skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I change my own oil also, but I have no rational explanation for this choice.

Of course you do. All the items you listed are a small, one time cost. Watch a YouTube video, buy the wrench, pan, and funnel ($50?). The “knowledge” of which oil to use takes 20 seconds to look up in the manual in the glove box of the car. And the disposal is pretty easy, you take the empty oil bottles, fill them back up with old oil, and dump it at Autozone.

And for this initial, let’s say 1 hour of work for procurement, you get to guarantee that the oil change on your car (which represents a significant portion of the average American’s wealth) is done properly, with zero risk of it going wrong.

Now, there is nothing objectively wrong with NOT wanting to do this and just preferring to pay someone else. But for a household with 2 ICE cars that they own for 10+ years, this is very little work for a lot of gain, and watching 1 less Netflix show is probably not going to hurt. The tools for for all of this also take a small space to store.

Which is why I do not consider it a “no brainer” to outsource oil changes.

> Of course I use better oil and filters than the shop would. Does this matter?

Why would it not if you intend on driving the car for 200k miles? My main concern is some minimum wage mechanic not doing the oil change properly. I know they are not getting paid enough to care, and if I have to stop and check to see if it was done properly, I might as well do it myself.
They're probably recorded automatically but logs are still taken as way to ensure human eyes are on the indicators, like security guards have to scan a waystation point to prove they were there. I haven't been in a plant for over three decades so I don't know either.

One thing I carried with me through life was to "always trust your indicators." It's too easy to look at an anomaly and conclude the gauge is broken.
The weirdest thing about Finnish cases is the counter-intuitive nature (to a speaker of almost any indo-european language). For example: "dog" is "koira", "I like" is "pidän"; "I like the dog"? — "Pidän koirasta", which is using the "-sta/stä" ending of the elative case, which usually means "from". So, it's "I like from the dog". It doesn't end here...

* Tulin Norjasta — I came from Norway.

* Pidän Norjasta — I like Norway.

* Puhu Norjasta — Talk about Norway.

How come the same case is used in these?!

"Löytyy apteekista" — "Can be found at the pharmacy", literally "Find from the pharmacy". Saying "Löytyy apteekissa", which would literally mean "find at the pharmacy" is grammatically incorrect.

So, yeah, Finnish grammar is nicely structured and consistent, but sometimes it just goes against intuition of speakers of other languages.
Related:

Why Aren't There C Conferences? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18504879 - Nov 2018 (372 comments)
It can also be used in the browser as well as node.js or any other javascript runtime environment
I assume this is for commercial electricity generation and not the trend of residential heating and cooling?
Fair enough. I didn't look deeply at the API differences.
For me, I found the purpose as my role is to solve puzzles. Ketamine gave me a sense of spirit that we are all connected in this life, and gave me insights that are hard to describe. However, I believe there is value in waking up and solving puzzles for the sake of solving puzzles and it may not be time to leverage it in the commerce (if at all).
I certainly agree with you that `fold` is a terrible name for it. That makes me think of some kind of halving action.

"inject:into" is definitely a bit better. It's amazing how quite a small addition to a name can make a big difference. I'm always keen on my team using longer method/variable names when it can help with meaning, sometimes just a small expansion can really help readability.
True! Smaller and closer the units, more probability that the particle would hit something useful.
Here's a famous post by the author, more for the "general public": https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/

(that I complement with the last news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31646794)
They can still wreck havok on your system, although doing general package uninstalls on windows is a relatively stable activity. It's an extremely modular OS and it's designed to handle many combinations.

That said, Windows 11 has turned much attention to these tools due to all of the useless crap they're including on default installs. And by useless, I specifically mean the litany of "pre-installed" app shortcuts.
Why do I get the feeling that much of the $155M is going to end up in the pockets of the oil and gas industry? When it would better off invested in startups without the baggage, conflicts of interest, tunnel vision, etc.?
Ah, oops, bad c&p on my part, and I only saw the end of the URL in the text box so it looked ok to me.
In the thioacetone TIWWW, Lowe says that "the workers in the laboratory did not find the odours intolerable". It sounds like in higher concentrations it just overwhelms and numbs a strong reaction people have at even extremely low concentrations.
MMO game server: Unity includes a 10,000 Player scene
Parking at all is a problem for public spaces, since a parking spot can only host a single car at a time. The park can host much more people than it can fit parking spaces, so it's better to use that road space for something higher density than single occupancy cars
If a 13 year old was using irc regularly in 2022 I would be concerned for them. Not thata 13 year old shouldn't use irc but I would wonder how they found that destination, especially given the countless other sinks for internet denizens
Not coincidentally, that study only decided on 1976 for its analysis. If I order 6 plants of the same design, then drop the next batch down to 4 plants for the next run, then 2 plants for the third run, then I should expect the cost to go up as scale goes down.

