skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the best thing you can do is accept you will lose them, and it may be sudden and unexpected, or it may be slow and awful. I’m sorry, it’s just true, and denial will just make it worse.

Given acceptance of that reality, do the stuff you might wish you had done. Visit more, talk more, listen more. If they’re comfortable with mortality (older people are often moreso than younger), don’t avoid the topic. If they’re not, well, maybe there are small things you can do to help both you and them to accept.

It’s such a difficult thing, but it’s pretty much mandatory. Acceptance can reduce anxiety.
Buyers didn't have a choice, since suppliers that didn't have to cull their flocks chose to price gouge.
> Also, Netflix has probably done more for both the funding and international distribution of European TV shows than all European streaming services combined.

Note that they also get a lot of subsidies from the local governments to film in their location. They are not doing it for charity.
Weird; you'd think the protesters would have been more concerned with the rise of SD than police practices in another country. Not only that, everything I've heard about Swedish police is they're generally chill compared to US police.
Do you know how much Jersey Barriers weigh? They weigh about 3600 pounds, so total weight is around 40,000 pounds, a full load for a semi. Thunderft used an unrealistically low figure, as is usual for his bad faith debunking videos.

There’s nothing particularly difficult about 1MW charging, there are already standards for this. (Tesla is part of the standards body, and they’ll either use the standard themselves or improve and adapt it to their purposes like they did with Chademo…) Tesla Semi prototypes in the past have used multiple 250kW connections. This is not some big gotcha, and honestly thinking there’s something impossible about 1MW just shows ignorance of the state of vehicle electrification. Your concern about grid connection literally is addressed by pointing out existing Tesla supercharging stations provide far greater aggregate power already.
Docker and containerization is something that already exists for the Windows kernel though.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
I mean, I am not sure you are sentient either--even putting aside the question of whether you are a bot or a dog, I can't directly experience whether anyone but myself is sentient--but the whole point of AGI is that I would be hard-pressed to decide that it is any less privileged than you are to claim it is sentient as it is seemingly just as generally intelligent as you. If you just have something that is superhuman at a few things but clearly lacking something so fundamental to the idea of general intelligence that you wouldn't even be willing to consider whether it is at least as conscious as a dog then you really don't have AGI, you just have AI, or maybe even merely ML.
Curious, as in it's something you just found interesting or as in it's something you use to talk through your issues with?
I also agree. Rich for me denotes a level of freedom that you can't have with _only_ high income. If your parents weren't high income for example, you might be building from zero, or negative, net worth.
i think the question is how far you are shipping the hydrogen. If, say, people are making hydrogen in (say) the Middle East and shipping it to (say) Europe then the overhead of liquifying or compressing H2 is on the same order as converting to ammonia. In that paper they demonstrate that you can just use the ammonia directly to reduce iron and not have a separate system to convert it back.

If you have a big wind power or solar complex like the ones being built in the North Sea or Australia you might be better off using hydrogen directly.
Ask HN: Was programming more interesting when memory usage was a concern?
I got into doing programming professionally around 2014, which was way after memory and stuff was really much of a concern for 99% of all applications seemingly.

I always do look enviously at back when you had to figure out sort of bootstrappy ways to solve problems due to inherent limitations of the hardware instead of just sitting there gluing frameworks together like a loser.

Am I wrong or was programming just way cooler back then?
I wonder how remote work has impacted the average number of steps per day. I normally get ~5k steps from my commute (walk from home to train, walk from train to office and vice versa) without doing anything else. On days I work from home I'm definitely much more sedentary. Yes I can go on a walk to compensate, but I usually don't...
I'm trying to parse what you mean here.

Dave Matthews is an incredible musician, but what's the connection?

Also, strong disagree on Collier. No doubt there are people that love both, but I struggle to see any similarity. They each have strong harmonic development but their approach is completely different. What similarity do you find?
A decade ago a16z was new (less than four years old, founded in 2009) and had no track record. Today, they are in almost every major tech company in every category, and continue to win seemingly every competitive deal.

There's no vantage point from which they seem to be losing.

Take "web3". Consider the fact that a16z never invested in FTX, Terra, BlockFi — the largest crypto failures/scams, that their competitors invested in. Yet they led Uniswap, Optimism, Matter Labs, and OpenSea which have proven to be some of the most interesting and powerful projects in the space.

If you get all of your news from Hacker News you're going to get a distorted view of reality.
This has been a feature since windows 10

https://www.howtogeek.com/399290/how-to-use-windows-10s-new-...
There was a tour of Grant Imahara's workshop two years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633605

I was struck by how fantastic everything looked, this was what a dream workshop would look like.

However the man behind it was gone and it was inevitable that this amazing workshop would slowly wither away just like everything else.

