skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the ones I worked on were far later in the series.

Monash university (where I didn't work) had 11/780s with very unusual memory boards: they had de-soldered the chips and replaced them with bigger ones, with one leg bent "up" like a cockroach waving hello. These were tied to spare lines on the backplane somehow, to make the machine have double the address space because of "one extra bit" -I suspect they were getting round high cost memory boards from the original source.
I was using base 2 just for conveying the numbers of digits, i.e. showing that the digits in representation is related logarithmically to the magnitude of the base-agnostic integers in the fraction. I could have just as easily used natural log or log10 for evaluating the size of those numbers, because the important part is that it's not exploiting the implicit base in your denominator.
I think the reaction is stronger when borrowing the foreign bits just feel like "cheating".

If they were borrowing words with meanings that are specific to that language are hard to convey in other languages it would make more sense. Here the new word is basically "me-leftover"; it feels exactly the same in Japanese than when spelled out in English, so either the author could accept the cheesiness in English and run with it, or choose a better fitting word in a different language that actually brings nuance to the thought.

Just borrowing another word to make it look mystical isn't wrong or forbidden, it just feels lazy and a waste of good words. Also we're in a connected world, and there's enough people speaking multiple language that "exotic" words have a way lower chance to be actually exotic anymore.
Unlikely, most people these days brush at least once a day which has several hundred times the concentration of fluoride as water. (~1300ppm vs ~1ppm in fluoridated water). I'm sure it would go up a bit tho especially in children who often have questionable brushing practices.
> The rest of the industry haven't even started figuring out what Cloudflare Pages Functions + Durable Objects can do

I was very excited when both of these technologies were first announced (years ago).

I tried them, immediately, then (during the initial beta). They were clunky, half-baked, and don't even get me started on the DX of developing against them. Literally missing from cloudflare's own CLI - the official docs described how to manually deploy via CURLing endpoints. It felt like manually FTPing files onto a server, like in the 90s.

Ok fine, this is an early beta, let's let this bake longer.

So a few months ago, I started a new greenfield project and once again decided to give Functions + Durable Objects a shot... and was astounded to find the exact same half-baked experience, where different "beta" versions of the CLI had to be installed in order to support the different endpoints, and these were in fact mutually-exclusive.

Cloudflare has some cool ideas, but they seem to like rolling out 70% of a cool idea and then moving into the next shiny thing without ever making the first thing actually polished and reliable. After wasting many hours with Cloudflare's DX, I decided to never waste more time with them as a development platform (vs an optimization layer / CDN / etc).
It was sold to the highest bidder, not deleted. A related issue.
Short tenure has always resulted in me getting massive raises by moving around. I’m not saying that’s always the case, but when my wife and I were 80k in the hole with student loans, wanted a house and a kid, I’ll just take whatever recruiter throws the most money at me. I had big bills to pay always going for 20-40k raises helped me pay them off.
> Am I the only one that feels like jobs that are good enough to warrant a 2-3 year tenure are actually rare?

If good teams and good leaders are rare, you might want to re-examine your company selection process.

In my experience, it's easy to find bad jobs if you just let the winds of the industry carry you around from job to job. Bad companies always have high turnover, which means they're always hiring. They may even pay above market because that's the only way they can continue bringing people in to replace everyone who's leaving.

The good jobs are often more selective about their hiring. Many of them may not even post public listings. Going through a network is much more efficient for selecting into the good companies.
There are indeed threads in some cases. I believe Deno uses libuv, which means that certain calls (iirc the syscall for DNS resolution) are put into separate threads since there are no true non-blocking versions of them provided by the kernel.
ECT is a really mild form of what used to be electroshock therapy, and you have full agency over if and when to stop. It works for a lot of people.

The problem is the side effects. The memory loss is really rough. Based on my background as a software programmer, my psychiatrist (who has recommended and done ECT for other people) recommended very strongly against ECT for me and said I should try ketamine instead.
Oh, but I am willing. But will I get fired if I do so? Because if I am going to socialize during worktime I won't be available right away during this period.
> Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions.

This is really not common and if anything it's something unheard of to me. I work in an English speaking company in Japan and most of my coworkers (who are fluent enough to speak English in technical conversations) would instantly switch back to Japanese to talk about technical things between them if there's no foreigner involved in the conversation. I've seen the same thing happen in my wife's company and other companies too. This is on top of the fact that the level of English education in Japan is very low (unfortunately) and these people who work in English-speaking companies are very much the exception. I don't think I've ever seen a single Japanese person favor using English over Japanese for technical discussions if they were ever given the choice.
When you work at coworking spaces, do you prefer a private desk or flex desk / lounge out in the open?
>Not necessarily. For exmaple, if I recite a poem to you for a dollar and you sing to me a song for a dollar, GDP increases without changing the ecological footprint.

