skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Millennials have more money than boomers did at the same age. There was no "boomer's easy life." That's a myth. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/05/millenn...
What matter is not whether nuclear energy produce wastes, but how much waste and how manageable it is relatively to other sources of energy. If you look at nuclear only, then obviously nuclear waste is bad. If you look at oil, coal, and the fact that they are producing tons of carbon dioxid (for what would be grams of nuclear) which is gazeous and that we don't even know how to handle it.

We need energy, but people as dismissing every source of energy because they are looking at each source one at a time. We should have taught people years ago that there is no perfect choice.
Thank god! I’ve been so frustrated I couldn’t get one of these and then put it in a drawer and immediately forget about it.
He's a citizen there, and his family is there. His children only know Russia as home.

Also, there's the tin foil hat point: would Russia let him leave?

As long as he hasn't received a pardon, there's literally no reason for him to leave.
Here are relative orbital positions by month: https://www.theplanetstoday.com/
Normal darts have sharp metal tips. Why are the lawn darts considered especially unsafe?
Ruby threads suspend on IO so a blocking HTTP request is very low cost.
It’s so much worse than you think.

Many textbooks come with license keys specifically so you can’t buy used books anymore.

Students who do buy a used book are typically coerced into buying the license key to do digital homework, or whatever other reason.

When I was teaching during a graduate fellowship I accepted paper assignments for students who bought used books, or who shared books with other students. The Pearson representative complained and I was given a talking to by the graduate student dean about consistency or some such nonsense. Eventually I would be reassigned to teach classes that didn’t involve digital components.

We called it the textbook industrial complex.
Afaiu, [Lassie](https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/) is the latest and greatest of IPFS clients and it does not store/provide any data that you access
Show HN: Using functions from any language in Python
It's easy to look back and tut tut over how stupid everyone was, but think about it. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were caused by a mix of lax maintenance and operator error. Normally, that only kills a few (or a few dozen) people at once in a small area. But occasionally we see widespread negative effect at things like chemical plants and oil tankers/rigs. The human factors are always the same, because humans are more or less the same across time in space. Why should nuclear be any different? It's entirely possible that there is some technology so dangerous that we simply can't be trusted to manage it correctly, i.e. the expected loss is very large even if the probability of loss is very low.

To be clear, I am not arguing that this is so. But I would encourage some level of empathy for people who are opposed to nuclear on these grounds.
My understanding is that unlike the US they actually have get social benefits like healthcare and university for their tax dollars.

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/iceland/individual/taxes-on-per...

And according to Wikipedia Iceland has a lower marginal tax rate than the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rat...
> What if there was a way you could reduce that cost for your own services by up to 700%?

How can something be reduced over 100% What is it that they actually mean here?
Non-caffeine components of coffee, their effects on neurodegenerative diseases
I’ll give it a check. On the larger subject of animals and life, I recommend (non-fiction) The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoologist%27s_Guide_to_the...
These are magnet links directly to torrents.
Go on Youtube or Twitter and you'll see that small creators always have a much higher engagement ratio than larger ones. It's quite natural that a small community is more involved than a large one.
If everyone in the world suddenly had to be paid the same amount, what do you think would happen to US salaries?
But the economy would collapse without money pouring into higher education economics programs
A nice video with good visualizations of the mechanics of the ballest from ABC Science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlSOMfDX-yY
Seconded. Naming an interactive language shell after ssh's older, insecure cousin just seems like begging for trouble.

I'm imagining some auditor seeing an "rsh" binary on a Linux system and dinging the system on it, and weeks of back and forth emails and meetings required to determine that, no, in fact, this is not remote shell, it's Ruby shell, and it's actually not a valid audit finding.

And, of course, that's completely omitting the binary collision issue because frankly anybody with "old" rsh installed deserves whatever pain they get.
Reddit definitely has a pixel. They don't have a 3rd party ad product though like FB and google so why would sites add it?
Each time this topic comes up, some broad threads emerge:

- people saying that there are "more performant" devices. Sure, there are. How do they perform in terms of kernel support and documentation?