Here's a publication that points this out. In fact, it calls out the article you linked specifically: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151...

See that cluster in the late 60s and early 70s: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S03014215163001...

That's the benefits of scale. The slower pace of construction after that is accompanied by higher costs.
These kinds of things rarely include the people in charge—maybe middle-managers, sometimes, but not the actual big shots. See also:

- Open office plans, except the bosses get offices (there are exceptions, as with any of these other points, but that's the norm)

- Drug testing.

- Anti-moonlighting rules or other onerous contractural restrictions or claims on time off (these kinds of things apply to higher-ups more often than the other two, but it's still common for them to be universal for the "peons" while the C-suite is allowed to have their hands in several pies at once)

In general, being less-surveilled and less-restricted at work (and off work) is a perk of higher-status positions in a company. It's a social class thing, essentially. This tendency predates computerized surveillance.
Or the Polish chrząszcz [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrz%C4%85szcz
If you look from Indo-European perspective, in other words if you look only at the common words, yes, they share very little common words. And then no one explains all those same grammatical structures shared between those languages. In the article replace Finnish with Turkish, Mongolian, Hungarian or Japanese and again that article will be correct again.
Inflection is when the grammatical role of a word is expressed through word formation, eg suffix, prefix, ablaut. Suffixation is a very common way to express inflection in languages.
Related:

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (2005) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30139794 - Jan 2022 (1 comment)

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2802897 - July 2011 (1 comment)

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective (2006) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044261 - Dec 2010 (18 comments)

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: a game developer's perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1296608 - April 2010 (22 comments)

The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1029820 - Jan 2010 (14 comments)
Looks similar to Horizon Chase Turbo, which Epic gave away a few months back. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/horizon-chase-turbo
I suppose a big enough corporation can feel the same, at least in terms of internal politics, but the difference for me is the tenure (well-paid, almost impossible to fire) and adjunct (close to minimum wage, no health insurance, completely disposable) dynamics. Indefensible. And I think the people with tenure don't object to this model simply because they enjoy their privilege.
Voltage is 1.2. I couldn't understand the claims about charge cycle (I think the tests were of 100s of charges, but the discharge rate was variable). Discharge rates were up to 200D, but no explicit mention of internal resistance.

I think this was more of a 'we tried the thing' paper to justify whatever funding they had and now it'll all be hush hush until they think they have a product.

It's being commercialized by the same people that did ambri which looked like a very promising technology at the time with one hard materials problem then they went dark.
A person whose title is 'RF Communication Systems Engineer' and has a physics degree is an engineer.

A person whose title is 'Chief Engineer' and has a physics degree is also an engineer aka Elon therefore he is an engineer.

This is ridiculous debate given Elon leads thousands of engineers daily and given his success there's no doubt that he is making good engineering decisions daily because he is a good engineer.
after a few years of not using windows I used O&O recently and it does do some things by default you wouldn't neccessarily expect.

Didn't break anything but the first thing I noticed is that Edge had no browser history, which of course you can turn back on but it was a somewhat hard to find option, and I wouldn't consider that a 'default tweak' necessarily.

at least I don't think it broke anything, but I think many people will still run into things that suddenly don't work with these tools.
> I think the creators do legitimately want to build a truly open source calculator.

Then making one that wasn't certified for exams is exactly what they should have done. As it stands, they're just another TI.
That wikipedia article certainly brings up some need for pause/concern.

Recently, I heard about this relatively new company named Quaise:
https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-deep-geothermal-millimete...

And I thought that the technology seemed quite interesting, so I hope the development of it can pan out since it seemed like it would enable greater usage of geothermal energy around the world, which seems to be mostly untapped at this time, and also seemed like it might be able to address the seismic issue/concern, although I'm not an expert on the topic so I could be wrong there.

Geothermal is mainly a topic of interest for myself since there are a few local plants in my own region but I hadn't really realized that it is an underutilized power generation option until I read the article on Quaise recently above.
Who said anything about storage?

