skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me introduce you to a YouTube channel all about DIY air filters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAJ__E-hIJc
NIF's laser works for only 1microsecond, took over a decade to build and the price was over 3.5 bln.
"Peak current for the system exceeds 100 million amperes and the peak power exceeds 1 terawatt (1 trillion watts)"
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/how-nif-works/power-conditioni...
Can you call it a debunking when it's written by the accused?

That reply just says "no we don't, trust me bro".
I have seen companies who have mandated "You _will_ be on video when you're on Zoom calls", which I think is much to the same end, in varying ways (are you working from another office, are you multitasking meetings, etc).
On what basis are you making these assertions? I'm not sure what you mean by "rhetoric and political games" but it's the conspicuous agressive kind of hatred that would lead to women being disproptionately affected in a negative way, I would think.

I didn't actually say anything about men being the problem. Hatred against women hurts women was my whole point. I hope you can appreciate the irony in your comment: I pointed out some of the ways that women might struggle online, even linked to a variety of articles about it, and you felt the need to jump in and baselessly assert that women are the worst offenders.
I wonder what the reasoning is for banning "romantic companionship."
Sounds really interesting. I read the whitepaper; it was nice, but it's more like a technically-oriented setting-the-scene than a whitepaper.
Ratings are important. For allergies, 4x air changes per hour is recommended.
TF2: Source 2 takedown was particularly surprising to me. I speculated in another thread that it could be related to it being made in s&box which Facepunch are likely to eventually profit from.

If you could make comprehensive clone of a game that depends on a paid engine from another studio, I can see how that could be seen as a threat to Valve IP.
I don’t think any meaningful storage makes sense for a home, but for a grid-attached solar plant. The surface area is large but I think the cap ex (and naturally the op ex) are naturally much lower.

Even if the solar plant doesn’t generate enough in the middle of summer when demand is high, its grid connection means the batteries could be charging from surplus wind at night.

Not that this addresses my time-volume issue, just saying it’s not worth considering from the single home perspective except in unusual cases.
I think of it this way: CICO is an axiom we have to assume in order to figure out why a diet isn't working.

E.g. if your input is 1200 calories and you work out, but you aren't losing weight? Maybe your NEAT is way down (or you have a thyroid issue). You are super active but can't lose weight? Maybe you aren't tracking food calories accurately, or you need to eat more satiating foods.

CICO isn't a strategy, it's part of the landscape and your diet is a strategy to navigate that landscape.

But no matter what your particular strategy, it is always going to involve eating less hyper-pallitable foods and getting more activity. That may not be all, but you cannot go from obesity to a healthy weight without those things.
> Well if CICO is not a good idea, not really healthy not really applicable to most people, then why bring it up when we are talking about solution to obesity ?

You may want to read my first post again. I spend nearly the entire post agreeing about the problems with CICO. But in my last paragraph I explain that I still like it and that it works for me, and explain why. YMMV.

> That's the first part, the "works" include the IF... You mixing efficacy and effectiveness is here.

Right, that’s called propositional logic. It’s perfectly valid to make “CICO works” predicated upon whether you follow it correctly. This isn’t as trivial it sounds: there are diets for which this is not true!. I can totally stick to a low carb diet to the letter and still gain weight, because if you don’t include a calorie limit, you can still go way over your calorie expenditure even with low carbs. As trivial as my “definition 1” is for “works”, it’s still a bar that many diets don’t pass.
Thanks for digging this up! It is good and interesting info, but unfortunately still doesn't satisfactorily answer why they are treated differently.
Wow, 4.5 kW of power draw max for a server with 512 MB of memory and the equivalent computer power of a single x86 core from about 25 years ago!

I’m pretty sure an Arduino could run circles around that thing, using a battery.
Are there any asset classes in public markets that aren't driven primarily by speculation?
which likely came from French "débile"
Is that the cause of nerd flight, the symptom of it, or the direct consequence, do you think?
It's only worth something if someone else values it vs. physical gold.
Cory (the creator) actually works at FontAwesome now. FontAwesome purchased the library ~1yr ago and hired Cory to work on the library full time as well.

https://blog.fontawesome.com/shoelace-joins-font-awesome/
Not one of their projects, but published by their magazine.

If AWS had an industry magazine that proposed data centers could be run by well-trained dogs, I'd definitely sell my shares.

Synthetic biology safety needs to be taken more seriously than anything our society has ever invented. Removing synthetic organisms from of a lab can have such dire, irreversible consequences we can't even begin to predict them. Jurassic Park mixed Ice-9 from Vonnegut's 'Cats Cradle' is a near approximation of the possibility.
Important distinction that a tax preparer != a CPA.
Let's see: IBM's APL and Call/360 both provided an integrated program editing and execution environment (supporting Basic, Fortran, and maybe PL/I in the latter). By 1970, Basic had spread to all sorts of systems (I got paid for writing software for Computer Sciences Corp's Basic system at that time). I used a similar PL/I-based system at that time, from a company whose name I have forgotten.

