skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Perhaps the most notable feature of TSMC's Advanced Backend Fab 6 is comprehensive five-in-one intelligent automated material handling system that spans over 32 kilometers.

What the heck?! Whooaaaa....!
Reddit will claim the subreddit has been abandoned and institute new mods.

Reddit is moving on without you. It sucks, I know.
Killing one person is an accident, 100 is a disaster, maybe 10,000 would be a large-scale disaster.
I’m not sure it matters what the impetus is. You never know what random thing could spur things to another direction.
Britain Limits Use of Puberty-Blocking Drugs to Research Only
Archived version: https://archive.is/kkIHp
This ++

Somebody should have shown the journalist the paper on brain function in a dead fish under fMRI
alright time to learn nix
I have opposite feelings about it. I was always doing homeworks, but when I stopped doing math homeworks my grades dropped.

On the other side, when I stopped doing latin homeworks, my grades increased.

Then there was art homeworks which were entirely a joke, first time I did them regularly (replicate parthenon front with pencil and then ink it), my rating was 4 over 10 (notice that I was on a STEM course), which is extremely bad. And took me something like 8 hours to draw.
Next time I decided to do like everybody else and I used glass, a lamp and drawn with the picture under the paper.
Rating was 7 this time and it took me 2 hours of work (inking still takes time).
One student photocopied and enlarged the damn drawing and got 8 over 10 as a grade. Like, how are you supposed to get to 10?
What if you don't want other people viewing your medical data
>> Amazon, Google and Microsoft are really good, but US authorities have the right to see the data stored on non-American citizens

That doesn't sound right. If the data center is located outside of the US, there should be absolutely no reason why US authorities could have access. In fact, US authorities should not even have access to the data within the US. Sure you might catch the odd bad guy but government creeps eroding everyone's trust is not a worthwhile tradeoff.
Sigh... I don't know how the internet has convinced people this shit requires some magic incantation to cook eggs. I promise you I can cook eggs in any brand new lodge pan you hand me without issue. In fact if you sand blast the factory seasoning off it first and give it to me shiny I can still do it. And so can you. It requires the exact same skills as cooking with stainless steel which won't take a season no matter how hard you try. Step 1: Bring it up to temp (confirm by tossing some flecks of water in it, if they bead, it's up to temp). Step 2, throw a knob of butter in it and coat the damn pan. Fat is your friend, don't be shy with it. Step 3: Cook the eggs. If a little bit sticks that's fine. You probably should have used more butter - but no worries - just go wash it off in the sink the same way you'd wash anything else. It's a giant piece of iron - you aren't going to hurt it with a little soap, water and elbow grease. When you are done dry it off on the stove and hit it with a little grease/oil/fat to keep it from rusting. If you forget and it rusts... still no big deal - scrub off the rust, give it a little grease and bobs your uncle. This shit is only hard if you decide it is.

Source: Been cooking exclusively on carbon steel, cast iron and stainless for years.
That is the point of the essay. It's a style where nothing really happens.
I’ve noticed some minimalists go to the extremes of limiting items based on numbers. In a way it’s a bit of a luxury.

Many people keep items or leftover stuff (one time use tools or extra glue, etc) because it saves money and time from having to drive to the store or order it online again incase they need it again. Those just incase items build up but they can end up being handy.

As someone that’s moved every year for like 6 yrs in a row, I sell about 95% stuff I don’t use but I still have a lot of things just in case that take up little space in junk drawer, etc. I think focusing on what you like and enjoy is better. Putting a hard round number on items is too much of a mental waste of time
Well if you don't like it you can make your own project and fix technology today if that's your thing.
Sorry, free markets are not dependent on geography. Any country/civilization can adopt them any time they want to.
totally unrelated but, one concept that I find most intelligent people highly resistant to is that there are bad ideas which smart people are particularly susceptible to.
> A negligent doctor that failed to vet a treatment protocol to a patient that later caused them harm would lose their license

No, they wouldn’t
Can't really blame him - Hudson brought out the worst in everyone.
Obviously a project like this has already been offered multi-figure money deals already: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-issues/issues/44

And he declined all.
>There is nothing special about having just 100 items.

