skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different people react differently. Just like any other virus (see: smallpox and polio).

We saw bad-ass MMA fighters absolutely pounded by Covid. We saw pasty, wimpy Hollywood actors get through Covid with barely a sniffle.

The problem is that you don't know which Covid group you are in until after you get infected with it.

This is why we vaccinate.
Before consumer LAN parties were a thing, there was xpilot on the university HP 9000 workstations. We’d play from 7pm until 6am. By then, our hands were completely cramped from pressing a million different buttons to navigate the space cave, shoot bullets and activate the ECM system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot
3 mana vanilla 2/2. Yeah, this is definitely some vintage magic.
No, because capturing the CO2 from the atmosphere at 0.04% concentration takes much more energy.
Show HN: Monthly budgeting spreadsheet and ML expense categorisation
Hello,

I'd like to share the first version of an app I've built for myself to categorise my expenses.

Key features:

- *Google Sheets Integration:* The tool is based on the spreadsheet I've been using to track my expenses over the years. I've turned it into a template that is available on the website.

- *Automated Expense Categorization:* Tired of manually categorising and annoyed by the limits of rules, I've hooked the sheet up with an ML model that works based on past categorisations of your expenses. I've had great results with it.

The tool is simple and basic and lets you keep using your spreadsheet instead of moving stuff into proprietary apps.

It's a first version, but it's working for me so I thought I'd share it to see if anyone else might find it useful.

You can start by exploring the [demo](https://www.expensesorted.com/demo) and get the Google Sheet Template to dive right in.

https://www.expensesorted.com/

Looking forward to your feedback!
A chokehold on new mining of a crucial ore for renewables sounds like a terrible overall idea.

The lifecycle of the lithium that will come from this hypothetical mine is probably 20 years from now until the first time the material will be recycled.

The highly profitable recycling logistics will have been fully worked out a decade before it’s needed for a new mine’s output.
As an opinion, suggesting that Chinese immigrants could be a solution to the feral cat problem in Australia is ignorant, racist, and worthless.
Fake components went into 68 jet engines, including Boeing 737, Airbus A320
I generally agree, but specific to your point about arcs/mutexes - what would be the alternative for shared mutable data? Or do you mean people use it for stuff that isn't shared too?
The Introduction says:

> In a nutshell, what you are reading is intended to be a shop class for computer science. Young computer science students are taught to "drive" the computer; but where do you go to learn what is under the hood?

I take that to mean this guide is a supplement. A student would already know what a bit is.
Warren Buffet still lives in the same smallish house he bought in the 60s.

The CEO of Ikea famously uses both sides of each sheet of paper on his desk.
The optimal is for everyone not to do the reading, there’s time for it in the meeting. And in terms of time management, managers can be in back to back meetings for a large portion of the day and this provides focus time to not just wing it.
> instituting a more intensive licensing regime (where people have to demonstrate not just driving ability but proficiency in safe driving) can change the cultural baseline around how drivers behave on our streets, our highways, etc.

As I mentioned in my original post, the evidence that implementing stricter licensing requirements improves driver accident rates is mixed (really, mostly negative but not exclusively.) Personally, it seems much harder to impact broad cultural norms compared to a specific driver’s behavior, so I consider that to be pretty strong evidence against things working as stated. The parallel to seatbelt laws also seems dubious because a) it’s not really clear to me that seatbelt laws are the specific reason for the cultural shift and b) they were accompanied by enforcement, which tends to be a much stronger way to change behavior. A more analogues policy in my mind would be one that punishes drivers for a specific, dangerous, behavior - e.g. DUI laws, which have a lot of evidence of working. But that’s a completely different type of policy from what you’re suggesting.

