skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just look at the lack of non-college work in the US that pays a living wage.

A problem that doesn't exist. Plenty of that work out there.

Try to get a custom 3-phase power line run in the datacenter. Average age of electricians is about 55 around here. Nobody goes into the trades because the trades will "destroy your body before you're 35" yet all the thin healthy tradesmen around here are mid-50s boomers. Hmm. The union local total compensation package for mere journeymen is a hair over $65/hr because of mandatory health care and retirement extras that most people can only dream of, but even the takehome pay alone is still over $45/hr. On one hand that's only about twice what you'd get for emptying trash cans at Costco. On the other hand, you don't have to empty trash cans at costco AND you get a cooler more interesting job. Either way that power line isn't going to install itself.

The real mystery is all it takes to be an electrician is ambition, low time preference, agency, self discipline, motivation, concentration and study, and especially staying away from drugs, so how do you find people like that in a culture that glorifies the opposite and vilifies those values? Well, you don't ... thus they end up very unsuccessful in life and my power line ends up not installed.

If doing what you are told leaves you unsuccessful, maybe time to start distrusting those people when they give life advice. That's going to be the real turmoil and rebellion point in the next decade. "We were promised all our lives that self destructive behavior and self destructive beliefs would lead to a pleasant mirage."
haha I tried this on my own before, donating to a food shelter every time I binged, it got expensive.
Your theory is that all social commentary is handwavey general remarks? If so, yes, let's invalidate it.

I think effective social commentary is mostly grounded in the personal, the specific, and the (thoughtfully) statistical. Otherwise it's very easy just to project one's biases onto a complicated picture. E.g., consider whatever it is that people think is "ruining the kids" these days. In the 1700s, you know what was ruining the kids? Novels: https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/01/20/an-18th-century-mo...

It's similar to how arguments about "what God wants" go wrong. Researchers showed that when people talk about what their god wants, they're unconsciously consulting their own preferences: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/creating-god-i...

With broad social argument, it's easy to introduce all sorts of fallacy. Humans aren't really equipped to reason intuitively about things at this scale. Especially if the point is to persuade and/or entertain, simplifying into broad "logical" arguments can paint false pictures. Andrew Gelman wrote about this today: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/04/24/the-perils...
This is an odd post, because the author starts in the right place, harmonics, and then veers off into scale degrees without really answering the question.

The best place to get the answer is Schönberg’s Theory of Harmony, but we can do something quick here.

The main harmonic series of music is what happens when one applies integer multiplication to a given frequency, which we’ll call a root. As the author described, an octave, or the same perceived sound but higher, is a 2x, and a 3x, or 1.5x the previous value, is called a “fifth” due to it being the fifth major scale degree in the twelve tone system described by the author. 4x is 2^2, another octave, and then 5x is the (major) third.

Because all of these integer harmonics are present in the root, though at greatly reduced force, these sounds serve to bolster the natural harmonics of the root.
This doesn't seem like a harebrained scheme, but a challenging one of moving renewable energy from where it is abundant to where it is required. An example of a harebrained scheme would be Germany's reliance on Russian oil and gas.
i just wish i could tell the browser to auto accept all
> Finally, reference counting can and will fragment heap.

Is there anything that won’t fragment heap and simultaneously doesn’t insist on owning the world? It is really, really painful to allow references to cross the GC heap boundary in both directions (witness the GNOME Shell not-a-memory-leak), and to me that is the principal reason: in a low-level language, you can RC only a bit of stuff, but you cannot really moving-GC only a bit of stuff.

(I don’t expect an affirmative answer to this question as stated, but maybe some more basic abstraction for manual memory management would allow this?..)
I grew up in rural America and I would describe my experiences with police in the same terms. Of course, the purpose of policing is to deter crime, not give “positive experiences”. And thanks in large part to these luxury beliefs, police departments are doing less preventative policing (routine traffic stops, etc) especially in communities of color for fear of being the next Ferguson, and consequently violent crime is soaring all over the country.
When will North America get the same luxury? Or do we have to trick google into thinking we are in Europe?
I remember doing a bit of spare time research into getting power from the Sahara desert when I was a school kid. The idea is obvious - solar power requires lots of sunshine and land that isn't being used for anything. The UK doesn't have that, the Sahara desert does.

If it's an idea obvious enough to occur to a teenager 20 years ago it hardly requires politics to explain why it comes up now, does it? At the time I gave up on the idea because either I didn't find out about HVDC or it wasn't as effective as it is now. Transmission losses seemed to kill the idea. Now apparently that's more or less solved and other issues dominate like manufacturing costs and mineral availability.

