skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt most people actually care about efficiency in a laptop. My wife is my anecdotal example. She's had a mac for years but refuses to give Apple one more penny because they've been awful - had to replace her previous laptop motherboard 7 times until we finally had to sue Apple in a class action which resulted in them sending her current 2015 MBP, which has now aged-out of MacOS updates. Sucks that this computer is now basically a paperweight.

Anyway, in my questions for her about what she really cares about in a new laptop, power efficiency was not a concern of hers. She does not care about efficiency at all. All she cared about was a good enough screen (2560x1440 or better), and a fast CPU to run the new Photoshop features, and the ability to move it from one location to another (hence the need for a laptop instead of a desktop). I'd wager that for most people, the fact that it's a portable computer has nothing to do with how long the battery lasts away from an outlet. She can transport the computer to another location and plug it in. There are very few situations that require extended use away from an outlet, and even in an airplane, we often see 120V outlets at the seats. There's really no use case for her that puts her away from an outlet for longer than an hour or two, so efficiency is the least of her concerns in buying a new laptop.

So we went with a new Dell laptop with the Intel i9-13900HX, which beats the Apple M4 Max 16 Core in terms of overall performance in CPU benchmarks. I would have looked at an AMD based laptop, but the price on this Dell and the performance of the i9 were great, it was $999 on sale. It's got a decent enough screen, and we can easily upgrade the RAM and storage on this laptop.

I doubt she'd even care if the new laptop didn't have a battery at all, so long as she can easily stuff it in a bag and carry it to another location and plug it in. I feel the exact same way, and I recently bought a new (AMD based) laptop, and power efficiency was not a thing in my decision making process at all. The battery lasts a few hours, and that's plenty. I don't get a hard-on for battery life, and I'm not really sure who does. Are these people dancing around with their laptops and simply can't sit still and plug it in?
The amount of retcon in even the first few pages is comical, it comes across as the most tone deaf thing ever.
I really like your approach. Impressed by your care for performance and your fast pace of adding what appears to be pretty complex stuff, while making sure it stays performant.

Keep it up!

Bookmarked.
You are on the mark. The thing most people hate is learning a new game. My friend's wife refuses to learn new games but is fine playing Terraforming Mars every night (which is not an intro level game). Take games like Ark Nova with an hour teach (literally) and you really really have to want to learn and play that game. It is also why party games and simple card games stay so popular because the rules are always less than 5 minutes.

To make a great rulebook, you probably new two or three diagrams per page for each new concept. So do you have a huge rulebook that is easy to learn from or a small one that is hard to learn from. (The cost and weight factors are pretty negligible.) It also points to the ongoing success of card driven games since you can defer the rules overhead until someone draws the card and they can read the rules themselves as long as the turn structure is fairly simple to jump right in.

Source: I design board games as a hobby and pitch them to publishers.
Really? My partner and I and some of our friends thought the opposite. Skarsgård can be tough but in many of his roles he exhibits a fairly unconventional form of masculinity.

My expectation is that he's going to be able to play an ungendered character quite well.
I think it is meant to be a generic phone, the edges and front camera are wrong for an iphone, but then the home button is very distinctly an iphone. It is weird.
I agree that your points have merit, but I believe the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs.

My comment was intended to focus more on the leap of statistics from "95% of people who responded to an open request for comment were opposed" to "nobody wants this", or even "the majority don't want this".

Public requests for comment can be disproportionately influenced by a mobilized minority, especially when participation is self-selected. Collecting 15,000 "NO" responses from a population of tens of millions doesn't necessarily reflect broader public opinion. In contrast, a random selection survey like the recent YouGov poll[1] which shows that 77% of Australians support the ban is more representative of the general population.

[1] https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300388

Last paragraph mainly.
There are dozens of us! I’m in the same boat, looking for in person.

A few:
Notion |
Anthropic |
Rippling |
Databricks
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>”Making up your own rules" is literally what mathematics is, though.

We don’t make up arbitrary rules, though. Well…so-called mathematicians who study systems with completely arbitrary rules are just jerking off. The rules that most mathematicians use are based on our intuitions about what can’t be proven but “has to be” true.
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How does this compare to PostgreSQL?
If this were to be the case in humans, I wonder what effect antibiotics would be having on behaviour.
I hate to break the news to you, but literally millions believed it. There's still more than a (very overprivileged) few who still believe it.
I can kind of understand having that kind of optimism back in the Internet of, say, 1998, before we saw how vampiric venture-backed winner-take-most tech companies would be. But by 2012, it would be incredibly naive of tech employees (of any company) to seriously believe they were some kind of force for good.
No, she lost because it was clear people were voting based on perception and not facts or stats. Inflation has gone down and the economy is relatively good. Yes, the cumulative effect of inflation won't go away but the rate has slowed down.

Now try explaining that to the voting population and see what kind of blank stares or angered responses you get. BUT PRICES ARE HIGH!!
my question is: how does HN defend itself against bots and it doesn't have any protection system either, from what I see here, I don't know if I'm right.
I can't discuss client specific internals, but some equipment takes 3 days to bring up online.

