skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowbanks are set to get whiter – offsetting climate change's effects
Those battery plants aren't going to be enough, especially not by 2025. But the bigger obstacle is charging infrastructure. It just takes a lot of time to build that out, which is why those deadlines will inevitably be pushed back.
I mean yeah it's ironic. But one thing I think we've barely even scratched the surface of is the cognitive effects of reading/writing vs watching/swiping.

We know that reading is correlated to all kinds of positive things. For example: success, improved brain function, memory and mood. If you read and write a lot on social media maybe you get at least some part of that benefit.

Whereas, we're pretty sure you don't get any of those benefits from swiping and watching. But we do know that social media overall is correlated to the INVERSE of a bunch of those good things. It's correlated to worse cognitive abilities, worse memory, depression and anxiety!

And the most studied of the passive watching experiences (TV) is correlated to negative stuff too.

So frankly - replacing a reading habit with Tiktok (exactly what the nation's teens have done over time) is almost certainly unhealthy.

Edit: Reading (specifically the studies I'm aware of specify reading books and possessing high reading comprehension, but maybe other forms too) is correlated to better critical thinking, too. How much of the rise of fake news is attributable to the fact that we stopped reading?
Interestingly enough, I've toyed with augmenting SQL to make it more useful.

I remember doing an experimental improvement allowing to do FROM where SELECT what syntax.

I agree there's value there. Omnigres is able to intercept query expressions to do the augmentation.
That delay is mostly predictable and so you can account for it. You still will be off by a few (I'm not sure what unit, but fraction of a second) as the speed of light in the atmosphere is not a constant. You can figure out the current speed of light in the atmosphere, as well but that requires a lot of complex hardware.
Apple doesn't have a list of the 1,000 best episodes all-time

Apple also doesn't offer any sort of community around individual episodes/shows
Your first paragraph argues against itself. If the Fed expanded the money supply for over a decade with little to no inflation as a result until the world saw an unprecedented global pandemic that implies maybe what the fed was doing wasn't the root cause.
This is one of the most encouraging and helpful posts I've read on treating tinnitus. Thank you. Can I please ask more about your diet? Did you eliminate anything like salt, sugar, caffeine, etc., from your diet?
> A "cover letter" is a terrible prompt to elicit any meaningful information about a candidate, and implies negative things about the company asking for one.

On the contrary, a cover letter is a powerful tool to elicit meaningful information about a candidate’s soft skills, in particular empathy (for the hiring manager) and communication, and refusal to provide one implies negative things about a candidate.

> I think if you want to assess writing skills, you should ask more focused questions, such as "What is the biggest thing you have built in x language", "What is your experience with y"

A good candidate does not need those prompts. Having read the job description, he has an idea of what the hiring manager wants, and he writes about it.

> "write me a thing to tell me how much you want this job"

That’s not a cover letter. I don’t care how much a candidate wants a job. To be honest, neediness is a turn off. I care how effective the candidate will be at the job, both technically and socially.

I feel that perhaps you and others think all a cover letter is, is ‘Company X is such a great place! I want to work at Company X so much! Please pick me!’ If so, then yeah, I 100% agree with you. That’s useless input to the hiring process. But that’s not what a cover letter is IMHO.

As mentioned elsewhere, I assert that a cover letter is the soft skills equivalent to the resumé. The resumé lists relevant skills, education/training and experience. Those are all good things, but they are in the nature of checking boxes. The cover letter is a soft-skills demonstration. It’s also an opportunity for a candidate who is borderline in one area to draw attention to the fact that he more than makes up for it in another.
I've had Windows updates brick the motherboard by installing a faulty BIOS update. Multiple times.
It's clearly a different setting, without proper FTL. Agreed that the Dwellers are vaguely Culture-y, tho.
> I want to pay for what i use.

You do. Ascribe a value to the data you give up to them by consuming content on their platform. They do.
I'm not so sure using local models is a cheaper alternative. Computation/electricity is not free and OpenAI is heavily subsidised. It feels like people think local models are free just because they don't need to pay a third party directly.

I think the real benefit of local models lies elsewhere.
Not sure it changed me, but after 2 years I have 11.6K likes, so I guess I'm doing something right.
I recommend Sophie Wilson's talk on CPU architectures for some interesting insight into this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOnpQgn-9s

It's worth the time, IMHO, and I dislike video presentations. This one is different.

