skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid will continue to decimate the workforce, societal awareness of the cruel after-effects begins to take shape in 2022. Life expectancy will fall sharply for the next decade, especially in United States.

Tether will implode at some point, taking Bitcoin down at least 95% for a few weeks or months, it eventually recovers and keeps rising.

A major cyberattack takes down the US power grid for a week in the Summer of 2023 in at least one major US city.

September 11, 2023, coordinated terrorist attacks on power substations disrupt the grid across the United States, millions lose power, and it becomes apparent that many won't have electricity for months, or years, as our supply chain can't make replacement gear fast enough.

Thanksgiving 2023, China takes back Formosa (previously known as Taiwan), and the US, still reeling from supply shortages, will have no choice but to accept this with only loud protests.

2024 - The US dollar loses its global reserve currency status. The standard of living in the United States precipitously falls. A new political party sweeps into power in the fall elections. This party promises to implement ranked choice voting, make lobbyists illegal, fully fund the IRS, and raise income taxes on the rich to their 1950 levels. A one time 33% tax/amnesty is offered to those are willing to bring their assets back into the US, a substantial savings from the new rates.

2025 - Because imports are suddenly expensive, the United States embarks on a reconstruction of its manufacturing sector. Tax incentives are given to small businesses, and there is a strong push to support maker spaces in public libraries.
Tldr is no, it isn't. Although I'd like to see a real comparison between the costs of a trucked away solution (probably including some on-site drying or other processing) with the current system that is effectively making billions of dollars of underground rivers to flow waste to somewhere it can be processed. I expect that there is a way to make truck removal a viable alternative to current sewer systems, and that 100 years from now we wont still have a central series of tubes flowing our waste around.
Explanations for the Havana Syndrome
there is a WAKE# pin on the PCIe slot so any card should be able to wake the system from sleep (S3).

however, an ATX PSU supplies only 5V (5Vsb) when the system is off (S5) which is not available on the PCIe connector which only has 12V and 3.3V. so when the system is off (S5), the PCIe cards are unpowered and thus cannot turn the system on.

but if you mean off in the Microsoft "Modern Standby" (S0i) then yes, the PCIe cards are powered and the WAKE# pin can "turn on" the system.
Common Lisp is a nice modern programming language, too. Only SymPy yet has to be ported into it...
I like how acejump is integrated with ideavim: https://github.com/acejump/AceJump#configuring

Will definitely be installing this Monday.
There is a pin that provides access to the 3.3v standby bus, and a wake pin that can be used to wake the CPU.
>"Just wondering, why is that important that the OS is from Switzerland"

Maybe because people who posted feel this way. They do not need anyone's approval for that.
That would probably not work, those chips have ground planes under them for cooling purposes.
This seems relevant? Emphasis mine:

"The study included 566 men and women (1:1) aged 28-97 years, who were patients in a preventive cardiology practice."
I watched this John Oliver[0] a few days ago which shows that apparently (I am not from the US and also have never had to deal with unions) it does not matter anyway illegal or not.

[0] https://youtu.be/Gk8dUXRpoy8
I really want to try this out but am trying to limit the packages I install from Arch AUR. Any trusted users able to package this in the regular repo?
The Oceanbird sailing car carrier concept design would appear viable from an engineering standpoint. However I doubt it would be economically viable under current conditions. Publishing the design is probably mostly a PR stunt, and perhaps a hedge against a future carbon emissions tax.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishandegnarain/2020/12/01/a-ne...

Large ocean going ships will never be fully autonomous. Humans are needed to conduct maintenance and repair, which is generally too complex to automate. But automation will reduce the crew needed for standing watch in the engine room and bridge.
Every Auto A/C system I've used has a sunload sensor in the dash.

