skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it cost more energy than it produced

How can that be? Are you including the solar energy? Well, in that case, every process out there has a less than 100% efficiency, so the claim may be true, but also vacuous.

If you don't include the solar energy, then are you saying that all the energy used to make the fertilizers, to plow the fields, then harvest them, then brew the corn and distill it, is less than the energy content of the ethanol produced? I heard this type of argument before, but I find it really difficult to believe. For example the study [1] claims you need 140 gallons of fossil fuel to plant/harvest/process one acre of corn that will produce 328 gallons of ethanol. Ethanol is less energy dense than crude oil (30 MJ/kg vs 42), but overall, 328 gallons of ethanol has about 67% more energy than 140 gallons of crude.

[1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulte...
It's hard to be very academic when discussions are as massive and short-lived as on HN. I think of Lobsters as a lot more academic than HN, and the fact that so very few people have posting privileges there is clearly a part of that.
don't append "reddit".

use site: operators, like site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com, et cetera.

edit:looks like I'm not alone here.
As with everything to do with marketing, the answer is 'it depends'. Not much point in putting ads for an enterprise ERP system on FB.

Google Ads is complicated. Avoid it unless you are prepared to put in serious time learning how it works.

I tried Twitter ads a few years ago. Their demographics (knowledge of their customers are) was total garbage. Waste of money.

In general, do lots of small experiments and measure the results (clickthroughs, time on page, sign ups etc). If you can't measure anything meaningful, think carefully before handing over any cash.
It’s all relative. Compared to their western counterparts, these numbers are low.
Eventually six-letter domains will be the new 5-letter domains!
The term you are looking for is Energy Return On Investment (EROI). This is the amount of useful energy you get divided by the amount of energy you spent to get it. The figure I've seen most often for ethanol from corn is 1.25 (though some people argue its less than one), which is not very good. When made from Brazilian sugarcane its 8 which is amazing.
I am still unsure how this pertains to seizure of assets? Seems like there was some startup spun out of justin.tv that then got acquired… was the spin out shady? The acquisition?
I don't worry about subscriptions too much. My basic personal finance strategy is to spend more time worrying about the big stuff (where I live, what car I drive, my job/income) and not worry about the little things. I just checked YNAB and I spend about $100-200/month on "monthly internet services" that's basically what my parents spent on their monthly cable bill when I was a child and they only ever used 10 channels.

I think you should prune services you don't use a handful of times a year, but other than that don't stress about something that costs less than Chipotle, even if it is recurring.
Yeah it's so easy to tell when people in my life have been back on that site. Not dissimilar to what you see from an addict who starts using again.
Warren Buffett Bought $1bn Stake in Activision Weeks Before Microsoft Deal
No. Google is just playing the Red Queen's race, and losing.
> Reduce e-waste and extend the life of your existing devices by transforming them with a modern OS.

Flies in the face of many functional Chromebooks/Chromeboxens losing support (https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366). Extend the support lifetimes of your first-party hardware and I'll believe you, Google. Unfortunately, you have definitely burnt many bridges over this.
The baseless conspiracy theories are annoying too. Theorizing motivations or potential conflicts of interests is not proof of any kind. Nor is cherry picking incidents from the past
In Defense of Listening to Audiobooks at 3x
Cloistered communities suck, but so does eternal September.

HN seems to have a homogenous user demographic while sustaining a diverse set of perspectives. I'd make the argument that's due to the general level of education on HN likely being higher than other forums; evidenced on my non-scientific observations of denser syntax and broader vocabulary on HN vs. Reddit and a tolerance for well articulated challenges to the status quo on HN.

So yes, HN an echo chamber, but it's not one that resists changes in popular opinion if the changes have merit.
>I'm kinda surprised that police don't get warrants for death threats.

Sounds great until you find out the threat was sent by someone in a different country halfway around the world. There's a finite amount of police manpower, and I'd be willing to bet that most death threats are practically impossible to prosecute even with a warrant.
It's one sided but that's a lot of shills if you think they're shills. Shills with 10-year-old accounts and active posting history that continues to this day. No, I'm pretty sure at least some of them must be authentic.

Take that terminaldude for example. Ok, ten months ago they didn't have problems with Eero. Well, I guess now they do? https://old.reddit.com/r/eero/comments/pq6mvg/chasing_ghosts...

