skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can fly your satellites lower in mars due to atmosphere density, as low as 20km it appears
Congrats to SF politicians (and people who voted for them) for ruining this city.
Propofol is also common with endoscopy, and sometimes combinations of drugs, so it's hard to say what GP received.

There's also an interesting thing where the anesthesia you get is likely to be very different for the same procedure if you get the procedure at a hospital versus an outpatient clinic. Because anesthesia at a hospital is typically a department with influence, and turf wars happen.
So each pixel is about 5m x 5m? With Mars having a surface area of about 145 million square km, or 145 trillion square metres
Yeah I keep seeing this behavior here in the comments section. There are some real experts here for sure, but I think assuming you understand anything about something as complex as this without extensive prior studies about the subject is just stupid. I'm tired of reasonably intelligent people extrapolating new information about any possible subject based on their very limited basic level knowledge combined with some new cool research paper headlines.
I've been thinking a lot about my same experience. I also spoke to her as it was kicking in.

It was humbling. Like a computer being turned off, and then back on an hour later.

For that time, I didn't exist. It helped convince me that after death there is just.... Nothing.
Sadly prucalopride is prescription-only and, because of having no recreational abuse potential, absent from the black market.
Big time, it's often included in the introductory "stacks" for new members. I haven't really dabbled with nootropics since college, but I do remember 5HTP being suggested.

I'd link the reddit wiki where it's mentioned, but we're still mid protest it seems! :)
I wouldn't necessarily call it totally undocumented. I think there's some form of meditative practice documented somewhere that would describe this. It kinda reminds me of loving-kindness meditation, but taken in a slightly different direction.
there was a good article in the Atlantic last month about this same topic. ESG is not a fundamental change, it's just new marketing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/05/esg-woke-i...
It likely felt safer than walking but there is a 0% chance that a 1.5 block walk through San Francisco was truly more dangerous than a 1.5 block car ride. It’s much more likely that neither was dangerous at all.
Anecdotal, but I had depression episodes on weekly basis for 4 years, then started to microdose mushrooms for completely different reasons, and it is almost 2 years now, when I barely had a single such episode.
Everything after Windows 2000 was ugly.

Windows 2000 was the last system in the world with coherent and beautiful UI.

Those times are over. We can't have good things.
The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain physical consistency - it felt like the windows were the actual folders on disk, with the same kind of coherency and stability you expect of real-world objects.

Meanwhile, the Mac OS X Finder is not spatial. You can have the same folder open in multiple windows, each with different layouts. There's no longer that illusion that the window and the folder are one and the same – it's just a browser showing you the contents of the folder.

This article goes into a lot more detail. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/
This shows that memory isn't required for consciousness. We can be fully conscious while forgetting everything after a few minutes or less. Actually, when we look at a highly detailed photo or video this is pretty standard: We forget most finer details within seconds.
Town hall should house homeless in hotels as NYC and UK does. It would solve two problems and boost local economy!
> does that mean I wasn’t conscious? No!

Counterpoint: Yes! Why not? You didn't need to be conscious for it... I think that's how deep habits work. How would you define conscious in a way that you could count that?
A beta release doesn't really change much?
On top of that isn't the lower resolution on earth more for military reasons than a technical one or is this not the case any more?
A non-recourse loan means the lender is also “invested” in the property somewhat. That can be a good thing.

A non-recourse interest only loan is a bit batshit however.
We did not use BOM generator via octopart in Altium. What we do now: We have our own kicad library which is mostly derived from the official kicad libary + some custom parts etc. We have all the information added to this library including Manfucaturer, MPN, datasheets etc. and from there we generate our BOM. There might be a more efficient way to do it, but we did something similar in Altium. So maybe we could have done better there too.
I know that you are memeing, but if are interested in category theory and have exp in functional programming; “category theory” for programmers is possibly a good place to start.
There's no such thing as "intelligence in one area", intelligence is a general ability. You're basically ignoring everything that psychology has studied regarding intelligence.
I agree. But are there any better solutions than manually ln -s? I'm in a band, and also manage booking for a venue. I have $venue/poster/$date\ $bands/$posterfile. I also have $band/poster/$date\ $venue

I don't know of any system that lets a single poster be in multiple places at the same time.
Disappointing to hear. That was one of the distinctive features Gandi had. Otherwise other domain registrars are better alternatives based on price...
Reddit was already consolidated prior to this, the moderators in question and the subs that are shut down are run by the same handful of moderators that run the entire site. Something like 20 people are the top mods of 80+% of the subreddits.

It's naive to believe they are just volunteers either given how many of them are active for 20+ hours a day, and how moderation on some of the big subs are done in such a way that is effectively consensus making. Almost certainly some, if not most of the biggest power moderators on the site are run by multiple people, potentially other corporations or government agencies.

