skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing, absolutely nothing in the modern world works without fossil fuels being part of the production chain.

A future where fusion and solar are the main energy sources we tap into would be beautiful, but to get to that point we are still going to burn a lot of fossil fuels to sustain the current modern amenities we got used to. The question is: how much longer do we have to completely shift our energy dependency? The clock is ticking at a very fast rate, we are not doing enough to be independent from our energy needs supplied from fossil fuels.

Believing that "someone will eventually figure it out" is a form of illusion of continuity, there's nothing in the Universe guaranteeing we will continue human advancement, there's no continuity if we don't work for it. Working for it means: facing that we are in very uncharted territory, which as far as we can predict seems to be leading to a catastrophic outcome.

The "long run" part depends on changes to be done right now to allow a "long run" to exist, if we continue the path we are there's absolutely no guarantee there will be a long run where solar and fusion are powering civilisation...
The original comment didn't read very smug to me, but more generally you have a point. Most people (maybe all of us?) have much better things to do than learn quirks of Windows. It really is the software/computer manufacturer or maintainers fault when things work in an unexpected way. I mean, why do we even have general purpose computers and operating systems on machines designed to do one single job (like medical equipment)? why does the system menu even exist in a setup where it's never needed? The only reason is that the computer and software industry is really a duct taping industry where stuff just gets slapped together in a way that's easiest for whoever is doing the duct taping - not in a way that's easiest for the user or the best for the actual application.

In no other engineering discipline would this shit fly; imagine building a bridge and just constructing it from rocks, old cars and whatever scrap they happened to have lying around the construction site and then fixing it on the go as some of that crap quite predictably falls apart. This is basically what all of computer/software industry is doing.
This kinda explains the anti-piracy hysteria of the 2000s.
Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act
I remember reading an article one day that pointed out that intoxication is related to consumption in excess of what your liver can process instantaneously, so that a drinking session with a number of 5% beers may get you drunk but the same number of 4% beers will hardly register.

The article is no longer available, but here’s a summary https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3209119/Why-... and here’s a follow-up of sorts https://draftmag.com/how-many-beers-to-get-drunk/
Tbh I don't think that is the uncommon opinion at all. In fact I agree with it myself. But it seems obvious that the more people share this opinion, the easier it will be to stand out if you do just a little bit extra.
> I guess that's what happens when you delegate your hosting needs to a needlessly-shady entity.

What makes them a “needlessly-shady entity”?
Also (additionally to my other comment), I want to say, that I am cautiously optimistic about communities that are rising on the Fediverse right now. What HN brings to the table for its selection of themes, can do other channels for different topics there.

With the recent Reddit controversy, we see a drift of high quality contributers away from reddit. They've been sharing / discussing their knowledge for free before and I assume they're looking for places to continue doing so.
It's not out of line with previous the previous jump: the difference between the originally known superconductors and 'high temperature' superconductors was similarly large. If it is a novel mechanism allowing for it then we would not expect that the threshold would necessarily wind up close to room temperature (TBH, I this makes me think it is less likely to be fraud: I think a fraud would temper expectations by claiming it barely works at room temperature). I do agree it needs backing up, though, it could still be an error or more savvy/brazen fraud.
They're specifically sold on the basis that they don't leach into the soil - that's why they're used in organic farms/orchards.
(Although, after 50 years, who know what might happen).
Yeah it’s amazing how people keep buying Renaissance era CT propaganda about itself. Those classics they were “rediscovering”? They only existed at all because the church copied papyrus to vellum to books. Papyrus doesn’t last 1000 years outside of deserts (e.g. Egypt).
hackers are rich or poor?
If you need a legend for the second chart, here it is:

physical music videos (yellow); CD singles (light orange); CD albums (dark orange); cassette singles (light blue); cassette albums (Carolina blue); vinyl LP/EPs (darker blue); download singles (purple); ringtone/ringbacks (periwinkle); download albums (dark purple); SoundExchange distributions (lime green); synchronization (light gray); free streaming (green); paid streaming subscriptions (dark green)
Just as an FYI/additional data point, I bought a 3090 FE from Ebay a few months ago for £605 including delivery.

I've only just started using it for Llama running locally on my computer at home and I have to say... colour me impressed.

It generates the output slightly faster than reading speed so for me it works perfectly well.

The 24GB of VRAM should keep it relevant for a bit too and I can always buy another and NVLink them should the need arise.
Safest never to make him an employee, then.
No, it is a matter of functionality.

Web-based forums are objectively worse. The only thing they have working for them is that you can upload/include images. Otherwise, everything is terrible, beginning with their inability to hide stuff that you've already read. You have to wade in a sea of content every time you visit every forum.

