skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can vouch for this. It's amazing - one of these tiny 30W chargers, barely larger than the 5W iPhone cubes, powers all my devices. Especially coming from a huge Thinkpad charging brick, this thing is magic.

I have a PowerPort Atom 30W (about 1.5 inches on each side, or ~35mm.) It plugs into my M1 Air, and my iPhone charges off the Air's second USB-C port. Two cables and this tiny charger is all I need. There's a newer version, the Nano II, which is indeed slightly smaller, but some people claim that it has issues with various charging protocols so I don't see a reason to upgrade.

My only complaint is that for whatever reason, these don't seem to exist with EU plugs. There are GaN EU chargers, but they're not nearly as compact, which is disappointing. The US/China designs (the plug types are similar) are hyper optimized for every cubic millimeter, which is cool, but the EU ones are just the US/CN ones bolted onto an EU plug, which obviously wastes space.
What I'd love is a single HD video for each sport which is just the competitors competing. No commercials, no announcements, no human-interest. In fact you could trim out everything but the top three performances and I'd be fine. Even then, it's not something I'd watch for more than 10 minutes.
Shocker, this is why I didn't invest anything in that platform as a consumer user, Google is so so prone to killing off projects. It was a cool idea but it obviously was one among many and wasn't going to get the attention/time/resources needed to build something meaningful.
No idea how China got to host the Olympics.
First half a dozen or so times I did it I just assumed you couldn't have a duplicate letter.
I don't know where you live, but my experience is that in the US, the network coverage just ruined the Olympics because they don't "get it."

I grew up in a different country--not the US, China or Russia. We typically hope to get a half dozen medals and a gold would be a Big Deal.

As a result, if you turn on the TV, you get random coverage of any of the hundreds of individual competitions. Modern pentathlon! The one where they jump on a trampoline! Handball!

There are so many sports that it's non-stop coverage. Also, because it's live, whenever someone from your home country has a chance to medal it's a big deal: everyone stops doing what they are doing to watch TV. Collectively. It's an "event".

It's really fun and--this is key-- emotional. Not just to watch your country medal but all of the other sports, winners, losers, etc.

In the US the TV coverage is garbage. It's 100% US-centric, which would be excusable (if shortsighted, because it's less fun and emotional). Worse, it's not even live, which makes it less special. And they don't show any sports where the US isn't competitive, which makes it less novel and fun.
It's still used by parents in diapers, despite that being a huge cancer risk.
Exactly. Modularity on the frontend is dead simple. Modularity all the way down to executing machine code is hard.
North Korea missle programme funded through stolen crypto
> We have real world data that shows us this only leads to wasted electricity

You are either ill-informed and should educate yourself on the subject (blockchain != proof of work-based consensus) or willingly creating confusion by mixing up concepts.

Let's assume the first, shall we?
This is a lovely way to frame meditation.

Parking time to practice not-thinking has a cumulative effect in my experience, but it accumulates quickly I.e. days of practice. I’m not as disciplined as some, and mostly my diligence comes in waves where I re-establish a sitting routine every few months after life distracts me.

Also +1 on candlelight/hurricane lamps.
They are clearly behind in understanding how young people want to enjoy the games. The experience is trash when it even works (half the streams return an authorization error at random).
Barcelona 92 was the Olympics that most benefited a city.

What a wonderful city! And amazing port / beach transformation.
This is some heavy duty stuff you listed here.

On the point about drinking water, I bought a desktop water dispenser, much more convenient than having to refill the water bottle.

Instead of the rowing machine, I'm considering a barbell with weights.

On the multiple equipment point, I fully agree. I got myself multiple hubs, one for each desk. No more carrying cables!
And if that doesn't work, try doing it with a single gear heavy steel bike.
Not sure, but it might get you banned. HN rules say it's okay to post your own stuff "occasionally". Don't know how they interpret it, though.
Wouldn’t posting everyone of your posts to HN be against the guidelines:

“Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.”
Interesting. Do you have a link to the rule change?
Your phone communicates over public airwaves. Therefore the government that represents the peoples interests has every right, and I’d say responsibility, to use that to help identify who was in the area of a crime when it occurred.