Of course, this only hilights that user reviews are hit and miss. It's not so uncommon for something to work well at start but then you discover problems later on.
They're talking about the dynamics of the system's behavior not something physical about electrons.
This reads like encouraging people to stay with an abusive partner. He will change anytime now...
Can one use Firefox on ChromeOS?
Yes, and the point the parent is making is that it isn't a very good one.
>This incentivizes publishers to write a lot of text that covers multiple related topics

Is it accurate to call organisations that write text according to google's incentives 'publishers' or are they merely spammers trying to maximise their pageviews and conversions?
This is good advice but what's the proxy for friends, family, angel rounds pre-launch?

I've never had issues raising once profitable, but I've also never needed to.
In case you haven't encountered it yet: https://www.rtings.com is a good site for TV specs/reviews specifically. I know someone who works there and their methodology seems legit (I like it more than Wirecutter).
that’s how google does things, I won’t be surprised.
It's definitely happened from time to time in my experience. If I had to guess, Google PMs really don't like blank search result pages.
The problem for Miami, as I understand it, is that the permeability and depth of the upper aquifer is pretty delicately balanced with sea level.

Higher sea level (even a smidge) results in increased saltwater infiltration into the freshwater aquifers they're drawing from. Which is a problem when you're Miami-sized and growing population.

I think Tampa / Orlando, and certainly Jacksonville and Pensacola, have more favorable geology and surface water.
All of this is possible without forced 1-1 walks with people I don't know.

For example, Google has dozens of interest-based groups, some of which I go and participate regularly and positively (not going to give too many details here), and get plenty of gossip from that. I participate in several job-adjacent team chats, where I learn about projects and contribute where I can.

One of my best interactions came from seeing an old teammate in an MK and they had a problem that we talked about. That was great and fun and interesting, and built plenty of social capital. But we had something to you know, actually talk about instead of make work.

Not everyone wants to move up the hierarchy--doing perf as an IC is painful enough. Doing it as manager would make me want to stab myself. ICs become less and less common as the level increases.
SFPD put rape victims’ DNA into database used to find criminals, DA alleges
This will end your smugness - https://lowendbox.com/

But yes I agree, the top post is like reading a transmission from a distant galaxy. I pay for a few cloud machines, consumer VPN, Internet uplink, and electricity. Outsourcing services you rely upon creates all the wrong incentives.

Hardware costs money, especially when you get obsessive about it (. o O 2TB SSDs are getting cheap, maybe I'll add some to my backups). But the cost is fully accrued at time of purchase and the ongoing relationship is straightforward. There's no slow creep up in monthly spend, price increases, or trying to cut back ongoing services that you can't imagine living without (would you rather watch TV xor listen to music next month? lol)

And ultimately it's not even about money. Every time I read some HN outrage thread about some centralized service acting against their users, I wonder why people put up with it. Digital privacy/autonomy FTFW.
Wow, a lot has happened since I dipped my feet into those waters. The lessons I took before my feet got too cold :-) were in old-school Schweizer ships (a 2-22 and a 2-33) with just the bare basics. Naturally, a yaw string was one of them.
Well yes. Because more energy is consumed (EROEI) with corn - all the diesel, pesticides, fertilizer, etc. inputs - than with simply using the gasoline/petroleum.

The exact same analysis is true for electricity generated from a nat gas fired generator vs. simply using the nat gas directly, especially for heating. This is why "banning nat gas for new construction" is so ignorant and stupid!
It's technically possible on our backend, but we haven't opened it up in a user-facing way yet. Definitely high on the priority list though!
That seems to be one view of the Limbo of Infants, but other theologians were less optimistic.

Either way, do you really think it makes sense for somebody to be consigned to a place like this based on whether a priest used all the right words in a ritual?
This is one huge "correlation vs. causation" question.

It also depends what you mean by "success".

15th century Florence had a huge concentration of artistic talents. Was it a rich city? Undoubtedly so, poor places have more pressing concerns than paying people to produce art. But there have been many richer cities since then and their art output is mediocre. Even Florence itself forgot, over time, how to attract or produce great artists.

The world isn't static. 200 years ago, almost everyone in the world except a few nobles was poor or at least poor-ish. This is no longer true; so, at the very least, the total wealth can grow beyond what the parents had.
I think he's always been a problem (his Sandy Hook crisis actor lies got him into at least a little difficulty with the platforms) but his problematic nature has always fit within free speech, because he generally knows how to dial it back just inside those boundaries.

Likewise with David Icke or the more self-limiting lunacy of Kate Shemirani; these people it's better not to worry about.

