skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you'd be throwing people with ADHD under the bus which is infinitely worse than letting some fakers get their hands on stimulants. Improve the diagnostic process if needed, but first you have to prove that it's insufficient. I'm not aware of any studies supporting these claims.

> It's seems more like people take longer to respond to Strattera and either don't want to wait, or just want the amphetamines.

No. Not all drugs are effective for everyone, this includes different stimulants.
Google and Cloudflare basically owns the internet
Depends on how you count. There are tariffs on everyone for steel and aluminium. There are specific tarrifs on Canada, Mexico, EU, and China. Trump promises to back off from NATO, which pisses off pretty much everyone on the European continent (EU or otherwise). The recent counch incident in the Oval Office wasn’t taken well in the Europe as well.
If the power gap between angry peasants and fully autonomous killer robots is big enough, why not kill 500.000?

I always wondered why north korea is so stable. I think its a mix of military power, media control and chinese support.
Looks good on the CV.
Though it would be interesting to run an experiment where you somehow remove all of that from the training data.

Perhaps in 10 years training runs will be cheap enough, that one a whim you could just train a new AI model on data from only before the Pentium was released, and then see if it could come up with it?
Using glue is an anti-repair malice by itself. On my planet screws and gaskets were invented long ago.
The Fed has a few papers on this issue. Their conclusion is basically that the young will eventually inherit the wealth and market forces will force a redistribution. Thus it solves itself eventually.

I personally think that the Fed papers are just designed as an excuse to print money, but my point is the Fed is very far from seeing this as a problem and will never act to remedy it.
Depends on how many joules are needed for that. And maybe you won't learn anything technical from it, but that the intent is laudable and the approach worth knowing/spreading ?
Take density per mm^2 going from 122.9 to 125.3 that is 2% increase in little over 2 years. Which does not bode well for needing to double in same period.
I have to respect his choice to focus on the 8086 and the pentium, I would think he considers the 80286 a brain dead footnote, interesting as to what when wrong and what went terribly wrong.

I used to teach binary math to kids, and at a county fair I was upstaged by an 11 year old girl who demonstrated both multiplication by powers of two and division of powers of two.

"What does your father do for a living?'

"He is the director of the laser fusion project!"

"Oh."
The best way in to permacomputing, imo, continues to be: Get an old used Thinkpad. Put Linux or one of the BSDs on it. Use low-resource options: LDXE, i3wm. Go about your business driving this thing however you want to. Learn to live within its limits.

This is truly the computer as bicycle for the mind.
Building a new graphics engine in Rust
Suppose you take the first principal component of performance and fit it to log(compute). Seems like a fairly reasonable way to get an answer.
> Because it is finite it is computable.

Busy Beaver numbers are finite, but not computable.
Higher marginal income taxes discourage investment and productivity and high capital gains causes high distortion/is difficult to implement/also discourage investment. Affordable housing shouldn't be tried to be solved by throwing money at it (subsidizing demand), the real way is to cause the supply to go up by laxer zoning and less restrictions. Inheritance taxes could also be used to 'level' the playing without causing huge distortion. Another good tax would be land value tax which would end up taxing those with more wealth the most as well as causing less speculation and more investment in actual companies which would fuel economic growth.

Better unions will never work in the US these days because of deindustrialization and globalization, can't really have leverage when your sector is getting smaller. There's also just no more 'union culture'.
only because we let them
Someone told me that Grecian Formula for Men has a lead-based active ingredient.

Never really paid much attention, other than being annoyed by the ads.
While that is emphasized, I don't think that really captures it. The idea is to apply permaculture to computation, as has been done with industrial agriculture.

Permaculture is in the first place an ethical or even utopian project, and I'd characterize it as a counter-culture. You can see this reflected in how permacomputing defines itself in opposition to silicon valley: there's a whole page on what they think is wrong with 'Californian ideology'. See https://permacomputing.net/issues/ and https://permacomputing.net/Californian_ideology/.

