skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironic about winter, right? In some places in the world, there is more sunshine and less clouds during winter. Nice example: Tokyo (Japan) metropolis. It is typically cloudy and less sunny during summer months and far more sunny during winter months. That said, you will probably needs panels that can adjust tilt by season for maximum energy production.
That's very true but there are two problems:

1. Most young aren't so lucky to be born in a small developed city with good universities, jobs and high quality of life, so they can stick around their families, which is why they leave. Look at most of Southern and Eastern Europe.

2. For your idea to work we need to have companies also creating jobs in smaller cities, but the reverse is happening: most companies now exclusively move to the biggest cities where the larges worker pools already are (Berlin, London, Amsterdam, etc) creating a snowball effect. Small cities also have jobs, but they tend to be terrible, body-shop style that suck to work for.
That's not altruism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altruism
One thing I don’t understand about bank mergers is the psych aspect of IT workers. The merger has to be very challenging and tedious from a software perpsective and I can’t imagine being invested in it if there is a good chance I will be laid off after the it merger is completed.
I'd be curious to hear examples, especially if there are some tasks that are surpricing to either direction?
> especially if they don’t have a social spark that makes them want to form connections with other people or go on any kind of social outing.

this is a minimal connection made as part of a virtual outing. (hello.)

many widely-held constructs are getting redefined. like what it means to be “social” or “connected.”

zuck wasn’t wrong, but metaverse is already here. it’s just the internet, and we are slowly integrating it more fully into ourselves.
It was written as if it would be compressing memory pages, but in reality all it did was copy them back and forth shoddily, as if they never got around to implementing a compression algorithm before shipping the software.

It really was a scam.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
Russell A. Barkley has argued that ADHD is fundamentally a disorientation in time. These notes explore the possibility that music, which requires and supports finely tuned temporal cognition, might play a role in ameliorating ADHD. The discussion ranges across cultural issues (grasshopper vs. ant, lower rate of diagnosis of ADHD among African-Americans), play, distribution of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain, neural development, and genes in culture (studies of the distribution of alleles for dopamine receptors). Unfortunately, the literature on ADHD does not allow us to draw strong conclusions. We do not understand what causes ADHD nor do we understand how best to treat the condition. However, in view of the fact that ADHD does involve problems with temporal cognition, and that music does train one’s sense of timing, the use of music therapy as a way of ameliorating ADHD should be investigated. I also advocate conducting epidemiological studies about the relationship between dancing and music in childhood, especially in early childhood, and the incidence of ADHD.
Historically, it seems that rules in large markets end up setting the bar for the market at large.

Plus in this case the Port of Long Beach exists.

Also, what is the alternative? Just keep burning the oil until it's gone?
The user interface to a tool matters.
Big bonus on completion of the migration perhaps?
Scientist Stories: Luciano Marraffini, Molecular Mechanism of CRISPR Immunity
Corresponding study (paywall'd): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.010

From their summary:

> [...] these results support a neuro-metabolic model in which glutamate accumulation triggers a regulation mechanism that makes [lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC)] activation more costly, explaining why cognitive control is harder to mobilize after a strenuous workday.
It doesn't help that the letter meant to help prop up svb to potential buyers was not signed by many "web3" companies. You'll notice a16z is not on this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13h84RV5MXZpImXxelaYOcI6B...

You have to wonder at their motives when the stated goals of "web3" include undermining usd.
With Korea's birth rate I doubt there are too many of those happening.

And if it's down to a choice between shotgun weddings where both parents commit (whether by choice or social pressure) to raising their child or single parenthood, I'd say the former is definitely a positive for the child in question and for society as a whole.
Even if we give them the benefit of doubt that it's not a PR thing, when you're in a leadership/distinguished/emeritus position, the org often looks very different than how it looks when you're a foot soldier.
This guy fucks!
"In this case; how do they recombine..." that is exactly what the article is about. E-fuels are atmospheric carbon dioxide that is electrolyzed using renewable sources and combined with additional hydrogen in order to produce octane. So, my original parent is saying the process we should focus on is sequestration (Atmospheric carbon dioxide -> electrolyze to carbon and oxygen [this is the energy intensive step] -> bury the carbon and leave the oxygen -> harvest natural hydrocarbons / oil -> distill into various weights -> burn the octane). I propose achieving similar atmospheric carbon balance with similar energy inputs with the cycle (Atmospheric carbon dioxide -> electrolyze to carbon and oxygen [same energy per carbon] -> hydogenate the carbon to octane for portability and compatibility reasons -> burn the octane). The only point in doing all of this of course is the huge installed user base for engines that burn octane, a portable and stable fuel.
Further, with the elderly population quickly growing, it’ll become even more expensive as inflation grows, services become more expensive, and worst of all, supply for these services goes down (nurses, at home care workers, etc)

If a family has the means and the funds, I believe the money would be better spent building a small “guest house” on the adults properties for their parents to live in, than to a nursing home. Or perhaps have a nurse visit every so often for certain services.

