skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of what you're spending power on. When you cool something there's the action of pumping heat away from it, and then the issue of how easily heat can migrate back in.

So you're only really fighting the inefficiency of your insulation, and insulation can be very, very good (at the extreme end you could magnetically balance something in a vacuum chamber and then chill it - it'll take a very long time to heat up by radiative emission from the walls (double wall insulated cups use this property though my take is they're just gas filled - same idea though).

Essentially the ongoing cost of keeping something cool is purely a function of heat load making it through insulation, and in all cases that's going to be much lower then generating heat in the system - the problem is that engineering and complexity wise, it's non-trivial and failure scenarios can be bad - i.e. an SC magnet quench can be very bad since you amongst other things might immediately boil your coolant. This happened at the LHC during commissioning.
Jesus Christ, that's one if the most absurd things I've read in a while. Nazis in Mariupol? Russians chew through EU NATO?

Russia would already be in pieces if it wasn't for nuclear weapons.
"I think web apps have their place in the world of commerce but that people should not feel ashamed if they don't want to combine megabytes of javascript and css to their framework-powered dynamic blog just to put their thoughts online. People shouldn't also be forced to use corporate-mediated, surveillance-based platforms like Twitter and Facebook just to put some ideas up for others to see." [https://brutalistwebsites.com/tilde.town/]

Been a long wait.
Are you actually offering them ownership, i.e. large enough equity to have any say in corporate matters? Not just financial instruments that can lead to ownership after a years-long vesting schedule+exercising?
The backlash against science is fairly reasonable, given how often science is misrepresented and how often preliminary findings are reported as facts, often in some misguided attempt to help make it easier for people to understand.

People pick up on the discrepancies, and overstating our confidence early makes it look really bad when it turns out that the results were incorrect.

The Covid pandemic is a great example of this, a lot of extremely sketchy and highly preliminary studies were misrepresented as certainties. It takes many months to produce a solid scientific study, sometimes even years. Yet here we were, a month into the pandemic inundated in studies that simply could not be solid. But they sounded scary, so they made the news. This created the appearance that science kept contradicting itself. One week the virus had a 40% mortality rate, and then next it had 0.1%. What gives, science?

The basic posture of science is "I don't know". If you gloss over that fact because it's scary when science doesn't have answers yet, then what you are communicating isn't science, it's something else, speculation, the party line, I dunno.

Overall the fundamental problem is a basic lack of faith in grown adults to make their own judgements, and a willingness to simplify the message so much that it no longer is good science. If you don't let people be adults, they will be children instead. That is exactly where we are right now.
Just doesn't make sense to tie an OS to an internet account.
So do I but the idea is amusing
> Youtube Premium is only ~$10/month, does Google really make that much more with ads?

Yes! Already their average per-user revenue was 21 USD per user per month in 2018 (couldn't find newer data) [0]. Furthermore, the first people to sign up would be the richest folks, those who are the most interesting to advertisers. Meaning: they are worth way more than 21 USD per month to Google.

To compensate, the price would have to be even higher. If only 5% of Google's userbase signed up, and those 5% are, on average, worth to Google 5 times as people from the general population, then you'd have to pay 100 USD per month for getting rid of ads across all Google products. That number would also have to grow at least as quickly as the ad revenue for it to make sense for Google to do it.

[0]: https://mondaynote.com/the-arpus-of-the-big-four-dwarf-every...
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The genetic origins of the first farmers clarified
Because if google offered it, people that are worried about tracking like myself wouldn't buy it.

Indeed, it would require a google account, and one that is always connected. Basically giving full view of my private life to google and trust that no matter how bad their track record is, from now on they are going to respect it.

I don't trust them to give them that data, and even if I did, I don't trust a gov won't abuse it eventually or something else down the line.

Hence I'd rather not have a google account, and use ad blockers so that the data is just not communicated to them. It should be a constitutional right to do so.
A very serious concern and I completely agree. However, it also seems like the kind of government that would have you arrested, killed or family harassed for shopping at a particular store probably wouldn’t permit that kind of particular store?

Again, it’s a valid concern but the GP was about real world use cases and it seems that’s not really one?

And if this is the concern why not use cash or monero or whatever for this particular transaction, surely the concern does not extend to all other transactions you are making?
The apparent peak IQ generation consistently scores lower than later generations on age-adjusted measures of health, wealth, educational achievement etc though.

