skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It should be self evident to everyone that with all those "cloud" services you don't own shit.

No, it shouldn't be, and isn't.

And claiming it is sounds like an argument by megacorp lawyers, when there's finally a huge class-action suit led by someone who is out for precedent-setting blood:

"It should've been self-evident that we rigged this in such a way that it would suddenly stop working, at a time of our choosing."

When that wasn't what they said in the marketing when they sold it, nor when customers invested many hours creating artifacts within it.

Like it's not self-evident that when you buy a bicycle, the shop will later come steal it back.

Or, when you buy canvas and oil paint, the art supply store won't break into your house and destroy your paintings.
Setting up the cross-compiling toolchain is a pain in itself, to occasional dabblers and/or when your target is off the beaten track. I can trivially target MIPS-LE with `GOARCH=mipsle GOOS=linux`, but as soon as I added CGO into the mix to support SQLite, things went off the rail and I gave up after trying to set up a mips cross-compiling tool chain in a container
It was nigh impossible to find on their website a place where you could pay them to sell you things, it was sad but not surprising that they were going under.
It says:

> The world consumes 1,147,083 cubic feet of coal per capita every year (based on the 2016 world population of 7,464,022,049 people) or 3,143 cubic feet per capita per day.

(My emphasis).

So closer to a football field per person according to this. That sounds excessive to me, so I'm not sure I trust those numbers.

This [1] says "1 ton of coal is approximately 40 cubic feet per ton, might be a little less, might be a little more....". Using my earlier numbers from DOE, that gives 545 million short tons * 40 = ca. 21,800 million cubic feet, or ~ 600 million m^3, or ca. 1.67m^3 per capita in the US. That sounds low, but as a global average, maybe not.

[1] https://coalpail.com/coal-forum/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2591#:~.......
Profits over people has reduced the average quality of devs over time.

Cyberpunk 2077 shows they are still tossing out unfinished bug ridden messes. The only difference is so many AAA games like Assassins Creed, GTA, Call of Duty, etc are just incremental releases they have more time to polish the same crap.
So funny you mention the shower heaters. I experienced them first hand in two air bnbs I stayed in on Costa Rica a couple months ago. Live wires just hanging on the side of the shower I was using.
I don't think the scary part was the dive by itself, but how close it was to hit the ground/sea. Don't think planes are sturdy enough to handle that :D
What's interesting to me is that there is strong support from data that skipping breakfast causes many people to eat more later, in particular eating more carbs/sugar/snack foods. I have to wonder to what extent a planned 16:8 window where you're conscious about having a good "break-fast" meal is different than simply running out of the house without a meal plan in place. It is very clear from the data that simply "not eating breakfast" does not lead to better outcomes.

I also find it interesting that the gender of the mice was not specified. If we're talking about hormonal profile changes, this will matter. When intermittent fasting was very popular, a number of women in "the scene" with a vested interest in making IF work noted that while initially it was great, they eventually started experiencing adverse effects, and often felt better on a 14:10 window instead.

Agree with you on the last paragraph re: your experiences. I've needed to substantially change what I eat due to some health challenges, and blood sugar is huge. Protein in the morning (rather than something like oatmeal) is key for me. A dozen eggs a week and my hereditarily-high cholesterol went down, too. Sorry oatmeal folks!
The prices are simply too high for the marginal benefit they offer.

Marginal costs outweigh the benefits so why would people buy? This is simple economics and they know this, but they still price fix because they must meet their minimum profits whatever that may be.

Its a common problem with monopolies, as soon as the market place shrinks to only a few players, where the means of production has been concentrated, those people then start dictating prices and may collude without even needing some conspiratorial agreement.

Many people also ignore the fact that Intel ME/AMT and the AMD equivalent features that cannot be disabled, are not documented, and are primary targets; are becoming more well known, and in general people don't want it.

Businesses may find value in those features, but individuals find cost (i.e. their privacy, and greater future risks that are unquantifiable).

