skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tip of my finger was cut off a few months ago in an accident.

Treatment consisted of a breathable dressing which sealed the fingertip around the stump, thereby prevented it from drying out and scarring.

It was very smelly and messy for a few weeks, but it worked - my fingertip grew back.

It's a bit deformed (because the emergency doctor gave me a 'manicure' before dressing the wound), but it's there.

Lots of results on Google if you search for "fingertip regeneration". Otherwise, I can provide academic/medical references.
I thought it was going to be a worthy critique based on the way it started off, and I was prepared to entertain its claims. Renewables certainly have technical limitations, and there are certainly political incentives to market a message of success. But then it just flamed out into a Facebook style rant about evil conspirators and the same tired "renewables can't work" talking points. If there are tough discussions to be had, this post certainly doesn't help us have them.
Moreover recent turbines burning natural gas can be retrofitted to burn hydrogen, which will be 'green' and therefore produced by renewables, typically while over-producing electricity... providing for part of a clean backup.
Almost all of the painful stuff in that post is due to migrating from tool to tool. (“Both main and browser fields are present”, “This has something to do with the migration from requires to imports”, “Subcommands calling npm even through you switched to yarn and then pnpm”, “Some scripts still use watchman … There’s also this gulp-based script that nobody has the guts to replace”, “There’s also moment.js … you have to migrate to date-fns”, “these packages are way behind [current] … you should upgrade them … [you] have tried that before and you know how much suffering it brings”, “resolutions … a suffering you choose to avoid dealing with package upgrades”, “jest … depends on some babel packages while the rest of your app is transpiled by a mix of esbuild and swc”.)

Ironically enough, the last paragraph of the article? About hating node while refusing to switch to bun or deno? That kind of decision might have prevented some of the pain mentioned in the previous paragraphs.

I don’t have an object-level answer for your question, and I’m not trying to mislead you into thinking it’s possible to actually have a minimal setup for JavaScript web apps - it’s always going to be painful. But with a commitment to maintaining minimalism you can pick a stack to start with and mostly keep it that way. The grass might be greener on the other side, but the fences are made of razorwire!
I left for NixOS instead of upgrading to Windows 11.

Honestly it can play anything I can throw at it. Including FFXIV which has zero official Linux support. And it might play even better than it does on Windows.

I wish I had migrated way earlier.
Ah, then I misinterpreted you. My apologies.
AVERAGE rate of renewable growth from 2004 to 2022 is less than the AVERAGE rate of growth in hydrocarbons over the same period.

Just coincidentally, that period includes all of the boom in "unconventional" gas (i.e. fracking) which turned the US into a net gas exporter -- while only catching the tail end of the (roughly exponential?) renewable growth curve.

Sorry, the author appears to be cherry picking here. Ask yourself, "why 2004"?
Anyone who has been watching the increasing insanity that is immigration in Europe predicted this years ago. No one should be in "disbelief."
$4.1 trillion spent globally over 18 years isn’t a staggering amount of money. Ballpark this is equivalent to about 1% of aggregate U.S. GDP over that period of time.
When the topic is explicitly a popularity contest, talking about which one is better is pretty reasonable.
> I’ve parachuted into companies as interim CPO, my first order of business has been to [...] A deeply opinionated subject expert with visible disdain for average users will focus on rarely used expert features and tend to ignore opinions from the bottom 95% of customers. [...] worth a frank talk about fit and attitudes.

So he "parachutes" into a company from nowhere and is executing his "first order of business". And, at that point, rather than approaching it with humility and having discussions where one man's opinion (his own) stacks up against another man's opinion (evil "subject expert"), he already thinks of himself as the keeper of the oracle -- the oracle being that elusive "95% of users" for whom he apparently speaks, and everyone with views opposing his own as troublemakers who need to be alienated at best and shoved aside at worst. ...sounds more like a run-of-the-mill manager, than a particularly enlightened one.
That’s what made his classes brilliant. IIRC, the exams were not questions you could memorize the answers to. Instead they were problems you had to solve in real time. You had to exercise the problem solving and algorithm building you learned throughout the course and discover the solution. I never felt so smart, even now, than when I figured out the solution to a difficult problem on those exams.
Wow I’ve heard of barn finds with cars but not computers!
I'd just like to point out that the parent is a variant on the GNU/Linux copypasta:
https://stallman-copypasta.github.io/
I was one of the devs that build the Vanguard login services, though I haven't worked on it in a long time and have since left. The SMS 2FA fallback was a stupid thing that some security architects wouldn't let us get around. I pushed pretty hard on that but alas didn't have the political capital nor time.
I think the challenge organizations face is that good umbrella types end up not getting recognized because their smoothly run team is mistaken for an easy to run team - roughly analogous to the engineer who ships well built features vs one who ships sloppily built features then heroically fixes sevs.
Yep, we get such a good start, then it's all downhill. At 18 you're hardly a responsible adult.. And it's not exactly cheap out of pocket here either. (though maybe better then the US? maybe)
We are seduced and captivated by raw genius. I’m sure Landau was one of the highest caliber. To pass his examination, to be well regarded by him, to be part of such a select group, who wouldn’t want to? Don’t be hard on yourself.
I absolutely love your idea but I can't imagine Reddit would contribute to their own demise.

