skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now I just buy books and don't read them. I'll also buy audiobooks and bounce between them not really remembering much of the plots until I fall asleep.

I'm sorta addicted to Audio books. I apparently listened to slightly over 2000 one year on Audible.

Though for me, I can have half a dozen books and remember most of the plot(s). Smaller details will slip my mind, but the overall plot gist is just like a fun puzzle for my ADHD brain and it's back within minutes. Though for the life of me I can't recall if I took my medication today.

> I don't really like watching TV ...

Ugh, I've gotten that way in the past few years. It's kinda annoying, and I can only "focus" if it's a really good TV show.
You build something like 3x peak demand and produce hydrogen or ammonia while you have a surplus so that you can burn it while the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow or use it as feedstock for your industrial processes. Industrial scale hydrogen electrolyzers exist, we just need to build more of them once we have a steady electricity surplus that allows us to run them economically.
Your comment made me realize that I may have ADHD... I'm 42. I completely relate to parent comment too. Can someone point me to liturgies on the condition, I would like to understand a bit more? What is the process to get a diagnosis?
> Windows hardware support for consumer devices is just better.

YMMV. My run-of-the-mill corporate hp-recommends-windows laptop's webcam was unsupported under Windows for approx. a year after I bought it. Worked OOB on Linux since day one.

Ditto for my other run-of-the-mill corporate hp-recommends-windows laptop's intel iGPU: it had a tough time outputting 4k@60Hz over the hp dock. Had to do a weird dance of unplugging and replugging the monitor at just the right time to make it work. Fixed after some Windows update half a year in. 0 issues since day one on Linux. Also, on this particular machine, you better have an external mouse for installing Windows, since it doesn't recognize the touchpad. Ditto for the integrated intel wifi card. Bonus points for Windows insisting on connecting to the internet (the pc doesn't have any onboard wired network). Last I tried, it was win11 22h2. The computer is a 2020 model.
I was told that Delaware also has the best abonymity? Has Delaware been dethroned by Nevada and Wyoming in this aspect?
I think OP means they used AI to create/code the app, instead of AI being used in the app.
> Given how many activists have used it in overthrowing dictatorial governments

How many? There's some news about it being recommended for use by BLM protesters, and about it being blocked in China, Iran, etc. Where is this info about it being used in "overthrowing dictatorial governments"?
Apple agrees to improve texting between iPhones and Androids
The ones getting sold on this kickstarter are grooved to keep the hangers at a neat 90 degrees to the wall. With a normal rod the hangers can twist some. Whether or not this is a problem is up to personal taste.
Substack hasn’t really figured out a business model. They took $86 million of VC money at the height of the boom and used it for exorbitant payouts to writers, creating the illusion of success.

Last year Substack failed to raise another VC round and ended up trying crowdfunding instead. Notably they refused to answer any questions about how much money they’re losing and if they ever expect to be profitable — a weird look when you’re soliciting investors:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23660473/substack-retail-...

Personally I’d give Substack less than 20% chances of survival. This kind of information-free crowdfunded investment round is a mark of high desperation.
If your phone spent most of its time on WiFi that was never a problem.
If you’re looking for a weekend project and are even slightly handy… a fan and a decent furnace filter is a good cheap solution.

I’ve got two 3M filtrete filters, some activated charcoal sitting in front of them, and a small duct fan to pull air through it all. (Build information is in this comment and the one reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37223106). For what a filter rated for 600sqft would have cost me, I instead got one that can do 3,000sqft. Or more usefully less space with more air changes per hour (like ten per hour instead of two).

I’ve got a $600-ish German air quality monitor that says it does what it should, which makes sense because as long as you’re pulling air through the filters… they’re gonna filter.

If you’re looking smaller scale, you can buy sheets of activated charcoal and sheets of MERV13 filter material. A little 120mm fan and a tiny filter box could run pretty quietly in an office and do the trick.

However I think the most important advice I’d give (and also the cheapest!) is to, unless you’re in a _heavily_ polluted area, open your windows. No air filter you’re going to get will remove CO2 and once you start measuring it you’d be amazed/horrified how quickly it builds up indoors to “brain fog” levels.
it may be boring and unnecessary but being dystopian is an integral part of what cyberpunk is. you may want to take a look at solarpunk as an alternative that is distinctively not dystopian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31325956
Are your numbers electricity or primary energy? You're sources don't say. I assume nowtricity is electricity because of the domain? But then it says "CO2 emissions per country" so one would assume it's all of primary energy (including traffic and heating?).
Still recognizable from some imbalance in higher frequencies which could also be due to the use or simulation of an harmonic exciter, and the usual "s" still sounding a bit fake, but yeah they made some pretty darn good progress lately.
Show HN: Secret Santa Bash for the Holidays
Hello! Yet another app to organize Secret Santa parties with wishlists and anonymous messaging (but without the need for logins). I'd love for people to try it out, and open to feedback/suggestions!
Bored 14 year old me basically
had this, it was pretty booring. Destroying data mechanically with a sledge hammer was much more fun.
One thing that's slightly off putting about OpenTelemetry is how resource attributes don't get included as prometheus labels for metrics, instead they are on an info metric which requires a join to enrich the metric you are interested in.

