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Back when they taught me catholicism, the doctrine on science vs. religion was “truth cannot contradict truth”. They’d still say God created everything, but that science was a good way to understand God’s creation, from a certain perspective. (Things like Genesis were not considered literal.)

So I’m surprised to see the Catholicism presented as an alternative to science.

Maybe they’ve reverted since I was a follower?
The camera in the shower booth too.
My brother and I wrote a silly little book and put it on Kindle. It sells very few copies but costs us nothing at all, in either money or time.
The Steam license is only allowed if your total annual income is much lower than a typical programmer's salary.
Great tool to add to the visualization toolbox! It does seem to lack the visual fidelity at large scales that it resovles at finer ones. I wonder if it could extend to the render + raster approach of Datashaper, while still running everything in browser?
Not really. If your kids go to an Ivy League school that could be $75,000/year for tuition alone in 13 years, (assuming $40k/year/person for tuition now plus 5%/year increases), plus room and board and spending money for 5 years (assuming they both go for Masters Degrees) you're looking at maybe not $1.5 million but over $1,000,000 for 2 children.
Are you suggesting that climate change is bringing back tigers?
I have a similar issue. I create cards for the subject I need to study, then I study it all at once in a custom study session.

I then go to the exams but how do I continue afterwards? Like what are the best settings to retain all the information after that? And how do I make sure that I'm not destroying those settings when I need to study before an exam again?
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Could the tightening of tech companies also be adding to this? Less new hires/less frequent refreshers of issued laptops
To be fair, Penrose has always been an imaginative character, and the cyclic universe idea stems from long before he was awarded the Nobel.
There are many other ideals, it borders philosophy actually.

For example I can think of (obviously exaggerated) example: everyone lives absolutely happy as they are, but climate worsens so much than no one survives. In about 500 million years oceans will boil anyway. But fixing that will require many people to be unhappy.

PS: > what's the point of society?

Survival? Space expansion? Ubermensch / AI? Why, as you say, hedonism is the ultimate goal?
As an aside, I would love a brand new Palm device, with modern tech it could be obscenely tiny and have good battery life.

Palm devices had physical buttons, one of which immediately (0 perceivable lag) opened a todo list

When I used to be have a palm, anytime I was feeling idle I'd pull out my palm and press the Todo list button and see what was next on my schedule. It was literally life changing and every smart device since is a laggy piece of shit when it comes to physical Todo lists.

The Samsung Note series could have been great if it allows for replacing the lock screen with a Todo list that you can interact with, but no, the Note cannot be used as a fucking note pad.

I once burst into the office of the PM in charge of the Tasks ui for Windows Mobile and asked him why we did such a shitty job, but because he had never used a palm before, he didn't even realize what we were shipping was garbage.

Ugh.
At least 2 years old -- there's a Changes dropdown, with the oldest entry being a Half Life 1 tentacle form March 2021 (that changes menu doesn't show everything either)
What the FDA Ruling about ‘Dense Breasts’ Means for Cancer Risk and Screening
Everybody already _is_ the main character of their story by default. For most people work is just one plot line, likely not even the most important one.

A good manager realizes this and accepts that the only choice they have here is to choose their role in everyone else’s stories. Being the main protagonist of other people’s stories is just not possible and trying to be one makes one a horrible manager.
I have failed to find the parasitic draw on an RV (slower than this one, it takes a couple weeks to kill the battery). I finally got a "Top Post Battery Master Disconnect Switch", which is a little dinglebob that goes between the battery post and cable and lets you easily break the circuit. I highly recommend the $12 solution for an intermittently used vehicle.
Ask HN: Suitable database to store web analytics data for million insertion
Hi Hackers,

I am looking for an experience-based comment for cost-effectively storing millions of web analytics data in a database. What database have you chosen, and if possible, answer why as well!

I have a few timeseries databases in mind, but apart from that - if anyone else has some other solution which has worked them in a highly cost-effective way for extremely high insertion and low read, especially for storing web analytics data.

Thanks
DOTA, Rocket League, CSGO, etc. are e-sports friendly but don’t have this population problem. It’s not about being “hardcore”; it’s about having broad appeal to hit a wide market segment. RTS has struggled with that historically. Tower defense and MOBA are two examples where RTS was simplified to a broader appeal game.
Also, a sound clip plays when you click the bunny-girl waitresses' ass.
> I would have gone to bed dressed in a pink gimp suit, if it meant I might I have got a decent nights kip.

This line had me laughing out loud. Amazing article, glad you found what worked for you!
> just a fraction

1/1 is a fraction. What fraction is oil of the total energy market?
DyLoRA: Parameter Efficient Tuning of Pre-Trained Models
A civilized discussion would certainly be much more productive. I can easy address the claims made and they are false.

