skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't heat pumps stop working around -25C? That is obviously not going to be effective in alberta. (Current temp -36C [not including windchill])
For the longest time I thought Ray Kurzweil was nuts. Guess he was merely a little quick with his predictions!
>It is impossible to do physics by thought experiments. There are an infinite number of logically consistent mathematical models of universes out there, only a small subset of them match up reasonably well to the one we exist in.

Strongly disagree. The mathematical universes are heavily ordered by their simplicity and logical consistency and you can sort through them with thought alone.

Also, anyway, the act of 'doing physics' includes a lot more than the somewhat small category of 'testing hypotheses with experiment'. It's like 95% model building and 5% experiment.
They didn't say it would be different now, they're just reminding people that Walter is here on HN so to try to be respectful and realize that he's a human being too. Unlike most here, he's attached his real identity to this project, so drive by anonymous pot shots would be inappropriate.
I was running into something similar when I was accessing the API of someone's MediaWiki instance and adding User-Agent was enough to solve the problem
I mean there is multiple people all over the main post pointing out how LLMs aren’t reliable but you do you.
People will always label you about anything they feel like. I labeled routinely candidates as quitters in my career and didn't invite them. Would i give my younger self therefore the advice to not quit early? Hell, no. Do it. Quit. Do whatever you like (as long as you have signed up for another job or source of income).
The parent comment is about doing something you don't want to do rather than doing something you don't enjoy. Important distinction. You did military service because you wanted to do it. It had real value to you. You did not continue doing something that you did not actually want to do. I would say that was a good decision for you. You didn't enjoy it but you valued it. It is easy to get these conflated.
Several of those brokers are also tied to the "credit score" (no, not in China...), so removing yourself has some financial consequences for you. they won't make it easy...
Also, never underestimate the power of FIPS999999999 or whatever compliance. If it’s a checklist item to have a bowl full of M&Ms without brown ones in your data center, your security people will make sure that box gets checked. It doesn’t matter how outdated the requirement is.
Not sure that’s true.

It means droughts for the grain growing regions.

It means extreme cold/warm cycles in the winter will kill off trees in the forests.

It means more extreme cold days like this that puts stresses on their infrastructure (calgary also nearly had rolling blackouts last night).
>I don’t mean short term like take a vacation then find another tech job - mean longer term like what kind of job will you be looking for next, or business to start, etc

I mean, the job I'd be looking for is another tech job?

I do have stuff I want to do in 5,10 years. Maybe even vague ideas of 20 years out. But I lack the funds and the expertise to pull it off. I'm sure many dream of being their own businessman or simply traveling and experiencing the earth without worries of rent. But even for tech workers that is a lifestyle that can't be maintained without some corporate kowtowing (or having a silver spoon).
Cool but looks like we’re back to graphics cards being unobtainable outside prebuilt rigs from manufacturers.
Lava is molten rock. Concrete blocks are rock.
The title is not perfect, the article talks about startup co-founder quitting, not an employee. For an employee, "anytime" is acceptable. For a co-founder the answer, IMO, should be different.

A founder quitting usually means the end of the startup and that means that founder quitting also affects other founders and early startup employees (for some it may create visa headaches). So, rather than a blanket "anytime" a co-founder should be clear to at least the other founders. And, if other founders feel the same way, to the first employees, too: a generic "we need to get to N users/ARR X/profitability/whatever within M months for the startup to survive" is sufficient.

Also, it depends on whether a quitting founder wants to try again. A startup failure on a resume is not a big deal for a founder, at least in the US. But being the founder who bailed on a startup that other cofounders thought could have made it is likely a big hit on the ability to raise money as a future founder. My 2c.
I'm always happy to see an org host their own forum, but as a user I've found the friction of needing yet another account enough to prevent me from casually participating in a lot of them.

Social SSO isn't a solution because I'm not interested in Google tracking every community I log in to.

