skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we limit promotional notifications to one per user per day.

> The more you open/click, the more you get and vice versa

User here: You can fuck off and this type of horrid behavior is getting your app/service/whatever spam bullshit it probably is permanently blacklisted off of all of my devices and in my network.

The only people not blocking your notifications are the people who don't realize they can do that after the initial nag you get from your OS about notifications on/off.
I hear you saying that it's a mindset. Now how do you get into that mindset reliably? That's the challenge for many of us.
Well I work at a FAANG and at the beginning of the year (after our round of layoffs) we were more or less told "no growth, flat headcount, no spending money, lean times, austerity etc" and now I'm hearing "ok we need to hire some (albeit slowly) and we need to spend some money for this AI thing".

So maybe "boom" is the wrong word, but it sure seems to have put a stop to the outright austerity mindset.
A lot more lighterweight, and nowadays it's good to have less (it has less CSS compatibility, less html compatibility and no JS).
No, I'm just subscribed to his RSS feed.
Trying to decide whether HN qualifies... hmmm
> China permitted more coal power plants last year than any time in the last seven years, according to a new report released this week. It's the equivalent of about two new coal power plants per week. The report by energy data organizations Global Energy Monitor and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air finds the country quadrupled the amount of new coal power approvals in 2022 compared to 2021.

> That's despite the fact that much of the world is getting off coal, says Flora Champenois, coal research analyst at Global Energy Monitor and one of the co-authors of the report.

> "Everybody else is moving away from coal and China seems to be stepping on the gas," she says. "We saw that China has six times as much plants starting construction as the rest of the world combined."

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
For most desktop applications, this bottleneck is not that restricting though. Almost any noticeable UI delay is due to stuff that ought to be offloaded into a background thread, but isn't. For example, IntelliJ often freezes up when I enter a search string in the settings dialog, which is probably due to a search index being loaded or built on the UI thread.

Layout engines for browsers do get parallelized though. And the point of modern 3D APIs like Vulkan APIs is precisely to allow calling it from more than one thread.
It's "pretty easy" to type anything in to an HN comment box, or say anything as a talking head on a news broadcast, but that's not evidence. Strong, highly prejudicial claims require strong evidence.
https://shamansir.github.io/JavaScript-Garden/
Glad I'm not alone. Any notification (or sms, email, phone call, etc) I didn't specifically, proactively seek out and ask for is spam, period.
I used to have Instagram on the first page of my phone's icons and checked it every time I had a free moment; after simply moving it to the last page I've forgotten about it completely and pop in about once a month. Out of sight, out of mind worked wonders for me.
I believe W3W are 1m squares, so in Japan it sounds like they may be already broken
When I started a new job in September of 2022, my base salary was 72% of the base salary at the previous employer. It was the highest offer by far.
Here, I found it fun to write a small bot to play automatically. Just paste this JS code in the dev console. It reached 9000 points on my first attempt to let it run. Feel free to tweak the code to make pac-man survive longer :-)

function bot() {
/* direction of the enemy: to our right (1) or to our left (-1) */
dir = (enemy.x > player.x) ? 1 : -1;
/* if pac-man... */
if (
/* ...has no powerup or powerup expires in less than 10 "ticks" */ powerTicks < 10 &&
/* ...is headed toward enemy */ player.vx == dir &&
/* ...is too close to enemy */ abs(player.x - enemy.x) < 25 &&
/* and if enemy's state is not "eyes flying back" */ enemy.eyeVx == 0
) {
// "ArrowUp" or any arrow key reverses the direction of pac-man
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keydown', {code: 'ArrowUp'}));
document.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keyup', {code: 'ArrowUp'}));
}
}
setInterval(bot, 100);

The strategy is ultra simple. Every 100 ms it evaluates the situation and chooses to move away from the enemy (ghost) if it's too close to it, and has no powerup (or if the powerup is expiring very soon).