The old/wild internet is dead and buried, and it was before this blackout too. The API changes certainly aren't good, but let's not kid ourselves that Reddit's main moderators organizing the blackout are anything like volunteer mods of old.
everything else is content farms or SEO spam.

No! The rest of the content is still there, loads of it. Google simple has stopped caring, no it is not "too hard", they just don't care enough.

Case in point, Google even aids in crappy results, by aliasing your search terms, preventing precision, putting monetization above all else.

Google sucks. SEO/spam is not worse, Google is, they know it, they do not care, because so far it has no affected profit negatively.
This reminds me when I was going through the YC accelerator in 2012.

We were building a web-based email client, and PG didn’t like the idea. He pulled our team aside during one of the batch-wide Tues night dinners and suggested we pivot to building something that could take single threaded programs and quickly/easily make them multi-threaded.

No one on our team knew anything about threading (none of us had even graduated college). So we kept working on the email client, now defunct.

PG brought us in a back room where the Stripe founders were waiting (I think they were speaking that night). We were brainstorming ideas with them, and one of the brothers recommended we build something having to do with phones and calling people (don’t remember the idea anymore).

PG was not very happy when he heard we weren’t going to pivot and kept on working on a new email client :)
I often remember my dreams. My wife is always amazed that I remember so many of them (she hardly remembers any). But I never ever remembered a single "dream" I made under anaesthesia.

I wonder if people who remember many of their dreams have different experience? To me it's pretty much like GP: mid sentence and then boom, gone.
Halfway logarithmically. Like 100 is halfway between 10 and 1000? That’s your argument irt the pricing?

If killing third parties wasn’t the goal, it’s very convenient that it killed so many third party apps, isn’t it?

It’s clear you haven’t seen communications from Reddit and the devs if you think that the people losing their livelihoods and projects they’ve been working on for years are somehow the bad guys. A lot of these devs would have been open to the proposed prices (or similar) if only Reddit didn’t give them only 4 weeks to come to terms with a multi-million price of doing business and implement any necessary changes. That’s a lot more than these apps currently make in revenue.
The standard Indian measurement of rice is done by the mutthi (handful) and nazar (eyeballed). That's what I've seen moms and aunts and even career cooks do. This is also the crowd that rarely agrees with cooking their rice in a rice cooker. Not surprising, since they rarely agree with each other on how best to cook which rice.

I still enjoy the reactions (of surprise, disappointment, and sometimes mild derision) when I tell people I prefer to cook my rice in a microwave.

Nevertheless, the idea of a standard fixed-volume measure of rice, by the volume it occupies after cooking, seems a poor concept to me, because the factor by which rice grows when cooked varies by breed/variety, level of processing, even soak time. That's why, I was told, the mutthi and nazar system is better.
Show HN: I’m building open-source headless CMS for technical content
In the last few years I've been doing a lot of technical writing, both for my own programming blog and others, and I've noticed there is a lack of good tools for this kind of writing.

Whether that was a programming blog post or documentation, I always had to move back an forth between different editors, and sometimes even other apps for content management and the actual content publication. A lot of copy-pasting, and wasted time.

Based on this experience I decided to try and build a tool that could provide a good experience for this kind of content from writing to publishing. This (I call it Vrite) ended up being essentially a headless CMS, but optimized for technical content and a pretty unique one overall, I'd say.

I tried to combine what can be seen as 3 separate products into one:
- WYSIWYG editor (with the addition of code-specific tooling like code editor or formatter)
- Kanban dashboard (inspired by my experience of tools like Trello used in larger technical content teams to manage content production process)
- The actual headless CMS (content delivery via API, integrations, etc.)

Most recently I decided to open-source it and see if there's any interest in such a tool. Right now the primary focus was my personal use-case (kind-of "promotional" technical writing seen in programming and start-up blogs), but I think, with more customization, something like this could extend to the documentation space and make writing and managing docs a lot easier.

Let me know what do you think about this.
I miss the textured Aqua days. Peak was Leopard/Snow Leopard.

Flat is just so... flat. And boring.

And also harder to read, because it's harder to orient yourself in a big textureless area than in a space with some texture in it.
No. It got bleak during the pandemic, but it has bounced back nicely. The real estate and hospitality sectors took major haircuts after a long run of unbounded exuberance and they want everyone to know that it is somebody’s fault. The city has problems but the only one that has really gotten worse in the past 2 years is the real estate prices going down.