I'm surprised there isn't a popular forum built on ActivityPub yet. The ActivityPub dev community doesn't even dogfood one, they use Discourse[0]. It could work like a normal forum for users who don't participate in the Fediverse, but for those who do you could post from your existing Mastodon/Lemmy/etc ActivityPub account.

[0]: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/robin-berjon-running-a...
Could also be Israel, Switzerland, Greece, Brazil, or any number of other places
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38991051.
Military is dead weight, not really as noble a service as you think it is. You are better off serving in other ways that puts your talent to good use.

PS
I volunteered and served nearly for a decade as an officer.
In this case, I believe it’s that the eruption is getting bigger and lava is seeping out of new & unexpected places in the ground, thwarting the existing redirection barriers. They do have some flow barriers, but the lava is oozing around them. They were hoping it wouldn’t come to this, but at some point, if the eruption gets big enough, lava barriers become pointless.
To be slightly fair it’s like food, make it look better and it tastes better, but this dials it to 11
> contemporary web browsers are unlikely to be fully rewritten in any other language

Right.

> it is an unreasonably high bar

It's not an unreasonable standard. We're talking about replacement. If isn't replacing C++ for this use case, then it's not a replacement by definition.
Wouldn't batteries have poor performance in these conditions anyway?
ISDN was somewhat mandatory in Germany for internet access during the 90th. Carriers pushed it very hard.

The combination of both channels was a unique selling position to leave modem speed in the dust. 64kbps could be combined to 128kbps simultaneous download speed - of course, it costs you twice as much. ;)

The downside later on was, that it took a long time till the next generation was available, in Germany it was DSL.
Sparkfun used to carry something similar: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/14773

Hackaday also have a post about making your own: https://hackaday.com/2016/12/01/make-your-own-nuclear-batter...

Obviously tritium will not give you 50 years of power, but it also won't cost anywhere near as much.
There is a berm that got built around the north of the town but unfortunately the fissures go under the town. The initial eruption came across the barrier so a lot of the lava has been diverted. The second eruption was inside the barrier so not a lot can be done. If you scroll down the linked page there’s a map of the flow and barriers.

There’s footage of them saving the machinery being used to build the barriers.
It's a single isotope, nickel-63, which decays into regular copper-63. The amount of nickel halves every 96 years.

If you throw it in a fire, you'll disperse nickel-63 into the environment, which isn't good, but the decay process is unaffected.
Anyone who wants to won’t care about ethics. And anyone who wants to make money wouldn’t bother to consider someone repurposing an existing one for that purpose until it made such a big mess the gov’t got involved (generally).

That said, ITAR is a huge hassle, and threatening to put something on it would get a manufacturers attention.
And then you can get close to it with a 20k head phone setup
Costco yesterday looked pretty similar to walmart. The news might be out.
How do people quit mandatory service? Doesn’t that usually involve going to jail?
This will be the worst. We get enough spam calls as it is. Soon we’ll stop being able to use “broken English” as a clue that it’s a scam and even hearing our parents voices won’t be evidence it’s a real call
If you enjoy terrible layout, popups, ads, etc. click the link on this post.

If you want to learn about HTTP status codes, go to the authority.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status
Goatse, tubgirl, rotten, ogrish were viewed by most of my friend group in middle/high school. Sometimes on school computers.
Efficiency != performance

Some of us care about absolute top performance, and don't care about the battery life
You can still buy a Subaru Outback. The infotainment is horrendous (just give me knobs!), but otherwise it's supposed to be a dependable station wagon, at a reasonable price, without too many frills. The AWD does hurt gas mileage, but has advantages in snow and dirt, and basically means that it's as capable as an SUV in all but ground clearance.
Thanks! I have zero idea how many people use it, so running into someone who does is very encouraging.
If they want to focus it more on systtems programming, maybe SystemsD...
Ah, it's allowed to mutate a function's `__code__` attribute:

https://github.com/sshirokov/pydvice/blob/abfa0c5f1dc55780a8...
Sure, you don't want to be a flake. However, if you work your butt off and it doesn't turn out as you wanted, you're not obligated to keep chasing that fairytale ending.
If you're familiar with OOP/language with classes, a fitting analogy could be that a container is an instance of a image, just like you can create instances of classes. The image is the "template" so to say, and the container is the executing of that "template".