Both in my 97 Town Car, and my 2011 Crown Vic, its set it and forget it, unless I'm running cold or hot that day.
I do wonder if it will be durable… or they will just change it to something else in 30 years (when I can touch the money).
FWIW, I think the BIOS warnings are overblown these days...the Roms are on Archive.org fer chrissakes!

https://archive.org/download/verifiedbiosfiles/OGA%20BIOS/Am...
While I love the concept, the fact the package manager is different from the common ones, and some of the packages they do have are outdated, means attempting to use this for my use case will probably result in a painful experience.
Sounds like you need this... a previous submission as linked elsewhere mentioned https://github.com/longaccess/python-zipstream/tree/streamin... which should do it.

Edit: Dang it, GPLv3, sorry (vs Apache 2 of your project).

The two previous discussions with comments may offer enough to get you what you need: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25616513

Edit 2: https://github.com/kbbdy/zipstream, no license (yet)
I've heard of AoC but never participated in it before

How hard would it be for someone to finish the entire thing? I'm planning to use this as an opportunity to learn Python. I have some programming experience in Java, C, and JS but not that much.
Weirdly enough, big companies are our best shot at fighting modern slavery / child labour etc in foreign countries.

If you buy $unbranded thing you have absolutely no idea what went into it.

If you buy from $huge_brand, their supply chains are closely scrutinised by rights groups.

They put out reports, activist investors pressure the company, internal esg & pr teams get antsy and put pressure on the suppliers or drop them.

I kinda hate the future, but basically only huge brands can be held accountable and contribute to ending these labour practices (without regime or legal changes in the source countries, that is).

So uh, support global mega corporations I guess? (and be sure to switch your 401k to an ESG fund) :/
Looking at the spreadsheet, it looks like his only commit is one that changes a bunch of %lu to %zu? I think that's trivial enough that it's not copyrightable.
> This was also Mike's first VP-level management job, so rather like jumping into the deep end.

pretty sure mike was a vp at britton-lee hardware database company during the mid 1980s in los gatos. i was there.
In theory yes. In practice, how often are people who are using htaccess going to be running into these corner cases? I would bet anyone using it is likely running a very small site anyway where the convenience is worth it.

You can also detect when you have too many watches needed or a network filesystem to fall back to the existing path. It’s a philosophical difference ultimately.
…really?

You realize that virtually every system ran off a command line interface - and the idea of virtually drawing so simply was very novel to start - to erase so simply actually implied a change of art entirely over to the digital era.

I can’t understand what wasn’t significant about it.
Diet wise, I've been vegan for most my life and gluten free for a year. I rarely have added sugars and I seem to respond better to less carbs but oils can also be tough on me other than MCT so I don't say keto. My diet still could be better but no added cholesterol, dairy and gluten and minimal sugar so I think I'm doing good. i try to eat blueberries, matcha, and walnuts when I can for the antioxidant benefits.

I supplement food based C, D+k, iron as well as a methylated B complex with extra methylated riboflavin + benfotiamine + 15mg l-methylfolate + b12 (in sublingual form). Magnesium malate, Zinc carnosine and vegan DHA + EPA and some form of glutathione I have on hand. Try to do PQQ, selenium, CoQ10 daily as well.

Not daily but fairly regularly with breaks or every other day: TUDCA, reshi, lion's mane, AHCC, cordyceps.

On and off, ALCAR, ALA.

I've had good success with antioxidants like dragon's blood and shilajit (when I say success in terms of pain/energy, not mood) but these days I keep it simple just with megadosing vitamin C every so often

have experimented with ashwaghanda/bacopa, not for me, still sometimes take ashwaghanda but rarely. Currently giving Polygala tenuifolia another whirl, despite all the hubub doesn't seem to help much so my next new experiment may be trying low dose lithium orotate again.
I met with the 645 team, not impressed.

Venture investing 101:

Raise money from pension funds, invest it in founders who have had good exits before. Rinse, repeat.

VC in 2021 is a media and promotion play to get in front of the right founders, and then claim you have a good hiring pipeline or intros to customers. (They mostly don't. 645 especially doesn't.)
As a physics student, I often used maxima for assignments, because while I did have access to Mathematica on lab computers, having a CAS on my laptop was often more convenient. In general, it was able to do what I needed just as well as Mathematica, though with different syntax.
Where would one go to look? Would love to review old schematics, specifically the XPS 9350, 9343... and macbooks!
There's always the quote attributed to Clarke,

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong."

