skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your points here are worth more emphasis. As a chronically unemployed software dev who's burnt out and crashed at least 3 times, I've spent a hell of a lot of time reflecting, and try my best to communicate these ideas to people who have the opposite problem; lots of work, but no new friends since highschool, and desperately single.

People tend to rely far too heavily on the easiest way to convince themselves they're having valuable social interactions, whether it's social media or betting that their work friends will still be there when they get laid off. They'll rely on Tinder for sex and try to bridge that to something more meaningful out of thin air, or they'll buy a dog and hope that solves the problem. Some of these are uniquely millenial and onward, some others carry over from Gen X and boomer culture imo, whereby you isolate yourself from the rest of society in the suburbs or wherever and count on personal relationships you acquired for free.

Along with this, in many places we've let the catalysts for social growth get stripped away by commodity bullshit and simulated interaction. Costco is probably the closest thing many people have to bumping into someone, no shot are they going to do it at the adult version of the playground, because there often isn't one and they won't go. (obviously this is more true in some places and for some people than it is for people who've realized this or who innately direct their life this way).

My theory is that to meet a new person and have it be substantial, you basically need to spend a few hours, a few times per week, in the same space doing some arbitrarily interesting thing for a common reason, without being too eager but with a signaled sense of openness. You don't become a pro anything spending 30 min a week on it, and no valuable personal relationships come about that way either. That's how you met people in Uni, that's how you met people at work, you gotta branch off of those places and ya gotta keep it going gradually. If you don't live in a place that facilitates that, vote with your wallet and try to find a new one.

This goes for nature too, if you're only exposure is 2 days of hiking once a year when you travel, and the rest is spent in an office, it's not something you can remedy any other way.

If you drive to work 1 hour each way, and work 8 hours, you're probably doomed, unless you've already done all that and can keep your existing things going. It's just not enough margin, be real about what you're sacrificing and why.
My child is not there yet, so I'm experimenting ahead of time with Jellyfin + downloading select content instead. The idea is to have sizeable content in there to explore in autonomy but no way out.

Not particularly doing this happily WRT the content creators but I just can't get myself to trust platforms such as Youtube to not have unsuspected ways around.
> My understanding is that solar and wind are cheaper than nuclear even when accounting for storage.

This understanding is either based on geographically limited storage options (hydroelectric storage), or is incorrect. The amount of batteries required to even out intermittent sources is many times more than the amount of batteries produced. The cost of a 1 GWh facility is very different from a 1 TWh facility. The latter is 2x the amount of batteries produced worldwide each year. But it's only 2 hours of the USA's electricity consumption. That's how big of a mismatch there exists between battery supply and the demands of grid storage.

> That's before you get to the externalized costs, such as waste disposal and decomissioning.

Waste disposal and decommissioning are already factored into nuclear power's cost. They have to pre-pay the cost of disposal and decommissioning.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, this is not true. If you are injured at the workplace while performing your work duties and you are not actively intoxicated on drugs or alcohol, then you are entitled to medical care and worker's compensation for that injury. It is absolutely something that has a cost to the company.
How much does Vendr cost? Their own pricing is not transparent.
It’s hard enough to arrange windows in one workspace, why would I need another 5?

Why jumble everything together into just one workspace? You can allocate one workspace to email, another to a web browser, yet another to programming one project, and yet another still to maintenance of buggy software.

I normally have six workspaces on the go. And they are generally full of app windows and xterms.

If you're cooking a bunch of separate dishes for a dinner party, would you want all your preparation ingredients mixed all together in just one area, or would you allocate one workbench for making the soup, another for making the dessert, and another still for making the main course? Wouldn't it be better to have as many workbenches as you desire to make your work-style cleaner and easier?

Some of us have been doing this for years. It's the main reason I have always felt claustrophobic in Windows in the past, though Windows seems to be getting away (finally!) from its NIH mindset and introducing lots of new-fangled Unix stuff like 'sudo' and 'Workspaces' in recent years.

So, anyway "Welcome to the Brave new World of Workspaces"!

(PS. I just looked and for some reason I have allocated 7 workspaces on this machine rather than my usual 6. Dunno why, but why worry? The more the merrier.)
Good mention! I actually list your username & your repo at the end of the course as suggested reading.

PS: thank you for all the good help on the PSX Discord, as always.
I don't think seatbelts are an honest comparison, nor are you representing the arguments of others fairly here. Seatbelts are a strap you add to a chair. They don't significantly affect the function of a car, don't add much to the maintenance overhead or up-front cost, they are easily removable/replaceable, etc. This is a much more invasive legislation.

