skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been discussing the same thing with my buddies. I still laugh out loud watching clips from say Police Squad![1][2], yet I can't recall watching a comedy the last decade that cracked me up the same way.

Though it might indeed just be that we're getting older. Who am I to tell the young folks today what is funny?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up9xtN1Jaz0

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcozDdtjhDY
Genuinely curious but how is this

> "the current rate of extinction is 10 to 100 times higher than in any of the previous mass extinctions in the history of Earth."

an accurate statement when there have been a few mass extinction events that were (apparently) caused by sudden changes?

Is this assuming that the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event was caused by gradual changes instead of an impact or volcanic event? Same for the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction? I think there are also a number of extinction pulses in the record that could be attributed to sudden events although I'm unsure of how they compare in terms of the number of species affected.
> The Astravyets plant was built on time(5 years!) and within budget($11bln).

You forgot the bit where you sign up to be Rosatom's whipping boy for 30 years. But hey! It was on time and most of it passed safety inspections.
You get phantom payroll until the next layoff.

The truth is that often when you see a large company with a 5-10% layoff, it's a cleanup of phantom payroll and otherwise low performers.
There's a phenomena where someone posts something like "I want to join two pieces of board to a pole with a nail, but I don't want to use a hammer, what should I do?" and gets back two recommendations to use a screw and screwdriver, three to use a hammer, one to use a nailgun, and one longer answer that explains the question is bad but begrudgingly accepts a nailgun.

I think in that situation, the people who suggest a hammer or a screw silently perform some mental arithmetic, assume the person asking the question doesn't understand the problem because they're asking for a very costly tradeoff, and give the best answer that solves the basic problem.
I mean - 40k is set in the year 40k, roughly, right? We've got a lot of time.
Nope, creating the coroutines doesn’t schedule them for execution. That only happens on await. Python is not eager. If you want that behavior you need to use create_task. It doesn’t work like spawning a thread and waiting on them.

From the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html

> Note that simply calling a coroutine will not schedule it to be executed:
They are paid better because they know what they are doing and they know what they are doing because they have been through it and experienced what should and should not be done.

How do you know how much maintenance your work actually needed if you never stuck out long enough to witness it?
In Italy AC is not very widespread in private homes, and I guess it's for the better.
Quickwit does too (a subset anyway): https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
Conventional and unconventional behavior can both have unwanted consequences. We each pick our poison.

Another senior here.

As a child I scratched my father's guitar with a belt buckle I had been told to wear. I learned to distrust adult judgment, I still don't wear belts half a century later, and I have a successful research career for which I partly thank this errant belt buckle. I lost a potential life as a rock God, but I've been protected from ever buying Microsoft products. This story horrifies me but it doesn't surprise me; I made a fair trade.
As the other reply said, each area is unique and so there is no general rule that applies to every location on earth.

Where I live the native prairie was naturally mowed by the bison roaming around, and so not mowing leads to a number of problems as the plants around here depend on that regular mowing. Various lightening strikes and the like ("Indians") caused regular fires as well, which took care of overgrowth. Mowing simulates that without the fire. (this is both good and bad - it makes for cleaner air, but those fires also put charcoal into the ground and so made the prairie net carbon negative over the long term which is something we desperately need)
Modeling and Analyzing Lambda vs. Fargate Breakeven
An uncomfortable way to look at it, but the more freedom and convenience we acquire, the less social we end up being.

Starting with religion. I'm not religious myself, but that doesn't mean I can't acknowledge it as a powerful community builder. You'll get to know everyone in the community. Neighbors, business owners, friends, possible spouses. And their families and all their life events. There's no real replacement for this "forced" social bonding at scale.

Meeting friends used to require physical co-location. You'd ring their doorbell and asks if they're available to play. It would all be in-person. Now this happens occasionally but far less, a lot of this is digitized.

Early teenager years: boys live in their bedroom, gaming with a headset. Girls spent their time chatting or posting on social networks.

Later teenager years (party years). Far less in person. Some gatherings of friends at home, much less in public settings where you can meet new people.

Work: from home but even when in the office: increasingly virtualized due to outsourcing, complicated vendor models, etc.

Leisure: at home. Not just spending time on passive entertainment, also shipping shit to your door so that you don't have to go out and actually interact with people.

In the case that people do go out in the physical world, they see disengaged people. In a rush, unapproachable (always on phone).

We've become self-centered, anti-social. The old way which forced you to interact with the physical world and its people produced far healthier human beings.
Mark Hostetler's analysis of North American windshield splatters in 1997 is documented in his book, "That Gunk on Your Car: A Unique Guide to Insects of North America." He reports on two dozen types of insects, with photos of them splattered and intact. His work won the 1997 Ig Nobel Prize for entomology [1].