*edit, the
Magnitude of problems is as high as ever but the derivative is not. For people who don’t live in the city there are some pretty nasty things and nasty areas, but you get used to this things are not that different from where they were 5 years ago.
Very good points and I appreciate you sharing your experience if it would be possible for you to share the name of the agency it would be great. Do you know if they offer anything like a net90 to your customers but you get your money sooner? Are you a contractor for the agencies or an hourly? Asking about the hourly because every freelancer I’ve spoke with admitted that if there was something that would make them come back to be employees would be the steady paycheck and the colleagues… and I think there’s a way to have freelancers as hourly, manage payroll, offer benefits, bill clients and offer freelancers the possibility of withdrawing money as reporting billed hours… but still on early concept
Itsy Bitsy Data Structures – JavaScript – super simplified examples
Isn't Reddit already responsible of all the content they have in the platform?
I think this is just a semantics mismatch.

GP likely means expertise. Basically: the armchair general problem but for any topic.
No. Is this a defense of the NSA’s illegal dragnet surveillance of American communications?

That data center isn’t there because they ran out of space for CDRs.
Compared to basically any modern city in Europe or Asia, yes. Downtown SF feels completely different - dirty, much less safe, homeless people and drugs everywhere.

It's not even close.

Note, I'm only talking about downtown SF, not the wider Bay Area.
And presumably the atmospheric distortion is much less as well.
Is this the Bay Area population of HN expressing their frustration that there are many homeless people in SF? These posts come up from time to time.

I was there some 4 years ago, and I met some homeless folks for sure, but the city was nice.
Yes but these are not showstoppers. You can do a lot with scripting in Python (and e.g. Shapely for geometrical processing) and you can even find other user's scripts online. Of course, it would be nice if e.g. computing the length of a trace was as simple as a mouse click (perhaps it is in the newest version), but this is certainly no reason for many to switch to a closed, expensive, commercial tool.
"USENET had no way of dealing with some rude teen telling the lead C++ dev at Borland that he was an idiot."

We just used kill files, which let you ignore users and even let you filter through complex pattern matching. Web forums and social media still don't let you do the latter, despite such capability being available in Usenet news readers several decades ago.

"It didn't scale, and didn't prevent from plenty other people reacting to whatever jerk had wandered in."

Flame wars were a distraction, but they still happen in web forums and on social media, and depending on the community they may even be tolerated.

I can't count the number of times irrelevant tangents dominated the top voted comment threads on HN or on Reddit, and on Twitter the trolls have obviously been let back in. Reddit too used to be a safe space for them for most of its existence.
No, the commenter intended to post it on the inflation & interest rates thread instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315608
I found the bright blue taskbar and window decorators and the bright green start button, among other very bright and contrasting colors, quite the eyesore both at the time and now. Thankfully you could switch to the Windows Classic theme.
At some point I started believing in something like a Gell-Mann Amnesia but for people.

You talk/listen to this seemingly intelligent person who seems to be so confident in his field. Or rather in one of the fields. And then this person starts talking about something completely different and he can't be more wrong.

The question stands now how much doesn't he know about his own field which he also seems to be so confident about.

E.g. some philosopher psychiatrists starts to give some dietary advices of only eating raw meat. You would think and overall intelligent person should not be giving such advices. So can we just ignore him as dietitian or should we also start questioning his views as a psychiatrist.
Are they really that intelligent if they truly believe that their expertise can be applied to any field? Imo, understanding your own limitations is a form of intelligence that is very important.
A more worrying possibility is that we suffer terribly under anesthesia, but we can't move or scream because our muscles are temporarily paralyzed, and we can't remember the ordeal because our memory gets wiped.
That’s true, but it’s more the timescale that helps. There’s a decent amount of radioactive background produced by cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere, much of it as gaseous elements that are easily incorporated into steel while smelting. It isn’t harmful at that level, but you do need to wait a few decades for those to decay away.

World War Two is rather convenient in that respect, as there are large quantities of steel that were left to sit around for several decades after those ships sank.

It’s been a while since I’ve done low-background gamma-ray spectroscopy, but I believe there were some setups that went even further, using lead that had been smelted by the Romans. That way, any contamination present at the time of smelting would have a few thousand years to decay away.
Yes, lane count is the number of parallel links.

Switches are far more complex. The protocol specifies addressing, bandwidth reservations, flow control, priorities and message ordering requirements, which the switches have to handle.

Not a switch thing per se, but also relevant for "single transistors won't do": On the physical layer, each port/link is also relatively complicated to initialize and operate. The transmission encoding, due to the relatively high speeds involved, requires a learning phase where both ends measure the link characteristics and adjust their (relatively complex) signal processing accordingly. The physical layer also handles different link speeds for down-/upward compatibility.
A US judge has granted the FTC’s request to temporarily block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week.

