skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going back to Linebarger (who seems smart enough to have learned from his defeat in the 国共内战 [Chinese Civil War]), we have:

> Sometimes individuals will be unpersuadable. ... But such is man, that most individuals will stop fighting at some point short of extinction; that point is reached when one of two things happens:

> Either, the defeated people may lose their sense of organization, fail to decide on leaders and methods, and give up because they can no longer fight as a group. This happened to the American Southerners in April, 1865. The President and Cabinet of the Confederate States of America got on the train at Richmond; the men who got off farther down the line were "refugees." Something happened to them and to the people about them, so that Mr. Davis no longer thought of himself as President Davis, and other people no longer accepted his commands. This almost happened in Germany in 1945 except for Admiral Doenitz.

> Or, the defeated people can retain their sense of organization, and can use their political organization for the purpose of getting in touch with the enemy, arranging the end of the war, and preparing, through organized means, to comply with the wishes of the conquerors. That happened when Britain acknowledged American independence; when the Boers recognized British sovereignty; when Finland signed what Russia had dictated; and when Japan gave up.

[and, of particular interest with regard to US post-1865 Reconstruction and the 2001-2021 Afghanistan War: (sorry, I should call that last one by however the Taliban call it, but my persian-script-fu is nonexistent)]

> Sometimes these things are mixed. The people might wish to make peace, but may find that their government is not recognized by the enemy. Or the victors may think that they have smashed the enemy government, when the new organization is simply the old one under a slightly different name, but with the old leaders and the old ideas still prevailing.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm#Pa...
You're correct. I sometimes forward my devs the script they need to run locally in order to replicate what Jenkins does. It has the looks of

make <target> THIS=THAT AND_THIS=THAT AND_THAT_THING=SOME_OTHER_THING ETC=ETC

Sometimes it won't fit into a Slack message, so I attach it as a text snippet instead.
My sleep pattern changed when I had a kid and remained that way. I always needed 7 hours of sleep to feel good and productive, but after the baby, I've found myself being equally productive with 5-5.5hrs of sleep.
Looks similar in spirit to Goodhertz' Lossy plugin [1], described as:

"The infinitely desirable sound of crappy mp3’s, broken cellphones, streaming videos, and much more."

I think Lossy approaches the same idea from a more artistic angle in contrast to MAIM which comes to a similar end from a more technical direction.

Coming from the 8-bit generation I find it interesting and refreshing that the younger generation seems to leave the harsh sound of the bit crusher behind and brings more sophistication into digital degradation. It's no surprise, of course, because low quality lossy compression is what they grew up with, in contrast to 4-bit 4 kHz bit banged crash, my generation would consider lo-fi.

Another plugin that is similar in spirit in the sense that it goes beyond simple downsampling to make things retro is AudioThing's Speakers. It has convolution samples from many old devices like the Gameboy or several old phones. I think it would be the perfect companion to listen to MP3 degraded sound with a speaker from your past.

[1] https://goodhertz.com/lossy/

[2] https://www.audiothing.net/effects/speakers/

I'm not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned. These are just plugins from my collection that came to my mind. Usually I do not post links to paid products at all, but I also think the VST plugin space is somewhat special in that it seems to allow many small companies to exist (maybe even prosper?), which is rare today, so I made an exception here.
This seems marginally useful (tape can be dislodged, and a 1.5V alkaline that is at the end of its service life isn't going to do much anyway). But for Lithium Ion things are a bit different, and for 9V blocks as well because they already have a nice series going there and have handy terminals that allow them to connect to each other (cheap source of HV DC: 10 of those clicked together will give you enough juice to run the high side of an electron tube based amp).

Lithium Ion I simply discharge until the protection circuit kicks in, after that they are not quite inert but fairly safe to handle. Usually this happens somewhere between 2.5 and 3 V.
Makes sense. Also, while overfed idle wealthy people faceplant in CPAP machines, older people in traditional cultures with healthy physical activity and consumption levels continue to live long regardless. For example, the Hunza. Experimental results suggest this is because of both their activity levels and a reduced caloric intake of a low protein, plant based diet high in complex carbohydrates. But what would a continuous culture of longevity know?
In the US you can report them to the FCC: https://www.fcc.gov/rules-political-campaign-calls-and-texts

Keep in mind that sometimes they can skirt the rules by not using automation per se. Instead, they have a bunch of volunteers sit in a room (or online) with special apps that distribute a phone number list (often from NGPVan or the Republican equivalent, forget what it's called) between the individual devices. Then each human has to click "send" or "call". It still gets routed through their VOIP systems, but because there's a human in the loop, it's no longer fully automated... just like 90%, enough to get around the FCC rules.

It's pretty sketch. I went to one of those volunteer parties before I realized that's what they're doing.

