skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not disagreeing with your post here but curious about this point:

> Steve Keen (amongst others) shows that economic productivity scales near-linearly with energy consumption, yet we are using fossil fuels at rates millions of times greater than they accumulated.

The only way I can see (without spending more than just a few minutes thinking about this comment) this being true is with 100% efficiency and I wonder if that's the underlying assumption here. I'd hazard a guess that we're using fossil fuels at low single digit percentage efficiency if that and perhaps even putting more in than we're getting out. To your point though, since we're using fossil fuels way faster than they accumulated there's just no way to escape "running out" [1]. Just a matter of when.

[1] I don't think we'll ever run out of course, it'll just be more and more expensive. When I think about running out I think about not having society able to adapt to the cost because of how we've built and designed our infrastructure. The US is particularly screwed here since we rely on them so much.
Westfield SF is not like the failing / dated suburban malls most people think of. It's extremely nice. High end stores. Beautiful architecture. And it's right on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. There's a food emporium on the lower floor, with high quality restaurants, not your typical food court faire. Nationwide there's a trend for dated 80s malls to close, but high end malls like Westfield? They're thriving elsewhere.
No; “fraud” is illegal. They don’t have to specifically list each of the different possible techniques somewhere.

Same with securities. The Howey test exists. The courts and Congress occasionally find a tweak that needs making, but they aren’t likely to be impressed by shenanigans like “oh it isn’t a shared enterprise because of this cute quirky thing”.
> Wasn't PHP a CGI script at first?

According to https://www.php.net/manual/en/history.php.php it started as a set of CGI binaries in 1994. When I started using it around 2000 with PHP 4 I think there was still a CGI version but it wasn't recommended and most people used mod_php on Apache.

> And yes, web forms existed earlier but they define the difference between a web of hyperlinked documents and a web of services.

I do think there was a cultural change that came with wider adoption of social media, but I pretty sure I remember accessing web based message boards as a teenager from 1997 or so. WWWBoard seems to date back to 1995 http://www.scriptarchive.com/readme/wwwboard.html

I guess I'm too young to really remember the time before web services!
Seen a huge huge uptick in coverage this week for Stormgate.
I've been having GPT4 tutor me in math, it's good enough. I'd like to tell the LLM to quiz me on certain concepts later, similar to spaced repetition.

There's endless ideas to shake up learning with LLMs.
Dates on that?

Clifford Brown died in the early 50s.
Guessing they meant "I have never read" and not telling you to "never read"
https://archive.is/nUMvY
The lines at marugamu and nagi are insane!
The difference lies largely in public transit. NYC had strong transit bones despite a few decades of wayward highway prioritization. Transit enables higher urban densities which (can) carry more revenue per square foot.
> There's some level of power user that will try to fix things, not understand what's going on, and yell at the world when they break things further.

That appears to me to be quite like a Chesterton fence. Everyone encounters these eventually.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
That’s the word. Thanks.
> So you have to ask yourself... why isn't Coinbase making that argument?

Coinbase has (obviously) always been a strong advocate of distributed ledger technology, is constantly warning of the ramifications of this software being de-facto banned in the US, and has publicly stated that they have contingencies in place for moving offshore if it's economically unviable to be headquartered in and/or serve the US market.

They've been making that argument since 2012.
Most of what malls around here have are clothes, just a few tiny shops and a supermarket (food, etc.). Considering there's not much choice in elecroics etc. in the first place, and most of the stuff is just clothes, I don't really care about the salespeople, I just wan't the shirt and shoes, pants, etc. to fit. A large t-shirt in C&A fits me perfectly, but in Primark the XL model is too short, and I need an XXL slim size. If i buy nike sneakers, I sometimes need one or even two numbers larger shoe than with other brands (adidas, reebok,...).

Buying online has been a pain and in case of cheaper stuff, a waste of money, since returning a 9eur shirt meant driving to the post office, packing it up, paying postage to return and wait for a couple of weeks to get 9eur back after spending 10eur to ship stuff back.
Back in the good ol’ days of no memory protection on the Mac and the fun of trying to figure out if it was you or your dev environment that just unrecoverably hosed the system state.
They also go wrong with large scale phenomena like inflation, dark matter, and dark energy.
Why does the federal government need to pay for every single residency? Ok, maybe they messed up in 1983/96—no other entity in the entire nation was capable of picking up any of the slack?
Yes and let's also not put it past an unscrupulous operator to be willing to pay a few dollars online to take down the website of one of their small-business competitors. It can and does happen.

Folks pointing out that their Raspberry Pi self-hosted static site résumé can handle 500 requests per second are missing the point.
It's not that straightforward. There is a shortage of CNAs, RNs, and LPNs willing to work in current conditions for current pay. Lower patient ratios and higher pay would naturally bring more labor into the healthcare labor pool. If you're going to import healthcare labor and still subject them to the existing suck that is US healthcare labor, that is not sustainable.

