skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Duke: “We’re all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled the ’60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary’s trip. He crashed around America, selling “consciousness expansion” without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously—all those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours, too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the acid culture: the desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.“
From:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

https://moviewise.substack.com/p/movies-that-are-frightening
Great quote. Well put.
You might be interested in Acme and Rio from the Plan9 system! It had some interesting UI paradigms like 3 button clicking and highlight to instantiate.

Additive guis seems like a really cool approach that I wish we had more of these days given that everything seems to be web-based anyway. Most interfaces sadly want to be a mishmash of MacOS and a catch-all mobile operating system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_(windowing_system)

https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Using_acme/index.html
Yes, it’s interesting to watch consensus switch over to pro-nuclear again. I’m not only referring to power generation by the way.

In terms of global warming I’m still conflicted myself. It’s a complex topic. Going nuclear probably would be a pragmatic last minute band-aid if it had been applied 20 years ago. Now I’m not so sure anymore. Future plants will also likely meet more wars and other shocks to the system. You only have to read about current fears surrounding Zaporizhzhia.

Green energy and changing consumption patterns might be the safest solution at this point.
Does watch unlock now work natively with pam_tid? I know as of at least a few months ago it would only work if you could use touch ID, i.e. when the laptop was open. If it was docked, it would fall back to password auth.

I wrote a patcher that changed this behavior, it patched pam_tid directly on your system and just updates the API Apple calls to allow unlocking with watch-only when touch ID is unavailable:

https://github.com/inickt/pam_wtid

Was a fun reverse engineering experience and wrote up some more info in the README.
Wind and solar aren't baseload
>The pro-nuclear lobby has no argument against Chernobyl~

We could have a chernobyl every year for the next hundred years, and you would cause less environment damage, and human deaths than we did by operating fossil fuel plants in 2021.

There is no argument against chernobyl because chernobil is quite frankly irrelevant beyond an economic cost to cleanup and contain, both of which can be accounted for, and arguably are already accounted for to a far greater extent than the normal operation of fossil fuel plants.
Been there, and I just did a booster. I'm now very happy as I plug along on my project without any negative judgement: https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/07/02/the-path-of-the-mo...

I'm doing silly things for silly reasons, and I've never been this happy and at peace. It let me heal from the moral injury of working in big tech for a decade.
I would like to see a fun game to help me with differential equations. People still want to learn more advanced topics and I feel that not enough edtech exists for learning beyond the formative years, and even less for beyond high school. As an example, Khan Academy has received much praise, but I was less impressed to be honest.
Everything agriculture, most farmers had their children go off to school and then the cities. Now it’s only really people in their 50s in the fields.

As someone who has a farm and regularly asks for knowledge transfers from the older farmers around me.. it’ll be difficult when they move on.

It’s things you wouldn’t expect either, like how to install a new piston & hydraulics line on a tractor. Or how to repair an old diesel motor. Some people on HN might know that, I know some of that now. However, generally they are all older and their kids moved on. In terms of a generational knowledge gap I can think of no greater one.
In Smalltalk it is called inject:into: which I think is quite descriptive.

You "inject" (as in push, insert) elements of the recipient-collection one by one INTO a 2-argument function, which function gets replaced by a new version of itself after each element has been "injected" into it.

In contrast I am always confused by names like "foldLeft". Does it mean "fold elements starting FROM left", or "fold elements TO left" ?

Here the Object-Oriented syntax of Smalltalk and Ruby has an advantage: The name of the method is a command (-verb) to the recipient, passing along arguments. The list to iterate over is not one of the arguments, the list is the recipient of the method-call.

Therefore the method-name does not need to say anything about the recipient, and can thus focus on what should be done with the arguments, and thus can can be more clear about that.
Hmm,
Is there any discussion of how RISC-V designs could be incorporated into a GPU or TPU that could train deep learning systems? Your link doesn't say anything about that but it's an interesting question.
Strongly agree with Ghana. Seems like a reasonable way to stick up for yourself.
I wonder if that's partly due to people (both young people and the older people that would hire them) being uncertain if they can get away with it these days? There were a bunch of scandals about ten years or so ago about politicians running for office who had housekeepers and didn't pay social security. And kids sometimes get in trouble for running a lemonade stand without a food handler's card or business license or whatever.

There might also be a disconnect between what people think they should pay and what the cost of living is. In other words: maybe people don't do that sort of thing because they'd still be losing money even if they did it full time.
Of course, there was a very fast freeze during the Younger Dryas.

Hence why you provide a graphic that selectively cut it out.

10º C in just a few decades

Checkmate!
You can't. That's why I made the distinction between the ethical and aesthetic aspect, and concluded that the GP was most definitely entitled to a refund. Since the legal and financial framework supports this logic as I do, they were able to turn that refund into a reality.

