skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THIS #1!

Not saying cannabis can't be an issue, however i'd imagine a LOT of these reports of "cannabis made me anxious", are actually "i was anxious, tried cannabis, and now i'm just even more anxious", the fact is a lot of medical especially mental situations are under or NOT diagnosed and people attribute the feels to the last thing they did.
Yes, the rate slows down, but I start with 5/5 directly. I think it's a result of meditating for a long time.
Yes, I agree. It's also quite likely that people who know people with cancer will search about cancer, and sadly some of them will later need to purchase cremation services. This means that statistically it's not a bad idea to target people who have searched for cancer with cremations. This seems like the most likely explanation to me.

(Edit to add a meta note: Apparently this has to be said on Hacker News because people can't distinguish between someone presenting facts and someone making a defense, but I'm not defending the practice. I think it's abhorrent. But if we can't dispassionately analyze reality to try and understand the motivations, then we've really abandoned reason and lost our way).
> Conifex Timber Inc., a forestry firm that branched out into cryptocurrency mining

This feels like an episode of Captain Planet.
Ironically this was what caused Workplace OS and Pink/Taligent to fail. It was exactly trying to build a Win 95 clone with UNIX-like internals. One of the biggest failures in modern software development.
I don't see this crypto "folk" asking the government to provide them with electricity under the threat of violence. He said "I worry about"
YEP! Came to the comments to see if I am just paranoid.
Ya, other types of retargeting like this are also likely. The jump from visiting a website to an advertiser does physical mailings isn't a big one (political advertising uses this a lot). Long story short, she was probably retargeted based on her actions and probably not based on the insurer or provider doing anything illegal.

Edit: I don't want to sound like I'm blaming the victim here. That's not my intent. I just don't think blaming the insurer or provider is fair either. I dump the blame on the data broker/ad network and to a far lesser extent the advertiser.
Depends how cold. You can get models that work down to -15/-20F.

> High-HSPF heat pumps can handle cold weather. At temperatures below -20°F, cold climate heat pumps still provide dependable heat, and many models are 100% efficient at sub-freezing temperatures. Since they consume less electricity in moderate weather, heat pumps cost much less to operate than legacy systems like combustion furnaces and boilers. For building owners, that means enormous savings over time.

So unless you're planning to run them exclusively in the polar tundra, probably still better off with a heat pump.

[1] https://www.blocpower.io/posts/cold-climate-heat-pumps
> U.S. manufacturing construction spending reached a 20-year high

A nominal 20-year high and the increase is since the pandemic. Also this is for construction. Here are some other time series: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

Walmart $350 billion investment is over 10 years and mostly is for agriculture and some small electronics.

Also this source is an American manufacturing lobbying group.
Easy to catch up when EV market is shrinking. Toyota is right, gas hybrids are the future. Awesome range, you don't have to own a home to charge one, no problems in cold weather.
It was a great experience. You learn a lot. You manage stressful situations, whether that's a disagreement about a travel route or food -- food stress becomes real. To your point, my age group was probably 16-23 and things did become a little cliquey at first. But at some point or another everyone will have to rely on someone else and your age doesn't matter at all. Someone in my group had previously done an Outward Bound expedition and compared the NOLS experience to be much more adult-friendly.
> Have either database-like transactions or (at a minimum) write barriers for file operations.

Go one step further and have the kernel expose a much more structured view of storage to user space by default. 99.9% of user space programs I've written don't want to deal with file IO, they want a database, or some other way for arbitrary in memory objects to be persisted and shared between processes. There's so much room to improve on the 1970s era IO primitives we use by default.
Like, maybe, not same as.
Could have done with a visual representation of the starting tables and resulting tables to be a good description.It was 20 years ago that I was learning about cartesian joins. When I do SQL I visualize an excel like structure in my head.
lol
#41. Kentucky [0]
Percentage of registered vehicles that are electric: 0.06%
Total registered electric vehicles: 2,650 (#33 overall)
Number of statewide charging stations: 222 (#37 overall)
Number of charging ports per 100 EVs: 19.9 (#21 overall)

