skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just you. Google is now what Altavista and the other search engines it replaced became. The difference is that those went to crap in only a couple years where Google held out for decades and then suddenly has spiraled to where it is now. And it's the same reasons those search engines in the 90s went down the tubes. Everyone who wasn't there will tell you Google's superior technology (PageRank) is why it won. But that's not really why. It's because AltaVista, Lycos, etc. got awful to use, which cause us to look for an alternative. There was this nice clean upstart that said "Don't be evil." is their motto.

It's time for the cycle to begin again.
If that's the way a company wants to have unlimitedly PTO, then they should be clear that there is a minimum amount of time that everyone must take off each year
More like CICO, but make sure to eat high satiety carbs, a variety of vegetables, a lot of protein, enough good fats, and have a way to estimate your overall activity level and keep it constant or even slightly higher than usual (e.g. a step counter) to account for NEAT decrease.
Well, it's clearly not working since there are millions of bot accounts.
Actually it's quite clear: use REBCO superconductors.

Tokamak output scales with the square of reactor volume and the fourth power of magnetic field strength. Double the field, 16X the output.

Modern REBCO superconductors can support much stronger magnetic fields than ITER will manage. That's why CFS is building a reactor using REBCO which is much smaller than ITER, but should have the same performance. It'll be half the size of JET, which was built in a year. They're planning a net power attempt in 2025 and a lot of independent fusion researchers think they'll succeed.

CFS is a spinoff from MIT, whose Alcator C-Mod had more powerful magnets than any other tokamak in the world.
> I started out in fusion and switched to advanced fission.

You are in good company. Lawrence Lidsky, the fusion guy at MIT who wrote the famous article "The Trouble with Fusion" back in the 1980s, also switched to advanced fission reactors. His critique of DT fusion is still worth reading. The big issue, the lousy volumetric power density of DT fusion reactors compared to fission reactors, is still a huge albatross around the necks of all these private DT efforts.
With all the Googlers here and this question being asked again and again including by myself I wonder if this feedback has already reached the right folks at google but there just isn't much that could be done given the business incentives at play.
But XeTeX and LuaTeX are still billed as "end-user-facing" systems, alternatives to LaTeX and ConTeXt. I appreciate the distinction between the actual typesetting engine and a macro library layered on top, but as someone who has only ever used LaTeX I would definitely be interested in a thorough comparison of their capabilities, speed, user experience, etc. One can of course include plain TeX itself in such a comparison!
> Stop drinking now!

Start screwing yourself, now! With this line of reasoning, there is no behavior that people who think like this will not justify themselves in managing.
If it’s a variable speed system, why would it short cycle? Seems like it should be able to avoid that state.
The total amount of waste heat is low. Thermal pollution is a local problem (rivers getting hot) but not a global issue.
The issue is usually capacity management. Pre-covid most places with decent transit had crowding issues during rush hour. In 2010 Guangzhou made fares on its subway free to ease congestion during the Asian Games, and the result was a more than doubling of ridership. Users reported queue times of more than 20 minutes to enter stations, and eight busy stations had to be turned exit only as an emergency measure. https://humantransit.org/2010/11/guangzhou-abandons-free-far...

A fair amount of places have tried free transit. Usually the result found is that most trips were diverted from walking and cycling.
I think a small variety of issues...

1. Search has to be hard because filtering spam is a cat and mouse game inherently.

2. Useful information has moved off of searchable sources. Instead of forums, we have discord, facebook groups, slack channels, twitter...

3. There is simply more shit, exponentially, than when I was young, and therefore there's more garbage lying around. The ratio of shit:not shit hasn't gotten better.
Sorry, I don't see how apple has cut anyone out of their ecosystem, unless your opinion is that Apple should simply have stuck with intel, despite their own hardware being better by every metric?

As for cutting people out: every piece of software, including x86 I have tried has worked without a hitch. If your problem is that you need an x86 VM, then yeah you're kind hosed unless maybe intel&amd decided release their ISA royalty free?

