skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely.

I started with a blog about technical topics:

https://www.jon-douglas.com/

This page somewhat acts like docs/reference for some obscure topics in mobile development and has quite a bit of views.

I then pivoted to be a more personal blog/brand:

https://jondouglas.dev/

It absolutely has helped me get noticed and people regularly use it to find me to pitch me something.

I learned plenty from creating it and posting regular content. I think nowadays everybody needs a personal blog or site of some kind to separate yourself from the masses.

I think the biggest mistake you can make is giving the power to other platforms like medium/dev.to/etc. It's not to say you shouldn't post to those places, but you should always own your own image and content and then syndicate to the appropriate places.
I find it hard to believe that in America you have lawmakers telling individuals that they shouldn't be able to run their business because it "uses too much power". Why lawmakers aren't seeing that they should be creating more power to accommodate the future is beyond me. Do they want to limit competing fiat currencies to have more control over their own USD? Are they simply lazy, uninformed, and don't want to put in the effort when they still have their 6-figure salaries and cozy handshake deals?

Maybe the lawmakers should look at how much power the current financial system uses - from cellphones with NFC capabilities, POS terminals on one end and massive datacenters processing AI algorithms, private wireless communication networks laid out nationally for stock broker/trader access on the other end.

I'm sure the current global payment system uses the same, if not far more energy than bitcoin mining does.
But the density of Korean cities also means that the real estate costs of running a dark store are much higher.

A 600sqft tiny warehouse space in Atlanta would be substantially cheaper than a similar space in Seoul.
Is it really? We're in the middle of a mass extinction caused by our activities:

The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction,[3][4] is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.[5][6][7][8] The included extinctions span numerous families of bacteria, fungi, plants[9][10][11] and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates. With widespread degradation of highly biodiverse habitats such as coral reefs and rainforests, as well as other areas, the vast majority of these extinctions are thought to be undocumented, as the species are undiscovered at the time of their extinction, or no one has yet discovered their extinction. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates.[15]

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

This has been going on for a very long time and there's clear signs the rate of environmental destruction is accelerating. At some point we will lose the fish and cetaceans. There is no doubt about that. To say that this time has finally come is not such an extraordinary claim.

Anyway I'm sure that scientists have been warning about this (the destruction of the oceans' ability to sustain life) for decades and nothing has been done. It makes sense that, either those scientists were wrong in their warnings, or fish and marine mammals will die out, sooner or later. So what makes it extraordinary?

I mean, that's why people say destroying the environment is not a good idea, right?
My understanding is that there are no clear allegations, that's the problem.
Honestly, the fact that my 3080 can draw 400W makes me kind of sick and I limit FPS specifically so it doesn't. I can't ever see myself buying a card that draws double that.
Well people will pay premium as you describe but those are very few people. For vast number of middle class folks all these things are basic planning.

I am surprised, with all the notes / planning/ calendar/ reminder software being there along with incredible array of personal devices to store them, people can't combine these basic requirements with regular store trips.
Are the trashcan Mac Pro and Xbox Series X considered effecient cooling solutions? I thought the trashcan Pro had issues at higher temperatures which in turn limited their ability to use higher end parts and in turn forced the return of the cheese grater?

The series X GPU then is considered equivalent to a desktop 3070, and laptop 3080s exist and are also considered equivalent to a desktop 3070, so don't require anything particularly novel in terms of cooling solutions (3080 laptops are loud under load, but so is the series X).

Overclocked components are so heavy in cooling needs as they're being run so far outside their most efficient window to get the maximum performance - which is why datacenters which care more about energy usage than gamers tend to use lower clocked parts.
A whole generation of German politicians is still in denial about their responsibilities.: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
> 'proper' heat

In what world is 40C "proper" heat?
I didn't make any claims about the state of the world. I asked how energy systems, at issue here, and possible futures, raised in the grandparent comment, should be evaluated. I do think it's a good idea to be a bit explicit when constructing hypothetical future states of the entire world and passing judgement on them.
FWIW, The skin reduction surgery is completely benign, especially compared to the invasive stomach reduction/clamping/bypass surgeries common in this domain.

