skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am having some cognitive dissonance here.

> Yes, of course I realize that many people prefer those creamy pages and beetle-black fonts.

> But for the most part, [me me me]

So is your confusion about semantics, or that some people prefer physical books, which you seem to understand anyway?

How is your preference for digital books in conflict with line you quoted?

The drawbacks and upsides of both medium types are obvious, as is the fact that a medium isn't synonymous with it's content but not irrelevant.
I do have set up different workspaces for different development tasks where only the necessary plugins are activated. If I do embedded development I open my platformio.workspace, if I'm doing Java I have a workspace and if I'm doing JS/Frontend stuff I have a workspace as well as for LaTeX. It really works well and isn't really difficult (although I'm not really sure that workspaces should be used for this)
But it's a brilliant example of everything that could possibly go wrong if you blindly optimize for hello world
I've got a 2017 LG TV and I hate it. It's always been buggy and some of the hardware was underspecced even for 2017. I was getting ready to replace it but this Jailbreak might buy it a few more years
If there is an hourly train one could say there are 60 moments at which one could chose to travel. In the worse one you've missed it by 0-1 min. It seems reasonable to add the average 30 min to the travel time + margins.

One could similarly say there are 60 moments to arrive in an hour. Your appointment could live at the most unfortunate. It seems reasonable to add the average 30 min to the trip again.

If the train stops a lot it might be close to accelerating and decelerating most of the time. It seems reasonable to lose half the possible for speed.

If it doesn't stop a lot it might take a long time to get to the station.

If you need to take 2 trains you might have to wait for the second.

Buses and taxis stop far away from the train and traffic is unpredictable.

No matter how fast the train is, it can still take a long time to get places.

There are countless puzzles left to solve.
Not Just Bikes does it well
I don't know whether SD or DALL-E is currently ahead from a technical standpoint.

It does seem DALL-E is better, though not that good, at text. From what I've seen it also seems DALL-E is much better, though still flawed, at understanding instructions about composition.

On the other hand I've seen an absolute deluge of amazing high quality work based on SD and little more than a number of kinda cool things from DALL-E. I've also not had access to DALL-E but have generated hundreds of images with Stable Diffusion on my own PC.
Pretty detailed guide! I'd just like to emphasize that nowadays you can literally create and deploy a personal homepage entirely for free.
For the individual touch, buy a custom domain for a few bucks, link it and even add a free custom mail (e.g. with Zoho's free tier).

It's remarkable how knowhow and budget requirements have dropped in recent years so that anyone can create something pretty good-looking in no time.

Personally, I use the combination of:

1) Hugo + GitHub + Netlify + Zoho for my personal blog and email (summed up here: https://geo.rocks/post/setup) and
2) Material for MkDocs + GitHub for projects.
Librem One is a growing bundle of ethical services
Wasn't caffeine combined with contact sports linked to some brain damage?

I remember this being a thing going around - the proposed mechanism was that while caffeine helps in general, it constricts brain blood vessels making blows to head more dangerous, since blow to head "spills" stuff from neurons and due to the constriction they take longer to be resupplied. I remember some scientific articles on this but I don't recall if this was conclusive.

It might not be much of a concern for BJJ, where blows to head are relatively rare, but it for sure would be a concern for boxing or MT.
China is proof that you can do it within a decade. China at worst started a decade ago and for the majority of that time wasn't pushing hard, until Trumps sanctions hit. Now they have 7nm DUV. I don't see how this is anything but a huge success for China.
The estimated costs for energy from refurbishing France's nuclear plants till 2050 is 15% higher than building new offshore wind today. And that's EDFs own estimate. Onshore wind and solar are already cheaper than offshore and all are predicted to continue to get cheaper.
What are the reasons for Intel's delay?
Well, I guess we did read his comment.
As a cycle commuter I feel like London compromises very heavily because the authorities aren't willing to reallocate or expand the existing road space to do what's necessary, and instead just do what they can.
- now can be a better timing (if true - it won't matter that something similar existed before when the timing was worse)

