skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont know.

They killed hundreds building the Brooklyn Bridge, the hoover dam. So many horror stories of things like that xray shield sizer or lawn darts, or laundry mangles, etc.

That world wasn't better for anyone but the robber barrons.
Opinion: Non-Human Intelligence at the Threshold
Yeah I've never had much faith in Elon. Always seems to care more about what is said than what is done. I'm just surprised people still believe him considering he's promised so much and delivered so little. I mean not that he hasn't done stuff, but he promises far more. But I guess he's the richest man alive and I'm not, so what do I know.
That is not even new. MR comments have been calling for Apple to pull out of EU, or any country that threatens their business model. That is EU, UK, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India and a few others. But never once mentioned pulling out of US or China.

Before US took a stance on App Store, they also wanted Apple to lobby the US Goverment to sanction any country that threatens Apple. Including pulling out of NATO.

A lot of these only died down ( a bit ) once the US Government took an official stance against App Store monopoly.
Kowloon Walled City Documentary 1989 [video]
Java's virtual threads are supposed to be a drop-in replacement for real threads. But using virtual threads means you get a far smaller number of real threads, and things that were safe back when you had an unlimited number of real threads available (or at least, a larger number than your database connection pool) are no longer safe.
> I did have to google how to quit easy vim.

For those who know how to quit vim, but want to experience "how do I quit" again, try running `:term`.
This is pretty good advice. Build an accessory:
- Sensors / Alarms: a la phone accessories
- Cleaning: ???
- Coolness factor: Jibbitz for Crocs

I recently bought a USB cable with a tiny power display on one end and it is the most useful and cool thing I have owned in a while.
Admittedly only skimmed some of the parts, but this one stood out to me:

And large castles were incredibly difficult to take. In fact, up until the appearance and widespread adoption of (relatively) modern gunpowder artillery (late 15th / early 16th century) it was more common for a castle to surrender because it ran out of food. And that could take months or even years, a period during which besieging army would suffer from disease, possibly food shortage, and was vulnerable to relief forces.

How was it possible for medieval technology to feed a population for years? Sea access to enable fishing seems the only option, but that seems like a prime target for the attackers to do their best to blockade the port and harass the fishermen.
Isolated electric charges do not exist – New definition of electric current
As Thích Nhất Hạnh said, it should not be seen as a suicide but as a way to draw the world's attention to the situation in Vietnam. The distinction is crucial. Cannot remember where I read it.
Indeed, Hikari is the go to connection pool for some years now. It's even the default when running Spring Boot.
Industry was already lost when solar panels started to become a thing. That was never going to be a possibility for the USA, unless it changed its course.
AVX10 for HPC, A reasonable solution to the 7 levels of AVX-512 folly [video]
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A $200 toaster is already elitist, especially given that they don't seem to actually toast any better than the cheapest models. So why test with 'poor people's bread'? lol.

Seriously though, I have a bread machine, maybe the cheapest model (lidl equivalent) which I love because of how easy it is to repair, and I make my own bread with little effort for maybe 1/2 the price of supermarket bread, and a world of difference in quality.
I don't want this to turn into a political debate but isn't equality here just another word for communism? Is the word communism being avoided because of its negative stigma? Or is there an actual difference?
.. Well, that escalated quickly..

I would say, there is not much left to know and I'll get the 30$ b&d toaster.

Nice one. Actually i thought myself the same just right the moment of seeing the news when I opened my eyes in waking from sleep. Dreamed about analyzing avocado and it's degree of becoming dark depending on amount of oxygen within the package.
It slows down if you have an ad blocker installed. Brave doesn't block ads but replaces them with their own.
One is aesthetic filler that is true to its purpose of loosening up the typography of a wall of text. The other tends to be awkwardly clever on a level of awkward that was unknown to mankind until recently. I used to hate stock photography fillers just like everybody else, but now my preference is as clear as it would be surprising to past me.
Bought a Samsung & LG refrigerator in 2015. LG died in 2018. Samsung still alive.
you need to read up on the history of those regulations. Hint: chesterton’s fence
The NUMA stuff is a big deal if you want to have predictable performance, in my database days we'd definitely try to run a database server in one NUMA node.
Yep. I got over 250TB/month traffic (150TB+ outbound) on Hetzner, and I don't pay anything additional for that, just ~800$ month for 11 servers.

