skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one puzzled by the 100% average inflation over the last century figure? That's 2^100, which would mean a single peso in 1922 had the purchasing power of 1.26 * 10^30 ARS today, or roughly a trillion times the total value of the world's assets.
Here is a LinkedIn profile I found with quick search, seems legit. Why didn't you do the search yourself before posting this?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuchitgandhi
> Android phone: Probably - the worst that could happen is you get locked out of the play store and have to make a new account.

If you have apps, movies etc bought from Google Play — those are gone too.

If you use a @gmail email address, you lose that too and you now have to tell people not use that any more.
Also checkout

DCSS: https://crawl.develz.org/play.htm

CDDA: https://r7st.guru/watchcdda/
You can actually compile a Swing app with Graal for a standalone executable nowadays
Yeah, Google is just a bad choice for domain registration, since they have that policy of just ghosting you for support. If you're going to use Google, stick to services where you can route around them if they decide they aren't going to talk to you.
Not sure if it applies, but when the UK left the EU, our access to EU domains was, predictably, cut off. Apart from the politics of it, it was jarring because domain names can be so pivotal to so many aspects of business and life.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...
In most of the EU, if you are a full time employee working for a local legal entity, the business will have to pay some kind of redundancy if they let you go. In my case that would be 6 months salary, which I wouldn't get if I switched today, and in 3 months the new company decided they can't afford me.
What is an LSM Tree (2021)
Though it's the fire, not the shock that made the buildings collapse.
Most of that are also old Lisp idioms&features, minus the static type system:

* compile time code, in Common Lisp with macro, reader-macros or via EVAL-WHEN -> at compile-time the whole Lisp system is available

* multiple dispatch -> introduced with CLOS

* when-let, when-let*, if-let, let-bind, ... are older macros

* structural typing: what Python, Ruby does -> CLOS does that, too. Even earlier object systems like Flavors. See also Smalltalk.

* adding methods to an existing class, outside the class definition -> CLOS has open classes. methods are not defined 'inside' classes, thus there is no 'inside'

* Homoiconicity -> easy

* image-based development -> see Interlisp ( https://interlisp.org ) for an extensive approach

the last thing 'everything is a hash table' is not common in Lisp, though there are languages where the key-value mapping is the central data type, like in Frame systems (see FRL)
"Gaslighting? Bet it's Drew"

I was not actually expecting to be right haha. Dude's far too intense sometimes.
The SomethingAwful 9/11 thread is also pretty wild: http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/

In case you don't wanna have to keep clicking back/forth to go to the next page (the links aren't adjusted to point to the archived pages) there's a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHwF5NNAu5w
> I love that the first instinct is that some country has to be attacked now

Also somehow end up blaming Palestine and praise Israel out of nowhere

> how much you wanna bet hammas is behind this

> Now I know how Israelis feel when they're bombed by lame suicide Palestines terriost.

> I also got 10 to 1 that the Palestinians are involved somehow.

> Yes, the Palestinians are all cuddly, and the Israelis are the bad guys. The NY Times and the rest of the media better get their heads out of their asses.
Oh, it's that day of the year. Never forget..that first responders got fucked.
Except for buying apps, none of these have anything to do with using Android.
Abstinence has never worked at a societal level for alcohol, drugs, sex, nor environmental issues so far either. Why do we keep thinking that is going to start working any day now? Why do we keep thinking that fighting human nature head-on is the best course of action?
The other situation is when each manager is ordered to give 2 names to make redundant. If the existing group is well established, the new guy will get the axe. Or people get hired in during good times, for the explicit purpose of being the one to lay off, to protect the rest of the group. You can get a feel based on the type of projects they let you work on.
Question: Assuming you have a modern android phone like samsung galaxy S20. When you factory reset your phone you need to log in with your google account to use it. This prevents people from stealing your phone.

How does this work when your account has been banned? Is my phone a brick afterwards? Someone should try this out.
Or be pragmatic and work with whatever government exists to garner support his mission, which in his case seems like a positive one on the whole.
This is neat, but I feel it really detracts from the creativity you are supposed to be exercising by using Legos in the first place.

I'd hope no one lets their kids use this, or they'll just get good at assembling IKEA furniture instead of designing the furniture.
I would suggest getting involved in volunteer work. This is something that I always recommend.

It can do absolute wonders for your "social graph."
That sounds more like what a proprietary licence would be used for.
You could license both the binaries and the source code under this proprietary licence and provide them to users.
You're right, I might've extrapolated my usage/experience onto the author accidentally, maybe his use case is indeed different.

