skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the author either has an enormous blind spot or is intentionally failing to observe the fact that magazines exist in a completely different landscape today than they did even a decade ago, much less nearly 100 years ago (in the example cited from "It's a Wonderful Life").

The cycle didn't start with publishers shrinking page count and cutting back on long-form content - publishers started shrinking page count and cutting back on content after they started losing money (at least in many cases).

Print publishers were/are competing for attention as much as dollars, and there's so many other things that grab people's attention. There's so many other sources of information. Advertisers have many, many more venues and -- sadly -- they tend to choose the venues that they can track over the ones they can't.

I used to write for several print magazines in the tech space -- and I watched their ad budgets get hollowed out by online options because (generally) buying ad space in a magazine is an act of faith vs. "we ran this online campaign and we see we have this conversion rate and can track that 1,023 people downloaded our ebook and that this marketing 'touched' 75 accounts that closed or renewed deals for more than $1m."

I love print. Love it. But I also have realized that, honestly, I have very little time for reading the print magazines I subscribe to. I subscribe to a few sci-fi print publications and they just gather dust. I have a Mother Jones print/online subscription. Usually the print version goes into recycling without ever looking at it.

What is lacking here is any suggestion of a solution. He gestures at the problem being cutting content, but then closes with a "we need to work on building something else" without actually describing the something else worth a damn.
Simonis is pretty much the gold standard. Their 860 is my preference, but their others play really well too.

The Predator Arcadia is good, but plays really fast.

Haven't really had issues with the other brands I've played on (aside from Andy), although humidity really affects the Valley Ultra cloth.

Had a tournament on Valleys when a rain storm came through a few hours into it. Without hearing the rain or looking outside, I could tell it was raining. The tables slowed down dramatically.

Edit: Slight side note, avoid tables by doors to the outside. The fluctuations in temperature really messes with how true the table plays.
The fetus's liveliness check failed
Wow, this is a badly written comment. I mean I agree with it. I think.
The usual retort to this is of the form "this is a privileged position to take. People who drive cabs, work construction and clean drains can't even think of this".

I agree, but we should recognize that we are moving more and more towards a world where automation enters every facet of our life, every step of the supply chain. Hitting a pause once in a while and just reflecting on how life has changed will do a lot towards changing opinions on work and retirement. While FIRE is achievable (at least until now in software), what I think I want is a long career to work on hard problems with other people of the same wavelength.

Easier said than done, but tbh we have a lot of free time today that we waste in social media as the OP says. Consciously slowing down a bit so that one can run a longer, more focused, perhaps less financially lucrative race but also one that has a higher probability of being fulfilling and putting us in touch with good people is something all of us, the well-paid software guys, must aspire to and put into practice.
At this point, there are 138 comments, which, as is often the case on HN, are much more informative than the link itself and show that the topic is hardly worn out. If it was, it wouldn’t have made the front page.
I suspect that what tech vendors want even more than just sales is if all the old versions of the hardware and software they already sold would just go away.
It's all one energy market however. It's a bit a of rough approximation, but green energy wasted on unnecessary purposes is green energy not used for necessary things.
Emo Philips once said "I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the body. Then I realized, whoa, ‘look what’s telling me that’."

There seems to be this naïve view among some philosophers that what our verbal stream of consciousness reports is somehow the most important part of our "mind" or our "consciousness", some even saying that verbal thoughts are the only thing that are important enough to be called "thoughts"!

I say: look what’s telling you that! I mean that very seriously.

I've always assumed that the brain has to have many parallel things going on at the same time and we have some limited awareness of these things and some ability to coordinate and direct the different parts of the brain, but it seems to be rather limited. It can't be complete, just on a Turing/Goedel basis, but anything approaching completeness would mean slowing our thoughts down to the slowest parts.

I remember reading about the Libet experiment decades ago and how some people thought that it disproved "free will"— whatever that could possibly mean. The impulse to report a decision to move a finger came after the impulse to move the finger. So? They were apparently assuming that the mind was some synchronized, sequential process and that the verbal report of what "the mind" was intending to do was supposed to come at the same time or before the impulse to move the finger. What???

Even a view of a single stream of "attention" or "executive process" seems dubious. Yes, we have all had the experience where something that's mostly automatic/unconscious suddenly requires our attention. For example, you're driving a car and suddenly a novel situation comes up and you need to turn off the radio or tell the passenger to shut up so you devote all your attention to driving. But just normal driving requires an enormous amount of processing of different concepts and coordinating different parts of the brain.

