skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every part of this is made worse by capitalism.

We start with over-prescription of opioids. Pharma companies make money selling them. Doctors may even make money in kickbacks (a practice that should be illegal).

The disastrous War on Drugs that made opioids cheaper and easier to obtain (eg black tar heroin) than cannabis.

Those who became addicts from a legal prescription turn to illegal products. Illegal pills are expensive. Street heroin is much cheaper.

To feed this habit, it eventually leads to crime. And what do we do with petty criminals including those charged with drug posession? Whey we incarcerate them of course. That's expensive and ineffective but prisons create jobs. Some private prisons have a direct profit motive to fill their prisons as they're paid by the state per-inmate.

Oh and convict labor is yet another profit opportunity.

A lot of people self-medicate because of unresolved trauma, just as a coping mechanism or whatever. If you're an average worker this might be just going to a bar and having a few drinks. But that's relatively expensive. Poorer folks would once sit out on the streets or in a park, often in a group, and do the exact same thing except it would be a bottle in a brown paper bag. If you're homeless, you're even more likely to self-medicate.

Yet police harass the second groupo. We criminalize all sorts of things, including feeding people [1].

Fentanyl makes all of this worse because it's so cheap to produce that it laces other drugs to give them a kick. The amount can wildly vary so you may accidentally get a lethal dose.

We have a societal failure by robbing people of basic hope and dignity and then profiting off incarcerating them.

[1]: https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2014/11/05/90-year-o...
Cooking the garlic from the start makes it lose all its flavour, unless you use a tonne. Using tomato sauce is a very small convenience (maybe 40minutes worth, which mostly is waiting) vs making the sauce from scratch from fresh tomatoes.

The main issue with making sauce from scratch is getting rid of the skins, and in order to do that you can blanch the tomatoes: get 1Kg of fresh tomatoes, score them in a cross from side to side and place them in a pot (stem down), pour boiling water on them until they're fully covered. Wait until the water cools down, then peal the tomatoes and dice them in cubes. Place the cubes in a pan and cook with a lid for about 10-15m, then crush them with a potato masher. You now have tasty tomato sauce from scratch.
Hmm. Let me think about your point.

The problem seems not dependent on the specifics of my efforts for me - it seems inherent to Anki for language-learning. That the flash cards have lots of bells and whistles seems unrelated to my giving up because 90 minutes a day wasn't enough to keep things under control.

I haven't had any time that my circumstances have change so much that my accessorising ended up a negative. (And I'm having trouble thinking of situations where that would be the case).

But sure, in general I can think of cases where it's probably more advisable to go with a general purpose solution (stairs rather than a climbing wall for going upstairs) in case personal circumstances change, temporarily or permanently.
Don't forget that you can only extract about 30-35% of that energy via combustion, though. Whereas a battery with an electric motor you get more like 90%

Another knock against gasoline is that you spend about 1 EV battery pack of energy to refine a cars tank of gasoline from crude oil in the first place.
RFC 9458: Oblivious HTTP
Al Gore got Nobel prize for PowerPoint presentation.
All the climate modelling is based on correlation, so I thought that's what we were doing. Is there another approach we should be taking?
China already abandoned the Paris Agreement and it's foolish to think that developing nations will prioritize long-range climate change over their own economic growth & security. This is a major issue with climate change - the entire Western world could go net-zero tomorrow and we would still end up at > +2C change from everyone else.
> High-information media have always been a niche.

I don't doubt that, but how much of the text one reads daily can honestly be described as "high information"? In the normal course of reading things, one encounters a dozen ways in which long-form text can have abysmal information density.

Think of the stereotypical 5 paragraph article retelling a 1 paragraph press release. The official document containing pages of magical incantations designed to protect the writer from lawsuits. The "thinker" who has a single, simple idea, but is under contract to publish a book, not an article. The novel where nothing happens at all.
In real world conditions, not loop back synthetic benchmarks.
There are things I used to understand while studying that I no longer do, but wish I did. I can look them up and understand if I want to intentionally use them, but they're not sort of available in my mind for me to draw on; information that might apply to something without me knowing in order to look it up, if that makes sense?

