skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not new or recent, but printers, photocopiers and projectors have always made my life confusing and painful. What should’ve been simple and what could’ve been intuitive has been made hellishly complex and unwieldy. The scene in Office Space showing them smashing a printer and the scene in The Office (US) where Pam is utterly defeated by a new copier [1] aren’t just jokes.

On relatively recent technologies, Bluetooth is unpredictable and finicky across different devices. One cannot effectively carry over one’s learning from one Bluetooth device to another. One cannot predict how a particular new Bluetooth device will work (or not) with one’s existing devices.

And then there are USB-C ports and cables. They all look alike, but you’d never easily know what it supports (which cable is the right one, power delivery, how much power can/will it handle, data transfer speed, is it Thunderbolt, etc.).

I can’t imagine how non-technical people roll the dice with all these and how much they must hate technology.

[1]: Season 5 Episode 19 (“Two Weeks”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_progra...
Not sure how it is globally but in the US the logic here is that if the owner is paying a mortgage on the house, then the renter should cover that mortgage and then some for a profit. So that would imply the renter can afford the mortgage but potentially not the down payment -- of course there are many exceptions like people who want to rent for a short time to be in a particular neighborhood for their kids school or whatever. But I do wonder if there was some way to decouple this connection between mortgage payment per month vs. rent price. No idea on a solution. I wonder if somebody has built up a map that shows how many houses are rentals in a particular area vs. owner occupied -- might be interesting to understand that ratio vs. how housing prices trend.
IIRC, Coated rebar can actually fail faster or in less predictable and therefore worse ways. The coating is often damaged during install, but even perfectly coated bar forms cracks eventually. The entire system's galvanic potential is focused on these small exposed areas, causing extremely fast rusting. The coating tends to fail in higher stress areas, which means that not only does the bar fail, it fails in the worst possible locations.
We have a model like that. It's called renting.
In that case I would suggest not having such apparently strongly held (wrong) opinions about a whole discipline their paycheck relies on every month.
Seriously, I was reading this article wondering the same thing.

Nanoseconds since X is a fairly unambiguous reference (relativity aside).

Use this for any kind of timestamp or recordkeeping. Convert to UTC (or EST, CST, etc.) as necessary for reference to the solar day.

The only reason not to do this is because you have a million systems that are already running on UTC, and you don't want to do a massive leap second erasure to get back to TAI.
I was thinking it would be something along the lines of speaking engagements getting cancelled due to outside pressure. Sounds like there were some cases of them getting censored. Facebook and the like should be more transparent about the reasoning behind those decisions.
The price for small houses (often in terrible condition) around Berlin hovers in the range of 700-1000 T€, so if you don't have a lot of capital it can be hard. Banks like to charge freelancers a premium on the interest rate (as they can supposedly lose their income anytime, which often is just an excuse to extract more money from them...) or outright refuse to give them a loan unless they can provide a guarantee (e.g. an existing house to take as collateral), so definitely not easy.

But things might finally turn around a bit with the interest rate hike and looming recession, if you have some capital you might be able to grab some good real estate soon, at least if you don't have to be square in the center of Berlin (which will definitely stay expensive).
Regarding what works best for the individual: I completely agree!

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm not suggesting there is any universal solution to note-taking. In fact, my work is all about enabling people to build different systems.

I'm curious whether more notes are taken by hand than typed or otherwise. But, this is much less interesting to me than what is done with the things that were written.
Saffron is already commoditized. It is shelf stable and, while it is very expensive by weight, very little weight is needed to flavor a dish. You can get it at most American supermarkets and cook with it.
some people use it as an architectural element. they'll build planters, roofs, siding, fences...
You don't have to be militant about health/exercise to get real world positive effects out of it though. Many people talk about how much better they feel after a 30 min run in the morning shrug
I've always heard Houston was an urban wasteland but when I visited I was surprised at the amount of trees and nice buildings. It was also very clean.

The city center had a really nice large park and the tram that goes across the city looked nice and modern.

Maybe because I wasn't driving through the suburbs, so I missed the ugly parts but otherwise this critique seemed way overrated.
The game played with inertial fusion is that when the energy people are skeptical, say it's about weapons, and when the weapons people are skeptical, say it's about energy.
~~Simple~~ JavaScript is eating the world. ClojureScript compiles to JS.

I'm convinced that Clojure will be the lisp-uber-language.