A decent comparison would be wild, ad-hoc music festivals or raves. Nobody deserves to have painful experiences, and such experiences certainly do not have to be a fundamental part of these events. Nor should people be shamed for complaining after the fact. That said, it's also true that you have to approach these things with a certain mindset that's conducive to making the most of it. The comments I'm seeing here don't reflect that, even if I don't disagree with their arguments regarding commercial responsibility.
To get this to work inside of tmux sessions use this: https://github.com/fabianishere/pam_reattach
Health insurance navigation and transparency (US):

People who go through dealing with health insurance: a lot of this knowledge is difficult to transfer, but is very valuable, and usually transferred through word-of-mouth. People who suddenly have a need for a treatment or surgery, don't always know what their options are and how to deal with insurance claims in the best manner, or to maximize coverage and deal with extra circumstances.
This is not true. Rule of thumb is 4-5mi per hour on 120AC. I drive a Leaf and charge exclusively at home on 120AC, zero problems keeping up with my non-bicycle-friendly commute.

If I needed to I could put in a 220 charger for a couple hundred bucks and a few hours of time, but I just don’t.
You don't.

These devices are sold close to cost price. Ethically the disclaimer still makes sense even if shipping killed your screen and not manufacturing.

Although I'm surprised it's not possible to get the shipping company to foot the bill.
>Also it is just a nice feeling, every time you use something you've repaired.

I feel it's my personality, but as soon as I fix anything I am overcome with anxiety every time I'm near it for fear the issue will return or that my repair was faulty and inevitably prone to cause further damage.

I don't know why I get this way. In spite of all my worries I've yet to truly fuck up an appliance I've repaired (furnace, microwave, dish washer, workout equipment, countless car repairs, electrical, plumbing, carpentry...the works).

As far as I've ever bothered to explore the feeling, I think I have an inherent trust that products are manufactured with care and attention while my repairs are often ad-hoc suitable replacements with salvaged parts, or even just duct tape and glue. Experience should tell me that things are often built to minimal passing standards so this idea that a manufacturing line that spits out dozens(?)/hundreds(?) of these products in a day are any better than my attempts. Lack of documentation is often a big one. If my repair seems to make more sense why wasn't it done like this before? Am I missing something that should be considered? What caused it to break that I haven't addressed? etc.
After reading the comments here, I think a key issue isn't so much humanity losing knowledge, as it is "locals" for some definition losing it. Manufacturing is alive and well in many places, somebody knows how to build or fix your lawnmower, it's just that the middle class has lost that knowledge, etc. I believe there continues to be more "repatriation" of knowledge - look at semiconductor manufacturing, but it's less a question of it ever being lost.

I'd also say that "preparedness" is generally something nobody is working on. Despite all the shit that happened with Covid, I don't feel like we're even slightly better prepared for an actual lethal pandemic, like with double digit death rates for example. It's not clear we've changed anything other than some political jockeying.

Another example is earthquake/ tsunami preparedness. Everyone knows the west coast is going to be destroyed, we just ignore it because its "boring" and nobody wants to think about it
You can also use winget to remove any built-in application. But this is nicer since it has an UI :)
> Most likely, your clone-child would grow to hate you. Why not just do things the sane way and marry a nice woman and have a child with her?

why is that 'most likely'?

certainly very few people would say that so bluntly to anyone interested in natural child rearing or adoption -- why does this circumstance permit one to make such a blunt and likely ill-informed (we don't have a lot of experience with human clones..) statement?
Between 2010 and 2013, I used to fly to Ghana most summers. Delta would use old aircraft on this route. Inflight entertainment was the screen hanging in the middle of the aisle. Watching a movie on the flight was a challenge. You had to bring your own entertainment to pass the time.

Eventually I stopped using that route and took KLM instead. KLM to Schiphol and to Accra. KLM was in a world of it's own. Similar planes irrespective of whether I was in the US or flying to Ghana. Personal inflight entertainment. The service was way better.
> say ketamine is a psychedelic at all.

For me, whatever I experienced was definitely something. https://www.adama-platform.com/2022/07/02/the-path-of-the-mo...
Disable sleep state. Problem solved. I daily it as a simple phone and telegram.
> France’s nuclear buildout, beginning in the 1970s, achieved the greatest decarbonization in human history

I thought it was hydro in Quebec, or perhaps Norway.
There's obviously some tradeoff between hiring more people to process and verify an increased number of applications at faster throughput. Shipping times from DE/DC to CA are probably longer than coast-to-coast in the Netherlands, etc.

