skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly right, this article wrongly imagines we can treat the problem by exercising the problem. Learn to sit still and give your deep mind a chance to be present, this might lead to actual creativity.
And remember that the largest toy company is worth billions of dollars. Toys can be serious business.
A friend of mine makes a product[0] based on Miraculin, a sort of a sweetener. I've tried it some time ago and the effect was completely unexpected. Everything becomes sweet beyond your wildest imaginations. Stuff that is acidic and sweet like oranges and mandarines are cranked up to 11, sorry no, 21. It felt like seeing an impossible color, but from a taste perspective. Make of that what you want.

[0]: https://mywozi.com/
I used Cloud9 for about nine months before Amazon acquired the company.

I loved it-- I loved having separate environments per-project. I enjoyed the collaborative features as well (send a link to look at code or preview something, etc). I see a lot of potential with them and I would love for them to be more mainstream.

After Amazon acquired the company I cancelled my subscription (I was paying annually.. I think it was $190??). I knew Amazon was going to murder the service, require an AWS login and who knows what.

I have tried others since then like code spaces and some open source/self hostable solutions (I have even tried the old self-hostable Cloud9 code).

Ultimately, I gave up on it... why? I didn't like the idea of self hosting (more attack surface area, etc). I didn't like any companies offering the service.
How is this man a tech-bro? Did you read the same article I did?
So Tor and I2P also should be criticized? IMO, something being away enough from the government that it starts to get abused shows how secure/private it is.
Isn't the main reason to use experienced, reliable actors that there is a budget and schedule to make and you need people who can reliably deliver?

2nd reason being to use their names to promote the movie?

For reliability, it will be hard to beat AIs: they don't die or get hangovers and you can dial their age and mood back and forth.
Amen, all the structures in the world are useless if it's not producing something useful.
Unrelated to ArgoCon but related to ArgoCD:

I’ve been working on implementing ArgoCD and I am surprised by some design choices, so I wonder if someone could shed some light as to why they were made:

- `Application` resources can only be created in the `argocd` namespace (argocd >=2.5 tries to address this, but it is not a stable feature[0] and has bugs). This is surprising since in Kubernetes resources are generally Namespaced, or, offered in 2 flavors: `ClusterResource` and `Resource`. This is a problem on multi-tenant clusters where you do not want users to have any permissions to the `argocd` namespaces. I would have expected ArgoCD to offer `Application` and `ClusterApplication` resources.

- The ArgoCD controller has full admin access to the cluster, and authorization is implemented directly by ArgoCD with its own RBAC system[1]: why didn’t ArgoCD rely on the native Kubernetes RBAC system instead?

[0] https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/app...

[1] https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/rba...
I think that we are being overwhelmed and it hurts us in more ways than our creativity. We are moving through the world in constant distraction.

Until recently, when I was doing something around the house, no matter what, I was listening to music, podcasts, or books.

I found that it seemed like it was taking for ever for me to do the simplest tasks. After a while... I figured that I must be going slower because I was always doing two things at once. After a few weeks of doing the dishes without ear buds in, I don't think I'll ever go back. I am not able to focus better and get things done.

If you are like I was, and you are always inundated with some distraction, try moving through the world without it.
Even if they have capacity, the probably do not want to ship out that many the first year. There will be a lot of kinks to work out - there were a lot of kinks to work out for previous models that were not so divergent. So cranking them out in huge quantities for the first year or two is asking to have your shirt handed to you on warranty work.

For comparison, Rivian has delivered about 40k and Ford has maybe shipped 13k F150 Lightnings?
5 kids
Given that it's not feasible for me to answer calls unless they come from someone I already know, a large aspect of the network is not operational in practice.
Chemistry is somewhat environment- and temperature-dependent, but there's no other element that behaves like carbon in any known conditions.

Carbon's chemistry comes from three major factors:

(1) It forms four bonds readily.
(2) It can form double- and triple-bonds readily.
(3) It bonds strongly to itself in a configuration that allows it to form long chains.

(1) is satisfied by other elements in its column on the periodic table, but silicon (the next element down in its group) and the following members (germanium, tin, and lead) fail (2) and increasingly (3). Silicon will form chains, but is reluctant to form double bonds; in general, double bonds become weaker for atoms further down the table. Silicon (and silicone, chains of Si-O bonds) are the most promising analogs but they have a lot of problems.

(2) is satisfied by most other light nonmetals, but those nonmetals mostly fail (3) and almost all fail (1).

The highly-electronegative oxygen doesn't really want to bond with itself (failing 3) and almost always takes a -2 oxidation state (failing 1).