No time to read a whole book? Hostetler's son, Bryce, released a free iPhone/iPad app in 2018 [2].

[1] https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig1997

[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/that-gunk-on-your-car/id135275...
First Leonardo AW609 Tiltrotor Production Model Takes Flight
Don't give anyone you care about (who is not a techie) a Windows machine. Especially if you'll have to support it.

At this point, the best thing for a "typical" user is a Chromebook, or better yet one of the few Chrome desktop boxes. For $600 you can have a very functional Chrome machine with a giant monitor. And remote-management + screen sharing is baked in.

The worst is visiting a Best Buy (or similar electronics store) and hearing a neophyte go up to a sales clerk and say, "I want to buy a computer". I can't stay near, because the discussion I will hear will kill me.
Then they're doing a bad job at it :)
This was one of the most cowardly acts I ever experienced at an organization. And the organization is run by people who call themselves "leadership coaches" and who do "management consulting" and it frustrates me to no end they are teaching other people this is effective management.
Reminds me of watching an interview with a racing game dev who mentioned that humans interpret higher pitch engine sounds as higher speed.

Fascinating since we evolved with no cars or engine noise yet our brain is still making correlations around the audio inputs.
I get that this may feel demeaning, but come on, we're trying in the modern world to do something better than the inhumanity of locking the factory doors 100 years ago or yanking a guy's union book, and now people are complaining about how psychologically scarring it is to be treated with enough decency to receive a paycheck and be given a low enough stress role to find a new one? Jeez... recognize this for the progress that it is!
This is not the 1930s anymore. Just look at murder rates even in Russia.

People are much more satisfied/apathetic, they won't collectively risk their quality of life for a war.

The biggest predictor of mass violence (war) is your run of the mill daily violence (murders, revolts, terrorism etc), those are at historic minimums.

The second biggest predictor is trust in institutions, which also is at an all time low. This is especially true in Russia, but also in the West. The shelf life of a POTUS is basically 2-6 months, that's how long the approval rating stays above 50%.

By the time the 1st anniversary of inauguration comes around every POTUS from now on will be around 35-38%. That has never been the case ever.
Proof that the Borat bit still works almost 20 years later. Americans still do not know anything about "other countries."
I treat use of SafetyNet or attempting to detect root as actively malicious and give apps that do that 1-star ratings on Google Play.

I realize there's a theoretical risk the OS could be compromised or malware could have superuser permissions, but my previous attempts to find any significant data breaches or user harm caused that way have come up empty. If anybody knows of one, I'd be interested to read about it.
> We are currently living in a time when many people feel the need to dispute that rigorous education can have any meaningful impact on a child's abilities.

That doesn't sound right to me. My perception is that the value of a rigorous education is actually nearly universally valued, but how/whether children should have access to that education equitably is quite disputed.
(This is not medical advice and I am not a doctor)
I don't think ketamine is directly indicated overeating, and I know esketamine isn't for insomnia or overeating. That said, There do seem to be a handful of papers studying the use of ketamine in things that affect sleep, like circadian rhythm [0][1]. In general, ketamine causes sedation in about 70% of those treated with it. Though that is short acting (hours) it may help set an individual for a good sleep, and to the extent that insomnia or overeating are caused by or co-occurrent with depression, ketamine could likely help.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866161/
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/brb3.1423
easy: the market is far from infallible.
It's a particularly bad problem for books, but it's a problem for every product category. Unless Amazon sees people abandoning them in large numbers (personally, I haven't ordered from them in years) they're not going to change.
Regarding all the anecdotes, I would have said the same thing 8 years ago when I moved to my current house in suburban Minneapolis. Then we had some landscaping done and added a bunch of planting beds to the otherwise boring grass-only yard. And my kids threw some milkweed seeds on a slope that is too steep to mow. Now we've got tons of bumblebees, honey bees, monarch butterflies, and other insects. I think the range of most insects is quite small, so maybe people who miss the bugs just need to plant a bit more in their yards :).

Second point: the windshield splats proxy is too confounded to be useful. Use actual measurements or reasonable people will discount the claims (as I have done).
Stockholm syndrome? There's really no excusable "cause" for bullying; it's like saying you don't regret getting raped because, at the time, your sexual drive was lagging behind your peers. That's a rationalization and a way to cope with trauma for the victim. From the other side it's simply blaming the victim.
On the other hand, it’s hard to make great innovative leaps with a mature product. The iPhone is something like 15 years. And I’m happy that they don’t change things just because they think they should.

And it looks like their laptops actually found the path again.
Going out on a limb here, but I’m assuming it’s meant to be “why [exogenous] melatonin is bad for you”.

Melatonin is naturally secreted by the pineal gland, which like other hormones gets downregulated when taken exogenously over long periods of time.

