skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeesh. I don’t know about “proof” but the paper that came just this month from UC Davis vis a vis viral load among the vaccinated is sobering. I just saw it this morning.

I don’t understand why one would view the presence of comorbidities as a reason to say what you said above, as if those people do not exist. There might be a case that a highly resource constrained society would want to limit vaccination among children to those with comorbidities.
We need a better popular understanding of "hobbies," because it conflates a bunch of highly sophisticated activities, and dismisses them as neutral distractions from laboring for the profit of others. The underlying presumption is that your identity is labour you get paid for, and anything you don't get paid for is somehow inessential to who you are. It's an impoverished worldview based on scarcity and ignores growth.
A hobby is only a distraction if you have internazlied an identity as the subject of some supervisor, and that "free time," comes as a treat or a reward from some other unspecified party, as though you were just a pet doing tricks for approval. Treating them diminuitively is just a polite way of not embarassing other people who are unable to manage their time as well or enrich their own lives to the same degree. Personally, I don't have hobbies, I just do a lot of things, and so I manage my time to do them, and adopting that worldview lets you do more of them.
If you struggle with markdown and tables, get a rich text editor.

What file format do you suppose we should use instead? I don't want to have a heavy client just to render the contents
And we hire people of any ethnicity, as long as they don't look different.

/s
23 Years of GDAL Today
Ractors don't offer very good performance yet. Better to have it be awesome right off the bat
Halfway around the globe is 20 000 km. Which would be (0.97^20)–(0.98^2)) = 54–66% efficiency. Not good, but still better than what I expected.
You're a Failure. So?
Why are you throwing out numbers like that while complaining about other people's unsourced information?

You are also using a strawman argument. I said people should focus on areas of great impact, not "nobody has to do anything." I'm beginning to think you are not interested a credible discussion.

This link refutes your assertion of ExxonMobil (they are responsible for 1.68% of global emissions), as well as answering why "the peasants pay renewable energy tax."

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/08/companies-highest-c...

> Exxon Mobil, which accounted for 1.98% of global emissions, the sixth highest percentage, ranked ninth among the top spending oil and gas companies, according to an OpenSecrets analysis of the IPCC report. The company’s PAC contributed $1.1 million to federal candidates in 2020, 78% of which went to Republicans. It also contributed $165,000 to other PACs and party committees last year, 97% of which went to Republican groups.
>as seen in the chemical and microbiological tests that were conducted.

Why would these tests be conclusive?

Why would these tests be trusted in the first place? (Given that finding a reproducible research paper without errors and bad methodologies is a crapshot)

Was there a conflict of interest that could influence presenting them as safe? (e.g. was this the same lab that developed them and sell them as a solution, or an independent lab with nothing to gain from their success?)

Can these bacteria mutate (and potentially become harmful)?
Optimizing Dungeons and Dragons battle strategies with AI
tuned does not automatically change the profile based on load, so it kind of has a different behavior. The point of auto-cpufreq is to give you power when needed and then switch back to powersave otherwise.

Or am I wrong?
I believe gas plants are already used to stabilise grids, as they have the benefit of being able to come online quickly.

They do depend on subsidies, however, as the idea is they would be mostly offline.
No, they didn't adopt pkg/errors into the stdlib. pkg/errors did get updated to work nicely with the changes that they did incorporate

https://pkg.go.dev/errors
It's concurrent not parallel. The switch won't happen inside the execution of one opcode including some dictionary update operations so it's safe in many cases where parallel execution isn't.
They are not similar at all.

We know its possible to have a fusion reactor, we would just have to dump enough mass together to build a sun. Hopefully we can make it more cost effective.

There isn't a natural phenomena that solves a problem by encoding it and (ab)using quantum physics.
Now add an error to foo and have x=0 as a valid return value, or even worse, having to deal differently with different errors.
> Are you talking about adjustments in hardware by drivers which can't even detect if my laptop is not connected to power source anymore and continue running on maximum frequency?

I am talking about hardware power control in general. I wouldn't expect hardware power control itself to make different decisions based on plugged-in or not: that's a decision delegated to the user via the OS. HWP only implements low-level control based on the parameters set by something higher up.

I don't know if I'll watch the video, but you should make clear in your README what this tool actually does. Saying that it adjusts frequency dynamically isn't very useful. Telling people to disable `intel_pstate` without further comment is extremely suspect since then you're giving up HWP at an unknown cost.

If this simply adjusts the power governor when the laptop is plugged/unplugged, just say that!
The funny ID thing was necessary when zettelkastens were physical cards in a box that you need to keep in order so that you can look them up. Digital zettelkasten apps have largely dropped the ID systems, you link cards just by their name, and you can use folders or internal headers for ordered structure when you want it.
Have you ever read the source material? If not, you should, and if you have, you still should, since that was a quote
Of course, I don't mean to imply that all software developers went to school for cs, or went to school at all. Just doing a Fermi estimation.
>didn't Aqua introduce the dock, the most useless UI element on desktop?