I still don't know why you wouldn't use containers though, even if you dislike Docker, something like LXC makes everything oh-so neater.
If you take an advanced database like Oracle it's quite close to an operating system already and only really relies on the OS for boring stuff like boot-up, storing the db's code files etc:

- Direct disk access bypassing kernel fs, check.

- POSIX-like API standard, check. (ANSI SQL)

- Structured data storage with ACLs, check.

- Volume management, clustering, replication, RAID. Check.

- "Everything is a $FOO" philosophy, check. Where POSIX has files, RDBMS has tables.

- CLI/shell, check.

- Installable apps, check. (you can create stored procs by INSERTing java/javascript/etc into system tables).

Probably more parallels that don't occur right now. Lots of companies use the DB as their primary OS with the underlying kernel relegated to starting up the DB and configuring the hardware.
I built a site generator for Apple Notes
> Quite a few more died in the end than a nuke could manage.

Are you including the ensuing occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq?

Even then, I think you're seriously underestimating the number of casualties a relatively low yield nuke (in the context of modern strategic weapons) would produce if it hit a city like New York.
Hi. This is a passion project I have been tinkering around with for fun over weekends. I thought it would be crazy to use Apple Notes as a site generator, but I did it anyway. There is no SDK/API to access notes programmatically, so I had to go the extra mile and reverse-engineer Apple Notes.

I have been using Notes for over a decade and have a collection of over a thousand stories. However, there is something else that makes it special. A hard lock-in, it is extremely difficult to export notes. This project is my tiny contribution to give them wings and let them fly.

This is not a Show HN post — there is no download page yet. However, I thought it could be interesting to write down lessons and gotchas, so someone else won’t need to start from scratch.

Happy hacking.
They could have waited till 3pm and hit lower to kill a lot more people.

The typical occupancy of the buildings was 50k workers and another few tens of thousands were going through it as visitors/tourists [0]. At the time of the attack there were only ~15K inside the buildings. Of those ~2k were killed.

[0] I had a picture of me on the roof two days before the attack.
If by safe you mean recession proof, whatever that means to you, I think whether or not you switch comes down to what is going to make you happier and if you perceive risk, in your worst case situation can You afford to be without work for a while. Best of luck
That really shouldn't matter though. In the real world, people make mistakes, people get hacked, rogue employees do things they aren't supposed to, Google makes mistakes (oops, wrong account), and so on.

A support policy that just cuts off all contact and holds your data hostage doesn't make sense. If they want to arbitrarily zap customers, then they need to support some downgraded interface that lets you extract your data, move your domain, see some explanation for why you're being booted, etc.
On my gaming desktop I need ~8s with my RTX3080 card. As I quite regularly run out of vram I rented myself a VM with a dedicated RTX3090 on Genesis Cloud which does the same in ~5s.
I can usually do 3x 512x512 in a single batch with the 24G of vram.
(Semi-tongue-in-cheek:) If you can pin this on Google being racist against your ethnic group or whatever, you might be able to stir up enough of a scandal on social media to get Google's PR to notice.

Not sure this is such a great course of action, but still probably with a better chance of success than waiting for Google to support you through regular channels.
Like another commenter I am not surprised by the author. I do not recall where, but I immediately recognized the name from somewhere.

The tone and accusations to me appear to be inappropriate. While they may be correct, it is just insane to be so accusational. I find it not productive and in turn makes the community worse off in the first place.
But by then you've already wasted a minute, and to know you have to watch it yet again to see what the average person expected on the homepage. Slightly irritating, definitely enough for some to not bother clicking
Your phone is only a brick if your account is banned at the same time as you reset your phone. Either alone won't brick your phone.
From memory you use your Samsung account for that feature.
Grab yourself a Mac mini Core i5-8500B (Late 2018): https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-c...

It's an hexa-core 8th-generation Intel Coffee Lake processor with 65W TDP, has USB-C / Thunderbolt 3, as well as upgradeable DDR4-2666 SO-DIMM memory modules. It's also one of the last Macs to support dual-boot via Boot Camp, which will provide you a nice sanity check if you need to go deeper into performance profiling (i.e., Windows 10 vs latest macOS).

Also - make sure you have an Apple Developer account, as you will want to be able to appropriately package the application, including signing.

This machine will last a while.
The Male Monkey Dance
I went with a .net domain and am so happy to see this insight.
I keep reading that semiconductors are on the cusp of a downturn and that the earnings multiples for eg AMD and Intel stock are too high as a result.

In contrast, there seems to be a crazy amount of investment going into fabs and improving chip processes.