This was the "best" case scenario - living on in a memory for maybe a few more decades
Wait, I'm not sure that's true at all but I do think there's an interesting question there.

Brother has a whole bunch of monochrome laser printers from $120 up to $250ish depending on if you want duplex printing, wireless, document scanning, multiple paper trays, etc. From what I can gather they're all well-regarded? HP, Canon seem to also have decent offerings in that price range though based on a totally unscientific review of scanning Amazon ratings it seems like people like the Brothers best.

I think it's just an issue of inkjets versus lasers.

Inkjets are just horrible. Every single freaking one. Why are they so bad? The ink cartridges always dry out and stop working unless you print on a regular basis, and they all have some weird predatory business model based on selling you a bunch of ink that you don't need. It feels like they lose money on the printer and bank on you buying a bunch of ink later on.

So how did monochrome laser printers in the same price range avoid that weirdo predatory business model? That's my question. I can't really imagine that a laser printer is any cheaper to manufacture than an inkjet printer.
You can't gain control over anything if you don't own it in the first place.

All systems designed by the tech industry/attention economy don't assume the customer is the owner of their attention.

These systems buy and sell attention as if the content publisher is the owner of ppls attention and the advertiser is the buys it from the publisher. So there is no question of controlling your attention when these ppl buy and sell your attention without you having any say in the transaction. Its a fantastic form of property theft.
>If you inject money into a market with schemes like UBI, all you do is creating a forcing function for inflation.

That isn't how negative income taxes work at all. Come on educate yourself on the topic before writing a comment like that. In a negative income tax system a break even point is set where you pay exactly as much as you are getting. For the average person this means nothing changes for them. It is only at the high end where people pay significantly more in than they get and at the bottom end where people get out more than they pay in.

The funding problem for UBI has been solved a long time ago. There is no inflation problem. Yes, the UBI will be small but who exactly expects a large UBI? It's not like you get generous welfare payments today.
This is incredibly naive, considering a few of the biggest ports on the continent are in California.
Ain't going to help ...you're going to die anyway.. so best you just move to Brazil and travel to the Amazon River and build a raft and live on it and catch fish and pick fruit and stare up at the stars every night till you get old and decrepit and wonder at the marvelous universe that you were born in until one day you see no more and you feel no more and you are no more.. instead of just striving and working out and stepping steps and earning and working and working and earning.. just my thoughts.. but you do you
Do you think nations play by rules? Whatever works, works, and the anglophone world is certainly up its elbows in dirty tricks. They're historically known as the perfidious albion for good bloody reason.

Don't forget that Mercantilism and strict control of trade and information exchange was the rule until America forced "free trade" upon the world as a condition of entry into WW2.

We live in what is mathematically the exception, not the rule. The world didn't begin in 1945.
I'm not convinced there are "a lot" of these real and common structures.

They certainly do arise, and particularly if you're also doing concurrency linked lists are attractive because a compare-exchange type mechanism is ideally suited for such structures and that has been implemented cheaply in hardware. But this article was about the default, and we don't want defaults tailored to niche uses. The default T-shirt size shouldn't be big enough for The Rock. The default ceiling height in new buildings shouldn't be 1.5 metres. The default beverage offered at your restaurant shouldn't be Mountain Dew Code Red. It's OK that these things are options, that somebody who wants them can have them, but they're bad defaults.

I'd want to see some measurements from real world projects to believe chainig should be the default. If I take, say, the Chromium codebase, and the LibreOffice codebase, and I look at places they use any type of hash table, how often are they going to be for stuff that'd be "better suited" to chaining? Am I going to consistently find 50% ? 10% ? 1% ?
Saudi Arabia's abysmal human rights record makes that kind of trade pretty embarrassing for the US. Not embarrassing enough to cut ties, but there is some tension there.
I felt the same with Electronic Engineering in my final year - because I had realised that what I was learning was so academically focused that it was almost useless in the real world. I forced myself to finish that last year, but I think that effort destroyed my love for electronic design work (fortunately, I fell into a software job instead, in part because I got my degree).

Perhaps if you can get out in the real world then you will find real problems and those will likely motivate you (if you are anything like me, anyway). The most motivated students I recall were already working, and they picked and chose relevant academic focus that could help them with their design work (i.e. they could get some value from the academic system). Even though work is often depressing in itself (varies on a huge number of factors).

Ideally, try and discover what really motivates you. I like this idea, although I haven’t tried it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29912252

Edit: perhaps relevant: I was depressed due to a relationship. She ended the relationship with me, and the next day I was long-term happy. Turns out situational depression is a thing, and that it is entirely different from clinical depression (which doesn’t fix itself in a day - exception fast bipolar?). If you feel unhappy, sometimes you have the ability to fix the situation that is making you unhappy!

