skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think much of the anti-renewable mindset is white high latitude racism. It's a difficult pill to swallow for some that these mid to high latitude areas are going to become the world's energy ghettos.
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- "Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770887
Murena Smartphones and OS
No hesitation. I'm simply trying to explain the argument, which seems completely obvious to me, but you keep failing to understand. If it can only respond with things that we know never happened, it doesn't even understand what it means to experience something. Here is one of many responses it could have used that isn't clearly made up:

AI: I read your comments, think, and respond.
>I want to point out that "side hustle" should not be a dirty word.

You're right, but it has become very much associated with people trying to "hack" work to generate "passive income", which usually means something that is a borderline scam.

Sea kayak instructor/guid, math teacher, and software engineer all sound like perfectly respectable ways to earn money. Most "side hustle" bloggers are pushing things like drop shipping, YouTube Shorts/TikTok that just steal content from other people, being a middleman for credit card processing, crypto/NFTs, arbitrage plays that involve gutting store inventory or show tickets that hurt normal consumers (if people want to do the work to hit up garage sales and stuff that's fine), etc.

That being said, I do like the idea of leading with your passion instead of what would generally be considered your primary job. It gives people a lot better idea of who you are, or at least what you'd actually want to talk about.
i mean there are so many factors to this equation, writing code is the least of my problems. i try to focus more on enabling my teammates to avoid making bigger mistakes and growing them to be decent engineers, rather than optimizing my own work by a few percent. After all software engineering is a team effort for most of the times. What does it matter if i am 10x more productive and crank out all the solutions and code and the rest are all juniors and i have a bus factor of 1?

sometime it feels like people have to show-off or be the shining knights how save the day and want to be padded on the back constantly for that.
I keep thinking remotely controlled cargo operations, especially around bad terrain and difficult water features. Great for proving design and catching bugs for initial years.
“So what” is otherwise known as why. And it often flows better if you put it before the what – why is it that you’re doing the what and why should I care?

Another good writing tip: replace every “and then” transition with a “and that’s why” or “and despite that” transition
> RIP Oxide computer company. Cantrill's productivity is about to go to zero for a while.

What’s the relation?
> This is a long discussion but perhaps to keep it short, the alternative is “thought police”.

Good point, agreed.

> But I have the feeling you’re not asking for an answer?

Why? :)

I believe people believing whatever they want is harmful. I believe you have no right to believe that the earth is flat. I'd love to know if there's a sensible option somewhere between "anyone is free to believe any untrue thing they want" and "thought police".
ohh it goes back much further than that!
Weirdly enough, I have a distinct memory when I was "young". Young was in my case, 1.5 years old.

I met my great grandmother, whom was nearing her death. She knew that we were making one last visit and that I was coming. I remember meeting her, being in the old 80's hospital room with the upper white and lower green tiles. I remember how frail her hands were, like delicate paper. I remember getting out of my stroller and laying my head on her hand, carefully.

I could feel this was my last and only moment with her, and that somehow a continuation or some completion was right then and there.

I have other memories that become more 'solid' later. My memories really start around when I was 3 onwards, along when I was able to read. I never was taught... I just knew how to. My mom even still has my first alphabet I wrote down when I was 2.5y old.
Maybe I'm being slow right now, but can somewhat help me understand why Max UUID is ever specifically useful?
> You can't make teenagers sleep more by changing the number on the clock.

Actually they are changing the position of the sun on the sky.
Is there a bug or issue on this in their GitHub cause wtf is this ?
I think the competition premise is something fully antropological, the low-resource-world-we-need-to-rule is an idea from humans, yet it does not apply to the human species as a whole, just to individuals and limited organizations (nation-states, corporations). The species will probably thrive just fine after any apocaliptic event which leaves at least some survivable atmosphere in the planet (just as it happened a couple of times already).

Then you got AI, which has, what? a billion of years ahead in evolution, and maybe unlimited resources from the Oort cloud to the Sun itself. Sure, there's no rush in "winning" the planet or any planet, they could just parasite human race for a couple of thousands of years, then do something else.

There's no obvious reason for AI to go Twitter and inform the world "hey there, now there's another intelligent species on Earth".

Aside from irony, keeping heads low could be a good thing for the first - few? - members of a new species - AI guys/gals - just starting to share the planet with an intelligent Apex predator, with a successful track of survival of several hundred of thousand of years.

Yes, we could understimate the capabilities of early AIs, but it is doubtful to imagine those guys seeing the Internet - learning about us - and underestimating us humans as a probably deadly threat.
Of every explanation I’ve ever heard, “humans did it” is still the simplest and requires the fewest extraordinary circumstances.

Every crop circle I’ve read about is still well within the realm of human ability. Crop circles would be one of the least complex things created by people.

