skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody here is talking about unfounded things nor demanding anyone do anything.

You sure? There's people commenting "just checked google scholar" and naming random plants without citing anything.
Spot on @bb88.

What do you suppose are the fixes?
It's not even free speech. It's directly targeting specific people while continuing to protect others. They already censor a ton of things.
Personally, if I were dying and someone kept saying fake nonsense like "you are getting the best care" I'd probably cut off contact with them, or at least wish they would stop. I'd know I'm getting mediocre care like everyone else, that's also part of accepting the reality of the situation. I'd know my doctor probably graduated at the bottom of his/her class or else he/she wouldn't be an authorized provider on an HMO- and he/she probably can't understand or doesn't read the latest medical research on his/her own. And that probably doesn't matter one bit, because the "best care" wouldn't work either.

I might also want them to share technical ideas they think might help, or at least I would tell them if I wanted them to or not. If you decide to experiment on yourself, you can still accept the reality of a terminal illness. For me, that would be part of ending my life with dignity- knowing I sincerely tried to understand and solve the problem my own, and share what I learned with others, just like I did in the rest of my life.
I can’t speak for the person in question but I strongly suspect they’d thank you for keeping it light.

Well done friend.
Here's real soldering the Tektronix way.[1] This is the soldering technique for Tektronix ceramic terminal strips, which had silver fired into the surface of the ceramic. The solder used was 3% silver. The innards of Tektronix scopes of that era are just beautiful.

Tektronix was the first to make oscilloscopes where the screen was calibrated, and you could measure voltage reasonably accurately. Earlier scopes just let you see the general shape of a waveform. So Tektronix had to develop components and techniques to make electronics behave consistently, over a wide range of temperature and humidity, in portable instruments.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpB5JqGo1co
New Model Y
New Tesla Model Y. Thoughts?
As I understand it, the story is not the advertising network getting the private data — we have all known that for a long time. The news is that even the unsuccessful real-time auction bidders can get a lot of this data.
For example, the space program basically died when the Cold War ended and it took a long time for it to restart and we still have yet to achieve things in the commercial space that the government could do in the 60s like reach our nearest satellite. Same goes for the cancellation of the SSC which could have achieved what the LHC discovered but 10 years earlier. Saying that other states are making discoveries is ignoring the fact that it takes them longer to achieve those goals than with the military or other emergency situation propelling them forward.
I’m glad you’ve shared your opinion that “free speech” strictly refers to government censorship. I disagree.
The original is open access: https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/qje...

Why is this doctored? (the acronym NBER shouldn't be in the PDF, the typesetting is incorrect, some of the figures are wrong, it's missing many pages, it's out of date - the current copy is Dec/2024, this is Jun/2022)
They’re currently so cheap and plentiful that it doesn’t really make economic sense to recycle them. They’re recyclable in the sense that it would become a realistic option if supplies became limited, which isn’t true of everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Buyers_Club
Indeed, they're not identical - that's why I just said "based on", and that's likely why the word UNKNOWN itself isn't used in SQL.

Nevertheless I find it a useful intuition pump. I wager that most people reading `UNKNOWN = UNKNOWN` or `UNKNOWN <> UNKNOWN` and thinking about the examples above would stop and say, "Wait, I actually don't know the value of that statement for sure either, since the LHS and the RHS could be completely different things," and would then double check what their SQL dialect would actually do in this situation.
I've been subscribed to Kagi since trying it out early on in 2023 and have been paying the $10/mo for unlimited usage since they introduced that tier (if you are a heavy search user, I'd agree the $5/tier "limited" tier doesn't make so much sense). It takes a bit more clicking, but I found 6mo usage view https://kagi.com/settings?p=consumption&range=1 and its nice to check on it after having "lived with it" a while. My lowest months are 500 searches, and a few higher, but one month goes up to 1300 searches. The "killer app", and what made me subscribe when I started was being able to up/down-rank site results myself. Being able to just not see content farms is the starkest difference now vs when I use Google Search (it's striking and seems to make search downright useless).