Depending on where you are located geographically there may very well be something special.

I live in the PNW and I bet if I counted all my forks, spoons, coffee cups, pots and pans, etc., I'd have more than 100 items right there, to say nothing about my tool chest. Between my home office and my wife's purse I probably have 100 pens and pencils around the house.

To own a grand total of 100 items would be extremely spartan for just about anyone around here.
People felt the same way about Elon Musk buying Twitter but after the temporary Mastodon bump, it seems like almost everyone is back on Twitter.
I honestly would not trust a developer who finds AWS too confusing. At least 80% of the "complexity" on AWS is to keep you from introducing catastrophic security vulnerabilities.

When a developer starts whining they can't figure out how to use an IAM role, it usually means they want to run their entire application as a root user whose SSH key they have sitting in Dropbox.

Stay away from my software please.
The average user doesn't submit, comment, or vote all that often.

Those are certainly strong signals, and yes - they can probably capture that data through api interactions.

That's not what they're after. They're after - how long did the user view X, which item did they pause on, what did they hover over, how long do they scroll, etc...

I'd be willing to bet good money the reason one of the complaints against Apollo was them being "inefficient" is a result of basically exactly the following conversation between product/engineering:

---

Product: Can't we just capture exactly what the user is doing through the API?

Engineering: Sort of - we have some idea, but clients tend to load comments/posts in batches. We don't know exactly which one the user is looking at, or for how long.

Product: So the client is pulling more information than it needs? And that's causing us problems with our analytics?

Engineering: umm ... We can capture that data if the user is on the official client.
Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source
Reddit might not need a CEO per se.

It might need a different governance structure.

Commercial and community interests can be in conflict.

What’s the leadership structure that recognizes this tension and delivers optimal outcomes in the long term?
Just abject nonsense. If they were relying on 0% interest rates and no inflation for the next 10 years for the project to pencil, we should shut the whole thing down today.

Edit- just looked at their explanation and their discount rate only increased by 2%.

We should probably shut it all down today regardless. It actually increased from $58 to $119 but the IRA gave them a $30/mwh subsidy. So a 100% miss on price in only 18 months and we’re still nearly a decade before it’s planned to be operational:

https://ieefa.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/UAMPS-Nu...
Newly discovered dinosaur, 'Iani,' was face of a changing planet
Scientists now know why psychedelics conquer depression without a high in mice
"I leaned into the idea of serving as an identity. I joined all the Facebook groups, followed #serverlife and server memes on Instagram."

I think this is one of the most toxic things in todays society, work becomes your identity and therefore you relate to it and it becomes you, or you settle to what that identity is. You are also surrounded by people in the same role, and depending on that you change to fit in with your new peers. The social media groups also re-enforce the same idea of that's all that it is.

As the author wrote in the beginning:

" I always said, soon, soon, things like this cannot last forever. I thought I’d get too tired to keep waiting tables, I thought if I waited much longer I’d lose the chance to get a ‘real’ job, in publishing or media or who knows what industry."

Many people don't get "out."

The same can be described of other groups too, can be hobby groups like cars, or other activities and such - we choose to involve ourselves with other people.

Personally, I've known many people at a distance join such groups/roles/jobs/interests and change to something worse/negative and then cut off - because it became their prime identity.