They've broken their own market, and the rot will only get worse for them since its unlikely they will right the course. Many IT people wonder if there isn't some secret government mandate requiring these companies to embed management co-processors. It is clearly offering only minimal value to IT, and its seen as a cost for individuals that know about it.

They really need to reconsider their actual market instead of the fairy magic kingdom type thinking they have been following.
Majority of main advances came from cooperation and how education, science and engineering was organised and funded. So all achievements are Soviet achievements, not Russian/Ukrainian/Georgian/etc, saying otherwise has been a common political tool of nationalist in all post-ussr countries.
Or just any schooling.
Renting has some benefits over owning. Particularly if you are in a stage in life where it's valuable to change your city.

In America, we have policies that subsidize owning over renting, like the mortgage interest tax deduction. I don't think we need more policies to make renting more expensive.
I like this kind of wisdom because you read it, then you fill in the blanks. What is Y to you, etc.? Better than someone telling you to go to the gym every week etc. :-). In real life the curves are more complex.

A tortoise and hare curve would be more interesting. The hare is doing a hackthon at the weekend, getting super tired and giving up. THe tortoise is working on your side project for 4 hours a week every week for years.
As safe as downloading and runing random sh from internet.

Love it (great project and one step to future), but would not do any of it on my or clients machines/servers.

*From the example, how do you know one of those ffmpeg switches will not wipe your disc ?
> joining the merchant fleet, one of the military branches, or some other professional venture where your accommodation and other expenses are provided for you.

Requires education. Requires education. Requires education. So available to some, but not all of the poor.

We're a long way from the days when people would be crimped into being sailors. And a couple of generations away from when people without a High School diploma or GED could join the military, at least in the USA.
Quite possibly. I do this multiple times a week and it’s quite noticeable but that’s definitely after training my baseline expectations.

I have found it seems to be better for eye strain but that’s a single anecdote, not science.
On the topic of Titanfall ... Titanfall 2 is probably my favorite online FPS (in addition to having some really great single player) and Respawn has been letting it slowly degrade for years now. It'll be really sad when it's completely unplayable. Calling down Titans in it and the original Titanfall was such an experience. So fresh and different, in addition to the really sharp and refined player movement.

EA did them no favors by launching Titanfall 2 at the same time as a CoD and Battlefield title (EA was competing with itself which makes no sense). Had they launched in the spring, away from those two behemoth titles, the game would have had a much better life.
I took a class with Professor Ousterhout. He would end every Friday's lecture with a "Thought for the Weekend", such as this one.

It was very entertaining and charming to hear him discuss his personal and professional life, and lessons he's learned throughout them often occasionally have very little to do with computer science.

I don't remember all of his "Thoughts for the Weekend", but I do remember one story he told about wishing he had apologized sooner to resolve some conflict he was in. That was a bit of wisdom that stuck with me from the class, beyond any of the computer science topics we covered.
The people that made the decision to cancel the planmed renewables are not pro renewables.

Your bad propaganda is completely incoherent.
How to Get Started with AI Art [Beginner's Guide by Bycloud]
Apparently, I'm a real oddball with my dual 2408WFP setup:

1920 x 1200 0.70% +0.01%
because it's cOoL and totally relevant to cHaT GpT

honestly i'll be happy when we collectively get over this lame hype
I run single 30" 4K monitor at 100% scaling. Main reason for 4K is - I usually have 2-3 editing windows arranged side by side when coding. It fits a lot of text vertically and I like that.

As an extra benefit: I am a sucker for good photos and viewing those on large 4K is way better in my opinion. 4K Youtube and Netflix also looks better.
Couple of interesting twitter threads on this from Tyler (The Drive). He suggests this has been coming/happening for some time.

https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162414986417840128...

