skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No magic advice from me either.

I will say that as a pretty practical, science-minded person, I generally don't get into stuff that seems like woo pseudo-science. But years back I had an agreement with a neurofeedback practitioner (eeg biofeedback) to accept free treatment in exchange for giving her a journal of my experience. And I still believe it helped me quite a bit. It might be some of the same benefits of meditation, but I had never successfully been able to meditate before doing that.

Other than that, I've only got the same probably-trite-sounding drink plenty of water, get lots of sleep, try to keep up your physical activity levels... drink amino acid shakes...

Best of luck to you.
> Some areas really could be cleaned up

Cleaned? People who are homeless are dirt?
A cop died, killed by people who just earlier had insisted that "blue lives matter". Guess they didn't matter that much!
Jetbrains IDE

M5stack's line of ESP32 ucontrollers/peripherals

Stupid cheap mass storage
> the good stuff also includes tiny lumps of calcium carbonate that self heal cracks

According the article, they didn't use calcium carbonate directly. They use quicklime (Calcium oxide) which must be mixed in at very hot temperatures.

When a crack forms, that stuff melts and forms calcium carbonate that seals the crack.
on the other end of the spectrum, did you know concrete can be used to demolish concrete?

dexpan is a special demolition concrete mix that, when poured into holes, expands at 18kpsi. it gets used when jackhammers and explosives cant be used, for example, in refineries and explosive atmospheres.
> Why would they be easier to balance?

Have you balanced a fan? The wobbles aren’t solely at the blade points. Having a blade opposed by nothing helps avoid a problem where one blade balancing throws another off.
I once wrote one mostly in SQL with a Postgres database. It behaved pretty predictably with concurrent usage. I wonder how many trades per second it could do. Postgres itself can handle a lot of the difficult details, but reinventing those wheels for trading in particular can probably get you something faster.
Like some of the power usage discussions here, these numbers surprised me!

Here in northern CA, our water bill for a single-family home on about a 1/3 acre lot might peak around 110 gallons/day in summer so under 3.5k gallons/month, while in other seasons it might be 10-20% less.
Dendrite, written in go. Its super easy to install, is fast and even runs on low specced systems
Neat! Thanks for that context.
Thanks. The explanation there makes sense. Still, this must be a secondary effect since there are plenty of examples of even-bladed and non-prime bladed propellers.
> One more piece, which may or may not be appropriate for you, is utilizing sex workers. Having trauma and pain, it was always a shitty experience for me to seek physical comfort. If you aren't ashamed of it, paying for affection can be a great way to meet your needs in a simple, non-judgemental way that's less emotionally and physically draining.

I would caution against this. Many if not most sex workers are also dealing with significant pain and trauma, and by using and abusing their bodies for your own needs, you are likely to be exacerbating this.

See e.g. https://www.adoptnordicwa.org/uncategorized/insights-into-pr... for an account of what sex work is like 'behind the scenes'.
Do you think pensions are kept in some other types of investments? Here are holdings of California Public Employees Retirement System:

https://stockzoa.com/fund/calpers/
anger/rage is different than violence. You can channel and physicalize anger healthily, but you also have to take it slow when learning how.
haha, didn't see that.
> The Mughals, Marathas, and various regional kingdoms didn't care enough about the Portuguese

Sorry to be that guy, but Marathas cared deeply about Goa and they constantly waged wars against them and liberated most of the territory by 1739. Except tiny enclaves like Daman, Diu and Velha Goa most of the Provincia do Norte including the crown jewel of Baçaim (Vasai) was lost. Velha Goa, Anjidiva etc were saved by a stroke of luck due to the arrival of fresh Portuguese Armada with a new Viceroy.

The current boundaries of Goa were only extended later when the Rajas agreed to merge with Portuguese during Maratha civil war period on 1790s, however the Hindu elites retained most of the autonomy like the Visconde of Pernem.
What Causes a Fever?
We Learned to Be Lonely
> low taxes and low spending?

