skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon has almost the exact same properties as carbon. At high temperatures, carbon chains can’t form, but silicon chains can. In a high-temperature or high-pressure range, silicon might for a basis for life, analogous to carbon for us. So, not only was that question not stupid, it was profound.

Look at silicon on the periodic table. All of the things that make carbon great, basically silicon has almost exactly, except it needs a high temperature for most of those properties to be expressible.

That teacher didn’t know what he was talking about. Ridiculing a student for questions is such detestable behavior. The silliest questions can end up being the most insightful. I really despise teachers like that.

Here is a paper all about how your question was actually wonderful.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345352/
Here's what Kagi Universal Summarizer has to say about it:

- Engineering crits at Figma are dedicated time for engineers to get feedback on work in progress, brainstorm approaches, and unblock each other early in the design process.

- They aim to find a middle ground between design critiques and technical reviews by focusing on exploration and feedback rather than approval.

- Running crits in FigJam allows many people to provide feedback simultaneously in a collaborative way rather than taking turns.

- The format encourages parallel conversations through sticky notes rather than sequential or comment thread styles.

- Crits have become core to early, middle, and sometimes late phases of technical design work at Figma.

- Engineers are asked to prepare by creating a FigJam file summarizing their design for quick feedback.

- Feedback is led by suggestions rather than mandates to encourage many perspectives.

- Crits help focus on specific challenges by bringing in relevant experts.

- The overall process aims to accelerate work by getting feedback earlier compared to later technical reviews.
Python is just the more popular language. Julia array manipulation is mostly better (better syntax, better integration, larger standard library) or as good as python. Julia is also dynamically typed. It is also faster than Python, except for the jit issues.
Analogy breaking down and all, but …

Only as long at it’s as easy to put back in
> Python+Types+Concurrency

Sounds like Groovy. But I wouldn't recommend it. Also the career padding hype is gone.
I just move on when I see requirements like that. Some of those I do as a matter of course (clean any food mess/dishes if I have a kitchen). I think my mom beat that one into me. I'm definitely not doing laundry with a house cleaning fee is tacked on. Probably why I stay at hotels 95% of the time.
Thanks for sharing. I’ll add that to my own $TERM
Not quite sure what your comment means exactly or how it implies what I said is incorrect.

At any rate, test_asyncio contains a lot of tests that involve threads and specifically thread safety between coroutines and those tests fail. As far as async I/O and threads being distinct, I mean sure that is true of a lot of features but people mix features together and mixing asyncio with threads will not work with this particular release.
Related:

Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31875692 - June 2022 (207 comments)
Yes, there is a way of restoring your packages.

Arch has some decent wiki entries for this:

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/migrate_installation_to_new...

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_from_exi...

Although, my way of work is quite different. I do keep a lot of notes about what I do. And when I need to reinstall my system (e.g. to a new laptop), I reconsider what I need. My Arch Desktop systems are very minimalistic. I use Arch on my laptops and servers.

I use Fedora on my desktops, so it’s different from Arch. Usually, I don’t mess with Fedora, and treat it as I treat macOS. My way of working with Fedora or macOS is just to note what I need to change, in plain text with screenshots (when needed). As most of the changes are either in Settings app or just a couple of terminal strings.

Also, I keep all my custom configs in a git repository. Usually, that system is called dotfiles.
Serving Markdown Direct from Apache (2022)
Study of slowly evolving 'living fossils' reveals key genetic insights
eBay can now show the shipping cost tailored to your zip/postal code, and shows it up-front.

eBay is an undertold story in failure (to innovate).

For sure, still a going concern, but odd of such a large company taking the Craigslist approach of “let’s stay small and just do enough to keep it working comfortably for all of us”

eBay practically invented online shopping at scale and had a huge head start but failed to maintain marketshare.

It’s still the catch-all for products that don’t fit in other marketplaces. For me, it’s a place to buy a lot of Amazon items but at a lower price (at some convenience cost). Or niche/used items. Amazon has overly regionalized (sometimes I can get items in Canada from Amazon.com cheaper than amazon.ca for example), while eBay is still a generally global interface.
Yes, eventually robots will be able to do plumbing.

But if/when robots are doing a majority of plumbing jobs, they'll be doing 99%+ of all jobs. So society will have changed drastically and unknowingly, for better or worse. And that societal change will affect all jobs, robot-replaced or not.

So IMO a relatively robot resistant job (like plumber) is as good as a robot proof jobs.
False choice. It's not "my way or insane expense."
People in tech and the valley like judging things through the eyes of tech capitalism, and basically think that if “you’re good at something, never do it for free”.