She designed the ARM processor (and BBC BASIC before that).
Btw, this could be illegal in some countries. Streaming is for private use, and to play music in the shop the license for public playing could be required.
Coin Flips Are Biased
I had 100+ channels. Do you think my experience was fundamentally different?
> I’ve had to repeatedly defend spending, say, and extra $150 on MacBook Pros rather than Airs

Funnily enough I've sometimes had problems with the reverse. I've got a bad back, and lighter laptops are easier for me to deal with than heavier ones especially when I'm on-call. But sometimes the only option available at work has been a 15" MacBook Pro or similarly sized Linux laptop.

I have a strong preference for Linux laptops but I'd really also like it to be small and lightweight!
Looks interesting!

I’ve been using Pocket less and less these days because I’m concerned about lock-in (both in terms of my data and the business model).

It’s a shame that Mozilla hasn’t managed to open-source Pocket in all these years. People that care about (and are capable of) self-hosting would probably gladly donate/contribute; people caring about the convenience paired with the brand name could just continue paying for the SaaS version.
How do they distribute the KV store across devices? The various SSDs don't actually share accounting info, do they?
I generally agree with the implied point that goes with this question - people who make vague claims that the CPI is inaccurate don't understand the CPI and don't have specific complaints. However, if you read through the explanatory material in that link (which, let me just say, is a fun way to spend an afternoon although I haven't any time recently) there are some complaints to be had.

It is remarkably challenging to follow what that index is measuring in real terms and whether it is measuring it accurately. It is hard to follow what biases the as-implemented sampling process might be subject to, there are several layers of weighting where it is hard to see how they were come up with and then 25% of the index is Owners' equivalent rent.

So the question is not just can people level specific complaints, but also where are we supposed to draw confidence from that this is a useful number? "Men with suits spent a lot of time coming up with it" isn't a satisfying answer. I don't want to use it for discounting my investments, if my money isn't keeping up with the M2 monetary aggregate I'm shuffling my portfolio around (even gold pretends to have real returns if you discount it using CPI, which is ridiculous). And it isn't especially useful for my personal life because my weightings are not the weightings in this table. And if wages go up based on the CPI... that just reflects workers getting screwed. We've all seen what productivity and profit trends are doing.

It looks like a baffle-them-with-bullshit con to distract from government spending and money printing by pretending that because this particular index doesn't go up everything is fine. The politicians have made the process of figuring out who is paying for the spending complicated enough that it is hard to do. That isn't a strategy that people should accept. Just because the logic is too complicated to understand doesn't mean that they've built a perpetual motion machine. Someone is losing out. This involved index is more of a distraction from the monetary aggregates at this point.
Fundamentally though, the 'problem' she sees, is it really a problem?

How many gun deaths in the past 10 years were related to 3d printed guns or gun parts? Is that number greater than 1% of gun deaths in the past year of the same area? (1% of gun deaths in 10yrs / 1% in 1 year)

If it's not, than I would surmise that this is a non-issue nor a problem. And that instead it is a older representative that needs to retire instead of proposing laws that drastically damage the fr edoms of the citizenry. To take away the democratization of manufacturing plastic parts from its citizens will irreparably damage the community this legislature feigns to serve.
I agree that the article is a bit thin, but I believe this one is useful for public knowledge, and has its place on Wikipedia.
I guess it only needs to be edited to add more information if any are available publicly ?
It also assumes that in 2000 you spent exactly the same amount on each of these categories, which is very weird. It would be much more interesting to know the relative amount of need for each category.
Don't know your point was:

>Just be honest and say you think you should be able to enjoy those artists’ work without paying.

If we go back to legality then as others mentioned I believe in the right to transform what data is served to me.
> The label of forever wars that has been firmly attached to America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan fails to acknowledge that poor planning and scant resources will always fail to secure postwar peace. It astounds me that anyone could be surprised by this. But the lessons of postwar Germany and Japan that led to their prosperous democracies today, including well-resourced physical and political reconstruction and the time to succeed, were utterly misunderstood and misapplied by Washington in 2003 and 2004. Israel has faced its own forever war since 1948. Poor planning and scant resources are also your enemy.

While there is no doubt that poor planning makes poor outcomes more likely, in this context culture matters a lot. If the people you are trying to help do not value the things you do, your plan likely will not work no matter how well intentioned or resourced.

Take a look at S Korea right after the Korean War and Egypt at the same time, they were fairly similar. Fast forward to today and S Korea is a thriving democracy with a good standard of living and Egypt is ... not. S Korea had to recover from the devastation of war, but Egypt did not. Egypt has received billions in foreign aid each year for decades.

Decades of foreign aid to the tune of billions have already failed. Many plans have already failed, with the result that Hamas has dictatorial control of an area and uses/abuses the populace in the war of terror that benefits no one. We don't need another big plan. Containing and controlling are now the only option.
C is a low level language... but it's the wrong low-level language. It gives you low-level access to a machine that your real machine actually has to somewhat laboriously emulate. Such dangly bits and bodges that have been added over the years to give access to the real machine are relatively foreign bodies to C.