While this has been some time ago and I have not met her for years, an acquaintance confided that the skin reduction gave her the confidence and joy that kept her from relapsing into old bad habits.
What you describe above is how Amazon Fresh schedules deliveries too. I know that regular Amazon delivery drivers are notoriously overworked and stressed out; I have no idea whether Amazon Fresh delivery (which seems to be mostly regular people in their own vehicles, rather than liveried Sprinter vans) is a better job. Hope so. But, there may be more to it than just the schedule.
This is referred to as "p-hacking" if that helps you find some. Or maybe that term is more general, I'm not 100% sure, but it's close.
Do you remember what major he switched to?
We use it in production with no big complains. I'm a Dapper man myself but EF Core works fine with Postgres. Just add Npgsql.EntityFrameworkCore.PostgreSQL to your project, generate a migration script and add a Postgres container to your docker-compose.yml and you're off to the races. The migration scripts that are auto generate work well and are pretty safe for rolling forward.
For one company? That’s pretty impressive.

When I was on an architecture team that consolidated ~80 datacenter to 3 circa 2010, this was a key dollar driver. We raised the temperature ~6 degrees from the average temp, which meant kicking out a few vendors initially. The cost savings for doing that was essentially the total operational costs of 5 datacenters.

The annual failure rates for the hardware did not change at all by any metric. Number of service impacting hardware failures went to zero due to the consolidation.

In general, if you operate within the operating ranges of your hardware, you won’t have failure. You will have complaints from employees, because computers will operate at temperatures not comfortable for humans.
I thought this would be about a different woman in the UK, who also died alone and wasn't found for 2 years.

Very similar stories, except the woman in this earlier case was discovered in 2006, and was only 40. Her rent was apparently paid via automatic deposit, and the landlord only had the police come by when after 2 years, her payments failed due to insufficient balance.

Incredibly tragic story.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/apr/14/audreygillan.ukne...
There's a difference between personal/hand-made/imperfect and awkward/inefficient/poor design.
> cooling has basically just been orientating the DIMMs to line up with airflow

Isn't that server cooling in a nutshell? Ram high volumes of airflow through the chassis with stupidly loud fans and hope the parts stay cool?
I've heard of some large companies that run their data centers hot.

Cheaper to have a slightly higher failure rate, or have the computers throttle their clock speed, than to pay for extra air conditioning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_interwar_economy

> By 1932, close to six million people were unemployed. The situation in Germany became so precarious that Hitler and the Nazi party started to gain the support of the people.[11]

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

> The United States was the only country to come out of World War I without debt or reparations to pay. Germany owed a huge sum and had to take a loan from the US just to survive. No one had any hint that there would be a stock market crash with worldwide repercussions and that this crash would ruin Germany and set the stage for Hitler to come into power.
The clock was crucial to timed recordings, which were how people recorded TV programs when they weren't around for them before things like TIVO existed. Set a it to record when your program's supposed to start and for X duration, put a blank tape in, go to work, come home and find it's recorded that daytime program you didn't want to miss.

If you weren't going to use that feature, yeah, it was pointless and could have just stayed blank rather than blinking 12:00 or whatever.
And?

Just because a branch of the evolutionary tree continues does not mean that it will be ours.

Also, I don't think "always be the case" is a foregone conclusion. Mars' current evolutionary tree isn't looking very good.
Elegant.
Well, these are far from being prison cities
Here's a comprehensive PhD thesis on domestic PC production in the Soviet Baltic States 1977-1992, defended in the University of Edinburgh. For the real deal, scroll to page 85, "Historical narratives": https://era.ed.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1842/16452/Kanger2013....

I think the author is currently affiliated with University of Tartu, Estonia, and possibly also with University of Sussex in the field of technology research.
FYI, there is a big business of playplaces in Canada, and by and large, they appear to be independently run. Most of the ones I've been to have ball pits. The good ones have pneumatic "cannons" that kids can shoot the same balls out of.
This article says it's an artifact of cold war politics https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/opinion/sunday/how-math-g...

I'm not personally familiar with the history, this just turned up when I googled the nytimes for "fields medal" and "nobel prize", but that query also turns up articles from 1986 and 1977.

On the other hand, if it's still part of the public imagination, it does seem more likely that its from Good Will Hunting and not the cold war.
2nd law of thermodynamics - entropy is always increasing. Heat transfer is never 100% efficient, you always lose something in transmission. This is also why it's not possible to create a perpetual-motion machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
neat command! my homepage works out to 3,121 bytes and the longest article is 21,164. Never knew it's that small..
Best bet for linux on the desktop, limit it to Apple hardware.
There seems to be a lot of FUD here, but I'll just chime in with my personal anecdote: I've been using eSIM functionality for a couple years with 0 issues whatsoever. The Google Fi workflow is basically just to log in and it's automatically set up. The Mint Mobile workflow is just 'get a barcode in your email and scan it from your phone'. I assume others are similar.