Almost no one in power in the USA is actually low taxes and low spending. Maybe a few libertarians scattered throughout the country that managed to get a seat but they're a very small minority.

Everyone is all about high taxes and high spending. It's just "high taxes for thee but not for me". So, for instance, republicans will repeal taxes on the rich and large corporations even when we already tax the middle class W2 earners more than the rich already. Similarly, republicans are huge for the MIC. So much for being fiscally conservative when they want to spend literally hundreds of billions of dollars on a stupid boondoggle airplane that no one gives a shit about.

Democrats have the same issues. They also have a hardon for the MIC and spending on stupid shit. The dems in SF will spend it on stupid trashcans or whatever nonsense that doesn't move the bar at all.

They will tax the hell out of the working class and spend the money on shit that doesn't improve the material conditions of everyday people. It's why we can't have healthcare. Both parties have no interest because that doesn't make their lobbyists money.
2023 Google Threat Horizons Report [pdf]
Agreed. But is this not an example of a fundamental attribution error? The structure and incentives of academia creates all the credit grabbing and back stabbing (IMO).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
In my opinion, even "propaganda" in ads doesn't deserve to be banned. Why do we allow propaganda and bias in news media, but arbitrarily draw the line at advertisements?
> harder to vote in america as a poorer person in many areas, arguably on purpose

Is this true in San Francisco?
Really nice looking work! How did you build your landing page and your design? One of the major gaps in my skillset is design/css, so I'm always impressed by good looking sites like yours.
Can you elaborate? What did you buy?
A vacuum canister for oil changes. Just sucks the oil out of the dipstick tube. Great for environment and my back. Best $50 spent this year.
> I wonder if it's less noisy internally at Google with their userspace threading?

No, the Go runtime's the same outside and inside Google. The experience of writing concurrent code is pretty good, the performance is pretty good, and optimizing strace output would be nice but I think isn't at the top of the design priorities. There are also other nice tools for debugging Go, e.g. the built-in CPU, memory, and (iirc) lock contention profiling that are well-integrated with the runtime.

Google's fibers library is C++-only, last I checked. It does help vs other userspace threading libraries in that the same kernel pid is used for the same task, but it's really similar to just threaded C++ otherwise. And typically programs using it still have event-driven threads, as well as fibers dedicated to particular requests, and the two styles do a lot of handoffs.

metadat asked:

> Has any further progress been made in open sourcing this work?

Last I saw was https://lwn.net/Articles/879398/ and https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/E63F4045-E624-47FE-A417-5D2... .
I'm nowhere near your enjoyment but I don't mind most ads on the web. I don't even notice them. And tracking me actually makes the experience even plesurable. I just search for some hobby electronics gadget and suddenly my internet is filled with beautiful photos of circuit boards and microchips, sensors and actuators.

Video ads on the other hand ...
> 'HFTs make money by keeping the market liquid'

Ironically they only really keep the market liquid when the sun in shining. When there is a big crash and you really need liquidity most HFTs disappear.

They have put a lot of highly paid human traders out of business though which is something. The C++ devs might be earning a lot but its less than their predecessors.
Ever since I left all social media and blocked (as much as I could) trackers in my apps and networks, I rarely see any targeted ads now.

I now see completely irrelevant ads for things like stair lifts for the elderly. I quite enjoy not being targeted.
Finally.

Gender pronouns for computer memory.
A relative of mine who's otherwise a smart guy was lamenting rural broadband as an Obama boondoggle since it's never going to pay for itself to run fiber to all of the remote communities in our state... he didn't want to hear about the "P&L" for the road capital/maintenance costs.
I dont know if in a minority ; I always read the comments on a post before I read the article...

I do this here and on reddit as well...

