skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN stats a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9219581

> Roughly 2.6M views a day, 300K daily uniques, 3 to 3.5M monthly uniques. It depends on how you count, of course.

It would be curious to see how this compares to 2023... but I doubt you'd see an order of magnitude change in either direction.

Some 2021 stats (not from dang though) https://whaly.io/posts/hacker-news-2021-retrospective
Society, culture, ways we’ve changed the physical world are themselves mirror to merely a part of ourselves. But a very compelling mirror.
One of the predictions related to global warming that seems to surprise people is that most of the predicted sea level rise is attributed to the thermal expansion of warmer sea water.

So when we think about major changes in how the ocean absorbs and distributes heat, we’re also thinking about how sea level will change in certain areas vs others. If the ocean starts storing a lot more heat around Cuba than Great Britain, Cuba will experience more sea level rise than Great Britain does.
"nervousness; insomnia; dehydration; stomach irritation; fatigue." It's not just headaches. Fatigue in particular can be severe. If I don't drink coffee, I can barely stay awake at all.
No, actually the truth.

The climate change "hype" comes from journalists and editors. The actual research papers are generally very conservative in their estimations, and we've been exceeding the predicted outcomes for decades without making any real changes to improve our situation.
just pause on the ingredients, its not that hard
If you can imagine the difference between hiring one single developer to work on your application vs. hiring dozens of different developers each to handle some small part of it...and it's still worse than that.

Typically the person "hired" is the senior and the person doing the work is _extremely_ green.
Makes fake image, hold it in front of camera, click, verified image...
That already exists in some form today, but you’d regardless have to use an attested device to be able to partake in basic societal functions such as filing taxes, logging into your bank account, and so on.
Resident conservative here - we need to nationalize the rails. Not the railroads, but the rails themselves.

The freight companies take federal money to expand the network, and the second they don't meet profit projections they tear the tracks up. They treat Amtrak like shit despite taking their money hand over fist, they have been terrible stewards of the system, and they would rather engage in the fuckery from this article than think holistically. It's a misalignment of incentives, and it's really starting to fuck us.

Nationalize the rails. It's what other sane Western countries do. The Erie and Lackawanna sold off the rails in the Lackawanna cutoff - considered at the time an engineering marvel, and capable of HSR - for scrap. That's insane, and should never have happened.
I know the parent said zero salt but ... that's hard to believe. In the modern world if you just breath you get salt in your diet. I bet if you try with all your might to get zero you probably up at the RDA.
audiopen.ai for when I find it hard to write a first draft. I can just speak my thoughts and it will create a pretty good draft of my thoughts.
really? i heard it was to protect from invaders from outer space.
When we typically speak of "drug (ab)use", we have in mind drug use that frustrates the exercise of reason or some other faculties and their use in accordance with reason in one way or another. Alcohol, for instance, taken in small amounts is fine because in small amounts, it have a relaxing effect that causes no harm and does not frustrate the exercise of reason. Indeed, if you're experiencing distress and anxiety, a small amount of alcohol can help restore the use of reason by calming the anxiety that may be in fact impeding the exercise of reason. But in large amounts, our use of reason, among other faculties, is very much frustrated, putting to one side the other harms this causes. And because reason is that by which we know the truth and discern good from evil and reason morally and make decisions, it is evil to frustrate that faculty. And in doing so, open yourself up to evil and making bad decisions. So taking such a drug, and in immoderate amounts, is itself an immoral decision. We have a moral obligation to be rational, and intentionally harming or acting against our own rationality is evil.

The same can be said of any drug. The small amounts of cocaine in Vin Mariani were not the amounts taken by drug fiends snorting it into their noses and rubbing it on their gums. I'm sure Leo XIII and Pius X were experiencing a bit more energy in a manner analogous to what coffee drinkers experience.

Some drugs, however, may simply be bad in any effective dose. Some speak of microdosing psychedelics. I have no knowledge of the effects of doing so, but it sounds a bit SV gimmicky and some studies seem to suggest that is the case. In any event, the doses typically taken, those that cause hallucinations and a warped sense of reality, do frustrate the exercise and use of reason, with the added risk of traumatic experiences that can cause lifelong problems. This is gravely immoral for just the reasons I've given, so the intuition that psychedelics are something to be avoided is correct. Intentionally causing delusional thinking is gravely immoral.

That people are feeding a morbid curiosity in psychedelics seems to track closely the spiritually barren and nihilistic age we live in. New Age and drug culture is a piss-poor substitute for the splendor of truth. They're not rooted in reason, but cheap emotion, and what we call the "spiritual" is ultimately a rational matter (though, of course, you may experience emotional states as a consequence). It is better to address the actual problem instead of escaping into a degrading, mediocre ersatz.
I've got a background in this field and I am very surprised to see this published in Nature. The model presented is purely statistical with no representation of the underlying physics. When we are dealing with a phenomenon that is driven by well-understood physical laws (e.g. geophysical fluid dynamics, radiation physics etc) then these physical models are the most reliable basis for prediction.

