skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All we can really do is each do our best on an individual level to reduce our carbon footprint. Eat less meat, utilise public transport, walk or ride your bike instead of driving, recycle and try to cut down on your use of products that negatively impact the environment (this includes plastics as well as products that stem from the monoculture plantations that are responsible for a huge proportion of deforestation – palm oil, mass produced fruit etc.).
It may seem overwhelming, but as the famous anthropologist Margaret Mead once said: “Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”.

To me, Mead's quote includes activism as a path to change. Not just setting an example, but pushing for change: calling representatives, asking others why they are doing what they are doing (maybe just "that's the way it's always been done" and no consideration until someone asked), and minimizing judgement so that others are more free to change rather than entrench.

Some questions to consider:
Of what importance is a sloth?

Why do you celebrate the holidays you do?

Why do you eat the food you eat?

Why did you buy the house in the suburbs when your "hunting-gathering grounds" (where you work) are far away and, unless you're dead-set on walking four hours each way, requires a multi-ton vehicle to get you there?
in this case it arrives to you through apache, which gives git the contents of the files it requests, just like the filesystem does when you clone a repo off a usb pendrive. there's no git-specific code running on the server when you clone that url

there is, however, a faster 'smart http' git cloning protocol which apache can't participate in, and that is indeed a potential attack surface. i don't think any of the bugs i linked upthread were in that protocol though
But the example wasn’t about apps not running when the user didn’t want them, it was about wasted cache space.
I use 'path=( ${(u)^path:A}(N-/) )' instead of that for loop
Trade sanctions are actually bureaucratic yellow tape to get around with middleman shell companies. They are at least slightly effective by shifting a fraction of the profits from sanctioned entities to middlemen, so better than nothing. But mostly they allow countries to pretend like they're doing something without actually taking kinetic action.

For example, there are currently a variety of sanctions against the Russian and Iranian petroleum industries. So, they sell at a slight discount to neutral countries such as India which then re-export the "clean" oil.
The ThinkPad T480 Successor: New ThinkPad T14 Gen 5
Discussion already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39506597
California was one of the first to move to a wholesale electricity market. The only problem was they didn't have provisions to take care of gaming and market power and ENRON figured out how to make millions upon millions from it. Since then, all the wholesale electricity markets in the US have to have market monitors that look for these kinds of abuses and have authority to fix. There are certainly still major issues with the designs, but we shouldn't have another problem like what California had in the early 2000s.
Didn't the Houthis threaten to do this last month?

https://gulfif.org/the-next-casualty-of-the-red-sea-attacks-...

What's the practical effect of this? Other than some inconvenient latency and decreased redundancy...not as much as the headlines suggested?
That I understand. That’s a user caused issue, it’s fair to ask the user a question.

Or you could provide a feature like iOS where unused apps are unloaded automatically (if enabled).

But the user should never have to manually manage cache space.
> Pudgy the Panda as console ASCII art for some donation embed (their mascot).

Which library is this? Couldn't find it via a quick Google.
Full title:

Ketogenic diet reduces a neurobiological craving signature in inpatients with alcohol use disorder
Related from December:

Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660646
Harassment bribe sounds more like if an official were running some sort of unofficial protection racket. But feels like it'd be absurd to punish the bribe giver for that already, considering that the protection racket itself would be illegal.

This paper [1] seems to use the term to describe bribes given to obtain things you're already legally entitled to, which makes a bit more sense. There's an old Indian meme about pensioners having to pay a bribe to get their monthly payment for instance.

[1] https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/50335.html
They even use float: left to style their page. True retro!
> You can even pay servers less than minimum wage, as long as their tips make up for the difference. So by not tipping you're shorting workers of their wages

By definition, the server cannot get paid less than minimum wage for wage+tips, regardless of many people stiff the tip.

(Normally I wouldn't mention this since minimum wage is often lower than market rate anyway, but apparently min wage was significant enough for you to mention it.)
What the author of the post actually said - and I am quoting, to make it clear that I'm not putting my spin on someone else's opinion - was "There's no difference between doing something that works without understanding and doing the exact same thing with understanding."
https://archive.is/PyMsB
PixelevateAI transforms design system creation with AI, slashing hours and costs dramatically. It's the game-changer for teams eager to innovate fast and efficiently.
I miss the fidelity and low latency of landline calls.
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. I mean in an intellectually honest way, we are fairly powerless, like deglobalization will not solve this and violence by Americans cannot solve this. There’s a whole country of people who are literal close relatives of the victims of this atrocity, and they and their government have determined violence cannot solve this. You don’t need a degree in hottakeology to know this.

It brings to mind Last Train Home, maybe the best piece of Chinese propaganda I’ve ever seen.