That said, it’s not totally implausible that stricter licensing could improve things - part of the reason it gets brought up a lot is that people find it very intuitive. But in practice it doesn’t actually seem to work that way.
“Hi, I'm a Nigerian Prince, and my Dad, the King, was brutally assassinated by the opposition a number of years ago and this was his old number. I’m trying to reactivate one of his old accounts as there are a lot of evidence that mean a lot to me in there. Any chance you could forward the signin texts you get so I can do that? I’d greatly appreciate it, and I’ll change the info as soon as I can so you stop getting spammed. Thank you for any help you can offer!”

"Oh and I have $500 to sweeten the deal, just send me your bank deets."

In seriousness, it is not impossible to envision a near future when it would be illegal to share TOTP codes or other secrets related to security/authentication. If someone is the target of your scam and shares these things, perhaps he can just be sued into the Stone Age by the allegedly dead grandfather with all the nice photos.

I don't care how you sugar-coat your cutesy text messages, this sort of scheme sets off every social-engineering red flag possible. How rude, to ask a total stranger to share secrets. Many of these texts are explicit: "don't share this with anyone!"
Because it's smaller and more concentrated. With fewer cities containing a larger portion of Canada's population, the demand is focused more intensely.
> Nobody thinks direct air capture is a scam

I do
Hopefully illegal nowadays.
> but isn't there a surprising correlation between the availability of the upcoming booster shot and the "uptick" in covid cases?

No conspiracy required: everybody going back to school was going to cause an uptick irrespective of booster.

However, things are exacerbated by the booster being late. The booster was supposed to be out in August before everybody went back to school.
Time to buy real estate in McDermitt Nevada I guess.
The political and logistical problems are a far bigger challenge than energy production. Just think of all the concrete that China and India will need to pour in the coming decades and the CO2 emissions of that.
It’s not just Toronto, housing prices and overall CoL are soaring all over Canada, and wages are stagnant.

The major issue isn’t that the absolute cost of living is high, it’s that the difference between cost of living and wages is increasing too fast. A median wage earner literally can’t save a down payment for a house because the amount they need is too growing too fast.

But you’re right that other major world cities even worse... in Taipei where I’m living now, home ownership is simply out of the question for most people unless they have family support to get a mortgage.

It’s a global problem.
My parents bought their house for $150k in Miami in the 90's. They sold it last year for 800k. Then moved to a cheaper town in central Florida where they got a place for 200k.
What you’re describing is the reason combustion is exothermic, but doesn’t really have much bearing on the efficiency of carbon capture as a process.
> What should one do with the charcoal?

Well charcoal is THE "captured carbon" which you wanted to get.
Prerequisites for Large Anonymous Folios
Sometimes I tell myself I may as well change some bad memories to be better. If I manage to accomplish that, I can change the past. Because the only record of some of these events is in my own brain. I am the arbiter.
Yeah, it's really disappointing how it has all played out. It's disappointing to encounter the persistent denial that COVID is a thing, or matters, day after day after day, for months and now years. If you're immune-compromised or just otherwise don't feel like rolling the dice with potentially being permanently crippled because of a ""cold"", you're just a total outcast from modern society and your sense of self-preservation is invalidated constantly.
Hint: Use abuse@ emails and they will stop doing this on their own :)
Softwares may have a lot of undiscovered bugs, but it's still way more dependable than humans.
And, bugs in softwares are also written by humans. So, imo, we just transform the risk of human driver to human programmers while transforming to autonomous vehicles.
SRE has all these grand ideas like you need to know syscalls, debugging with strace, linux internals, designing major systems. Then you get on the job and find that your writing yaml and json all day and the interesting and impactful problems all get passed off to swe. Then you just get a check list because SWES making a quarter of a million dollars don't know how to log, add in metrics or use a DB apparently.

How to actually be an SRE, bullshit at a high level, work on a redhat cert, don't implement anything of value, bikeshed about issues with the people actually getting work done and pretend that writing yaml in git is "coding". What a demoralizing career.
Love the story. Would also love the story of how normally non-druggie nerds get amphetamnines in the pre-adderal era.
How does the long lifecycle of large lithium batteries affect the lithium recycling industry?