Alternatively, you could just not write awful architecture dependent software, like all those developers happily using ARM laptops without a problem are mysteriously capable of.
I don't see why it goes without saying the extra energy would necessarily go towards consumerism. There is still a long way to go towards getting every human a decent life and opportunity to reach their full potential. There's no way we're getting there without the extra energy. For providing healthcare, nutricious food, education, etc.
My vision for the future of search:

Text search on the web will slowly die. No one trusts the results of random text. Google is in the adversarial position of wanting to censor certain answers as well as present answers that maximize their own revenue.

People will search video based content instead, and use the fact that a human spoke the information, as well as comments/upvotes to vet it as trustworthy material (like on TikTok).

Google search as we know it will slowly die, and then will decline like Facebook. TikTok will steal search marketshare as their video clips span all of human life.
The church doesn’t issue the Christian equivalent of fatwas and there is a separation of Church and State in a democracy.

Anyone who wishes to include religion in govt should go to countries like Israel(a Jewish state) or any of the 53 Islamic states. Regardless, France isn’t the place to demand that Sharia law should trump over the French govt.
Cold-brewing can reliably be done at food-safe refrigerator temperatures over multiple days, safely. The longest brew I've heard used at any coffee shop is 8 days, though I've never tried more than 5 (usually 1 to 3).
> I always found it odd that the rhetoric around transportation was that it should make money. We don't expect other parts of the government to turn a profit. Why transportation?

That sounds like a straw man. This probably varies, but where I'm from public transport is about half funded by ticket sales and half subsidized by tax payers (some of whom don't use public transport).

The reasons I'm aware of againt free public transport are (1) the economist view that a free service (that in reality costs money to operate) leads to inefficient and wasteful use and (2) the city-planner view that over long term free public transport leads to thinly spread out residential land use development which in turn leads to high infrastructure costs for roads, pipes, electricity, schools, etc. and also emissions as not everyone will use public transport for all their trips.

I think free public transport is an interesting thought especially give various modern challenges, but seems prone to shallow argumentation that doesn't quite match the complex dynamics of the matter itself.
The problem is energy companies and the entrenched family assholes that run them. Three Mile Island was being forced to push ahead and use the crane to move the vessel, even though it WAS damaged and would have likely lead to a meltdown. Engineers knew it wasn't safe and were punished and fired for not using the crane unless it was actually checked and in working order. The public is right to be wary of nuclear when these are the types of assholes that put all our lives in danger.
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That’s exactly what gets worse every year, ime.
My AC guy said that a right sized system in Texas will never be able to pull the temperature down more than about 25 degrees Fahrenheit. This is the limit I’m trying to get around and I know it’s possible because systems in hotter places can do (like in Arizona) and commercial systems in shopping malls and stadiums can do it too.
Very true. But if they’re morbidly obese as it is, it’s pretty likely they have a brain chemistry which responds very positively to sugary drinks, so without the diet soda it’s possible their health would be even worse.

I’ve never met an obese person who liked being obese, but I’ve met lots who have a really challenging relationship with food which slowly brought them to the point they’re at now. I’m an addict as well, it’s just not as visible.
SSHFS is next level in terms of networking. We've had network drives forever, but having a guarantee it will act like a normal filesystem makes it so much smoother to work with.

That said, in my book, sync thing is an even better version for synced file systems. Mostly because you can't lose connection or need to setup the connection each time.
Where do you live? I live in the UK and I'd argue that's not true here.
Me too : I wrote a few lines of Python for my personal use, to remove docx write protection, and a few other useful stuffs e.g. changing author names, shrinking the size of the document by converting .png/.emf to .jpg, etc. The function for removing the write protection is very short :)

xmldata = ZipFile(docxfile).open("word/settings.xml").read().decode()
xmldata = re.sub("<w:documentProtection .\*/>", "", xmldata)

=> I wrote it for my personal use and for a few friends, and it is unfinished and not very well written, but if it can be useful to others, my little tool is here https://github.com/karteum/Doctool
By what metric is it “one step”? D2O is one step away from water, but that doesn’t make it good for you.
> I swear nuclear fan boys are just as delusional as climate deniers.

