skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangent: I find tremendous irony in the video used as an example. It is for the remake of a game that is about problem solving and story telling, yet the remake requires vastly more resources than the original. Yes, there are reasons for the increased resource usage. On the other hand, there are reasons to use the more resource intensive version of the YouTube embed.

I suppose the moral of the story is that software will grow to consume the resources available to it. Often, if not most of the time, there will be benefits to that increased resource usage. Yet that won't prevent people who prioritize factors like efficient resource usage from seeking alternatives they view as better.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts&pp=ygUQSGl0bGVyI...
I have something like Betteridge's law about anything implying "fact checking" in its title.

What about The Insider's "investigative report" (https://archive.is/KbT6t) or stuff like project PANDORA? I mean, it's not like the other side of the question is massively more trustworthy, but it's not just tabloid conjectures either...

In the end, like for 99% of all past and present events, the only sensible position is "I don't know".
It’s unfortunate, but they have to curb rampant shoplifting somehow. I can’t think of a better solution off the top of my head.
> Forgive me but this employee/labour analogy seems to be talking a bit past my concerns.

I'm not sure which analogy you refer to. They are literally employees in every sense of the word. There is no analogy – that is straight up what it is.

> then multiple additional MPs are elected to make the overall composition of the house proportional to the votes cast.

You improve the proportion of labour union representation, perhaps, which we have already talked about, but why are we selecting employees based on their labour union membership in the first place? If you hire people at your private sector job, do you elect them based on their labour union affiliation? Or do you elect based on your understanding of how they will represent your organization, selecting the worker who you feel will do the best job?
> slip into mediocrity over time

Europe has been mediocre for the entire modern times. France’s Haussmann marks the end of it with the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (Eiffer Tower) which really attracted people. Since then, we had to be rescued by Americans every time we went into war (even in Vietnam) and the art capital of the world is NYC. Maybe De Gaulle revived France a little (and he leveraged the UK/US help for that), but nowhere near what Shanghai or San Francisco did.

Europe is fine as a former success. Happiness has been high, life expectancy too.

Except it is now being ruled over by people who will neither bring it to the sky again, nor will keep the existing inhabitants.
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I typed it in and played it on my Apple ][, from David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games (or maybe an issue of Creative Computing). Also Super Star Trek, too!

https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...

I couldn't find the original FOCAL version of Hammurabi at first try, but with a little more digging I found an old scan of a partial listing on archive dot org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191013130905/https://www.cs.br...

And a scan of a ditto, Hamurabi Lexington High School Handout 9/9/1969:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.bra...

From the archive of Jim Storer's FOCAL Lunar Lander web page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.bra...
Also case in point, this is just the skeptical view I mentioned.
Because they're awesome? Nazaré is a little beach town that is where the super-big waves hit in the early part of the year -- you may have seen the picture of the lighthouse at the end of the peninsula with the enormous wave in the background. For the record, that was taken with a ridiculous telephoto lens to compress the distance; I have a photo I took with an iPhone and it looks nothing like that.

When we lived in Portugal we spent a time in a rental room in the middle of an olive farm, and my wife loved it there. It was super-quiet apart from the goats wandering about.

Faro I'm just throwing in as "somewhere along the southern coast" -- it was nice there when we stayed there.

Porto is a wonderful city, very pretty.

If you're asking why Portugal in general:

- The weather is awesome: pleasant, not too hot except in the height of summer, and not too cold
- The people are super-friendly
- The food is good, and one of my favorite memories is running to the Pingo Doce to grab something to make for dinner
- There's history there: you can check out actual castles built to defend against actual invaders, you can see where past kings that ruled over world-spanning empires gathered together everything they found.
- The scenery is beautiful -- lots of beaches, clear skies, natural beauty, etc.
- It's easy to get around -- transit is a thing, trains are a thing, cabs are affordable
- Health care is affordable. We had to fill some prescriptions while we were there, and the person we were staying with said to go to the ER. We were dubious, but we did, and we were in and out in under half an hour, for under $30. And the prescriptions cost less to buy outright than the co-pay was in the U.S. with full insurance.
Its unusefulness is probably why it has nearly 20K stars and keeps hitting the GitHub trending page.
To put this into context, the player element might load 1.3 mb but loading a video can easily be in the range of 50 mb.
I found this Udemy course extremely helpful:
https://www.udemy.com/share/101WlC3@XKn_XOGATVsqoa15vxgyhc9L...

