skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they are operating outside of the law, I don't fault "Big Tobacco" or any "Big Business" for, you know, operating a business. Yes, it's kind of funny they went from one way of exploiting our brains to another, and I personally wish they had not. But companies don't operate to satisfy our wishes, hopes and desires, they operate to make money.

I've said it a million times, but if we don't like the way a company legally operates, the only solution is to change the laws the company operates under. Maybe the occasional boycott or shame campaign can force a corporation's hand, but the vast majority of the time when a company is forced to change the way they operate it is because a law was passed.

EDIT: terrible typo that undermined my entire point
This tracks, thanks for a really interesting take.
I would be interested to read these stories, but the twitter links only show a single tweet ending in the phrase "A thread." Perhaps this is a new feature of X whereby only logged-in users can see a tweet and its replies.
Thank you for sharing your story! It is always interesting to hear different perspectives from these events.

Regarding your VCR tapes. I understand it may be difficult for you to watch, but I encourage you to get them digitalized soon, while you still can. Perhaps even upload them in full length online somewhere for other people to look at.
The end-end-end game is Venus-like conditions on Earth. I find that pretty unlikely though considering that population would be so reduced significantly much before that and industry would be effectively stopped. As long as any biology survives, they'd likely eventually be able to reverse the changes.
Not paying increasing rent ever year is actualized money in your pocket to save or invest how you see fit.

The unrealized part is the gain in property value, and your equity in it by paying down the mortgage.

But if you consider never selling the house, paying $2k/mo in rent vs $2k/mo in (mortgage + insurance + property tax) is going to start out break-even, improve as the rent climbs to $3k for the equivalent place to live, and then be a larger benefit after 30 years when that housing payment drops to just tax and insurance.
I think its a mix of buffering + skipping to real time. It's not a classic buffer because the clock has to keep ticking
Underperforming for who? This is a tragedy and injustice, but it might not matter much to the people moving there.

You would hope people would feel guilty living under such conditions, and therefore not consider them as "desirable", but personal experience and observation would say otherwise.
It's not so much that there are people who genuinely believe that stuff, there have always been some of those.

The issue is that they have managed to reach a critical mass where they can exert some real and harmful social and political influence.
The thing with these types of calculators for me is that I always need to do more calculations to figure out yearly spendings etc. Figure out what type of investments i have and the percentages etc.

They trigger me in a negative way.
The Unbundling of Pinterest
Huh? This requires the actual thought police--you know, the unaccountable social media platforms--to publish their rules. Or would you rather they just continuing applying their own unaccountable and secret moderation with no consequences or oversight?
Commercial speech is regulated. That might not make a lot of sense in a time when "money is speech." But that's not a problem the people created.
Many European machines accept hot water. Any Miele does, and my entry level Bosch (in UK) accepts up to 60C but you have to set some obscure setting on the machine (the manual explains). But I find even cheap machines wash pretty well even without this, and you are right about it it being hot only if the machine is right next to the boiler.
Because you end up replacing one population with another. In other words, the remedy is worse than the disease.
Looking forward to diving further in and seeing how you handle white spaces issues as I’ve had massive issues with that already
From 8.9 - 10.9. the yearly "Function" Demoscene Event
with coding competitions was held in Budapest/Hungary
https://2023.function.hu/

The winner of this years 256 byte intro competition:
"Farewell" A 256 bytes intro for MSDOS
showcasing four different real time 3D scenes(!)
together with a soothing e-piano soundtrack

link to binary (etc.) https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=95042
Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMwP4SljXo

This production not only won the 256b competition with huge lead
it also got the highest score among all other competitions at the event
https://www.pouet.net/party_results.php?which=617&when=2023

In case you have any questions regarding
more details please ask right away =)
No utility in the US has enough transformers on hand to replace them in the case that they all fail, hundreds of millions of transformers.

Even right now, disaster responses? All US mainland utilities are part of a emergency response pact (private, not government run) that obligates each other to send workers and equipment _at cost_ to each other. That's how things get fixed pretty quickly right now, they are depending on the supplies and labor of other utilities that weren't affected by the disaster.

That is far different than if the entire country is down.
> BTW. I am tolerating the ad-blockers for now. But you should not apply any "cracks" to my source code to allow people use my Premium features (full-screen interface) for free. That is basically the same as piracy, and you are facilitating it.