Imagine devoting your life to studying them and then slowly realizing it was probably just a prank. I’d blame aliens too. Better to double down than admit it was all for nought.
In this thread there are a lot of people overlooking that even someone who is financially disciplined can lose it all very quickly. Their own health or the health of someone close to them can drain those dollars quickly. A marriage goes sideways and you'll be lucky if the lawyers don't take it all. A few bad stock bets... point is, sure compound interest might make you a "millionaire" but it's a long way from those first millions to actual financial security, and LUCK plays a huge role.
Phoenix area schools all are required to provide busses for junior high and high school kids that live more than 2.5 miles away. That is generally a walkable distance, even in the May and August heat. I know, as from middle school on I did exactly that (walked or biked ~2 miles to and from school in the Phoenix metro).

For longer distances it’s really not a big deal to bike to school. No one needs to be dropped off by their parents, unless they live out of district and chose to go to a school other than their local one. And even in that situation, many schools open a half hour or more early, where kids can be in the library or cafeteria well before class starts.
Ah yes the "any criticism of what I'm saying is a part of the conspiracy".

When you have created an unfalsifiable position, you lose all credibility as you've ventured totally into conspiracy, not science or reason or empiricism or rationality or whatever.

> Listen to the doctor, but also do your own research. I can guaran-damn-tee that you will obtain vastly superior results.

Of course, and I said as much! But your fearmongering and aspersions on the medical community are both wrong and harmful. And doubling down on them isn't done out of evidence, it's because you need to feeling superior to the experts. That's stupid. The experts are usually right. Not always, but "usually*, and you're citing complete nonsense along with occasional mistakes by experts to imply that they're usually wrong. That's bad and dumb and wrong.
I very heartily recommend the first Lupin the 3rd TV series [1]. The Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata episodes are of course excellent, but what surprised me when I watched the series (almost 20 years ago by now) were the first 6-7 episodes, directed by Masaaki Osumi, they had a (slight) bleakness to them that was really special.

Also, Future Boy Conan is really excellent, too. Its ending/credits song is one of the best ever when it comes to anime.

[1] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8...

[2] https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEq7m_6odoc
I guess if the central thesis is that there are people dumb enough to believe that a mattress will make them fit then they are also dumb enough to believe that saving will somehow double income then that fits. I mean PT Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute. However, the goal is to not be the sucker and to learn the better “lifestyle” choices.

There are some people who make so little that no matter what they do they will always be insecure and barely making ends meet. However, there are arguably many more people who are insecure, living paycheck to paycheck, super stressed out about money etc. who have no reason to be. They make enough that they could trade consumption for peace of mind if they wanted to/learned how to.

Eg. I now make almost exactly 8x what I made 14 years ago. But am only slightly less worried about money now as I was then because I was never that stressed to begin with. I always lived within my means and I was careful to save vs increase consumption. I still drive the same 2005 Subaru sedan that I did 14 years ago even though getting a Tesla etc. would be an unnoticeable financial decision.
I also had this come across my feed. Always funny to see articles about the death of RSS in my RSS reader. Honestly, the idea of using the web _without_ RSS is entirely alien to me at this point; I don't understand how people keep track of what they've read, what they're going to read, what they liked, etc. without a feed.
Thanks for drawing my attention to that, it's the useful answer I was looking for; my use cases haven't been bound by write performance in this manner. However, I'd still be considering carefully before making use of these UUID schemes.
The latest GCs are _fast_. I benchmarked ZGC and IIRC it ate up something like 4GB/s of garbage (24 threads doing nothing but allocating) with about 2 milliseconds of stop-the-world pause time over around 3 minutes of runtime.
What would it take for you to not love them anymore? They're like a friend who is always making plans, then bailing at the last minute.
This is not correct.

TLSF has a worst-case of about 30 microseconds. Second best is 200 microseconds, which is shared by 3 allocators (HeapAlloc, dlmalloc, and rpmalloc). Which implies something inside the OS call is occasionally very slow.

TLSF is the only tested allocator that uses a pre-allocated pool and stays in user space. And it has noticeably better tail performance.

https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/benchmarking-malloc-wit...
There was no "superpumped" metric. It was one of their Amazon-style leadership principles.
I have also been considering this but can't help but feel the incentives here are a bit off.

Like it would make sense for maybe a business to do this to better sell their efforts but in this case it's kind of the reverse right? It's a single engineer risking (and eventually receiving) a huge blow to both their reputation and livelihood. Why would they do this if they themselves were not truly convinced? And if they are convinced, would there really be a need to dishonestly edit the logs that convinced them?

Wouldn't an engineer who has spent 7 years at Google working on AI be atleast a bit more skeptical of what constitutes sentientence than the average person? And by that same logic, wouldn't them concluding an AI truly is sentient have more weight?

