skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stuff like virtualization features and Hyperthreading are responsible for such a tiny fraction of extra die area and so deeply entwined with critical functionality that it's extremely unlikely for a given part to need to be binned on the basis of whether that feature works or not. Intel would never amass enough broken-HT but otherwise good chips to provide the impetus for an extra SKU.
I think when he says "go through" he does not mean cover to cover, but either skim parts or only read part of the book, and maybe some of the books are short. It does seem sorta ridiculous.
It’s not writing it off (whatever that means here) but if you’re asserting Buddhism, Daosim, and Shinto do not have many foundational faith-based/supernatural elements you may want to review their sacred texts. Jainism I am less familiar with, but the other three are entirely founded in faith-based tenants that have no supporting evidence.

Background: degree in philosophy, focussing on philosophy of religion. I have read all the books. They are all fantasies, many very well written and fun to read, but no more fact-based than The Silmarillion.
Aim for best possible outcomes in each category, and be satisfied failing but pushing the overton window up.
Suddenly matching current reality to what you saw in an old dream is a peculiar feeling—perhaps as peculiar as a déjà vu. My pet theory is that they are more or less the same thing.

In case of a DV, one explanation (the one I’ll be sticking to here) is that a brief lag[0] in the perception of the current moment by a part of your mind results in a feeling that this moment had been perceived before.

I believe that to self-repair, so to speak, your mind would scramble to look up a matching past experience. However, the lag takes place at a pretty low level, and what your mind has no access to is that this previous experience was microseconds ago, not months or years; it is not in your long-term memory and there is no match.

If a dream that shares enough characteristics with the moment is readily recalled (e.g., it is especially memorable because of some circumstances in your life at the time), that dream may easily end up being adjusted (partly rewritten) to fit.

If that fails, you would have a vanilla DV.

[0] Not coincidentally, this seems more common during times of mental exhaustion.
I started thinking about this kind of structure after coming across this company making climbing equipment. I think there is something valuable to it, maybe not necessarily for every type of business. Among friends recently there has been some discussion about the fake-ness of businesses saying we're a family while treating people/employees as relatively disposable. This is a bit of a large scale way to address that.

https://www.totemmt.com/about-us/

"We are a Cooperative Work company from Basque Country. Our mission is to supply the climbers community with quality protection gear.

The production is entirely made in Hernani (Gipuzkoa). We focus our efforts to improve the production processes and management systems to achieve what is demanded by the customer: good products, competitive price and on time delivery."
Man, I couldn't disagree more strongly! Programming is like building a house on shifting sand. How many projects that you haven't touched in the last 5 years still run? If you're anything like me, the percentage is vanishingly small - and my old projects aren't even that complicated. If you find that this is a belief "common in forums like HN with lots of programmers", I suspect that's because engineers are the most likely to have the hard-earned experience!

I mean, just look at HN for examples. Quite literally yesterday it happened again: Heroku decided to turn off all old free apps. That's a whole bunch of my old apps that are about to deprecate and break unless I do some work on them.

> Features sometimes expand, but most apps will reach a point where it no longer makes sense to add additional features.

I think this is overly idealistic, or perhaps limited to too small of a problem space. If your software stops adding features, it will quickly be out-competed by software which does have new features that improve productivity. I suppose you could argue that some apps are "finished", but I tend to see those as a rather small subset of all apps - things like single-use command-line utilities, say, like grep and awk. It's hard for me to fathom Photoshop ever being finished - until you're beaming ideas directly from brain to canvas, there's always the possibility that new features can save more time[1].

> Vulnerabilities don't just appear out of nowhere

But this is exactly what vulnerabilities do. One day, there isn't Heartbleed. The next day there is. One day, your Java dependencies are fine. The next day, log4j is broken for everyone on the internet. If you're not on call to solve problems like these, no one is going to use your app.

I don't really understand how you can say "[a program] doesn't just become more vulnerable over time just by merit of being old". This is exactly what happens to any program with dependencies.

> Server bills usually need to be paid because people have inserted themselves as middlemen

People have inserted themselves as middlemen because servers require upkeep, and upkeeping a server takes the time of an experienced professional. They need to be patched for vulns (again), maybe you need to swap out your SSD because it finally ran out of writes, or any in a litany of other problems.

[1]: Then again, with DALL-E, maybe this is happening sooner than we think - but that's beside the point.
The actual alternative to Photoshop for most people who just need to do simple edits ends up being photopea or another web app (there’s at least one other popular one I forget the name of). Most people don’t have the patience to install GIMP and figure out the interface.
That story is enough for a whole collection of books...

But one explanation is that China didn't see the need to grow or improve their technology. They could afford to stay stagnant or even suppress technology because they didn't have major threats from nearby states.