I would guess that large-scale recycling is only just coming online in the next few years.

Of course there is initial supply now, but battery production is growing exponentially (for EV and Grid) those battery lifespans are 5-10 years or longer.
What about \n, which decodes to 0x0ah - two bytes to one byte?

I can't think of any others like that, but newline in different OS's get represented in various different ways (like DOS's famous CRLF, which adds an 0x0dh to the recipe). Operating systems that use 0x0ah alone could very well be the only example.
I have fond memories of lugging our desktop machines and CRT monitors to someone’s college apartment to play Age of Empires all afternoon in the mid 90s. Good times.
Iirc you can't chain .into() because the compiler can't be sure whether the first is meant to do the whole conversion and the second is the identity (impl From<T> for T), or if the first does one step and the second the next or if the first is the identity and the second does the whole conversion. (In fact I think the existence of the first and third options alone is enough to preclude chained .into() from working due to the ambiguity.)
And in the US in 2023, we're still busy whittling down what little regulatory protections our wetlands still have (Sackett v. EPA)
I was wondering the same thing, you can probably mess a bit with the input if you can deal with the drawbacks (which seem mild, pre-processed input might be shorter and column numbers might be off).
Java has billions spent on marketing and lobbying.

Marketing is not a silver bullet for success and the tech industry is full of examples of exactly that. The truth is that Sun was able to promote Java so heavily because it was found to be useful.

Since the advent of Java in mid-90s I hear about superiority of its VM, yet my observations from the ops PoV claim otherwise.

The landscape of the 90s certainly made a VM language appealing. And compared to the options of that day it's hardly any wonder.

So I suspect a huge hoax...

It's you verses a plurality, if not majority, of the entire enterprise software market. Of course that's not to say that Java doesn't have problems or that the JVM is perfect, but is it so hard to believe that Java got something right? Is it honestly more believable that everyone else is caught up in a collective delusion?

Hey btw, you're saying "Java is _memory intensive_", like it would magically explain everything.

It's not that Java is necessarily memory intensive, but that a lot of Java performance tuning is focused towards optimizing throughput performance, not memory utilization. Cleaning out a large heap occasionally is in general better than cleaning out a smaller one more frequently.

By the way, if the code implementing functionality X needs N times more memory than the other language with gc, then however advanced that gc would be (need to find a proof for that btw), it wouldn't catch up speedwise, because it simply needs to move around more. So simple

It's not so simple. First of all, the choice of a large heap is not mandated by Java, it's a trade off that developers are making. Second of all, GC performance issues only manifest when code is generating a lot of garbage, and believe it or not, Java can be written to vastly minimize the garbage produced. And last of all, Java GCs like Shenandoah have a max GC pause time of less than 1ms for heaps up to 16TiB.

Anyway, at the end of the day no one is going to take Go away from you. Personally I don't have a horse in this race. That said, the fact is that Java GCs are far more configurable, sophisticated, and advanced than anything Go has (and likely ever will). IMO, Go came at a point in time where there was a niche to exploit, but that niche is shrinking.
Yeah you can last weeks without food

You can't last hours without pissing
I know someone going through late-stage cancer treatment who, at a recent appointment with their oncologist (doctor specializing in cancer treatment), was asked to remove their mask so their temperature could be taken -- however the doctor themselves wasn't wearing a mask! An oncologist should know full well the weakened immune system their patients are dealing with! Like... seriously?!
They just announced this, but it runs python in an azure container - not sure how it hooks into excel unless excel is also running in the cloud, but a lot of people would want to run it locally instead.

See https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/in...
Note that while in your compiler you don't really care about the representation that the OS expect in real files. It's ok for your intermediate, in-memory representation to be meaningless to the OS.