If this poster actually knew how much experience I have with all the topics they profess such knowledge about I’d hope in that case they could be more mature.

Probably one of the must outrageous statements was to try and lecture me on the function of central banks. I’m intimately familiar with the US financial system and the function of central banks. I’ve extensively discussed Bitcoin with a very senior researcher of the Fed and was also directly involved in preparing private presentation to the ECB in Frankfurt. The central banks themselves are very concerned about how competitive Bitcoin is with fiat currency.

Bitcoin has more utility nowadays than dollar funds. It can be converted to almost any currency anywhere almost instantly and can be used by consumers with no friction via instant funded prepaid debit cards worldwide.

This poster brings up legacy payment systems that can’t even remotely compete with Bitcoin on the technical merits.
AWS is notoriously pricy. You should be able to find a much better deal elsewhere.
Right, it's a promise. Write unit tests.
In your third paragraph, you point out a few things: 1) the emotional anxiety of doing the repairs, 2) putting the liability on someone else, 3) disposibility or products. You mention these as reasons of why not to do the repair yourself.

All of those reasons are the main critisms of gen Z and millenials! I'm not a boomer, but:

1) Emotions are preventing repairs?? A bit of stoicism is needed. If you have the habit of repairing things, there is no anxiety. In the old hacker culture you'd think it would be a fun opportunity to disassemble and see how it works and repair it.

2) Takes some reponsibility and risks instead of putting the liability on someone else. The end result is people who are less reliant on others, less finger pointing.

3) The article is trying to promote repairing skills instead of consumer culture. Repairing and better built products instead of filling landfills.

You also mention "i'd need to invest into the repair kit"... it's cheaper to repair than buy new! As you collect tools and experience, there's more and more opportunity to repair, which adds more tools and experiences... a great positive feedback loop.
But that's not the same, the above process would be like melting the steel and glass and concrete from the building and hope future chemistry allows us to separate them
If I may, I would complete a few points in the article.

Soldering iron:

Get a decent one. That doesn't mean you must throw a boatload of money, just avoid the crappy ones, which almost always are the cheaper ones. A notable exception is the Pinecil by Pine64.org, which is truly a great iron despite being cheap.
Pinecil aside, you can snatch a used Weller or Hakko on ebay without spending too much, but beware of the many fakes. I had for a while a Hakko clone, and although well built, it was garbage: the heater-tip contact makes all the difference, and that was its weak point.

Solder:

Get leaded solder when possible. It's easier to use and joints are a lot less subject to tin whiskers.

Sponge:

Very useful, but don't forget to buy one that is suitable for soldering. A kitchen/bathroom one made of synthetic material will melt as soon as you put the heated tip on it.
In the meantime, a damp strip of cotton cloth rolled into a coffee cup can be similarly effective.

Work surface:

I don't use a specific one, so don't have direct experience, however I doubt one could use a rubber doormat with heated tips. A oven silicone mat would probably be safer, but again, I never used them.

Other items the article doesn't cover:

-Flux. You will need it. No matter if the solder already contains rosin flux, having a way to put some extra flux on the surface to be soldered will help immensely.

-Brass wool sponge. Some see it as complementary to the wet sponge, but I find having it handy because it is best at removing tin residuals from the tip, while the wet one helps cleaning it.

-Solder wick. Very useful to remove tin in excess from old joints, therefore also for desoldering parts. Buy a couple rolls of different sizes and practice using it.

-Sal Ammoniac. An almost forgotten item which can make a tip shine almost like new. It's cheap and a single tablet will last years.

Oh, and practice, practice, practice.
FBI warns against using public phone charging stations
Ah, the sweet money Homer got for Odyssey.

Note that artists on Etsy regularly get paid for their work. Just not for having someone else duplicate it.
I don’t see what is the alternative. If it’s not cyclic how can there be something from nothing?

The only solution is every thing has always existed and there is no such thing as nothing
Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code
Uh, what man?

That “guide” was natural selection over millions of years.

It’s literally random chance, and if a change is beneficial, it sticks. If we were really “designed” then there are so many failures and inefficiencies that deserve scrutiny.

Chief among them, childhood cancers. Fuck a designer that left that bug in the system and shipped it.
By 2020, when production felt, prices rose and semiconductor profits got into unprecedented levels, there was a lot of speculation on whether it would destroy a lot of companies.

It is starting to look like the doom predictions were the correct ones. The drop-off is sustaining itself for a while already.