Much of Asian culture never grew far from this notion of parents living at home in old age
How are you measuring this? SO often sees a drop in traffic on/around spring break.

However, there is a broader falling trend in traffic dating back to ~2019, if I remember correctly.
Could you elaborate a little bit on what tasks bring cognitive fatigue, and possibly why? Just wondering for structuring my own work day.
Germany already had Russian gas, by pipeline, the cheapest fossil gas with the cheapest delivery method. Plans were already in place for another pipeline with twice the capacity.

If this choice was actually made to please the greens, as the theory goes, that would have been a first for Germany, a country built on its close ties between industry and government. Not to mention that the greens aren't usually fond of burning fossil fuel.

Occam's razor should suffice to understand the political process that went down here.
It is his HN username.
I'm assured it will trickle down one day
Hate to say it but homeless people and sketch people have ruined west coast cities mass transit for me. Im uncomfortable like 50% of the time riding San Fran, L.A., or San Diego mass transit.

Riding Chicago mass transit is nice because the cold weather eliminates most of the homeless people in one way or another.

One possible solution is a premium model where there are Premium edition trains that you can pay a little extra for and have security and be around normal middle class people and relax and read a book.

I.e. have a capitalist run transit service trains along side the government one.

I'd ride transit a lot more if this was a thing.

I'll stick to my car until west coast mass transit has figured out a way to where I don't have to sit next to a person who has literally peed them selves and looks desperate enough to rob me.

(This doesn't seem to be a high bar)
The problem is, society is different now. It didn't used to be "putting your life on hold", the social mechanisms that kept the old system functional have been eroded.

For a lot of people, now, life is effectively rented. Adding care of a parent with debilitating medical issues is crippling.
It's not simple bellyaching; it's systems.

We've known for half a century the inversion in population density was coming. The cultural norms of the past don't support it.
https://archive.is/aDpls
And we as humans are terrible at it.

Time yourself writing sequential numbers 1 through X as fast as you can in 30 seconds. And note your results.

Then time yourself writing the alphabet A through .... as fast as you can in 30 seconds.

Now, in 30 seconds, write A1, B2, C3, D4.....

You would think it is easy to do this because you have been writing numbers and the alphabet your whole life, but context switching is hard.
I can’t imagine anything more depressing than sitting around dying in slow motion knowing that I’m financially draining my kid. And grandkid for that matter. It is, best case, an undo button for anything you did to try and prepare them for success in the future.
I would love to take an extended break, but unfortunately it's not really possible at the moment... I'm living in a VHCOL city, and have an expensive chronic disease as well that means I can't really afford extended time off. I don't have any family members that I could fall back on either.

So in the meantime, I'm kind of just putting in the minimal effort at work, not doing any side projects, and going on lots of really really long walks. That seems to be slowly helping.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13h84RV5MXZpImXxelaYOcI6B...

The letter meant to make svb more desirable to a potential buyer over that 'hail Mary' deal weekend. Of note is who didn't sign that letter.
The rich can choose where to live, the poor can't.

If you make it hard to be rich, the rich will just go somewhere else, not abide by your rules.

The wealth redistribution narrative is as dumb as the plot of the "The Purge" franchise. If there's going to be a purge you just travel to a country without purge.
You just reminded me that I have also experienced a two location split week, with one side consistently in isolation.

It was a wonderfully creative & productive situation.
All current HTTP/3 implementations will not let you use a self-signed cert. Without the CA root it will not connect. The spec for HTTP/3 says this should be the default. There are compile-time flags you can use to enable it but with Google/Microsoft/Apple browsers all not, good luck being able to have people connect to your site.

I'm saying that there is no way for me to distribute and install my custom CA into the browsers of every random person around the globe that will try to visit my website on software defined radio.

