skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey everyone! I can totally relate to the struggles of dealing with anxiety and fear I've seen on posts here, especially when it comes to public speaking or other nerve-wracking situations.

One thing that really helped me and my family is a site called Lionheart Storyz (https://lionheartstoryz.com). They offer therapeutic, enchanted stories for young kids that address various issues they might be facing. My husband and I have found these stories incredibly helpful in getting our child to open up and express their feelings. It's been a game-changer for us, and it might be worth checking out if you're looking for supportive, creative ways to help your kids.
You are touching on "the button" rn tbh - Diversity AS identity seems to be the new thing.

Nothing good can come from establishing an identify around the ways you are different from "the majority" - it's all external stuff, like fundamentally the wrong foundational stuff

I get downvoted all the time on Gay subs bc I frequently advocate we all just call ourselves queer and drop the divisive lettering system based on our sexual appetites that we then have to explain to strangers - or worse, family.

I thought I was brilliant til I realized that's what they want, they want to be ACE, asked by Grandma what that means and then to have to explain that - THAT is their chosen identity.
> my second issue with Kagi: privacy-wise, I simply don’t believe that a service that requires login and thus naturally associates all your activity with your identity is better than a service which can be used without a login.

I don't get this argument. Do you want to be protected from the services you use, or do you want a partnership based on trust? With aligned incentives, trust is easier. Without trust, not logging in won't save your privacy. Just pay the nice people money for the very nice service they provide, and let them build trust with you.
UI elements with a hand-drawn, sketchy look
The S3 API, and most of AWS, is a kludgy legacy mess.

Is there any chance of getting a new, industry-standard not just industry-adopted, simpler but more usable[1] common API?

We already have some client libraries that try to paper over the differences (https://gocloud.dev/, https://crates.io/crates/object_store), but wouldn't it be nice to have just one wire protocol?

[1]: E.g. standardize create-if-not-exist, even if S3 doesn't implement that.
You're looking at it the wrong way: Altman really wants this deal. For a long time, accelerated by the OA coup, he has been searching for ways out of the MS trap, where OA becomes an appendix to MS, dependent on MS infrastructure completely. ('Above you, below you, around you...') Apple is one of the few viable alternatives to play off against MS. (This is the same as why Anthropic gets investment from Google & Amazon, as their anti-OA.) The mere fact of any Apple deal at all is a lot of leverage against Nadella. Think of it as like North Korea playing off China and Russia against each other; it is bad to have only 1 patron, but it is good to have 2.

EDIT: ah, there we go: https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-sam-altman-ope... Mission. Accomplished.
Not exactly "hair on fire," but I have dumped a bit of money into fixing my problem with music "dyslexia" (blindness?). Much more detail: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/31689274

I enjoy social dancing, but it's tragic I can't connect with the music at more than a basic level. And it makes dancing with some (more musical) partners difficult/uncomfortable.

Things I've tried:

- group dance lessons

- private dance lessons ($80+ per hour)

- books (like: https://ihatetodance.com/)

- online courses (like: https://thecharismaticvoice.com/product/music-appreciation/)

- I would pay a pretty sum for a solution ($1000?)

I am thinking of making a beat-aware video player to help me with this.

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Note: some dancer "whales" easily spend over $10,000/year on their hobby. (I'm probably just a "dolphin.")
This is great! I used to install micro[0] as "nano with better shortcuts", but it was always a bit of an overkill, so I'm really happy with this change.

One quirk that remains: even with --modernbindings, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C will add to nano's clipboard, instead of replacing whatever is there.

[0] https://micro-editor.github.io
Author of the article here - thanks for posting!

Was an interesting journey to developing this. We kept getting demands for blurring but didn't implement it for a long time because we knew blurring wasn't secure. We implemented masking via black rectangles, but kept getting requests for blurring. Was great to finally land on this solution.
> P67 chipset was trivially electrically compatible with LGA1156 CPUs

Well it’s possible to shoehorn in support for the determined but iGPU support is definitely out of reach and I am not sure what segment of the market is that targeted to. Seems like an excuse for AsRock to get rid of their excess stock. The socket change was actually very well received by everybody in the industry.