I still read the articles, but I like to grab the gist from comments first, it allows me to be able to read the article faster as I can skim and search at the same time.
That brings back memories! On a related note, I threw boomerangs in college. It felt magical when I first caught one without having to take a step from where I threw it. The idea that a properly-shaped piece of wood, with no motor, batteries, propellers, rubber bands, or anything, could turn around and fly back to its origin was wonderful. I should get back to it.
Do you honestly think that there is a single "useful source of truthful factual information" on this planet? There is not a single organization out there that will not present you facts without some sort of bias or slant.
The “Slicing Problem” for Computational Theories of Consciousness
Are these good these days? I LOVE bread and had bought several of first automatic bread makers in the 1990s. I really tried to use them but they really didn't produce good bread at all reliably. Curious if they work well now. Which one did you get?
There is some talk of PAM-3 or PAM-4 for DDR6, too, but it has nothing to do with array size or how data is stored - it's just the transfer format.
YouTuber Logan Paul’s CryptoZoo NFT project is a total mess
Sounds like a good way to make people slow down.
Good content, you might want to add some padding on the left and right to make it more readable
> agree not to shit on other people's identities

I believe you mean, "agree with me on gender and sexuality". When you take away the tendentious wording, it's a lot less clear that it "should be a given."
Why exactly is the land becoming toxic in this scenario?
> Okay...can I assign tasks? I don't see a way.

Pick from the Essentials column list and add "People" to the task list. Then pick yourself. It'll show up on the homepage.
I did this and then spent two (unplanned, additional) years trying to find another gig. I burned through maybe 2/3 of my savings doing this, and that made for a lot of stress and some dark days.

A break from work is definitely a good thing, but I'd add the suggestion that you get as solid a promise/prospect of re-employment as possible to eliminate stress during your time off.
I really like your sidenodes! They play nicely on mobile too, which is impressive. I always notice how much empty space there is on the desktop view for mine, but I don't want to clutter the page too much for non-huge monitors.
I think people have differing opinions on what a "network" means.

Some people define their network as professionals they know, even casually. That type of network isn't particularly useful. Other networks are people that you've provided some value to in some way so they know you're a valuable resource. Often, this means going out of your way to show value when there's little in it for you. That type of network is much more valuable because you've formed a relationship that goes beyond just "knowing a guy."
> what have they done?

This should be easy to answer once the city starts cutting its budget.
For anyone that did competition math in HS one of the two authors of the main Art of Problem Solving books is also high up at Jane Street, on the trading side. JS sponsors stuff like math prize for girls now.

Obviously there's a potential recruiting benefit to funding contests and posting monthly puzzles and whatnot, but I still think it's a cool vibe that not a lot of other companies have.
>> That’s what journalists and other people who don’t understand the algorithm often miss: the declining block subsidy. This results in Bitcoin’s inflation rate going down

> The inflation rate would go down as well without a declining block subsidy. The latter just makes it go down faster.

Agree.

The interesting question would be: what would have happened to Bitcoin, if it had been designed to have a fixed emission rate instead of halvings every few years?

Maybe it wouldn't even have attracted interest from enough people to become widespread.

Or maybe it would've attracted even more interest.

I think the notion of "fixed supply" attracted many people who see it as a fundamental feature.
Most modern fighter jets have turbofan engines as well.
Why do you want to push your austere approach to purchases on everyone else?
Isn’t it true? Hominids and Homo sapiens were around millions and hundreds of thousands of years, respectively, before technology more advanced than basic tools showed up. And written history seems even shorter than that.

I’m not for sure what feral or neglected children has to do with this.

To address your later point, intelligence does not equal knowledge. Any increase in intelligence in a person’s life seems to be intralifetime and doesn’t spill over to further generations. Increasing intelligence through diet and behaviors and such are just mechanisms for exposing the underlying intelligence that’s already there.
Of course there is an EU regulation regarding the topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_connector

and of course Tesla follows the regulation ;)
Don't the suburbs/banlieues of Paris have quite the reputation as well?
The legally blind leading the blind in practice.
Oh, I think "EMPTY" is the lack of a label? But I can't add labels, I also can't mark things as done.