Does this mean Google/YouTube/any other platform that has advertisement or is functionally affected by ublock origin could sue them over piracy grounds? Perhaps another legal framework? Why hasn't this happened yet? Is the reason the same/similar to how YouTube tolerates youtube-dl?
7 Ways to Escape a Container
Consider watching this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNMzaZk_iU
The main point is that rust was never a ref counted langage, it had a purportedly GC’d opt-in pointer type.

And while refcounting has lower throughput than more advanced forms of garbage collection, it has a much higher reactivity / lower memory overhead, and it integrates much better with other methods of resource management.
The strangest thing is that despite all the years of UX research, many websites today are covered in pop-ups all over the content, often containing flashing video, which has not been requested by the user.

Then there is is the massive "cookie acceptance" buttons on every page. All on major, mainstream sites.

The web is really becoming unusable due to UX problems.
It's one thing to have a great repository of reusable, accessible, versioned, centrally managed and agreed components. It's quite another to have production systems actually using that repository, unless the DS came before building the systems.

So I'd be interested to see how this might get over the hurdle of being retrofitted into legacy systems. So many design systems I've encountered are effectively fictions: great ideas being maintained in theory, but it's next to impossible to commit the necessary operating costs to getting them into production. So the sites and apps you see may look like they're using a DS, but many of those components are "impostors" not being managed in the DS at all.
I think it's weird than SK Hynix is funding a high-RAM product named "Corsair", when they are a supplier for RAM chips for Corsair.
I'm unclear on the answer -- are you saying it's a product that is probably fine then? And for human consumption if theres residue?
"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."

― Oscar Wilde
Data privacy is one of the least important issues of our day. People (especially on HN) foam at the mouth about it but are unable to produce specific harms Google and Meta ad tracking creates.
Companies don't have thoughts.

How do you think a company hires and trains moderators, or develops classifier systems to moderate, without already having documented all of this already?
It doesn't take incredible bad luck or major disability. It can just be a steady drip drip drip of bits of bad luck.

something like 40+ percent of the Boomer generation is going to retire to poverty. There are many reasons ranging from jobs that don't pay enough or didn't offer a retirement plan. Divorce especially grey divorces are a common reason for no retirement money as is medical bankruptcy. job loss in your 50s and age discrimination contributes to lack of recovery.

All the benefits that you pointed out of growing up in the Boomer era were concentrated in a very small part of the population. Pensions were not as common as you might think and a many of them were underfunded and collapsed in the late 1980s.

401(k)s were never intended to be a retirement plan. They were created to supplement pensions and personal savings. In my darker moments I think they were also created as a rent seeking vehicle for the financial industry.

Great stock market return benefits mostly the financial elite. My father bought stock for his kids and returns were pretty crappy. Every ESOP program I participated in found me buying high and selling low (bad financial advice).

Debit is never been cheap. When I bought my first house in 1980, it was 14 1/2% interest on a three year arm. we refinanced down to something like 9% a few years later. Over 15 years, it only appreciated by something like 2x-ish what we paid for it. when we bought our second house, interest was in the 6% range.

yes, I had a lot of opportunity but between exploitive/bad financial advice, medical bankruptcy, and divorce all those advantages came to nothing. The lesson to take from this is you are just as vulnerable to the same forces. You sound like you have better financial literacy but doesn't matter if it's one bad event or series of smaller bad events, all of your retirement planning goes in the dumpster with no hope of recovery.

what am I doing about my (lack of) retirement? Saving as much I can, choosing a better partner this time around, and like half of my generation, working till I die, and hoping I die quickly when the time comes.
Is Cancer on the Rise Among Younger Adults?
Meanwhile Chinese nuclear plants are doing the same but in significantly larger quantities.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230824_36
But as long as you need a place to live, you can't use it as an asset. You might be able to get a few loans on it, but that just means you keep paying monthly, like you're renting.

It's not an investment asset if you require it to live.

That said, renting is just as expensive as owning right now too. You're paying a mortgage and taxes and repairs and insurance either way, and with renting, you're also paying for a bit of landlord profit.
> This sounds like you want Debian Testing

Please, don't recommend Debian Testing to unsuspecting people. The distro is aimed at people that know what they are getting, and has no guarantee it will keep working unless you know really well what you are doing.

Even Unstable is supposed to be more beginner friendly.
Why not UDP? Less overhead and you can use multicast to expand messaging to machines in a lan. TCP on localhost makes little sense, especially when simple ack's can be implemented in UDP.

But even then, I wonder how the segmentation in TCP is affecting performance in addition to windowing.

