skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have all my wisdom teeth and 3 of 4 are perfectly fine. the 4th is a little crooked but it's harmless. Plenty of people have all their wisdom teeth.
The Paradox of Efficiency: Frictions Between Law and Algorithms
Yep, it's sugar. I cut it out of my diet as much as possible and stopped having tooth problems.

Sugar drinks are a form of suicide for your teeth.
Yeah, heat will kill all germs and break down most toxins given off by bacteria so if food isn't plentiful it would be hard to turn down a day or two old carcass just lying around. However I don't think eating half rotten RAW meat is a good idea at all. humans simple don't have the capability for that like wolves and to a much greater extend buzzards/vultures and would quite likely die from toxins given off by the bacteria.
Only those parts of the body that happen to have good blood circulation or that are expected to need to sink a lot of heat have the structures necessary to couple significant EMF absorption into the main bloodstream "liquid cooling loop".

For example, human eyeballs are really bad at it.
Staring at a microwave that has been recklessly modified to run without door, or with a hole in the door, is most dangerous by turning the eye's inside which is similar to raw egg white into the cooked form: cooked egg white is unsuitable for a lens due to the very strong scattering from the coagulated proteins.
I'm sure other temperature sensitive parts exist with poor cooling, as they're not naturally expected to be able to get dangerously hot without the surrounding tissue heating it.

The lack of thermal effects they mentioned where whole body temperature; while hard to actually measure, I'd suggest thinking of the temperature of the blood in the arterial venous heart half when it comes to potential overtemperature. Yes, if the body as a whole has cooling issues, this blood that is about to enter the lungs (after coming from all around the body) is going to be overly hot.
But if the bottleneck is the lack of blood vessel density in e.g. the eyeball, this temperature issue won't show up when measuring in the heart.
I tried looking up Los Angeles total water usage. Saw a historic table that had number around 500,000 to 600,000 acre feet per year. Fairly steady since 1970.

That's about 180 billion gallons a year. Divide by days per year and LA's population you get 123 gallons a day. But that includes industrial.

Either way guesstimating the cost of desalinization, I think it'd be about $170/per person a year. Call it $500/year per household. Water bill $40/month. Steep but not impossible.
doubling after 20 years is approx. 5% growth per year (locked in).

It's not that great an investment, but it does make sense to use it as a portion of your portfolio for retirement. I would imagine you'd put around 5-10% of your total networth in this form - may be even stagger it over time (e.g., put in 1% every year starting from 40). This can exist in lieu of bonds in your portfolio - though i would perhaps split it 50/50 with your bond allocation (which gives you some liquidity early if you truly need it).

I would want to have more invested in equities as their potential for growth is much higher, and over the long term, ought to beat inflation (as long as you purchase a market weighted index).
People also have ticks. Some drool when concentrating, some stare in a strange way. The cam on your laptop is shoved right in your face which is different from a normal larger f2f meeting. Also people don’t secretly take pictures of you in real meetings.

I always turn the cam off when I share my screen. I want people to focus on the content I’m sharing, not the pimples in my face.
Maybe stability margins, undervolting can also introduce instability.
My English grandmother was the same, though I think it was closer to her 30s. My understanding is her dental hygiene was not the best (she grew up in WW2), and it was just “easier” to remove all of the teeth and use dentures.
Just curious, where did the linked image come from?

I'm imagining some sort of encyclopedia of tobacco toothpastes
I’m personally exhausted by these conversations and you should be too.

ARC was/is a reasonable compromise: no other choice was obviously better. Legacy code is of supreme importance.

But we have a new benchmark for best-in-class now: for all their insufferable Jehova’s witness Jihad approach, and yeah it’s annoying, the Rust people proved linear/affine in production.

I find Carl and Yehuda’s flagrant profiteering in the early days as unpleasant as the next thinking person, but affine/linear is game changing, and it’s time to stop apologizing for why your pet thing can’t do it.
Good.

Like I always say: if people request you to stop something as soon as they find out you’re doing it, it’s very likely you shouldn’t have been doing it in the first place. Facebook—and everyone who relied on their shameful, creepy business model—have only themselves to blame.
Alternative title suggestion: Mice put in microwave showed symptoms of agitated behavior
> the risk of the investment dive-bombing on a 20 year timeline is rather low.

it's not that the risk is low - it's just that you cannot know if the equities wouldn't fall at the 20 yr mark, just you need to liquidate it to retire. You have to slowly decrease your % of equities the closer you are to retirement.
The days of android being free and open are long gone. Now there are several aspects of android that are more locked down than iOS. For example android has an api which allows disabling the screenshot feature. While iOS only allows apps to listen for when a screenshot has happened.
I don't use RSS and never did, is it so rare to not use RSS or listen to IT podcasts as a IT professional?
Those sorts of Excel projects generally aren't available in open source (or source-readable) projects.