No, that would be NeXT OS. Through the NeXT dock had different look, and slightly different behavior.
When we discover novel failure points in the complex, chaotic global climate system about once a year, why are you so sure that there aren't undiscovered biologic or geologic climate regulating mechanisms that will buffer the geologically recent greenhouse spike and maintain a livable temperature range?

That's the danger of a rigid, politically enforced orthodoxy. Your research becomes extremely one sided. And in a non-empirical field your speculation can go pretty far off into the deep end before you're proven wrong; especially when all of your predictions require hundreds of years to measure with any certainty.

Life has persisted through dozens (if not hundreds) of climate disturbances, and even though temperature swings look like blips when plotted, they most likely occur over hundreds-thousands of years. There are proposed mechanisms by which a sudden global temperature increase may in fact trigger an ice age through various geologic or globally biologic phenomena. You wont see much published on that side of the climate conjecture, but a lack of literature in the modern research climate does not imply invalidity.
I’m not convinced, essentially I’m saying businesses that have higher growth rates will get more investment and consequently pay higher salaries. For example the best developers already know their worth and I would suspect paying well to on average be correlated with better software. If you’re paying your developers $300k+ you’re likely to also remunerate yourself similarly well.

I’d really be surprised if paying top rate for devs isn’t associated with more successful companies but sure, some will waste their investment in the wrong places and some will be trying to artificially enrich themselves, maybe even faking growth numbers which I’d be surprised if it doesn’t happen a lot.

As for me if I’m doing a startup I’d prefer to be more mission driven and keep all of the equity for myself and the founding team or as much as possible.
What's it missing? You're apparently a delicate genius so enlighten us all please.
For sure - my point is, that presumes there is enough volume or an economic need to make that sort of infrastructure investment worthwhile (not even dollars, but energetically). Getting the direct equipment let alone supporting equipment there is going to be very, very expensive in energy. For one trip back, or even 5, it’s unlikely to pay off unless there is some cool super miniaturization tech and we’re not in a hurry - and that assumes everything keeps working over multiple missions.

And if we have all that, getting a mobile lab there and sending back bits instead of physical chunks of things is even easier.

You’d also need to get chemical feedstocks and process them (namely to extract the hydrogen, which is not readily available in the Martian atmosphere but is in the soil in various amounts in minerals and small amounts of dispersed water and methane ice) which would be non-trivial and a huge hassle to get even on Earth where you can go outside and smack the machinery with a shovel or stick your arm in somewhere to unclog something.

The existing Mars rovers struggle sometimes with dust on solar panels, let alone a broken bolt in a crusher due to harder than expected rocks or the like.

Having done some basic mining and a lot of earth moving over the years, it’s an incredible pain in the ass.

It’s also rare you don’t periodically need a human getting hands on, and using every bit of dexterity and strength they have to fix something. Robotic tech is nowhere near good enough to do this remotely.

So at a small, very very very slow scale? Maybe?

There are a lot of cool thought problems from all this, and some cool potential solutions. My fav is Project Orion [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propu...]

And we’ll just have to see what happens.
What Is Vagus Nerve Stimulation?
I use it 'cus it's secure and it was easy to set up.
Easy way to self-host apps
Let me just add - WireGuard is for the crazy ones. It's for misfits. It's for rebels. It's for troublemakers. It's for round pegs in the square holes. It's for people who see things differently. It's for people who aren't fond of rules. It's for people who have no respect for the status quo.
Sleep: having a fixed bedtime that enables me to wake up without an alarm.

Diet: Avoiding bread and dairy, as well as sugary stuff like soft drinks.

Exercize: Gym 3 or 4 times/week, plus climbing once or twice a week.
i have never done that on my own volition.

https://kashmirglacier.com/2019/12/16/internet-gag-kashmir-h...
>A photo service is just somebody else who owns printers and charges you a markup.

It's somebody else who owns much hiqher quality printers that you would buy, and who charges everybody for a markup (so it gets spread).

It's usually cheaper to print in such a service than to buy printer+ink+paper and print - and with better results.
And the document writes "45.8" as their yearly VOC emissions rate from that pretreatment plant, page 44.

Do you see any reason to disagree with this 45.8 number?

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If you do have beef with other blogposts / other things (It seems like you want to talk about the power plant), you're welcome to do so. But my earlier points in this thread are rather specific to this #16 blogpost.
Why is multithreaded performance important, what are the usecases where you cannot run multiple processes to spread your numbercrunching across CPUs?