Whereas if France/Britain/Italy/etc had done the same they would have been conquered by their neighbors.
> And so is any other argument to attempt to explain what was before the universe. Those are outside the realms of science.

That's the point of the submitted article. That any theory that cannot be proven should not be paid much attention to. They are nice thought experiments but that's it.

> And furthermore, just because something is not falsifiable does not make it untrue.

Neither does it make it true. The point is if there can't be proof then it's pointless to think too much about it.

> I posted that lecture as an intro to broaden people's perspectives.

Unfortunately the video failed miserably at that. It was full of wrong claims and conclusions, logic errors and on top used the same attacks on certain groups that it in the beginning complained about.

> It is then a proof by induction to reach the correct religion that explains our world. Some signs are summarized on www.provingislam.com. There are lots of great scholars who have presented many proofs on the matter.

You said there were proofs in the video. There were none whatsoever. You can't follow a proof of induction based on wrong premises. Religion does not explain our world, science does (to some extend). Religion is a tool that has been used for good and bad throughout history.

Please don't refer to more outside sources that supposedly contain proof but bring one solid proof here yourself. So far everything has been debunked.
One summary of some of the basic technologies can be found in:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-015-8263-6_...
and cited references therein.
A more recent variation on this theme can be found at:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ie020198r
Ask HN: How Can I convert free electricity into water
We recently moved into a new home in Southern California that has a large lawn and an over provisioned (I think) solar system. This means our water bills are terrifyingly large and our electricity bills are 0.

It occurred to me that there might be a way to extract water from the air using something like an industrial sized dehumidifier and store it for later use in the garden.

Does anyone know of such a thing or are there other options we should be looking at like grey water collection or even drilling a well?
This has been answered a dozen times. You're talking about changing things for future generations which everybody agrees on.

This loan forgiveness does not do that. It retroactively changes the rules that were in place when some people decided to go to college and others didn't. This move changes nothing for future students.
Imo, 99.9% books aren't worth reading. If a book's value can be captured within its cliff notes, then it should have been a long form blog to begin with.
Of the 0.1% worth reading, a majority are hard to actually finish. IE. Textbooks. Informative but doesn't become more than the sum of its parts.

This leaves the ones that can be read, and are worth reading. The absolute best. These books have a few common traits.

1. Literary value akin to music. The sheer joy of the act of reading. Pure entertaintment.

2. Philosophy. Everything is philosophy. But good philosophy is felt through a book before it is even stated.

3. Anecdotes that hit beyond standard tropes. Unique anecdotes either in scale, investment or anomalous structure that carry you to the philosophical conclusion.

4. Compression and focus : what not to write and how express it. Often, this is the biggest shortcoming of almost good books written a compilation of great ideas.

I have consistently found these 4 to be the best way to evaluate the value of a book for me. Everything else is secondary.
Japan consistently ranks the last of the developed countries on gender equality[1], and they kill hundreds of dolphins a year in a frowned-upon manner[2], so are there any specific measures Japan is taking or is it all posturing?

[1] https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14668828

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_dolphin_drive_hunt
If there’s one thing Tyler Cowen is not it’s uninteresting.
I've never found much of a use case for touchscreens.

I find WSL2 better than osx primarily due to apt being a better package manager than brew.

Also windows versions of excel and outlook are much better than their osx counterparts if you are a heavy user.

At the end of the day once you set up your environment either laptop will be fine.
> The halting problem says that you cannot make this guarantee for ANY sufficiently complex program.

That is correct but also completely irrelevant. In practice all software we actually use and need can be written in languages that are slightly less powerfully than Turing complete languages. Look at CompCert, seL4, Dafny, Coq, LEAN, F-Star etc. etc.
Those are just the names of the high level goals!

If you go here: https://sdgs.un.org/goals#goals then click on each goal, its expanded in more detail, including implementation targets, of which there are over 150.
Identity/privacy: de-anonymizing accounts reusing the same public key.
It has nothing to do with that per-se (as in if you gave everyone an education on it, it wouldn’t solve the problem). It’s more about attention span, demographic turnover, economic changes/shifts, etc.

the average American moves every 7 years, so projects that take a decade or two may literally only have half the same people voting on it the second time. It’s now a completely different decade. It may have literally started pre-9/11.
The dynamics of Mondragon participating in free trade are no different than any other corporate entity. The internal dynamic works because most people that are participating share the same core values of shared ownership, and there is no corporate ladder to climb. IMO, leadership making these values core to the business is going against the grain, putting your probability of survival below or equal to that of others, which is why they are a rare occurrence

It's objectively a better model for ensuring the sustainability of a corporation, with respect to operating in a free market. I would say that being an employee at a high productivity co op is the same as being a highly skilled software developer working for a contracting firm or maybe a sizeable startup. You have a valuable impact and have skin in the game.