There was an experiment (Maier's two-string puzzle, I just found by google), where a scientist tested people's ability to solve a problem figuring out how to tie two strings together that were hanging from the ceiling, too far apart for anyone to grab both at the same time. Some of the participants were given a non-verbal "hint" of how to solve the problem. But, when asked later how they solved it, most of those given the hint didn't mention it! Were they "consciously aware" of the hint at all? That was an actual experiment relevant to the idea of a unity of consciousness.

Anyway, mine is a very limited, amateur, mostly 20th century perspective on the ideas. I'd be interested in what others have to share, especially actual experiments and not so much philosophers examining their verbal thoughts.
> And how's that going for you at the moment?

Much better than it is for the UK. Most of the rights protected in the Bill of Rights was carried over from English common law. Britain has since explicitly abolished some of them and openly carves out exceptions to the others. How many people in Britain have been jailed for mean tweets?

> You have a supreme court which has just decided that the president is effectively outside the reach of the law.

That’s a false oversimplification of that ruling.

> As for the trial of Charles I - that was anything but a kangaroo court. Great care was taken to give him a fair trial, while establishing the principle that no-one was above the law.

Charles I, the king, was charged with treason, which was defined prior to that trial as disloyalty to the king. The king was disloyal to the king? It’s complete nonsense and they were clearly making it up as they went along.

The English Civil War was a violent revolution that overthrew the previous system of government and imposed a new one by force of arms. I’m not against that in principle but at least the American revolutionaries were honest that that’s what they were doing.
You still have to pay infrastructure deprecation costs, financing costs and labor costs.
Agreed that exiting the country was much easier for JetBrains who are more internationally focused. But my belief is that Yandex leadership made a strategic mistake in not spinning off their core businesses to Europe. They had a chance at establishing themselves as an EU-first search engine, mail provider and cloud that can compete at the equal footing with Google. Yet they blew it and now they are FSB owned in everything but name.
> I don't think the point is to enumerate every service of a given kind (...)

Leaving out the most obvious services from the main cloud providers is no innocent oversight from an exhaustive search. There is no way around it.
Wonderful. Makes me want to write a book just so I can use it :D
I didn't work directly for it, but I remember my team working on parts of the software and back-end stuff for Nokia Ozo[1], a 360° virtual reality camera. I feel that that camera was ahead of its time.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_OZO
Right, but to me you are arguing that we don't necessarily need 100% automation, we just need to (re)design the tools in a way to support smaller farms. Instead of huge tractors that can cover vast areas of land, we would be better off by having smaller tools that can make the individual farmers more productive.
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What if you're using that energy in your hot tub, or to heat your house during the winter?
We can and do, all the time. And all puzzles are a "waste of resources", really.

I'm not into crypto and I do think Bitcoin is stupid and wasteful, but I don't find it "sick" or all what upsetting that this kind of puzzle exists, though I think some smart contract-based Ethereum puzzles could be much more interesting, demanding solutions to more interesting problems that don't directly relate to the blockchain itself. Imagine a smart contract with a pot anybody can pay into that pays out to whoever could crack a particular previously unsolvable problem. Basically a public bounty. The only downside is that it has to be a problem that can be validated algorithmically.
Step 2.5 Argue with Coinbase about if you're a legitimate owner or not

Step 2.6 Coinbase blocks your account citing "Suspicious activity"

Step 2.7 Sign up to three other exchanges, split the loot across them

Step 5 Argue with the bank about the source of funds

Step 6 Argue with tax agency that you'll fill out your taxes correctly
You’re the one that replied to me, kid.
I added it !
I would argue that it depends and varies on the person. I have had non-experts in management who did not often grasp the effort and difficulty and often made bad judgements. Then there were other non-experts who appreciated what was done on technical side a trusted that the reports will do a good job.

Then I had experts in management who always poked into everything and thought they knew better or often get swayed by sweet talks from other experts(even in cases when it didn’t make sense). Then I had experts who rose among the ranks and then despite being untouchable, still supported the reports and put immense trust and acquired all resources requested and let people do their best work.

In the end, I think, expert or non-experts bring different tradeoffs, but trust and a good relation with the people in trenches always gave the best results.
> It seems to have an inherent negativity bias?

It sounds like a cynical twist, which is sorely required when filtering out bullshit.
There may not be a continuous fuel expenditure, but there is a maintenance cost for the grid infrastructure, keeping panels or turbines in good working condition, etc. -- not to mention the manufacturing costs and, since no organizations are currently engaged in microwave power transmission from solar-power satellites in space -- not insignificant associated monetary and opportunity costs to the land used.