Also, maybe it's not a literal character for character replacement. Since lengths are probably changing, your pre-processed input might be shorter (or longer if you truly need to expand some escaped chars (and you have a program that just wants to break your compiler by abusing that escape sequence :P))
No Maryland pizza. No, it's not covered in old bay. Square pizza! Thin-ish doughy dough. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/01/maryland-...

I'm not surprised but I want to mention it.
Okay it'll cost a lot more if someone pisses on your floor or the outside wall which will happen after a certain amount of severe poverty strikes. Just look at India where people shit in the street.
Indeed, aluminum refining is a relatively large industry in Iceland for this very reason. Geothermal energy production in excess of what people need means you can devote a bunch to industry cheaply. If Nordural’s website is to be believed, they use 25% of all electricity generated in Iceland: https://nordural.is/en/
There's definitely ways you could do it well that don't make a mess - telling your coworkers ahead, or at least the ones who would have to take your workload. Or subtly making sure to knowledge-share before you leave.

I'm saying this from experience of people doing things as mundane as just moving to another team within the company with little to no notice. Yea, it "fucked management", but I also had to spend 3 months dealing with the mess they left behind, and inherited half-working code that they clearly had neglected because they knew they were about to leave.

Labor solidarity isn't just "I screwed capital so it's all a positive". You have to... I dunno, support your fellow laborers. I certainly don't think it's some moral failing to have abandoned a job with no notice, but implying that this is just "fucking management" is missing how much it can really pile stress and bad conditions onto the fellow employees you leave behind.

Maybe it's never bitten you, but I know if any of the folks I've worked with who have disappeared with no notice from my team asked me to work with them, I'd be having a hard time trusting them. Maybe they don't care, and they think I'm some corporate stooge or whatever, but when you're totally fine throwing me into the machinery of capitalism to advantage yourself, what would stop you from doing that again?
Yes, but some OS's use 0x0ah alone, which is half the bytes of \n representation. People from the 90's will easily remember navigating the ^M (which is the 0x0dh showing up) showing up at the end of every line in a DOS text file when viewing them under a Linux text editor.
Yep, people I’ve known my whole life, used to order Hawaiian pizza with them years ago, now they make gagging noises when someone else orders it.
Basic stuff:
We have gotten used to treating Google Search as a one big reference search engine. We don't bookmark stuff anymore, cause you can get it in a few seconds of search. We don't remember much stuff anymore, cause you can get it in a few seconds of search.

Except, it is not `a few seconds` anymore. When I search for basic technical reference, google gives me 5-10 spam blogs before the actual documentation site.
Some of them are absolutely useless (GeeksforGeeks). You need to spend precious minutes parsing the results to find the one you need.

One would think, considering Google is built by developers, the results for developer-related queries would be good. If this is so bad, what about the result for searches for people in other unrelated streams?
This reminds me of hotshot coffee from sharktank.

I remember trying that coffee at NYU hackathon and actually meeting the guy who pitched that idea at sharktank
The relatively poor man's version: the indestructable yellow or blue IKEA bag

I forget if they actually sold the blue ones back then. I remember taking a few yellow ones (that weren't supposed to leave the store)
Trees are good. Everything I have read suggests soil (hummus) is better. Requires change to farming practices though which is traditionally difficult to do and has rich lobby groups arrayed against it.
There's demonstrably intelligent and then there's obsession about "proving" measurements of it (MENSA etc). There is some overlap, but the latter seems to originate from insecurities.

Interestingly, wealth potential is positively correlated with self-control, which, in turn, is correlated to large degree with intelligence, and then again correlated with more mental health concerns.
I love PGP for many things it was not intended for. I don't use it for email but for for encryption and password managers. The Swiss Army knife nature of it allows me to use my Yubikeys for hardware backing in all those usecases. I think it's pretty great.