There is obviously not enough information at this point to truly conclude anything but the questions that come with it are worth considering.
Only if you're OpenAI
Might I suggest it's not the phone?

It's the communication and dopamine hits you get from that phone you struggle with.

And I am saying that because you are very likely to move those to whatever else you use, which does you no real service.

What you need to do is have some boundaries. Once you've set a few, you can then evaluate what is worth what with some better perspective and that dopamine will have less value and other things in your life will have more.
I work for a SaaS that explicitly allows reselling and rebranding.

We change a few variables for what color scheme and theme is applied, what support docs are linked, and what which domain names are used. Other than that, there is very little code difference between what we sell direct and what the resellers present to their clients. Some of those resellers are big names with enterprise reach that we will never have. In the end, it all works just fine for us.
Some people do .. maybe even many. It does have "neural" in the name, so it's the same, right?
The Shrinking Share of Middle-Income Jobs
Every existing library follows the standard which specifies host byte order, which usually means little endian. The Rust library cited a few levels up this chain ignored that, somehow assuming big endian, and then had to correct for this mistake.
Comments like this are not insightful or helpful.

> I don't think that is sufficient either.

Sounds like you should write a blog post that compares the two methods to see if it's an acceptable approximation or not. :)
At this time it is a running gag that Google creates a messenger every one or two years.

They have so much leverage with google accounts, gmail and android … pushing a WhatsApp / Telegram clone that works would take over the world.

But they achieved to even cripple Google Meets, a product that works. Unbelievable.
I smiled at this when I read it also - I knew for a fact there were 26. Until I moved to another country. I think it kind of helps make Kevin's point though.
The other kernel workers get spawned by `kthreadd`, which has PPID = 0, PID = 2 under systemd.
A lot of people in tech circles have a sexual fixation on the show and its characters.
The lower the craft drops, the deader the zone.
It very much is, it is complex but ultimately it is just balancing an energy system. If calories in > calories out then you gain weight etc.
> Edit: USB-C only hubs. Everything I've seen is USB-C to USB-A/HDMI/Ethernet/Audio (though that resolves the above problem if the DAC is decent enough) There _are_ Thunderbolt docks (which this XPS 13 supports) which provide USB-C ports but they're pricey.

Although they're not USB-C only, I have two hubs that expose a USB-C connector (for data, not just PD). One HP USB-C Dock G5 and some random Chinese thing off Amazon [0]. They're both USB, not thunderbolt.

The HP is absurdly expensive, the second one is ok-ish (cost me €80). But they're both quite big, and the HP is heavy, so wouldn't be great to use at, say, a coffee shop.

They both have sound cards and a 3.5 mm jack. The DAC on the Chinese one isn't as good as the one on my HP laptop, but it's decent, no background noise or anything. Haven't tested the HP.

They're both able to power the computer through the USB-C port.

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[0] https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B09MTTZ36K/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...
I don’t expect inflation to remain high - but nor do I expect interest rates to remain high. The spread between the real dollar and nominal dollar rates right now is super negative and I suspect even if individuals don’t buy, institutional will. To your point, who knows what will happen?
What you're describing is the Gauss payload: https://securelist.com/gauss-abnormal-distribution/36620/
Most comments are critical about Google's way of doing things, but maybe this is a good moment for an eulogy. Is anyone using Google Talk right now or has good things to say about it? Was it a place where you happened to have meaningful conversation? (Not me, but sometimes I'm nostalgic about internet places that came and went...)
Hydrogen looks good on paper but has a lot of practical issues.

- Currently, the most economically efficient method to obtain hydrogen is by methane steam reforming. This releases a lot of CO2.

- If you want to get hydrogen without making CO2, you'll need to use electricity to split water. That's around 60-70% efficient. If you used the same electricity to charge a battery, it would be over 90% efficient.

- Hydrogen embrittlement is a problem for tanks and pipes. This means you can't easily repurpose natural gas infrastructure.

- Hydrogen has no odor, and adding an odorant can foul fuel cells. The most effective solution is to add hydrogen sensors everywhere, increasing costs.

- Hydrogen burns with an invisible flame. It's also much more easily ignited than gasoline and will burn in a wider range of concentrations. (Though unlike gasoline, it won't pool up.)

- Hydrogen is a small enough molecule that it will slowly permeate through a sealed tank. Newer tanks have coatings that reduce this, but research is ongoing.

- Remember the ideal gas law? The pressure change involved in refilling a hydrogen tank causes the nozzle to get very cold. Even in southern California this can freeze the nozzle to the tank, limiting refill speeds.

