skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alcohol abstinence and mortality in a general population sample of German adults
San Francisco before all the tech bro's showed up.
Yeah, I forgot to mention that; sometimes that works, I do read with my wife, and we rock climb together a lot. However, sometimes you may have your own goals (climbing training like hangboarding is impossible to do together and not fun anyway), or things the other person doesn't do (like coding).

As far as kids go however, I feel like it's almost always a trap (it can sometimes happen with adults too, but with kids it's almost a given)... I know many people with hobbies from some tech stuff to extreme sports (like skiing), who "still play with Arduino" or "still ski" after having kids. Except before they used to do some hardcode backcountry stuff, and how with kids they go to a resort, fool around on an easy run, and then go have a beer while kids are taking a lesson. Technically, they are still skiing, but realistically they are not - they are just spending time with their kids. There are exceptions, but they are few and far between imho.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, but my point still stands - when you add something, you have to lose something; I feel like for kids, it's especially true.
The graphics (and sound) was much lower res, smaller worlds, fewer characters, less motion poses per character, prebaked character frames, the floors and ceilings were flat, the textures had far fewer colors, the lighting and shadows were prebaked onto static surfaces, game code was performance tuned at the assembly code level, symmetrical textures, low contrast textures … and we all needed to pay for 2MB more RAM to play Doom.
Because US election system does not reflect the will of the population, or even the voting population. FPTP is a highly deficient system that results in the same two parties staying in power indefinitely, which is only marginally better than a single party state. So, I find it hard to blame the population for the politicians they elect in this case. US elections are a lot more constrained by the ruling class and the laws passed by said ruling class than in many European countries for example. USSR had elections too, you know. Doesn't mean there was any freedom or democracy.
Layers and layers of abstraction are created in scale with the abundance of memory and processing assumptions. Some people call it bloat. Others call it efficient.
By that chart it looks like mining coal is quite profitable. On the other hand, if you're generating electricity from coal, high coal prices make generating electricity from coal more expensive, and thus less competitive with nuclear or renewables.
> but at the same time I have grown to dislike a lot of people that weren't around at that time. I feel like I learned who my real family and friends are.

From someone who has been in a similar situation, drop that attitude before it poisons all of your non-serious relationships with other people. There are more categories than “friends who will drop their life for you” and “everyone else”.
I feel like there must be an alternate reality where someone got a rudimentary canvas into POSIX. There are probably jet packs there, too. :)
> Most games ran on DOS which was basically “bare metal”

Remember how games made you pick your sound card because the OS didn't provide an API for this?
I tried it when I was 20. Got it mail-order in the US. Brought it to my work (I worked retail at the time) and a coworker and I went to a crawlspace in the stockroom and smoked it in a bong I had also brought with me. We felt nothing at first, then spontaneously started cracking up hysterically for at least a minute. It was like someone told us the funniest joke we'd ever heard.

The whole thing was over in like 10 minutes.
This is a very surreal argument to see made, because my father's big theory on the modern left is that they've all gone a little bit chaste.
I like nuclear and I used to think it was a silver bullet. I still believe that nuclear is very safe for life (in fact, it is even safer than solar on a per-kWh basis due to the high number of deaths associated with people falling off roofs while installing panels) and the enviroment, but I now understand more about some of it's disadvantages. Specifically:

1. It is very expensive. Nuclear has a levelized cost of over 10 cents per kilowatt hour, which is very high compared to solar and wind (not including energy storage). The levelized cost means that it is a cost which includes the costs of capital.

2. Load shifting can greatly reduce the need for energy storage. By shifting certain loads (e.g., some particularly energy intensive industrial processes) away from peak hours, we can greatly reduce the need for energy storage. Further, application tailored energy storage solutions (e.g., thermal energy storage for HVAC applications) can also be an effective solution.

3. While nuclear is not dangerous to humans anymore, the financial cost of accidents is huge. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, while it only killed one person, cost one trillion dollars to contain and remediate. When you add it the probability of disasters and the cost of remediating them, the levelized cost of nuclear would be much, much higher.

Thus, while I don't oppose new nuclear power plants, I do think our society's resources are better spent on further research into nuclear (both fission and fusion) and lower cost energy options like wind and solar.
I'm gonna stray a little from the norm here.

Most people seem to think programmers of yore were smarter, and generally, that's probably true -on average-. I mean, there weren't boot camps back then.

That aside though, the scene has changed. Write your super efficient perfect game, and nobody will play it. Look at Ludem Dare, and all the JSxK competitions. Those smart people still exist today.

But the landscape has changed so much, that consumers want the pretty graphics, heavy resources, social aspects. They don't care if it's 1kb or 1tb.

