skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main thing preventing this from happening a lot in NA is how difficult it would be to maintain without family paying for everything

But there's absolutely people with big trust funds or inheritances living this way. I knew a bunch of people who basically lived like this during COVID because of relief payments and they only very reluctantly found jobs again after it became clear that COVID payments were done and UBI was not on the near horizon.

There's a similar category of people in the USA and Canada as well that I don't have a term for. They're just as checked out really, bouncing between part time minimum wage jobs. They tend to live with like 5 roommates all doing the same thing they are. They work as few hours as possible to pay for rent and food. Any money left over is going to weed/booze/both and videogames

I think it's the same person who would be a Hikikomori, just adapted to NA economic realities
Anecdotally, being social when I would rather not doesn't make me as miserable as those who are alone, when they would rather not be.

So I can see our relative smaller boost in happiness being outweighed by the utter misery of others.
If you were treated like shit when raised, you will believe being treated like shit later in life is something you need to accept.

Or, the other way round: If you were raised to develop healthy boundaries, you will not end up in an abuse relationship later on in life.
This isn't hundreds of separate sites that have to be hacked individually. This is fewer than 10 clouds with no security to speak of and the ability to push evil firmware to millions of inverters worldwide, where in a few years at the current rate of manufacturing growth, it will be 10s, and then 100s of millions of inverters.

Yeah, the potato cannon filled with aluminum chaff or medium caliber semi-automatic rifle can take down a substation. But this is millions of homes and businesses, which can all have an evil firmware that triggers within seconds of each other. (There will inevitably be some internal clocks that are off by days/months/years, so it's not like it will happen without warning, but noticing the warning might be difficult.)

And the growth in sales is exponential!
Mike Pall makes an argument that interpreters are especially susceptible to this problem, and I find it convincing, since it matches my experience: https://web.archive.org/web/20180331141631/http://article.gm...
It's a big enough penalty to be noticed and course correct. but not a big enough one to fundamentally hit their bottom line. I think it fits.
Paterson-Wegman and Martelli-Montanari are worst-case linear, but Algorithm J just uses the earlier almost-linear union-find approach: unification variables are represented as mutable pointers to either a) nothing, or b) another type (which may itself be the "parent" unification variable in the union-find structure). Unification is then just a recursive function over a pair of types that updates these pointers as appropriate- and often doesn't even bother with e.g. path compression.
It's not incompetence, it's intentional. If police can mistreat you, it makes you scared to do anything that draws attention to yourself.

US police departments grew out of municipal slave catching patrols, and union busters. They're closer to prison guards than civil servants.

Here's a piece by the NAACP on the ties to slave patrols: https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-m...

The Slave Patrol Oath from North Carolina is uncanny how it echoes modern US policing.
> A single landline isn't going to help 30 kids call their parents and say a final good-bye before the shooter kills them, while the town police force stands outside.

I’ve had this scenario in training at work before deploying to certain global locations (Afghanistan, Gaza, Somalia etc)

That it even crosses your mind suggests that the US is a country broken beyond repair.
The key failure is that despite the IPv6 transition we don't have static IPs at home and can start hosting servers at home.

Certainly this requires a lot of progress to secure the IOT space, but we can allow the enshitification of clouds to continue.
I think we don't have good solutions for scaling down prod.

Our relatively simple prod architecture has 5 containers & a hosted database (so 6 containers when run locally), and any less would impact our product goals.

I still find running prod locally valuable, and is the most common way anyone does development here, but containers are fairly heavyweight when you want to run everything on one machine. It's also impossible if you have parts that need special accelerators to get good latency, etc.

If you're willing to build everything from scratch, you can have a framework that seamlessly lets you build conceptual services and then separate the physical deployment concerns, like Google has and sometimes even uses. But for the rest of us where we're clobbering together a bunch of different technologies, that's a luxury we can't really afford.
> this will attract kids that are friends for the money and start weird dynamics in the social bubble of his son

From the amount of money sunk into this one game it sounds like there are already weird money dynamics in his social bubble.
So Mark Rober is just getting away with breaking the law and publicly posting his lawbreaking exploits on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgeXOVaJo_gnexNopBzUK...