I actually love sawstops. In fact I don't use table saws that don't include that functionality. But I would never, ever push for this kind of legislation. I'm not sure if you (or anyone commenting here) have ever used one of these saws personally, but the added expense and ongoing operating cost is not negligible. It's about $150 to fix it every time it triggers. People love to say 'cheaper than a trip to the hospital!' and while that's true it's also pithy and hand-wavy given how often these things trigger.

There are a ton of edge cases that can make these trigger (including mysterious triggers that seemingly have no cause), and there are whole classes of people who don't make enough to deal with that regularly but still operate saws safely for entire careers. Those are the people that are upset, not hypothetical hobbyists, who are the most likely to be able to afford the extra cost and be able to always operate in pristine conditions.

Powertools in a site setting need to operate in all kinds of conditions, and for a jobsite saw the money spent installing sensors and gadgets to meet regulations would be better spent on literally anything else for such a tool. People working in those settings are just going to turn this feature off and will strictly be hurt by this. (There's no way they can force these features to be always-on as that would prevent tons of materials from ever being able to be run through a table saw again.) To make it literally illegal to produce the right tool for site workers is an overreach coming from out of touch people.

Woodworking is an interesting space where people generally accept the risks they take and in return are more or less trusted to make that assessment by regulatory bodies at least in the US. A better comparison than seatbelts would be the european regulations around dado blades, which as I understand are fairly unpopular. Sawstops are great for HN types. That doesn't mean it should be illegal to produce sensorless saws.
How true is your experience at a major international airport, which most travelers use.
Indeed. There are almost no rich poets, but more than a few rich songwriters.
> commercial Unix (e.g., Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc.) is not as commonplace compared to 20 years ago.

Other than macOS, you mean? It remains a licensed Unix.

I've rarely run into difficulty running FOSS software on macOS, although I've mostly stopped trying with anything with a GUI; not because Linux-oriented GUI programs don't work but because they subvert too many of my expectations, and I prefer to use something Mac-oriented and ideally Mac-native.

Just to confirm that, I downloaded GIMP, it loads fine, scribbled around on a canvas. Went to close it and it popped up one of those dialogue boxes telling me to either save the file or lose my work. I've grown rather accustomed to programs just behaving correctly, which is to close down, and open up again exactly as I left them. But it does seem quite functional in the usual sense.

There are some tools which are entirely Linux specific, rr comes to mind.
The problem is the claim that the crack wars would have been even worse without aborting future crack warriors is impossible to size. It ruins any baseline.
> If you run more than one monitor with different DPI, Wayland is the only choice.

I run multiple monitors with differing physical DPIs on X11. Yeah, that means they have differing resolutions. It doesn’t bother me, and I can do all the things that I want, unlike if I were using Wayland.

Maybe someday Wayland will be a replacement for X11, but that day is not today.
Consider patent 223,898 and then consider patent 239,153 and 425,761 and pay attention to the initial wording ( https://www.thomasedison.org/edison-patents )

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2104.html

> 35 U.S.C. 101 Inventions patentable.

> Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2103.html

> 35 U.S.C. 101 has been interpreted as imposing four requirements: (i) only one patent may be obtained for an invention; (ii) the inventor(s) must be identified in an application filed on or after September 16, 2012 or must be the applicant in applications filed before September 16, 2012; (iii) the claimed invention must be eligible for patenting; and (iv) the claimed invention must be useful (have utility).

The prior art requirement isn't "there exists nothing like this before" but rather "this invention hasn't been listed before".

https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2120.html

> A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
An acquaintance of mine was a professional carpenter for a theater company. Thoughtful, careful guy. Never in a rush. He of course used a table saw all the time. I asked if he had Sawstop. They were too cheap.

He still has no idea what happened, he simply came to holding the bleeding stumps of his fingers. Surgeons managed to reassemble some functioning digits out of the chunks.

It is my opinion that the government should purchase and "open source" safety patents as they come up, then manufacture replaceable safety parts to sell at cost.
Sure, but who exactly did they send to congress to make the case? Our good friend, Steve Gass, Esq.

TTS owns the shop but Gass clearly still has influence here.
While I feel for this person, this gets very messy when people passionate about the industry agree to "unpaid internships". Yes it's not right and they should stop, but it's literally a little like letting someone screw you with no commitment, then you being upset they don't feel the same way as you do.

I know the arts are rife with this stuff, but stay away from it.
PyMiniRacer v0.11.1
A rollup of updates to PyMiniRacer: Poke objects! Call functions! Await promises! With some commentary about the C++ design.
The one I used, and their website, says that they drop the blade. [https://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology/], but I’m not clear on all the models. It’s been years since I’ve used one. Glad they’re cheaper now!
Lifehacks by Alexey Guzey
This is why cow tools aren't made of metal.
The Git repositories of XZ projects are available on GitHub again
Edit: nvm, dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39984512
Oh ho ho! Oh my! Touche!