- SL look and feel differs vastly different from what is expected from metaverse. Fortnite or Roblox looks more close to it.
That last line is also what you gather from contemporary sources, some of which can be found in the book “black land, red land” by Barbara Mertz. Many people went to visit the graves and do their tribute / ritual there.
720p is non-widewine-DRM limit afaik. Free as in freedom distros don't have proprietary DRM that would allow you to watch more than 720p by default, but you can install the proprietary blobs and get higher resolutions.
Pretty rough demo:

https://thirdroom.io/preview says "recaptcha failed" even with ad block disabled.

All this signup, google, accept terms, … procedure leaves a bad taste for an "open web" like client.

The entry room is cold and lonely. first impression matters. Trying to go to portal failed:

Error joining world: POST https://matrix.thirdroom.io/_matrix/client/r0/join/%23uk-cit...?: Failed to fetch
But is it espresso?

If you take a purist definition (9-10 bar extraction pressure) then some of the papers testing falls outside the definition.

If it tastes different and is made in a new way, shouldn’t it get its own name?
I think the US is probably the worst model for any state to follow, because it's just so different to every other state on the planet. The UK's historical position as global hegemon pushes the UK towards maintaining institutional attitudes and policies that only make sense if you are the global superpower, and the success of the US compounds this tendency, but the problem is, the UK is a middle-size state that just has none of the inherent positional or material resources the US has, so it results in lackluster economic growth. Which is what we've seen in the post-war era.

Trying to repeat the Silicon valley, when you have none of the massive geographic and historical advantages Silicon valley had, makes no sense, and I wish the UK would stop trying to copy what it cannot be (the massive global empire) and started trying to copy what it can be (all of the dynamic middle-size economies, like SK, Germany, or even Finland).
Isn't the panel good? Can you not get a driver and replace the current one? It'll turn it into a dumb TV, which sounds preferable than the current thing.
More content… so we can extract more money from existing customers… yay

Meanwhile the race is still on to merge real actual code components back into the design tools, and out again as workable screens. The first one to properly crack that nut is going to snatch so much market share. I thought it would be figma since they did auto layout but they don’t seem that interested in the code side
Haven't tried it but Bupropion changed my life. SSRI's failed me. Couldn't tolerate any of them (ED, which made me more depressed). Bupropion + Vyvanse seems to make me eat less, work harder, stay focused longer and have less food cravings. Lost 50 pounds without dieting just from not eating junk food as often.
I'm interested in the idea as I'm also shit at executive functions. I've never thought about it this way before though.

Sibling comments mentions that delegation should be basic in modern society, but I can't help but wonder why the following is true:

> ...since there's zero chance they'd get me such an assistant and similarly zero chance they'd let me pay for my own.

Instead of allowing everyone to delegate we somehow fixate on getting the all-in-one package super employee. I'm curious if the HR complexity is the reason to avoid this.
That series of tweets is difficult to decipher. What is being reported here?
You are right about Musk's silly tunnels, but VTOL is much better than helicopters. They combine the convenient landing and taking off of helicopters with the fuel economy of fixed wing flight, i.e. airplanes. If it can be made electric then even better.
Exactly how did you not "feel as welcome"?

I see brown people here all the time; I even work with some.

Have you tried visiting northern Idaho BTW? Good luck feeling welcome and treated as an equal there.
C# just went through this for C# 10, which I find a waste of resources, optmizing for "Hello World" is not what matters in large scale engineering.
Something under some heavy NDAs, apparently.
Hm, most adventures to stumble over are generic events like "kill those 10 guys" and nothing more. Sometimes they are bad guys, sometimes they are bad guys and you're helping the cops... but i think the variety of open world missions is quite low. The story missions on the other hand are quite nice.
Especially being able to switch off Turbo mode with a large physical button so that you could see the cards bounce in Solitare.
I don't agree that this is true, you don't have to have free content to have FOSS devices, but sometimes your business model doesn't work. I'm not obligated to buy your stuff.
Wind, PV and nuclear have only a small role in Germany's gas dependency, this isbdriven by industrial and heating needs.

