skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have no idea what lack of sunlight does to a person. Cloudy and dreary every day is far more depressing than sunshine all the time. Try it.
Reminds me about "Foxes in Love" somehow.
Marek Tuszynski reflects on experiences at the intersection of tech and activism
Figma launches Code Connect for your design system
They are made from synthetic polymer such as biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP).

If you go to a country where they use these, they call them polymer notes.

They are made from a polymer and people that use them call them polymer notes. That's a decent amount of evidence compared to your no evidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJTLCmIW1rA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BD1xX7c1Jg

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=polymer+banknot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKVz933uFw
That begs the question by assuming that trades executing faster are a good thing to optimize for.

Is the stock market for investing in a company, or for extracting money from momentary fluctuations? Those seem to be mutually exclusive.
> They frequently rank highest on happiness measures

If half of young people have low levels of mental wellbeing, perhaps the composite average indicator is not so useful.
Why don’t people deserve free housing? We need it to fucking live, it’s essential
Adding my vote for Overload. I'm not sure if it is the same team that built Descent(s) but some of them were involved in level design of the originals. I believe music composers were the same.

I really enjoyed the story too, that was probably the first game I played through to the end, just to find out how the story ends.

I believe the team has long disbanded which is a shame, it is a very _decent_ product (ha!)
I'm guessing the other possibility is requiring a third party entity, like a university professor in CS, to testify unlikeliness of computer malfunction due to cosmic rays && bugs, for each and every computer generated evidences.

If the `alleged theft amount by defendant` == (unsigned int)((int)-1), that should cover those cases, at least in theory. The profs would just blindly vouch it, but at least it'll be a point.
Oh wow, I had no idea it took 3 years for things to land. Thanks
Unlimited weekly money of €250 for people who don't work. This isn't a small amount. Specially on top of free housing by schemes like HAP. That can give as much as €2000/month in rent

End result is a destroyed housing market and young people who rather get trapped into welfare
You should think long and hard about the second- and third-order effects.
It's had autofill, I think just the prompt is new?
So, the biggest items under social protection:

* Pension (10.69bn) - Can't touch this

* Illness, disability, and carers (5.6bn) - This is also largely old people; a lot of it should arguably come out of the health budget

* Working age income supports (4.11bn) - This is programmes for low-income working people.

Way down the bottom: "Working age employment supports", at 655mn. That's the dole. It is comparatively nothing.

Again, what specific changes do you think should be made? How would they be beneficial?
>So, I'm interested in your opinions: Why do negative topics dominate on open social media sites, even here, unless curated against?

This is more a nature of where we are in the life cycle.

the time period we are in is reminiscent of the great depression, american civil war, age of revolution, or glorious revolution.

To end out this period we will need a major world war, which has already started. This negativity is largely speaking a mechanism of agitprop.

Impossible to predict when this will end and we move into the next era.

this will be like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post%E2%80%93World_War_II_econ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Good_Feelings

Note how these are about a human lifetime apart. It just seems to be where we are in the life cycle.
Being a welfare state is not the problem, that's the duty of the government, and should be an example for many countries

However, it's a tax heaven within Europe, therefore companies are not incentivized to create jobs, that's the problem

When you have nothing to do and nothing in your life to aspire to, you become sad
Firefox View slowly getting more features, nice.

I hope one day it supports the very real use case of using/abusing browser tabs as bookmarks. I know I am not the only one who keeps lots of windows with currently almost 100 tabs open. Windows represent certain topics, which I finish in a day, in in months, or sometimes never - but still they re-open everytime I open Firefox. I know there are add-ons to help with "tab overflow", but native support would be better.
They have an editorial bent but they still get facts right. Not to mention the invaluable local news that is miles above most other local coverage.
Wasn’t there something from Honda with transparent film analog maps?
You can't drive politics out of everything by making "the market" king and then be surprised when activists then take the fight to the market.

What did you think was going to happen?
Ask HN: How to learn Firmware Programming?
Hello, I came across this [1] article about Framework recently. This got me wondering about what firmware programming languages/softwares people use these days. Do we have a widely used language that is used to build firmwares for many/most embedded devices? Where do I learn this language?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/frameworks-software-and-firmware-have-been-a-mess-but-its-working-on-them/
The visualization will frequently incorrectly show something of the form:

<--- False True --->
True True False False
True True False False
Your framing is all wrong and certain points are incorrect too.

Clearly it's not a waste when at a GDP per capita level the country is in the top 5 in the world (and certainly the one with the largest population). Even if you want to strip out the tax aspect, the country has managed to improve living standards and now it ranks above average in living standards and earnings in Europe.

Debt means nothing when the population have the earning capacity to pay it off (people don't give loans they don't expect you can pay back).
This is clearly being invested well and in productive capital.

