skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The size difference can be substantial.

I have an Antec something-500 from 15 years ago and a Caselabs ITX case that is larger (for custom cooling, etc - I never did use the space) and in 2018 transplanted the guts into a SFF from Sliger and I could fit four of my new case into the Caselabs case - and they are commanding quite the premium in the afterlife.

Height and Width are less than my MacBook Pro (deeper of course but still only 13.5cm)

I don't compromise on much, sure there's only a single PCIe slot but it's got a full size GPU in it (rx5700 reference design), a 650W Gold modular (SFX) power supply. RAM is 16G (lots for my use case - the MB is 2015, not sure it supports more - but with 64G sticks I don't think two slots is much of a limit), a M2 PCIe drive and a separate 2.5" SSD, two Noctua 120mm case fans and a decent after market CPU cooler. It's quiet and it runs cool.

Lastly on price. A good quality power supply is going to run you 150-200 and most decent cases are in the 150-200 range without a power supply anyways. These are small run manufacturers too so that makes them pricy too, but they'll last 5-10 years (eg a couple of MB upgrades) so worth the investment to some.

They are a pain in the ass to build in though :). (The Ghost looks a bit easier but wasn't really available at the time)
For someone who wants to die constantly, you seem very concerned about taking good care of your body and health.

Not insulting you, I know how weird and contradictory humans can be. It's just interesting.
Sorry, I don't trust this guy. It was just explained how he uses social media to manipulate the story he tells.

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/an-unexpected-victor...
Fast turnaround, got my invite today!
This was just discussed yesterday also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29007821
Like Alphabet
They were for sale so it's not really about the showcase. This ain't for all synth heads this is for the teenage engineering enthusiast synthheads.
"Nowadays I tend to not work so much during the day as I don't have the means to focus, then work into the night. "

And be nevertheless woken up early in the morning by your toddlers ...
It wasn't a particularly cheap stunt then, but it ended up being worth the publicity. I think a similar stunt now, in a world of highly reliable machines and always-on media, just wouldn't gather enough attention to make the cost worth it. Basically, I think they were on the tail end of people caring about this kind of thing.
>...Is it irrational that this makes me a little anxious about job security over the longterm?

Noone knows what future holds, so some anxiety is just a fuel for adaptation.

For example, should Copilot take a widespread use, the number and scale of projects that will have to be maintained expands too. Moreover, making sense of the quilt patchwork of bits and pieces of code, I'd guess, written in many iterations/versions of Copilot's prowess is a very much a secure, if soul-killing, job for many. Not much different from what maintenance jobs are now. You're lucky when a project retains some clear overspanning architecture/style.

Anybody remembers the joys of GUI wizards, with tons of auto-generated code that "just works, just now"? Remember that desire to suggest a healthy rewrite? Well, now you could probably also promise that it would be an even quicker rewrite too!

But even then, the final responsibility for the code is on the programmer. One maybe could forge the code quicker, but code review is still supposed to be a human's job. Hopefully.
I genuinely wonder why Facebook thinks that using that term is a smart thing, considering that Snow Crash is a pretty heavily dystopian novel where everything is owned and run by corrupt, powerful, and abusive corporations.

It really seems like they're tipping their hand here.
“cause reduced private ownership of large companies, resulting in a reduced ability to handle 100-year flood events.”

How the market speculation on the value of a company can affect its resiliency ? If tomorrow everyone sold Apple stock for 1 cent, why would Apple the company care ? Same revenue, same costs. Give me a break with the importance of the stock casino.
I think he applied to work there and was rejected, as opposed to applying as a student.
Works for me but lots of friends saying that.
So you're telling me that you think that people have kids so that the government gives them money?
Poor people don't get deep into drugs, aren't involved in numerous parasitic relationships, don't get arrested or do dumb things? That's only something rich people get deeply involved in?

Of course not, it's just no one cares when a poor person does it. The reason we care about when rich people do it is precisely because we don't expect someone who is rich and seems to have it all to get into these situations, and the reality is that for the most part, they don't.
Rich is better than famous. Plenty of people are quietly rich and basically just go about their business and live their lives, secure in the knowledge that there's money in the bank if they need it.

There's no such thing as quietly famous. Many of pitfalls of being rich & famous, like greedy enablers and a larger-than-life lifestyle, stem from the "famous" part.
Most missions aren't manned. If your equipment is cheap enough, you can just send more and achieve reliability through numbers. If you don't have to optimize for mass so hard, you can achieve reliability through cheaper means - e.g. simplifying heat management by bolting on a larger radiator; simplifying radiation effects mitigation by having multiple CPUs running the same calculations and voting on results, and/or making thicker rad insulation. Etc.
You have it backwards. Rents are revenue accrued due to the ownership of a resource, such as grants, subsidies, tax breaks and loaning or leasing an asset. Optimising out excesses is minimising the holding of assets, so it’s directly antithetical to rent seeking strategies.
To be fair, once a century refers to average, it is by no means a guarantee that it will be a century before the next crisis.
This is going to be the Futurama metaverse where you have to fight ads everywhere to go.
"5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker."