It is unfortunate -- sometimes very smart people try good ideas, but the world isn't quite ready yet so they fail, move on to something different, and write off the old idea.
I've had good automatic AC in a car, where it gets what I want most of the time.

Most of the rentals I've driven get it too, but they work differently than what you have at home, insomuch as they control fan speed and temp, they should haves unload temp sensor too.

Incidentally, I adjust my manual AC about as often as I do my automatic one.
Thanks for writing that tutorial, I've referred to it a few times over the years and as far as I'm concerned it's the definitive Lagrange multiplier tutorial. I was able to accurately picture it in my mind's eye before clicking the link to confirm. You've helped a lot of people!
The first 3 days are "easy". The following 5-10 get harder, past the mid month, it takes serious commitment (unless you're a wiz of course!).

Overall it is absolutely worth attempting, you'll learn something guaranteed, about algorithms, about the language(s) you chose and about yourself (resilience and determination).
Why is it that property / houses seem to end up so overvalued and then interest rates become such a crisis?

It's weird to me that as a society, it's such a priority to borrow huge amount of money to buy property we cannot afford, then end up in this situation where the worst thing ever would be to put up the interest rates and force everyone to lose their shirt.
Quite often that 'permissionless marketplace' is happening without the permission of the artists.
Here is how to donate to the legal defence of BLM related stuff https://www.gofundme.com/f/gnfwc-black-lives-matter-dc-legal... . Do they make sure that the money isn't going to any of the many violent looters? If not, then this (like most corpspeak) is just meaningless hypocrisy.
While I don't really disagree with you, don't underestimate survivorship bias, how many of that old stuff died early and needed parts, yes the parts were cheaper, but the repairs took usually took more labor.
Check out a few problems from a previous year to get a feel for the difficulty. Generally, the puzzles get harder as the month progresses. Here's last year's calendar: https://adventofcode.com/2020
Same experience here (9310, Kubuntu 21.10), but I really miss S3. I hope I can go back on my next laptop...
Some window managers require you to set _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1 for for it to render correctly.
It passed through 4 passes of all it’s tests without issue!

Personally I would go for at least 10 or more --- sometimes intermittent memory errors show up after an extended amount of time. I usually leave memory tests on new (to me) hardware running over a weekend. I wonder if the Rowhammer tests find anything? This is LPDDR3 so might be affected, but I don't know how to read Hynix datecodes. (<2010 is usually not, 2010-2011 is questionable, 2012 and newer definitely rowhammer-vulnerable.)
The Python interface with Maxima in Sage is pretty sophisticated in that it uses ECL (Embedded Common Lisp) to provide a high performance C level interface. The conversion code (for special functions, constants, etc.), is also nontrivial. Over the years we have tried to reduce the reliance on Maxima (eg for portability reasons) by instead seeing if we could use SymEngine or sympy or something else, but Maxima is pretty deep, eg it’s symbolic integration is still not easy to beat with sympy…
I used to be someone who used sublime when it was cool, then atom then I switched to vim then spacemacs. But I sorta gave up on that stuff cause I hate spending time maintaining configs especially when I switch languages so often. Now I just exclusively use jetbrains IDEs with ideavim and only minimally add configs when I get annoyed enough by something. I like how when I switch languages and use a jetbrains IDE I get a really nice consistent IDE experience and I just need to discover the language specific features as I go no need to maintain some complex configs and try to find the best plugins. I can always trust that the code completion is gonna be pretty smart in whatever language I’m in as well.

My backup IDE is spacemacs for the same reason minus the smart code completion (getting better with lsp).