It’s no different than asking a witness for a testimony.
An ISO stick. Looks like a DVD player to the OS but loads ISO images off a micro SD card. So I have lots of images in a USB stick form factor that are read much faster than a real DVD drive does.
An easy way: get a CCNA. I like the Lammle CCNA study book but YMMV.

It’s not required but it’s useful for network noobs and is an easy way to get your foot into the door.

Then, get an entry-level job, and keep upgrading jobs every year or two until you are at desired pay and job roles.

Consider acquiring equipment for a test or home lab to play with and try new things.

Get used to feeling overwhelmed/out of your league. It’s normal and if you don’t give up, you’ll manage.

Learn Python so that you can automate menial tasks. Love it or hate it, it’s the most common language you’ll see in the network engineer world.

Download Wireshark and sniff traffic. Explore different protocols and what types of headers they use. Explore how TCP connections are created and destroyed. Do the same with TLS. Being half-decent with Wireshark will have you looking like a mage in today’s world.

If you get to a point where you’ve been doing it 20-25 years like me: don’t stop learning and encourage curiosity in your colleagues (especially those curious mid-20s kids).

Extra-credit: Go through the TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1 book by W Richard Stevens. After you get your CCNA, read the Routing TCP/IP Cisco Press book.

Source: Am well-paid net engineer.
The underlying rule here, in my opinion, is the law of diminishing returns. (log shaped curve)

AlphaZero is already capable of optimizing itself in the limited problem space of Chess.

Infinitely increasing the computing power of this system won't give it properties it does not already have, there is no singularity point to be found ahead.

And I am not sure that there are any singularities lying ahead in any other domains with the current approach of ML/AI.
> I'm ok with throwing a molotov cocktail at corporate/police property as a response to police killing people and getting away with it.

You're OK with someone setting a precinct on fire at the risk of actually killing people inside or in the surroundings? People that might have had nothing to do with whatever crime the police got away with at first place?

You're not seeking justice, you're seeking vendetta, so why are you acting like justice has not been served at first place? You don't believe in Justice anyway.
Indeed. We already have a wealth tax for the overwhelming majority of Americans and they don’t seem opposed to it.

It’s called property tax. They all know what it’s used for.

The issue with a wealth tax is purely a marketing one. Rich people have truly done a great job distorting the wording around a wealth tax.
> That seems a lot of rationalisation for a situation where a genuine sender on another system sends legitimate mail to a genuine recipient on your system, that mail is not properly delivered, and it's your fault.

It's how the internet stays functional. If 0.001% of legitimate mail has to go undelivered in order to prevent overwhelming amounts of spam/attacks from an irresponsible network that's an acceptable loss to most people in our civilized culture. Bad actors have been ostracized from communities for as long communities have existed. If you want reliable service, choose a responsible ISP. Blacklists have enabled the internet and email to remain useful for most users most of the time. Without them, email wouldn't be usable. If you have a better solution for spam, the whole world would love to hear it.
Some great answers here.

Mine:
Air Pods Pro. Takes the edge off of traffic and other city noises while walking around. Makes it easier to consume audiobooks/podcasts. Plane/bus/train trips++.

Wool pants, shorts (with gussets) and boxer briefs (Wool and Prince). Gussets make movement easier (walking) and wool pants/shorts go longer between washes. BB can be hand washed in sinks while traveling and dry quickly. Bonus, you can wear wool wet in a pinch. Magic stuff.

Wool t-shirts from Duckworth.

Tilley Hat for beating the heat (SPF 50) (again, great for walking or biking). With straps so it doesn’t fly off in the wind. Handsome looks, not (that) dorky.