To be clear: that could be what's going on here. But I suspect the law on this topic is a bit more subtle than this comment suggests.
That's a great idea, thanks.
I just hope this doesn’t cause a massive swing towards other oils such as olive oil. It’s already expensive. Then add in the hype towards alternative oils and it’s going to skyrocket.
The claim that oils rich in linoleic acid (e.g. seed oils) increase inflammation was looked at in, "a systematic review of randomized controlled trials that permitted the assessment of dietary LA (linoleic acid) on biologic markers of chronic inflammation among healthy noninfant populations was conducted to examine this concern."...

"We conclude that virtually no evidence is available from randomized, controlled intervention studies among healthy, noninfant human beings to show that addition of LA to the diet increases the concentration of inflammatory markers"

see: Effect of dietary linoleic acid on markers of inflammation in healthy persons: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22889633/
I agree that 90% of software development happens in the mind, but also that being a keyboard maximalist makes sense, at least for me.

First of all, there’s the ease with which I can get those ideas out of my mind and into working code. If I’m fiddling with a mouse and dragging things around in some virtual 2D space, it adds cognitive load and puts my mind in the wrong mode for coding. When I’m editing in vim, it’s easy to get into flow.

There’s also the case that when I’m planning my solution, I’m also using a text editor with vim bindings, so I can get into the same flow state more easily as I’m doing software design.

And even though a coder might only produce an average of ten lines of code per day, that doesn’t mean I’m producing 10 lines each day. Some days I produce none, and other days I produce a hundred, so it makes sense to optimize for the days when I’m producing a hundred.

Beyond that, even the idea of producing a line of code seems to assume that you’re only writing new code. I’d say that 70-80% of my coding is refactoring. I’m either refactoring existing code or refactoring the code I’m writing as I go. The ten lines I write in a given day may have been written as thirty lines in the first draft, then edited down. So, again, optimizing for flow here makes sense.
It's a shame that we are getting to a place to have an extension for each site to avoid dark patterns. May be just all in one extension just like Greasemonkey.
This continues to be one of the cooler ongoing projects that produces significant, physical results. Good luck finding the special neutrinos!
we are levelling up with this.
I studied this extensively during my phd.

There is real evidence that the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats in the diet has measurable impacts to health outcomes. Unsaturated fats (those which contain carbon <-> carbon double bonds, rather than each carbon being "saturated" with 3 hydrogen atoms and a single carbon <-> carbon bond) are classified by where that double bond takes place. The alpha carbon atom is at the carboxylic acid end and the omega carbon is at the end of the "tail". Omega-9, Omega-6, Omega-3 are telling you where the double-bond exists, relative to the end of the tail. These molecules can have slightly different behaviors inside the body, despite being highly similar.

The reason that fish oil supplements sometimes show positive health outcomes is because they are high in omega-3s and help bring balance to the overall diet of people who eat an omega-6 heavy diet. People whose diets aren't overbalanced towards omega-6 don't see any positive impact from fish oil supplements.

All that said, the impact is quite small. Avoiding seed oils often has the practical impact of avoiding ultraprocessed snack foods or shifting people's eating away from packaged foods towards fresh, whole foods, which have numerous positive impacts (less sugar, less microbiome-disrupting preservatives, less artificial colors, more fiber, more vitamins, etc) and so at population-level it can work as a reasonable proxy for "healthy" versus "unhealthy" food choices.

