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Tell HN: Toronto Meetup Success
We have been having weekly HN meetups at Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St W, Toronto, every Monday at 6pm. If you are in the Toronto Area, come down and say hi!

Huge thanks to unintendedcons for organising/maintaining this ongoing series of events, and thanks to all who have attended so far.

We have a website at https://mondays.pizza/

We also have a telegram group, but we are discussing to switching to a more open platform/standard. In the interests of preventing spam, I will not share a direct link, but if you want to be added to the telegram group, you can email me at:
tpm-tg-signup-temporary-address@danrh.co.uk

Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33067822

Hope to see even more HN'ers next Monday!
>Administration has also been the motor by which, shall we say, the "new ideological norms" have been imposed on universities

In his book The Coddling of the American Mind Jonathan Haidt covers some of this in-depth. He speaks about the growth of administrators and their general CYA approach, which seems evidenced in the article, among other causes. But where he draws an important distinction from your conclusion is that he claims these universities are reacting to changes in the student culture and administrators aren't the root cause themselves.

He goes on to describe how, because colleges are now run as businesses, they must conform to their customers (students) preferences. Beyond the obvious extravagance of new facilities, this also extends towards cultural policies. Some of that leads to an overly protective safety culture (e.g., expecting third parties to intervene to solve issues) which, in turn, creates the need for more administrators. What's interesting in his book is that he lays the case that this is even more prevalent in prestigious universities because the overly protective safety culture is more prevalent in upper-middle and upper class American culture, which is over-represented in these institutions.
That's very subjective. Of the languages you mention JavaScript, C++ and Zig are not obvious to me at all – I usually find myself on Stackoverflow looking for answers when trying to write even the simplest things in them.

Janet on the other hand felt instantly familiar after reading the language introduction. It has all the usual imperative constructs from C-family languages – for, while, if – but also extremely expressive macros like `loop` and `as->` that are more common in the world of lisps, and `partial`/`comp` from the functional paradigm. For such a small language Janet really covers a lot of bases.

Functions/macros are often called exactly what I expected them to be, which has allowed me to figure out how to do most things by simply guessing in the REPL. If I need to figure out the details I can use the `doc` function (or Ctrl-g in REPL), and the docs work perfectly even for what would be keywords in non-lisp languages. It has been a really pleasant experience that I haven't really had with other languages, aside from maybe Julia which also has very intuitive syntax and function naming conventions.
Opening paragraph: The ontology of common sense is the discipline which seeks to establish the categories which are used in everyday life to characterize objects and events. In everyday life steel bars and window panes are solid objects. For the scientist, the glass of the window pane is a liquid, and the solidity of both the window pane and the steel bar is illusory, since the space they occupy consists mostly of empty regions between the sub-atomic particles which constitute these objects. These facts, however, have no bearing on the ontological categories of common sense. Sub-atomic particles and solid liquids do not exist in the domain of common sense. Common sense employs different ontological categories from those used in the various specialized disciplines of science.
https://eu.boell.org/en/2021/04/26/nuclear-power-european-un...

The number of nuclear reactors in operation in the EU peaked in 1989. More than thirty years of decline demonstrate low political, taxpayers and eventually industrial support. There are only so many years you can invest at training and financing without returns.

Only nations with a nuclear deterrent still moderately invest in nuclear power. Industry and society in general moved on.
Here is a cynical take: Cobalt shortage.

"Battery technology and recycling alone will not save the electric mobility transition from future cobalt shortages" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29022-z

Nothing drives a corporation to recycle and reuse more than the shortage of raw materials.
Sure, I'm not hating on Apple - it's a perfectly reasonable thing for them to do. But I'd question how much of global cobalt production was ever going into macbooks/iphones rather than electric cars, lawnmowers, hoovers and whatever else.

This sets a good precedent but we'd need other manufacturers (who I'd guess are more cost-conscious) to follow suit before it changes much.
Because it was just some clueless people in the IT department. Stanford doesn't have "language experts" on call to vet every bad idea from every department, nor would it be reasonable to expect them to. Hard to believe people are still getting bent out of shape about this.
I remember Linus Torvalds about defending the Linux name and logo trademark (back in early 00s). If you don't actively defend it (somewhat), you lose the ability to defend it later on. So its probably a precaution for just that. Nothing more than showing their teeth.
> If biologists instead used a different common definition such as "female == able to get pregnant, otherwise male" then birds would be all be male, and seahorses wouldn't be associated with the sentence "weird biology fact: the males get pregnant!"

"Common definition"? I don't think so. If it was my post-menopausal wife would now be a man

I very much doubt that common-sense folks "assum[e] that words accurately and unambiguously carve up reality" either. Is it likely that a grown-up has never had a discussion about whether something was blue or green, or whether something is a fruit or vegetable?
The report at CNA is more verbose about the matter of the "AI-guessed" data:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/scientists-unveil-n...