Just an interesting observation, but many times I feel people go with the easiest/path of lease resistance. Change is hard. Persistance is harder.
Judgement. Decision making.
The availability of suitable species for domestication always struck me as the most interesting part of his argument, as it's not one I'd seen before - but strangely it's the one that's not captured by the title "Guns, Germs & Steel" (which are, I suppose, the main proximate reasons why Europeans ended up decimating/overpowering populations elsewhere in the world, rather than more interesting fundamental reasons why Europeans got to the point they could travel the world possessing said items well before any other candidate civilizations did. Accepted, "germs" is related to ability to domesticate various animals, but hardly captures the full set of advantages that came from animal and crop domestication).
I never thought his explanations of why it couldn't have been China or India instead were that compelling though, not does he bother to explain why certain European nations became far more successful as colonial powers than others (e.g. why were Germany and Italy so late to the game, and unable to really compete with Spain/the Netherlands/Great Britain as far as colonisation efforts went).
An observation from my parents (who are now retired but were both career teachers/school administrators) is that for many teachers their entire life is spent in a school or uni, without a lot of "real world workplace experience". As such many teachers can be very rigid in how they expect the world to be and their acceptance of change.
The Next ‘It’ Diet? Not Trying to Lose Weight
Using AI LLM NoSQL low code 4G 6S chain based solution. Use LLM for summary. Then add a critical comment. Then generate summary again. If summary is influenced by comment, and comment is on topic, then comment is critical.
I have two items because I count my house as one and my car as the other.
Many times I’ve horked my system and rebuilding wasn’t quite the next thing I wanted to do. I’ve got a nixos server that I use for my home server and I’ve screwed it up so bad booting was difficult. However it’s super easy to just switch to a prior state. That alone is worth it.
"Unlock station hover"
No kidding. If you own 100 items, a made bed is like 10% of your belongings. That's nonsense.
The problem you’ll face is that this battery life is in equal measure software and hardware, at least in the intel days.

Running windows in boot camp drastically cut battery life.
> Prove that the dynamic instability that causes a speed wobble is the same thing that causes a high side.

This is a broader claim than the one I made.

> A high side happens when the rear tire breaks traction at lean, and is no longer able to hold the arc it’s trying to turn on. [...] Then catches traction, and that z axis rotation and gyroscopic forces becomes a violent flick to stand the bike up straight.

How much lean? And how much traction loss / for how long? What if there's just enough to where a high side doesn't occur and the bike/rider don't fly off? Will the bike instantly right itself with no overshoot, without any sort of steering column oscillation? If there is an oscillatory response, what do you call it? What do you call it as you gradually reduce the lean angle to 0?

At near 0 lean angle, is this oscillatory response meaningfully different from the oscillation of a speed wobble?
The amazing thing to me was finding out how much the data the official app was using. Granted it has been a few years since I switched to Apollo but I was using in the 10-20 GB/month from the Reddit app.
Another interesting metric is royal families - pre-WWI, we saw monarchs in Italy, Germany, Russia, Austria and many others [0]. They mostly get ground down and collapse through the World Wars. And the British 'monarchy' that came out on the other side of WWII was crippled as their empire collapsed and they don't have much power any more.

A weak showing by the European aristocrats. Clueless bunch.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_in_Europe#Territori...
I meant it's nothing to brag about. I agree that in many situations, it'd be inconvenient to own so few items as it'd leave you unprepared for e.g. emergencies.

But if you are renting a condo downtown, as it was my case, you may want to trim down your possessions as much as possible.

Nonetheless, I think people tend to own too much stuff and this prevents focusing on what actually matters, it's a bit like with bloated software.
If you dig, most people you consider successful probably have kids, you just don’t hear about it.

It seems to me like a gauntlet that can provide drive and focus that can potentially outweigh the ability to dabble or move at the drop of a hat.
I made a raspberry pi vpn device that my family can use to watch Netflix in other markets. Idgaf about Netflix password rules
> You wouldn’t call the result a painting.

I don't see why not. The backgrounds are painted. Other things that move get outlined first (something painters do all the time on canvas) and then, as you say, are also painted.

These paintings are then composited together to make a single frame, but it's still all just paintings.