Expensive electricity is driven by the way Germany financed the subsidies for renewables. And those subsidies were paid for by consumers, industrial electricity prices are / used to be rather low in Germany. This pricing structure will change so, if memory serves well.

As already stated, gas isn't burned for electricity in Germany, coal is. The reason why coal is so cheap is way too cheap CO2 certificates. Generally a bad thing, because gas would be better for the climate than coal, the unintended postive side effect is a lower impact of the current gas crisis on electricity generation.
> ALL of Switzerland's nuclear "waste" is on this picture (and it's going to be used as fuel in the future

That seem to be incomplete.

1) https://www.ensi.ch/en/nuclear-facilities-in-switzerland/was... says there are more places than that, including at each reactor:

] Each nuclear power plant has facilities for the conditioning and interim storage of the radioactive waste that is produced during operation. In addition, the ZWIBEZ interim storage facility is located on the site of the Beznau nuclear power plant.

] The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) has facilities for the treatment of its own radioactive waste and for waste originating from the medical, industrial and research sectors. This waste is stored temporarily in the Federal interim storage facility on the PSI site.

2) Not all of it is spent fuel that can be reprocessed

3) That's mostly the waste since 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Switzerland comments:

] Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants is in the tens of thousand tonnes in Switzerland.[22] Its management is the responsibility of the producer.[23] Up until 2006, processing of nuclear waste was mostly done overseas.[24]

4) I don't believe Switzerland mines and produces it own fuel rods, so the radioactive waste during that production would not be stored at Zwilag
But "surviving" is the keyword here. Nobody claims it's the "first example" anyway. I think it's very cool if something is "the oldest surviving ____", it's interesting information.
As I mention on the sibbling comment, C# 10 already went through this.

For me it seems like a reaction to JavaScripts and Pythons of this world, optimizing for Hello World just to win over them on those 30 seconds.

They are going to rewrite their applications anyway, when performance comes knocking on the door.
If demand is what is driving prices, sure. Except the government has shown time and time again there are mechanisms (e.g reducing stamp duty) that can prop up prices while demand is weak. If you look at the last few years of housing policy, you see a picture of increasingly dramatic measures to artificially inflate house prices, independent of the actual value of the houses to the people who live in them.
That’s what happens when you don’t have a clear legislation like Europe’s GDPR.
I moved to Sweden years ago and I can only recommend, especially if you have kids.

Yes, this is not heaven and we are having problems but overall this is a really safe and people friendly place.
12 hours on a single CPU core, or on a GPU?
No, I’m saying that I’m interested in this book, didn’t previously know about it (or even the author), and this publicity blitz has successfully put the book on my buy list.

I’m not sure how the praise in my original comment could be interpreted as the opposite. Did it seem ironic? Not the intention.
Sounds like me, except Vyvanse instead of Modafinol. Bupropion was the magic key. I thought my Vyvanse just wasn't working anymore.

Turns out I was just super depressed. Since switching meds I've lost a lot of weight because I don't have food cravings as much.

The way I think of it... Vyvanse keeps me focused when I get to work, but without Bupropion just getting out bed sometimes seems daunting. One gets me to start my day, the other keeps me focused when I do.
Long-term we're expecting to have to move away from Figma because, you know, Adobe. Whatever they say now isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
I had to look it up, and wow… Charles Babbage really did hate musicians…

https://www.famousscientists.org/babbage-rage-musicians-reve...
You should get away without a car in London. :)
I agree with most everything in the article.

But, in some situations open plan can actually make for an OK experience. For example, in the opening pic, there is a sea of table & chairs with monitors, etc. Yeah, that's awful if you're trying to do some kinds of work. But when I did temp work in the 90's, this setup was pretty common for places that needed a few weeks of data entry, typically for migrations. Easier to get help, less boring. No headphones, mostly, because no mp3's. A few radios, usually turned low, and shared. The key feature, of course, was "temporary".