Permaculture is a design system grounded in ethics, that concerns itself with rethinking a sustainable society inspired by nature. A common trope is the 7 generations rule: how does a design decision today, impact the future of 7 generation down the line? The domain where permaculture is mostly associated with is agricultural systems, but it also has some influence in the built environment. It was never intended to be limited to agriculture. Permacomputing seems to want to extend or apply it to the domain of computing.

Honestly I don't find the idea of extending hardware lifespans the most innovative. I think it is interesting to rethink the whole of computing from the pov of 200, 500 or 1000 years into the future: if we still want to be there and have a good life for all (and do computation), how could that impact decisions on hardware today?

I think a model where we see all current hardware as a 'repository of components and materials' that can be re-composed (not just recycled) is far more interesting than merely extending lifespans. In that model, there is virtually no waste anymore. Everything can be recombined as we discover more valuable ways of putting things together, rather than thrown away, even after a longer time. I'd argue that also mimics the way nature works. Ecosystems are always growing in complexity as life evolves and diversifies, given the right conditions and lack of bottlenecks. There are no static cycles.
The people of Belarus put this to test not that long ago. Massive numbers of people came out, factories went on strike, even people from the military and police spoke out against the regime.

Turned out that in this day and age when the governments have unprecedented powers of surveillance and the ability to cut anyone from the respective financial system, a revolution is a really hard thing to pull off.

If the British had the kind of power that even half-competent governments have today, the American revolution would never have succeeded.
> Now, the question is: can we create a smaller function capable of performing the same feat?

Where does this question come from? Especially where does the 'smaller' requirement come from?
Aren’t there any sane systems in between?
> parts of the spec that are basically unworkable like indefinite length values,

Is this really a problem in practice? Say, an HTTP/1.1 message also may have the body of indefinite length, and it usually works just fine.
And of all the metrics, spending has increased the most in the examined time period. Up from 36% in 1989.
Or this can be adapted to mechanized crops where it makes sense. Greenhouses where small fragile minihouses of 4x3 meters, made of wood and glass 100 years ago, used only in countries with harsh winters. Nobody in their right mind would use a tractor to work on them. Today they can be seen from the space and are mechanized... where it makes sense to do it. They turned a desert into a huge production of fresh vegetables: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/08/the-greenhouses-of-alm... .

Agrivoltaics could be something or nothing. But don't dismiss it because it today isn't already perfect for everything. Ten years ago the cost of the panels alone would make this projects 100% infeasible.
Here [0] is the original archive, 15k pictures.

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/projectapolloarchive/with/5133...
The part where they say they are not developing it further. CEO discussing it further here:
https://x.com/joshm/status/1850717644779110643

They have not shipped anything but browser updates and minor fixes for months.
Orion is great. There are some websites that for some reason don’t work as well as with Safari/Firefox (like Github), but otherwise it is pretty good.
I already had Manifest v2 extensions, specifically uBlock removed from Chrome. There are solutions to extend this to mid-year, and I can report that they work (search for ExtensionManifestV2Availability)
Thanks, this is interesting to know.
Yes, that is the point.
Broccoli pills? You’re going to need to hide those in a treat to get me to take them.
The properties themselves are being effectively given away.

Refurbishing them to a modern standard, of course, is quite a different story. Perhaps €100K EUR in a lot of cases.
It is a shame that Orion is Mac and iOS only. I found this statement[1] in response to a request for it on other platforms

> We are getting a lot of repeat questions about windows/linux/android version and sometimes it appears that users think that the team is choosing not to work on these platforms. The situation is quite different and simpler - we do not have the resources to hire a new team to do any of these platforms yet.

> And since Orion is funded by its users only, it is entirely up to the number of subscribers and Orion+ sales we have that will enable funding a new team to make Orion for any new platform. And building a browser is not cheap, especially one on top of WebKit.

> Ways you can help accelerate this is:
> Contribute to Orion development with your time
> Help spread the word about Orion to attract more users
> Get Orion+ and financially support developmet

This is a tricky situation to be in. A lack of resources to support multiple platforms, but the solution being more subscribers. But the incentive structure is perplexing. Those supporting development going to be those already using Orion. And those not on Mac/iOS are unlikely to financially support a browser they can't use in the hopes it might one day come to a platform I use.

