skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speed never falls out of fashion. They're not the prettiest to look at but pleasant to use.
Great show, I could not care less about car maintenance back when I listened to this show religiously. Years later, my kids loved Pixar's "Cars" and what a delight to see (hear I guess) them make a cameo.
Mostly replace, yes, there is also electricity generation via oil to be replaced.
>I could certainly see a kind of semi-retirement where a person dips out of high-pressure work in favor of lower pressure intellectual work that can be completed on a looser time frame.

A lot of people do that in some form but it's generally hard to convert into something that pays. (It's easy to contribute to open source projects for example. It's a lot harder to get paid a modest sum for doing so at your own pace and at your own pleasure.) The same things applies in general for casual consulting, writing, etc. in semi-retirement. You can certainly do it for the stimulation but it's hard to get someone to pay you and, in any case, that probably requires a certain amount of maybe-less-fun business activities.
Can be two buttons, one for buying and one for selling
I'm not sure why anyone thinks they'd be able to 'retire' in a world where most people will never afford a house and will thus need to pay a landlord forever if they want to live somewhere near a major city.

We have four options:

- get rich

- stay working forever

- kill ourselves

- move to the woods
The pilot episode of the Lone Gunmen spin-off, released earlier in 2001, featured a plot where "terrorists" had flown a passenger liner into the WTC but it was really a government inside job to gain support for a new war. That show didn't get renewed.

That’s incredibly prescient! What the hell?
Surely a UK-Ireland bridge/tunnel would make more sense.
A lot of those things were cleared up for me when I visited the site in Dallas. People claiming conspiracy are trying to make what he did much more difficult than it really was. He had a job that happened to be in the right place at the time, he had a standard gun anyone could buy, and plenty of time alone (he specifically did not have anything on his todo list for the day done despite being at work for a few hours). There is nothing about this a lone actor would have any trouble with, other than the initial luck of getting a job there in the first place and that type of coincidence isn't unlikely.
I wasn't able to find manufacturer recommendations from Argos, but I did find two Swedish manufacturers that support either hot or cold water, but recommend that you use the cold water line. One of them claims that detergents are designed to work better when starting with cold water (presumably this is not the case in the US, where hot-water-only machines are the norm).

> Connect the machine to cold water if possible. Then the dishwasher itself heats up the water during the washing phase and the final rinse, which means that you save about 20 percent of energy. Today's dishwasher detergent works best and tablets dissolve better when the program starts with cold water.

> Dishwashers connected to cold water use around 30 percent less energy than dishwashers connected to hot water. A dishwasher connected to cold water only uses hot water when it is really needed.

https://www.cylinda.se/produktguide/kok/diskmaskiner

https://www.electroluxhome.se/vitvaror/diskmaskin/inspiratio...
I just don't understand this take. In every Chrome gripefest thread, there will be a comment about switching to Firefox that's at or near the top, and then a comment about Brave closer to the bottom. With half the replies to that comment being about crypto, or even smaller niche players like Vivaldi that are closed-source and don't even have an iOS version.

Look, I'm not into crypto. But it takes me about two clicks to turn off everything crypto-related in Brave (the main stuff that people complain about is opt-in and turned off by default anyway). The same amount of effort that it takes me to change Google as the default search engine in Firefox.

In both cases, those default settings are there because both browsers need SOME source of revenue. But in Brave's case, at least they are diversifying into different sources, such as a search engine and a Zoom-like video conferencing product. Whereas Firefox's entire existence is dependent on the Google dependency.

Nothing against Firefox. But I get far fewer (if any) website compatibility issues with Brave, the extension ecosystem is far better, and the ad-blocking is far superior (with Firefox I see YouTube ads on my phone with every ad-blocking extension I've tried, whereas with Brave I see no ads with the built-in blocker).

It just blows my mind that Brave gets dismissed by the HN crowd, on the basis of "crypto associations give me bad vibes", while Firefox's association with Google is completely hand-waved away. When my goal is to avoid Google, I get more bad vibes from Google. But that's just me.
> Governments seem reluctant to actually regulate anti-competitive behavior these days, especially from tech giants.

True. US states are ramping up production of tech laws but those laws typically fall into two categories. Laws that only large tech houses can afford and/or unconstitutional reactionary laws.

At best these laws do no good for the consumer. They absolutely do nothing do encourage competition.

Most of them, however, bring tons of harm like gifting abusable power to govs and helping big tech further entrench their dominance.
Your browser has been serving ad banners since 1994, nothing new here.
You can also add this to the Fermi paradox list. If intelligent life is rare, solar systems where intelligent life can develop the type of technology capable of space flight might be rarer still.