Anyway, the US intervention on the economy being extremely pro-cyclic for the semiconductor industry certainly didn't help.
Agreed. Now that the Pinecil exists, the logic of using anything cheaper/worse is absolutely daft. It's $25, there's no excuse for the open-loop garbage anymore.
Agreed. Alloy IDE is pretty bad. I tried using external tools like [Sterling](https://sterling-js.github.io/), but they still rely on the IDE for some things.
I mean, he's right, no? The fact that religiousness is sometime replaced by other beliefs (that, I will note, tends to be less physically violent) is orthogonal to the fact that gods do not exist.

Now, maybe the 1000s of gods humans ever prayed to actually exist, but I refuse to believe only a fraction on them do, as the arguments for all their existence is the same.
Only supporting a single CPU in the guest is a significant limitation too
I think a lot of legacy 1980s style systems already had an 8 bit external data bus (think z80, 80xx, 68xx), so if you wanted to upgrade with more I/O, uart, seven segment displays and the like, the atmega is a flexible choice that could be tacked onto the bus. That's my understanding.
The only thing that worked for me (also ADHD) is to have fixed study sessions, typically in the morning ("Kanji before breakfast") or during my train commute.

Beyond that, I wouldn't worry about backlog too much. I use a custom deck that gives me my maximally doable number of cards per day and completely ignore the rest. It's not like the actual repetition frequency is critical - many people change those settings quite drastically and still manage to memorize their cards fine.
Hubble trouble' could deepen with new measurement of the universe's expansion
God, as creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn't need a cause. I long wrestled with the idea that the Universe could have existed forever, as a way to solve the first cause paradox, but I was never comfortable with the idea. So I've made a leap of faith and applied the same mental framework to an immaterial construct (God), and for the sake of my sanity I don't try to go further than that :-]

I believe there are questions that aren't meant to be answered, and knowing the truth would break our collective minds.
Set it up recently at the suggestion of a friend and it definitely makes things jump out less. If anything my macbook feels way brighter as a result. Curious if it also helps me reduce my iphone usage!
The universe, for me, without any doubt, is a simulation, I even believe that the the algorithms that would explain how the universe reached this level of complexity would be the same that explain intelligence, I think that we got all wrong believing that matter come before consciousness when, in reality, it is the other way around. And languages are a big part of all the equation, physics and space are all languages.
So your criticism is based on an appeal to authority?

Do you value medicine based on humors more than the scientific method? They are more ancient and are thoroughly argued.
If you don't touch it for that long, just throw away the scorefile and start from new. It probably doesn't fit the degree you actually remember any of the things that you learned.
Where were you able to find that?

I'm so sick of services that hide their pricing or free trial restrictions until after you have signed up. These days, they are an immediate "NO" from me. If the team is that customer hostile from the start, how are they going to act later when you've become invested in their service?

Startups: Just be upfront about what you are offering and let me decide if it's worth it.

/rant
It satisfies our believe there is nothing else but this universe, but if you think there is more than just our own universe, our universe could have been triggered by something else. It could wobble like that none the less because gravity eventually wins and everything pulls back to the center
Nuclear Isomers are a wonderfully complex landscape of what-ifs.
Worm Charming
Huh maybe it was just restricted during those hours? I did see some parked in there so maybe they were residents or employees with special permits.
That sounds really cool - thanks! I can't see their guarantee spelled out anywhere in the "membership" section, is it particular to some items, or something unwritten?
I'm a US expat living in London for 1.5y. I find the opposite is true.

US healthcare moves much faster and turnaround to getting a new appointment with a specialist is a fraction of the time in the UK (NHS only).

My SO had a personal health issue that she attempted to get help for in the UK. She had to wait months for a GP appointment with the NHS, only to be told "let's monitor the issue" instead of actually doing anything. We went home to the US (making an appointment <2w in advance) and we saw a doctor who immediately found the underlying issue and had it fixed.

I could go on about the health system in the UK...

edit: Ha even the article talks about this! "I am in the system for NHS treatment, but things are so bad that I have not even received an inital letter with a date for a test. It would likely take up to year for the NHS to treat me."
Openbase (YC S20) is shutting down April 24, 2023
Yes, it turned out to be wrong, but not for the reason you cite. Dawkins completeliy dismisses the critical role of mutational fixation of epigenetic gene expression. He admits it exists, but dismisses its relevance in speciation.
I had surgery to expand my upper jaw and palate three weeks ago, and the improved ability to breathe during the night and day is absolutley life-changing. I used to wake up multiple times a night with a pounding heart, and could never get a restful sleep. Within a few days after surgery, I could sleep through the night and my blood pressure dropped enough to start weening off my hypertension medication.

