skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like any tea, yerba has a long shelf life if stored properly. It's true it used to take some sleuthing and a bit of luck to track down a bag of yerba at a nearby supermarket in the U.S., and even if you managed to find some you were unlikely to have more than a couple brands to choose from (in a supermarket in Buenos Aires, there are typically dozens). But these days you can order just about any brand of yerba you like on Amazon for the same price or less than buying it in the store, and it will be FedExed to your door in only a few days. As I write this, I'm drinking a mate made with a very fresh bag of La Tranquera. Bárbaro!
I see a new song coming: Bahamian Rhapsody

"Mamaaa, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away"
> Assuming it's not supposed to change how you feel (directly) - what is the purpose of being conscious of how you feel?

Because it can manifest in how you communicate and treat others. Recognizing your emotional state doesn't necessarily change it, but it can change how you react to your feeling. Recognition precedes reaction -- or rather, reaction with conscious intent.
I read the whole thing, it's a damning account and he's never going to work in finance again.
KVM Switches
I have been switching my USB peripherals (dongles mostly) and display ports for a while now within my desktop setup, and just now become aware of existence of these. I'm wondering how does this kind of switching work with e.g. Bluetooth.

EDIT: Apparently, based on HN search, many HN users have realized the same within the past few years.
Anything that does syntax highlighting, jumps to definition and allows you to install additional packages/functionality is an IDE and everything else that you call an IDE is actually bloatware (see, I can do that too.)

No, I don't need to freaking have a goddamn FTP and SSH client built into the tool that I so heavily rely on every day just because there is a use case for it in someone's brain that is orthogonal to the vast majority of its users'.

Also fuck the evil that is Codespaces.
>The technology future I was sold was one where technology becomes cheaper over time, not more expensive.

Contrary to popular belief, high-end cards actually are priced appropriately. It's the low to midrange cards that are ludicrously overpriced; their price-performance ratios make them terrible investments.

The RTX3050 (250) is 2 times more expensive than the 1070 (125) and is 10% faster than that card.

The RTX3060 (400) is 3 times more expensive than the 1070 (125) and is 40% faster than that card.

The RTX3080 (750) is 3 times more expensive than the 3050 (250) and is 300% faster than that card.

The RTX4090 (1600) is 2 times more expensive than the 3080 (750) and is 200% faster than that card.

The high-end GPUs are currently vastly cheaper per unit of performance than the midrange cards and have been for the last 2 years (the 3080 was twice the price of the 3070, but had twice the performance). And that completely destroys the value proposition (and PCMR cache) of PC gaming over just buying a console (IIRC both the newest ones have the functional equivalent of an RTX2060).

And so it shouldn't be a surprise that people continue to bitch about "yet another overpriced card". What the builder market needs is a 3080 competitor at the 500-dollar price point to forcibly correct the pricing of the cheaper cards down to the 200 dollars the secondary market reveals they're actually worth; once that happens, the pricing structure will likely begin to return to normal. (It's also weird that nobody talks about this.)

Of course, there's always the possibility that the RTX 5000 series doubles in speed (and price) again; after all, not only have gamers proven they'll pay for 3080s at massive markups, but companies training ML models will pay top dollar to cut the time that takes in half. Intel seems to have bet on it; taking advantage of in-house fabrication + that market gap is what Arc was made to do, but it only survives provided current price/performance ratios stay the way they are for a little while longer.
We really just need generative prompts and AI to decimate the field of dataviz.

99.999% of anything ever done in D3 is 100% useless visualization. The whole field of dataviz is largely much ado about nothing.

I just can't imagine in the next 10 years we don't see a generative prompt that spits out something with D3 and we can move on to something more useful. The end goal is easily described in natural language. We shouldn't need Oppenheimer as the project manager to make some SVG boxes and lines.
I think this sentiment usually comes from people who have no experience with the problem, and who are used to being contrarians, especially with regards to drugs like marijuana.