I am praying for CPython to become faster. But I need faster singlethreaded performance, so web applications benefit from it.
This is unnecessary doomerism. Yes our situation is not exactly the brightest but is doomposting on HN really the best action you can take?

Humans will still be around to see the planet warm. The question is will individuals & society band together to limit that warming & adapt?
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense that Gods can be falsifiable the same way a good scientific theory is.
In order to measure effectiveness of keeping up, we would also need something to measure against. I don't think we have past data on the topic, so at the minimum we would need years to see changes over time.
Explicit Quantification of Existential Sizes
We're talking about the website here, not the file format. .md is the top-level-domain for Moldova, Obsidian.md exists at that address by the good graces of the Moldovan government.
I wanted to come and say the same thing
Communicating between processes is more expensive than communicating between threads.
> SpaceX is a business however

SpaceX has been described as a company with a Mars cult inside of it.

I think it's more fair to say that it's a Mars cult that has organized a company.

If you think that SpaceX won't do hydrocarbon generation on Mars, then you don't understand why SpaceX exists.
That's a good point, and definitely happens in places where I've worked.

On the other hand, I think Facebook is pretty good about constantly reevaluating metrics and trying to make sure that they track what the company actually cares about. The mechanism for this is partially embarrassment avoidance. If there are obvious egregious examples of violations that are not tracked by metrics, employees loudly complain and the company culture expects those responsible to explain what went wrong and how it will be fixed (better metrics).

From what I've seen in practice, this usually results in changing the engagement metrics rather than the well-being metrics. For example FB changed most raw engagement metrics to "authentic engagement" metrics at some point while I was there. Instead of counting total likes, you count likes from accounts that are not deemed to have participated in "inauthentic engagement" (you can read FB's blog for definitions).
> It probably wasn't intentional, just incidental.

The reason people assume intent is because such things often enough are intentional. Making your product harder to interoperate with outside of your control is a well-established practice for SaaS companies, particularly the big ones[0].

The reason this blog post has a story is not because this behavior is surprising, but because it's annoying, and because it can be construed as an accessibility issue - accessibility being the only excuse for having sane computing experience that won't be dismissed as "silly power users with their silly wishes".

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[0] - See e.g. the lengths to which Facebook goes to make it hard to work with its DOM.
multiple processes use a lot more memory than threads
Looks like the high-voltage transmission lines are very efficient, losing only a few percent over hundreds of miles:

http://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how-...

There's a good watch on pumped hydro, and how it is kinda sucky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66YRCjkxIcg

Battery storage is the most likely thing, although there is also kinetic storage (flywheels) and some other ideas as well (ultracapacitors, for instance).
I wonder if there are any predictors of who will do better when things destabilize, for example does vertical integration provide a strong advantage? If so what is the tipping point, how much vertical integration is needed?
How do you know it's a "key" step unless you've solved the problem and proved there's no other way to do it?
Sure, experiments will always be the ultimate arbiter of truth. But if you don’t “visit the territory”, you’ll never know that your map is wrong. The map has been challenged in many many ways that seemed more impossible than large scale QC, and the map turned out to be right.

Backwards time travel isn’t possible in general relativity, though, making very mild and physically plausible assumptions about the spacetime. Same in semiclassical quantum gravity.
Aggregating the most favorited favorites might lead to uncovering some hidden gems.
I work with this guy who’s sort of an “automation” guy. He’s responsible for automating or at least partially automatic really complex processes. I’ve seen the guy automate away whole departments. Generally speaking my point is that he delivers huge value for the company. And a few months ago his supervisor emailed me asking if I could send in recommendation for him as he was up for a promotion, so I created quite a detailed list of all the things we’ve worked on and how they drove substantial business value. And I fully expected this guy to get promoted…and he didn’t. The board rejected his promotion.

My theory is that he’s too valuable where he is, and that they don’t want to move him elsewhere. But he just got an offer down the road somewhere else and will be putting in his notice next week.
I'm not sure philosophers need to be good at math. Art, on the other hand, often requires rather a lot of math, depending on how it is done. I dare say there's plenty of programmers who are weak in Algebra specifically but who have been able to adapt despite that.

All the special program I saw in American schools were more about who you were than what you could do, so I can't see any reason to expect "tracking" to be any different.
>In fact, the whole programmer's fetish with writing everything with a plain terminal text editor needs to die. Markdown, YAML, JSON, INI files. It's the year 2021 for christ's sake, and we're composing documents with tools designed for green CRTs!

Alternative take for this same sentiment: It's the year 2021, why has nobody figured out better ways to present knowledge than simple text files?
> Do lidar driving systems have objectively better performance?

In one sense yes: accurate ranging is an inherent capability of a lidar system that a passive optical system needs additional algorithms to achieve (e.g., simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)).