At the end of the day, 5 weeks standard, 2 weeks priority, and X days rushed are perfectly reasonable turnarounds for a process that only needs to be done once every ten years. Uploading my documents took <10 minutes and I wouldn't have needed it any faster. This is a far stretch from "terrible" and optimizing it for more capacity is probably a waste of resources.
The future ones (2023, 2031, ...) are primes in lunar arithmetic in base 4 written in base 4, of course.

https://oeis.org/A171122
How many of them express concepts that you actually can't express in other ways in English?
Predictive/preventive maintenance is actually a big thrust behind my current company, Dials.

HOAs, which we serve, are run by busy volunteers, yet expected to perform almost insane financial gymnastics, planning 30 years of major component replacement, e.g. common area roofs, piping, asphalt resurfacing. This involves (a) estimating each component's lifetime (total and remaining), (b) getting a cost estimate, and (c) coming up with a plan to spread paying for it out over however many years before it's needed, breaking that up between the units in the HOA, and collecting the funds, month after month.

People blame cultural issues ("people won't pay for maintenance") or "laziness" but the truth is, it's just too damn hard to do predictive/preventative without a very accurate inventory of what you have. You need to get all of this into a cloud environment, and then somehow expose it so that either internal staff or external vendors (more common) can see exactly what you have, bid on fixing it, and track status and work in a fine-grained way.

Our ultimate goal is doing the entire inventory automatically using computer vision (partner and I used to work in self-driving) and having enough data around that we can price and estimate everything accurately.

Nobody wants to pay for this as a standalone product so we just decided to build a payment collection product (for monthly dues), start with that, and build it up. It's going pretty well and we'd love to get more people on it. Email's in my profile in case you want to chat
I am curious, was there ever a time were insurance companies did offer risk insurance for nuclear power plants? If not, then nuclear has been killed by it's risk profile.
Where are you finding these contracts from? I am a very experienced Full-stack developer and would love to switch to contract work.
Would you like to contribute your knowledge to the conversation then?

It seems like it would be a knee-jerk overreaction to be, but Delta obviously has a lot of management issues and a shortsighted knee-jerk decision from them (or most giant corporations) would not surprise me.
It doesn't support Rust at all.

There's just a GitHub repository with a toy example in Rust, that uses nothing but direct unsafe calls to five C functions.

But Python, yeah, definitely. That's the beauty of this calculator.
Love this; Another factor could be peer latency.
On the other side of the spectrum, I often joke with my dad that I want to setup a "TechNanny" service for him. Someone who can come home and help with random computer/mobile issues. There are of course challenges in reliability, safety and staffing.
At school I synthesized a tiny amount of NI3 (nitrogen triiodide).
As it was late and the substance was still dripping wet I went home leaving it under fume hood to dry.

Next day I learned (to much amusement of my chemistry teacher) that it scared the hell out of a cleaning lady who managed to trigger it off accidently while cleaning the chemistry lab.
I basically learnt most of my written English from games as a teenager. They didn't directly help as much with speaking, but hanging out in game chats or IRC for a ridiculous number of hours actually helped with that to an extent as well. Even though it's still written rather than spoken, it's still a more spontaneous form of communication.

I took English as a foreign language in school since I was 8 or 9, so I learnt some of the basics there. But if I was faced with a spontaneous conversation, no matter how simple, I easily got tongue-tied. (I was also shy and socially awkward in general, which didn't help.)

Spending those hours in chats is when I started getting more comfortable with spontaneous communication.

I'm not necessarily a huge fan of gamification in general, which might be a generational thing, but learning as a side product of something you're interested in can be a huge boost. It doesn't have to be games, though. Lots of people probably learnt a lot of English from music or books they were engrossed with.
Would have been better to ban the plane’s manufacturer serial number.
Most of the “Greek” scholars of the later part of the “Hellenistic” era of science were Roman citizens, came from all over the Empire (not just the Greek speaking parts), and natively spoke a variety of languages. Some of them moved to Alexandria or Athens, but others remained in Rome or elsewhere.

It is (at best) oversimplified to put this as “Romans” in opposition to “Greeks”. What is fair to say is that the Greek language remained the common "language of science", just as Arabic was the common language of science throughout the Islamic world (even for e.g. Persians), Latin was the common language of science in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, or English is the common language of science today.

You wouldn’t say that “the English were opposed to science unlike the Latins Edmund Gunter, Thomas Harriot, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, et al.”.
The revolutionary calendar is separate from the Terror. In fact, it survived it by quite some time, being abolished by Napoleon in An XII.
that's where my company is heading :( probably going to use render.com ... ugh, I don't want Heroku to fail.....
Ah... a classical argument of the "communism was never truly implemented" :).

Perhaps. Perhaps initiatives likes these are bound to fail. Not sure how many lives have to be destroyed until people get "statistically significant" results.
> intentionally wracking up debt and then declaring bankruptcy to get out of it.