Also that we are seeing a lot more now because we have turned down/off the filters on the radars. Which means also we can expect a lot more false positives.

https://twitter.com/aviation_intel/status/162461466198661120...
Why would you take anybody's word? You listen to knowledgeable people's arguments and decide if they hold together for you. You don't pick idols and just repeat what they say. Carmack shouldn't shut up because you've decided that his "legacy" is stale.
Yep, tech work, and especially remote software work, is all done with laptops and docks.

I'm writing this from my home gaming rig, which is an old, not-cool-enough-for-Win-11 (thank god), desktop. I don't know what I'll be replacing it with when it keels over and dies. Maybe a Mac tower? Maybe a Linux rig. But it'll be my PC, not Microsoft's if I can help it.
This article [1] notes that "The incident, ...came the same day 25 people were injured, six seriously, aboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight from Phoenix to Honolulu during severe turbulence in the vicinity of Maui."

A local source [2] comments on the weather that day: "On the day this happened, we recall well that the Hawaiian Islands were in the midst of an exceptionally strong wind and rainstorm that was, even for Hawaii, highly unusual."

Correlation, not causation, but a speculative explanation nonetheless?

[1] https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/united-maui-dive-u...

archive: https://archive.is/RonQy

[2] https://beatofhawaii.com/bad-timing-weather-warnings-hawaiia...

archive: https://archive.is/Fd0C4
September 29, 2022 - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60131520

Russia has been reducing gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 for a number of months.

In June, it cut deliveries through the pipeline by 75% - from 170m cubic metres of gas a day to roughly 40m cubic metres.

In July, Russia shut it down for 10 days, citing the need for maintenance. When it reopened, the flow was halved to 20m cubic metres a day.

In late August, it shut down Nord Stream 1 entirely, blaming problems with equipment.
The pipeline has not been open since then.
> My personal meta-cynical view is that politics is all about relationships: nobody gets anything done using their own power alone, and nobody has enough broad and direct influence to even try.

That is not cynical, that is the great power of democracy. No one can change rules by themselves but agreements are needed. When one person can make big changes alone then it usually a form of dictatorship and things do not go so well.

> you need to go about it indirectly, exploiting the incentives of the entire system

Politics are complicated, I also believe that. But many politicians go thru all that pain to achieve good things, not just to profit personally.
In that case, maybe humans should go away then
You don’t have to run the tests over “enemy” airspace.
It seems like enforcing faster rotation would do a lot to encourage people and companies to move away from such obtuse platforms, no?
Why are there no photos of any of these except the original Chinese balloon?
There's no power in your posturing when the situation is symmetrical like that :)
They're still pretty common, at least in the people I hang out in. You're very lucky you've not had any cavities since preteen. I've done allot to change my diet to strip out all sugars, refined carbs, acidic foods / drinks etc.
But still get cavities.

It's a journey, sometimes a long one, to get to a spot with good oral heath. In my case, I had poor heath education. I didn't know what I didn't know.
Like visiting the dentist is not equal to visiting a dental hygienist.
Up until a few weeks ago, I had no clue what a dental hygienist was or if I should visit one. My dentist never recommended one, so I thought it wasn't needed.
But I recently booked an apt with a dental hygienist at another practice, it was 100% needed.

From my understanding, a dental hygienist is more preventative work (and cleaning), while dentist is more the surgeon who does the fixing after an issue has occurred.

I learnt a tonne in my first ever dental hygienist visit. Basic things I wasn't doing for my oral heath.
Like flossing... I never done it for years cos I thought it wasn't that big of a deal and cos I thought my teeth were to crammed together, but I learnt (and she showed me) that you can 100% floss my teeth and you defo should!

I wish some basic oral heath was taught in school, and that dental (at least 6 months/yearly checkups were free/govt funded), it's so important, and so expensive these days, even for a checkup.

It's especially tricky when you want to learn so much while at the dentist/hygienist, but know it's costing you $$$ so don't maybe ask everything. Personally the Teeth Talk Girl YouTube channel has helped me so much and gave me the courage to go back to the dentist (after not going for ~5 years).