When I say physical models here by the way I'm referring to physically-based mathematical models as well as numerical models.

It seems that the authors have done a good job in developing their model. My issue is with Nature deciding to publish it. If this paper was not published in Nature it would receive little attention within or without climate science - in fact many such statistical models are published each year without much comment. However, Nature have published a paper that I think many ocean scientists would feel draws dramatic conclusions from a weak basis but will now inevitably draw much more attention than more insightful papers.

MIT professor Carl Wunsch accused Nature in 2010 of near-tabloid science with a tendency towards sensational papers built on weak foundations. However, I've felt that Nature's choice of publications on climate in recent years has been high quality. This paper feels like a big step-down from that standard.
What websites need that much RAM? Even reddit's redesign is only using up 200mb in firefox for me at the moment. Spotify's desktop app is using 500mb - which I'll grant is pretty wasteful given its not even playing music. Honestly, 8gb of ram is fine for an awful lot of people. Why should regular users need more ram?

Even assuming software (like Teams) does chew up users' RAM, the idea that we should push that problem onto the consumer is backwards. Instead of asking consumers to pay more for their devices, developers should just stop being so lazy with our software.

My mum shouldn't need to buy a new laptop every few years if her computing needs don't change. Its sloppy and wasteful.
After skimming the paper, it reads like a legitimate paper even though I have zero expertise in the area. That it is in Word instead of LaTeX makes it feel a bit less legitimate to me and they could of course always have some error in there setup.

The most notable thing to me was that this was done in a thin film where structural defects are supposedly responsible for strain in the material which in turn enables the superconductivity. Probably because it is only a thin film, the material could only support about 250 mA at 25°C before losing superconductivity. So even if the paper is correct, it might turn out to be challenging to get to higher currents. Or maybe not and one could just roll up a wide thin film and have as much amps as one likes.

EDIT: I misread the thin film thing, they also produced a thin film but primarily they describe the material testes as follows without any dimensions I could immediatly spot.

After the reaction, a dark gray ingot was obtained reproducibly and then made into the shape of
thin cuboids for electrical measurements [...]
Cars are heavily regulated.
If the annoying crossfitter ignored that about a tenth of his gym mates attacked people on the street, yes, I would hate crossfit.
Run when you see companies call employees "family". That's how exploitation works.
r/cscareerquestions is pretty good even if most people there are the leetcode griding new college grads.
Had to jump on to my desktop and log in to hn to say thanks for this comment! Its (very subjectively) one of the coolest comments I've ever read on this site. I've often fantasized about doing something very similar. Spending tons of time in DiRT or Assetto Corsa and trying to use that in the real world. I've never actually succeeded but I feel like you've saved me from wondering "what if" too much. I'm still deeply jealous and seriously impressed by what you've done. Congrats!
> By each individual site expending a great deal of effort to identify their users.

Very few sites are putting in any significant effort to identify their users. Those largely predatory sites shouldn't be setting policy for the entire web.
Oh I think I found the answer.

> Nodebox is a runtime for executing Node.js modules in the browser.

https://github.com/codesandbox/nodebox-runtime

https://sandpack.codesandbox.io/docs/advanced-usage/nodebox
The current wouldn't reverse, it would stop or become a lot slower. So cold water would stay in the artic regions and warm water closer to the equator.

I suppose you could compare this to one giant heat pump, circulating a heat source to Europe and North America that makes life livable.
I managed to bike a year earlier up to 40 miles at a time, but the effect was not lasting, i.e. I had a massive debilitating regression regardless of my will and pain bearing abilities. Only this time as I added so many supplements covering many bases I started experiencing lasting improvement with no major regressions. I also do much less cardio than a 40 mile bike ride, just 30 minutes a day on a rowing machine.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
Can I get a source on that last claim?

The only real long term dangers of psychedelics would be impaired driving while under the influence (obviously) and increased likelyhood of psychosis if you were already predisposed to schizophrenia or bipolar. "Dangerous to a stable mindset" what does that even mean? Is that supposed to sound scientific?
There is a good way to see the problem in a second

Think about New York, is at 40 degrees N latitude.
This means that if NY would be in the Atlantic coast of Europe would fall in Portugal! a little North to Lisbon! (38ºN). Sometimes Is easy to forget that NY is "Southern Europe" league. Southern than the North Coast of Spain.

