skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree with your last statement. We can each look back on our own childhoods and make a local and biased assessment. I loved my childhood and all of the experiences. I thank both the modern American social structure and my parents. Could it have been improved. Well sure, probably—but that is not an experiment I can run.
I.have done that, the.forest was unfertile sand just a few cm down while corn fields arw black dirt for as deep as I can dig. The real lesson above is location, I did the above in locations 1000km apart with very different soil profiles.

Modern corn farming is mostly done in former tall grass prairie. (Corn is a grass) forests are mostly in former forests you cannot compare anything about them.
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Made me curious so I went looking for information. Incredibly frustrating that almost every high-level source focuses on how the water is cleaned and solids are removed. Removed where? Doesn’t say. Eventually I found one local source that says it’s incinerated. So the human biological cycle doesn’t return the solids to the earth but puts it into the atmosphere? That’s pretty crappy.
Lots of scientists are religious firstly, and secondly naming things is hard!
When I was at uni I was buying and reading everything by Robert Kiyosaki, I got his 'rat race' game with extension, and spent time contemplating how to implement what he writes about. Sadly, I realized his advice is tuned towards US and not applicable to poor students like I was. I wonder if that book really influenced your decisions so now you can truly say your wealth would not exist if you had not bought this book?
In about 5 billion years, we'll have a really bad localized heating crisis in our solar system.
I’m struggling to think of any metro that’s more filthy than New York’s, so I’m not sure that’s saying much.
Depends. They had dial instruments and micrometers, but not like spark “feeler” plug gauges. Also no voltmeters (they had powered equipment though)

Come to think of it, I didn’t notice some of tools you’d need to work on an engine.
Note that the 5 caregivers per 1 child also contains a chain of older children, each looking after one another.

You take those 5 kids, and put them in school from ages 5 to 22 or even 26, obviously, there is going to be a dearth of labor supply.

The gain is those older kids in school gain financial freedom (especially the girls) rather than having to take care of younger kids. But the cost is still coming into view (not that it isn’t worth it, but we are in for big changes).
One of the tricks is to mix and match genders of known celebrities. E.g. A portrait a model that looks like Female Robert Downey Junior and Male Kim Kardashian.

Generation will be kind of consistent but still unrecognisable.
No paper bank statement. No email bank statement. Only qif/csv export. iPhone app only (not web). Fairly sure it was either an inside job and/or openbanking API implementation.
Also getting 11k a month
“Settled science” must be some sort of oxymoron
Measure, Design, Try: On Building New Things
I agree that pure Python isn't as fast as other options. Just comes down to a productivity tradeoff for developers. And it doesn't have to be one or the other.
Coming from Nix (guix's more popular, but less freedom-focused cousin).. I think part of what makes Nix "next generation" is that its functionality allows for more powerful use than "install/upgrade/uninstall package".

It's neat to be able to use some program without having to install/uninstall it.

I find it useful to be able to programmatically declare a set of packages (& lock their versions) that I want available when working on a project.
> They would wonder why we didn’t just use the abundant sunlight and elements to power ourselves

we do! all food we eat got its energy from the sun another plant/animal that did.

* sans any food that was consumed from species that lived near hydrothermal vents.
https://github.com/nix-community/nix-init
> My parents got scammed in the past so they are on the lookout, but I still don’t think they are careful enough. And due to their age they get attacked a lot!

I'd bet that it's not because of their age, but because they have been scammed in the past, so their data now is on the lists of "verified victims" which get passed around as those are thought to be more likely to fall for the next scam than simply a random number.
Interesting! Is this using the local device to scrape or a remote server process?
Vim and tmux on the server, and juicessh with hacker's keyboard on the phone.
It's still not easy, there's not much real estate. But for small edits it's adequate.
Not sure if OP is the author, but consider using `window.history.replaceState` for navigation so that when people are done playing with the different options, they don't have to press the back button 50 times to get back to HN.

Also, on mobile the page is cut off for me at the bottom
My favorite VST is Surge: https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
> regardless of the future course we take regarding fossil fuels and renewables

How do you read a report modelling future emissions and conclude this?
As soon as they're able to produce 100% realistic videos, it's over.
There is nix-gui, but development appears to be dead. It seems like most of the community is focused on flakes, with things like the recent announcement of flake hub allowing them to be shared more easily. So we'll have packages of packages, hopefully without all the duplicate dependencies that currently exist.
Agreed, then!
>People still go to see live plays

That’s where holograms come in.
Wow. That video is mind blowing.

Pure mercury is nowhere near as toxic nor dangerous as the Dimethylmercury from the other video.
Tell us about your stack
"read" is a very generous description.
I would vote in anyone who recognizes what a giant problem it is that the first suggestion for someone who only wants to write SQL for one specific database is our federal government.