In an active system like lidar you know when you’ve transmitted energy and you can measure the delay until you receive an attenuated version of it scattered from objects in the environment. And you know the velocity of the energy so you can solve for distance.
> "Powersave" means saving power, it doesn't mean saving energy.

Powersave means saving energy (for a given amount of work), despite the name. Any other behavior is a bug. It usually saves energy by running at a lower frequency, where the frequency/watt and work/joule are better (those aren't the same: there is a region where the first is better but the latter is worse, and you want to avoid that!).

"Race to sleep" isn't binary: it's not a choice between the slowest supported speed and the fastest. Rather, you can select any supported speed. The fastest speeds (usually north of 3 GHz) will almost never provide the best work/joule, regardless of whether you sleep earlier.
Yeah but that was because the program running on Earth was corrupted by the presence of the Golgafrinchans arriving in prehistoric times, thus corrupting the output.
Zig gamedev project – left my job to build games in Zig lang
I'm using Zig language full-time to create an indie game. Also, I've created zig-gamedev project to build game development ecosystem for this language. Using DirectX 12 for rendering, Bullet for physics. I'm ex-AAA game developer and graphics programmer.
Yes, it does.

https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/
That was a bit of retcon though - I remember Adams saying it was just a random number he saw on a fridge, or something equally inconsequential.
I use gjots2, a hierarchical plain text note taker. If I need photos, LaTex, inline math, or such, I use Zim -- a local desktop wiki. And of course, I use text files, permanent and otherwise.

The nice thing about both gjots2 and Zim, is that their source files read almost as easily as text. This is especially true for gjots2.

I like the hierarchical arrangement of gjots2. I still have Ctrl-F if I want to search, but sometimes in browsing a category, I find things I would not have found with search -- sometimes how I refer to things changes with time -- and I've got many years of gjots entries.

I do not, as gjots author Bob Hepple does, keep separate topics in separate gjots files -- one big tree in the left panel holds all topic headings.
I'm not saying other countries don't have issues. I'm saying that the anglosphere is unusually unable to make difficult decisions. When other places have issues (financial crisis or large company bankruptcy events) they get on with them. For the last 12 years we've sat on low interest rates because no one wants the short term pain of putting them up even though that just makes it worse in the long term.

Take Ireland: big sovereign debt issue after 2008. No issue today because they got on with austerity and bounced back. Iceland (I believe) also made tough decisions (allowed bankruptcies). The Dutch aren't running their whole economy around keeping ABN Amro afloat either.

That's the issue here: everyone makes mistakes but do you take the hit and clean up or pretend it isn't a problem and just keep extending credit...
I read the site and frankly I can't really figure out what this does for me especially over obsidian.
>Did the Nineties really feel like a period of stability? Or does it just feel like chaos now because I’m an adult?

Yes, the nineties did feel like a period of stability.

In some countries this went well into 2005 or so.

In others, like the US, I guess 2001 (9/11) was a major turning point.

And after the 2008 crisis, things went downhill faster.
First step to solving a problem is acknowledging that the problem exists. It feels like you have yet to take that first step.
I'm not sure ads work out financially for netflix. They currently get ~$120 per year per subscriber.

Even google only earns $130 per user, and their ads are worth considerably more because they target the most valuable ads on user purchase intent (for search at least, where they get most revenue).
Sometimes I wonder if some sort of legislation could fix this trend of abstracting users away from the web (and from software, and from hardware).

Beyond just "the right to repair" we also need "the right to access the web", and "the right to run old versions of software and OSes", and so on.
I sympathise with your desire to separate the private and the public, but where somebody is a deadbeat dad to the point that they seem genuinely unsure how many kids they have, you would question whether they are responsible enough for the job, even if they weren't as feckless and flippant as Boris Johnson.

As conservative prime ministers go, he'd be one of the better ones in recent memory if it wasn't for awful timing. The UK had about twice the death toll as france and germany in the last couple of years, and it's hard not to blame that on Boris, and those around Boris, essentially being the wrong guys for the job. When it's serious, you need serious people making the decisions, and I don't think anybody, Boris included, genuinely thinks he's a serious person.
> Until recently, the sophisticated technology had been overlooked by Western science.

This feels like an overstatement. Fish traps are a very well-understood technology, and we've always known coastal people used them. This discovery is significant because of its scale, and how the site itself was overlooked, not because it represents evidence of previously-ignored technology.
I can't to hear how this goes wrong. Hopefully no data leaking this time round.

Anyone have bingo sheet suggestions? At this point "Racist AI" is the free square
Which people? The ones that want to get rich at the expense of others, or the ones the former bamboozle into believing this is how tech should work?
It's not really fake, it's just mass gambling. Capitalism by speculation isn't good for society, but it's good for those who can afford to take risky bets and always come out ahead in the long run. We have an economy that values speculation above labor or property. It's not fake, it's just evil.