In the 00's, I handled PBX setups for a half-dozen call-centers in a building. It was mostly all open plan, but most used noise dampening dividers. Depending on the departments preference, some used tall dividers to allow workers to concentrate on phone calls. But several also used short dividers, which workers might like better for the types of calls they were receiving - short calls requiring judgement about customer credit overrides, etc. Apparently it was easier to get manager assistance (wave at someone), or ask a neighbor to help with a call, etc.
Even if one were to grant that Russia is not nearly-indiscriminately shelling Ukrainian cities (which I don't), there is no justification for them to be attacking the country at all, targeted or otherwise. Whatever Putin might say, and notwithstanding ludicrous sham elections in occupied regions, Ukraine is a sovereign country with a democratically elected government, and not a part of Russia to be liberated.
For those who are into that kinda stuff there's F Sharp, of course.
I fail to see how obliterating 1000 miles of pipes, writing off 10s of billions as a punishment for a nuclear threat gets us away from using nukes. To me it seems like it brings us much closer to using them.
I don't understand the reasons, but the use of average-speed cameras, and in fact, the entire practice of enforcing speed limits based on measuring time between two marked points on a road, is not just not used in California, but is outright illegal.

This is particularly depressing, because they work amazingly well, and seem far fairer than an arbitrary (or perhaps worse, discriminatory) choice, made by a handful of police, of targets to give de facto large penalties, after extra fees and insurance are considered, for a practice that everyone is doing.

With average speed cameras, you can exceed the speed limit, even significantly, for short moments when it's important to do so (eg, to avoid an accident, to pass someone safely, etc), because average, not instantaneous, speed is what matters. You can know with near certainty that you'll get a (comparatively minor, in many cases) penalty if you speed for significant periods of time. But traffic will also be going the speed limit, not 20mph faster as in California, because everyone knows this, and no one feels they won't get caught if they're just careful / friends with the police / etc.

Driving in average-speed-camera-heavy parts of Europe is quite pleasant by comparison to the madness in California.
> The estimated costs for energy from refurbishing France's nuclear plants till 2050 is 15% higher than building new offshore wind today. And that's EDFs own estimate.

Do you have a link to that? Are we talking same effective generation capacity?
That is a solved puzzle, public transport is not a new concept, most city dwellers outside of the US rely on it.

From the passenger point of view, you simply plan your travel if the train only comes once an hour. Nobody arrives at random to such an infrequent mode of transportation. Once an hour probably means it's intercity travel.

From the networks point of view: you constantly monitor travel patterns and optimise frequencies, connections, train lengths etc. With driverless trains the trade-offs are fewer, hence you never need to worry about when the next Copenhagen metro comes.
It was never cheap and it's getting even more expensive while renewables are much cheaper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
Anyone is using 64 cores besides Linus :) I'm much more excited for 7900x on 12 cores rather than 64 cores. But I understand the limited amount of people that needs this power on desktop can also be excited.
It feels like a general movement against 'distraction' might be needed. Adverts in physical places, banner popups on websites. Even the increased volume of TV adverts.

Feels like they could all reinforce each other.

Then we could develop cool tech in peace without worrying that it'll be used to annoy people trapped in some Black Mirror future.
You'd think that invading Ukraine would also be looked upon negatively then, no? You also say that like it isn't Putin who has been repeatedly threatening nuclear escalation.
One really interesting one is that of the Vedas, where there is a priest specifically to check if there are no mistakes and errors made. From wikipedia’s vedic priesthood article :

The brahman was the reciter of hymns from the atharvaveda who was largely silent and observes the procedures and uses Atharvaveda mantras to 'heal' it when mistakes have been made.

So at least when it comes to accuracy, it was very resilient.