The truth is that many people don’t view the world through these lens. They just enjoy a hobby and a community. Participating in a forum is a fun experience for many, and I’d guess the average Redditor would be less happy if they bought into the mindset that they must be paid for the writings.
Okay, everything you say is true, but that's not something under the control of universities.

Change everything about the research grant system, and increase funding for it by 10x, and it'll address your concerns, and universities will happily make even more grad students. They aren't currently the bottleneck, because they aren't the sources of research funding - they are just a landlord (with reasonably okay terms) for the research lab that spends that funding.
Many companies act as though they believe that they have a fiduciary duty to not think further than the next quarter's results.

Are you happy now?
> As one source explained, the mad stone was "...so constructed with its innumerable cells that when applied to the lacerated flesh, it adheres at once and every cell exercises a suction power, but does not absorb any substance except Virus; because the cells are too diminutive in size to take in even blood, which is too coarse and tough to gain entrance."

reminds me of having to take activated charcoal for stomach troubles

iirc the mechanism was that, since the surface area of the porous charcoal was greater than your stomach lining by an order of magnitude (and since entropy pushes concentration towards the mean), it was basically like eating a sponge and having it soak up everything, including a large volume of whatever is irritating your stomach, so your body's defenses can focus on whatever is left
I would think yes. Which would be something. Huge rooms of enormous optical computers running lightening fast on low power would have a kind of retro future feel.

Light would reduce the time cost of distance, and increase the density of connections (optical signals can pass through each other) so this could actually work.
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Holy $DEITY, i did the math. Flowers for Algernon was first published in 1959 in story form... this means it will be under copyright for 130 years.

Of course this is a masterpiece and isn't likely to get lost... but which copyright holder is going to keep the B and C lists available for legal access for the whole 130 years?

And speaking of which, is the story form of Flowers for Algernon available legally anywhere? The lengthened book form yes, probably. But personally I think the original form is better.

Thanks Disney.
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That hasn't been my experience. I mean it's not McDonald's hot, but it's hot enough to cause damaage.
How does that work? I'm not familiar with Ray, but I'm assuming you might be referring to actors [1]? Isn't that basically the same idea as multiprocessing's Managers [2], which also allow client processes to manipulate a remote object through message-passing? (See also DCOM.)

[1] https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-core/walkthrough.html#call...

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html#manag...
I skimmed Homo Sapiens and Homo Deus, found them pretty lame. Everything in them is either a truism or obviously misconstrues facts. There's a lot of good pop science out there, and a great deal more of it is poorly written. Sturgeon's law comes to mind.
Thanks for the history. I was wondering why I was seeing less crazy rates on shipping. I had no idea it wasn't on the whole purchase price as that seemed obvious to me. I figured it was sellers hoping people wouldn't notice the s&h until the got to checkout
Copying and Pasting code around is really cumbersome with indenting. Refactoring code is harder. Or maybe it's just me.
I was recently trying to port a PIC microcontroller simulator from C++ to Rust as an (unfinished) experiment. Because there were lots of cyclic references (modules talking to each other over "signal busses" with callbacks,) I think I ended up fighting Rust more than it helped. It ended up requiring a lot of Box (pointers to heap) for things where I could store the data inline in C++.

My conclusion is that if you're writing a simple CLI or request-response thing, Rust is probably an easy port. More generally, if your code structure could work well with arena allocations, moving to lifetime-tagging of references isn't a big deal.

But if you're writing (admitted ugly) code with cyclic references the way a C programmer would :), Rust will feel like an uphill battle and is not the place to start. I need to start by restructuring the C++ code, moving ownership to a common parent. I think that'll make things better. Iteratively learning more about Rust, but continuing to work in C++ until the code has a better correspondance to Rust.

Edit: forgot the word simulator, and changed RefCell to Box.
> `multiprocessing` works fine for serving HTTP requests

Not if you use Windows, then it's a mess. I have a suspicion that people who say that the multiprocessing works just fine never had to seriously use Python on Windows.
> A want a P2P social networking construct where I can pick my friends and input sources, design or choose my own filtering and boosting algorithms, and leave the rest of the web/platforms to rot.

With the obvious caveat that it's not done, ATProto is pushing towards this. Pick your personal server (your PDS), pick an aggregator (or multiple) to get a firehose from, delegate moderation and feed creation to other systems, view it through a mostly-standardized appview.
I do wonder if there needs to be a way to have related articles grouped on HN.

