skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I generally buy a new PC when I can get a solid 2x speed improvement in all of the applications that matter to me. Same with the OS. They are generally upgraded at the same time, as upgrading an existing Windows installation is always a giant bag of hurt.

That's why I'm still running Win7 on a 3 GHz Sandy Bridge from 2011 (and am continually amazed/saddened at how long it's lasted.)

It's coming close to the time when it will make sense to upgrade to a Win10 or Win11 box with an i9 or Ryzen 9 and a 4090 GPU. But I'm not quite there yet, and not at all looking forward to it.

Phone-wise I'm in exactly the same boat. I still use an iPhone 6, and am still very happy with it. It's coming to the end of its second battery lifetime, runs fewer applications every day, and unfortunately I do need a better camera. So I'll have to upgrade pretty soon.

In neither case would a RAM upgrade be the slightest bit useful. I wish it were that simple.
> Also, actors don't get paid if the movie doesn't go well?

Sometimes they don’t. It depends on what deal they are on. Heh, you need to follow your own advice you gave to some random person on this website some days ago. You should google before you say something.
That is extremely confusing for comparisons, which are effectively a subtraction.
While I am not a skia person, an use case I could imagine is (flutter) web apps.

Flutter currently has 2 ways to run something on the web:
1. CanvasKit. Primarily, this uses webgl. Though, the app has to download a kind of webGl runtime on the first launch, iirc. If the browser does not support openGl, it will use Skia with a Canvas frontend, leading to blurry and poor performance results
2. webRender. This is flutter's way of trying to make a HTML DOM, but its not that great either.
It's inconsistent with the rest of the flutter implementations, and has performance issues because it's not really mature/optimized and has a virtual Dom.

I think an exciting use case would be something like 1. Instead of the blurry image and bad performance of canvas redrawing, it might try to manipulate an SVG in the browser. This is pure speculation tho, correct me if I'm wrong.
>It's quite a sensation overcoming the "need" of breathing.

Indeed there are many ways to experience it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27159001
The Templates section provides a bit of information about specific governance structures, but what are the little boxes below each one that say stuff like Values and Membership, and sometimes they're nested?
> where you do everything right

everything except for, as Suhail points out, picking the wrong side of a technical trend to bet on. All the technical wizardry in the world can't save you from bad strategy.
Yes. Making a macro for defining enums isn't that hard (there's one here: https://github.com/cgay/uncommon-dylan/blob/master/enum.dyla...).

I, for one, welcome my whitespace-surrounded operator overlords, but if you really don't want that you're welcome to use function-call syntax for them.
Why are there no flaming <hr> . Also needs the "under construction" gifs.
Calling it "recently" is a bit of a misnomer. The "experimental/svg/model/..." content was added almost five years ago.
It's funny how many things come down to 'UNIX hackers did it this way when they had to work with a PC'
HN commenters pretty often ask what is a good use case of blockchains or cryptocurrencies.

Well, the failures you are seeing now are not in the blockchain native finance. They are failures of traditional finance in an unregulated industry. Celsius, BlockFi, Crypto.com, FTX... are corporations with opaque balance sheets operating in a poorly regulated sector. While all of that crap built on greed is imploding you have DeFi (short for decentralized finance, i.e. Finance primitives built on-chain) working just as intended and with 0 risk of contagion, by design.

What we are seeing is once again that traditional final is very brittle and requires very strict regulation to hope nothing breaks, when not outright requiring to be saved by socializing the losses (2008).

Blockchains solve this, they do. And we are seeing a magnificent stress test of it.
I think you might want to expand your concerns beyond death. I don’t know a woman who doesn’t hand a first or second hand account (I.e. they directly experienced or directly know someone who has experienced) significant up to life threatening health complications during or shortly after pregnancy.

Additionally it’s known that pregnancy permanently alters the bones and makes them more fragile.
I knew this was going to be about my friend Paul even before I clicked on it! He’s a really lovely guy who does so much good for the world.