> Haswell was a generation with ~0% IPC uplift so no big loss there

You are right that FIVR did not last long in that particular iteration. However Haswell does have a 10% to 30% IPC advantage over the previous gen depending on the test[1].

Haswell also added AVX2 instructions which means that it will still run the latest games whereas anything older is up to the whims of the developer (and sometimes denuvo, sadly)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-670...
He gave the reasons. He took a deal for a fine, loss of his law license for 5 years, and not pursuing lawyer fees as his punishment for what he did. In exchange for that, he would be immune from being prosecuted any further on that matter. It's quite plain in the article you linked.
Of which the need for status updates and short video isn't one.
Looking at that armor, it makes WAY more sense why Homer/Greeks would make Achilles' weak point his heel... Dude is literally a bronze tank in that armor. Only way to really stop him is to take out a leg, and his feet are like the least armored thing about him.
It's very rare that a PE investment fails this big, this fast.
They're expensive and generally fairly mid range in performance/fit/finish. I would hope the service is good, honestly.

They do deserve some praise, but I also don't want the bar on the floor. Things would be better if more were like Logitech.
Would dental assistants pull the wrong tooth 1 out of 6 times without supervision?
Now if only they could enable cua-mode by default in Emacs.
OP could search-and-replace all Ds in Word with something more understandable by the OCR, maybe a period, before faxing the document. Or maybe convert every hex character into two characters from the set .0-|, doubling page count.
Not really. You can run a Mastodon instance without any administrative overhead lol
A lot of us have been experimenting with these kinds of systems but not publishing them for various reasons; many aren't copycatting M$ so much as inspired to get their projects out.
We're still a long ways from that level of automation, but pitpro automation is picking up after robotire had to file for chapter 11, and is working on automating the tire swap end of things.
Hash based PRNGs can be surprisingly tricky to reason about. For example, the other common way to turn hash functions into PRNGs (state = hash{state}) often leads to severe flaws from state space collapse, among other issues.
All three are valid choices for 黄. In principle, people may choose different romanizations, but it does seem unusual for siblings in the same family choose differently.

"Huang" comes from the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, which is by far the most commonly spoken form worldwide, and widely preferred in schools, media, business, etc. One possible reason to prefer this spelling is for name recognition from numerous other Mandarin Chinese speakers, or even non-Chinese speakers familiar with common Chinese surnames.

"Ng" and "Eng" come from Min Nan Chinese, which is a common spoken form among local communities in Singapore and Malaysia, among other places. Min Nan hasn't been as widely standardized as Mandarin, so spellings may vary. Some people may prefer these spellings, which more closely aligns with how their family, friends, and other locals pronounce their names.
I'm surprised to read this, given that both Heroku and Salesforce more broadly have hired what felt like a good number of PostgreSQL committers.
Colour me a bit cynical but we use plastic massively in healthcare and food industries precisely because it is non toxic.

Given the massive prevalence of plastic on just about all our food, if it was really such a threat I would expect life expectancies to have dropped.

Personally I regard this all as fear mongering.
Did Databricks sponsor Comet?
IME the Heroku of 2024 is Render.
well we did find the city.

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

also there are burned remain, anti-chariot defensive works, and bronze arrow heads radio carbon dated to the right era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy#Korfmann
It's exceedingly likely that Apple would negotiate a self-hosted solution.
I've also heard the high brightness during the daytime helps with getting into a good sleep cycle by setting the biological clock to "ok now it is definitely day". Even when sitting close to a window, the light level is typically still something like 1/10th (or less) of what it is outside.

Not that I do any of this; I enjoy reading long articles and writing code until 5am
Think of it as a half life.

