skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The great culture wars of 2020 meant people, especially in tech, weren’t comfortable sharing their views in public lest they get various online mobs after them.

I don’t think this was a primary motivation. Further, left out Enshittification of the platforms from the bulleted list. I agree that group texts have taken over a lot of functions that used to be served by social media, but this seems like an exceptionally weak and ideologically motivated) analysis.
Putin's propaganda really likes to portray allies as suzerains and vassals to turn them against each other.
It was tested on the ground. That's where they found the first of the five leaks, but launched anyway.
These type of event cannot be evaluated just days after. The outcome will be clearer in the coming years.

Look at COVID crisis, we are yet to fully understand the consequences of the government monetary actions
> Of course that new thing will ultimately get bought by one of the bigger laggard companies who is incapable of allowing something like this to develop internally.

Have we really reached a point where striking it out on your own is mostly an illusion?
Who would pay for it in that case?
Nope, topics don't work. Telegram added topics and you can add them to the group chat, but it killed almost every chat that I have seen add it.

What happens is people start conversations on random themes and this additional friction of posting to the right topic kills the motivation to post at all.

Also, people start to only open topics they like in the group, and close the group if there's nothing to see in these topics. If there were none - they could find something interesting for them randomly, or answer some question, but they just won't find it because they only check topics they like. It also feels more strict, like a confluence wiki of questions/situations and you can't effortlessly chat about something.
This is absolutely awesome. For ages I have needed an alternative to mosh that did not require UDP -- I run every outbound connection over Tor, so I only have TCP transport available. This is an incredible improvement to my quality of life.
So does corn. In fact much of the wood used in construction in the US is grown like corn in a cornfield.
Polio increases the risk of paralysis For a population. It only causes paralysis in the people who become paralyzed.

If I had long Covid, I would rightly say Covid caused my long Covid. But since I don’t have Covid, I can’t say that Covid caused my long Covid so for me Covid did not cause long Covid.

I’m more interested in the distinction of Outcomes and the wording they’re using pay no attention to distinction.
Iridium and Globalstar aren't geostationary. They are LEO not much higher than Starlink.

Starlink is doing direct-to-cell. Talking to existing phones requires a large antenna. The bandwidth for each device is slow, not enough for mobile data, but better than Iridium. I think they recently showed off voice calls.
Reading this story inspired me to work through Joe Polchinski’s classic paper on the “Everett phone” [1]. The paper partially answers a question I’ve long had about Quantum Mechanics, what is so special about linearity? In a nutshell, the paper demonstrates that even the tiniest bit of nonlinearity (at least of a certain sort) would allow for communication between branches of the wavefunction, like in the Chiang story. Super deep stuff that, in my opinion, physics hasn’t even fully come to terms with.

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Everett-Wheeler_telephone
I guess I should re-watch it since I read the story first, then watched the movie and I had a hard time with what I perceived was unnecessary monkeying with the story of the daughter that I felt made the movie story less rich and complex. But it's probably time to revisit both mediums.
on any public forum you're at the mercy of the whims of moderators, usually unpaid, which can be capricious, or absent, eventually leading to unproductive circular flamewars every time theres a new article on, say, Israel. Having the same arguments and going in circles when there's no new real information is just tiresome for everyone else involved (and some people get really emotionally invested). private group chat, you can tell those people to knock it off, or they're out of the group or slack/discord/zulip.
Grand Theft Auto IV for the PC, in its initial release, would slow down pretty horribly if there was more than like four cars on the road. Even with a reasonably powerful computer, it was pretty bad to play (though updates did increase performance considerably). I remember when I first played it thinking "you know, Serious Sam came out like seven years ago on crappier hardware and it could handle way more stuff while maintaining a fast frame rate"

It's obviously not apples to apples, the models in GTA IV are much more detailed, but it was still pretty disappointing to play initially.

It's still my favorite GTA game, but I ended up playing through the 360 version my first time around.
Last year I answered on SO about the difference between Electron and CEF and which one to chose: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70620182/whats-the-diffr...

I actually use an Electron-like framework to make ClipBook, but it's not Electron and not CEF. It's Electron for C++ developers. It's called Molybden SDK. I'm one of the creators of this SDK. I decided to use it, because I know it really well and it allows me to write using C++ and closely work with the operating system. It's very important when you build a software like ClipBook.
I would not be surprised if this became an "October surprise" to weaken Biden and the Democrats further.
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People who make a big fuzz about this haven't truly done the math on the scale of it vs. the US dollar worldwide.

Saudi Arabia oil exports are 200B USD/year, give or take. The world has a GDP of ~100T USD, how much of that is traded in US dollars? We could put an estimate based on total currency reserves, of which USD is about half of that. 200B out of 50T is "merely" 0.05% ...