American Airlines, GM, Kodak, Texaco, Sbarro, Six Flags, all went bankrupt.

Business do this all the time.

Donald Trump did this 7 times.

Apple almost went bankrupt until MSFT saved it.

The federal government literally is in more debt than at anytime in history.

Debt funds literally everything in the world.

Saying that it's ok for these businesses to go bankrupt, and some even get govt bailout, but not a student, is an hypocritical nutty take.
It's not a crazy idea, but also not a panacea.

So not crazy, people have been having for centuries (i.e. the game part predates "computer game" part).

I don't want to say there can't be a real breakthrough that makes this a much bigger educational impact, but it's probably important to remember that as an area lot of smart people have tried this pretty hard (including your characterization of open-world + encarta) , and results are not that impressive, so far.
Poopy lettuce at Wendy’s still prime suspect in outbreak that just doubled
Honestly, I don't know what it would look like, but being able to query would be deeply important. But what I can say is that a lot of the PDFs I work with are auto-generated as PDF forms using queries, after the information was likely inserted into a relational database during some esoteric transcription step.

Meaning, the information that formed the PDFs very likely come from a relational database and an inversion back to its original relational form is probably the convenient form. Whether that means it turns to 40 tables, that's fine, so long as it's relational and a query can be written.
"zuckerverse" is a great name for it :-)

Surely he just wants to make more money. But how does he think zuckerverse will help him do that? Well maybe as a novelty. I can see a lot people getting into it once it works well enough.

But you are right we should see right through Zuckerberg's verses.
Here's a question back at you: how well do modern sailing ships handle the Mediterranean in winter?

As far as I know, the winds haven't significantly changed: mostly from the northwest for most of the year, with a period in the spring and summer where they swing to the from the northeast. Also, ferocious storms in the winter.

Going clockwise along the Med's coast from France to Italy, Greece, the Levant, and to Egypt is "downhill"; going the other direction will take roughly twice as long. Sailing along the north coast of Africa is kind of dangerous because a storm or navigation mistake plus the prevailing winds can put you aground hard and unexpectedly.

Modern sailing ships are much better at sailing closer to the wind, are much less limited by supplies (it's hard to get more than a few days endurance from a rowed galley) and are more seaworthy, because they could extend the sailing season and take more direct routes.

How much better is that? I don't know, but I suspect a fair bit. Galleys still have advantages in some circumstances.

Now, if you throw in some even remotely modern navigation equipment, that would be stupidly advantageous.

Source: John Pryor, Geography, Technology, and War.
I don't see a "culture of rejection". There's rejection whenever there's competition and a selection. There are tons of computer science conferences and not all of them are elitist. Even mediocre papers get published. Should we have all the submissions in the world accepted at the top conferences so that no researcher feels left behind?
Most people who daily drive their Pinephones use Mobian Phosh, whereas the device comes with Manjaro KDE. You may want to try installing Mobian (and it's really simple).
Perhaps they're working on multiple fronts but you'd think Google and Amazon would be first on the list given their market dominance in the web advertising and ecommerce.

I'm not a huge fan of Apple but I don't see how they're deserving of trust busting but the others are not (again, maybe we'll here more in the coming weeks). It seems fishy to me that the tech company that's been the most (publicly) vocal about not providing the feds back door access into their products is the first one to be targeted for antitrust.
Spot on, many of these challenges are common across the board - from my father's plant to Pfizer and others I got the chance to work with. There is however a massive talent gap when it comes to high quality software / ML people in these industries as well. It's tough to get experts to generate quality data and 'recipes' for others to follow when their KPIs are not aligned. Maintenance and reliability don't seem to be sexy enough areas for management to invest in, especially if the value proposition is anecdotal at best. Would be great to chat about your approach for solving some of the above
One of my favorite stories about psychedelic experiences is a friend's coworker dosing acid one weekend, coming back in on Monday, saying "I hate it here" and quitting on the spot. They went on to travel and start their own company, and are doing great for themselves.

In my experience, psychedelics really help tear down the justifications we put up for the BS we tolerate in our daily lives and can help you connect with what you really appreciate and want in life. Definitely helped me realize the kind of person I want to be and appreciate the good things in my life. And similarly to the story about the coworker quitting, my tolerance for BS is nil, now, too.
Tell your Dad to start making youtube videos- that seems like the best way to preserve that kind of knowledge.
And the absurd cost to maintain nuclear power plants. Also, they have other bad effects on the environment like heating up rivers. It's a real problem this year in Europe at least. It's really hot this summer and there's not much rain, so there is not enough water in rivers for cooling, so more and more plants need to be shut down.

This technology definitely isn't flawless.