People are fragile, maintenance/inspections need done, and team communication is more important than any lock with a post-it note. People mess up, and other people bear the consequences. The "figure it out as we go crowd" is not welcome... =3
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OMG, that's great to see. Finally scientific proof that I was right when I refused to do "highlighting" like they were trying to make us in school and university.
https://www.timestored.com/b/kdb-qsql-query-vs-sql/
How many database tables have a date time column and a natural ordering? Most the data I look at. Which makes it crazy that sql is based on unordered sets.
Thanks y'all -- feedback taken. If I were saying it again I'd say something like:

Merkle proofs are rad b/c they build causal consistency into the protocol. But there are lots of ways to find agreement about the latest operation in distributed systems. I've built an engine using deterministic merge -- if anyone wants to help with lowest common ancestor algorithms it's all Apache/MIT.

While deterministic merge with an immutable storage medium is compelling, it doesn't solve the finality problem -- when is an offline peer too out-of-date to reconcile? This mirrors the transaction problem -- we all need to agree. This brings the question I'm curious about to the forefront: can a Merkle CRDT use a Calvin/Raft-like agreement protocol to provide strong finality guarantees and the ability to commit snapshots globally?

Apologies for the noise.
Handle checks out.
As far as I know, most of the tumor microbiome claims haven't held up very well. For example, the 2020 Nature paper "Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach" was retracted this past year [1].

Given the ease of contamination of tissues (and databases), I tend to be pretty skeptical of tumor microbiome claims -- especially the wide-ranging claims of microbes being present in all tumors.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07656-x
Yeah, you can do that here, and it's what I do. I do the same with cars. But most people in the USA have a car payment and a phone payment that is just a perpetual part of their monthly budget.
Sorry, nobody “educated” believed this.
and what would be your best solution?
There are a lot of 'crawshaw's in the world. What email?

EDIT: can be found at the bottom of his personal website, which is linked in his HN profile. Presumably hidden because the URL is the company name and it's unannounced.
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I asked ChatGPT to compare it with the closest "great book," and it suggested "The Da Vinci Code," which is somewhat of a stretch, but I'll consider it a win :-)
Tangentially: How do y'all approach explaining the rules to a new game?

For the card game Hearts I would say something like:

"I will give a 20 second explanation, and then go into more detail in a second pass.

Hearts is a trick taking game. In Hearts players take turns throwing cards into a pile. Depending on which cards are placed in the pile, one player will take the pile, and that player will get some points. Points are bad, the objective of the game is to avoid getting points. Now let's just play through a mock round, it will only take a minute or two..." Etc.

I've given some thought to this, because I've often had games explained to me and the explainer is going deep into the rules about some game mechanic before I even know what the objective of the game is. I also know that people's minds work differently, and so maybe my high-level-first approach is confusing to others.

Any advice on how to teach the rules for a new game?
Ask HN: Should homes have the option to reject all mail delivery?
Of course, you would still want packages delivered by courier, but why allow standard mail delivery to your home if you do everything online?
Of course they did. It was 2012. The Arab Spring was happening when this was written.

People might have been wrong, but that doesn't mean it wasn't a somewhat common belief.
I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't do things like this. Aside from bridging being a clunky and awkward experience for you and your readers that fragments discussion, it's not a good way to promote growth in the new platform. The new platform needs its own identity and exclusive content to give people a reason to move there. If it's just a place to consume Twitter feeds through a different, roughly bridged, interface, there isn't much value there.

By nature of you wanting to copy your Tweets across, you see value in the new platform. If you believe in the new platform, you should actually move across. Readers who actually believe in your content will follow you. If you don't believe in the platform that much, stay on Twitter and don't confuse your readers with two platforms. Straddling the middle is awkward.
That's interesting! My wife and I both pictured him as masculine. In my case, as a cis, bi man who's honestly evaluated how I play my gender, it was because a lot of the way Murderbot feels about being amidst humans is IMO just dead-on how a lot of men feel being amidst women?

Like "everyone here is a little wary of me, and I can't even really blame them for it, because I just categorically am a more threatening presence."
> Harvard eligibility is weird: we can hire hybrid near Cambridge, MA, or remote only if you live in the states of CA, CT, GA, IL, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA, VT and WA.

I’m so curious about this - why these states in particular?
In some sense yes, task dependencies do form a graph. However, what I meant when I was saying that graph is a wrong abstraction, is that predefined edges is a not the best of writing code when dealing with dynamic systems such as AI Agents.

As you said, the easiest conditional workflows are tedious and we have to rely on "conditional" edges to solve the simplest stuff. Then, how would you define cycles or spawning of the same task multiple times as a node-edge relation? It becomes extremely inconvenient and just gets in your way. The reason I built Flow is exactly because I previously relied on a predefined node-edge system which I also built (https://docs.lmnr.ai/pipeline/introduction).