And also as a sibling comment says, language. In particular vocabulary - I've learnt a decent amount of Hindi grammar by self-study, in fact I think totally sufficient for casual or even professional conversation, but my vocabulary's really lacking, and it holds me back from speaking, which means even when I do have the opportunity to practice speaking with others, I can only say stupid basic things, I lack the vocabulary to say what I want most of the time. (And casual Hindi's way more forgiving than most languages, because 'Hinglish' is so common. But I don't get any better by just using Hindi connectives and ancillary words in an otherwise English sentence!)
> Still. Moving now to North Europe because maybe 30 years from now you'll have to move? Why not wait it out and see if you have to move?

The older you are when you move, the harder it is. New language, new culture, new laws, disconnection from your old friends who took a different path. And less time to contribute to a state pension — a skilled 30-year-old can be a welcome addition to a workforce, a 60-year-old might get their state pension before citizenship — which may make them less inclined to accept you. Especially if you're moving because there's a huge global disaster and they need more workers rather than pensioners.

That said, the economics may radically change over the next 30 years; while I think the current humanoid robot workers are a bit gimmicky at best, and that they'll only be ready for autonomous use about 5-10 years after no-steering-wheel-included self-driving cars[0], the general trend of automation they represent is significant and began long before they were able to walk on legs.

> The whole thing is one huge speculation. There's no telling if Finland will be secure since its quite weak militarily. And we we don't really know what's gonna happen - we have models with very differing scenarios.

Indeed; very little is predictable even 10 years out in geopolitics. The UK was never going to leave the EU in 2012, but gone it was a decade later. The USSR was indomitable in 1984 and gone in 1994. 30 years? That's the gap between the height of the British Empire and the WW2 home guard starting with arm bands instead of uniforms, and being armed with a mix of privately owned guns and various improvised weapons.

For the environment, what happens depends on how people react to the models that exist. We may well completely eliminate CO2 emissions on that time scale — the technology is already known and in deployment for how to do this for electricity and land transport, it's being demonstrated for iron and other metal oxide refinement, but there are plenty of things to work on before we say we can manage this without also removing CO2 from the air.

But on the other hand, we may squander the remaining time, just like we squandered the last 30 years.

[0] More specifically, when the energy cost of the computing power needed for sufficient quality real-time vision reduces to ~10W; the computers Tesla currently use are supposedly 100W, but as Tesla's autopilot is not yet rated as a full-replacement for human drivers I must assume that a sufficient AI would also be more power-hungry. As 100W is very little power, Tesla (and others) might brute force this problem by having a bigger computer that uses e.g. 1kW rather than keeping the power use to 100W and waiting for a better computer. 1kW is my guess for the maximum that anyone would be willing to use in a car-based AI.

How dead Moore's Law is or isn't depends on what you're asking, I think it's still working for Joules-per-operation which is what matters here, and every factor of 10 improvement needed is about 5 years at Moore's Law rates.
Off topic:

This is especially good to know when you’re exfiltrating .git folders that are unprotected and publicly accessible on websites :-)

Seriously though, make sure you’re deleting .git folders from deployed websites - or at least prevent them from being accessed. In at 300+ of the 1000+ website .git folders I downloaded from random websites there were private access credentials to AWS, GitHub, OpenAI, etc.
The point wasn't about you specifically, just about the average Western/1st World citizen.

> some of the "innocent poor countries" you're talking about are the worst offenders for deforestation, pollution, and other habitat destruction. get off of your high horse, we are all responsible for the state of the planet we live on.

For their own sake? Or is it, among others, Western offshore companies who partake in what you blame those darn third worlders for? It's a global economy.