The only use case I can think of where any of that breaks down is where you're in a situation where you broke your phone AND you don't have internet access. But as far as I'm concerned, a visit to your neighbor or local library is enough to fix that.
I didn't claim those microgrids wouldn't interconnect to the larger grid. ;)

Low reliability and high per-unit-energy costs are driving me to be self-sufficient but to maintain my grid connection to reduce likelihood of correlated failure. I suspect the regulators will dramatically drive up grid connection fees at some point in the future. When we get there, I'll simply disconnect entirely and get my backup from gasoline.
I'm struggling slightly to envision the effect you are seeking. My motherboards don't tend to be flying through the air and so lack a well-defined angle of attack... :-) There already exist horizontal and vertical motherboard mounts in different computer cases, including ones that could be stood either way to suit the desktop. In my experience, this doesn't affect cooling that much.

I think the fan, internal baffle, and vent positions dominate the airflow conditions inside the case. So, rather than tilting a motherboard, wouldn't you get whatever you are after with just a slight change in these surrounding structures?
Show HN: Annex: Gnome Shell Extensions Website Redesign (Fresh/Deno)
Wow, they got the GPU working!

Does this imply we can anticipate GPU virtualization in MacOS VMs (not running on a MacOS host) at some point?
Capitalism doesn't seem to work in Russia or maybe it works as intended?
My favorite feature is "video-sync=display-resample". This gives you perfect frame pacing by synchronizing the video to vertical refresh and resampling the audio to match. If you set your refresh rate to an integer multiple of the frame rate, every frame will be shown for the exact same time. The audio resampling compensates for very small discrepancies between speeds by imperceptibly changing the audio speed. It's similar to the proprietary DirectShow filter "ReClock", but AFAIK ReClock does not dynamically adjust the speed to compensate for clock drift like MPV does, in which case you could theoretically still get imperfect frame pacing. (I haven't actually used ReClock so I could be mistaken here.)

Also great is MPV's support for arbitrary OpenGL shaders. This can include very complicated shaders, e.g. real-time neural network upscaling:

https://github.com/igv/FSRCNN-TensorFlow/releases

SD video can look surprisingly good after upscaling with this.
Off topic, but I suggest adding Iceland to your list of places to revisit.

Iceland has really come into it's own as a place to holiday.
Browse the First Website
It's very difficult to do more to help Asahi Linux. If they upstreamed things properly into Linux (which is arguably the most cost-effective way to support hardware on a broad scale), Mesa, QEMU and related projects, Asahi Linux as a separate project would turn obsolete fairly quickly.
What's a 409A and how does it work?
As someone from a middle class soviet family born in early 1980s in a middle-size town the first time I've seen a western computer at home was only after USSR collapse (likely around 1995). It probably was a PC with i486 (or Cyrix clone of i486). During my school years (90s) only two or three my classmates had a computer at home and it were some Z80 clones produced either in the USSR/exUSSR or in the Eastern Block (in 90s PC were already available, but not affordable).

I know some soviet companies were able to procure western computers even in 1980s but for ordinary people it was out of reach until early 1990s or late 1980s at best (at least outside Moscow).
I've been using mpv for the last couple of years as my main media player simply because it was the best one I could find that supports ReShade, because I'm a weirdo who likes fuzzy CRT shaders on my 90s television rips (and other things too)
Some local news stations are actually quite good at reporting local issues around me (especially crime, despite some political correctness bias).

However the national news stations, except for `${myChannel}`, are biased garbage that should be put out to pasture.
I just came from a trip there too. Took a week to road trip around the island and it was an experience that's for sure.

Before that we had visited the redwoods in California and those absolutely dwarfed our trees here in the midwest of US (Iowa specifically) and made us feel like all the trees here were just tiny, but our trip to Iceland and their lack of trees made us feel good about our small trees.
According to the internet the Japanese knotweed is not a tree, its a buckwheat. [1]

[1] https://nyis.info/invasive_species/japanese-knotweed/
Yep, not looking fat is a non-linear function. The good news: you are/have been on the slowest part of the curve. WRT looks&perceptions, things are going to accelerate along the journey.
How does it make you feel sick? I don't understand how that could work physiologically.
Is this not a form of reality being augmented?
In my experience, recruiters basically keep your name and skillset on record and don't take into account any of your other wants/needs.
do the clock still exist?
Policy leaks are, in Italian politics, an extremely common thing. Sometimes (often) they come directly from the government itself, as a way to test public reactions before enforcing them.
Kids Are Alright-Ish (With Peter Hamby) [audio]
> But there's no reason to believe that the skills needed to solve math puzzles really quickly are either.