These two things don't sound like they can both be true to me. Out of the two, surely the folks pitching 100B into building out their fabs have a better insight into demand than financial analysts.

Is there any way that this investment would make sense with a downturn in chip demand (/ is there some wall st malarkey going on / some other explanation that would make everyone's behavior congruent)?
Modified microwave oven cooks up next-gen semiconductors
As long as you want to create many small images (like 512x512) you can spread it over multiple GPU.

A friend is running cloud instances with up to 8x GPU and 8x stable infusion + api in parallel. He uses simple a simple round robin with a reverse proxy in front to spread the work.

AFAIK there is no feasible method to spread work on the same image over multiple GPU yet.
Will it be possible to just fabricate a new RGBCMYUvIr+ Bayer array and put onto an off the shelf camera under microscope?
It is however entirely reliant on infura.
I would think so, as those numbers being high cause a “reduce protein” discussion. Perhaps check your uric acid from time to time so as to avoid gout as this is usually omitted when testing.
> So TSMC partnered with Hwang, who modified a microwave oven to selectively control where the standing waves occur. Such precision allows for the proper activation of the dopants without excessive heating or damage of the silicon crystal. This discovery could be used to produce semiconductor materials and electronics appearing around the year 2025
“Lost” Twin Towers Teaser from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2019)
I think these are big reasons. Offices built longer ago (if the buildings are still around) designed to let in lots of natural light can be good for this type of conversion as the floorplates tend to not be so deep. And having higher floors can be good too as people often like that.

Another thing is that offices can have worse sound insulation.
Probably not the same thing as in 2004. I would guess it is a plain trademark thing. We recently had to cease using a domain.

https://web.archive.org/web/20041127043041/http://www.ylearn...

Multimedia Knowledge is a new and exciting educational publishing company established to provide the most up-to-date, effective, educationally sound material for 21st Century K-12 students, teachers, and the educational community.

The BioScope Initiative CD-ROMs have been developed at Purdue University by an outstanding group of teachers and educators and was funded by the National Science Foundation, one of the foremost authorities in science and education in America.
Rubik’s Phantom Cube
I tried both Docker and Bubblewrap. Containers help with managing dependency creep, but if you avoid that in the first place, you don't need containers.
My story about ipv6 is from a travel. I connected to a friend's wifi. It worked for some time and then a strange thing happened. I was able to google but I was not able to connect to my company's services. I debugged the cause and it looked like the router received ipv6 address but not an ipv4. There was some tornado going around that might something to it.

This was the first time I felt like being on the ipv6 network. I also wonder why I was not able to access to ipv4 servers, I assume that in India people have no problem accessing ipv4 only networks.

Anyway - this was the first time I had to deal with ipv6 :)

On the business side. One ipv4 costs us $3/mo. We never had any problem with this, didn't feel any business reason to upgrade and in particular we (as most of the companies) do not have any permanent test of ipv6 connectivity going on. So even if this had been setup at some point, we would never notice a regression here.

So - unless our customers started asking for ipv6, government pushed some regulation or the address' prise would go up - I do not think we will do anything about ipv6, like most other companies.
That’s the opposite of my experience. Office buildings are built to last and residential seems to have been built exclusively with clearance items at Home Depot.
200+ died in Texas last year because of electricity grid failure [1] gouvernements can survive such situations if there is a reasonable "scapegoat".

In this case, it will be pretty fair to say that any energy shortage is _mostly_ to blame on Russian president. And gouvernements don't stay idle while this happens.

For example : French government has been heavily subsidising everyone's energy bill for almost a year [2]; and the most likely situation for this winter is a period of rolling electricity cuts at the peak (probably January ?) [2].

As said elsewhere, "we don't live in huts" ; 2h without electricity per day a couple times a month in December - January would be a massive pain in the ass, and there will be a couple of well-mediatized drama, but it's not going to cause the same massive social unrest as a total blackout, or a 5€/liter of gas at the pump.

What I really wonder is whether people will be able find practical ways to reduce their own pressure on the grid. Even if your heating is electrical, once you've turned your thermostat down to 19 and put on an extra sweater, I wonder if any extra step (turning of home lights, switching a screen off here and there) is cumulatively having _enough_ of an impact to make a January night peak more manageable.

I'm not entirely ruling out a good surprise ; we might see a wining alliance of the electricity grid engineer, the weather forecaster and the everyday person to detect the peak in advance and adapt just enough.

It would help if we could get our nuke plants back on track sooner, but let the workers work.

> Every winter, that ever came, has ended [3]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

[2] https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2022/09/01/delestag...