The screenshots seem more "complete". so either I'm missing something or I just don't have access to a lot of the "beta" features.
> But people will happily pay you $40/sq foot per year for housing,

Some, but most families couldn't afford it.
Nobody was called Russian. _throwawayaway correctly called it a Russian name, you incorrectly replied with "That's an Estonian name", which it isn't.

Most of the Estonians with Russian names do identify as Russian, even if they aren't necessarily Russian nationals. It's an ethnic group, these are ethnic Russians.

> The reason it looks different, is because they're Estonian, so the name will be different

This is false. It's spelled the way it is spelled because that's how Estonian government wants names spelled. Also, because it would be awkward to interact with a society where most people do not know the Cyrillic alphabet.
We call the most recent time consciousness arose in a place it was not before the "Anthropocene extinction event"
Any chance I could get in on this? Sounds like a lot of fun and I love chatting about interesting math problems and meeting like-minded folks!
The big wins here are likely the increase in thrust and ultimately cruise speed, which makes twin props more competitive with very light jets, and the decrease in noise which may make more airports accessible to the aircraft in question due to local noise limitations.

The big loss here is purchase price and maintenance price. But that's on a scale that's probably not bothering a person who can afford a brand new Beechcraft King Air or to completely refurbished a used version of the plane in the video (they quit making the Piper Navajo 30 years ago).
I don't disagree with you, but none of this contradicts the thesis. I am happy to accept that "nicespeak" predates the early 00's and that diplomats routinely engage in it.

I am also happy to accept that it has evolved into a new form, via corporate influence.
> That makes me think to some extent the problem is we have had little continuous feedback from these leaders or even much concentration on goals/expectations. That makes it really tough because you just have to keep outputting and believing it's enough until the end-of-cycle feedback comes in. I've managed to succeed in this environment anyways but it's certainly stressful.

> I've spent some time this cycle trying to mention this to our new manager, so we will see how/if things change.

I got your distaste from the above first paragraph. Earlier, I was asking: what else would have instead of that? I hope I was clear this time.
Low rates have certainly broken a lot of incentive structures that used to work.
Why? People would still be able to appeal to another human court if they disagree with the outcome. Although I believe most cases would be confirmed.
Not sure why you got downvoted, this comment is amazing way to frame this and its almost 100% how I think about it and why I personally hord bunch of stuff.

However, there are other forms of hording that don't fit this - why do I hord and organize full flac albums (adding each in the musicbrainz), ebooks (calibre), resources (audio/video samples).

And also, why do I hord this stuff: all hardware I buy, all medical diagnostics and lab results, personal metrics (bp, weight, etc.)...

Maybe its all preperedness, in fact, for future potential situation. This sounds a lot like FOMO. But what is the difference between FOMO and preperedness?

I am quite certain that I dont have ADHD, maybe a bit of OCD.
It's not the plowing that gets bricks in winter, or not plowing exclusively, it's the freeze-thaw cycling that kills anything with joints. Every grout joint / polymeric sand joint is an opportunity for moisture intrusion and in any climate zone that gets cold enough to freeze, those joints are going to degrade incredibly quickly. Bricks may make sense in the South, but definitely not in most of the US.
I wouldn't call myself a rust evangelist. I prefer Java because it's productive and I can finish projects in it and not have to touch them for years.

FWIW Rust is great for high performance web services, not so much UI stuff. C++ would be better for that.
This is because of the units used. Advertising/sales uses units with factors of 1000 (KB, MB, TB), while computers use factors of 1024 (KiB, MiB, TiB).

So your 1TB is definitely 1000GB. But it's 931 GiB.

