skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be identifying with #2 while defending how you’re not #2?
Charles Stross' Accelerando, which is also available for free:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
Just contact the developers, and tell them to add attribution.
While upbringing ("nurture") is clearly a critical component to success in any specialized field, there is undeniably a "nature" component as well, and I doubt that the best nurture could overcome lack of natural talent anymore than natural talent could overcome lack of nurture. To be the best you need a lot of both.

It's more obvious in athletics, where there is clearly natural talent, but the equalizer is the support network of parents funding practice, driving to games, getting into competitive leagues, etc. I don't see why the same wouldn't apply to intellectual talents as well, even if the differences in natural talent are less obvious than in athletics.
That is an intriguing stat.
> > Fossil is a recent git alternative

> It’s almost as old as git. Fossil has been around since 2006, while git was born in 2005.

I'm assuming the author recently discovered fossil, but it is an absurd statement regardless :)

I've sort of wanted to use fossil for a real project of my own, but its own idea of workflows just... puts me off completely. I stick to Git. Git won the minds of developers not because it was first (by far, it wasn't), but because it's better than the rest.
> Are there a lot of people who learn only web frameworks?

Yes, because many people learn web development through bootcamps or other such courses (modern web dev is not usually taught in college, in my experience) which rush you to "job readiness" thus incentivizing using React over vanilla JS since most web dev jobs use React nowadays.
ELI5: why do they go to the trouble of constructing a dome when a simple cone would have the same properties? It seems to me that the motion of the object is not infinitely differentiable in either case, and the dome shape only serves to obscure this fact.
> the most rapid rate of economic growth in human history, amidst mass-extinction, huge reductions of natural habitats and the collapse of numerous ecosystems

And that's supposed to be a good thing?

> We can continue to expand even as the natural ecosystem is destroyed

No, without the ecosystem we're done. Not much of it remains.

> is to provide an alternative path for development that protects the environment while allowing even more economic growth

Not enough time before last pieces are gone.

What's about the economic growth that you find so valuable? Don't you see that money are just stupid tokens in a very stupid game? That the economy is rigged? That healthy environment is much more valuable than ... what? Tons of plastic everywhere and elevator music in a supermarket? Do you have children? How do you explain to them that we don't have forests and wild animals anymore because you've loved burgers and big cars too much? But honey look how rich I got. You'd really rather have blade runner than star trek future?

You win. This I cannot comprehend. Over and out.
Remember how that went for net neutrality? It’s apparently very easy to get many members of the public to argue against their own interests these days.
Consumers can only make a choice if there is a choice.

If nobody sells a TV that doesn't spy on you and play ads because of collusion, or simply because it's the single best profit optimizer, how do consumers regulate the market? The only option is for nobody to buy a TV ever again, which clearly won't happen.

Capitalism requires external regulation, otherwise we get monopolies and collusion that remove choice so that consumers have no option other than to pay too much for something that doesn't work well enough.

"The market" isn't a fairy godmother with your best interests in mind. It's a senseless machine that can only optimize for more paperclips forever. It's fundamentally incapable of doing anything else without external input.
This guys story is amazing in so many ways. Imagine being 19 years old in the cold, outnumbered facing German troops trying to kill you. Having the presence of mind to fill your helmet with beer to cheer the wounded.

Then going back home, getting a college degree and becoming a teacher. For over sixty years you are completely unaware your gesture birthed a beer that is served in tiny helmets. You return with your daughter to find out that you're a legend in Bastogne. Then continuing to skydive and making your last jump at ge 98 five months before your death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD2STGM7TxU
It used to be that in missing out of this content you were also missing out on a shared language to talk to your contemporaries. A cultural lingua franca. But now with so much fragmentation there that shared language is being lost anyway. I’ve not kept up with modern content and don’t feel like I have missed out because of it. The more difficult the content is to consume the fewer will consume it, the less network effect there is.
Hey thanks for the thoughts, you're pretty great you know?