At 7c/GB that would be over 10500$ just for the traffic alone, and probably about the same for the processing power.
I was at a heavy equipment company that was sold on 6 Sigma. It was so bad. So much quality theater. Teams were culled of their “high potential” employees, who were sent off to become black belts and lead random projects with fancy story boards and amazing $$$ saved charts. I think it honestly was what seeded my departure a few years later.
For those who don't know, there are at least two different V8-powered Teslas.

https://youtu.be/x-6kHjF1U1E?t=402

https://twitter.com/FthePump1/status/1738425546621825468
The dangers of only focusing on CO2
I guess I should have led with the statement that we dealt with this a lot 1-2 years ago and these aren't live currently. Unfortunately it was just mentioned at the end.

My post was more to illustrate an example of how this had been done in the past and briefly explain the tactics of how the threat actors were able to do it.
For comparison, land surface movement near the 2004 tsunami was less than 1 meter.
> Thanks, I guess you are the only one with valid experience here.

No I’m not, but I am the one who points it out when someone is spreading misinformation about Apple’s trade-in policy.

> That's exactly what I did. The questionnaire was slightly different than for mail-in. The in-store questionnaire asked for "cracked keycaps" (online didn't)

This makes me wonder which country you were in. I’ve done in-store trade ins both in the US and two EU countries, in neither of those cases was this part of the in-store questionnaire.

Keycaps are captured under the general functionality question both on the in-store as well as the online questionnaire.

> and the employee proceeded to answer yes saying that worn-out paint on keys is "cracked keycaps".

Sounds like you were dealing with an employee who didn’t know what they were doing. I wouldn’t have accepted that assessment to begin with, whether or not it was part of the questionnaire, and asked for a supervisor.

> Result: $0 value

At which point you of course would thank them kindly and keep your MacBook.

> You can trade in by mail only for store credit, right?

A gift card or value towards a pending order, so essentially store credit. Same as in-store.

> Do you know what happens if some employee uses the same stupid logic when handling mail-in? I suppose they just keep the device and give no store credit?

Same as in store. You get an email with an adjusted value offer (adjusted from the value based on the answers on the questionnaire) and if you don’t agree with that they’ll send it back to you at no cost.

In either scenario the most you’ll lose is time.
The article was pretty much a preview of one chapter while writing the book. So it might be a good appetizer indeed.

She has also co-written two books on heads of intelligence services: https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Spy-Chiefs-Volume-1
a useful piece of context here is what it would mean to cover 20% of the sahara with solar farms and why the authors think it's unlikely

i haven't read the paper, so i don't know what fill factor they're considering. say it's 50%, so the spaces between the panels occupy as much area as the panels

9.2 million sq km · 20% occupancy · 50% fill factor · 21% efficiency · 29% capacity factor (which is probably a bit low) · 1000 watts/m² works out to average production of 56 terawatts, roughly three times current global marketed energy consumption, which is 18 terawatts

that is, building such a thing involves quadrupling the energy budget per person. right now the humans use about 18 terawatts, about 2.25 kilowatts per person, roughly equivalent to the labor of 22 workers. we're talking about boosting that to 10 kilowatts, so the average person has the equivalent of 100 laborers at their disposal, so it will be a vast reduction in the cost of energy

and the sahara isn't the only place you can put solar panels, even on earth, even on land

what would a human society that's four times as energy-intensive look like

they also say that if you only cover 5% of the sahara in solar panels, so that this one power plant produces more energy than the entire human race does today, 'the global effects become mostly negligible'