I've used 0 "AI Tokens" for the entire period. (I've never found much use for their FastGPT or Universal summarizer, but I am already a heavy Claude, ChatGPT, and w/ Gemini 2.0 models, AI Studio user now). I was also subscribed to Perplexity Pro at a $10/mo introductory rate this past year, and while I enjoyed it when I used it, I found its utility somewhat situational and didn't renew at $200/y - I use Claude, ChatGPT, and AI Studio now w/ the Gemini 2.0 models extensively, and when I want search result analysis, I think both of the latter now fill that niche pretty well. I just saw thanks to this thread that Kagi's "Ultimate" tier has access to their new "Assistant" product, which looks pretty well thought out, so I'll be giving it a spin (they should probably give like once a day trial access or something if they're looking to grow it, most people probably wouldn't put down $25 sight unseen): https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html
I've been having the same realization with Java/Swing lately.
It's good enough for many of my needs and it runs pretty much anywhere.
I don't doubt that but I cannot really pinpoint what the reason is to want "fi" and "ij" in a monospace font? Do these narrow letter ligatures then take up only a single character cell?
Acknowledging the nuance on this issue is hard, because a lot of people will call you a literal nazi for doing so. But that is a position which, ultimately, entirely denies the existence of culture as a concept.
I can appreciate the funny lyrics, but in real life I appreciate being able to write in my own language on a computer. Or even a mix of my language and another non-English language!
I worked in materials science in the past. Although I dont recall all details, I have seen seen convincing presentations from researchers at the Weizman institute claiming strongly we are far from ready for a transition to a hydrogen economy, and I have seen no evidence or supporting studies since then arguing that we know how to introduce hydrogen cars to steel cities. We wont have ammonia synthesizers in every street of Manhattan, yet we have plenty of buildings that might start failing fast if people replaced their parked cars with hydrogen cars. I do think it would be cool if the structural part of the world was different and would allow for such cars to roam the streets, but the US is not loving rebuilding physical structures for the purpose of a new technology, so I think it will take a while, and a couple accidents to get things right at a slower pace. We might never need H-cars in the end.
This sounds like what ServiceNow and Salesforce would be building if their best hackers ran the show.

Very hard problem but I hope it works out! This is cool.
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/, the recent findings of bypass of certificate pinning [0], wireguard creator doesn't trust f-droid himself [1], continued harmful attacks to GrapheneOS devs [2] and a few more points regarding their build infra using a deprecated debian release.

[0] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/8

[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3110#note_1613...

[2] https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7#note_22877...
This question gets asked all the time, but what's a good setup if I want a real remote and no bloatware? Sometimes people recommend digital signage TVs (does LG make any?) And what's a good device to use for steaming apps?

In a fantasy world, there'd be something like OpenWrt for TV firmware, but I doubt it exists.
There are still many mysteries to unravel about viruses, they may be more important to a functioning ecosystem than we realize, and there are useful tricks which only they can do.

I think it's more like lead poisoning.
> OP is explicitly asking for hacks and "out there" solutions, I think this is a reasonable place to post anecdata, papers, personal theories, etc. as long as people state their confidence level and link to sources when possible

As long as OP and their friend know this is spinning wheels for fun and is pretty much certainly not going to extend their lifespan, sure. There can be satisfcation in knowing you never truly came--nor will ever come--to terms with death.
I more or less agree with you, but there’s a third path that you left out: expanding their footprint in other countries. For example, pretty much all major tech cos have offices in Hyderabad, India.
Facebook hosts a party.

If you don’t kick assholes out of your party, the party becomes less fun, and then there are only assholes in the party.

Yes, it is in fact targeting specific people: those who make the party less fun and protecting those who are just trying to have fun at a party.

https://x.com/IamRageSparkle/status/1280891537451343873?s=20

https://www.boredpanda.com/bar-bartender-nazi-punk-iamragesp...

Tolerance is not a moral imperative, it’s a peace treaty. If you don’t participate in the peace treaty of tolerance with others, tolerance won’t be extended to you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1c9rid0/how_are_...

https://www.howtogeek.com/392080/cheap-windows-10-keys-do-th...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/143hze5/is_this_...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/can-i-...

Not legitimate in the slightest. If I contacted Microsoft they'd confirm them as an authorised reseller?

I'm not interested in your anecdote when the topic was whether they are bona fide licenses from Microsoft (pretty low effort to not stay on topic I must say)
In such high-energy situations, the green alternative is most likely air-to-diesel, fuels derived from captured CO2 recombined with H into hydrocarbons. Compressed/liquified H2 can theoretically power an airliner, but for all that effort they could just use "green" manufactured hydrocarbons running though normal turbofan engines.
You’re narrowing the market for self-driving to the ridehail market in the top 10 US metros. That’s kinda moving the goal posts, my friend, and completely ignoring the promises made by self-driving companies.

The promise has been that self-driving would replace driving in general because it’d be safer, more economical, etc. The promise has been that you’d be able to send your autonomous car from city to city without a driver present, possibly to pick up your child from school, and bring them back home.

In that sense, yes, Waymo is nonexistent. As the article author points out, lifetime miles for “self-driving” vehicles (70M) accounts for less than 1% of daily driving miles in the US (9B).

Even if we suspend that perspective, and look at the ride-hailing market, in 2018 Uber/Lyft accounted for ~1-2% of miles driven in the top 10 US metros. [1] So, Waymo is a tiny part of a tiny market in a single nation in the world.

Self-driving isn’t “here” in any meaningful sense and it won’t be in the near-term. If it were, we’d see Alphabet pouring much more of its war chest into Waymo to capture what stands to be a multi-trillion dollar market. But they’re not, so clearly they see the same risks that Brooks is highlighting.