It is definitely not unlimited dole.
The social housing component ensures sufficient social mobility, so you actually can improve your own position in life.
The country also has the most progressive tax system in Europe i.e. people pay their fare share (relatively speaking to other countries).

I will make a point on an assumption you infer, and no you are wrong, trickle down economics does not work. And secondly, there is value in investing in your residents.
'The Social Contract Has Been Ruptured': Ireland's Housing Crisis
It's a Me! Mario!
And that would be an authoritarian measure.
The Crusades: Part 1 – Dr. Roy Casagranda [video]
ahh 19/20/21 based off the chart - that is more reasonable. I probably would not have bothered with the conversion as humidity indoors is fairly consistent and it appears the index is more designed for summer / higher temperatures rather than winter clothing indoors etc.
Am I the only one with exactly this episode that does not load ? All the others are ok ?
You still haven't read the article, have you? :-(
The page opens.

Title appears.

I start scrolling.

Nothing happens.

I scroll and I scroll but the page doesn't budge. I come to my senses: "aha, I get it! For the last few minutes I've been aimlessly scrolling in search of content and all the people around me in the train must have seen me do it with the same crooked posture and lifeless expression of a modern day teenager on their phone! This is me, the teenager! I have been the victim of a piece of performance art!"

Then I realized it simply doesn't work properly on my phone's Chrome...
Much of the world apparently believed that wearing a muzzle and living like a hermit instead of outdoors, exercise, vitamins, and a normal lifestyle would prevent the common cold. Pure magic over rational science. One wonders what the next generation will think of the insanity of the past few years.
If i remember correctly, inverted y used to be the default even for early FPS games. The option to turn it off (opt-out) was added later. The default was inverted (opt-in) even later.
The scrolling on Android was horrible, much like being a teenager.

Well done.
Someone has to pay for the housing. It isn't free, the expense just gets shifted to someone else.
The visualizations suggested the differences were very marginal. Some people with no adverse experiences struggle; some with many adverse experiences thrive; and while the reverse is more often true there appear to be other factors more strongly determining outcomes.
More videos:

Hanging multiple shirts in a row: https://twitter.com/ayzwah/status/1780263770440491073

Generalizing to unseen sweater: https://twitter.com/ayzwah/status/1780263771858194809

Struggling to unfold a shirt: https://twitter.com/DannyDriess/status/1780270239185588732

Assembling gears: https://twitter.com/ayzwah/status/1780263775213629497
That is a fairly epic author list. Presumably everyone involved in the larger overall project.
I like the message, but I feel like this is bad data visualization. The width of each group of people is not the same, so it's somewhat meaningless to visually compare groups without being able to see the raw percentages. For example, the "Many Adverse Experiences" group is stretched to be longer than the other groups so that proportionally fewer people in that group appear to be a larger proportion than the same proportion would be in other groups because they're not as wide.
Redis is forked
Type-Enforced Access Control with Go Generics
It's been a feature for years, so I don't know what the announcement is about. E.g. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1267609
I too use the ERA5 reanalysis data and I too need quick time series. As the data comes in [lat, lon] grids, stacked by whatever period you've chosen, e.g. [month of hourly data, lat, lon], it becomes a massive matrix transpose problem if you want 20+ years.

What I do is download each netCDF file, transpose, and insert into a massive 3D HDF file organized as [lat, lon, hour]. On my workstation it takes about 30 minutes to create one year for one variable (no parallel I/O or processes) but then takes milliseconds to pull a single (lat, lon) location. Initial pain for long-term gain. Simplistic, but I'm just a climatologist not a database guru.
Per capita is a dumb indicator for this, though. USA has GDP in tens of trillions. Ireland has 47 times less than that.
how much longer do you think google is going to allow that?
Sure. But speaking as an American, our housing market is plenty inflated and absolutely ridiculous, and we do everything just about short of shooting the homeless on sight here. So giving people places to live I don't think is the direct correlation to an inflated market that you think it is.

And like, to be totally honest and pinko commie scum of me, I am completely fine with being slightly less well off if it means people in my area get taken care of. That doesn't bother me.
We really do love pudding.cool[1]- I'd never bothered to go look at what it's actually all about till today, and you should too if you've not, because it wasn't exactly as I expected: https://pudding.cool/about/ - these people seem great, we should probably support them. I noticed they have a Patreon if you're feeling generous[2].

[1]https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2]https://www.patreon.com/thepudding
“A largely foreign born workforce” what right wing talking points claptrap is this?
I appreciate your feedback!
While some clients prefer to outsource development overseas, others prefer to work with "local" US agency, since I'm located in Texas. Some clients may also have a project with sensitive information they don't want to send offshore (I worked on such projects).
The local presence and commitment to client confidentiality can further differentiate SwiftAppLab from overseas outsourcing options.
Article is paywalled but seems to just be a hyperbolic headline in the style of US papers talking about foreign countries.