The fact that IQ test scores are somewhat useful as a ranking mechanism amongst a cohort is completely consistent with it being just being a collection of standardised tests calibrated to score in a particular way, not an actual "thing" where apparent subtle generational changes might represent genuine changes to our physiology or intellectual potential and not just inconsequential differences in our preparedness to solve paper puzzles.
Google has tried this multiple times with Contributor. They tested a few different models but it never seemed to gain any traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
the reason it, that is the idea of hypermedia, died was because you weren't able to achieve the same level of interactivity as you could with javascript-based applications, even back in 2005

this was due to the fact that HTML stopped advancing as a hypermedia, as I say in my original comment

htmx and other libraries are attempting to address that by pushing HTML forward as a hypermedia, which allows you to implement more sophisticated user interfaces purely in hypermedia terms:

https://htmx.org/examples/

the hypermedia idea itself is extremely innovative and interesting and, at some level, today's javascript applications are new iterations of an even older idea: client-server based RPC applications, as we built back in the 1980s
I’ve found it more difficult to sit and focus in recent years. I blame pandemic-related anxiety for some of it, but not all. It’s mostly all the instant-on distractions available now, like the media you describe. The web in general discourages focus.
> They need lots of healthy fat

Hence seeds. Best source of healthy fats.
>IQ is regularly being dismissed as a poor measure of intelligence

By whom? Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31376980
This title seems very premature, and the article itself doesn't justify it well. While there are reasons to not use Heroku (pricing, the security debacle) and be annoyed with them, I don't see any signs of them losing their position in their sector of the market yet. They are still the go-to if you're in the "small-size project, don't want hassle, set up everything for me please" space.

They might lose that position in the future due to many missteps, but at this point it's like asking "why did Microsoft fail?". It didn't. It might not be what it was, but it's still a pretty successful concern, and same goes for Heroku.

Having alternatives is very cool. I did migrate an app to Render, motivated by Heroku's recent security woes. But in the process of doing so, I realized that Heroku has accumulated a lot of plugins, conveniences etc. over the years. If Heroku dropped their prices to be a bit less egregious, I probably wouldn't bother moving.

It will take quite a while before anybody can match them on convenience, and eg. Render is definitely not there yet - it has the basics down and done right, and if the basics are enough for you, it'll work. But a lot of things you get out of the box one-click support for in Heroku will be a manual setup on the alternative PaaSes, with a community wiki article to guide you at best.
>>getting rich overnight and flaunting their wealth
Only a small fraction of early adopters became rich. Most of the suckers who joined the ponzi reading about these overnight riches have lost money. Like a typical ponzi.
Google has a custom search API that comes in two flavors — ad-supported or $5/thousand queries (beyond 100 free queries a day). You can either use their Search Element API (HTML, comes with standard Google Search UI, customizable) or build your own UI with the JSON API.

Obviously you’re talking about a consumer offering, but I just want to point out that paid, ad-free Google Search does exist and is pretty easy to set up.

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview
You again.

If what you're implying is that experience makes somebody anxious when performing under pressure, then obviously that's a rational reason to prefer those who have less experience.

I don't think experience means more anxiety though. And you don't know what the interview process of the GP is like. Why assume they are not telling the truth?
> Nope. Not everyone.

Yes. Everyone here replying to me. Even in your replies, you still recognised I was talking about Bitcoin. Unless you want to admit to me that you did not read the replies?

> You are making vague overarching claims. When you get pushback you are moving the goalposts.

At most 24 hours is plenty of time to give you the chance to finish reading the article(s) and come up with a response that directly refutes the article and my questions if you think the claims made there are wrong.

So are YOU going to refute them and answer my question(s) if you think they are "vague", "overarching" claims?

Every time you hesitate or respond by avoiding the question(s) it is more clearer to me that not only they are difficult for you to answer, but you are unable to refute them.
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There are two possible views:

The government is all of us. A society self-organizing by whatever rules suit itself. If we want Bitcoin, we can keep it.

The government is an oppressive force that will squash dissent. This makes Bitcoin a moral imperative maintaining a semblance of transactional freedom in the face of that force.
> But I'm unclear on how that makes the risk profile worse for ships?

Gasoline-powered vehicles aren't fueled when loaded onto a ship, so they don't really pose much of a fire hazard. However for EVs this is a problem, because it's very difficult to completely drain a lithium battery.

> water for cooling affected vehicles for a couple hours is plentiful. It's a ship after all.

Getting the water to all those vehicles is the hard part. If enough of the EVs catch fire the only realistic way to get that much water to the fire is to get the deck below water level, which tends to be very bad for a ship.
That study focuses on the severe end of the spectrum but I've also read that just getting it (even if asymptomatic) may have a longterm impact on the brain. That's grim, even more so given how many now consider infection to be an inevitable part of life.
But Russia has not mobilized. That's why they keep calling this clusterf*ck a 'special operation'. In fact, I don't know the exact numbers, but my impression is that they have less troops than the defenders in Ukraine.