And what if we raise our prices, so I recite a bad poem for $1M and you sing a terrible, off-key song to me for the same price? Isn't that effectively massively raising the GDP without doing any useful work at all?
My guess is that it's less about being terrified of COVID and more about wanting to avoid the irrational members of the public (you've seen the videos) who are performatively careless about taking even minimal precautions at best, and an active danger to others at worst.
Thanks for the suggestion - agreed, I'll make that change
Its actually made by a different company also named clevo in in China (TW)

https://www.clevo.com.tw/clevo_prodetail.asp?id=1609&lang=en

Its a little wierd but they seems to exist only to sell to resellers, although clevo-computer.com seems to order a whole bunch.
in my case the "clevo" id is on the sticker on the back (along with a lot of other info). I think System 76 specs the parts the work with linux and orders the machines that way. I have no idea how the supply chain works in this case.
I used to play this MMORPG game when I was 14 with some school friends on voice chat. But there was one guy I made friends with in-game who I'd quest with when my real-world friends weren't online.

One day when I was playing with him I invited him on our voice chat and he started playing me some songs and asking what I thought. I never really listened to music back then, but some of the rock songs he played me really resonated with me so I downloaded them and would listen to them when I was gaming.

I think that might have been the only time I ever spoke to this guy with voice, but when I think about the songs he played me that night it's crazy how massive of an impact they had on the direction of my life.

After liking some of the songs he played me I started listening to more and more rock music. And back then teens were quite segmented by music taste so I found myself gravitating towards different friends who were more into my music taste. To this day I think this change of friends has had a noticeable affect on my personality and fashion sense. Also those friends were more "academic(?)" than my existing friends so that probably resulted me in studying computer science which resulted in a whole host of career opportunities that otherwise wouldn't have occured.

But there are some more subtle ways in which I think it altered the direction of my life. For example, when I was at university I used to like going to rock clubs and it was at one of those clubs I met my current partner. And then when I think about all the things I've done with her it's crazy just to think about how massive of an impact simply being at that club on that night had by itself.

It's funny though because I doubt he even remembers me, but I think about him a lot. And in turn it makes me wonder how I might have impacted people I don't even remember both for better and worse.

I'm sure everyone has a story like this, but I've always thought it was interesting how a moment seemingly so unremarkable with a guy across the Atlantic ocean had such a dramatic impact on my life.
Definitely was stuck with either light coloring somewhere, or difficult to read text. I remember experimenting with different shades of gray for either the background or the text, but couldn't find one which would work on both dark and light backgrounds. And you'd always have a light background popping up somewhere.

In retrospect, it's a little funny. Apparently the coders & designers at Microsoft in the 90's never anticipated someone wanting a mostly dark desktop. They'd come up with crazy color schemes like Hot Dog, but never any gray & black schemes.
I mean the point of ketamine is dissociation. That's where a lot of healing happens.

The vertigo and double vision last a little while, possibly the rest of the day. They're not long term or serious. The memory loss from ECT can be long-term for some people.

I've personally found ketamine to help a lot with my mental health issues. It's great and I'd highly recommend at least giving it a shot in a therapeutic setting. I'm sure it's interesting recreationally as well, though I've never tried it that way.
This is a very dangerous narrative, for some reason popular nowadays — the scarcity mindset, the story of “limited resources”.

If you go back 5000 years ago you’ll see there’s only so many people the planet can feed.

The actual fact is that people _create_ resources when they cooperate (this is why now our planet can afford so many people that ancient would never imagine possible).

It’s not about the technology but about good vs evil beliefs.

Which lead to actions.

Please spread good constructive beliefs, not scary destructive ones.
The obvious concern is not that some existing legit users mightn't enjoy it; it's that the gamification will pollute the platform by incentivizing an influx of low-grade users, attention-seeking or annoying behavior, garbage commits, pointless chatter, non-issue issues, profiles stuffed with links to add SEO juice to low-grade profiles on social-media/LI/etc.; (the repo equivalent of "Follow, Like and Subscribe!"). How badly depends on how much github incentivize it.

I guess we'll know if/when github has gone the way of FB/YT/IG is if/when people pay for fake/compensated followers to star a repo. I don't think we're there yet.

Maybe a more constructive way to have this discussion is to subdivide github's social features into those that are good vs those that are open to be abused.
There's zfs wait, which can wait on the delete queue. Otoh, files that are deleted and open will be on the delete queue until they're closed, so that queue doesn't have any guarantee of progress while the system remains running.

