skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Technically there are some atoms of this "stuff" in a lump of uranium ore

Given it has a half-life of around 40 minutes and isn’t a decay product (even via irradiation) of anything that’s found in uranium ore, I think that’s quite unlikely.

It may occur somewhere else in nature, very briefly/rarely, however.
> the vast majority of Americans getting a couple checks from the government which basically cover the exact price of a new Macbook.

Source?

And source that they spent that income on MacBooks?
but you don't usually just jump from one peak to another. there's series of repeat failures that have to happen to get to the next mountain to traverse(usually there could be point solutions I suppose)
To be clear it's a mix of pseudorandomness and "procedural randomness" to increase "fairness"
That was my initial impression reading the OP as well, if your implementation is slow because you're using scans, well, it's because you're using scans. That said, I honestly don't know enough about the details regarding OP's implementation and why they couldn't refactor to properly Query the PK, but it sounds similar to how you'd authenticate reads on Firebase so maybe it's habits from a different platform kicking in. That said, Amplify allowing users to just get into GraphQL whether or not they actually need it might be a legitimate noob trap.
You can say the exact same thing about spending... Subsidies and stimuli shape behavior.
They're not dangerous to humans, we've proven that by nearly eliminating the entire species. Bears are no match either, that bear on the CA flag is also extinct. Go walk around the tenderloin at night, I bet you would fare better against a bear versus the collective denizen.
Many people in this thread think that if a constexpr function can be called at compile time successfully, it will also be guaranteed not to have UB at runtime, in general.

I was pointing out that this is only true for the cases you actually test, not the general case.

Even then, it's not fully true, as a function may have different behavior at runtime as opposed to compile time (e.g. because of multi-threading), and so it may display UB even when called with the same arguments that didn't display UB at compile-time.

Overall, this static_assert trick is just a nice way to make sure your tests don't accidentally pass while still invoking UB, to protect from false negatives.
Probably not at scale due to all the different form factors. There are plenty of hobbyists doing that, however.
thank you for explaining, but do i need a special keyboard just to type out the natural number type?
I just ordered seeds for a nitrogen fixing corn from the Experimental Farm Network.
Nissan for whatever reason never chose to do (and still doesn't do in 2023) active battery thermal management that every other EV manufacturer does - I have a Ford Focus EV (2017) and despite being a complete econobox compliance vehicle (which I still love) it actively manages battery heat.

Luckily Leafs are a minority of all EVs so the point still stands - EV batteries will likely outlive the car.
Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman
You'd think they'd target Chrome (>60% market share on Desktop) rather than Firefox with < 8% market share.
I don't really understand the argument here. I did point out some flaws with running old laptops, regardless of the model or manufacturer. Touchpads were not great at the time in general (neither screens for that matter), and usb-c is just missing. The specs are also getting to the point where it starts to feel slow, especially with current horribly overbloated webapps.

I am not sure about what you mean by "not as smooth" keyboard. What matters to me is the accuracy and speed I perform at. And since I can hit 110wpm with great accuracy, just like on my mechanical keyboard, I don't see any real issue with it.

Also for the record - I dropped my laptop twice back in the university where they had those tables tilted and it slipped. It did survive both drops, the cracks started appearing over time. I never spilled anything at or close to the laptop though. I keep my beverages on the left side of the table so I can't accidentally bump them.
Ah the ages old debate about which was the beginning of it all: DNA, RNA, or protein.

My favorite superhero fight, or the very first "my origin of life can beat your origin of life" discussion. How fun.
Walmart to add EV charging to thousands of stores by 2030
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I was also curious about this.

Maybe the keyless entry computer stays awake to try to sync with a fob and then sleeps on success? If a user chooses not to use a fob at all, maybe it stays awake indefinitely trying to find a key to sync with.
Supplement to the above: "Why I Still Call Myself a Christian and an Episcopalian" — https://www.questioningchristian.com/2005/05/why_i_call_myse...
When reading crypto clownworld stories like this, it is easy and fun to observe that cryptocurrency is a satire of the real (or "fiat", if you prefer) financial system.

Less fun, but far more important, is to note how incredibly (infinitely?) subtle this satire is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22352840
Do we have to assume negative intent every time something like this happens?
This isn't just "business decisions", it encompasses "product design" at a very core level too. It's a lot.
The dilemma you face stems from the ambiguous nature of the upvote button:

1. As an "agree" button - you upvote to get the perspective you share to be displayed more prominently to other people. It is a way for you to influence other readers.

2. As "it was useful to me and a good use of my time" button. You use it because you think other users will find it informative as well. In this case you are doing purely for the benefit of others.

