skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't just in Germany, its getting warmer around Alps and the conditions for pines are deteriorating... our whole forest of pines was destroyed by bark beetles a few years ago, now it is regrowing as a mixed forrest because pines just aren't viable anymore.
Reminds me of when I blew up on my partner when I told her I'm not going to tell her how to switch from Playstation to Roku on the TV for the 1000th time. She spent 2 minutes trying to figure out and actually now understands how it works.
I disagree, it is not trivial to delineate the difference between direct death and related death. It's an important distinction. For example, the deaths in World War 2 jumps from ~53 million, up to ~80 million if we include "related" deaths (famine, etc). So, it is definitively not quibbling.

Also, I'm not sure why a million deaths makes this "some of the most important events in recent history".

If we're going by this mindset, then we have to agree that Roe v Wade is perhaps the one of the worst events in all of American history—contributing to more than 64 million American deaths (and still rising). I might highlight that's more than all of the deaths in World War 1 (~40 million), and more than all of the directly-related causes of death in World War 2 (~53 million).

IMO, COVID was _a deal_, but we've much bigger deals afoot and COVID is basically gone now.
> My gas car (Prius) uses the EPA fuel economy rating to estimate range at full, and is progressively pessimistic as I use up gas in the tank

Do you have more convincing evidence of this because I have used many Toyota vehicles and they do not use EPA figures to do their range estimation, and can be conclusively shown to be using their internally measured "average mpg" figures to estimate range.
The trick is to get good at identifying the people that are correct and ignoring the people that don't know what they are saying.

It is hard, but once you can do that it is superior to listening to the experts only. The problem with people who are recognized as experts is that they have a high likelihood of wanting status and power. So while they may be experienced and smart their intentions may not be pure.
I rented a Hyundai Ioniq5 and them a Model X while visiting family on two separate visits, two weeks apart.

The Model X was a 2017 model, but I cannot believe the level of deterioration on the battery. I was barely able to do 200 km on a 90% charge (I didn't do a full charge to
avoid damaging the battery)

It was awful; Montreal to Ottawa doesn't require a stop in a similar sized gas car, but I had to stop twice to keep the car charged (after leaving with a 90% charge, in the chill accel mode).

Going to Mt. Tremblant from Montreal was a similar experience; charged it from 60 to 90%ish at St. Jerome and seeing the battery dip to the 50s by the time I arrived.

The Ioniq, by contrast, was great (albeit new). I hesitate to directly compare as the Ioniq was used for city driving, but the range was always clear and in the 400-500km range.

My assumption is that the Model X had its battery abused, but the rental agency's rep told me that all Teslas vastly over exaggerate their range; apparently they only get 150km in winter.

I can see the value of a 150km electric car, but not for more than $100k.
A lot of people have mentioned Rich's inspiring talks over the years. Any particular videos folks would like to share?
"Putting a price on IP address usage again is a mechanism to prevent squatting/hoarding a scarce resource."

That isn't one company's call, it's past time for the DOJ to step in.
> What you're saying just flat out does not matter. What consciousness is does not matter. If you destroy someone's brain you can be assured that consciousness ends.

To be consistent with your first statement, the person making the claims should provide the proof. Do you have proof of this statement?

The fact of the matter is that we don't know one way or the other, so anyone making claims about this will be doing so entirely on belief.
I was particular with my words. Vague abuse stories are a red flag. Vagaries have no place in a prospective long-term relationship.
August 2023
There is a lot of debate about the capabilities and limitations of large language models like GPT-3, GPT-4, Claude, and Llama. Do they display emergent capabilities ? Do they merely display memorization but not generalization powers ? Is it correct to imply that they have reasoning abilities ? Do they display human-level natural language understanding ? How do we even define human-level natural language understanding ? Will it be ever possible to get rid of the hallucination problem ? Is the Natural Language Processing field obsolete (in a Fukuyama End of History style) ?
> Instead of relying on constant, synchronous, and often interrupt-driven interactions, remote workers embrace asynchronous, and often higher-fidelity, forms of communication, such as long-form writing or thoughtful videos.

This has actually been difficult for some people to get used to, since they much preferred synchronous communication (calls) or drip feeding information (what they need, spread over multiple messages, starting out with a simple "hey").

I actually made a site a while back to elaborate on how to make others do context switching a bit less often, maybe it's helpful to some here: https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/

(the other guides that I found online about this had a bit of a mocking tone)

Of course, there are also times when you do need a bit of synchronous communication too, which is also fine.
I think politics would be a lot better if people treated it less as a source of emotional engagement or as a spectator sport.

Don't get me wrong, I'm for fun, excitement, and curiosity.