Nitrogen actually does form four-bond atoms decently often (most notably the ammonium ion), so it somewhat satisfies (1) to some extent, but is so eager to form N2 that most polynitrogen compounds are wildly unstable to the point that "nitro" is a term even laypeople know is associated with explosives (failing 3).

Boron can form three bonds, allowing some of the complexity of (1), and will form nice polyboron compounds (3), but doesn't like forming double bonds (failing 2), and the bonds in boranes are so weak that they're mostly quite reactive (weakening 3).

Sulfur will form polysulfur chains (the most common form is an eight-membered ring), but sulfur (like its cousin oxygen) usually doesn't form more than two bonds except with extremely electronegative partners (like its effective total bond order of 3 in sulfur dioxide or 4 in sulfur trioxide).

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There's another problem here too: life is likely to form out of common elements in its environment, and carbon is just WAY more common than the alternatives. The mechanisms by which the elements are formed in stars very strongly favors elements with even atomic numbers (because they are mostly formed from helium-4 nuclei) and the burning processes peak at carbon/oxygen, neon, magnesium, and silicon.

As a result, carbon is very common. It's the fourth most common element in the Universe (after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen), and ~an order of magnitude more common than any of the elements discussed above except oxygen (which has basically no analogs to carbon chemistry).
Maybe… Tesla doesn’t allow lease buyouts on some models. At least that is the case for my Y.
Pretty disappointing! It eventually does get around to finding the right critique:

> the success of nuclear power is much more about project management, financing, and policy than it is cutting-edge engineering or safety.

But suppose you optimize the hell out of that, then what do you get? Maybe, just maybe back to 1960s costs, at the very best.

That's not good enough. We need more advanced tech that delivers energy more cheaply. Defining "efficiency" as MWh/acre is just plain silly, and greatly reduces the credibility of the article. What a useless metric, unrelated to economics, that shows a gaping hole in the analysis. Its just boosterism because except for the useless metric, there's nothing appealing about nuclear as a power generation tech, in its current forms.

Given a bet between Web3 and nuclear as foundational future techs, would pick Web3 in a heart beat, and let me tell you just how little I believed that silly pitch when a16z was making it... much less now!
Agreed, these people who write about productivity make everything so complicated. We don't need books or systems for this. Just read and watch what interests you and ignore everything else.
I thought it was more about independence. Got a bug in your service? Instead of one massive build deployed once an hour/day/week/etc. that gets rolled back if any commit was bad, you deploy your service when it changes and don't worry too much about the unrelated pieces.
> We’ve also gotten very good at operating reactors without incident, increasing our capacity factor, or uptime, to more than 90% (France is only around 75%).

Mandatory nick-picking from a chauvinist French: France is “only” around 70+% because we do use nuclear for much more than just base production, and modulate the production to fit the demand variation, not because Americans operators are somehow better ;).

Also, unsurprisingly from A16Z they put most of the blame on regulation, but the main reason why nuclear is costly today is because there's barely an industry around it and there's no mass production. And unsurprisingly, custom built one-shot stuff cost much more than serial production.
No - the laws of nature are the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle

> Astronomer William Keel explains:

> The cosmological principle is usually stated formally as 'Viewed on a sufficiently large scale, the properties of the universe are the same for all observers.' This amounts to the strongly philosophical statement that the part of the universe which we can see is a fair sample, and that the same physical laws apply throughout. In essence, this in a sense says that the universe is knowable and is playing fair with scientists.

There is no evidence that the nature of the electron or carbon atom is different in different parts of the universe. This would be detectable (if it was) by shifts in the spectral lines for atoms or differences in ratios of elements.

The law of gravity appears to be consistent throughout the observable universe. The physics of atoms and ratios associated with nucleosythesis have been shown to be consistent.

The constants of physics appear to remain constant over billions of years ( https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050220.html - " Oklo by-products are being used today to probe the stability of the fundamental constants over cosmological time-scales" )

How do we know that distant galaxies are composed of matter rather than anti-matter? If equal quantities of each were produced in the big bang, might not some parts of the universe contain primarily matter and other parts primarily anti-matter? - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-we-know-th...
According to Geekbench, an i5-8500T scores ~1100 single core, ~4000 multicore with it's 35W TDP, while the Orange Pi 5 gets ~840 single core and ~2900 multicore. About 75% of the performance at less than 20% of the power. Not too shabby, despite the orange pi being no efficiency star.

