skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Opium does not save lives, it's a painkiller. And it is not the same at all. If millions would die if people stopped selling medical opium, I am sure you would argue it unethical to stop production of it before there was anything to replace it.

I would say a better analogy is selling alcohol to an alcoholic because you can't just cut off the supply right away because they could die from the abstinence symptoms. You need to get them off their dependency slowly. In this case, you need to decrease their dependency on oil and gas slowly and replace it with clean alternatives, which are currently way too expensive for the developing world.

Countries would literally go to war tomorrow if they lost their supply of oil and gas.
Why? Populations that adopted capitalism are significantly better off than they were before usage. And it's the best economic system we have invented.

Totalitarian regimes in space haven't gotten us very far, and frankly sound very depressing for the future of humanity.
Keep items for more than 5 minutes. if you actually believe that you will use the sofa for 20 years because you won't move. Then it's worth the investment. most people don't.

people are poorer than they realize and are choosing to push their dollars towards more instant gratification. new phones, costco, lifesystle, doordash, living close to entertainment and cities.
This is the myth of the middle class. earn good or great money but spend it all.

people worrying about what other people think. buying car, house, clothes
The core thing is exploring just exactly what is subjective and what is objective, and whether quality is subjective or objective. Pirsig came up with an answer, and then goes on to talk about excellence (arete). Thinking back, this discourse seems like it was deliberately embedded in a kind of every day, guy-next-door narrative in order to touch on lived experience of "quality".

Although Pirsig didn't explore it, quality is very much at the heart of any engineering, particularly when you try to quantify it. How effective is ISO-9000? GE was big on that. Boeing measured quality of their builds, until they compromised the process. What about Deming's approach (Total Quality Management)?

What is quality in software engineering? (We often sidestep that question and call it Software Craftsmanship instead). And there's a whole can of worms when we try to apply this to AIs.
>You can double this amount of bandwidth with NUMA-aware code, but it will require further engineering.

So is this benchmark really useful? Seems like it's engineered enough that it probably isn't relevant for most use cases (like running java, go or python services), and not engineered enough so it's not relevant for performant systems like databases. (That said NUMA simply isn't that hard, even with Java which is also NUMA aware).
I know the practice of de-clawing crabs led to small claws as a dominant characteristic till it was abandoned, and similarly the illegality of harvesting molting variants of hard-shelled crabs resulted in local populations of permanently quasi-soft-shell crabs. Admittedly that took decades rather than the few years we might see for a lobster size ban, but minor evolutionary tweaks when those phenotypes already exist in the wild don't take long to establish themselves under heavy fishing pressure.
As of the writing of my comment, 2 days ago:

https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/commits/master/
> Wut?

Is what I should say to you. I should not have to inquire the specifics of your personal life to figure out your true income, who has maybe subsidized your living expenses over the years, and your total expenses, to determine how you were able to save for property in one of the most expensive areas of the nation. Although, you have already earmarked your comment with "upper-middle-class", which speaks to your ancedote-rooted perspective.
I think we spent a couple of hours at the local mattress store. I certainly don't think being Goldilocks for 40 minutes is being as difficult a consumer as you seem to think the store might have perceived it as. If anything, local stores are probably happy to have customers who clearly appreciate being able to try before you buy, rather than just a one-click "oh, I can return it anyway" mattress buyer.

Thankfully our favorite mattress was the cheapest one in the store (~$700 for a cal king)
The way Russian authorities tend to interpret laws may be quite surprising. For example, Russian government insists they conduct Special Military Operation (SMO). It is enough to reference Russo-Ukrainian conflict as War, instead of SMO, even in private conversation, to get a few years in jail.
Boeing opens largest campus outside US in India
For many of us this is a positive signal. I really don't need coworkers screeching their political opinions at me.
Can you clarify about reuse? At least as far as batteries go, right now once it's in a battery it gets used up & then ends up in the trash [2]. There's no efficient / cost-effective way to extract lithium from spent batteries for reuse in new batteries. We might in the future but it would require some scientific advances + expensive commercialization to scale up. Even if in the future we do develop a mechanism, it could remain very expensive & not be practical until mining costs have gone up enough. Similarly, all batteries that have been consumed until that point are likely irrecoverable as they're in the waste stream & finding & collecting those batteries is unlikely to ever be economical.