So a stopped container could have stuff in it that doesn't exist in the image, as the container has gone through the states of "created > running > stopped" and during the running, you can mutate stuff in the container.

On the other hand, an image never actually runs, only containers created from that image.

I guess you could compare it to VMs as well, where you can have templates/other instances, and clone new instances from that template/other instance. Kind of the same too.
Also from the blog:

> Benedikt Halldórsson of the Met Office says houses are not designed to withstand lava flow.

> »... You can expect the walls to give way from the load, and the heat in the lava is such that it burns everything in its path.«

Apart from the heat, since it's molten rock it also has considerable mass, and the lava flow continues pushing from behind.
Given your complaint, what benefit is there to building a forum on ActivityPub over just allowing ActivityPub as a login mechanism?
Wood-panelled concrete sounds like the opposite of treatment. You may get a nice reverberant mess off that, but it's not going to be controlled. If the walls are parallel you will absolutely get standing waves at the room modes.

This doesn't happen so much in concert halls because the walls aren't usually parallel and orchestras aren't loud enough to excite the modes for long.

But if you put a big PA in a large concert hall and kick it with sine waves, there are always a few frequencies that make the room ring.
Chinese-developed Nickel-63 nuclear battery has a 50-year lifespan
Usually, the trigger phrase is "chat with customer service" or "chat with agent". One can try that.
There's a 256byte limit for #! so this shouldn't work at all.

EDIT: Now I see its badly formatted, Either way, be careful with #! size limits.
But don't overfill the device or it won't clean as effectively. If you're waiting until you're playing Jenga to maximise the items inside to turn it on, then you're probably obstructing the water flow and reducing cleaning effectiveness.
My portable InnoCN 4k OLED disagrees.
Funded by governments and run by the government are vastly different things.
For anyone wanting further rabbit holes of intrigue, may I be so bold to suggest 'terror management theory'?
There's something to the US government and their interest in UAP.

While at first I thought they were covering up some UFO phenomena, I'm increasingly leaning to the belief that there are a lot of people making a lot of money off of bogus UFO research and they don't want it to come to light.
> Two years and no seed

> 4 years to 1 million ARR

This article would have made sense 4-5 years ago.

Almost no one is going to reach those goals now that VC money and dried and ZIRs are gone.

And IMO if you're a solo bootstrapper making $300k per year on a high profit software project I'd consider that a massive success.
Unfortunately, Ryzen AI, while neat, remains Windows-exclusive

https://github.com/amd/RyzenAI-SW/issues/2
~2.5x when not co-located isn't bad either; and the beauty of it is that the programming model lets the runtime system perform these relocations, based on the application profile.
Pretty crazy that the gas generation goes offline in the cold when part of Danielle Smith’s rationale for a moratorium on renewables was “grid instability” requiring further study. Seems she panders to oil & gas, but the populace can’t be happy with the price of electricity!
Yes, but this is irrelevant, as the actual definition is in the article:

A thread that is blocked on a TVar is considered blocked indefinitely if there is no reference [the GC "sees"] to that TVar from a running thread.

Edit: "GC" not "GHC".
Except all newer car appliances phone home like it or not now. There is no choice,
I'm confused by all this. I grew up in alberta (fort mcmurray which is north of calgary). I don't live there now. While obviously this is cold, it is not abnormally cold weather. Growing up we had weather on par with this or maybe a little colder at times. I dont remember gas pumps ever freezing. What gives?
Probably not so bad in garages?
It is the law in most countries and enforced also by international treaties. And something that private capital market selects for automatically.