Conclusion: yes, it's still a waste, unless that energy was surplus absolutely not going to be used for anything better or able to be stored, although even then the compute resources could have probably been used for more useful problems.
I subscribed to magazines in the 1970s-80s and really felt I was getting my money's worth. Sure, there was lots of ads, but there was also lots of great stuff. I remember magazines getting thinner, glossier, and more ad-laden in the 1990s so that I just gave up on them. This happened mostly before the Internet.
That’s 5% of the daily trade volume. Shouldn’t be an issue.
> purely as a legal matter, it does seem odd that you would lose autonomy when you band together

It absolutely makes sense. Laws set rules for resolving conflicts between entities (both people and organizations). In general, the more power an entity has, the more likely it is to abuse that power and the more damage it can do in its abuse and therefore needs more oversight and restrictions on the use of power.

Organizations are obviously more powerful than individuals so require more oversight and restrictions to keep them in check.

The only odd thing is that organizations don't accumulate more restrictions according to their size.
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Since energy isn't easily transported, wouldn't that really depend on where the energy was produced?
OpenAI's warnings about risky AI are mostly just marketing
>publishers started shrinking page count and cutting back on content after they started losing money (at least in many cases)

I thought this was quite well understood which is why the article says something like "you cannot fix sales problems by decreasing the quality of your product" (too lazy to go find actual quote)
If anyone developed a solution to integer factorization, I'm sure they would be after larger prices than mere 400k in crypto. A practical application of this puzzle could be to have an estimation of how long it takes to break a public key by conventional means. The moment one of these prices can be claimed in mere months you know it's time to double the size of the Bitcoin public keys.
Gigantic Wave in Pacific Ocean Was the Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record
https://archive.ph/8YAQb
Working in this field, I think a lot of the issue is publishers often require small datasets in xls format for paper submission. So someone in the chain (corresponding author, editor, journal staff member etc.) opens the file in excel and saves it again.

Bioinformaticians are not doing their analyses in excel.
The use of the word “we” is curious. You didn’t come up with the puzzle, you didn’t “waste” the resources. The purpose of the we is to appoint yourself judge and arbiter and to steal yourself into the in-group. Just post your judgement: you don’t like that someone else did something you don’t like with their resources.
I’m guessing the primary use case for this will be setting cookies. (Google fonts or whatever sends different dictionaries to different clients, the decompression result is unique per client).

I wonder what percentage of http traffic is redundant compression dictionaries. How much could this actually help in theory?
Throwable 360 cameras owe their heritage to Jonas Pfeil, who built one for his thesis at TU Berlin [0], and later commercialized the idea in a camera called Panono [1]. They never really went mainstream, but it was a really cool idea with lots of buzz back then (10+ years ago).

[0] https://www.jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera/
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5092670/panono-camera-ba...
Watching it? Not a fan at all. Never was. I don't hate it with a passion, but it doesn't move me at all (I haven't even seen a minute of the Olympics, nor of the football championships in the past decade).

I also hated doing sports - I was a fat heavy smoker for most of my life. But about 5-ish years ago I became a health freak, which also involved starting to do some exercises. I hated it in the first year+, it was a real chore. But as I got better gradually, it also grew on me slowly. Today I can't even imagine a day without a good sweaty workout...
What category of taxable income would this be in the US?
Pretty sure all puzzles are a tremendous waste of time and create no value.
I believe DNA is a compression algorithm beyond our current understanding, and the 6 billion bits is a post-compression size.
Not unless everyone is using green energy.

California uses green energy, but in doing so increases the mining reward, which increases the mining from countries like china and russia, who do not use green energy.
Most of the time I just want to run some program in some folder in the console to try getting the log output, so I right-click in explorer "open command window here" and just type the program name.

With PS that's ".\program" (~like in bash, two more chars) to make it happy, which is two more characters for no win at all in my use case (anything more complex gets some variant of bash/fish rather than PS, plus Windows Terminal). So I just use regular cmd (and add it back to the explorer context menu since Windows removed the option).

Though 97% of me not using PS in that case is mostly it feeling like yet another thing Microsoft is trying to force on me. But I agree that in that case it's me getting stuck in my old ways and pushing users out of cmd seems to make sense.
Probably. The energy could have been available to any energy intensive industry, helping them if the resource is too scarce and eventually lowering production prices if it wasn't scarce. You notice it in Germany where energy has become very costly in the last couple of years, where it then makes more sense to limit production or even close all together.
That wouldn't be a puzzle, then. It would some kind of engineering challenge. A puzzle starts by knowing the answer and then putting some circuitous path between it and the player, that they have to figure out how to navigate. It's inherently wasteful to construct puzzles.
“ Cancer diagnostics today are broken. You have to get to a point where you're sick enough or find a visible lump somewhere to go for a checkup”