Good luck.
Pick Italian. Beautiful language, lots of common words with most languages and I don’t think any non-EU countries use it. And if everything else fails, you start using your hands to communicate.

Mid 40s here and wouldn’t mind at all to start learning Italian if it was the common language of EU.
Congrats! I've always thought the bug bounty structure in security should be more prevalently applied to just building OSS software
Isn't that just a virtual machine?
Apollo project aka Moon Landing was the analogy.

I do believe that was brute forced.

And as I already pointed out, even if we fail, we can still save millions of lives.

Plus the cost to treat people is spiraling out of control.

https://www.fightcancer.org/sites/default/files/National%20D...
Roulette is perhaps an easier example. A typical American wheel has 38 positions: 1-36, 0 and 00. If you bet on a single number and hit, a 1/38 chance, you don't win 37x your bet, you only win 35x. If you bet on Red, or Odd, those pay 1-1 but the odds of winning are less than 50%, there are 18 winning results and 20 losing results. The payouts are always lower than the true probability of that specific outcome. If two people play opposite colors, one Red and one Black, the casino will break even on numbers but collect both wagers when 0 or 00 wins.

Another example is sports betting with a point spread. You bet $11 to win $10, on supposedly an 50-50 wager (the purpose of the point spread).

Slot machines work off the same principles. It's ok for the outcomes to be random, because the payouts are always less than the true probabilities.
It’s fine to keep using old hardware, but with lower specs than that, windows 10/11 is completely unusable anyway. With such specs you probably want to use some lightweight Linux distribution, if you don’t enjoy looking at the hourglass-cursor most of your workday…
And you presume in the absence of a state, no force will attempt to fill the power vacuum?
In 2015, I shared lodgings with a student of cognitive sciences. This week, conversations that I had with him and his friends kept haunting me. My friend would talk about how we didn't (don't) know so much about the brain. He was sure that the magic going in there is probably outside of what anybody can understand, and that it would take one thousand years to make any significant progress in said understanding. I have had or heard similar arguments regarding cancer and biological systems in general.

There is no God hiding in there. Nature is not magic, but just evolution and selection, with a high degree of randomness. If Nature's random process can create intelligence, so can we, by the same more or less fortuitous means.

And now we have ChatGPT. It's not human level intelligence (yet). But to me, it is proof that intelligence is --as everybody said without quite really believing it--an emerging phenomenon: add enough computing units and a mechanism to coordinate them towards achieving a goal, and you get something "intelligent". We, the human beings, don't need to understand how the trillions of parameters work together. All we need to do is to find a process that finds those parameters.

We will discover that untreatable diseases like ageing (and cancer, its corollary) can be worked out in exactly the same way: we don't need to understand how our biology "computes" our fate. We just need to engineer the equivalent of backpropagation for biological tuning, and I have a hunch this too will be a matter of sheer computing power.

And we will get there by surprise, earlier than what most people expect. But only if our first act as newly ascended gods is not to create new creatures that take away our role of top species in our world.
Like not having enough or managing the memory you do have?

I’d say that garbage collection was key to large scale software reuse as if you didn’t have garbage collection you’d have to have a lot of cooperation between libraries and applications (how does the application know the library doesn’t need a piece of memory or vice versa?)
Those are also fantastic. Also, if you're into electronic music, RMB sampled Baraka a lot in one of his earlier albums.
Actually, they did. Intel promised aggressive delivery schedule, performance ramp, and performance. The industry took it hook, line, and sinker. While AMD decided not to limit 64 bit to the high end and brought out x86-64.

Sun did a port IA64 port of solaris, which is definitely an itanium side bet.

HP was involved in the IA64 effort and definitely was planning on the replacement of pa-risc from day 1.
They've only "cornered" access to LEO because they vastly outperform the competition in almost every conceivable category. That should get you a short term monopoly.
If a manager can't be kind even to underperforming employees, that makes them a bad manager.
I bought the RamDoubler/SpeedDoubler/CopyDoubler combination.

SpeedDoubler was a much better 68K emulator than was built into the first generation PPC Macs and CopyDoubler was a way of copying files in the background.
I think this advice is subsumed by the more general heuristic that managers should basically understand and be able to do their direct reports’ jobs. If they understand the importance of focus and flow state, they will also understand the cost of interruptions.
I'd expect it to look like gas prices. CA has some of the most expensive gas in the country. Part is due to taxes, part is due to extra refining requirements.
Both are great, since while the daily cycle is a problem with solar, the seasonal variations are a far larger issue (since much mobe energy storage is needed). But both complement each other.