No, some of us actually have operated a reactor for a living, and have first hand experience with the technology, and most of the issues people like to discuss. In my case, I served in the US Navy in nuclear propulsion. This whole debate seems crazy. Truth is the tech works, and it should be inexpensive compared to burning fossil fuels. Then there is the absolutely incredible difference in energy density - a two 13mmx13mm fuel pellets contains roughly the same energy as 1 ton of coal, or 260 gallons of oil. As far as renewables go, it has to be much worse for the world to build the 1650 wind turbines, wire them, and so on that it takes to match a typical single civilian reactor. To those of us who have worked with the technology, we know it could really change the world's carbon problem.

The reason the cost is so high - and remember, the cost of technology usually goes down over time in a normal functioning market, is hyper-regulation at every level of government. From mining and refining fuel to building plants to operating them, there is an insane amount of regulation and litigation over that regulation. The over-regulation argument is really annoying, mostly because it is true.

It's also true that there are some issues around dealing with waste. Most of these are easily solved, but will not be for the same over-regulation reasons. We've taken perfectly good tech and through the power of bureaucracy, made it unworkable.
Tailscale + NFS or Tailscale + SMB

SSHFS is fun but there are easier ways to accomplish the same thing.
Anything that is big in Argentina and Brazil will cause this correlation.

Causation is obviously false, footballers mostly came from poverty and at least in Brazil meat is not so frequently consumed by them because of the cost.
So you did, thanks! BTW, the Earth becomes uninhabitable in about 1 billion years, not 4.
It's almost like your body has a bunch of internal processes to maintain homeostasis around crucial functions, and maintaining the appropriate osmotic pressure is essential to life. Yes, this feedback loop has a little lag, so you can die from water intoxication, and/or hold water weight from a particularly salty meal (or one with a lot of carbohydrates if you don't often consume them, since cell volume is largely water, and increased glycogen storage will knock it out of balance for a bit). Assuming your diet is reasonably homogenous, your body is not packing on 400% of the weight of carbohydrates in added water. It's using the carbohydrates to replenish glycogen stores in your liver and muscles via insulin. If those stores are not depleted, it'll get converted into fatty acids via de novo lipogenesis. When you're asleep or between meals, glucagon will take glycogen back out of your liver for use, and if that depletes, some catecholamine will trigger lipolysis to do it from stored triglycerides made from the fatty acids.

It does not assume that every molecule is metabolized homogenously, nor that your body is perfectly efficient, and not even that everyone's body has the same level of efficiency.

It more or less means "track how many calories you are eating to get a baseline number. If you want to lose weight, decrease that number. If you want to gain weight, increase that number. Continue tracking until you establish a baseline number for whatever weight you wantwhen you have reached it".

Your digestive system generally does NOT "happily pass unwanted calories without absorption". Ingested fat is broken down into long chain fatty acids, which can be stored directly in adipose tissue with no further metabolic changes. If you consume a ton of fats at one time, there flat-out may not be enough bile salts released to emulsify it all down, and/or not enough pancreatic lipase released to turn all of the emulsified fats into fatty acids, and/or not enough time for them all to be absorbed in your small intestine. Statements like that are more or less like saying "Battletoads players will happily smash into barriers on bikes/surfboards/planes/clinger-winger", or "internal combustion engines will happily pass unburned fuel". It's a system in motion with a limited point of insertion (the common bile duct at the beginning of the duodenum), and hopefully long enough to finish the job. The fact that this is not always true just means that the system has been overloaded.

Gluconeogenesis from proteins is such a metabolically expensive process that your body does actually try to avoid that one, but it will if it has to, which is why rabbit starvation is true.