Rudy Giuliani or MTG? Maybe worth worrying about because they can tip things over into riots.
It seems like we're approaching what I call the "dismal equilibrium." This is the idea that any free site/service/app eventually will have to monetize itself in order to remain free, inevitably in a way that degrades the experience. Ads, typically, "pay to win" for games, or perhaps even calls for donations for public radio. An equilibrium is reached when further monetization isn't possible without driving away users; quality is just barely tolerable, hence, "dismal."
I just wonder if it would lead to further cementing the Chrome-first approach to web dev - in the context of browser sniffing in JS libs and even backend code. I guess this doesn't drop support for JavaScript navigator properties so maybe JS is fine.
Ok so then why even have cash? Why not just write IOU's and let the legal system decide? If I'm accepting cash there's no difference, as I don't know whether or not you legally own the cash.

Obviously, the answer is that cash is a good "first layer". The legal system is there to resolve disputes, not facilitate transactions.

Reversibility on a technical level and legal ownership are totally different things, it seems like many folks conflate them.
Anyone see the show 'Dark'? Birds drop from the sky every time someone travels back in time... could be that.
Based on what I read in the gospels, my take would be that God cares more about the heart of the one being baptized than a minor error of speech by the one doing the baptism.

The profession of faith of the one being baptized is what I believe God cares about.
[1] No, not any more than it has been for years

[2] Its always been an echo chamber

[3] Its always been very right wing, very euro/american centric, very male, very white, very middle class.

Its not something you can really fix you might as well just own it and run with it. Huge corporations spend millions on diversity drives and they cant fix the racism and sexism problem, so why would you be able to? You cant. So just accept it and move forward. America was built for white guys. If youre a white guy enjoy it, because the rest of us dont.

If you saw western "civilization" from the outside you would know the whole thing is an echo chamber. So just have fun with it and quit worrying about it.

I usually dont interact on this forum because I get extremely hostile responses to the point that in the rare times when I do write something I never make the mistake of checking the replies. They are always filled with racist, sexist, right wing political abuse

- An actual outsider
Firefox supports an open search standard which is a big improvement, so that's probably where you saw this. It provides an easier experience from the nav bar to add a new search engine to the browser. In practice, while it's a huge improvement, I've found talking with users that it's mostly helpful if someone technical is talking them through the change.
That didn’t impact the search tech it impacted the button to search similar under each image result when expanded.

Ruining the tech came years later.
Scan of the Month – Instant Cameras
I recently sprained my ankle and couldn't run (or walk). Once I could hobble around I put on my hiking boots which have some extreme ankle support and walked the dog around the neighborhood.

I was quite astonished that my stride was quite low energy. That is, I already knew approximately how many calories my watch reported if I walked (in my running shoes) the dog on a given route vs running that route. Apparently I had learned a much more efficient stride in the boot over the years, so I was able to walk the route in the usual time but by burning 20% fewer calories and at lower heart rate. I do a lot of backpacking so am used to long distance walking in those boots, but didn't know I used a different stride to do so.

This is all per my Apple Watch so take the measurements with a grain of salt. But at least it was like:like.
"Think a signal on one side of the transition to look like a pure sine wave and on the other side of the transition to look like purely random white noise."

This reminds me of something Rupert Sheldrake says is possible - that consciousness is 'off-site', that the body is more of a radio receptor.
That was how GWB sold it but, as you say, it never happened. Now its an entrenched subsidy program and is basically unkillable.
Make a disk image formatted with both ext2 and FAT, at once
In terms of user experience IMO, what you’d want is something similar to how Apples “share wifi password” work but with extra features.

You want to log in to x, there’s a place to put the owners email or phone number, they get (if you are previously on some “accept list”) a notification that let’s them grant or deny access. You don’t get to see any password, you just get logged in.

Ideally you’d also want them to be time limited and revocable.
This is why so many people absolutely refuse to carry more than a thousand dollar's worth of cash on their person.
The comment you're responding to is not talking about computing performance. They're talking about getting a word in sideways with ground control and the tower to get takeoff and approach clearance at those airports.
I mentioned it in the post. Extremely impressed with Yandex.
don't worry, it was merely a lighthearted comment about some of the people I have worked with in the past.
Apple Officially Obsoletes 4th Gen iPad with Lightning Connector
> Zuckerberg is worse than JS

JS =Javascript?
That's why the cool kids today use set -euo pipefail.

Or set -x if you're debugging.
I think such an idea is viable....my main issue (as someone who can't program himself out of a paper bag) is getting not just funding, but non-silicon-valley funding, from someone I can also trust.
IIRC that procedure has something like a 50/50 chance of not working and leaving the patient dead with no immune system. It's a hail Marry treatment for cancers that are about to kill you anyway. Really cool that using the right donor can cure HIV, but not useful as a general treatment at any cost due to the high failure rate.
Yup, I do the same thing. I guess I'm lucky because I rarely have issues with my own gear and the services I use, so contacting support is not something I've needed to do frequently. But when I do, I spend a good amount of time doing research and making sure the issue actually merits bothering someone else and isn't something I can eventually fix on my own. Tier-1 support people are invariably caught by surprise :p
I tried chromebooks a while back and while the cost factor was significantly in favor of them, they fall down in a lot of areas.