TL;DR - seed oils have a sub-optimal ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids. People should try to eat an overall diet which gives them a higher omega-3 to omega-6 ratio than seed oils will provide. Seed oils can be an acceptable part of a diet as long as this ratio is balanced by other meals. Overall, the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio is a relatively minor part of health, and a focus on sugar, total calories, sugar, fiber, sugar, protein, sugar, vitamins, sugar and minerals is the more important thing.
Composite fiberglass materials aren't flexible because of their composite structure, the layers and resin are there to increase strength and stiffness of an otherwise extremely pliable material. Think about fiberglass cloth or pink fiberglass insulation, glass strands get very flexible as the diameter decreases.
> Ronnie Haggard

Nominative determinism strikes again?
I always found the deprecation of the <b> element to be one of the most pedantic arguments.

The given option to either swap the tag for something more descriptive or move it to CSS are contradictory. (I understand not wanting to rely on it for header information).

I just want to make the text bold, dangit. I am not writing an essay about how the text is feeling.
It's the power output that is relevant for the failure mode described in the article, not the yearly production. And in terms of power output, 20GW is an incredibly common number for peak solar production (see e.g. https://energieopwek.nl/ at the end of Jul this year) in summer. Borssele (the medium-sized power plant named in the article) has a 485MWe net output. So yes, we _are_ talking about >25 mid-sized nuclear power plants!
> I have never seen a culturally homogenous business succeed in the long term

Samsung / WeChat / Bosch / Pirelli?

I'd wager that for decades these companies were culturally homogenous (from a Western perspective), and these examples weren't hard to find...
I don't really see the problem with the CRA docs.
Funny and miserable at the same time, frankly.
I believe it is along the line of...

Pull up https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=nam&p=sfct-mean-i... and pick some point (note the 'click for point sounding'). You can see the wind direction at that location as a function of altitude.

Using this as a vector field, you can do "the balloon is here now, 30 minutes from now it will be there, if it is at altitude Z at that time, it will be follow the wind in this direction" which in turn allows you to predict where it will be in 30 minutes and take the forecast for that location at that time and determine what altitude you want to be at.

Saying I want it to be at X,Y at some time is solving this backwards. Which isn't necessarily easy, but it's computable.
Wow, that's disappointing. It seems there's really a lot of reasons to just accept overcommit on linux. (Browers, js engines used in various components now, databases that fork, many existing libraries not expecting allocations to fail ... and I guess they really don't after all?!)
If I was not going to look for a remote job before, I'm definitely going to look for one now.
They're pretty much only dangerous (given normal use) if they get broken, and even then, only if some of the dust gets inside of you.
86Box – IBM PC Compatible Emulator
No that's a good call out, I got my timing a bit off there.
Sounds like an app, not an extension. This would be nice to have in Firefox... and for Tumblr images, too.
> but I maintain they are still better than gargantuan "frameworks" or everything-but-the-kitching-sink "util"/"commons" packages, where you end up only using a tiny fraction of the functionality but have to deal with the maintenance cost and attack surface of the whole thing.

Indeed. Several toy projects I've done were blown up in size by four orders of magnitude because of Numpy.

I only want multi-dimensional arrays that support reshaping and basic element-wise arithmetic, maybe matrix multiplication; I'm not even that concerned about performance.

But I have to pay for countless numerical algorithms I've never even heard of provided by decades-old C and/or FORTRAN projects, plus even more higher-math concepts implemented in Python, Numpy's extensive (and fragmented - there's even compiled code for testing that's outside of any test folders) test suite that I'll never run myself, a bunch of backwards-compatibility hacks completely irrelevant to my use case, a python-to-fortran interface wrapper generator, a vendored copy of distutils even in the wheel, over 3MiB of .so files for random number generators, a bunch of C header files...

[Edit: ... and if I distribute an application, my users have to pay for all of that, too. They won't use those pieces either; and the likelihood that they can install my application into a venv that already includes NumPy is pretty low.]