I don’t really have much of substance to add here, but yeah, he really is working to make the world a better place.
Check out the component model proposal, which adds a stable ABI for rich types like strings, arrays, structs, etc.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
>I don’t think having limited I/O means is enough to restrict something from being generally intelligent

I agree, and the converse seems to me to be true as well - being unable to abstract that limited I/O in such a way as to expand perception into other parts of reality definitely means it is not generally intelligent. If you give a human a visual interface and a book eventually it (or some descendant of it) will intuit what the book is for (abstraction of audible information transfer in a visual media) and figure out how to get the information out of that book. Until an AI can do the same kind of general learning it's not an AGI.

Once we make one that is able to do that I think it's about a wrap for the biological format of the human race. We'll still exist, in the same way that bacteria and lemurs still exist, but the frontier of human development will no longer be in wetware.
I think the opposite, house prices will almost halve.
That is an excellent write up, thanks.
it varies, but usually opening the windows is plenty of ventilation unless it's not an option (e.g., because it's too hot or too cold outside)

it's much more common to wish for bigger windows because you're hot than because you're falling asleep

by virtue of stuffing 30 people into a single room you force them to compromise on environmental conditions; whoever's out in the tails of the distribution or has low social status is going to get screwed over because the resulting compromise will favor average people and people of high social status

that's just how compromises work, people struggle to promote their conflicting interests, so popular people and people with popular interests win

but typically you can still find a compromise that's pretty okay for 90+% of people

(1000 ppmv - 420 ppmv) co₂ = 580 ppmv co₂

r 20° / 1 atm = 24 ℓ/mol

1 kg co₂ / day / 人 = 11.6 mg co₂ / s / 人

30 人 · 11.6 mg co₂ / s / 人 / (44 g co₂/mol co₂) = 7.9 mmol co₂ / s (a classroom)

7.9 mmol co₂ / s · 24 ℓ/mol = 0.19 ℓ co₂ / s

0.19 ℓ co₂ / s / 580 ppmv co₂ = 330 ℓ / s (of air)

in medieval units that's about 700 'cfm'

if the classroom has 10 m² of open windows you're fine, even an undetectable draft of 0.03 m/s is sufficient, but if it has 1 m² you need a barely detectable breeze of 0.3 m/s, if it has 0.1 m² you need a pretty noticeable breeze of 3 m/s ('light breeze' on the beaufort scale), and if it has a little 100-mm-square register you need 30 m/s which is a 'violent storm' on the beaufort scale (above 'whole gale')

at 'fresh breeze' (8–11 m/s) you need 300–400 cm² of window

well designed ventilation systems can provide this kind of airflow while controlling the temperature and humidity but they are at a big disadvantage because 300–400 cm² of window is a lot smaller than 300–400 cm² of duct

sometimes that's not what matters most tho
The New Gnostics – From neopaganism to cryptocurrency cults
Poking the bear never ends well.

This whole situation is beginning to resemble what happened to Alibaba's Jack Ma when he decided that he could speak out against the Chinese communist government. To keep it short, it did not go well for him and his companies.
This is what I was thinking. Now these politicians are tied to a corrupt/fraudulent billionaire. Would you want your name attached to Madoff?
The nice thing about box breathing is that, unlike pursed lips for example, you can do it without anyone noticing, by quietly breathing through your nose. So if you're in a stressful meeting, you can calm yourself without anyone noticing :)
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It’s my observation that only developers really notice or care about speed. As long as something is “fast enough” (and the benchmark here is pretty low), most people won’t specifically choose a fast app over a slow app with more features.