Wind is stronger in the winter and solar is strong in the summer. The best consistency is achieved when both are used, not one or the other.
they should give up on windows too.
Such as the aforementioned water...
This isn't using ammonia to transport hydrogen; the nitrogen is what's reacting with the iron.

And yes, ease of transportation and reactivity is a big motivator.

From the abstract:

"Ammonia is an annually 180 million ton traded chemical energy carrier, with established transcontinental logistics and low liquefaction costs. It can be synthesized with green hydrogen and release hydrogen again through the reduction reaction."

Also: "The authors show that ammonia-based reduction of iron oxide proceeds through an autocatalytic reaction, is kinetically as effective as hydrogen-based direct reduction, yields the same metallization, and can be industrially realized with existing technologies."
a client making N concurrent HTTP requests to a specific server should not require N discrete connections between the client and the server, it should be able to make those requests over a single connection

request-per-connection is a nice, simple, but ultimately naïve model for network communication
I must build static site compilers and markdown dialects so that my children may have liberty to write prose and poetry.
By the tiny fraction of the time you've spent/wasted walking? :)
Not that I'm aware of.

A lot of open source code is hosted on github, which isn't open source either.

It isn't really an issue, I was just correcting bmsleight_. It would be nice to have an open source model repository though.
> No idea if they were paid or not, but I'm sort-of afraid they really weren't.

Pfft. https://www.tweekgeek.com/ethernet-cables/
I apologize for any rudeness on my part and i am ready to admit I could be wrong. Also my feeling about denialism could be wrong, it is just a description of a feeling.
I watched a Dr. Huberman podcast on dance and language.

One of the key takeaways was that speaking and thinking are interrelated. When you are thinking, the same area of the vocal chords are activated but with a lower intensity compared to when you are speaking.

This means that what you cannot speak, you cannot think. By prioritising Italian, they are scientifically enabling the population to think more like Italians.

I don’t care about the ban though, it doesn’t affect me.
In fairness, setting up and maintaining a virtual machine might as well be too much upkeep for the common user.

On the other hand, if a user knows what a "sandbox" is (no, not the playground box of sand) they aren't a common user.
And for readers who may not have been Mac users at the time, RAM Doubler was legit.

https://tidbits.com/2019/01/24/25-years-ago-in-tidbits-ram-d...

"Developed by Connectix, RAM Doubler was one of the most magical utilities of the early days of the Macintosh. As its name suggested, RAM Doubler promised to double the amount of usable RAM in your Mac, and amazingly, it generally delivered."
Ha. I never noticed this.

My point was: I hope apple decided a visual indication on screen was not required because the switch is red when muted, hence there is already a visual indicator. Hence: no physical visual indicator anymore => introduction of an on-screen visual indicator
I did that. It was a pain.

In my case most of engagement happened on social media, and I saw little benefit from my website; so eventually I stopped updating my webpage and started posting directly to social media platforms.
> But why not shower Twitter with praise for doing more than any other social media company in a similar market position?

Because selective disclosure is often propaganda. If a third party had chosen what the release or verified this is what's actually running in production, I would praise them.

Considering Elon's incessant lying, self-promotion, and manipulation, it's impossible to be complimentary of this at all. Everything he does is in bad faith.
It still is cool because of memory and CPU (power) and code constraints for embedded computing.
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I presume they mean organic as in "organized by a local person because they care about the political cause they're protesting about" vs. "organized by someone who is trying to stir shit on behalf of a foreign nation-state".
Yes please. It's quite surprising to see a company like Netflix and Airbnb using Medium for their tech blogs. They have the world's best web engineering teams and they use Medium for their tech blogs ? Just why ? I hate their font sizes their font heights. Just looks so amateurish.
I think more importantly they're forgetting about France who would probably "Frexit" before consenting to elevate English above French
Yah that link is a lie, and I quote: "It’s important to note that our lab is not looking for PFAS compounds directly, because it’s simply impossible to look for all of them."

"levels of organic fluorine, a marker for PFAS" - yah, that's basically an outright lie. Flourine is also a marker for Teflon (PTFE) which is 100% not a problem.

This is junk science taken to it's ultimate level.
As an adult watching clips of Seasme Street like this, or the pinball animation counting from 1 to 12, or any of the other 70s psychedelia influenced bits, I convinced that I was "groomed" into being such of fan of the use of psychedelics starting in my teenage years. A giant bird that had an "imaginary" friend (elephant/mammoth to continue the trope) that was always high as a kite "Hiiiii, Birrrrrd". And I thank them for it.
Mamma mia! Questo è oro puro!

I suggest they also forbid every cultural aspect of the Italian culture that came from America/England: Italian Rock & Pop, Spaghetti Western, Il Calcio (invented by the British),...

And, btw, the food historian Alberto Grandi has been claiming that even pasta Carbonara is an American born dish...