- Hydrogen is light, but tanks are heavy. The Toyota Mirai's tanks weigh 87.5kg but can only store 5kg of hydrogen.

Considering all of these disadvantages, I don't think hydrogen aircraft are going to happen.
Using External Tables to Connect Snowflake and MinIO
Selling sweets at an inflated price sounds like Marty Byrde relocated to London from the Ozarks.
what reader do you use?
I personally don't believe in having an "smart" devices in my home, but a friend of mine has a "smart" smoke alarm that sends an alert to his phone if the fire alarm is triggered and the alert includes an option to contact the fire department. Automatically contacting the fire department is not necessarily a good idea, especially since the vast majority of alerts he gets from his smart fire alarm are due to too routine emissions from his coffee maker.
Sorry, but developers don't care about freedom, they just want things that are free == gratis == zero cost.
> Year after year of rising valuations has created a pervasive feeling that there is nowhere to go but up. An entire generation of tech workers and founders have never worked in an industry without long lists of open jobs, new projects getting approved easily and employers throwing a stream of perks such as free meals and unlimited vacation at them.

This is pretty much a uniquely VC/SV thing.
It would be great just to get an explanation of how people were even using it. Most users were kicked off Google Talk around 2013. Apparently third party apps were somehow allowed to continue using it.
How many of the 411 had other major health issues?
In France they have a law that the employer is not allowed to call you off work hours. I think it should also apply to instant messaging. They also have another good law which prohibits eating in the office, so they all have to take the lunch break off and eat at a restaurant or bistro or canteen. Which is great because food delivery also generates single use food container waste and also food waste.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1103463809/why-eating-at-your...
Completely outsourcing your process for surfacing interesting information to someone else's algorithm feels like awful idea (and I actually mostly like Twitter).
Thanks for playing along. Part of my concern was trying to understand whether some people would categorically deny ai responses, and/but be unable to synthesize a response they would accept. Such cases would seem to say more about the person than the AI. :)
I wore glasses for a few years in high school because I had trouble seeing the blackboard from anywhere but the front row. I started hiking and kayaking every day, especially in places where I could see for many miles. I also migrated from CRT to LCD to LED screens, and more recently to e-ink devices when possible. Very fine print in a dark space is hard to read, but I can read a moving US license plate from six blocks away. Yesterday I recognized a friend a mile and a half away by their paddle-stroke. I am able to differentiate a bald eagle from an osprey at two miles based on the shape of the wings, and see a fish in talons at about a mile. (Friday I observed an osprey dive, catch a fish, head towards the nest, then get chased for thirty minutes by a bald eagle. Nasty, opportunistic birds, bald eagles. I get why Benjamin Franklin held them in such contempt. I lost the pair when they went behind a mountain about three miles away.) In speaking with ophthalmologists, there is wide support for my hypothesis that the near-daily outdoor activity and frequent change of focal distance–from a nautical chart on my foredeck to the bow wave of a tanker eight miles out–has preserved and likely improved my vision. The data: 20/20 in primary school, 20/23 in high school, 20/20 during my higher education, and 20/13 and improving as I approach retirement. A fun trick is to describe an approaching vessel before others have seen it.
Damore was canned by Google for exactly one reason: he had become a liability to the company. If he became a manager with a report who was a woman, or even worked on a team with women, any negative feedback would be suspect. He had literally written a treatise stating that women were not as predisposed to working in tech as men. Any woman could challenge him as biased. And Google would have to deal with the fallout of that, which would be a huge time sink and PR disaster for them.
In World War 2 the British developed "exploding rats." The idea was to pack rats with explosives and leave them near boilers. The person shoveling fuel would eventually find the rat and shovel it in to the furnace to dispose of it - where a relatively small explosion would cause the pressure vessel to rupture and take out an entire train or industrial facility.

A single shipment of 100 explosive rats was sent across the border and was intercepted. What resulted was a massive amount of German energy spent on trying to detect rat shipments and having to consider exploding rats in their threat model for every further operation.

Stuxnet not only delayed the the Iranian nuclear efforts, it made everything a hundred times more complex going forward because they realized not even air gapped computers were safe. Not to mention they no longer trust any of their monitoring or instrumentation, which Stuxnet made a point of faking... imagine trying to debug even the smallest issue when you don't trust a single piece of data.
You don't. This is a 'not even wrong' argument in reality, though a definite problem theoretically.

In that timeline I laid out, wherever your message was, even going back to 2005 unnamed Gmail feature, it's still there.
Nostr Protocol
It's because surburban parents demand these early start times so they can drop their kids off while commuting to work.

A ridiculous justification, of course, but that's what you get with a combination of helicopter parenting and a society overreliant on cars.
Roughly 10% of Americans are millionaires, for reference (though I doubt all of that is liquid).