The guy who created it has another course that just came out that I haven’t tried yet:
https://www.udemy.com/share/10bdqC3@GYMwCCehaRtRa222po1mkBUG...

(Worth noting that Udemy has a sale every few days so don’t pay full price)
They teased there should be another video for efficiency (rpm v horsepower).

I’m dealing with NYC’s building emissions Local Law 97, and I’ve been using a car engine analogy to try to understand how energy consumption, efficiency, and component factors combine to permit NYC determine a building’s carbon emissions (allowed emissions, excess emissions, and fines for the latter).
> Self-Replication

In case anyone is looking for their next book to read, I really enjoyed the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor. It's ongoing, and the audiobooks are very well done (Ray Porter is the narrator). The story is thought-provoking and has plenty of humor.
We’re moving to go.
The Next Big Power Play on Wall Street
Reliable in what sense? What is being measured here exactly?
What is the tech stack? If Windows support is possible, how about Linux?
Hi there, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your blog post - especially the part about single-purpose software. It's a recurring tension in my digital/physical existence.
I cant help but laugh at the simplification. Net positive for whom?

Landlord and restaurants are happy vs the rest of the population (99%). Its a monstruous policy, considering wealthy nomads pay way less tax than locals.
> guillemots

May I suggest 「these」 instead?
The article is about tax breaks in Portugal, the comment was that Portugal is not only Lisbon. I don't think Asian or African countries or Siberia qualify as Portugal.

If one wants to move to Portugal, then they could consider other cities than Lisbon as an alternative because the real estate market in Lisbon is quite intense.
Pwned.
I don't think the point of this is to replace highly critical videos. It's to replace videos like installation instructions which may only be needed by 10% of your users.

Not only that but 250ms is the average reaction time of a human, you don't notice an extra 5 milliseconds.

If a video is required on your website for engagement you probably shouldn't be hosting it on YouTube anyways.
It seems like you're assuming that the other party's goal is to deceive, bullshit, bluster, etc.

Is it possible that in some cases they're talking in good faith, but using an approach to communicate or collaboration that you misunderstand?
It seems like advanced ACH tech could make checks fast and painless and actually lower Target's cost of settlement. This decision seems short-sighted, since many places already no longer take cash either, and all other forms of payment will include the interchange tax and further prop up credit card monopolies. That's bad for society.

I never pay with check and can't remember the last time I was delayed or even saw someone else pay with check, but this is a harbinger: once they take away cash as a form of payment, the only thing left will be non-anonymized.
Nicotine as a Nootropic, and Ways to Get it Without Smoking
If that is true, then _please_ answer this question of mine on SuperUser:

https://superuser.com/questions/522516/how-to-change-string-...
ChatGPT is the search engine equivalent of those streaming sites that won't directly admit they don't have the show you explicitly searched for, but will instead show you a list of other shows they think will placate you, and pretend they're indistinguishable.
A.S. Hamrah on reality TV, "Cue the Sun!," and working in television branding
I work on a community forum platform and we detect YouTube embeds and replace them proxied thumbnails that don’t load until clicked.

Just because one person in a thread shares a YouTube video doesn’t mean everyone else loading that page should have to download 1MB+ of YouTube’s JavaScript bloat and have their IPs tracked by google.
I've seen that stuff for <5 actually. Still outside affordability for most I understand, but not quite so stratospheric.
Ridiculous. This is not a "friendly to migration" policy but a welcome mat to wealthy nomads to move to Portugal and pay less tax than the locals. That's not even being welcoming, it's throwing your own population under the bus.