We are developing liquid biopsies that seem promising for early cancer detection.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03195-0

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/01/detecting-cancer-through...
What you would do is claim the prize slightly ahead of schedule and wait to be slightly ahead of schedule for the next one.
Do companies want older people? In my experience, not so much, so even if you want it's not one side choice.
Or OnShape, which isn't quite as capable, but is free and probably easier to learn.
exactly ... i mean even without hindsight "agile" is a rather poor choice as the label. it just evokes the wrong ideas too easily.
Same. I use this to remember meetings and lectures; somehow, when I just doodle random stuff I remember things better than if I wrote them down.
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You could also build software for fun, ie contribute to open source.

However remember that there are several other disabilities that can occur as you age. I know several people who developed Alzheimer's or MS around their 60’s. There is no way they could work a programming job today.
That’s how I felt sending my little lidar robot vacuum out to map our apartment.
I think that's fair. To the degree that someone, somehow, is willing and able to foot the bills, lots of people are willing and able to work hard to put out a quality product. Yes, some have an agenda to push that you may or may not agree with, but a lot of the issue is money at the end of the day.
I'd argue that no other thing, apart from information, is transported as easily as electricity, once the grid exists. Sure, there are capacity limits, but I doubt that shutting down crypto mining would cause problems to the grid.

I recently read that some are thinking about connecting the US with Europe via DC cabling.

Here's a related, old article: "Submarine power cable between Europe and North America: A techno-economic analysis" (2018)

• Developed a 2030 power dispatch model of Europe and North America (NA).

• Identified socio-economic benefits of European-NA electricity trading through a HVDC cable.

• A 4000 MW cable increases social welfare by 177 M€ on an annual basis.

• This benefit for society is sufficient to cover the investment costs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965261...
Yes, that's an alternate ABI with 32-bit addressing targeting the same 64-bit instruction set. But it's not trivial, as you described. You might also want some kernel support too, and there might not be enough demand to maintain that support.
+1, One cab likely also presume that especially DNS at the root level is already handled locally for NK. They reportedly have their own intranet so presumably they also have common services like DNS hosted their.
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Author sounds young. As you get older your interests may change. I used to really enjoy writing software. 35 years into it, I no longer get any joy or sense of accomplishment. Even when I write new things that result in patents (so don't tell me I need more interesting challenges.)

Now what brings me joy is spending time with my nieces and nephews. This is not a thing that can or should be monetized. I need to build up a retirement so I can truly enjoy the things I care about most in life.
If only there were enough management jobs for everyone.
It is a reasonable point. I am a greenhorn in the sense that I've been learning CAD for my own somewhat complex, multi-part projects for three years. And I am not an industrial designer. Or a mathematician! (I am opinionated.)

The point for me is that, as a relative novice, I have got past some really important hurdles recently. So I can explain the benefits of getting past them to people who maybe don't know they are there.

I started off using OpenSCAD because it convinced me I'd be able to make something, quite quickly. My first two or three things were OpenSCAD things. It introduces you to stuff that isn't immediately obvious: the more complex booleans like difference of simple primitives, extrudes, lofts, sweeps, revolves. Great! I made things, I printed them, it was transformative.

(There's also quite a good thread library -- Adrian Schlatter's threadlib -- that I do want to say is very helpful and I learned a lot from.)

But it will likely hold back your development as a CAD user for even modestly complex things. Because you will never get access to the fundamentals of your objects -- the faces, vertexes and edges. Putting aside BOSL and the like, it leaves you stuck with a lot of increasingly complex maths, when if you could use the generated geometry you would not have to be. You would have much simpler operations relative to faces and edges.

This is why I said it would be worth spending at least some time with these tools. So you know what is out there.
The art of Baumschnitt (German tree pruning)

The art of Trjáklipping (Iselanding tree pruning)

Just go trough normal things people do in Japan and add title "Art of <activity in Japanese>" and it sounds exotic.

For example: The Art of O shiri o kaku (お尻を掻く)
Maybe, but that’s not always feasible. Change fields? To what? Maybe teaching, but not every blue collar job can do that, let alone not every worker is capable. And not everyone is fit for management either, and for every manager there’s at least 10 workers under them, so there isn’t space for everyone. The ideal is to actually improve conditions, especially factors outside of the worker’s control, so as to allow them to have a proper retirement.
My way of remembering something later is to mentally picture "myself sitting down at my desk and remembering the thing". It works reasonably well!

Although I'm terrible at names and faces, and my "visualizing the moment of recall" tip doesn't work for remembering people.
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