In short, people of yesterday were resource constrained so had to write smart hacks. People today have many more resources available, and use those. Both are using every bit of what they have available.
Having been a game programmer back in the day (C64, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, N64, and beyond to newer machines) I fully agree with your point.

My earliest days had the most fantastic tricks. So called game engines were useless. Now it’s the complete opposite.
>You have probably used one [credit card]

no

>mostly [aware] how it is a complicated bundle of services with a pricing structure strictly more complicated than a venture capital fund’s.

yes
The simple answer is you have to work within the constraints you're confined in. I used to work for an ecommerce company, a very early Amazon competitor, and because the Internet was so slow in the early years, we had a rule that our homepage had to be less than 100k, including image icons. Every 1k squeezed was a success and celebrated. Even today Amazon's homepage is less than 1MB, go ahead and check.

Now with CSS frameworks, JS frameworks, ad frameworks and cross-linking, pages take forever to load with even less actual content.
> Vanishingly few ideas are new, and that's okay.

This is a superficial understanding of intellectual pursuits.

What I've learned is that if you dig deeper to another level, a new understanding becomes evident, whether in the physical or social sciences.

When what you can prove is true conflicts with everything published or believed, then you are on the right path.

Here's some simple exercises:

1) show that all recent Western ideologies (-isms) derive from Marxism. After answering that, you will see how the MSM is a wilderness of mirrors setup to fool the American public.

2) What small group is actually running the United States government today? (it's not Sleepy Joe Biden.)

3) Why is the scientific method and mathematics a threat to the Democratic/Marxist party, who is introducing CRT into math classes? (See the HN post earlier this week for examples.)
Modern game libraries very much use “tricks” in critical paths as far as resources are concerned.
I said "nearly", because there are exceptions. I really don't think it's fair that Spotify or Disney+ has to sacrifice 30% of their subscription revenue coming from iOS users considering Apple shoulders almost none of the burdern of hosting that content.

I think a fair compromise might be 30% on the first month of a new subscription, followed by 2.5% on subsequent months. That way Apple gets their initial cut for providing the ecosystem and app store exposure, followed by a very small cut on top of the usual payment processing fees.
Check out Reddit.com/r/hermancainaward for this exactly
I see it assigns you a random address, that's an interesting approach. I use mailinator.com for the same thing, but it allows (maybe encourages) you to choose whatever address you want, so you can end up seeing a lot of random other peoples' tests if you pick foo@mailinator.com etc.
Log in to watch? Since when is Vimeo like that?

Here's a direct link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/108441214
> just honest-to-goodness-blown-fuse ROM

Well, blown-fuse ROM is called PROM. Real ROM is made from hard metal VLSI masks or old ladies weaving copper wires.
I’m curious whether this result contradicts prior findings by making the experimental setups untrustworthy.

If Slime can detect a mass horizon gradient, maybe experiments need to be redesigned to account for it?
the dam water would flow away at some point, and in a few years, the area would be fixed up and re-populated.

The fire at the lithium battery station would burn out after a while, and the area repopulated very soon.

The nuclear waste land like Chernobyl is uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
Not sure I understand that. I don’t really care about the interest rates under the current regime but of course I would care about lack of grace periods, cash back, and other card benefits.
all i've ever seen is something which displays a single branch, and does not contain the graph structure information present in git log --graph.

perhaps you'd be so kind as to provide a link to a page on github which demonstrates the same graph structure?
AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives
But do you want your values to change? An extreme example is drugs, if you start taking certain drugs your values will get replaced with wanting more of the drug. You-then might endorse that, you-now emphatically won't (I hope). In the GP, the key point is that you would have to sacrifice something... it's not surprising, it should be expected. The question is what, and whether you would want to.
I'll count this as modern: GTA San Andreas not having any zones was pretty impressive.
Removing code while maintaining or increasing functionality.
Players have always cared a lot about graphics. Descent looked fckin amazing in 1995
The major difference is probably the kind of game being produced. There is a reason DF starts out running smoothly and eventually hits CPU death. I'm not certain what the reason is these days, but it used to be something like pathfinding combined with polynomial explosions in how a dwarf chooses their next job.

Old-school games would have been forced to redesign the game so that that wasn't a problem that gets faced. For example, none of the games you list try to simulate a deep 3d space with complex pathfinding. Warcraft II I know quite well and the maps are small.

One of the reasons systems used to be highly efficient was evolutionary - it was impossible to make resource-heavy games, so people kept iterating until they found good concepts that didn't require polynomial scaling algorithms with moderate-large N inputs.
In DOS there were very specific memory configurations that you had to set with EMM386 and HIMEM in order to run certain games, better or at all.

Windows 95 took all that away for the better.
I interpret your tone as suggesting the justification is circular and arbitrary, that finance doesn't serve a human need.
Microsoft's official C#/.NET extensions for VS Code use OmniSharp to provide IntelliSense, so I think they are becoming a lot more friendly on that front.