Think of coffee for example. Pretty sure we consume orders of magnitude more of it in the West than the rest of the World. Yet, the coffee bean plantations aren't exactly at our doors- Instead they replace forests in Guatemala, Columbia, Indonesia, etc.
The only people that will use violence to reduce emissions will be western trust fund activist kids desperately searching for meaning.
> It’s also really weird that click on an article leads to the comments on HN rather than the actual article. Like, why would I be interested in the comments for something I haven’t read first?

I've been using link aggregation sites in this way (comments->link) for many years now.

Depending on the platform I either open both the comments and link at the same time into tabs, or I open just the comments and then click the link.

I'm not typically reading the comments first (though I am skimming them, so paywall notices, cache links, etc. are typically found before even trying to load the link). Instead, the main benefit I've found to the workflow is being able to quickly and easily return to comments about that story. When the frontpage has a high rate of turnover it can be difficult or time consuming to go back and find the original submission/comments. Whereas if they are already open or within the browser history stack, things are much easier to track.
I can tell you where the bad content is being posted now. LinkedIn.

My feed has turned into blogspam, exam cheatsheets, crappy AWS "architecture" diagrams, and low effort cyber security guides. Did you know SMTP is port 25?

I'm not sure if it's recycled Medium posts, AI generated, or people actually create this crap. Others "like" and comment on it, so who knows.
Anecdotally I think the zoomers are more this way. It's not HN. HN is just reflecting the change happening on the outside.
>Hmm. I think a lot of people who were silent about their positions on this topic are much more inclined to say them out loud now, even on websites like HN.

I'm not sure, HN has always been welcoming to contrarian views unless it is something particularly nasty like racism.

If I could point to anything it would be the fact that we are getting close to an election in the US.
It is promising to see that openssl-quic serial throughput is within 10-20% of more mature implementations such as quiche. (Which quiche, though? Is this Google's quiche, written in C++, or Cloudflare's quiche, written in Rust? It turns out that's approximately the only word that starts with "quic" that isn't a derivative of "quick".)

One of QUIC's weaknesses is that it's known to be much less CPU efficient, largely due to the lack of things like HW offload for TLS.

> Also, the HTTP/1.1 numbers are a bit unfair since they do run 50 TCP connections against the server.

To emphasize this point: no modern browser will open 50 concurrent connections to the same server for 50 GET requests. You'll see connection pooling of, uh, 6 (at least for Chrome and Firefox), so the problems of head-of-line blocking that HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 attempt to solve would have manifested in more realistic benchmarks.

Some questions I have:

- What kind of CPU is in use? How much actual hw parallelism do you have in practice?

- Are these requests actually going over the network (even a LAN)? What's the MTU?

- How many trials went into each of these graphs? What are the error bars on these?
What does this have to do with WebKit or Safari? Chrome uses its own engine on both macOS and Windows regardless of CPU architecture, as well as all other supported operating systems except iOS and iPadOS.
If you depend on this machine for living... You should have a spare machine. Way to recover data very fast if it breaks.... Way to fix it... It gets expensive pretty fast.

Also if you travel with Mac, you need to carry two laptops. There is no easy way to move NVME drive to new machine like with Pc laptops.
Depends on source of your information.

Hot Weather.—Many a man has mopped his brow during the summer months of 1884, declaring it was the hottest weather the world ever knew, which, of course, would not be true, for the extreme heat in the record of the past has not been approached during the late summer.

In 627, the heat was so great in France and Germany, says the London Standard, that all springs dried up; water became so scarce that many people died of thirst.

In 879, work in the field had to be given up; agricultural laborers persisting in their work were struck down in a few minutes, so powerful was the sun. In 993, the sun’s rays were so fierce that vegetation burned up as under the action of fire. In 1000, rivers ran dry under the protracted heat, the fish were left dry in heaps and putrefied in a few hours. Men and animals venturing in the sun in the summer of 1022 fell down dying.