For all we know the Sun is actually quite friendly to this. Most stars might behave this way more often. If that's true then intelligent life able to harness electricity and all it entails would be very rare. If our Sun did this every, say, 25 years there would never be an industrial/technological civilization here... or at least not a sophisticated one able to build things like spacecraft.

In any case this is something we should be studying a lot more than we are. It is a far more tangible and realistic existential threat than very hypothetical AI apocalypse scenarios.
Well, it might be a coincidence, but it also wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't. Your identity was probably linked using fingerprinting. Private browsing mode offers almost zero protection against this. Even Tor isn't protected unless you enable the Safest security level (= completely disable JavaScript). This might even be done through multiple levels of indirection (mobile browser fingerprint -> Google account -> desktop browser fingerprint).
Why can’t I put planned death before the retirement age?
I dislike the renaming of imports unless it's something that needs to be done for specific reasons, like two different conflicting names or doing something sneaky. At that point though, it's still generally possible to work around it with more qualified names.

It's something of a lost cause in the numpy/pandas ecosystem though, since every single example has them renamed this way and it induces just the cognitive load that I'm trying to avoid.
Electronics is really broad. What are you looking to get into and at what complexity level?

Controlling an LED strip with an Arduino library is very different from designing a custom RF solution.
Chrome has its own bullshit. When Edge decided to switch to being based on Chromium I had high hopes Microsoft could build a better Chrome than Google could.

Man, what a letdown.
Alternatively if instead of spending most of resources on management vanity projects Mozilla focused on Firefox instead maybe things could be better.
I don't think this applies to 5g antennas...
Context here is "general purpose language" so yeah if you take away AI from python, python will decrease more
Actually, looking at some examples, this is absolutely atrocious markup. Tons of empty divs with random CSS properties that are invisible and take up zero space. Hardcoded color values that should use the Tailwind color scales.

My bet is that they made some designs with WYSIWYG in Webflow, and automatically converted them to Tailwind.

EDIT: The dead giveaway is that they’re not using Tailwind’s breakpoints, but instead hardcoded ones, that happen to all be the same as Webflow’s hardcoded breakpoints - 478, 767, and 991 pixels.
WSL allows me to use Linux from Windows in the most acessible way since VMs.

What drives you to claim that it is simply an extortion attempt?
You'll never pay/listen to anything you're able to identify as AI-generated.
OnlineOrNot Diaries 15: Back in the arena
Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats
Provided I never sell my house I can't create a scenario in this where my retirement doesn't work out. If I have to rent though? It's a very different situation.
Decent title.
Maybe a good reason to give it another try?
I agree. I love the idea of Librivox, but the volunteers vary widely in quality.

Some are non-native English speakers, some have lisps or other articulation problems, some have other marks of fluency deficiencies, some have under- or over-dramatic intonation, etc.

And even if they're perfect voice actors, often their microphone setups are sub-par, and it comes through in the recording.

Frankly, these AI voices are now at a level where the few mistakes they make are easier to forgive than some of those issues from human readers.

That said, the final hurdle -- giving them the brains to know when to skip or resolve hiccups in the source material, such as typos, formatting issues, or text not intended to be read aloud -- is going to be very hard to overcome.
This is a great perspective, and honestly one that extends to many (if not most) practical skills that one can learn.
I have stopped at 1030, the 2GB of VRAM is a limiting factor that I appreciate.

As someone who is targeting Raspberry 4 and Vision Five 2 where the low end is still 2GB shared RAM there is zero point to go higher.

Embrace the limitation!
Often when IQ is brought up, it seems that HN leaps to explain why those tests aren't accurate, don't really mean anything, etc. Is anybody going to make that case here?
I’m not saying disasters are ordinary in general. If you are living with a continuous expectation of something terrible to happen, if this expectation becomes a part of your ordinary life, that is the feeling I’m talking about.
Google prepares for biggest US antitrust showdown since Microsoft
AC motors are famously sensitive to power frequency. It's not the same as resistive loads. I'll definitely do some research, however.

I imagine there are some Japanese ones from the 60Hz half of Japan (you read that right, yes) that might fit the bill, too.
I don't know. Kudos for providing free tailwind components, but to me, this page looks broken on a modestly recent iPhone.

- overflowing text

- misaligned buttons+inputs

- horizontally scrollable pages

- screenshots with text in them but no heading: can't discern what the screenshot is showing; additionally, the pill-shaped things on top cover the text in the images in case I try to read it to find out where the link takes me

- "components" navigation item takes me nowhere? or to the start page? then why is it not highlighted?

- colors and shapes feel slightly messy and arbitrary
I am not an expert in modern NLP SOTA but from what I see these models do not work that well.

You didn't summarize the article but took some of the most important points and shared what really mattered. It may not be perfect but required a real life experience. I am afraid there will always be a chance of getting "techno-babble" from our models, at least until they we get to some sort of AGI.