[0]https://www _ copilotsearch _ com/posts/states-with-the-most-electric-vehicles/
Prisma does the same thing and it sucks to me. Always a pain to figure out what happened when things don't work as you expect them to.
i don't think they are located in the same room :)
Say what you want about the merits of the Pascal language itself, but the Free Pascal compiler paired with the Lazarus IDE and toolkit is still one of the most productive ways to create performant, cross platform desktop applications.
Surprisingly fascinating according to the article. It does seem like great performance for the price and Watt.
Neurons have the ability to self-organize into an information processing device, though. Researchers have taken rat neurons, grown them in a petri dish, and taught them to play (a simplified version of) pong [0]. A better vat might genuinely allow currently-out-of-reach computing (ignoring the ethical issues).

[0] https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6
No single snowflake triggers the avalanche.
Which cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin are still running on useless PoW?
Show HN: kbackup – No-config push/pull incremental backups built on top of rsync
A reimplementation of the ideas in rsnapshot built with the composibility and simplicity of rsync in-mind. It comes with sane defaults and I have been using this to compliment my rsync-style mirror backups for data that needs incremenetal backup.

Looking for feedback. I'm gearing up for a stable v1 release.
Did it really help?
You can run your laptop and other apps with multiple screens as big and layed out where how you want while still having a usable (seeable) keyboard? Is the latency such that you don't get nauseous? Seems useful for productivity. Do other goggles have these feature, yes, but there's a difference between being a toy versus actually being as good/better than how I work now.
It's still weird to me how quickly and completely discourse around privacy on the internet shifted from "who are these scary anonymous internet people in chat rooms and why you shouldn't tell them anything" to "routinely publicly post just about everything about your life"
> This is just the propaganda of the elite class who sold off our industrial base and you’re repeating it verbatim

They’re socializing Americans to get used to a future where their kids have to go to the Middle East and China in search of upwards mobility. (Of course those societies will never be as accommodating of Americans as America has been of Chinese and middle Easterners.)
They’re really a hardware company that builds appliances.

Microsoft is a software company that builds some hardware.

They’re coming from opposite directions.
> There have been many cases in the past where advertisers targeted users based on visiting medical or other sensitive locations.

Yep, I used to get ads like that all the time during my cab driving days.

I would often ponder on how they made any inferences out of my location data because I went to so many different places. There were definitely patterns, hauling around the same people once you learn their schedule is a big part of the job, but using it to sell me stuff is worthless.

Now that the youtubes have taken up the adblocker fight I still get all sorts of ads for medical stuff that has no direct relation to me. I do try to keep up on all the complicated "don't track me, you fucking stalkers" clicky buttons they like to add so perhaps I just fall into age group where their ad dollars shine, dunno?
Complicated mix of things here:

1. So it's not so much "not providing power" for some political or philosophical reason but "not providing all the power they want."

2. The miner wants the equivalent of ~500,000 apartments worth of power...which is substantial.

3. The reason the miner wants this particular power from this particular provider is that it's cheap.

4. If the miner got all the power they wanted it would be enough to drive up local utility rates.

5. The local utility + government aren't keen on this as it's a pretty blatent resource extraction with no local jobs being created.
No one is talking about how Joi is the killer app for vision pro
> Google Docs? A website

> Every single core function of these apps could work—and work well!—without a single drop of JavaScript.

...what? I'd really love to live in a world where we could deploy an app like Google Docs or Discord without JS but that's just not the reality.

> Most of what we build is links from one page to another, and form submissions that send data from the browser to the server.

I'm not sure who the "we" being described here is, but it doesn't really describe the day to day of the web engineers in my circle.

My cynical guess is the motivation for this piece is more rooted in advertising Chris' bootcamp and consulting services than it is sharing earnest expertise.