[3] https://youtu.be/Owi_LFlcVGg
What is a white IP address?
>> On top of that we see articles (this isn't the first) who try to reframe the question of energy consumption around land use, which is a complete red hering, designed to make nuclear look more advantageous.

> I wonder, what's your opinion on these two matters:

> - the sixth mass extinction

> - carbon sinks

> In my opinion as a concerned environmentalist, they are both extremely important and need immediate actions to have even a small chance of being somewhat remedied. Land use is an important facet of how exactly we are destroying the environment and as such it does make sense to consider it as one of the dimensions when planning energy production.

I agree that these are important issues to consider, however I disagree that this is important in the context of energy production. Land use by all types of energy production is miniscule compared to agriculture, urbanisation and roads (in another post someone mentioned that the space parking lots occupy in the US is 5 times larger than the area needed to power the whole country with solar).

These discussions are essentially aimed to distract from the important goal of reorienting our energy production toward renewables. It is telling that almost all pro-nuclear articles that we have seen recently argue which should put more money into nuclear vs renewables, not arguing about what is the quickest way to turn of coal plants. The reason I suspect is that the companies that run and build large nuclear power plants are to a large degree the same companies that are involved in running fossil fuel plants. Renewables essentially threaten the business model of building large power plants that will run and provide guaranteed profits for decades, while renewables which are much more decentralised threaten their business model.
China's movies have peaked in the 90s. Take a director like Zhang Yimou, he hasn't made any decent movies in the las 15 years because of state censorship. None of his best movies could be directed today: To live, Ju Dou, The Story of Qiu Ju or Raise the Red Lantern. The same with Chen Kaige or any of the great directors in Mainland China. Even a relatively recent movie like Beijing bicycle would not be possible today.

Even if a lot of those movies were banned in China on release, there were much less consequences for a director of a banned movie than nowadays.
Canada has two hydro projects not quite finished that are going to cost around 12 billion too for a about 1 GW. Expensive plants aren’t unique to nuclear
In case there are people here who are really to young to remember this, consider the context:

Although 2001 doesn't seem too long ago, most people didn't have cell phones still, and those that did were signor feature phones.

Social media didn't really exist yet, at least not as we understand it today.

Many people had internet speeds that would be unusable today, so most information still came through the TV.
Redis, yes, even if you do not like/know C, that code is so clean that is readable/understandable by most programmers.
What Happened to CNN?
I think this is to oldscool. You can still automate via Ansible, keep your playbooks and roles in Git and run VM's.
The source code of plan 9. Function fitted on an overhead projector slide and needed no comments for clarification.
I can access the site, presumably their DNS records are cached by my ISP:
https://i.imgur.com/75enaj3.png
In practice it seems very hard to make such changes happen in US cities. I think Texas doesn’t really do zoning the same way so there’s not so much of an issue.
I did not mean the edit to be snarky. And I also did find the archive link, but none of those pages seem to load for me. Maybe the error is on my side - can you get a snapshot from the past year or so to load?
This might come in handy during boxing and other combat sports.
I once wore a smoked herring as a tie to a black suit event.

That's how random I can be!
If you only run your own software and are conscious about your dependencies, then dependency creep is gonna be less of an issue, but don't forget that your dependencies often bring theirs too. And third-party software is very often much less mindful of it.

But even besides dependency creep, containers simplify your software env, simplify backups, migrations, permissions(although container are not replacement for secure isolation), file system access, network routing etc,etc,etc.
> Why do we keep thinking that fighting human nature head-on is the best course of action?

Assume /u/onion2k was referring to the US, many countries successfully push public transport more than the US. So human nature certainly isn't the blocker here, but the current culture of the US.
I did, but LinkedIn asked me to login and I do not have an account.
Show HN: Open-source animated chart presentations in computational notebooks
Obsidian https://obsidian.md
This seems to be a pretty small subset of JavaScript, but I personally love small projects like this for educational purposes. Removing the noise and keeping things minimal helps my brain reason about things.

Earlier this year I enrolled in an online class called "Building a Programming Language" taught by Roberto Ierusalimschy (creator of Lua) and Gustavo Pezzi (creator of pikuma.com). We created a toy language interpreter/VM and the final code was around of 1,800 lines of Lua code. Keeping things as simple (and sometimes naive) as possible was definitely the right choice for me to really wrap my head around the basic theory and connect the dots.

Thanks for the link.
I think individuals get cut for two reasons:

1. You aren’t a good employee as individual.

2. Cost cutting measures to entire company functions.

I think in both cases you should know whether your position is in imminent danger.