My first "real" programming job was to convert an Excel based report into one done with a general purpose programming language (we chose Python) because the reports were taking hours to generate in Excel and each report file was over a gigabyte in size.

If it were simple static reports it would probably have been easy, but minor modifications were necessary every week, and the analytics team was terrible at conveying what was actually required without actually doing it in the excel, so management decided our program had to generate a more optimized version of the original Excel file as output to give to the analytics team to then work on. After like 3 months of work on this, I figured out how to just write a tiny python script to remove the unnecessary data from their excel files. It made it so they could open it on their cheaper laptops without grinding to a halt and generate the modified report in few minutes. And we didn't have to try to replicate an Excel formula structure that had been iterated on for over 5 years into python, and our team was moved to better tasks.

I've also worked on complex language localization projects that probably would have been most optimally handled by a database connected application, but it's way easier to send an Excel file to contracted translators, so that's what we used.

I've heard other horror stories from friends who work in finance. But they work, so whatever.
#InMice…
All said
I am excited by the phone I use, but probably not the radio, but the sound waves carrying the exciting information is suspected to be the culprit
Yes it is if you order it from overseas/Canada on Amazon :)
That's fair, but if you code for a living and growing is important for your, you should carefully evaluate where you work.

Sometimes people dismiss certain companies. I remember my first boss dissing Google saying things like "how good can Google really be?". Now that I've experience it, I can say that career growth and learning between companies are not measure in percentage points or multiples, but orders of magnitude. The reason is simple: in some companies you might not learn anything or even pick up bad habits, while others will accelerate your growth.

I spent the first 7 years of my career in a low performing organization. A few year later I joined a Big Tech company, and in 1 year I grew more than those 7 years combined.
> office lights

Not to contradict your point but rater as a “did you know?”: typical office neon lights actually also emit UV and it can be a problem for artwork that hasn’t been framed using UV filtering glass as they turn this washed out blue shade over time as a result. I don’t think it damages skin anywhere near as much as actual sun rays but I was surprised to learn it anyway.
I saw a pitch for a security startup (the name escapes me) that did exactly this. They put like ten thousand dollars in a bitcoin wallet and hide it on all your end users machines. The idea being that an attacker will cash out the wallet giving you a heads up you are breached before they move on to ransomware or whatever.
Reducing this all to wattage is a mistake. Radio waves penetrate, and impart their energy to different materials differently (i.e. 80W diffused vs 80W concentrated into specific structures/compounds/reactions). Being inside a strong alternating field for prolonged periods of time could also tip the bias in favor of one biochemical reaction over another, which may have other health consequences over the long term.

It was a worthwhile experiment, and the results aren't particularly surprising.
Complexity never really goes away, it can merely be transformed from one type to another. This organization has apparently decided it rather deals with the complexity of not having processes rather than the complexity of maintaining them. Which is a valid choice: look at India. A society totally chaotic to a stranger but one that has stuck around for millenia.
Perhaps that explains the odd cache sizes. Map x86 onto it's own cache when necessary.
I completely do not understand snap hate. Imo, snap is one of the best things Canonical have done. I'm trying to read comments here to find what everyone who hates it is talking about but I can't seem to find anything except for generic nothing.

I searched for a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439326. The linked article is nonsense... and most of the comments are either just as nonsensical or they actually like snap. The one criticism I find is that it is slow. The other seems to be around the idea that Canonical controls it too much for some people to feel comfortable... but other than that, I don't get it.
I happened upon a list of water sources for Los Angeles a couple of years ago that listed the energy requirement for each source. It ranged from minimal to maybe half the amount required to desalinate water. That points to you being right that desalinization is cheaper than trying to tap new sources of fresh water.
> As someone of rather limited talent, I have long been aware that if I'm not proactive about learning, I will fall even further behind where I would like to be.

Then in his bio... Shopify / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Language Engineering.

I guess we have wildly differing opinions on what is considered rather limited talent.

But I don't want to downplay the blogpost by nitpicking here, his main point still stands.
You seem to be arguing against an imagined position rather than the one I've taken.
It's a game though. What security does it need?
It's also well understood that our sugar intake is probably 10x what it was before sugar was cheap and readily available and our cavity rate (at least if you aren't brushing) has increased proportionally. I don't think anyone really believes that cavemen never had cavities, just that it was much less common.
>the non-memory resources it is holding (files, locks, etc.)