And your comparative is kind of unfair. I mean, the war is kind of stuck, with all the support from NATO. Imagine how it would go without external support.

It really bothers me being "that guy", because I have not special love for Putin and its band of kleptocrats, but come on, let's have a little of critical thinking. Or do you think that the USA support of Ukraine is for "defending freedom"?
Counterintelligence State
A guess is that quality education, like encouraging the curiosity to read and tinker, has a bootstrapping effect.
Yup I think right now is like best time found company, if you can get funding semifast you can start hiring when layoffs begin.
IQ alone got us Skinner and H-bombs. If EQ has gone up, that's a win.
All I want to know is where I’m going to die
Sure. Not pretending, but given the strong link[0] I would prefer more research in this area.

We’ve been drinking bovine milk for about 10,000 years and heavily ingesting soy in the west for about 100 years (with a sharp uptick over the 50 years[1], the same time that testosterone is rapidly declining in men[2])

I would prefer more research for the new thing than the old thing, for the simple fact that we’ve been doing the old thing so long that it’s either safe or we’ve already bore the consequences.

To be fully clear: I’m not saying that this is a correlation; testosterone decline is suspected to be caused by BPA plastics: but what I’m saying is that given it has been linked with hormone abnormalities, I would be more skeptical of recommending it as a central component of a growing bodies diet.

[0]: https://helloclue.com/articles/culture/does-eating-soy-affec...

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/soy

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilhowe/2017/10/02/youre-not-t...

p.s: sorry for the formatting/grammar, I’m writing this on a phone.
Typical military intelligence incompetence.
I don’t believe you. I think it’s more likely that forth simply isn’t a general purpose language.
More like code tragedy
showdead is a setting on your HN profile
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke is also a great read on the subject. My favorite part is about why taking a cold shower feel so good afterward (your body create serotonin when it has a negative experience, and must compensate by creating dopamine after, and that dopamine is the feel good post shower feeling).
While causal factors are not identified, the study ([1]) concludes that the decline is due to environmental factors, and neither to genetics nor to other family-related causes.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1718793115
/me patiently waiting until Chrome is shipped with Dart VM again, so Flutter apps can run natively in the browser.
Just install Adblock: ublock origin

And if you can't on your iPhone, get a better phone
I'm paying for YouTube. I already blocked ads on my desktop computer, but I wanted to use the official (I know third-party apps exist including YouTube vanced) youtube app on Android.

Similarly, I can block ads in web search results in desktop and mobile. But I can't block ads in the Android apps for Google maps and Gmail.

What would I pay to get rid of them. Not much, admittedly. But I would pay more if it was part of an overall package that'd make it easier to pretend Google is not a semi-hostile entity.
I agree 100%,

I donate every year to charitable causes but VC is not charity.

This thread reminds me of my softer youthful years, I can still feel the despair while standing with my back against the wall at the school dance, wondering why and noting how unfair it was that I wasn't dancing with anyone...
>a lot of extremely sketchy and highly preliminary studies were misrepresented as certainties.

Were they? I thought they were being represented as the best current understanding, and it was a given that it was a new disease.
Really? Thermometers have existed since way before the introduction of the concept of temperature, as rigorously defined in Physics. You can measure "something" and notice that that X is correlated to Y and investigate what that X is.
The core premise of these cryptocurrency haters is that they feel that their subjective value preferences are more valid than those of the market. This is a core tenet of central planning. It is plainly paternalistic.

Ironically, it is the central planning of interest rates which created an environment ripe for speculative bubbles. It is the heavy regulation of all things financial which has burdened online transactions. If not for onerous regulatory requirements perhaps cryptocurrencies would not have been popularized.

Then there are the obvious falsehoods and sloppy generalizations used to advance their argument. Not all cryptocurrencies are the same. Even if we accept their characterization of BTC as "wasteful" there are other options which are more efficient.

Their solution, predictably enough is to create more regulations and prohibitions. It is a tone deaf lack of self awareness. All the worse when they celebrate themselves as authorities on the topic.

Perhaps the interviewee is an expert on CS, but does that qualify him to centrally plan financial transactions? This is technocracy at its worst. A self appointed expert steps outside of his bounds to make wide sweeping proclamations.

Then there are the obvious cultural factors. An institutional academic favors institutional and bureaucratic control over markets, disregards the value of market consensus and individual preferences? Cultural bias and group-think or not?
Via lots and lots of bad designs. Oh and then more bad designs.

Slowly, you start to realize what didn't work, so you try something different. Read about a new pattern, try it. Realize why it doesn't work in specific cases.