What turns me off is that once the shallow well of real information depleted, how quickly people switch to speculation, Hype, and attention seeking
I see no contradiction here. A hipster place certainly would not want to let the homeless in to ruin the vibe.
classic neckbeard take
How close is "effectively"?
Truthfully, this is one of those things you just need to not disclose/evade/lie about. You might be 100% better, but there are plenty of people who just get good at putting up a façade, but who revert to old behavior under stress. With a deep dating pool people won't risk it unless they're desperate, you are a huge winner in other ways, or they've gotten to know you pretty well already.
I have several personas that have made the rounds in the underground somewhere. It’s actually kind of interesting - I made up a persona back in 2016 or so and even six years later I’ll get calls for that “person”.

So while sometimes the information is legitimate - especially if you’re not opted out of the major internet people search engines (ref optery which is a yc graduate company) - but you can also “poison the well” enough to get your fake persona disseminated.
You need to build rituals to recapture that cohesion; do things online or offline that are not just about work. It is a good idea even if your company is not remote.
Excess fines pierce the corporate veil starting with the CEO, board of directors, and the rest of the C-suite until satisfied.
> What if we demote the sun?

You mean, make it a “dwarf star”?

It... already is.
Fewer restarts and faster networking for all
This is a good problem.

Better to see LK-99 hype in TikTok/YouTube feeds than celebrity gossip or Musk's impulse tweets or whatever. The more science goes around, the better.
Sure, just depends on your definition of "effectively" if that's a pea or a moon?
I hold an electricians license in Texas and get an absolute truckload of spam texts and calls with regard to my license renewals. What's a good way for me to get started with doing research on how to start filing litigation?
> The conventional wisdom was that if academia didn't work out it would be easy to jump into industry.

Thanks for your comment, this is definitely a widespread opinion in my department as well, but I've heard from many people who went into industry that it wasn't quite that easy. This is part of why I'm asking now that I have a long time to prepare
Perhaps a charitable interpretation of that statement is "there are years of work to go from a proof of concept to a usable product". Even if LK-99 is some kind of a superconductor, there are a whole host of daunting technical issues that will need to be solved. For example: how do we get the yield up? How to turn it into a wire? If the material is not ductile, how to form the wire into a useful shape? How to reliably couple to the wire? How does the material age over time and and humidity? How to deposit and pattern it as a thin film?

We have a lot of arrows in our quiver to shoot at these problems -- I would be optimistic that the promising applications of a room temperature superconductor would attract plenty of investment and talent. On the other hand, I imagine it may take years or even decades before we have answers to these hard questions. As the quote says, "there's no guarantee" that we can solve them, because right now we know so little about the properties of the material at this time. Of course, that is no reason to throw in the towel right now!
> 25gbit synchronous for under 70 USD per month

Wow. And I thought my 10GbE home network was fast...

TIL there are 25GbE Thunderbolt 3 adapters.
Mostly momentum for me.

I have a checking account with them that's been active since the early 90's. Lots of bill pay stuff, and automated transfers and such that I really don't feel like mucking with getting transferred somewhere else.

Also, I know this hasn't been other's experience, but they've been pretty excellent for me to deal with over the years. Their online banking works well, and customer support has been great.

I'm not thrilled with some of the nonsense fees I've seen crop up, but a phone call has gotten them reversed.

Based on their public earnings statement [1] they're financially strong, with almost 5 billion in net income in q2, with a 4B stock buyback. This is another thing I like about them, they are very fiscally conservative - they were one of the few banks that didn't take bailout money in '08.

I see the news articles and stuff, but I tend to ignore those things. I've seen so many coordinated media attack campaigns, that I just don't trust it anymore. I'll never forget the fiasco of the coordinated attack campaign against Tesla that turned out to be backed by billionaires that took a short position against Tesla stock.

Especially with financial sector stuff, I don't understand what sorts of powerful hidden forces are set out to influence my perception. So I have to base my decisions on my personal experience, which over the past 30 years has been generally pretty good, at least as good as what I've experienced at other banks.

[1] https://www08.wellsfargomedia.com/assets/pdf/about/investor-...
Sir Arthur Harris, the British head of Bomber Command which was responsible for the bombing campaign against Germany, has some choice words on how the bombing was a response to Germany's own campaigns earlier in the war: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujzVqwJnB0
I think I'd consider sending my data packets via smoke signal before ever handing comcast another dime. I have actually planned my geographical location (i.e. buying a house) around whether or not I had alternatives to Comcast.

