skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
seems like a missed opportunity for Tromboner
The Onion is ahead of the times - from 2007: https://www.theonion.com/activision-reports-sluggish-sales-f...
You are relying on unenforceable government incentives (copyright law) to create an income for yourself. Find a way of commercialising the information in your head that makes it technologically difficult to propagate without yourself being paid. Books aren't the answer if you want $$$.
My gmail account has a deadman’s switch to grant full access to my next of kin.

If I had a gigabytes of photos of my grandparents or great grandparents I would spend hours pouring over them looking at what their life was like before I knew them. That would be such a neat keepsake.
> It was done at the scale of 30m and 300m populations, not a population 1.5b so it's hardly a fair comparison.

I think the idea is to compare countries' per-person impact. Otherwise, a country as populous as China is being held to a higher standard. How else should we compare countries?
Sleep tracking always seemed like nonsense to me. You either know you are getting restful sleep or know you are not, and if you are not time is probably better spent taking a proactive approach to establishing healthier lifestyle habits that will lead to more restful sleep. How much is it worth really, to wake up and know exactly how much time you were tossing around not getting rest? I’d imagine you would feel it, statistics or not.
The Huawei Fit performed significantly worse compared to the Apple Watch in this sleep test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqtfC70QTU
You are right. Thanks for correcting me.
> I am loosing $Xk worth of sales every month.

How do you know how much you're losing?

From [0]:

> The average U.S. book is now selling less than 200 copies per year and less than 1,000 copies over its lifetime.

It's easy to attribute low sales to piracy, when in fact people do not buy books, period.

0: https://ideas.bkconnection.com/10-awful-truths-about-publish...
What you’re describing is just generic fraud, and is expected to be uniformly distributed. Thus you’d expect to see it across the CIA at random and not in a big non-uniform lump with people spending time in Cuba all reporting similar conditions.

Then you also have the fact that damage to their vestibular system can be seen.
If you already have a system where everybody uses electricity in house warming its far, far, far (and lots more fars) easier to switch to heat pumps while in Germany lots of houses have gas/oil heating. Going from that to heat pumps is 100x more difficult and costly.

France is in a much better situation. Better isolation, heat pumps are technology independent, you just need reliable electricity.
It is sure easy to make political comments on countries that you know so little about, know no one from and have never been to. fyi, I am from Almaty and been in the city in January. Can you even imagine how it felt here, waking up from gunfire in the night, having no internet and mobile connection, no means of getting in touch with people you care about, wondering if tomorrow you will still have running water, electricity and heating? Exactly. This was no people's protest, but one of a small bunch of barbaric radicalists, a shock and a fever dream for all of the citizens of the country.

edit: in case someone is not yet convinced:
https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/politics/06/01/2022/61d6b3...
What's the difference? Potentially apple itself can fecide to scan all your photos on the phone....
Is there any real evidence that nasal rinse work? I use one of those battery powered cleaners, but just to clear out my sinuses.
I think he was saying capitalism is an evolution of feudalism
Indeed, and there will absolutely be a “real” slim version, probably in the next year or so. The existing case is massive and mostly empty— so it’s really a matter of getting the thermals under control, whether via a better airflow design or by die size reduction and therefore power/heat savings at the source.
So much wrong with this line of thinking. 1) They're also facing increased costs. 2) Most companies are by no means "flush with cash". 3) Cash is fleeting but the need for capital is always hanging over your head. Even if you pride yourself on bootstrapping your business and not needing much in loans or additional investment, one or two bad quarters can quickly leave you with no choice but to get loans or sell equity.
> the self censorship / Hall monitors of the internet are far more dangerous

> only approved ideas can be discussed in an approved way

Go outside and talk to people.

Heck, you can print a zine and mail it to people.

You can even set up your own web forum and have whatever (legal) conversations you want with as many people as are willing to join you.
I have found re-reading my own writing helps tremendously.

We often do not appreciate how vague we are and how many biases we embed in our writing until we read them again outside of our current mindset.

This is why portant emails should be composed, and then wait until later before re-reading.

You will often find yourself rewriting entire communications because your original message was unclear/emotional/combative/etc...
C++ has a lot of sharp edges. Skimming through the slides it seems as though Chromium hit upon a lot of the big problems because:

1. Google always seem to enjoy bucking the trend in terms of recommended ways to do things and end up using niche features that are likely to be deprecated
2. Chromium is a stupidly massive codebase so they have more things to fix just purely through scale

If you stick to the sane subset of the language that any competent modern C++ development shop would then you wouldn't encounter any of these problems except small/easy stuff like the new reserved keywords.

That being said, if you don't have a team that's already experienced in C++ then picking C++ is a bizarre choice.
Yes, but how many have seen a mid-air explosion of a 747 to compare against?