I think there is a tipping point where greed can end a corporation, but e.g. for western corporations, the beast is fed by central banking. The problem with that, is that there are clear winners that are chosen, which go on to buy out their competition. At that point, you have management making working conditions less and less favorable, for the sake of share holder bottom line, to the point of societal unrest. Take a look at Amazon.
No, it's that you haven't worked on ranking systems so you probably don't know that it's also easy to check and prove by anybody who "knows what to look for".
But easy to do without understanding the OS's inner workings. And there are far more people working on 3d engines or AI than on operating systems.
> All agreeable prospects, but all too vague and hard to define. They're more a wish-list than goals.

> For example, what defines poverty? Wages vs the median, or quality of life factors? What makes work "decent"? What does inequality mean in this context, economic, judicial, racial?

They're actually defined in far more detail: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/2125...

(The details of the goals start around half way through)
depends hugely on the math book
Love this type of discussion. I'll give you that there are many sub jobs within the job of growing revenue faster. I'll also give you that Sales's job is also to create revenue. Revenue creation/growth is the job for both marketing and sales. They have different sub jobs to achieve that.

What do you think marketing does that's above and beyond growing revenue faster? :)

I'm here to learn new perspectives.
> For example, adoption of GIMP has not likely materially increased over time (as a relative percent of total addressable market)

This is an interesting question to me because Adobe only recently moved to cloud/subscription fairly recently. Before that, you could get a physical copy of Photoshop and keep it running forever.

As that pathway fades, it will be interesting to see if something will finally supplant Photoshop.
The trend towards the open source replacement appearing faster and faster is intriguing.

Yet, the fundamental reason for software simping still applies:

Herd people don't go with what's free, they go with what's popular.
I am currently playing around with Dafny and it is very promising. I have use it to generate proven correct high-performance C# code without too much efforts. It’s great fun actually. Like a really cool puzzle game.
> For example, what defines poverty?

Many, especially governments, have definitions of poverty which are statistical, either percentile or a proportion of median income which makes it either actually impossible (there will always be a bottom n percent) or practically impossible (nobody earning less than half median wages).
Yes, the photoshop web clone photopea is remarkably good for quick and dirty.

It has all the old hot keys and export (download in a format) is fast.

I would not consider gimp over that site at this point. But maybe if the site started restrictions or forcing payments I would.

More likely an os web app alternative would take the lead.
For anyone considering this - it’s a lot easier than you think, and with basic hand tools it takes minutes to move something as long as you can get a prybar under it and know the fundamentals. but if there is a chance you can tip it onto yourself (say, a large multi-ton safe), call some safe movers instead of doing it yourself. Don’t be red goo.
This is also why Google sucks at so many things, despite having the best offering on paper. GCP is honestly great, but a terrible product. Stadia? Zillion chat apps? Google Inbox by Gmail by Google? Google wallet pay Android pay wallet? They all work great and would be best in class if they were decent products and you could figure out how to get them to work at all.
More like The Absolute Sound.
Thank you. Ive been looking for a site like this.
They assume all these goals are mutually compatible. I see clean energy and climate action vs. everything else. Look at Sri Lanka for example.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farmi...
It's sometimes called photo reading, and it's likely genetic and correlated with high IQ (which Tyler certainly possesses). Someone described it as not having to process the letters or words individually but as a chunk. For example, when you see a McDonald's logo, you don't have to mentally recite the word "McDonald's" but you instantly know what it is. So with photo reading, this can apply to entire sentences. I think this how some people can speed read and not sacrifice comprehension.
Can you please elaborate? I am genuinely curious. I asked this question to open my mind, not because I have an agenda.
Run dehumidifiers and then filter and boil the resulting water
Lawns are pretty ecologically unsustainable. I’d be looking for low water use alternatives to lawn, rather than trying to work out ways to temporarily extend the life of your grass.

Did you see this?

https://news.yahoo.com/grassy-lawns-banned-las-vegas-1949502...
It is just cost reduction and speed of iteration in silicon. You can now mass manufacture a new CPU Core in a new Node, while your Media Engine, the Hardware Video Encode and Decode stays the same on an old node. Your Media Engine is the same across the entire product line up, so you get economy of scale with Fabs just printing it, you can also iterate on your Media Engine for new functions or errata individually without stopping progress on the larger SoC Design.

The same on I/O where there are speciality node much better suited for I/O, and their rate of progress is quite slow compared to other part of the system.

But most of these are only good for Desktop and Server. And the world is now largely Smartphone, or Laptop Energy efficiency chips. Where integrated SoC still provides the best results in efficiency.
“I love the observation that in Chapter 1 of an economics textbook, they'll say, 'We're just describing people as they are. People are rational, and this is how it goes.' And then, in Chapter 2, they'll say, 'And most people fail to'--you know, 'respect the sunk costs.' And they never even notice that there's a small tension there.”