Another thing I always wanted to try was using raw IP packets, why not? Just sequence requests and let the sender close a send transaction only when it gets an ack packet with the sequence # for each send. Even better, a raw AF_PACKET socket on the loopback interface! That might beat UDS!
It's also not fair to completely dismiss networking as just "something extroverts do" which carries no signal about skills.

Most jobs benefit from having good people skills, communication skills, and being proactive. If you hit it off with someone at a networking event, they've more or less already checked off those boxes.
> Or would you rather they just continuing applying their own unaccountable and secret moderation with no consequences or oversight?

Yes, it is their business. If people don't like that and advertisers, etc don't like that then don't use it or advertise there. The market will determine if it's viable or not. The state has no business policing that.
>"Is there any other languages that let you use async on embedded/bare metal?"

So you do not know if there are and what kind and other important details.

>"I think Rust could learn from them."

Yet you think
these are two completely separate cases.

The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that certain administration officials – namely in the White House, the surgeon general, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation – likely “coerced or significantly encouraged social media platforms to moderate content.”

What California wants is clarification and explanation of the moderation process as it applies to X. a product disclosure like this is common in nearly every other consumer product in the US. Prop 65 for example routinely mandates this sort of disclosure for lead or cadmium content in a product.

The reason musk specifically does not want to disclose this information is because the moderators were all sacked a year ago...i think California knows this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-layoffs-outso...
IvanK_net is most likely the author of Photopea.
Are you unaware that many people actually specifically seek out, and even pay for, software and hardware to handle such reminders for themselves?
I remember talking about PNAC at a debate session of all things in high school. Our debate club was pretty big and well known in our school

The teachers that ran it shut me down, saying I was peddling conspiracy theories about PNAC influence and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this was 2008/2009.

I'm still, based on research I've done since, convinced that PNAC had a huge influence on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in particular, and the white house at the time more generally. Ultimately I believe this is why they pursued the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was due to the ideas espoused by this group
The reason folks are unhappy with your take is that many people are personally adversely affected by doctors and others ignoring their physical symptoms. It's worth looking up Stephanie Aston of New Zealand, who just died at age 33; she apparently had Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Several doctors told her she was faking her juvenile arthritis etc.

People like accusing others of faking their symptoms because it allows the accuser to avoid moral injury from doing nothing to help or even just the discomfort of witnessing the suffering of others with empathy.
> I'm not sure that is necessarily true

If the case was decided on 1st amendment grounds, it's absolutely true.
Reporting stats is usually step 1 to regulating those things...

It won't be long before laws say things like "99% of takedowns must occur within 1 hour of a report being made" or "No more than 1% of users may see content which is later taken down on any given day, otherwise we will fine you for insufficient moderation"

That, combined with a court making a few decisions on moderation (months after the fact), means that the only way way for a platform to make sure that < 1% of users see content taken down by a court later is to remove all except the safest content right away before anyone sees it. End result: Self policing to only uncontroversial boring stuff.
The Environmental Effects of Bitcoin Mining
How about getting extremely drained in loud and chaotic environments where even conversation abilities break down due to noise? Im getting older and give a lot less fucks as well but some things that were extremely unpleasant that I used to have a hard dime with are no longer on my calendar. Why go through the pain when there is zero gain? Why even bother? If I really have to, in such environments, in order to tolerate it I blast white noise on my headphones, kindof pointless in the end if you ask me. Whereas small settings, with less than a dozen people around are a lot more productive. Not hiding this fact makes it even more tolerable, I just excuse myself from these envs.
Real lunkheads don’t graduate high school, they were already excluded. The argument you’re offering is at some level explaining why college grads earn more, and you’re suggesting it’s because they were better prepared for college, more likely to choose it, able to afford it, etc. That is true.

But your reasoning does not justify the comparison that was made in the article, nor does it explain why it’s valid. The statistic is comparing incomes for people who graduated college to people who graduated high school and not college. It doesn’t matter whether they made a “real” decision, whatever that means, or not. It doesn’t matter if some people didn’t consider college, or if some believed they couldn’t afford it, or if some chose not to go. The question the article posed is what is the financial outcome of going to college vs high school but not college, and for that it’s not okay to compare the bottom third of incomes of the college group to everyone else.

You’re rationalizing one of many ways to partition college grads. You’re failing to explain why it’s valid to choose a partition for one group and not the other. The article did not offer a reason to use the lower third of college grads.