This post is peak overconfidence based on an amazingly shallow depth of knowledge.
It’s always been this way, and it will always be this way.

Don’t get discouraged. This is all part of the process of finding and disseminating knowledge.
I live in the UK.

Many of the things you mention are reasons why I would never consider making the US my permanent home.
I use tar.lz (Lzip) for stuff that only I will care about.

For sending stuff to other people I just use zip, because it is the lowest common denominator, but I make sure to always use info-zip so that I don't use any weird proprietary extensions, and get proper zip64 support.
LinkNYC WiFi kiosks are hubs for pervs and vagrants, business leaders say
Yeah I guess the noise to signal ratio is way higher in tech reviews than movie/media world.

Maybe there will be a cultural reckoning once customers get wise to it like they have with other sorts of spin. Maybe the zoomer generation who grew up on TikTok will learn to spot bullshit influencer bait a mile away. Kinda like the 90s kids backlash against TV.
Russian Navy's massive submarine could set the stage for a new oceanic Cold war
I don't understand this argument. "Votes" and Comments are almost completely gamed on every popular website already, I personally don't trust them in 95% of cases. Video content is usually very much a lowest common denominator type of information, and I don't understand why I should trust "a human said this" over "a human wrote this".
How I Helped Hack Democracy (Christopher Wylie, 2019)
Well, except for the 7 long lived fission products. Those are possibly good targets for space disposal.
I'm being a killjoy here, sorry:

Just drink water. Much healthier. Carbonated, if you like. With some lemon or lime juice, maybe.
Paywalled. Curious: With or without consent?
I'm responsible for my own body and what I put in it. It's not some paper's responsibility to tell you how to poison yourself.
What can be done about it?
Everything I know about breeder reactors comes from the Radioactive Boyscout, which says they sounds great but are insanely unstable and not yet workable.

Is that true? What’s the state of breeder reactors today?
>Wirecutter doesn't seem to list products without strong affiliate programs.

Which are from retailers not manufacturers...

What's the issue there?
https://github.com/camel-cdr/execfs ?
There's something to be said for offloading typical maintenance problems with your own hardware and software such as maintaining backups, storage capacity, synchronization, updates, upgrades, data security, reliability, interoperability, compatibility and versioning.

Centralizing these problems really scales. Decentralizing gives you some advantages but doesn't scale these decisions for you, they become your problem.

I desire decentralized software but it must be easier or as easy as the centralized solution to scale properly.

I like operational transformations, local first, offline first, CRDTs, merkle trees and diff3 and git. I like snapshots. I like deduplicated backup and encryption during transit and at rest, but these are all problems that are expensive in terms to implement and engineering time. The decentralized solution requires every Dapp (decentralized app) to use an API that provides encryption, presence, synchronization, identities, authorisation, authentication, data storage, CRDTs. As a dapp developer, you offload a lot of decisions to your users.
TikTok basically eviscerated facebook over night. Gen Z already makes run of the mill searches on that platform, and is increasingly doing so. Older generations cannot see the massive changes occuring. Facebook stock tanking is not random. Neither is Netflix. TikTok is completely underestimated. All of the new content is being created there. People are not creating text based content on facebook or on blogs. Reddit is the last bastion
Because have you every actually used one of those cheap ass computers. They're absolute trash, the keyboard is wiggly, the trackpad feels awful, the screen is low res and can't handle sunlight, the wifi chip is cheap and unreliable, the speakers sound awful, the battery life is abysmal, you get no support, and it's frustratingly slow. I wouldn't wish anything you can buy at Bestbuy on my worst enemy.

If anything someone who is going to be using a laptop a lot but has modest actual computing needs is the perfect candidate for a laptop that prioritizes build quality.