Most EU countries have no issue with skilled migration when needed. Denmark has a solid migration policy and thus relative consensus on keeping it as it is. Other EU countries have passed policies that ruined their own local population in favor of low skill migration or in this case, high skill migrants hoping to avoid high taxes. This not attracting "the best", it's attracted a lot of amoral individuals who just want to move to Lisbon to party and enjoy the weather.
Grid storage additions 2017-2022:

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/annual-grid-s...

It’s exponential growth, very similar to the growth curve of solar and wind. What’s different is the curve is even more explosive than either, to the point that it will surpass daily renewable consumption in little over a decade.
Cannot tell if /s, but just in case this was serious: light takes between 3 and 22 minutes to travel from Mars to Earth and back, which means that ping cannot be less than between 6 and 44 minutes depending on orbits.

Robust caching would help but still be nothing like what we experience on Earth (particularly the interactive portions of the web like, say, HN).
With these types of convos you can go usually one of two ways:

1. Re-iterate your points, counter points, data, etc.
2. Acknowledge their point, assume it to be true and ask questions to clarify their point by digging further into the details

In my exp, method 1 generally does not lead to much. Method 2 will either give YOU a new perspective on things OR the other person will back off once they hit rock bottom and think twice before bringing up nonsensical points with you.

It is MUCH MUCH harder going down path 2 as it requires you to put YOUR point/perspective aside for a while and empathize with their view. But being able to cross-question people like this is an incredibly useful skill worth developing.

As an introvert, you are inherently more curious. Use that to your advantage.
Maybe if you provided some of those "facts" people would be more persuaded.
I would much rather wait a few hundred milliseconds for a video to start during the few times I decide to watch an embedded video than to wait for the full video player to load every single time I visit a page with an embedded video that I'm never going to watch. Similarly, I would much rather have every stoplight I approach be green for me rather than having every light be red but for not very long.
When I, an educator who has a understanding of the topics, read the outline I immediately felt sorry for the people who would be part of that curriculum.

This outlines looks smart to people who already dealt with all or most topics involved, but it would be soul-crushing to most students. That being said, this is mostly an issue of how the material is organized and which parts are emphasized in which way.

In a way it is weird to pinpoint what is wrong with it. It is at the same time too niche and to broad at the same time in weird way.
If I understand it correctly, the library displays a thumbnail and defers loading the YouTube embedded player iframe until you click on it, thus improving responsiveness (page load speed is not affected by its iframe however).
Of course the support is only for enterprises, state aid to them, nothing to the people who have or want renewables...
> (use-package treesit

What’s the use of this package? Isn’t Treesitter built in Emacs (at least if compiled with tree sitter support)?
Breakfast cereals, hot dogs, hamburgers, toaster pastries, hot pockets, cornbread, jambalaya, grits, cranberry sauce, jerky, the chocolate chip cookie, pumpkin pie, the waffle ice cream cone, milkshakes, Coca-cola, peanut butter (although I learned today the first peanut butter patent was issued to a Canadian in Montreal).

Some of these were invented in North America, but before the USA was founded. If you do some research you can find much more.

It amounts to a considerable contribution to the culinary arts. Chocolate chip cookies alone are worthy of a lifetime achievement award.
I am not understanding how Bananas play into this?

Is that a term for curly braces I am unfamiliar with or something with? Is code being "banana heavy" a term for code having a lot of scopes thus being bloated? I'm grasping at straws here.
What's so hard about following the Wikipedia model of citing sources? Even 20 years ago, it was clear to college students that they cannot cite "Wikipedia", but they can cite the academic literature it referenced.