As for renewables being abundant near by - where? UK already built tons of windmills. You can't get baseload-level renewable power from adding more of those because there are days when the wind stops blowing. As for solar in Europe, land is at a premium there and they're already wanting to use available resources for their own needs, rightly so. Also worth considering - for unclear reasons global wind speeds have been slowing down over time. Long term wind projects need to factor that in to their economic calculations. Solar doesn't have that issue.
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We are a New York LLC. We're not incorporated at the moment.

We make money through a subscription model. We do not make anything from the contracts because it seemed wrong to profit from our users failing. We want our incentives to be aligned correctly!
“Alienated children in the suburbs and bored housewives in the homes need to experience flow. If they cannot get it, they will find substitutes in the form of escape.”

Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in the book Beyond Boredom and Anxiety: Experiencing Flow in Work and Play
Another approach for reverse engineering the format of the KOS file might have been to run the bootloader code through a 68k emulator, step through it with a debugger (and resolve any undefined syscalls or built-in functions etc.), and observe what it's actually doing.
My ThinkPad x270 (i7-7600U) operates without using the fan for most things; only when compiling things for more than ~15 seconds do the fan turn on (and when opening Slack). Can probably tweak it a bit more by adjusting the limits and/or adjusting the upper CPU frequency limit, but I haven't bothered.

I do run Linux, and have a fairly light-weight environment (dwm etc.) I don't know how much that matters.
Not sure how HN works, my comments seem to be dead by default and then resurrected after a while (manually?)

Anyway, thanks for a civil discussion. I am against this war, just wanted to share how I feel about this situation and the fact that Russia barely lasted 30 years without another historical shift
I guess the thing to learn from this is always keep shopping for a better deal?
I dunno, my own childhood improved massively when my parents bad marriage ended, and my relationship with both of my parents improved. You can be a responsible parent while not staying in an unhappy marriage.
Unfortunately very few potential buyers of hydrogen want to have strict emission standards right now.
What do you think is the problem? I know next to nothing about France and by simply looking at the graphs, it seems to be getting better, no? Unemployment is decreasing, purchasing power is increasing, rent increase is not that crazy compared to how it is in the world. Is it about how things have always been or is it about deltas in recent times? Seems to me the former is the case here.
Maybe this is an idiotic thought so forgive me if that's the case.

Does it seem that a lot of this is "we hollowed out these areas for economic efficiency and then all the dudes (regardless of race...) became layabouts and drug addicts". I grew up in Kenya after the SAPs were imposed by the IMF and I vaguely remember complaints of alcoholism just spiking. I guess my dumb thought is maybe dudes just need to build, farm, or produce something tangible otherwise they become heroin addicts.
What a strange, backward take-away. This 84% will include people who watch 15 minutes of TV before going to bed, or people who put on the news while they're getting ready in the morning. Not sure why you would take it to assume people are watching 12 hours of TV on vacation.
If their goal is to save on register file space, they're barking up the wrong tree, IMO. The Skylake-X die[0], for example, dedicates only about 1% to the integer register file, and only about 2.5% for the floating point register file. The decoder and scheduler also take up only single digit percents.

Granted, this is a top of the line superscalar processor with AVX-512 and megabytes of cache, but my point still stands. The vast majority of the gates are in everything else: cache, execution units, branch prediction, load/store, die interfaces, etc.

[0]: https://twitter.com/GPUsAreMagic/status/1256866465577394181
Google of course would have known this UX was likely to be illegal but made the decision that any fine would be much less than the commercial benefit.
Deleted all of these years ago besides Google for email. Never looked back, one of the best decisions I have ever made.
I’m polishing the UI as we speak.
It's harmony produced the root (any frequency), the major third (5/4 ratio), the 5th (3/2 ratio).

They're approximated in the 12TET scale so that they harmonize across keys and octaves.

I always say I hate musical notation (letters and classical notation) being it so horrifically obscures the mathematical relationships of the 12TET scale. It's literally just approximations of:

Major Scale

Root frequency (C 262hz, whatever)

2: 9/8 root (D)

3: 5/4 root (E)

4: 4/3 root (F)

5: 3/2 root (G)

6: 5/3 root (A)

7: 15/8 root (B)

2x root (C, 524 hz)

2: 9/8 2x root

and so on.

Minor scale is simply the starting the whole thing at the Major 6th instead of at the root.

12TET in comparison to just temperament is slightly harder to explain because of the way it allows harmonies to scale without distorting when changing keys, but there really isn't much more to western music than that.
Blaming employers doesn't make sense, both sides are just responding to incentives. The labor regulations and macroeconomic choices our gov't have made are responsible imo, they've optimized for the wrong or incomplete metrics (Three biggest are GDP / unemployment % /
stock market returns).
I read the article hoping to see examples of reasoning that the slide rule instilled.

It reads more like a jealous rant than anything else. He fails to cite why those plans developments were so fast (hint it wasn't the magic of a slide rule.... It was a decade of design and test in products before the one with the name he assigned all credit to)

He also has a sort of confirmation bias here, failing to note things we could not have possibly done without computers. Try a Martian sky crane landing without atmospheric modeling ha ha.