I highly recommend the channel if you want to learn more on what good oral heath is.
https://www.youtube.com/@TeethTalk
Thanks! that is the great thing about feedback ha ha. Obviously the HN crowd are going to be more wary of this.

But even if they weren't, in general you want to assume you will be hacked, and then based what permissions you ask for based on that assumption. I.e. be secure, and use principle of least priveledge, even if the users don't care. This is why I try to get out of having admin permissions to things at work :-) </rant>

A lot of IoT security problems has that combo of vendor and consumer both not caring/understanding/being aware of security issues.
It may depend on the type of position being hired for. There’s a concept of “fluid” vs. “crystalline” intelligence, where people tend to transition from fluid to crystalline as they age. Meaning, young people tend to learn faster while older people tend to understand the greater context. This may mean younger people make better individual contributors but older people tend to be better at strategizing.
2700X/RTX2080 - at the time I thought the 2080 was over priced but then things went mental and it looked like a solid buy.

I want to upgrade (held off while buying a house and moving/renovating) now I finally can...I realised the only game I play a lot isn't even capped by my current hardware so there just is no incentive to upgrade.
This one is definitely not disappointing and no archeologist I know has ever said they were disappointed with finding things, any thing.

Many archaeologists point out that the mundane, everyday objects turn out to be more informing than golden jewels. Huge amounts of information were lost at digs in a pursuit for grave jewellery rather than doing science.

If you find a broach all you know is they liked gold and traded for it. If you find a nit comb, you know they had nits, and you may find DNA and trace diseases, and the comb may be amenable to chemical analysis to origins. (I know that analysis of gold and jewels is also informing, so this is more said for dramatic effect than truth, tradelinks about economies thousands of kilometres apart have been found in the chemistry behind jewels. The point is that mundane objects like spice speak volumes. Where does mace (nutmeg skin) grow? How does it get to the Baltic in volume? Henbane is useful in dying and medicine and as a hallucinogen. Which purpose did it fill?)
>>You can also add MCT oil.

If you use MCT oil it would be best to start slowly and not on an empty stomach because it can cause stomach aches otherwise.
Mistake #1 is assuming a linear function in the first place.

If I'd known this when I was younger I probably wouldn't have spent so much time learning all those languages, none of which I now remember.
I'm glad it did. I hadn't seen the other ones.
Hah yeah I suppose so
It’s also a mistake to think that Putin is some kind of Czar with absolute ultimate power.
On the one hand:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon

>Between 900 and 1,300 locations around the globe do routine releases, two or four times daily.

On the other hand, weather balloons are not silver-gray and cylindrical. A Google image search shows them almost always white and spherical to teardrop shape and pretty much unmistakably a balloon.
I think there's a huge opportunity for indie developers to clone popular games and make them more consumer friendly.

It seems like a lot of huge corporations will blindly chase profits with zero consideration of what their fans want.

I've been building a company (https://hyperspacelogistics.com/) where we believe that doing what's best for the fans is actually best for the company. In fact, we state "We strive to support actively used products for as long as possible" as one of our core values.

Our upcoming game GunZone will even include a dedicated server so players can still play even if the company dies out. Funny that this standard of old games is now considered a big feature.
>"Symbolics Lisp Machine demo", special focus on 5 minute onwards.

To provide more information since video description lacks, this is OpenGenera a Lisp Machine OS designed to also run hosted on Unix systems. This specific version (seeing it uses jpeg) should be from mid- to late- 90s. Had tried some version but didn't remembered being able to have graphics on REPL.

Yes, that's basically how Jupyter console works. But will still argue that the Jupyter model is such weaker version of this that can hardly be called a derivative. Listener isn't only limited to being used like an isolated shell but can be attached to any part of the environment. (And this introspection is core to Lisp and Smalltalks environments.)