>Discord-like apps have existed since before JavaScript did. Back in the 90’s, chat rooms where literally form elements that you typed into. You’d submit to the server, the page would update, and your post would be displayed. If you wanted to see new posts, you’d refresh the browser.

I don't think this is the kind of thing I'd want to hear from someone I paid to improve my website :)
Those numbers don't seem feasible. Near as I can tell, a steam generator with a magical source of never-ending heat would cost $15/MWh. There is no way a high-tech facility and the personnel required to run it are costing $10/MWh.
What is the usual script of those insurance scam calls?
I'll have to remember that one.
Are there any coins that do proof-of-useful-work? Like solving scientific problems with the compute cycles?

The thought of all this pointless computation is painful.
I assume it would be applied to any other industry. If you started a steel plant without telling anyone and created a potential electricity shortage in the process, it would probably be shut down too.

Industry-scale resource usage requires planning and coordination.
Ask HN: If you're running an LLM locally, what are you using?
As in title, if you're self-hosting an LLM, which one are you using and how did you set it up.

For context, I got an image generator running locally in about 20 minutes (Fooocus). Keen to try the same with LLM.
These are not Chinese news and blogs. These sites are created in the language and region of other countries, sometimes by scraping the content of other local sites, and then filling them with the usual Chinese propaganda. Chinese people are not the target audience.
I just watched a youtube video on how a person looking for editing jobs had some pretty poor working conditions with terrible pay. A very controlling boss, asking him to edit on an old x86 macbook because he was told it was 'for creators'. The guy mentioned he a beast machine at home he could edit remotely and the person told him "do you want to edit?". The boss would not even provide him a mouse-he had to edit by trackpad.

He walked out around noon. The boss asked him to come back for an extra $20 that day.
#44 in income. That's the real reason to put a factory there. And it's a good reason why EV adoption would be low there as well.
> Could you remember any substantial UI improvements between Win 95 and Win 11

Yes I can. Most OSes these days have a OS level fuzzy searching functionality.
This has been my preferred way of launching applications on Windows (Win key), Linux (Win key) and MacOS (CMD+Spc).

I press a hotkey, type the first few characters of the program I'm trying to go to, and press enter. This is also common in text editors and even some web apps. Improves the UX of discovering commands, as compared to endlessly nested menus like the 90s.

There's loads of other things that have improved but this one is just so basic that I couldn't live without it.

Let's not live with rose tinted glasses. Yes, there's backsliding in terms of UX but don't ignore the improvements.
Use go for that :)
I think there's a simple way:

Hire a lot of low experience people (right out of college) and work to identify and retain the exceptional ones.
Beyond what you have pointed out, this list of tropes helps remind us of how weak some of the characters were as well as details that seemed unnecessary or out-of-placec.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/SnowCrash
Intel used to have the fab lead over everyone else, generally being 1-2 generations ahead. That persisted for at least a decade. Then they had a huge whiff. Their 10nm node was due in 2016 and they didn't start volume production until 2019. That gave TSMC a huge opportunity to catch up and pass them which is exactly what they did... TSMC went volume on 10nm in 2017.

Samsung is behind a generation (or thereabouts). Not sure why exactly.

AMD spun off their fab as GlobalFoundaries. The separate company bowed out of the bleeding-edge fab business. Their 14nm node was licensed from Samsung and they completely cancelled their 7nm node.

As bleeding-edge fabs kept getting more and more expensive lots of companies decided to go fabless. They were able to do that because unlike everyone else TSMC doesn't make chips for itself so it doesn't represent a competitive threat. This is the real key to TSMC's success.

Other companies like GlobalFoundaries and ON Semi are filling volume with older process nodes like 14nm. There's a large number of chips needed by millions of manufacturers large and small. Only a small proportion of those need the power/perf you get from the latest and greatest. Manufacturing on an older node is cheaper thanks to lower capex and much much better yields.