I think my history teacher also mentioned something similar for the Jewish priesthood.
I wouldn't use Cloudflare for deployments. They're known for arbitrarily taking over domains they manage and replacing their contents with their own PR pages with no advance warning. They're communicating with customers poorly too.
iStat Menus offer this for modern macOS. The disk activity is not that relevant for me, but networking is useful. When I'm waiting for something and there is no network activity I know something's fishy.

https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
Should websites be able to dictate which programs can access them? In a way a website is just an API too.
Even the source code in the past was all caps...

LISP usually signals: the Lisp of the past is included.

Lisp then signals: Lisp since lowercase keys on keyboards were introduced ;-)

CLtl1 used "LISP" in a special capitalized way. CLtL2 then used "Lisp" for the same text.
I used the same idea when setting up long-range WiFi (couple of KMs) via antenna for a mesh network.

In order to get the best latency/bandwidth, you need to point the antennas with precision at each other, and in order to know if you're pointing it right, you need to run some tool on a display at the same time, like `ping`, and see when it gets lower when you're pointing it right.

So rather than having to look with one eye towards the horizon, and one eye on a screen to see a tiny number (which I found impossible), I made a quick script that outputs a beep each time ping returns output, with the frequency being higher when the latency got lower. So now I could focus solely on the horizon while using my ears to hear if I was getting in the right direction.

Lots of fun, super useful and makes me wonder (just like you) what other tooling we could use more senses with, rather than just our eyes.

Similar vain: the vim foot pedal: https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
SPF and DKIM were kinda supposed to solve this problem. In fact, gmail generally classifies email without it as spam.

I guess a remaining reasonable thing to do for Gmail and such is to label emails from known important authenticated domains as "important".
To approach nuclear-like capacity factors on wind+batteries you need an INSANE amount of batteries, £0.30/kWh will seem like a bargain in comparison. Wind lulls can last for weeks or longer. There is a reason why countries like Germany are so focused on hydrogen for storage.
Exactly, why did it failed yesterday then? If supposedly just us-west-2 was down :(
A lot of Mr. beasts content feel like reverse kidnapping and mental torture situations. And the only “mental trick” you need to pull to illustrate just how horrible a human being he is, is to imagine he’d given them the money up front and told them that to leave his enter-torture-ment they have to pay up a ransom matching the initial gift.
That’s what he’s subjecting poor people too, for fun and profit, because he knows the money is worth that much to them. And of cause because he’s making a fortune doing this.
You're describing tradition air travel. The point is to modernise this, with smaller planes that take off often, closer to you. With little need for check-in etc.

Hard to see use cases except for the wealthy.
Confused about the criticisms now. Otherwise everybody complains about Java boilerplate. Remove some of it and make it optional, to avoid bogging down newbies in irrelevant details in the first instance, and further lead to less boilerplate to make simpler applications in the second instance (or further down the line). I'm not seeing a massive amount of effort being expended here, and I don't see how it's being wasted.
If I'm not lighting up my Windows Task Manager, what was even the point of making money?
https://jeromeaparis.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-new-nuc...

Especially the section that starts:

> As a starting point: it is undoubtedly true that industrial-scale nuclear power, as built in advanced Western countries in the 1970s-1990s, has provided, and still provides, cheap power, even taking into account the uncertainty on the cost of both long term waste storage and dismantling of the plants. And, until recently, low carbon alternatives like wind and solar were between “somewhat” and “a lot” more expensive. To a large extent, French skepticism about renewables over the past 20 years was not unreasonable given that the country did not have carbon-spewing (and otherwise polluting) coal-fired plants to replace - it had and has a low-carbon and cost competitive power sector.

And that references these:

https://www.edf.fr/sites/default/files/contrib/groupe-edf/es...

https://www.lemondedelenergie.com/edf-carenage-parc-nucleair...

> Le coût complet économique du parc nucléaire en exploitation, incluant
le Grand Carénage, s’élèvera environ à 55 €/MWh avec une durée
de fonctionnement de 50 ans, en moyenne sur la période d’ici 2025, un prix
permettant aux clients de bénéficier d’une électricité compétitive (Source : Cour
des comptes).