- people (often Americans) saying that the Pi has been "supply-constrained for five years". It really hasn't; it wasn't particularly supply-constrained in the UK until about five or six months into the pandemic. Yeah, some models have been more popular than they expected.

What I don't understand is this: how is it, if you've not been able to get hold of something for _five_ years, there's been no obvious co-ordinated attempts to get mainline support for the alternatives, or even any attempt to match the documentation? Five years was plenty of time to pick a single series of devices and match the same level of kernel support, surely? Couldn't it have been crowdfunded?

It's almost as if most of the people whining are just upset there isn't a cheap device they can drop into a Kodi box without any effort.

The truth is that the Raspberry Pi SBCs are unique because they are the product of their funding model. If you want "more performant" devices that are as good, you might need to front up the cash.
What was the path you took to get volume from vendors? Any links would be most appreciated.
I'm looking for a noiseless low power NAS solution. Any recommendations?

After my transtition to an M1, now I can't stand any fan noise running on the background.
Like any good extended comedy bit, you have to read to the punchline to get it.
Nah, almost never. That is usually forced by the university, publishers and, surprisingly, by the students and their parents:

Say the textbook used for the last 5 years costs $300 and now you want to switch to a different, cheaper book. Now you have to convince admin (why switch? The previous one works) and students (I pay $$$ tuition, why are you cheaping out on the book? Is it worse?).

> how much royalty do they get?

Basically nothing, so that is obviously not the reason and you should be ashamed of yourself for suggesting that.
same here, my mother had cancer in spine when diagnosed, and it came from lung. Already late stage and metastasize. No symptom until it reached the spine and causing occasional pain and lately inability to move her legs.

Died on less than 2 months after that. It sucks.
The mastodon team literally hard codes political censorship into its codebase.

I recommend an alternative to mastodon with greater openness that you may wish to check out: twitter.com.
Author here. Thank you for liking this. One of the most amusing things is that doing this zany visuals/detailed writeups/unabashed character in my writing actually makes me more impressive to future employers than any sterile LinkedIn posts ever will. I estimate that at this point if I wanted to get hired I could literally post a banger like this, add a banner to it halfway in that says "by the way, I'm looking for gainful employment, if you want someone doing DevRel that writes like this and gives talks like [link], please get in contact" and I could probably get a job in a week or two.

I want to keep hacker culture alive by not accepting the gentrification of it. Hacker culture is queer, neurodiverse, furry, weaboo, and more. As a philosopher of the arts, that is the kind of culture I want to create more of. Not platitudes on LinkedIn. I want to create the kind of culture that celebrates art for the sake of art.

I may be "cringe", but I am free.
Spoiler: "we can of course ignore air resistance because chainsaws cut through the air like butter"
That's fair. Maybe some large organization will be willing to sponsor their maintenance of RPMs, or of the Flatpaks directly. After spending hours trying to package even simple programs in RPM and DEB, I am very sympathetic to the idea that one cross-OS packaging format is enough. Why shouldn't there be "enterprise audited Flatpak" like anything else?
I am pretty sure that Cruise, Waymo, and Tesla are each and all doing everything they can to "make sure the darn things actually work". It's literally an existential crisis for them if they do not.

They are all, in the terminology, presently "default dead" until they figure it out.
Exactly. If a million people have $5 on their device, and it gets exploited, that’s up to $5 million in payout.
Raspberry Pi OS is a well-supported Debian derivative but there are a wide variety of operating systems available for the Pi. I don't run Raspberry Pi OS on any of my Pi's. That being said, I do run a Debian derivative on a few of my Pi's, Ubuntu server. I run OpenWRT on 2 Pi's and Fedora Desktop on another.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this feels like it'll cause even more issues. Today, clever students can share books, buy used, share electronic copies, or skip the book entirely if they don't think it's necessary. With this system, every student is forced to buy their textbook indirectly through tuition, which will of course rise significantly based on the cost of a textbook for an average class.