This means that sometimes we put too much emphasis on speed. But it is not as important to everyone else as it is to us. A product with the defining feature “it is fast”, usually fails to get noticed except by other developers.
The economic fallout is correctible, but fixing the loss of faith in the foundation of our economy, that diligent work will be rewarded with comfort and stability, will be harder.
Pulling many records leads to n*n optimization problems. Which leads to run-away rpcs.
If you want to destroy someone’s productivity for a day, link them to tvtropes.
Having had a drug problem at one point and having learned well out to titrate off of drugs, I feel it's helped me a lot with sugar. They function basically the same. You don't need it, but if you take it you feel nice. You also will then crave more, and feel sick if you don't take it in. The key isn't to stop all at once but to slowly lower the amount you take in over time and let your body slowly adjust.
Apparently a free model works perfectly well. I am using Jellyfin happily. Why should I use Plex when Jellyfin works without all the cruft? The developers working on Jellyfin are doing perfectly fine in their endeavors. Is your suggestion that a project is deserving of more use if it is paid for rather than free? Are free projects poisoning the well for all of us trying to make money off of software? Not sure what point you are trying to make.
The Dutch have €2.2B tied up in cryptocurrencies
I don't think I'd go as far as to claim flow is bad, but there's something to that.

I'm a long term emacs user and between changing keyboards a few times and an unfortunate spell of a few years using an IntelliJ-based IDE with Emacs Keybindings that are far better than most but inevitably off (most infuriatingly, to conclude an incremental search you use Ctrl-g, which in actual emacs jumps you back to where you started the search) my reflexes are all over the place. I'm therefore having to force myself to slow down and be consciously aware of everything I do.

I'm finding it a really useful exercise for more than just the retraining aspect. It does seem to increase my overall engagement with the task I'm carrying out, beyond just the operation of the tool.
There's several GB/s of bandwidth from disk to screen these days, so unless you're processing several GB of data you have no excuse for anything in your programs to take more than a second.

It's an insult really, such incredible waste of all the potential processing power we all have.
Anyone still bragging on the basis of GDP in the year of our lord 2022 can safely be disregarded.
I am thoroughly enjoying watching the downfall of this fool.
Most assemblers for Intel syntax will let you write:

add eax, [4]

if you desire. Indeed, many disassemblers will follow suit in unambiguous cases. IDA, for example, does this.
we should also notice that intelligence is not necessarily useful
Backends for Frontends. An alternative to making "one API to rule them all". Far less time spent trying to model an API in an abstract way that makes sense to many consumers.

Instead, an API and the endpoints are designed for a specific client. (e.g. A Mobile App or SPA) For us, this also meant a more RPC based API where and reusability is managed after the network hop.

https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/
I think a music player might be a good one. I have my older music on computers at home or stored in cloud storage (not media services). I could imagine putting together a web app, mobile app, or both to be fun and interesting. Maybe fork an existing opensource project so that you get full control of expressing your preferences.
> If they abandon them "literally", sure. If they decide they don't want to care for the child and give it up for adoption, they don't face any

The parent meant that carrying a baby to term has consequences for women's health regardless of what happens to the child afterwards. There are short term, long term and permanent physical and mental (via physical hormone changes) effects. Especially if a cesarean is needed, recovery can take a long time.
Agree with you on this: Skills first, tools later. Nevertheless, great tools do help. Great PM skills and the RIGHT tools would be the best combination.
Those CGA textmode graphics modes are fun. I once wrote a fractal zoomer that worked at 160x100 16c or 80x100 ... many colours, depending on which dither characters I used.

Glad to see someone driving the technique to the extreme!
Those are incredibly pessimistic numbers for power plants and optimistic numbers for ICE. On average 5% of the electricity transmitted and distributed in the United States is wasted your other numbers are similarly inaccurate.

ICE engines are only ~30% efficient under optimal conditions, idling still consumes fuel and engines idle a lot in normal driving including coasting down a large hill, slowing down, stoplights etc. Similarly turning on and heavy acceleration etc is extremely inefficient. This is where the primary benefit comes for hybrid cars not regenerative breaking.