The authority figure in their lives lied to them about marijjana, and now they think they they’re lying again about fentanyl.

Fentanyl is a poison. It’s killing people. It is not like marijuana.
What OS(flavour) are you running? How do you do OS upgrades/patches?
People mention it all the time (you just di). It's just not what this conversation was about.
> SBF didn’t believe in his effective altruism slogan.

That's not what I meant.

What I meant is that before FTX's implosion, anything you would read, hear, or see about SBF would make it seem as if he actually believed in it!
I would not call writing 15 lines of python code in a throw-away notebook a bazooka. It is just a code snippet.
Because turning it into a workable product takes time, money and effort.

As brilliant as SerenityOS is, it's still missing huge swaths of functionality people take for granted these days. Things like WiFi and GPU drivers and good audio/video decoders in the web browser, for example.
One of the pieces of advice I received from the founder of a startup I once worked for is that you don't give out C-level titles at a young company other than what is legally required (i.e. a CEO). The reason is that when you likely get acquired there isn't a massive shock for those C-level employees since they're almost certainly not getting a C-suite position at the acquiring organization.

Instead, all of the startup execs had VP titles. When we got acquired by a large corporation, many of them went down to Senior Manager titles, a few being able to get Director titles. I suppose a cynic might argue this is actually about the ego of the startup CEO, but after seeing it in action I believe it was good advice and have used it in my own startup.
Yes: https://aps-repo.bvs.br/aps/a-erva-mate-possui-acao-terapeut...

"""
Yerba mate consumption has been associated with the incidence of oropharyngeal and esophageal cancer, however, this seems to be mainly related to the habit of some people to drink the drink at very high temperatures. The ideal water temperature is 70 to 80ºC.
"""

It's in Portuguese unfortunately. Some people drink at 90oC almost the boiling point.
I'm disappointed that there aren't more conversations about the merits of "distributed" vs "decentralized". Federated addresses really seem better suited for a distributed approach. Decentralization would encourage that everyone run their own instance, but in that case, what's even the point of the Fediverse?
Going through massive heart pain and left arm pain
Failed to get diagnostics from doctors, hospital
Going through life in pain
So playing video game and playing guitar
Talking to Friends on Discord.
I am chatting with my Mom on the phone planning Christmas. My dad died over 26 years ago and I am an only child so we always do our own thing.

I am heading to Recurse Center in January and thinking about what I am going to do. Reading more HN than usual seeking inspiration and/or confirmation.

I keep circling around computer graphics and flow based programming. I have been following Ben Houstons work with his behavior graph library and I dont think I want to built Yet Another Node Based Execution engine. But building a poor-man's frankenstein houdini clone might tickle my brain.

But I also want to explore how flow based programming could related to infrastructure management tools.

Choices... choices...
I'm not saying that they shouldn't do it. I'm only exposing its consequences.
> when I say "javascript ecosystem", I'm talking about Node

Can you change your habits?

> I'm talking about NodeJS, npm and the problems with it

So how about just saying that?

> and that's clear

It's not. A person doesn't have to go all in on Sapir–Whorf to recognize that this is fraught with peril.

The original article that you fall back on for support doesn't even agree with you; the argument that the author makes (explicitly, even) is that this actually is a JS-and-not-just-NodeJS problem.

Nor do your earlier remarks agree; you're ignoring now the pushback on your earlier remarks that escape is essentially/almost "impossible". Feels like you're going for a motte-and-bailey here (a type of bait-and-switch argument; see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy>).
> But it chews up battery and Apple bans the iOS version for no good reason.

I'm not Apple defender at all, but if they did that I would say chewing battery unnecessarily is a pretty good reason. Of course they would likely have other reasons, actually not good ones, too.
for sure, chris dixon blocks anyone on twitter than doesnt cheerlead web3
> While man might not have changed much inherently, their environment has changed profoundly and seemingly not for the better.