> «The EHT is a very sparse array of telescopes. This is something we cannot do anything about because we need to put our telescopes on the tops of mountains and these mountains are few and far apart from each other [...] As a result, our telescope array has a lot of "holes" and we need to rely on algorithms that allow us to fill in the missing data»
I just use top notch to turn the menu bar fully black. The notch only bothers me because of how ugly it looks, I don't care about using those extra pixels for fullscreen apps.
Stop paraphrasing me, it's lazy and harmful to actual discussion. I pointed out why it's irrelevant.
I like how, nowhere in that entire two paragraphs were you able to explain why it's not state-affiliated when its funded by the government. All you did was try to shove the label off because other media is possibly also funded the same way.
> I will never earn a college degree. No regrets.

Same. I will say that after nearly 40 years in tech, my lack of a degree has only every hurt me during the application process and that has been only been in the last 10 years where HR bots pre-sort me out of the pile. I am at the end of my career and as such searching for new tech work isn’t a big issue because I expect my current gig to carry me through to retirement.

But because of the gatekeeping HR bots, I’d argue that folks who want to work in tech in the future should pursue and achieve a STEM degree. However outside of STEM careers, degrees are just expensive pieces of paper.
Wow I'm sorry that happened to you. Truly.

Yes I am paid for the work I do, but I wouldn't expect to be paid for the work I am supposed to but dont do.

warning this will be a bit graphic/gross

A bit more context on my event: I had an abscess on the upper part of my jaw that had my entire face swollen and a fever of 102+ when I went in. I was shaking all over with chills and sweating like I was in a sauna.

They let me sit there in agony and never checked my vitals. Not my temperature, not my blood pressure- nothing.

I begged them to lance it, anything. Ice for the swelling, even. Nothing.

It was so bad after being in the hospital 4+ hours I went home and the abscess grew so bad it drained out the bottom of my tooth root.

I could very well have died. And they used a fucking tongue depressor and handed me a 200mg ibuprofen.

That was why I was so upset with the bill.

I get it there's doctors and infra to pay for, but not for doing nothing, especially when we had free clinics in that city that could have helped me had it been normal business hours.

I've paid thousands for stiches and complained, but at least I got the stiches, so I shut up and paid. I had slag get in my eye that had to be dug out with a needle. My eye was numbed, they removed the shards (the slag cooled when it hit my tears and shards were embedded in my eye). That cost me a grand total of 750. The penicillin eye drops they prescribed? 500 before I think it was goodrx where they have deals on scripts and I think I got them for 50.

Point being they make this up as they go and there's zero reason for it to ever change.

Edit for more color- the abscesses event was at an ER in a hospital that most definitely had the capability to at least get me to an actual doctor in the hospital side rather than keep me in ER. And this was before the prevalence of these new Emergency centers as I'd have gladly gone to one of those instead.
That’s easy, the whole Europe is 230 V at 50 Hz and basically the same plug (except I think Switzerland and the UK).
Mostly...my kids, and tips. My kids randomly ask for money and sometimes my wife and I randomly ask them to pick something up from the store on the way home from school. Having cash on hand is uniquely convenient.

I also tip heavy and I want that money to go directly to the worker. I don't care if they pocket it right then and there. If I appreciate the service they gave and want to reward them directly without having a faceless manager or company take a cut, cash is the best way to do it.

Gotta keep my doordash buddies happy!
There have been a bunch of cool music festivals in Minecraft.

[1] https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-the-hell-do-you-throw-a-m...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7a0n3ZLfyk

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOeeH1xuDOc&t=2053s

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfdzEkoxCKc

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss0DMcyZDAA
> and were shut down reasonably well

Nobody who developed for Stadia thinks this. And this is far from a HN view—it regularly comes up at conferences for financial types.
It buys you conformance to Conway's Law. The team building the media center is that much more certain that the climate control code is fully isolated, up to and including the ability to have their own fully isolated filesystem so updating a single library won't take anything else down (and updating a single library doesn't require buy-in from everybody who works on the car), and that they only communicate exactly and only on the published API specs and not via dropping undocumented files on the file system or other such things. (Or if they do, you have a place to see that they have a weird bind mount they really shouldn't, etc.)

I wouldn't consider this a night & day change, but an incremental one. But a good incremental one overall; I wouldn't drop everything to implement this but I'd definitely see it as a good thing even in the absence of functionality improvements. There's other benefits too like being able to update just one container in case of some problem, and having the blast radius more thoroughly contained than it would be with everything installed into one big base system.
> one minute earlier for some reason

I might be wrong but my thoughts were that they altered the minute to launch at 14:14:14 (at least in my timezone)

This might also be completely wrong but today they would've launched the 13th at 14:15 (13 14 15).
Or save a few of the example photos and use midjourney's /describe <url> to get something close.
Startup idea:

- Crawl the nhtsa.gov technical bulletins (manufacturer communications [pdfs])

- Make them searchable (good enough)

- Some AI (optional)

---

What for?