This claim demands great evidence.
I assumed he meant rejected as a job candidate.
From what I've read of schizophrenia[1] it is highly inherited and unlikely that any drug would cause it. A sufficient amount of stress is known to trigger or quicken the emergence of schizophrenia in people already predisposed to it.

When it comes to studying this, you have to separate out:

* The high rates of drug abuse by people with mental illness.

* The correlation drug use with other sources of stress. Drug use may not be the source, but a result of the source. (But I think we can all agree drugs probably aren't happening matters.)

* Misdiagnosis of temporary drug-induced psychosis as a permanent, incurable mental health illness.

* Race, sex, age, and location, since this all affect the normal rates of schizophrenia for each population group.

OR:

* Show a significant increases in rates that can't be explained by the above. (If this rate tripled, it's pretty clear something bad is happening.)

Very few studies do this, because it is very difficult and there is little incentive to do high quality research.

1: I'm bipolar which is sometimes considered to be on the same spectrum
It might me. If they are just called at random things are fine. However if you do a little work you can figure out who will support whatever position you want.

A few months ago I listened to one "expert panel" called before congress about high speed trail. Most of the people didn't have any useful expertise on the subject. There was the union rep who considered anything good so long as it makes jobs - if they could dig and refill the same hole all day that would be good). There was the you are not listening to NIMBYs enough - without any acknowledgement on how much NIMBYs had been listened to. There were several people who define HSR so slow that Amtrak meets it.

I believe the above is typical of congressional hearings, though I don't have 4 hours to sit through them on a regular basis. (I had a lot of long compiling tasks to do that day)
I didn't include that because I don't see a workable, viable proposal. My intention was to list futures that I can see actually happening.

I'm not against what you describe nor do I think it's mutually exclusive with option (3), but so far IMHO leftists have offered no solution to some of the inherent problems of this vision.

The biggest one is how to make democracy work.

How do you do good work under a democratic model? The Soviet bureaucratic model isn't truly democratic and as every engineer knows nothing good ever comes from a committee. How can democratic governance produce efficient, polished, practical, cost effective outputs?

How do you avoid perverse incentives, runaway complexity, endless bikeshedding, or stagnation due to "vetocracy" like what exists with California housing? How do you prevent the seemingly natural formation of an oligarchy?

So far I don't think democracy has ever existed except at tribal scale (below Dunbar's Number). All former and current attempts are oligarchies with a degree of democratic veto power or a democratic facade.

I think this problem is closely isomorphic or maybe even identical to the open problem of efficient and secure fully decentralized computing and global consensus in distributed systems without hidden centralization or brute force approaches like Bitcoin proof of work. (... and Bitcoin PoW is in reality an oligarchy if you look at the largest pools ...)
I disagree about the design. The layout of the app is fine, and its very functional and easy to use. The only problem is the colors. That blue has to go.
Sometime science is stupid. You see they thought that since there was an increase activity of SOD enzymes after drinking Green Tea that it meant the EGCG was stimulating the enzyme directly.

What was in fact happening is that EGCG was creating more superoxides which the SOD enzyme needed metabolize so there was more SOD activity as a result.

This finding means they will have to rethink their assumptions in thousands of studies.
Do people still have LAN parties?
Mark probably wanted to call it "The Meta".
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I wonder if Europe will ever lift its Iron GDPR Curtain to allow its residents to access free-world websites!
> I've seen no social media that didn't eventually become toxic or that didn't feed on human attention

What about email?
I know people who got fucked up for years due to a single shroom or LSD trip. Some of them got sorted out eventually, others didn’t.
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this Ask HN is withdrawn. I found a flaw in my question.
Bullion's a decent thing for grownups to collect. ROI isn't great, but it's not nothing, won't go to zero when a generation of enthusiast dies, and there are some beautiful coins out there.
> I don't know if a slight price increase in graphics cards is the key issue to worry about at this point.

The price increase in graphics cards isn't related to this.

GMs trouble selling cars because they don't have enough chips to finish off the cars is a problem related to the pandemic and planning like the posts on Twitter note. The lack of new cars available has driven up prices on used cars. This is all supply chain driven.

> how unprecedented the issue is.

How unprecedented is it? In the last 130 years there have been two world wars and two global pandemics.