Brompton folding bike. Resisted this for years because I love non-folders but this thing feels like a proper bike, better even. Get it with a generator hub and lights and the six speed gearing (absolutely fine for hills, like in San Francisco).

USB-C 20 watt charger for the iPhone. My goodness this thing charges the phone (12 Pro Max) fast. Worth the money.

Thanks for listening.
When you really think about it started (the modern one) as weird euro-centric worship of classicism. That just doesn't seem too right in the end.
I think the argument they're making is that comets aren't as inhospitable as assumed, and in fact were better suited than primordial Earth - so life started there first.
Not to mention how young people are destroyed via extreme, unhealthy expectations and doping.
I just want to say that the minimal design of the site feels very pleasant to me. Some days I struggle to make the simplest things feel right even with tools like Tailwind. Well done!
I have been cashless for pretty much a decade, I'm more interested in what smart money that can be programmed can do.

Like can i get paid instantly for every KWH i deliver back to the grid via solar panels. Can my salary or hourly contract be streamed to my bank account. These sort of things are all possible in crypto.
The article talks a lot about the sentiment towards China, and the covid protocols. I'm sure these are factors, but I think an important point that's not really covered is that right now a lot of people just aren't interested in the Olympics. The war for attention, plus the fact we've mostly been sitting at home for two years, has eroded many people's interest. So has demographic and TV consumption shifts overall. When I was younger, I knew the names of all kinds of Olympians competing for my country. I'd be challenged to name one now.

Edit: also just realized this thread is going on discussing the same thing, making this one largely redundant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234367
The Winter Olympics have been in decline for several cycles now -- they're just not as interesting as the summer games. I recall a couple or more cycles back when they were in Canada that there was hardly any snow and about as much enthusiasm. Stephen Colbert was even there to try and bolster interest.

I feel sorry for Tokyo having been impacted by covid, where they had to postpone. Why we even went to China at all is a mystery to me.
> That's definitely an abridgment of your rights to free speech.

As a student you have a far more limited right to free speech in school. See Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393 (2007), the famous BONG HITS 4 JESUS case. Those students weren't even technically on school grounds (across the street) but were a part of a school function. A school definitely has the right to suspend a student for distributing material deemed interruptive to the learning environment of a school.
During the cold war the was more of a pannationalalism in the sense us vs them.
The bothering other people bit is what i feel is mostly stopping me from using anything but a headset.
I do have experience with subwoofers and there is a certain joy when they hit you, but the thought of the whole neighbourhood hearing my excellent taste in music bothers me somewhat.
Always keep a diamond in your mind.
Always keep a diamond in your mind.
Wherever you may wander, wherever you roam,
You got to always keep a diamond in your mind.

-- Tom Waits
Not sure how that works with consciousness emerging from the substrate. There is no formal notion of consciousness in the simulation, it emerges after intelligence evolves or whatever. You don’t want to cartoonize entire galaxies after the first intelligence evolves because you don’t yet detect consciousness in those other galaxies, because then they won’t get consciousness.

On the other hand, Chalmers seems to allow for consciousness of varying degrees, in the additional quality or factor that is consciousness, so maybe the whole universe is watching itself a lot of the time. (Based on the interview with him on Sean Carroll’s podcast, not reading this latest book.)
Maybe I generalized too wide from my impressions. It seems that on the freedom of press index the US scores lower (#44) than the UK (#33). But still the absence of constitutional protections and the high profile "libel tourism" cases (including Russian oligarchs suing UK book publishers) would make me give this kind of suit better odds in the UK than in the US.
To be clear, even without asbestos talcum powder can cause cancer in women. It also doesn't have to be put directly in a vagina- using it in diapers for children is enough to cause some to potentially migrate in. A study in New England linked the increased cancer risk to inflammation caused by the talcum powder itself.
This is unbelieveably cool! The MIDI collection looks a lot like my own personal MIDI collection that I downloaded 25 years ago from FTP sites!
I don't think it does. We've had encrypted communications for centuries; cases have been cracked before without decoding those messages.
OP here. Thank you for all of the great suggestions! I've compiled all the references into this spreadsheet:
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgFSWp7rM3ZegweXAoMN...>