The social contract has not been completely ruptured. I checked last week.
The net result of telling people to live their dreams for 60 years is that today people are worse off than their grandparents were.

It's time to tell them that they will not be special and the best they can hope for is comfortable mediocrity.

Lower your expectations and you won't be living on the street when you're in your 60s.
Isn’t the debt then also cooked because the majority was from a government provided bailout program for the banks?
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKv1Mixv0Hk
> Also, they must have solved the delivery mechanism somehow? RNA is notoriously unstable and doesn't usually make a suitable vaccine for that reason, although recent mRNA vaccines have also solved this problem I guess.

No, they rely on the instability to clear it out of your system so you're not creating spike proteins indefinitely. It's supposed to be temporary because the long-lasting part is what your body's immune system learns over that relatively short duration.
the best determinant, statistically, is what zip code you grew up in.
I have used it a bit to generate scientific reasonings behind vague sci-fi ideas, but leveraging it to directly write passages would just produce a bunch of bloated garbage.

It is great for fact checking though, I wonder how good it would be at taking entire manuscripts and testing for any scientific or historical innaccuracies.
Are people still using 10G in PROD? I thought 40G and 100G had generally replaced that. I have 10G cards in my homelab that are a decade old and cost less than $100.
That's what I anticipate but mostly I want to rule out any serious causes as my tinnitus is low-pitched, both irregular and regular patterned, pulsatile, is affected by my head position and physical exertion, and fluctuates every other day. It is unlike the continuous high-pitch tinnitus that most articles describe.
I tried to observe bit flips and failed. I'm not sure if there was a problem with my methodology or my apartment was well shielded or what.

My methodology was simple. On a Linux home server that had plenty of spare memory (non ECC RAM) I ran a process that simply alloced a large buffer and filled it with a pattern. It would then periodically scan through the buffer looking for changes to the pattern.

I ran this for over a year which should have been long enough given the amount of RAM I was using and the rates that I found in the literature for cosmic ray induced bit flips resulted in several flips.

My method would have missed a flip if the page it happened on had been paged out sometime in the past and that paged out copy still existed, and the bit flip happens between the time of the last scan and the time the kernel decides to discard that page. On the next scan it would page fault and load the good page.

But the system was very lightly loaded and almost never actually had to page things out, so most of the time if a bit flipped it should have still been there by the next scan and so I don't think this explains why I saw no flips.

A few years later I got a Mac Pro, which had ECC memory. I used that mostly at work from 2008-2017. I got another Mac Pro in 2009 which I used at home from 2009-2017. I'd occasionally look at the memory status in System Report which should say "ECC Errors" if the ECC had to fix any errors and only ever saw "OK". I'm not sure if that resets on boot and I only looked occasionally so if it does reset than it is quite likely I would have missed an error statuses.
I agree but it's the dumb indicator OP decided to use.
The peak loads in the document you present are 2x what the article claims was supplied by renewables.
The same people that will make a “dumb” TV that people will actually want to buy because it has table stakes display features: no one.
Let's not forget the solar roof...

And the anticlimactic tent: https://electrek.co/2024/03/08/tesla-shipping-cybertruck-ten... - $3,000?!? With no "Tent Mode" to self-level, and no integration into the vehicle HVAC?
That's no different than saying most/all corporations are foreign owned. Why is that a right wing claptrap? Irish right wingers are the dumbest people on the planet. Living off the foreign population in one of the largest welfare state
Less kids in households that don't want them. This is a pipeline problem. Intentional children only. Hard topic to cover online, nuance and emotions on the topic.

> I volunteer in a local school. It's not always fun, but something has to change.

You're a good person doing necessary work. There aren't enough humans doing it, but it matters to who you're helping.
Half of Irish Youth Report Low Mental Wellbeing
Back in my days we has shareware. It was clear that you can try it for a while.

Now there is a lot of free until it isn't.
> The Google chapter of "Lisping at JPL" (https://flownet.com/gat/jpl-lisp.html) may be what you are remembering.

That's close, but I think it's reflection of the same policy, not the same article. The article I remember talked about more languages that just Lisp, Smalltalk, and Java. It was overall down on Java, but had positive things to say about some Java programmers.
The answer depends on what you plan to do with it.

Do you need to do fine tuning on a smaller model and need the highest inference performance with smaller models? Are you planning to use it as a lab to learn how to work with tools that are used in Big Tech (i.e. CUDA)? Or do you just want to do slow inference on super huge models (e.g Grok)?

Personally, I chose the Nvidia route because as a backend engineer, Macs aren’t seriously used in datacenters. The same frameworks I use to develop on a 3090 are transferable to massive, infiniband-connected clusters with TB of VRAM.
> The primary hurdles are legal, capacity, and financing.