This is a good example, because there’s the announcement of the benchmark, and each vendor’s post about it and the associated technical details.

I think all of these articles are separately interesting, but having four separate posts on what is also basically just a single “story” is kind of silly, right?
Color e-ink
You probably don't know how utterly dysfunctional for example a typical kitchen looked before Bauhaus. See Magarete Schütte-Lihotzkys Frankfurt Kitchen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen

The cliché Bauhaus style people know is not the thing that had the impact, everything else was.
I've actually been looking for something like this to translate over to zig. Thanks for sharing! The only thing it seems to be missing for my purposes is a way of returning a value.
Why make such a low effort pessimistic comment. What happened to HN?
Shhh... you're not supposed to say that or they will make a Facebook login and force it.
People keep panicking about huge internet portals but the thing is that if you compare the number of internet users 20 years ago with now there is a MASSIVE difference.

That was us back then, 20 years ago, the nerds, the sub-culture, the people who found this new internet thing fascinating.

Today it's EVERYBODY. And they're really not that fascinated with the internet but rather the content that they're consuming from the internet. In their view this content could come from anywhere, it just happens to come from the internet.

So all of us old nerds, and new nerds, will continue using the internet, but we'll be a miniscule minority.
Lcds were way better than the crts consumers had. Most desktop crts were absolutely massive and took up the entire desk. We had to install special drawers in our desks that slid out and held a keyboard because there wasn’t room otherwise on most desks. The lcds that replaced them were far lighter, my grandparents could actually move them for once, they took up probably three inches of the desk, and they were bigger diagonally too with more io accepted.

For tvs flat screens only really started replacing crt and plasma when they were hd. Even a 720p tv looked a lot better than a crt and once again, was much lighter, was much bigger, and had way more io (early flatscreens had even more than today usually). Crts sucked, thats why everyone happily threw them to a curb.
what you're telling me is that SMCI doesn't care if NVDA or INTC or even AMD outperforms on their hardware, they'll make axes and shovels for anyone and profit either way :)
Does a VPN help with this problem (so that your IP address is obscured even if it's stored on Apple/Google servers)?
Will the CEO be held liable? Will their yearly multi-million dollar bonuses be taken?
I used to commute daily between Philadelphia and NYC. I wish they'd had increased service then.

These trains are mostly used by commuters and business travelers.
My college tried this with their chapel. Since it was a much smaller budget we basically ended up with God's Unfinished Basement. They also ended up losing revenue as alumni stopped using the chapel as a wedding venue.
So put it in the price rather than "fees". That always feels highly dishonest to me.
Yeah, it's a formulaic, juvenile approach, hard to watch more than a little without feeling empty and exhausted. The research seems very solid, but the tone is shallow and teeters on the edge of Fox News-style partisan ragebaiting.
What I'm saying is that bitcoin mostly serves as a reserve asset and store of value, and as a unit of account it's great. For daily transactions and payments you end up relying on layer2 options (again totally in favor of those but there's a nuance to this since bigoted people jump at that aspect and say it "disproves" bitcoin) which is somewhat different than saying you're using bitcoin, it's a roundabout way of using bitcoin much like no one pays for things with US treasuries, but they do use notes which derive their value from treasuries.
Who fabs the Gaudi2? TSMC or Intel themselves?
The deflection circuitry of a TV or raster-scan CRT monitor is not designed to be driven by random X-Y signals and optimized around the sawtooth patterns of the raster scan. One thing is that driving the deflection coils of large-ish CRT at typical raster scan frequencies requires considerable power (the typical X-Y display cannot draw all the "pixels" each "frame") and another is that there is a bunch of analog tricks (funky magnetics in the "output filters" and such) where various non-linearities of the system partially cancel each other out, which works only for the typical saw-tooth-ish deflection waveforms.

Another thing is that both CRT monitors and "modern" CRT TVs synchronize both their main SMPS and the EHT flyback to horizontal frequency of displayed image (one is tempted to say that typical CRT computer monitor is in fact one giant overcomplicated SMPS). The reasoning is more or less the same as to why the TV framerate is related to mains frequency: reduction of artifacts that move around in the image. Also, this is the reason why out-of-spec signal can damage (old, which essentially means not microprocessor controlled) CRT displays and TVs.
Compilation comes to mind. Efficient distributed compute also usually prefers vertical scaling (i.e. more cores per node).
Return result or error pattern for Golang
Handy library for returning result or error and unwrapping at receiving end. Helpful when you need to return array of result or error together.
There's a lot of complaints here, the advice is decent but not magical. "Don't spend time and money on crap". Maybe the implication is "Do spend time and money on good services".