Of course there’s no chance that the New Yorker writers are “allied” with some kind of repressive interest, but if the down voters think the authors are aligned with the US commoner, they’re nuts.
This is not bad, but this is mostly politeness.

Sure, when you talk is better then not talk, and I must admit, this is basics of business learn (when people don't talk with you, this is very bad), but real business will be when you will sign agreement and got money, and every additional round is approximately equal on weight to number in exponent.

Consider this as good opportunity, to make great things, and move on.
For me, there is a difference between "procrastinating" where i can't really focus on the thing im supposed to be doing but also can't really do anything else because im super stresssd & anxious about it, and just intentionally putting something off
I remember someone telling me this about McDonalds when I was a teenager. I went to a store and listened carefully, it was just local radio. Sounds like a myth.
Can't be cheap to repair it.
> I don't think I"m ever gonna complain about my job in America again.

At the same time, 2024-02-25T18:06:34, 13of40@hn:

>> as a hiring manager, I'm not going to waste my time with a candidate whose resume shows them hopping companies every year or two.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39503133
2 things come to mind:

The astronomical reparations Germany had to pay.

The lands taken from Germany ended up creating pockets of German speaking areas in surrounding countries. This was an amazing opportunity for the nazis to claim these lands and set up false flags operations.
Lmao. Unless they are handing you a check VCs are full of it.
Israel is on the Mediterranean, not the red sea. Those packets would have to take an extremely circuitous route to have been cut off from the west
The Hustle is also notoriously click-baity and loves to exaggerate so I’d take anything they write with many grains of salt and look for sources
Texas has tons of gas, wind, and solar. The wind and solar was overwhelmingly built due to subsidies.

Another point is that in the industry, most prefer to use "restructuring" instead of "deregulation" as power is just as regulated as ever, just in a different manner. The wholesale electricity markets are a bit more transparent, but are under tons of regulations still.
> pushcarts [...] sacktrolley [...] NYC [...] hunch

Around midtown, convertible hand trucks in cart-dolly-platform mode are commonplace, piled high with boxes, sometimes inside collapsible box-bags.[1] Upright hand trucks are mostly short range delivery from a parked truck (automotive) to inside. Grocery delivery is plastic bins on carts, often u-boats, or Whole Foods does e-bike trailers. Hmm, and food carts[3] are towed.

[1] https://www.alamy.es/new-york-ny-usa-22-de-julio-de-2023-tra...
[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/time-to-look/30128059361
The comment we're discussing just mentions “US interests”. So for example providing military support to Ukraine, which the republicans keep blocking, or establishing programs to manage the border, which Biden has proposed and Republicans now oppose because they don’t want that issue relieved before the election, so they can point at how bad Biden is with the border.
Is software that important on the inference side, assuming all the key ops are supported by the compiler? Once the model is quantized and frozen the deployment to alternative chips while somewhat cumbersome hasn’t been too challenging, at least in my experience with Qualcomm NPU deployment (trained on NVIDIA)
As individuals, humans are very good at optimising for the short term, while ignoring long-term risk. It seems to makes sense to pick a place based on low cost of living because that affects our life-style this month.

External factors can mess with the equilibrium, think winter storm or unexpected pregnancy, but those aren't important to us, so we happily ignore that for now. Focus on the immediate up-side, and just ignore the possible (but unlikely) downside.

Don't get me wrong, we kinda have to live like this, or we end up as preppers. We kinda have to ignore things like possible earthquakes on the West Coast or we'd be permanently terrified.

On the other hand we care enough to cater to some level of earthquakes in building codes. But no building code will guard against Cascadia.

So sure, lots of people move to Texas because of the weather, or cheaper housing, or cheap energy, or whatever. But as a general rule they're likely to be less resilient to unlikely events.
> In tech there is a bias towards the newcomer's perspective due to being less encumbered by convention.

Where does this bias occur?
> Prior to unions, work looked completely different

Average working hours were dropping for decades before Labor Unions became popular in the 1930s driven by the productivity gains referenced elsewhere in the thread. The trend continued unabated other than an increase during WWII even after Union membership peaked in 1980 and dropped for 30 years. It doesn’t seem that Labor Unions were the cause of this improvement trend.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/homon...
I thank the lord for CSS grid and flexbox. Now that I think of it, I haven't used floats in a while.
Grayscale: Filtered Dopamine
For reference, Death Valley gets about 57 mm of rain per year. It is extremely dry.
Patiently waiting for the article titled “Resident powers neighborhood with a mini reactor”.

Subtitle “Earns 200k per month feeding back into the grid.”

F it might as well write it at this point.

In a small suburban neighborhood where the grass was always greener on the other side, one resident took "keeping up with the Joneses" to a whole new level. Meet Harold Grimsby, a man with a vision—or rather, a nuclear one. Tired of paying exorbitant electricity bills and wanting to make a statement, Harold decided to power his entire home with a mini nuclear reactor.