>Mathematica was inspired from Lisp

The language Wolfram, yes. The cell-based notebook interface was new. But similar to previous is a more limited version of what you had available; specifically interchanging text and code in Zmacs. Something that was also an advantage (easier of reason with) for what Mathematica was used for.
Most people are buying rpis because they can throw some boot image on it made for the rpi and have things just work. A regular computer, no matter how much better in performance, doesn't just work.

For example: you can't just throw a Birdnet-Pi (https://birdnetpi.com/) image on a normal PC and run it. There is plain Birdnet but it doesn't have any of the automation or the web interface for use Birdnet-Pi does. Instead it's pages worth of complex multi-argument commands you'd have to customize and you'd have to port the web interface yourself.

Since most people want rpis for little projects like this a normal PC massively increases the complexity.
That might be the case, but in games development you often have a company (studio) answering to another (publisher), and it's the publisher's management that decides the deadlines and funding. The people managing the engineers would have no control over those.

Carmack's company didn't have this problem when they made the games they eventually open-sourced. When they did get bought by a publisher, they no longer open sourced their games as far as I know, so who knows what the engineering practices were like at that point.
Where I went to high school in the mid-90s, most of the kids who didn’t want to be farmers enlisted. They figured they’d mostly likely doing something like Bosnian peacekeeping.

After 9/11, one of the guys I knew ended up getting sent to Afghanistan on short notice. Multiple vets I know had similar experiences: nobody says it shouldn’t be an option but they’re adamant that poor kids shouldn’t end up in the military because there’s no other way to pay for college.
He was infamous at being bad at math with hi wife doing some of the math for him. He never recognized her in doing so.
Balloons could be a clever counter to what the US is doing with Low Earth Orbit satellites recently.
SpaceX is launching tons of spy/missile defense satellites over China as part of the Space Development Agency: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency

China has been complaining to the United Nations about it. https://press.un.org/en/2022/gadis3698.doc.htm

More details:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starshield_(satellite_constellati...
I have experienced a dive like this on a flight before. The airplane had some kind of pressure failure so the pilot intentionally dove from about 10k feet to 1k feet in 30 seconds or something crazy. Extremely scary, nothing communicated over the intercom to us until we were in a fully banked 180 degree turn heading back to the airport. Honesty surprised this didn't go viral on tiktok.
I have known many poor people in my life. Exactly zero of them used a laundromat outside of large items that won't fit in their personal or accessible machines.

The wonderful thing about laundromats is that everyone can use them. Including an executive from GM getting laundry done for a client(no idea why) while I was helping a friend do 10+ loads at once when they finally decided to fight their addiction.

They are still clean.
We use different AWS accounts for different purposes at work. It would be an extreme productivity loss if I had to go back to using something other than Firefox's containers.
Most people benefit significantly. That has been proven in study after study. The toxicity has not been, or it wouldn’t be widespread world wide. I’m glad your genetic makeup, diet, microbiome, etc is working out for you. That may or may not change with time.

The CDC says there’s a 25% reduction in cavities for children due to fluoride [1]. So it’s not like fluoride is only for cavity prevention, and perhaps your teeth would have been even worse without it.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/index.html
Is there a website you could just have updated, or does that require paper forms? Randomly curious.
Its like a summary someone who hasnt read it would make.. Its such a funny thing to ask the chat AI, You can just read the summary the publisher writes!
Correlation is not causation. It's also likely that there was more awareness in urban areas, access to mental healthcare, schools that could look for ADHD synonyms.

Moreover, ADHD was also a thing 30 years ago when there weren't any screens; it just wasn't diagnosed.

There are many people who got diagnosed in adulthood. One of the key diagnostic criteria for adults is: the symptoms should have been present since childhood. Let me tell you this, many adults who got diagnosed late, absolutely had these symptoms as kids and have a lot of secondary psychological conditions due to undiagnosed ADHD.
I know virtually nothing about the software, but I keep hearing over and over about the licensing problems. I doubt it’s the reason they want people to remember their name.
The linked article says they landed at destination.