Luckily the prometheus exporters have a switch to enable this behaviour, but there's talk of removing this functionality because it breaks the spec. If you were to use the OpenTelemetry protocol in to something like Mimir, you don't have the option of enabling that behaviour unless you use prometheus remote write.

Our developers aren't a fan of that.

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/compatibility/prome...
> My behavior is only as ethical as the legal system can enforce and the financial impact of moral outrage among the investor class demands.

The best definition of capitalism i ever saw.
In case you're still giving money to them, perhaps consider not donating to an organization that marks people as bigots for speaking against religious extremism.

edit They do do a lot of good work in marking actual hate groups though, so I suppose it's a net positive still even if they miss a few strikes.
I would guess getting access to drugs is the main (and for some the only) reason.
Everyone benefits knowing a bit about the Explore-Exploit Tradeoff in any job where Creativity/Learning is a requirement.

There is no right and wrong cause everyone hits the tradeoff point sooner or later. And when it happens context switches from Explore to Exploit or vice versa are the way to go.

Some people find it hard to switch up after the point is passed and that's what effects mental health when it's a single person act. With group acts, different dynamic apply cause people see each other blind spots and can compensate.

The tradeoff is effected by lot of different constraints - time, resources, knowledge, access to knowledge etc. Over time People develop awareness of which one has the most influence on hitting the trade off point.
If only he knew that elections are just glorified popularity contests.
sounds good but who do you email?
I think the more important point would be that many of their most prominent writers would not put up with it. I imagine that has way more influence than a large number of writers with tens to hundreds of subscribers.
note that ubuntu is trending towards the bad behavior that windows and macos are trying to normalize.

it talks to the mothership behind the scenes, it forces updates, and although the package manager should be your friend, they have sort of weaponized it so you can't uninstall their packages easily.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1434512/how-to-get-rid-of-ub...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/135540/what-is-the-whoopsie-...
I'll ask the question you're implying out loud.

Why does an organization with about 50 employees need 4 C-level executives, totalling about 2M compensation per year? Or perhaps it's 7 C-level executives (3 hiding under the "Software developer" title) totalling about 3,7M compensation per year?

I'm absolutely not donating money to such a thing without an answer to this question. As a counterpoint, I am a member of a local (Finnish) non-profit organization, one of whose many services is Matrix. This costs me 40 euros per year and none of that money goes to C-level executives.
I already have firefox installed on all my machines slowly transitioning over. Chromes new UI updates are really pushing me over to firefox faster. Now when I set up nee computers for friends I install firefox for them, when they ask me why not chrome I tell them chrome is old news and not to be trusted which they happily accept and use firefox. Slowly the tide is turning.
Thank you for sharing this, I've had "look at tracing" on my to do list for months and assumed it was identical to APM. It seems it won't be a direct substitute, which helps explain the cost difference.
I don't think Ubuntu 20.04 is considered "modern" in this discussion, though macos did, at the time, already have ram compression.

Also, as a curiosity, do you know how much swap there was? Usually, distros only create a limited amount of it. But I agree, as a user, you shouldn't have to worry about that.
And there I was thinking that Apple would finally introduce a Revision Control System.
Shouldn't that be g/person not g/kwh? E.g. when travelling to the US I was astonished to see escalators going at night with no one around. In Germany they stop at night. Or Germany uses lots of public transport while the US doesn't. Which reflects in the numbers, the US has much higher g/person compared to Germany (Didn't look into Portugal).
Amazon to sell Hyundai vehicles online starting in 2024
> Planet where it rains sand revealed by NASA telescope

Keep up the good work guys. Remember, we need a planet where it rains oil. /s
Worth noting this is Simone Giertz, she's a very popular maker on the internet, and her youtube channel has over 2M subscribers.

A lot of her funding on KS is porbably based on that alone.

It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time.

Ultimately the volume taken up by the clothes is the same, you either have a shallow but wide closet, or deep but narrow. If you are not worried about the crease this might cause down the middle, then you might as well fold the garment and put it on a shelf?