From my perspective, the top "must-reads" are:

-- John K Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

-- Titus Winter (et al), Software Engineering at Google

-- Hanson and Sussman, Software Design for Flexibility

Other interesting titles that caught my eye:

-- Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building

-- Scott Wlaschin, Domain Modeling Made Functional

-- Yehonathan Sharvit, Data-Oriented Programming: Unlearning objects (upcoming)

-- Nick Tune, Patterns, Principles, and Practises of Domain Driven Design

-- Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

-- Donald Reinertsen, The Principles of Product development Flow

-- Eric Normand, Grokking Simplicity
I guess the other interesting thing is that these were likely single-wire earth return systems.
Why you hate tasks that you love, when they become your day job
Why would you discount someone who has been measuring relevancy of search results and only accept information from a group of people who don't use the system? You are making the mistake of identifying the wrong group as experts.

You may have implemented something that impressed you but when you move that solution into real use were other's as impressed?

That's what is probably happening with the google search team. A lot of impressive demos, pats on the back, metrics being met but it falls apart in production.

Most people don't think Google's search is good. Most people on Google's team probably think it's better than ever. Those are two different groups.

Spam filtering may have had upgrades but it is not really better for it and in many cases worse.
Nothing. My first thought as well. I have a NAS and a bunch of self hosted apps running on kubernetes. Something like this will be really useful.
Help people who are doing far worse than you.

This is one potential way to improve your depression.

Make sure you exercise a lot and take your vitamins.

Pick up a hobby that will force you to meet lots of people. When I did photography, I met so many interesting people, including my future wife.
If interested, there was a post on Timothy Matlack’s great penmanship with writing the Declaration of Independence: https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2021/07/01/the-power-of-...
All except the Olympic stadium which was torn down.
Also reminiscent of Stephen Wolfram's recent thinking about the "Ruliad"[0], which I initially heard him discussing during the keynote at the recent re:Clojure conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzbWAiu50MU&t=3200s

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-t...
There are around 300,000 km of active rail in the US, essentially none of which is electrified. Then there are 10s of thousands of diesel locomotives that would need to be all replaced. This would cost trillions of dollars, more than any reasonable estimate of rail revenue for the several decades. Then those overhead wires would need to be maintained, which is much more expensive than just keeping rails functional.
Because the model of apps needs to die. If you have something you want to put out into the world you currently need to write an android app, an iOS app and then any other native formats you want to target. But it’s much better to make it browser based because it’s one and done and it also side-steps all the nonsense with app stores which has been well known lately. If it’s easier and better for the developers then we will have more and better software.

Web assembly and WGPU are coming and when they do it will be the next paradigm after mobile apps. But in order to get to this new glorious paradigm it is necessary for people to be capable of recognizing the value of software even if it’s in the browser and of using it on the scale seen with wordle. It’s just as likely that people would turn their nose up to a browser based software and everything would remain stagnate. So I am glad.
There are plenty of these.

This submission is notable is because it's free and polished.

--- Edit ---

AH, DAMN. It is NOT indeed free, at least not as demoed.

The child comment below is 100% correct.

It also pulls piles of stuff from cdn.jsdelivr.net and can't function without it. That's no bueno.
These kinds of static sites are generally served from a shared host like GitHub Pages, Netlify, etc. The baseline is configuring Jeykyll or whatever the first time.

imo lambda/serverless can get overdone and too complicated but it works well for one-off services like this.
Ask HN: I'm hesitant to helping colleagues, why?
I have a couple of fantastic colleagues that are always willing to help and have built a large base of connections and influence. Their connections are helping them always know the latest news in the company and be exposed to more opportunities. They also get a much preferable yearly evaluation.
On top of the benefits above, my definition of a good person includes helping others.