Except uh, the links I've shared are already showing how absurd & twisted the courts are being made by court shopping. How easy it is to go seek out a favorable court system.

How it's become so bad the Judicial Conference of the United States is demanding change, is worn thin from this longstanding systematic abuse.
Came here for this.

It's a cost thing that the craptastic, corporate inversion power tool megacorps and Hazard Fraught's have resisted.

Btw, here's the video I got gargling for "!yt ave table saw", which compares a "Rigid" HF house brand saw to a SawStop saw:

https://youtu.be/RFsuemFKYjM

PS: https://hfpricetracker.com which emphasizes the demand-side obsession of budget-priced gear. Perhaps a bigger issue is working people should be paid more (income equality) so they aren't pushed to buy or rent crappier, more dangerous tools.
My two bits as a carpenter w/18yrs table saw experience -- there are plenty of safe ways to use a tablesaw, fingers nowhere near the blade. SawStop's trip randomly, and the saw itself just sucks to use, its a bad design top to bottom. And you still have to let the operator disable it at their will.

If they are so dangerous, then make it licensed and mandate training, which is really what makes saws unsafe -- the untrained.
Just curious, what is preventing people from creating something similar to VB6 and Delphi in modern days? Different underlying frameworks? But I'm sure VB6 still sort of works on Windows 10 (VBA).
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Quite the contrary, the cost of construction accounts 60-80% of the cost of nuclear power [1]. Operating costs of an individual nuclear plant may be large compared to an individual wind farm, but the former produces a lot more electricity. The operating costs of a nuclear plant are actually quite small compared to the amount of electricity they produce. That's why most of the talk is around reducing construction costs.

1. https://ifp.org/nuclear-power-plant-construction-costs/
These are stackful coroutines, as opposed to stackless.

Stackful coroutines create a new stack for each coroutine thread and save and restore the appropriate registers when switching. Stackless coroutines are basically normal C functions that have been hacked to save their local variables between calls and use gotos (or, notoriously, a switch statement) to resume from where they last yielded. Both are very useful in their own way.

This is a great project and I'll be trying it out in my current work.
If we're going to do a cost benefit analysis, we need to be pretty certain that the costs do in fact outweigh the benefits. We have hobbled Nuclear power over safety concerns and it's pretty clear we got that one completely wrong with huge negative consequences for society. This is obviously not on the same scale, but it's easy to get these things wrong and never revisit them.
From the federal register notice on this, 70% of the supposed societal cost is pain and suffering, which frankly, individuals can decide on for themselves about the risks.

If you take out the pain and suffering values from these costs, you actually find that the cost benefit analysis doesn't pass at all, coming in at 0.5bn to 3.4bn in the red depending on the cost of the regulation on consumers, per the agency's own analysis.

If you got and read what people think about these regulations about people who use the tools, e.g. on /r/tools, they are unanimously opposed to them. Many people have complaints about the proposed products not working as advertised and generally wanting to bypass the system entirely: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tools/comments/19fmzko/are_you_in_f...

And that gets to the other part of this issue, if the regulation passes, what is the actual behavior change that will happen? Will people buy these saws and use them in the intended manner, or will they switch to alternatives that are just as dangerous, or will they simply turn off the safety features because the false positives are expensive ($100+ in direct costs without counting productivity losses). And note: all the SawStop products have off switches for the safety because they have false positives on wet wood and conductive materials like aluminum.

The headlines for these regulations are always great since nobody likes losing fingers, but there are always trade-offs, and it is extremely easy to make mistakes in these calculations and not foresee the actual knock on effects of them.

Particularly in this case where costs are largely internalized, rather than externalized.
Use of poultry litter as cattle feed may be behind H5N1 outbreak in US cows
Hmm, the headphone jack on my iphone 6s is working fine after years of almost daily use.
Ask HN: How much do you *actually* work?
NH, I'm starting to look for a new role again after the startup I worked for ran out of runway. I have three paths ahead of me, as far as I can tell:

1 - Do my own startup, which would involve probably 5 - 7 years of dedication, which has its benefits and downsides;

2 - Join another startup, which would mean giving away my time and energy again for someone else;

3 - Join a cushy corporate job.

I'm trying to understand what the job market looks like. I have to disclaim that I am in Central-Eastern Europe, because of differences in the job market. But I have a lot of close friends (working cushy corporate jobs) in tech and they mostly mock me for the effort I put into work.

My project management friends admit to working maybe 1 - 2 hours per day. My developer friends admit to working perhaps 16 hours per week but mostly sleeping around and not doing all that much. My DevOps friends seem like royalty, they maybe get some 5 hours per week at a monthly salary comparable to the other two roles.