Depends on which man, or woman. I would say the environment has changed for the better for quite a few.
Huh, it's been years since I thought about Drupal. I actually got my first major start in the tech field developing Drupal solutions for various organizations and companies. I remember the war room we put together for upgrading our clients, and all the testing we did to make sure the dozens of modules and themes would work correctly.

I always thought Drupal was great because it allowed less-technical folks to really build an interactive web application without having to write any code. We occasionally had to dive into some PHP or JavaScript, but in general we built great websites without having to do much "custom" coding beyond the themes.
When I got to this point I reacted immediatelly thinking that it was pointless. And then ... it wasn't pointless, I actually felt more at ease after I found the "right colour" for the feelings I picked. No idea how that works.
I'd suggest waiting 4~24 hours (NOT the deluge of breathless 30 minute write-ups that will be coming) for some popular science news outlets to write about it and provide context. Ars Technica is my outlet of choice, but I'd welcome other suggestions.
According to the NY Times:

"The government official, who spoke anonymously to discuss results that are not yet public, said that the fusion experiment at NIF achieved what is known as ignition, where the fusion energy generated equals the laser energy that started the reaction. Ignition is also called energy gain of one."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/science/nuclear-fusion-en...
You have no idea how mRNA vaccines work if you think this.
"Sanitation expert and a maintenance engineer

Garbage man, a janitor and you my dear

A real union flight attendant, my oh my

You ain't nothin' but a waitress in the sky"

Waitress in the Sky, by The Replacements.
No, it was racially segregated, sexually repressive, diligently anti-communist, mindlessly nationalist and controlled by a tiny group of corporations and the federal government.

What history are you pretending exists?
>Macros are the only reason why you would need vim today...

I'm a sysadmin, not a rockstar like you coding types. I edit config files, and (lately) edit .csv's for management so excel can show them what they want to see.

My servers are a mix of AIX/RHEL/FreeBSD. I'm stuck with AIX for all the 'important stuff' so usually need to copy the files over to a RHEL box so I can atleast use a modern incarnation of vim over vi.
I actively use windows, macos and linux. They all suck and they're all great. You just have to know what you want in different contexts and use the best tool for the task.

You can control linux more but you also have to babysit it more as it is so sensitive and fragile.
I liked "unless" in Perl and also the

X if Y
X unless Y

syntax. I want to see some language that brings back the "noise words" from COBOL for that matter.
That website is beautiful!
Don’t spend your time in this world bringing people down to prevent them from climbing higher than you. Lift them up. You’ll know you’ve got it right when they reach back down and give you a hand up.

Your character is yours alone to write.
It's also slow AF. One of the slowest modern sites I have seen. Why does every page load take so long?
In what other languages does 0 evaluate to true?
From the article:

"The system will create a "hash" or a unique fingerprint of each piece of content that gets saved onto a database. Companies can use the tool to create and run their own databases, but they can also use existing hash databases to make sure they have everything covered."

So, it sounds like the definition of "terrorist content" would depend on what dataset the tool is used with. In theory, this would allow developers to build their own datasets based on their own definitions. In practice, however, I suspect most developers would just use one of the existing datasets. So I guess the definition of "terrorist content" would depend on whichever threat dataset is most popular.
And Windows Me.
As far as that goes, Oracle prohibits the installation of their database on btrfs (note 2290489.1: "Oracle DB has specifically said that they do not support using BTRFS filesystems... BTRFS is optimized for non-database workloads.").

XFS for databases is what is used on tpc.org, but perhaps these new improvements may help.
It's not clear how much these sorts of signs help. You're still liable if you were grossly negligent in some way.

One place I've been told liability waivers are useful is with activities that can potentially be dangerous. It can make it harder to make a credible a claim that you didn't know you could have a fall while hiking harder. Though, honestly in most cases no one reads these things and, again, gross negligence on the part of a guide or other leader isn't absolved anyway.
Weird, 'half-baked, heavy' is how I'd describe Jira. It does so much, without cohesion; the only thing its myriad features align on is making it slow and clunky!

