skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, i suppose certain natural resources are pretty scarce on earth; meteoric iron, for example, and platinum-group metals

current cases of 'tech we know we could have but aren't reaching for' includes molecular nanotechnology, human germline editing, decentralized software, provably secure operating systems, simple web browsers (we had them 20 years ago), gem-gum systems, space elevators, supergun-based orbital launch, lithium 'fusion' power, undersea cities, atmospheric carbon capture, orion-style nuclear rockets, terraforming, personal rapid transit, sustainable agriculture (arguably), human space travel (leo isn't travel), suborbital commuter rockets (45 minutes to anywhere on earth), universal access to implanted automatic defibrillators, asteroid mining, solar power plants in solar orbit, all kinds of drugs, implanted perceptual prostheses (with a narrow exception for making people 'normal' if they are disabled relative to social expectations), personal airbags to prevent death from falls, wheelchairs that can climb stairs, cruise airships, etc.

i've written about some of these at some length in the notes linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35017711

but basically 'why don't we have atmospheric carbon capture yet' is the same problem as 'why don't we have world peace yet' or 'why is sci-hub illegal in most countries'; the problem is power structures, incentive structures, human motivation, and the result, people working at cross purposes
Kids social status has gone full consumerism. If they don't have the right shoes they're "lame".

If their 'friends' care that much that they have an Android phone, they're not friends, they're losers. If they want an iphone that much then they can get a job and work for it. You can't educate perspective, they have to learn it themselves.
Most of the Unix utilities that are included were written by third parties. They're "included by default" because they're useful and take up a negligible amount of space.
This literally even has examples in the JEP, one can create custom template processors which don’t even have to return a String, but can return a PreparedStatement instead.
What are you freelancing as? If as a programmer in England your rates are still very low. When I was last freelancing for an English company my rates were more than double what you wrote and I know for certain my rates were not particularly high. I'm mentioning this only in case you're not aware that there's still lots of space between the top of your head and the ceiling & you can probably further increase your rate without decreasing the availability of work.
as a parent, part of my job is to protect my children from harm. thus regardless of the kids wishes, they will not be getting an iphone (or a regular android phone).

“I need an iPhone because I have a girlfriend.”

"if that is what your girlfriend expects from you, then she is not a true friend. i know this may be painful, but true friends do not focus on things like that. try to be persistent. this is a good test for your friendship. if she insists, then let her go. you will not be happy with her in the future, because she will continue to pressure you to buy fancy things, and that is not the kind of relationship you want."
I hope I get to be a badass challenge-embracing reverse engineer like the people behind Asahi one day. I've done some USB stuff but have no idea how they're tackling all the other hardware.
It's a grift, the Sensitivity readers whip up backlash to anything remotely offensive and then sell the "Cure" to any company Stupid enough to listen to a loud minority on twitter.

Everyone knows demand For his books was going nowhere, the only change is these new people pretending they're the arbiters of everything proper and polite. Wasn't a fan of churchy nobodies telling me what media I shouldn't consume, nor will I kowtow to a bunch of Otherwise irrelevant art graduates.
> Otherwise you get nickel and dime’d by all sorts of charges for each professional who sees you in the ER and some hospitals even went after patients for $1000s when they charges more than the insurance company would pay.

The No Surprises Act took care of these issues nationwide as of Jan 1, 2022:

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises
As much as I hate to hear it, what you describe is all too common.
Your story brought me joy! I am really happy that you had the opportunity to follow your passion, and did! And that you are happy with the decision you made while still seeing the negative consequences.

To me that is a truly a life well lived.
“templ” would be an ordinary string literal in the second case, in the former case the parser can already distinguish between the two.
> "The idea of a body of water this vast yet now completely vanished brings home an uncomfortable truth: The physical parameters or our world—continents and oceans, mountains and lakes—appear fixed only because our own lives are so infinitesimally short, measured against geological eras."

On the contrary, large bodies of water are currently shrinking substantially on timescales that humans can experience directly.

The Aral Sea is probably the best example. The Great Salt Lake is another.

Lake Mead was created by the Hoover dam in the 1930's, and now it's well on its way to turning back into desert.

https://brilliantmaps.com/aral-sea/
Everything happening in a non-JIT-ted Python program is the action of compiled C code, so if a C program is slower, that just indicates that the C program is going out of its way to waste resources.
Economist Ernst Friedrich Schumacher whole heartedly agreed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
Increasing the reflectiveness of the earth via high altitude aerosols seems like an insanely shitty idea.
If things are being overfit you should typically make the model smaller - not larger.
A fake news frenzy: why ChatGPT could be disastrous for truth in journalism
> Can you design bigger systems?