"It looked like a missile" may be entirely true. It may also be true that a burning, rapidly climbing half of a 747 looks a bit like a missile from afar.

Re: edit:

> Missiles are far faster

Speed is notoriously hard to measure visually. Watch a A380 come in for a landing and you'll swear it's barely moving.

> are on fire from the ground up

Most of the eyewitnesses were over the horizon from any potential launch site.

> They go much straighter and produce much more consistent light than a burning half-plane, which is not capable of ascending anywhere close to vertically

A tail-heavy half of a 747 could absolutely go vertical for a bit with the entire nose missing.

> They also make drastically different sounds, as one is supersonic and the other very much is not.

People largely reported hearing an explosion, not a sonic boom.
You didnt saw Kirill protesting the war before mobilization.
Good luck with the reform but without approval voting or similar electoral reform, they risk getting stuck with a polarized political system and electorate (much like the US now).
Ah, I'm finally in my element here. I went through a few years in which I saw many anti-aircraft missiles, and there's nothing so unintuitive about them that a layperson would confuse them with, say, a cloud. In other words, it's a thing in the sky with fire and smoke coming out one end, traveling way faster than you would expect. Probably making a loud, high-pitched roar, depending on where you're sitting. I can't imagine 40 people giving the same mistaken testimony. On the other hand, mass hysteria is a thing, so who knows.
https://archive.ph/ncPZ9

https://web.archive.org/web/20220925175116/https://archive.p...
A higher FX is usually neither here nor there and whether it's desirable depends on the makeup of exports vs imports. That's why countries often have a fixed peg instead of a "just make it go up" policy.

Russia is the definite loser out of this, and indeed everyone is, the decision to invade was a catastrophe for everyone on multiple levels.
Thank you.

I am an advocate of "information should be free", but... creators have to eat.

I don't have an answer for this.
I responded to the claim "there is literally zero evidence for it" by pointing out that there is circumstantial evidence, and eyewitness accounts.
It’s not necessary, but being able to measure improvement is highly motivating. Part of the fun of the sport for some of us is being able to experiment with variables like nutrition, heart rate zones, pacing , etc and measuring the impact on performance. I’ve had a Garmin watch since 2009 and I have always enjoyed being able to know I hit a new pace or distance. It also makes it easy to run on a new trail for X miles and turn around instead of having to map out a run on an existing course and time the laps with a watch. Probably the greatest addition to the sport since music imo.
It is not possible for a single physical book to be read by hundreds of thousands of people, concurrently. an ebook enables this.

I think a more apt example is, if the library started printing the books and giving it out themselves.
The author also posted the source code to HN twice (both times getting very little attention) and stated it was CC. Not sure what to make of it
Potentially; another possible outcome is that $60 is passed to ownership and $20 passed to consumers. Companies these days are pretty aware of how price conscious their customers are - they aren't going to lower pricing based on cost unless there is strong reason to (competition is the only one I can think of... but it looks to me like companies compete less these days due to a variety of factors, including brand loyalty and monopolistic behaviors).
> Culture definitely plays a role. Soviet Union making women totally equal, mandating and promoting equal participation from women in all aspects of life definitely broke the longstanding cultural norms about 'what women should be doing in work life'

Yep. My grandma worked in a freaking coal mine in the 1940s. There were hardly if any "men only" jobs. It was also necessary because so many men died during the war that, without women's wide participation in labor, the economies would hardly work.

> most of which came from especially Christian religion traditions.

I don't think that's it. Pre-Christianity Europe was the same. It's just a deeply rooted, many millenia-long tradition, very similar as in other agricultural societies BTW.
He's not my ideological ally. Rather, I oppose the libertarian doctrine that firms may act as they like. When a bakery refused to supply a cake with a message promoting same sex marriage, I supported the customer.

On your second point, if this is the case then why did Paypal also ban the Free Speech Union?
that's absolutely not true though. there are countless alternatives from DAC/CCS coupled with anything, endless variations of nuclear (even fusion too), T shaped dams in the sea, wind, solar.

the problem is about collective action, and justice/fairness/negotiation/geopolitics. like the iterated prisoner's dilemma. defectors get cheap energy, but then the next round your exports get a big tariff added, but then defectors of that get cheap shit, the next round they might get tariffs too, but then you hit a ceiling on this.
It says it is like Google translate not that it is using Google translate. It might still use Google Translate but just an FYI.

Is there somewhere I missed where it says it uses Google?
I would say at least partially aligned with your goals otherwise why would you use them in the first place?
I really love this talk in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P_kbF0EbZM (On charconv)

But any of the ones I've seen from Stephan have been fantastic, I think, although I'm not actually sure if I've seen more. He seems to have a lot of talks on very specific subjects, which can be really fun.