As others have already pointed out, OmniSharp is "good enough", but what's built into Visual Studio is still a lot better.
Both my wife and I are vaccinated. She caught COVID about 3 weeks ago. I had quite a few reasons to assume I'd catch it as well, but I never did (tested twice during the course of her infection)
Definitely not dense. Portland is extremely sprawly. Have lived in Portland for years - no one there thinks of it as dense - as that’s one of the main draws of it.
that only shows you inter-repository activity, not the branches within a repo.

that would be worthless for most people, and for the sqlite authors, who'd surely have a million people pressing the 'fork' button.

it also isn't what anyone in the thread, or post, were asking for.
Why would anyone have built one of those, if non-von Neumann architectures are so rare? Compilers aren't much of a weekend project. I don't get your point.
> Java...a great tool for prototyping, but when it came to delivering a high-performance product it often fell short.

I think this only been said in the context of games.
Mixing regime shapes the community assembly process, microbial interaction
Remember EMM386 and HIMEM configs?
Accessibility is easier because items have clear locations and sizes without computing cascading rules. This also allows for easier navigation (left/right) in addition to traditional logical / tab-stop order. If done right it would be harder to screw-up. Current HTML is very easy to inadvertently hurt accessibility.

In my tests it would be very difficult to create a 1Mb page. You would need 10,000 text/image/nodes of actual content (not tags or containers). This just doesn't happen.

Presentation is strictly separated from code execution so first load is never blocked by code. Code can dynamically change the page but does so by directly changing the DOM using limited server side-commands. In other words it's truly a thin client browser. You can bloat up the server with as much code as you want but the client side stays lean.
What are the benefits to updating frontend packages. Are there security vulnerabilities that I should be worrying about if most of my npm dependecies dont get updated.
Thank you for sharing. These tricks are really clever!
This is great! I can’t wait to purchase lab grown meat here in the US. My wife and I might even take a trip to Singapore to try the lab grown chicken there (in addition to touring). :)

The USDA currently has an open request for comments on the labeling of cell grown meat.

Relevant: https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2021/09/02/usda-se...
Bits? ;-))) Gödel's first incompleteness theorem says no bits where we are going.
Could you please explain the process of collecting these names?
Edit: That doesn't work as described on NPM 6.14.14 (the version I had), but it does work on NPM 8.1.0 (the version I just upgraded to). Thanks!
Apple’s Federighi delivers dramatic speech on dangers of Installing software without paying Apple.
This is only somewhat related, but I wish semantic versioning had settled on four fields instead of three. A transition from 13.1.2 -> 14.0.0 could be a major update that revamps the API, or a tiny incompatible change. Another field at the front would fix this: major.breaking.feature.bugfix. It would help with the "zero-based versioning" problem where projects sit at 0.y.z forever because there's an aversion to frequently bumping the first number.
There are a couple issues off the bat.

1. You're minimizing the 2 hardest parts of doing anything medical, which is the insurance billing and state licensing requirements. The state may consider you a medical services provider even if all you do is pair people with already-certified medical professionals.

2. "That day, some delivery service will bring you the Rx." This sounds illegal or heavily licensed/regulated. It's a drug addict's dream because it's so easy to maintain multiple identities. You probably get a random doctor, so the doctor won't notice it's you with a different name. And then they even send a driver to pick up the prescription, so the pharmacy won't notice that it's you with a different name.

The pharmacy would also likely need to be in on it. I.e. in Texas, pharmacies that deliver are required to include any information that would have been given orally as a written document with the prescription. If the pharmacy doesn't know it's being delivered, they won't know to include those.

If you wanted to partner with someone, it would be CVS or Walgreens, though. They already have licensed pharmacies everywhere, and handling the pharmacy requirements are going to be the hard part. I believe they also own a lot of those tiny clinic chains that are inside grocery stores, and this would give them a way to fill in any downtime in the nurses' schedules, as well as to let them soak up excess demand in one area with slack in another.
Virtual memory is always on... If you actually hit swap the system effectively deadlocks anyway because the swap daemon is too dumb by being too fair. Persistent memory might change this but it needs so much work.
Fake Git man page generator
My First React App Deployed on Firebase: Dog Facts
No XML Parsers. Limited i18n / l10n support in the OS. File formats that were serialized structs. Limited art (I remember looking at the time zone map in the resources of some Win 9X DLL and it was a palettized bitmap. The palette index for the selected time zone would be set to the highlight colors and the others to the unselected color). Less diversity in hardware meant simpler and fewer drivers, or just writing directly to video memory. Caring about the working set of programs because on a cooperatively multitasked system like Windows 3.1 with 4MB of RAM if you’re lucky it counts.
Ask HN: Best way to ask for donations for open source projects?
I've been using a Firefox extension called "Dark Reader" and I decided to make a donation to keep the project alive. They ask me to do it on opencollective.com, which made me wonder what other similar websites are out there and which one is the best place to ask for donations (best in your experience).
The biggest trick was not caring for hardware other than the requirements you print on the box. VGA is dead simple to render on: you write bytes to RAM to turn pixels on. To play a sound, you write a pointer to your sound to a specific memory location and call an interrupt. Network support? What’s that? It’s amazing how efficient your code can be when you know the exact hardware layout you’re targeting and can ignore all the nice abstraction layers we have now.
Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book Special Edition