I know it's fashionable to complain about dependency hell, but modularity really is a good thing. By my estimates, the total bandwidth used daily to download copies of NumPy from PyPI is on par with that used to stream the Baby Shark video from YouTube - assuming it's always viewed in 1080p. (Sources: yt-dlp info for file size; History for the Wikipedia article on most popular YouTube videos; pypistats.org for package download counts; the wheel I downloaded.)
And even if one wants to use dependencies not available as a distro devel package (or as a fallback to missing distro devel package), things like meson and cmake make it relatively straightforward to use vendored dependencies.
SEO itself isn't that different. The question of whether or not SEO matters to a local storefront does have a wildly different answer than an e-commerce business, but if you have decided that SEO matters, then going about it is pretty much the same.

But you are 100% correct that there is a more important underlying question - does old-school SEO matter in modern business? I'd argue that it does not. You need to do actual marketing these days, not "SEO it and they will come."
Due to the rotation of the earth, wind current direction rotates based on altitude. If you want to go in a particular direction, you ascend or descend to a altitude that has winds blowing in that direction.

At least, that's how I understand hot air balloons "steer".
Didn’t WFH mean that many people lost their second place?

I remember reading about the third place many years ago, but that idea requires a second place!
We could go to Sales management... You have quarterly goals that only 85% of your team makes, and if you miss them 2 quarters in a row (or miss it badly enough) you're fired.

Your work needs to bring in $300,000 of new revenue this quarter or you're fired. You are responsible for all support of that product - no on call rotation. You can have QA help but they get that part of your revenue target.
> Doesn’t banning it exclude your kids from these groups? Do they feel left out?

The way I was raised we understood that most kids do things that come back to bite them later and we could choose to be better than that.

I don't feel guilty for teaching my kids to avoid drugs and alcohol—the friend groups that would actually fully exclude them from aren't worth their time anyway. I feel the same about Roblox. It's a dangerous drug produced by an intentionally exploitative company.

If refusing to participate causes a particular friend group to become inaccessible, that says something about the amount of time that friend group spends on the drug and therefore says something about the utility of the time my kid would have spent with them anyway.
The article says it cost more than ten million dollars a year to run. That's a hard pull for another institution or a new public subscription to cover.

It wasn't like those other museums because it did a huge amount of work to be a living computer museum. Getting and keeping ancient systems up is expensive. I think the best thing we could hope for would have been the machines to end up as static, dead exhibits like a conventional museum. Better than nothing but missing the spark that made LCM great. That would also at least have kept the door open to re-starting the effort in the future.

It's a shame that Vulcan just auctioned off the assets. Did the really need the cash? It could have been donated to another museum etc.
We had a terrible time with Dramatiq; very buggy and resource-heavy. We ended up switching to SNS/SQS combo
> b2b

You are, as long as you mean balloons to business
>Even Apple acknowledged this when a marketing head, Trystan Kosmynka, expressed “surprise” that Roblox was approved for the App Store in 2017 in an email. Kosmynka then defended this decision during the trial by saying Apple did not consider Roblox to be a place where people go to play games.

>“I look at the experiences that are in Roblox similar to the experiences that are in Minecraft,” Kosmynka said. “These are maps. These are worlds. And they have boundaries in terms of what they’re capable of.”

Wow. The damage control was even worse than I thought. So I guess the new UE Fortnite Network would be approved no problem since "it's not a game, it's a UGC platform" (not that Epic cares about app stores anymore). Because Epic isn't making the games anymore. Just offloading the labor to others a LA VR Chat.
> Honestly in a 'Just' system I think the heart surgeon is supposed to make more than a CEO

Yes, but in a just system they'd both also make less than they do now. Maybe ~$200k/year total compensation, say?

IIRC, surgeons had the prestige and power when the fundamentals of the modern American medical billing system were established, so "procedures" pay better than office visits, and surgeons get compensated waaay more than other doctors because they do lots of procedures.
Shouldn't this have been a firefox mobile extension?
Company cars are really common in some industries, very rare in others. Ive never heard of it in tech, but I know people in sales that its just part of the gig.
After viewing content and comments on HN without a required registration, they developed a habit of visiting and eventually found value in participating and created an account to do so.

