skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read that brings back some strong memories. Used to dumpster dive extensively thanks to the 2008 collapse. Found all manner of things - passports, computers, cameras, furniture, clothing. Still have a now-unused digital camera from 18 years ago (the original memory card had a picture of some guys mooning the photographer) and a pair of jeans that are still going strong a decade later.

While I agree that can scroungers often make an absolute mess of things, I think it's unfair to say they "are drug addicts and winos." Although I do appreciate the highbrow grimace of a fellow dumpster diver!

I've paid rent from redeemed dumpstered cans and bottles. I've paid rent from furniture thrown away and fixed, then sold on Craigslist. From thrown away computers and other such things, and much more. One sale was from my nextdoor neighbor (who liked to be loud late at night). After cleaning out the ungodly amount of dust and removing an enormous amount of malware using Malware Bytes and other tools, I sold it for $45. My favorite sale was a ratty old computer chair that I found in my apartment complex dumpster then sold the same day for $10 to someone else living in the same apartment complex.

I was fortunate to have direct access to a god-tier dumpster kept fully stocked by college kids.

If you're thinking of trying dumpster diving, my advice is: wear good shoes - the insides of a dumpster are sharp, dark, and uneven. You'll find out the rest along the way. Happy hunting.
Civvies with armed drones... what could possibly go wrong.
To their credit they seem self aware with the comment on LARPing being a person that really lives there.
The Kobayashi Maru of comparing dates with times
That’s straight nonsense from some bizarre “Texit” secession advocate.

https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin%20%28...

Texas lost 30,000 MW of thermal power plants due to thermal maintenance and thermal forced outages (Page 18). In the face of unprecedented (but not unpredicted) demand, they had to load shed like crazy to save their grid.

It’s not a complicated story and has literally nothing to do with EPA clean air regulations.

Page 34 gives the breakdown by power plant type.. poorly prepared natural gas pipelines and power plants were essentially entirely responsible for the outage.
Well, yes.

It's a failure of the medium. It requires an expert to interpret properly.

And most of us aren't that. And some of those in charge of translation and interpretation aren't that either.
In Siberia, a crypto boom made of ingenuity, defiance and DIY
> do they run microcode?

If you mean "firmware", then yes.

> Who knows!)

IIRC orsoc/KNCMiner folks loved using a 6502 clone in their ASIC designs to handle boot and configuration.
why assume that they meant earth days?

if they're creating earth, then how could it be that they're using earth days? (allegedely, earth is just getting created)

also, what if a day is a rotation around a body's axis, then what about a solar day (the sun spins around itself once)? what about a galactic day?
All technology can be used for harm. How do you propose to make a distinction between acceptable and not?
And hundreds of people reached the rarefied ranks of the supercentenarians — aged 110 or older — although demographers have validated the records of only a fraction of them.

Um, yes. A few years ago, the city government of Tokyo sent people to visit everyone who reported an age over 100, to see what they were doing right. What they found was a lot of pension fraud. "To date, the authorities have been unable to find more than 281 Japanese who had been listed in records as 100 years old or older."[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/asia/15japan.html
Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
I am also looking for an alternative. Pocket just isn't good at what it's supposed to do: saving articles for later reading, often offline.
'Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is.'

- Leslie Lamport

I am finding more and more intelligent people have been able to coalesce my thinking into smaller and smaller parts. I am beginning to accept meritocracy is brutal.
Assuming that Amazon is a profit-maximizing corporation that will fully exploit it's human resources to the extent possible, and that forward-looking but non-binding statements cannot be relied on to limit that might be called cynicism but to me it looks a lot like realism.
Perhaps it will just mean we are drifting further from god.
Maybe you do, yes. And maybe you're happy with an alternative with usernames where the server keeps the list of your contacts. Or maybe you are not, and you will want an alternative where you need to rebuild your contacts list every time you install the app.

But some people are happy messaging people based on the phone number, because everything else is too cumbersome. Different people have different threat models, and one chooses the best UX for their threat model. For millions of people (maybe not you), apparently it is Signal.
Enterprise Roadmap to SRE – Google – Site Reliability Engineering
Check out the book of Genesis. There is a specific point at which God changes the maximum human lifespan to 120 years, after which this does not occur.
This is the incessant cycle I've been seeing a lot of for the past ten years:

1. Depend on proprietary service that silos data

2. Service changes price or shuts down or does something unpopular

3. People migrate to a new product baiting people with a free offering

4. Go to 1

We never should have left self-hosted bulletin boards and IRC. Hosting is cheaper and better than ever.
Irradiation is going to be approved soon as an alternative if I understand correctly
I was looking for something like Taiwan's gold card, but in Europe.