The only disadvantage is I currently work on a frontend team and I constantly get laughed out the room for screensharing webstorm instead of vscode lol
I suspect it will be like computational fluid dynamics - numerical solution of partial differential equations.
It may if you get the stencil hot enough, you have to watch the solder
Meat packaging without absorbent materials
I likewise hope for Michael Fogleman's participation: https://github.com/fogleman?tab=repositories&q=advent
Tell (ask?) HN: The USPS is (unknowingly?) enabling eBay “scammers”
I put scammers in quotes because I’m not sure if it rises to the level of scamming but I feel like it does.

So apparently one can send someone a package with insufficient postage paid upfront, and the recipient is then forced to pay extra postage upon delivery or at the post office in order to receive it.

I’m not sure how long this “feature” has been available, but it’s most certainly a thing now— and I am not at all enthused about it. It was only $3.xx in my case, but I indeed feel wronged. I would have much rather just paid the extra $3 to not have to now wait until Monday and drive to the post office.

I won’t leave the eBayer’s name, but he has tons of 1-star reviewers with the same complaint. Obviously there must be tons of eBayer’s using the same technique, so the USPS is, unwittingly or not, enabling this scamming practice.
Tons of (I guess they are leaked) schematics are available for laptops, phones, and related electronics. Dell didn't do the motherboard design; the OEM is Compal and as you can see from the motherboard, its actual model is LA-H931P.
I'm curious how neurodivergent individuals managed to survive in pre-modern times, or even in poor countries today. Throughout most of human history people usually didn't have any choice of foods. They either ate whatever was available, or they starved. The concept of cooking separate meals is a historical anomaly that's only possible in an affluent society with a food surplus.
I've read/heard enough Internet anecdata to be >50% confident you're experiencing issues associated with "modern standby", most current implementations of which are horribly broken (both, IIUC, in terms of bad/nonexistent Linux support, and broken Windows experiences).

A quick google found https://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-backtracks-on-XPS-15-9570..., which notes that the BIOS removed S3 sleep support (the standby method used since the dinosaurs) in version 1.3.0. The suggestion might be actively harmful, impossible, void your warranty, irrelevant for reason(s) I'm not aware of, or any combination thereof, but I wonder what would happen if you downgraded the BIOS to that version. (Once again, this suggestion is the equivalent of blindly reaching into a Pandora's box full of piranhas, pulling the first thing out I touch, and going "hmm, would this work?" :D)

In any case, googling around for "modern standby" and "s3" (ie, "9570 s3") will reveal the debacle behind the curtain ._.

Edit: Found https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-9570-BIOS-1-3-0-sl... which adds some interesting insight ("The issue is the following"), along with https://www.dell.com/community/XPS/XPS-15-9570-BIOS-1-3-0-sl... (BIOS downgrade blocked starting at 1.4.0) :(
Beria's claims or promises are meaningless; that's a completely untrustworthy source. Beria was a homicidal maniac telling you that, if you give them power, they'll be 'milder'.

Lots of homicidal maniacs, and even plain old dictators, say the same. The next step, after they gain power, is to say that there is a new period of openness, and their critics are encouraged to speak out. This releases some pressure while the dictator consolidates control over the levers of power - it's not rule of law, so unlike an elected President, the levers don't just shift to the new person. And of course it helps that their critics identify themselves. You should know what happens next. (A popular early step is that enemies are arrested for 'corruption'.)
most humans find it less than scintillating to devolve ALL their activities to some sort of spreadsheet or algo optimization.

Happy to be the exception that proves the rule: as an undergrad my friends and I would often have to resort to a spreadsheet that allowed anonymous ranking of activities to decide what to do to maximize fun.
645 sounds like Entertainment 720
I bought a $1000 plus gaming laptop for my son and exactly a year and a month later the hinges bust off the thing. I am so ticked off and will never buy another one. Too cheaply made and the fact that it happened a month after warranty was the kicker. I keep hearing my dad talking about companies designing parts to last just long enough. They don't care if some people claim warranty they have done the numbers and if it can last a year they don't care. Sad.
quite true - i drank about a liter an hour throughout the trip and urinated pretty infrequently lol
Another fun one. The CIA forgot a bomb in the engine of an actively used school bus after a training exercise.