Neighbors initially scoffed at Harold's eccentricity, but their laughter turned to envy when they learned of his genius plan. With the surplus energy produced by his reactor, Harold began feeding back into the grid, raking in a whopping $200k per month. Suddenly, the once ridiculed Harold became the neighborhood's golden boy, the envy of all who dared to glance at their sky-high utility bills.

As Harold basked in his newfound glory, the rest of the neighborhood scrambled to keep up. Some attempted to harness wind power with comically oversized turbines, while others invested in solar panels that cluttered their roofs like patchwork quilts. But none could quite match Harold's ingenuity—or his bank account.

With every flick of a switch, Harold chuckled to himself, knowing that not only was he lighting up his home, but he was also powering his neighbors' envy. And as the sun set on the suburban landscape, Harold Grimsby, the neighborhood's nuclear pioneer, remained the undisputed king of watts and volts.
They're still regulated by NERC and have nearly all the same institutions. For example, ERCOT does the same fundamental job as CAISO. The only difference is they aren't under FERC, and that does matter...just not as much as folks think.
I mean, if you work in tech (high wages), live somewhere not america (free healthcare), are willing to live somewhere not ostentatious, the answer is almost certainly yes.

There is a whole movement around it called FIRE.
> Sure, you could write that algorithm as three nested list comprehensions, but does that accomplish anything other than showing off?

Ask different programmers this and you'll get different answers. One group will say that the list comprehensions reduces ceremony and makes the essential business logic clear, and writing out a loop longhand would serve no purpose other than showing off your knowledge of implementation trivia. Another group would say that writing the code without using list comprehensions makes it simpler, and the other group is just showing off their knowledge of language features.

"Make it simpler" advice is rarely actionable and usually just makes the debates more contentious. https://m50d.github.io/2018/12/11/people-who-disagree
I still have a Dell Latitude D820 kicking around at home with the same display specs. I threw in a 256gb SSD, 4GB of RAM, and might have upgraded the CPU (can't remember exactly). According to what I can find online, it retailed for $2290 USD ($3500 today adjusting for inflation). I'm assuming you are talking about the non-business line Dell had back then (Inspiron?) if it was inexpensive.

I'm always surprised by how circular technology can seem, even hardware. Obviously display technology has gotten a lot better over the years (IPS/OLED, lower power consumption, higher max brightness) but the fact that I'd be perfectly happy with a laptop with a 16:10 1920x1200 display today (almost 20 years later) is funny to me.
True. I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't work.
Having a stable, high-paying job is the 2nd best thing to getting incredibly lucky (being born into a trust fund, or stroke of luck to be part of a unicorn company).

Being your own boss is overrated (when it comes to earning money specifically).
Those reasons sound like bullshit, explanations that were devised by people who decided they didn’t want it as step one, and then then pulled together a committee to draft some reasons.
https://fortune.com/2023/09/07/texas-deregulated-power-grid-...
just this last summer the grid came cost to failing. it hasn't yet killed anyone due to cold, but every year is a roll of the dice and peak temperatures are increasing pretty much every year.
And?

It sounds like the point of it is to try and get people to pay, if they can and if they want to, without compromising the product experience.

They _want_ to give this away for free, but also want to be able to cover the costs. Getting rid of the "ugly" doesn't really take money away from them if you were never going to pay in the first place.
You were responding to somebody talking about farm labor, by talking about industrial labor. I'm not gonna pick a side here, but to say that what you each present as fact is not in conflict.
To me it seems like this paper reveals two truths.

1) Many people are happy living life and never exercising their brain.

2) Some people, like Aldous, are not. Instead they choose to more often than not.

I suspect that this has been true for a very long time. It also seems less frightening than he is making it out to be. Assuming the ratio of critical thinkers remains roughly the same then the world should continue to get objectively better, right?
That’s how they get us. Divide and conquer. The thing is that it’s really the politicians riling up the vocal members of their base. Surveys of most republicans show that they don’t like the extreme focus on trans people. There’s lots of common ground, if we cut away the ideology, on things like labor rights and jobs. The politicians amp up the rhetoric on LGBTQ issues because it gets people upset, but it’s really not an issue that affects most people’s lives outside of LGBTQ people directly.
I'm sorry, cutting undersea cables is not terrorism.
FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods
There is this, https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si... which is pretty similar. And yes, I am well aware not everyone can achieve this. Families are expensive, eating out with friends is expensive, not everyone makes $X per year.

But still, some people live on as little as possible and invest in their retirement aggressively. I have some friends who are into this, they drive that same shitty car from college, live with roommates, cook everything at home, etc. They are content living with that knowing they are investing for retirement in their 40s.
I was so sure this was about protothreads til I remembered its name. https://dunkels.com/adam/pt/
Legally, yes, but it won't come as a shock that some employers (and employees) don't follow the law to the letter.
Real question; is there any kind of revolutionary force inside NK?

