skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think being over-dramatic would depend on it being burdensome. Wearing a mask is pretty easy and unobtrusive.
> What does the US give up not protecting the rest of the world?

The very real probability of no longer having the strongest military in the world, which is something you express that you are still in favor of.

We already tried the strategy of waiting to intervene until Europe had already been violently consolidated into one enormous and war-obsessed power. Even if you don't care about the lives of people who live outside of the US at all (which, to be clear, I do care about), that mistake cost us alone over 400k lives to fix. And do you really think that if we'd just left Hitler alone he would have been too intimidated to attack us after he'd finished mopping up Europe?
Less than 1% of Polio infections cause paralysis. But Polio does cause paralysis.

Only about half of infected, untreated people die of bubonic plague. It's still a deadly disease.
The funny thing about this was that by the time you'd finished a 10 hour session of Tomb Raider you got used to the effect, so reality looked weirdly distorted for a while after.
Mostly true in my network with the exception of people working on LLMs. They are motivated by nearly religious fervor that AGI is right around the corner. But I expect that to die down soon.
>After colonizers left, railway gradually fell into disrepair and cease to be used.

Infrastructure in general.

Recent history of Zimbabwe <http://imgur.com/a/VdQdD>
No, it’s not. You just perceive it that way. Try advertising a job and interviewing candidates for any technical role, and you'll soon understand the point made by that comment.

I've had people present the perfect candidate with over 10 years of experience. On paper, you'd think they could rewrite the Linux kernel single-handedly in under a week, but when asked to write a Python script to check if a word is a palindrome, they have no idea. Similarly, candidates appear to know the TCP/IP stack inside out, but when asked to set up basic AWS VPC subnets and routing, they're completely clueless. They just parrot some bargain-basement course answer that is entirely incorrect.
Fixing climate change is a much more important problem than either spam or search. I don't care if Google goes bankrupt; I do care if my grandchildren inherit a liveable Earth.
I'm not sure where you are coming from in terms of difficulty of setting it up, it's just

- sudo apt install dotnet-sdk-8.0 / brew install dotnet-sdk
- dotnet new console -o {folder} --aot
- dotnet run -c Release
- optionally dotnet publish -o .

If you want to use it as a scripting language, you do `dotnet tool install -g dotnet-script` and use it normally[0]. Keep in mind that C# is not designed for this, but it will work (at the cost of first uncached script launch costing extra - it is a compiled language after all, but that's a niche scenario anyway).

[0]: https://github.com/dotnet-script/dotnet-script?tab=readme-ov...
Especially because cold fusion doesn't exist.

Geothermal at least has the advantage of actually existing.
Do cars cease to exist when they are not driven? No. They sit in a parking space, most likely in the open air where they take away space for trees. Cars is why cities heat up. Put them into expensive parking houses or underground parking to have more surface space for trees.
Yes it's true they deprecate things sometimes. It's also the same company that has supported it's core products like search and gmail for 2 decades. And last year there was like <1 hour of down time for YouTube.

But which groups do you think have a track record that qualifies them to take on this kind of work?
PS5 controller replaced rumble with fancy haptics and force feedback on the triggers
Show HN: Real News or Satire? Test Your ability with this game
Hey HN! I'm sharing a project I developed.

It's a Tinder-like game where you swipe left or right to guess if a post is from Hacker News or a satire website.
> because of the terms a hospital requires you to agree to.

No. You cannot make a nuanced decision when you're in an accident and are rushed (unconsciously) to an out-of-network hospital, or any kind of similar emergency situation. Negotiating a medical contract is not like signing a car lease.

Not sure why this is so difficult to understand? Have you actually been to a hospital, or in any form of even mild pain?
That is ok, as some of the people I respect the most have argued for years over what seems rather mundane to observers.

Have a wonderful day, =3
There's a fungal infection here in Phoenix that eats eucalyptus. All of the eucalyptus on my street have been infected and died.

It's not really about planting a single species, but rather, introducing new ecosystems, so no one species is going to go wild and out of control.
The term "wife beater" isn't really in common use in the UK, but I do hear it in a lot of shows. I never thought to look it up, and I'm honestly surprised it's still said. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wife-beater-shirt-domest...
I would pay $10-$20 a month for Youtube if they made significant improvements to how they work with creators, how they reward and encourage creators, and how they pay creators.

However, that's not as profitable to Youtube as the current model is, which is to force obscene amounts of advertising that they are auctioning off to whichever scam porn app can afford to buy rights to your child's eyeballs and then tell Million subscriber youtubers who have been on the platform making high quality, reliable content since 2007 that they cannot swear, cannot show body parts that you just saw in an ad, and that it's perfectly fine their videos keep getting content claimed by fly by night groups that don't even own the content they are claiming but it was a system designed to make Viacom not sue Youtube ever again so it's never going to prioritize the creators, you can't show a tank exploding, unless you are specific channels that somehow DO have tacit agreements with Youtube to allow them to show outright murder and death somehow, and youtube will let some stranger take over your channel with one phished credential and let them overnight run it as a scam fake Elon channel, despite google proving quite often that they have had account takeover protections for like a decade.