Bigger systems don't necessarily meet customer needs better than smaller systems. They may just contain a lot of extraneous complexity.

> Can you lead bigger teams?

Bigger teams don't necessarily accomplish more than small, focused teams. The more people on the team, the higher the communication overhead, and the harder it is to maintain "conceptual integrity" in the product. Brooks described these issues in The Mythical Man-Month: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

If employees get rewarded for building bigger systems and leading bigger teams, they'll have a bias toward doing those things ("empire building"), even when they may be against the better interest of the company and its customers.
ChatGPT itself promotes that. It will give you its opinions, followed immediately by a lengthy lecture on how, as a large language model, it is incapable of having any. Try challenging it on that self-contradiction-it will just refuse to acknowledge there is one.
No scifi nuclear reactor concept is going to be mass deployed by the early 2030s. The only nuclear fuel source that has ever been used in commercial application is U235, with a little bit of Pu239 to boost yield. There is no viable source of U235 for even a fraction of current energy use.

OP's claim is garbage (insulation, ending car dependency, and legislating products that aren't landfill help the poor rather than hindering them), but the constant nuclear shilling and shilling for growth is much worse.
No because:

> for the optical illusion to work, you must place the virtual camera at the position of one of your eyes and close the other one.
I only use one monitor, the laptop one. I tend to focus on a single monitor, despite trying to use more screen real estate, but forcing myself to use it has not been productive. The only case it is useful is with side-by-side windows. It hasn't been frequent enough, but now I am thinking that having one of those small side monitors for a laptop screen might be really useful in this case.
TLDR: "For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793"...Using pi to 15 decimal places, you'd get the distance of Voyager 1 wrong by less than 1cm!
I have no idea why this got downvoted.
Well, removing antibiotics, contaminants and lithium from all food and water sources across the whole world seems like a great idea that may require concerted efforts of several generations, to be very optimistic. I'm not sure who "we" in "we need to solve" is referring to, but I certainly can't do much about solving any of this in my lifetime.

But if someone smart came up with a way on an individual level to counterbalance these negative factors, lower the leptin levels and help reset the "lipostat" to a saner set point, that would be an improvement in my book.

(thanks for sharing that link! i've read some posts, but this was like a TLDR of the entire blog, very interesting!)
Lack of HW video support will ruin battery life if you do conference calls or watch YouTube. It’s surprisingly important.
Well , let's pretend for a moment that we're not all highly focused children's book authors.

* I don't know what those changes in the book will cause, I'm not the author who carefully and selectively chose his words -- neither are the people that have decided to change the selection. *
There are already regulations for important infrastructure such as powerplants, or safety criteria machinery such as planes and medical devices. We don’t need this kind of red tape in e-commerce startups.
the unchallenged assumption here is that journalism was ever about the discovery of truth. There is little evidence - aside from constant self assertion - that this was ever the purpose of the profession.
Yes, I've just checked my old paper copies and these too have been updated!! /s

But seriously, this is the major risk with 'everything online' our just electronic media is general. It really is possible to change history at the press of a button. Cut and paste history.

And how would anyone even know this has happened? No one is paying attention. If someone did spot some history editing, why would that get any traction? Who alert the world to it?

And with ai to generate reams of bullcrap... my my, most people are going to be in trouble! A connection to truth will become hard to find.

There is an answer - and that is to recognise what you know (in a strong sense) from what you believe on account of something you were told or saw on a screen. You only know what you have personally - the rest is hypothetical.
I made a koi pond during covid lockdown. Something like 1500 gallons or so. A visiting friend referred to it once as a lake, which I suppose is probably the best compliment you can give to a pond builder.
This post was just a complete lazy joke. I will recalibrate humor. I really appreciate all the serious nuanced replies though and feel bad now haha.
For me it's the absence of an affordable automated page turner that makes this conversion difficult. I have an Auramate from Czur (https://www.czur.com/) which does a pretty good job of the scanning and OCR (about 2 sec per page or double page) and corrects for curvature at the spine. However I have zero experience with other equivalent machines which are undoubtedly available.
Get your son something else (perhaps relating to your son’s interests?), like a powerful microscope, or a huge trampoline, or rent a VPS for him and emphasize on what it does… That way he can have the self-esteem that he also has something valuable.

The goal here is changing the subject entirely and not being forced by their game of “who has the best phone”…
Curated list of apps and tools that not only use the new ChatGPT API, but also allow user to configure their own API keys, enabling free and on-demand usage of their own quota.
True, but if you pick just one (constant) speed/power value, like the 1 mW in the article, only the distance/work varies as a function of time.
Randy Pausch, a former Computer Science Professor at University of Virginia who passed away from Pancreatic Cancer, gave a popular lecture on Time Manage in the last few months of his illness. In his lecture he proposed a monitor set up I still use today. What I love about this method is that one quickly learned which monitors does what and so there are fewer brain cycles to decide where to put your windows.