Try moving an issue for a fun one - it throws you into some janky full-page multi-step form, except it's all done on step 2 and there's seemingly no reason it couldn't have been done from the more 'app-like' UI you were previously in. I don't know if it is, but it gives me a very Java vibe - but maybe I'm just being unfair to Java.
Did you spend a lot on advertising? Or were you able to grow mostly organically?
I am aware of plenty of people on both of the above. Hardly "designer"
Yes, no idea what the OP is going on about.
I think part of the problem is that criminalization of heroin is what made fentanyl so wide spread, since it is much smaller volume and easier to smuggle about. A side effect is that it's much easier to dose incorrectly and kill people. If opioids could be decriminalized, then people may be given access again so safer versions of the drug. Also other benefits like getting testing kits from police etc. without the fear of jail time.
This was my issue with running OpenWRT on my routers, and FreeNAS. It stopped being an investing hobby and became a part time network admin job. Do I have less control over my network? Sure, but also more time doing other things in my life.
I'm eagerly awaiting the LegalEagle video on this. I'm doubtful it's actually as bad for him as it looks to the uninformed observer.
CircleCI built a visual pipeline builder in VSCode
Yikes. A backup solution that was sold, but not configured (at all! not to mentioned non-tested backups), was a very frequent occurrence whenever I inherited clients (in the 2000-2010s, before AWS took over the world, or simple VM snapshots at most other hosts).

(I'm not defending anyone here, I think it's how horrible many hosting companies where was back then, or still are, whenever they have sales teams that only aim to up-sell stuff and do not bother getting it properly implemented)
As I said, it is the one of the very few things the series kind of got wrong. It was unneeded, sure, but overall it showed everyone who helped the clean up in a "good" way. E.g. by having them speak without an accent to show they are Russian. Or by showing the efgort of the Liquidators on the ground. I can live with some dramatization, it is after all entertainment.
The response does not disagree with Hossenfelder. It just points out, that Q_Plasma is a useful metric to track progress for research and science projects on fusion. However for building a useful fusion power plant only Q_Total is relevant in the end. This has been misrepresented very often and Hossenfelders criticism is absolutely justified.
So having a self avowed Neo-Nazi invited back into the room, who cannot be reported, is “virtually no difference”?
I never used macOS, only Linux and the BSDs (windows decades ago). But in the past I have recommend macOS to people rather than Windows due to its UN*X roots.

I do not know far it has strayed from UN*X in recent years, but from what I have read, macOS is getting more and more locked down.

Also, seems many Linux distros is slowly straying away. The rare few that stays close to the UN*X roots are having a tough time staying that way.

I wonder how hard it is these days to install free third party software on macOS. Or do you need to go through the "MAC Store" to install anything ? If so, that is reason enough for me not to use macOS.
When I was involved with univs the labs were bursting at the seams with hardware, because companies abounded who loved nothing more than dumping product on us at cheap or free, especially if we'd get students using it.
> Just to give some perspective that I don’t think HN really gets: most of my friends have increased their twitter usage.

So your friends are using twitter more and you just assume everyone else does too? Have you considered that people who have other opinions exist and theirs is as valid as yours?
Do we need social media? Can this just be the age of "maybe we should all stop mindlessly scrolling through crap we dont care about"
'e' ^ 'f' ^ 'g' == 0x40. Uh-oh.

Edit: I misread the post; my bad. The post effectively uses a bit vector to store the last N chars in a window, and the bit vector happens to fit in a single machine word. Also, XOR happens to be a good way to update the bit vector, because it turns out it's sufficient to store how many times each character appears in the window mod 2.

So to be clear, my "demonstration" above only works because the ASCII representations of e, f, and g are not linearly independent with respect to xor. However in the article, the representations of all of the characters are chosen to be a linearly independent set.
Pretty much. Most modern drugs are a far, far more potent version of something that came before. Depending on how far you go with it, you could even apply this principle to the cigarette. The safer, lower-dose version is to chew tobacco leaves.