There’s also studies showing a downregulation in dopamine and seratonin with long term use of melatonin.
I’m no expert but two things seem likely:

1. Genre popularity seems to move in cycles of trends. We’ll certainly look back at the Marvel eta as the time when “the nerds” took over and dominated media. My wife often remarks “I never thought I’d live the day when I saw a serious, high budget interpretation of ${something that seemed totally underground when she was a teenager}.” I’m sure there’s a market/economic explanation for this, where Studio A and Studio B release popular movies of similar genres around the same time so Studios C-Z plan their releases accordingly. If comedy is waning right now (and I’m not sure it is) it will probably swing back around, just as fantasy and action and horror all have.

2. This article strikes me as being akin to the old “music isn’t good anymore, everything after ${year} is trash” argument. It’s easy to look back at earlier times, pick out the gems, and decide that it was some magical time. All you have to do is forget about all the crap. (See also: Woodstock 1969 and claims of “life was simpler” about any era imaginable.) It’s hard to compare the current comedy environment to past “golden eras” while we’re still living it.

I can’t say I’ve come across too many recent comedies that absolutely killed me but they’re out there. “Booksmart” (2019) was easily the best new comedy movie I’ve seen in years. Profane and hilarious. Nora from Queens is high up there, too. We probably won’t remember this decade for comedy but I’m sure we’ll look back and identify some clear winners.
> We should absolutely work to reduce, reuse, and recycle,

No, we shouldn't.

We should primarily work on scaling up our energy production. I was long in favour of nuclear, although apparently there's some exciting development in deep geothermal as well. (inspired by https://elidourado.com/blog/geothermal/ )

We shouldn't even try recycling the plastic, but simply burry it. Oil from the ground, plastic back into the ground.

With enough energy and a viable waste management process in place, we don't need to bother with reducing, reusing or recycling, but can simply enjoy our lives to the fullest.
In some countries this might be illegal, with having their work defined in their employment contract?
The Great Pandemic Hand-Washing Blooper
Wonder if this has anything to do with the sliding window:

> Sonic only keeps the N most recently pushed results for a given word, in a sliding window way (the sliding window width can be configured)

Default window looks like 1k documents. I read this as saying that super common words are basically dropped from the index (only 1k out of many thousands of docs retained), but I don’t know enough about the internals to be sure. Not sure if this actually hurts search results in practice, seems like an ok trade off for help docs at least.
Obviously it's a software issue and has nothing to do with hardware. Why would I waste my time and risk my laptop being damaged by incompetent workers. I have had enough bad interactions with service center to not visit them unless absolutely necessary.
Trends in Developer Jobs: A Meta Analysis of Stack Overflow Surveys
Context is important.

HN consists of many different people in many markets.

For US folks, yes, you generally have to go for an industrial display panel which is slightly more expensive than a smart TV [whose lower price can be subsidized by the data they're eventually selling].

Maybe for the previous poster who is in the EU, faces a completely different market than the US, a market which is more favorable to non-smart TVs.
This is correct. I tell all my friends to watch blade runner and related cyberpunk if they want an idea for what the future of AI is going to look like.

I really doubted for awhile that it would be so damn cyberpunk and so damn predictable. Than I saw stable diffusion and realized the "enhance" scene from blade runner was simply prophetic...
Are you sure you are not self-selecting? Are those people represent a random set of homeschooled adults or just the ones who were successful despite it?

Also, who is homeschooling in the set up of two working parents? Or we are going to pretend this work does not exist as we do with other household chores?
Assertions are compiled out of 'production' (non-debug) builds.

The same holds true of Python if you run it with the optimize flag/environment variable, leading to any number of hilarious bugs because people cause side-effects in their assert calls.
You want your program to continue executing in an undefined, probably erroneous, possibly destructive state because you ignored an error?
It reads like a lot of the auto-generated content / Amazon affiliate link farms that google ranks so highly when I search for product reviews.

Everything is awful online nowadays.
I thought the same for a long time, surely it has an effect ?
If a gigawatt microwave transmitter isn't going to scare people, a gigawatt CW laser certainly will.
Present what you do and why. Your personal projects, the code you have developed that could help/interest other developers etc...
Not just windshields, but the fronts of cars also. I doubt very much that aerodynamics accounts for much of it.
And this is how publishers/publishing houses stand to gain a renewed relevance in a world of self publishing and digital platform technologies.
So I'm generally not using any social media, but sometimes try to use it for a week or two to at least understand what is going on in the world. Recently I specifically consumed a bunch of YouTube shorts, and Google should have a pretty good idea at who I am after using there services for 15 years, but even with pressing "do not recommend" on every single Andrew Tate/Jordan Peterson video, it will just incessantly recommend that content to me. The platform is literally unusable for me in that sense, I felt like I was in a social experiment trying to turn me into an Incel or something... In comparison, tiktoks algorithm works far better at recommending me things I actually like to watch.
Well, it's "responsive" for me. In fact it's your comment that was off-topic and meta, the parent was perfectly on topic and responding on the issue.