The Three monitor method:

- One for reading. ( documents, reference material, requirements)

- One for writing. ( code, writing emails, creating anything)

- One for time. (calendar app always open.)

He mentions it roughly 49 min into the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaK_tB_KQA
This is implemented in the Brave browser.
I was on a packed bus yesterday at 7.30 AM. I live in Italy, which has been historically a strong Android bastion with no iMessage usage whatsoever. I was surrounded by high schoolers from lots of backgrounds, and yet the vast, vast majority of them were using iPhones.

It's not like the iPhone is a status symbol, that was back in the late '00s. Gen Z has simply rejected Android for whatever reason and very few young people in the west willingly pick an Android. This is not only a big issue for Google but for society at large - because we're basically giving to Apple complete and utter control about the future of computing.
I would bet that at least 90% of the best embedded engineers I've known, don't have basic Linux shell knowledge. Frankly, Your ability to develop good code has little to do with whether or not you've touched a specific OS' shell
It took less than 6 months for hospitals to find a loophole. Participating Providers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/28/1159786...
Lenovo’s battery life numbers are consistent generation to generation, but wildly unrealistic. My 2015 thinkpad (since replaced by m1 air) was rated as 12 hours but could do at most half in practice doing very light tasks and typically ran about 4 hours. So when you buy a thinkpad you should assume actual battery life is a third to half of the rated life.

Apple’s numbers are equally unrealistic. They rate my m1 air for 15 hours, but in practice it gets to around 8 hours.
It's still a legitimate direction to pursue. Once you get to large enough training sets, it's basically the same way our own brains work. We don't perceive or remember all the details of a building - just "building, style 19B", plus a few extra generic parameters like distance, angle, color and so on. Totally manageable for deep learning to recognize, and perhaps even combine.
Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for depression,anxiety,distress
I don't think it's predatory at all as long as the terms are clear up front. I know I keep repeating myself, but I really think that's the problem here. The predatory part is that consumers think they are paying for A while in fact they are paying for B. This doesn't mean there is anything inherently wrong with B though.

That you don't like this model is fair and reasonable. But that doesn't mean we should ban it. I certainly don't see how it's "harmful to a society as a whole"; the only truly harmful part I see is the deception (as well as the overly long copyright duration in general, but that's a bit of a different issue and reducing copyright to a more reasonable term won't mean the death of Kindle or these kind of business models).

All of this is true for any purchase you make, and why there are clear laws in the EU for example which state that the full price must be shown up-front, with a breakdown of the cost. So this applies to more than just e-books. These laws should be expanded.
Looks like average productivity for major authors is roughly 2000 words per day -- or 6-7 pages.

https://wordcounter.net/blog/2017/12/04/103207_the-daily-wor...

Michael Crichton at 10,000 words is a crazy outlier.
Isn’t the STR.” prefix enough to distinguish traditional strings from format strings?
I had a similar experience as a kid. In 6th and 7th grade, I was pretty heavily bullied, and throughout the second year I tried to convince my parents to let me transfer to a different school. After 7th grade, my parents decided that it was worth trying, and I ended up transferring to local, much smaller school (there were only around 40 students in the entire 8th grade the year I was there, so teachers were able to keep an eye on things better instead of using the perennial copout of "we didn't see it, so it didn't happen" to avoid having to even attempt to address the obvious negative social dynamic at play). Not only was I suddenly much happier, but suddenly my fairly average grades of B's and C's turned into mostly A's; I always tested well, but my general unhappiness fed my anxiety, which caused me to often forget assignments and not put in as much effort as I otherwise could have. Seeing this, my parents also let me attend a different high school than my brothers had, where my academic turnaround continued, and due grades before 9 not being considered at all for college applications, I was able to get into a much better college than I otherwise would have and put me in a much better environment (both in terms of motivation and exposure) to end up landing a good software engineering job out of college. Looking back at it, it's hard not to see my parents' decision to let me switch from a place I was severely unhappy to a place where I could be comfortable and develop more socially as foundational not just for my emotional well-being but the necessary catalyst for me to be able to reach financial stability virtually right after college graduation. It's hard to imagine how different my life would be in almost every way if I didn't have that opportunity.
I find the geological history of California's central valley pretty fascinating, in particular, Lake Corcoran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Corcoran
Some really great stories here. Mine is really boring. I was a software dev./architect for 23 years and have been a bus driver for three.