I actually don't really need to work for a while. I'm targeting cheaper countries like Hungary or Spain.
I want to encourage us to distinguish between something that happens to be trending, and you decide to do it, versus doing something BECAUSE it is trending. Invoking “bandwagon” sounds like you are doing it for FOMO purposes rather than because it is a fit for you.
Not quite in the spirit, I suppose, but you can find out more about most of the numbers by googling them. One guy published youtube videos for a couple of them. Kind of fun.
Haha I don't live in Texas and it always did seem strange to have key infrastructure privatized in the way that they did.

To be fair, however, almost no community is ready for the effects of climate change (despite the reporting). In fact, most people have trouble with statistically rare events, so it doesn't surprise me. It's hard to say whether a government-managed endeavor would have been more prepared if I'm being completely honest.
Widespread brownouts are rare where I live. Seems not so much in Texas anymore.
Texans made $4M mining Bitcoin off flare gas from oil drilling
> all safe

That’s exactly what I’d expect a hacker to say ;-)

Now, where did I put my Captain Crunch whistle?
It isn't banning the competition. It's forcing the external competition to follow the same rules as the locals w.r.t. privacy laws. The fact that the external competition can't comply means that there's a market niche available which locals have an opportunity to exploit.
Yeah sure. Those 130.000 Rrussian soldiers, tanks, artillery and other equipment have been sitting at the borders for decades.
I often bang on about Software as a form of literacy. And I have noticed recently that it is actually harder for me at work to express my thoughts in English than just to damn well write some code.

I cannot work out if this is my English is declining or my coding is improving.
In my opinion, Julia is much better for numeric performance than C or Fortran. Real macros mean that you don't have to use a janky preprocessor (or a separate programming language) to generate optimal code, and multiple dispatch means you don't need to give your functions awful names (looking at you cgbtrf) and instead can just name them for what they do.

(Also, Julia gives you easy automatic differentiation and gpuification)
I'll say this time and again. Tesla's decision to use cameras instead of Lidar is a fundamental constraint that causes downstream problems.

Lidar is accurate 100% of the time. Tesla cameras create an almost as accurate reconstruction, sure. But, approaching 100% accuracy is very different from 100% accuracy.

I previously thought that having a low latency radar system was a genius way to get around the hard constraints of not hitting a physical object 100% of the time. But, in Elon's infinite wisdom, he removed it.

From Tesla's manufacturing tolerances to their range claims to their FSD systems. Tesla's approach of '99% of the time it works 100% of the time' is the kind of toxic carelessness that software engineers have allowed to seep into a hard engineering discipline where real lives are on the line. (As a once employed mechE making cars, and now an ML person writing software, I feel like I have the perspective to make this egregious claim)

'Marginally better than a distracted karen' is not the utopian FSD future I was promised.

P.s: I understand that all sensors have noise, so any claim to a 100% is dubious. But, for the purposes of this discussion, the implied meaning of a 100% should be clear.
Yes, particularly when considering how much of text is all over that page [0].

An extra sentence saying something to the effect of '50% of any remaining annual plan will be charged on early termination, [see more details link]' could have been easily incorporated without disturbing the Zen of the page.

[0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK0pes-WQAM8bkK?format=jpg&name=...
Is there not a lock file or equivalent that lists them all?
Current scientific models lack a robust cause of origin of life. We don't know the beginning. If we do know the origin, how likely would it change our estimations of age of things? You have to realize that these numbers are linear extrapolations(educated guesses) and more importantly, they are not tested like vaccines or medicines(neither can be tested).
Yes, fair enough. Unfortunately that is not accepted a lot anymore; I make custom tools for embedded hardware with win forms and it's great but projects where UI designers get in... nope.
Agreed, I'm curious as well. We load tested with real-clients faux-users, up to 1 million concurrent. And only stopped at 1 million because the test was becoming cost prohibitive.
I just disable pocket in about:config. It’s annoying that I have to do that at all, but it does the trick.
The owner might not be Indian, but she's actively defending the case(through lawyers) in India. Not following the injunction would lead her to losing the case, which is why she followed through.
She didn't have to fight the case in India, but she chose to. Why keep old papers and stop adding new papers - that probably depends on the terms of the injunction.
Unpopular opinion: IMHO single family homes are an idea whose time passed, at least in big urban areas.

While the "American Dream" is to own a home with a backyard, it is logically easier if everyone lived in highrise condos and apartments in urban areas.

Homes would be cheaper, since you could scale up and not just out (e.g. avoid urban sprawl). Not to mention lower gas costs and we don't need to cut down as many trees to build homes.