Also, comparing gasoline to electricity ignores all the energy required to make gasoline. Oil refineries both use serious amounts of energy and release massive quantities of CO2 directly.
Partially true. You can get away with a more efficient thermodynamic cycle on the ICE due to the more uniform load on the engine so they can be more efficient.
Lazarus. Native fast compact code that compiles from small ARM boards to big PCs.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
Do you doubt me? From your tone, and from the downvotes I have recieved, I guess so. However, I saw luckylion’s post in a state of being banned. I vouched for it, and I saw it be unbanned. Furthermore the moderators have described the mechanism, and listed the words as they were at one point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23258425#23269284
What are you talking about? If you eat a diet that has the required number of calories and nutrients designed for a healthy-weight person, your body weight will drop accordingly.

The factors that lead someone to overeat is a totally different question the answer to which should be figured out by themselves or maybe their psychologist. In most cases it's not that dire though, once their initial withdrawal from fast food stops people stop having these impulses to reach for a doughnut each time they're inconvenienced. In any case, your problems in life should be treated by dealing with the problems directly and not making themselves feel better by stuffing their face.
This is a chapter in the "copyright law is broken" saga. Google would expose itself to legal risks if it were to intervene. The only way to lift the DMCA mark is to let the issue go to court (and I doubt anyone in this position has the money for that).

The shitty copyright troll who filed the DMCA takedown is the real bad guy in this story.
The discussion here is clearly about COVID isolation and the wild bullshit claims you’re making about history. Being in a community of even 3 households isn’t remotely similar to a single adult in COVID isolation and that should be obvious.

You’re doing a great job ignoring any criticism of your claims.
How about life/career coach? If you have any passion in the area of human psychology, obviously.
Indeed. Most companies which are cited as 'running the whole system as a monolith' aren't really a monolith. They don't actually run their CMS, their online comment system, their payment processing, their payroll, their recruitment databases, their build pipelines, their bug tracker, and their hardware asset management system, all out of one codebase with a single RDBMS on the backend.

People will laugh at that concept, but go look at how mainframe systems work, and you might be surprised how close some old banking systems are to that level of monolithicness. There really are companies who run essentially all of those systems off a single ERP platform. Or worse, on Sharepoint.
since it's well known that many police departments weed out recruits with high IQs I don't think there's general agreement on your closing sentiment.
It seems with electric cars there is always another compaint. First came the long tail pipe argument, I think even the most ardent of naysayers have realised that that one is bullshit.

Then the batteries were going to be scattered about the countryside. Except most of them are still in cars, the demand for batteries from crashed damaged cars is high and the life even in early models appears to exceed expectations.

The reality is that Tesla has replaced the Ferrari as the car to aspire to. Nissan have even started producing their e-power cars who's main advantage is that they drive like an electric car (using a petrol engine as generator). Electric cars are going to be a thing, the only limit it battery tech and to my mind that only changes the eventual market share, if some of the battery tech pans out it could be close to 100%. I'm expecting more 60% or so, battery tech will be good enough for most people.
Gwydion Dylan has been out of the picture for years. Open Dylan is the only maintained implementation. Perhaps you went down a wrong path....
So… animals
A lot of this is complete hokum, and it’s frustrating because the people who should know better end up being the most caught up in the pseudoscience…

Edit (don't want to give folks a second comment do downvote into oblivion): I need y'all to understand, "Just try it." is not the counterargument you think it is. I'd expect that from Scientologists and homeopathy advocates. I don't need to "just try" NSAIDs to believe they work, and plenty of people feel "good" after visiting a chiropractor despite that being much more obvious and clear hokum.

And no, one or a dozen studies do not validate a damn thing on their own. There is not the level of consensus you think there is when it comes to any of this, the article even points this out at the top.
Binary Posters
Github integration is not available at the moment, but we do plan to add it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Extending from ajuc's spot-on answer, a lot of those downvotes also come from how this works:

1. Fossil fuel companies are desperate to prolong profitability and avoid legal penalties. They fund unqualified people (e.g. Stephen Milloy) to come up with ways to claim the science isn't settled or to attack the motives of environmentalists. “These people aren't as green as they should be” is a popular approach since humans love to roast hypocrites.