>A responsive answer would be along the lines of "well, a content farm might fabricate too because _____."

A responsive answer doesn't need to have a particular formula, much less that one. It just needs to be relevant to the issue and provide more information and/or the commentor's own take (could be just their feelings about the issue too).
Don't know the specifics, but it was antisemitic rant.
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/unpacking-kanye-wests-ant...
> You can absolutely make an impact multiple times within a year, but the odds of those "impacts" being a net positive without ever having maintained the results is not good.

Fully agree. I've seen a few FTEs come in, try to make a giant splash with changes, then leave right when their changes have any sort of major issue.

I'm still dealing with bad code from someone that came in and tried to do that.
Hi folks!

This is a good idea -- I think there was a liminal period where folks had some very valid discussions about basic things like "how much maximum amperage is too much for a charging standard", but I've seen so many folks who claim to be "green" who get all huffy and stop using their Carmen Sandiego voice when you point out their business has a practice that may increase revenue in the extreme short term at the expense of the environment.

Then again, Apple is the same company that went and completely redesigned their devices to both rely on rare earth minerals that are difficult to replenish or recycle, paired with a design that makes it impossible to separate these batteries from the rest of the device... for what reason? Thin-ness?

Maybe we should be designing zaftig devices, with a physical switch to turn off the wifi, the blue tooth, etc?

Oh wait, the open source community did that years ago at least once -- it was called... the Pinephone IIRC, but without Apple's economy of scale and network of physical stores for folks to browse and receive repairs, it's hard for a device with good technicals to compete.

(No citations, because these are my opinions -- I haven't read the rules in a while but honestly if people want to conflate upvotes with agreement, at this point I'm not offended, I just defer to sysadmins.)

- Greg*
At the time, I was running a game service, so had a fair number of script kiddies attempting whatever. Expecting them, before using Cloudflare I got a hardware firewall. With a bit of research I located the same hardware firewall used by Federal Reserve Banks. At that time, an outright purchase of that thing was $24K, but it was well worth it. It had every bell and whistle one could ask: deep pack inspection, load balancing, and a quite a bit more. When I closed, that hardware firewall sold for the same price I paid, years earlier.
Maybe not winging it but definitely eyeballing it.
How will services like tiktok ever move past this without strict identity verification and a supporting global legal system? This seems like a common issue for every photo / video content provider. We've seen this exact same article about Facebook content moderation.

They have talented AI developers. They have a massive amount of harmful known content from moderation. They still need to surface harmful content to humans to check.
... or installing fucking candy crush by default (which, really, is just a long form ad).

But maybe that's my inner (outer, now?) old man talking? I mean, Minesweeper, patience and a couple of others, maybe even a pinball game always came with Windows.

Windows never came with fortune though, which is the best "I didn't ask for this, but would have if I'd known" default I've come across. Yep, old man is now outer and child is inner.
> Yet none of them was willing to wait for the first stable release. After trying the beta, they were hooked.

When consulting, I could always tell which clients had serious traction: Even if their product was incomplete or buggy, customers would literally make a line at a trade show to write checks, because they wanted the product that badly.

In extreme cases, "product-market fit" just means the customers are saying "Shut up and take my money!" It's like watching a rocket-ship take off.

Not all successful startups take off like this. But the ones that do have a much easier time succeeding.
> On the other hand, every mirror would be a great chance to lose your other eye as well, so maybe disregard my ideas.

At those power levels? Probably every surface in general. A beam powerful enough to light a match or burn through a balloon is powerful enough for the diffuse reflection off a table or wall to blind you.
Microwaves are fairly harmless, I'd be more worried about disrupting the ozone layer or other weird climate effects.

You manage the beam intensity by having the collection area and the exclusion zone around the collection area be so large that the whole thing is entirely pointless and you could just use regular PV and concentrating solar.
Projects like Meili Search are already coming for Elastic Search's lunch: https://www.meilisearch.com. I think there is a market for fast, light weight alternatives like Meili that offers up a fully featured open source experience.

With Elastic Search many of the features, security being one, are locked away behind commercial licenses. With Meili it seems they are, for the time being anyway, going with a proper open source version. I understand Elastic needs to earn money, and I get their licensing model to accomplish this. But Meili will probably steal away a good portion of customers interested in self hosting their search solution.
yes, so? can't we parse beyond the opening statement of the comment, and see the rest of its content?

can't a comment not reiterate in its opening statement what the author already said (to e.g. show the commentor's aggrement)?

this is too formulaic and pedantic a response