Some claim it was easier for consumers to understand factors of 1000 rather than 1024. But conveniently it also makes the number look bigger for no extra cost, so eh. I'd put my money on the later.
Maybe someone will come up with a wrapper command line interface where we can express the desired outcome and GPT-3 / ChatGPT can produce (then execute) the "correct" commands. I agree with the sentiment of the power of grep/awk/sed (and use them in that order) but I also would prefer Python for anything I need longer than an hour. Having a natural language command -> grep/awk/sed pipeline -> saved as a CLI shortcut could be cool.
Are there any technical books or reading material about matching engines out there?
These made a huge difference for my wife.
EDIT: typing mistake: replace ⊈ with ⊊ (proper subset)
> if you got rid of lawns and golf courses in the desert you'd immediately save enough water to fix the problem in this article

That's simply not true. 75%-80% of the water use in the southwest is used for agriculture [1]. Even if "lawns and golf courses" are the remaining 20-25%, it is a minority of the water use. Furthermore, food doesn't have to be grown there. Bananas come from South America, oranges come from Florida, why does alfalfa (the food for livestock) need to be grown there? The answer is it does not but the current water is so cheap that people don't care salting the earth to line their personal pockets.

[1] - https://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/society/water_deman...
Related:

Why Ancient Roman Concrete Outlasts Our Own (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29366911 - Nov 2021 (67 comments)

2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28833525 - Oct 2021 (101 comments)

Why Roman concrete is stronger than it ever was, while modern concrete decays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690803 - Jan 2021 (7 comments)

A chemical reaction in ancient Roman concrete makes it stronger over time (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22580920 - March 2020 (64 comments)

How Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Survived 2,000 Years (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20482050 - July 2019 (81 comments)

How Did the Romans Make Concrete That Lasts Longer Than Modern Concrete? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15544128 - Oct 2017 (3 comments)

The Rock Solid History of Concrete - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15480165 - Oct 2017 (12 comments)

Why Roman concrete still stands strong while modern version decays - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14699652 - July 2017 (1 comment)

Ancient Romans made world’s ‘most durable’ concrete - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14695876 - July 2017 (4 comments)

New studies of ancient concrete could teach us to do as the Romans did - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14690329 - July 2017 (72 comments)

Ancient Roman Concrete Is About to Revolutionize Modern Architecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5883443 - June 2013 (23 comments)

How the pantheon has lasted 2000 years without steel in its concrete - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852000 - Oct 2010 (35 comments)

Also:

The problem with reinforced concrete (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27282927 - May 2021 (186 comments)

The problem with reinforced concrete - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11975695 - June 2016 (147 comments)
> Goa is probably a better counterexample, granted.

Velha Goa, the territory that was with Portuguese was really tiny and just contained Salsette, Tiswadi and Bardez concelhos. It is not a big feat to hold on to these coastal holdings given the total domination of Armadas.
I have been running all wrong
Google and ChatGPT were unhelpful in explaining the root biophysical/biochemical mechanisms for how the body generates heat during a fever.

Most relevant paragraph from this article:

The hypothalamus, which sits at the base of the brain, acts as the body's thermostat. It is triggered by floating biochemical substances called pyrogens, which flow from sites where the immune system has identified potential trouble to the hypothalamus via the bloodstream. Some pyrogens are produced by body tissue; many pathogens also produce pyrogens. When the hypothalamus detects them, it tells the body to generate and retain more heat, thus producing a fever. Children typically get higher and quicker fevers, reflecting the effects of the pyrogens upon an inexperienced immune system.
Rural voters absolutely do run the show though. SLC has approximately no power in the state legislature.

https://www.zipdatamaps.com/politics/state-level/districts/m...
I sorta, kinda agree. Tools written in AWK (and friends) are indeed somewhat unmaintainable, but they're really close to being just right for a LOT of applications. The vnlog toolkit (https://github.com/dkogan/vnlog) adds just a little bit of syntactic sugar to the usual commandline tools to make processing scripts robust and easy to read and write. This was not my intent initially, but I now do most of my data processing with the shell and vnl-wrapped awk (and sort and join, ...) It's really nice. If you write stuff in awk, you should check it out. (Disclaimer: I'm the author)
D certainly has classes, and a member function has access to private members, while a free-floating function does not. Nim indeed doesn't seem to have this distinction at all, and only seems to support encapsulation at the module level, not the class level (as far as I could tell from very brief searching - I have never programmed in it).
But... you also just did it