Sure, they may be one of the single major traders of USD, but at 0.05% what this tells you is that the USD is extremely diversified, and that's good!

(Also, this is implying Saudi Arabia bins the whole deal overnight, which is very unlikely to happen)
Being under 30 and already having this mindset is going to take you far. I would argue it makes you even better at work because you'll over time iterate towards things that you value weighed against all the other good things in life rather than just try to find the biggest paycheck making a Belching as a Service app that some VC thought up on ayahuasca.
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> Then they need to stop saying that Covid causes these things.

Well, if it does cause these things, and it's looking like from the literature that's the case, they wouldn't actually need to stop saying that.
Propaganda. It is a form of violence.
100% of the energy becomes heat eventually. For a typical trip, this happens by the trip conclusion. (And also each time the car pauses, such as a stoplight.)

For the trailer-on-hill example, it concludes when the trailer (eventually) is towed or rolls down the hill and comes to a rest from friction.

The weighted trailer is being used like a battery and modifies the situation in the same way as if it were a hybrid car (non-plug-in battery that recharges through regenerative braking and/or directly from the ICE).
> so the main question here is "at what granularity should we apply diversity".

Or it could be "what should we sacrifice (if anything) to obtain diversity", or "how fast should we try to obtain diversity".

(Or even: "what kinds of diversity matter? Race and gender -- or ideas, values, and experiences?")
Saved the PDF? Either way, it's great that it works for you - and that's not quite yet everyone. So the author might care.
That would be really creepy..
I will make it open source. It's not a problem at all. Thank you for your comment.
No, it was by importing liquefied natural gas. You can't convert the myriad applications of gas to electricity in a matter of months.
No one saying people don’t have long Covid. I’m not saying people don’t have long Covid. I took care of a good friend who had long Covid for six months.

I’m just saying there’s something in each person that determines whether or not Covid can cause long Covid. If you don’t make that distinction, all you do is make everyone think they’re going to get long Covid. And by not looking at the distinctions You never find out why people get Covid.
> This left me wondering if there is enough demand for smaller social networks with very limited visibility that can foster rich and insightful discussions (although this sounds like forums from the nineties). And if it's possible to keep the sales people away, or at least invite-only.

It's probably not quite as exclusive as you're imagining (certainly not as much as your 256 max 'CTOs 1'), but we're kind of in one aren't we? It can be done, it just takes substantial effort from a dedicated moderation team.

I helped moderate a traditional forum (Computer Juice, née The Computer Forums) in the late 00s maybe slightly into 2010s, I don't know how 'rich and insightful' it was, that wasn't really what it was about, but it served its purpose for a handful of regulars and guests that dropped by one time for part selection advice or because they had a 'blue screen of death', nothing like HN traffic I'm sure but that too would've been overrun with spam and ads if not for a few of us keeping on top of it.

You can't just set and forget, not with open membership anyway - and something like WhatsApp would probably always struggle with that because you don't have a great way to give much prominence to something Stripe CTO (for example) says vs. the keen doe-eyed cofounder CTO whose also currently the entire engineering team but hoping to make a first hire and talking the talk, sharing lots of random Medium articles on hiring practices and building hypergrowth teams etc.
They claim it's 10% lower than Opus, specifically for the decoder iirc but since they speak of the 10-year-old hardware used to make million of WhatsApp calls daily, the encoder can't be computationally complex either

But, yeah, some actual data (if they're not willing to provide running code) would have been a welcome addition to this PR overview
I'm another aphant who really appreciates Chiang's writing! I wonder if he is one too
And you don't trust the manufacturer with a scan of your face, but you put a significant amount of communications and positional data and logins through it.
This is a potential outcome, but by no means guaranteed.
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That polar bear has two heads.
Makes sense.

I too had trouble with iCal. I don't see why I did - the format is simple enough. But making and sending iCal files to people with iPhones and having them parse it is harder than it should have been.
It is also a degradation of UX to wait 10 seconds for a long page of images to load before you can read the first few lines of text -

which most people won't wait, and then google punishes your page, then no one finds it, then page load speed doesn't matter I suppose when it's just you reloading your own page to not watch images load.
My thoughts as someone who reads too much news (but probably not enough to be knowledgeable):

I could imagine negotiations going on behind closed doors. The USA is still a gorilla with firepower that can be used as leverage. But MBS is an unstable egomaniac who probably doesn't respond well to threats... My guess is China is trying to woo him, although China doesn't seem to do "diplomacy by aircraft carrier", at least not outside its own seas. I wonder if Putin has any influence, at the moment he can only be China's little brother, and besides, he's friends with Iran and S.A. and Iran aren't friends...
> The way someone writes a phone number can give you hints about the country and area codes.