My mom owns a home (which I rent the downstairs, it's cheaper for me), and it has a big backyard. That in expensive Seattle. Combine that with tens of thousands of homes (if not hundreds) and you have a lot of wasted land.

A lot of the housing problem isn't Amazon or Big Tech, its single-family zoning. Today's cities need high rise buildings to accommodate everyone.
I ended up buying a xaxavna which work similarly but seems to have better measurements
Wow that's actually quite insightful. There are theories on cell death after some generations, dna damage etc. But I'm not sure how they explain the refresh during birth/zygote formation.

Could it be that birth is nothing but a glorified error correction with two unrelated dna to ensure probability of damage is low. If so, can the same be done with two unrelated dna pairs again again and the result applied back to a living human.
BTC + a very high carbon tax might actually be an interesting way to incentivize the desired overbuilding on renewables. But Texas is probably going to skip the second part.
An alternative interpretation is that 120 years is the period of reprieve before the Flood.
I'm not sure what you're describing but a traditional row house doesn't share any elements or living space. It's on a small rectangular lot facing the street and has its own walls that directly about the walls of houses on each side with no setback. Shared space like the street and sidewalk are owned by the city.

(Edit: there are also of course row house duplexes that would share a roof, front stairs, etc... But many are single family homes).
Goalposts, if you want to know what they will move to:

“It wasn't literal [, where convenient]”

“The New Testament retcons this, ignore inconvenient or contradictory things in the Old Testament”

“It was translated wrong in ye olde English from Greek and Hebrew”

and finally conclude “it’s open to interpretation”

there, I saved you the whole conversation.
Nah, I’d expect the entire YouTube team to have premium accounts.
> Currently, new revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, most of the revenue will go to creators

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zipp...

It's pretty vague, but my reading of this is that it's paid out of a single pool based on the watch time of all YouTube Premium Members. So e.g. if you only watch one video a month, that creator doesn't get all of your money.
It sounds plausible, but our experience so far is that cheating is very rare. Out of hundreds of markets, we had our first clear incorrect resolution yesterday.

But the argument is not simply that people won't cheat often. The argument is that people will choose to bet in markets where the creator is trusted. Even if the majority of creators cheated, users would react appropriately and flock to the ones who don't.

It's just like how you purchase goods and services. They often have a chance to keep your money without providing what they promised. But in practice, they can't run a long term business that way.

By the way, even in our play-money currency, the market creators earn a fee on the traders' profits.
Agreed. I occasionally reiterate that the term "operating system" should be reserved to significantly original kernel and/or system code.
You've probably missed how a foundational technology for growing organs in the future is currently used to grow mice cells in-vitro as an ethical component of cat food.
Increased potency does not necessarily have to be a bad thing if 1) products are clearly labeled with THC percentage, which they are these days now that pot is legalized in many places, and 2) users are intelligent about their intake.

One could even argue that stronger marijuana is good, since that means you need to smoke less to get an effective dose, and that reduces any adverse effects from inhaling smoke.

The analogy to "moonshine" is also a poor one. The increased potency of marijuana that is competently grown these days is also accompanied by superior aromas/flavors and an increased ability to customize your experience by selecting known strains. It's a superior product, not merely a product with more THC.
Yeah it’s a bit of a culture shock for some people, and even as careful as I was growing up… still got bit a couple times, nothing too bad. In the city if your dog bites a kid you’re in deep shit.
I received one email that I had to manually mark as spam recently. It was probably the first one in the past 10 years.
Actually I have an older account (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alexandrethm, also active on github and others), and I simply created this one since I wanted to change username (you can't with HN) and set-up a custom domain email with this new name.

I am not related to them, but I guess I probably should have included other links about services I was thinking to use, or no link at all.
Is pocket open source yet?
Still have a cartridge and printed manual for LSDJ somewhere. Unfortunately I don’t have a working GameBoy to use it with any more.

The guy behind it also made one of my absolute favorite chip music records as Role Model, En tyst minut, but it looks like it’s completely impossible to find in a digital format.
> A deeper dive: they aren't renewable, they're at best rebuildable

I find your YouTube video neither insightful nor informative. It reads as a string of desperate attempts at gotchas, only possible by repeatedly moving goalposts and misrepresenting positions, which are at best immaterial to the discussion.

I mean, the main point the YouTuber made against renewables is that different energy generation and distribution methods have different properties. Who exactly is expected to take seriously this blend of simplistic fatecious line of reasoning?
hmm, while I cannot answer you question directly, I would say that having been interacting programmatically with twitch services, I would probably a kid any of their open source, given how bad and buggy their production systems are.