Seriously, fuck that company.
Some I use and recommend:

ReviewMeta (Amazon review analyzer)

Linkclump (Open lots of links at once by drawing a selection box)

Privacy Badger (The EFF's tracker blocker)

Google Docs In Dark (Night mode for Docs)

Hacker News Enhancement Suite (A couple of quality of life tweaks)
"The classical liberals seem much like the old Tsarists, happy to wax poetic about a regime they were incapable of defending or restoring."
"You dont test orm logic" this explains a lot of your confusion
I hear you in the general case. The specific situation here is the startup will be much more fundable once the piece the consultant can build is done, but the consultant would rather be paid in e.g. a year than hold on to equity. So, it's more of a 'I'll get you over the hump, then pay me, and I'll go away' situation. Is that unreasonable?
Rich has to be my favorite thinker in this space, absolutely love his talks and the way he articulates things, and I often draw from his philosophies in my work

But, I've always been turned off to Clojure by the lack of static typing (I know spec exists, but it's not really the same thing). I did a little project once to try it out, and even there I found myself spending time debugging basic issues like passing the wrong number or wrong kinds of arguments to functions

Can somebody sell me on it? I feel like I'm the target audience
As is food.
The issue is that there's a difference between coordinating and coercing. If you want to have a body that studies the best way to stymie a pandemic and make recommendations, and one of those recommendations is to wear a mask in certain circumstances, that's great. If that body has a reputation for being competent and reasonable then most people will follow their recommendations.

The problem comes when those recommendations become regulations which get enforced without context or nuance, because then people chafe, and it becomes a political issue, and then people resist for the sake of resisting. Which makes everything worse, and that doesn't work.

The thing that works is for people to actually believe in the rules and follow them out of solidarity and self-interest. But then you don't need to point a gun at anybody. And by the time you've sullied your own reputation to the point that you do have to, you've already lost.
Your carrier can trace it back. They have more information than just the spoofed CID.

They almost certainly don't have ALL the information, but they'll know which carrier sent them the call, who can then look into it... and on back to the source carrier.
I'd love to hear what the mainstream right-wing plan for addressing climate change is then.

Because right now it appears to be "deny it's happening, let's continue enriching fossil fuel shareholders" [0]. And there is increasingly large human cost to doing that too.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-clima...
I agree. Instead of just making v4 addresses bigger (and related services around the protocol as well - ICMP, DNS, ...) a committee spawned jack of all trades, master of none IPv6 incompatible with current IPv4 stack.
Survival at what price? Even if it is possible to become revived, I doubt that it would be with full health.
I prefer the looks of Gnome over MacOS, particularly the text.
Exactly. We got GNU/Linux, we got GNU/kWindows, we got DalvikJavaWhatever/Linux etc etc
The original team has been working on it for 24 years (that’s what the 99 in the name refers to). Everyone who expected a clean replication in a week was deluding themselves.
I get something to the order of 60-100 spam calls a day regarding medicare benefits (my number has somehow been associated with a retiree who shares my name). I fully support drone strikes on overseas call centers.
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Likely no, but let's discuss

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, Python, Golang, Solidity, AWS (many services), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Shell, Docker, Swift

Résumé: https://po.studio/s/paul_osetinsky_resume_2023.pdf

CV: https://po.studio/s/paul_osetinsky_cv_2023.pdf

Email: p.osetinsky@gmail.com

Website: https://po.studio

I'm looking for part-time opportunities in NYC or remote. Ideally related to fintech, crypto, or AI/ML, but I also have experience in video games, online video, and music/audio. Although I'm working on a fintech startup, I'm seeking ~20-30 hrs/week to help bootstrap it and treat any project I take on seriously.

* In 2021, Launched an NFT collection that has seen $3.4m in total sales (sole engineer). Worked closely with my partner in the project (the artist), handling all engineering for generative art and bespoke smart contracts. Paris Hilton, Reese Witherspoon, and Post Malone bought some.

* Currently CTO at Upward (https://upwardearner.com/), a mobile tax app targeting self-employed individuals. Deep integrations with Plaid and soon April for on-phone filing: https://www.getapril.com/

Would love to hear from you!
If someone is not paying, they are not a customer.

Having lots of non-paying users is a viable approach if your customers will pay for their data, e.g. Google, Facebook, Goodreads, etc.

If nobody is willing to pay, there’s no business value being created.
Probing the limits of nuclear existence (2022)
Your comment seems to imply the German forces on the Eastern front weren't reliant on the German industrial capacity targeted by the Allied bombings.

Had the Germany retained said industrial capacity, wouldn't the USSR have to fight even bloodier fighting for longer? How do we know whether they would prevail or loose eventually in this alternative history scenario?

Could you elaborate on how you logically arrive at such a conclusion?
Hey Bombcar - just noticed it's you :)

Yes, technically correct, though the harder / more annoying part tends to be sifting through Algolia, HN itself, or Google for the relevant gems.

I'm also usually on my phone these days, haven't logged into HN from a desktop in ages.
From what I can tell, devenv [1] and devbox [2] (both built on Nix) can also deploy to remote servers.