It's kind of like meal plans: when I went to college, meal plans were priced horribly, but you were forced to pay for at least a base meal plan, even if you lived off campus. It was just another way for the college to make money off of students who had no other choice. When meal plan prices rose $100 in a single year, or the college eliminated the previous cheapest meal plan, it's not like any students are going to transfer over a couple hundred dollars a semester. But it still sucked. Seems to me like bundling doesn't solve issues, it just reduces transparency and results in more "hidden fees" that might not show up in standard tuition costs.
Well, it's interesting, and I'm sure the author knows way more about the topic than I do, but I kept seeing things like this:

"Most units do not talk directly to supporting artillery, so there is a delay in call for fire missions. We have been told that units will use runners to send fire missions to artillery batteries because of issues with communications."

...followed by something like this:

"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have a hodgepodge of radios that are vulnerable to jamming."

...which sounds like the use of runners is a pragmatic and effective way to deal with the problem. Also:

"Unit commanders have concerns about collaborators and thus are hesitant to pass on critical information that can be used against them to sister units."

...similarly sounds like the differences in how Ukraine is doing things (compared to NATO doctrine) might be based on their experience in a messy reality, rather than a lack of training. NATO has not fought a near-peer war in generations, and never against one where the enemy had spent a decade building up intelligence assets/collaborators. Ukraine has been fighting one since 2014. Moreover, there is probably not a military in the world that is better equipped to judge the relative merits of Soviet-style vs. NATO-style doctrine.

I'm sure some of the authors' points are valid, but I have to wonder if a majority might not be mistaken, given that Ukraine has a situation vastly different than NATO doctrine was designed for, in terms of their hodgepodge of equipment and etc.
Ah, good call. I'll continue...
>And according to Wikipedia Iceland has a lower marginal tax rate than the US.

Does that “marginal tax rate” in the US include payroll tax? If not it is inaccurate.

Employees pay payroll tax, even if they don’t see it taken out on their paychecks.
Free market once "it's completely safe and fully certified", free market 70 years later "ups sorry that thing was actually deadly".
I'm concerned that when everyone receives money, the people and corps with concentrated power/wealth are able to funnel it into their own pockets, and the money becomes worth less over time so that the people receiving it now need the UBI and an income to scrape by.

Think about the shift towards dual income households; instead of households becoming more wealthy, society has changed such that it's difficult to survive on one income now (and for people with children, nearly impossible for most). If anything, households combining 2 incomes have a worse standard of living than a single-income household 40 years ago.

I strongly believe at this point it would be better for society to prioritize housing, feeding, and attending to the medical needs of everyone; the possibility of paying them can then come later.
In this context, how is trial[l]ing not testing?
In the U.S corporations have lots of ways to avoid tax, not sure about Iceland.
That value does not make up for the costs, it’s not even close.
The latency is kind of a FUD with topology aware routing.
They invented the Wintel monopoly that's still going strong. Bill championed individual developers and got mindshare which perists to this day in the business world. I think one gets props for that, not a dismissal.
And free geothermal bathhouses to enjoy and socialize after work like the Romans did.

The Blue and or Sky Lagoons (disney world of spas) for me werent that great when compared to meeting/conversing with locals at the local and free bathhouses (not free for tourist though; $10).
So like....engagement that's in line with any small niche platform where mostly enthusiasts use it? Comparing it to Instagram is ridiculous.
I believe they meant "7 times", so around 85%.
Won’t things like blanket student loan forgiveness or very cheap student loans make such moral hazards even worse? Publishers, college administrators, football coaches, etc. will try to extract as much as possible from the free student loans provided by the government.
That's exactly what we were doing at a previous employer. It was called "Equitable Access"

https://get.vitalsource.com/vitalsource-advantage/equitable-...
>"...should began this July..."