— ⁂ —

in the other direction, consider their opening declaration, 'the sun's energy is effectively limitless.' the sun only outputs 380 yottawatts, which is only greater than the 18-terawatt number above by a factor of 21 trillion. so human energy consumption can only grow by 21 trillion times before finding other, larger energy sources

okay but is that a lot or what

if we take the historical post-industrial-revolution growth rate of 5 percent per year and apply it to energy consumption (perhaps on the assumption that there's a lower limit to how much energy we can dissipate per unit of value produced, even if we haven't reached that limit yet) that's only 629 years of growth. that's longer than a human lifetime but still an eyeblink in the two-million-year story of humanity or the ten-thousand-year span of recorded history

if, by contrast, we start building von neumann replicators that mine mars and venus in order to double their population and energy consumption on average every year, it's only 44 years, and many people still alive will see it happen

so i think 'effectively limitless' is shortsighted
EV drivers struggle to keep batteries charged amid winter freeze
> The real failure mode is much more mundane: People give up.

The other major failure mode is similarly boring: sometimes it's just not useful to blindly memorize things. The exact problem that spaced repetition solves is pretty niche, and while it can be "close enough" to be beneficial in adjacent endeavors, it's also extremely subject to Goodharting. The more hardcore you go into optimizing your SRS procedure, the likelier it gets that the metrics you're optimizing for depart from your actual goal.
They're not that hard to extinguish, you can just wait for them to stop burning on their own. Which is generally how car fires are also extinguished. The good news is EV fires take a long time to burn through the fuel, allowing anyone in the vehicle plenty of time to safely get out of the car.

Sure, it's a bit annoying for the fire fighters who turn up 20 minutes later... but I think even they would rather arrive to find a burning car if it means the people who were in that car are safely watching from a distance.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
Check out my post here: (Formula One drift by squirting water at rear tires) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994784
Our community can have the best of both worlds here. We can have the users sign their posts with a keypair on their own computer, and allow faux delete, and authenticate a merkle-tree back to the root.

Delete can't be real because someone will always have their phone out there ready to screenshot your post.

Imagine the @ protocol was

```<ed25519 Public Key><Signature>```

and that opened to