EDIT: I shouldn't have said "simple"; nothing ever is. I was being arrogant.
"Smart" hardware requiring an app to do simple things. The whole space produces tings that are so convoluted to set up, prone to constant failures when wifi goes down, suffer from security issues, ergonomics, and probably steal loads of personal data.
Add an extra rinse cycle.
Just drinking the Hillary kool-aid I see.
Building the Paired Survey Platform Google Wouldn’t
Better would just be making gains due to inflation tax-free - it makes no sense that capital gains aren't indexed to inflation. Tax the real gains, not the nominal ones.
> I don't enjoy learning new syntaxes every year

I don't understand why you need to pick up every new language that comes out. Can't you just hold down one job for longer than a year?
Unfortunately it sounds like they are doing this to protect themselves from patent trolls, not some kind of ideological purity testing.
I worked on a touch-screen gas pump terminal back in the late 90s. Was under a contract with a gas stations owner that did the numbers and realized that paying for a terminal will be less than what he was losing to the employee theft.

The terminal had a receptical for paper money, which was a crazy expensive thing back then, a massive touch screen (late 90s mind you!) and was hooked up to the internet through an X.29 modem. The pumps were controlled via a serial cable using a protocol that was documented just with a phone number of a guy who knew the details. Duck-taped the whole thing together, showed it off to the guy, he paid the balance in cash and then it was passed to the deployment guys, where it remained for a couple of years, because the client was assasinated (but lived) and had a subsequent change in life priorities.

Fun times. The stack was Windows NT.
Of course, drop-frame timecode itself imperfectly compensates for the fractional framerate, and also as a result of the math not really working out there isn't a drop-frame standard for 23.976 fps at all, so sometimes the industry just throws up its hands and says "meh, it's too hard."
Office.com flags these so they use homoglyphs and dots between letters for evasion.
I almost agree with you. Except that many FOSS developers who stick a license onto something do not hold any patents, or if they do, not necessarily anything relevant to that code.

If you choose a license which explicitly says you're not waiving your patents, it insinuates that you are holding some, and they are used in the project.
Drivers shouldn't have to and generally cannot aim their headlights. Cars come like that from the manufacturer and/or garage after maintenance.
Starlink is a god send for my hometown in West Virginia.

Current internet service there is provided by Frontier Communications. They offer "advertised" speeds of 6 Mbps but for years my parents internet came in around 1 or 2 on a good day. Service is abhorrent and they are still using phone lines that will likely never be replaced. They've taken serious advantage of the state of WV and even after a class action lawsuit in 2015 that they settled on I doubt it will ever improve.

My parents finally got starlink setup ~3 months ago, it's around 100 mbps (roughly 100x as fast) and way more reliable even though it's satellite.
Those microbes require very specific conditions: precise pH and osmolarity, high temperature (50-70˚C), long contact times, feedstock that's been literally pulverized, etc.

These probably aren't going to occur anywhere outside of a bioreactor, so our action figures are likely safe...for now!
The same reason the International System of units is referred to as SI, and not IS: the French.
Not so odd in the case of Taiwan: I like them, they’re the China as far as I’m concerned the UN and State Department be damned on this front, but it’s worth remembering that Taiwan officially does not see themselves as just an island nation off the coast of China. They claim the mainland, and all the island territories held by the mainland, and even Mongolia and some other land that the PRC has given up its claims to to settle border disputes. They’re not likely to back down on any of their claims no matter how small.

Some people in Taiwan might be willing to give that up in exchange for a guarantee of independence but as far as I know this is not at all a settled matter for them. It’s very much like North Korea/South Korea.
what do you think pension funds invest in?
Paul Sutter has a great astronomy and physics podcast called "Ask a Spaceman". His "Five Exciting Missions After James Webb" episode (20 min) got me really excited for the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiYVsoxbxAI
10 to 15 is a bit different than "massively underwater", I think 30-40% is going to be hard to swallow by most folks.

When you pay $33k for a $23K MSRP car something is really wrong.
If you work in pure marketing (like an ad agency) you also don't generally get to pick what it is you're selling. You pitch to everyone and sell services to the highest bidder. Sometimes you get lucky but most of the time you don't.
Why are classes automatically somehow assumed as complex? Rust's structs are basically classes without class inheritance.
And those truffle flavored products taste terrible and are not at all comparable to the real thing.
Google also has (or had? it's been 7 years since I was there) pretty strict rules around working on your own OSS even on your free time, so the easiest way is (was?) for Google to own the IP and apply an open source license.
Does the treatment involve other drugs? Just curious
I hate to sound like one of those podcast bros who thinks psychedelics are a quick fix for all ills. But anyway here's a thing:

I did an ayahuasca ceremony during a rut I had a few years back. I didn't see the face of God or anything. But I got a clear insight that all I really wanted to do was teach and write, and that my coding work was ideally in service of those first two goals. I definitely attribute the rut-breaking to this.