Look, Apple isn't the only game in town when it comes to nice laptops, the Surface Book is really nice, but when you're comparing "computers I actually want to use for any extended period of time" $1200 isn't all that expensive.
Take it from someone who works in the industry, this stuff is -hard-. I could go and be a developer with similar pay, think half as much, and have half as much responsibility. The industry is broken, and the subject matter is highly complex. Acting as if everyone is incompetent because nobody noticed a hardcoded Cred in a third party plug-in (until someone-did- notice it) alienates people from getting into the industry in the first place.

Security aren’t infallible, nor are developers, nor are you.
This looks super handy thanks!
The headline is trying to imply it is some sort of illegal operation that was outed. The article mentions that the location of the (legal) medical marijuana factory was 'previously undisclosed' - but nothing to back up the headline that it was meant to be any kind of secret operation.

Low effort clickbait IMO, unless I'm missing some other context.

The photos of the night sky with the clouds reflecting the LEDs from the farm due to the malfunctioning blinds look cool though
A Bing search is not a credible source, and I'm not seeing anything to support what you're saying.
And then one day, for no reason at all...
What's even more terrible is that if Twitter deems one of your tweet breaks their terms of services (even if incorrectly), they'll ask you to provide some PII and delete the tweet, effectively doxxing yourself in case of a security breach.
Do you still have access to your college classes?
the original reaction lives on in other meanings of "rational" and "irrational": based reasoning, and not based on reasoning, respectively

Doesn’t it simply mean “cannot be written as a ratio”?

Edit: the parent is correct, they were called absurd numbers originally.
I hate that some people say rockstars and mean ‘really great developers that write beautiful working well documented code quickly and work great as part of a team’.

And other people say rockstars and mean ‘assholes that churn out new features really fast with incomprehensible code and then leave others to maintain their monstrosity as they move on to the next thing”.

I assume Amazon is large enough to have a team somewhere with 6-10 of the ‘good’ version, and also a team somewhere with 6-10 of the assholes.
There are essentially zero papers which show anything even remotely resembling this. In basically every controlled environment, CICO more or less works, albeit not with perfect efficiency. It's not until prolonged starvation periods or massive overfeeding periods that any sort of genetic/epigenetic limiters come in (overfeeding tends to be prisoner studies, the MN starvation experiment is the most commonly cited/most data from long-term starvation).

If dieting works in controlled environments, the obvious conclusion is that dieting does not work in uncontrolled environment precisely because of the poor food choices, and because we, as humans, tend to discount the amount of calories in small things through out the day, nor do we rigorously measure.

All a "NEAT decrease" is saying is "people are more lethargic when dieting". It would be unsurprising if this were due to crash dieting, but this cannot "negate" a diet. Reduce calories further until the scale starts to move. Or be more active, despite lethargy.
Ask HN: Colleges with both good compsci and music
Hi there,
I am a high school student who is applying to college relatively soon. I am currently looking for universities/colleges that have both strong music programs, specifically for jazz, and strong compsci education programs. I have found a few colleges that seem to fit this, but my research has generally not turned up a ton of results.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you
OTOH adding 'forum' (or sometimes 'discussion') has been quite effective recently, unlike a couple of years ago as I remember. I even get the occasional forum result without having to do so. Possibly intentional in response to feedback?
Male ‘biological clock’ can affect chances of birth more than was thought
In the last couple of months Google's results have improved for me, I'm no longer seeing stack overflow clones, there are fewer content farm results too.
This is a thing I hadn't thought of.

I've tried taking photos and bagging things, and it's not great because it doesn't preserve relative positions or angles that could be informational. Going back through the photos is a pain, and often I missed the right angle, or it was blurry.

Also, it's hard to think of things to write on the labels that will make sense later. Much like commenting code.

I feel like the best way to organize things is to arrange them on a large, light colored background, like an exploded diagram. But that takes up a lot of space, and can be easily disturbed and scrambled.

A thing I thought of that nobody suggested is to use a piece of string (or perhaps a zip tie) to tie bolts and washers together, to preserve the ordering.