In 1132, not only did the rivers dry up, but the ground cracked and became baked to the hardness of stone. The Rhine in Alsace nearly dried up. Italy was visited with terrific heat in 1189; vegetation and plants were burned up. During the battle of Bela, in 1200, there were more victims made by the sun than by weapons; men fell down sunstruck in regular rows. The sun of 1277 was also severe; there was an absolute dearth of forage.

In 1303 and 1304, the Rhine, Loire, and Seine ran dry. In 1615, the heat throughout Europe became excessive. Scotland suffered particularly in 1625; men and beasts died in scores. Meat could be cooked by merely exposing it to the sun. Not a soul dared to venture out between noon and 4 p.m. In 1718, many shops had to be closed; the theatres were never opened for several months. Not a drop of water fell during six months.

In 1753 the thermometer rose to one hundred and eighteen degrees. In 1779, the heat at Bologna was so great that a large number of people died. In July 1793, the heat became intolerable. Vegetables were burned up and fruit dried upon the trees. The furniture and woodwork in dwelling-houses cracked and split up; meat became bad in an hour.

In Paris in 1846, the thermometer marked one hundred and twenty-five degrees in the sun. The summers of 1859, 1860, 1869, 1870, 1874, etc., although excessively hot, were not attended by any disaster.”

- source: https://books.google.com/books/about/Gaillard_s_Medical_Jour... - page 473.
How were you able to board the right plane if you thought you were flying to Portland?
Google provides different results for different users, skimming over my result list, I found nothing. Something concrete please?
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan
> 21st century battlefields are very fast-paced and deadly and often asymmetric;

The current battlefield in Ukraine is anything but fast-paced, and this is the largest continental war we’ve had since May ‘45 (the War in Korea has some shots of having been bigger, but then only for one year or so, 1950).
I just use the zoom feature. Although most of the time the target is large enough anyways.
This has been a litmus test for me over the years honestly. I tend to trust people much less if they speak in absolutes on complex topics.

Yes, it can make your argument more strong, but you're lying if it doesn't cover 100% of the cases for the subject. For the lay person, this might be fine, they don't know, but for anyone who knows the subject matter in depth, chances are you sound like an idiot.

I'd argue this mentality plays a good part in making some social media so toxic. People generally aren't going to read detailed explanations on a topic, so people who would write them have less incentive, meanwhile some pop star's 10 word tweet over simplifying some complex global crisis, like you can just make it go away overnight, will get a million likes.
That's a pretty shitty article.

I'll see myself out.
>> you need a hierarchical organization, functions calling functions calling functions. How do you represent that graphically?

Not saying graphical programming is a good idea, but the basic abstraction mechanism is to define new boxes, which you can look inside by opening (like some VHDL modeling tools do).
Even in SICP it is said it is a bad idea and do not escalate. But is clear that the primitive is “the box” the means of combination, the lines between boxes, and mean of abstraction is making new boxes.

I thin the real problem is that there is exactly 1 primitive, one mean of abstraction, and one of combination, and that seems to not be enough.
The current standard says something else:

> If none of the radio buttons in a radio button group are checked, then they will all be initially unchecked in the interface, until such time as one of them is checked (either by the user or by script).

That behaviour makes more sense for the Web, so that the user is required to make an explicit choice, and I'm not sure if browsers ever cared about this little part of the standard. When interacting with OS components, it makes sense that there's some default or already configured value.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#radio-butt...
Don’t worry, we’ve been working on that:

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insec...
It should suffice to check out what happens (code-wise) if one of the "players" has only one square left. Does the "winning" player have a chance to hit that square and conquer it? Or does the program immediately register a collision for the "losing" player, who goes back to two squares?
I think nowadays it is selfish to live without a phone. Your loved ones need to have a way to contact you fast if they need you.
It would be interesting to see what shows are considered to be important in the development of culture in a hundred years time. Buffy is definitely a candidate, but my money is on The Shield. The storytelling hasn’t dated at all (although the outfits definirely have).