[1] https://americanbatterytechnology.com/lithium-costs-a-lot-of...

[2] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a42417327/li...
I have this set up with push notifications on my phone and that's very helpful as well.
McKinsey wasn't mentioned. Their consultants advise companies to cut costs, either by outsourcing or trading quality for substandard.
I contributed to NTP.

The manufacturers of the cheap device I cajoled within ntpd into generating more than an order of magnitude more precision than they expected offered me decent money to write them a commercial driver. But I pointed out that they could just steer their customers towards NTP for most platforms and it was already done!
To be fair, Apple focused outlets (like macrumors) tend to ignore the world outside apple.

So it computes that they compare th Viaion pro max for the nearest apple device....rather than something else on the market
To chime in with the others, my Chase card offers this service automatically as well. I think most major credit card companies are starting to offer these services because they want a piece of the pie that companies like Intuit (through Mint, now Credit Karma) are grabbing by just siphoning up financial data.
Pokemon to Scale
Why would that not make it a good example? It's still a case of fraud, enabled by the lack of security on credit card payments. The payment hadn't been authorised by the woman.
I suspect the Cray is "competitive" for some value of "doesn't absolutely stink" for things that are designed for it.

But you can emulate a Cray on an FPGA: https://www.chrisfenton.com/homebrew-cray-1a/ so I suspect that while it could still do "real work" you can also beat the pants off it if you setup your code as designed to run on modern GPUs.
I really like the funnel for the CPU cooler, always wondered why more cases don’t create air barriers between components like that.
There is also the lithium in the California Salton Sea which is further along in getting into production.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/us-department-energy-an...
Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introduction to the Issues and the Literature

by William J. Rapaport - ( https://www.apaonline.org/news/254862/William-Rapaport-is-th... )

> The APA is pleased to announce that William Rapaport (University at Buffalo) has been selected by the APA committee on philosophy and computers as the winner of the 2015 Barwise Prize!

This corresponds to the class https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/510.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The table of contents can be read at https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophy+of+Computer+Science%3...

You are likely interested in sections 3.12 through 3.18

3.12 CS as Engineering 64
3.13 Science xor Engineering? 66
3.14 CS as “Both” 66
3.15 CS as “More” 68
3.15.1 CS as a New Kind of Science 68
3.15.2 CS as a New Kind of Engineering 70
3.16 CS as “Neither” 71
3.16.1 CS as Art 71
3.16.2 CS as the Study of Complexity 71
3.16.3 CS as the Philosophy(!) of Procedures 72
3.16.4 CS as Computational Thinking 72
3.16.5 CS as AI 73
3.16.6 Is CS Magic? 74
3.17 Summary 76
3.18 Questions for the Reader 77

And section 5 which starts out with:

5 Engineering 95
5.1 Defining ‘Engineering’ 95
5.2 Engineering as Science 97
5.3 A Brief History of Engineering 98
5.4 Conceptions of Engineering 99
5.5 What Engineers Do 100
This is pretty fun but it doesn't seem like the URL bar ever updates? Even though this are all real pages.
That is exactly how one-pedal driving in a Tesla works!
Looks like you will have a new hobby to share with the kid, try and enjoy yourself and help the kid to have fun with it all. Two tracks which aren't mutually exclusive. One he needs to get into blender to work with 3D images, I've been told there are lots of guides and tutorials. Second maybe start with a 2D old school game just to get a handle on the mechanics of getting something onto the screen. I'd suggest he needs to learn how to read and do research. His generation will want to watch video tutorials but those are time consuming vs what you actually learn. I'd guess the videos will be good to get an overview of all the parts of modern game development.
Except that there is no trip where 310 would be the real estimate for that trip. So how is it in any way useful? Tesla just takes the real range, multiplies by some made up factor and pretends that's your range.
I've been reconciling my transactions in GnuCash for 20 years, I've been pretty good at catching charges I don't expect.

