skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought a Mac Studio recently with 64gb of RAM. I adore it, but I am kind of missing the portability of a laptop.

I’ve been watching Facebook Marketplace recently for a cheap Mac Laptop, and I was surprised to find the place is absolutely flooded with near-new MacBook Pros with 8gb of RAM. It doesn’t make any sense, it’s the worst place to cheap out - it’s not upgradable and makes a huge performance difference.

I suspect it might be self-selecting. The reason there are so many on Facebook Marketplace is because the owners can feel they need an upgrade. Do they know the reason for it’s lackluster performance being the lack of RAM? Maybe not, they just know the machine runs poorly and are going to upgrade to a newer one with 8gb of RAM.

To contrast my 11 year old iMac I was upgrading from has 24gb of RAM and still held up fine as my daily driver. The lack of software upgrades being the thing that pushed me to upgrade.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=apple+reject
A common complaint here is that the single payer systems / public run systems have very long wait times compared to private US systems (this is true where I live as well. A simple MRI is a five month wait and that requires traveling to a different city).
Vaping: Juul to pay $438.5M in youth marketing probe
The need for higher mass density exhaust to provide enough absolute thrust to get off the ground overwhelms H2's energetic efficiency. Thus, SLS, like STS before it, depends on solid-fuel rockets until well clear of the pad, and then jettisons them.

Aircraft operation involves nothing analogous.
Show HN: Executing Python from Tweets
Hello HN!

Pyrun is a Chrome Extension that brings a Python IDE into your Twitter for those who consume and create Python content.

*The Status Quo (This is quite a limited experience!)*

- Content creators share Python snippets as images;
- The audience zooms into the image to see what’s in there;

* The Pyrun extension creates a whole new learning experience:*

▶ Hit one button to execute the Python snippet
See Python's output inside Twitter
Edit the code and rerun

Content creators only have to share the code inside the image’s ALT, add “#pyrun” in their Tweet and that’s it!

This extension will enhance the learning experience and improve engagement without disrupting the Twitter experience!
Thanks, will lookout for the video

(I tend to read most things on a screen and find two columns of small text tiring)
Extremely accurate. You might be surprised how much. They have a feature where you can use the watch one handed without touching the screen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCGfyHSbFM
Here's a very interesting video of a Euro mass timber building highlighting some of the differences:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZGuSC7KNvM
Almost 5 years ago I ran Quake on the Sharp Zaurus 5000D
Lab leaks happened in the past, too, including one that was covered up by a communist government for decades

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecuri...
Putin is certainly far from the ideal leader but it is probably safe to say things could also be much worse. Leadership change in a country like Russia with so many nukes is always a bit frightening. You do not even have to look at Russia, just look at the end of Trump's presidency. I think the only thing that is certain is that interesting times are ahead.
It reduces total consumption. It might relatively increase homebrew consumption, but those are inferior substitutes in the economic sense.
Privacy Guides
I don't get it. Although it may seems like it is an exponential process, when following this rule, the number of cans currently in the fridge is just the total number ever consumed. This process is limited by people soda consumption.
Last I looked, Bitwarden data is a single JSON thingy (details are hazy now).

I exported my existing passwords, converted the result to the JSON format using vim or something, and imported it. Job done.
How do these VC firms find you?
Also, taken in context, telling somebody their whole HDD fits in a floppy is entirely consistent with bragging about your entirely unreal 100 gigs of RAM.
An odd artefact of this difference is that in many English speaking TV shows (especially up to the 2000s) translators would use the more formal "Sie" by default even when the show itself clearly suggested a level of familiarity or intimacy that made this weird.
The first paragraph contradicts you:

>is the most promising energy carrier of the low-carbon economy.

^_ energy carrier != production at the point of use.

The article seems to be about dealing with a supposed shortage of fresh water to make the hydrogen from. If this is solved it changes nothing.
I can only talk from a smaller scale. All the wood houses here are built with wood from here. Forests are strictly regulated and it's heavily illegal to deforest faster than its sustainable for the region. At least half of the people here also heat with wood, usually from their own lands. I personally have literally zero heating cost increase this year, which is crazy in Europe.

There are however at least thousands of trees for every person living here so that couldn't be scaled to a city.
fair, i'd love that!
> It's not that the humanities aren't useful, they are, but to succeed and actually have an impact on society, you need to be one of the best humanities graduates.

Your average STEM grad is not having the impact on society like what you describe here.

We also don’t need more CS bachelor grads churning out CRUD apps for adtech companies.
Tab completion. mic drop
Yeah, Julia doesn't work well for short-lived programs. And it's fine. It wasn't meant to be the language that does everything. (Though you can force it, e.g. utilizing a sysimage.)
> Sadly, the problem with decarbonization is that it doesn't matter if there is or isn't "low hanging fruit"

Ok, that's a different argument, one that I agree with.