3. As "it made me laugh or evoked some other emotions" button.

All three could be viewed as different dimensions of content and one item/comment can have different combinations along these dimensions.

It is complicated by the fact that content creators are actively optimizing their content along these dimensions to gain more visibility.

When I come to HN, as a reader, I want to see mostly informative content - which is only dimension 2. I don't want to be influenced or persuaded. And while I enjoy a good laugh - that's not my goal coming to HN. This makes the other two content dimensions contribute to noise.

Your suggestion to split out the upvote into separate labels like "agree", "informative" and "funny" [1] and to let users sort by the dimension of their choice may not solve the problem of separating "agree" from "informative" because there is no incentive for the voters to vote truthfully. People who upvote content they agree with want other people to see that content. If most users are sorting by informative then those voters will upvote content they agree with using the "informative" button.

I think you need to change the system of incentives in order for voters to upvote only informative content and not 1 and 3.

One way to do this is to make what you upvote have more consequences for the type of content you see in the future and less directly affect the ranking of that content for all users [2]. With a feedback loop like this the upvote button is no longer "what content do I want other people to see", but "what type of content do I want my future self to see". It makes you think before voting - "Was it worth my time?", "Is this kind of content aligned with my long term goals?"

[1] - Slashdot has something like this: "funny", "interesting", "insigthful" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Peer_moderation but I don't think you can sort by it. Also, only a subset of users are given these moderator points.

[2] - I'm building https://linklonk.com that works this way.
Stopped reading when this guy started talking about Single Table DDB being best practice and linking to AWS when he clearly did zero research on AWS recommendations with GraphQL including from the AWS Hero Alex Debrie he mentions:
https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-graphql/
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/single-table-vs-multi-ta...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/enhancing-dynamodb-singl...

Also he mentions the race condition around clients connecting to the backend between queries and mutations, then in the same breath says the DataStore client handles this but also it's mistake is being reliant on Subscriptions? This contradiction doesn't make sense.

There are some legit bugs in this article though that I've seen, like that Analytics one. It's really a Pinpoint issue though when you dig under the covers that I've been waiting for them to solve for years.
Thank you, this is great!
On another note, what to solder?
I've been playing around with arduinos and esp 32s but so far I've just used breadboards and didn't have to solder. Any recommendations for an easy project to take on?
Yet FTX wasn’t hacked. Their own irresponsible bets lost it all instead.
I actually agree. This was probably only an issue because some dev I work with didn't read the docs or didn't think it mattered at the time because our userbase was so small the difference between a scan and a query was negligible at the time.

Part of me does wonder if there would be a benefit in DynamoDB providing a function that under the hood creates secondary indices and uses queries where that would be the most efficient choice automatically. But maybe that would be a better fit for an ORM of some sort.
Ammeter in series, not across the terminals! Unless you are trying to weld something :]
At first glance/test on their page, it can provide a significantly better completion if given a prompt of a series of Q and As and by modifying Temp/etc.
Life lessons of a guy failing to launch many MVPs and startups. This is the first part describing how he left his home country for a better life in the UK.
My 2000 Ford Explorer has all kinds of electronics and modules from the factory. And even my crap I added in... I leave my Qi charger, ham radio, Bluetooth FM transmitter all running and plugged in, and I can come out a week later and the battery is still not dead. And when I'm camping I run a 12v van all night long. Truck starts right up every time. I don't get what would be draining more power than that in a more modern car. You'd think they'd be more efficient at not wasting juice.
> Can you expound on this?

Which part?
Some games I follow talked about "switching to pseudorandomness" but that may be misuse of terminology.

There's an argument for competitive games to use true randomness to eliminate any possibility of abuse, but I'm not aware of specific examples.
Probably should get a brand more reliable than Audi...
True, but what if people buy a bunch of indices, where all these jump in and jump out effects average out.

Only buying indexes is different from only buying one index.
Trophy hunting has to be one of the most bizarre "fun" activities. How is ending a life fun?
That sounds like a perfect clone of Mt.Gox. They did the same 12 years ago.
Ultralights and performance don't go hand in hand... you buy a gaming laptop for that.
That's in there. The list is random each day, but I'm pretty sure that showed up a couple days ago!
>At least in capitalism we can vote with our dollars. We can spend our money on things we believe in.