Thankfully Google Fi does a really good job at blocking this kind of spam, texts or calls.
In my limited understanding, the danger of shorting (and/or residual electrical charge) is merely one of the disposal risks associated with lithium-based batteries. For example, the raw materials innate chemical volatility may lead to combustion reactions upon crushing or piercing, which often happens during general rubbish disposal processes.

Several fires at rubbish processing centers in my area were suspected to have been caused like that, and now, while it's not (yet) against the law here to dispose of them in this way, nobody will actually knowingly let you do it - it's strongly frowned upon.
People are Different: Blank slatism is holding people back
Ask HN: Can I get a faster stack for $0?
I'm broke and I want to start a SaaS. I can pay 0$.

I spent a whole month coding my SaaS in laravel + livewire and it's been awesome. couldn't be any better.

When it came to deployment I deployed the app to a free ec2 t2.micro but it sucked big time.

tried using hostinger premium from a friend, but same. response time is very high om hostinger and on ec2 ram is getting full quickly.

website is basic openai wrapper + crud, nothing fancy.

I was thinking of hosting the landing page + main website on cloudflare pages using some static site generators.

and the dashboard to be a htmx (hosted on cloudflare pages) + axum (rust backend) hosted on my ec2 t2.micro

can I get any faster/lighter with $0?

if I can handle 1000 requests/sec with t2.micro I would be happy
No I like pushcx too. Does a great job running Lobsters.
> Looking forward to the debate about real-time translators censoring or altering people's speech.

[Obama's] "Anger translator" (2012) https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=anger+t...

A citizen ostensibly forfeits their right to sue for defamation when they become a public figure; but counter-non-fraud isn't fraud either then eh.

Say "that's not enhanced" just like the old one please.
I am also curious how to get involved in RT applications.

I assume it’s more about the problem domain.
For what it's worth, I've found reddit and H distinctly different in the down voting behavior. Reddit will down vote on disagree (depending on subreddit) no matter how the info or opinion is presented, but in my experience where it appears HN is down voting on disagreement it's more that the presentation was too forceful.

The biggest example of that IMO is people presenting opinions as fact rather than something to be explored. This can be subtle, and in conflict with how people debate or often discuss between two people, but given it's a public forum, a sprinkling of "I think" or "it seems to me" in in comments goes a long way towards not only not triggering some people into down voting, but also seems to promote more useful discussion around the topic as those or others seem more likely to voice their differences.
Triple pun score!

(I always try and cram as many simultaneous jokes as possible into project names - and have a soft spot for lisp - so I wish you much joy and whatever level of success is most fun for you)
and yet the default font on a kindle is still a sans serif font named Amazon Ember
This is especially true for religious art. Many think religion is not "apart of their culture" because they haven't learned their own history. A museum ought to show the newer generations the good parts of what came before; be it in Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and others.
I recently stumbled upon an interviewer that asks "what will happen to this algorithm if I delete these 2 lines of code?" (the interviewee is the author) and deletes happen on simple if-else condition that maintains useful invariants and the interviewer said it eliminates most candidates.

I guess that's how memorization works.
most of the time, STOP, UNSUBSCRIBE (or clicking any link) marks the phone number or email as hot, and gets sold for more money in the market.
Traditional Medicare pays most but not all of covered health care costs. So to cover the gap in coverage there are private standardized Medigap plans. Plan G has no copays, coinsurance or deductibles except for the Part B deductible ($240/yr). Love Plan G.

I would argue that Traditional Medicare has much more choice; most doctors+hospitals and all ERs accept Medicare Assignment. You can also go to the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland or Cedars Sinai with TM but rarely with MA.
I'm on this subreddit, but it doesn't really seem dead to me, where does "November 2021" come from?
To be clear: I think investing money in making quantum computers that are intended to show better performance than supercomputers for a wide range of high performance computing tasks is unlikely to bear any useful fruit for the foreseeable future.

That doesn't mean I don't want investment into quantum optics, or any number of other quantum-related fields, which have demonstrated far more utility in far less time than quantum computing.
For some value of "wouldn't be hard", I suppose.

The criticism is that nuclear plants take too long to build.

Building fabs to crank out semiconductor grade silicon by the square kilometer isn't going to happen overnight.

Not to mention that the process involves all manner of truly nasty chemicals and many tons of fresh water.
Since the data was not provided, here are links to some by the American Historians Association. [1][2][3]

[1] Data List - https://www.historians.org/jobs-and-professional-development...