> Hyrum Wright is in the audience yelling interjections as a result of Hyrum's law

This sounds absolutely hilarious, I'll have to take a look.
This is "Ghost in the Shell" as it should be; Russian headaches are superior to 'Portuguese' evil any day of the week.
I've never used Jet Brains products on anything besides MacOS for close to a decade and have been doing professional Android development with Android studio for almost that long. I don't agree with any of your complaints and find it hard to believe they were ever true unless you used their products an extremely long time ago before they got popular.

I had to use XCode in grad school for a single iOS class and ended up switching to app code for any parts of the assignments I could. At work the developer that switches back and forth between iOS dev and Android dev and he has a similar work flow of doing as much as possible in AppCode until forced to use XCode.
I and two of my friends bought PS5s. It took some effort, but it wasn’t too bad. We all got them within a month of deciding to buy. I don’t really disagree with what you’re saying though, you have to find an opportunity to buy and then make the right moves to get one.
I've been using purelymail for some time and never had any problems with it
Kazakhstan is not part of Russia. Russia appears to be a very small supplier?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium...
He's actually not lying about health and safety, and not spreading COVID misinformation either. His work has been dedicated to combating COVID misinformation, in fact. Unfortunately American companies seem to define "misinformation" as anything that contradicts the pronouncements of government agencies, so anyone trying to fact check them or correct them when they get it wrong is bound to be treated in that way. They shut down UsForThem too which is a group that campaigned against school closures. Most people recognize now that closing the schools wasn't a good move.
> Better to say nothing and let the rumor mills crowdsource an acceptable excuse that they can adopt later if required.

So what would you tell those who already signed up to PayPal, had their accounts locked, and can't access their funds for months and need an explanation as to why their accounts are locked? Wait for PayPal and close down their business?

What viable alternatives do you suggest for those affected then?
Always be wary a political party promising solutions to situations outside their control ...
Apple didn't invest in ARM until late 1990, after ARM3 had been released.

By this point Acorn had already released two generations of its UNIX workstation line running its 4.3BSD + X11 based RISC iX, the ARM2 A440/1 based R140 and ARM3 A540 based R260.

It did have virtual memory though its large for the time 32k page size was awkward. It only supported DMA for video so the CPU needed to manually copy data from the hard drive controller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_iX
Comment is vague, but apparently what you are suggesting is that physical fitness isn't safe without using a computer. Our bodies evolved to run, and it is, actually, possible to recognize and react to what the body reports to the brain through sensation without any intermediary electronic device gathering and reporting false data. Many are capable of sensing injury or illness before overt symptoms appear, and react accordingly, reducing or eliminating negative impact. The more computerized devices are relied on for ordinary activity, the more they become a crutch, and the more difficult it becomes to operate without them. Obsession is unmistakably unhealthy.
What if you're mistaken with these 2 theories?

Someone (a doctor, so an especially credible reporter) is claiming a miserable, debilitating medical condition.

For the sake of the scenario, let's assume the doctor is correct.

With that assumption, if they're being told that they're probably either imagining it or lying, isn't that adding insult to injury? And maybe slowing down whatever help they could get with the condition?
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It's not really, you know.

IBM i is very interesting: the last mainstream single-level store system. This is a concept I've both talked and written about in recent years -- examples here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066762
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32314814

Saying that, I've done very very little work on the system. One job ever, really, 20Y ago.

But IBM i is OS/400, yes, a minicomputer OS, yes -- but running on IBM P series, i.e. a POWER server, i.e. a modern RS/6000. It's a RISC workstation. Not even slightly mainframe-like.

Other minicomputer OSes survive, notably VMS, now on x86-64.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/ <- Another of my stories, just so you know where I stand.

So, yes, mini OSes survive, sure, but not really any mini hardware. Arguably as minicomputers died out they evolved into workstations, and those have now died out, too. 99.99% of the workstation market is basically high-end PCs now, if we count modern Macs as sort of honourary PCs. (Arm Macs are in some ways more like desktop/laptop-shaped iPads, really.)
The New York City Evolution Animation
> - the summer droughts caused nuclear reactors to stop due to the lack of water

That very much depends on specific technology and is not inherent in all nuclear. If and how much water is needed depends very much on what and where you are building.

If we were not stuck with technology from 1960 this wouldn't have been an issue for decades, but instead of innovating the last 40 years nuclear industry had to fight a battle for survival and with very little research.

> - russia provides ~40% of ALL nuclear fuel

This is because Russia had a explicit policy of underbidding nuclear everybody in nuclear fuel providing.

This is not inevitable, there is plenty of nuclear material in lots of places and many places that can make fuel.

Nuclear fuel is far easier to transport then gas.
As someone who is also "pro-nuclear" it is upsetting to see this take place.

The "anti-nuclear" camp has won, but based on what sort of logical argument? Fear? what about Chernobyl?