Also, where are trousers supposed to go now?
The history of the Internet shows you really shouldn't trust that. If I had a Substack list I cared about, I'd regularly export the emails.
This is a work in progress, their transition isn't done yet.

Without nuclear no risks tied to a major accident, dependancy towards uranium providers, hot waste disposal, overcentralization, overcentralization, proliferation, daunting building and decommission projects... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38288706 )

Not a bad deal.
There goes your 13%.
I get the reason, but there's no need to worry. Most people here know that links aren't personal unless it's a Show/Ask/Tell HN. You can find other examples on the front page.

HN has a thing against questions in titles because a lot of them are clickbait. I don't care about this rule but that's why it was changed.
Pro Hint: due to licensing issues and EU regulations, "Windows Pro Education N" is pretty much the most bloatware free version, as it's also compliant with HIPAA.

- No media codecs

- No AI recording/transcription features due to missing media codecs

- No cortana

- No Teams upselling, no Office upselling, no Skype

- No self installing games
If you view a file system as running concurrently with another instance of itself where it could be preempted at any time indefinitely and where your algorithm for ensuring your crash protocol invariant must be lock free (two threads helps here) then you get a good sense for the complexity of the problem.
Because people want the outcome and not the process.
Thats pretty much my adhd. Maybe its you who should visit the doctor.
I understand that it's counter to the very specific brand of minimalism HN does, but it would be neat if Youtube submissions displayed the channel name without needing to click.
Big [citation needed]
I will not use those sites simple as. If there is media I want I can get it from the high seas, for free and have a better view experience. The corps have more too lose in this game. If they want more piracy and this is how you get more piracy.
Great news, there are only a means for capitalist supermarket chains to cut down costs in employees.

Even if it is Booths, maybe it can send a signal.

I am regularly expecting the next level, where besides self-service, we are also expected to take goods from warehouse, full of boxes downloaded from robot delivery trucks.
How can AI “take out” artists ? It’s an absurd statement.

Maybe career wise? Should art have ever been really considered a career ? It was a nice side effect people might pay for it, outside of that ?
To be clear, I am entirely in the camp of algorithm patents being largely ineffective in software. I am not advocating for them, just recognizing the reality today.

In my view, the default outcome will be trade secrets, and it is already the case in many software areas. This has limits in practice as software trade secrets do have a tendency to leak out. I know a few clever database algorithms that are almost certainly trade secrets somewhere (origin is unclear), passed down but not in any public literature. On the other hand, I am aware of major (qualitative) tech advancements in e.g. graph algorithms that have not leaked after 15 years.

I think we need to be clear about the objective with IP law.
I don't know that I'd say shares "tumbled"; the price is still up over a 5-day period and well above the 30-day low.
That can all be true, while the post is still bad. Substack isn’t perfect (as I said) but I think their issues are VC-hypergrowth inflicted and not due to a problem with the fundamental business model.
It's more of a political problem than a tech problem.
I am upset she put in all that effort and did not stain the wood.
Good luck getting a conviction off your record.
anf France, and UK, and Germany, and ..
Maybe I misremember, but isn't the fault about expectations vs reality due to how this was introduced?

I had the feeling Meta released this with great fanfare saying "do science with it" so of course there was backlash when it was shown to hallucinate.

I mean the website still sounds like it
https://galactica.org/mission/
But what I mean is: you point out that WordPress is crazy popular right now (in a thread largely critical of WP) and you post a comic showing it was good in 2004, 19 years ago.
Exactly. And although Substack has done a good job of building their brand, on the technical side they have pretty much zero "moat". The service they provide is incredibly simple. It never made sense as a VC-funded massive growth business. It would have been better off as a self-sustained private company, almost along the lines of Craiglist. Patreon finds itself in a similar boat.
As always, this is the electrical grid only, not all the other stuff a nation will need various type of energy for. Still it's a major stepping stone.

Back in 2006/2007 I had a job as a consultant for an energy trading company and it was huge the first day when the entire country ran solely on wind power. If was during the Christmas holidays, so less power was used overall, but still it was absolutely a huge deal for us. After that if has just been more and more days on renewable energy powering the majority of grid and more and more frequently 100% renewable.

I get the problem that it's only for a short time and then Portugal is back at emitting CO2, but it also does mean that they are moving in the right direction and it's only going to get better.
IIRC, CUDA Toolkit 12.0 added partial support for C++20 in nvcc and nvrtc.
> EV charging won't raise overall power consumption that much

It does create a better use for batteries. Both for raw materials and talent.
I'm not judging you for saying no, I'm judging you for not substantiating it. (Ex. "No, vim isn't so efficient that it justifies the learning curve", or " no, emacs is more customizable and vscode is easier")
Related: https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/ai-and-music-experiment/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38298670, but we merged the comments hither)
Yes, it is right there on the documentation.