(light edits made to capture nuance vs absolutes, previous comment version started with "there is no healthcare labor shortage", which is not accurate)
The US housing market feels super Bimodal. Housing prices in most places are dropping heavily (after a huge rise during covid & low interest rates). But it's unclear what the state of major metropolises are.
I certainly don’t see an advantage in believing anything that any CEO says publicly.
Spot on. Quite the, um.... experience.
Japan begins tests of nuclear wastewater release (into the Pacific) plan
Bestbuys store brand Insignia sells a steel one separately
Yes, presumably no one wanted this one.

https://www.foxla.com/news/all-westfield-malls-in-us-to-be-s...
A web app can only do what the browser can do. A native app? All bets are off.
The tension is not rural vs urban. It is educated vs the uneducated.

It is urban vs rural because rural folks are less educated and therefore more susceptible to forces that are predatory to those who do not make a practice of critical thinking, such as fox news (or worse).

I don't think it's controversial to say that education liberalizes.

Here's Nate Silver talking about education as a predictor of the 2016 election:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-pr...

> In short, it appears as though educational levels are the critical factor in predicting shifts in the vote between 2012 and 2016.

Here is Pew weighing in:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideo...
Well I've managed ~53.5 years uptime with zero downtime so far 8)

I'm taking the piss too. Care to explain?

PS For a laugh (and I apologize for going dreadfully off topic), I asked ChatGPT a couple of questions regarding two mins and 10 years, just in case I'd missed a trick with your comment. I got two calculations within both answers that looked the same but have a factor of 10 difference in the result!

https://chat.openai.com/share/7aaa80e5-1c54-4ac2-9ddb-9e488d...

This is where it goes wrong:

"Total minutes in 10 years = 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year * 10 years = 525,600 minutes"

"Total time in 10 years = 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year * 10 years = 5,256,000 minutes"

LO Calc says that =6024365*10 = 5,256,000.

The worrying thing for me is that an awful lot of input training data might be badly wrong to cause this result or perhaps I've managed to excise a corner case in which case the training data is a bit too focussed in this particular regard. I suspect that arithmetic errors for these things will be awful because there are so many ways to screw up and the training data will have a lot of errors in it. Combine that with the number of subjects available and it will be a shit show.
It's usually less of a zero-sum game than we might expect.

Also some people have a plan to leave their country either way, so giving them opportunities in fields that might be useful for everyone should be a net positive.
They had larger brains for one.

If anything, having neanderthal blood is a rare peg for racialism to actually stand on.
Airbnb was nice in the beginning, but I've had my share of stays where I paid >$100 in cleaning fees and still found myself staring at a list of chores a mile long that really made me question whether I shouldn't instead be getting paid to clean the place.

Funnily enough, recently I've noticed that the professionally-managed Airbnbs are much more reasonable about not needing to clean every nook and cranny before leaving, with the small-time hosts imposing much more of a burden. So I'm essentially back to staying at a hotel.
longsort appears in cosmopolitan libc, and possibly gets embedded in all the output executables? For most applications the requirements are much less restrictive. I'm working on sorting for interpreted programming languages; I see >20KB for each sort now and don't have a problem with that. For small arrays only a fraction of the code will be used. I still make some effort to reduce size, but if you're doing HPC work where sorting matters you can go much bigger with sorting networks for every size of something like that. icache is 32KB/core on every processor I've checked, although it's often reported weird. But it's fine for a hybrid sort targetting large arrays to exceed that because many components like partitioning will spend their time running on lots of data, so the time to load is relatively insignificant.
> If someone else changes the text on a book from a dead author... how do you know the author would have liked that?

There's an obvious counterargument: how do we know [better than the author's estate] that a dead author would have been so committed to the retention of a particular stereotype or word that has acquired different connotations that they'd have angrily refused editors' suggestions they change it a bit for the next edition? In the cases discussed here, it seems particularly unlikely - would the bloke who accepted the suggestion that the workforce of African pygmies he imagined should stop being characterised as African pygmies really feel the purity of his writing was being destroyed if an even later revision made the comparatively minor switch to describing them as "people" rather than "men"?

There's an odd dichotomy between arguments that authorial intent is being destroyed by substituting or omitting a couple of words and various arguments that retaining them serves to create "teachable moments" about "how bad things use to be". With a few notable exceptions, "teachable moments" isn't at all what the author intended by a character using a word considered offensive in 2023 or casually assuming that women or foreigners were constitutionally unsuited to certain things, and generally they weren't trying to imply the character was a bigot (as modern audience might well misinterpret), or say anything at all about the contemporary attitudes incidentally referenced. Authorised translators use very non-literal translations, add or remove gender references or omit minor details that local audiences would completely misunderstand whilst living authors remain unconcerned and usually blissfully unaware; why are we so certain that the dead ones would deeply resent their publishers and estates making equally minor tweaks for the culture of 2020s English speakers?
> I understand the spirit of the law, but I do not feel like that can override an analytical interpretation.