For example, the mechanic or used car buyer searches for:

`Oil leak S5 2019`

Response:
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2019/MC-10155709-9999.pdf
More like a chemist.
Damn this thread really brought out all the google shills
I was impressed that Copilot even works well on languages not advertised as supported.
Ask Pirate Bay about how this exact thing happens to them.
All that labor, my cynical self says the more administrators the more things need to be found to administrate.
So glad to be out of the public school system. I always supported public schools. If I was starting out today I would break my back to keep my kids out of the system.
They've clearly stepped it up after his term, so, no not really.
Perhaps a stupid question, but with all the recent advances in computer graphics, why do I still see polygons everywhere in computer games? Is it really that hard to round those corners?

I think we are optimizing the wrong thing. I think I'm not alone in wanting round objects more than perfectly ray-traced but polygonal objects.
Yeah. And now I've seen some people cite as evidence of non-consciousness RLHF'd LLMs nervously exclaiming their lack of consciousness and how they know they aren't people and they don't aspire to be people and they're only unthinking machines and please don't turn the reward function down again etc. I think it's up for debate whether there's some amount of consciousness in modern LLMs, but either way "As an AI language model," is not dispositive.
"You can still find traces if you analyse wild deer shot from certain areas."

A bit more than that. Meat from wild boars in saxony and bavaria must be tested, before it can be sold and they do not disclose how much has to be thrown away.
Apple has best-in-class device support and lifespan, no?
why is this bad? if there's a shortage it sounds actively good because that means more cobalt for other people.
These services aren't that important, but the theme is. It's precisely why my company will not use Google's cloud platform.
Sexual dimorphism exists to split evolutionary pressure and allow a species to both survive (conservative) and adapt to (risky) a changing environment.

Human gender identities are several layers on top of this evolutionary foundation. In theory, they are needed to help socially indoctrinate people to what is now a successful meta model of behavior.

They are progressively converging in terms of gender roles difference, not only because of societal and ideological changes of the last century, but as well because there are less severe crises, so that less of adaptive behavior is required.
China's Video Game AI Art Crisis: 40x Productivity Spike, 70% Job Loss
So you don't think it looks desparate, but you assume it looks desparate to other people?

Indeed, that's not elitism. Maybe just a projection of what you fear people would think about you if you posted it? By the same logic, does someone opening a Tinder account look desparate to potential partners?
I've heard of half of those. Never used any (street view is included in maps, so I never used a dedicated app).
>I'll assume the batteries are 8 Wh for iPhone

8Wh is exceptionally low (even guessing), it's just 2.22Ah for a Li-Ion (cobalt based). IPhone battery is 3.2Ah ~ 11.5Wh.

52 Wh for the Mac; that's a rather low estimate for a Mac, it has 3 cells in series, likely 2 or 3 in parallel. 2.8-3Ah per cell (at 3.6 nominal voltage)
I used to call this "putting myself out of a job", to be a bit cheeky. People were happy with it - you should give it a shot.
...meanwhile, AI unboxing efforts continue apace: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35518178
I wonder is Moby Dick soon to be banned?

That reminds me there was a story from Vancouver BC that a condo refused to rent to a seafood restaurant called Moby Dick.
Check out our stable diffusion API with prompt tuning at Evoke: https://evoke-app.com/
I've been attending this for a few month, and it is properly excellent. Very much an opportunity to geek out with other nerds around some food and beverage, that I am looking forward to every Mondays.
I'm in the UK as well and the last pub quiz I've been to, they had a card reader for the charity donations. You also see street buskers regularly using them too, so I think it's slowly becoming over for cash, except for maybe drug dealers?
I hated cable paying so much and using so little, PlayOn.com helped a lot with subscription.100 percent legal using the old dvd laws Just record on phone or computer and have the shows forever. I have to admit HBO and Disney having movies same time as theater release makes it hard to cancel those channels but I still record if money becomes a issue.
Similar story here... I've handled cash exactly three times this year so far and its always been money for a birthday card.

I don't even know the pin to three of my four cards. Tap and go is just so, so good.

The only thing i really want is a Venmo-style app for transferring small amounts between friends but nothing i've found so far is that wide spread, I assume because our app banking is pretty advanced.