It is one thing to be "anti-nuclear" but they failed to provide alternatives. "WIND" or "Solar" is not going to replace 3,500 MW of nuclear power without damaging a LOT of land.

Now millions face rolling blackouts and energy shortages when nuclear could have been providing clean energy. I live within 8KM of a nuclear plant which has been running accident free 24x7 since 1971.
What like think tanks? Academic circles?
I think this is the wrong question to ask. To me, the answer is rather obvious: because knowledge and culture costs nothing to spread and benefits everyone.

The actual issue is about getting paid for work. I would ask another question to address that instead:

why does getting paid for author's work require limiting access to it?
The entire framework we have for paying authors is through distribution cost. Now we have zero distribution cost!

The entire business model you are relying on for income has been completely broken for 30 years.

You aren't losing sales. You are missing them. They aren't being taken away from you, they are passing you by. The result may be the same for you personally, but it's still a critical difference.

You - and every other author - need a new framework to attract income. I have no idea what that would look like, or even if such a thing could exist. I do know, however, that pretending the old system can still work in the digital age isn't fixing anything for anyone.
Hi, I work on the processing algorithms at Google like the one here (not sure about this particular issue) and I use Google photos for all my old photos. People at Google read Hacker News and fix things, they just don't comment on specifics for things like this.
Very nice. I like the simplicity.

For larger projects automation is key, though.

I prefer humans but sometimes where the budget doesn't permit it, I use AWS Translate https://aws.amazon.com/translate/ - it works well when integrated with automated tools.
Is this memory corruption you speak of silent, or simply fatal?

This could be a significant problem if the workload requires some form of integrity, since the hardware could be quietly introducing errors into otherwise normal looking computing

I remember having this issue with overclocked AMD cards mining too, where it was common to try to undervolt or overclock the memory. I wonder if any of those tuning tools work here, and if it would be possible to underclock the memory to increase its stability.

Either way, this echoes some of the sentiment I generally had around hardware intended for mining, including the bitcoin branded 2000 watt power supplies built with bottom of the barrel parts. Most hardware built for mining was built with exactly one purpose in mind, and has significant warts when it is attempted to be repurposed. The kind of constraints and requirements that cryptomining presents are really quite different from those of most modern IT systems.
Some civilians had their heads sawed off with machetes.
Spain plans ‘digital nomad’ visa scheme to attract remote workers
It's very useful information when you are never rested and constantly are trying to tweak variables to observe the impacts to your sleep. I've long since stopped relying on trackers, however, as nothing seemed to display any accuracy whatsoever. I manually record my perception of sleep every night.
For numerical and scientific (high performance) jobs, possibly not that much harder than C++. For other jobs, I doubt it and would stick to C++.

The issue is that, for example, you might be getting people with poor software engineering training per se. You risk hiring some very smart phd that writes code that works and runs really fast, but isn't that readable, extendable, maintainable, testable, etc.
This is useless bloat.

Default browser styles are perfectly alright.

When they aren't, this is mainly a self-inflicted problem by your browser (that can set whatever default it wants), and by yourself (who can easily override the default browser style with either a personal css file or just by CTRL+scrolling to change your text size). Text size, window width, margins, should never be a responsibility of the website.
It’s pretty easy to attribute the drop if the sales dropped at the same as the pirated version was released
These professionals are trained in the halls that brought us the biggest replication crisis ever.

And we have collected data on humanity for 20 years in Google and FB. If science goes were the data is, the true neuro-science/psychology today is proprietary and sold in chunks as a service to governments.

Might aswell ask Palantir directly about what humanity is really like without the grand illusions of a surplus of resources spend on postponing the eternal crisis that is our home.

No need to take Freuds last standing followers serious, just because they perpetuate a "Can-do-fix-all-things" illusion, we cling to while drowning in the things we can't fix.
> Inflation is high because demand exceeds supply.

That's the part that is wrong.

It's wrong by definition, because demand and supply are the same thing. It's also wrong because inflation is an unrelated phenomenon.

Raising interest rates does normally (not always) reduce the economic output. Nobody is disagreeing on this.
Newspapers use columns for the same reason, to not get too wide lines. Unfortunately I don't think I've ever seen a site use columns, even though CSS supports it.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/columns
In the name of that ideal, would you be willing for your work to be given away for free and for your income to vanish?
Wow, I consider myself a pretty obsessive retro-gaming enthusiast (a custom-built arcade with 25-inch multi-scanning CRT, hacked graphics card and hand-tweaked GroovyMAME build) but damn, physically simulating a cathode ray tube is next level. Respect.
I love the idea of placing a gadfly in the crowd to provide a dialogue.
Every photo sharing and storing site compresses photos for view. The originals are still there (read further down in the issue).
A huge percentage of the population wants to write a book. For many it's an innate desire, much like making music. If people who write books for financial gain decide to quit, I'm not sure it's a big loss.