skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure the math even comes out obviously in favour of someone who overindulges but dies an early death, vs someone who lives long and enjoys a coke every so often throughout that long life.
My mother passed away from cancer when I was 11. Originally when she learned she was terminal, she thought it might be a good idea for me to attend support sessions with the school counselor. Unfortunately in this case, the counselor wasn’t that great at their job, and I came home from school talking about how I was “anxious” and “depressed”—words I had never used before. My mother pulled me out of counseling and told my father, “I didn’t put him in there to feel sorry for himself about the situation.”

She also told my sister and I before she passed to never use her death as an excuse to go through life miserable and sad—there were too many things to be happy about and we should give life purpose.

So I agree with the gist of Charlie’s idea of acting like you aren’t a victim even if you do happen to be one.

That said... I also think that due to either genetic predisposition or extreme environmental factors, there are rare cases where trying to take a positive attitude does not help and can in fact make things worse. Trying to use sheer force of will to “power through” certain situations may lead one to ignore other options (medication for example) and the build-up of a series of continuous failures to “think positively” may result in even worse outcomes where erratic or irreversible decisions are made during an irrational state of mind. I’m not suggesting self-pity, but rather the recognition that there are just some situations you can’t put a positive spin on and it is probably better not to try.
When you set up EFS did you maximize the IO settings?

Before doing that it was unacceptably slow. After doing that it was unacceptably expensive.
Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat
It was revised and updated by Munger - it's better than the original because it has more experience and information. The old one is fine too, but is harder to read and a bit more dated.
Twitter big shots getting protected by Twitter was indeed a story
Well RH is already locked into this level of maintenance support for existing RHEL releases. By dropping Xorg support now, they can fully drop this effort in a decade plus. If they keep Xorg support in new releases, it keeps pushing that horizon out further and further.
He's not the most relaible: http://vatniksoup.com/en/soups/40
The follow up Episodes One and Two are fantastic.

And the leaked storyline for Episode Three looking really strong as well.

I hold out hope that the Crowbar Collective (the group that remade Half-Life with the Source engine and called it Black Mesa) have been secretly working on implementing the Episode Three storyline in Source. Though, now that Source2 is out who knows? This is all my speculation anyway.
“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”
Can we show the black banner, please?
oppressive leaders -> disarm their populations

doesn't imply

disarm their populations -> oppressive leaders

I can think of 2 oppressive leaders who tried to disarm but I know of dozens of democratic countries that disarmed their population without any abuse.
Windows makes you click "Keep" AND "Download Anyway" then when you try to run your downloaded executable it says no, but there's a "hidden" menu that lets you say run anyway. It's super annoying lol
People have an enormous inertia for almost anything, no matter how trivial. It's a wonder anything gets done. I'll pick an issue out of a hat.

Let's say I show your average member of the United States a photo array of one hundred seventeen (117) dead infants. I tell you they all died of a single cause. People make sounds. I say "This happens every year, to roughly this degree." Wow! More noises are made. People sound like they want to do something about it. Write to senators, pass laws, protest.

But when I get down to brass tacks and say, "Hey, those are all boys. That's how many die from circumcision each year, roughly, in the United States. And by the way, the NNT (number needed to treat) is pretty high, you need a least a hundred circumcisions to prevent just one urinary tract infection." And it all will just stop.

New noises, about religious freedoms, and tradition, and the son looking like his father, and "won't he be made fun of?" appear in place of the original noises. And I could say, "It's only done maybe one in ten times in Europe, civilization hasn't ended there" and it won't make a lick of difference. It's not about guns or anything else, people just don't like to change, even over some fairly trivial business. I'd be willing to lay odds that nobody reading this comment who was pro-circumcision has changed their minds. And I would not be shocked for almost any issue that I selected would have a similar outcome.

Are people more callous than they are unwilling to change? Perhaps. Are they burned out from hearing Sarah McLachlan's voice starting off an ASCPA commercial, and, in a parallel to Terror Management Theory, most people will, to some degree or another, shut themselves off from a vast and bewildering array of suffering against which they could make only the most ineffectual showing, knowing that for every bit of effort they expend, it will not reach millions of humans and other creatures whose life is primarily one of grim endurance and a kind of mute hope? I could not tell you.
I think to the Wayland folks, anything other than using Windows is an exotic use case. They’re not entirely wrong, but if we wanted to use Windows, we … would be using Windows. The great thing about Linux was that we could do more than Windows or macOS permitted.
If I'm not wrong, this is the low latency S3 that is written in Rust. Finally launched after years in the making.
It is safe to be a Western journalist in Israel, but if you are Arab reporting on Israel from an Arab perspective, it is quite dangerous.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/20/world/middleeast/palestia...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/30/reuters-al-jazeera...