I do not want the government to be the landing place for people who just want to coast. We could make a rubber-room department if we really need it, just pay this woman to make SQL reports on nothing to nobody if just getting her a salary is the goal.

But if we need real work done this woman is not our collective best option.
regenerative farming couldn't be replicated [0] by anyone...

[0] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-2-march-april/feature...

seriously, how do you expect land regenerating by adding thousands of cattle on it? if you roam in Brazil, you can find almost deserts in vegetation that have RICH diversity like the Pantanal, just because livestock was managed there for +25 years! and then owners stop activity for a number of years (to let flora thrive) to later raise corn or soy, which is way less aggressive and with modern practices they (the farms) have lifespans (if well managed) predicted by biologists of almost 100 years. (i worked in one for a brief period of time)

the guy who proposed the "regenerative agriculture" movement always made big money from livestock and at some point even got in-between the government with a freaking study that concluded that they had to kill ~ 40,000 elephants (and they killed) for maintaining the health of the ecosystem.......... ⟨i think if we still made billiard balls out of elephants tusks, i wouldn't be surprised if that guy had a company that made them⟩

if you want to dive in esoteric practices to thrive food and sustainability, go vegan and maybe take a look at stuff like this [which doesn't have any meaningful replication so far]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S18773... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_G%C3%B6tsch
The article says there are no known quasars in the area of space where the energy is seemingly from, or at least that’s my interpretation.

So yeah it could be from a black hole, just an unknown one. Or it’s from a different region of space than we think, and our math is off.
Sorry I see what you're saying, I think you're right.
Perhaps a browser fork for non-EU folk? Far from ideal.
The 'Oh-My-God particle' refers to an actual observation made in 1991, which is known by this name. Besides, not all scientists are atheist.
You might enjoy Tom7's "Harder Drive" video. It's pure geek comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio
Amex actually once did the same to me several years ago when trying to verify my identity while talking to them.

I refused on a couple phone calls. I forget whether in the end I gave it to them or not, the details are hazy. I do remember I left feedback.

To my knowledge, Amex actually stopped that practice since then. Because as you note with the citi experience, it is bad.
Ooh, it’s finally published, huh?

Not certain about timing, but I believe browsers have all supported it for 2–4 years.

Simplifying beyond the point of strict accuracy, this is a signal so that when your browser asks DNS “where’s the example.com server?” the response mentions “oh BTW it supports HTTP/3” and so the browser goes straight to https://example.com over HTTP/3. Otherwise, first-time visitors will commonly go to http://example.com over HTTP/1.1, and then be redirected to https://example.com over HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2 (negotiated at TLS handshake time), and only use HTTP/3 on subsequent visits.

It’s a pity that supporting HTTP/3 takes extra effort compared to HTTP/1 or HTTP/2, but it’s not really avoidable.
I like how the word "meat" is clearly an inaccurate translation of a notion in the language of the conversation, for lack of a better word in human languages. "Organic matter" would be more accurate, but less striking.

Meaning, "meat" is a variation on the "unreliable narrator" theme: the "unreliable language". This is used a lot in Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, where medieval language describes artifacts of a space-faring civilization.
> Hang up. Call them. Don’t let them call you.

This is the golden advice. Never, ever speak to anyone about anything important if they contacted you. Call, text, email, whatever. End it and you contact them.

It doesn’t matter if it’s the bank, power company or telco. Even if HR called me or the CEO. Hang up, call them back. It adds 5 seconds to ensure all is good
The problem is not with the call but with who is calling you. If you can authenticate the caller, all’s fine.
Why not sign the card?
Depends on China's coal fired power plants, doesn't it?
Kagi search is amazing, i've used it for the last few months. If this is what they are using to power it, i'm optimistic.
LinkedIn is something you keep only to be seen by recruiters.

I don't really interact with anything there, but I keep an up-to-date profile and sometimes post some technical articles or tutorials. I put the some effort on those, but I don't care if anyone reads it. The purpose there is just to have some well-written technical articles under my name.
Technology seems to turn everything into cottage industries eventually.
They're getting a piece of the pie, no? I wouldn't be surprised if they were also doing it.
Nuclear isn't profitable. Renewables have plummeted in cost making nuclear cost prohibitive, and let's face it, if they're ever built it'll probably be too little too late.
Who says it’s their security practice… The way the top post is told, I would assume the call to be made by an attacker . :)
Nah...Shanghai metro is no where near Tokyo in terms of pretty much every aspect. The only thing it is better is price (starting from 3 CNY, or about 60 JPY, whereas Tokyo metro starts from 180 JPY).
Here you go, 15 paragraphs in is the information you're looking for:

> found that MEP facilitation, an indicator of increased brain plasticity, is more pronounced in non-caffeine users compared to their caffeine-consuming counterparts
That it will peak means that we are still adding, each year, even more greeenhouse gases than in the previous ones.

