skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a little let down that the solution to not having batteries was just a few solar cells. If you're looking for something along the same theme, it's not a "Game Boy" but a Youtuber built a handheld powered by radioactive tritium. https://hackaday.com/2021/07/14/tetris-handheld-powered-by-t...
> When benefits such as healthcare were taken into account, the total compensation penalty was 14%, the widest gap since 1979.

So teachers are compensated 14% below what you'd expect for their education. In return, they get a permanent job that it is very difficult to be fired from, and "get" to work with kids.

This doesn't seem far off from what should be expected? There will be professions paid less than average for as long as there are professions paid more than average.

> “Educators are educating astronauts, physicists, doctors, lawyers, construction workers, plumbers, electricians,” says Cecily Myart-Cruz, the president of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA). “However, educators who have two and three and four degrees are not making enough or more than all of the professions that I brought forward.”

LOL you're not educating any of those. (except construction) The people covered by teachers unions are, at best, preparing people for college. At worst, they're shitty babysitters.
Not quite "nothing"... but I'm being pedantic.

--

lying in bed just thinking

pace around the room

get lost in trains of thought

play word games with myself

recite the American presidents in order

name the first 150 Pokémon

--

Sounds similar to a "darkness" retreat.
Show HN: DemandHunt – Make something people want
Hi HN! I've been working on a small project called DemandHunt.

Basically I aggregated problems in niche communities so that you as an entrepreneur can take inspiration.

The background is that I've worked with a number of startups and I've found that many entrepreneurs already have a technology or solution in mind and work backwards to find the people with the problems to solve. This is YC's "Solution in Search of a Problem" problem, and my understanding is that it's typically better to work the other way around so you can build the right solution for the problem you find instead.

Thus I figured maybe some hacker types like me would appreciate reading about problems in their interest areas so that they can get the ball rolling from the right direction. I went and did some reading in some niche Reddit communities and manually aggregated the user posts into tangible problems that might inspire you.

I'm curious to see if this is interesting or useful to anyone here!

Let me know what you think, if you want me to target your interests, or updates, or anything :)
I’m not sure if this matches what you want, but I made a note of this site when I ran across it for a similar reason:

https://javascript.info/
With the PS if I leave it alone and powered on it will take care of itself. But I turn it off so it does not use as much power. I have enough other items in my house turned on to heat it up :)
So are you using Widevine?
When i finished reading Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull it left me with a strange feeling. I had not yet heared about the wage-fixing. But still something with this book was strangely off. It seemed as if it was trying to portray a shady managment in the best light possible. Much like Thiels "zero to one" it was repeating a rathing simple thing over and over trying to make it look special.
Show HN: FOSS classic Top-down shooter Chromium BSU ported to the web
What tripped me up early on (and still does to some extent) isn't the ownership of simple values, but when you get to generics. Do I implement the trait for Option<T> and Option<&T>. When will implementations overlap and when will they not? It becomes even trickier when you realize that a generic T can also represent a reference type &'a mut U or similar. So you can't just blindly implement the trait for both T and &T either.

Basically: even though I know exactly what the ownership does in the context of "it's a clever C" I'm still tripping over myself when I take the same concepts to be "a clever C++".
It's rather audacious to say stuff without knowing what they mean.
Basically any paper on rent control. Here's one on berlin's implementation. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4047633 People who were already there get a deal, everyone else pays much more.
Direct link: https://chromium-bsu.netlify.app/
> Imagine spending millions of dollars to prove 32 people are gay.

Do remember that this particular morality code is an unfashionable one. There are other taboos that also cause a waste of resources by people seeking corrective action where no law is broken and no one is victimized. And those are cheered on because those codes are fashionable.

Sure, this is dumb through and through. But this scenario just has properties that lend themselves to headlines meant to stir people up.
Dynadot

They are just as cheap as the often-mentioned NameCheap, but a much better UI.

Dynadot also lets you "domain taste" that is get a refund in credit if you change your mind after buying a domain within I think 72 hours.

They also are one of the largest domain registrars.
Future demand for power generation materials in different climate scenarios
Also none of those systems had Flash, and they were all a lot slower, requiring more time/space tradeoffs.
This doesn't work for everyone. There is nothing that makes me worry more about a job than not having one. :)
The majority of new car buyers will not settle for less than four doors and a hatchback and they don't really care what regulatory bucket it's in as long as it does what they want at a price they want.

The fact that the myriad of "crossovers" that satisfy this requirement are classified as SUVs is mostly a figment of regulatory oddities and corporate box checking over the last 40yr. They're more descendant of the compact hatches and station wagons of the 80s and 90s than they are of SUVs.

Look at the Ford Flex and tell me that's not a station wagon.
What are some recommended alternatives?

