skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are free to believe whatever they want. I have no problem with that. But the time where denying climate change was easy because visible signs were weak, trends too shallow, effects basically invisible, is coming to an end.

I have lived 50+y in my home country, the NL. And starting (I'd say roughly 10y ago), I can see weather patterns changing with my own eyes.

'Tropical' ~20°C nights in summer were once rare. Often a whole year would pass without one. Now: I have experienced these year-on-year, sometimes 4..5 nights in a row. Or in multiple events across summer. Would expect such nights to re-occur next year with confidence.

The past month, it has been raining solid. Every single day. Can't remember ever having seen that before. This was 1 prediction from climate models btw: winters in the NL getting wetter.

Fall / early winter storms: nothing special here. Used to be: 1 or 2 days storm, then quiet again.

Past month: almost every day strong winds. Day before yesterday it was like storm. Many fallen tree branches on the roads. Just 1 week before, similar.

No pause, strong winds keep going.

Some news items this year: the Canada wildfires, around Phoenix (AZ) cacti losing limbs from the heat stress, people getting 2nd/3rd burns simply because they fell on glowing hot asphalt. Multiple sustained heatwaves in many areas around the world. 'Winter' in Latin America being warmer / much longer than before. The list goes on & on.

At this point, imho the only people denying climate change are stupid, brainwashed, have blindfolds on somehow, or don't want to know it. Whatever.

But it is. So obvious to see. Becoming more obvious & less subtle with each day that passes, and each megaton of CO2 humanity adds to the atmosphere.

Be an idiot if you want, I don't care. Just don't get in the way of people working to tackle the problem.
Interesting take. Compulsive perfectionism or meaningful quest? Compulsion seems intrinsically unhealthy; yet meaning is also compelling.

Of course something can both energize and eventually cause burnout.

Perhaps moderation by scope and one's ability and agency is an answer? Scope: never being happy with anything seems miserable; but being unhappy with one thing is maybe good. Ability: demanding performance beyond your abilities seems discouraging, but realistic subgoals that you can make progress on is encouraging (of course, for the unknown, we can't know if it's possible or not). Agency: insisting on the actually impossible is frustrating; but again, acting within your agency is self-affirming.

i.e. just match difficulty to ability - accounting for the fact that we can know neither.

PS "successful" entrepreneurs is a small subset. Those who win a grueling competition are often, though not always, happy about it.
saving it to my list of uid implementations https://github.com/swyxio/brain/blob/master/R%20-%20Dev%20No...
Which is the default for the vast majority of users.
The classic pair programming conundrum.
Which is, evidently, why nanoids also excludes x and X, as well as v and V (fvck).
Capitalism is based on the notion trade and commerce is not Zero-sum, as compared to mercantilism which it replaced. Wealth of Nations is the explanation of why zero-sum thinking is wrong and that the wealth is not gold but economic capacity.

When coupled with the realization that "now" is more valuable than "later", you can put a price on now (interest). This leads to the finance industry, and using a small sum as leverage to borrow and invest a larger sum. Capital has value, because you can trade some capital now for more capital in the future.

While I agree rent seeking exists, it's hard to imagine the world without lending and commerce. Capitalism is the natural result of private property.
Name calling because someone has a different experience than you.. You know that can’t possibly help any discussion, even if for a moment you feel good about being a bully.
Exactly. I was going to say the same exact thing.

Anyone else ever experienced the public transportless hellscape of Cancun airport? Where a short ride into the city is a cool 75 usd, rideshare is chased off by the cartels, and the walk to the highway to take a collectivo bus with incomprehensible route numbers is 1.5 miles away in sweltering jungle heat?

Or how about Tampa, Asheville, Austin or any other medium sized us airport, where train transport doesn't exist at all

How about Boston Logan which is only connected to the main Metro lines by a crappy bus that will add a nice 30 minutes and luggage heaving to your journey

I literally love the rer. It can be much shittier lol
It was an API I developed using ActiveX on Microsoft's Internet explorer and NPAPI on other browsers
You mean like this: https://support.google.com/fit/answer/10477667?hl=en#:~:text... ?
http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
Yup. The defaults and expectations for the commercial web are terrible. Since this is a technical forum I assume most of as aren't running our browsers that way.
i think of acf as a measure of repeating temporal structure and how "strong" and "long" it is, if it exists.

that is, it gives you a notion of if and what order of an ar model should fit any repeating structure in the data.
At least some troll farms were run by Prigozhin, an oligarch. Then there is intense domestic propaganda directed at domestic population.
> Someday there will be technology to erase all memory of work you did in service of your corporate overlords and you’ll be able to start with a true clean slate at every job.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740
Not working on ipad. (tested Chrome and Safari)
While I admire your dedication to privacy by disabling JavaScript, personally I’ve gone crazy and given up due to all the people around me in my life forcing me to live in a privacy nightmare
Doesn't seem to work with lynx
This is the "inevitable disclosure" argument - AKA the idea that the experience is the secret, and thus nobody should ever be allowed to switch employers ever again.