Eventually I think we'll see litho equipment make its way into the niche market similar to 3d printers. We've seen some people hacking together stuff to make their own chips in a garage... they're tiny 5-2000 transistor affairs but it would be quite interesting to be able to churn out a custom chip with a million transistors on it.
A heat pump would likely not work for a sauna due to the temps required, do you know of a single instance of this being done successfully?

I don't think it was a gimmick anyways - they were doing this for a long time non-publicly before it came out and when it did a lot of people said they no longer wanted to be customers.
You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse
Generally speaking: if you can get the model to regurgitate the exact same system prompt across multiple sessions, using different queries to elicit that response, it's probably legit. If it were hallucinated, you'd expect it to vary.
Demo:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/tsujuifu/ml-mgie

(Long queue, I could not test it)
> Such a general response can literally be applied to every industry

One difference from other industries:
> Energy Minister Josie Osborne said when the policy was introduced that cryptocurrency mining consumes ... adds “very few jobs” to the local economy.
> 10 seconds is absurdly slow, though.

I hate to say this, but have you used any $ModenWebApp with $HotJSFramework recently? I thank the gods when those pages load without a 5-10 second of fancy spinning animation. Really thought we would be in a better place by 2024 but nope.
I recognize the irony of posting this in a thread about maintaining attention, but I could not sit through all that salesey preamble to get to whatever the sigh is supposed to be.

Culture gripe; I wish more creators got to the meat first, and added the long drawn out explanations later. I know why they don't (views == $$), but for real. I don't need your life story, just tell me how many onions I need to buy for the recipe.
I use ReText: https://github.com/retext-project/retext

It's in the repos: `apt install retext`

My index features a tag filter that is created via this javascript file included in the index.md file: https://borispaing.fr/blog/tags.js