And battery storage on a grid is not for running the whole grid for any time.

Seriously, you don't understand any of this. Stop assuming you do and try asking some intelligent questions instead.
If Petrol companies shouldn't make good profit when their product is in intense demand, when should they make money? They should get out of business and go find something else to do if they aren't allowed to profit off of the commodity they spend all of their money developing and marketing when people want it.
Why should someone be allowed to say truly deranged ramblings? But calling them out for it is not okay? Truly a vile culture and you should be ashamed for creating a safe space for people to spout eugenics.
There are so many boilerplate disclaimers that are meaningless, how can you possibly ask this question?

If you stuck to "didn't you agree with that policy" perspective, you'd never get in a car, on a plane, or buy anything.
It can be the "same" neurons if they are found in the same area of the brain. E.g. in some layer behind the retina.
If you are ok with being an employee and not owning the company, learn devops and security. Max payoff

Devs are expensive, sure, but I'm never hiring a dev who knows a single language. That's a red flag. Personally speaking. Like people who edit files in nano.
Why hit Delta with crippling fines? Has there been loss of life? Or anything close to it?

Sounds like the pilots returned to NYC out of caution. Modern aviation safety at work.
On the topic of 'scientifically accurate animations of biological processes'.
You may know of these videos, but I thought these might be worth sharing for others interested in this topic:

Here is a TEDTalk by Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology. (uploaded in 2012)
https://youtu.be/WFCvkkDSfIU

Here is also a more recent video by Veritasium on YT that also talks about these animations. (uploaded in 2017)
https://youtu.be/X_tYrnv_o6A
it's ipv6 so a /120 would do!
You should probably avoid any phone that isn't an iphone then...
Time to remaster Logical journey of the zoombinis. Such an amazing game.
Using the same code analogy as the parent, this is like code with unnecessary extra commenting. Seems okay to me.
I do not take it chronically and no one should. I take it once, as needed. Works for a few days.

And chronic ketamine use can cause depression as well:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5035802/

All these drugs are not the answer. It is much more likely there is a fundamental immune dysfunction causing the depression. IMHO, all mood disorder patents should be seen by rheumatologists, not psychiatrists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephaliti...

FYI: I have Sjogren's Syndrome and Discoid Lupus
Fun fact, the creator of TP is a Finnish fan and a fair bit of the vocab is from Finnish words.
"During the 2021 Uri storm, Texas’s $66 billion in renewable energy investments failed to perform in a time of crisis"
So did nuclear. A nuclear reactor in texas went offline for two days during the crisis due to cold weather taking 1.3 GW of capacity with it. The linked article the author cites mentions that the outage was primarily caused by the failure of thermal plants which hadn't been winterized rather than lack of wind power.

[0]https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insight...
Some of them have mostly the same meaning as others but are only used in written form to express that you feel really intellectually superior to your audience. Such levels of snobbery do not translate to english.
The Simpsons 3 eyed fish was the closer.
Why is ok for employers to have more than one employee, but not the other way around?
How do you define wasted cpu cycles ? The compiler wrongly emitting redundant code ? The programmer doing something particularly silly ? Python running code that would be 10x as efficeint if rewritten in C ?
Or your face for that matter...:))
I like Couturat et al.'s Ido even better. I can't "think" in it yet, but it is very regular and easy to learn. The main (irrational, personal) issue I have with it is the monotony of endings, -o is always a singular noun, etc. Plus it is Eurocentric. It does have pan-gender words like lu, saving having to say he/she/it. Tradeoffs.
I have long believed that there is a huge market for some sort of rudimentary TI-style CAS system, with a caveat. Something that works on embedded arm devices, but is screen aware enough to be ported to a desktop.

If you include bluetooth in your calculator hardware, you now have an excellent input device for an onscreen CAS - or maybe something more like a screencast.