Granted, a lot of the decisions they're making over there lately would indicate otherwise, so maybe they'll love the idea.

Side note, anyone finding good alternatives? Obviously I love this forum as it does feel more like Old Reddit. But it's scratching a different itch for me. I've been experimenting with the Fediverse and it feels like it's one great app away from taking off. I'm very interested to see this Wikipedia-adjacent project that is supposed to come out and be the new Reddit.
I don't really see what those two things have to do with each other. When you don't use mmap, you manage the disc<->ram storage virtualisation yourself. Hardware paging, then, is pure overhead. The parent doesn't argue against layering of storage media, nor against chunking in general. Only against mmus as a mechanism for implementing it.
PGX: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust [video]
> RocksDB/LevelDB which implicitly assume that your database is a lot bigger than RAM.

Where are you getting that assumption from? LevelDB was built to be used in Google Chrome, not for multi-TB DBs. RocksDB was optimized specifically for in-memory workloads.
The success is based on the cost and timescales available now, not based on the past 18 years (which is that solar and wind costs have fallen massively while nuclear still seems to offer high initial estimates with a good likelihood of massive cost overruns).
'We could "go spend Sony out of business"': a good description of Big Tech... How do you want to regulate that???

A properly done AAA game, horizon forbidden west, is at least $300 millions over 5 years with 300 very talented ppl, and they did not even build on "nothing" but in the continuity of horizon zero down. You want to dev a good looking and modern AAA game? The more you know...
> So if this is about total human consumed water, on 2% loss, per unit time, without replenishment its 100 units to rundown.

Can you elaborate on how you came to this conclusion? How do you define rundown and how much water (outside of their own bodies) are they bringing with in this scenario?
> The best example I have is the massive infrastructure many people insist is required for a website.

This is my biggest pet peeve, and I think a lot of it (among supposedly tech-savvy people at least, less technical people are a different story) is caused by people looking at the cost of a random selection of AWS products, often quoting on-demand prices rather than the 40% discount you can get by buying a year of reserved capacity at once, multiplying by 12, and then freaking out.

Many cloud products are not good deals, and almost seem designed to make people think running a web service is inaccessible to them. Those products are usually given a healthy markup because you’re paying to avoid certain setup steps or for the ability to scale infinitely large in two clicks.

You can still just rent a few cheap servers (or even just one) and, if you set them up properly, you can run a decently sized website off of them no problem.
As someone who works in C, C actually needs less in the standard library. What it actually needs is a proper import/module/build system to make it easier to stitch code and librarys together. The prevalence of header-only librarys attests to what a total mess it all is.

A proper import system would massively reduce the amount of wheel reinventing because then it would not be fiendishly difficult to actually reuse code in a coherent way. Only after that does it make sense to start quibbling about what is included where and by default.
It's "better" because there is a culturally accepted way to move things along to the next stage of potential relationship. So if you are not good at reading the situation, you get a formal way to approach things.

From the anecdotes on the page, it also sounds like creepy or awkward folks have a formal way to be weird. Which sounds like a net positive. Society expects you to give your interest a heads up.
That’s a pretty big “just”, tbh. It would absolutely require the sort of proprietary kernel drivers most distros (understandably!) consider anathema, and I’m not sure game publishers want to shoulder that burden entirely themselves.
There are two digits for months. A check is required per-character to prevent bad chars (e.g 0x3A) from being laundered by the multiply. The '19' comes from fact that the first digit may be only 0 or 1, while the 2nd digit maybe any value 0..9 (e.g September '0'9' October '1'0'). The second check catches bad month values between 13..19 which were not caught by looking at individual digits. Realistically, the first check may be overbuilt, it only needs to check is_digit or not, but it still has to ignore the padding bytes at the end, somehow. Now... I believe there would be a problem with the month value of '00'... because it unconditionally subtracts 1 from that field then uses it as a table index.
in the digital age the surprising part is finding an old barn
Current Capability would be the biggest one. We're at the point where any testable definitions of GI that the sota LLM fails (GPT-4) is also failed by a good chunk of humans. You couldn't say that a few years ago nevermind 60.