Bad products create low confidence to the point I simple pass it by for consideration. On the flip side, I will put up with initial difficulty for companies that have high quality products.
I’m perfectly aware of what NFTs are and nothing in your comment is in contradiction with what I said. Abstractly speaking an NFT work like a unique pointer, the thing it points to can be whatever you want (like the number 37 in your example).
Yes there's nothing wrong with goto if you need it. Of course, if you are just doing a loop, then a loop structure better communicates the intent and is safer. This is just abstraction and its a good thing. An example from functional programming is direct recursion versus maps/folds, again better to use these abstractions when possible, but direct recursion offers the most flexibility.
>And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.

I think this argument misses a potentially deeper point about the true magical power of reading...

I did resonate with the majority of the piece, however.
As someone with an interest in the Seattle market, I'm wondering if one should consider Mercer Island preferable to Seattle to rent or purchase a residence. Do you have any insight?
Has anyone tried whether this will give you build performance benefits if you put your application source and/or dependencies on this fs?

I’ve played with ramdisk before but didn’t notice any difference, probably due the fs cache.
Avocados in Gran Canaria are always awesome.

Hard ones soft ones they are just great.

In Germany? I still like them so much to risk buying them but it's a depressing gamble :-(
Actix had drama and has been community managed for a long time since that. Last time I looked rocket was working toward stability but not there. It's more of a batteries included solution anyway so maybe better for small projects than production stuff, actix has some good flexibility for those.
Same domain - we just have a /blog path. So the main site is www.example.com, and the blog is at www.example.com/blog
'numbers don't prove anything'...

Sir, this isn't 'The Huffington Post' discussion forum.
Someone set up a strange number with something like this a while ago, with a bunch of randomized recordings. Some of these appear to be inside jokes or otherwise have hidden meanings about unorthodox behavior from phone systems - +1-248-200-0008.
There was a DJ called Fuckstorm that used to do some live PAs with this. I used to have some mp3s of his. I can't find any examples of his music online anymore, unfortunately.
https://www.bbcelite.com/

Fully documented source code for Elite on the BBC Micro

BBC Micro 6502

This site contains the original source code for the classic space game Elite on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, with every single line documented and (for the most part) explained.
We've done a lot to shift this away from a normalized curve, which feels very unfair to us as humans, to one where more people have a chance to live to a longer age. We've spent much less effort trying to extend the longest lifespans. This seems totally rational to me.
Your weird uncle who also talks about the aliens who built the pyramids, probably.
Alexandra Elbakyan is a titan and a saint. I couldn't have been able to finish my research without access to papers my institution wasn't subscribed to.
No. That's not it. C-h t isn't really interactive. It's just a tutorial you can edit. The program I remember was a typing tutorial just for key binding.
A nice "analog" producvity system with gameficiation features: https://thetodaysystem.com/
This is downvoted but it's also true. It's really impressive what they were able to build and figure out with the tools available too them. (This isn't a great example, but let's put that aside.)

Now, they also believed the mind was porous and spirits could flow in and out of your head, that you could predict the future by looking at bird patterns, and other nonsense. But then again, have you talked to any Wellness enthusiasts lately?

So yeah, this is pretty cool, but it's also a warning. Everything people did a few centuries or a millennia ago is still in human nature.
Instapaper is you like cross-platform, including Kindle.

GoodLinks if you only use Apple and value privacy.
Seems like it's going pretty well. Native development on multiple platforms sounds good to me:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
I did once a website for the side project of a guy whose main business was making and licensing “maturation chambers” [1], basically containers where to put the unripe fruit with light and 90% humidity for shipping. Tomatoes go in smaller and green, but arrive bigger and red. If you factor in shipping, it makes sense to think that all the fruit would rot on arrival if you let it mature on the tree.

[1] in Spanish “cámaras de maduración”, not sure of the translation of this
I'd thought this would be about dumpster diving for computers/electronics, rather than for food.

If you're interested in doing some dumpster diving for computers/electronics - just take some old electronic junk to your local e-waste facility and drop it off, then look in the bins of e-waste and pick out what you'd like and take it home - it's only going to be destroyed anyway. You can find some amazing and weird electronic stuff that people just chuck away as well as lots of things like analog TVs, laptops and desktops and all sorts of gear. Every now and then you can find a vintage computer.
Well, we already have a lot of medical interventions that skew our species' "normal", pre-civilizational population tree towards something never seen in nature.

In a Stone Age society you would definitely find people twice as old as their group's average lifespan. But that average lifespan would be rather low.
I heard Wallabag is a nice Pocket alternative. And you can host it yourself. I'll try putting it on my odroid one of this day.

I'm now using the nextcloud bookmarks extension, but it's rather slow, seems unmaintained, most android apps & browser extensions don't work anymore (way worse than pocket, but at least there is no adds)