Incredibly hand-wavy. Finance is a way to allocate scarce resources - you can't claim the "technology" is solved if you haven't figured out a way to do it cost-effectively at scale.

No such cost-effective technology yet exists for nitrogen fixation and steelmaking at scale, regardless of what small pilot projects might have been attempted thus far.

"We solved the equations, now it's up to the eggheads to figure out how to finance it" is something only an incredibly naive engineer could possibly think.
Usually the TTLs you'll set on these plans[1] are pretty short. It's helpful if you need to do a burst of a thousand queries of the same form over a short interval.

1. At least effectively - this is usually manged via persisting handles or plans themselves.

2. Which is usually a bad code smell from ORM overuse. Every time you dispatch a query you're paying latency overhead - so in an ideal world your report delivery will involve a single query against the database per report request (whether this is a website and those requests are page loads or you're running some internal system for business reporting).
I think it's just beautiful how you made this point and other people couldn't even understand the concept of equal access to data and trading platforms. Yes, that's your point exactly.
I wonder, who is even making these decisions?

Who is windows for? Is it for gamers? Is it for office workers that were raised on windows at school? Do people just use it because it comes preinstalled on their computer?

Why would anyone with a modicum of self respect use this system any longer? Gone are the days when you had to be a nerd to want to use something else, when dislike of windows was about how Microsoft behaved in their commercial dealings, when it was an ideological decision. It is a practical matter now, people wholly uninterested in tinkering with their computer are getting sick of it at this point.

An operating system is supposed to get out of your way and let you operate the machine.
The rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
Thanks for the info. The issue is using EBS. If you used an instance with NVME drives it would probably have been faster than BQ (and you aren't billed per-query...). I would suggest an R or I4 class instance for this, m6 is not good for the money here.

You would just have to setup replication for backups, but this could just be rsync to EBS or some other replication solution depending on your database.
Interesting, but no details about how it works.
Just clicking randomly shows a (to me) unexpectedly low age for first sex. If I understand right, the people in here were born in 1984, so they are younger than me (late Gen-X), and i keep hearing that Millennials are having less sex than all previous generations, but these numbers look on the young side. Sampling 11 across cohorts I got a median of 15, which is lower than I found for one all-generations measure I found[1]

[edit]

Finally got to the end where I can sort by various metrics and found a median of 17/16/15 for low/medium/high ACEs score, which is slightly closer to what I expected.

Also reading the "millennials are having less sex" articles, they mostly focus on people born in the early '90s, so the tail-end of millennials.

1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1802108/
Ireland has almost the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, and a pretty high job vacancy rate.

> However, it's a tax heaven within Europe, therefore companies are not incentivized to create jobs, that's the problem

Eh? The tax haven aspect has created about 300,000 jobs, if you only count IDA client companies (and not companies who benefit from spending by those companies and their employees). Ireland had high unemployment from before independence to the 90s; since the tax haven (or, as an old Taoiseach insisted on calling it, "small open economy") thing got going, unemployment has plummeted.
definitely an addiction
Two weird ones I see here in the office.

I have an old HP 1440p monitor that will retain the screen image when I unplug the HDMI cable from my laptop. (My solution is to plug it into a power strip, and I just shut it off when I leave.)

There's a new Dell monitor that somehow produces a sort of halo of short vertical lines a few to several pixels long around text.
I think the UK overprotects "historical" stuff to the point of degrading the life of it's people, and not in a small way.
Battle of Tours – Furthest battle north of Muslims for their control of France
Then how do you think strong acids get transported to countries that don't make them?
Technology Connections has a pretty good rundown of how electric hot water heaters work.

You’re using hot water at X gallons per minute while the heater can heat Y<X gallons a minute but the water is extracted from the top of the tank so it stays fairly hot until you’ve used more than half of the tank, then drops like a rock at the end when the supply is exhausted.

Anything that warms the cold water going to your shower slightly reduces the rate of hot water use, which extends the amount of time before you run out, which is more time to heat more water.
As the article says (“After standby or restart, the monitors get swapped by the OS, so moving the cursor to the left monitor will actually appear on the right monitor, and vice-versa.”) you might have told your computer that one of them shows the left half of your desktop and the other the tight half.

Now, when your system wakes up from sleep, how does it know which one is which? The workaround is to use the port they’re attached to, but that isn’t always might even both be attached to the same port.
> Assuming you're in a major developed economy, inflation is falling

It is really important that people understand that inflation isn't "falling" in the sense that things are getting cheaper

A lower inflation rate just means that stuff is getting more expensive more slowly, but it is still getting more expensive

Unless we see actual negative inflation, the damage of high inflation rates has already basically been done. Salaries have not kept up and will likely just continue to fall further behind