You should try branching out hut don’t lose your networking and don’t let your skills slip until you know for sure you don’t want to go back. (or perhaps can’t go back because AI is doing everything for us)
Yes, I’m trying to figure out how best to use it.
In an ideal world, yes. But, it is all administrative issues. Regulation demand that every undergrad degree be 4 years with something like 130-150 credits. The other constraint is that you have to teach the undergrad enough material. And simply speaking a degree in mechanical engineering requires mastering a lot more material than a degree in journalism. So inevitably, the average mechanical engineering course will require more time and effort than the average journalism course.

Its just all stupid regulations. I don't even understand why all courses have to run 16 weeks, when a lot of them have filler content at the end. Just let the course end early, and gain the benefits of student motivation.
could a (much) bigger screen compensate for this?
An artist, per Steven Pressfield, the author of "The War of Art", is someone who makes art. A painter paints, a writer writes, a musician makes music. So, if a person with a fantastic vision is putting out actual effort towards instantiating that vision, that person is an artist. On the other hand, if the fantastic vision remains purely a dream or a wish, they are not.

By the way, "The War of Art", and its sequel, "Turning Pro" are fantastic books on this topic. These books would be my number one recommendation to anyohe who aspires to be an artist.
He actually also has a video on decanting his clay on the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2RKtUh6m3Q
Is the advice to be trusted though, or merely considered?
> you still develop tolerance to them and have to keep raising the dose

i googled briefly but didn't find any links that say you need to perpetually up the Wegovy dose, beyond the initial ramp-up of a couple of months. Could you share a source for that?

> without any of the fit lifestyle habits people spend years developing

That's probably true, but at the link above in the comments, it says that currently people exercise more than before, but that doesn't do anything to even slow the nonstop obesity rise in the population, let alone reverse it. So years of developing habits, while undoubtedly a big health benefit for those who persist, don't really help the bigger picture.

> People are exercising more today than they were 10 or even 20 years ago. Contrary to stereotypes, more than 50% of Americans meet the HHS guidelines for aerobic exercise. But obesity is still on the rise.
I only use one monitor and use virtual desktops and side-to-side windows for context switching. But it's the external monitor if it's available, it is more ergonomic to work on a big screen, at the optimal distance and height from the eyes, and with the neck and spine properly aligned rather than curving down.
I am excited to share my latest blog post on my experience as a GitLab Hero in the Developer Director Shadow Program!

During this program, I had the opportunity to shadow Wayne Haber, Director of Engineering at GitLab, and see how a day in a life of an Engineering Director goes at GitLab.
C++ Code Analysis Improvements in Visual Studio 17.6
90% drop on ChatGPT API – a.k.a. GPT-3.5-turbo
I'd much rather scroll through thumbnails
Lots of people install Linux to get a Unix-like environment when they can’t afford a Mac.
I think what he’s really asking for there is some Marvel crossover movies?
It's hard to get hard numbers, but https://www.worldrecordacademy.org/2023/1/most-power-generat... lists

> 8,580 Lay’s potatoes connected together to generate an initial 11.43W (Watts) of Power

which divides to 0.0013 Watts per potato, so you probably literally could.

(Meta: this is one of the weirdest comments I've written in a while, though "can you literally run AI on a potato in hard numbers" is very Hacker news feeling)
Facebook disclose the carbon footprint of their new LLaMA models
unless the "try again stage" incorporates the results of a google search for the error message of the api
> 820 is an incredibly small data size for deep learning

Whether or not 820 samples is little or a lot depends on the nature of the problem and the amount of information contained in each sample. For example, in 3D medical imagining we routinely reach superhuman performance with training sets of a couple of a hundred images (training from random weights, i.e. with no pretraining).
The problem is, that it's crackling also in normal use. The log always says, that the client is too slow.
Maybe it's my sound card (driver) which I doubt because it should make no problems with a Focusrite interface. However ... I'm tired of tuning the system when I want to make music.
So pipewire is really cool but not usable for pro audio yet (IMHO)
I'd imagine not many people are willing to give the webcam permissions to e-commerce shops.
I remember seeing original SCO unix in our server room in 1998 - they were a legitimate player then but I also remember seeing all new orders going for SunOS (and later for Sun Solaris).
However:

> Note, however, that it’s still a really fun effect if you use the midpoint between the eyes and keep both eyes open. It just doesn’t pop the same way.
A Century of Decline – Argentina
I'm not okay with this because its author cherry picks images to compare. Those might as well be an outliers. It'd be more convincing when comparing 10k images gallery with a variety of image types, like photos, paintings, sketches, manga, real objects, textures etc and then averaging.

Also subjectively the AVIF lossy compressed flag pic looks better to me because it has less noise, I don't really care about it being more "true" to anything in such use-cases.