The US has now outsourced most of the production of goods to places in other countries. So, if something changes there (like the mask issues we had early in the pandemic) we have limitations here. And then there is the changes in posture of China where many of our things are manufactured. It wouldn't be unheard of, historically speaking, for that to impact businesses in the future.
Much of the effects of any intoxicant are culturally constructed. Alcohol is widely known for causing aggression, but this effect doesn’t seem to exist in cultures without that association. Nor does it exist in double-blind studies, yet the placebo group becomes more aggressive.

You can start with two chemically identical intoxicants, and either by marketing or random path dependencies one gains a reputation in the subculture for making people go crazy. You can bet that large number of people are going to act wild on it.

This is no different than the reputation different types of alcohol have garnered. Gin makes people mean. Whisky makes people emotional. Tequila makes people party like crazy. It’s all ethanol, but those cultural preconceptions become self-fulfilling prophecies.

In many ways that makes these rumor filled, science light, unsubstantiated media stories about “this is the most dangerous drug ever” incredibly irresponsible. The stories themselves create the cultural preconditions around encouraging more self-destructive behavior among users. This isn’t even just drugs. Look at the moral panic over Four Loko. The same cocktail of ethanol and caffeine has been consumed as amaro and coffee by rich women since time immemorial. Yet it never caused moral panic until the “wrong type of people” started consuming it.
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> According to friends, Hsieh used “as many as 50 cartridges of nitrous oxide a day, often in public, or during 'meetings' with people

I mean, it’s a lot, but I’m surprised it’s not higher. Each cartridge yields a minute, maybe two, of intoxication before a quick return to baseline.

Probably less intoxication than hits of ketamine with its half life of 1-2 hours.

But it may have been on top of other substance use. Nitrous use is just very overt.

The chronic nitrous use will make it extremely difficult to maintain adequate vitamin B12 levels. Nitrous is very effective at deactivating it, and diet doesn’t have a ton. B12 deficiency has lots of nasty neurological effects: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B12_deficiency

Even passive (same room) exposure to nitrous oxide leads to 25% reduced b12 levels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17951609/

Who the hell knows what else nitrous is oxidizing away over the long term.

Cartridges often have a little machine oil impurity that will add up when consuming the amount that would be in 1L of whipped cream 50x a day. Hopefully he acquired the good ones.
Are these features (properties, reified generics, extension methods etc.) implemented in C# or in Java?
this is how effective propaganda works
There are also a number of credible reports that Hughes had severely screwed up his lower back, spine and tendons, ligaments and musculature in earlier airplane crashes. Never properly treated, and medicated over the years with increasing amounts of self-administered drugs of his choice.
I thought he might have had a kid named Sasha and that it might be you. So yeah, I'd say it's confusing - you have to distinguish your own point of view (no doubt entirely clear on the point) from the rest of us who are looking at this with a lot less information and widely varying assumptions. Not everyone knows that he has died, for example.

Re Lilly - sorry for not being clearer - what I'm curious about is that you seemed to imply that at a certain point he was adversely affected by his own use of dissociatives, that it had some profound effect on him, and that he never fully recovered from it. I was curious to hear more about what happened there. I'm not super familiar with his work but I read a bit and found it to be a mixture of penetratingly lucid and completely unintelligible (mostly the latter).
I hear dystopia.com is a domain name that might be available for a good price. It probably is a better fit for the company brand anyways.
I'm going to keep calling them Facebook out of spite, since this doesn't distract me in the slightest for how toxic the company continues to be.

Instead of Metaverse, I'm going to call it Virtual Hell™.
Zuck and The Book have a lot of dumb, cringeworthy, failed initiatives that have nothing to do with those surprisingly high valued acquisitions a decade ago.
This isn't an elephant but it demonstrates the principle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVuU2YCwHjw

Epicycles were originally considered a good idea because it takes exactly two circles to make an ellipse, and Kepler's laws were satisfied by such an ellipse. They were "falsified,", in the two-cycle form, when closer observations revealed that Kepler's laws were not obeyed exactly. At that point, the choice was to either add more epicycles (working your way up to an elephant), or for Newton to discover universal gravitation.
Because it tries to rationalize or equivocate government debt with household debt. They are not the same for a whole bunch of reasons.

But lets go with this equivocation for a moment. It ignores an incredibly significant part of the equation to the affordability of debt. It always ignores the fact that the US is worth in excess of $200+ Trillion dollars and that combining all debt (personal, government, business) and getting an accounting of the Net Worth of the United States comes in around $141+ Trillion.

That is, we have a debt equal to our income and assets many multiples our current debt and income levels. I have a mortgage that is a multiple my income, so the US is doing much better than myself and I am quickly ascending the Net Worth ladder despite this debt.