But, every time someone asks me for help, or sometimes when I find an informative article, I'm hesitant to sharing it and helping others.

Anybody had the same issue? What could be the causes?
As one who is surrounded by Olympics athletes, the 1984 Summer Olympics was held in Los Angeles.

I got the chance to actually meet people from all over the world and learn to converse in their tongues.

No politics, no post-event reviews, no media coverage on flaws of judging, no politicians leveraging Olympics (that I intensively read for in many printed media). A really nice week(s).

Today, not so much.

sources

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics
Or "to death", yes. Same sentence structure works fine barring the occasional word order change in most Germanic languages (e.g. Kjøp en båt, arbeid deg til døde/til døds" in Norwegian. I can't find a way of making it rhyme in other Germanic languages, though.

(incidentally work/werk have cognates in German and Scandinavian languages too, but only as nouns (Werk, virke, verk etc.), hence the shift to "arbeid" in the Norwegian version; and "buy"->kjøp or e.g. German kaufen is extra odd, with English having retained a Germanic form while the others inherited a latin loan-word; yes I know this is a total digression...)
I think it's fair to say that pre-internet, there were fewer media voices but there were a lot, lot fewer attempts at surveillance.
right. The most recent operation where they took down the IS leader does not smell good. 13 civilians are dead including kids and women. Who knows what actually happened where and what's the actual tally, but I don't believe a word coming from Biden's mouth.
I have never seen better error messages than those coming from the Rust compiler, rustc.

I have never seen worse error messages than those generated by GNU GCC's C++ compiler, g++ (except if you count no error message, perhaps).
> Those willing to write me a personal e-mail in order to share their thoughts on my stupid little blog probably have something interesting to say.

Neat. I expect it would also reduce low-quality content, because (optimistically) commenters are making a more human connection by directly emailing the author and asking him to do a little work, and (pessimistically) they know they can't get past the content filter, and nobody will ever read their screed if it's too nasty.

I've run a blog for over 17 years, and haven't turned comments on for over 16 of them. I don't consider the pluses worth the minuses. But, this method never occurred to me.
And of course the IOC is somehow more corrupt then FIFA, which is a real accomplishment.
filebrowser is a nice option: https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser I don't think it has as slick of a photo view, but it does make it easy to spin up a server for files with a focus on editing.
Pen names are known to the publisher, though. They are pseudonyme s not complete anonymity.

The current full anonymity of targeted taylored communication allows for unprecedented levels of deceit, systematic and controlled disinformation of the electorate, in unprecedented ways, leading to e.g. Brexit.

This current systematic abuse of anonymity to deceive the people is not comparable to the pseudonyme books and articles and leaflets of the pre-facebook era.
Pat Metheny on Kenny G (2000)
Related article:
Olympics Opening Ceremony draws record-low ratings (yahoo.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234637
I'd appreciate you sharing your dish drying rack recommendation. I've still got the one I bought in college. Never occurred to me there might be better versions.
None of those comparisons make any sense. No one thinks like that even in a hyperbolic sense.

The final one really takes the cake, simultaneously repeating the right wing propaganda that Black Lives Matter protests were are all riots when less than 5% had any violence, and also implying countries that don’t allow protests about equality are a better place, and specifically a country known to abuse minorities.
https://scag.ca.gov/sites/main/files/file-attachments/crgmsa...

According to this study from 2012, the cost of electrifying railroads in California is about $4.8M/track mile, and according to google, there are about 140,000 route miles of freight rail in the US.

I'd assume that doing this in bulk might drop the costs substantially, but we're still talking about a huge network.
https://archive.is/vfOkX
I like what I see on the site and in the comments here. Im looking forward to checking this out more maybe.

Im kind of surprised that as a species we dont have a conclusive ubiquitous solution to the foggy problem of digital photo storage / management. So many of my photos are just in drawers on old hard drives and phones.

Anyway maybe its getting better. Or maybe Im just stupid.