skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if you're a marketer and see others as little more than consumers. Next thing to burn is commoditization of "content" as the young see through the nonsense and reach out for sincerity.

There are mountains of quality information online and while I would absolutely resent having to grow up in the age of social media, the kids are way better at parsing and questioning rapid onslaughts of information because of the tribulations there.

They get caught up for a while, but the guise wears away. Young people can easily see outside their immediate world, and any adopted worldview, unlike we've ever known. When I was growing up that meant a lonely kid wandering down to the library to flip through magazines from the big city to inject some new ideas into one's world. Now, young people from anywhere can dig into the most arcane of information and worldviews in seconds and begin integrating them earlier on in their lives.

The world will look very different in outlook in a short amount of time, and it will not be for the sake of "content". Just gimme some truth, all I want is some truth.
Journalist are normal people. Normal people write shitposts on Twitter. Presidents and CEOs can shitposts on Twitter but journalists cannot? What a weird assumption.
Can't say if it's an increase over previous years but I do notice a lot of culture war posts. Topics are usually an endless repetition of cancel-culture/COVID/gender/trans debates that just devolve into flamewars. I watch "new" and notice it's frequently the same users who insist on bringing it up.

The comments have nothing novel to discuss, just endless rehashing of the same battles over and over. Guidelines warn against using the site to wage ideological battles, so I usually just flag and move on.
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IIRC that was a DNS issue, which is why it took down all the Meta services. In other words, the WhatApps Erlang servers were probably happily humming away.
Children are still susceptible to long-term complications from getting covid. Like you said, it's a cost benefit decision, but there's real risks associated with children getting covid that seem to be going unacknowledged given that, unlike rabies, millions are going to be infected with covid.
Unfortunately -- and this should be made absolutely clear -- that unlike cannabis itself, there has been little use of delta-8 THC throughout human history.

Its recent use is a sad consequence of the government making a relatively harmless compound illegal and driving users to use novel compounds with unknown (or even averse) safety profiles.

The long-term effects of delta-8 THC use are currently unknown, and you are basically volunteering to be a guinea pig by using it.

Much safer to use cannabis itself (and ideally grow it yourself, so you really know what you're getting).
Most “design patterns” are actually just workarounds for lack of expressiveness in old Java versions.

In other languages or modern Java you can replace half of them with simple constructs. Factory pattern for example can be replaced with simple inline callbacks to anonymous functions. Same with many others.
As a complete layman I wonder if there’s a future where you could use a picture/X-ray of an old CPU architecture and simulate it blindly with an approach similar to yours?
The "why not" list is long and applies to many niche technologies:

* No understanding of formal methods. Even someone is working on a problem that TLA+ would be great at, they don't even know that formal methods exist.

* People aren't given time to apply formal methods. Schedules don't allow for getting things correct. It's hard to persuade management to make space for formal methods for various reasons.

* Other methods of getting the right (or close to it) product and outcome exist. People are more comfortable with building things and testing them rather than using formal methods. They are willing to take a risk with that approach even if there is a strong argument for formal methods.

* People that know/use formal methods tend to gravitate towards niches. Rather than taking on the hard adoption challenges and impacting the culture across large organizations they tend to focus on success niches. Other software engineering mavens are applying arguably easier and less effective processes more successfully across a broad audience.

These don't focus on the product itself. TLA+ has challenges as others point out, but it's hard for it to succeed broadly when there isn't a strong desire for the capability. If the user experience got super slick, then there is a chance that it could become such low effort that people would do it, but this doesn't seem a likely outcome.
You can't really tell if HN is getting angrier or not, because you're just going off of your selective memory. All humans store and retrieve memories according to specific biases. This leads people to think that the past was better and that we're worse off now than we were before. Only by careful analysis do we find out that actually the present is much better than it's ever been.

It's more likely that the community never changed, but that you are changing. You may have become more sensitive over time, and now feel that anger more viscerally, and assume that this new feeling must be the community changing rather than yourself.

I know I've gotten both softer and harder over time. I can feel my reactions getting stronger, but I also try to shut up when I feel I'm about to react strongly. I've gotten a little better at making my words more diplomatic. But I'm really just as angry as I've always been :-)
NA Houses still get 240 delivered to them - so yeah, 400A is huge.
This is a much abbreviated version of the story.

