skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was amazed at flywheel UPS 20 years back. Why arent they more popular by now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage#Compar...
Losing weight associated with an increased cancer – a closer look
Growing mammalian cell spheroids in vitro was one of the highlights for me and my scientific career. So rewarding and interesting, so much more useful than monolayer cell cultures.

The article is about neurons, but they are fascinating in cancer research also. You can grow fibroblasts together with cancer cells and they start making something like a real tumor and start exhibiting responses more like in vivo tumors. My favorite way to grow them was just seed the cells in special plates that the cells don't want to attach to and they just start attaching to one another and start making a colony of self-organizing cells floating in the media.

A good overview here-

https://cancerci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12935-0...
thanks i'll check it out.
What does any of that have to do with the quote and my comment?
My problem is that I just don't want to think about it. Complex solutions are cool but ultimately it's bandwidth I could use for better things. I like my Chromebook because it requires nearly zero mental effort. I install the package and I use it. Ubuntu was great because you could Google it and get an answer that applies, and ChromeOS is great for the same reason. Linux could be as great as macOS, but it's the fragmentation that kills it.
yeah, i have not had success with fb but i can setup a page once i launch.

i work from home and miss the social environment of the office, but hate office politics. i also do my best work at night.
> the notion of individuals donning AR/VR headsets.

What changed? It’s still far-fetched and not due to technical reasons
Sounds like an urban park.
However, the audience is used to shutter angle as part of the visual vernacular (e.g., narrow shutter angle for hyper edgy rap videos, long shutter angle for dreamy retro vibes). If rendered content can't speak the same visual language, a tool is missing, regardless of framerate (up to a point... At 400Hz, I'd be impressed by someone really seeing the difference).

What's interesting about rendered content is that it can extend that (e.g., a shutter angle beyond the duration of a frame), playing with something we thought we had a handle on.
> I think this was the first 32-bit amiga OS

There has never been any such distinction. The 68k has a 24 bit address bus, and a 16 bit data bus, but addresses are 32 bit. As such, apart from a few stupid programs (cough Microsofts Amiga Basic cough) that assumed they could use the top 8 bits of some pointers to store data, AmigaOS was 32 bit from the very start.

> and this is putting it kindly, primitive compared to System 7.

AmigaOS had preemptive multitasking from the start. I'm sure there were features of System 7 that were better than AmigaOS, but all I remember of the OS differences at that time was how we ridiculously primitive everyone I knew considered MacOS to be for lacking basics like that.

Even a couple of years after Commodore's bankruptcy, I remember visiting a publisher, and marveling at how primitive MacOS seemed on the surface at least.

And it was the access to that software much more than the hardware that mattered - even when you could buy far more capable PC hardware for less, being able to run e.g. the Mac version of Quark outweighed any cost and performance considerations in those specific niches (I helped out with tech for a newspaper for a short while in that period, and it was beyond frustrating to have to deal with the printers who only used Macs).
The WFH vs in-office debate is very much one that is dependent on personal circumstances and I do wish more people understood that
Note: having lived in Melbourne CBD, cities can indeed be loud, e.g. at 1 am on a Saturday (bass from clubs, and apparently drunk people really enjoy going Woooo!!! really loudly all the time)

Also, construction sites, and road works.

Nearly constant noise.
And yet my super regional bank will only allow me, a customer of over 20 years, to ACH $5000 per day or $25000 per month. I read that Citibank has ACH limits of $2000/$10000.
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There is absolutely no reason why you couldn't meet the accepted safety standards for this industry as a startup.
> it was clear to both sides that the necessary tooling didn't actually exist yet.

Well yeah, that's why Smashmallow hired Tanis: to build the tooling.

Then Tanis sent them faked samples, making it "clear" to Smashmallow that the tooling did exist. Which was fraud, because it didn't actually exist and Tanis knew it.

That's why the jury awarded Smashmallow $20 million and Tanis settled rather than bother appealing it.
The definition of "code," as you put it, is what's going to change. That hasn't happened at all since 1950.
I've sort of made plans for the last four chapters, sort of :). I would have loved to write about Wavelet trees, but a lot has already been written about them. If you're into succinct data structures and are looking for something more practical, check out this blog on Succinct de Bruijn Graphs (https://www.alexbowe.com/succinct-debruijn-graphs/).
It seems to be an unpopular opinion these days, but I have no problems paying for software that is good and comes with a credible promise of ongoing support. FanControl looks pretty cool, and if I can jettison the mental sticky note in favor of them maintaining it I am all ears.
> given our treatment of whales

Almost infinitely better than back then?
I disagree with your premise, considering that the first people to really use the internet were old-style hackers like those found on HN, and those usually lean conservative.
Seems like base salary is stagnating (i.e., no raises), but stock refreshers continue at last-year's levels?
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon, gen 10, and it's pretty terrible. It's my fourth X1, and they somehow get worse every generation (and it will be my last).