I would agree the title is a bit rhetorically rough, though, because being the wrong low-level language doesn't make it a high-level language. WASM would similarly be "wrong" if I claimed it was a direct mapping to modern hardware, but that doesn't make it "high level".

(Although what really frustrates me about C isn't that it's a bad mapping per se. It's from the 1970s, what do you expect? And it is obviously still quite useful for many cases. What frustrates me is that it continues to a large degree to dictate language design and heavily color how language designers see hardware, so too much modern language design is still just reshuffling bits of C around, rather than building languages that work with the hardware well.)
The David Levine cartoon of Lyndon B Johnson:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/WXCapTL7FfdqwopioVRlj7I7o1_500.j...
I don't think that's _really_ what the article's doing, but in any case such arguments are generally about whether the author's view is _internally consistent_, rather than a historical inevitability.
Many like to listen to the radio (etc.) with children present. Many would prefer their children not be exposed to cursing on a regular basis.
> I have an ongoing argument with my wife where I proclaim Brave New World to be a utopia, not a dystopia.

> It's a society where the VAST majority of people are happy. Really truly happy. A society that is in ecological balance with nature.

If you're locked up in prison, but the food is really, really good, aren't you living in a utopia?
Not surprised. Jonathan Cook, who used to work at the Guardian, comments on how it is covering Israel's bombing of Gaza:

> As Israel continues to bomb Gaza back into the Stone Age, the running order in today's edition of the supposedly liberal Guardian:

* Number of known Israeli hostages grows

* Blinken starts diplomacy to limit coming death toll

* UK government urges restraint

* Might Egypt open its border?

* US deploys another aircraft carrier to Middle East

* Israelis vow to rebuild kibbutz destroyed by Hamas

* Jewish-Arab solidarity projects offer hope

* Frankfurt book fair cancels talk by Palestinian writer

* Antisemitic attacks on rise in parts of UK

* TikTok to curb disinformation about Israel and Hamas

> The only things on offer are details of how the genocide in Gaza is to be organised and why it's justified.

> The genocide itself, and the Palestinians being massacred, are bit players – the background noise to excitement over the coming ground invasion.

> Simply astonishing.

https://twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/17138503523430727...
Funny enough, I actually like TikTok because shorts have better content and they're presented in a different context. Not mixed with longform videos.

I'm not sure if Google product people actually use their products.
Snapdragon X Series chips are heading to PCs to take on Apple's processors
Nope.

> YouTube generated $29.2 billion revenue in 2022. Over 2.5 billion people access YouTube once a month. YouTube Premium reached 80 million subscribers in 2022.

Src: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

I suppose with $30 billions of revenue, and billions of users per month, you theoretically can create $2 per month Premium and still have big profits.
Right. And whenever I try to use youtube-dl, historically there's been a 25%+ chance that it's broken at that point in time. Either I have to update it, or download it from somewhere else or whatever. I think last time I had to go outside of the debian repo to get a binary or something.
> The cartoon, featuring Netanyahu operating on his own stomach, showed a cut in the outline of the Gaza Strip.

> Moneylender Shylock, from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, is considered to be one of the most notorious Jewish stereotypes in English literature due to his greedy nature.

> In the Bard's famous play, Shylock asks for a pound of Antonio's flesh a loan isn't repaid within three months.

Seems like the right call not to publish it, but not sure I see how the cartoon would have been referring to the “pound of flesh” from that description.
This is the natural evolution of Webmin. I've used it for a few things. Nice to have in my homelab for quickly glancing at what a box is doing, software packages etc.
Very often find an answer

- from 10 years ago, and an entirely different version of the language/library

- from more recently, but it's been closed as a duplicate

- with a specific caveat, but that guy ignored and the question was also closed as a duplicate.

- with a wrong answer, that you'd like to post a correct answer for, but you haven't karma farmed enough
But we have/had architectures that expose parallelism at the instruction set. Eg itanium and graphcore. And the PS2 made cache management the programmer's problem. I don't think any of these experiments proved successful in the long run.
It's an even more tenuous accusation when you get to:

In the same year, senior Conservative MP Sajid Javid tweeted that Bell's cartoon - depicting former Home Secretary Priti Patel and ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson as bulls with rings through their noses - was "incredibly offensive".

Mr Javid said it was "reminiscent of antisemitic cartoons from the last century," adding the Guardian "should know better".

Pratel having been raised Hindu (IIRC) and Johnson having great grandparents all over the spectrum (one jewish great grandmother according to wikipedia).

