skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm assuming that you have to live somewhere. Our choice is actually whether to drop, say, $50,000 on a down payment and take on a mortgage, or drop $50,000 in the stock market and keep on renting.

I agree. This is an important clarification not usually considered when making a comparison.

> In the stock market, I would now own stocks worth $60,000.

I assume you implied buying on margin since 2 x $50,000 x 0.10 = $10,000, but since stocks historically outpace inflation I'd expect a higher real return.

A $50,000 investment growing at 7% annually would be worth approximately $200k after 20 years. In comparison, a $500k house would be worth about $750k with a balance of $240k remaining, assuming 2% inflation and a 7% interest rate on a 30-year note.

It might be interesting for someone to create a calculator to crunch the numbers and include details such as how much rent would rise over 20 years, the cost of selling a home (about 8%), home maintenance (about 1% annually), etc.
The best I've found is the kernel development process: use both intelligently and give your branches a clean commit history before they're sent for review.

https://docs.kernel.org/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.html
We gave up on TV completely. We bought a projector and painted a wall white, plugged it into a spare old laptop, and watch everything through that. Works great.

Bonus: the projector plays on the wall behind our main gaming desk, while the laptop sits between our gaming monitors. So if the wife is watching a show, she can turn her chair to the projector wall and watch the big screen, while I can fiddle around on my desktop and see the laptop screen version of it, too.
I think TRIZ applies to software in some cases too, but I usually get down voted for saying so.
Bonus points for "written in Rust" not being in the first sentence.

I may give this a try and see how it compares to fzf.
It's the director of the CDC, it's not some rando on youtube. They mentioned the CDC data.

Don't be a skeptic now, trust the science. If we can't trust the director of the CDC, who can we trust? Some rando on youtube saying that vaccines won't protect you from getting and spreading covid? Oh wait.. we banned those people from pretty much every social network, and guess what, they were correct.

Come on.. be fair.. like really... if we were discussing this in the spring of 2021, and that interview was just on tv, and i said:

> "well, she said that vaccinated people won't get sick, won't carry the virus, but i think that she's wrong, she didn't say stuff correctly, vaccinated people will still massively get sick and also carry and spread the virus, her 'real world data' is bullshit, i want to see her sources, she's lying without those"

...what would you tell me? Would you say "yes, you're correct, it was just a human-to-human conversation, it was simplified, there's no data that her sentance is correct, there's no proof of what she said,..."? Or would you just call me an antivaxer?
If the predictions are meant to be bold, then yes. If they're meant to be fairly obvious, then no.

For example, saying that flying cars will be in widespread use NET 2025 is not much of a prediction. I think we can all say that if flying cars will be in widespread use, it will happen No Earlier Than 2025. It could happen in 2060, and that NET 2025 prediction would still be true. He could mark it green in 2026 and say he was right, that, yes, there are no flying cars, and so mark his scorecard another point in the correct column. But is that really a prediction?

A bolder prediction would be, say "Within 1-2 yrs of XX".

So what is Rodney Brooks really trying to predict and say? I'd rather read about what the necessary gating conditions are for something significant and prediction-worthy to occur, or what the intractable problems are that would make something not be possible within a predicted time, rather than reading about him complain about how much overhype and media sensation there is in the AI and robotics (and space) fields. Yes, there is, but that's not much of a prediction or statement either, as it's fairly obvious.

There's also a bit of an undercurrent of complaint in this long article about how the not-as-sexy or hyped work he has done for all those years has gone relatively unrewarded and "undeserving types" are getting all the attention (and money). And as such, many of the predictions and commentary on them read more as rant than as prediction.
> What exactly didn't I understand?

The difference between casual human conversation on a late night panel show and the strict precise statements in actual papers.

The educated with real world exposure to weed eradication, stock control,. past use of vaccines, etc didn't take the "do not carry the virus, don't get sick,..." absolutely literally as if it was deified bible quote either.

They heard that as saying given the data to hand right now (context) that data suggests (qualifier) that the vaccinated aren't carrying the virus nor getting sick (in contrast to those unvaccinated .. as in there is a visible stark difference).

A chat on a late panel show IS NOT "the science" and a paper on the stats coming back from trials would use actual percents, p-values, etc and make it clear.
> Yeah, let me give some perspective here.

This is spot on and way more likely than my contrived example. The point holds this is political as all things are in University environments.