The end state of the current US capitalistic system is a rental economy where "you'll own nothing and be happy"(WEF terminology, not mine). We are seeing this in the loss of the ability to buy real estate but also in the push to move towards a subscription model for everything. Subscription cars vs ownership, subscription services vs ownership, even subscriptions for hardware such that you rent hardware for a monthly fee and "trade up" every other year. Capital has exhausted every other avenue for growth so this is what is left. Combine that with wage stagnation and inflation eating away what little value is left. How is it possible to follow your plan in the world?
There's an animist tribe called Idu Mishmis in India's North East state of Arunachal Pradesh, Their mythology considers Tigers to be their elder brothers, So they venerate Tigers and are deeply involved in conserving their habitat leading to an unique way of wildlife conservation.

They don't indulge in retaliatory killing of the Tiger even if it hunts one of their people.

Subsequent Tiger census of their region have shown to have significant Tiger population that the Govt. now wants to establish a Tiger Reserve in their region, Now the Idu Mishmis are protesting that plan claiming that the Tigers are actually located in their own farm lands and not in deep forest region[1].

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-politi...
This is a relic of Bill’s tenor. Satya is different in good way.
> I don't think it's the FireFox' team's responsibility to be aware of and take into account arbitrary software intercepting system calls.

Per the bug report, Firefox was generating up to ~14,000 calls where Chrome was generating ~300, though.

Surely it is Firefox' team's responsibility to use system calls in a sane way, say not almost 50x more than the competition?
> I hate preaching to the converted. If you were Buddhists, I’d bash Buddhism. But you’re skeptics, so I have to bash skepticism.

At least he admits to being a preacher to lesser groups.
Why do humans ever develop?
The "stasis" and "arbitrarily adjustments" regimes that I wrote about are certainly ones that I've seen, which don't rely solely on p < 0.05 but are still pretty suboptimal. Furthermore, it's not only about whether 0.05 is the sole criteria, but also about whether it's a useful criteria for us to highlight at all, depending on whether the anchoring effect of it is damaging relative to alternatives.

But let me turn that around and ask: what product decision regime do you see most often or think would be the most relevant to use as an example? I'd be happy to hear your perspective and make sure I keep it in mind for future blogs.
Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. I was in such a cramming mode at the time that i didn't finish the docs but pretty much stopped after I understood notes and cards.
Can you recommend any settings for a good schedule to retain information?
Right….
Have you tried this? does this work?
So you build more rail
It is amusing that anyone thinks a company with > 200K employees and probably 10K products is organized enough for something like this.
It doesn't miss the point because the OP is talking in the present tense. Not something from 10 years ago, e.g. "they get something like 98% of their funding from the govt"
I didn't drive my 2019 Mercedes for months during the pandemic and the battery was fine. It did give me a warning when I restarted driving it (I guess the battery was starting to get low-ish), but it immediately fixed itself.
> Hi, I’m Rob Walling. I’m a serial entrepreneur who’s built a handful of multimillion-dollar companies, including Drip, MicroConf, and TinySeed.

> Before The SaaS Playbook, I wrote two best-selling books about startups: Start Small, Stay Small, and The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping your Sh*t Together.

The author's credentials are there. I have personally used Drip and read Start Small, Stay Small
formal methods has value in safety related software. When you are developing software for airplane, rail, automobile and nuclear power station, any tools that might improve safety merit consideration.
RIM's sins were much more serious. Their devices were designed in a time when having the horsepower to actually run a mail client on them wasn't possible, and so they were dependent on an intermediate server.

Using a Blackberry in the absence of BES (and an Exchange server) was pretty weak sauce.

Palm, OTOH, had a real platform that worked on its own. My Treo could talk directly to my ISP's IMAP server, something Blackberries of the era couldn't do. My Treo made it easy to separate work and personal mail. My Treo's PIM apps were superior to the Blackberry's.

Also, you and I apparently had VERY different experiences with the Clie line. I had one. It was physically interesting but insanely fragile, and for SOME reason needed different sync software than Palm (or Handspring) branded Palms.
I'd say this kind of thing is not popular on HN because it had very little useful information content, and if he knew it was not going to be popular here because of religion, well he posted it anyway didn't he…

> was immediately followed with "you probably have a brain tumor for doing it" comments

Actually most comments weren't of this nature, but you climbed over those to find the one you could plant your flag of martyrdom on.
It's a cultural convention. Physicists are not rewarded for manufacturing things, they are rewarded for discovering things. So even if the process resembles manufacturing, they call it a discovery so they can publish a paper.