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index....

Existing restrictions,

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-c-programming-guide/index....
Ooh, excellent Idea! Make it a feature from a limitation!
Relevant:

https://goblin.tools/
> This is a work in progress, their transition isn't done yet.

When will it be done? What really is the answer to the challenge?

Germany has ~140 GW of installed renewables when it needs about ~70GW of electricity.
and guess what those tables use to store data a lot of the time? Parquet.

I assume that when you say "tables" you mean "external tables" since you're in the data world.

If you didn't then I guess when you say "tables", you mean "tables" with everything including the kitchen sink? Database, compute, etc...? Does the database always have to be running for the table to be accessible? Responsibility for the database hardware, resources or services?

Of course there are fantastic new databases like Snowflake and BigQuery that separate compute and storage... but do they, really? Separating storage and compute is just incredible for scaling, suspend/resume, etc. But can you query a Snowflake/BigQuery table without also having to use their compute? Is there a way that I can just get a "table" and not be forced into using a specific compute-engine and all the other bells and whistles?

So when you say "table", where and how do I get one? And to maintain the theme of the article, a columnar/OLAP/analytics "table" in particular?

As you probably know, there are several (external table) options, Apache Iceberg probably being the most talked about one at the moment. External "tables" are just collections of metadata about your files, or conventions about how to lay your files down. When you query these tables with SQL using athena, redshift, snowflake, duckdb, etc... each and everyone of those query-engines is reading parquet files.

(Snowflake, BigQuery and others are working on features to both manage and read Iceberg tables, so i kinda lied earlier)
Pressure and coercion is part and parcel of existing
Then what does this mean for consensus algorithm like raft? Wouldn’t you need to power cycle disks and read back what you just wrote to ensure it actually got written and not just buffered?
>In stacking case, it is "expensive" to Read

It's not a stack data structure. You can pull out items from the middle of a stack.

>Plus folding the shirt in the first place takes more effort.

This is a skill which can be optimized to be very quick to do.
Stubborn? I’d say seditious.
In 20y we'll have much more solar energy produced than we could use.
I find this to be really interesting advise but I wonder when this is right and when this would be wrong.

Especially in C, where a lot of data is passed through pointers, you'd want to make sure the data you are given isn't pointing to nothing and can't always rely on the callee doing it for you.
Wouldn't there be issues following from distributed systems and CAP? Admittedly, I know nothing about Amoeba.

E.g. You spawn a process on another computer and then the connection drops.
I doubt that. Nuclear power plants provided rock solid baseload. It was always there. And now what? Coal and gas plants must be turned on to compensate missing generation capacity.
I was originally pursuing a career in theoretical physics. My master thesis was going to be a literature study on string theory.

The more I read, the more I went “what the heck, this theory can’t possibly be true, it’s so ad hoc with rules made up just to make it pass tests that otherwise would prove it conclusively wrong”

It made me disillusioned and I eventually ended up working as a developer instead.

I guess my instincts were right, because there has been extremely little real progress the last 25(!) years in the field…..
Whenever I'm helping a friend with their service, the price of my intervention is then switching over to Firefox, haha. The tide will turn
I find the cover band metaphor to be the best description of what most magicians do. It is absolutely a performance, and the experience cannot be boiled down to the list of notes, but is it art?
My take is that it becomes art when the performer introduces genuine personality, something uniquely their, to the performance. Which I found to be very uncommon in magic (to my sadness, there exist fantastic magicians who express themselves through the medium in ways that are unique and worth experiencing in person, I would love to see more of that).
Possibly the set of Nope: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xmdx0....

Not a balloon, but a big diffuser with a whole bunch of Cineo 410 LED sources.
> in no way indicative of a trend moving away from self checkouts in the UK. Self checkouts are as popular as ever

Indeed. Aldi just recently rolled out self checkout for example
Do you believe in the evidence of partial heritability of cognitive function that we see in twin studies like TEDS?

https://www.teds.ac.uk/about-teds

I think it can be simultaneously true that we suffer from believing ability is partly inherited, and also that we live in a world where that's actually the case. Though I also think it's cruel to tell a man with an IQ of 87 who's working as a chicken processor that the only reason he's not a Harvard professor is a bad education, bad parents, and his own failings.
No, you are asking why people should be allowed to seek happiness without a state or corporate entity using that as a method of control.