Add to this the terrible usability (for example, you only see several posts in a thread, and then you have to find the tiny tiny numbers at the bottom to go to the next "page" of posts), we've really taken a huge step back.
> The record companies did a fantastic job of killing music all by themselves

It wasn't the record companies which ruined the music industry. It was us, the consumers. We ruined it with piracy.

https://i.insider.com/4d5ea2acccd1d54e7c030000

We always like to imagine big organizations as the "baddies", and us as the "goodies". But the reality doesn't always follow this convenient narrative. Sometimes it turns out we were the baddies all along.
People are too lazy to bother about that.
America is such a wild place lol. How dangerous can a Rust conference really be?
https://archive.is/XeFOB
The content industry also waged war on computer media. It was supposed to be 100% forbidden to sell anything capable of doing anything without DRM. They were serious about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital...
As in, not even #pragma once, or you consider nonstandard stuff disqualifying?
Yeah, that happens when a process is in D state (uninterruptible sleep). This happens for example if the process is waiting for io from a block device that has gone forever, like an nfs mount with a broken connection, but i also remember this happening in a company where somebody had the unfortunate idea of “retrofitting” (I’m using kind words here…) zfs to run on some rhel6 hosts, and it would hang very often (of course… but hey, we get snapshots without paying for a netapp).
> It would probably take a lot of investment from AMD to make that happen, I imagine

Don't AMD deliberately gimp their consumer cards to prevent cannibalising the pro cards? I vaguely recall reading about that a while back.

That being the case, they have already done the R&D but they chose to use the tech on the higher-margin kit, thus preventing hobbyists from buying AMD.
Jobs was a complete piece of work. The fact that our society empowers these psychological types is depressing.
Would it be fair to say that Expo is to RN what Next.js is to React?
Ask HN: Thoughts on buying a real set of Encyclopædia Britannica
I'm thinking of getting a second hand copy of the Encyclopædia Britannica (15th edition) to read in order to improve my broad knowledge.

Does this make sense in 2023?
> Why do I want to work for your company? Because I need to eat to survive and you’re hiring.

This is embodied in the contractor lifestyle: no corporate bullshit, no politics, and the "you give me money, I give you a limited slice of my time and skills" equation is crystal clear, without any BS like "we are a family", and such like.

> You know what gets people offer letters? Word of mouth referrals by highly revered coworkers.

Equally relevant as a contractor. And the bonus is that interviews are usually done quicker than for permies, actually, the last time I had a single 45 minute interview, with a minimal amount of technical questions asked (YMMV!).
Purely another anecdote from my own personal experience, When watching anything on a TV screen I never feel like I have the same tangible connection with what I’m viewing.

There’s some innate connection that happens when I make real eye contact with another mammal only feet away from me. You can’t really earn the respect for nature or the respect of nature from a documentary.

Honestly it’s this same lack of connection I get on Zoom calls and I think it’s undervalued and difficult, if not impossible to measure.

I do think zoos have positively impacted many people, myself included, my kids (who are extremely passionate about taking care of the planet and animals partly due to their exposure). Of course I also feel the need to explain the business/darker side of zoos but young kids aren’t ready for the world to be so grim. They need to start learning coming from a place of optimism and hope. There will always be time for the other parts when they might actually be able to do something about it.
You can't front run retail order flow because it doesn't move the market.
>Which means it tells them something about you.

Nah, don't think so, that's the point of zero knowledge proofs
My guess is that around 75% of Canonical's staffing is sales, sales engineering, customer support, marketing, and misc business functions.
As a consumer one does not have to sterilize though, and that would be the advantage. That it tends to spoil very badly when not sterialized can be seen as a feature, it may act a detector for bacteria.
> which, in my opinion, any reasonable person would

Well, yeah, but I'm European, which means I'm practically a Communist ;) I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt, because "dude, tone it down a bit, you're spookin' the horses" is easier to swallow than "everything you believe is wrong".
To someone writing only C?
Are you sure about that?

It seems to be rather a cultural taboo. Cannibalistic tribes did disagree.
They also do bunch of stuff that ClickHouse can't do, like correlated subqueries [1] or recursive CTEs.

I kinda wish for a database with ClickHouse storage and DuckDB optimizer. At least my experience with ClickHouse is that MergeTree is incredibly good at what it does, but the optimizer hurts.

[1]: https://duckdb.org/2023/05/26/correlated-subqueries-in-sql.h...
> Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee.

If you can't read code by written by others, being a (software) contractor is probably the worst job you could have. Now you need to read new code at every new client you start at.
>A new OS isn’t compelling for users.