You could argue that for it to count each frame would have to be a single painting, but then I'd argue that rotoscoping entire frames of film would also count. Undone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undone_(TV_series)) might count as well. It's rotoscoping placed over oil painted backgrounds.
Show HN: I got a 10 year old project of mine working again in 2023
Here's a video of it in action https://twitter.com/i/status/1667355251773526016

I didn't end up using it that much back then and no one else seems to have cared it existed, but it was a project I used to derust my programming skills and I'm to this day proud of the flamboyant design.

To anyone reading this: you don't have to let your old code rot away in the graveyard of distant memories just because times change. With enough persistence and a little perseverance anything is possible.

Code doesn't have an expiration date.
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I was with you until the final sentence.
I can vouch for this.

On my first trip to most antique Corinth, someone noticed the fine Casio timepiece from my last (Reagan-era -- ca. AUC 2750s, I think -- or do I reckon now from the founding of Christ?) trip. When the watch was seen to "move", I explained the function of the band by analogy to a water clock (a clay vessel with a small aperture near the bottom to let water drain) and compared the water to the (non-visible) battery inside the Casio. I even went into elaborate explanation about the special symbols for numbers which mark the hour and how they are distinct from the symbols for making sounds for speech (e.g. "sure, '1' is rather like 'alpha'...").

Sadly, it was a very clever Greek to whom I explained all this. Slightly irritating were the questions about why it was on my wrist in the first place -- something something WWI. But my heart sank during the debrief when I came to really understand the time-travel problems which were exploited to near extinction by ancient sci-fi authors.

Happily, those (extremely antique) courts found it so much more cost-effective to cut off an advocate when the water drained from a clay vessel than to invest the wealth of the city-state into the production of a -- dare I say 'Byzantine' -- contraption wrought of too much brass and requiring too many servants to operate?

I guess the real lesson here is that while everyone has been conditioned to be distrustful of the Greeks, my personal experience has been that they are pretty solid folk.
But… what is it? What does it do?

Is the point here just the novelty of a blackberry form factor wrapped around a pi?
Anti-adblock has been in active for years now, and it's fixed by default in uBO. What it needs is users' detailed reports and feedbacks.
Some people consider systemd to be “bloatware”. There are many alternatives, but some of the more popular options are runit and OpenRC
There's no such thing as enough money to me. I'm always one cancer diagnosis away from being destitute. I need millions and millions and millions before I'd be comfortable not prioritizing money. Nothing else matters nearly as much as money. Love? Fuck that. Love doesn't pay bills.
And the reason I wanted to get it working again wasn't to show off but I actually want to use it for the purpose it was intended: helping me develop this PaaS app idea I've had since 2009. There have been many, many false starts but this time I'm doing it for real worse is better MVP like PG and the rest of y'all have been advocating the entire time but I was too stubborn to see the light.

Big Things™ Coming Soon™
>192 makes no sense to me. I've probably got 192 items in my kitchen alone, just from wanting to be able to cook and serve a meal for 4 people because it's nice to eat with friends. A fork is a worldly possession, after all.

You're assuming people are the same as you - I follow the same but I live out of suitcases and can travel at a moments notice for the best flights and pick up an airbnb somewhere.

But this is the life I want - literally 95% of my things fit in 2 suit cases, a third is my bike and a bike is a bike thought if you want to get really technical you can count the wheels, the brakes, the brake rotors, the frame, chain, groupset, etc as different but together it's a bike (and a bike bag!) but I do count the clothes/water bottles, etc.

It's also so cool because you can use pivot tables to group items into necessary or not - so if you want to wing just a one backpack 25-40l trip, you know what to grab and also the rolling cost of items associated too - and for more fun, deprecation, purchase cost, etc.