Locks are entirely a memory construct. You can trivially write one, e.g. Java locks are written entirely in java. The files descriptors (incl. socket) - they should not be relied to be GC'd by default, they do require their own lifecycle. For instance: c# Disposable/ java's try with resource.

>no heap allocation for many objects at all.

This has been already the case for many a year - reference escape analysis, ref. escape elission, trace compilation.
Yeah same, but if you made it to 18 your chances of making it to 50 or 60 were pretty good compared when you just popped outta ya mother.
That's in the same order of magnitude as these as these NIH results.

Yes. This is worrisome. The FCC limit is 1.6W/Kg.[1] Neural damage was observed in mice at 4W/Kg. Several high-end smartphones from Apple and Google get above 1W/Kg.

Those are worst-case numbers for smartphones, says the FCC. Average values are lower. Worst case for cumulative transmit energy would probably be sustained heavy upload traffic, such as streaming outgoing HD video. Transmit power is highest when near the range limit for a cell tower, since the handset increases power when more range is needed.

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cel...
We have that in my country, you can go the academic route, the engineering route, or even the trade school route.
Just like the 4GL products of the 1980s. That and knowing which C-suite exec to target.
At least from the leading paragraphs, it sounds more like "switch from CH4 to NH3 for industrial-scale uses". Vs. actually using NH3 for residential heating and such.

Wikipedia says ammonia is lethal above 500ppm...so probably not something that savvy residential users would be eager to switch to.

And - if any little glitches in your distribution system let water in, you'll soon have concentrated NH40H in there...dangerous, very corrosive, and likely to do further damage.
That's great that you're interested in venturing into other fields! Switching fields every once in a while is a great way to grow and become a stellar engineer.

If you have equal passion for those two choices, I would suggest leaning towards machine learning for now. An ML engineer can make $300k-500k/yr at the big companies after a few years.

I left that world and started doing language development as an open source endeavor, and make only $700/yr [0] which isn't that much, though I'm oddly more proud of that than the salary I got from my years in Mountain View. I'm happier, being able to push the state of the art forward and show people what incredible potential there lies ahead in the PL realm. However, I'd recommend graduates to focus on finances for a few years before looking at what lies beyond, lest the financial stress overshadow the dream.

I'm only about 110,000 lines into my journey with Vale, but so far I'd say there's little math. There's a lot of data structures knowledge needed to make a compiler fast, and some interesting algorithms, but not much overlap with ML. But who knows, maybe there's some cool things languages can do specifically for ML, that haven't been discovered yet!

[0] https://github.com/sponsors/ValeLang and I'm grateful to all of them!
I see what you mean by it's a new money but it isn't really printing any more wealth, they're just saying "this is a better store of value because there isn't a special class of privileged people that get to print money while everyone else suffers".

Bitcoin maximalists hate all other cryptos for the same reason, most are just giving money printers to a different group of people.

Creating new Bitcoin is more analagous to digging gold than printing, because no one gets to decide how much gets created. The amount that will ever exist is already set and most likely will never change, you just need to invest electricity in fetching it from the ether.
Microsoft 365 (e.g. the Outlook and Teams apps) has a bunch of certifications which seem to mollify some CSOs. In high security environments I would imagine work-issued phones are no better.
note that GCs are starting to cheat too. Julia (for example) is in the process of implementing compile time escape analysis which will be used to (among other things) remove allocations as long as the compiler can prove you won't notice.
Obviously child birth was risky but so was being a man running around hunting and fighting other men, I bet the chances were about the same. Neither of us have any sources though I'm willing to bet.
Yeah, ammonia and hydrogen as ways to store energy have significant challenges, they probably aren't worse than if we had to store natural gas. Ammonia is corrosive and needs to be cold, hydrogen needs to be compressed to be energy dense so it needs heavy walls. Both explode. Hydrogen leaks a lot around seals and through them, but welded tanks probably do fine.

Natural gas needs to be compressed to be energy dense as a liquid, it explodes, it maybe has some technical advantages but the benefits seem narrow if you're starting from a fresh analysis. We're good enough at it to switch to an ammonia economy, people handle it safely all the time. It's just different risks.
> create credit to finance existing asset purchases (as opposed to financing new investment)

the seller of that purchase transaction will have received the financing credit as cash.

This cash is, in most cases, invested. If the seller had a loan, they might've repaid the loan - but then this repayment would in part, cancel out the credit creation the buyer's bank did. The net outcome, if it was positive, is the profit that the seller obtained, and this is real wealth created.

This wealth is often reinvested somewhere - either to purchase existing assets (in which case, this cycle repeats), or to finance a new asset/investment (like a startup).

However, the purchasing of existing assets is required for this system to work - like an exit strategy for the initial investors of that asset.