Another interesting observation I made from my time working at a University is that it was one of the most toxic and political work environments I've ever had the displeasure to work in.
The "code execution" in PDF parsing is what enabled this legendary zero-click, zero-day exploit of iOS devices: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
See my reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651747
Why? Projectors generally have worse picture quality (ie. brightness and contrast). Smart TVs might be privacy nightmares, but thankfully they can still be avoided by plugging in hdmi/displayport directly. The only real advantage is that you can get a bigger screen for a given cost.
Very much an anecdote, but when I was younger, I knew someone who attributed the remission of their (expected to be terminal) brain cancer to eating lots of bananas that were so green/unripe that they crunched. I searched for this just now, and it seems there may be some real science behind it, but it's hard to say without digging into it further.
I’m super fascinated by the rare occasion that digital things degrade in an analog fashion. Usually they just work or don’t.
Nobody forced builders to build those homes. Nobody forced people to buy those homes. Forestry policies, while clearly not helping, are not the cause of wildfires in general.

In addition, California does kind of subsidize these locations. They offer insurance through the FAIR plan, which is (by most accounts) woefully undercapitalized.
Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? (2023)
Even more so, Probably 100% of the population over 70 has cancer in the sense of a clump of abnormal cell divison, just that for a lot of them it’s so slow growing or in a benign tumor that it doesn’t get discovered or treated.
I'm glad SQL Server finally got this, but I wish the syntax was nicer. It's a multi-word infix operator that gets tough to read. I've been using Snowflake SQL recently and I like that they just made it a function called EQUAL_NULL
One point I do not see addressed in the article is how the location is collected.

It'd be a little bit of a stretch to call IP geolocation as collecting location data as it is usually no more accurate than just procuring the geolocation yourself, so there's no need to get it from a broker. However, on an Android for example, both ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION require permission dialogs, so how does it exactly work?
Were your benchmark methods tuned per dataset or across datasets?
What is extremely novel about this facility is the variable speed pump turbines and dc grid connection for the plant. Hydro plants usually (exclusively other than this one?) use synchronous machines that operate at a fixed speed.

Variable speed hydro turbines is quite cutting edge for an old field where change occurs very slowly and carefully
I built a similar thing that includes forces between particles meant to simulate a sort of fluid or, as you scroll down, a gelatinous solid. There’s a bit of free energy injected to keep things moving so it’s actually a very bad fluid sim, but I think that makes it a better interactive toy in exchange.

One of the fun parts of naively n^2 particle simulations is trying to find ways to reduce the algorithmic complexity of collision detection. I remember messing with sweep lines and similar, though I don’t remember what optimizations made it into the final code. [0]

[0] https://omrelli.ug
actually making a video game would be 100x more complicated. Plus kernel developer jobs are more lucrative than most game dev jobs.
Author here, can't believe I missed these. Strawberry Letter 23 is one of my favorite songs. Post has been updated to include these gems. Thank you!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rquygdjf0d8
> Marrone said the FBI is now planning to come to the area with what he called “aerial armor” to make sure no further drones can fly in the firefighting area.

Thank goodness. Maybe they have some way to track emissions back to the source too, every one of these doofuses needs arresting.
Ascent Checklist for Space Shuttle Atlantis (1997) [pdf]
And building a thing where you massively increase their reach is a decision, yes.

As an example, it could be Nextdoor-y[1], bound to physical location rather than global. And that's not a stretch either: it's what Facebook was in the early days. They decided to change it, to become what it is now.

[1]: I do not in any way mean to imply Nextdoor is doing things right, just showing that "social network structure" is a decision, not some kind of inevitability.
I'm one of those stubborn types that will refuse all medical treatments, lots of fasting is my current go to strategy if some tumor gets out of control.
Good point, I totally forgot that because cleaning my workbench and hand washing after work is just second nature to me now.

Metallic lead is dangerous if inhaled or ingested, but not a big concern for momentary contact with your skin as metal, especially given most modern solder is only 40% lead.

Your body will remove a small amount of lead, so hobby soldering is unlikely to cause long term problems.
Supreme Court Denies Trump's Last-Ditch Effort to Avoid Sentencing
If it has wireless transmission (by Wi-Fi or others, whether or not that feature is activated) then that is something that I would not want it to have.
This is really cool and fun!

I don't know much about the security issues others have raised, but if you're good enough to make this thing then I deserve to be pwned by you.

Chapeau!
Your body can only access about 40% of the calories.
Cleaning Up Bhopal: The Worst Industrial Disaster
No. Wherever fine grained location data is available, users granted it.

I don’t know why Candy Crush would require fine grained data, but I am pretty confident CC doesn’t ask for it.
I knew two people (one adult, one child) who lived in the same building and got diagnosed with leukemia (~14 per 100,000) shortly after each other, maybe within a few weeks.

It's anecdotal, of course, but I've always thought that there could have been a connection.
> why not consider slavery

We kinda kept it around in the guise of our prison labor system...
Correct me if I'm missing something, but isn't tptacek's point that if the DKIM's keys are public, I can now just make up any email I want with a "correct signature" and claim it was sent from X and I found it in Y's inbox (for any X, Y). And therefore even if you really found it there you can't prove it. At that point you'd just be trusting the reputation of the accuser (perhaps a respected journalist, perhaps a shady criminal).