I specifically need support for .li domains and acme.sh to renew certificates.
How to brazenly steal $100B from Medicare and Medicaid
The differences between a subpoena and a warrant are interesting and have some nuance: https://legalbeagle.com/8676593-subpoena-vs-warrant.html

But, in general, if you're getting a subpoena it's because you are a bystander in an investigation, and if you're getting a warrant, it's because you are a target of an investigation. So a subpoena offers a bit more protection for you and is easier to push back against.

You can only fight a warrant after it's been executed (at least, mostly), but fighting it after the fact isn't nothing. If you win, the property seized must be returned, data collected must be deleted, and none of it can be used in court.
Sure, spotify doesn't care that much about money. Must be why they are on the stingy side of compensating artists compared to Apple and just about every other streaming service.
There was a term for this used in ancient times called 'Sabbath' and it was practiced weekly
I am neurotypical (or at least I think I am), and it sounds like literal torture. Like the author intentionally decided to cut off everything just ... because. I get letting the mind wander, but I am not built to be isolated for that long. I'm glad they learned something, but such rigid rules are the stuff of psychologists to test the boundaries of human ability, not a fun experiment.
This is why it's important to remember that correlation != causation
I could be wrong about vows of celibacy, but I was pretty sure they have at least commitments to celibacy. Here's a story that backs up what I've said: https://archive.ph/ehobt
Interpret entropy as "how unlikely is this state to occur by random chance?", with lower entropy corresponding to less likelihood.

If you throw a bunch of carbon, oxygen, and other organic compounds into a vat, you're vastly less likely to get a fully formed human being than, well, a disorganized pile of matter. Usually you wouldn't consider the random clump of molecules more complex -- there are practically an infinite number ways to rearrange a pile into a pile. In contrast, there are many orders of magnitude fewer ways for a human being to emerge.

That said, there is a sense in which the random pile of molecules is more complex. If I want to predict the motion of every (or at least, most) of the molecules in that vat, it's easier to predict the bulk motion of a human than each molecule moving per the Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution.

Similarly, it's easier to compress a static black image than continuous random noise. Notice that a static black image is more organized, more easily compressed, and less likely to occur by random chance (assuming noise is the default). Therefore, a static black image has less entropy. Whether you want to call this state more or less complex is a matter of definition.
Not everything has to be for or about YOU.

Maybe this will be useful for others and you can continue to do without this.
Template literal types (a) have nothing to do with tagged template literals, and (b) are a game-changing feature, allowing you to write compile-time string parsers.
> held the DNS service liable for the infringing activities of its users.

Making the DNS provider the internet police seems like a spectacularly bad idea
Apple introduces new yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus
The entire article is in fact an absolutely brilliant piece of criticism that can be read on a number of different levels. It's filled with tiny little bits of detail that reference entire vistas of thought that simply were not comprehensible before roughly ~2003.
I think the benefits of idle time are not well appreciated. A period of focused work followed by a period of absolute lack of stimulation is often how the best ideas form, in my experience. When you aren't focused on something your brain is still working, it just frees up resources to consider problems outside the conscious part of your mind. I suspect epiphanies are not random - It feels to me like they are the result of intentional unfocusing.
Might be hard for them to stream if you don't have a network connection.
Without judgement as to intent, mentioning ~12% of total is a subtle whataboutism.

The inherent question is, what overall % is actionable vs reasonable to dismiss?
> But maybe we can try to discuss the topic without skeptics suggesting people who believe in it are merely idiots and vice versa.

Why? All the rest of your comment was you explaining how you had come to realise there was no "there" there to believe in. So, congratulations on having stopped being an idiot, but why shouldn't we be allowed to point out that those who believe in idiocy are being idiots?
You still need functional tests in rust.
The most disappointing part for me is that they didn’t keep the promise of grandfathering plans. I’ve lost confidence in them and will most likely cancel my subscription. Luckily search is mostly fungible.
ai accelerator market is so tough... When we were designing ai pipeline for video processing at my last company, we went through a lot of different accelerators during research...

most of the companies won't even send you a dev kit unless you show promise to buy thousands.. Google coral was different, of the shelf, easy to buy, plug and play, python API.

It has a few problems though. It's not very fast for today's standards.The list of supported operators aged quickly. On top of that it is a bit energy hungry, 2 TOPS per watt + random spikes.

I hope they are working on something new, but I also won't be suprised if they kill it, for the last year the devices are constantly out of stock.
> While I personally think there ARE gains, even if you insist on there being no gains then there is simple tax adjustment.

How are those gains if you're explicitely forbidden to turn those gains into legal tender?