In good news, my new glasses got delivered today so I'm able to eliminate that literal and figurative headache :)
Poured concrete almost always needs reinforcement, which is typically done with steel bars (rebar), which would presumably mess with the capacitance. Maybe making cinder blocks (breezeblocks) out of this would be more interesting
You need more practice :)

Simple trick: divide by 100, 10000 or 1000000 use Newtons method on the integers, then multiply by 10,100 or 1000 and add a 'fudge factor' based on how large the fraction was...

It's cheating but it can get you pretty close, I'd peg it at 15240 using that trick. If you just want to do the closest squares you can average between 15 (225, too low) and 16 (256, too high) so you'd guess 15500, which is much too high, but one more iteration of Newtons method gets you closer than what chat gpt gives. You can already see that because 225 is much closer than 256 and that puts you closer to 15250 than 15500. And 15250 is actually not a bad guess at all.
It increased in 2022 in the US

https://rhg.com/research/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2022/
Roy Singham was the founder of Thoughtworks. It was sold to a private equity firm in 2017 for $785 million as reported in the article. That sale was discussed on hn (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15082116).
Secret Chinese-run lab in CA illegally stored vials of Covid-19 and other
Fake?
> We need to move back to SSR and sprinkles of JS on websites.

Fortunately with stuff like React Server Components, looks like we are moving back to sprinkling JS for websites, which I'm a big fan of.
The original URLs can go away just as easily as the archive.today mirrors of them, which is why Wikipedia (or any website of record) should contain links to both, IMHO.
Sure, we can make this a public API. We were already thinking about this but other things got in the way.

Would you mind posting this as a feature suggestion on kagifeedback.org ? (this is how most ideas for Kagi come to life)
404

Working link:

https://www.armytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2023/08/...
There's nothing wrong with that. A game UI is where you should block text selection. Web-based games that let you accidentally select UI text look unprofessional. I think the author is talking about informational or business apps.
I'd hardly call one or two virtue signalers a "train wreck" or "so bad"

I didnt find much supporting what you claim. It's possible whatever your referring to was cleaned up. I only saw one apparently negative post, which was deleted or hidden.

I have been saddened more and more by platform after platform devolving into nonsensical bickering. I'm almost entirely off social media at this point for that reason.

Having said that, I feel it only makes it worse when people division out of proportion making hyperbolic and sweeping generalizations. I feel like being unrealistic about signal to noise ratio only empowers the trolls.
Violence isn't a market, and continuing to parrot that nonsense gives a false credibility to forces which amount to efficient bullies that entrenched themselves by enslaving or genociding native populations. None of us signed actual social contracts, none of us signed forms agreeing to be governed.

Violence is a choice that no government can take away. They can only threaten violence of their own. What validity does a government have when it claims it has the sole right to hurt others, including you? That is a fiction that led to the current state of things.

What right does sovereignty give a state to oppress its people?
Agreed, this was a dumb comment, I think what I was ultimately trying to say is there are also people who like working and want to enjoy the thing most of us spend most of our waking time doing, everyone’s situation is different and there’s no one size fits all anything
Yeah, I also remember hyperloop.
I'd guess it'd be to limit your custom behaviour to the element it applies to, rather than potentially the whole doc, or multiple pages etc.
Speculating, what if what we're seeing is a sort of A/B test in a much smaller market where cutting a revenue stream with relatively high opex is an attempt to steer those high-retention consumers towards Direct-to-Consumer?

Given Disney’s recent actions, there are likely Australian tax code reasons as well.
No offense, but I have no idea what this comment is supposed to mean. Is this an example of random nonsense, or is it me?
This is the key and overlooked part of it all. Plus they can move upstream or downstream as situations dictate.
> For instance, carbon black was used to pen the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 3rd century BCE. History aside, carbon black is also a highly conductive material.