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/01/472716101/cia-leaves-explosiv...
That's your example? A sword in a video game? Honestly though, I guess it makes sense, because NFTs are arse for anything that has actual real life meaning. Even you, yourself, realised that halfway through your post. Yeah, no shit your degree is worthless if the university says it's worthless.

So, on to video games. You think it would work that way huh? Your sword would still be worth something if Blizzard revoked it because you "own" it? You are making the mistake of thinking that whatever game you want to use the sword in wouldn't check with Blizzard to find out if you are a douchebag who has been banned or not, before they allowed you to use the sword for something in their game. They'd check, see that Blizzard has no record of it on their database, then decide that you'd either been banned or had stolen it, then block you.

Btw: Even this won't happen. Read what an actual game developer says about it.
https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-o...
> Its syntax is weird, archaic, and clunky,

Maybe if you come from a CS background. From a math background, it's syntax is actually more natural than most contemporary programming languages. For example, : is used for assignment, because = has the normal mathematical meaning. Blocks use parentheses because that's how you group stuff in math.

Maxima is very much a domain specific language, where the domain is mathematics.
I opened the spreadsheet, and now I can't remove it from my list of Google Sheets (unlike most shared spreadsheets). Am I missing some obscure way to remove it, despite the Remove option being grayed out? (It does respect the "Owned by me" filter so this isn't the end of the world.)
Here's an example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alQq74uWJJA
One thing you could do is spell out what the new hire would be doing slightly more explicitly. Modern software engineering consists of feature stories and then 2 week sprints to implement those features completely or at least make enough progress and then regroup for the next 2 weeks as needed. This structure works pretty well for most businesses and is generally a good practice even when working on personal projects.

So if you could outline the goals for a few sprints then it would be easy to hire someone to work on the project because you'd have done the necessary legwork to allow someone to start productively working with your code in a structured and measurable way.

The other thing is outlining the "stack" which just means the set of tools you're using like programming language, databases, frameworks, libraries, etc. That will help any potential hire orient themselves in terms of how much they would need to learn to be able to contribute productively to the project.
I have discovered Nim on this (HN) site in 2018 [0] and shortly after I wrote my first lines of code thanks to advent of code (it was also my first year discovering advent of code).

I have become so affectionate of both (Nim and Advent of Code), that I always look forward to this moment of the year!

Last year I used it to test my notebook library nimib [1] (and it was first, and currently only, year that I completed the calendar). This year a nice challenge could be to try and use a different library from Nim ecosystem each day (always wanted to use Nico for this, Manim looks it could give nice results, …).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18045259

[1]: https://pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim/2020/day11.html
NB. there's an Advent of Code subreddit and every day has a 'solutions' thread where people post their code in all kinds of languages, and discussions of different approaches, which is interesting to browse.

e.g. 2020 Day 1:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/k4e4lm/2020_d...
Also an aarch64 iso means lots of options
Meh, I'm using Ubuntu 14.x (LXDE) today and it's quite usable.

I don't think outdated packages are that big of a deal, as long as they work in the first place.

I can't access some websites like Twitter, Reddit, and Slack, but I consider that to be an advantage.
Gold is also a scarce and not cheaply substitutable physical material that is used in electronics (it's an excellent conductor that resists corrosion) and jewelry (it's a beautiful, non-toxic metal that can be made durable while remaining malleable.)
Being an elixir zealot have you ever considered lisp flavored erlang? If so, what are your thoughts in comparing it to clojure?

https://lfe.io/
I just started rosalind after someone posted it on here last week. They're definitely focused on bioinformatics similar to euler being more math focused.

I haven't gotten too far, but the initial problems don't seem too hard in higher level languages. They are very good problems to get better at IO, string manipulation, and data wrangling in your language of choice though.
Same goes for soldered SSDs, both components degrade with use.

It’s like buying a car with tires that last 50k miles, but if you want to replace them you have to cut off the entire drivetrain and weld on a new one. Technically possible but only with excessive effort.