You'd get same tax when IPO hits - just without that earlier step.
> It’s a little horrifying that Norvig doesn’t seem to understand these nuances.

yes. its quite incredible actually. It is one thing to sort of tribulate about brain / cognition domains that nobody knows much about using a pseudo-language of "learning" or "intelligence" (or even the original sin: "neural networks") and it is another level altogether to expose publicly how much one is subject to "I have got a nice little hammer and to me everything is a nail" pathologies

Conflating the statistical verification of physical laws / theories with the theories themselves reveals in much clearer terms how limited the conceptual model the AI crowd want to inflict on us. We do know about more about physical laws than about the brain and they don't come about like they say. Go back to school.
Not that this isn't a travesty. But it's worth pointing out that my first thought was: I need to bookmark this page to cite every time we end up in another giant front-page argument about "I don't use GMail because I don't trust Google; I have my own domain with some tiny provider with human support where this can never happen."

Meh. The specifics here seem pretty damning, though. Most likely the new owners just didn't understand the older contracts and started rolling out the new business model without review. The end result will probably be just a refund for the affected accounts.
I'm 25. Grew up in Denmark. I don't recognize many of these as legit explanations for why a station wagon/estate -- a sedan with a squared off trunk -- isn't suitable.

> It still snows and ices in suburbia, and suburbia isn't always flat. So while not fjording a creek AWD and higher clearances are useful.

SUVs are becoming status symbols here too but you're kidding yourself if you think AWD is in any way needed for snow driving. In the Alps the majority of cars are still sedans and station wagons, same as Norway and Sweden, even during the snowy winters. If anyone pushing the car enough to need AWD on public roads they likely shouldn't be driving in the conditions in the first place.

> Long road trips are not doable in a cramped sedan for a family of four.

We regularly drove just under 400 kilometers (each way) to visit my dad's family in a Peugeot 406 station wagon. I was 19 when they got rid of that car. My dad is 195 cm, my mom is 175, and us three kids were all tall for our ages. The reason to get rid of it wasn't lack of space but the electric wiring going haywire. We even did roadtrips when going on holidays. From Denmark to Sicily on a 3 week vacation with plenty of space to spare in the trunk.

> Cargo area balance with passenger area

SUVs have comparable trunk volume to station wagons.

> Occasional towing

You can tow stuff with sedans/station wagons too. The towing capacity to SUVs sold here is comparable to regular cars. The size of the car really doesn't matter much. Only engine, frame strength, and braking power. You can find those things on regular cars just as well. I've moved plenty of times. Rent a big box trailer for a day and you're golden, which I assume is the same procedure in the US? A standard Volvo V60 is allowed to tow 2000 kg, that's just around 4400 pounds. I have a feeling most people wouldn't need more than that.
Then all scientific theories are “models.” And we are just very advanced “computers.” Nope.

The first sentence is wrong. And the second sentence is why we play the game.
A really large proportion of the political class—and, I think, more of them, the higher up you go—are basically practicing kayfabe (the façade of reality that "Pro Wrestlers" and many fans engage in). They rip into each other on TV then go golfing together like nothing happened, same as a wrestling "face" and "heel" in the locker room might be cordial to one another when the cameras aren't following them. None of it's real, just an act, for lots of them, including the policies they push.
While I agree there are unnecessary SUVs, the practical use of SUV is not as rare as a city dweller realizes. What annoys me:

1) jacked up trucks with not a speck of dirt

2) people with a narrow view of society and the contexts of other people's lives, assuming everyone should live how they live.

Too many people have utopian views based on their narrow experiences. Not everything is or can be within walking distance. People have various abilities, but most all need to be mobile. Owning multiple, specialized cars for various occasions isn't necessarily the most economic or practical option. There aren't enough mom and pops and doctors to serve all needs within a reasonable distance.
Can't you delay the swap_bytes_if_big_endian call until you have actually found a word with a match since the byte order only matters for index_of_first_set_byte?
Usenet was generally pretty good at sticking to binaries for the warez and copyright content. Hosting the text-only groups was not that intensive, especially by today's standards. I think the worst problem was sites that just didn't care... I spent a day reporting spam posts to the admins of origin servers, and they just didn't care at all.

Today, it's far less of an issue.. but if Usenet got popular again, the spammers would get back into it. I can only imagine how much spam gets removed/filtered on this site.
Love things like this!

"Brought to you by the Department of Thoughts and Prayers"
Sort of related is the man trapped in an elevator for 41h:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2239021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_bMhNI_TY8
I only use about 350-450 searches a month at present, so this pricing change won't affect me. However, I've not been crazy about Kagi's search quality lately, and I'm not convinced that more deeply integrating AI into the results will solve that. I'd rather the roughly 55% of my unused subscription went to improving the core product, but I'm not going to cancel yet because Kagi still provides the value of being comparatively confidential with my data.