Suppose every piece of macro plastic sheds 0.1% of its mass yearly due to weathering, and suppose that there are 10 billion tons of plastic waste. We calculate

1. The half life

2. The microplastic production rate

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import math

# Define the rate at which macroplastic turns into microplastic per year
rate_per_year = 0.1 / 100 # 0.1%

# Half-life formula for exponential decay: T_half = ln(2 )/ decay_constant

# Here, decay_constant is the rate_per_year

half_life = math.log(2 ) / rate_per_year
half_life # 693.1471805599452 years

# Initial amount of macroplastic in metric tons

initial_macroplastic = 10 * 10*9 # 10 billion metric tons

# Annual production of microplastic is 0.1% of the initial macroplastic per year

annual_microplastic = initial_macroplastic * rate_per_year

annual_microplastic # 10 million metric tons.

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We produce 350 million tons of plastic waste a year. Over 30 years that's 10 billion tons.

The .1% weathering rate was conservative. So weathering likely creates more than 10 million tons in microplastic annually. And will probably do so for at least a couple hundreds of years.
Knowing about Fidonet is too much. But a little bit of UUCP definitely won't hurt. ;)
I think forking is reasonable in this case. It’s one thing to change the GitHub org for a project because you aquihired the team, but it is another thing entirely to change the name of the project to match your company name, implying that the project is simply one of your products. The latter clearly gives off “Redis Labs” vibes. ‘Fool me once…’ is a justified reaction.
uMatrix (unsupported but still works) reduces page weight and compute even more
Keto helped me lose weight, but it's definitely worth watching your saturated fat intake. My cholesterol ended up through the roof and BP ended up high despite losing 40 lbs.
Why Greece Is Betting Big on American Gas
In China and Taiwan, where many kids are pushed to study more, outside play would be a treat. Although I don’t know about video games.

In the US, the complicating factor is that parents get in trouble for letting kids play unsupervised outside. Both custom and legislation discourages this kind of parenting. There is an advocacy group in the US trying to lobby for legislative protections for parents, so “just let them play outside” means something a bit different.
Another way to think about it is that in order to be on either "side" of the flat sheet, you've implicitly introduced depth, and it's not really two-dimensional anymore.

If you were in a two-dimensional universe, you wouldn't be on the paper, you would be a patch of the paper.
Looking at my cat's ears, the dark fur has dark skin underneath and the white fur has pink skin.
Oh my, I have nano as my default GIT_EDITOR. Will stay with the old defaults definitely.
> blow up the level of radioactive waste that needs to be buried by about 1000x. Instead of a couple of kilos of long-lived isotopes after reprocessing, you'll need to bury THE WHOLE FREAKING REACTOR CORE

Why the scare caps? The first word in SMR is “small.”

We currently wash out the industrial waste from processing and manufacturing our energy inputs and infrastructure. Also, nothing stops reprocessing those cores in the future. Next to a spent-fuel tank or tailings pool, a buried core seems preferable.
I was unprepared for how tiny the phone is and that it weighs next to nothing.

Well, shit, baby. All through the 1990s, and the mid-part of the 2000s we went from having huge, heavy, black blocks like the 450 Gram(=1 pound !) NEC P3 that needed a cradle fitted to your car, plus hefty muscles to carry them in your hands, slowly but surely down to the small 90 G(!) Nokia 6300 'chocolate bars' that could comfortably fit in your shirt pocket. Nirvana.

https://www.engagingwithcommunications.com/Technology/Mobile...

https://www.mobileciti.com.au/brand-new-sealed-in-box-vintag...

But then came the opposite trend. From those slim little feature-phones of the mid-2000s we have come full-circle to those huge, heavy, hulking great monstrosities that are today's smart-phones. The iPhone 15 Pro (190 G) weighs more than two Nokia 6300s (180 G)!

Where do you put them? They're too large for the normal pocket. They CERTAINLY won't fit in a shirt-pocket due their weight and size. I know, we'll carry them around in our hands, meaning that we have one less hand to use in normal everyday life.

It's called regression. It's the complete opposite of 'evolution'.

Know what my biggest problem when replacing a phone is today? Getting one that is SMALL ENOUGH.
>did you have any problems specifically with X?

Every recent time I would daily drive Linux (Ubuntu and Antix) I had screen tearing out of the box. Not really an acceptable feature.
typping "django" in the search in firefox on macos only lets me type one letter every second
Clearly the Bourgeois State is capable of protecting our civic rights
Recently doing this got significantly easier for me.