I disagree. I think that having a strong sense of mathematical properties and numbers is more useful than any specific rote drilled into students.

I see a lot of students up in precalc doing rote and not understanding at all why things work and that have no chance when you throw a curveball. On the other hand, the competitive math students are asking questions like:

* What's the graph of this function look like?

* What's it for the trivial case n=4 before I think about n=100?

* Does symmetry or any other pattern collapse this down?

* What properties do I expect the answer to have? Why does this direction "feel right"?

The kids who excel in math competition and on the normal math academic track get there by playing with it and understanding it.
>which produces a spike protein for a short time that your body then reacts against

It was claimed previously to be 48 hours. That always seemed extremely suspicious to me as the shot is permanently altering your immune system. What would make it suddenly stop producing spike protein?

And finally this study came out:

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9

They found the spike protein persists in the body for at least 16 days post-vaccination and the antigen can be found for at least 60 days. That is longer than getting covid via infection.
Elon Musk asks court to delay Twitter trial start to February 2023
This doesn't match my experience. If a candidate advances far enough that 3-4 of us are going to spend a couple hours of our day interviewing and deliberating, we each will at least scan resume linked blogs.
"Cut corner" means skipping a step that normally happens. I couldn't find out if the CDC usually does reproductive toxicity studies for vaccines, and if "only studied on rats" is usually sufficient.

> about a year later there was finally a single very narrow study of a few dozen women

This one from January covered >2000 women: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35051292/

> These findings indicate that male SARS-CoV-2 infection may be associated with a short-term decline in fertility and that COVID-19 vaccination does not impair fertility in either partner.
I think some people are interpreting that as a joke. I'm not talking
about a net gain of energy or any crazy perpetual motion machine.
Think of something like a "heat brake". Differential heat energy can
be converted to mechanical work. Some of that can be used to cool the
system elsewhere, creating a negative feedback loop. Another way to
think of such a system is like the "reluctance" of an inductor.

With present thermoelectric effects, using a Seebeck junction to
generate current for a fan is hopelessly ineffective. But is that
necessarily the case for all designs which could help to hold a system
under a critical temperature when heat spikes.
How to Manifest a Meetup
You may be interested in the book Permutation City by Greg Egan. It explores this and several of the ideas brought up in the replies
The fact that bugs me is that artificial selection is “fine”. If randomness produces a mutation, that’s kosher, but if man makes the change, that’s Dangerous.
Selectivity in single-molecule reactions by tip-induced redox chemistry
I didn't expect to find an actual Tankie here!

I agree, the USSR invested many many helicopters in Afghanistan. Many tanks too! Clearly money well-spent.
As an EE for an ROV manufacturer for 20 years, this was really interesting to see how he attacked some of the design issues that plagued my entire career. Great stuff!
Nitpick, the author drops closing parentheses too often. Proofread and edit.

I don't believe mind uploading is possible, so the particular examples cited here don't apply, but I can see how social principles can be upended by a revolutionary change in how we live, particularly one that tweaks the definition of what we are. Still, they're principles, they're not going away, just at best being reframed.
"Our website"

Guessing its for a company? If its more than one person, and anyone's not a dev, then just do Wordpress. It has the biggest market share of plugins, coders, hosts, etc.
> Also, I don't think "always be the case" is a foregone conclusion. Mars' current evolutionary tree isn't looking very good.

I think they mean the opposite of what you inferred; they're saying we'll always need to be lucky to keep surviving, not that we won't need to be lucky to keep surviving after a certain point
I don't believe "mind uploading" will ever go anywhere. There's a real Ship of Theseus philosophical problem here and it's never provable so I expect many people would just think you've created a copy that superficially acts like the original while destroying the original.

Technologically speaking, I'm not sure it's even possible to replicate the complex state of an entire nervous system. Maybe you could do this incrementally (ie by replacing parts of the brain with machines that can be replicated) but we're awfully sentimental about our own meat bags.
I mean the difference here is Russia has shown it barely has the competency and supply chain to attack their next door neighbor. Does anyone honestly at this point believe they have the capability to blitz into Europe, or anywhere else really? This isn't nazi Germany that can take the world inch by inch. They will unquestionably be defeated by nato, nukes aside. And their nukes don't care how much territory they have or don't have.
WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
Great idea, tell the cops that the building you live is a drug den. I'm sure they'll just pop the lock open and be on their merry way, never to bother residents again.
Do you do some cleaning to avoid interference of the code of the creator and your code?
that's a good question. i think it has to do with the the first/last letters being more important to match a word.

as long as those match you can guess the content easy enough:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...

and i am guessing the first letter is even more important.