I'm not clear how the universal DKIM argument comes into play. Even if we were sure Google only accepts valid DKIM, you still have to trust that the accuser did in fact find it in the alleged Google inbox.

Whereas with the non-rotated key, the accuser has cryptographic proof their alleged email is genuine, because they couldn't have created it without the key.
Love this! Question: How does it determine the 3D position of the centerpoint around which you're rotating? Is that fixed or does it change as you zoom and pan? If you zoom way out, and pan back to look at the solar system, it feels intuitive that rotating should then rotate around Sol. But it seems to rotate around some much nearer point in space to the camera, which makes the rotation act effectively like panning. Am I missing something?
> so I started looking at those queues on occasion, and that's basically all moderation I've ever done. No special instructions from, communications with, or particular love for the company that operates the site.

The idea is supposed to be that you've been on the site long enough to learn what a valid edit is by the time you get access to those queues, and it's tested by having already-handled edits mixed in to your queue. IIRC if you get it wrong it tells you what you should have done.
Just install a couple Magisk modules and your banking app should work fine. At least mine does.
My father-in-law's stage 4 brain tumor was discovered when he was 50. He's in good health now. They operated on him and removed the tumors and did chemotherapy. They continuously monitored for regrowth but it didn't happen. He did yoga religiously for most of his adult life. Even his hair has grown back.
You may want to take a look at this as well

https://www.clinicalnet.com/
To be fair it starts with "Blazing Fast" which very much gives it away
Electronics is not for you
My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends
Author here. So sorry to hear about your depression and medication trials (ugh, the side effects..), though I'm heartened by the sentiment that you "inevitably DO get out of it. Fortunately these things are usually temporary, however long that temporary might be.

I hadn't consider that my own moving around in my early twenties was a way to try and 'break out' of the cycle until you posted this.

Wishing you and your family the best in the new year!
No, you need someone who will represent YOUR interests both in public and private.

When the stakes are exceptionally high, don't ask for advice from someone paid by the agressor.
Data Center Disaster Recovery: A Complete Guide (2023)
> quite parasitic

This is the mental model that I use and teach: a NULL is a virus that will likely make everything it touches NULL... unless cordoned off by a COALESCE or IFNULL or something else that explicitly speaks about its NULL-sensitive behavior in its documentation.

So if you see a bug where a WHERE or FILTER clause is unexpectedly failing, and you're in a time crunch, rather than pounding your head against the wall, start sprinkling COALESCE statements around (while being thoughtful about the domain meaning of what you're doing) and it's more likely than not to solve your problem!
The problem is not that it's 'not important' or 'not sexy', and the attitude that this stuff is somehow underappreciated is so tiresome. It's endlessly fetishized in mainstream media, by politicians, and so on, in a reverse-snobbism anti-intellectual bend, designed to appeal to the insecurities of the "lower" class American.

The problem is that industrial manufacturing employers treat their workers are poorly as they possibly can, and these days, companies actually seek to treat workers so poorly they don't stay - to keep them from qualifying for expensive benefits.

We have one of the highest productivity per person-hour rates in the industrialized world and you'd never think it if you spent even two days working in a warehouse or manufacturing plant. No amount of productivity is ever enough - if you do your job well, you're just shoved more work instead of being rewarded for your effort.
not true. They have redesigned AI cores with a dramatically better DLSS4 model that takes advantage of the new cores. Frames have more details and also a third frame can be generated creating a 300% FPS bump.
Fascism shattered Europe a century ago, historians hear echoes in U.S. (2024)
What a confusing comment. Obviously if you are at a destination you can see a place and if you’re not you can’t. Obviously most people traveling can’t see the place ahead of time, so have to rely on websites. And obviously places on Airbnb advertising to international travelers are going to charge a premium than a local place that is not.
I actually had a TV where that window was the only way to switch to the USB drive. What a pain that must've been for developers to test (though maybe they just dropped in some USB library and called it a day).
How to conduct one-on-ones that Matter
"Wherever you go, there you are."

Also thought I could get away from myself by getting away, and at times it helped a bit, but also often didn't. Sounds like you're on the path to feeling better. Less ego for the win.
My 10 year old LG is like this. Are you sure they ever had anything different? I dont really like it but never had a problem.
ADSL is particular sensitive to electronic noise. I'm afraid to set up my HF ham radio again.
Inspiration for the post!
The problem with Takeout is it removes the metadata from your photos. Google wants you locked in to Google Photos. Years ago they also removed the ability to sync with Google Drive, so the only way to get your photos out without losing metadata is to download them directly from photos.google.com, 50 at a time
The Elon Swing Voter
Note this is from 2024... before the election
Test kits are hard for powders. The only proper way to perform a test is to put your whole stash in water, drop a drop of the spiked water on the test and then evaporate out all the water if your test comes back clean.
to be clear Apple's "full" icloud backup is full in name only. if you get a new iphone and do a backup and restore, expect to spend several more hours setting up various apps and details on your new device. you'll have to log in to your apps on the new device and setup things there if the app doesn't work with iCloud's backup mechanism.

it might be better than android's backup system, but it still leaves a lot to be desired.
Last I knew they support firmware update via thumb drive too (mine does) so if there’s some critical fix you need you’re not locked out if you don’t want to hook it up to the internet.
I think the inverter is always running in between the batteries and the AC outlets. It's a dedicated "solar circuit".