If it helps give context, I also have ADHD, and it plays a big role in my routines, productivity practices, and how I maintain my mental health. I am also religious about sleep, meditation, diet, exercise, and waking early (all of which help manage the ADHD). So, as others have pointed out, one should make sure those boxes are checked before experimenting with sources of epiphany.
It's near 0% interest rates and devaluation of the currency, combined with central banks propping up the price of bonds, leading to strongly negative real yields on bonds, driving investors to seek something to retain the value of their money.
Have a look at the structure of the JWST, I don't see many 'safe paths' that would work regardless of orientation. Those segments are pretty much bound to hit each other if you eject them at an angle (they are quite thick) and that would make them aimed straight for the focal point.

At a guess: all such theories have been debated and rejected by the people that built then thing in the first place.
You're still playing the red vs. blue game. "Yeah, but my guys are clearly better than your guys," while both teams rip you off at every turn.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. Of course you own things. But you think of them as "investments". You can own bitcoins or shares in the stock market. You can lend money to the government in recession times. You can own real estate if it's for investment purposes.

But don't confuse that with needing to own things instead of renting them. If you borrowed $2 million and bought Bitcoin in 2012 you'd be a lot better off than if you bought a house cause "only a fool would want to pay off someone else's mortgage".
> ensure you have some part of your identity unrelated to work

I don't want to be that guy, but this is one thing religion helps with.

If your identity is based on anything physical (e.g. family, money, looks, career, etc.) it's fragile and can be lost easily, but if it's a constant not part of the physical world, it can help live life more resiliently.
Ok, we'll keep 'internet' in there.
mostly twitter. not that i use it but bc of the effect is has on other people (making them racist so that all they can talk about is how white people are bad/racist)
Truffle oil most often contains no actual truffle. Instead, most uses a product like 2,4-dithiapentane which mimics the aromatics of truffle. Most if not all chefs hate truffle oil with an unholy passion.
I've found "print to PDF" to be great for web pages I want to keep, as well. You can then search, copy, print, etc.
Thank you! That was both extremely informative and equally terrifying. The amount of water loss is incomprehensible.
It's like those fake Q&A "articles" you see on Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. "I'm 52, my house is paid for (worth $1.2 mil), I have $3.7 mil in the bank, my wife and I make $375k combined. Will I be able to retire?"
You can rig the game on vague claims. You cannot rig it on facts. A 600 Watt solar panel is 600 Watts. Only most buying criteria do not have measurables attached to them. And even if they have, tech is terrible at filtering for them. Search Amazon for linen pants and most results you get will be made of cotton.
There are many people who have been steeped in our hypercapitalist society for decades and have simply accepted its premises as valid, regardless of their stated politics as a whole.

It doesn't mean that the source of this ultimately deeply destructive ideology isn't the political right.
It would be hard to get and keep a thousand tons of atomically pure 6Li/7Li, even without neutrons spalling pipe surface atoms into it. And, with enough neutron flux, seems like you should expect to get a fair bit of "relatively unusual" products that your regular H/He extraction process leaves to accumulate.

But these are all second-order effects. A thousand tons of molten lithium is a big enough hazard even without radioactivated impurities. And even getting the 0.0000001% fraction of dissolved 3H out seems... difficult.
I don't think you understood what I meant. If you launch the segments by themselves, the width of a single segment would still be limited to the internal diameter of the launch vessel, we're not going to just bolt a naked mirror to the front of a rocket.

If you compare how the JWST was folded, the width of the individual segments was already close to the maximum allowable diameter of the launch vessel. Leaving the rest of that launch vessel empty won't get you a much bigger final mirror.
in my opinion, unless the marketing prophecy fulfils itself, it's absolutely a deliberate manipulative lie
"His analysis found it costs rural households $2,500 more a year to pay for gasoline than it did two years ago."

Two years ago no one was driving anywhere and the oil market was in a death spiral.
When I got up this morning I felt like I had overslept but not by that much.
> How could they claim damages from someone to whom they've granted permission?

I think that's the key: technically they haven't granted permission, not explicitly, absent a patent waiver. (Disclaimer: not a lawyer, barely paying attention to this.)
Differential effects of emotions on climate action and wellbeing (2021)
I work on a team building a real-time display of energy flows (production and consumption) on a regional basis (by municipalities). This is mainly used in town halls on a flat-screen display but of course publicly accessible as well. It‘s made with VueJS but will be rewritten with Svelte very soon. Here‘s one example of one of over 140 municipalities at the time of this writing:

https://energiemonitor.bayernwerk.de/abensberg
> It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard".

Yes. Problems with delay time going negative usually come from not using CLOCK_MONOTONIC for delay time. CLOCK_MONOTONIC is usually just the time since system startup. It comes from QNX (which, being hard real time, had to deal with this first), made it into the POSIX spec around 1996, and is now available on all major OSs. But there's still software that uses time of day where CLOCK_MONOTINIC is needed.

Then there's the smoothing approach. This document described Facebook's smoothing approach, which has a different smoothing period than Google uses.