2. Those people are basically constantly A/B testing random brain-farts to see which ones get some traction.

3. The ideas which work well early on start moving from the promoter's personal Twitter/Facebook/blog to Reason.com or Watts Up With That and, if successful, move up to Fox News or The Wall Street Journal.

By numbers, most people hear about this in the latter stages of step 3. That means that when someone gets all fired up about the hot scientific news they got from Tucker and starts repeating it, anyone who cares about the subject has not only heard about it before but has seen it debunked repeatedly, too. That tends to get instant downvotes, just as people do not read spam.

You can see a contrast here: when someone posts something original and shows that they've done some homework, they get plenty of engagement.
Is it not reasonable to expect that the keyword "share" functions the same as the share button? I don't know the standards you have for the things you buy, but I find unacceptable that a thing I paid (handsomely) for twists my orders to share adverting to my contacts under my name, and part of the reason things are so bad is because at every valid criticism there are people defending these stuff as normal
It's really hard to find downsides to these that are not just pure FUD. They really are better than the alternatives in all ways.

We will look back at the days of gas powered engines like we do at steam powered locomotives.
That's why I said "men as a whole having problems conceiving", but I could have been clearer. So to clarify:

Whether the supposed "male infertility crisis" is actually resulting in any significant real-world consequences is not even close to settled. The average level of sperm is still well within the range of having children without issue, with plenty of "extra room". Worries about a supposed "crisis" are really about extrapolating if it continues to fall linearly for many decades to come, as opposed to simply plateauing at a perfectly functional level.

In other words, it's kind of like saying there's a "handshake crisis" in that, because people are shaking hands with less force, at some point we won't have the strength to shake hands at all. Which is obviously ludicrous (for handshakes).

So whether this is a "crisis" or just a perfectly fine new equilibrium level really depends on whether you think it's caused by environmental poisons accumulating (and so things will get worse), or just a gentler culture that has no need for unnecessarily high testosterone or sperm counts, where everything's still well within "normal" range.
Yea, I agree. Was gonna say the same thing. :)

Image search show some pics and a few interesting things they found in the river along the way:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=River+Roding+Trust&atb=v269...
I've walked many times along the Roding, at various points from Chigwell to Barking, where it joins the Thames. For some of that length, it's a typical rural river, with wildlife and clear water.

A high point was discovering a wild bee hive! Sadly, the bees were dying off, and it was gone the next time I went there... Another high point was cycling there when it had flooded and innundated the footpath. Trying to remain dry, I accidentally stumbled in. So I resigned myself, and cycled through the water up to my thighs - and discovered that it wasn't as difficult (or cold) as I'd imagined!

But when it gets to Ilford - that's when the garbage builds up. Urban rivers are typically disgusting. Barking (mentioned in the article) once had a thriving river trade, and it shows... Housing estates, small industry, neglect and contempt all combine to make it a rather grim stretch of river.

I'm really glad someone's taking action to clean it up...
Maybe you'd find the story of how I transitioned out of tech into psychotherapy interesting: http://glench.com/WhyIQuitTechAndBecameATherapist/
I don't think you argue. You're always free to choose some other insurer if you disagree with the premium they're quoting you.
Being in the flow is not being on automatic.

It's the absolute opposite, you are totally conscious about what you are doing, and clear headed about the decisions you make.

It does feel effortless, but not in the sense that you are not doing the thing consciously, rather in the sense that the thing seems so obvious and easy as you perform in perfect fluidity.
I'm not familiar with the Apple ecosystem. But it is my understanding that Safari does this too indeed. That does not make it right.

> Having untrusted third party code intercept all of your request is a privacy concern

Indeed, but I trust uBlock Origin. More than Google's software.

In any case, extensions are a privacy concern themselves. I still want to be able to install them. Those I trust. Google does have a review phase in their almost mandatory Play Store anyway, they could use this instead of removing useful features if that's their concern.