skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it is a classic tragedy of the commons situation, and that is what politics - collective action - is good at fixing (at least sometimes).
Have two fixed time slots in a day and check all the apps during that time. Ignore/ Clear any notifications during all other time. Requires some self discipline but limits the usage considerably.
How to report a positive Covid-19 test result
wild guess: dickpics
Interesting.

We have been undergoing IVF with my wife since 2019. (Covid made a huge mess of those plans...) One of our embryos tested as a possible positive (but only slightly) for aneuploidy of one chromosome.

The doctor, a veteran of IVF, looked at the results and said "my experience is that this is either a very small mosaic error, which tends to be utterly invisible in real life, or a computer artifact. I have never seen embryos with those borderline results develop any serious problems later. Things would be different if the aneuploidy signals were clear, but definitely do not discard this embryo".
No, he's making a statement saying that his data shows working age people dying at a higher rate. It says nothing about elderly people.

The head of Indianapolis-based insurance company OneAmerica said the death rate is up a stunning 40% from pre-pandemic levels among working-age people.

...

Davison said the increase in deaths (that his company sees) represents “huge, huge numbers,” and that’s it’s not elderly people who are dying (to account for this increase), but “primarily working-age people 18 to 64” who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

Plus, he actually could say "that elderly people aren't dying at the same rate" in his dataset and be technically correct. The elderly are not part of his dataset, so it's vacuously true.
Do you have any links to share that would corroborate your suggestion that social media is as addictive or hard to quit as heroin or tobacco? That’s quite a statement.

I find these two examples particularly interesting because the regulations have done absolutely nothing. Heroin has never been more popular or more regulated. Tobacco is lightly regulated and the declines in usage are almost completely attributed to campaigns against smoking, not the regulations themselves.
Yep, you still need to bulk copy memory around if it already exists.
If you own the memory, though, you can avoid copying (wasm has "import") but you'll need to manage that manually.

I've found the cleanest approach for me is to have modules allocate space for inputs and outputs and then try to get functions to write directly into the input space.

Either way, nothing available is super friendly for user provided arrays or canvas interactions.
I blame Alannis Morisette (or however it’s spelled)
> You really think that China banning bitcoin means they no longer use those dirty coal power plants?

No, but banning the miners meant they didn't have to build a whole pile more.

"Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point" - they have the moral high-ground on this issue.

> Right now China has only promised to reduce its fossil fuel to 20% of its total energy use by 2060.

Sure. And it would have been a smaller reduction had they not kicked out the miners. This waste is purely additive.
>This is as much a "liberal" problem (e.g. Capitalism is bad) as it is a "conservative" one (e.g. Universal healthcare is communism).

Bingo.

>A particularly striking example for me recently was when I happened to compare the content on my TikTok feed to the content on my 60 year old parents. There were completely different sets of propaganda being peddled to both of us that were essentially incompatible with each other.

This is kinda scary and makes me glad I've never had a TikTok account. Also kinda makes me think that you and your parents shouldn't have one either. But hey, "to each their phone"...

>We are all drowning in so much propaganda on these platforms its almost impossible to separate fact from fiction or to find a perspective that has the proper level of nuance. Its no wonder everyone is so divided.

Isn't that the way ""they"" want it though? Divide and conquer? So busy fighting each other that we can't see the real enemy? Or is that just some crazy shit I picked up somewhere?
The deposit is refundable
This is a misunderstanding. The goal of cryptocurrencies is not to process transactions. The goal is to order transactions. The order is the hard part. (Notice that if I have one ETH, and I submit a transaction to send alice an ETH and to send Bob an ETH, alice and bob are both very interested in the order - only one transaction can go through, and which one is determined by which one comes first in the chain).

Fundamentally the order doesn’t really matter, as long as it doesn’t change retroactively. Once you have agreement on the order, anyone can process the transactions and know they’ll get the same final result as anyone else.

I’m not sure about this specific one, but most “rollup”s use the main chain for agreement on the order, and then outsource the actual processing to someone outside the chain. Some use cryptography from verifiable computing, so the off-chain person can also submit a proof that their processing is right and there’s no possibility of fraud. (the proof can then be verified extremely quickly.)
I struggle with that as well. It's easy to point to the wrong things about social media (doomscrolling, say).

My solution for Twitter, which is a work in progress, was to create a second account that is focused on being more "positive"[0], and leave that one signed in. That makes the right thing easier. I use it to post jokes or interact with content creators that I enjoy. If I find myself wanting to interact with something that makes me feel angry, like some shitty thing a politician said, I think to myself: "which account do I want to use for this?" If it's the account I use for negative stuff I have to go through extra work to use it and then I don't bother. And nothing of value is lost.