It also ignores the fact that this money --specifically money spent directly on the welfare of citizens-- is investment in said citizens in order to continue to grow the wealth and prosperity of the country as a whole and keep us competitive with the rest of the world.

It makes zero sense NOT to improve the lives of as many American citizens as possible in a global economy.
The very article you cited disagrees! You said they have "an obligation to maximize shareholder profits" while the linked article says they have to "operate in the interests of the shareholders." Those are two very different things!

Hunt around for just a few minutes on the google search, "do corporations have a legal obligation to maximize share value," and you'll see that what you said is the myth that gets repeated -- this one link probably summarizes the argument against the myth in the most neutral way:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...
I wonder if this could be used for a post-exposure, post-symptoms rabies treatment.
This is completely backwards.

The large scale social interaction is courtesy of the internet not from Facebook.

For example websites like Reddit, HN, Twitter, TikTok etc are the ones that facilite interaction with large, broad groups of people whereas the majority of Facebook users are just interacting with their small social circle.
I’m still looking for a case and this one is pretty cute.

But of course I’m gonna complain about the price again. Even though this looks pretty innovative (I haven’t seen an “assemble yourself” construction like this before) and this looks something potentially leading to a huge price reduction (I’m gonna guess production cost is somewhere around the 10-25€ mark), it’s still … 200€??? Egh.

I guess they’re selling the brand.

But that’s also weird, because I would figure that people who care about the brand tend to not build their own computers (is this assumption wrong?), instead usually opting for the fruit brand.
Australia has had zero measles in 2021 due to Covid-19 border closure
I've not studied law or research related to this type of thing. I would say it is more of an emotional thing but not as reactionary as your "high heels ban" example.

I believe the core concept of essentially capping/limiting the wealth-storage potential of land ownership as a way to help "even the playing field" is fundamentally sound.

I think think the best case against this position is to point out the difficulty of implementing/enforcing it in a way that is not flawed in some way that makes it more trouble than it is worth. What I mean by that is that I think existing interests and powers would most likely find a way to maintain the status quo and that that way wouldn't necessarily be a net gain for everyone. But that, to me, says more about the system overall than about this specific idea.
While I agree that a lot of companies have been screwing up the supply chains and their providers (cough automotive cough), maybe we should not build extra widgets just to support events that happen 1 out of every 100 years.

Not every system is a critical system, not all systems require spare capacity.
I believe the claim is completely defensible and ultimately correct.

A) This was a multi-factoral event certainly but all of these other factor are "immediate causes" which can themselves be traced to absolute maximum return on equity as a more final cause.

B) No doubt "hard to restart" process are were involved. But the world relies on single-source, hard to restart, large scale production of many things today because these produce the highest returns for those who invest in them and the lowest prices for those who buy from them. And both kinds of actors have been willing to just stop producing rather than doing something that might be costly to keep production going (and they decided they didn't want backup before this for the same reason).

C) Supply lines that stretch around world exist as a combination of economies of scale and "labor market arbitrage" and both these are driven by return, even though "labor market arbitrage" doesn't increase efficiency or robustness.

D) Chip manufactures put money into "up-date" chip processes, notably leaving the sorts of chips actually used in cars woah fully under-invested and generally many sorts of lack of robustness can be traced down to money flowing only to the normally profitable. Shutting down production isn't necessarily that bad for a company - they don't wages and they can start back up once things stabilize. It's much less disastrous than making a bunch of stuff and not being able to sell it. Clearly, that thinking is guiding a lot of decisions.
They aren't going after the people who have realized over-technicalized life is bad for humans. They're going after the kids who grow up in it and will take until their 30s to realize they've had depersonalization disorders their entire lives.
Use it for work at night too. I’m fortunate enough to hardly consider price for my priorities (performance, ad-free, versatility).
A few pharmacies weren't set up to take either a foreign ID or a US passport when the program started.

I ended up just buying it on Postmates, delivered, no ID check.
I know. It's ridiculous, and I hate it, but that's my mental state. I think I wrote it was counter intuitive in my initial post because, as you point out, it's as rational as pi.
The PI is almost always sold off, since the first version. Availability has always been low.

What you are seeing is probably because the 3B+ is the most sold version, and replenishing anything is slightly harder right now.
I was trying to be a bit dramatic there...

Sure, it affects everything and given the complex interconnections and dependencies within production chains / networks, the cause-and-effect relationships are hard to understand and cause for concern. But given how complex and decentralized things are, I am still amazed we haven't seen worse effects (yet). I doubt that spare capacity in logistics alone would make a huge difference, because you'd also need spare parts, materials and manufacturing capacity, all of which are part of the same network.