It seems like there should be, but we never hear about it.

Anybody know?
I downgraded my Netflix subscription to the 720p basic one once they started cracking up on password sharing. Considering the shitty bitrate they use, there’s no reason to pay for 1080p and 2+ screens if my parents & in-laws can’t also use it.

Those streaming services should take a lesson or two on video encoding from the scene people.
The blue check braintrust has worked this into a much bigger issue in their minds than it will turn out to be. Sadly pg keeps proving to be one of these idiots, not sure it's genuine or just in hopes of being noticed by Elon
This is a common misunderstanding, one also seen with regard to definitions. When applied to knowledge acquisition, it suffers from a fairly obvious bootstrapping problem, which goes away when you realize that metrics and definitions are rewritten and refined as our knowledge increases. Just look at what has happened to concepts of matter and energy over the last century or so.

You are free to disagree with this, but I feel your metric for understanding resembles the Turing test, while the sort of thing I have proposed here, which involves AIs interacting with each other, is a refinement that makes a step away from defining understanding and intelligence as being just whatever human judges recognize as such (it still depends on human judgement, but I think one could analyze the sort of dialogue I am envisioning more objectively than in a Turing test.)
Temporal Analysis of Drifting Hashtags in Textual Data Streams
So, when i'm up late at night working on my side project, should I hide my system clock? Will this keep me in the zone for longer? I'd set some kind of alarm to avoid staying up too late.
"There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them - little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for some of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander."

-- Hawkeye Pierce, M*A*S*H

<https://www.quotes.net/mquote/790330>

War is the job you can't quit.
You do realize if the company doesn't make money you won't have a job right?

> Vacations get rejected because it doesn't follow the rules even if it doesn't make any sense, if an employee doesn't have any tasks to do and wants to take a day off at the end of the week, they can't, it has to be after two weeks

What are the rules? To give a 2 week notice to take time off? If it's regular PTO it sounds completely reasonable to me.

How is the world going crazy and the times being stressful by the way?
It is common in some contexts. Unicode also has within it formatting rules for a lot of this stuff although not the kind of rules you’ll find in a manual of style or a typesetting rule book.

Japanese can flow top to bottom and right to left as well with in books that are read left to right.
Removing YAML made it less scary.
> I doubt that the fact that it's JS matters all that much given that either loop is absolutely tiny once it's compiled down to optimized assembly.

It might matter. At least when run in the browser, JS needs to be interruptible (so pages don't hang on infinite loops), which is often done by checking a flag at the target of any backwards branch. So that's another (predictable) branch.

And sometimes when you get enough branches, they have an effect even if they're near 100% predictable. I don't know if it's from branch aliasing, or using up general branch prediction resources, or prefetching / some other optimization giving up after too many branches, or what.
I like how this site doesn't do the weird thing neocities does where it shows random pages that were updated in a feed. The sitebox thing is cool.
Yeah I don't think I'd call it terrorism by any reasonable definition. An act of aggression certainly but increasing latency/decreasing bandwidth due to a set of lost links is not by any means terrorism.

Nobody was physically harmed and it shouldn't have any real effect on essential or life preserving services (unless those services are incredibly poorly designed at which point the developers/maintainers should be held at fault).
Counterpoint: Trauma is trauma. The brain doesn't care about relative measures to other situations - it responds to your own experience.

https://youtu.be/JBvc7Ny4iUk?si=A-k0KSnNQbT7rB-L
Women aren't represented strongly here because they aren't represented as strongly by the numbers in tech.

It's pretty obviously selection bias.

Why that is, who might be responsible, we probably should all be talking about all of that more often.

But often you're coming across as bashing the reader/commenters, over the head with your repeated anecdotes of what you've classified as failures to "network-up" the types of professional success or connections, or relationships you're seeking¹, instead of talking about how to make progress on the thing you actually want to change: women aren't anywhere near as prominently, or noticeably, on HN - or in tech! Though thankfully this is slowly changing.

Have you written anywhere about what hasn't worked over these 15 years, so that others in a similar spot may have an easier time getting what they want from this community?

I have enjoyed many of your comments over the years, have engaged with you on a variety of topics under a variety of handles - but I've gotten tired of this topic never having solutions or any related positive forces behind it.

¹ Have you defined this anywhere?
your note about closures is correct, yes

as lmm pointed out, python didn't have generators and yield until 2.2. icon, which tim peters adapted the idea from, had them quite a bit earlier than that, but i think it's reasonable to describe icon as not being a commonly used language, then or now

(python's generators are closer syntactically to icon's generators than they are semantically)
Anything can be terrorism if it is politically beneficial. This is 2024, after all.