Sounds like the perfect ink to write down circuit schematics.
The voltage seems key here. From the article:

> they fabricated button-size capacitors capable of holding 1 volt ... As the next step, Ulm says the team is now focused on developing a 12-V supercapacitor using these materials.

If I remember my physics correctly, charge is proportional to voltage, so if they can achieve 12 volts max voltage, shouldn't it result in 12X energy density?

If so, that would reduce the required volume (for 10 kilowatt-hours of storage) from 45 to 3.75 cubic meters.

Apparently concrete slab foundations are typically 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) thick[1], so in a single-story 1000 square foot (92 m^2) house, the volume of the foundation would be 9.4 to 14.1 cubic meters.

Which means you could store around 25 to 35 kilowatt-hours in that foundation.

So it seems like it's in the right ballpark for what they're aiming for.

EDIT: Another article[2] says this:

> Having proved the principle, they now plan to build a series of larger versions, starting with ones about the size of a typical 12-volt car battery, then working up to a 45-cubic-meter version to demonstrate its ability to store a house-worth of power.

Given the main article is not very technical, and both articles mention 12 volts but in different ways, I'm now less sure what the researchers are aiming to do. Maybe they are trying to improve the max voltage of this type of capacitor or maybe not.

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[1] https://wilsonexteriors.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-concret...

[2] https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-engineers-create-supercapacito...
I took all my notes in VIM for several years in college. To this day, I use Evil mode, Tridactyl, and various other tools inspired by the modal editing that VIM so advanced, and VIM itself remains a part of my toolkit on every system I use. I expect it will always be with me in some form.

RIP, Bram.^[:x
Because they think their line of work shouldn't involve any risk.. They don't want to risk filling a unit at a lower price and only being able to raise rate 1-2% per year when if they held off for a year they can charge 15 - 20% more..

If you want to play that game you have to live with the consequences...
Vim improved and changed my life for the better more than any software except Linux itself.
I'll probably use vim (or an editor inspired by it) for the rest of my life; it's Way of editing text changes everything.

Rest in peace, Bram.
https://archive.is/u28JP
By the way, authenticating porn site visitors through government sites will be done through something extremely similar to Apple's Private Access Tokens (Privacy Pass) and Google's recent Web Environment Integrity (WEI) proposal.[0]

[0]: https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/proto-authz-porn/
Slight nitpick: if we're talking about kg then it's specific energy.

"Energy density" = energy per volume

"Specific energy" = energy per weight

They're usually quite correlated though, although confusing them makes hydrogen fuel a pain to talk about.
For example, you found it necessary to personally attack me in another thread, so I think we found where some of the mental health issues actually come from
The key difference to me in science fantasy vs pure fantasy is generally around whether mass production can be applied to its distinguishing superpowers.

The force in star wars can't be manufactured or welded in a manufactured manner.

Magic in dungeons and dragons must be wielded by wizard specialists because it's application can't be industrialized for (insert setting reason).

Because industry is about taking novel techniques and bringing them to the masses. The force and magic is about exclusivity in wielding the power, not being generally available to the public.
Quantity*
But it is seriously i/o deficient!
> Earth can’t undergo terraforming or antiterraforming. It will always be fully earth-like

Terraforming tends a world towards Earth’s “pristine” state. We wouldn’t start dumping PFAS on Venus solely because they’re on Earth.
Microsoft tay has entered the chat
They mark which frames they're referring to, so you at most just get a little stutter to decode those other frames if you're optimizing for the scrubber use case.
> Would probably catch the mistake when being asked to type the encryption key, but anyway

Can confirm. I have accidentally typed :X many times, but have never accidentally encrypted a file
Fact recollection is not most people’s definition of intelligence. In fact, it’s something that the only known intelligent systems are infamously bad at.
This is the way. From the start it was about making money.
CSS lets you set that behaviour per element
It's also been marred somewhat by the politics of StackExchange management vis-a-vis the community on their network in recent years.
That would just be a webcam, and there are tons of them out there that don't (to my knowledge) get any blowback.