If other people think it should go away, well just stop using it, don't bother me.
That's not a coincidence. Mafias subsist on corrupting industries and extracting illicit revenue from them. To do this, they need to have a degree of understanding of the industry in question. It is far harder to corrupt manufacturing industries that compete in the global market (northern Italy) than agrarian/food service/tourism industries (southern Italy).
At least on 68k, the behavior is defined.

http://www.tigernt.com/onlineDoc/68000.pdf

I suppose the point is the behavior undefined in C/C++, so you have to look at the chip level doc to see...or test it yourself.
When Bally’s imploded the Padres touted how going with mlb.tv expanded their reach from cable subscribers to the whole regional fan base

Of course those fans have to sign up for yet another service vs cable tv that would just pay a fraction per subscriber
I have some bad news about how future normal people are going to be hurt by drought, rising sea levels, and all the other effects of climate change.
In reseource development flow Jindalee's project is currently midway beteen Final Technical Report (where mining engineers produce a resource estimate of shapes, volumes, and densities) and Economic Feasibility Report (where production engineers sketch out one or several methods to get material out cheaper than the market value of the material)

See: Preferred Lithium Extraction Process for McDermitt Project (24th March 2023)

https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20230324/pdf/45mzrdq...

It's part of the listing standards on mineral exchanges (such as the Canadian TSX, the Australian ASX, etc) that various levels of reports at various levels of accuracy be filed by independant third party mineral engineers.

The fascicle published above is a brief four pager outlining to investors where on track they are for now - expect within 12 months or so a meaty 400+ technical report rehasing the work that has gone into estimation and additional work outling scaled up extraction plans .. closely followed by an IPO | Prospectus to raise money for capital plant equipment for the project and potential spawning of a new sub company and listing.
to make market forces work, you will need to regulate the release of carbon, just like the release of other pollutants - have a penalty, or some sort of cost that is higher than the actual capture cost.
> Also, I've never heard of anyone using assembly for performance optimisations. It would never happen where Go in commonly used (server programming), maybe if you're doing graphics or something nonstandard?

It's in the standard library. It's also how you write parsers and formatters with acceptable performance if you don't have SIMD intrinsics.
I think the key component is you being a teenager
I never have because, and no disrespect to the author here, I feel I'd be seeking attention. It brings my brain back to that "14-Year-Old Prodigy Programmer Dreams In Code" video, actually.
> Do you have sources that compare pre/post

It's pretty useless to compare the post-blog/social media era journalism with old newspapers to compare biases.

Today we have journalism that will shameless give into their journalists personal biases, without editors calling out their bullshit. Quite the opposite, the editors probably want to dig in hard into the journos biases BECAUSE they feed into the reader's biases which get Twitter/FB clicks.

And they recruit based on that ability too.

Now that journalism is a low paying job that pretty much only attracts upper middle class kids who spent way too long in some University liberal arts degree and can afford the low paying early years of writing enough to get a gig at a REAL journo job at NYTimes type places (the few left where some basic level of fact checking and editorial professionalism is done)... which would be the type of orgs you're comparing it to historically.

...idk I feel like comparing the orgs to historical journalism simply on their adherence to bias/academic+journalistic integrity is waste of time. The job, market, and orgs have changed too much to go one-to-one.
> The effects could range from complete cessation of existing fundamental forces, elementary particles and structures comprising them, to subtle change in some cosmological parameters, mostly depending on the potential difference between true and false vacuum. Some false vacuum decay scenarios are compatible with survival of structures like galaxies and stars or even biological life while others involve the full destruction of baryonic matter or even immediate gravitational collapse of the universe

What an interesting wiki article. It’s incredible this is proposed as a sliding scale effect, where the tunable parameters on that scale are the fundamental physical constants of the universe itself.
Family library: Super Simple VectorDB for Node.js -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37442267
Personally I've gone through a number of small quakes in different countries and don't remember any sound at all.
CounterStrike beta, a Half-Life mod.

Quake 2 & 3.
Family library: Simple Text Chunking Library for LLM -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37448012