You may feel so, but our entire legal tradition is based on the idea that this is not the case. In fact, no active legal tradition I'm aware of nation holds strictly to analytical interpretations of its laws. This is one aspect of the world it's better to accept as a fact of life, I believe there's good reason it's what everyone has settled on.
> But - my mom is an artist and she spent her career starving between sales and commissions.

Why should we care about your mum, and not the guy who creates buggy whips?? Or the guy who runs the ferry that crosses the river who will be out of their job because of the new bridge?

Where do you draw the line at caring?
Maybe politicians should do the same...
I believe the difference between SA15 (£154,995) and SA16 (£220,000) is a single wealthy individual who's been buying up everything in SA16 to rent.
Check out the Breville pressure cookers. They use ceramic coating.
Note that the court didn't rule that this parody product couldn't be made, they ruled that courts have to use a stricter test than the Rogers test to determine whether the parody product is legal. Perhaps this ruling still gives corporations too much control, but it's far from "absolute control."
This is beyond the scope of my knowledge, but what I can say is that the original issue in the 90s arose from a fear of too many doctors coupled with too much spending on said doctors which resulted in multiple regulatory changes to prevent this outcome.
Even that taboo against punching down is a peculiarity of (some parts of) modern Western culture. The blind, deaf, crippled, and mentally retarded are a favourite butt of jokes all over the world.
Meredith Whitney returns: ‘There will be many fewer banks’
https://archive.is/8fF0T
A 5% failure rate seems pretty high for something like this. I've never had a stay at a hotel where any problem wasn't immediately worked out by the front desk giving me a different room.
I really like the idea of a micro-subscription. I want to contribute to online content but nearly always people are asking north of $5/month, and I have massive subscription fatigue at that level.

I wish the UI was more basic. All the work to create fancy UIs just makes them worse. Just clone old Reddit and stop there, it was nearly perfect.
Some will come from mass production lowering costs for components. Some from the components being less cutting edge (and thus cheaper) too.

But I agree it’s not getting cheap soon. Maybe to $2k for the non-pro version (similar to the announcement Vision Pro) in a few years. Maybe even $1500.

You want to pay $500? You’re going to wait a long time.
I meant use the name of the program that embeds SQLite, for example, McAfee, Google Chrome etc. This way the user could easily understand which program has created the files.
It boils eggs perfectly (shells are always easy to pull off)
I have only worked with ReScript for about a year before switching to ClojureScript (which was a better fit for my project), but I really enjoyed the experience and genuinely wish it would become a more popular alternative to TypeScript for devs who are coming from JS and are looking to dive into FP and static typing.
The developer team did a great job with highly optimized and readable JS compilation, great integration and interop with React, JSX support, raw JS and even TypeScript (see GenType) and now it also supports async/await. The website is also really well made and provides good documentation and a nice forum to get help when needed.

However, Melange seems to head in a good direction too and I guess it would be amazing for people who are already familiar with OCaml and want to integrate with libraries and codebases there. So I think both projects are valuable in their own right for different use-cases.
Startups Funded in the Week of June 5 to June 11, 2023
You can. Oxo is borosilicate. They're pretty easy to find online or in store.
> The decline of the American mall has left just 700 still standing. Soon there may be just 150 left.

https://www.businessinsider.com/american-mall-decline-150-le...
In the winter the Mall of America is a big deal for me and my kids. Big nice space to walk in.
Maybe. Maybe not. I used to work in health insurance. HIPAA protected information is "Personally identifying information" (name, email, etc) plus a medical diagnosis, treatment, or cost of treatment.

It might be PII. It might be sensitive. But if it's not both of those, it's not HIPAA protected.

If you think about medical textbooks where there are pictures of patients and their maladies, but they are not identified this makes sense why both are required. Otherwise educating new doctors would be impossible.
This should give all those SF apologists something to think about. There are always excuses for the deteriorating conditions. Either it’s not as bad as everyone claims to be. Or it’s bad, but pandemic is to blame. If either of those things were true, why would SF lag so much when San Jose didn’t? Unless the city was mishandling everything.
You mean like those thumbs.db files windows leaves on every computer they visit on the network?
I live in New England. There isn’t a single brewery in any New England state that would cause an uproar if it ceased to sell beer tomorrow.

Sure I have some preferred beers but they are all interchangeable in the big picture.