Here's just some of the problems I've had:

- The cooling setup is poor, so it overheats very easily. It's melted part of the rubber off already.

- The trackpoint is slightly broken, and sometimes the pointer will constantly jump to the top of the screen until it's disabled.

- The AC/DC converter makes clicking noises sometimes.

- Battery life is very poor.

- It just randomly locks up sometimes, and needs restarting.
the hardest thing obviously is to time the moment when it will start mean reverting.

there is possibility you can take trading position with expectation of vol reverting to the mean, and vol will keep increasing (what happened to tesla and gamestop short sellers)

and vice versa
Weirdly, they don't preference contracts for shell corps owned by, say, poor white trash from Middletown, Ohio -- despite these people meeting your definition of "someone who historically hasn't been paid well".

But I digress. In the biz, if the contract has to be trafficked through a shell corp where the owner takes a 20% cut, everyone simply bids a 20% higher rate.

It's the taxpayer's prerogative if they would rather their government pay an inflated contracting rate -- as opposed to using that money for education, infrastructure, social services, etc.
This is the same reason engineers rub engineers the wrong way. Its true for all humans.
I'd also like to plug the underlying library LibreHardwareMonitor [0], where I was able to make a PR to support a bonus sensor on my particular motherboard-variant.

[0] https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor
My wife and I bought a house a in the suburbs and both of us badly want to move back. So now know someone who left a dense city and wants to go back. Being able to walk places is a luxury we won't overlook again.
I imagine to avoid paying expensive license fees, to stick with OSS out of principle, and/or to implement various fun integrations.
Inheritance taxes don't work in a world where one can jurisdiction shop/utilize multiple different trust and other setups. What inheritance tax does accomplish is keeping the newly rich from becoming multi generational while protecting the old wealth, which is the worst possible outcome. On top of that, to enforce them requires a level of privacy and personal liberty abuse that is counterproductive.

A better solution is much more effective antitrust enforcement through both breaking up monopolies/oligpolies and outlawing contract abuses by oligoplies as we see them (i.e. the myriad of things amazon puts in their seller contracts to ensure the prices elsewhere are always near amazon's price).

You asked the wrong question about Jim Walton. You should ask would Jim be able to pull off the same level of wealth accumulation if walmart had been broken up so that it could not have abused its market power for the last 30-40 years? Probably not, because he's probably not great at creating businesses people want to spend money at. You could say the same thing about guys like Bill gates (he would be worth at least 10X what he is currently worth if he had just kept his microsoft stock instead of diversifying bit by bit each year). When you look at it, it's almost always the market power abuse that is the problem, not the wealth per se (notable exception is Elon Musk, who has knocked it out of the park on multiple companies in starkly different fields, kind of impressive).
Related: Gotta love the ReelSmart Motion Blur plugin for adding motion blur based on the automatic tracking of every pixel from one frame to the next. It's not always perfect but still does an amazing job. Sometimes I get experimental and crank the calculated motion blur way past the default value and it looks surreal!
Related: Storing binary data in playing cards (2014)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39582571
I found more of these:
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vis...
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Business Insider is a blog with good branding. Nothing more. Certainly not journalism in any reasonable sense.
> Now, humanity kills about 80 billion such farm animals per year. [1]

Ostensibly, those animals are killed for sustenance, where lab intelligences will be created, poked , prodded, altered and killed merely for fun or curiosity. Even if we disagree on the ethics of eating meat, hopefully we at least agree that there's a meaningful difference there, especially since we don't know where the boundary of "basic pain reception", or indeed any kind of experience, truly lies.
paged.js is a polyfill that implements this. I'm not aware of any browser that support this.

Why do you call paged.js a "hack"?
You can show this with a easy one-liner in a lot of languages, e.g. Julia:

$ julia -E 'log2(factorial(big(52)))'
225.581003123702761946342444376665612911126819036757601937313805865615023286654

(It's also just math, of course, but it's nice to have a quick way to check these things.)
There is a great BBC - In Our Times episode about it:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547l1
It’s doubtful that he doesn’t understand some amount of programming. It’s impossible to graduate from EE without a couple of programming quarters/semesters, and these people did invent CUDA and such.
As a Ukrainian-American (more so the latter, I've lived in the US for the past 20+ years), US corporate culture requires making any statement into a very polite, almost optional, suggestion ("would you", "it would be great if", etc). Several times I was accused of being "rude" when I made a direct statement.