If the useful analysis is in the middle, then why not compare the middle third of high school graduates to the middle third of college graduates? That would be valid, and it would show, accurately, that college graduates on average earn more. Comparing the bottom third of college graduates to all high school graduates is obviously choosing to lower the average income of the chosen college group. There is no evidence in the article that it was done to make the comparison more fair, it doesn’t appear to agree with your comments or share your reasons.

In case you missed it, I linked to a different version of the Fed’s report that spends a lot of time trying to tease apart some of the things you’re bringing up, but in a scientific and statistically valid way. They try to answer the tricky question of how much of the income premium of a college degree comes from the person, and how much is actually due to college. They are accounting for ability level, family income, family history of college attendance, race, and other factors that capture people’s ability to choose college, and separate their intrinsic skills from their education. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37464064
Shameless plug - if you download lots of audiobooks and need help organizing them and figuring out which to listen to next, check out Audiobook Locker: https://gitlab.com/fonner/audiobook-locker. It's a desktop app (built with Tauri) that scans your audiobook folder and lets you sort, search and tag your audiobooks.
> I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes.

What "cancel culture"? Who got "cancelled" for real? Literally everyone of those whining about "cancel culture" who hasn't actually broken laws or is being suspected having done so (Tate) is still running around and making tons of money whining around to everyone.
>to ensure it complies with whatever arbitrary thing the state believes in at the time

Nope, see you had to whip that part up out of the ether to make your case.
Also UDS have more features, for example you can get the remote peer UID and pass FDs
They're required to spell out their moderation policy and provide details on how it's enforced, but the law does not appear to put constraints on the policy. So it would seem to be consistent with the law to have a policy like

We moderate depending on our values and feelings as we experience them at the time, and we do not strive for consistency in these judgments and they may change depending on how well our moderators have slept the night before or how the air pressure affects their sinusitus.

That would seem to comply with the law while enabling the social network to maintain maximum flexibility.
It's true that you can be fired during the probationary period, for any reason including "excessive" sick leave. But the probationary period is limited to six months, by law.
> particularly without making some people uncomfortable

I guess because racism is a crime in most modern societies and living in prison is uncomfortable?
As long as it kills cryptocurrencies, I'm more than happy to live without electricity.
Python is a common choice for "first programming language." Whats the problem with making it more friendly/helpful to beginners?

I'm more worried that this PEP will make things more confusing for beginners. I see this PEP as a removal of some training wheels. It opens the door for much weirder behavior than warnings/error messages. Whenever I've reached for this feature, it's been to do something "clever" that I probably shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Sure, some people will do wonderful/helpful things with this feature. But lunatics like me will use this to do some absolutely unhinged things.

I hope this PEP gets accepted, but I understand if the maintainers decide it's a bridge too far.
Not being from the US, I only heard of them because one of the two brothers did a podcast with The War on Cars. The funny twist is that both of them only liked cars as engineers, but otherwise hated car culture and what traffic did to cities. One of them only had an old beat up car just so he can say he has one, but they both preferred public transit and bicycles. Heh!

Here is the link https://thewaroncars.org/2019/03/18/the-war-on-cars-meets-ca...
Still restricted to I+D of 128K mapped in at any given time, plus your 8K of I/O space for bank 7.
Hmm. The argument is that it lies within the nervous system (physically), but then you mention avoidance/dissociation (psychological)? This reminds me of a lot of physical/psychological/"it's all in your head" discussions with various sorts of CFS sufferer, most of whom have serious problems getting anyone to take seriously the possibility that it might not be all in your head.

https://www.cfsselfhelp.org/pacing-tutorial reminds me of what the livejournallers called "spoon theory". In both cases the observation is that exceeding one's limits can cause a "crash" of much worsened symptoms. At least it recognizes PEM and doesn't recommend blindly applying graduated exercise therapy.

Do you have any good research on ME/CFS biomarkers?
Yes, I'm being pernickety about naming and then misusing it myself! I use 'sequence' in a very loose sense to mean any sequential stuff you might push through a stack of transducers one at a time. core.async does actually use all the reducer plumbing to fill up buffers and pass them around. But I still think the key intuition for transducers should be push-based, stepwise operation (with the option to accumulate state or short circuit, as you go). It definitely helps that you can perform the final step of whatever job you're doing and have full control over how your stuff is materialised, without any intermediate collections, but it still feels slightly secondary to me.
> For example, error handling is an area where people almost always resort to 3rd party libraries.

IME people mostly resort to those libraries just to avoid verbosity, since implementing error types is frankly boring and macros/etc make it a non-issue.

Some have neat context-attachment functionality that can be useful as well, though I've personally never needed it.