— Mary Hirschfeld, discussing her book, Aquinas and the market.

She touches on a lot of the points you mention.
Whatever you do, eventually it is pointless in the vast universe.
Just keep moving forward, it is animal instinct.
I appreciate the quirky writing
We have 6 inch chimp brains, and tech has reached a point where its easy to have unpredictable and uncontrollable effects at large scale. So expect more chaos. Whether the chimp is motivated by money, power or boredom hardly matters.
Lessons will be learnt the hard way as they always have been.
For an example, the red delicious apple. 75% of the Washington state's apples in the 1980s. It was bred for color and shelf life and, in the process, they bred out the taste. In 2000, a congressional bailout was approved for the growers that had lost $760 million dollars over a 3 year period due to the now-worthless apples.
And lots of people... I was curious so I checked a video that taught JavaScript to newbies. It was full of errors. I would say that this is a common thing, unfortunately.
They also feature heavily in his mars trilogy
At my university the compilers course was optional. I always thought it was weird that such a foundational part of computing was an elective. We did have to take an OS course though!
Is the video broken for others?
Same here. I've been living in Tokyo for the past several years and I've never seen this thing.
Me too. Meta is also very scary. TikTok is a Trojan horse that siphons data while getting billions of people addicted, both could ultimately cause more harm to society than cigarettes.
How much for the dollhead sharpener?
Same, split keyboard (with thumb cluster) may take some time to get used to, but it does improve the QoL for me. The major problem with this is that either the keyboards are relatively expensive or you have to DIY. I'm looking to clone the moonlander keyboard but modify its layout to redox, and print it by myself. DIY can cut down a lot of the cost.
HN gives me trouble if I publish its name. Search the Mac App Store for "Streamline Academic Writing".
I tend to agree. While some nonfiction is enjoyable I find a lot of the better writing to be in fiction or textbooks.
> GraphQL forces you to write business logic on the client

Even if you have traditional REST endpoints, you still have to potentially orchestrate their usage client-side.
And it won't have a positive effect on society. It does nothing to prevent the student loan bubble in the future.

Also let's avoid the whataboutism, it is disgusting when corporations are bailed out too.
Oompa Loompas turn people who like coups into blueberries or push them down the incinerator chute. Just saying.
All of your questions will be answered in the next season of Loki.
I just replied to a similar question. It's a few posts above this one.
The laws we know of anyway.

Maybe we’ll eventually figure out that when something passes through a singularities event horizon, that is the superheated ‘all energy’ state the universe was/is/has always been born from.

It wouldn’t be the weirdest thing that’s happened!
Current price in Utah, USA is $106.30 per megawatt hour, easily four times less than many of the prices I'm seeing in the EU. About 14% of our electricity comes from renewables[1], I'm pretty sure the rest is coal. My wife's cousin works in a coal mine that's owned by one of the power plants in the state. It's fun to hear stories from him seeing dinosaur tracks and other fossils down in the coal mines where he works.

1: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eia.gov/state/analy...
You could recycle alternators and possibly electric car motors to create wind turbines and do housing installations. You can search for a junkyard for some of the materials. You can fill a niche and make a lot of money out of it. Solar installation is expensive. I’m clearly not an expert. Here’s some links…

https://windexchange.energy.gov/small-wind-guidebook#certifi...

https://www.windynation.com/jzv/inf/all-about-delco-style-al...
Those interested in this may like to know that The Economist publishes a style guide in book form:

https://www.amazon.com/Style-Guide-Economist-Books/dp/161039...
Not to lend any credence to the antiscience above, but nothing about science being a process or even the falsifiability and other safeguards of that process preclude it from religious adherence. Even if they’re extraordinarily accurate processes, “it” absolutely can be and sometimes is treated as religious. Elevating science as a process of knowledge acquisition does it a disservice too. Scientists make mistakes, have attachments to their areas of study, and have a lot of complicated incentives that nominally would be anathema to the “process” even if they’re following the process … faithfully.
It's not like this can work for college or high school reading assignments, in which you have to read the whole thing and cannot bail out. Maybe this is why some kids grow up not liking reading...they are forced to read books they dislike in school.
One of the richer men around here a century ago had a mountainside castle. He burned a hundred cords a year. He has a single employee who cut, hauled, split, and fed all of that. In the summer me also mowed the lawns.

And his central heating system was considered to be state of the art.

Insulation, not so much.
If you're implying that blacks incarcerated at 5x the rate of population is evidence of racism, then is men being incarcerated at 10x their population rate evidence of sexism?

Or is there other factors?
Does NPR have a large audience in South Asia?