Alternatively, you could say that "discovering a new isotope" is shorthand for "discovering the process by which a new isotope can be produced".
So you're saying they're the same theory disguised as different, or another facet of the same solid, only useful as a computational shortcut. Maybe it's time to look for contradictions?
Personally I believe there's a strong correlation between how crazy you act on social media and how competent your internal security is.
This is type of thing I've seen Eric O. over at South Main Auto[1] fix in dozens of videos. Mad troubleshooting skills, works hard to find root causes of things. He's pretty amazing, hidden away in some no-account town in upstate NY.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/@SouthMainAuto
Canada and the US allow trophy hunting within their borders; there’s a famous picture of “Kid Rock” and Ted Nugent with a killed mountain lion, ironically a true symbol of the americas they claim to represent. And so called canned hunts happen in Texas.

There’s a great deal of public apathy or ignorance to be overcome in general to excise the small fraction of humanity from conducting such practices.
How much did the electronics category inflate?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/216055/annual-percentage...
I'm a visual learner and you have wired my intuitions about this topic permanently. Amazing work!
I'd wager over 90% of people who 'quote' Adam Smith have never actually read more than a choice de-contextualized quote, and understand his actual positions at all.
I think the only real challenge to upgradable storage is dealing with broken power management that's widespread in consumer NVMe SSDs. The security, size and weight concerns all seem manageable, especially given that non-Apple laptops already commonly require the use of single-sided M.2 modules.
I dug into old blues a few years ago. Robert Johnson came up again and again. I decided to give him a listen and have liked him ever since.

It won't keep you on your seat. It all starts to sound the same after a while. The recording quality is abysmal. They all sound like he was standing too far away from the microphone.

Despite all that, he is a cultural treasure. I can close my eyes and feel the era when I hear his music. The ambience of those scratchy, distant, tinfoil recordings was just what the doctor had ordered.
Yeah I totally agree. Heat pump with a wood stove / furnace as a second heat source is the way to go.

It's not unheard of to go multiple days without electricity after a bad snow storm, so I would never trust a heat pump alone. When you need them the most, they are the least efficient and reliable. And I want to have a fireplace anyway, so it makes sense to make it functional.
I’m starting to think that what’s keeping me off the cover of Forbes is my weak-ass sociopathy and my tiny tiny crumbs of competence.
> Because, taken literally, our 2011 Nissan Leaf would like a word with you.

2011 was a particularly bad year for the Leaf. And they were not great (battery life-wise) before 2015 ('lizard pack').

The newer ones are faring much better. Sure, this is of no consolation for your Leaf, but I'd keep an eye for a battery pack from a Leaf that's totaled for other reasons (minor accident causing airbag deployment, for example). You can even add a larger battery than the one your model came with.
> Even without Dawkin's book, you could very likely have still gone through the "edgy" phase.

You're probably right, since r/atheism also exists; Dawkins is by no means the only fount of edge. But I don't agree that such a phase is inevitable, independent of social influences which encourage it. Edgy atheism is a 'scene', a self-perpetuating subculture. It has no leaders or formal structure, yet it actively seeks out and recruits people who are in a compatible headspace.

It's like being goth. People who are goth didn't all independently discover and adopt the fashion of black lipstick, black dyed hair and pseudo-Edwardian dress. They adopt these fashion choices because other people did so before them, and crowds naturally draw more people in. When you're adrift looking for a personality, it's easier to fall in with a scene that already exists than it is to find your own truly unique way. Scenes generally speaking are inevitable, an artifact of basic human psychology I'm sure, but I don't think any specific scene has ever been an inevitability. Goths specifically were not destined to exist as an inevitable consequence of human psychology, nor do I think the edgy reddit/Dawkins style of not believing in gods was inevitable.

I can perhaps see an argument that edgy atheism is an inevitability given the social context of an oppressive christian society that gives people an axe to grind, but I'm far from convinced. Such a context might instead give rise to violent subculture that encourages terrorism against the oppressors. (We're fortunate that it didn't, but in other times and places such violence scenes have emerged in response to oppressive circumstances.) And as it is true that a more violent reaction to the circumstance was possible, I think it is conceivable that a less antagonistic response was also a conceivable possibility. It is conceivable to me that a subculture for "baby atheists" might instead have formed around the premise of demonstrating superior compassion, rather than antagonistic debate.

Or to put this another way.. For any violent revolution in history, there may instead have been a relatively peaceful bloodless revolution. And for any relatively peaceful bloodless revolution, there may instead have been a violent one. The Romanian Revolution in 1989 had maybe about twelve hundred people die. Was that specific degree of bloodshed inevitable, given the oppressive circumstance? I think it might instead have been fifty thousand killed, or even fifty. In reality it played out the way it did, but I see no reason to believe it had to be this way specifically.
Maybe it's time we stop conflating net worth with intelligence and competency.
I love the config and how I can create rules by matching different things! Would we cool of your tool could read and write to the config :)