Talk to creators that have been on youtube since the early days and also have managed to get dedicated account reps. Youtube is horseshit to creators.

They enforce dedication to "the algorithm" which is just shorthand for "if you do not put out a video every couple days that has very high clickthrough rate (ie you better use clickbate thumbnails) then we will straight up stop surfacing your videos to not just new audiences, but the people who are explicitly subscribed to your content and have been for over a decade". Google has a system that is pretty much designed to push you beyond your limits, to burn you out, and replace you with the next 18 year old who has no idea what they are getting themselves into. Oh, and the entire time your comment section will be a spammy, hate filled hellhole and they will do NOTHING about it at all.

Google views content creators as easily replaceable laborers, as a resource to be consumed. Youtube doesn't want customers to pay for access to high quality pieces from talented artists, because it's literally more profitable to them if you as the consumer watch 10X as much slop that is full of ads.

"Oh why don't they go somewhere else then" well since Youtube was bought, google has been basically subsidizing and dumping "Video hosting" into the market, so nobody else can run a viable video hosting platform for Jon Q public. Some creators DID try to go somewhere else, like Facebook Video, which was blatantly lying about viewer numbers and basically caused the premature death of College Humor.

Youtube SUCKS. It's a pimp, not a partner. I won't give them a dime.
If you like Ted Chiang and scifi short stories, consider checking out Jay Lake's Last Plane to Heaven, or Charles Stross's Wireless collection.

Short stories are such a fantastic and frustrating format, because the best ones blow your mind and leave you wanting another thousand pages.
Yes. But unfortunately the conclusion that many people take home is that if something has been censured it must be true.

It's not how logic works, but it's how human psychology seems to work. Or perhaps that's taboo too? I don't know. IANAP
I think I heard the games Valve published for PS3 didn’t really use the cell stuff
Watch a Homebuilt V12 Push a Land Speed Car to 244 MPH at 9,500 RPM
I'd like to say it was the 2016 elections, 2020 pandemic, and 2022 Musk acquisition that killed Twitter for me, but the truth is exactly what this article points out: I replaced nearly all of my traditional public social media usage with group chats in that time period. Those events just made the transition much easier!

I use Mastodon occasionally and Reddit only as a passive consumer. I miss virtual communities a bit; as a youth in rural Illinois they were extremely formative for me. I hope disconnected folks still find their virtual communities, public or private, but I think I'm just in a different phase of my life where de-emphasizing them comes naturally. It's hard for me to disentangle whether it's me or the Internet that's changed, but from the positive reaction here and in group chats to this article: I feel safe assuming I'm at least not alone.
Then they need to stop saying that Covid causes these things. They need to say Covid increases a risk of causing these diseases in some people.

I mean, look at the title of the paper

“Spectrum of COVID-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long COVID Syndrome”

Where is the part of the spectrum where nothing happens at all? The spectrum of COVID-19 is from nothing happened to dying.

And I can see everyone on Twitter right now yelling at me to wear a mask because the spectrum of Covid is always disabling. It’s just really really bad messaging
"The probable cause of African iron overload is the combination of excess iron intake and functional changes in ferroportin.[4][5]"

It stops when ferroportin uptake of iron is saturated
Drawing machine, its a popular small project to print a pen adapter and use them to draw
Some combination of strategies. For example, a combination of short term storage (batteries) and long term storage (e-fuels, such as hydrogen) will likely come in cheaper than nuclear.

https://model.energy/
The article is really about how ransomware gangs are threatening to leak victims' data, with speculation about how they could theoretically escalate to violence.
Some positivity and a way out in this dynamic:

- WFH or at least hybrids enables a building or rebuilding of the social connections from neighborhoods, communities, and families. For about 2000 years, this was fulfilling to humans. From 2006-2020, Facebook became what’s fulfilling somehow. Good odds you’ll find the former fulfilling as a 101 human if you check it out. Don’t have to be a 30+ y/o with a spouse and kids either. Just takes imagination, resources (fortunately, pay is great!) and some initial introspection and imagination to figure out who you are and what you want. Then go do it. Most others never get the chance (see my Whole Foods example)

- technical knowledge and the time and freedom to think it through is a superpower to own your own life. WFH/hybrid removing commutes, to start, opened this all up. Go be a Capitalist Jr and spin up some companies. “Side hustle” doesn’t even do this situation justice. 2-5 years of work: you own your own internet conglomerate and have the next 30 years+ to benefit from it.
Proton was also down a bit today. Are they somehow related?
It seems like GitHub is rejecting requests from affected IDE versions. We discovered this yesterday because PR integration was not working even though the GitHub login/token was correct. Issue resolved by upgrading the IDE to the latest version.
Umami, simple self-hosted analytics
+1. Possibly my favorite story ever.
I've been building a product to bring my Slack conversations to a new social platform [0] but I haven't figured out how to get the same meaningful and deep conversations about tech that happen in private chats.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVTc9ibiSkM
I think it's going to be closer to how a bunch of countries in Africa are being hollowed out by China.