Seriously? Should?

How. Many. Times. Have we heard it already?

In the timeless words of George W Bush Junior "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Wait, I can't be fooled again!"

No way I'm going to get hopeful here and then pi locator will show one pi zero 2 W in entire Europe, in the one shop in Belgium the owner of refuses to ship out of his country...

How many cool open source projects could we have by now on other boards that remained available throughout this time if the liers at the Pi foundation (and people that believed them) didn't tell us every few weeks for last X years "it's only few weeks. We're making millions, this will all resolve the next quarter the latest!" All Bull**!

I've been saying it since year 2 of the shortage. Those Pis are not coming back. If your favourite project uses raspberry pi encourage them to support another board. If they(the foundation) was honest from the start and said "look guys, we've burned through all the charitable donation money and this business model is unsustainable, we have to pivot" I would have some respect for them, but not this.

Having said that I also have to submit some self critique. In my own projects it has been oh so much easier to just pull one of my remaining rpi zero 2w from the drawer (it has to be zero because I'm mostly doing RC stuff) and put something together in a day vs developing software for months. Still Rockchip has gotten a lot better with their documentation. It's not a documentation a not so technical user can take and run with it, but for developers it is perfectly usable. Now if we (developers) just wanted to use those other boards seriously...
Look if you want to find isos to Linux (wink wink) off the web just use Usenet.
They're not. They choose to do that because they want to.
The ones I see are wearing N-95 masks or equivalent. I'm no expert, but based on what I've learned since early 2020 I'd say that's plenty, provided they only use them for one day and toss them out.
They’re substantially larger and heavier
Wouldn't it be fair use if the class just copied content for those two assignments? It is using only small portion of the whole thing after all.
EV Makers Confront the ‘Nickel Pickle’
Business owners say that to freelancers. Pirates don't say that.
On the run so apologies for not reading the docs you attached yet but I’ve been having a helluva time trying to cross-compile rust from an M1 for x86_64. Will this method help in this situation? I’ve tried running an x86_64 vm in emulation to compile rust bits it excruciatingly slow.
Maybe the bot point is true, I don't know.

Sure a ton of your old friends still post on FB, it's still very popular.

But I'm sure a ton don't. They still count in the follower count of anyone they followed.

And the ones who still post on FB have had a decade of following things but still only have one person's worth of attention; they're not engaging everyone they followed.

A new Mastodon follower, by comparison, is very likely to still be logging in and engaging with you, given they just chose to engage with you by logging in and following. And they don't have 10 years worth of other accounts they've followed vying for their attention on that platform.
> A democratic discussion does not need "truth filters". The proposition is insane.

This assumes universal good faith. The reality is that there's a war against actual democratic discussions, and that bad actors are currently arming themselves with AI-powered weapons which will exponentially amplify their ability to harm and ultimately destroy legitimate discourse.

To choose not to defend democratic discussion is akin to having a country without a military.
Indeed. I found all that guff about race-tracks and flags awfully confusing. Don't use metaphors, if a simple statement of the facts would do the trick.

I used to have a subscription to SciAm, but I cancelled it 30 years ago (partly because Martin Gardner stopped writing for them).
https://archive.is/ZuJb8
I think his theory that Amazon, as supplier of everything to everyone, manipulates the market in a way that can be circumvented by an AI shopping assistant.

You're right on logistics, though, and the cloud. They can provide those services for others even if the store itself wanes.
One needs to factor in extra taxes - 25% vat, vehicle reg taxes (in denmark) of around 85% to 150% of the car’s value, and so on. These countries are cool but still not justifying extreme taxation.
This is a very rose colored glasses view of Iceland. Having lived there until very recently, it is not a tech utopia by any means. There are very few jobs in tech, and no matter what you do or for how long it's rare to break 1M isk a month (which is about 80,000 - 85,000USD depending on the incredibly volatile currency) due to hostile tax structures. You can make less money developing software than you can fishing, so there's not a lot of draw to stay in the tech industry.