Recycling is good, but only to a point. At some point the cost of operation (and resource pressure from its use) will exceed the cost of a more efficient device - at least until we get abundant green power...
Gave them my DNA last year, am not tech illiterate. It was cool to see the results, though not life-changing. I don't regret the decision - I don't understand why I should care that my DNA sequence is on a shady website somewhere. I don't understand the threat model people have here - how will my life be negatively impacted by this?
Most people trying to be creative in the business world should read Orbiting the Giant Hairball. It’ll get you going.
Keep in mind that American Express customers tend to spend more. Stores wouldn’t pay these interchange fees if they didn’t think the added spending is worth it.

Cash also is not free to accept. The cost of handling it is quite significant. Time spent on counts, armored cars, change scams, etc., are all added costs.
I'm a confused. Are you saying that a chart isn't a histogram unless each bar represents the same number of items? I'm not sure I've even seen a chart like that before, I'd love to see an example if you've got one handy.
Also the recommendation to block content to curate your feed and not just scroll past it. Does he even realize what he is suggesting? That the user curates the social media feed to be more tailored and thus addictive. It won’t shorten just because you block stuff.

The actual cure to that crap is to fill your day with healthier activities so that you’ll end up surprising yourself you hadn’t browsed Instagram today.
I just wanted to push back a bit on the idea that responsive design is a web innovation, or why we are where we are today. Here's a Visual Basic 6 tutorial from 2007 describing forms resized automatically based on screen size: https://web.archive.org/web/20100419123457/http://www.dreami...

If native app ecosystems had as much invested in them (monetarily and people-hours) as the web ecosystem has, it would easily blow away anything you can currently do with a browser, and it'd be much easier. But investment got steadily and increasingly redirected to the web, while simultaneously progress was being held back by the limitations of the web.
The bigger firms were keeping them close to the chest because they are embarrassing.
If you're younger and have no idea where the poster is coming from... let me tell you about the beginning of the CD-ROM era.

Everyone thought "Gee, we've got all this storage space! What should we build?"

... and everyone answered "A pinball game!"

I have no idea why, but essentially every PC game magazine demo disc, bargain bin "20 games!" collection, etc. had at least one pinball game.

It was bizarre.

I guess the game design space was constrained enough for pinball games that fly-by-night companies had no problem getting funding to build one?

My most bizarre memory was actually playing a ton of Outpost Odyssey pinball.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz24m_5Zki4

Which was a Sierra pinball game... built in the theme of another Sierra game (Outpost)... that itself was a bit harder scifi SimCity.

I guess it was good pinball?
Weapons and safety concerns are pretty minimal concerned to basic viability of the tech, I think.

Steam generation for electricity is mostly a dead end, IMHO. Being attached to it is like saying that typewriters have been the backbone of business communication for a century, so we had better invest big in them for the future.
I agree with the title, but I wish the solution was less about a second brain and more about giving ourselves space.

The past week I've been getting burned in meetings, and just a whole lot of "to-do". And I'm just not as creative anymore because I don't have the room to be bored and ponder (which I like)
I'm not sure what you mean "no information whatsoever about it's real world range, weight nor price"

https://results-2023.runonless.com/truck/?day=1&depot=pepsic...

The Semi specs list "Fully Loaded at 82k lbs Gross Combination Weight" for their stats, maybe you're looking for something else?

Apparently price was/is listed somewhere, or maybe you have to deal with Tesla directly, because they are currently focused on fleets, and don't have to still set-up the increased charging infrastructure (?) https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-semi-prices-rele...
I'd easily make the bet that the Cybertruck will be a giant, enormous flop. Sure, there will be plenty of early demand from the "I have the first one on my block" crowd, but I've heard numerous, numerous reviews about how the design, from the flat metal panels to the visibility, is a practical disaster.

I am genuinely open to "convince me otherwise" opinions. E.g. if there was a buyer looking at, say, a Rivian or F150 Lightning, is there anything beyond just the pure novelty that would tip them to the Cybertruck? I just haven't found basically any reviews that don't think there are numerous problems with the design.
Cybertruck being vaporware is a basically fact at this point. They're releasing a car that looks alike, but it's nothing like what was initially advertised.

It's not an exoskeleton, bullet proof, easy to manufacture car with 500 miles of range and $40k price tag.
Makes perfect sense when you consider that kids who owned a Gameboy when it was current (the time when Frasier was on the air) are now in their 40s.
The orange pi 5 Geekbench score is ~75% of the i5-8500T used as example, so no - the sff won't be done in a fraction of the time. These CPUs are old and crusty after all...

I do agree that modern CPUs are required for high-load situations.
Why Microsoft was never able to come up with Borland C++Builder competitor? i.e. RAD for C++.