https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/index.html
Write C, get good
> the credit card companies could instantly raise interest rates and end grace periods to compensate exactly

I don't think you can simplify it that much. If you end grace periods, the people that currently don't pay interest will suddenly be charged huge amounts. If you drastically lower the interest rates to make their costs match the old model, then other people that pay the card off slower will suddenly be paying much less than before.

It's easy enough to ban fees charged to the business, and force them to be charged to the customer, to make pricing more transparent and remove the silliness around rewards. But trying to replace fees with interest rates doesn't work, unless you set up some crazy nonlinear '''interest rate''' calculation.
I appreciate sites like this. I see that it allows custom aliases and a choice of a few domain names (though most of them seem to be .xyz). There are many systems that won’t accept domains outside the larger and well known TLDs. So that could be an issue with this site. But there are a few other providers that manage to provide a “mail sink” for a large number of emails.
> along with pairing purchases to user/session id
I've been a fan of k2pdfopt [1] for years. Single binary, command line + optional gui. Lets you slice and optimize pdfs in any imaginable way, e.g. for e-readers' screens. I think it also does what pdfsandwich does, if I understand things correctly [2].

That said, pdfsandwich's 'one thing well' approach does have an appeal. I will definitely try it out, thanks for posting. Something in its "logo" reminded me of the OpenBSD fish. :)

1: https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/

2: https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/help/ocr.shtml
Interesting. From what I can gather, the material in HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn was not claimed to be under copyright and that the argument being fought over in court was with respect to mechanically subverting access to a competitor.

You appear to have claimed that rights over material is broadly relinquished if it's published in public:

> If information is your competitive advantage maybe you shouldn't have it on a publicly accessible website

And your distinction was further clarified when you argued that placing barriers to access fundamentally changes the equation:

> Note, a simple sign up being required to view a website makes it not publicly available information any longer and you can cover usage, again, in a license.

Perhaps you meant to speak only of material which is not subject to copyright? In which case I think your argument does track.
This wouldn't help Amazon as much because they are obsessive about performance. An out-of-the-box wordpress site loads MB's for anything basic as do most of the top-visited sites on the web.

In the developing world they are using the Internet at dial-up speed, only on mobile, and often charged per KB.
Moved to Austin this year myself, I think it's a great choice for everything you've listed (although the cost is getting up there, but still affordable in many areas!). I'm definitely not planning on leaving anytime soon with how nice it's been.
I didn't just leave it at impression and click tracking though.
Considering the average spring boot application sucks up 300MB of ram upon launching, I am really impressed that the recommended system specs for the OG roller coaster tycoon is 16MB of dedotated wam...
Google is big on solar power for its data centers, despite being intermittent. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-1-6-million-solar-panel...

They also have grid connections, of course, so it's no problem if the energy source has frequent downtime.

Some data centers are in cities but there are many remote ones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prineville%2C_Oregon is a small town with large Apple and Facebook centers.

Fusion reactors wouldn't be used just during outages, but for base load, reducing consumption from the grid. They already have this sort of power supply/demand matching to support their solar arrays.

Appealing to cost-insensitive early adopters is an excellent way to start. The Tesla roadster is a well-known example. I don't see the absurdity.
For those who like text, his series of blog entries is also extremely good. https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/video-games/making-crash/
Decent high-voltage DC lines can move that power around with pretty small losses. (Wikipedia quotes about 3.5% per 1000km.) And the Southwest doesn't have to destroy all their natural environments; they just happen to have a natural advantage in power generation on land that otherwise isn't economically productive. (Not that all land has to be economically productive.)

This could be a major industry in those states.

Ecological impact should be looked into and installations should be done in a way that creates minimal environmental impact, but I'm not going to say that it should be an absolute showstopper if sagebrush is interspersed by the occasional array of black panels.

The environmental costs of major solar farms aren't going to be zero, but just because it's non-zero doesn't mean we shouldn't do it if it's environmentally preferable to burning coal and natural gas.

I'm also not against nuclear, I'm just not optimistic we can get the costs down.