Russia is loaded with natural resources and I expect control of most of them to fall into Chinese hands over the next 20-50 years. Putin may have wanted to reassemble the USSR but in reality he's weakening Russia so much China will eventually control all of it.

North Korea, on the other hand, doesn't have much to offer China.

On the other hand, most of what I know about these regions I know from podcasts so I could be entirely wrong about all of it.
Who cares how tooltips print? I happen to be a (millennial) academic. I cannot remember the last time I actually printed an article.
The problem is all those companies realized their goals beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. But then kept going.

Facebook really did connect everyone on Earth. Google really did make all the world’s information available to everyone. Apple really did put a device in everyone’s pocket to access all that information.

But that’s also what gave us superhuman algorithms designed to suck all of your attention away from all the real world things humans need to be happy. Like fresh air, exercise, and face to face interaction.
> Salons and groups have always existed but why the recent shift to private discourse?

...what?

There is nothing recent about this and there hasn't been any shift. I've had a private chat with the same people on different platforms for more than 20 years now. Then there have been facebook closed groups and the iMessage blue/green segregation fiasco and many, many more.

> Which leads to the question: what makes one of these work?

High SNR, shared social norms.
Last weekend, had a listening event at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, where they took the original photos for the 36th Chambers album release. Was a cool experience.
congrats, grandpa
you will not be able to buy a sim card in half the world, and soon in the usa.
Why not buy a used 2014 Model S? It has a screen, sure. But it’s basically just battery and muscle.
I have an infant and a toddler, and a house small enough that I don't get a private office (I've cobbled together a DIY cubicle off to the side of a main living area).

Suffice it to say it's hard to focus on intellectually demanding work when a 2-year-old is throwing a fit because her juice box ran empty.

And I honestly don't mind my co-workers, we have a fair bit in common. It's nice to get some regular social exposure outside of kids + spouse, even if it is mostly surface-level.
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have included Opus; I'm past the edit window or I'd remove it with a note. I haven't done enough comparison with Opus to really declare that part, and I don't think the circumstances were even. But I'm guessing the good HD Voice calls are at full bandwidth of ~ 24 kbps, and I'm comparing with a product that was said to be using opus at 20 kbps. Opus at 32kbps sounds pretty reasonable. And carrier supported HD voice probably has prioritization and other things going on that mean less loss and probably less jitter. Really the big issue my ear has with Opus is when there's loss.

I don't think I've been on calls with Opus 1.5 with lace/no-lace, released 3 months ago, so no, I haven't compared it with HD voice that my carrier deployed a decade ago. Seems a reasonable thing for Meta to test with, but it might be too new to be included in their comparison as well.
Episode was Fifteen Million Merits [1], and might be the most cynical episode of Black Mirror, which is saying something.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
I'm an introvert doing what is largely an extrovert job, so my weekends tend to be low energy. I write audio description, go hiking, read in an armchair with a cup of tea, clean the house etc.
Black Mirror did that a few years back I think - 20 Million merits, or whatever it was called.
Whats the difference between DB OS vs Database?
>Your comment on theft is spot on. The entire system starts and ends at strong rule of law coupled with a strong societal contract with private property.

Agreed. Yesterday I saw the question posed: "What is more important, property rights or human rights?" I decided that property rights is more important because, as you said, strong rule of law gives people confidence in building a societal contract with others that includes things like freedom of speech. That's what happened in Western civilization.
Can this be dynamic on prompts and providers?

I’m thinking of continuous evaluation for LLM in production, where after each call, a webhook will send the input/output to evaluate.
My first thought was the boot camp people and the career changers in their 30s and 40s. Not that they're all necessarily unqualified, but not doing the 3-5 years of ground work has to show somehow.
They should consider returning it to shareholders via dividends and/or stock buybacks instead of wasting it on pie in the sky projects which they aren’t set up as a business to run long term. Alternatively, spin out a company and formalize the investment. Google won’t ever really care about anything that’s outside their wheelhouse, least of all about ultra low margin stuff like power.
The Montreal protocol worked because it was focused on a limit set of changes. Something similar could also work again if metal satellites and uncontrolled hypersonic reentry spaceship metal parts were outlawed as well.