Yes it is. Not directly, of course, nobody cares about the OS. But in case of Android distributions, if they could exchange the Linux layer to Fuchsia, while keeping most of the Android userland in terms of UX, and deliver gains such as increased battery life, then suddenly people would be interested. It would be similar to Apple's development and adoption of ARM architecture.
Is There Any TPU Availability on Google Cloud?
I am doing a new startup and recently received a very generous cloud credit package from Google as part of their cloud setup, but for the life of me I can't launch a single TPU-VM due to availability issues! I get "There is no more capacity in the zone \"us-central1-b\"; you can try in another zone where Cloud TPU Nodes are offered" no matter the region or TPU configuration I try. My google contacts (sales and sales engineer) appear largely baffled by this as well. Have other people managed to successfully launch new TPUs lately? Have you seen this bad of availability issue?
So-called "intellectual property" is not property. It cannot be stolen unless someone manages to deprive you of it. You do not own ideas, even ones you come up with yourself - you are merely given a temporary monopoly to encourage you to create more ideas. Or at least that was the deal. A deal that has been broken over and over again by extending the supposedly temporary monopoly to be longer than anyones lifetime. It has been broken by addition of technical means to further restrict the content. It has been broken by content not even entering the commons by the time the copyright expires because it has been lost or depends on onliine components which no longer exist.
Some kids are well behaved and take care of their stuff.

Especially when you grow up poor.
This immediately stuck out to me as a flaw. I don't have a problem with, e.g. small content creators selling hats with their logo on, but that site wouldn't be condoned by IFZ.

But a site showing adverts for those hats would be okay? It seems backwards.
It should be used as authentication-of-personhood, but not exactly as a username or password.
Can you name one farmed species, that is getting treated in ethical ways?
It looks way different if you include data of the last 14 years though (even inflation adjusted)

https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/
I've used the same codebase for a PWA, iOS and Android app, but using Capacitor instead of Expo. Here is a blog post about the architecture: https://khromov.se/how-i-published-a-gratitude-journaling-ap...
> But the price they tried to extract back then was completely unreasonable and I think those excesses contributed heavily to the current situation.

Yes that left incurable trauma. During late 90s to early 00s CD costed the same in Germany and in any post-communist country whose economies were in shambles. Something around 12 EUR which would be 18 EUR inflation adjusted now. I was wandering between shelves like a pariah and asking shop assistant like a beggar to insert the CD into the player so I could listen it in shop for few minutes. Music industry worked hard to make enemies for life.
Thankyou electroagenda. I'll give it a go :)
Is Alcohol banned in the french equivalent of a high school?

It certainly is not here in Austria. 17 year olds drinking beer between their late afternoon classes is not unheard of and often tolerated.
You should put it in roads.
People in general just want shortcuts instead of doing the long and hard process that is most likely to succeed.
> the elimination of “sacred Monday” as a day in which time is taken off work

According to the table 3.10 [0], leisure time was greater on Monday than on Sunday.

Do I understand it correctly? Monday was the previous Sunday in Christian societies?

[0] https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9...
Evaluating AMD GPU by their specs is not going to paint the full picture. Their drivers are a serious problem. I've managed to get ROCm mostly working on my system (ignoring all the notifications of what is officially supported, the jammy debs from the official repo seem to work on Debian testing). The range of supported setups is limited so it is quite easy to end up in a similar situation.

I expect system lockups when doing any sort of model inference. From the experiences of the last few years I assume it is driver bugs. Based on their rate of improvement they probably will get there in around 2025, but their past performance has been so bad I wouldn't recommend buying a card for machine learning until they've proven that they're taking the situation seriously.

Although in my opinion buy AMD anyway if you need a GPU on linux. Their open source drivers are a lot less hassle as long as you don't need BLAS.
See the loss aversion literature in economics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
Corporate profits soared, but not the profits that get paid to artists.

Wholehearted support for the efforts by the WGA, SAG, and the related unions, to stop “big corporate media” fucking over everyone in the arts even if it won’t help the average Spotify streamer today or tomorrow, but perhaps eventually it will further into the future…
> Where do you get …

There are a few providers offering cheap dedicated servers at that range, OVH's budget lines are popular (though often sold out for that reason): $11/mo for a machine with 2T storage, $17 for 2x2T so you can RAID them for safety, and a bit over your budget one with 3x2T or a pair of 480G SSDs.

But you generally get an ancient CPU, limited bandwidth, and old drives (so I do recommend RAID if you get a machine with more than one drive), with that sort of offer, so if very much depends on what you want to use the resource far. The cheapest machines I mentioned above are Atom N8200s, the next few up old Xeon E3 models, all their budget line are limited to 100mbit, and so on. Depending on your use case this may be a great compromise for guaranteed performance (unlike with a VPS where you may have very noisy neighbours) or if storage is far more important to your application than processing umpf. Of course for other cases it might be a terrible compromise: for many applications the potential to burst CPU use to much more than those Atoms can give you, and/or burst network throughput significantly over 100mbit, will make a VPS with less storage and less performance stability far more attractive. Also a good VPS provider will have good storage redundancy so you don't have to worry about RAID & related (though still, do keep off-provider backups in case of provider failure).