Edit: A summary quote for those not wanting to read the rather lengthy and thorough essay:

"Instead of recognizing that for-profit corporations will seek profit for their stockholders using all legal means available, we imbue these corporations with a personality and assume they are moral beings capable of being “better” in the long-run than the lowest common denominator. We act as if entities in which only capital has a vote will somehow be able to deny the stockholders their desires, when a choice has to be made between profit for those who control the board’s reelection prospects and positive outcomes for the employees and communities who do not."

https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2012/04/our-continuing-s...
C-- is like a lower-level, more primitive variant of C designed for code generation, hence its name. There aren't separate pointer types; everything is just bitsN, where N is the number of bits in the integer or pointer. Tail recursion is explicitly requested by writing "jump fn(args)".

There's a computed goto, so you can build your own jumptables like this:

section "data" { align 4; jump_tab: bits32[] { L1, L2, L3 }; }

f (bits32 x) {
goto bits32[jump_tab + 4*x] targets L1, L2, L3;
L1: return (1);
L2: return (2);
L3: return (3);
}

This is a description of the language. I copied the above code from here.

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/extern/man2.pdf
No, Calgary simply gets this cold, and has for the entire history of recorded temperatures.

https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/AB/Calg...
Ask HN: What new technology or tech startups inspire you?
What new startups or technology developments of late has inspired you?

It doesn't have to be world-changing, just something you found interesting or cool on its own.
If they try to stop states from naming snow plows I'll be pissed.
The windchill actually only affects humans - moist skin cools down faster in the wind.

But -36 is enough to bring down heat pump efficiency a lot.

This site [1] talks about heat pumps that work down to -30. Not good enough to trust your life to if you’re an Albertan.

[1] https://www.bchydro.com/news/conservation/2022/cold-weather-...
It could just be a secondary battery with cold compatible chemistry with just enough energy to warm up the main battery.
Hey World saw 2.3M unique visitors across 3.4M page views in 2023
The core answer in this post is correct: decide for yourself. But here are a couple of other nuances.

What commitments have you made to others? The less than 1MM ARR one is a good example: if you think you won’t be anble to make it succeed, stop. But try to shut it down in a way that doesn’t leave your customers in the lurch.

It can be appropriate for you to quit while others don’t: I’ve left companies I’ve founded when they got too big for me; others continued. Again, nobody left in the lurch.

And on hiring, I am unenthusiastic about candidates with some college but no degree. College is hard and a degree shows that you can finish something hard.

BUT, “unenthusiastic” isn’t a blanket “no” — if there are other reasons to talk to them then I still will. Perhaps they simply couldn’t afford it and do want to go back and finish. Also no college at all says nothing either way about whether the candidate can finish things or not.

And of course after the candidate has a couple of jobs under their belt I don’t really even look at their education at all.
I mean doing something yourself is often preferable to using a third party especially where privacy is concerned, but this isn't slave labor at slave wages we're talking about here. What job do you think these people would have if they weren't sitting in an office typing PII into computers all day? They wouldn't suddenly be getting six figure remote programming jobs. They'd be doing the same thing for some other company, or they'd be doing something worse. Third world labor is not exploited because it's in the third world and makes less in an absolute sense than other areas.

Edit: Ah you edited while I was replying, yeah it makes sense that you're selling something, hence the mischaracterization.
Is an asteroid hitting Earth evil?
Incogni has been sponsoring a lot of the YouTubers I watch regularly, so I’ve had to ask myself: is that worth it?

There’s, of course, the risk of sharing your personal details with a company that gave money to people to build para-social relationships… not the most compelling case. But there are also questions about jurisdiction: can they get companies based “abroad” to do something? That article from the Cyber Collective seems to focus on US legislation, and the worst abuse I’ve heard about is happening in the US, but I don’t remember finding my details when I asked some of the most egregious actors in that space—for obvious reasons: I don’t live in the US.