And in the 1970s, I was busily using the Michigan Terminal System, which provided a nice complement of languages, including LISP/MTS and ALGOL W, along with a powerful text editor and debugger. It also provided reasonably rapid feedback, if you had enough computer dollars [sic].

I might also mention the MCM 70, a Canadian microcomputer that provided most of APL\360 in a $5000 package; that dates from 1974, and anticipates IBM's later 5100.

Interlisp has already been mentioned, though the Lisp REPL goes back to the early 1960s. The good folks at Xerox PARC were under way with their Smalltalk work by the mid-1970s.

Reading the article, I was not clear on the author's definition of “IDE”, or why the Maestro I was the first.
This is quite a thing to say. You honestly believe that truth obsessed niche learners don't exist?
An incentive isn't an incentive if d/dx = 0 for behaviour x. Salary is how you get someone to work for you instead of a competitor, and keep them from spending their time worrying about mortgages, but it's not really an incentive unless someone is at risk of being fired. Performance bonuses, stock options, recognition, raises, promotions, and interesting projects are incentives.
WSJ reported a few days ago that IT job growth is down year-over-year from 279,000 to 700. It's not contraction yet, but it is effectively the end of a long run of rapid growth.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-employment-grew-by-just-700-...
I came across this HN jobs scraper site that has a graph showing jobs over time. There's a very visible decline around the end of 2022. When I filter for my specific city it's even worse: the number of jobs has dropped to basically zero.

https://hnhiring.com/trends

In retrospect it was obvious this was coming with the Western economies being pumped up on steroids during the first few years of COVID-19.
No-one can read the future. But I'm sure you read in TFA about the kill switch
Not building Gen 4 nuclear plants conveniently close to major cities and industrial centers along the coastline where they can sink the off the coast a bit...

As a major infrastructure component electricity is one of those natural monopolies that should be socialized, with long term planning by the community (government agencies) and built by contractors on fixed price for delivering an output contracts - with a reasonable price and insurance for not building it correctly the first time included.
I kill animals to eat. I have zero moral qualms about taking lesser life to feed myself, and my primary goal is the animal's quality of life and painlessness of death.

I guarantee you that I kill fewer animals than you.
Learn to work on code that nobody else wants to touch.
> Computers can't read minds. They can't analyze the content of the movie and have the emotional experience that a person can

No but you can read minds by proxy, via ratings, which is what the dataset consisted of.
Do you REALLY use ~/Work/Code/Repos path? even with CDPATH configured I would use lowercase folders. I'm just a console/terminal user :D

I wrote about this too https://lesterzone.github.io/blog/2023/01/10/git-work-person...

I consider this type of 'tips' hidden gems
Then you'd have to save and load the file. Here you can, at runtime just write code that works as usual. You can kill the process, and come back in a day, and start a new process that has the same objects saved & ready for use. (Ed: ah, systemd limitation, it will only hold data while restarting, alas, but no concrete reason it has to be so short.)

This seems like way less work, seems way less convoluted than writing a whole intermediary layer to serialize objects out into some whatever format on disk, & read them back. The objects are just there, primed, ready to go. It harkens back to single level store days, when disk-backing memory was done by the OS (multics). https://gunkies.org/wiki/Single-level_store

Another way of looking at this is as a return to the old days before we made everything convoluted.
This one, but only because I know the creator personally.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-Yvtp5B8o7-think-and-grow-rich
> The Ring of Power can improve in the 2nd and later seasons

It's no use if people are not able to finish the 1st
Out of curiosity, may I ask why?
A digitizing VCR sounds awesome.
Fairly easily... We could do a lot of this now if we wanted. Lie detectors can kinda be used to know what someone is thinking, but requires cooperation since the subject still needs to say whether something is false / truthful.

If we could tap into someone's brain then we could simply ask a question and find out if they're recalling an event from memory, or whether a statement like "do you know where she is" is truthful. More advanced modelling of someones brain activity can even pick out specific thoughts so there's various ways to extract information from people as this technology progresses.