Look at your first line:

> Most of the article appears to be about what does not work.

No model will decide to include that info and it is vital for me to understand why you chose just a few lines out of it. We are still long way out from trusting in reliable LLMs.
Why? Were you born in Chernobyl in 1986 or something?
another name for "solder comes second"

is quantity vs quality doctrine
My favorite puzzler:

100 prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned. And each pirate has twelve coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch which the prisoner may either leave as it is or flip. Before being led into the rooms, the prisoners are forced to wear either a red had or a blue hat. They can see all the other prisoner’s hats, but not their own. Meanwhile a six digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their digits reverse. Then all have to get across a river using a canoe that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that the nth prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn’t know that a priate doesn’t know product of two numbers between 1 and 100 without knowing that n+1th prisoner has flipped the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is. What is the solution to this puzzle?

This was played on the July 18, 2009 edition of Car Talk on NPR and attributed only to “Alan”. If you download the podcast, the puzzler starts at the 36:00 minute mark.
Pratchett is fun to read. Thinking of another was it might be said:

Rocky rectal remains
I can't find any pods that are just water-soluble wrappers of the powdered detergent. All of them have additional compartments in the pods for other chemicals, and all the pods do clean a hell of a lot better than just powdered detergent.

I had switched earlier this year after seeing the Technology Connections video, and I'm ready to switch back. The pods are just better.
How does me being an introvert change concepts of networking? Ah! This is the "other" networking.
I think that the point is to make the author understand exactly why it's creepy, so that next time they write something like this, they actually see the problem.

I'm not advocating this approach. But it's not entirely off base.
When I read Rikki Tikki Tavi to my 8 yr old daughter, we play a game. She asks me to change one of the words in the page and she tries to listen and see if she can figure it out. It is mentally taxing at the end of a long day to do that on the fly without pausing to figure out the word to slip in. And, my daughter is very sharp and catches them.

I listened to a few of these. The voice sounds muted at times, as if the reader has a stuffy nose. H.G. Wells was read with a pause in between each period because it "thinks" that each letter boundary is a sentence change, which drove me batty. And, there is zero life in the stories. It might be a good thing to put in front of a kid to put them to sleep, maybe? But, it would not put me to sleep because it is just aggravating to listen to these stories stripped of all life by AI.

Like Louis CK said: "Everything is amazing and no one is happy." I know this is incredible that AI can take in a transcript and produce something that most people would be able to distinguish between a real human. But, we should ask if you would want to hang out with the voice actor at a party.
"We need to revolutionize how we think about our data and what value it holds" (last sentence)

reads like so much sleeper propaganda for The Selfish Ledger style abuses.

I don't think any discussion of the trade-offs between privacy and tracking is complete unless the horrifying abuses of tracking are also discussed, like government contractors spying on people without cause.
It has to do everything with the wording on your comment that kind of makes the usual lay man distinction between GC and refcounting, nothing to do with Arc, as using it is manual work anyway.
It seems like a matter of time before there are multiple distributions of Rust with some having additional components / libraries for specialized purposes:

Ferrocene: https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/

GNAT Pro Rust: https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro-rust

I would not be surprised if Microsoft, Intel, or Nvidia produce their own distributions in the future, particularly if there are political / governance issues or concerns about getting their wanted features merged upstream. In some cases, it could be that they just want to add proprietary features.
"Quiet Contemplation for Extroverts: A How-To Guide to Sitting the Fuck Still For an Hour"

I'm fine as I am as an introvert, thank you very much. Maybe we're not the only ones who need to be more accommodating of the world?
That's fair. I wasn't close enough to see how "surprising" it was. The point stands that it looks nothing like HFT active trading risk. Knight Capital created such amazing training material for the industry. What went wrong with their software, how many decisions or practices could have prevented or narrowed the risk. What went wrong at trade time, how they had a clear window to pull the plug but died due to indecision and inaction.
Edge is trash. If Microsoft wants to do something positive for the browser diversity landscape they should match Google $ for $ on support for Mozilla, with the stipulation that the funds can only be used for FireFox.
Working on my urban foraging skills. It's hard and not fun.
Skip it and you'll be happier. They should have kept it ended on a high note.
You are creepily close. One of these details is bulls-eye, and the other not far off.
My dishwasher takes 4 hours in eco mode but I don’t see how that’s a problem? I either run it at night when it has plenty of time to run, or right after lunch so that the dishes are clean when it’s time to prepare dinner.

I feel like if you need them quickly, 1 hour would be too long anyway, no?
THANK you.
Many series were filmed in Canada at the time (still now?), I think it was around Vancouver. Humid forests everwhere... But they are indeed great for X-files.