I haven't found an ideal solution for reading. I bought a Kindle and have been using it every day but I don't know if it's because it's still shiny and new or because I've started a new habit. I do carry it with me throughout the house so it's pretty much always in view, which may help me consider doing the "right" thing (maybe pick it up instead of my phone).

0: Of course I'm assigning right and wrong, positive and negative, arbitrarily. That's ok for me because I'm not having a philosophical debate with myself, heh.
Yes but if we start playing the “which energy use is more valid” game then quickly we realize energy is in the eye of the beholder, and the solution is a pollution tax. Bitcoin shouldn’t be outlawed anymore than video games (a totally useless tech from a society viewpoint) but HNers love their video games and Google paychecks.
Awesome project! How long did it take total?

Note that it’s against code to run electrical and data cable in the same conduit, both for safety and interference. Get outdoor rated cat 6 and leave it out of the conduit instead.
> There are no cool tricks to improving yourself.

This is bullshit. There are lots of simple tricks you can employ to improve yourself. For example:

>If you want to stop eating sugar

If you want to stop eating sugar, throw it all away, and when you go to the supermarket go when you have just eaten, and avoid buying sugar and sugary products.

This gets recommended a lot, but because it is good - Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Totally agree. I picked up climbing several months ago, so I'm still green, but it's a night and day difference from other forms of exercise for me. I've mostly gravitated toward solo sports because I enjoy competing against myself more than competing with others, but running, cycling, weight lifting, etc always felt like a chore and I quickly became bored with the repetition. In addition to being physically dynamic, I've found it works well as a social form of exercise too. There's built in incentives to befriend a wide pool of fellow belayers and we all climb at different levels, so there doesn't seem to be much in the way of interpersonal rivalry, just love of the sport.
Maybe graphite?
I find it comforting. Not sure it makes you feel physically better but it certainly gives comfort.
Putting a reply here because HN won't let me reply to the other leaf comment. 1) Implicated by whom? 2) That KiwiFarms doxes, or that the doxing bothers people, wasn't my question. My question is where is it stated (convincingly) that doxing is the reason Google filters the results?
Do you have any evidence that this number is nonzero?
Before my daughter was born I sometimes felt like it was the doctors job to scare us with every worse case scenario possible. It was quite stressful and upsetting.
https://archive.is/LEWoE

http://web.archive.org/web/20220102044133/https://www.nytime...
My whole family has it this week but I realized our at home positives wouldn’t be counted in the county/nationwide reporting.

Looks like you need to fill out the csv template and submit it. Surprised it’s this complex of a process.
Yes! We could manage internet addressing on the blockchain instead!

DNS is quite distributed already but it’s far from “democratic”. Instead of domain squatting and hoarding through through multiple private companies, we could domain squat through… multiple _other_ private companies. That’s Real Democracy™.

We could even speculate with domain names and tlds and maybe steal them from each other in completely new and exciting ways.

Maybe we could make it so only the early adopters can afford these tlds or domain names for a reasonable price and then everyone else could prop up its price until a rug pull happens.

What if we we make this system consume an insane amount of energy? Our current solution is probably inefficient in certain ways, but we can always go further!

There’s lots of possibilities! #web3FixesThis
For Reddit and HN, I simply added some browser CSS that removed the "next page" links (on Reddit you'll need to use the old version for this to work).

Since I can browse the first page, that allows me to "cut back" on those distractions without going cold turkey.
partially. Over fertilization, which causes nutrient runoff (by definition wasteful and not cost effective) is not required to grow the amount of food that we grow.

Targeted fertilization or erosion control can both mitigate it by reducing waste, saving money and reducing occurance of side effects at the expense of a reduction fertilizer sales worldwide.

Tech can help here. See precision agriculture and other related topics
This exactly the amount of renewable energy produced in Norway each year.

Source: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/energy/renewable-energy...
A TLD shouldn't have semantic meaning already covered by protocol operations.
Interesting article. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing on screens makes me happy.
I was actually aware of that story. But she wasn't hit, so it doesn't invalidate my statement.
" Android users are carrying around data transfer cables?

Hey guys, get a load of this!"

...says the guy with a huge dongle in his pocket.
Bitcoin energy expenditure is not entirely independent from block creation.
Transaction fees already make up a nontrivial fraction of the block reward and can be expected to dominate block subsidy within a few decades as the latter keeps halving every 4 years.
This is the key for me, but I've never heard anyone else talk about it. It feels like I need to get it out of my brain and somewhere else or my brain's 'ram' is full. I'm not sure if its mental of there is some physiological phenomenon going on there, but it really works for me.
I like taking a break from programming and working on my car with my hands.
Agreed on dark mode! It looks good with dark reader though. [0]

[0]https://darkreader.org/
Like I said, they don’t make a lot of sense. I think there’s a few different branches of that approach.