But you can't just handwave the reality away: there is no low hanging fruit.
While it's always unfortunate when a company in charge of a particular open source product is unable to establish a working business model, I don't see anything wrong with copyright assignment even when this "worst-case" scenario plays out.

You still get to keep the project's code at the point of your submission as open source, and are free to keep developing it in a fork. There is no lack of symmetry in the contributions: you get their code (usually much more than what your submission is), and they get yours.

In general, it's pretty similar to contributing to non-copyleft projects: someone can take them and release them with non-free improvements. In this case, at least the company doing that has contributed majority of the code in the first place.

So I feel the same contributing to a MIT/BSD/... licensed project as I feel about assigning copyright on a copyleft project.

I do agree with the ideal that one should strive to only contribute to projects that are planning on staying free software (and thus require no copyright assignment), but there is nothing dishonest about copyright assignment.

Even with best intentioned free software maintainers, they might simply stop developing their project: the result is pretty much the same.
I don't know what, specifically, you mean by "primary source," but numerous first-person accounts of Stallman's behavior in this regard can be found on the web, as there was a bit of a #metoo moment online after Stallman's original "deplatforming" when a lot of people shared their accounts.

No one is going to do your research for you. If you're actually interested, and not simply trying to yank people's chains, you can read any one of the multitudinous threads about it on HN, or do a bit of Googling.
Spanish has a polite/formal form called "usted" where different verbs are used. Afaik its used in formal settings including some work situations and when speaking to people you don't know - but generational differences modulate this somewhat.

https://www.quieroaprenderidiomas.com/idioma-castellano/uste...
It didn't just disappear, though, the story is more interesting than that.

England had an outbreak of religious fanaticism, there was a regicide, dictatorship, a bunch of the losers got kicked out of the country and ended up in the colonies. The Dissenters, also known as the Ranters and Levelers, refused to use the formal pronoun, and insisted of calling everyone 'thou'.

The pendulum swung pretty hard and English dropped thou entirely in response.
We already tried that strategy... in Middle Ages. World has moved on to globalized trade for a reason.
With all due respect, I'm going to guess you don't have any experience in the commodities sector.

None of this is low hanging.
A smartphone can be had for $100 or less. Only top-of-the-line smartphones are $1000 or more. Even expensive brands like Apple offer phones for a bit over $400.
must have been edited since...
To some people, loading speed is everything. My experience has taught me that it is not.

I work on web apps and I've learnt from experience that optimising software for simplicity and ease of change over a few milliseconds or kb is far more valuable than a lot of people would have you believe.

Your users will barely notice a few kb or ms. But your colleagues do notice software complexity. Your stakeholders do notice delivery times. Your directors do notice costs. And ultimately you'll notice your share value.

That said, you might benefit greatly from fine tuning your bundle sizes and library choices. But what I'm saying, is that maybe you'd make a different choice if you take the time to consider the broader activity of software development.
Robobug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach
I bet you haven’t read other comments in thus thread and have never lived in a modern city with decent public transportation and welfare. Quality of life in Berlin or some random small town in Germany is certainly better for people with low income than in American suburbia, yet the working class does not have this choice The elites have already decided on what American lifestyle should look like, with all those highways cutting off cities in halves, zoning rules etc. So, go on, tell me more about the “choice”.
What makes you believe Apple would reject THIS app?
Are you claiming that Node/NPM is somehow a less vulnerable ecosystem than .NET/NuGet?
In Romanian we have two markers for politeness. First, which is very common in European languages, we use plural forms instead of singular ones when politely directly addressing a single person. Secondly, we have particular polite pronouns - for example, "tu/voi" is informal "you/you" , but the polite pronoun is "dumneavoastră" (which is essentially a contraction from "domnia voastră", "your lordship"). We even use these when referring to someone else - el/ei, ea/ele are the informal he/they, she/they; but we also have dumnealui/dumnealor, dumneai/dumnealor for the polite versions (again, contractions of his/her/their lordship/ladyship(s)).

Interestingly, there are a bunch of other polite pronouns that have fallen out of use in most of the country, and have now taken on a sarcastic/mocking connotation (dânsul/dânsa/dânșii/dânsele for third person, and dumneata for second person).
If I read the abstract correct it's doing electrolysis of moisture in the air. That's a process that inherently uses more energy then you get back out of the hydrogen. After all burning hydrogen just turns it back into water, and we can't have more than 100% round-trip efficiency.

I could imagine it as a viable storage technology, e.g. if you want to install a solar farm in a remote location you could have it produce hydrogen from the air and sell that.
Steam methane reforming is a process that produces hydrogen and CO2, as you say. But we can just pump that CO2 back where the methane came from (or older depleted gas fields).