Banks doing lending _could_ cause a bubble, if the rate of interest is too low compared to the growth in the economy (the assumption is that there's a limit to how fast you can grow new assets). Whether the past decade since the GFC had too low an interest rate, is up for debate.
Incomprehensible text followed by broken code. Must the most realistic AI fake generator thing I have witnessed.
I got exactly that one as well so the possibility space is not that big?
The Vipeholm experiments were a series of human experiments where patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were fed large amounts of sweets to provoke dental caries (1945–1955). The experiments were sponsored both by the sugar industry and the dentist community, in an effort to determine whether carbohydrates affected the formation of cavities.

Main building of Vipeholm hospital, now a secondary school
The experiments provided extensive knowledge about dental health and resulted in enough empirical data to link the intake of sugar to dental caries.[1] However, today they are considered to have violated the principles of medical ethics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vipeholm_experiments#:~:text....
You have a source for that? It's my understanding that it is -very- hard to change another human's oral biome, the bacteria that are currently there have a huge advantage of out surviving foreign bacteria.
i video call my friends on the go and use the front facing camera all the time.

video chat is an essential app on the phone
You might also be interested in a software called iMazing.

It’s a paid piece of software, not free, but it’s worth the price imo.

I use it mainly for transferring photos from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro M1.

But I know that iMazing can back up WhatsApp messages as well, among other features.

https://imazing.com/

https://imazing.com/guides/export-and-print-whatsapp-chats-f...
more like 3.6% with compounding interest…
“They create their own money against financial assets they buy from you with that money.“

This is eerily similar to the common crypto exchanges that take your fiat and sell you their exchange tokens they are minting out of thin air. The market decides the value of these made up exchange tokens e.g. Binance Bnb tokens

I’m sure there are many other interesting crypto parallels to what banks do with money behind closed doors. Anyone else got some good examples to share?
They can give some of it to Ukraine.
This kind of lapse in composure is why people think he’s unhinged. Netflix’s problem isn’t that they’re unwatchably woke, it’s that their competitors are getting better and their streaming offerings—which, beyond the originals, have always been poor—are getting worse.

I’m not a fan of the authoritarian, performative wokeness that he’s describing—similar to hard-right Christianity, I think that is indeed more about bullying than decency. But claiming that Netflix is “unwatchable” because of more black/gay people in shows—or, for that matter, pushing back on gratuitous nastiness—is ridiculous.

This is why a lot of us were very uneasy about someone like Musk being in charge of a communication medium as influential as Twitter. It wasn’t his stance on moderation; it’s that the guy is unstable and immature, and we didn’t trust him to act responsibly.
Getting decent energy density requires thick walls and difficult seals at high pressure. Hydrogen leaks very easily.

Conveniently, ammonia is quite energy dense at atmospheric pressure or a bit above...
Seeing their predilection for disasters they should name one the ‘Ever Albatross’ and cut out the middleman.
Someone could write a very interesting whitepaper on this.

But I'll just sidestep it by noting that this problem formed under the current social/economic/political system and so many/most solutions proposed in that hypothetical whitepaper won't have a chance of being implemented.
That makes sense! I'd probably turned "open fifth" into "open chord"
So back to the typewriter I go..
HP had been my go-to printers for the time I was still printing, maybe for a decade and a half starting around 2000. They "just work" on Linux systems with no driver downloads or other nonsense, including advanced non-printing features such as scanning. I'll admit that the build quality went down with every printer purchased, but that was an acceptable tradeoff for just plugging it in and getting to work. Not to mention that HP aftermarket ink is readily available and relatively affordable, especially if you simply refill the cartridges yourself (literally three minute job).
Nim's ARC memory management uses the first strategy. Non-atomic refs combined with moves really speed things up! Moving data across threads requires the data be of a special type `Isolate`. It can be a bit tricky to prove to the compiler that the data is isolated, e.g. single ownership.
I think I'm gonna just take a pause on the discussion side of the internet for a long long time now. This website was just too uncanny, and now I can't help but imagine there isn't anything actually genuine left on the web that I'd be able to discover at least. Why rely on actual users when you can just generate posts that cater to whatever product you intend to market? Eventually its going to just make too much sense to cut the users out and remove the possibilities of edge cases of them posting disagreeable stuff that undermines your business in some way. The race to the bottom is here. We have arrived. Back to real life I go.
I considered going into phone apps, and reversed course after Jobs' attempt to limit the set of languages one could code in. I have never regretted the decision, and wish other devs would stop building on such unstable foundations.
> supporting newer screen resolutions natively

That's not the case anymore, but yes during the first ten years of iOS you had to recompile and resubmit your app to support new screen resolutions.

That was incredibly dumb. Even Android did not do this mistake.