Slowly, you start to find things that do work. And you start to reuse them. And sooner or later, your code becomes more robust. You start seeing less spurious bugs. Your programs seem cleaner and faster.

You start to notice themes and patterns, some of which are a bit complex to even verbalize - almost like a muscle memory. You start seeing these themes across many types of systems.

Revisiting programs later on, you realize old mistakes you made, which further solidifies the "feeling" for what's good and bad design in which cases.

There's no real shortcut here. It's just a matter of experience. The only thing aside from simply writing more code is to read more code (whatever form this might take).

I highly suggest getting involved in OSS.
Or religion, political inclinations, etc.

Basically people take for granted that they belong to the middle of the Gauss curve and forget this is neither true everywhere nor carved in stone, and certainly not consequence free.

Not to mention mass spying, which apparently every body is accepting now.

It feels like in the 30', where everybody is smooking cigarets and are think there is no problem right now with it, so they people raising concerns are not to be listened to.
Our entire fossil fuel driven economy is also "wasteful by design".
> When an engineer gets promoted to engineering manager, a significant part of the management chain has to approve of the promotion, and they have had enough interaction with the newly promoted manager that they can reasonably assess whether the promotion is suitable.

What makes you think that people higher in the management chain are any better at managing people or even care about that aspect? Many tech companies were founded by college kids who were programmers and had no background or training in management. They were thrust into their roles by the circumstances with no preparation.

It seems like people are living in a hypothetical magical utopia in these comments instead of reality. We all know that managers are incompetent. We're experienced it. You can find endless engineers complaining about it. Why are we denying the truth here?
> italian universities being ranked 1/1000th lower than US universities

I don't even know what that means. That sounds like they'd be ranked only a tenth of a percent lower than US universities, which doesn't jive with the rest of your point.
I think you are right. If Google thought even a small minority of people would subscribe to it, too small to make a dent in revenue, Google should do it if it is enough to show advertisers that "inventory" is limited and to use it as a bargaining chip.

I am sure companies like WPP are pressuring Google even today to open up more and share all kinds of data with them. It is not in Google's best interest to do so but how do you fend off attacks like the adpocalypse if you can't show advertisers that you don't need them as much as they need you?

Edit: spelling
YouTube ads are way more disruptive because they have to interrupt the video you are playing for at least a few seconds.
A review of Lambda School from the father of a recent graduate
> Is it possible this is only a reflection of your experiences and not reality?

For terseness, I think it's pretty easy to show that k is a lot more terse than say Pascal in various quantitative ways.

Readability quite subjective though. I'm not saying k is universally less readable. But my experiences tell me that for me it might be. Hence why I was looking for alternatives that might fit me better.

> I think the only things I need to concern myself with are what the program actually does, and how that differs from what the business wants.

This is exactly what I was trying to get at. For me, self-documenting code helps with this, as I find it easier to find discrepancies or where I need to focus my attention when extending code.

Anyway, got to spend a bit more time on the two tutorials posted here, which really helped, so will try to take a stab at k during summer break.
Bankrupt? His company built a huge reserve of bitcoin to use to defend the peg in a “non profit foundation”, no one knows what happened to this money. My cynic take is that at least a good portion of that didn’t get shoveled in the incinerator that was Luna in the last few days.
It's... unclear. The Cold War was all about power projection and no real fight at scale (thankfully). Projection here implies an image to project as well as actual military power, the proportion between them unproven by definition. Smoke without fire.

The same is surely true for any military of any country, but if you actually study the history of the Cold War in depth and detail, there are reasons to believe that USSR military has been hyped well beyond the real capabilities, even at its peak in 60's. Hyped not just by the Union, but by other countries as well, due to various reasons (internal funding, just to name and example; Swedish military in particular was very persistent in this and kept this strawman to fund its MIC well into 2010s).
>the "quotient" is a ranking mechanism for solving a certain type of paper puzzle, not an actual thing.

Sure, except it strongly correlates with pretty much every single measure of fluid intelligence you can think of. And with a billion real life outcomes, besides.

It just so happens that the best statistical distillation of intelligence measures happens to take the form of "paper puzzles". We can, I guess, do a 12 hour barrage of 50 different intelligence tests, but what's the point, when one does the job.

>So two hypotheses

There are plenty of other hypotheses.
University rankings are mainly driven by their research impact which does not directly correlate with the quality of their undergrads.
not allergic just that the word means many things to different people in different contexts, just like the word "thing".
> Gasoline powered products of such low quality would be similar fire hazards, if not worse.

And they're heavily regulated so that they cannot reasonably be sold in most countries. Calling for similar regulation for EVs and other electrically powered devices just makes sense in my book.