Even today there is no WinUI3 GUI designer for C++.
That jury would have been equally swayed if the sample had come directly from me.
I agree on the idea of an electric Maverick. One of the problems I have with the CT is size. Not only is it an opionated design with lots of usability compromises, but it's enormous. It's more or less the size of my F250, which I never drive unless I'm pulling my trailer. Because it's huge!
There was a YouTube video of a trucker making fun of this monstrosity and explaining how, as a driver, this truck was a death trap. 100% this was designed by some Jimmy Ivine impersonator and no feedback from actual truck drivers went into it. How do you design a truck with minimal room for a bed and other amenities.
You know all the huge scientists and mathematicians etc from ye olden days?

They spent years on that stuff, mostly just meandering around the world or their country, letting their brain ruminate on the issue at hand slowly. They had actual hobbies that weren't related to their craft and a bunch of free time.

Very rarely were major discoveries done by working long days and just forcing it.
I think it’s not unlike other addictions. You end up using constant external stimulus to not have to deal with whatever is actually bothering you in your life.

The concept I was missing basically since smartphones become a thing was this thing called “solitude”
Doesn't seem like this is a settled debate at all.
There is (almost) /always/ a faster language. As with any stack, the advantage of PHP being used for background processing in a PHP application is you're already using it, so you don't end up having to manage multiple codebases.

I was involved in several large PHP projects which did a lot of background processing (not Google scale, but telco scale) and performance was more than adequate in all cases.

The advantages of running a single codebases far outweighed any potential benefit of a speed increase from switching to another language. (... I say that having been the jerk that actually did rewrite one small component in C and it turned out to be a huge waste of time and effort and just meant something additional the team has had to manage in the almost 20 years since I did it!)
My sense of taste and smell is ~30% since Covid in June of 2022. Luckily there’s still mild taste so eating isn’t completely joyless. another symptom that started at this time was extreme nasal snoring so bad that I wake myself up and that has never happened before and it just started happening in June 2022.

I finally got to an ENT, literally yesterday, where they did a nasal endoscopy. There was mild inflammation, but no major deviation or polyps or anything worrying the diagnosis from them was Covid related since nothing structural was observed.

I just got a taste and smell training kit that arrived from Amazon today and I think that’s basically my only course of action at this point. Here’s hoping
Line capacity is always based on perfect attendance, perfect supply, and the build vehicles never changing. So they could hit 125k if every single one was identical and nothing went wrong.

Maybe.
Depending on what photos you see they look similar IMO. The mandatory side mirrors are different and having a wiper blade changes the front look. I couldn't say for sure but maybe some of the angles are less drastic on the production model resulting in a less neat look? It does look like a chonk out in public though, something you don't really see when it's on stage or on their reporter track.
Did you mean replicate it?
The Gulf stream is about making parts of the US east coast and northern Europe warmer. If you like being warm, you can leave those areas, but it's hard to say how much colder they will be or how quickly.

For sea-level rise climate change mitigation, look at topographical maps of coastal areas. Some coastal areas have very quick climbs in elevation as you move inland. Others remain very shallow for incredible distances. The more dense an area is with wealth (think Manhattan), the more likely it is for there to be actual mitigation to sea-level rise like substantial seawalls. But the more dispersed the population and infrastructure is, the less possible that will be.

For precipitation related changes, extreme weather / natural disaster related changes, etc. we don't have much reliable modeling. But consider what the economy and demographics are like in the area you reside in, how much existing poverty or famine there is, how reliable infrastructure is, and whether your area is a net food importer or net food exporter and how much margin it has to undergo decreased agricultural productivity and still feed itself. Consider the ease or difficulty with which net-food-importer-region displaced refugees would be able to migrate to your area, as well as the size of such populations.
> a list of numbers can not be copyrighted

Any digital object can be represented as a list of numbers (this is precisely the origin of the term digital). Since there is clearly precedent for copyrighted digital objects (media, software, etc), reducing something to "a list of numbers" is not a useful distinction in regard to copyright law.
Congrats - I was in a team in South Africa that digitised a loan origination process for a consumer credit bank. Interesting stuff.
Totally get the dynamics of venture capital, but there seems to be a very big gap between funding 50 companies with 1 returning the entire fund and what OP described which is the "average" VC-backed company eventually being used to attempt to defraud unsophisticated consumer and public market investors.
Blast looked smaller than a car, nowhere near the payload that was used on the hospital. Also range isn’t payload so not sure why it’s being mentioned.
That's not typically what people mean when they use the word 'apparently' in that context. 'Apparent' and 'Apparently' aren't synonyms, which I guess can be confusing.

"You use apparently to indicate that the information you are giving is something that you have heard, but you are not certain that it is true." [1]

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/apparen...
Do you have a link to this? I looked on their site and Sourceforge but didn't see anything about it.
The game theory of the Republican speakership crisis