My best friend is a DevOps that spends most of his time up in the mountains, hiking, or if not, cycling and doing arts & crafts and getting close to Sillicon Valley levels of income working from a low income country for literally minutes / week of work most weeks. This is almost a meme amongst us that the guy has worked maybe a month in total for the past couple of years.

For the last ... 10 years, I've been CTO for TechStars companies, I've been founding engineer for YCombinator companies, I've deployed my own products and it feels like working 30 / 24 hours.

I'm curious how much you guys feel like you're working, or how much you're actually working and for what kind of benefits because I just can't justify to myself working like this when so many people feel like they're living on Universal Basic Income getting lost in large corporations.
Because of this Apple and Google (and maybe tiktok) can infer a large percent of CIA employees.
It seems one cannot order 192GB from Lenovo but https://www.crucial.com/memory/ddr5/ct48g56c46s5/ct24572393 is $680 for the full load, plus tax, s/h etc. Presumably one could sell the provided ram sticks to offset it a little
The fact that the industry is only (possibly) economically feasible with this limit on liability tells you everything you need to know.
The hard lessons of Harvard's failed geoengineering experiment
>Stumpy Nubs is a fine woodworker and a great YouTuber, but he, unlike the CEO of SawStop, is not a patent attorney.

Gass also has a PhD in physics and was the person who designed and engineered the product.

>If they want to claim they are giving the license away, then do the whole patent portfolio (required for a functioning system), not just one of them.

They want to stay in business. If they give away all of the intellectual property of their entire system, it's likely that they wouldn't be able to for very long.
Pricing isn’t a trade secret.
I've been disappointed with both GPT-4's and Gemini 1.5's image recognition abilities in general, not just counting. When I have asked them to describe a photo containing multiple objects--a street scene, a room--they identify some of the objects correctly but invariably hallucinate others, naming things that are not present. Usually the hallucinations are of things that might appear in similar photos but definitely are not in the photo I gave them.
Interesting!

> If you have an existing MySQL or MariaDB server, you can configure Dolt as a read-replica. As the Dolt read-replica consumes data changes from the primary server, it creates Dolt commits, giving you a read-replica with a versioned history of your data changes.

This is really cool.
This is such a good comment and should be auto-posted to every pro-nuclear thread.
I get why people want to believe in nuclear and i'd wish that we invested a lot more in development, security and scaling of this technology.... 30 years ago. Now, it's just too late and we have better viable alternatives.

One additional argument that's mostly missed: every fission reactor is only economically viable (if it is at all) when discounting the implicit state guarantee, that's necessary as no insurer will take on the risk. Adding a theoretical risk premium paid by taxpayers to the calculation, nuclear will never be competitive.
Yes, he has a PhD in physics as well as being a practicing patent attorney, a skill he put to use over and over in the past 20 years. We don’t have to guess how this org will behave, we have plenty of history upon which to judge their sincerity.

If they want to give the patents (note the plural there) for the benefit of mankind, they can do so. They are not doing so.
Please do. I'm also wondering why no one created something similar to VB6 and Delphi.
They would be forced to license it under FRAND
Looks to be $0.05 / realtime GB

https://blog.cloudflare.com/whats-next-for-cloudflare-media
new version JavaScript data grid with advanced spreadsheet controls.
The difference is that wind, solar, and batteries have a history of getting 10x cheaper, and they are continuing on that trend. And the way that these tech curves work is that we will see a slowing of the decrease in prices before it stops, and we haven't seen that yet. A 10x fall in solar and at least a 5x fall in the cost of batteries is baked in at this point, even if the tech curves started to slow today.

Nuclear never had that trend of getting cheaper. And the only person that said anything about it being too cheap to meter was probably talking about fusion instead of fission, and would have been even more wrong than about fission. (It was said by Lewis Strauss, who was recently depicted/demonized in the movie Oppenheimer).

People continually underestimate solar/wind/batteries, as in the actual industry analysts that make predictions always underpredict, every year, year after year after year. If you want to know the future of solar, find the most optimistic prediction you can, and go bigger, and you'll be a better forecaster than the rest of the industry.

I don't know if electricity will ever be too cheap to meter, that sort of overpromising is what the nuclear industry does, not what the renewable industry does. (And I'm not in the renewables industry, just an interested observer.)
There are effective and ineffective ways to maintain engagement. Getting users addicted is very effective.

Even scarier, this doesn't even have to be conscious on part of anyone running the companies. There is no need for bad intent. Simply optimizing for engagement leads to addictiveness.

(I'm not saying there's no bad intent, just that it's optional and we're screwed even without it)