I've self-signed my website(s) for 20 years now. In the past it did not matter. But over the last few years I've noticed that actual browser connections are disappearing and all that's left is http bots. They're the only HTTP clients not failing to load my page because of $browsers HTTPS only configuration causing them to see my self-signed cert and thus the browser scaremongering about it causing them to close the tab. HTTP/1.1 going away will be the death of the personal website.
Not sure why you're being downvoted - you're 100% correct. I believe there is good news ahead, though, at least for the United States (and the broader Americas and Europe) because of remote work being good for family.

https://eig.org/remote-work-family-formation/

I'm hopeful we can return to stronger family values.
Most traditional natural gas heat is only 80% efficient since you have wasted exhaust heat. If you had a air pump you can achieve up to 92%-95% efficient, but with the added cost and complexity of having an electric fan.
Perfectly. At least from the cable onwards. This seems to be a fairly common problem for Brother printers, oddly enough. I eventually figured out the issue from one of several Youtube videos addressing it.
The King Is Alive was not garbage. It was good!
Work-from-home is the new normal in Canada
That was because a single man could earn a living wage to support the family and the wife could support the household.
...and also why workers, myself included, will fight them tooth and nail over it.
i have the impression that gas produces something like 40 percent less co₂ per joule than coal?

in some sense that's 'low carbon'
Good for you. `ddrescue` or a vendor-specific tool would have been equally effective, yet a lot cheaper. It's quite well-known that SpinRite had no special access to vendor-proprietary IDE commands or anything, and thus... did nothing.
The metal tin screams in pain when you bend it. Surely it is conscious..
In 2012, the federal government spent $668 billion to fund 126 separate anti‐ poverty programs. State and local governments kicked in another $284 billion, bringing total anti‐ poverty spending to nearly $1 trillion. That amounts to $20,610 for every poor person in America, or $61,830 per poor family of three.

Over, the last 50 years, the government spent more than $16 trillion to fight poverty.

Yet today, 15 percent of Americans still live in poverty. That’s scarcely better than the 19 percent living in poverty at the time of Johnson’s speech. Nearly 22 percent of children live in poverty today. In 1964, it was 23 percent.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/war-poverty-50-despite-trill...
> the rich will just go somewhere else

I view that as a net win considering wealth doesn't actually "trickle down" from the wealthy: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trick...
Completely agree. A lot of this is learned mindset. The fact that lifestyles, expectations, responsibilities etc. change somewhat quickly from generation to generation is understandable and something to factor in. However, taking care of one's parents when they grow old should be a norm. A strong family unit with inter generational contact (grandparents and grandchildren) to pass on values, a place to come home to when you're fighting inner demons, a place where young children are brought up to become responsible adults - this is vital for the long term health of a society.

I'd be willing to bet that if family units became stronger and more well knit, it would go a long way to reduce the amount of mental health problems and resulting problems that are reportedly reaching epidemic levels.
I think this may be helpful advice for regular work, but not somebody suffering from burnout. During burnout, the brain puts up a much much stronger and persistent layer of resistance to concentration, in order to try to protect you from the pain that occurred while working in the past. Pushing past that is much harder, and can lead to additional blowback.
https://archive.ph/HeDjN
The article title claimed that 1/5 of cities are parking lots but that wasn't what the article was about. I doubt that 1/5 of cities are parking lots (including driveways) but reading the article doesn't attempt to show that.
A lot of US cities still have parking minimums. If you want to build a store that has capacity for X you need to have Y parking. And the cheapest way to do that is a lot by far. This has the effect of spreading everything out because you need all this space for parking which then makes it more necessary to drive everywhere because everything is so spread out and it's a vicious cycle that encourages car usage.
What we describe colloquially as burnout has a lot of parallels to mild to moderate clinical depression. So much so that they both respond similarly to the most effective treatments. There is no singular cure, but a consistent regimen of exercise, bright light exposure, and social activity can produce incremental improvements over time.

What definitely does not help is using stimulants to try to push through. I feel like I’m seeing more and more social media posts from people who deepen their burnout by trying to use excessive caffeine intake (or stronger prescription stimulants) to try to ignore the warning signs and push on.
Of course it does. This is a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires, after all.

Plus, the poor can't afford to lobby.
The case elucidated in this article notwithstanding, my mom has early-onset Alzheimers (symptoms started in her mid 50s, she's 63 now), and it's a completely different monster. She's still independent with some help, but soon enough none of us will be equipped to handle her care. My wife and I lived with her for a month last year and it was incredibly challenging, especially emotionally, for both of us.

Alzheimer's disease and similar dementias and neuro-degenerative disorders are on the cusp of becoming major epidemics, if they aren't already, and neither individuals nor the state are equipped to handle the amount of care needed. It requires not only a certain kind of expertise to help care for people with dementia, but also a great deal of emotional resilience. I've seen my otherwise stoic uncles break down in their attempts to help my mom, and it's not even the hard part yet.
Right? What’s more, we are now using warehouses of GPUs to sort out LLM completions, a lot of which is Python code, the slowest of languages. I mean, it seems like we’ve finally admitted even Python is too hard, so we should instead ask Deep Mind to spend a millennia computing the answers to our questions. And then when it tells us “42”, we need an even bigger computer to understand it, because we’ve outsourced understanding to the computers.