That is not directly what causes the warming. In simplified terms, we have excess of greenhouse gases, we keep more heat of what we receive from the sun than what we lose, and that is one of the forces behind global warming, hitting the 1.5ºC and so on. And CO2 remains in the atmosphere for 100-200 years after emitted.

So, this "peak", if achieved, means that we are still accelerating the problem. after we peak, we will keep adding roughly as much carbon as we did in previous years (that will keep be adding to the excess). We are not sensibly lowering the amount of extra greenhouse gases, we will still be growing what is up there for the foreseeable future. And as the planet warmed up, several feedback loops have been triggered that are adding their own quota of even more greenhouse gases, like permafrost thawing. And the extra fossil carbon that we kept adding to the system all this time will now keep circulating in the new carbon cycle, is not like after 200 years it will just vanish.

This is not "things are getting better", but at best "we will keep worsening things, but not so fast, maybe in a future"
of course. in my case, i am using this list for telegram bot. Bot users have no clue about system prompts - and it looks like magic to them when you switch to new "assistant".
This is a great idea, but there's one problem I see with it: When I'm in a call, my internet doesn't work if I'm not on wifi, as the modem is busy with the call. I believe this doesn't happen if you have VoLTE, but it does mean that this feature can't work for many many people.
Barely works on an older (2019-ish) MacBook Pro in Safari, about 1 frame per second
unlikely. Unless someone is specifically seeking AI onlyfans, I don't see how a normal person cannot instantly tell that its an AI.
I'm a little concerned about using IEA model analysis to address the question of timing, as these models do try to hit timing but in reality are still very uncertain that any analysis based on the timing is fun to talk about but holds no real value and, from the publications I've read, shouldn't be interpreted as such.

This isn't to discount policies or decisions based on the energy transition scenarios used here, I mean we need more and more effort to curb our GHG emissions, but I would advise against interpreting this dataset in this manner.
> I think it's better than TypeScript - fight me

I used Python type hints and MyPy since long before I used TypeScript, and I have to say that TypeScript's take on types is just plain better (that doesn't mean it's good though).

1. More TypeScript packages are properly typed thanks to DefinitelyTyped. Some Python packages such as Numpy could not be properly typed last I checked, I think it might change with 3.11 though. Packages such as OpenCV didn't have any types last I checked.

2. TypeScript's type system is more complete, with better support for generics, this might change with 3.11/3.12 though.

3. TypeScript has more powerful type system than most languages, as it is Turing-complete and similar in functionality to a purely functional language (this could also be a con)
> ... reduced to the simplest form, statistics are used to predict things

Inferential statistics is not the simplest kind of statistics. Descriptive statistics are both simpler and foundational for inference.

P.S. I should say that I am a bit of a stickler regarding discussions along the lines of e.g. "these things are related". Yes, many things are related, but it is really nice when we can clearly tease things apart and specify what depends on what.
I guess it would be a very solid way to present shasums for binaries. Nowadays software often puts them on the same webpage that links to the binary. While that's better than nothing, having them in a TXT record makes it more secure.
This is very common in unix tools where the name of the executable changes the behavior of the tool (e.g. bash/sh, vim/vi). Exiftool is more like this, where you can pass in command line options inside () within the executable file name.
That's very good :D Did you just make that up?
Nvidia's Israel-1 AI supercomputer launches two months ahead of schedule
How do you expect that to work? Their app would either need to have access to all your phone calls, or you'd need separate hardware to detect and authenticate the audio?
That’s hyperbolic nonsense. There is plenty of “alpha crap” that is extremely effective because that’s how dogs function (no, that paper written by that woman about how wolves don’t have an “alpha” was throughly debunked). You can’t bring up the worst possible instance of some technique and try to sully all attempts in that realm.
This isn't even slightly related to a vector database. I like Wallabag but this comes off as a shameless plug.
> Deploying software meant dealing with lots of operating system and distribution specific configuration

But Docker didn't solve that at all, unless you consider "we only support Linux, so just run Linux or fuck you" as a "solution". And starting a Linux VM on Windows or macOS doesn't really count (and comes with a lot of issues).

Containers as a concept are fine. Docker as an implementation is not very good. These are people who released a program in 2014 that can only run as root, which should say a thing or two about the engineering ethos. What is this, 1982?

> All of that had to be orchestrated with complicated scripts.

Hacking deploy scripts (and configure scripts and Makefiles) wasn't fun either, but at least I could understand it. Hacking on Docker once something goes wrong is pretty much impossible.

It really is hugely over-engineered for what it does. You really really don't need a million lines of code to build and run containers on Linux.