[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FIUskVkj9lsAnWJQ6kLhAhNoVLj...
I see what you are describing. The pre-production/staging setup may not bring out cost increases caused by application changes, and by the time it is running in production for a while it has already caused a cost explosion.

We did face similar situations - but we fixed them after the cost went up on prod. I guess this has more to do with how much and how fast an "undetected" cost in pre-prod can explode in production. We used to keep an eye on the prod cost numbers after a deployment, and then tackle each one, because the increase was not that quick.

I'm not sure either about a "standard" way, so I'm just thinking aloud here, and I've not tried this myself:

For application changes, measure the difference in cost in pre-prod, in terms of percentage increase, between the previous deployment and the current one, and use that to estimate the possible prod increase. I suspect this will become messy very fast as the other factors to include would be num requests, CPU/memory usage, and so on.
No problem, they will all find new employment at Nvidia, or building new datacenters to house nvidia cards, or digging coal necessary to power those datacenters.
Certainly all of the rapid progress of the 20th century was because of military funding. The Cold War made it quite clear how when you drastically changed priorities how quickly various programs started getting canceled and our achievements started falling away (eg beating Soviets to space killed any desire of either party to continue, the Cold War ending killed the SSC, etc). You have WW2 to thank for nuclear technology, lasers, rapid advancements in aircraft, modern cryptography and directly leading to the space race. Even QM takes on military funding to take it from niche curiosity to applied research and real world impact. It’s all indelibly linked.

I’m not sure why you’re having such a reaction to a pretty mundane observation that military funding on technology gets further and faster than the civilians can. Heck go look at how far military is in the math behind cryptography consistently comparing discoveries civilians make and when we learn the military had that tech once it’s declassified decades later.
India's payment push is cutting out Visa and Mastercard
Less than half of HN users are from the US and wages are lower in most countries, sometimes by a lot. Less than 10% in Turkey or Ukraine for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...
Why?

Hydrogen is dangerous and difficult to store, dangerous and difficult to transport, and has egregious specific energy density--all of them are deal-killers for any widespread fuel.

The only two benefits of hydrogen over other fuels are:

1. The cleanest and most efficient combustion
2. Ease of synthesis on a distributed scale

Ammonia beats hydrogen on every front aside from:

1. Less efficient/clean combustion (which we can handle with extant NoX scrubbing technologies)
2. Currently, it's only efficient to manufacture it in large-scale non-distributed industrial plants.

The great thing about ammonia is we've been manufacturing and storing it at-scale for about a century so we're really good at it. Ammonia is the best current candidate for replacing bunker oil and diesel in shipping.
> It was a shame, since MacBASIC allowed users to write software that supported the features of the Mac UI and Microsoft's BASIC did not.

Practically speaking perhaps yes, but technically MS Basic on the Mac did enable you to make many Mac Toolbox/Quickdraw calls, enabling one to make buttons, shapes, draw, use fonts, etc. All of this ran inside the BASIC window, so it wasn't like you could open new windows or file dialogs.

I have no idea what Apple's MacBasic was like, but I did use MS Basic to make some very simple games. For junior high school me it was mostly using buttons in unsophisticated guessing or choose-your-own-adventure games.

I had a floppy with Pong-like game written in MS basic for the Mac. It used toolbox routines to draw the ping-pong-like paddle, the ball, the oval-shaped (iirc) bricks, and follow mouse movements while hiding the default pointer. I don't know who wrote it, but it came to me via a parent who worked at Jet Propulsion Lab and brought it home to run on our 128k Mac.
It's a matter of proportion. If someone wants to be a firefighter they are also that much more likely to want to be an arsonist.

Also, arson convictions are extremely rare. Most arsons are unsolved.

You can imagine how much more likely it is to be unsolved if the person investigating is also setting the fires
I agree. One funny thing I observed happen was it seemed maybe last year we'd slow associate hiring, but they took a pretty measured wait and see approach, and they set up an AI team to basically very quickly end to end test every tool they could. Coming out of the year two things were clear: AI was still not great for the type of work they do (it's "enterprise law", think $1k/hr lawyers), but the EAs and Paralegals etc will be able to get way more done in a day (but ChatGPT or whatever is fine for their work) and 2025 was going to be a pretty busy year. I'm starting to think the firm will only grow as a result of AI.

a year ago I thought they would all be replaced, but as I spend time with them and see their work, I realized I knew nothing about big law, half the job is therapist and talking people out of being emotional and brash before you can even get to the lawyering. Lots of tacit knowledge too, this regulator has this guy who always rejects the application if the format isn't this way, or this judge never accepts that argument, or yeah I've negotiated against him 30 times, he hates yellow so wear yellow.