Or other things, depending on the country. For example, in Japan, area codes 090, 080, and 070 indicate mobile numbers. 050 means it's an IP phone, irrespective of area (hikari denwa).
I would prefer not to be friends with colleagues, with an employer picking a pool of candidates for social relationships.
They may be skipping small portions of the post-print qual. Or more likely, they're just more confident that the pieces being created are of a certain level of quality. It's a hype-y statement but they're probably trying to highlight that they're doing some sort of software-defined quals.
For someone who loves Ted Chiang, what adjacent writers would people recommend? I tried Borges, and I like him, he just seems less accessible and intentionally opaque at points.
I know what Russia says about reduced sovereignity. Every world and regional power pulls the strings of their allies in their sphere of influence, Russia too.
Drip irrigation isn't always good for trees to develop robust root system.

Wastewater depends ... residential greywater can be used onsite if the residents are careful about the type of detergents they use. There are methods to treat blackwater onsite (more than just a septic tank and a leech field).

For trees, I think the biggest factor is if you use woodchips in a basin. Even a six-foot diameter with 1 ft depth, filled with arborist chips makes a huge difference in water retention and nutrition for the trees. These are rain water harvesting structures that do not require a drip system.
Looks like the US is going to have to finally start paying its bills. That is going to be a shock to Americans. Easy credit may be a thing of the past as well. I'd really hate to see the financial turmoil of the 70s come back - it was tough enough living through it the first time.

What if gasoline prices start soaring in the US, putting US prices on parity with the rest of the world? Remember the financial collapse of 2008? That didn't happen overnight either - it took a couple of years for everything to unfold and collapse.
> "Incidental inclusion" does not cover walking right up to someone and putting a camera in their face. Like, "incidental" is literally in the term.

Correct! I don't see where I implied otherwise!
Arrival and Dune Part 1 are both really good, 10/10, adaptations.

Dune 2 to me shows that even with an amazingly talented adapter/director, that there are some limits to what can be conveyed from literature to film.

The limit in Dune 2 comes down to the fact that much of the “action” in the novel takes place via internal monologue. To convey that in film ends up being very, very hard and with Dune you can’t escape it.

In my viewing of Dune 2 I thought they weren’t able to really show the vastness of Paul’s internal journey, his visions of Jihad, struggling with his place in the universe as his mind is transforming. I didn’t feel that was in the film and made a lot of other actions and motivations more confusing.

I’m glad we have so many ways to tell stories, and I’m wholeheartedly for adaptations, but the fact that some types of ideas and stories are best expressed via one medium over another is something to embrace as well.
Two headed guy from Roman Mythology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
Tangent - I really like Factbranch. At a previous company we used it to display data from our production database within Zendesk. It was a snap to set up the connection and also easy to edit the template.
I believe it's good for people who use starlink. It's just not useful for me.
This looks a lot like a Oauth request, where you are redirected to sign-in. You check the URL and enter the creds, with the assumption that you are using "Sign in with Microsoft" to login to the site since this is how that login flow works
Hardly a day goes by without my thoughts turning to Ecclesiastes.

What did people believe? In an ever-progressive world? That’s a limited and superficial perspective on life. Everything that is born, whether physical or not, will eventually die. The current circus will also come to an end.

There is a time for everything......

a time to tear down and a time to build...

The natural cycle of things will unfold, regardless of human desire.
They probably cringe when hearing about my tech nerd group chats, but still eww. The female millionaires I know aren't like this... they must be US millionaires?
Goodness me this is the stuff of nightmares!

I asked it for "A dog catching a treat in slow motion, it's chops flapping around comically"

https://imgur.com/a/dog-catching-treat-slow-motion-its-chops...
Fun. Thank you.

Turns out the game runs for 45 turns. I got 2 incorrect.

Also, there may be an error with one of the questions?

The last word seems out of place as it's not capitalised whereas all the other words are.

https://ibb.co/bR9FGBp
And how does `strcspn` from various libcs compare?
> If you cannot replenish this ATP and GTP you’ll be weaker the next time you get an infection and be sicker in general.

This is wrong.

You're all over this thread spreading incorrect information.
Proactive methodology: seatbelts, reactive methodology: hospitalized with traumatic brain injury.

The problem is more reactive environments take a Russian Roulette gamble on potentially unrecoverable catastrophes before taking action.

(Proactivity is more expensive than clicking a seatbelt.)
Agreed, you need very proactive communicators. I just left a startup but it felt like issues fell through all the time, and not because they weren't raised, but it felt like people didn't understand the importance. Had a persistent collection of issues all in the realm of reliability, it took a long, long time (and many Pagerduty alerts) for me to realize that Engineering leadership above me was not communicating to Product that there was a cluster of similar issues affecting end users. And Product, I guess, wasn't reading post-mortems.