My father was diagnosed with Ampulla of vater carcinoma. It's a pretty rare cancer, most similar to pancreatic cancer. After the curative options had been exhausted (read: cancer returned after surgery), the oncologist started a regimen of abraxane and one other chemo agent (I'm blanking on the name right now). These of course come with their share of side effects, as they are "classic" chemo. Not to mention their efficacy is pretty terrible. But really at this point we needed more data. They had never sequenced the tumor. Many, many emails and calls later, the doctor finally agreed to order the sequencing. Till this day I don't know why there was so much resistance to this (also keep in mind, this wasn't some rural hospital, this was at Johns Hopkins). Some time goes by and we finally get the results. The results showed a brca mutation. This was of course excellent news, as the brca mutations are very widely studied due to their connection with breast cancer. After some research, it turned out parp inhibitors were the latest most effective treatment at the time, specifically Lynparza. Again, many emails and calls, until the oncologist agreed to prescribe it. And unlike the conventional chemo agents, this was taken orally and had few if any side effects. Months go by and the ct results come in - the tumors are shrinking! All in all my father remained in remission under the parp inhibitors for a little over a year, side effect and pain free (I can't stress that last part enough). Lynparza eventually stopped being effective (this is believed to occur due to the cancer mutating). We subsequently tried a clinical trial but in the end the battle was lost, and my father passed.

While the parp inhibitor wasn't a cure, my father, my family, and I, would not give up that extra year for the world. So the tldr is: don't just listen to the oncologist, get a second opinion, don't be afraid to read hundreds of medical papers, and definitely badger the oncologist if you have salient information.

Edit: typos
The amount of cognitive dissonance required to say "we want to limit impact" on one hand, and to run a 400Amp electrical connection to heat your hot tub and pool in Canada, is staggering.
As a European you probably don't have an outdoor heated pool & hot tub in a frigid northern climate.

I also think it's ridiculous, for what it's worth. 400A is a wild amount of electricity for a supposedly high efficiency, modern home.
Compare places with equal density is likely a better way to go about it.
I was able to use a US number from Twilio for that purpose. Interestingly, the Canadian numbers I tried didn't work.
I have starlink in the northern latitudes.

The issues I have with connectivity are probably 99% trees.

When I first started it seemed to need a total view of the sky to get consistent. As the software/flotilla have improved vastly, I use it for zoom and once every couple hours of zooming I may risk a 10 second blip.

I think they are getting better software wise of detecting the usable area of visible sky and utilizing satellites better.

I would think more satellites, more tree tolerance. I currently have my dishy too close to the road since I get the best view that way, I might try moving it back to the backyard this spring to see if it can work well there without worrying about teenagers using it for batting practice or some disgruntled cable employee or it getting stolen.

If you have an unobstructed view of the sky, it should be functionally as reliable as cable internet.
Seeing pictures of family and participating in group events are all positive in my opinion.

My son's daycare has a facebook page. It's very convenient to stay up to date on my own schedule without having to deal with emails. My pizzeria also has a facebook page. It's an easy way to look up hours or any updates. My gym has an instagram page to post their workouts and schedule. It's very convenient. The owners aren't very tech savvy so its easy for them. And its easy for me because the website isn't broken, gives me everything I need, lets me comment or reach out to the owners and is well indexed

It's like saying "I wouldn't use product if not for the value I get from the product".
Starlink does much the same, no? The median Starlink upload appears to be 14Mbit/sec, per Ookla/Speedtest.
Not sure why this is relevant, but if by trend you mean higher growth, then over half of countries in the world had larger growth in 2018-2019 [1].

US (growth 2.2%) is 119th out of 202 countries, with Timor-Leste at 19.5% at the top.

Lots of big countries also outgrew the US over this period: Vietnam 7%, China 5.9, Ireland 4.9%, Poland, Hungary, India, Israel, UAE, Luxembourg, Ukraine, Latvia, Peru..... It's not like the US was anything special for growth.

Did you think the US was the country with the best growth? Or even near the top?

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2...
That might require SO to do some light semver tracking but I don't think that's too much to ask.

Maybe people don't need to see questions asked when Tomcat 8.mumble was new now that we're on 10.something.
Dude works for slack – a quick search reveals that he was one of the early employees. I know nothing about him otherwise, but he doesn't have to come from money, being lucky with the IPO could explain the windfall to afford the house. In other news, it looks pretty (and over the top), but I doubt most of us here will ever be able to afford something like this.
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Oh wow this is awesome. I got through the first few levels and would like to complete it later...

Also, is this the same as the 2015 'bitmap logic simulator'? I found this while reworking reso awhile back: https://realhet.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/bitmap-logic-simula...
There's a big difference between "technology can save the world" and "technology saves the world". Right now we see a lot of talk and very little action so indeed, I wouldn't rely as of yet on technology either.
A heated pool for a single-family home in the wilderness seems particularly decadent and indulgent.

It looks like they wanted a California house, with flat a roof and giant windows, in the Canadian Wilderness. But there's a reason houses in the mountains look the way they do. This house looks as out-of-place as a ski chalet would on the beach in San Diego. In any case, it looks as if they have enough money not to care.
> overall, it just feels loud and crowded.