It all smacks of want to cast shade over The Guardian's cartoons, which is an understandable position but these "reasons" seem pretty thin.
I’m not sure I agree. Depends more on your relationship with the platform. If you spend many hours browsing content, and particularly consuming and engaging with content that affects your mood, that’s a sign of a poor relationship with social media; not the specifically the topic of the content

Some examples of possible offenders in HN favorite topics: discussions of inflation, discussions of housing shortage, discussions of government and their policy, discussions of big tech and the possibly harmful things big tech does, discussions of basically anything about crypto, web3, or metaverse, discussions about censorship, the list goes on

If you look in the comment threads for these topics you see the signs of unhealthy relationship with social media. Highly emotional and inflammatory arguments with total internet strangers
Fortunately, I do live in the woods and I do expect to homeschool ... but its quite defeatist to suggest parents must live with their kids being on social media 5 hrs per day, just cause everyone else lets their kids do it.
What makes these libraries heart-pounding? Seems like clickbait. (Generally I prefer my heart rate to remain low while using libraries anyway)
> No, at the moment Isaac is only available on a paid plan.

Seems like this needs to be updated.
Jira and Confluence were both developed in-house. Trello was acquired.
This was the same guy who was accused of depicting Priti Patel as a bull (sacred to Hindus)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2020/03/08/guardian...

I'm not surprised, he was always teetering on the edge of free speech
Cool, TIL.

I was kind of there, but I don't feel like this is something I should necessarily have been aware of:

> apart from one diagnostic tape available from IBM, there seems never to have been any software sold on tape, and the interface was not included on the followup PC XT.

Yeah, I don't think I knew anyone with a first-gen IBM PC, rather than an XT or XT clone. Even so, it seems like even for something as niche as the personal computer was pre-1983, this seems like an extra niche bit of lore. I wouldn't be surprised if a good proportion of people who were properly there didn't have that knowledge.

But, sure, be a douche about it if it makes you feel more superior. Whatever.

> An IBM PC with just an external cassette recorder for storage could only use the built-in ROM BASIC as its operating system, which supported cassette operations. IBM PC DOS had no support for cassette tape,

So, are you saying that PKZip supported running on the pre-XT ROM BASIC OS, as well as PC-DOS/MS-DOS?
It’s definitely starting to look like some of the gun rights groups are just an advertising arm of the gun manufacturers.
A cell phone from 2 decades ago is an entirely different product from a cell phone today. That needs to be accounted for.
Until the phone is initialized, it seems as if it would be Apples property right?
Proton Mail Bridge normalizes line breaks in plaintext emails to conform with cleartext PGP signing rules. This sometimes creates problems with third-party cleartext signing which is used by programs such as git-send-email. Third-party signing is not actually a supported use case of the Bridge and this can be worked around by requesting a SMTP submission token.
if you are writing multithreaded programs, and considering dealing with signals, then yes.
Not really. Most people in that situation worked on what was available that paid, and then retired with a grown up family successfully provided for. That's not a serf.
One of the challenges of Gitlab is that the pricing does not work well in organizations where a significant portion of accounts would need to be non-developer roles.

With devs and a premium tier, this isn't bad... but the "ok, we need to double the user count and move from premium to ultimate, even though most people are only looking for multi-level epics and the reporter role." That represents a significant cost increase.

Taking all the devs from $29 to $99 and doubling the accounts is a lot more than $15 per account (devs, ba/pm/mgr, business).
Sure, but those millions will do you no good when you relatively inevitably are sitting in jail and have forfeited those sums and more in fines & restitution.

These are supposed to be intelligent people, yet they seem to not realize that there are also intelligent people on the investigation/prosecution side, and/or that events (e.g., crash from organic causes or competitors' interference) can make obvious their crimes?

Maybe not so intelligent, and certainly not ethical.
Likely related to Medicare policies and reimbursement rates, upon which many other insurers base their rates (e.g. reimburse up to 200% of the Medicare allowed rate).
There ought to be a dedicated IMDb for podcasts, just as there is one for books
You could read those books on the internet too.
Both are just a medium for distributing information.

(I get what you mean, but I think it's an important distinction that is often left out)
That’s not how enterprise sales work.

If you have a company that has 95 PCs and 5 Macs, it helps a lot to say “we are the one neck to choke across your entire enterprise”. It’s helping you sale 100 licenses.

Could any company today that cared about big enterprise go in today without having a Mac solution? The Mac is still a small share of the enterprise market.
This is already happening with lots of small business websites -- they are only on Facebook, so you can't eg. look at the menu without a Facebook account.