For various reasons (notably, the fact that slavery is illegal), we don't accept this in general. You have to show that secrets were copied in full. Employees cannot memorize millions of lines of source, they can only memorize vague architectural details that would be easily reverse engineered by competitors. If you want to own those vague details, get a patent, or shut up.
I doubt most of us turn off javascript, and enable it on a case by case basis, regardless if it's a technical forum or not. I certainly don't. That would be a major inconvenience to do for very little benefit, imo.
Oxymorons only sound contradictory on a surface level.

Something "certainly" being a "trend" is the definition of statistical significance, so this is a straight up contradiction.
To make it less obvious it was all about the FCC's rules, translator microbes didn't translate a lot of slang, whether it was Earth-swearing or not.
If those models are true, then most of economists' prescriptions (deregulation, taxation) are useless. It's population growth that dictates economic growth.

Wonder if their models integrate the fact the Earth is finite...
Never share your screen, only a window!
For me, this is not a realistic viewpoint. I'm just trying to scrape by, and have been dealing with chronic health issues for most of my life. The biggest issue I had a surgery for when I briefly had subsidized health insurance. It seemed to help a little bit but didn't resolve the issue, and the supposedly better surgery was not available with the subsidized health insurance. Also, some of the healthcare people basically treated me like a homeless person or complete charity case when they found out that I was on a subsidized plan.

So I have just been dealing with it without health insurance, and the plan is to someday have a business that can support my health insurance and other costs I need to have a "real" life. Whether that will actually ever happen by the time I get to retirement age is uncertain.

But of course I am at least a bit depressed and anxious. The solution to that for me is to not be so broke and to improve my physical health which also is somewhat dependent on being able to afford healthcare.
It’s really nothing fancy but I need a homepage and I want blog posts that may or may not have images and a lot of Wordpress templates would take customization to get what I want—and I don’t really want to have to learn a bunch of web stuff to do.
Yes, I think the correct headline is "This page knows your battery charge level if you're using Chrome or most Chrome-based browsers". (I'm not sure if it works on all of them, although it does work on Arc.)
Discussed at the time (of the talk):

It's Time for a New Old Language – Guy Steele [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15473199 - Oct 2017 (45 comments)
But on Bandcamp, downloading the music you bought was put front-and-center, and DRM-free. I always downloaded the music straight away in a lossless format. I only used the streaming capability once in a blue moon when my NAS was down and I didn't have access to my Subsonic server.
They are indeed not normally distributed, but did you mean that they are not uniformly distributed?
I assume you have seen it and didn't like it?
Wouldn't you be afraid that the AI is wrong? I've seen AI explain some things well, but I've also seen it manufacture completely fake concepts to fill in the blank. Maybe textbooks aren't perfect either, but at least they're written by accountable parties and read hundreds of times before published.
It's kind of stunning mental health screening is not part of your annual checkup.
Sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ASH8IBJ2U
Ddg android doesn't show it
He relates a case where workers paid by the piece worked themselves into the ground.
Yeah, particle physics and astronomy is the height of reproducibility, nothing compares to it. The fact that people can get very antsy when observation misses theory just by 10^-9% shows a great scientific environment
After reading Dava Sobel's book 20 years ago I made sure to go to Greenwich to see the clocks when I was in London in 2005. They are both amazing engineering and works of art.
Doesn't work on Brave
I think there's a fair argument to be made that computing is the most complex synthetic thing humans have ever conceived all on our own. If we're talking about making systems in the broadest sense, then any category of problems that we create systems for could conceptually be managed on paper and pencil. Let's say "number of things that could go wrong multiplied by the difficulty a layperson would have in fixing such a thing" is what we mean by complexity, a computer would be more complex than a filing cabinet every single time.

There are trade offs for the complexity though, and well managed complexity could disappear behind the interface of a computer. When this is done well it feels seamless, and when it's done poorly it's painful. So maybe I'm arguing the meaning of complexity isn't 1:1 with the meaning of complicated. At the end of the day "did moving this to a computer make it better?" is the question to answer, and a lot of times the answer is no. QR menus at restaurants is my favorite punching bag for this but any home appliance with bluetooth or wifi is an easy target.
As best I can tell this only works in Chrome despite the title implying Safari would be at fault.

Worth pointing out though that iOS native apps appear to have this information with no permission prompt:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12346650
As a daily runner that makes a LOT of sense. I wouldn't have been able to put my finger on it and express it but a similar idea has already been told to me, in another context, in another form.