I think this is part of the real reason. More people have been coming there since I joined (2015 I think?). The submissions were also more technical then, a bit more, not much more.
Myocarditis risk stratified by gender, age group, vaccine and infection:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

Males under 40 roughly have the highest risk from multiple Moderna doses, followed by infection, followed by two Astra doses, followed by two Pfizer doses. I expect two COVID infections would increase the risk like it seems to do with the vaccines.
hello paywall.
That is so arrogant (from oracle) it should be illegal.
Unfortunately, Austin is utterly rife with nimbyism, and even worse, whatever the inverse of it is: new people moving into fancy apartments downtown, and then being angry that they hear the loud music so late at night, from the venues that were there way before them! Retroactive nimby? The venues that have survived are still good, but so so many were lost to residential development. Don't even get me started!

It was a few years ago, but even the nationally recognized, Beard-award winning bbq darling Franklin BBQ was going to be affected by smoke ordinances, because the new development that cropped up around it, and the existence of lots of bbq smoke. Not sure what came of it, but people were quite vocal.
Not really guaranteed if you consider the risk of bankruptcy due to wildfires.
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I think it also depends on where your review is.

If you're just doing reviews independent of medium, review just the content. The fact that you were reading a poorly stapled together print out from Jimmy down the hall is immaterial.

If it's more like Amazon, where I'm reviewing this particular item I bought, people should know that the item being sold is of substandard quality and they should get the item elsewhere.
Math cannot be checked instantaneously. Mochizuki's proof for the abc conjecture mentioned in the article was first released in 2012, and despite conferences and lots of time spent trying to figure out what he's saying and whether it's correct there is still no consensus.
Busybox vi is definitely a thing … but even then it probably has ed.
Mostly FitXR since it's competitive and SuperNatural. Both are subscription based, $6/month and $15/month if paid yearly. I tend to end with Thrill of the Fight.

In addition to Beat Saber, you might want to check out games like Until You Fall and SynthRiders.

I've lost 20 lbs playing video games.
In general, true.

However, try driving the spectacularly scenic US550 road through the San Juans in southern Colorado, and note the completely regular semi-trucks negotiating this insane mountain road. I am sure this is not the only example.
Wide usage of internal only APIs is why much of the world is still stuck using Java 8 and can't migrate.
Personal intel, I maintain a map and spreadsheet, combined with publicly available information and press releases.
That's accurate. We're in constant fear of losing power whenever there is a freeze warning (we're on that today and tomorrow at least), rain or heat. That's all thanks to the greedy for-profit system enabled by "conservative" politicians.
And yet another example of feature creep in today's browsers. Now one can extend CSS with JavaScript.
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The other thought that came to mind is if its a second home - how do you prevent squatters/random people from "enjoying" the house while you are away.
They would drive slowly and carefully and take alternate routes when possible.

Just ride the brakes?

No that will overheat and glaze the brakes. That is why long steep hills initially had run-away ramps created. The run-away ramps are still used but not nearly as much as they used to be. In many places alternate routes were created for people towing heavy things. A good example of this is the grapevine on I-5 in southern California. There is a truck route and the main route. That also has many run-away ramps.
My thought is that power can go out for days at a time after a big storm, so propane is mostly a backup electricity/aux heat source.

Maybe they have a heat pump setup which switches to propane when it gets really cold.

Wood is there, but somebody needs to feed it. And people inevitably get old or lazy about it and depend more and more on the convenient heat sources available.
I appreciate that you chimed in because it's a common perception.

But stopping the use of the master-slave metaphor in tech has nothing to do with assuming there are "hyper-sensitive, fragile babies who cannot understand nuance of speech" it has to do with real metaphors that persist in tech, which hold problematic historical baggage.

The IETF has a document with the clearest and most informative statement on this that I know about: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-knodel-terminology-00.html

Besides, "trunk" is an objectively more correct metaphor for the main "branch" in a "source tree".
works quite well. simple and to the point.
Isn't that impossible to prove for any OSS backend out there?
Yeah, building the connection is one thing, but it's arguably more work to construct the railway to get to that remote region of Russia.

There's a documentary (Long Way Round) about Ewen McGregor riding a motorcycle from London to NYC by going around the world across Eurasia. They were essentially ferried by a giant off-road truck through rural Russia and even then they had to practically dig a new path for truck to pass in some spots.