Why people were picketing a hospital with “sacrifice the weak” signs was very puzzling. But they were!
Does it work with xbox games when set to strict?
So this ruined the fun of most social media for me and took the dopamine out of it:

- Facebook: I realized everything I posted got maybe 1 or 2 likes. Either no one was looking at my stuff or the algorithm wasn't propagating it. At the time I had 150 friends, so I would have expected more response out of most of my posts than that. Thus I was just giving Facebook info about myself and that it really was a waste of my time.

- Most social media apps: It's so easy to get caught up in the hope that your stuff goes viral, but understanding the above and really thinking about how things go viral (essentially purely random or so plugged into a developing zeitgeist that you stumble upon it), the chance of that happening is so small that your efforts are honestly better spent elsewhere. Even if it does happen, what's the reward. What's the true value of merely being Internet famous? Is it worth posting multiple times daily and being consumed with the reactions? Most worthwhile Internet famous people have lives and value beyond their social media posts.

After really realizing this social media became mostly pointless to me and I wasn't doing social media instead of more important things in my life.

If you are getting a lot of meaningful engagement with your posts, then maybe it's a value-add and you shouldn't stop. Otherwise maybe taking a 1-week break and seeing if anything significant in your life changes will put it into proper perspective.
Sometimes the right course of action doesn't fall neatly inside a simple set of rules or inside a binary "this is good, that is bad" narrative. Sometimes very similar circumstances need to be handled in very different ways because of subtle nuances in their contexts. This is why lawyers and philosophers will never be out of work and why we should all be wary of borrowing McPhilosophies from internet memes and Twitter hot-takes without putting in the effort and research to think through the issues for ourselves.

If you find yourself reacting to this news with too neat and tidy of a response, that is a good sign that you may need to spend some time trying to understand and empathize with alternative perspectives and that you may need to spend some time trying to understand why this is such a complicated (and consequential) issue for the United States government and Twitter to navigate.
Careful there, don’t want to give fodder to the anti vax crowd
This would be valuable for running some extra tests (possibly more expensive, but more accurate), but not for, say, decision to abort the kid, which is what usually "hangs in the air" after such a test result.
There was another post here last week, basically as it is now, Germany relies of burning things and producing CO2 for the majority of their power. Most of that is lignite, which is 1/3 and inferior to coal, because its low heat capacity, so they need more to burn. Given the several once in a 100 year floods they've had just about every year in the last decade, they can't afford to keep burning.
What drives me nuts personally is how nobody is asking the adults that ALREADY grew up online as kids what impact it has.

This is hardly the first time we've had a panic about kids on the internet; the first one I remember is the freak out that led to COPPA in the late 90s. At the time, perhaps people could be forgiven for not asking us since we were the first generation of kids who had unrestricted Internet access and we were still kids (nobody wants children's opinions), but now there are plenty of formerly Too Online Children that are adults.

If having unrestricted information/internet access at an early age does change your brain, why aren't we comparing people in their 30s who grew up online with people in their 30s who didn't? That would be super interesting, and there are many aspects of growing up online that definitely did change my experience. (E.G. being able to pretend to be an adult and be addressed as an equal based on my ideas online made it very hard to function in the real world where acting like an adult's equal was inappropriate, I had access to information that many adults did not and that caused problems, I had access to information that my local culture considered 'inappropriate' but was acceptable online [information about female puberty is one], etc.)

Lots of people deciding what our experiences did to us without asking us.
For what it's worth, I think it makes sense to include defer in the "automatic cleanup" category. If we don't, then I think we end up suggesting that the only popular languages that support automatic cleanup for anything other than memory are C++ and Rust. That does have some truth to it, but if the goal is to describe "languages that are viable today", it seems pretty clear that e.g. Python and Go are viable.
How about industrialized nations get rid of their agricultural subsidies?
No. General design and manufacturing improvements often fix collateral issues.
If you talking about a professional setup, then add the slack-github app to subscribe to these repositories. You will get notifications in private slack dm.
Also the 300k cars produced in the last quarter means, that with the current factories they are already operating at 1.2 million cars/year capacity. A very strong position.
Slightly tangential question: Couldn't Bitcoin be implemented on something other Blockchain, since Blockchain is so computationally intensive. Like why not use a SQL database instead. It's definitely not technically infeasible, and you can reliably achieve all objectives of Bitcoin by doing so.

The idea of independent financial system is great, but the inefficiency of it's usage is something I am very doubtful about.
I had relatively good experience in mine for rattles -- just the usual dash rattle from something to do with the HVAC. But I only owned it 18 months, and most cars are really solid for the first few years anyway.