```
<timestamp><ed25519 Public Key><Previous Post Hash><Data Hash>
```

And the previous post hash could point to a post before a delete if we consider deletes to be real.

The hashes are used to lookup the post content, which we could also send with the message for the sake of convenience.

For key rotation we just need to sign a message pointing to our new keypair, no federated servers required! "My new key is EVxe89AeRwmTT0hfrT7sHe0wAuzvH9Yvg9TFUgqPh4M="
A few years ago, I figured out that in dealing with companies (beyond the earliest startup stages), you can ask a few questions that work pretty consistently:

- What's the average for this role?

Explanation: Odds are, they've only given ranges up until now. This helps lock them down to a smaller range and should be closer to what the actual team looks like.

- How do I compare to the average candidate?

Explanation: If you're below average, they wouldn't be talking with you. Therefore, you are likely above average and now have a new floor instead of the generic range. Further, now they're likely going to describe what unique aspects you bring to the table and why you fit the role.

No matter how many times you say "I'm great for this role!" it's 100x more powerful for THEM to say "you're great for the role because of A, B, and C!"

And hopefully now you fit A, B, and C into your talking points and questions to the team, hiring manager, etc.
If you want to see another example, look into how airlines buy and lease aircrafts or how refrigeration systems of grocery stores are accounted for on accounting statements. Review accounting statements and quarterly/annual reports of large US public companies, you will find all sort of financial engineering. You will find a lot of such financial engineering cases discussed in any MBA Financial Reporting and Accounting classes.
bwatttttt??? no way.
As someone who builds and designs hardware for music as a hobby since a decade (but to a somewhat industrial standard): Unless you have history in hardware or someone with a lot of experience in it, I'd advice against it, if your plan is to earn a living. If your plan is to learn something, go on.

Hardware is, well, hard. You will figure out why things cost the amount they do, and you will wonder why, till you find all the tricks manufacturers pull off – with the most important one being economies of scale. There will be many prototypes, and sometimes you will end with something that is extremely cool, but entirely to expensive for what it does. Sometimes things will fail for unknown reasons. There are tons of regulations your device will need to respect (and you need to know them).

Why don't you start building the toaster in your sparetime and figure out whether that object is a thing that could sit on the right spot in the market with some automation? If the answer is that you lack the hardware skill, I would caution against moving forward unless you got the market side all figured out and know your product would work financially. Then this would be about finding a person that fills your gaps.
That's not really the same thing though is it? Each of vim's modes are extremely complex with their own usage of the vim grammar. The "modal" behavior you describe is very simple.
This whole thing is bad advice

* New hires get paid more because they are worth more to the employer. Point blank. You don't have to pay existing employees more to keep them working there. "A bird in hand is worth two in the bush" was meant to be a parable but it turns out to be rather more literal

* Never accept the counter-offer. If you have gone as far as interviewing outside, you are already checked out, and you are already branded as disloyal. It's time to make your exit! If you ask for a counter-offer, it should be a move to squeeze more out of your offers, not a real attempt to "stay" where you have already decided to leave

* Arguing about a raise is almost always a waste of time. If you are not happy with your 3% COLA, will 5% really mollify you? LOOK FOR NEW WORK
Things I Keep Repeating About Writing (2016)
In most countries outside the US, squash is called pumpkin.
> Paraphrase> "engineering/stem teaches you how to think"

This is an exaggeration. Mathematics and physics teach you a way of thinking. Engineering another way. Chemistry, biology et al require another. Philosophy (king of the sciences) and the humanities yet another way.

FWIW MIT has a significant philosophy department and a whole school of Humanities. You can get a degree from that school, and people do. These are historians, linguists, musicians etc who also took differential equations, lab science, E&M etc
YouTube started to slow down the buffering if you have an adblock in usage.

Nevermind, I have time.

Edit:
It seems it's not old googs fault. Adblock origin has been identified as the source of slow. Bug has been fixed.
Yes, because due to unorthodox monetary policy the Bank of Japan is the largest shareholder in the country. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/boj-becom...
Windows for Warships
This problem is extra hard in my side of EU. In here, talking about one’s pay is somehow considered a big taboo so no one talks and many get underpaid. The key to the game is always negotiate higher number in the beginning or go to one of the employers using union(e.g. IG Metall) which might not have a position you want. This is usually very prevalent in startups and they can cite their size and budget and continue underpaying someone. Usually, unless your employer has a formal open scale or was part of Union tariff, knowing who was being paid what is nearly impossible.
Musical Chairs: A Shrinking SaaS TAM
i bought two books in 2000 at 17, same as you, the sams teach yourself C and C++ for dummies. Small world. thanks for sharing!
Logged into BS after getting an invite and immediately realised what X (twitter) users from the US where talking about when they mention political "dispute" being a big driver of the social network.