Based on the late-June hearing, the federal court will decide whether a preliminary injunction is necessary.

Microsoft and Activision must submit legal arguments opposing a preliminary injunction by June 16, while the FTC must reply on June 20.

Activision declined to comment Tuesday.

Microsoft said Tuesday “accelerating the legal process in the US will ultimately bring more choice and competition to the gaming market.”

The FTC has argued that the transaction would give Microsoft’s video game console Xbox exclusive access to Activision games, leaving Nintendo consoles and Sony Group’s PlayStation out in the cold.

Microsoft’s bid to acquire the “Call of Duty” video game maker was approved by the EU in May, but British competition authorities blocked the takeover in April.

Microsoft has said the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, and has offered to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC to provide “Call of Duty” games to rivals including Sony for a decade.
Spy agency warns of NK-made Naver phishing site
They were toned down a lot by the time most consumers saw this (I don’t think any machine actually shipped with 10.1? They stuck with MacOS9 until 10.2, iirc…) and totally vanished soon after. But they were there, to start with.
I checked, and my pre-Reddit Internet experience is still there. The networks are small, on-topic, you recognize people, (we're all 40 now), (all their user databases are on haveibeenpwned). These are all things "subreddit snobs" exalt about their lil' <100k user subreddits. I'm not seeing a super compelling reason not to go back to this mode of Internetting.
Honestly, we had a bit trouble converting Altium projects to KiCad and kind of gave up on it. Probably also depends on complexity of the board and maybe we just need to invest more time into it. But for now we have to maintain a Altium license for older boards. All the new stuff we build in KiCad.
That's just because he's using the word 'intelligence' here in place of the word 'competence', but that might just be because it's the verbiage competent people often use about themselves. This is a fair correction, but other than that he's obviously correct, being a talented software engineer doesn't give you any ability to understand the nuances of neurochemistry.
I've stayed in several 4-stars in SF in the past two years, and while none were bad, they are clearly still suffering from staffing issues and spreading things thinly due to fewer bookings. If you have a choice to stay in SF or somewhere else, somewhere else is usually nicer. Crime and homelessness has turned SF from that quaint city by the bay, to that quaint city you don't feel safe walking around in. With the loss of convention tourism and the slow erosion of the SV gravy train there's zero reason left to invest in SF. Expect the decline to continue unabated. I bet in 10 years SF will once again be an affordable place to live.
What's your motivation for making your own yoghurt? The taste?
Thanks! Valuable resource :) - it seems like I should unpack my old consulting toolbox and get to a deeper gap analysis yeah
The discussion started "what would it take to convince people that [insert favourite LLM] is good at maths", and the response to that IMHO is that we have much better tools to do arithmetic (I don't even want to say maths), even if humans themselves are also poor at arithmetic.

What's the point of building a system to be equally bad as humans at something that we know humans are bad at? LLMs have their uses but (at least at the current stage) performing arithmetic calculations is not one of them (to say nothing of more advanced mathematics).
Recruit fatally shoots 2 SDF instructors, hurts 1 at Japan gun range
I pay money to avoid Google.

I de-Googled in every way except Maps.

Reddit does nothing I need.

Sadly I don’t know a better service than Google Maps. I may try Apple Maps, but old habits die hard.

If I was forced to use one, I’d pick Reddit, since they only shit on people’s pride.
Maybe a few things like the finder and iTunes icons and the default choices for user pictures, but otherwise I agree.
This sounds correct. Humans are highly fickle and contradictory when it comes to morality. Even the Golden Rule is hotly contested. LLMs lose touch with reality as they try to navigate humanity’s moral landscape. Our current solution is to align an LLM to a worldview.

The good news is that this will pit one LLM against others, and virtually eliminate any potential for a single powerful AI to emerge and do something harmful.
… and replace it with machine error!
This is true, but it's their job to get a balance between guiding new users towards building routine and getting post-onboard users to the content that is more engaging for their personal preferences. They have to have _something_ on the frontpage and the reality is that the subs that serve the most shallow content are the ones that will drive early repeat engagement.

What they've been missing for an age is an equivalent to Twitter's retweets. Retweets deliver you straight to the door of content providers via the people you already follow. You can start with Brian Cox and NDT as signup recommends, and make your way to your preferred scientific niches pretty quickly.

Reddit has crossposts that barely scratch the surface and often make the source sub almost invisible.
HN comments are absolute garbage on anything medical, endless uneducated "theories" and emotional anecdotes

you don't need to share your personal backstory, everyone knows someone with mental health or cancer or alzheimer's, your idea that DNA is like compiled code makes me think you should go read a book, and your self-medication is probably not scientifically founded
Turning upscale hotels into SROs isn’t a way to regain valuation.