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/...
Show HN: Neets.ai – Cheap and Robust TTS Platform
We used to rely on ElevenLabs for their TTS API, however the prices for Eleven and their competitors were enormous. That led us to developing our own TTS platform, Neets.ai, which we will grow and improve with a much lower price than our peers.

We're always looking for developers. If you think you have the skills, reach out: https://dl.software/jobs
The answer is yes but you can't practically observe it. The electrons repel each other so strongly that you can't accumulate enough of them in one place to be able to observe change of mass of that object.

You can move whole charged atoms, that's a form of electricity too, and it can add observable amount of mass, like with electroplating or welding. But these very quickly turn electrically neutral after depositing.
That's a fair take. As stated in the study that scenario is based around actual documented EV usage behavior amongst owners

PS, cheers for actually reading the paper
>They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit.

Are you saying that your family would have been the same had your parents done drugs or considered themselves victims?

If so, why do you think that? Seems like a very bold claim. If not, what are you actually saying?
"Everyone's" lifespan?

Is your longevity drug going to be offered for free? Are you going to use taxes to pay for everyone's right to live?

Your scenario is a pure strawman - we all know that in the current social and economic system, anti-aging drugs are just going to worsen inequality...
> A competent modeler can make these types of meshes in under 5 minutes.

I don't think this general complaint about AI workflows is that useful. Most people are not a competent <insert job here>. Most people don't know a competent <insert job here> or can't afford to hire one. Even something that takes longer than a professional do at worse quality for many things is better than _nothing_ which is the realistic alternative for most people who would use something like this.
Imagine being an exec at coca cola.

All your product development is done. You already got it right.

Now your only goal is coca cola displacing a greater and greater quantity of the substances humans put in their bodies.

Every quarter you want that percentage to go up. Maybe public water infrastructure should be looked upon as a competitor.

You think about the future and see vague stormclouds- vitamin supplementation can keep our consumers active a bit longer after the product displaces all sources of nutrition, but there is an absolute limit to how much matter a human can ingest over a given 24h period.

Perhaps a campaign to de-stigmatize public urination. Or maybe theres a way to grow the population…
I grew up poor. Something I realized early on is I had a lot of victim-mentality people around me. The world happened to them. I decided at an early age (like, under 10) that everyone is 100% responsible for everything that happens to them, including by chance. You get hit by a car? You were standing there. In this world view, you can have more than 100% responsibility because the driver that hit you is also 100% responsible.

Armed with that, instead of accepting and complaining about my situation, I worked my ass off to change it. And I did. By a lot. When I had kids, I tried to teach them the same thing. '"She made me sooooo mad" -- no, you are mad because you. Yes, your sister should not have pushed you. Yes, it is also on you to control your emotions. Let's go talk with your sister about pushing you.'

I expect there will be people who downvote this. Keep looking for others to blame and see how that works out. Take responsibility. Fix a thing.

This also leads to another of my early discoveries (also, under 10): if you can't do something about a situation, don't -- and don't worry. If you can, do -- and don't worry.

These have served me well, even if "wrong."
Letter Q really having a glow-up this month
> For every Charlie Munger there are tons of working poor that get up everyday

Not tons. Millions. If not hundreds of millions.
There's a way to avoid (conscious) hypocrisy here: Convincing oneself that marketing (propaganda?) isn't effective and you're just giving the people what they would want anyway.
If Buffett and Munger wanted,they could certainly point out that Coca-Cola and Pepsi both benefit from being on EBT/SNAP lists as acceptable foods to purchase, and ask that soft drinks as a class of foods be removed.

Last I looked, about 9.5% of total EBT/SNAP money for food (that is, money from taxpayers that are supposed to help feed those in need properly) is spent on soft drinks. No person in need, needs soft drinks, especially when we have high rates of diabetes and obesity among the poor.
I think I'll be creating a news service which filters for flagged HN posts with more than 20 votes and less than (votes / 2) comments. A good mix of really interesting mixed with click-baity news.