I also set the credit cards to send me an email for any transaction over $1.
The first time I heard the old-money put-down about someone who had "bought their own furniture" my American newer-is-better head spun (and I'm not much of a "consumer" by American standards).

Not only are we socially conditioned to prefer new, as you point out, this is further reinforced by the necessity imposed by disposable-quality products.
I think we should consider adding meaningful taxes to materials that are cheap and disproportionately contributing to short-lived products that end up in landfills or waste streams. The article names particle board and MDF. Are there any applications in which those _don't_ have a much shorter lifespan and are used as lower-cost alternatives for plywood? Similarly, a bunch of plastics, laminates for surfaces subject to meaningful wear. All these are known cheap, low-quality, garbage waiting to happen, and as a society, we should be actively discouraging them. If we artificially make MDF that lasts a few years cost the same as plywood that might last decades, producers would have less motivation to pick the cheaper enshittified option.
It talks about keeping the cars in garages or wrapping them up in blankets.
If it's prerequisite relationship, you need to make sure that when A points to B, and B points to C, C doesn't point to A. Otherwise you're creating a loop.
I sure hope he doesn't buckle and leaves these repos up.

Hosting source code, libraries, even apps - cannot violate a TOS. Haier can go sue their own customers that use the library or block them if they want to be like that.

- there are several pro-bono groups like https://softwarefreedom.org/ that might be willing to give legal advise or write a counter-scary-letter back / tell them to F*CK OFF

- do nothing, ignore. take a deep breath, and get on with life.

- if they try to DCMA takedown, use the administrative process to defend and Github will put it back up.

- if still too risk adverse, please at least leave the repos up and just push a top commit that empties them and leaves a README.

- maybe everybody that reads this should fork the project on github
https://archive.ph/EBozv
I don't know about importing from Bitwarden, but a normal Keepass-database will work for you. All you need is a way to sync a file between all your devices. KeePassium on iOS is Open Soruce and integrates very well.
Oslo isn’t that cold really. And Bergen is also Norway, however, it’s just a rainy place. I wonder how many EVs are there in Tromsø.
Sports Illustrated's Publisher Lays Off Entire Staff. Future Unclear
Lithium is so 'not' rare that you can find it in the geothermal water in... Belgium.

https://www.thinkgeoenergy.com/geothermal-developer-hita-see...
A panel blew off a Boeing plane in mid-air
probably so they could deploy their healthcare portfolio's company tech
Wouldn't be surprised. Good furniture can be had second-hand now, but if everyone starts doing this demand will outstrip supply by far.

My first sofa was a turquoise leather 2½ seater bought for €100 from a municipal charity shop. Impossible to resell it turned out, but still in excellent condition we had the municipal charity shop in our new town pick it up (they sold it pretty fast; this is one of those sofas you have to see in a store to say “hey, this could work for me”).

Our present sofa is an ox-blood 2 seater Chesterfield-type one bought for €400 from a piercing shop which had it for waiting customers for only a brief while. Excellent condition and likely to last us another decade at least (if I didn't have a child I would be more sure about it lasting my lifetime).
I think the parent commenter's answer was pretty valid. You have to vote with your wallet. Buying used will signal to the market that people don't want the crap that's being produced. Or, especially, given the generous return policies these days, buy new and then don't hesitate to return something if you don't like it.
I absolutely did not miss the point of the comment entirely, and responded to it fully, pointing out that distractions are just likely to happen in the office as at home, given the wrong set of coworkers.
Bill Ackman is a brilliant fictional character
why.... dont you just go to fiverr or something
This is cool, as long as you have some way of compensating people that took risk for equity