Now lets see Quebec (53ºN). Well, London is 51ºN. Without the sea current bringing hot tropical water, London should have practically the same climate than Quebec, and 90% of UK is higher than London, so would enjoy the full whole Canadian winter experience.
Wasmer 4.1
It's such an interesting benefit of VSCode being an Electron app. It runs as a true PWA on vscode.dev/github.dev.

Other fun tips:

- The '.' shortcut to github.dev works from Pull Requests too and puts you straight into a PR review mode.

- For those stuck in Azure Repos, GitHub's increasingly zombie cousin, the '.' shortcut also works from any Files view. (Though not PRs.) It uses vscode.dev directly rather than github.dev.
The utterly bizarre things is how so many (I would say, the VAST majority) smart people are unable to overcome it when discussing certain subjects.

Like sure, I can certainly understand the initial incident, heuristics are a bitch...but what is so bizarre is that when people are in this state, there seems to be literally nothing that can draw them out of it. I have done many, many thousands of experiments in this area, it is uncanny.
All server farms are now in Death Valley.
Threads is rolling out its Following feed
Organizations restrict new Slack Connect feature fearing security threat (2021)
It’s a letter to the editor. Let’s not spread misinformation by calling it a paper.
By this argument we should defund the police because they could be used for oppression. Forgetting the reality that they are also stopping thousands of crimes every single day.

Privacy absolution is never what most people signed up for.
None of this is divine mandate. What is “freedom” is not immutable but a contemporary observation.

Is the future better of setting themselves aside to clean up after us? Are they not allowed to be free from our mess? One unique in the history of the species.

Why is today free from the consequences they put upon tomorrow?

The long term investment in us is actually selfish. It’s akin to expecting our religion to be the next generations
Or maybe he enjoys when people tell him "no" and he does it anyway, because he wants.
Then you fire those people. You don't punish everyone else for a few people who are dead weight
I mean, there are a lot less far-fetched examples. I mean, I left home at 17 for economic reasons. And if you think of all of the people who have disowned or been disowned by their own family it's pretty common.
Nothing more like a family than the conditional love of a company.
Changing every 10th word defeats that strategy but doesn't defeat a cryptographic bias.

Also the cost of storing every paragraph hash might eventually add up even if at the moment it would be negligable compared to the generation cost.
Reddit, twitter, facebook, instagram.

You should actually try tiktok instead of regurgitating the opinions of sinophobic nationalists. The algorithm reflects yourself better than any other app, so whether you get junk is entirely up to what you choose to watch.
The crux of it is "viable" though. It's viable in the same way taking a cruise ship from LA to Miami is a viable form of transportation. You can do it, it does work, but it's more something you take because of the journey than as an effective way to travel itself. I'd also be shocked if it wasn't running at a pretty substantial subsidy.
The only thing missing is a stupid name, like "as a Smithee" or "as a Smithonaut" or something.
I don't think it's psychosomatic because it mirrors other physical injuries in weight training.

There is a threshold beyond which an injury becomes too severe and requires proper rest, an immobilizer, and physical therapy. It requires a little bit of experience to identify those injuries but below that threshold it's better to soldier through the pain with lighter intensity exercise that works the injured muscles.

A safe example is working through delayed onset muscle soreness.
The car market appears to be as close to perfect competition as we can muster. Theres an enormous amount of big players that all compete and try to outdo one another
If that reasoning would hold true then there would never be a new best/most popular language for a specific domain, but there are many counter examples.

And just as Elixir is (in my opinion) preferable to Python for web development, it's possible that the same may happen with AI.
Don't go into business with family!
I guess the question is should there be any overhead to typing into a text box? Even if that text box isn't sharing any state with the server? I understand you're solving a complicated issue, I'm just wondering what the design trade-offs were that led to that.
First of all, we will probably never know how life originally started, because it was a process at the molecular level that happened billions of years ago. Even if we found a chemical chain that leads to life, we would have no way to know if that particular one is the one that led to current life.

Second, anyone can ask any questions they like and anyone can answer or not any questions they like. No one is obligated to engage with you just because you asked a question. Actually, if someone tells you that they think you're asking your question in bad faith that's a courtesy they're having towards you, because they're giving you the chance to convince them that you're actually being sincere. They could have simply ignored you and gone on with their day.
I believe we can solve both problems if we would focus more on the scientific method and rational thinking.

Improving the educational system is the only way we get there.
> Possibly. They might try a "little green men" scenario where these aren't Russian or Belorussian forces, but "Wagner" forces.

NATO would not assume those are "separatists" -- which is the excuse they used in Ukraine c. 2014.

> Maybe they're going to be ordered into Poland to get rid of them (killed or captured), making them NATO's problem.

Wagner is an organ of the Russian military and always has been; there is no "maybe they'll go into Poland to get rid of them" because that would trigger NATO article 5 and basically WW3.