I've had a number of machines where binary JSON files in /var/lib/docker got corrupted and the only solution I've ever been able to find is "completely wipe away the lot and start from scratch". The entire overlayfs thing they have can really go haywire for reasons I've never been able to reproduce or figure out (and the "solution" is similar: wipe away /var/lib/docker and start from 0), and things like that. It all "works", but it's a hugely untransparent black box where your only solution when things go wrong is to shrug and give up (or spend days or even weeks on figuring it all out).

I've had enough issues and outright bugs that I probably spent more time on Docker and docker-compose than I saved. At my last job I just bypassed the "official Docker development environment" with a few small shell scripts to run things locally, because it was a never-ending source of grief. I only had to support my own Linux system so I had it a bit easy, but it wasn't much more than running our programs with the right flags. The platform-specific stuff was "my-pkg-manager install postgres redis", and I don't see what's so hard about that.
With all the massive life improvements we have with technology we could be investing so much more into our kids. Jobs could be flexible with short work weeks, and we could use that time to invest in kids. Parent, volunteer, mentor. Remote work done on a school site giving even more time to help kids learn.
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The negative outcome with structure-coupled tests is because people don't understand how to write good tests. If the code is already in place some programmers reach in and inspects the existing implementation details as a test. Often in ways that fail to catch edge cases.

Writing good tests alone is like the majority of the benefit of TDD. If people don't have the implementation to couple their tests to, they're forced into a thought process that discourages brittle tests specific to an implementation. Then that forces a kindof sensible API instead of an ad-hoc code snowball.
Disclaimer: Didn’t read the article, because I assume it is the same posted previously.

My rant:
Meetings are just simply soul sucking things regardless of being present in-person or zoom. At least when remote, I can standup and do some push ups, but when am in a room with many people and most often am just there to answer a random question now and then, it is very difficult because I tend to feel tired and fight might self from dozing off while also need to stay alert to pretend to be interested enough and respond if my feedback is required suddenly.

Face-to-face meeting are awesome if done in small group (2-4 people), anything large is mostly counter intuitive to me.

That being said, sometimes I appreciate why management and project owners/managers are paid bananas money, their daily routine is sitting through adult childrens’ quibbling and herding people towards common goals.

P.S. Not a manager, just plain pleb.
From the GitHub repo:

> Thanks to its low latency and small memory footprint, VectorDB is used to power AI features inside Kagi Search.
> It's popular in tech circles to dunk on unit tests,

Tbh this is news to me. I've never experienced dunking on unit tests to be any more popular than dunking on anything else in tech, including integration tests. Everything gets dunked on by someone, and after some circular dunking the consensus seems to usually end up being "We should all just use the right tool for the right job".
i find myself conflicted:

- on the one hand you have the general warm fuzzy feelings associated with a considerately-designed graphical tool to lower a barrier to entry

- and the fact that this tool was as trivial to implement as a cursory glance at the repo suggests vindicates the whole guix/nix declarative packaging idea. the ease with which ten lines in a text editor turned a new piece of software into a first-class citizen on my system was the thing that hooked me on nix forever

but that's just it: is this really lowering the barrier to entry all that much? the audience guixsd/nixos is courting is someone sick and tired of managing config files strewn across the filesystem. by definition that is someone who knows how to operate a text editor, at which point "look at how few keystrokes/memorised file paths you need on our system vs debian/arch/whatever to gain the same thing" feels like enough of a sales pitch

in terms of attention economy, this is like going "what costs you a dollar on debian costs you a dime here... hey check this out now it's 9 cents if you want. neat, huh?"
> This feels very shallow and wrong.

It’s a comedic short story, not a dissertation on the powers of reasoning of undiscovered alien species. Rule of funny trumps accuracy.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny

It’s important to remember science fiction tends to explore and make a commentary on the human aspect. The best stories aren’t about new technology, but its implications and effects on the human condition.

With that view, you could read this story as a commentary on humans themselves. We also don’t fully understand other species and are often astonished by what we discover. Above all, we can be incompetent and make mistakes. Remember the myth that “bees shouldn’t be able to fly”?

https://www.iflscience.com/the-strange-myth-that-bees-should...

> Surely an super intelligent alien species (…) would (…)

> The surprising thing to them would (…)

> They would wonder (…)

Sounds like you have your own ideas for a different short story.
Yeah I mean, I think I'm a little in the same boat as you. I think they're cool too. I do think there are uses (anti-spam, authentication of ownership/authenticity), though I think any use needs the transactions/sec number to go way up, but that seems doable.

I'm actually a little bitter that this stuff got rolled up with "real" money. It twisted the essence of distributed ledgers/contracts/computing and infested it with grifters. Like you, I worry that this entanglement will take down decentralization with it, though I hope it doesn't.
Why would they if it increases engagement? They encourage other technologies, such as “filters” that create images loosely based on your appearance.

Giving accounts to people that don’t exist is not much of a distinction from how people currently use it.
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