[2] "Where Historians Work (interactive charts)" - https://www.historians.org/wherehistorianswork

[3] AHA Jobs Report 2022 - https://www.historians.org/ahajobsreport2022

Personal take: One issue I think some people have, is that there's not a "lot" of private sector historian work. As a percentage of the profession, its relatively small. Higher-Ed (Tenure, Non-Tenure, Admin) is close to 70%.
This is absolutely the point. All these interviews are checking is "does this person spend all of their free time on a task we assign to them, no matter how boring". Or, "do they go above and beyond".
If it requires government support for us to have a strong arts and humanities thread in society because the private sector can't keep it thriving, please take my tax money. STEM supports life, but art is the point of life.
We made a VR visualization back in 2017
https://youtu.be/x6y14yAJ9rY
It’s very difficult to shop around when there are few options to shop around at. Also impeding the free market is a low supply of medical expertise. There has been a lot of consolidation in provider networks and systems. Many doctors and nurses have been leaving the profession due to stress, overwork, liability insurance, etc.
Thanks for the reply!

I agree with the need for better (real) consumer protection, real health and other externalities accountability.

> It's become the very tool that the wealthy and powerful use to manipulate us

I don't know what this means. (More exactly it seems meaningless to me.) It seems like a rhetorical device. Everyone has biases, manipulation is ever-present, wealth is power, and of course many (most) powerful people don't shy away from using their power.

But equivocating wealth/power/influence/airtime with manipulation is ... strange to me. I'm sure you know about the NIMBY activists voicing their concerns on council meetings, I'm sure you know the "the character of the neighborhood" phrase. It's a structural problem. Just like the electoral college, the senate, and so on.

I like these market based libertarianish insurance-like concepts, I'm happy to try them, it's a nice way of trying to account for a lot of things. But there's zero chance of that passing due to the aforementioned structural obstacles.

> And a public not trained in civics or critical thinking skills is easily manipulated into voting against its own self-interest.

Yes. But I think that phrasing is very poor. Because we see they zealously believe they are voting for their interests, based on a professed alliance between them and the leader they are devoted to. (Of course, classic populist stuff. Usually with a heavy dose of arrogant anti-elitism and chauvinistic/xenophobic nationalism, etc.)

That said, let's not forget that the most and best educated public was in Germany in the 1930s. I know you directly said critical thinking and civics, but we are unfortunately very far from effective education. Maybe some future generation will figure out how to do it.

Also, regarding sunsetting bad stuff (and paradigm shifts), I guess you know perfectly how bad society is with this. I know nothing about the lead industry, but we know how the car, oil, and coal lobby fucked everything thrice. And when finally globalization and some progress (both technological and environmental) made the emitters "disappear" from the "Western world" the response was resentment/resistance from the miners and factory workers and shrugs from the rest of us. As long as the Chinese shit is cheap on Amazon no one cares. (And the libertarian minded folks just scold the miners that they forget to appreciate how cheap things are, and the liberal folks scold them that they should unionize and vote differently, and ... and ... and meanwhile the majority sadly doesn't even care about them or about the issue.)
> said consolidation and the increased use of metrics had arisen in response to a need to lower U.S. health care costs, long the world’s highest per capita, and ensure that the spending actually benefits patients.

A bald-faced lie. The enemy has always been the lack of price transparency.

The way to get action is to force our representatives to dog-food what they allow on workers.
The title made me think this was going to be about speculating the optimal time to birth a baby so they can be well positioned to create a successful startup by the time they reach full maturity.
Fancy, but I'm much more inclined to believe the causes are simpler. Steadily increasing aches and pains, worry about mortality, worry about younger relatives, multiplication of regrets, or this side of retirement, the sheer stress of modern life, which seems to wear more heavily when there's less time to bounce back, substance abuse maybe.
Oh so happy to see this on hacker news!

I used this guide (in combination of a few other resources) to add Home Row mods to my QMK modded Kinesis Advantage 2 and my Corne.

After 6 month of use, one change I made though is instead putting the mod keys on the home row, I put them on the row below. It turned out to be more suitable for me
I don't think yak shaving is an appropriate term to describe this. Yak shaving is when you wanted to do something but end up doing something else.

Here, the author wants to do this thing, so they do it. They're not shaving yaks, they're doing the thing they set out to do.
You were in a cost center, and/or your company had no concept of productivity.
Thanks for sharing.

What an exciting time to be learning about LLMs. Everyday I come across a new resource, and everything is free!
Hopefully the linked README provides a general overview (I know I need to write some more documentation!), but Steel is an implementation of the scheme programming language (not entirely compliant yet, but aiming for R5RS and R7RS compliance). It can be used as a standalone language via the interpreter/repl (like Python or Racket), or it can be embedded inside applications, like Lua. There are hundreds (thousands, probably) of embeddable languages, each with their own flavor - see a list compiled here for example https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages

Use cases are generally for either configuration, scripting, or plugins - so scripting in games, or adding extensions to your text editor without having to use FFI or RPC + serializing a bunch of data. The advantage it has over using dynamic libraries (in general) is it runs in the same process, and can access the internal data structures directly without a lot of ceremony involved. The downside is that it is typically not as fast as native code unless a JIT is involved.