With Apple Silicon 2020 MBAs they seem to support everything, are significantly faster/quieter/long battery and with discounts are reasonably priced - I'm recommending those for family and so far everyone has loved theirs.

I expect the hardware to last a long time - much like the 2010 MBA which lasted my dad 7+ years.
Tesla’s FSD Beta – An Experiment on Public Roads
> which sites to depritoritise

But do you think there are actually enough good sites left that contain quality content? As has been mentioned elsewhere, are people actually still writing product reviews that are organic and not sponsored content?
There are state led efforts to bank cord blood as well b/c of it's usefulness in some medical treatments and research.

https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2017-06-26/california-umbili...

Unfortunately, public donations are only an option in some locations.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/cord-blood/locations
Indeed, I came to the conclusion to search reddit for answers some time ago without any input by anyone (other than being a reddit user already). I want a frank discussion of the pros and cons of certain choices, not some obvious click-hungry promotional article with a bland rosy opinion.
I don't think HN is stacked against me ideologically, quite the contrary, my views are fairly pedestrian and middle of the road for the West Coast tech industry.

I do think that when it comes to politics and social justice HN is content to let people who aggressively hold certain viewpoints have an outsize role in the discussion, despite engaging in toxic behaviors that wouldn't be tolerated on other threads. This may be because the people running the show here are sympathetic to such views, or maybe they're just naive.
Another: Please don't put the scrub (position) bar so near to the other icons that you end up clicking "Next Track" or "Captions On" every time you try to move position in the video.

And: Don't make the scrub bar so small that you have to find a small child to click on it for you as your fat fingers can never select it.
Does it really work so well in politics? I've read in various places that a lot of political advertising in America functions basically as a means for channeling donors' money to a few K Street firms belonging to party insiders.
I hope they've spun up a support organization to back this. Their list of "supported" hardware is pretty thin right now. Are they really planning to scale this to all models?

https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094#zipp...
Oh, I thought it was just me - I was looking at the moderation log and thought to myself "is it just me, or is pushcx being awfully aggressive with the banhammer? nah, I probably just aren't seeing the really awful posts..."

Although, you have to give him credit for a few well-justified bans from figures sometimes seen here on HN...
Damn. I need to make sure to back that up somewhere. To be fair, some are in very, very poor taste. But a lot of them are genuinely hilarious.
I could see the predator chasing them to the ground theory being the truth here.
I learned awk a while back, thinking along the same lines, and decided that there's a reason why everyone uses Python/Ruby/etc. nowadays when I learned that arguments and locals are the same thing. Even the designers of awk realize now that this was a mistake, as I recall. The rule of least power is a good guideline, but awk unfortunately has basic design mistakes that modern languages correct.
Just a thought but it may be an indicator of how much you can narrow it down by adding more keywords to your query.
Software defined USB port (Raspberry Pi pico RP2040)
I have 6 jobs, I am becoming a millionaire
I have a 92 years old aunt whom I call frequently. She lives independently and has no financial concerns. All, yes all, our conversations have followed the same pattern for years: She lists all the obstacles she’s faced since our last talk; assures me that no one else has ever had such bad luck; briefly asks what’s up with me. I listen to her quietly, and reply with everything is fine. We then say the love you and goodbyes until the next time in a couple of days. I’ve discovered that you don’t have to be 92 or my aunt to pour the negative on every occurrence.
This looks interesting. I haven't got a clue what netlify does though. That's one truly useless homepage.
>Chrome is notable for being a memory hog

This meme comes from a misunderstanding of how desktop memory works. Chrome will use as much available RAM as you can give it in order to improve web performance, but it doesn't actually require that much to run.
> Why Should I Care About JAX?

> In short - speed.

For me personally, the magic of JAX is that it able to have this performance, while being as close as possible to having first class differentiation in Python. The latter is a far more important reason to use JAX. It can really change how you think about programming and ML. Rather than implementing a specific model, you can write up the parameterized solution to a problem then solve it.

However first class differentiation ultimately isn't really useful unless you happen to also solve the speed problem. That is what makes JAX incredible. From the programming perspective JAX is to differentiable programming what Prolog is to logic programming, however Prolog has always been limited ultimately by performance problems where JAX is not.
Yeah I mean, I've done it for about a year. But we're definitely the lucky ones.