Looking for a co-founder :)
> It is also true that dispensing this particular advice is self-serving for people in power.

Most people in power will go out of power via something other than violent revolution. In fact, the whole notion of "elite overproduction" is basically about pointing out the fact that a lot more people aspire to be in power than are actually in power at any given moment. It's an endless game of musical chairs, and if you can avoid playing that particular game you'll be a lot better off on average.
> so even if there are (huge) trades you wouldn't necessarily see the price move.

So you're saying there is an arbitrage opportunity and you can literally make free money? Because that doesen't make much sense..

You might not see all the trades immediately, but they are still reflected in the price with minimal delay.
Need some answers about deployment processes in companies
Hi! I'm considering creating an app that works with various cloud providers, automating the deployment of backends and frontends, setting up environments, CI/CD pipelines, logging services, databases, etc. I would greatly appreciate it if you could spare 5 minutes of your time to fill out a brief interview. Thank you!

https://forms.gle/jnqzfmf7bCs72bMr9
The comments here are concerning, I don't see any clear condemnation of Saudi Arabia's actions. It is pretty clear by now that keeping pumping CO2 in the atmosphere will have dire effects for all of us, yet according to this article, they are pursuing the opposite goal, in the name of profit. This is a long-term plan to push a whole continent toward more pollution, for god's sake!

That other countries are not any more concerned is not a reason to excuse them. It should rather inspire us to do better. I don't know if there's a way to live without oil, and I understand that countries may want to keep their privileged position. Yet I feel disgusted by this behavior. This is irresponsible.

(not a native speaker so sorry for any errors)
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the afterword of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States:

>But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.
Would you support paying the cost of providing everyone with your life-expanding drug? Because that's never discussed
America has too much anomie and normalization of violence. Australia addressed the matter while America insists on putting intransigent philosophical utopian ideals ahead of solidarity and life.
Munger was born into an elite family with friends born into elite families, which is a winning strategy anywhere in the world.
These articles feel like articles written by journalists for other journalists so they can give awards to each other for “shining a light” on something that they’ve decided isn’t getting illuminated enough.

I’m somewhat cynical about a lot of journalism today simply because it feels like a large cohort of that profession has just gotten trapped in a social-media-attention fueled circle of journalists just doing things to generate praise from other journalists. Interestingly, this pattern seems to be independent of the politics of the involved individuals or venues: they all do it.

I’m not sure how useful it is to the consumers of the journalism: it’s not like anyone is unaware of what’s going on. If anything, most of us are resigned to the fact that we can’t really do much about it other than be angry and frustrated, since people from all kinds of different places and with different motivations just get in the way.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/

Enjoy
Hard not to hear this as "I'm afraid that my victims will retaliate, therefore there are no victims."
Trying to convince yourself you're not a victim also leads to weird mental twists, like concluding you're where you are by choice and reframe your situation as some success to not look like a loser.

Accepting you're being fucked is the first step to get out of it.
Those who have installed smart motion sensors to turn lights on and off, why not install light switches with sensors built in? Like the kind one finds in office and school environments? I have one in a room and it works well. Never have to worry about batteries or privacy or security implications with the rest of my network.
Munger wasn't responsible for Coca Cola's continued growth (and it's worth noting that Berkshire has never owned 25% of Coca Cola as another comment here claimed, they own 9.25% at present).

And there's no reason Coca Cola couldn't diversify away from sugary drinks in the pursuit of growth, exactly as they have been doing for decades. Sugary soda drinks have been a dead-end in terms of growth for a while now. The growth has gone to eg Monster and RedBull et al.
"If you only want a simple circuit, you can use Motorola's triac driver MOC301[012], together with a general purpose TRIAC like SC141D."

lol

(though I guess compared to MQTT + ATTiny85 + GPIO it is of its time)
Well established processes are no longer oiled by a deep bench of people who kept the world spinning.

The wheels are starting to rattle on everything, worldwide, and the next generation seems more interested with their phone. Oh well, enjoy.
Opinion: It is unfortunate that msys2 is ending support for Windows 7
I want to preface this by saying I absolutely understand that I, nor any users of free software, are entitled to support of any kind. I understand that if I want something done/a new feature/etc, it's up to me alone to do it; no one is obligated to do it for me. That being said...