In the past years I had to actively work on not using too many Google products.

Today Google products got bad that it feels like Google themselves are doing the discouraging.
Is printing it necessary btw?

I ask because RyanAir has official documentation at https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-us/articles/12889667116433-Wh... and https://help.ryanair.com/hc/en-us/sections/12488861427857-Bo....

The way I parse them is if you're flying anywhere, unless it's from Morocco or specific airports listed in their FAQ then you don't need to physically print your boarding pass as long as you can pull it up on your phone. This would include foreign travelers such as someone from the US who is flying between countries in the EU based on there not being an explicit call out for that.
Ah, like how they did with China, allowing them to self host iCloud?

/s
Yerba Mate the Drink That Shaped a Nation
Well that quote sounds like exactly the kind of person you'd want in command of a powerful AGI.
Additionally, the user is doing the search in a non-Incognito session, so the system will bias based on assumption of user preferences. "Hm, I see this random hex identifier in three pages... Oh, but this user likes cars. Let's give 'em the car result first."
Also, apparently no trees cast a shadow at noon?
I can't tell you the number of times I've searched for random serial numbers and gotten the exact product I seek. I'm glad Google indexes this random crap.
As a term for "not government", it would not be used to refer to civilians of a hostile nation.
I don't kno... where I live the Christians have completely won, there are very, very few identifiable queer people here.

Instead, men that would otherwise be Gay - prolly anywhere else in the world, live 1950s era queer lives here, complete with the wife, kids and secret sex with men.

If I go on sniffies or Grindr rn, the majority of ppl will be married men, some go as far as to say shit like, " married, straight, cis man, looking for the same"

I run into these men, they kno I kno what they are - most can't look me in the eye after they realize I'm not one of the cool ones that will help them cheat on their wife.

I'd rather be beat up 1000 times than have down to me whatever their church did to them to make them all right living such a life
>> Aurora isn't cheap and is at least ~80% of our monthly AWS bill.

Why don't you run your own Postgres?

It's not hard - why pay such a premium for the Amazon version?
I just ran it and got "segmentation fault (core dumped)". Is this one of Joyce's silly sentences he's famous for?
To further add on the recommended app, the VA department also has other fantastic applications such as the mindfulness one. Being government funded they have no tracking, no ads, no plans, and a clear and pragmatic UX.

As they should be, since the vast majority of useful apps aren't really anything that challenges the bleeding edge of software development
At the very least 50k KIA, proven. Likely many times that. Total casualties a further multiple of that. Tens of thousands of amputees. Don’t even think about paying the promised compensation for all that.

Millions are gone for good. Damage is measured in the hundreds of billions. TPPs are gone. Good chunk of the land gone, most of the coast.

Men are getting abducted on the streets, into the trenches within days or weeks. Others drown or freeze to death on the Western borders, attempting to flee. Hundreds of thousands in hiding. Villages without men. Towns with 2% buried already.

Every day the hole gets deeper. Every day a bit faster.

And you talk about “achievements”. This is not a video game.

Unless you’re some Beltway creature. Unless you’re one of the “Holden Bloodfeasts” of the world. In that case it’s nothing but a long, long list of “achievements“, I suppose.
I'm working in a new startup, and I tried several "easy" solutions: AWS Lightsail, Heroku, Crunchy.

I settled up on AWS ECS :)

My main issue with Heroku was that they have not changed anything in _years_. No support for gRPC, no IPv6, and simple VPC peering costs $1200 a month.
I only ever heard about seeing double after some sort of accident. Do you know what causes yours? The sibling comments seem to assume it is from looking at screens for too long, is that it or does that make it worse?
No. A 10 year old Mercedes is not preferable to a newer used Honda Civic in terms of maintenance and reliability, unless you're a mechanic yourself. it's true that it's nicer vehicle, but having to go to a Mercedes service center instead of an independent shop really racks up the bills. If you're getting the used Mercedes because you don't have the finances to get a new one, the maintenance costs to have the Mercedes are going to sink you even further into debt, compared to a Honda Civic/equivalent.
A lot of people wake up at 3 or 4am. This is typically stress related.