Personally, I took a very low paying job at a VC-backed company over 10 years ago. Left some time later with a significant amount of equity in the form of stock options. The company has grown immensely since then, they became profitable and stopped raising money

Now I’m stuck with a bunch of ISO options that I need to spend money on to actually own the equity, without any foreseeable exit/liquidity event. The company is not offering to buy back anyone’s stock and won’t even provide financials to find a buyer myself
Maybe cultural theorist Marxist or cultural critique Marxist would be clearer. I hadn't heard of those thinkers you mentioned but everyone is at least faintly familiar with Žižek's shtick.

fwiw, "late stage capitalism" feels to be a phrase that's been around as popular parlance since at least the mid-2010s. It's even brought up in the Wikipedia article for the term:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism#Modern_usage_o...

It's cliche by now. They should probably move on to a new buzzword. Actually, in tech, it does exist: enshittification is a good replacement as any.
You are treating me as if I don't understand a fundamental aspect of engineering (rude) when I am pointing out that previously such optimizations were far less tradeoffs, as evidenced by the case of earlier couches which didn't have this problem.

Obviously you will always have to make tradeoffs, it's the core of life. Previously these tradeoffs were not so harsh, and the penalty for spending a bit less was not a couch that broke in a year.
If I remember correctly, even with a color card, applications switching to a monochrome video mode was possible if a bit rare. Creating UMBs in vram segments A000, B000 or B800 was always considered a suicidal configuration, and EMM386 would not do it unless forced.

If I see the man page http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/help/emm386.exe.htm the vram segments are not allowed for the FRAME= and Mx options, rang A000-BFFF is forbidden.
Typical corporatist hand-wavey economics bullshit. "Market forces" and a lack of regulation are precisely why we've ended up in this situation in the first place, so yeah, great idea, let's just double down on letting corporations do whatever they want, I'm sure that will go great for... the corporations.

The increase of the M2 money supply is also completely irrelevant. Sure there's more "Money" floating around out there, but as with all other forms of wealth, the vast majority of it is concentrated in the pockets of relatively few wealthy individuals, not in the pockets of the many millions of regular folks who are actually buying diapers. Talking averages in the context of individual wealth and consumer spending is also utterly useless, as it would be far more useful to talk about the wealth and spending habits of the median consumer, but that would obviously show that the typical regular person living out here in the real world does not in fact have "40% more money" in their pockets to spend on diapers or groceries. If anything they have LESS money now than before all that new money flooded into the system, as the rich have gobbled up damn near the entirety of all that "New money" yet are still putting the screws the the masses with their shameless, greedy profiteering.
Or just a simple toggle "keep this speed, let me take of everything else" option.

It's great when tech-assist features work. I look forward to the day that do reliably. Until then (and frankly, even if then), they absolutely need ways to toggle them off, with granularity. Smart features shouldn't replace "dumb" features, just augment/build atop them.
That's clearly not the problem here. Most EV makers can estimate range just fine, it's almost only Tesla that lies so much about it.
I don't know about that, they made some good products, or invested in ones that already existed.

I don't consider creating a product, and then retiring a product after many years a failure myself. Its more like a nuanced then, some producdts don't change with the times, and others dont work.

I did watch that TV series on how some people at google did some unethical things to incorporate the maps idea from a German company. Not sure how true that is, but if it is, then google is just like any other corrupt establishment, willing to do shady things at the expense of the original inventors.
Uses for a Five Gallon Bucket
Inventing an entire writing script was not what I expected "shorthand" to mean.
Whether it is through law, custom, or company policy, anything that stifles political debate weakens our democracy. To be clear, that does not include or allow hate speech or incitement, which are identifiably different.