I also think the conclusion of the research and the poster you responded to is rather wrong. It doesn't matter how long you live if that longevity isn't pleasantly usable.
From the elderly I take care of around me, I would rather die sooner from some random disease than live longer and be as useless as they are (both physically and cognitively).
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q
Microsoft's goal is to make the shareholders money. So that it success to it.
So would I. But I settle for an extra monitor in portrait mode, and will stick the pdf documentation in it when I'm following a spec.
https://fullstackopen.com/en/
Takeaways:

A sort of boiling frog phenomenon. The creep sets in because the founders hired or promoted people who did not uphold the core principles, and prioritized short terms gains.

My comment: Sieving and assessing multitudes of prospective candidates for a job is a very time consuming, exhausting work, and people are often willing to settle for less, especially if the organization is really successful and the founders feel the need to expand rapidly.
> Long perplexed why they had canvas stretched across

Its a radome, used to protect the antenna from weather.
Besides vowels, nanoid excludes 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, I, l, x, X, v, V, and other lookalikes, so the chances of generating something naughty in any language are close to zero.
navigator.getBattery()
Basically:

navigator.getBattery().then(battery => console.log(`Battery level: ${battery.level \* 100}%`))

C.f.: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...
The sponge design of SHA-3 makes it a CSPRNG basically. You can keep draining it after you fed the data in.
Because fingerprinting. Shit like this is the reason you are supposed to use the Tor browser only with a tiny window.
ffmpeg -i audio.m4a -acodec flac
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390855
Until a few years ago there were some dumb limitations for federal infrastructure funding that connected trains to airports
That’s what makes a successful company though.
Doesn't respond to charging status change events even though an .onCharging call back has been set. Chromium 117.0 on Linux
Show how.

I place mechanistic theory prior to statistics in science. Mechanistic theory can be tested, statistics are a kind of test.

If a statistically-insignificant result shows consistent, though non-significant deviations, such as the kind seen in Figure 11, then it tells me it's worth investigating whether mechanism(s) are explaining a very small portion of the variation that will not, in itself, show up as statistically significant, as it's being swamped by variation in other parameters.
So, there's another side of this, which is something that's also happened to cars and many homes. Construction materials and techniques have become good enough that it's greatly extended the life of so many items over the years, and by nature, technology.

I just finally switched to an iPhone Pro after years of Android based primarily on Apples switch to USB-C (finally!) and the titanium build (mocked in the OP). People complain about the 2-3 year Android upgrade cycle, but it's inexpensive and iterative. The iPhone 15 Pro line was the first I've seriously looked at where I've thought "I might be using that phone in 6 years and it will still look and work fine." I saw so many people throughout the '10s with messed-up looking iPhones waiting on their cell phone contracts to upgrade; I've always been a "buy an unlocked phone with cash and upgrade when it's not right" kind of guy.

I own two 10 year old cars. Both require almost no maintenance. When I was a kid, a 10 year old 100k mile car was a beater. Both of these cars look and work fine. I pay almost nothing for them, as they're both very fuel-efficient, and the cost of insuring a 10 year old car can be surprisingly low. In the 80s, a 10 year old 100k car would be considered a beater or a hand-me-down. Today, it's fine.

But still, it's difficult to come up with new developments that I think will radically recontextualize society as we've experienced. The digital T1 line was used for inter-city phone trunking in the '60s. We landed on the moon in 1969, and UNIX was born the same year. C was created in 1972. Ethernet and GPS were proposed in 1973, TCP was created in 1974. For those now middle-aged Gen-X people, it was always possible to see the potential future as children, as the frameworks had been developed before we were born. (Many of us did.)

But we're living in a new era of refinement and decay, as the life-changing things get incrementally better slowly, but while the confusion stemming from the continual growth of the last millennium receding ends up resulting in less opportunity, less wealth, and less excitement and hope.
Well, ChaCha is actually a hash function. Specifically it was a candidate for SHA3 but was beaten by Keccak in the final spec. Additionally, aes-ctr-128 has the same performance as ChaCha (1.5 GB/s).

All I was trying to illustrate was that in general, pairing a PRNG with a block cipher or hash function is sufficient to create a CSPRNG, and any developers worried about their PRNGs can couple rand() with a readily available cipher/hash in the system libraries. After all the blog is explicit about not requiring a cryptographically secure RNG for most applications.
not to mention the vorkosigan series!
> as much a part of Asian portraiture as saying cheese is to English speakers.

Funnily enough, Japanese speakers almost always say チーズ (chīzu) when taking photos of each other. Perhaps even more frequently than English speakers do.
We'll probably either be forced to agree to be tracked by Google's systems or forced to sign in to every page.