Anyone have a reference for rules of thumb type thinking or other insights that come from slide rules?
I've used migadu and worked really well. I also have some domains using lunanode - great deal if you have other vps with them but have subjectively experienced more downtime.

Migadu just added master password support so can now dsync easily with another dovecot server (ie backups, move, etc). My next config will probably be migadu + selfhosted vps.
They hate and advocate against the rights of homosexuals even though Peter Thiel is gay. There’s no point in trying to understand their “logic”, it’s just dumb and cringe.
This sounds very much like the critiques I heard of “black lives matter”. Wait, are you saying white lives don’t matter?

Where do these slogans come from? Are they designed by conservatives to make liberals look bad?
The UK isn't dependent on Russian gas though and isn't connected to it. It's reliance on Russian oil is very limited outside of a source of Diesel. Can't imagine it takes a great deal of Russian coal either, given its large coal fields it doesn't bother to use.
2% of hourly workers make federal minimum wage or lower according to BLS numbers. Many lower paying jobs (Walmart, McDonalds, etc) pay about $10 an hour. They generally don't provide benefits. So even if you get two jobs to fill a 40hr week, you're stuck with the medical costs. Good luck paying for housing and medical coverage (transportation, taxes, retirement, etc) at $20k per year in most areas. Hopefully you can get on assistance to help out.

There are a variety of issues and possible improvements to help the situation, not just the two you mentioned.
Do you have a study for this? When I researched it briefly years ago it seems when men ask for custody they often get exactly the custody they ask for, and the narrative they don’t is something largely spread by people who are either ignorant or men who were denied custody for heinous examples of abuse. Men simply ask for custody less or ask for less custody broadly.
From the wives I've talked to, a husband who is at home playing video games is still at home, which is a significant step up from 'at the bar' or any number of escapist male activities that involve dads spending free time far away from their children.
Could it be social life is harder now? I'm atheist so this is not for me but if the majority of people used to go to church they had at least one chance a week to meet people and not only just meet random people to but to get to know people over time.

I believe many relationship form after you get to know someone casually over time (classmates, church members) but many people, myself include, stopped going to classes after college and don't go to church.

That leaves at best dating sites but dating sites are super awkward because instead of getting to know someone first, like the examples above, you're instead in a situation where you're supposed to decide yes or no immediately ("do you want to date me?").
There's more detail on her wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bågenholm

These are the tidbits I found most interesting:

> A team of more than a hundred doctors and nurses worked in shifts for nine hours to save her life. Bågenholm woke up ten days after the accident, paralyzed from the neck down and subsequently spent two months recovering in an intensive care unit. Although she has made an almost full recovery from the incident, late in 2009 she was still suffering from minor symptoms in hands and feet related to nerve injury.

> "Her body had time to cool down completely before the heart stopped. Her brain was so cold when the heart stopped that the brain cells needed very little oxygen, so the brain could survive for quite a prolonged time."

> "victims of very deep accidental hypothermia with circulatory arrest should be seen as potentially resuscitable with a prospect of full recovery. The key success factors of such marginal resuscitation efforts are early bystander actions with vigorous CPR and early warning of the emergency system, early dispatch of adequate rescue units (ground and air-ambulances) and good co-ordination between the resources outside and inside the hospital, aggressive rewarming and a spirit not to give up."

> Bågenholm [upon waking paralyzed] feared she would spend the rest of her life on her back, and was angry with her colleagues for saving her. Bågenholm soon recovered from the paralysis, however, and later apologized to her friends; "I was very irritated when I realized they had saved me. I feared a meaningless life, without any dignity. Now I am very happy to be alive and want to apologize."
Also, NOx scrubbers that remove a large percentage of it from combustion gases have existed for a long time because we use them in fossil fuel plants.
How is this different from Beeminder — afaik popularised "commitment contract".
I'm an active user of Beeminder; have 4 active commitments. More than feature to feature comparison, Beeminder has an amazing blog, and an ever supportive community to lean on to.

[links]
https://www.beeminder.com/home
https://blog.beeminder.com/
https://forum.beeminder.com/
this reminds me of beeminder.com

I like the idea of adding financial incentive to stick to habits etc, but i would be uncomfortable with having to deposit money, why not just take a CC and charge it if I break the contract?

also: what prevents me from just lying about whether I did the thing I promised to do?
I don’t know how many people actually dispute that divorce sucks tho, even if they think that it is the preferable or better or even good outcome for a relationship.

Like, I don’t know anyone who argues that divorce is easy and fun and causes absolutely no issues for kids who are involved. What I do see people argue is that divorce can be a better outcome than staying together and being miserable.
> I stay in touch with family and friends by phonecalls and Mumble.