Although my guess is that none of this is required. An advanced AI model could probably learn your to understand your subconscious muscle / eye movements well enough to extract information without anything more invasive. For example:

1. "Do you know where she is" – AI says he's thinking yes

2. "Is she in the US?" – AI says he's thinking yes

3. "Is she in Texas" – AI says he's thinking yes

And so on until you have the information you need.
I see the word thermal used for coal/gas all the time.
Yes, I should’ve emphasized decades of R&D to get anything commercially usable and I’m drastically understating what it took.
I agree. At present AI is a tool that engineers use for a marginal efficiency improvement. It isn't replacing anyone.
So all these tiny satelites will also carry a laser and a power source for it? Yeah, good luck with it
Yes, also with your home hazard insurance
And yet predictable != inaccurate

If I predict ahead of time that my plans to install a puppet government in Machuria and invade China are going to be compared unfavorably to Japan's actions in WW2, that doesn't somehow magically make the comparison inaccurate just because I predicted it.
Hmm... What are you, an ATM machine believer?
It's been years since I lived on Oahu but the trade winds have been active on fewer and fewer days thanks to climate change. IIRC they used to be active something like 320+ days a year but now it's more like the upper 200s.
Of course, this is also true of physical gold though. If all non-industrial use of gold were to end the price would collapse
I think it's a significant cause; I don't know if it's also a symptom.

I know a lot of bright, sensitive, promising people who have been effectively bullied out of the academic system because their promise was a threat to a more established person's ego (sometimes the person responsible, on paper, for developing the next generation of academics).
And now they want you to be subscriber for their trash content that likely only reviews products from companies with affiliate programs
Nope. Rural customers are not the issue. I can confirm they don't maintain rural lines, and they charge 5 figures for 2-3 hours of labor in rural areas, just like in the city.

Even if they were adequately servicing rural areas, that wouldn't be the root cause. If it was, then power would be more expensive in completely rural states than it is in California.

There was a lot of well-documented corruption decades ago (remember when an entire residential block exploded because they used to falsify line maintenance records and move the money into their personal accounts?) I doubt it's improved since then, and I'm pretty sure that's the root cause.
I wonder if this group also operates on HN. Two weeks ago I posted a ask HN post that was immediately removed. After seeing that, I concluded that I should drastically reduce my exposure to the media since I think It's just a tool to manipulate.
They're starting to publish viewership statistics as part of the writer's strike agreement- is that what you're basing this on?

I don't follow that closely but I hadn't heard anything either way about how things were going.
If you're gonna go by what's on the radio, then you're screwed.

Sorry you're missing out on so much good stuff.

I mean, I suppose everything is dead.

Fortunately, I am still playing plenty of good music for people, and hearing a lot of it.
Not really - you have to completely change your data model to avoid pointers which won't save correctly (eg. using a byte array for name in the article) compared to just slapping `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]` on your structs. Not to mention all the extra unsafe code.
If you think those toxic managers are going to get less toxic when they don’t need to worry about death stares from everyone if everyone sees them doing toxic things to people in person, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

And those folks aren’t like that because of lack of training, generally.
How does the average person back these up in a secure, yet durable way that lasts decades and can easily be discovered by (and only by) their ultimate heirs?
I probably stared at the picture a little too long.
> I haven't found any more recently published than 1995.

See the text above the filter - "486 Declassified Book Reviews". I assume anything newer than 1995 is still classified.
Take it up with the appeals court; they basically forced the SEC’s hand in this matter.
This is always going to be a very subjective assessment. I don't doubt that the comparison makes sense for you, but it's not the way my spouse or I see it.

Also, most movies I might go to a theater to see cost substantially more than $4 on amzn.
Windows Update Message Interrupts Live TV Broadcast (2016)
I wouldn't consider the entirety of Gulf of California a small place. They're staring down environmental impacts from desalination plants.
Had a partner who was looking at a vet tech role to provide some income while she planned for veterinary school in the next 12 months or so.

She was essentially assured the job, but was concerned about the ad. "We want someone who is committed to us and this, who wants to stay with the clinic and be here for the long haul."

She was pre-emptively feeling guilty. "I know that in about a year I'm going to move on, they want commitment..."

I simply told her, "What happens if they have a massive business downturn next week, or one of the doctors retires, or COVID lockdowns, etc. How do you think they're going to react?

1 - 'we dont have the revenue or workload to support keeping you on, but, since you made a commitment to us, we are making one to you and will keep you on payroll', or,

2 - 'revenues are down or workload doesn't require the level of staffing we have, so thank you for your service, today will be your last day at the clinic'?"

We all know which is going to happen in 99.9%+ of cases.
You think there's no chemicals in your tap water? You think nothing leaches from your plumbing into the water either?
It may or may not affect their recommendation, but it may affect what products they review in the first place. So instead of the "The Best TV you can buy", it's more like "The Best TV you can buy from a company with an affiliate program"
Yep, we haven’t been allowed to hire anyone new on my team in a year. Definitely no headcount for junior engineers. With the cost of licenses for SaaS apps for a single developer my company would rather hire one senior engineer versus 2 juniors.
Fair enough, but bear in mind that "solar" effectively created coal and oil! We don't need a backup as such - but the renewables need a bit more time. We have burned oil for millennia. Solar is only about 50 years old.

I still drive a petrol (gas) powered car and even when I eventually get my eye wateringly expensive electric car, I might have range issues, despite living on a small island group off of Europe - the UK.