With the current approach for the Problem Platform nobody can view the content or comments without a required registration, so prospective viewers don't see value demonstrated and will never convince themselves that adding yet another account to their digital footprint is worthwhile.
The Closed-Loop Benchmark Trap
Can you elaborate how you usually implement this?
I don't own a cell phone at all, and I do indeed just use a laptop (a Libreboot-ed X200). I have home phone service through a VoIP provider. Works great, actually. But it would really be more convenient if there were payphones to use and taxis aplenty.
It would help if being outside your house didn't mean spending a bunch of money...but in so many towns, that's all there is to find: Stores and restaurants, or a small yucky space on a bench between unsavory individuals with a drug habit.
I've seen the EU pubs, yes beer, but also coffee, some money is spent, but it's also open to prolonged conversations with neighbors without looks at you to leave right away.
My one grandfather was a carpenter with a workshop in his basement for example. I’m pretty sure “a drink with colleagues after work” was very rarely a thing for him.
Software estimates have never worked and never will
New Study Reveals Which Fitness Traits Are Primarily Genetic
It sounds like you're suggesting someone can log in just using (A) biometrics and (B) a 2FA time-code generator.

The problem there is that it's doubling up on "thing you have"[1], and there's no longer a "something you know" condition. A mugger could knock you out from behind while you're using your phone and then empty your bank account or whatever.

[1] That said, fingers/irises/etc. aren't strong in the category of an un-copyable object either, since many scanners are fooled by fake fingers etc.
> Many enterprises have bought m3s, setup their own sub 100gb VRAM gpu rigs but all in all report very little economic value being derived from it.

Literally who? I cannot name a single business that would be dumb enough to go "let's spend tens of thousands of dollars on AI but not the Nvidia hardware" and then act surprised when they get no ROI. Apple Silicon is not AI datacenter hardware; it is consumer silicon sold at consumer silicon markup. This only happens if you rely on organizational structure that allows you executives to override decisions vetoed on a technical basis. Smart orgs don't make these kinds of mistakes.

AI is not and has never been a driver for Mac adoption. This idea that Unified Memory is somehow destined to be the savior of bad LLM models is unfounded and repeated without evidence. Nvidia currently ships server hardware with interconnect speeds comparable to M3's bandwidth, and we've got just about nothing special to show for it. If Apple Silicon was better value for AI operations, we'd all know by now. Surprise: it's not.
There are a bunch of arguments in there that don't match my experience, which includes the JSC interpreter. JSC had an interpreter written in C++ and one written in assembly, and the main reason for using the assembly one was not raw perf - it was so the interpreter knows the JIT's ABI for fast JIT<->interpreter calls.

Mike's argument about control flow diamonds being bad for optimization is especially questionable. It's only bad if one branch of the diamond uses a lot more registers than the other, which as I said, can be fixed by using noinline.
For your gridded data, what file format are you using, grib, netcdf, zarr?
> May be just all in one extension

StopTheMadness is kind of that.

https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
It's intriguing to me that they seem to be prioritizing information collection to determine whether Starliner is viable, as opposed to definitively announce a return via SpaceX and making preparations for that.

It's like if I have a service outage, maybe I might spend a few minutes to collect debugging information, but my priority would be to bring the service back up via rollbacks or whatever to restore a previously known good state. Currently they are debugging Starliner with people stranded, but maybe they should prioritize on getting those people back home first.

Or maybe everyone involved don't consider being stranded for months in space as a bad state.
Initially no, perhaps because I could guess based on prior discussions on Mg.

But, reread after reading your comment and yes I can see that it can cause confusion. They should have been more clear in the title.
Same here. Being at home is basically my default mode. Leaving home needs a good reason.