Since that storage was secure enough to contain the methane for a hundred million years, it can hold the CO2 just fine as well.
> I find Wikipedia, the end result, extremely valuable

What if the value is an Illusion?
Wood is wood. If you keep it dry it will last forever.

Source: carpenter
The post doesn't mention other package managers: Ultralisp is a Quicklisp distribution that ships every 5 minutes (but it doesn't check that all packages load correctly together), Qlot is used for project-local dependencies, where you pin each one precisely, CLPM is a new package manager that fixes some (all?) Quicklisp limitations (whose limitations you may not encounter after a few years of happy use: it is very slick).

- https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/clpm/clpm
Heating and cooling are the primary energy use and decrease faster than roof area increases for low rise apartments.

Average apartment size is about 80m^2 so in a 3 story building that's about 30m^2 each or roughly 5kWh/day. 200W doesn't allow you to be wasteful, but it's plenty for a 1-2 bedroom apartment. Hybrid cells with slightly better efficiency and low light tolerance would get you to 10kWh/d

Tokyo is around 7000 people per km^2. A 2 bedroom apartment can happily house two or three people, so with a reasonable amount of roof area per apartment you have 80-90% of your area available for not-housing.

High density just means not dedicating a freestanding house worth of land area per resident to force them into cars, it doesn't need to mean highrise.

Even with manila levels of density you can still get lighting, climate control (if well insulated), a washing machine, a few entertainment devices at 10-20W and basic cooking (nothing for the ground level commercial or infrastructure though) with about half your area left for not-housing. So that's some level of semi-decentralisation even in the worst case.

Mid-winter in high latitudes you might struggle without long term storage, but it's not unsolvable.

Batteries take up approximately 0 space. If the better part of a month's worth of energy can fit in a car it's fine.
Not really. This needs a parser that produces a tree, and LSP does not provide that.
Rehowed. Thanks!
Most of all it's an intermediate for even neater chemical storage mediums. The entire range of non-biological regenerative fuels (or non-biological, period, if we include fossils in the biological group), including reduced Fe dust cycles, ammonia or plain old "e-fuel" hydrocarbons, they all start with hydrogen as the first stage. It's the natural short term storage medium that will be used as an input buffer for downstream processes so that they don't have to follow supply peaks as closely as they would have to without that buffer.
> was downgraded, and was used primarily when referring to a person of lower social standing, such as [...] a singular form of address for God

what do you mean i messed up the context?
Could you give an example? Not a native speaker, and I don't think I've ever heard or read anyone using third person to refer to the person they are directly addressing.
That would actually be great and all that could be used for infill mixed use development.

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtdFbK4YG4
The quote concerning mass of tanks is talking about compressed hydrogen storage, which people don't really consider feasible for large aircraft. Cryogenic liquid hydrogen storage is the way.
Who is ever going to use Akka after the "3 years"? It says a lot about the company. An despite the fact I love the technology and its community, I wouldn't recommend it anymore, at all. The pricing is simply not right.

I mean, it came so suddenly that you literally have no choice than to pay for at least 1 year, before you port your services to something else (if you can, at all), unless you want CVEs going wild in your production systems.

I wonder what's their long-term vision? Getting rid of Akka as the main business model (subscriptions / support) and focus on something that is maybe based on Akka (I guess Kalix and similar cloud-only services)?

Well, if that's the case, it's a brilliant idea: squeeze as much money now as you can, pivot your company to something different. (SAAS, yay, another one)

Unethical? Maybe yes, a tiny bit.
Nope. Next strawman, please.
Try Brave (the browser).
What your sister experienced was just good old fashioned bad craftsmanship which will happen in concrete buildings too.
Any insights into what kinds of lessons one would need to learn to play with the big boys/girls?
True. Julia makes it easier to write performant code. Plus there're nice facilities enabling further optimization.
Only in the PJ films. But yeah I just can't see them using Radagast over Gandalf.
It's fairly common with serverless functions - folks will start a project on serverless, expecting very little traffic.

Eventually, they get lucky, and their Lambda functions are running non-stop, incurring a fairly large premium over a normal constantly running VM.

I managed to do this with my side project (AWS bill in the several hundred dollars per month range), I wrote about it here: https://onlineornot.com/on-moving-million-uptime-checks-onto...
> People are not resources: each one of them will do different work and different amount of work.

Different people have different resources, when you allocate a resource, you're allocating something someone can do, not something they can't do.. When you put resources on a project, the people follow along, since they're the ones with the resource in demand.

I've never understood the resource as referring to a person, but rather, to the work that is expected that the person can do.

If you need a C++ resource, you pick a person that can do C++, they may also be able to do PHP and SQL, but in this case, that's not what you're selecting for.
Damn, respect, your mainboard alone is probably worth more than my entire workstation.
Relevant: https://funroll-loops.probablymalware.lol/Gentoo-is-Rice.htm...