There’s also an interesting conversation to be had about how shows like The Shield and The Wire pushed narratives about policing that are bluntly, extremely right-wing.
In context of habr, even asking "why'd my internet/corporate vpn stopped working?" or "why did I suddenly get summoned for a medical checkup to enlistment office?" are politics.
The only thing I would change is adding a `manifest.json` so that I could treat it as an app instead of a website.
> you can see this in the valuations of these companies

No you cannot. Valuation is based on market power. There are many platforms to post longform text, which is why none of them have any significant market power. There's only one platform to post tweets.
I’m just curious, you keep referring to it as a battle rifle. Do you think a non-battle rifle is more appropriate, or are you saying that battles should never be engaged in.
But most everyone is eating food that was treated with Roundup during its cultivation. If it was an unsafe at any dose chemical like lead, the global medical numbers should bear that out by now. Meanwhile, levels are monitored at locations like farms where it's actively used.
> For example Firefox has the same design problem where its buttons have nor border and therefore have no clear place where draggable top space is and button is.

This can be changed by going to "about:settings" page and setting the option "browser.tabs.inTitlebar" to 0.
Sometimes just the act of creating art is what’s important.

A great example of this is Sand Mandala
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala

Much as the hoarder inside me wishes we could preserve everything, I’m grateful that we can enjoy these temporary works even if they do just become fleeting experiences.
Am I the only one that finds a sorted-by-time front-page more fascinating than custom styling?

I have been browsing via https://hckrnews.com/ for years now.
I only saw it in one team, and implemented it with every other team after that.
But in the winter, as the cabin warms up, you have fewer air molecules to cart around.
Is there a list somewhere? I'd like to filter based on the domain of the outgoing link.
I am more aghast at the pharma barons that have retained their wealth, as that was a quick cycle of unequal riches and ruin that looked nothing like the impact of coal upon society (as it was able to empower industrialization for a long duration). There was no long-duration benefit to OxyContin mass-marketing.

That the Sackler family remains at liberty is conclusive proof that the FDA was bought and owned on the question of opioids, and had no ability or intention of acting in the public good. Most other countries would have stopped this.

A similar theme pervades most of the checks and balances of the U.S. Constitution in general. These were brilliant controls in 1789 that have long since been disabled by an ocean of cash.
The new video is pretty funny!
And Firefox as well if I'm not mistaken. On their download page, I can choose "Windows ARM64/AArch64" as platform: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
I also use anki for german. I use a deck with 1850 cards to learn the nouns' gender.

I just pulled up my stats.I have been studiyng for almost a year and have averaged less than 2 minutes of study a day (with the average review lasting less than 2 seconds). In total it's more or less 10 hours.

It has been insanely effective. I read somewhere on HN that making extremely easy cards helps. It for sure helped me to keep the habit.
Is that the metric we care about? Wouldn't "amount of people dying of opiods" and "amount of people having their lives ruined by opiods" be better ones?

Th way I see it, alcohol issues wouldn't be reduced if you made it illegal and less people drank it, but now people are drinking unregulated moonshine that makes them blind or kills them because it contains methanol and isopropanol.
pixz: Parallel, Indexed xz Compressor
I went down a small youtube rabbit hole one night. There are some youtube channels showing guys getting up at the crack of dawn and starting their cold engine diesel engines without block heaters.

It seems if you are sufficiently prepared they are not needed.
Because they don't see it as work, but a hobby.
Aka, one of the main reasons to choose 'boring' technology. Something new and experimental may have some interesting properties that make it fun to play around with, but chances are you'll have to fix everything yourself if anything goes wrong.

Meanwhile, picking whatever everyone else is using at least means resources will exist out there and that other people will have had the same issue at some point in time. Hence why I'd pick React or Vue over a newer framework, or plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript over a framework in general.
Keep it suitably simple.