What we have now (so no hypotheticals) coupled with the fact that scaling hasn't yet shown any performance walls makes a pretty good shout that things will probably be different this time.
Oh boy, "the list"... Here goes a simplified version:

Beef chicken and pork (other meats untested, manual exposure testing required)
ALL nightshades (potato's tomatoes peppers etc)
the Entire Carrot/Celery/Parsley family (it's big)
Lettuces (ridiculous, it's just water!)
Rice
Oats
All berries
All tree pollens including that contaminating food.... (This is the real kicker, as it hurt worst when ingested)
And some uncommon stuff is honestly always forget even existed and then get freaked out when I realized I missed it on the list

Thankfully they all went away, supposedly due to age related changes to body chemistry.
In load testing there's a difference between testing if something executes as specified versus testing where it breaks. I'm pretty sure that GitHub has tests to validate their performance specification. They may have tests even far in excess of that. They may not have tested where it breaks. They may have had a discussion like: what if someone tries such and such, and their answer may have been: we have good monitoring, we'll catch it before it gets out of hand, and lock out the user in question (which ultimately is what they did). In other words, spending engineering resources to determine the breaking point may not have been a priority. I'm not saying that I would agree with that in all circumstances, but it's their determination to make.
99% of people's only recourse is rage posting on social media even if the drivers are open source. Not everyone is technical enough to work on graphics drivers or want to sponsor someone else to work on it.
A 50% emission reduction is huge, especially in the context of being able to reuse most of our hydrocarbon-compatible infrastructure. Not everything needs to be on orders of magnitude to be worth doing.

I agree that nuclear power needs to be a larger part of the story. But the author should motivate that without relying on misleading categorizations.
I meant people are free to have kids and everyone should get to experience the joy/pain of having children. But having children is expensive. If you have 5 kids vs 1, there will be a difference in your economic status unless you’re already coming from wealth. Same holds true about whether you have a kid at 16 vs when you have in 30s. You can make any decision you want, but some are just objectively bad and have an impact on your economic status.
You can modify the length of NUL strings in place by inserting a new NUL or overwriting past the end without any other bookkeeping. You can split a string on delimiters simply by overwriting them with NULs.
It takes 4-8 bytes to represent the size of the string versus 1 byte for a null terminator. That doubles the size of the string when you embed it in a struct or pass it as an argument on the stack. In particular, remember that even today cache lines are only 64 bytes for x86-64 and while that seems like a lot, going from 64 bytes to 68 means you go from 1 cache miss to load some struct to 2 cache misses.
Where are you reading that they're surprised?
> Ahh yes the no historical precedent of gay people existing, forming life long partnerships, and raising children (sometimes their own, sometimes not). That definitely hasn't existed as long as there have been people.

In Socrates' day, Greek culture was accepting of same-sex relationships (at least within certain boundaries, the contours of which varied from city-state to city-state) – but the idea of same-sex marriage never appeared to have occurred to them. Same-sex marriage only makes sense if you view opposite-sex and same-sex relationships as equivalent, interchangeable – historically, many societies have accepted same-sex relationships, but put them in a completely different category from opposite-sex ones. The idea that they are equivalent and interchangeable appears to have been rare in history, prior to the 20th century.

> Unless you want religiously homogeneous societies you have to decouple the secular and the religious institution of marriage because what do ya do when you have immigrants from other cultures and faiths?

Why do we even need a "secular institution of marriage"? Here in Australia, all state and federal laws have been changed to give unmarried couples (whether opposite-sex or same-sex) identical legal rights to married ones. In fact, we did that before we legalised same-sex marriage – which made same-sex marriage's legalisation in Australia an essentially symbolic measure. I know the US hasn't made that reform – but there doesn't seem to be any good reason for that, only a lack of political will.

Once you give unmarried couples identical rights to legally married couples – does the legal institution of marriage still serve any purpose? Wouldn't the most religiously neutral thing be to abolish marriage as a legal category entirely? Any secular legal definition of marriage is going to be closer to some religious definitions than others, and hence can be accused of showing undue favouritism towards those religions which it is closer to. If marriage were abolished as a legal category, people would still be free to get married, but it would be a purely private cultural and/or religious institution, without any public legal significance.
In my view there's nothing wrong with acknowledging the innovations of Apple, while strategically refraining from being an early adopter.

I got my first computer in 1983, and eventually got a Mac, when the "affordable" ones came out in the early 1990s. I don't think I'm dumber, or less successful for having waited that long.
OP should note this is 100%, just, like, GP's opinion man.

The "must have a .com" idea is dead. Obsolete. It literally does not matter.
I suspect that the biggest pain point will be the wonky behaviour of the 950 when the battery starts getting low; it reboots under load with low battery.
Great article helping to dispel the myth that Apple simply stole the GUI from Xerox. The Lisa and the Mac were truly revolutionary, introducing many GUI concepts that we take for granted today.