That was in 2004, but I doubt the road of bones has gotten any better since then...
there's a lot of land on the WA/OR coast, but you won't find it cheap in a Seattle suburb, which is where a 30 minute drive along the coastline will take you
OP explicitly mentioned Bay Area in his post. I'd agree that housing policy is brain-dead in the Bay Area and that causes a lot of the high CoL; the other major factor is that these tech salaries are a significant fraction of total earners, which gives people selling to them enough of a market to raise prices. If 1% of the population makes $300K/year, they get to live like a 1%er. If 10% of the population makes $300K/year, they live like a 10%er.
when the power is off it's perfectly safe to put your hand in the disposal
Nah it is indeed absolutely hideous. There's a higher-res version with less funky colors that I think looks a bit nicer: https://gitlab.com/lynnpepin/reso/-/raw/master/logo/reso_log...
>The data shows that between renewables, storage, transmission, heat pumps, and electrifying mobility, climate change can be solved.

Gonna need a link to one of those threads full of citations on this claim, because this is not at all my understanding. Even if we had a magic wand that would reduce anthropogenic CO2 (and other greenhouse gas) emissions to zero overnight, we're already far above historic atmospheric CO2 concentrations and will be paying the price.

Edit: since I'm asking for citations, here's mine[1] showing that according to climate models zero CO2 emissions from 2020 onward would have little effect on the global mean temperature through 2100.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17001-1/figures/2
Releasing a playable MVP and adding features would be preferable to a big bang with the kitchen sink. I had already abandoned my investment in this product. "Best is the enemy of good."
But that's the problem! The cost of the grid is the same whether it delivers you 100kWh or 10,000kWh. The delivery charge should be a fixed monthly charge, based on the size of your meter, not scaled to the number of kWh you consume.
This can be solved with a backup that store the address book (but not in the cloud, please!). Signal for Android already have a safe and encrypted backup feature, I use it to keep my message history safe.

Not being forced to add a contact to the phone address book is an extra advantage, as address books are one of the first victims of spyware apps...

Also, with usernames and a desktop app, there is no reason to require a smartphone at all! Seriously, my Android phone is the least secure platform that I use at the moment (lots of proprietary stuff, spyware prone, ...)
The culture of the HN comment section has pretty much always been deeply contrarian. "Why are you building something so complicated when you can do X which is so much simpler?"

Obligatory reference to the infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

The day HN stops helping me see the opposing viewpoint will be a sad day indeed. With that said, there is clear distinction between opposition and opprobrium, and yes, sometimes there's the latter here... but I don't feel it as much.
Also they have (or had) a very high technology export tax; this has the tendency to concentrate certain kinds of development entirely within Israel.

So it's not just that they have a high level of expertise; there is a strong economic disincentive for firms to move tech business out of Israel.
If you want to contribute to ending cancer, there are opportunities in tech. Flatiron Health works on both clinical software and research data.
Except the most usable crypto today which is Bitcoin, might cost 15$ to send someone 5$ today, maybe 20$ tomorrow depending on the ever flactuating gas fees. I wouldn't describe this as low transaction fees nor in any way efficient. Crypto right now is at best an inflationary tool good only for profiting off market speculation. It will never be as good as fiat or any other financial products based on fiat for the foreseeable future.
I would love something like this to remove sugars from recipes and replace them without ruining the overall dish.

Especially for baking.
Yeah - the issue in the USA is that everyone here still thinks sprawl is sustainable. It’s not. Financially or climate wise - it’s not sustainable. It’s been cheap historically because the government subsidized it. It’s actually very expensive. (Roads and service lines cost a lot of money - go figure)

Idk why people keep thinking it’s a cheaper way to do things when we know that it isn’t. It’s like no one here has read any of those strong towns articles.
My understanding is a little different:

All skin cells have gene 1111, and you CAR-T goes after cells expressing gene 1111, killing all your skin.

Some of the cancerous skin cells mutate to not express gene 1111, evading the CAR-T efficacy.
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I'll bite. What's RCS?
One BIG issue with this article. You are often not allowed to just go off grid and use your own battery as a backup.

Does anyone know if they've changed that (zoning / building code / certificate of occupancy) requiring an interconnect with the grid?

That is my big issue here. We are getting told how we need to pay for them to build us a bigger / higher power grid. What if I want to go off grid.
> Will it go to $10,000? Who knows. There's a price not much above that which would crush world markets to the point where it would usher in the apocalypse.

> Instead an army (make no mistake) of small retail investors…

> You may not understand it, but this is war.

> Don't be confused. This is war.

I keep diving into hyperbole? I think this conversation has run its course.
> they are still orders of magnitude too expensive

This isn't right as of today, stored energy charged by solar is about $0.20/kWh ($200/MWh) which is within spitting distance of the cost of new nuclear. And when you average this cost with the cost of solar/wind delivered directly, it's a huge cost winner.

https://www.lazard.com/media/451566/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

This is just the cost today, batteries are dropping precipitously in cost. If storage dropped in cost multiple orders of magnitude, and there's reason to believe that it will drop at least an order of magnitude, then thermal cycle electricity will completely obsolete.