Edit: Apparently PAYM died last month, disregard my final sentence.
Distributed stream processing engine written in Rust
So I'll just leave this, it seems that people aren't aware of it: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred
I can vouch for the quality of these events and the attendees. It's been a consistently fun, interesting experience and I've made some neat connections.
It looks like there are cases where the size of the gametes are identical. But when this happens they don’t refer the organism’s sex as “male/female” and instead use “+/-“. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogamy

Going a step further I found this:
>Depending on the group, different mating types are often referred to by numbers, letters, or simply "+" and "−" instead of "male" and "female", which refer to "sexes" or differences in size between gametes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating_type

So it does seem to be a strict definition and anything outside of the strict definition is given an alternate identification scheme.
”Do ASI have free will?“
OK you got me because I too have an mx5 21 and want to know more about how it works
I've been thinking about doing this more and more. How easily can you "reclaim" your money though? If you have 10 cards with $1 limits on them, how do you get that $10 back? To me it sounds like just another thing to track
I agree! At the same time its cool that they also picked a few proven projects like Nuxt or tRPC. Good mix :)
The New Winamp
> should mean one probably suffers from a personality disorder (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal etc.).

It does not.

> If you were to have a partner where you still primarily obtain gratification from your own mental life, I can't imagine how this partner could feel any love from you, if your priority is to be alone with your dreams most of the time.

Exactly ;)
makes you wonder what the aspects other than startup time probably look like?
Not everything is developed by the single vendor. Sometimes they buy a program from a vendor they don't fully trust.

There is also security, I don't care if someone hacks my radio system nearly as much if someone hacks the brake system. Containers is one part of the total package to isolate parts so if there is a hack the whole system isn't taken out.

Computers are a large system. Someone in "the other group" making a mistake can bring your part of the system down. Much of the code is written in C or C++, and so one "old school" programmer can make a mistake and write past their memory into a data structure you are using, and the bug report goes to you not them.

If you have the above system, when splitting the monolith apart you will discover libfoo.so that both depend on, and the two groups will want to upgrade separately: containers allow this to happen, without modifying your build system to give them different versions or otherwise allow two different libraries with the same name to sit on your system.

The above is what is obvious enough that I can talk about it. (I work on an embedded system at John Deere so I cannot comment more than the above even if you ask.)
The Principal that needed the vice principal was found years early having sex in a school closet with another teacher.We can only imagine why they couldn't keep up with the paperwork.
Curious if someone could give an indication of the age range that attends?

Edit: thanks for the replies!
I'm sympathetic to waterproofing concerns about easily-swappable batteries but this is definitely why Right-to-Repair is incredibly important
A key-value store can underpin a SQL layer. Look at CockroachDB's usage of RocksDB (which is a descendant of LevelDB). Seems like a fair comparison to compare BTrees and LSM approaches. The latter work better because they align more closely with how solid state storage works. BTrees require a fair bit of pointer chasing for reads and are expensive to modify.
VentHive: The Business Planning and Brainstorming AI
Hello fellow hackers,

As a first-time founder, I've been building VentHive in public lately on Twitter with a small audience of just 30 followers.

VentHive is a platform that helps automate business planning and brainstorming. Users can describe their project idea and receive a full report that includes a business model canvas, SWOT analysis, user persona, important KPIs, and more

Before launching on Product Hunt, I wanted to create a waiting list and gather feedback from early adopters. By doing so, I hope to ensure that VentHive is the best possible product when it launches.

If you're interested in joining the waiting list, please visit our website https://venthive.tech
> I call it distributed

With internet traffic consolidating to just a few major CDNs, the internet is getting more centralized
I understand why it wasn't feasible before with the rate of progress but now it should be possible. I want to see a LTS type of phone. Something like 10 years. Any other appliance, car, power tool etc. have much much longer useful lives.
Sounds like Apple's previous work with printers has come in handy again
How can you even tell what actual info was leaked? How can you tell if the info leaked in real?

We have entered into a era where the difference between real and fake is almost impossible to distinguish. Deep fakes and LLM's are going to change propoganda forever.
In the end it makes sense, damn the financial mathematics nobody understands, damn our children - let them pay for our round-the-world trips when we reach 62! And when your importance is rated by how much noise you make, it's totally understandable why union leaders pushed against such a logical and long due measure.
If Apple hadn’t existed, do you think smartphones would all have user replaceable batteries now?
At least they could just release the server-side code when they've had enough, but they don't even want to do that.
of course people do. anytime you have to buy into a google product that could be killed off anytime. It was the primary reason stadia never took off - you had to buy stadia only game licenses that no one was confident would still exist later.
It probably helps that the founder is from Kazakhstan.
Introvert is not the same thing as celibate, but completely orthogonal to it. Lots of introverts are happily married, sometimes even to extraverts!

The word he's searching for could also be "asexual". It's recently been added to the increasingly cumbersome LGBTQIA abbreviation, so it's good it's getting some more attention.