Example I saw in person a couple years ago (Estes Park, CO): https://originaltaffyshop.com/taffy-cam.php

They had a sign out front saying something like "tell your mom to visit this website so you can wave to her". Nobody seemed to mind. Maybe the difference here is that it is clearly marked?
This is on them for not having a scannable code to take you to a sign in to authorize the device. It’s been solved for a while but some devs hate their users.
Dart is...popular?
Anyone have a favorite video/presentation of Bram’s?
You misinterpret, what I was referring to those who are steadfast deniers, not that anyone who want WFH are “deniers”
> Dozens of machines are submitted for testing every year, but only those that bear the SCA Certified Espresso Machine mark have met our rigorous testing standards:

* https://sca.coffee/sca-certified/espresso-machines

Maybe there is no list of "consumer-level espresso machines" because no machines have met the certification criteria?
Anomalous Cyclic in the Neutrino Oscillations
My house is 80x32 with a six inch poured floor and 9’ poured walls 8” thick. If i punched in my numbers correctly that’s a little over 70 cubic meters.
Replacing the bad flyback transformer in Apple's Studio Display 17"
> That's a pretty bold claim...

I didn't think we could make bold claims on HN. italic claims, tops :-(
My favorite quote from the first book:

“You want to work spells,” Ogion said presently, striding along. “You’ve drawn too much water from that well. Wait. Manhood is patience. Mastery is nine times patience. What is that herb by the path?”

“Strawflower.”

“And that?”

“I don’t know.”

“Fourfoil, they call it.” Ogion had halted, the coppershod foot of his staff near the little weed, so Ged looked closely at the plant, and plucked a dry seedpod from it, and finally asked, since Ogion said nothing more, “What is its use, Master?”

“None I know of.”

Ged kept the seedpod a while as they went on, then tossed it away.

“When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?” Ogion went on a half mile or so, and said at last, “To hear, one must be silent.”
No, those would simply be the most statistically likely words given it's training set and input. It has no idea what 5'4" is to do abstract reasoning. It's a statisitic word probability model not an abstract thought model.

They are stochastic parrots with a large complex training set, not reasoning.
Finish the story. Did you die on this hill?

Whenever I push for things that are technically correct I'm ignored and/or not treated well it seems.
This is precisely why I turn a skeptical eye to any standards efforts. Just like with law, if you control the spec, you control the ecosystem.
> what do you think are the most important things to learn first to make web stuff? The "right" way? Just raw HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript (Typescript?)?

Yes. I think all web programmers need to know HTML and CSS. CSS is still just as relevant no matter how you build websites. People should also spend time learning HTML. Like, learn how to make content using raw HTML. Read the HTML of some of your favorite sites. This will improve everything you do with react and friends.

> Are there a lot of people who learn only web frameworks?

Yes.

Web programming probably has more programming beginners than any other area of software development. Its easy to learn - there are no C pointers in sight and no manual memory management. Websites work everywhere. And everyone needs a website - so there's lots of demand for web programmers. The debugging tools are also great (and you already have them if you have chrome installed). And frontend engineering is visual and obvious - so when you mess it up, you can usually tell.

So, yes. There's lots of people who learn just enough to scrape by and start making websites. Its great and terrible. I'm glad web programming is such an on-ramp for beginners. But npm is a disaster, and lots of websites are insecure, slow, amateurish messes.
More pins means more soldering when planting the chip on a mainboard (even if sockets are used, they need to be soldered, too) which increases time, cost and chances that something goes wrong and the entire mainboard must be discarded.
Imagine that you have a dumb phone that just makes calls and you have the unfortunate luck to be forced into using id.me while paying your taxes. Guess what your options are:

1) using the id.me app that doesn't work on your phone

2) doing a video call after waiting in line for several hours, which your phone may not have the selfie camera to do

3) going to a physical kiosk that may be hours away

Having a smartphone is practically required in modern life. Commercial services assume them. Government services assume them. Social interactions assume them.
Because if reality works in a way that lets little green men fly ships across galaxies and secretly hang out with world leaders, then we’re incredibly wrong about how the universe works.