We are just coming off the highs of using GPUs to generate mountains of useless money that was used to effect massive scams. But even all that is still going on.

And free market capitalism is supposed to result in efficient resource allocation? What are we even doing, trying to accelerate the heat death of the universe? Entropy not increasing fast enough for us?

Like… maybe we wouldn’t need so much silicon if we were using it a little better. Might as well just store everything in linked lists. Who even cares about data structures anymore?
I do think this is notbunders well because if there is some activities that you look forward to, most times even if you are tired you would want to do it, say a social activity, video games, something to blow off steam, you are still using the brain but a different activity. So tired is selective
Even if we could, any event catastrophic enough to require us to do so would likely kill us all off way before we can figure out yet alone practically do so.

As long as there is an atmosphere you are probably better off at moisture farming than trying to extract oxygen and hydrogen out of minerals to make water.

This is what would happen if the sun disappeared tomorrow style of events.

Yes we have an active core and the planet would likely be warm enough at its depths that we can survive of that heat but we will all be deader than dead well before we will be able to do that.
> However it also had oil furnace (aka diesel)

I've never heard that before; where did you grow up where an oil furnace is also known as a diesel?
Wow, based on the numbers in the linked article, these guys sold ~750k copies of the software which retailed for around $35 in 1995. Even if you assume it sold at wholesale for half that price, it’s still something like $13mm without inflation adjustments, or around $25mm in current dollars. That’s a huge amount of money for an outright fraud. They really should have put people in jail for this. Maybe not the devs, but the management that knowingly shipped a defective fake product.
Used to work for a BigCo printer maker. This is true. You wouldn’t believe the things people print on, there are racks and racks of weird papers from around the world. Tested at different temps/humidities (matters for the electrostatic process in laser printers).

Bamboo paper is a thing.
This article does not answer the promise of the headline. It is about the history of AWS. The headline is at best inaccurate, at worst clickbait.
Creating “lite,” low-bandwidth, zero-ads and text-only version of any web page
Who said anything about making it hard to be rich?
Well the op article is specifically about people who left SpaceX and are seeding into startups, so in this thread we very much care about this selection bias.
I guess I'm supposed to be grateful they both died before I was 20?
> Something is broken when it's a financial pressure for someone in the top 10% of income to live within an hour drive of where they want to be

That’s a place where probably billion other people would love to be.
Feedly Faces Backlash over Protest-Tracking AI Models
On paper that is sometimes true, and gas companies try to lean in hard on that. Gas can do 480 gCO2/kWh vs. coal's 800+. But when you include wellhead and pipeline losses of methane they end up looking almost exactly equal, according to many studies. So it's not really progress. Also, half the CO2 of coal is nowhere even close to acceptable. We need things that do about 1/20th the carbon of coal or less, so wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, tidal only. Gas is out.
Where did all the Poles go?
Anyone who does coding for a living will know this. Personally my average thinking to resting ratio is about 90 min thinking to 30 min resting (ie keeping up with tech news).
Practical CL⸻Loop for Black Belts
I’ve got several quotes over the years and afaict it’s just like this in California now. It’s maddening.
I can completely relate to this article. I am 53 and caring for my 78 year old mum with dementia. While financial issues are not a challenge as we don't live in America. The emotional burden is massive and the guilt of not having done enough or to be scared of leaving her alone when we have to step out even for a few hours is palpable. I have full time help at home but guilt is irrational. We hadn't taken a vacation in years until we requested my wife's parents to stay in our home when we went out for 3 days after 4+ years. Amazing support from my wife is what is still giving me the strength to handle this situation.
https://archive.ph/ndjbi
> everyone is milking the 90s-20s real estate bubble

Look at the market statistics. It's not a bubble at all. Demand is legitimately very high and supply is very low (just look at the very low vacancy statistics).

We have banned the construction of most new housing and this is the natural result.
You are making an awfully lot of moral judgements on how others live their lives in this comment.

It should also be allowed to complain about the toll it is to care for someone else, without being told you're a "woe-me-complainer". What if caring for your parent means you have to neglect your own kid? Or who takes care of the care-taker?
Alzheimer’s rates are declining fwiw
The self imposed agony of insisting on the hitherto unprecedented lifestyle of nuclear families that don't know their neighbor's names
This description always amuses me because it leaves out all these minor details, like the fact that most rich people still need pilots and planes to “just go somewhere else,” and that pilots aren’t all rich, and planes require whole fleets of not rich people to maintain them.

This is not financial advice and I am not a financial advisor.
Family is everything, and we should be willing to make sacrifices for our own.

However, for the generation that plundered their children and grandchildren, less than care is merited.

They will receive care in proportion to the care they gave.