* Facebook/Meta: "We smear the leap second throughout 17 hours, starting at 00:00:00 UTC based on the time zone data (tzdata) package content." This is puzzling. What does the time zone package have to do with UTC?

* Google: 24-hour linear smear from noon to noon UTC.[1]

* AWS: Follows Google.

* US power grid: Starts at midnight UTC and takes a few hours while all the rotating machinery takes 60 extra turns to catch up.

Not sure what telecom is doing.

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Social media. It's more addictive than fun. I feel it rewards unpopular opinions, and humiliation of others. You get into the habit of being "savage" and putting down others. And eventually it wears down your ability to feel love and empathy for a stranger.
I'm sorry, did you just call all law-abiding gun owners mentally ill?
Find all forks for any GitHub repo
Yeah but through what means are those genes acting?
> SSE2 is in nearly 100% of relevant x86_64 systems (first coming out in 2003).

Not nearly, exactly 100%. The 64-bit ABI specifically requires SSE2 support.
the word "scheme" has negative connotations (of something shady) in America that it doesn't have in other countries. Also, it is very much an intentional policy of governments in some countries to encourage people to invest in a house as their retirement savings.
Many of our favorite products received significant funds under the status quo. (and many of those developers are present on HN) Once we change the equation for investors, we will see a different funding situation.
The technology readiness of hot dry rock geothermal is not far along. When people have tried it they find the water leaks out, there are induced earthquakes, etc. Regulation is not the problem any more than regulation is the problem for fusion energy.
Freedom. You don't have to move everything in one month because your landlord wants you out. You can drive a screw through the wall and not have your landlord shout at you.
Yes and yes. Stainless is expensive. It's stronger than some types of steel but not as strong as others. It's also difficult to weld. Plus, it's not 100% corrosion resistant - it only offers partial protection.
The first-order effect of ebola is (almost) certain death. No need to consider anything of higher order.
Easy way to avoid this problem: don't use classes.
I'm not sure it matters. To synchronize, you'll have to make corrections either way, and over sufficiently large scales, signal propagation delays are going to be quite large.
My concern is it seems we are no longer able to see big decisions in terms of tradeoffs. We say X is good but don't acknowledge the downsides. The other side says Y is good without doing the same.
A soviet-era book on machining I recently read stated that up until that point, about 40% of the total steel and cast iron production since 1890 has been lost to corrosion.
I think people look at marketing and see all the bad examples.

But nearly every product you use has a marketing budget and the only reason they are around is because they spent that budget.

To me, marketing is a sign that you are serious about your product and you are willing to spend a lot of money to promote it. It’s not a sure sign of a good product still but there’s no such thing anyway.

In a world without marketing, there would be 1000 identical versions of the same product and I would have no idea where to begin. see: all the unmarketed direct-from-China clones of more or less the same product on Amazon with weird brand names
I'd class smartphones and in fact the entire Internet as largely negative, for me. But there are a handful of uses of both that are so damn valuable that they're hard to get rid of.

I used to dream about getting rid of both completely when I retire, but the way society and tech are going I expect that means I'd almost never see or hear from my kids or future grandkids or whoever. So, stuck with the crap still, I guess.
Devils advocate; I ditched video games, TV, mindless social media, internet scrolling, but kept the daily 420 and coffee (caffeine is a psychoactive too) and I get more technical work done than ever.

In the end the weed makes what I’m doing feel more interesting. Media is designed to be interesting; together, too much stimulus.

Like remote or in office, it’s too subjective to say what is exactly right or not for others.
California already has several cities available for housing the homeless:

1) Eagle Mountain. Housing, Administration and ancillary buildings are already erected.
2) Salton Sea
3) Manzanar

In addition, there are several abandoned military bases that could be put back into habitable shape with minimal effort.
True, but achieving that sustainably is a problem at least 2 orders of magnitude more difficult. Let's take the wins where we can.
> I don't doubt ZK is worth it, but I simply don't have the time.

Rings very true. I'm trying to leverage ZK and incremental reading for better learning. So much content, that I read, that I simply don't retain. Or retain passively. If I can't use the knowledge was it worth reading in the first place?

I'm experimenting with reading half as much, but taking pains to remember the salient points. I'll let you know in 8 years if it's working :D
In Trondheim, Norway, this have been a big problem. The main road, Elgeseter Gate, is cleaned almost every night by a big "vacuum" that washes and sucks up the dust.

Edit, found an article (Norwegian): https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/slik-loste-trondheim-problemene...

Basically they solved the issue with: washing the streets, reduce amount cars with spiked tires during winter, reduce speed of the road, switch to a more durable asphalt type, avoid using sand during winter.
this is me but before a diagnosis and treatment. i think its time to go see doc