[1] https://devenv.sh

[2] https://www.jetpack.io/devbox
Yes, and for short haul that works fine. But for really long haul it doesn't, hence HVDC so that's what you compare with: the situation where it makes a difference such that extra cost incurred doesn't immediately invalidate your option. HVDC is much better comparison material than your average overhead powerline. For the same reason we don't compare bicycles with trucks for long haul cargo but we do compare bicycles with cars for shorter distances and personal travel.
The recipe IS easy... Relatively, it's just not reliable/high yield
Why use active splitters when it's much cheaper to install passive ones?
Ha. Reddit lost a lot of people with awareness, decency, and self respect.

Lemmy, Mastodon, BlueSky and Tildes won.

edit: happytiger said it better. But yeah.
> As such, I'm skeptical of this 'Think of the Juniors' concern. It's manageable.

The top comment is saying how to manage it. TFA isn’t saying no remote work, it’s saying less frequent communication. That doesn’t work in all cases. Struggling for hours without getting much done or understanding more isn’t effective for productivity or learning by definition. These cases can often be prevented with quick questions. “Send me an email, I check it every Monday and Thursday” doesn’t support that.
Unless Valve starts extending the Windows API, after having embraced it...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37003241
RedHat found a way to get around the GPLv2 license intention with contract law
Oh yes, in this post I was not trying to. Hocus gives you a web interface that lets you spin up a dev env with a single click of a button. We also implemented a git-integrated CI system that prebuilds your dev env on new commits. It’s basically a self-hosted Gitpod or GitHub Codespaces.
It doesn't roll continuously, but I can press a button and it starts recording. Something I would have missed, especially with little kids, I can now capture.
Forgive me if I don't exactly take "I can't commit crime as easily" as a good justification for anything.

If you don't like the tax law, work on getting it changed or move your business somewhere where the taxes are more to your liking. Oh, being in NYC gives you access to a massive market you wouldn't have if you were in a lower tax environment? A market that continues to exist thanks to infrastructure funded via tax revenue? Funny how that works...
Do you answer those calls? Caller ID is default on. You have to do work to turn it off. If they did that work, I don't answer.
I'm waiting for the day when setuptools and pip are a thing of the past.
> Hopefully you updated the docs as you encountered them and figured out the most up to date context.

I've been in an environment like this, and it really burned me out.

People broke docs faster than I could fix them, and it was an accepted part of the development process.

My conclusion was that fixing the docs was simply a waste of time. My resulting despair for the software and the company surely destroyed my productivity. (I'm not saying this is a valid excuse; just an explanation.)
> I’ve never had an instance where my local credit union isn’t a better option.

In general, absolutely.

I did have to open an account with a big bank a number of years ago in order to handle frequent international money transfers. I'm no longer in that situation, though.
Maybe there is some major strategic investment deal being negotiated to develop advanced chip fab and it's in someone's interest to confuse the strategy with a potential paradigm shift on the horizon.
"rent seeking behavior" isn't as fun to say, and people get confused by the term "rent" and think it has to do with their landlord (though it certainly can)
Fact is, statistically speaking throughout history, distrusting government mandates is almost always a safe bet.

Of course, it's not true 100% of the time, but even if it's only 70% (and I'm pretty sure it's higher than that) it's a good default personal policy.
If my experience is anything to go on, you will never see any money.
> In the period from August 2009 until April 2010 we received more than 57,000 written complaints about unsolicited sales calls alone...

That's just reported complaints. Ya... this law is practically un-enforceable. A couple example cases doesn't mean Germany banned cold calling when apparently thousands and thousands and thousands go un-prosecuted.
I do not think that the argument is that the material is -uninteresting-, there's just plenty of reasons to believe it might not be a superconductor
AIUI, things that float in a magnetic field at ~room temperature are moderately common claims, and this is really the only evidence that LK-99 might be a room-temperature superconductor. The published ancillary evidence in the original paper actually raises red flags that isn't a superconductor--the "0 resistivity" domain in their temperature-dependent resistivity plot is (when you realize the units they're using) actually slightly less resistive than regular copper wire, which suggests that the sharp drop in resistivity may be nothing more than a pedestrian phase change in the material.
8teAPi admitted they were essentially writing fiction generated from some of the known facts
> it’s ugly. sigh.¶ Why is it that

Because you haven't sent the patches that would make it prettier (e.g. ones that would make it as pretty as, say, Mac OS).
If you are representative of CS grads, well, all hope truely is lost for that particular demographic already.
From the context later in the post, this is for "business broadband".
The really smart people so far aren't barely saying anything about it.

The people who have spent all their lives researching superconductors have yet to weigh in on this at all.
That's called a double axe.
Definitely not fast for me, actually it lags a lot and I have to press keys well in advance to steer the snake into the food. Or is it so fast that I'm seeing only one frame every few hundreds and it moves almost one full screen between each position I can see?