[only picking OVH because I have experience using a couple of their machines, there are other companies with not dissimilar offers]

Another factor is that with there being far fewer budget server providers compared to VPS providers, you might not get a cheap machine in your preferred location. If most of your customer base is in Asia then a server in France or Canada might not be suitable, or if your use case involves holding PII you might need something in your home country to simplify legal matters in that area.

> > Bare metal is cheaper to run

Though that isn't true for all use cases. Maybe not most. For very small workloads, for instance, cloud often wins on both cost and convenience. For larger or less predictable ones though, VPSs and dedicated servers can be better value and more predictable performance and cost (at the expense of some of that convenience). Different jobs, different tools.
You are trying to collerate loss of revenue with the loss caused by piracy, without any data of loss caused by piracy.

Also, showing a graph without the last 10 years is making the data lying: https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database

The music industry earnings has never been that high than today.

Also, actual studies shows piracy helped sales, not hindered earnings:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/eu-study-finds-piracy...
Creating more useless content I have to filter through on the internet. Thumbs up
It will probably still run with the same Windows driver written in late 90's in Win16 then patched and glued and slightly tilted to kinda work even today, kinda. Because here's where the real adventure happens, between buggy drivers and prehistoric spoolers.
Since someone named Github Pages, i feel obligated to name Codeberg Pages, owned by a non-profit association. Or Sourcehut Pages, not sure about the legal entity but the business model is very clear and sound.

Otherwise, there's the usual bunch of non-profit hosts: the tilde servers (sdf & friends), the hosting coops from libreho.st or chatons.org federations, as well as the radical hosts for more political content (blackblogs, noblogs, etc).

Shoutout to neocities.org if user-friendly, retro-style websites are your thing.
Multiple colleagues here in the UK have told me stories about spending time working with Americans and realising their drinking habits around work made them look like alcoholics to the Americans. It's going away with younger generations.
To be clear, this wasn't just suddenly frowned upon. "Drunks" have been looked down on and/or overindulgence considered bad or sinful since -- I don't know -- the Greeks and Romans, certainly Christianity.
I doubt that even a C-only programmer at a Rust conference would be in such danger that it would require firearms to mitigate. But that is my European perspective anyway, perhaps Rust programmers in the USA are significantly more vicious.
That's all well and good... when the teams aren't all beholden to the velocity of the linux kernel.
Maybe industrialization reduced wages for some craftsmen who were forced to become factory workers. But for almost all new factory workers their wealth, working conditions and working hours were a huge step up from their previous occupations as sheep herders, unskilled agri-labourers and subsistence farmers (with side hustles in proto-industrial home work).

Pretty soon the demand (and pay) for skilled craftsmen rocketed back up because the newly affluent workers could now afford to buy more items and some of those were not yet mass-producable.
I, personally, enjoy both.

I like having new music when walking, or as a background when working. For this, the Spotify playlists are great. I wouldn't want to have to sift through hundreds of records, through multiple stores, multiple times a year, then rip those, all to set up a playlist with tracks that I'll listen to maybe a few times. This is music I do enjoy listening, don't get me wrong, but it doesn't have any "deep value" or whatever to me. If it disappeared tomorrow, I really wouldn't care. The "issue for later me" would be to find an equivalent service of "disposable / background music", not to get my hands on the exact same tracks again.

But then, there are many albums, or even standalone tracks or custom playlists, which I would absolutely hate to lose. For those, I'm fine with going through the trouble of buying them and figuring long-term storage.
>Do you already own all of the music you are going to listen to for your life?

Statistically, yes!

This was covered on a recent episode of 'Search Engine' (rising from the ashes of 'Reply All'): https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-am-i-supposed-to-find-new-...
Gcov is great until higher-ups start demanding 100% line coverage, and you end up with hundreds of thousands of lines of unit tests. Then you gotta hire someone to check why the Jenkins builds are failing because some of your code isn't thread safe, and running the unit tests takes longer than compiling and taking a smoke break...
What is not on streaming services? From my experience - if it's not on spotify then it's on youtube.
Sort of related, it always surprises me how little we teach our children about the importance of exercise (why we need muscles, how we move them to protect the joints) and nutrition (why we eat macronutrients, what vitamins and proteins do in our body).
do you think the same for fish tanks? that when kids see fish tanks they think its OK to capture animals for their own amusement? What an insanely biased POV. zoos are fantastic for conservation and giving kids a view into a world beyond the one in which they live day-to-day.