There's no chance that anything positive will ever happen with the web again, it has gotten worse at every step for more than a decade. Especially when Google has any involvement with it.
There are a lot of metals in the asteroid belt.
It depends on the station. Some stopped to sell tickets and just sell refillable cards.

But you can use cards, ticket, or phone in any station.

The only thing you can’t use, which, in 2023 is pretty stupid, are payments cards (so neither Apple Pay and Google Pay). They even had a long fight with Apple for years to get full access to the NFC API instead of going with just payment cards.

Ironically, there are a lot of other cities in France that are compatible with payment cards, but not Paris.

I can imagine that it’s not the same scale to upgrade Paris ticketing vs the smaller cities but since they’ve done a major overhaul anyway …
At this point I'll settle for the "good sleep" genes
Yes! This is the one. So good.

People who enjoy that may also enjoy "All Late Projects are the Same" https://web.archive.org/web/20130818024030/http://www.comput...
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416858

"Trend" has multiple meanings. Statistics doesn't get to claim all of the meaning.
That's a great poin, even better.
Or

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0338337/
Yeah. I went into some detail of how it might work here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38036986
I’m a big fan of point n click adventures.

Graphics are great, so either a talented team or someone very talented, but you have to wade thru 40 mins of exposition before starting the first chapter (you don’t have to but then what about the lore?)
I'm not sure which part you're saying is wrong. Your points seem to reaffirm what I wrote.
I agree with everything you say.

Implied, but not directly stated: managers should be technically-capable. I also agree, but how do we incentivize that, against all of the headwinds of our industry?
I read the entire hainish cycle back to back in chronological order once, and it was a superb experience. the books aren't technically a series but they do build up a coherent universe and timeline between them.
> Youtube premium has been a thing for 8 years now

Tell me you're from the US without telling me you're from the US.

> So you are a perfect example why they gave up and started becoming more aggressive now

They started rolling out aggressive ads before YouTube Red was available in my country to purchase. And by the way, I gave in and do pay for YouTube Premium currently.

But I still stand by my statement, because I see how bad it is on my second account. For decades, YouTube managed to show me a few ads before and after the video just fine. And suddenly it's literally every minute? I'm sure Google is struggling to make ends meet.
'Bottom 75 list'?

You have not read much SF, have you? Sturgeon's Law [1] was created for a reason. If you think this is as bad as SF gets, I turn your attention to Robert A. Heinlein's "To Sail Beyond the Sunset".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
This API for apps to stop being a power hog if you are at low battery or you aren't charging the device.
If they're actually error bars, you can shrink them with more data. That will turn the hint of a trend into an observation of a trend. If it wasn't random noise giving a fake hint.
interesting take, what i'm trying to learn is how do startups decide which fields of their db's to encrypt (maybe all of them?). Also, what do you think is the danger of encrypting stuff? It looks safer but I might be wrong (eager to learn more)
Or even the Moon
Neither does JavaScript :-)
To get an idea just how simple a PDP8 is I built one for Tiny Tapeout a year ago

https://github.com/MoonbaseOtago/tt03-pdp8

It fits (just without the multiply extension) into one cell and looks like:

https://gds-viewer.tinytapeout.com/?model=https%3A%2F%2Fmoon...
That’s a really surprising assumption.
"Infringement" is not specific enough there. Independent invention is not a defense against patent infringement, but is a defense against copyright infringement.
why so? i agree that most users probably don't care but i personally care and that's why i'm interested
Yup, we built a new house in Australia in 2001 and thought we were being so forward thinking by getting a 2nd phone line for the modem/fax. Of course it ended up being done using a pair gain and we were stuck at 33.6k.
"New Zealand presently does not have the infrastructure to supply 100% hydrogen through the existing pipe network, which means that we will be unable to launch our hydrogen water heaters until the infrastructure is ready."
Apparently hydrogen is not easily distributed via regular gas pipes, due to leakage.
>Reallocating people across the world is the right thing to do but it probably quickens the global demographic transition.

Is this some Soviet propaganda piece? "Reallocating" people is the right thing to do? Seriously? Rhetoric like this is part of why globalism was finally rejected over the past several years.

I don't disagree that a growing population is crucial to growing an economy, but the narrative the author advocates is asinine.
Was hoping they stolen CUDA from AMD
Doesn’t work on brave.
I think if people at all levels of skill were reasonably good at measuring their own ability, we would see two curves that roughly overlap. Instead we see the graph given.

The fact that random noise can generate a mean curve on the Y axis doesn’t mean DK doesn’t exist. It just means DK’s mean self analysis resembles a middling random mean, which if you think about it, makes sense. Most people will probably self evaluate as average, regardless of their actual skill. This means DK is right as rain.
People have been saying that resources are gonna run out for 200 years... hasnt happened yet... the opposite... we have less people starving today than 200 years ago...
https://www.eatthismuch.com/