The legal system is a very fundamental human thing after all.
>unsafe invalid address

Ironically NULL is probably the safest pointer value in C, as any dereferences from it (and thousands of pages that follow it) are guaranteed to crash.
And, as added reading, The Radioactive Boy Scout.

Just for a perspective on how abundant and readily available that information had become in academia a few decades later.
It is possible to take some of the carbon out of the jet fuel equation, but there are worse forms of pollution than carbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_fuel
Inteesting, not as simple as jobs being hard to find:

> At the same time, firings are really low.

> Workers who have jobs aren't losing them & workers without jobs aren't finding them.
Do you ever drive yourself or would you feel guilty not paying a driver?
It's not. The barrier for hosting highly available and low-resource services has significantly decreased over the years. As much as I don't like docker and docker-swarm, it has made it easy for an average developer to become an average sysadmin
Right, these are additional paid sick days, just need to be manually claimed through the "My RTO" portal

There's also no penalty for forgetting
to update the portal in time, from what I have heard

Update: and ppl can set their status in advance e.g. setting the whole January to "natural disaster" to avoid using personal paid sick leave

Update 2: There's a separate announcement showing some support and asking everyone in LA to WFH, which is omitted in the article
> The brain is about as large as it can be while making birth possible.

Is that true? The 'birthable' parameter limits only two dimensions. Could the brain evolve to a larger size in a third dimension?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1cj-zk4ac

Maybe there is some other limitation, such as distance between neurons? Signal strength?
Implementing FSRS in 100 Lines
> Sure, maybe it can be done without manipulating people's self-image into thinking they're not good enough, not beautiful enough, not wealthy enough, but if you're into maximizing revenue you're not going to simply advertise "here's our invention, take it or leave it"

Well, yes, that's it exactly. The problem is not advertising, it's trying to maximize revenue. That is the virus that is killing our world.
What was problematic about it?
They are trying to distract you from supercollider.
Do you not recognize the fact that housing affordability is at a record low? Do you not connect this to low rates of family formation?

I’m not sure how much more obvious these issues could be. I’m even more unsure of why you’re flat out denying them. The only reasonable explanation is that it’s related to some deeply held ideology or dogma of yours.
This is so much easier. You are implementing printf on page 5 and it can handle formatted output to the screen for integers, hexadecimals, and strings. Minix eventually gets around to the write system call but even then it is actually just a way of sending bytes from a buffer to a file descriptor. To a what? That is a lot more complexity for, in some ways, less functionality. For write, you still have to write printf on top.

The Tanenbaum book is great but it is a particle physics textbook compered to this OS cookbook.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story...

But in this case the brownlee facts about the story make a good story.
> As people with larger brains are more successful in life and more likely to have children*

> *how true is this? Uni-educated people tend to have lower fertility rates.

In the U.S. university education depends mostly on mommy and daddy's wallet size, not brain size.
How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie was a greally good read for me.
> Javascript

Oh, so that's what it is. Bleh. Ok.

I thought it was cooler and made use of the fact that PostScript is a Turing-complete language to write Tetris in PostScript.

(I never really understood the PDF format but I always assumed it's some kind of compressed PostScript)
Here's a debunking and a history of the myth the ARPANET/Internet was designed to survive nuclear war:

http://9ol.es/nuclear-myth.html

A bit more:

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/15035/did-the-co...
Failure is not an Option by Gene Kranz, Flight Director of Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 among other missions give a lot of insight into the preparation and focus of safety critical operations.
I sympathize with your situation and frustration. And yes, temozolomide and bevacizumab and whatever else they're giving your friend won't buy much time. Everyone knows that.

Part of the problem unfortunately is that glioblastoma, like many highly-aggressive cancers, is not a single disease but many. The cells mutate frequently, and each group of mutant cells (call them a "clone") is in business for itself to survive anything you throw at it. So something like your Vika virus idea, for instance, might have a 1 in a million chance of killing 99% of the cells, but the remaining 1% will be completely resistant and go on about their business. (Meanwhile, the virus is orders of magnitude more likely to cause more harm than good.)

Since you've known so many people who've had GBM, there may be value in investing in research that might help someone in the future. There are two broad moonshot approaches. First, the immune system is the central axis of cancer. Every cancer that grows and spreads is an example of the immune system failing to do its job (usually because the tumor has shut it down). If we can better understand how this happens, we can make pan-cancer drugs. They sort of already exist: one group is called immune checkpoint inhibitors. They basically unmask the tumor, allowing the immune system to identify it and take care of business. But they're only part of the solution, we obviously need more.

Another approach is further out there, and involves development of nanotechnology. Bacteria-sized machines small enough to get into cells could ideally be tailored to do pretty much whatever we want. This is a bit more of a long shot, but this is the sort of thing that would help solve the endless game of whack-a-mole that is cancer medicine today.