(When it is revealed — as the narrative of this story demands it must be — that they sell you to advertisers like everybody else, I won't be surprised but I will be disappointed)

Every search engine seems to be scrambling to throw AI at their product: is it because they've thoroughly tested it, and it definitely improves the results? Or is it because it's a bullet point in the feature list? Feels like there is potential, but it also feels like a gold rush too, so I'm sort of waiting skeptically to see how it will shake out.
Thank you for describing my experience as "good" but of course church+school only comprised a sliver of my childhood, and I wound up as a homeless bum with C-PTSD and lost my faith due to a resounding dissonance between the lovely church+school experience versus the living Hell I experienced at the hands of my adoptive parents.

When the Catholic abuse scandal broke, I was confused because my priests (and religious sisters) were nothing like that, but abuse by lay volunteers is real too, and it wasn't until 2019 when I put 2 and 2 together in that regard.

So yes, A LOT of unpacking!
Goolsbee also has a working paper on how these onerous regulations have lead to construction being one of the only industries that has seen productivity decline over the last 50 years. https://www.nber.org/papers/w30845
The world has seen actual systemic racism: apartheid in South Africa.

Applying that term to 21st Century Western governments is ideological nonsense. Were there systemic racism, it would equally impact immigrant populations, but it doesn't. Some groups that come from differing cultures have differing rates of success though they share the same racial characteristics.

This is also true for native groups in the U.S. The idea of systemic racism also fails to account for the poor who belong to the supposedly favored racial groups.
With respect to CO2 emissions, it is quite simple. The amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere is exactly correlated with the amount of fossil fuel dug up (modulo the proportion turned into plastics/whatever)
Content spoiler sensitivity for indie game devs
In what way? 10 years of engineering shouldn’t instill some confidence in my skill set?
I was in the audience during the panel and Chomsky was really trying to hold onto a view of science disconnected from the engineering needed to replicate the natural phenomenon. To take a simple example:

Suppose you’re the Wright Brothers and you built a flying machine.

Chomsky’s response would be: But you didn’t explain how birds fly.

On the one hand, sure. Birds fly differently. On the other, the machine flies. Why does it need to explain all of flight?

The same is true of language models. They don’t explain how we acquire language. But they replicate language uses in ways that look like language speakers.
I was rather thinking of doing nothing for 24 hours while having kids.
Mathesar slaps a web-based spreadsheet UI on your Postgres database
No but they do incorporate Google and Bing results in their search. They should probably work towards their own index to lower their costs.
Completely agree. Been working with prev envs for the last 5 years and can never turn back
$350k is top 1%, $175k is top 5%
Thank you for that additional context. I didn’t realize that Norway had been wholly dependent on US deep sea diving expertise when the oil industry was founded, and that it was relatively recent.
My mother and father live near Wichita. It was amazing to see everything sort of rust over the Brownback period.

Also, the results of this experiment, tax revenue falling off a cliff, indicates that Kansas at least, and probably every other state taxes on the wrong side of the "Laffer Curve" for tax cuts to have the effect that doctrine says. That is, Republicans have been wrong about basic economics since the 1980s.
Exploitation machines just like big daddy united states. Unless they have resources we want ofc, then the CIA simply puts in a complicit dictator!
You could probably do a proof of concept with a much simpler virtual world, and see what types of training can lead to an AI developing an understanding of that world's laws.

this might give insight into how you could train an AI with data to derive some physics, and might give us insight into how we are misled into simplified models of reality maybe?
Because there's a bunch of layers between the high level code and the output?

For simple stuff, we can compare JAX to PyTorch on a 4090, and JAX seems faster by 10-50%. It's way way way faster on TPU.

That said, JAX is apparently a pain to work with in comparison to PyTorch (disclaimer I haven't used JAX enough to opine yet).

I'd also want a comparison between JAX and Taichi-lang for parallel stuff, even though the problem domains aren't exactly aligned.
For sure. In this specific case, I'd add that because of Catholic belief on martyrdom (directly to heaven, no purgatory, no baptism required even), the standards are a lot lower to canonize a martyr. For instance they can (but don't always) skip directly to "blessed" status, skipping over the declaration that they were "heroic in virtue." Which makes sense--historically speaking the first saints that were involved in worship were martyrs. And many of those "converted" right before they were killed, not having led lives that were Christian at all. There is a sense one gets that martyrs are the ur-Saints and that other saints were only canonized "by popular demand."

(Former Catholic but not a theologian or anything. See discussion here on how canonization is not a declaration of virtue: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364b.htm)
Venture capital and the birth of the local area networking industry
Signal said they may have to pull out of the UK if the bill is enacted as well. This would be a major setback for communications here. We'd basically have to go back to SMS/MMS and email as far as I can tell.

I don't know this is a fight the UK government can win. Does anyone else remember that the American government tried to ban encryption (back in the 90's I think it was)? They eventually had to give up because people just downloaded encryption products from the internet and used them anyway.
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