So it is not exactly direct, but I don't have a good cultural reference to compare to either.
Paraphrased from the article:

> Everything in a code block with the js content hint will be executed in the users browser immediately. If you want to show the code you have to hint 'js echo'

Am I the only one thinking that it would have been better for backwards compatibility if it where the other way around? I.e: having an opt-in code hint like 'js exec' that runs code in a user's browser and leaving the widely used 'js' hint alone? The way this currently is set up, you cannot integrate that renderer in an existing app without having to manage where it is allowed to run.
I disagree, computers are just a tool. Learning basic programming in primary school helps build a foundation for more sophisticated knowledge in high school. It can also help contextualise mathematics.

The problem is abuse of the tool, as you describe. In my primary school, we were taught how to use Microsoft Office by using a workbook the computer teacher licensed to the school. We had some of the best computer resources amongst local schools at the time, yet learnt almost nothing about computers. It took me until university to write a line of code.
Code is math. Variables, functions, and expressions are all mathematical terms.

The main difference is the time between feedback on your code. Back then, you'd only know if there was an error in your code when it failed to run. Now we get it almost instantaneously. But that's not how it always was.
Still a %25 loss. If your pay is 100,000 and your take home pay is 50,000 you lose %25 of 50,000=12,500
You have a very narrow definition of a suburb.

Indeed, some suburbs have a lot of nature. I've encountered suburbs where individual houses are in the middle of the woods, off the main road, and yet not 10 miles away are developments where all the houses all look identical because they were built by the same developer and have a lawn in front, a backyard, and no wilderness whatsoever; right outside that development are busy streets on all sides.

I've lived in suburbs that are incorporated cities with population above a hundred thousand, and are eminently as pedestrian-friendly as some larger cities, but are tiny in comparison to the city that they're suburbs of (with more than a million people within that city's limits). And there are suburbs where you cannot get to the nearest grocery store without getting in a car and driving on the highway for 5 minutes.

You can't paint all suburbs as having lots of nature and being devoid of cars, just as you can't say all cities are identical.
AI rescued Nvidia when nobody was buying their shovels for digging crypto gold. If it wasn’t for ChatGPT, Nvidia story would have been very different right now. He is probably just hoping that this dream never ends. Otherwise there’s no way to justify the current valuation in the long term.
It looks like you haven't read the text on the link:

"The Board of Directors plans to hire several Agile Analyticistis, Working Culture Ambassador Researchers, Import-Export-Integrator-Optimizer Masters and Kanban Disruptors in order to help them investigate the unexpected outcome."
In the past it was easy to be romantic about flying cars.

Today we understand they'd be built shoddily and rushed to market for the sake of short term profit, require mandatory subscription fees for basic features, spy on us, and come with falsely advertised self driving features.

We didn't become skeptical of technology spontaneously.
In the before times, sometimes the drinking started on Thursday.
The reality is there are far more qualified people than jobs, so people are selected based more on fit than need.

Young people are more likely to just fit, while old people are less motivated by trends and more likely to embarrass others by disclosing their mistakes.

One solution is less of a wall/cliff around the job itself. Zoox has a re-entry program for experienced people to assess the fit; like internships, it reduces the uncertainties.

But in a tight job market, no company is driven to expand their options.

And it's not "the valley" treating other people. It's people. I've seen people who disrespect even in the best conditions, and others who offer great respect even when firing people. Good character won't help your career, but it might help those around you.
Apple was the antithesis of Commodore in those days: Aiming for the high-end market (post-Tramiel Commodore US tried that; the rest of Commodore focused on the low end, the Tramiel had from the start[1], with some exceptions - Commodore Germany did well in the business market - and the non-US subsidiaries sold far more Amigas that way), and focusing on far simpler hardware designs, and on selling into businesses and education.

And they too just barely survived. To the point that there was widespread talk of bankruptcy for several years. And there was that infamous cash injection from Microsoft.

There was also their brief flirtation with allowing clones.

At the same time Commodore was management-dysfunction central in a way that Apple, even with the Jobs ouster and return, never was (Commodore did oust its founder too - the aforementioned Tramiel -, but he bought their arch-rival - Atari - and went into head-to-head competition in their most lucrative markets instead of eventually returning).

[1] Tramiel's slogan in the early days of Commodore's entry into the home-computer market was "computers for the masses, not the classes".
Well, this will in no way be a means by which an eldritch horror enters into this dimension.
Wow, I'm a Beatles nerd, and I had no idea that all four of them shared songwriting credits on this one. Interesting!

I thought of it this way: if an album were a book and the songs its chapters, then considering "Dig It" was primarily written by Lennon, it made sense to list it as "Lennon, Let It Be." I'll change it though.
Even if it does, it will end up looking more like a mathematical proof with exact definitions, sub-definitions and the equivalent of "lemmas" and such.

Or maybe it will like current laws & regulations, legal code, maybe something like this (first legal code I could think of...) [1].

But I'm sure it will not look like what people imagine when they first hear "programming in English" - a book or a nice story or a conversation.