There are many reasons for the popularization of more concentrated drugs, but the two big ones are that more potent drugs generally make for cheaper doses, and that it's more profitable to create addicts than to create satisfied customers.

The latter is also an increasing problem outside the drug space, e.g. gambling and pay-to-win video games.
The brand I use says that about their product:

"Our Yerba Mate is 100% air dried through a process that use warm air instead of smoke. That drying system enable the leaves to be free of PAHs. This creates a safe, healthy and light tasting yerba mate."

I don't know if the claim is true or not.
I know that, but don't like it that much. What's acceptable though is Club Mate Granat. That is blended with some pomegrenade juice, and looks red. Recommended.

Also still available for €0,89 per 0,5L where I live :-)
Remember that "declines" in this context just means that prices are going up slightly slower than they were before. It doesn't mean anything's getting any cheaper.
We had a laser printer in our computer lab that would, once in a while, shift the subscript in a mathematical formula several centimeters to the right. This was in a LaTeX-produced document. In those days, the path to print was LaTeX to dvi, dvi to PostScript, then send the PS file to the printer. I got hold of a LaTeX file exhibiting the problem. Oddly, if I made any change to the document before the problem spot, no matter how insignificant, the problem would go away.

So I dove into the generated PS file, located the code setting the subscript, noting that it placed the subscript using the rmoveto operator. The ‘r’ is for relative: It would take a pair of coordinates off the stack, add those to the current position, and move the current point to the new location.

So I added some code to the PS file, first to collect some information along the way, and then print it out at the bottom of the page. I turned out that the rmoveto operator got it wrong! So what to do?

I replaced the rmoveto operator by a few lines of PostScript reading the current position, do the addition, and then execute a moveto operator instead. That cured the problem! The next step was to put that code into a small job exectuting the magic operator exitserver (reads the printer password off the stack), followed by my redefined rmoveto operator. The effect is now global and applies to all print jobs until the printer is power cycled. So that print job went into a cron job running every 15 minutes. Problem solved! That hack was left in place until the printer was retired, years later.
Twitter use is up because everyone wants to see the sometimes insane tweets put their by their top leadership. I had never used twitter prior to Elon taking over, and I made an account to check it out for a week or two.

Ultimately stopped using it because it isn’t really for me. I also don’t care enough for anyone’s opinion that much that I’m willing to scroll through insanity, bots, and a holes to find a nugget. But I’m sure millions of others do enjoy that.

HN is my fav social media lol.
Cornell leads $3M project to grow organic dry bean industry
You don't need money going back for it to be the case that the big fish will be fine, have many avenues for recourse, and the small people will be completely and thoroughly burned.
Users care that their website connection is secure and private. They don't care who owns the website. Even if they did, EV certs still let you bamboozle them: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...

On the other hand, Let's Encrypt has _securely_ issued billions of DV certs, automatically and for free, meaning millions of websites have gone from plaintext to TLS-secured. That has given the world a tangible increase in privacy and security, which is not "mostly pointless". An ideal future is that _every website in the world_ is TLS-secured, and the US Government loses its panopticon
How good is Julia as a general-purpose language? Can it be a viable replacement for, say, Lua in game development?
Yes. It used to be that a great place to leverage this fun fact to your advantage if you were looking to score yerba in the U.S. was a middle-eastern grocery. Also fun to have a bag of Cruz de Malta with an ingredients label in Arabic slapped on it. Nowadays, of course, it's easier just to go online.
Clickbaity.
Very clickbaity.
> Today, Emacs is a great retro video game, but you will be kneecapped if relying on it for serious programming work.

I haven't felt like this was true since lsp support matured.

Plus there are big benefits to having the same editor, autocompletion, etc while coding that I already use daily with org-roam.
I really hate what hippies did to nuclear energy. We would've long solved the clean energy problem by now if they hadn't violently opposed anything with the word nuclear