Reddit never owed me anything, never spent any money and was paid back for the time invested. Might spend 5 minutes per week on it now. Plenty of people are trying to make a better Reddit, nobody has targeted them with unfair competition.
In cases where you can genuinely just flip a switch and get back proper access to the machine I don't mind it that much, but these "we must restrict the user for 'security' reasons" things usually don't stay like that forever.
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Real Conversations with the Original Eliza (Discovered in the Garfinkel Archive)
No.

Reddit is doing an IPO, so the internet is dying? That's, um, not the greatest evidence. Neither the Reddit IPO, nor Reddit itself, show that the internet is dying.

The AI angle is more reasonable. That at least has the chance of doing real damage. Sites may have to find a way to restrict the damage, and search engines may have to prioritize results from sites that do. It's not an easy problem, but the traffic will go to the sites that best solve it. Nobody wants to read an infinite amount of AI spew.
Incredible work by the author stepping through all the nitty-gritty details and showing how easy it is to miss something subtle that could degrade performance.
Much, much better. The first minute or so explains what they are trying to do and why in a way the I can understand.

This interview makes me much more excited and less skeptic than Verdon's usual mumbo-jumbo jargon. He should try using simpler, and more humble language more often.
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Good Job! Features really to the point.
> For example, Darwin first described the idea of natural selection in an essay written in 1844. [1] Talk about an important topic you could tell people something surprising about. If that's the test of a great essay, this was surely the best one written in 1844.

I think he's speaking broadly about what counts as an essay, and does have at least one example in there to illustrate his point. He's also an esteemed essay writer, and I think it's fair for him to talk about what he values in an essay without needing to justify any of it by saying "and also, this person that some people respect did it like that"
That's a really bold declaration, given how hard he tried to renege on the deal and how severely he tried to cut costs.
I'm just thrilled he said "toe" and not "tow."

Seriously: in a few years they'll be the Pets.com of our era.
Lines of Drift
Is Email Evil? (2015)
Can you join data from various tables and build a view?

Also - my team prefers airtable because of the calendar view.... would be great to see.
Android Auto is not yet supported in GrapheneOS and that's pretty much half the usage of my phone gets on a daily basis
As opposed to the jackass whose pulling high lateral G's and going 90 on the freeway. I think I can explain my way out of the insurance hike easier than the aforementioned jackass--who actually should be deemed uninsurable.
Seems to me that there's probably a market for websites that do more curating and filtering for real people.
TSMC 7nm it seems.
I think Russian and German sound harsh and often rathe aggressive. I don’t know if that translates into ‘evil’ but I don’t love the sound of those languages.
I personally despise Apple Notes - there's really no good reason for it to be as complicated and obfuscated as it is. Notetaking shouldn't require a database any more complicated than your filesystem. On Mac, I default to Obsidian (or even TextEdit).
> You want more speed.

On the other hand, premature optimization is the root of all evil.

> Think of it as arbitrary units, which allows you to compare different version of browsers on the same machine.

That's precisely the problem. It's arbitrary, meaningless. Without any physical units, I don't know what's good or bad, fast or slow. And why do the scores go from 0 to 140 when the web browsers are all getting approximately 20?
The lead in to this post says

> None of the people that spent hours of their lives lovingly contributing to Subreddits, or performing the vital-but-thankless role of moderation, will make a profit off of Reddit's public listing

.. and then mentions Sam Altman's investment. His announcement in fall of 2014 specifically said:

> First, it’s always bothered me that users create so much of the value of sites like reddit but don’t own any of it. So, the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shares in this round to the people in the reddit community, and I hope we increase community ownership over time.

https://blog.samaltman.com/reddit

So _are_ there people who were highly involved reddit community members in 2014 who will get a payday? Or did they already have a chance to cash out some time ago, and only some fraction held on until now? Or did that 10% contribution to "people in the reddit community" not happen at all?
"BVO, or brominated vegetable oil, has been used as an emulsifying agent since the 1930s to ensure citrus flavoring agents don't float to the top of sodas. Sticking a dozen bromine atoms to a triglyceride creates a dense oil that floats evenly throughout water when mixed with less dense fats."

BVO was used in some versions of Mountain Dew sodas.
Nowadays, for the average Internet user, content is on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube...
Heat is bad for life because it makes atoms vibrate too fast, a lot of chaos, but not infinite chaos. Maybe there is a chance?
The referenced paper https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JA03...
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