Javascript is an example of an embedded scripting, where the browser is the host application.
You're making an argument for a more organized society, not a less organized society.

In your example, the solution is not letting 9 more people die but rather having a greater number of generalized doctors, in place of some specialized doctors if need be.
Let's compare with the energy to make a cup of tea.

Each cell pone is different, but let's assume 5 W hour ~= 1800 0J ~= 4300 cal

Assuming a cup of 250ml, this is enough to heat the water 4300 / 250 ~= 17C°(30F°). For a tea, you should heat from 15°C(60°F) to 90°C(194°F). So to make a tea you use (90-15)/17 ~= 4.4 cell phone charges or 4.4 AI images.
> Skyla Loomis, IBM’s Vice President of IBM Z Software adds, “But you have to remember that this is a developer assistant tool. It's AI assisted, but it still requires the developer. So yes, the developer is involved with the tooling and helping the customers select the services.” Once the partnership between man and machine is established, the AI steps in and says, ‘Okay, I want to transform this portion of code. The developer may still need to perform some minor editing of the code that the AI provides, Loomis explains. “It might be 80 or 90 percent of what they need, but it still requires a couple of changes. It’s a productivity enhancement—not a developer replacement type of activity.”
I'm telling you, most candidates at Meta that got in and are making 400k+ sat in a room and memorized question by question. People need to know how they are getting hired. They are MEMORIZING the question bank.
"Every system is fault-tolerant; unfortunately in most of them the component tolerating the faults is the end user."
This has been posted so many times.
Samsung's End-of-Cycle Laundry Machine Song Has a Surprising Backstory
I've never heard of the Hunza and kind of suspected that these "older people in traditional cultures" sounds too good to be true, and sure enough:

> A widely repeated claim of remarkable longevity of the Hunza people has been refuted as a longevity myth, citing a life expectancy of 53 years for men and 52 for women, although with a high standard deviation.
Tesla not only looks at these, they coordinate their fixes and disclosure. Tesla runs a bug bounty program https://bugcrowd.com/tesla, contracts with security research companies to audit its vehicles, has a security researcher program where they share more access & documentation for researchers who have helped improve vehicle security, and put up both vehicles and cash in pwn2own.

Obtaining code execution, persistence, or privilege escalation on a Tesla is a formidable challenge. Pwn2own went many years without there being any compromise of the vehicle, and last year's compromise was done by a firm that dedicated a lab and team of people for more than 6 months.
Reading Angela Duckworth at a young age helped. Whether it's true or not, the placebo effect on grit is amazing. Have a fragile ego that makes the possibility of failure hurt more than the pain of frustration. When you feel like giving up, realize that's like any other emotion and you can choose to act on it or not separate from it existing.
http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1999b.pdf

> Hoare (1972) had introduced the concept of a conditional critical region
that is delayed until a shared data structure satisfies a Boolean condition. In
a shared class, I expressed the same idea by means of an await statement,
which can occur anywhere within a critical region (Brinch Hansen 1972).

> At the time I was concerned about the inefficiency of conditional critical
regions which retest Boolean conditions repeatedly until they are true. As
an alternative I decided to let the programmer control the frequency with
which scheduling expressions are reevaluated. I did this by associating explicit
queues with shared variables. Critical regions can delay calling processes in
these queues and resume them later (Brinch Hansen 1972).

public void send(int m)
{ while (full == max) await(e);

This ended up as a feature in software transaction memory as the 'retry' function - without the inefficiency of busy-waiting and without the programmer needing to pick a frequency of scheduling:

send m = do
when (full == max) retry

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/stm-2.5.3.0/docs/Control...

> Retry execution of the current memory transaction because it has seen values in TVars which mean that it should not continue (e.g. the TVars represent a shared buffer that is now empty). The implementation may block the thread until one of the TVars that it has read from has been updated.
Garden Ornament Turns Out to Be Live Bomb
People need to know the truth that these "genius" engineers at Meta/FAANG are mostly getting in by memorizing. They try interviewing at five top companies. One of those interviews they will absolutely crush, and then will get an offer at 400k+.
Yeah, the burdens of adulthood, a more complex life with more responsibilities, and so on
Exactly. My main work computer is a laptop on a dock, but I'm not always at my desk. I'm not going to carry the external keyboard around.

The pros never seemed like they'd outweigh the cons. I love smaller mechanical keyboards, but I'm not going to venture off of QWERTY.
Isn't that basically Plaid?
The Artemis mission involves landing astronauts on the Moon and bringing them back to Earth. Not landing an empty Starship on the Moon. Maximizing the payload is really important when need to carry humans, and launch a whole large spacecraft off the Moon.
Anyone else seeing ChatGPT tabs sucking 100% CPU on idle all of the sudden?