Looking at it from another point of view, even if your workplace objectively sucks and you don't want to be there, the lack of communication makes it worse:

* You can't really "see" the stress in people's faces. Hell, there's Zoom airbrushing so you don't look dead. You don't see when they start the day, end the day, have a long lunch, etc. All of those were subtle cues for what you yourself could get away with doing and not doing yourself.

* If your coworkers were phoning it in, it was relatively clear. Which isn't bad, it means you could phone it in. But we've had layoffs now. And since you can't really "see" people working, when they say "I spent 8 hours sweating over my keyboard," you take it as face value. You think that you have to do the same and more just to be average.

* If your coworkers aren't fulfilled with the work or another aspect, it's probably not well-articulated or even shared. These used to be things you simply ended up discussing over a beer. Now you end up intentionally Slacking each other (if at all), and probably when the sentiment has gone from "this isn't great" to "I'm actively looking and stressed." You don't get as much time to fix things, or as much time to realize you're not alone in it.

All-in-all, I'd still hope we can have remote as a norm, but only a handful of people know how to communicate proactively imo. The rest probably need 2 straight weeks of in-person work every quarter or 2 days of hybrid work per week.
I thought about that, but at its core the PS5 triggers are just another form of feedback akin to the rumble, and didn't really introduce new types of gameplay.

Fancy haptics were introduced by the Switch.
22600 oil/gas wells drilled in 2022 in the US [1]. Fervo is proposing to do ~20 MW per injector/producer pair [2][3].

that's 11000 potential pairs per year x 10 years = 110000 pairs = 2200000 MW = 2200 GW. total US usage is 4 trillion kWh for 2022 [4], which is 456 GW averaged over the whole year.

so in the 10 years that it takes to build 85% of nuclear reactors, the oil/gas industry could drill enough geothermal wells to satisfy 4x the electricity requirements of the entire US.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/965763/number-of-oil-and...

[2] https://fervoenergy.com/fervo-energy-breaks-ground-on-the-wo...

[3] presentation in Denver May 2024 by fervo completion engineer said 40 total wells

[4] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/use-of-elect...
I'm skeptical of that as well. It's my understanding that the Urban Heat Island effect is from roads and structures lowering albedo and absorbing more solar energy.

https://www.epa.gov/heatislands

https://www.heat.gov/pages/urban-heat-islands

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annur...

A few of these do mention waste energy, but it seems to be a relatively small factor. And of waste energy, I would imagine that cars are themselves a somewhat small factor, compared to electric and natural gas usage.
I guess we have to go back to the basics. Is USD considered a safe haven compared to other currencies/commodities? If yes, nothing will likely change. If no, they might.

It is possible that this is one of those few scenarios, where it is a 'good thing' that world is distracted by Ukraine/Russia war and Israel/Palestine; oh and elections.

Full disclosure: I asked uncensored llama, but its predictions seemed off to me.
> And you won’t have the regulatory hurdles of nuclear energy.

Good joke.

I lived near a major geothermal plant in Hawaii. Trust me, there is nothing that crunchy NIMBY's can't justify obstructing.
Rent in Cities Skylines 2 was too high, so the devs removed landlords
> Maybe they want to hold off until the company has revenue, or hits/maintains a particular revenue or growth metric.

It is far too late then.

One of the many benefits of doing early exercise is that you exercise the option when the grant price is the same as the current valuation so there is zero profit (and you file an 83(b)).

If you wait too long, your grant might've been at $0.01 but now the valuation is $5.00 (making up numbers but both of these are in the ballpark of my past startup experiences). It is way too late to exercise those options, you'll be paying tax on $4.99 of profit on a stock that you can't sell and might go down! If you waited that long, now you need to keep waiting until there is liquidity so you can do a same day sale.

> take out loans

That would be a terrible idea. Like I said in parallel comments, if the price is too high for your comfort level, don't join that startup.
You might prefer Eternal Terminal as a TCP mosh alternative:

https://eternalterminal.dev/
Well then, never mind! :)
The article you linked says that Chiquita was extorted into illegally paying money to a Colombian death squad, who also murdered people, and were ordered to pay restitution to the victims' families. It doesn't say that they paid the death squad to murder people on Chiquita's behalf.
A PWA can have the familiar "Sign in with google" button now, which pops up a similar page as shown in the article, but with accounts.google.com in the fake URL bar.
There's a paper to be written to do a modern day calculation of Dunbar's number as applied to group chats, where above that, real-time chat simply doesn't scale because of the aforementioned problems.
Electricity production is only about half of carbon emissions. 100% nuclear electricity would make a significant dent, but climate change would still persist.
That's actually a term that is used ofter in papers to refer to this phenomenon.
Interesting take. I’m genuinely curious, do you have examples of that or where the review process clearly fails?

What’s the solution? I actually don’t have a great grasp of how it all works right now. Is there a field-specific board that determines how reviews are done? Is there a feedback loop?