJYo
If tou put the CF in between will not pay the egress. But will be better to Hetzer be part of the alliance.
That study is somewhat alarming, but I think they were only looking specifically at parts of the brain related to smell and taste, not the brain as a whole, as stated here:

"Based on prior expectations based on animal models and post mortem findings, we chose to focus a priori our primary analyses on a subset of 332 regions-of-interest (297 of which passed the reproducibility thresholding) from the available IDPs that anatomically corresponds to the telencephalic primary and secondary connections of the olfactory and gustatory cortex"
Maybe scihub was a protoevent quickly dying but spreading the way to do on other official places.
Because they encourage users to upload their contacts so they can connect them on the platform. At one point when it was invite-only these uploaded contacts were the only way to invite friends.
> Now you have a circular import problem; glhf

But why not collapse into a single module at this point if you can’t avoid dependency? What are the separate modules adding at this stage forward?
Real estate isn’t instantly scalable. It takes years of planning and decades of execution to create a truly scalable city.

With stores, they’re squeezed on both ends: Pressure from online retailers and then exorbitant rents.

It’s not unusual to have monthly rents that go into mid-five figures for a small store at ground level.

Few small businesses can sustain that in the long term.
The Design of Everyday Things – Donald Norman
Why the Dow Jones Is a Lousy Index
Global Industrial output per capita reaches a peak around 2008, followed by a rapid decline
Global Food per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline
Global Services per capita reaches a peak around 2020, followed by a rapid decline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth#Conclusio...

Doesn't look like any of their conclusions are coming true. At what point do we start questioning their assumptions and models?
Absolutely, free will may be a feeling and largely due to incomplete knowledge and not fundamental.

But is it the simpler explanation? That is hard to answer. On the one hand Many Worlds is "simple" and deterministic, on the other hand the complexity of the universe is so much greater. A stochastic model like GRW is also simple in the sense there is only one world, and all particles have a regular chance of random collapse. Also Many Words doesn't just provide the (classical picture)*(number of worlds), so it isn't even that "simple". There is nonlocal structure to the global wavefunction. The worlds don't split into any possible worlds; if one splits one way the others have to split into the other possible choices. These global correlations are nonlocal AFAIK - I know the MWI is nonlocal but I have a hard time understanding David Wallace, Lev Vaidman, and Tim Maudlin who all say it is nonlocal. The precise nature of the nonlocality is hard to understand (for me), but it is nonlocal!
Maybe they were the first to discover the problem?
> I doubt a heart can learn but maybe it can.

That's a very interesting question! (Do we have here some biologist that can try it?)

The difference between an isolated organism and a part is sometimes no so clear. For example in Clonal Colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony Is each trunk of Pando a different organism? Why not each branch? (Plants do very nasty things to other plants, but in slow motion. It's nice to see time lapses videos of plants "fighting".) Most examples of clonal colonies are plants, some of them have specialized members and some have identical members. If you prefer animals, one nice example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war
Yes, it is unfortunate. Loading modules can have side effects as the loaded module is allowed to execute arbitrary code at load time. This is also a source of ordering issues.

Maybe some think this is only a theoretical problem and doesn't happen with "well-written" libraries. Well, here is one example which bit me in the past: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4706614/767442
There was something very off before the pandemic. Girls were already diverging sharply from the historical norm and from boys over the last few years: https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/cms/attachme... "Sex- and Age-specific Increases in Suicide Attempts by Self-Poisoning in the United States among Youth and Young Adults from 2000 to 2018". It's disproportionately a specific method (poisoning) and it is gender-localized and somewhat social class-localized. This hints at a social contagion.
Do you guys mind not providing links to website that insist that you they allow you to every damn data collection agency to track you before you enter?
Overly restrictive zoning is killing neighborhoods.

North America needs more housing and less retail. But the market can’t respond because zones are too restrictive.
It likely stemmed from changes in US drug policy. It’s good to see liberalization cross-pollinating between countries.