The corner cases where pac-man dies is the game difficulty progressively increases (the ghost becomes faster) until you eat it, so sometimes some pellets are left in the middle and pac-man doesn't have enough time to eat them until the ghost reaches it. The ghost will progressively get faster and faster and death is guaranteed. You could improve the code by tempting the ghost to get close to one edge, then cross over to the other edge and quickly eat the middle pellets.

Also, as soon as new pellets are added, one should prioritize eating the middle pellets.

Also, one could add code to detect the powerup pellets, and chose to NOT move away from the ghost if it calculates it can eat the powerup pellet before the ghost reaches pac-man.
2 days a month isn't a big deal at all. I'm in the UK, and regularly travel anything from 2 to 8 days a month to a role in Germany and the Netherlands.
You have something like user reviews with comments on HN or reddit.

Changelogs and permissions are more difficult as they require the app store to control hosting. I don't think any developer would accept that unless there's no other choice, and on the web there is.

Google doesn't have reviews (why not?) but it can crawl every website that links to a web app, like an HN comment page, and use that to figure out what the web app is about.
Here in Europe things look a bit more quiet than usual but not too bad: I still get contacted by recruiters almost every week, my company is hiring and people around me are still finding decent jobs.

I wonder if this is mostly a problem in the American VC/startup world.
I think companies are much more selective. They were looking for non-manager work much more than lead. I have done both so shifted myself to look for IC work.
And that's in a current political situation with three parties in the government that disagree all the time. Imagine what could be done in more stable times!

The huge issue I see is that they fail to implement enough social balancing, which leads to more and more people voting for the extreme right wing party AfD, which will cause a lot of trouble after the next elections.
Technically true, but still misleading, as the total production has gone down significantly:

2022: 491,8 TWh
2023: 436,8 TWh

So Germany is not replacing fossil fuels with renewables, it just produces less electricity overall. Which might be caused by the fact that electricity is so expensive nowadays, that especially energy-intensive industries are getting less and less economical, so they lower their production or even shut down completely and move elsewhere.
In this case it was Fidelity putting their customers money where his mouth was actually.
Thanks for that too!
I strongly suspect that in the future, everybody being considered for a senior role at university will have their writing sent through a plagiarism detector and rejected if they fail that test.

Harvard should already have been doing that, but it's clear the board who hired her had no real interest in verifying her credentials.
A lot of this, I've observed in myself at least, was caused by heavy-handed anti-drug propaganda I experienced as a kid. "Weed is addictive." "Weed kills all your motivation." "Weed leads to other much worse drugs." Etc etc. Once you take that first hit and realize none of that trash is true, or is true only in the worst cases, you start to really question everything you were told...not just about weed, but other substances as well. Meanwhile, so many of the people telling you how terrible drugs are drink themselves into a stupor every night. If you want one of the most damaging, addictive substances on the planet, one of the few drugs where withdrawl will kill you, look no further than alcohol. But that one is ok!

Point being, the pendulum always swings. If weed is always terrible and always going to kill you, then when the pendulum swings, it's going to cure cancer and bring back your dead pet bunny. The truth is somewhere in the middle: it can lead to transformative experiences, but mostly just makes you slow, hungry, and often paranoid.

LSD and psilocybin and the like will probably end up being the same. Microdosing works fine for some people, not so much for others. Psychadelic therapy will be great for some and really screw up others. You can have people who get bad reactions to psychadelics, and you can have terrible therapists, and you can have both at the same time.