I understand that supporting antiquated systems is a burden for developers, but it is my opinion that every system, regardless of how outdated, is deserving of at the very least a functional POSIX environment. Regardless of age, people are going to want to develop on, and for, these machines. People are going to want to cherish and use these machines, maybe to prevent e-waste, maybe just because it makes them feel nice. Maybe because the system is just perfect for them, and everything newer feels like a downgrade in minor, but meaningful ways.

A shell, GNU tools, and a package manager are together the best and easiest way to achieve a useful, unified work environment across a wide variety of systems, old and new, making this sort of project especially useful on these outdated systems. It is true that with time less and less people are going to want to use these systems, and support for a wide variety of software such as web browsers, production suites, and developer tools will end, but due to this reason most of the people using such systems are going to look towards projects like msys2 to squeeze that extra lifespan out of their machines.

Essentially I'm saying that while obsolete systems have fewer users, tools like msys2 become far more important and useful to that handful of users. I don't know how many computers will end up in a landfill strictly because msys2 doesn't work, but that number is certainly not zero.
I'm not so sure about that!

I see only a difference in degree. It starts with trusting AI to write your emails, then organizing your calendar, then organizing your finances, then establishing financial goals, then making important life decisions. And then you're a pet.

There will be companies actively trying to build this kind of trust. And they will succeed -- at least, they'll be able to deliver this kind of advice for almost no cost, and much of the advice will be considered helpful, much of the time.

But who's going to be on the other side, arguing that listening to the AI advice is a net bad?
Not really. I don't think you've read his papers. The implementations in hardware lack range, but soft posits can expand to ridiculous ranges, and comparing the math, posits are superior(imo, granted, they're more or less similar) to BLC, depending on how they're implemented, of course.
Value investing is being right when everyone else is wrong, and waiting until everyone realizes you were right all along.
> They didn't drink or do drugs or consider themselves victims, and it didn't help one bit.

Not doing those things didn't enable them to get ahead far enough to not have to both work two jobs. But drinking or doing drugs would have hurt compared to not doing them. So would feeling like a victim.
I personally believe misinformation is a symptom rather than a cause of radicalization, but granting the premise, I don’t see how SV and USGOV can be trusted to fairly censor and run their own propaganda campaigns without transparency. We already have examples of them abusing this power.
I actually watched a short the other day where a wildebeest horns a lioness throwing her high in the air a couple of times. It was fearsome. It saved its friend from being eaten by the lioness even!

We all have a (larger or smaller amount of) power left inside of us. Being a victim means giving up that power. Don’t. Fight!
Personally, thinking "it's always your fault" is as not nearly as important as thinking "I am the only one who can do anything (or cares) to make this better."

Misfortune isn't always our fault. How we respond to it is.
Exactly. So maybe we shouldn't be celebrating billionaires.
* It's just a table that people must memorize.*

Exactly. And there also some rules about what things are feminine and what things are masculine. You learn those rules at school. This still goes back to the amount of education you receive in your life determines how well you get to know your own language.

"I done went" is perfectly understandable to an English speaker. But some people know that it is bad English, some people think it is bad English but don't know why it is, and some people think it's good because they don't know what actually is correct.
The phenomenon of people from skinnier (but developed) countries spending some time in the US and complaining that they gain a lot of weight suggests a pretty damn strong environmental component. Strong to the point of overwhelming most other factors, to my eye, at least.
Prem Watsa, the Buffett of Canada. Also, I’d suggest Sardar Biglari - check out his letters.
From your bio it appears that they raised a software engineer. That has to count right?
Meh. Many of the greatest works open by explaining themselves in miniature (to the extent that it's probably a named literary technique). If you let your engagement with a work be circumscribed by what you're told about it beforehand, that seems more like a you problem.
Freedom of speech is about liberty of life, not liberty of opportunity. Two totally different things.
Yes I checked the return value. Example using the program from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38451560

$ ./parse256 400
value of 400 is 144
For small companies/startups, selling a niche product, direct to consumers is rarely worth the time. You have a small team that should be putting their effort into selling/packaging thousands with each call, not 2. The company lights only stay on if the collective sales goals are met. And, shipping to Joe Shmoe can easily cost money. This is why places like Adafruit exist: direct-to-consumer is a huge pain.
Best to try yourself, llama.cpp is refreshingly easy to build.
So is X11.

Xorg is a server.