Though compiling for the exact CPU was definitely not insignificant before the amd64 switch which gave a new baseline - many distros still targeted i586.
Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth
Same, I have a 2nd generation intel i5 desktop at home. since I have upgraded to an SSD and the RAM from 8 to 24gb it gained years of new life. Perfectly capable daily driver.
> India even prohibits foreign long-term residents from maintaining an account in their country of nationality

That is very, very excessive... Do you know what the official reasoning is for that?
https://animalwrites.blog/ddosing-in-arguments/
cold wallets... kinda need to remember them right, like a key or a password or a phrase. so you store that somewhere. now that's somewhere can be compromised and you are out of your money.
This is for management culture: talk to your non-technical colleages (office manager, junior HR/admin etc) see how they are doing and how they are being treated.

To understand who someone is you need to see how they behave when they have nothing stopping them. Management will often have to treat engineering/specialist staff well because they have no choice, but they see support staff as more interchangeable and easier to replace. If they are being treated well, with respect etc, then that's because management have a good culture of valuing people.

How management treats people it doesn't have to treat well tells you have they would treat you if they could.

It's kind of the office version of the judging people based on how they treat waiting staff.
You are not nuts but knowing what you feel in the future is very hard while having money can almost guarantee that you will be able to take more choices that make you happy.

Just heard about someone working on a passion project for two years alone and he got burned out and only wants to sell it to someone so he can stop. Did he enjoy doing it for a year? hell yeah! could he have anticipated he will burn out? not sure.

Will you want to continue do this particular project in a year? two? ten? what about family, kids health issues? each one can take something that you used to enjoy and turn it into a burden.

VCs will push you forward, getting co-founders will push you forward, getting employees will push you forward. Will this reduce the joy that you feel now? almost certainly. Will it improve the chances that you can have a life changing amount of money that will let you make more enjoyable choices in the future? very likely so.

A business is not always fun, but fun things usually don't stay fun forever anyway. Ask anyone that used to have a band :)
Well, extremely portable, I wouldn't say so.

If you look at the ancestry of SDL2-Doom, for example, there are three ancestors:

- doomgeneric, which seems not simple (https://github.com/maximevince/fbDOOM/compare/master...ozkl:...)

- the above is based on fbDOOM, which is quite simple (https://github.com/maximevince/fbDOOM)

- the above is based on insane-adding-machines/DOOM, which is also not simple (https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM/compare/master...insane-...)

The SDL port itself (https://github.com/AlexOberhofer/sdl2-doom) is definitely not simple.

Porting something that it's not based on a multiplatform library (which is commonly SDL for old game ports) is not an easy task in general.
The modern OS desktop is a crime against humanity
Aren't the costs of the US healthcare system largely driven by the cost of the healthcare workforce - basically, not enough trained personnel leading to the absence of competition, leading to doctors getting paid much more than they should?
Of course it's going to be more complicated, with doctors' insurance issues and the price of meds into the mix, but still, how far does this factor goes into explaining the extraordinary cost of getting a basic treatment (let alone surgery) in the US?
Perhaps if we were better at funding mental health in the US all those psych degrees might turn out to be useful.
The HN new queue is interesting because you often have a sea of articles with absolutely no votes, and then one or two articles with dozens of votes. While votes are probably power law or exponentially distributed, that skew seems a bit too extreme.

When quasi-blogspam articles like this rise to the top so quickly, one has to wonder whether it’s the result of vote manipulation.
Quite a lot of the old red phone boxes in the UK have been turned into these. They work great. We have one in our nearest park.
Obviously all conversions involve losses. If you have electric power but need hydrogen, you have to make the hydrogen, whatever the loss. This method has lower loss than others.

Probably ammonia will be a better transport medium than hydrogen, but you need hydrogen to make ammonia.
If that pressure doesn't exist than why does it have to come from somewhere? I also run exactly 0 electron apps but definitely would like to have more ram - 64GB would give me some breathing room, 128GB would probably be optimal.
Truly banking the unbanked.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN312670.1

Bat sample from Laos submitted by Wuhan institute of virology in 2019
>Interestingly, there are a bunch of other polite pronouns that have fallen out of use in most of the country, and have now taken on a sarcastic/mocking connotation (dânsul/dânsa/dânșii/dânsele for third person, and dumneata for second person).

Funny! I only know Romanian from my grandparents, and I haven't lived in Romania, so I thought these were fairly normal still :)
Why do we get basic japanese lessons on the HN front page now? There is no insight at all here.
Although in that case isn't SIGNIFYD's 'skin in the game' that they're on the hook for fraud so they're incentivised to be overzealous in blocking?
Here's a thorough answer by someone who has worked a lot on types, optimizations and numerical libraries, and who still uses Python as his first language (for academic purposes):

Why not: from Common Lisp to Julia

https://gist.github.com/digikar99/24decb414ddfa15a220b27f674...