I definitely feel the need to allow this space to be explored, but with cautions in place, mainly via public education. These substances can open doors to different parts of our psyches and can open our eyes to patterns in the universe we hadn't seen before, and that should be celebrated. But they can also uncover horrors we were not meant to experience, and tear apart our sense of reality in ways that leave us much more damaged than we ever were before. Start small and start slow, and if it gets too much, stop.
Is there a reason everyone is still using Google's shitty reCAPTCHA, instead of hCAPTCHA? Cloudflare did a great writeup of their migration back in April 2020:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptch...
You can use the same techniques that other people use for other addictive things. Try browsing through a copy of Allen Carr's "The Easy Way To Stop Smoking", and then apply those lessons to social media or whatever your addiction is.
Most of our clients either ended our contracts or scaled us way back. Normally we have to turn business away but now I feel fortunate to have full-time work.
You can study something like philosophy or psychology, reading books from the phone, listening lectures, etc.
Normal people use websites and follow links. Understanding and empathy is one thing, condescension is another.
Only in the sense that I'm not being contacted my recruiters on the reg. My employer hasn't had any layoffs and carries no debt, despite sales being down. Probably helps that we're very small and already pretty lean.
>buy-a-gym-membership-use-it-once resolution d

I've kinda got a hypothesis on this... see in the cold of winter, going to the gym is a great idea. But as spring comes around, you want to be outside - maybe even hiking, biking, etc, IE: being physically active. Then the kids are home all summer and you get distracted with family activities. Then the kids go back to school but you are out of routine going to the gym and it takes a while to get back into the pattern.

My point is, I think we all jump to this idea that the person who stops going to the gym is being lazy, whereas I think a lot of it has to do with patterns of behavior and "externalities."
Personally it's life-wasting in the manner that I use it as an outlet to avoid boredom, but the value I get from it cancels it out. I think it would be better for me to have a set period of time to catch up on valuable online communities, rather than opening it whenever I get bored/have free time.
Very nice to hear!

Anybody knows what happened to Jorge A. Cid?
Germany had been a net electricity exporter for the last 2 decades.

I'm assuming that's still the case for last year or it would be bigger news. I did see one article fretting that they might turn into a net importer later in the decade.
I haven't been laid off, but a good chunk of my team was.

Anecdotally, I'm hearing lots of stories of companies laying people off and then there are new openings very similar to the position that was let go, but with lower salaries or where one person would be expected to do the work of 2-5 previously laid off folks.

In particular, a person I know from EA Games saw half their department let go, and then replacements appeared a couple months later. All of them had lower pay and were less skilled. This all reads like quarterly profit optimizations by a bean counter up top looking to make the shares look good.
If I have say... cars as a hobby. Turbochargers, wheels, parts, say I spend 20% of my disposable income on it and I have a good portion of my net worth tied into it as well (the cars themselves, the parts, etc).

Elon Musk spending $44b (which I don't think he did as all cash all at once/financed some) of his $250b net worth is like 17.5%

Even if it makes $0/goes to $0, it's just basically his hobby/a passion project for him, no? Should his goal be to make money/not lose money at an enormous scale? Probably. But he's obviously eccentric. Isn't this kind of on-brand for him?

He probably thinks he's better than most people. "Your hobby is tennis, my hobby is international social media platforms".
it's a smile
Company I was with (200 employees) was running out of runway and funding round didn't work out so they laid off around 30% of employees in February 2023 including me. They seem to have stabilized and their new product is finally online (delayed by regulator mostly).

Took me 2 months to get a new job. Applied and interviewed at a bunch of places, mostly local, some remote. Finally got a job with one of the first places I applied for (I think my initial recruiter left which delayed stuff). Largish Tech company in Enterprise space, I'm in a "Follow the Sun" Ops team.
Practically speaking, does this mean guys are just hanging out in the truck 24 hours a day decked out in full gear?
Great reminder. I opened it thinking 'nope', but had no reason to comment so, especially amongst a sea of heartwrenching stories.

It's still valuable data - it tracks that it's harder to land an interview these days.
Its a serious problem. One off day and you are down the cycle again. It's the addiction of our times.

If anyone has some tips that have worked for them please share! Here are ways I've found that help on iphone:

1. Delete all time wasting app.

2. Delete all browsers on your phone (disable safari in screentime). If you "really need" some content there will be an app, or RSS feed you can tap into to get it. A light version of this would be using screentime privacy restrictions and only allowing the websites you want to view.