A process to delete less important files to maintain free space that waited on the delete queue to drain before reassessing the situation would need something more sophisticated.
It sounds magical. I would recommend trying it first... the experience of trying to actually build anything with it is quite un-magical. The documentation, CLI, workflow, and pricing (for sockets especially) all fall quite short.
> China then invented pinyin, which is a relatively well conceived and elegant system, but refused to support the replacement of characters and instead advocated for "simplified" characters (which are approximately as hard as the originals, but provide a convenient cultural gap).

This is only because the plan for simplified characters died midway through. There was a second round of simplifications that would have gone even further with talks of full phoneticization if that succeeded. However, the second round of simplification was simply too unpopular.

> While Lu Xun is now taught in all mainland Chinese schools, they conveniently leave out the part where he advocated for leaving characters in the past.

They definitely don't. His arguments and polemics about this are pretty well known in China. There are a variety of secondary and undergraduate courses that cover his collected works, with that specific quote showing up all the time. This is also a hot topic that repeatedly shows up in all sorts of Chinese online forums.

Lu Xun, like the other scholars of his time, was extreme in the other direction. He believed that it was fundamentally impossible for China to advance without a phonetic script and that China was doomed and it was impossible for the Chinese citizenry to achieve literacy. His arguments are generally discarded today because he said things that have been soundly disproved.

It is worth noting that many early 20th century scholars had a fanatical devotion to anything Western. They contorted Chinese to make it as close to Western languages, especially English, as much as possible, adding new pronouns, following Western grammar patterns, etc. Indeed, some early 20th century Chinese articles are quite awkward to read without an English background.

Leaving aside whether characters are "good" or "bad," there is an oft-raised, but mistaken, view that using a phonetic script for Chinese would not change the language. After all it is but a different medium for the same information.

But that's not true. There remains a level of diglossia in modern Mandarin that makes some modern works difficult to decipher when read out loud (yes this is true even if we leave out Classical Chinese). Using a phonetic script to write Chinese would necessarily involve a change to the language, not just its transmission. Whether that's worth it is a separate question, but it is a change.
> And the whole point of "fancy words" are to succinctly convey some nuance

The vast majority of time the point of "fancy words" are for the author to display to the audience that they know the fancy words.

Unless you really are genuinely talented at language and word choice, it often comes across as a transparent attempt to impress other people and often jars the reader out of the text.
GNS is not globally unique. It is censorship resistant, but it is not permissionless.
CaseYak Leads – Motor Vehicle Accident Leads (CO, CA, FL)
There's no call for that. I don't have the ability to flag, @dang or others?
There's no such thing as a fail safe for a plane running out of gas.
Certainly possible. My leading theories are the VID controller or the system controller (I'm brain-farting on the protocol name). Unfortunately any of those would be extremely difficult to find. I really need to bite the bullet and buy an oscilloscope so I can figure out what's going on.
Black Death shaped evolution of immunity genes
Updating Notion Cover Images with Pipedream and JavaScript
Mainly because it's easier to get people on board when we're keeping a few of the super core dotfiles, especially since those are kind of impossible to change - they are hard coded literally everywhere

Admittedly, the ~/.bashrc etc. files should be there too - but I wanted it to look cleaner :P
The first link said "studies quantifying the number of cases of long COVID in kids have varied widely."
That first link also did not seem to indicate if Covid was diagnosed with blood test or PCR fragment amplification or flu-like symptoms.

The second link was for "people".

There is a significant lack of rigor in the diagnosis and studies of covid in children, though overall mortality in children is low. For children in decent health, the emergency treatment does not seem warranted until the typical new drug side-effect studies have been completed.

Until the long-term safety studies are in, there are safe alternative prophylactics but those don't make much profit nor yearly recurring booster profits.
It seems the technology changes so fast that after two years most hardware is considered obsolete.
> The most successful writers in the world do not do this

Chances are good this does not describe most of the people reading the original article or this comment section.
I love snow. So I’ll say no
Block Booking
The answer is not to do nothing. The answer is to reject bad ideas that would turn cruise ships into potential floating craters and instead pursue ideas that are both tractable and won't treat people as collateral damage.
Because it is not much simpler than just git + the editor of your choice for developers, and it is still harder to use than Wordpress for non-developers.
For context here is russian tool trying to convince IAEA inspectors (Nuclear Engineers) that Ukraine has been shelling its own Nuclear Power Station, station still supplying power to Ukraine, and the evidence on the ground, rocket remains, might confuse them. You see that rocket simply flipped 180 degrees before hitting the ground, thats why it merely looks like it came from the russian side.

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-official-tells-inspec...