I enjoy it, but thats the spirit, a pair of socks = 1 or do you have 12 socks?
In case anyone hasn't seen it, there's a great online resource for etymologies:

https://www.etymonline.com
I don't know what country you live in, but they definitely didn't try that in mine.
State to state the US is significantly more similar culturally than Europe is. The distance from my home town to the University I went to is equivalent to London to Jerusalem basically, but the differences between my hometown and the place I went to university are not very significant when compared to the differences between London and Jerusalem.
It's exactly and precisely mine. Why not?
Also remember that Spamhaus attack shows upstream providers can also be the crack in the armor, too. They could've just knock out a whole regional network access given the huge volume of traffic.
It's worth asking just how small did scientists in the era consider the contamination risk. Was this a case of willful ignorance of a legitimate risk, or a begrudging theater to placate a general public's overactive imagination?

Even based on what was known 50 years ago, what was the hypothesis for how microscopic particles with billions of years of geographic isolation might hurt the biosphere?

I'm reminded of the "LHC might create a black hole and swallow the earth" craze in our more recent memories.
2nd from left, hand on Rivers Cuomo’s shoulder
> There is nothing in the process of compressing digitised text into a quantised space

How do you think our brains work?
Let’s see what happens long term. I created a new account to finish watching Walking Dead and then cancelled for good.
Mostly, that. The group that made it also maintains Beeper [1], a messaging platform that unites a bunch of other messaging platforms using Matrix, so my guess is the intent is to use it as a messaging device.

For me... it's a fun little gadget that may or may not end up in my little novelty kit with the Flipper Zero, which can be useful in some scenarios, but is more for fun than utility.

[1] https://www.beeper.com/
> Adults continuing the behavior from kitten hood is speculation not a scientific consensus.

There is scientific consensus. All animals do continue on early behaviors. Kneading is partially learning (nurture) and partly instinct (nature).

Speculating there is a specific reason beyond these knowns, contains a baseless assumption.
Cherry picking and misrepresenting evidence to argue for his fringe beliefs was Graeber's whole shtick. Let's not pretend his political screeds are works of dispassionate scholarship.
Maybe it’s just me… I like open platforms but I don’t see how they are important in the creation of open software. If it were, then why did GitHub accelerate collaboration and network effects for open source so much? Sometimes “free as in beer” is okay, and can serve a greater good. Sometimes demanding ideological purity can be counterproductive.
The alternative is the old init system.
There's a discussion that will answer your questions (and more!) here: https://www.howtogeek.com/713847/the-best-linux-distribution...

Alternatives: https://www.without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/

Knoppix ( http://knoppix.net ) as of release 8.6 is without systemd, and is a fine live-bootable/installable distro. I've used it to rescue systems.
I think you nailed it. There’s two parts: 1) educated users and 2) self-/mod-enforced culture. So far, HN hits both. However, even HN is starting to upvote puns, engage in group-think, etc.

To fix this you must moderate strongly or only allow material that attracts educated individuals.
Wow, 20th most upvoted HN post of all time!

Though my excitement about that does make it sound like I'm excited about Reddit's API changes... Social interactions are hard :/
Imo Abandon Chalk
it complicates running javascript in the back-end because it requires more complexity than just running node file.js. you can do the same thing with some crisp escape characters sprinkled in.

const chalk = require('chalk');
^

Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module

Hmmmm is that really worth it when you can just \x1b[31mFailed?

throws away chalk but respects the passion for the open source code aspect, that's amazing and cool concept but more power user than i need, yet somehow escape characters escaped me, sorry chalk i found my escape now but i still love you
A comment about Christian Queinnec's book Lisp in Small Pieces (1996)
I have trouble keeping up with the minimalist type lifestyles. I don’t necessarily buy into many of their numbers (in this article we count things… except when we don’t), and I have trouble with the “buy it for life” type groups too.

The latter groups surface goals I like but I find a lot of times they’re just interested in paying more for what are effectively pseudo luxury brands or strange ideas that because it is made of metal it will last longer…. but little in the way of anyone actually using the items much.

It’s frustrating as I like the gist of the ideas but the folks practicing that I find on the internet seem off / miss the target IMO.