Most of that geothermal energy? Yeah, it's sent to massive aluminum smelting plants. The entire government is also influenced heavily by the fishing industry, and there is a lot of resistance to change.

The article also talks a lot about per capita investment. Considering Iceland has 375,000 people, that's hardly the stat to lead with. ~250,000 of them live in the capital area.

Iceland is a wonderful place, with wonderful people, but the economy is collapsing and the warring 10 parties of government are effectively slap fighting each other instead of changing anything just so they can not be the Independence party. Inflation has been hovering around 8-10% a month for the last year. Iceland's real draw is its natural beauty, and the tourism it inspires. Unfortunately, what used to be a very inexpensive place to visit is now incredibly expensive to fly to, and also expensive to be in. People I know in the tourism industries have said they saw rapid growth post-covid, but rising costs have zeroed out or even made them less profitable than before covid.

It is a place I love, and a people I love, and I will continue to go back and visit yearly. It isn't going to be the next hot tech spot though.
>Or just look at the votes on our comments.

Votes are a popularity contest. I have a lot of downvotes. So you win the popularity contest. It's fine. Im ok with that.

I'm more going for the correctness contest here. Who's actually right? That's all I care about here.

>Getting one person to post here with one opinion or another doesn't constitute useful data

This isn't true. One person lends data to your case. Why? Because my claim is that nearly all people on HN aren't fooled by chatGPT. So if you say it's so common then just find one.

My claim is that it's so uncommon you can't even find one.

>I gave my anecdotal evidence, and the evidence of numerous posts on HN and elsewhere you can easily search for

I searched for this. I could not find one. You claim it's easily found, so you can win this debate by simply finding one comment that proves your point and link it here. If it's as common as you say then at least one person can be found. This makes sense.
Do you have any numbers for how many die from taxes there annually? It looks like they have a pretty high QoL: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-...
Mostly the railroads employed thousands of immigrants from China, treating them pretty much how you'd expect Americans to treat migrant labor.
https://americanhistory.si.edu/american-enterprise/new-persp...
NUC and other platforms get down to single-digit watts idle. I have a much larger, very performant Ryzen 7 system that idles at 30 watts with an Nvidia GTX 1070. The GTX 1070 alone is 10w idle and tiny (under 1 sec) 70 watt peaks for inference in my various uses (the fan doesn't even start). The x86_64 architecture has come a long way in terms of energy usage and even the much older NUCs, thin clients, etc can pretty easily get to the 10 watt range.

I'm not one for wasting energy but 30 watts at 24/7 usage at some of the highest energy costs in the world ($0.23/kWh) comes to roughly $5/mo and enables many, many, many things that just aren't fundamentally possible (or very ill-advised) with a Raspberry Pi.

For me personally I'm more in the $0.12/kWh range and I can run this system, with a crazy amount of functionality, for around $3/mo.

Yes a Raspberry Pi would be something like $0.26/mo but a few dollars a month is completely unnoticeable in a typical household utility bill. The level of your toaster or how long you microwave leftovers adds up to be significantly greater.
Size and weight. Combined with "thrown haphazardly into the air".

With a normal dart you poke an eye out. With lawn darts you poke a heart out.

Also many darts for kids these days are plastic.
Chromeboxes, ThinkCentre M-series, OptiPlex Micros and 7070 Ultras, Intel J-series boards, etc have been around since before the supply chain disruptions, but I have so many projects built around and parts for rpi that I can't as easily scale or retool.

I think their scarcity has made us all appreciate what having consistent low-power SBC platforms with convenient programmable interfaces is. I found uses for every Pi 0/2/3/4 I had that had been sitting disused because I was too excited to move to 4s when I really didn't need more power.