Video https://twitter.com/MacWBishop/status/1565681794602729478

Its the same argument russia tried to use after Kramatorsk railway station attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramatorsk_railway_station_att... not to mention claiming they dont operate Tochka-U missiles.
Ask HN: Battery that intentionally catches fire to make electricty
I was thinking about how unstable lithium hydride is and how energy packed it is and was wondering if anyone had thought to intentionally decompose it in an insulator bottle that could withstand the heat in a vacuum about as good as found in an AC line before fill.

The machine acts like a flour sifter over a hot plate that when the hydride dust falls on it, it decomposes liberating protons. Then on connected to the hot plate is your load and the other end of the load is ground and you get electric current. Molten lithium metal would pour out of spout into a compartment that safely cools it into a solid for removal as a brick.

The brick is taken upon refueling with a hydride. The hydride could be inserted as a cartage if it is too unstable to handle. It is very energy rich. Most of the mass of the battery is in electrolytes, electrodes, and stuff like that. But with this, the energy is a kind of 'electric fuel'.

Someone asked "but why" and I'll try to explain:

The reason is because electric cars rely on the grid. If electricity could be delivered like a package, that energy could be sourced anywhere that lithium or sodium hydride can be made. Sodium hydride is at least source-able nearly anywhere sea water is found. A off short wind farm could have a little shore plant that makes fuel carts that get shipped by rail or truck. Some oil wells produce gas that simply gets flared off. A generator onsite could convert that lost energy into something useful. Hydro power can be fully taken advantage of if there is an excess of it.

The weight savings from having no electrolyte and banks of flammable batteries is considerable for efficiency and economy. It requires no precious metal membrane unlike current hydrogen powered vehicles. It lowers the ecological foot print with 100% reusable or recyclable parts. It doesn't even need lithium which is under geopolitical pressure.

The question is why hasn't this obvious idea been tried?
Regarding the exact nature of the gestalt transhuman super-intelligences that will arise post-Singularity, who can say?
Nowhere good really. If they force through into the space, rather than (for example) limiting themselves to boosted App Store listings, that would be clear indicator to me that their internal priorities have shifted and would be a signal to begin migrating off of their ecosystem.
I've never held a job for more than 2 years.

I can come up with a reasonably convincing story for every individual Job about why I quit that one. But taken together, there's no reasonable story that would convince a hiring manager.

It comes down to this: I hate being an employee. I want to work on my own projects on my own terms. This is the only way I can find work that is worth doing.

That said, the wording of the article is weird.

> If your job is terrible, you can leave

As if you're affirming an anxious person.

Listen, yes, you can leave, but you shoule know that there absolutely will be consequences for leaving too early.

Fewer employers will consider hiring you.

For one thing, I have relatives that got into the tech scene after me, but rack in much higher salaries than me. I'm not sure what it is, but probably staying in their jobs for more than two years helps.

If your goal in life is to find a stable employment, then you should absolutely not "just leave".

For me, that was never my goal in life (and frankly I can't understand people whose goal in life is that). So I had no qualms about leaving when I found that I lost the will to continue working the job.

That said, I still hesitated and took my time. I still cared about finishing whatever project it is I'm working on. I felt a sense of responsibility for the company, because they are paying me to do a job, and quitting half way through is just not the right thing to do.
I remember 3d printing a pokeball that I wanted to swing open automatically when a latch was opened. Struggled finding anything useful until I hopped on Grainger where, lo and behold, they had a little spring that was perfect for it.

The guy on the phone was really helpful too and held it for pickup.
Variety is good regardless. It's refreshing.

Variety also tends to bring financial advantage, increased skills and exposure to new knowledge, a larger personal network in the same time, and if most (but not all) jobs are unsatisfying, variety gives you more chances to eventually find one that's the exception worth staying with.
> It's been my experience that people generally produce their best work after the first year. It takes a while to get to know any business: what its strengths and weaknesses are, and it's only with that understanding that someone can identify areas to make meaningful contributions.

My experience matches this, but I would add that the company shares some of the blame. It often takes a full year for the rest of the team, department, or company to fully integrate the new person and tailor their assigned tasks to their individual strengths and weaknesses.

I remember struggling to contribute at a company for several months for no reason other than the people I was supposed to be working with would forget to invite me to key meetings. Teams can get very comfortable working with each other and are naturally resistant to bringing in new people. It takes time to break down those barriers.
People have friends? Every person I’ve been friends with outside work has either moved away or stopped hanging out with me once I got a career and a family.

The only people who really “give me a chance” because I’m a little weird are people I work with because I’m useful I guess? So there’s time for me to grow on them.

My social life has definitely suffered since WFH. In fact the only people I see regularly are people I used to work with by inviting them to lunch.