It would take seconds to figure out of the ChatGPT citation is real or made up.
Nothing like putting the economy in the dumpster to lower housing prices
What's weird here? She can be proud about the picture and think it's a thing of the past that needs to stopped being used.
Yeah this is essentially what I'm doing. Though I'm fighting with rollup in the process. Might drop down to ESBuild if I need it.
I work in embedded. When I told my boss I was leaving he asked what the other company was offering me - compiler licenses. Without enough each firmware build took 40-60 minutes. With enough, 10 minutes.
It can also expose you to bias, for instance assumptions about what kinds of jobs or tasks you are suited for. This is why I advise against self-identifying as an introvert in a business situation.
It's 'late' as in a stage that comes after the earlier stages. A collapse isn't guaranteed nor inevitable. There could just be a continual freezing out of competition until all that's left are entrenched classes of 'capital owners / rent extractors' living large, and everyone else struggling to get by. With modern computer-aided surveillance and monitoring and compliance capabilities, the capital owners could maintain the system pretty effectively. No collapse, just a a slow slide into well managed misery.
Imo the reasonable thing to do would be to assign a higher credibility to her opinion in the Wired article higher than her opinion in the activist documentary.
The Roman empire didn't have enough money to fund it's conquests. Instead it created a new type of money out of proofs of participation in those conquests (Caesar's face went on coins paid to soldiers and taxes were collected in caesar-face coin. To get one, you had to help a soldier. This caused caesar-face coin to be traded above it's booluon value. After this change, Rome did have enough money for their conquests).

We could do the same thing except instead of basing the money on the collective willingness to attack the neighboring village it could be a collective willingness to feed, house, and medically care for the neighboring village. You couldn't press people into it will fear like Caesar did, but hope might work. Money a proxy for what people believe in, and beliefs can change.
Honestly I feel to be stuck in a society who reject evolution... Witch is worse because changing job is hard, changing society well... FAR harder...
While I agree that the increase in speed per socket was greater in the 15 years between 1992 and 2007 than in the following 15 years from 2007 to 2022, your comparison for the cache size is not correct.

A motherboard with a 486 CPU of 1992 would have had an L2 cache memory with a size between 64 kB and 256 kB, made with discrete SRAM chips.

During the year 2000, the second generations of Intel Pentium III and of AMD Athlon were the first to have an L2 cache memory integrated in the CPU. When first launched in 1999, both Pentium III and Athlon still had external L2 cache memories.

External L2 cache memories had been the norm in all motherboards except in the cheapest models, starting already with 80386DX, before 1990.

So the L2 cache memory of 2007 was only around 64 times the size of that of 1992.

The increase in IPC (instructions per clock cycle) was huge between 1985 and 1995, i.e. 80386 => 80486 => Pentium => Pentium Pro. After that, the increase in IPC has been continuous until the AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake of 2024, but at a much slower pace.

From 1995 to 2003, there was a huge increase in clock frequency, from 0.2 GHz to 3.2 GHz, i.e. 16 times, while in the next 20 years the clock speed has increased less than 2 times.

From 2005 (AMD dual core) until today the greatest speed increases have been provided by either increasing the number of cores per socket or the width of the SIMD execution units. For consumer CPUs (i.e. non-server) Intel has provided a sequence of throughput doublings in the sequence Core 2 (double SIMD throughput vs. previous Athlon X2) => Nehalem (4 cores/socket) => Sandy Bridge (double SIMD throughput) => Haswell (double SIMD throughput), but after that the following throughput doublings in consumer CPUs have all been provided by AMD, with the increase of the number of cores per socket to 8 then 16, and now with the double width of the SIMD units in the desktop variant of Zen 5, i.e. Granite Ridge.