And my index.md looks like this:

```

blog name

===

<nav id="tags-filter"></nav>

- [article 3](./2023-02-04-article-3.html)

{: data-tags='tag 1, tag 2 , tag 3 ' }

- [article 2](./2023-02-03-article-2.html)

{: data-tags='tag 5 , tag 2 , tag 3 ' }

- [article 1](./2023-02-02-article-1.html)

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```
If you need the waste heat then there is no downside to mining bitcoin to get it. Over a few years you will pay off the computer.

However even in Canada most of the time you are better off with a heat pump to create heat. On the really cold days heat pumps don't work (unless you have a ground source which is expensive to install) and there are not enough of those days that you can pay off the bitcoin machine. If you have the option on those really cold days you save money by burning natural gas (at least now) in a modern furnance. I'm not sure what the energy mix is in Canada, but at least some people there create less environmental impact by burning natural gas.
The paper says:

> However, women informed us unequivocally that they (women) do not create these types of connections, largely because men often control women’s use of phones (Summers et al. 2020).
Probably because we had a couple of cats when I was in my teens...
This approach is not equivalent since it uses a strict match in the function head inside `then`. It will raise a `FunctionClauseError` if a value not matching `{:ok, _}` is passed in.
I don't yet know if its as good/better, but it appears to be at least on the cusp.
>and can't really be argued.

Challenge accepted.

Iran is pretty darn hard to actually invade - unlike Iraq, Iran has tons of mountainous terrain and a huge army, and even the US hasn't tried it. So while it would be very unfortunate for Iran if they got into that war, the regime might survive. The US could probably do a lot more, but if they did then Iran could go metaphorically-nuclear and block the strait of Hormuz, destroying global oil supply and supply of LNG to asia, causing mass blackouts there. So the US would be quite leery about doing so.

Israel could nuke Iran, but then they'd be utterly fucked politically. Not just for breaking the nuclear taboo, but because Hezvollah et al would cream themselves and have basically infinite recruitment.

In contrast, Israel has recently had some of its citizens killed by the Iran-backed Hamas, and are bordering both Lebanon and Syria. This didn't hurt Iran from political backlash, not at all, Iran's been pretty open in their hating Israel. If for any reason the US withdrew its military backing for Israel, Iran could and would support an extended proxy war between Israel and its neighbors. Not Gaza (Israel controls their water and fuel supply, so if they're not concerned about pissing off the US and rest of the world then they can kill them all fairly easily) but Lebanon and Syria via Hezbollah and some 'renegotiation' over Golan heights.

What's more, Iran could just invade Israel outright, with Syria's support. Iran has 9x the population size and their army is reasonably modern. Without US backing, Egypt's current dictator could decide to provide military support of their own. And if they win that war then Israelis will be ethnically cleansed. Which is arguably a worse threat than what Israel could do to Iran.

There you go, it can be argued! I wouldn't normally argue for it, I'd say they're about equal personally. It's kind of weird to compare them; neither is really in a good position to fight the other in the first place.
Wow that's so funny I almost died.

I am at the hospital right now.

Please continue telling standup jokes until I cease from existing.
Am I missing something? Why is this Tweet on the front page of HN? Just a statement to spark some discussion?
> This could very easily spiral out into a larger societal problem.

The Slippery Slope is a common logical fallacy. There is no evidence of any spiraling happening.

> should at the least be heavily investigated by the governing regulatory body of the region.

This went fully through the legal system:

"Conifex Timber had gone to the B.C. Supreme Court to have the policy declared invalid. But Justice Michael Tammen ruled Friday that the government’s move in December 2022 to pause new connections for cryptocurrency mining for 18 months was 'reasonable' and not 'unduly discriminatory.'"
$1T would be too high for Iraq War where the costs run $1T to $3T. The higher numbers are total long-term costs, not just the war fighting. There are lots of costs to war instead of just fuel; the people cost more.
As far as I'm aware, even discarding the instance isn't good enough, since v8 doesn't seem to reclaim the Wasm Linear Memory ever. I think the only thing you can do is start it in a worker and then terminate the entire worker.
To paraphrase YC/Sama etc. If there is a small grouop of initial users who are obsessively using it and can't get enough of it. Then VP will work and be here to stay. If not, then it is not their time.

So, the question is this. If you know anyone who actually got VP. Are they using it obsessively? I got occulus rift a while ago and so did many of my friends. We bought it but never really used it. Like probably a few times in a year to show friends.
Organizing a large jQuery project is absolute hell though. I'll take modern frameworks like Vue any day. The ease of shipping a full-fledged app that feels easy to create and maintain began with Vue (and Svelte).

React tries to achieve the same result, but if you don't use it perfectly right, you're in for hours and hours of headaches and non-solutions.
It's something what not everyone cn do, despite the simplicity (in our eyes)
Subaru is terrible for this. A couple times a year I get mail from Subaru but when I open it, it’s really from Liberty Mutual Insurance.

Also, every time I contact my dealer for just about anything, I get a survey in the mail. I’ve tried everything I could think of to stop them but nothing has worked so far. The last one I gave a very low score on about half the questions and a week later I got a call from somebody at the dealership. When I explained it was because I’m trying to get the surveys to stop he said he would contact somebody in the regional Subaru office to see if there was anything they could do but he didn’t sound hopeful.
Arweave and Filecoin.

Their PoW algorithms require the miners to store data uploaded by clients.
Non-article teasing an HTMX tutorial if you sign up to their newsletter?
To military conflict? I doubt it. To political and economic conflict? Probably. The same thing would be true of France or Poland. That's generally what happens when an ally country stops being an ally country, but it doesn't imply that they're a vassal state.
I agree, with one caveat - the web is links, forms, and styled components.

It’s the styled components bit that makes everyone reach for react over ERB/HTMX/whatever. Web components wants to solve this but the API is just not there yet for smaller teams.

I think people who want simplicity are on a great path, but without addressing how bad the intersection of CSS and HTML frameworks is compared to React & friends, it’s an uphill battle.