Goodbye BS! Even looking at the endless stream of xxx-coint posts on nostr is not that exuasting.
Prime streams
A castle doesn't necessarily have many people in it. If you have access to water, you can store quite a bit of food for a small number of people.

The issue is that an army MUST forage. An army will burn up all the food in an area very quickly--at which point it must move.

Now that you are moving, your back flank is vulnerable to the attackers which were in the castle. And you have a bunch of pissed off locals who hate you for eating all their food.

There was a reason why "quartering of troops" was explicitly written into the US Constitution.
I love that regulations kill people through both excessive mental distress and false peace of mind. That’s wonderful.
When you talk to people, do you take your AirPods out?

Or do people just talk more loudly at you since they don’t know how well you can hear.
> > our current team led to us being in a stagnant market position: So we need someone new

> The diagnosis here is ego. The thought doesn't even cross their mind that the leadership might be the actual reason, rather than the ICs who really have very little agency.

Do we work for the same company?
It is a fact of life. You don't have to like it, or embrace it, but it remains true.

It is generally easier to get a raise than to get promoted. It is generally easier to get a new job than to get a raise.

On balance, if you want to maximise earnings as an IC, you are gonna change jobs more often than you get an above-inflation raise.
Oxford Flash cards have a good take on spaced repetition.

They provide actual cards, you can use the old way.

Or you can then take a picture of them using their free app Scribzee, and review them digitally too.
My son just aced his anatomy exam with them.

https://www.my-oxford.com/int-en/oxford-flash-20-flashcards
It also puts a very different perspective on 1) why you always read in history books "so and so's third wife" and 2) the obsession with things like "child-bearing hips". Starting a family was downright hazardous; modern sensibilities are comparatively unburdened by those problems.
Watch for Amazon next. They have the same drive for high attrition, as if this was a good thing.
If it makes you feel warm and crunchy...
> you can't use regular if/while/for with async

What do you mean by this? You can certainly mix if/while/for freely with .await, that's the whole reason it exists.
No it didn't.

It is and always wanted to be a secure messenger which does not share your data with some big company.

Providing an insecure feature within the app was stupid. People didn't even realize that this was an issue, and those who ran away now never even cared about the core features of Signal. They just wanted to have another SMS client.

https://www.signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
And it's not the company, it's the whole conglomerate.

So Google can't just make an EU subsidiary that never makes a profit and thus the fines don't have teeth.

It's the global turnover of Alphabet Corporation.
I've heard this claim various times, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Butternut squash has a carb:fiber ratio of about 6:1. Canned pumpkin is more like 3.5:1. Sure, the USDA might be lax on the precise definition of the word "pumpkin", but I don't expect them to go so easy on the nutrition data.

As Wikipedia notes:

>The term [pumpkin] is most commonly applied to round, orange-colored squash varieties, though it does not possess a scientific definition and may be used in reference to many different squashes of varied appearance.

If the article is simply intending to say that it does not usually come from squashes that are orange, oblate and ridged, then that's fair. But I don't think it's mostly butternut squash, and I don't see why manufacturers would try to hide using the most popular variety of squash.
I'm deep in the sausage making. This reasoning is mostly spot on, though I've never heard anyone directly admit to his first reason. At the end of the day, it's not that hard for me to get a req for a new hire bumped up, but giving an existing employee a raise turns out to be almost impossible excepting a yearly cost of living adjustment that absolutely will not keep up with inflation.
I’m really not entirely sure. I haven’t been around one since I traveled overseas and that’s been a while now. My new place has a new furnace and the old one we never got around to doing improvements so I just remember the old complaints.

Thermal conductivity seems likely. How many feet of pipe can you cram in there, especially if you have to insulate so you don’t catch the building on fire?

Or can you make a 3d counterflow system so you don’t have to insulate at all?

ETA after further reflection, I believe they generally worked better in Europe and that would most likely be down to 220 vs 120, so you may be right about power density.
I prefer no images over IA stolen/generated images.
nano of course has syntax highlighting, so I’m curious where it falls short.
You don't put the population in the castle, just a fighting force, and you could have enough food (taken from the surrounding country in normal times) stored there to supply them for a year or more.
Its not there to help incumbents. New companies come up all the time to make these kinds of products. Its a barrier to entry to keep Joe dipshit who learned how to solder together two wires last night thinking he can has an overnight get rich quick scheme shoddily throwing some random components together without knowing or acknowledging what they are really doing and selling that product to some unsuspecting person that is gonna get to experience a (maybe?) fun spark show and electrical fire as soon as they plug in their new device. Its happened enough that these barriers have pretty much become required. But if someone is serious about making a product, they will take the necessary steps for certification.