So the increase in throughput per socket (in personal computers) between 2004 and 2024 has been of 256 times, due to increases of core count or SIMD width. For comparison with this 20-year improvement, the increase in clock frequency from 1985 to 2003, during 18 years, had been from 16 MHz to 3.2 GHz, i.e. of 200 times. I do not know the exact increase in IPC between 1985 and 2003, as that would require the choice of a benchmark program, to be run both on an 80386 and on a Pentium 4 or on an Opteron, but it might have been around 20 times. The increase in IPC from 2003 to 2024 might be of at most 6 to 8 times, when accepting an increase of 10% to 20% every 2 to 3 years. So overall, with a doubling of the clock frequency from 2004 to 2024, there would be an increase in the throughput per socket for personal (non-server) computers of around 4000 times both during the 19 years from 1985 to 2004 and during the last 20 years.

This corresponds on average to a little more than a doubling of the throughput per socket (in personal computers) every 2 years, during the last 40 years (i.e. from an Intel 80386 @ 16 MHz to an AMD 9950X).
I wonder if similar findings would also have been found in a large number of humans, after the initial shock and the high mortality levels were brought under control.
Which is only relevant if 100% of users load the video every time they hit the page. Because the 50M is paid by those who watch the video while the 1.3M is paid by everyone opening the page.
As someone who leans introvert who has worked to be more extroverted over many years I think there are some merits of your hypothesis. I'm not really afraid of social consequences, but when I speak I really want to be correct and precise. What I have found in many conversations is that correct and precise is not the purpose. People want to chat and feel like they came to some group understanding as a group. So instead of stating positions and quickly getting to the end result, it's a long dance. It's fine, but as you mention, it's very tiring to me. Something I have not figured out how to solve over the years.
Nuclear power can be dispatched/throttled. The reason why it's not done in practice is because it's uneconomic - the cost of nuclear power is almost all in building the plant and in the subsequent decommissioning, the power itself is almost free once you account for that. So you're better off producing, even under very unfavorable conditions. (Negative prices for power due to excess production can theoretically happen, but they will be solved if storage can be expanded and demand response can be deployed at scale. And renewables are even less capable of throttling in case of negative prices.)
Exponential growth is exponential growth. And pumped hydro isn’t what’s driving that growth. If the curve continues in the same fashion as renewables consumption has and still is today, we’ll have one day’s worth global capacity by the middle 2030s
>> For research, the librarian does not need to be co-located with the library.

> Schemes to do this sort of thing repeatedly fall [fail?] across time and industries. The first problem is that people overestimate the amount of efficiency there is to be had. ... The second problem is that knowledge is local. ... The third problem is that diversity is advantageous.

Those are good general points. My main counter-argument is that they would trump the desire for change if we had a well working system. We do not. The current system is failing (and the article contains strong indication of this) and needs restructuring to avoid extinction. There are different ways to try it but all require honest, public discussions on what we want to have and how much we are willing to pay.

> The fourth problem is that central locations tend to become a single point of failure.

All else being equal, yes. But today's local library archives are often a mess that no one really cares about. Paper, microfilm and microfiche are vulnerable to the elements. I have seen a leak take out a local archive. A local volunteer can box records and move them to a home as a last resort, but there are fewer and fewer of such people around. At this point there is no excuse not to scan those archives and store a local backup, a cloud backup and a few more backups for good measure, too.
It also seems like it takes two clicks to start a video? Is that a bug?
But what now? I can’t think of another thing and that doesn’t bode well for the next decade in the stock market. Feeling very small cap value and gold again like 2000-2010. Nothing could be healthier for the markets and my sanity.
> I don’t think we have any good answers here. In fact, I heard from a little birdie who ran it up the pole that they have tested lighter embeds and found them to reduce engagement.

We’re clearly missing some huge part of the story.

Obviously, faster load times should improve engagement. So if engagement went down with lighter embeds, that implies that some feature or functionality had to be sacrificed. Yet this blog post claims nothing is sacrificed.

Something is missing from this story.
Target's "RedCard Debit" is an ACH transfer. You give them your routing numbers and they give you an account number.

You get 5% off everything when you use it. The ACH transfer is typically the next banking day.