However, that new car (with loads of plastics etc etc) will run on unicorn farts ... electricity. What generates that 'leccy is another matter too.

You and I cannot change the world but we can at least point ourselves in the direction that we would like it to go. For me that would involve less fossil fuels.
That has not been my experience, I'm sure it happens all the time though. I'm sorry it does
The only thing I am concerned about is "paper bitcoin" and rehypothecation. Is there anything published about how ETF entities might prove they have custody of the amount of bitcoin they claim (in other words, proof of reserves)?
The blind group think and hand waving around this topic always astounds me.

Plastics used in water bottles are not water soluable.

Is there ANY hard evidence of harm to human health from ingesting minute quantities plastic dust vs any other kinds of dust?

Most plastics are chemically and biologically inert. That is why they don't break down in nature.

Where is the evidence that they react in the body to cause harm?

A water bottle is not your vinyl shower curtain. It is made of PET or maybe PE. Neither are biologically active.

Polyamide ( nylon ) in water filters is non toxic. You could probably eat a teaspoon of fine nylon powder a day suspended in water for years with no health effects because it would just pass through the body without reacting, mainly excreted with feces. Your intestines are not going to absorb insoluble plastics into your blood. The quantities found in water bottles are far, far, less than a teaspoon.

Is there any study that purports to find a significant quantity of polyamide or PET or PE in blood???

It really seems there is a media generated mass hysteria around safe plastics. Not all plastics are the same. Plastics used for food or drink application are typically PROVEN safe from decades of study. What are we all worried about then?
Are you missing some other somewhat relevant financial systems here by any chance?

The EU (higher population than the US) has had Bitcoin ETFs for a while now.
Nabisco makes many delicious products that aren't Oreo related
Not everyone is chasing status. IME a good portion of those that are seem to the most toxic and I'd prefer they did leave.
Not surprised. Valve has really squandered a bunch of projects. Can't help but blame those in charge.
Little toys like this are the spirit of the web. I'd never go through the rigamarole of downloading and deleting an app to fiddle with this for two minutes, but I sure as heck will click a link.
I'm sorry you're going to have to pick an argument and stick to it before I can possibly hope to respond.

Either performance is so critical that a few kb to do feature detection is too much, or line performance has improved so much that 2MB of JavaScript for a text box and two buttons is "acceptable".

You can't have it both ways.
For the SSH part you can use ~/.ssh/config and it also has conditional stanzas like "Host foo.com" or "Host *.foo.com". Can set username, SSH Key, SSH Agent Socket (I use multiple SSH agents), etc.
Its like bloody whack a mole here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38945399
I'm sorry you're going to have to pick an argument and stick to it before I can possibly hope to respond.
Either performance is so critical that a few kb to do feature detection is too much, or line performance has improved so much that 2MB of JavaScript for a text box and two buttons is "acceptable".
You can't have it both ways.
Expressing the views that they do in that video does not make them Russian shills. As I understand the word "shill", they would be shills if they were expressing those views because they worked for Russia. But I see no evidence that they do.

Agreeing with certain arguments that supporters of Russia in the current war make does not make someone a Russian shill. It also does not make someone into a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda, unless you are willing to say that any time that a person agrees with a government's propaganda about anything, it makes that person a mouthpiece for the government's propaganda, even if when it comes to other issues the person might fundamentally disagree with that government.
I think backchannel has a pretty clear definition.
The rabbit r1 looks like straight up vaporware. Not saying GPTs are any better, but I don’t think making a fancy product page entitles anyone to fight against OpenAI in some sort of ideological battle over the future of AI’s user experience.
> It just doesn’t smell right that a team led by a guy who can’t manage to pronounce his own first name clearly could think through all the issues and have a coherent vision within a year of when LLMs really took off.

Weird ad hominem. Your entire comment reeks of a bundle of biases.
Why though I dont get it?
> They act as if they are paid by amount of time you spend watching movies

At least up until 2015 (last published paper that I'm aware of) this actually is how they optimised their recommender:

"However, we have observed that improving engagement—the time that our members
spend viewing Netflix content—is strongly correlated with improving retention. Accordingly, we design randomized, controlled experiments, often called A/B tests, to compare the medium-term engagement with Netflix along with member cancellation rates across algorithm variants"

Gomez-Uribe, C. A., & Hunt, N. (2015). The netflix recommender system: Algorithms, business value, and innovation. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 6(4), 1-19.

It's probably a reasonable approach and has clearly been successful
AI may not be actually responsible for layoffs and hiring freezes, but there are CEOs using it as an excuse. It's getting irritating that journalists keep citing AI as the cause anyway.
The reply says a ton more than that. It goes into quite a lot of detail.

Of course you're free to come to whatever conclusion you want. But I don't really know what more you could ask for.
Aren't most websites like Wirecutter in the business of paid reviews / affiliate marketing?