I had really great luck early on with AP but ended up not using it much towards the end of my ownership experience because my wife didn't want me using it on road trips -- too many panic braking events on our usual route. Something changed in the algorithms, they may have worked that out by now.

> we have a to choose between traditional comfort and tech, which sucks

100% agree. Choosing any car comes with some amount of give & take, but right now with EVs there seems to be a major subset of features you have to give up depending on which option you go with.

My dream daily driver would be if the Model Y got the driver screen and analog(ish) knob that Ford put on the Mach E, and a pair of Recaro seats. And CarPlay, ha! I'd buy that today. But if I were looking right now for something in that segment I'd probably end up with a Mach E and I'd just deal with the less convenient road-trip charging (99% of the time I charge at home anyway).
Seymour Cray would dig tunnels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray#Personal_life
Tell me one solution that would make blockchain technology obsolete. I would bet there is none even close because other solutions will require trust to some degree or have rather big security concerns but I am always open to learn new things.

If we are talking about blockchain tech PoS is a possible (not perfect) solution to replace PoW but this is even more hyped then PoW in my opinion.
> And the waste needs to be paid for for 100,000 years.

No, it only needs to be protected until the radioactivity is the same as background level, or whatever comes from a banana (which is much higher than background level but still safe).

Seriously the amount of radioactive waste produced is extremely small and dealing with it may be a political problem because people are irrationally terrified, but it's not a technical or financial problem. Dig a hole, put the waste in, and cover it up. It's not some lighter than air stuff that will bubble out of the hole, form a monster, and then ravage the earth.

Now do the same for recycling many billions of tons of batteries and solar panels each year, which are made of lead, which is a known toxin and never stops being a toxin.

Solar, wind, and battery waste is a much harder and much more expensive problem to deal with -- one that we don't have any practical solutions for at the moment.
Sod the people who use and value it, this is literally the future of the planet.
Nope, more like a mean letter in his permanent record and lost hospital privileges due to higher insurance rates.
Regardless of what measure you’re using it would also be good to make it per person.
Interesting. I have 95,000 miles on a 2018 Model 3. No rattles. The maintenance has been a windshield, underbody cover for the rear wheels (got torn when I hit abou 6" of standing water), and one bad SW update that required a hard system reset that put the car back to factory settings (had to re-configure Homelink, audio, etc).

Otherwise, it's been a fantastic experience. Incredibly fun to drive.
I mean, ok, you could make that argument about literally anything. It's a tautology. Thing has value to people who value it because people value it. Neat.

It's intrinsic value is zero. It's economic value is negative, because it's a Ponzi scheme. [1]

[1] https://ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-pon...
2021 into 2022 – A Year in Review
What goes around will come around. The existence of Twitter as a relevant private company is now limited to 2-4 years, the amount of time the next GOP takes total control of government.
In theory, the resampling shouldn't matter, though, should it?

As per Nyquist, as long as the sampling rate is higher than double the highest frequency you care about, the original signal can always be perfectly reconstructed. Therefore going to a higher sample rate shouldn't affect the originally recorded content.

While the "perfect" reconstruction per Nyquist does indeed assume things that aren't actually possible in reality, like infinitely steep filters, AFAIK the best approximations we have are still good enough to not cause any audible issues (all the more so if you're subsequently applying lossy compression anyway), though of course it might be possible that a particular encoder uses a faulty implementation that does indeed mess things up.
> This sounds like an issue with the language. 3-4 is not a large number and should not be by default

Many languages optimize numeric operations and DX around numeric types for efficiency rather than correctness, and make the latter high-friction. (Wrap-around subtraction, decimal literals being treated as IEEE floats, etc.)

The exceptions (or cases where it is merely less true) tend to be very high level, dynamic languages.
It’s not an empathy gap. It’s collectivism vs individualism.
I read fentanyl killed more people than Covid in SF last year - don’t think there were any age brackets on that either
Yes, because he is giving dangerous advice. Hey! This weekend I operated on my cat, pro tip, nail the cat down to avoid him moving. If you write a twitter in rust then giving the wrong advice will at worst spur someone to create another successful startup.
Most are: The mantra 3, 3, 2, 2 (annual) adds up to 9x revenue growth in first 2 years, and presumably, higher growth in upstream metrics to feed that . They will invest at 20-100x (and even 1000x+) multiples of revenue if they believe it.
10 years ago, you could have said that the existing auto industry was better positioned to electrify their existing vehicles than Tesla is to bootstrap their own electric cars out of nothing - but here we are.
crypto is basically mimetic crack.