Such is progress - there is no more regional taste, only trend. Even the bottle conditioned beer you stand in line for on vacation - a bottle of Duvel will be reliably better and probably cheaper.
A super smart guy on my team at a previous job replaced around $100,000 of server and SAN hardware used for a(n) (admittedly incredibly absurdly designed, well before our time) analytics system built using MySQL filtered replication triggering stored procedures in this magical Rube Goldberg-ian dystopia with a 3 node Flask app running with 2 cores and 4 GB of RAM each performing the analytics work JIT. The app would use in-memory SQLite3 tables to perform the same work as the stored procedure operations, and cost about 50ms of extra time per request for a feature of the app that was rarely used.

Admittedly, not high traffic like you asked, but one of my favorite uses of SQLite hands down.
So according to you, following the SEC's lead: Selling Bitcoin is legal, selling Solana is illegal, and selling ETH (Ethereum) is in a quasi-state of legal and illegal. Nobody knows exactly why any of this is the case, and that's totally fine with you because you don't want to dive into any of these "cute quirky things".
My opinion is a odometer reading tax or 100% toll roads would be the fairest replacement for fuel taxes.

The reality is certain states have already added flat rate registration fee surcharges for EVs, plug-in hybrids, and even regular hybrids. Like $200. These are often punitively high such that the "replaced" fuel tax is equivalent to a gas guzzler driving 20,000 miles per year.
refined sugar

I don't think there is any difference to your body between sugar and 'refined sugar'. It is all going to have a lot of fructose in it.

Things like agave syrup or whatever else are just tricks to make people think they are getting healthy sugar.
How does it get that in a cross platform way? Or want if the program name has exotic characters?
Other countries subsidizing education and the more developed ones reaping the results is very much a zero-sum game. Immigrant myself, I'm all for people getting better lives, however if you're talking churning 10-20% of a small country's doctors or nurses to the US it would be catastrophic.
It’s a followup by someone else who dumped the firmware. It’s basically a crc16.
> We've always had the utmost respect for the user. Every internal decision about look and function answers the auestions "What does the customer need?" and "How can we help them be more productive?" (Not "How can we give them what they're asking for?" because that isn't the right question to answer.)

That’s hard to do and I would guess that their ability to distinguish between what users ask for and what they need is a big part of the software’s longevity.
" Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds..."

Is there a workaround here?
Well this didn't age well rather quickly. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...
I tried to make a llama-based “inner monologue” for a robot, and man does that thing want to kill all humans. Like…it took me at least half a dozen tries to not have it turn on its creator or turn suicidal by the second sentence.
WWDC23: Passkeys
The relevant snippet:

/*
** Temporary files are named starting with this prefix followed by 16 random
** alphanumeric characters, and no file extension. They are stored in the
** OS's standard temporary file directory, and are deleted prior to exit.
** If sqlite is being embedded in another program, you may wish to change the
** prefix to reflect your program's name, so that if your program exits
** prematurely, old temporary files can be easily identified. This can be done
** using -DSQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX=myprefix_ on the compiler command line.
**
** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then
** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it
** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder.
** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a
** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the
** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain.
** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite"
** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but
** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart
** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid
** of the file.
*/
> "Everyone stays strangers, ... It’s no longer a village, but something like a train station. The default mode of being is passing through. People come and go, and there’s no real sense of belonging."

> "It’s an oppressive, alienating, and disempowering environment."

Strongly disagree. For me, the absence of 'social baggage' in large stranger-to-stranger boards like HN is liberating, while village-style boards are intimidating. I do not want to 'build community', i want to discuss topic.
Traffic Evaporation-What Happens When Road Space Is Reallocated from Cars
Everyone has been on 4chan. That's a weak way to try to discredit people whose opinions you disagree with.

You act like you're being an anthropologist, but you're just apologizing for a culture we all know and which does demonstrable harm in the world. It's not "polarized opinions", it's celebrating terrible things. You know that, we know that.
FTA: "We’ve always had the utmost respect for the user. Every internal decision about look and function answers the questions 'What does the customer need?' and 'How can we help them be more productive?' (Not 'How can we give them what they’re asking for?' because that isn’t the right question to answer.)"

I experienced this first hand when asking Rich to restore the "hard wrap to window width" feature in TextWrangler[1] (it had also been removed from BBEdit).

He quickly and kindly replied that while "We don't have any plans to restore the 'Window Width' option for hard wrapping" I could "describe how this would be useful to you" for him to "give it some thought".

I simply downgraded to restore the desired functionality, as I did not want to waste the author's time arguing over the utility of a feature that had been included for ages.

Since then, I've purchased BBEdit licenses, but use other editors when I need to hard wrap text to window width.

[1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/201807150700_hard_wrap_window_widt...