3. Turn off your ability to install apps in screentime so you don't install the time-wasters.

4. Have a family member/friend add the screentime passcode so you don't know it and can't turn it off when you get the first itch.

5. Put your phone in black/white mode and turn down the contrast. The apps you do have won't be as intoxicating visually so you'll spend more time in the real world.
This is rather brilliant, congratulations
Ouster Inc. is looking for someone in the US or Canada with C++, Python, and Linux experience for our SDK team. We develop a lib to help folks integrate Ouster LiDAR devices and data into their robot/application.

Happy to answer any questions about it. The job description is here: https://jobs.lever.co/ouster/1d61a76f-2f1b-4ea5-9076-b97e898...
How much of the production in 2023 were to prop up France's ailing nuclear plants?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/15/business/nuclear-power-fr...
If I was ruler of the world I'd outlaw all Marketers and Advertisers and subject them to a Ludovico Technique type of thing where they have to sit through inane, mind-numbing, mind-killing ads popping up on screens every 3 seconds. Let's see how they like this little world of brain rape they've built for themselves.

The only people who put up with these spammy bullshit notifications are people who aren't aware you can disable them in the first place. I wish the app stores would do something about this, like give us a spam report system a la email that lets you mark these parasitic marketers as the spam they are.
> Logical replication allows the real-time streaming of changes from a database into any system that can understand the PostgreSQL logical replication protocol.

My Christmas wish for 2024-2025 is that we have an industry standard format for replication. A simple transform (hopefully) of either WAL or logical replication, that we can feed into backup software, search, analytics, whatever.

There's something out there that fulfills the duties of Kafka and half a dozen other tools (at least two of which don't exist yet due to significant barriers to entry) with about a quarter of the code. We just need to carve it out of the block of marble.
I Just Arrived in London. Can I Come to Dinner?
> I feel like I am seeing the same cycle happen again with psychedelics, especially shrooms and LSD.

As in we see that while research is prohibited people have all kind of wild ideas but once we let researchers research they uncover the truth about them? Honestly does not sound half bad.
Proving plagiarism is hard work. In general that's only done when there are suspicions already, or if there's some serious (office) politics going on. Otherwise there's a basic trust among scientists that their peers work properly. (with the odd but very honest mistake here or there)

Seems like she stayed clear from raising suspicions (by simply not publishing more and going into administration instead) but now she made herself some serious enemies willing to do the work.

The consequences are a matter of trust: A simple office clerk with no scientific training going through the ranks at Harvard growing into "President of Harvard", on the understanding that they "merely" ensure that the business chugs along (and with a proven track record in doing that) while keeping a large part of such administration work off the backs of the scientists and teachers is a better fit than somebody who's demonstrated disregard for the tenets of scientific work.

It doesn't matter why President Gay's works were scrutinized right now, the loss of trust is still real.
You can see "Import balance" on the chart.
Political Pressure is how we got here.
Here's a piece to read on ZH's background:

https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...
> Recommending it is not a safe and good idea.

They didn't. They're merely sharing their own experience.
Why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows (2018)
Hi, sorry that you didn't have a good experience with Lantern before. We first posted in HN about 3 months ago - Things should be better now, please let us know if you have any issues.
Unless AWS is going to buy a license, which is probably going to cost them a ton of money, I don't seem them offering Lantern given its licensed under the Business Source License, which is nasty for cloud providers.

AWS is also a big proponent of pgvector, so it is more likely they would put more money into that, in my non-expert opinion.
Virtual II is overall the best Apple II emulator across all platforms, and the article doesn't even mention how stellar its debugger is.