Of course we should balance this with the needs of the business in keeping company communications 'on topic' as it were, and to avoid damaging professional relationships.
You can choose an apartment that has an outlet (of your own indoors such as in the kitchen) near a sliding door or window that opens and allows a cord to reach your parking space. I didn’t say every apartment has such a setup, but choices can be made and the gap in the window can be blocked with insulating material. People can make it work if they want to.
And why be upset that 20 percent of the price isn't "cost"? Think they're going to put things together and deal with a customer for free?
Who pays for roads? (2014)
A Polyglot Site for a Polyglot Conference
I was curious how common fires are on flights. Searching NTSB data for the keyword "fire" on part 121 flights (ie regular scheduled air carrier flights, this excludes general aviation, private jets etc)

Year | # accidents
-------------------
2023 | 6
2022 | 0
2021 | 4
2020 | 3
2019 | 5
2018 | 3

So rare but not super rare.

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/ResultsV2.aspx?queryId=262a5b32-9...
We all also now have $1000 phones and all sorts of other electronic crap that we spend money on. I agree that "the middle" is gone and it's all low end garbage or luxury. But I'd like to see an analysis of where money goes now vs then. I think there's probably a lot more recurring payments (phone, streaming, etc) plus electronics compared to older generations.
I just realized it but someone has the job description "Color commentator for regular space launches".
This looks like (and was confirmed as) a compressor stall[0].

Not to understate the severity, but this is really something that just happens sometimes and isn't "that" bad - air stalls somewhere in the compressor, leaking unspent fuel through the back of the engine that combusts from the heat of the exhaust gas. The aircraft isn't actually on fire.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor_stall
If some company sells stuff that requires a connection to their cloud then it is 100% fair game to reverse and utilize that cloud to get the product working the way you want.

They have no right to be upset about that. They sold you a requirement to connect to that cloud. If they don't want anyone connecting to their cloud, then don't sell cloud connected junk.
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

As a child I used to get “trapped” in the corner of the room - I’d be lying in bed and my consciousness would get locked in to the corner where the walls meet the ceiling. Felt like I was pushed hard into the corner

Never heard of anyone else having this until it was mentioned on hacker news a while ago and someone linked to Alice in Wonderland Syndrome which matches my experience perfectly - maybe your geometric nightmares are like this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_syndrome
That would mean I would have to turn email notifications on or get in the habit of checking my email every day.

The searchable database of charge history would be nice though. My card number has changed a few times due to data breaches at places I’ve used the card and I don’t think my credit card company’s search is smart enough to follow branches.
$3000 is absolutely a perfectly fine budget, and you can get a well-made couch within that.

Some couches for that price will be cheaply made garbage. Some will be very well made. You have to look around, do research, look at customer feedback, see what reputation brands have, try a few, etc.

I got a motion sofa for $2k 5 years ago, it's still going well. For a regular sofa you'd be fine with less.

Just because poorly made and expensive furniture exists does not mean that all furniture is so.
I can vouch for cococohome for USA readers.

https://cococohome.com/

made in north carolina. Ours has held up great for many years now.
We just need to make sure that the AI doesn't select it's successor from its children.
For 2 it is related to scale. Because of their scale Google is targeted by spammers the most. The smaller searches don't need to fight off bad content because it's not targeting their specific algorithms.
All humans care profoundly about prestige and status—the esteem of members of their peer group that they in turn hold in esteem.

What humans differ widely in is which status markers they hold as important.

You're right that leverage and energy are what really matter, but those can take a long time to discover correctly. Some people might do you a little favor now but turn out to generally be unreliable or not have much capacity to help over the long time. Someone might make you feel amazing right now, but it's because they are a charismatic charlatan and not an actual good person who will lift you up.

Status markers exist to be heralds of the long-term value that a person offers to their tribe. Good status markers are accurate predictors of those properties, and when we disagree about status markers, we're mostly disagreeing about how predictive we think they are and in what contexts they are reliable.
Supposedly this is a selling point of https://copilot.money/ but I do it with YNAB which I prefer overall