And the problem with just being okay with our wrongness is that it doesn’t match up with our ability to predict and rely on the science to complete complex engineering projects.

Here’s a math example: it’s like saying 1+1 is sometimes actually fleeb. Easy to imagine, but wholly destructive to the entire concept of math.
Which excuses the white man doing it?
My bad, I mixed that up with Radar for fraud teams.
I'm not a defender of piracy. I buy stuff when a DRM-free version is available. But I've been thinking of piracy lately as a form of civil disobedience and actually a net benefit for mankind (sci-hub being a clear example)
From my personal experience with advanced melanoma under a trial at NIH almost 12 years ago, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and his research team:

1. Surgically resected a tumor and removed the tumor attacking T cells in a lab,

2. expanded them in a lab to 130 billion,

3. returned them to me after making me immunosuppressed, and

4. kick started my new immune system with high-dose IL-2.

Within three months, my tumors were essentially gone.

I’ve been cancer-free since.

It seems to me that the body doesn’t have enough of the right T cells to fight the mutated, cancerous cells.
The link you posted only show how to pick the second camera, not how to force them to a lower resolution though
Well, FWIW, I didn't click on the other link because I didn't recognize the name. I clicked on this one because it mentioned vim.

I'm not saying the two shouldn't be merged, and agree a page of essentially the same news duplicated serves little purpose, just that the two titles and the things which they're linking to were functionally different.
There is a saying, "its not what you know, but who you know that matters".

That is still very true today, despite what university's might have you believe.

When looking at where innovation has come from, chemicals have always played a part beit the body's own dreamy hallucinogens which accounts for the saying "sleep on it", increasing/decreasing chemicals normally found in our diet and sometimes man made chemicals when looking at Francis Crick.

"Soon after Crick's death, there have been allegations about him having used LSD when he came to the idea of the helix structure of the DNA. While he almost certainly did use LSD, it is unlikely that he did so as early as 1953." [1]

One thing is also certain, the victor (or first to market) writes the history books, and history is always being rewritten.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick#1951%E2%80%93195...
Not who you replied to, but I was wondering if I could get your take on my use case.

I work on the systems test automation side of things. I use TF to deploy EC2 clusters, including the creation of VPC, subnet, SG, LBs, etc. Once done, I tear down the whole thing.

But from what I'm hearing from yourself and others in this thread, it sounds like I could (/should) be breaking those out separately, even though my use case isn't dev/test/prod(/prod2,/prod3) or even multi-regional.

To rephrase, it sounds like it might be useful for me to be able to create some separation, eg, tear down the EC2 instances in a given VPC/subnet while I ponder what to do next and still leaving the other AWS resources intact, for example. Maybe even deploy another subnet to the same VPC, but a different test intention. I know I can simply specify a different AMI and run tf apply and get one kind of desired deployment change.

Bigger picture: when I need to run one test, I'll copy a dir from our GH repo, edit the tfvars, and kick things off. Another test (in parallel, even), I'll do the same but to a fresh dir. (Wash, rinse, repeat.) And I suspect you're already cringing :) but I get why. It makes me cringe. Ideally I'd be working with a single source of truth (local GH fork).

There's also the consideration of possibly making edits to the stack while I deploy/destroy, while at the same time wanting stability with another deployment for a day or two. I suppose that would require having 2 copies of the remote GH repo. Which is several copies fewer than I'm working with these days.

Fwiw, I've already got "rewrite the stack" on my todo list, but can't get to it for probably another 2 months. So I'm eagerly collecting any "strive to do X, avoid Y like the plague" tips and recommendations prior to diving into that effort.