> (What was the old Mission Impossible line about "if you are caught, we will deny any knowledge of you and your actions"?)

Plausible deniability does not work this way. No one will pretend that "maybe they're someone else, cuz, like, they denied it" -- if anything happens in Poland it will be 100% because Moscow ok'd it happening.
> let Apple, Google and Microsoft spread their propaganda instead.

Who said you had to choose between these two scenarios again? It's so bizarre that people see government as an oppositional force to government contractors operating under government charters.
Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv
When someone says “far right” they usually mean roughly what the Wikipedia article describes. I don’t see any reason to suppose that the phrase is being used in a novel or unusual sense in the article, so I wonder if the question is being asked rhetorically. But if the poster really just wants to know what “far right” means, then the Wikipedia article explains it.
Ask HN: Did DNSimple silently update their pricing from $30/month to $199/month?
Current pricing page: https://dnsimple.com/pricing

Solo [Free] - Teams [$199/month] - Enterprise [Custom]

Their pricing page at 2023-06-21 (month ago): https://web.archive.org/web/20230621174007/https://dnsimple.com/pricing

Personal [$7/month] - Professional [$30/month] - Enterprise [Custom]

Yet no word in the changelog (https://changelog.dnsimple.com), at the blog (https://blog.dnsimple.com) or via email as far as I can tell.

It would have been nice with a small heads-up considering the step between "Personal" and "Enterprise" just went from $30/month to $199/month

Edit: Came across this: https://twitter.com/aeden/status/1679942406970408961

> Comte Anthony Eden (founder DNSimple) - We are not touching existing subscriptions at this time. If and when we make any changes we will explain what they are and give everyone plenty of time to decide what they would like to do with their subscription.

As a reply to:

> @dnsimple have your plans changed? I've been on the personal plan for years and now see no mention of it on your site. Is my bill for 5 domains about to double when renewal comes up?

I used the personal plan before but can no longer chose it when selecting plan, then something clearly has changed. Archive pages also show that it recently changed, without any communication.

One account I manage has the "free" plan now instead of the personal one, and costs went from $7/month to $20/month (per zone pricing).
First, there's nothing to patch as it would probably need a cryptographic challenge response flow and not a simple yes or no.

Even if there's a patch, it would be difficult because there are other pieces of attestation that are already in place all the way upto the browser.

You cannot patch executables because os can verify executables via code signing signatures.

You cannot "patch" important parts of your OS (outside any zero days) with secure boot enabled(they can reject user keys for attestation).
> Doomsaying and fearmongering is about power.

Because every warning is about power dynamics, and obviously not about things being dangerous. We should get rid of that "can cause death if ingested" cartel that's putting all of those warnings on household products while at it.
Would lead-apatite be amenable to creating wires out of it?
I get your point, but I don’t believe it’s gonna make cars cheaper for me. All the software and connectivity tends to be misused for extracting more money via subscriptions, controlling me and in extreme cases even holding me hostage by updating the software, and making repairs uneconomical by locking me in to one vendor or pairing parts.

Not to mention the various privacy and security risks involved with permanent connectivity, escalating software complexity and questionable ownership of the devices built into the car.
If only we could make the car and most of its parts from a material which doesn’t rust, we could use it forever and just keep replacing parts as they break. I would be happy with such a vehicle without any extras except AC.
> Very few people would find their way out of the corporate walled gardens and into the free information superhighway.

As opposed to the masses of people exploring sites other than Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and Reddit? We're already there.
> One could easily argue the side that is saying we should stick to the working conditions we had all this while under which most people were hired,

This is an appeal to tradition. It can be the right choice, but you need to be to justify it rather than say "That's how we've always done it".
what if I scan eye picture, or CGI eye animation, or high quality photo of someone else's eye?
Yeah, it seems like (to me, a naive layperson) to be similar to how a prince rupert's drop exerts strong forces thanks to the mechanism of its cooling/shape. The copper somehow forcing other structures to form in an atypical way which enables the superconductivity.

And even at 250mA, there'd be tons of different usecases for a superconductor.
I believe you’re exactly right. It would be similar to detecting that math homework used wolfram alpha or even a calculator.
As the "kind of get both sides" person I come to defend my honour. Honestly I see both (the apple implementation and the google about-to-be as pretty much the same thing just going about it in Apple- and Google- style.

It's not a fan boy thing (and I would hate to be the guy whose github was filled with anger yesterday - it's not his problem, and he should be left alone).

It's just a marker on the journey - we know the rough destination.

(Also Insuspect the second time you hear bad news the community has had time to adjust - FU is usually a first time emotional reaction. Wow I really am into "see the good in both sides". )
Now reverse your plan to kill CarPlay or I won't touch any of your vehicles.
This is such a great resource, thank you for sharing! I'm going to bookmark it.