Anyway, I think the earlier seasons were better in that they were more varied before the show really became all about aliens conspiracies with the odd non-alien episode here and there.
I do not have personal experience and it appears that the f-droid versions have no anti-features, but those comments at Play store were specifically talking about their data being held hostage.
Army is NOT able customize itself for individual nor is advertising itself as much. Instead, it is trying to mold everyone into being as similar to soldier next to him and act exactly the same. Otherwise said, a genius low level soldier is used in the same way as dumbes low level soldier.

Army is able to absorb people of different races or gays and learned how to deal with gender. That does not imply it is, as an institution, capable to absorb handicapped people.
You're also not executing bash on their servers, which is much different than say HackerNews even.
Ah, cool, those are great diagrams!

I first heard about this system design from the Tally Ho rebuild: https://youtu.be/xohxmwPfctg?si=RoJV2za9ZgPldrJJ&t=1497
Did you consider scenarios with high inflation and high housing tax...
Ignore this, my bias is that I am in fact an introvert....

1. Figure out what subjects you are passionate about.
2. Now, figure out what medium you can express that in
3. given those two choices the SM platforms to use would be
Instagram
LinkedIN
X
Youtube
Medium
4. Now the money part....the value is knowledge+access
That means in your chain of SM output you want to
eventually pivot to something like one day of
streaming on Youtube

*Important! Medium just changed their revenue algos...you get paid more for reads at Medium now, I will clear just under $1k this month and will be under 25k views...and yet I am busy building code for some textbooks I am writing....
> Taxing the rich won't provide enough

The rich shouldn't be taxed just for providing for other people, but also as a sort of dampening effect to make sure that getting rich doesn't become the non-rich people's only objective in life (like it seems to, for many in the US).

Taxing the rich at high rates and ensuring that lifestyles are slightly more equitable will enable everyone (both rich and non-rich) to be able to enjoy the kind of "semi-retirement where a person dips out of high-pressure work in favor of lower pressure intellectual work" that you mention.

In fact, taxes on the rich could be set up explicitly to fund something like basic income programs for older people.
I don't think so... Plus, she probably bin them already...
Air pollution prevents pollinators from finding flowers, study shows
While it is possible Oswald worked with another gunman, there is no reason for him to do that. Everything done is something anyone with basic gun knowledge could have done alone.

As I said elsewhere, the only evidence of a second gunman is we know Oswald was a good shot with a gun and so needing 3 shots (with a scoped rifle at close range - less than 100 meters) is something to question. But in the end it seems more likely he would have pulled the trigger himself and thus not needed help.
No, they would also be affected by the fuel taxation, possibly equally hard due to their comparably lower overall budget for traveling.
Isn't that be a use it's in thousands?
My cynical take is that companies have offloaded the responsibility for being "eco-friendly" on the consumer rather than the companies themselves that use 1000x the energy.
What you describe has nothing to do with introversion or extroversion. Those are social skills and, yes, they're learnable. My favorite book on the subject is superhuman social skills by Tynan. He's an introvert.

If you're curious, Introversion and Extroversion are characterized by different brain chemistry. Introverts make more heavy use of the acetylcholine pathways in the brain and Extroverts make more heavy use of the dopamine/adrenaline pathways in the brain. A more detailed analysis can be found here: https://musingsonmormonism.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/easily-t...
Those waters come from rain
Mordor Syndicate Acquires Isengard, Inc – ChatGPT-Generated
True, but conversely if they don't do their job well, the utilities can kill people. Or if they werent price-regulated, they could charge whatever they wanted, hurting both life and the economy.

I get the trillion-dollar caps; what I don't get is why aren't mere cento-billion market caps enough, why can't we have regulation and lower prices and as-good services with less exploitation of the commons.
Sure, the stalker fantasy might be a bit on the nose. Having someone follow you around in a 'physical' sense seems kinda creepy.

But; there is now the robot equivalent of a PI stalker in your browser. It's not a person, but it's still reporting all your browser activity. Except for the 'physical human', that seems like a pretty similar analogy, right? Because for me, it's equally creepy.
Oh please, as if they were serious.
This will do nothing to prevent browser fingerprinting.
> The solution can simply be “get better at extroversion.”

I agree completely as a former shut-in. I just forced myself to be as extroverted as possible for a while until it came more naturally. I still prefer to be an introvert and have a 'social battery' limit but now I actually understand socialization and can start/direct conversations for my own goals/enjoyment.

It was difficult in the beginning but I just thought a lot about the words I and others used: how they were delivered, and the underlying motivation behind them (even if it was trivial small talk).
It’s not optimistic it’s just the historic returns.

>The average stock market return is about 10% per year for nearly the last century, as measured by the S&P 500 index.
Why would retirement become impossible? Because humans would become unable to work 50 years and in that time save up money for another 20?