Unfortunately, the lack of a gradual set of limited changes is why the same process cannot be replicated for climate change remediation. Countries are trying to tackle the entire problem as an "impossible" monolith rather than breaking it up into separate industry and lifestyle practices to address incrementally.
I'd love to take you up on that offer. Hn doesn't reveal emails but we have one listed here that directs straight to me, in case you're able to drop us a line: https://www.overwatchdata.ai/request-a-demo Looking forward to learning from your experience!
> you still need a os. and i fail to see how nix would make video driver problem any better.

That's actually easy to answer; video drivers can be really finicky to get working. If you screw it up, it's very easy to get into a state where you have no GUI. Nowadays I am proficient enough to work my way around the command line and I probably could fix a bad driver, but 13 years ago that wasn't really the case, and if I broke the GUI there was a risk where I'd have to nuke the machine and start from scratch. I've also had issues where updating the kernel breaks drivers, and I wasn't able to figure out how to downgrade it.

With NixOS, since adding packages and boot parameters and the like require a rebuilding of the configuration.nix, and each rebuild takes a snapshot, if something is broken all I have to do is reboot and choose a previous generation to get it into a working state, and I can debug the configuration from there.

This actually happened somewhat recently; I had a NixOS server that I was controlling via SSH that I broke the networking support for. It's kind of annoying to control a server if you can't connect to it, but all I had to do is plug in a keyboard and a portable monitor, reboot, and select a previous generation, and fix the broken change, and rebuild. The entire process took like fifteen minutes.

> the problem with running debian is that fixes are often not backported, specifically for things end users will care about, like libre office

Are there not more evergreen releases of Debian?
> Before that, tech workers were paid well, but not so much beyond like a financial analyst. Now there's a mass market of FAANG-M jobs, perhaps like 500k jobs in total. They all pay way more compared to the average job, in multiplier terms.

We're really only talking about the top employees at the top tech companies in the top most expensive COL areas. It's not like every tech employee in the world is making $500K and driving a Ferrari, despite what HN commenters might sometimes say.

> There has been a quantitative shift in tech worker pay at the top end in the past twenty years.

Bingo--we're comparing only the top end of tech pay.
> giving me effectively an ‘atta-boy’. I was just a computer programmer, but I did OK.

I'm a highly respected computer programmer in my organization, but if I went in to the CEO and tried to advise him that his business strategy was wrong and he needed to do something different, he'd listen to me politely and then explain all the ways in which I misunderstood the situation. And he would be correct.

You can have been a very good computer programmer within the DoD without having absorbed enough understanding of the geopolitical situation to have credible expertise in military strategy.
Here's some independent data points.

1) Everyone I personally knew in Russia has left, and every international collaboration in science I have seen seems to have ended.

2) People I know who are full time online teachers report that Chinese have virtually overnight lost their spot as the most numerous students, replaced by hordes of Russians seeking to emigrate.

3) Indisputable military points of clarity from global news are that Russia failed to capture Ukraine's capital after planning and attempting to do so, lost much of its Black Sea fleet, and suffered from a brief internal military uprising.

4) Russia's petro-diplomacy clearly backfired: the entire world has pivoted away from fossil fuels and the IEA just announced peak oil will occur this decade.

I think any summary version of reality that includes Russia 'winning' at this stage is probably more stage-managed than the alternatives. Yes, they can grind people to death more than the Ukraine because of their larger population. No, that doesn't mean they 'win'. Both Russia and Ukraine will suffer long term macro-demographic structural issues from this war, however it ends. The people of Ukraine have greatly suffered. The Chinese will suffer too, because this aids Xi Jinping's narrative of resisting the west during a period in which he is asserting authoritarian nationalism and increasing financial, economic and cultural controls.

Few people are making money. Certainly not Russia.
> The semiconductor shortage is pretty big

What semiconductor shortage? Who is affected by them? Russia is buying literally everything through Turkey, Kazakhstan and other ex-USSR countries. US and EU exports to ex-USSR countries are booming.

Of course Russia can't just sneak up some giant oil refinery or LPG equipment, but semiconductors are super easy to smuggle. Even more so since they have unlimited budget.
For me, it's tech debt. I spend most of my time replacing the code someone else developed years ago. Am I making it better and more scalable? I hope so. But I'm sure the previous developers felt the same way.

Btw - I've been developing since 1999 as well, so there are plenty of people cleaning up the debt I left.
> and that's a generase adjective

'generase' is one of the weirder typos I've seen
I took what was intended to be a year away from software and I've been feeling happier and more engaged in my work since. I took a job as an IT manager (with no prior IT work experience) at a public service agency along with a 50% pay cut. I spend more time helping people directly with problems and modernizing a lot of outdated systems. Even though I do sometimes miss the pay check, being in an office part time working with people trying to provide a desperately needed resource (public housing in my case), has made me feel more connected to the impact of my work generally. I have had to make some lifestyle changes but a lot of those have felt like a healthy shift too.