Possible solution:

1. Sit up or get up. If getting up, I usually get a mint tea.

2. Journal. Write down your thoughts. Very important: write down _what you are going to do tomorrow_, step by step. Usually the brain is worrying about something and by telling it what you’re going to do about it tomorrow it seems to calm down.

3. When you’ve gotten everything out, read. Just keep reading until you can’t keep your eyes open.

I’ve found this almost always works. Waking in the middle of the night is caused by stress around a problem. Your brain just wants to know the narrative around how that problem will get resolved or improved. Then it will fall sleep again.
A few years ago I was considering Heroku for something new. But then I learned that Heroku Postgres's HA offering used async replication, meaning you could lose minutes of writes in the event that the primary instance failed. That was a dealbreaker.

That was very surprising to me. Most businesses that are willing to pay 2x for an HA database are probably NOT likely to be ok with that kind of data loss risk.

(AWS and GCP's HA database offerings use synchronous replication.)
> I’ve seen LFP prismatic cells from China drop 50% in price

The comp would be the Nth-run cost of an SMR. It’s not something being produced anywhere close to utility scale to be topical over the next 20 years.

The world is bifurcating along renewables + gas (peaker), mostly the West, and renewables + coal (peaker-ish) and nukes (base), more Asia. Batteries may eventually replace some of that. But there are higher-value uses for them than grid storage for the foreseeable future (most obviously transport).

Globally, we are investing $1.5tn into new gas pipelines and terminals [1]. Anyone thinking those are transitional investments that will be written off in the next 20 years is deluding themselves.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/climate/greece-europe-nat...
Powerful LLM, you mean. AGI isn't there, and with this approach won't be - MS may have all the models, but if it still misses people who are needed to make better models, it's a delusion in my book. Let Satya think he got it covered.
WebExtensions is Chrome based not standards based. And Firefox had sandboxed and unsandboxed extensions before.

What Mozilla promised would have been worth it. Parity with Chrome's APIs. APIs to support popular features of old extensions. Support for extension developers to develop new APIs. But they abandoned these promises.

And they managed the transition badly. They chose an arbitrary deadline before evaluating scope or designing a migration path. They held the arbitrary deadline as they missed estimates. Extension developers didn't know when or if APIs they needed would be implemented. And no version of Firefox supported old extensions and reasonably complete WebExtensions APIs. These decisions made many problems for developers and users. And this was shortly after many developers spent much effort making their XUL extensions multi process compatible or converting them to sandboxed extensions.
Nano comes from pico which in turn comes from the email client pine (which is currently forked as alpine).

alpine isn't used much anymore (although I still use it) but it's progeny is still widely used, which is nice.
Aurora has treated us well. We make a self-hosted product that requires Postgres; our sales/customer engineering folks just started telling people to use Aurora, and it hasn't caused any problems despite the fact that all of our tests run against stock Postgres. Can't complain. Though a VM with Postgres would be plenty for our needs, and cost thousands of dollars less a month. But, HA is nice if you want to pay for it.
> people need to have a salary to eat

Or to put a bit more iconoclastic point on it, if the people who have all the goods don't find some excuses to distribute at least a little, starving people turn to violence.

That said, sinecures for the well-off are also a kind of BS job.
I spent hours researching the various pro-sumer level brands when upgrading my tool collection this winter. And settled on Milwaukee. Because red. Ok fine, their track saw played a part. But mostly red.
Yeah, the lack of HTTP/2 support has been a long-standing issue with Heroku.

They just shipped HTTP/2 terminated at their router [0], and have it on their roadmap [1] to support HTTP/2 all the way through. But it seems like it's at minimum a few months off.

(As for VPC peering: the moment you need that, it sorta feels like Heroku is no longer the right place to be, even ignoring the costs.)

[0] https://blog.heroku.com/heroku-http2-public-beta
[1] https://github.com/orgs/heroku/projects/130
Ah thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I’m from Malaysia myself but never bothered learning Hokkien or Chinese and am regretting it a bit now. Don’t even know how names work in my own family
NullPointerException?