My only gripe with it is that it's not as accurate as AppleWin, despite excelling in every other aspect. This means that writing a cycle-accurate demo won't work as smoothly with AppleWin as it would with AppleWin and AMPLE. Several cycle-counting demos fail to run on Virtual II, a shame for an otherwise perfect emulator. Hopefully the author addresses and resolves this issue in the future.
Please explain how the winter temps affect electricity use. Heating only accounts for 4% of household heating sources in Germany [1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1189752/household-heatin...
I don't think 'democracy' means what you think it does. But who am I to burst your bubble?

No such animal anywhere in the world. Oligarchies yes, democracies no.
There are literal sheep like images in the sky of some of these lol
Nuclear power is not viable for a reason other than than it depends on subsidies. It is not viable because it costs overwhelmingly more both to build and to operate than the competition, with or without considering subsidies on either side, and has always produced exactly zero watts for many years after a project started.

Coal and oil still get huge subsidies, yet even with are not viable against solar and wind without.
I've drank ayahuasca about 300 times (I work at a retreat center). 5-meo/bufo (especially at the "full release" dose) is probably the most profound experience I've had. To go "all the way", you really have to drop every attachment and accept that you are indeed dying in that moment (the freakouts happen when people are unable to and fight it). When you come back it's like being reborn. It is good for releasing a lot of stuff, but without many sessions things tend to come back pretty quick (it's good to be aware of those first things that come back- it's primo stuff to work on in therapy or ayahuasca/longer-lived psychs to really dig in to).
The Delancey Street Project in San Francisco has an outstanding record on preventing recidivism. Their secret, though, is inducting only ex-felons who genuinely want to turn their life around. As you point out, without this motivation, falure is near guaranteed.
Significantly.

I manage an AI consultancy (https://ingram.tech/). We were AI/fintech/cybersec before 2023, and grew a lot this past year by putting all our efforts behind the AI branch.

But that's also because the other two branches just... died out. I'm surrounded by enthusiasm, but there's very little money in the game. Budgets have been cut by 10x everywhere. A huge part of the issue I think is actually the disconnect between budgets. Not everybody has caught up to the "new prices".

We started an AI startup incubator/accelerator (https://seven.camp/) and now things are looking up, but that's because we've had to create our own demand.

I dunno, I could talk about this more but it's been pretty demoralizing tbh, especially in Europe. Feel free to AMA.
One issue with that is it takes equally as long to verify a solution as it does to compute it. There's also no obvious way to generate instances of problems that are actually desired by people in such a way that commits to a new block in the way hashcash does. And there's also the problem of how you actually collect those questions in a way that can't be trivially compromised.
I also like dillo, but just as an option - have you tried netsurf as well? Likewise very lightweight.
I'll have to do an in depth analysis first, I have very little experience with NetSurf.

I would say that the plugin system is one of the things makes Dillo a bit different.

I had some ideas to do performance tests and also check how well the rendering engine works with choppy connections (while content is still slowly downloading), but I didn't do any tests yet.

There were some very old results against firefox comparing memory usage in the old page [1].

[1]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/memory.html
Serious question, I thought OpenIndiana was dead?

I've tried OmniOS, saw that it had a massive memory leak in the base install, and determined it wasn't for me.

Is there any good alternative of Solaris lineage left? (That doesn't involve selling your soul to Oracle.)
My parent's comment was about total energy usage.
Well done! Dillo is a great little browser.
Brutally small amount of time as ghosts.
Bulge bracket == large bank
25923. I'm going to bed now.
And if you actually read TFA, you'd find the majority of people in Wales support UBI :P
GNSS satellites talk to base stations on earth to get correction data using the measurements they obtain (including measurements obtained by tracking satellites from the ground). I believe this is what the poster above is reffering to.

RTK is a whole another beast and the meaning of an RTK base station is something else.
I'm sure they're talking about crypto.
I would suggest neither of those, nor ninja nor anything but make. Whatever sucks about a simple/shallow stack, what sucks about tall fat stacks is worse.
Great point. Bound to be a big area of debate as LLMs get increasingly good at this.

Black Mirror’s take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back