I wish that actors like Incogni or DeleteMe shared statistics about how many actors capture your details based on where you live, whether you have a mortgage, a loan on your car, a credit card, social media presence, etc.—or anything else one might do that would help those company flag your details.
Streams and React Server Components
I think there are some external factors to consider. Did you convince people to move their families and join your quest? Did you make other commitments to people? If people are dependent on you and you cut and run when things get tough, why should anyone ever trust you again?
> trying to hide distribution

The paper unfortunately hides that in reality you have to pass a context object in your RPC calls, hence there is no ambiguity whether you are calling a potentially remote object.

It's in the example on the project home page: https://serviceweaver.dev/

// The "RPC" handler
func (adder) Add(_ context.Context, x, y int) (int, error) {
return x + y, nil
}

// The call-site
var adder Adder = ... // See documentation
sum, err := adder.Add(ctx, 1, 2)
I'm not an EV driver but from what I've heard from others, and at least with current battery technology, range is significantly reduced.

I've seen a number of reports that Tesla ranges specifically are quite low at this temperature. I don't know if battery life rebounds when the weather improves.

Gas engines also struggle to start in this weather and gas lines freeze, though they obviously throw off enough heat to eventually grudgingly function.
Look around and ask them
Most personal devices now use randomized MACs so it's hard to ID them.

You can go via IP though, pull up your DHCP lease on your phone/laptop/whatever and match it to the same IP in Unifi, then manually name the device.
I don't actively try to find active open source project, usually I stumble onto plenty of them from natural browsing/research for my own work

That's why I was asking, why would you actively search for projects? To consider contributing or just out of curiosity?
You're probably joking, but in case not, I would point out that black holes evaporate quickly at small scales, and cannot be smaller than the Planck length.

One of my pet peeves is this vague idea about the universe being an infinite fractal, universes inside atoms, etc. It's an appealing idea, but it's totally inconsistent with quantum mechanics and the difference between the strength of forces on different length scales.
Social media on desktop -> Leechblock NG as browser addon.
As LegitShady said, Amazon, or most other electronics sellers (eBuyer, etc.). The one I have is 14" 1080P (matching my laptop's main screen very closely) from “ARZOPA” but there are several similar on the market (I suspect at least one is exactly the same with a different label…). As you can see from https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09TVVWFR9 the prices of these things bounce around almost weekly so shop carefully. There are sometimes “vouchers” that don't show up on CamelCamelCamel, I got an extra tenner off at a point when the screen was at ~£90.

There are also a variety of different attachment options, from no attaching to your machine (which I find preferable) to those that attach to your laptop and add two screens, one either side.

Watch out of fly-by-night kickstarter projects in this area, there have been a few in recent years including a monster that promised to add three monitors to your laptop (left, right, top) which I'm surprised people were taken in by (I found the extra weight of one less than convenient, even when sat at a desk, never mind three, hence currently using a stand-alone external screen).
Recently I looked myself up in public records, and what I found was quite disturbing, and I'm unable to do anything about it.

For years I've been receiving "misdirected" marketing mail for a small number of women who definitely don't live here, and never have. I always ponder deeply how their names could get associated with my address. Dunno. Anyway, there is now a person listed with my address, phone number, and surname, with a very common Celtic feminine given name, but she doesn't exist. I am not sure if the scam is supposed to be that I'm secretly married, or living with my sister, or what.

So I pulled gently on this thread and a whole sweater emerged. I've not paid for any lookup services, just the free ones. This putative person is related to a large number of people sharing my surname, and I believe that none of them exist. There's another woman who lives within a few miles of me. There are obituaries linking all these people together as a family. WhitePages.COM links them as probably-related. The earliest publication date corresponds very closely to when I first moved into this region, 25 years ago.

So I can't say what, if any, scam is connected to this alleged network of names; I can't remove this person from sharing my address, phone, or surname, because she's not me, but anyone who looks up my PII will turn up this nonexistent "wife" or "sister". Nobody has ever mentioned this to me, I had to go looking for it on my own.