[1] https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/vehicle-code/veh-sect-23152/
LLMs can help with programming. But you cannot just copy/paste the code from LLMs and push to production. You need to understand the code that LLMs are producing otherwise soon or later you will get in trouble.
A question I’ve often wondered: how is density measured? Yes, I get it’s the total number of people per square mile, but how does work in detail? Do we count people if they only have their residential home there? If so, it means commercial buildings detracts toward this number. This tilts high density ratings towards residential areas like Somerville MA, which has no downtown to speak of, fewer public parks, and lacking in amenities. What it does have is lots and lots of run-down triple decker residential housing far as the eye can see. The city looks like a low-rent suburb rather than one of the densest cities in New England.
I first learned about shutter angle when reading about its use in Saving Private Ryan; the narrow 45 and 90 degree shutters made the opening scenes much more visceral with so much flying through the air.

https://cinemashock.org/2012/07/30/45-degree-shutter-in-savi...
I get the impression the variable is not social drinking but social adaptitude. I do want your opinion on the matter, however. Every native Japanese person I have known is incredibly reserved. As an example, I had a Japanese coworker, and I did not even know they had a wife until they corrected me in conversation. Maybe it is the subtle aspects of the language (my Japanese is still not great)? I am looking to establish an EOR in Japan and eventually move there with the goal of citizenship, but I've been holding off until I understand the language well enough to get by without outside help.
Ah sweet, man made horrors beyond our comprehension.
The only alternative I can think of is to use escrow, which probably isn’t attractive for illegal activities and still requires trust.
We think the set is disjoint. We aren't hurting our revenue by catering to the tinkerers. They will hopefully help spread the word about Ente, and contribute to making the product better in the long run.
There is a huge amount that can be done in the solution space outside of "criminalization of privacy".
but - who do you yell at when someone burns the popcorn or is cooking fish in the microwave down the hall?
Can't this argument be applied to 'traditional' programming? Reliance in third-party libraries, the attack vectors inherent to that, etc...
Except eating meat is unnecessary and ultimately unsustainable for the planet.

So really people like me who eat meat are guilty two sins -- eating intelligent creatures that don't need to be eaten and destroying the planet by doing so.

also, don't underplay the utility of this kind of research, people don't just do it for funsies, they do it because it could change the world.
Funny you mention that - one of my last office interactions was my boss burning salmon in the microwave. I literally walked into the server room because I'd rather be deaf than smell burnt fish.
> Mogilevich says that it sold this material to eight buyers

Who are these buyers? Do they have criminal intent, or are they professional security conducting an investigation? Obviously the whole thing is just the word of someone who is either a hacker or a fraudster. I just like the idea of a half dozen government agencies buying any hacks they can find online.
1. Was this written by ChatGPT?

2. Your cats aren't under sanctions, your country is.
This may not be the experience that everyone else is having in the office. Some work better with the team experience. You obviously don't.
It also creates PII honeypots that can be hacked.

But I'm willing to even concede that a highly controlled internet will lead to less internet crime. But it'll be a Devil's Bargain where the price of less internet crime will be less economic activity and wealth. Repression of the general population to reduce the threat posed by bad actors is counter-productive to the larger goal of a safer and more prosperous world.

Less prosperous as repression inhibits productivity and less safe because less prosperity makes people less able to reduce the risks that they face. To give a concrete example: the people of a city that has access to Uber or an Uber-like service (more prosperity) are safer than those of a city relying on older taxi technology involving flagging down cabs with no ratings (less prosperity).

The former have greater freedom of movement which has a huge number of positive second order effects, many of which improve personal safety. The emergence and rapid evolution of services like Uber is largely because of Internet Freedom giving internet projects space for deployment and iteration outside the confines of regimented safety processes.
Due to my privacy I'd rather not say the city name, but I will say it was the second largest city in a strongly Democratic coastal state.

The largest city in that state was one of those large city hell-holes with too many people crowded in too small a space. But the second largest city was quite nice once you were not too near the downtown.
I’ve experienced the same in Australian suburbia. Awful drinking culture and pre-Uber taxi unreliability means a lot of people drink and drive.

It is more common in low socio-economic areas but still existing in all classes. Hell, our state treasurer lost his job after hitting multiple cars on his way home. https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/troy-b...
no, like being let out of jail without bail for grand theft...
> What a different world we’d live in if more boys felt safe sharing feelings, in their own way, right from the start.

What if it turned out to be a world much worse than what we have?
There is perhaps some evolutionary advantage to people that suck it up and carry on?
Grammar nitpick derails like this one have wasted far more time than anyone saying "I could care less" ever has
Exactly, while doing background research for this I read a really neat paper that describes what you're saying, and offers a solution based on trying to predict the viewer's eye motion: Temporal Video Filtering and Exposure Control for Perceptual Motion Blur (Stengel et al., 2015)
The paper is about implementing transformer-like attention using simulated human neurones