Extend this concept far enough, and we're talking about something like OP is describing - easy to sync and share small programs and tools. Further integration with excel and other tabulated data sources, and you've got a real killer on your hands.
Hmm, no. Quoting Wikipedia [0], ad-hom "refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itself. The most common form of ad hominem is "A makes a claim x, B asserts that A holds a property that is unwelcome, and hence B concludes that argument x is wrong". "

The person's ideology is precisely an "attribute of the person making an argument". The sentence I responded to basically states that "A is not making their argument because it's true, but because of A's unwelcome characteristic." This is pretty much textbook ad-hominem.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Minimal unit testing framework for C
Messing with the definition of the week is always an issue I have with these calendars. An unending cycle of days is more useful than fixing the months to the week. The week-based calendars like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date are a better fit, though they clearly have more of an issue with seasonal drift.
HOAs and Lord of the Rings: A surprising correlation
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> ~60,000,000 Bison in North America in 1600

94,400,000 cattle and calves in USA in 2017.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/downloads/Dem...
It's only a /27, they were quite affordable a year or ten ago. A full /24 went for about $2500 back in 2015 when this was made and you can subdivide that to 8 customers who all get 30 usable addresses. Bit expensive for a joke, but not unmaintainably so.

It's silly that ISPs have messed up their IPv6 deployment so badly that there's a "shortage" of IPv4 addresses now. Of course, IPv4 was never going to be enough; there are too many people on earth.
> The difference between Finnish case markers and separate words is deeper than whether it's written with a space: case markers have to agree in vowel harmony with the stem whereas separate words don't.

That is not evidence that they are case affixes rather than separate words. The English articles adjust their pronunciation based on the word that follows them, but they are considered separate words rather than inflectional definiteness markers.

There is a special term for lexical items which are independent words in a syntactic sense without simultaneously being independent words in a phonological sense; they are called clitics, not affixes.
psychedelics really help tear down the justifications we put up for the BS we tolerate in our daily lives

Thing is you can do that with an extended weekend of fasting/meditation and solitude in the woods. Bring a notepad and pencil if you really want to lock in the new perspective. Bonus is that fasting is also widely known to be healthy.

Plus how do you really know the causative agent of change was the drugs, what if there was already the underlying emotional desire to do something and having the experience was more about creating the justification to act?

Surely one of your psychedelic insights had to be how little agency we really have. We easily back-fill reasoning and stories to happenings that were bound to happen anyway. Our brains always want a story for cause and effect, but so much of what happens occurs outside of our control or awareness. It's like riding on a rollercoaster and proudly claiming "yea I decided to make it do a loop"
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That depends, what's your DOB, last 4 and mother's maiden name?
I've wondered: what are the chances that big pharma will attempt to suppress these medicines that compete with their patentable products, like seems to be the case with the majority of drugs caught up in "the war on drugs"?
AHK is probably the big boy in this field and it has saved me 100s of hours of typing.
Aircraft Building – The Installation and Use of Piano Hinges (1985)
Yes, please tell us your recommendations for informational retrieval / taxonomy systems - what are the current best practices for the different mediums?
> However, it's still very early days in the 5G race to space. But the technology's potential is clearly as tantalizing to investors and company executives as it is to backcountry travelers keen to stay connected in the event of an emergency.

Such service won't just be a lifeline for backcountry emergencies. It will change where people can live (i.e., remote work).

While that's been the promise for too long, 5G + Musk + others feels like it will be different this time.
As a kid, the Encarta virtual 3D tours of historical places was extremely fun. I used to spend hours running around and exploring those.
I would expect to see https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/ there.
I'm not disputing that you can sink inordinate amounts of money into a search engine, but on the flip side, I am running a search engine.

It indexes not tens of thousands of pages, but has a peak capacity of about 100 million documents. I can crawl over a billion documents per month.

I don't really see anyone suggesting competing with Google or Bing off a PC in your garage, but it is absolutely and demonstrably feasible to build complementary services without any budget at all.

It doesn't require huge numbers of developers, it doesn't require a small country's allotment of bandwidth, and it doesn't require data-centers full of prohibitively expensive hardware.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32612747
The Underrated Therapy for Anxiety and Stress: Water
That's basically what I am doing with Quill.org (I'm the founder / executive director). Quill is a platform for learning tools and games - we support six web applications that plug into a common, open source platform where teachers can assign activities to students and monitor results. At the moment, our applications are all focused on literacy, and they are more "tool-like" than "game-like". However, we use AI to assess writing, and the AI creates a game-like experience of writing different responses and getting different pieces of feedback (somewhat like a MUD RPG). We're creating the applications in-house now, and the API is not public, but the hope is to open it up in the future to allow others to launch tools and game on our platform. Quill is now serving more than six million students across the United States, about 12% of all K-12 students.