You are a counter-example for sure, but this means that you don't have a group chat platform to plan coordinated events with your friends? Maybe it's an age thing, but getting my friends in a call at a given time to organise a social event is probably as hard as organising the event itself. Compare with Facebook/Messenger/Whatsapp where everyone is in a group chat I can just write "Anyone wants to have dinner at my place this Friday?".
A Man Who Accidentally Killed the Most People in History [video]
You can be an impartial observer of predator/prey behavior without considering yourself part of either group. But it doesn’t change the fact that there is a predator/prey relationship. In the case of social media, just like many addictions, there are too many variables at play to propose a simple solution like “just stop doing it.” So when you say people (who are indeed targeted) should “just” do the simple solution or else suffer the consequences, that is victim blaming.
There's also https://www.beeminder.com and their competitors (https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors/).
So basically what you're saying is that there should in theory be no floor to QOL, but then tacitly agreeing with the hand-wringing about how society (a construct based almost entirely around QOL) is faltering?
because people want apps and app stores
> Costco has a sign up paying $19/hr to empty trash cans

I am getting really tired of people casually talking about jobs like this as if they are easy. Do they require a ton of professional knowledge or skills? Nope. Are they way harder than your job? In all likelihood.

I mean, all the proof you need is literally in the fact that Costco can't find workers willing to do the job for that wage. The conditions suck for how hard the job is.
What most people seem to forget about this is that if you actually need speed neither of these should be a factor. Heap allocations should be minimal and lifetimes should almost always be known ahead of time.

In C++ you basically never need reference counting, unless you are handing off heap allocations to multiple different threads. In that case you don't know what will finish first and they need to communicate when the allocation isn't being used anymore.
Good parents don't just create good children, they also create good parents.

Government programs (as presently conceived) will never catch up in terms of effectiveness because they don't have this self-replicating behavior. They can provide relief but not much in the way of lasting improvement.

We should focus a lot more efforts socially and politically to create self-sustaining families and avoid culture and policies that disrupt them.
Whatever works for you, but be aware your experience might not generalise to the whole population. I'm not going to say "everyone's situation is different", there are more than seven billion of us, I suspect our experiences fall in to approximately a few broad categories,

My parents stayed together much longer the should have. One day, much later, my mother cried and apologised that she hadn't left my father 13 years earlier.

My father was a massive piece of shit, the lung cancer couldn't have taken him soon.

We wouldn't have been floating between two houses, rather we would have had one stable home.

I don't believe the people arguing for divorce in some situations are saying "divorce doesn't suck", but there's at least some chance it might be better than the alternative.
I disagree from extensive experience. Unadorned, “privilege” refers to some identity privilege 99% of the time. For example, “check your privilege” virtually always refers to some identity privilege.

Moreover, the salient point wasn’t “the left doesn’t believe in wealth privilege” as much as “no one disputes wealth privilege and thus Henderson isn’t being hypocritical here as you imply”.
Whether it's worth it or not depends on your skill as a programmer, your IQ, and/or the amount of time your willing to spend on learning it. Smarter people can pick it up quicker while stupider people will need to spend more time. For stupider people, it's not worth the investment.

On average I would say it takes maybe a couple months of wrestling with it to fully pick it up and you'll still encounter problems on occasion. But the end result is like riding a bike. Once you know it... you know it.

It may seem a little offensive but it is very much true. It's a function of time and intelligence. I do not consider myself a person where my intelligence is high enough that I would pick it up as the time and effort for me doesn't justify the reward. Every programmer on HN likes to think of themselves as super smart, but this just isn't the case.

The only reason why I learned it was because my Job required it. I now use it as a daily driver but if it wasn't for the job, it wouldn't have been worth it.
Or better, auto reject all?
Surely importing a bunch of Goths and foederati that turned into bagaudae had something to do with it.
I think that's what the author sells in general. Luxury beliefs sold to conservative men, but the analysis lacks depth
Without any argument apart "there seem to be rules to follow inside the EU" it seems unsubstantiated.

A better argument would be that digging or laying 3000Km 12GW terrestrial electric line through Spain and France would be expensive and especially difficult to sell to them, even if they could benefit from the energy.
why? can’t you just get a modem and buy a sim card and connect? why can they control what OS you run or what hardware your phone uses?
> All current IRC users will die eventually so unless it becomes cool and attractive for new generations, it may be insignificant in a few decades.

False. There are still young people getting into IRC as an alternative to Discord.

Discord will likely die first after $BIG_TECH_COMPANY acquires it and runs it to the ground.
I use SHITE, ACORN, then do targeted guessed from there.
You can’t get into the pump, so it’s at least impossible to pee in them. I guess you could pee on them, but it would be a pretty high shot, and honestly, why would you?