I have questions. What's the point of a dedicated solar circuit? They are leasing from their "local lines company". If the lines company is in the leasing business, this system must be grid-tied right? Why the dedicated solar circuit?

Also, is it common for full sine wave inverters to produce power less clean than the grid? Maybe when the batteries are low? Curious.
Spot on. The whole world is in a constant state of SNAFU. That is the sole truth I’ve understood from many years of pondering and soul searching. To make sense of this world (and the universe) beyond our limited means of comprehension is a futile attempt. Everything is relative - compassion, love, hurt, morality. One being’s loss is anothers’ blessing (food).

I’m also not so hopeful about humans. A simple example: the way we mass produce and slaughter animals for food is beyond cruel. It’s impossible to not be on the wrong side of some argument if you look hard enough. No matter how ethical you are. I am honestly convinced the world just is. We give meaning to things to live as a civilization (and avoid conflict) but the universe/nature/world probably doesn’t give a shit.
Wishing you the best as well. So sorry to hear about your sister. I'm also around if you want to chat. This stuff is not easy.
Unfortunately his positronic net contains too much information to duplicate, so I rely on the third law.
There's this stuff at GNC called "Tri-Sleep". Imagine meletonin tablet effects x5. I don't get nightmares, but my dreams definitely get incredibly weird and more lucid. To be honest though, I definitely think I sleep deeper and longer when I take it amd feel more recovered. Again, anecedotal.
They were overstock because they were underpowered, overpriced garbage targeting the set-top market and those manufacturers weren't interested.

Ebon Upton started Raspberry Pi to help Qualcomm dump stock they couldn't get rid of otherwise.

Look at every single Pi to come out - it's been faster than what came before it, but in a matter of weeks half a dozen competitors have better boards with faster processors for cheaper - that don't have all the nonsense like RPi foundation repeatedly fucking up the power supply so vendors could milk people on "pi compatible" USB power bricks.

A Pi 5 16GB costs $120. Plus case ($10) plus power supply ($12) plus video adapter ($10)...$152. That is absurd.
When I first got a Roku TV I had to uninstall a ton of applications that were auto installed, which are treated just as equally as your actual inputs on the home screen. Then once I got that done I later realized removing an input device left that tile on the screen, you would think the OS could be smart enough to see that the device isn't connected for a while and maybe drop it off after some time? I find Roku TV kind of clunky.
Uhh roughly 100 hours of play got from nothing to you win screen. Could be rushed, or you could slow down and and get all legendary and spend 500 hours.
Seriously, I hate it.

I understand why it happened -- it made sense to allow PDF's to be used for form-filling, and once you can fill in forms it obviously makes sense to validate inputs, and to handle arbitrary validation complexity you need a scripting language, and obviously then you want to be able to automatically fill in fields based on other fields, or even produce a QR code so it can be printed and scanned... And they didn't want to create a new extension like ".ipdf" for interactive PDF.

But still. I hate it.
can I use this in neovim? Something like fzf.vim
TBF when dealing with I/O using the right async constructs is way more important than the choice of programming language, I/O times will dominate and any mistake on the wrong wait will ruin performance.
I once coordinated fire fighting aircraft bombing West Australian rural fires (quite large ones) due to being a local fire volunteer with a background in low level geophysical grid flying.

This really pisses me off - it has the hallmarks of idiot small operator | content creator | journalist | etc. rubbernecking an operation they should have stayed well clear off.

“We hit a drone this afternoon — first one,” said L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. “Our Super Scooper hit a small drone.”

He said the incident occurred over the Palisades fire Thursday. He didn’t have details on who was flying the drone, but said the drone was destroyed and the Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — was damaged.

“It put a hole in the wing,” he said. “It’s grounded now.”

And now they're down a tanker bomber .. f'fecks sake.
Banking web apps usually, mostly work just fine. The one exception is depositing checks. It's pretty rare that I need to do that these days, though.
null != null is pretty bizarre at first, until you understand the reason the did it was to try to make sense of null-able indexed columns. Not sure why we couldnt have our cake and eat it, but instead we got IS NOT NULL is not the same as != NULL
"Reducing sugar intake" is not the same thing as ketosis. I have no strong opinions on whether it would work or not, but that's an article addressing something different and more clearly a misunderstanding.