If somebody is struggling with obstructive sleep apnea, I would suggest consulting with an oral maxillofacial surgeon or otolaryngologist (ENT) to have your jaw and nasal airway examined to see if there's another option besides using a CPAP.
I have mild sleep apnea due to TMJ and went through an odyssey trying out a mandibular adjustment device. It absolutely wrecked my jaw, made my TMJ far worse than it was prior to using it. It also did more than "screw with my teeth a little," it quite literally pushed my bottom teeth forward and destroyed my bite.

The device was fitted by apparently one of the best docs of their kind in SoCal. And yet, after looking into it, my experience seems quite common.

At this point I've just accepted my TMJ and mild sleep apnea. Nothing I've tried has helped at all.
I've had this realization recently that software engineers are making far more (multiple orders of magnitude more) "business decisions" for the company than middle managers and MBA types. SWEs are essentially coming up with and codifying the logic that defines how a corporation operates on a very precise level. They're like "officers" more than commodity workers.
Fewer than half of the hypereducated peers I know have kids, while my gardener has 8 kids, so I expect that this trend will continue
It's not even close - it's not feasible to develop a real server application in a notebook, while you're absolutely will be doing REPL-driven development in Clojure.
>Human development and trophy hunting are threats, but they aren't the only ones.

You are arguing against a statement that nobody made.
Yes, this suggestion is practically impossible to prove (or disprove), and quite fringe, but the listed examples in that article are usually of things people suggested outside of their field after they got the Nobel prize, and often things that were quite easily disproved at the time of suggestion. Meanwhile Penrose suggested CCC (2006) way before he received the Nobel prize (2020). Also, cosmology is Penrose's research area.
A List of Database Sharding Efforts
omg yes.

Arguably the cycle of police aggressively confiscating drugs from users induces more petty theft as the police confiscations become a new sink to drain drug user wealth. Those chemically addicted to drugs need to replace the confiscated drugs, which creates a new need to find something to sell to get enough money to once again buy drugs on the illegal market.

A safe supply of regulated drugs breaks this cycle.
Guattari was the psychiatrist-analyst type, Deleuze was uninvolved with that. Also: what drove him to suicide was lung problems, to the point he was (old and) locked home connected to a machine to breathe. Some say it was an accident -- that he opened the windows to let some air.

That's just to correct the record. I have no desire to re-litigate Sokal/Bogdanoff and so on. Good day sir cheerio.
I'm a sleep technologist by trauning and profession for the last 18+. I wish all our patients were so much aware about their conditions and our doctors had the opportunity to spend enough time with those that would.
New user of C++ discovers C++ has a mechanism for code to be evaluated at compile-time, and decides to share his findings on twitter.

Why is it a story? Slow day on the Internet?
Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days (because "cars have computers now"). It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car... but these days that encompasses more and more of what can go wrong.

Without time to dig into it myself I've just been parking it with a battery tender every time I come home.
I actually wonder, with no way to measure such, if a huge fraction of humanity would be ok with shooting poachers. It's sort of an interesting question, in many ways.
GPT-4 can do that.
Unison: A Friendly Programming Language from the Future Part 1 – Runar Bjarnason
I've followed Unison for a while, but this talk (along with Part 2) blew me away. I downloaded Unison locally and have been going through its Exercism.org track to learn. I've been having a lot of fun with it!

Some past threads:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512955 (128 comments from May 8th, 2015)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20807997 (25 comments from August 27, 2019)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652677 (131 comments from June 27th, 2021)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34307552 (84 comments from January 9th, 2023)

That being said, this conference talk was only put on YouTube on January 21st, 2023, so I figured I'd share.

Here's a couple awesome blog posts from Dave Thomas on the language as well:

- Immutable Code in Unison (https://pragdave.me/discover/unison/2023-02-26-immutable-cod...)

- Abilities: a New Way to Inject Behavior and State (https://pragdave.me/discover/unison/2023-03-11-abilities/)
You can also grab a trickle-charger and use that when it's at rest, which can (on modern vehicles) prevent the computer from going nuts.

If you're fancy, you can even make it a quick-disconnect setup so that if you drive away with it still on, it won't break anything (or do the poor-man's version where you have the wire connected to the wheel chocks).
I've always liked the theory that every black hole has a white hole on the other "side" that spews out a universe from the information it collects. And the original black/white hole? Well, something something quantum fluctuation something out of nothing.
ChatBot Plus – a cheaper, more secure, and generally better UI for ChatGPT
ChatBot Plus is an open-source interface for ChatGPT that supports keyless-AI interaction methods using WindowAI which can connect to any LLM of choice without exposing your API Key to the website. Also, it has Discord-inspired groups for chat organization. Lmk what you think.