Another rather interesting Xerox PARC technology in the history of GUIs is the Xerox Star interface, which actually beat the Apple Lisa in releasing a GUI with a desktop metaphor. The Xerox Star was a commercial workstation and was this one of the first GUIs that customers could actually purchase. However, it was very expensive (more expensive than the Lisa, which failed partly due to its $10K [in 1983 dollars] price point).

Even though the Xerox Star preceded the Lisa when it came to the desktop metaphor, the UI would be unfamiliar to Mac and Windows users, featuring rather complex mouse and keyboard gestures to use GUI features, compared to the Lisa’s conventions, which have largely endured to this day, to the point that it shouldn’t take too long for a Mac or Windows user to learn how to use a Lisa.
A few reasons, the first being that I can actually log in again after 2 or 3 years, as the login was broken for me for that long so I can't say I was a fan of what was going on before. I had several frustrations before but that, as you can imagine, pissed me off quite a bit.

The second being free speech, I'm a big supporter of that and there's certainly more of that now. It's not perfect but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater by arguing against perfection or pointing out some of the hypocrisies in play. It's a move in a positive direction.

They're comparisons against recent Twitter, which before Musk felt like an app with so many broken parts that were never going to get fixed (the login problem being the cherry on that cake for me). Now there's a feeling that things might get fixed, that new features definitely are coming, and that complaints might be listened to.

I also don't like the changes you've highlighted, though I do see them as inevitable at this point in internet history. We see Instagram and others moving towards paid verification, Reddit closing down its API and killing apps (and should we forget that Twitter has done this at least once before in one form or another). So, I don't think it's all rosy in the garden, but overall it's positive, and the negatives (mostly) feel inevitable.

Add to that, alternatives are now getting a bit of a look in from people that wouldn't have have bothered before. I don't think that Mastodon, to choose one example, is a direct replacement, but it's good that people are giving it a try.
This is very sad. It's a disgrace that even physical businesses today depend so much on Google.
How can you fix it when so much production software depends on that behaviour?
It goes beyond "feeling". Without adequate understanding, you can't penetrate further and move the science forward. Calculations alone are simply not enough.
If “interplanetary Factorio” is your thing, also consider Dyson Sphere Program: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366540/Dyson_Sphere_Prog...
(I'm not suggesting anyone be like me, just chiming in!)

I feel like a combination of a few comments here. Itching to put together something that can bring justice to Zelda and tinker with AI

Apparently there is a way to stream games from your own machine similar to GeForce now. It's built into their GPUs -- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/nvidias-gamestream-is...
This occurred to me. With a few generations raised on propaganda with the idea that AI is actually god, it seems plausible. I still think you'd need a severe totalitarian government and a highly compliant population to make this happen.
I worked with the Bigtable folks at Google. LevelDB's design is ripped straight from BigTable, which was designed with that assumption in mind. I'm also pretty sure it was not designed specifically for Google Chrome's use case - it was written to be a general key-value storage engine based on BigTable, and Google Chrome was the first customer.

RocksDB is Facebook's offshoot of LevelDB, basically keeping the core architecture of the storage engine (but multithreading it), and is used internally at Facebook as the backing store for many of their database systems. I have never heard from anyone that RocksDB was optimized for in-memory workloads at all, and I think most benchmarks can conclusively say the opposite: both of those DB engines are pretty bad for workloads that fit in memory.
Anything with a ra1n in it is usually an iOS jailbreak
The archive needs backed up asap before it disappears!
Exactly, it’s month to month. I just pay and get something great.
Uncensored Chatbots Provoke a Fracas over Free Speech
> Proof is in the pudding.

Indeed it is and the proof shows that Ukraine intercepts a large number of Russian missiles with air defence.

Whilst Russia intercepts a lot of Ukrainian weapons with the intended targets.

The Russians have maybe shot down a single stormshadow out of all the ones that have been fired.

They don’t seem so good at intercepting modern western cruise missiles.

This all ignores that Ukraine managed to get TU141 drones that look like they have the radar signature of a truck past Russian air defence to hit targets within Russia.
I started coding in the 70s when C first came out. Conflating arrays and pointers was, to me at the time, a huge win. I agree it was a mistake in the long run, but given the state of the art at the time, it gave so much power to the high level programmer that up to that point only assembly level developers had. I was able to move code that up to then had been coded in assembly to C. That's the benefit that people today miss.
Google claims to have proved its supremacy with new quantum computer
I just discovered that yesterday, and loving it.
What you consider correct or not is simply an opinion.
Why not take a longer holiday to Turkey or Thailand once a year and do all dental appointments ? Should be much cheaper even with a flight and accomodation. I know some of people from UK doing this and flying to Turkey for yearly dental check. Dental clinics very professional there and you have English speaking staff.

If USA based maybe Mexico or Colombia also a good closer choice?