Also it impossible to do MapReduce like operations on node-edge without inventing some special node for handling that stuff.

Idea about comparing LangGraph and Flow is really good and I will work on that asap! What kind of workflows would you love to see implemented in Flow? Btw, there're a lot of examples in the readme and in the /tests folder
> "What are we trying to do?" From there everything else should flow.

Excepting those with particular types of autism, this is the core of how all learnings works. Explain to humans the problem, describe the tools to solve the problem, let humans learn on their own how to overcome the problem.

But the goal of these rulebooks is not to aid the largest number of people in efficient learning, but to draw scrutiny from the least number.
Yes. We waited long for AOT compilation to become mature, to remove the need for the user to install the .Net framework. But two years ago when we decided to switch, we still couldn't just get the AOT compilation of our codebase to work without changes (perhaps it was somehow possible, but the available documentation was not very verbose about this). Also, there is still a performance gap. Of course, this doesn't matter for most of the applications, where the completeness and consistency of the framework, and the number of programmers fluent in that language might matter more. But for a search server, we needed to carve out every inch of performance we could get. And other benchmarks seemed to echo our experience: https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/rust-vs-c...
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300388

Reposting another of my comments to summarize my thoughts. Mainly read the last paragraph in your case. I think you are too optimistic. It may be the case that environmentalism can't organically get enough mindshare now, and we're waiting on a miracle. But I would say I have a far more balanced view of the situation, especially since mitigating negatives is "pessimistic" by nature, and it is not an agenda I push for so much as something people must either accept or deny.
I read the first three books of the Imperial Radh (Ancillary Justice) series and for all of the love they get online I found them rather dull. There's this fairly dramatic collapse of a galaxy spanning empire happening in the background while the protagonist frets over the level of offense she might cause at the tea party if she chooses to wear the more scandalous gloves. The last book gets a bit more into the fractured psyche of the ruler, but even that gets shoved in the background far more than you would expect so the protagonist can worry about how she might hurt the feelings of the local planetary governor if she doesn't show up for his garden party.

The protagonist is basically a disconnected Borg drone, although in their universe the drones are left with a bit more autonomy than the Star Trek equivalents, but because the protagonist is disconnected it doesn't matter nearly as much as you would expect.

If you're interested in a big space opera about an empire falling apart I found the Collapsing Empire series by John Scalzi to be much more engaging.
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I did see the part about "graph is wrong," but the examples in the readme seem like you may find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42274399 (Nodezator is a generalist Python node editor; 29 Nov 2024; 78 comments)
Oh dear. I'm concerned about the person who would be attempting to read these books, if they are representative of his literary diet. Seems to me to be symptomatic of depression.
to those of us who are still stuck in purgatorio, the circle with all the virtuous doesn't sound like a bad spot.
> I propose the Baby Money Index, which is the income per capita multiplied by the fertility rate squared.

It doesn't make sense to score positively for fertility rate (babies born per woman) without doing anything to consider whether those babies actually survive, especially when there's an inverse correlation between number-of-babies and infant mortality.

This mistake compounds (literally) when squaring that number as a really weird way to guess at potential grand-kids, since each of those births have to reach adulthood in order to even have a chance of reproducing.
Taiwanese law forbids TSMC manufacturing chips abroad using their latest process, so no 2nm in the US fabs,this leaves Intel's 18A as the mist advanced one in US soil.
Who cares, as long as it asks about its purpose I'd be more than satisfied
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Have you seen this debugging output doc? https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel-...
The video game version of Monopoly is pretty good - you can finish a game in about 20 minutes.
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Ah, the abuse therapy. Excellent choice. /s
What if you just want to read something without a credit card? In the far-off past, it was once normal to buy a book without your purchase registering in dozens of databases, being cross-referenced with your electricity bills and the people you went to high school with, then analyzed for your marketing or terrorist potential. You would go to a bookstore, hand them something called cash, they would give you a book, and your relationship would end.

Now you can only do this through piracy.

I'm honestly not worried about getting zoomer takes on Red Harvest. I'd like to be able to legally send it to somebody I recommend it to without involving hundreds, if not thousands, of other people.
When I teach people how to play a game, I usually omit several of the rules upfront to help people grok the goal faster. For example when teaching Texas Hold'em, we might play all the way to the river with all cards face up and no betting. Then we'll play a round with up-front betting keeping our hole cards private. Finally, we play the game "correctly" with turn-by-turn betting.

I'm surprised more board games don't include a "first game" playthrough guide to slowly introduce mechanics. This is extremely common in video games.
Maybe you are right and Battlemage is DOA. Perhaps intel know that and just want to dump inventory before announcing they will get out of the GPU business.

On the other hand, maybe not.

My point is that although you might think they are going to divest the GPU business in future, we don't know that for sure and it's kind of weird to present it as having already happened.
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I'd start with the objective before anything else. "In Hearts, you get points - points are bad, and the objective is to avoid getting points." Everything else is framed around that, IMO.