[1] https://orionfeedback.org/d/2321-orion-for-windows-android-l...
It’s pax cloudflara. We let them in exchange for peace on the web.

(Pax nubem would probably be too obscure…)
Your editor should be able to handle this (via git mergetool).
Why must everything always "scale" in order to be good? That's a very limited view, IMO.

I've come to love working in my garden, producing fruit, vegetables, eggs, honey. None of it has to scale. Our 8 chickens provide our six households with eggs. My 6m2 vegetable patch gives me enough veggies for my household and some more (to give away). My three hives produce enough honey and wax to sell off and give away.

None of it scales. None of it is optimized. None of it has to. My time spent on these "chores" is free, because I recharge and enjoy that time.

I am aware this isn't "self sustaining". But it does relieve from my footprint a lot. I'm not contributing to bio industry, contributing much less or non at all to food dragged all over the world. All of it while gaining mental energy, joy and happiness.

We could easily start doing more of this. It doesn't have to be absolute and "everything or nothing". I mean, I drink coffee, for example that won't grow here. But only a little, because all the tea that I can and do grow, brings my coffee "needs" down to a handful of coffees a week.

I don't want it to scale or be made efficient, because it would remove a lot of the joy I get from it.
Syntax matters though, just like how some people do not like Lisp because of its parentheses.
Right now uBlock Origin Lite is "featured" on Chrome web store and so far navigation has been ok in the "complete" mode.

Funnily enough, it made me review the block lists of the extension and I realized that I could select more of them. Too early to jump to conclusions.
What concern? You mentioned Firefox having better UI, I was asking how you think the two differ - ad blocking and containers are fair points, it wasn't quite what I was thinking of as UI, but fair enough.
Are the neurons preserved in a recoverable way, like 5D optical glass-based data-storage? Also Chinese (and probably other languages) has a common derogatory expression "Glass heart" by which they mean "I think you are too sensitive to what I see as valid criticism of you" - this glassy brain preempted that slur at an intellectual level.
Hmm, it loaded pretty instantly for me and I don't see much bloat in the source. May be you're experiencing the HN effect? :/
>In any kind of non-uniform distribution of any good

Not in any kind. It is absolutely the case, if there's mostly untaxed generational wealth transfer.
Imagine this - you are born in this world with nothing. And every parcel of land and property is owned by somebody - somebody who with high likelihood inherited it or hundreds of millions or billions of assets on spawn.

Now obviously, you can inherit all sorts of other factors too - like very valuable social networks and a set of trade skills carefully passed down and tought. But even neglecting those, the largely untaxed generational wealth transfer would naturally lead to massive inequalities and disproportionate amounts of wealth concentrated in few families.
Is that much, relatively? How much of everything does the top 10% own?
> My public school never gave me any classes on financial literacy while children

None do. Even private schools don't. It's not part of the curriculum and children don't care about those topics. When you reach your 20s you realize how important it would've been but how boring you thought it was at the time. But since you graduated, "learning is over" so you won't teach yourself financial literacy.

> children of global elites receive the best guidance for it

Yeah... from their parents. I worked in the industry and I know that children from UHNW individuals do not want to talk and be taught about money. They are not financially literate, but they have money that allows them to delegate to someone else. This is true for anything in life, by the way: you either learn to do it or you pay someone else to do the job.
Ask HN: Copy a webpages text and links into markup?
is there a tool or plugin that would extract a webpages html text and links into markup?
Way worse.

Even when the moon is finally settled on, I guarantee you that nobody will make any effort to clean it up and throw it away.

It is truely sad that we can be sure that even thousands of years in the future, despite millions of humans looking at it every day, people will rather put a glass box around it, so nobody is bothered by it, than just tossing it into the lunar landfill.
Well if he didn't back then - he did now.
I am against dumbing things down, too (although I do not see its relevance to my comment), but for example I have no issues with OCaml, C, Factor, Ada, Common Lisp, etc. It is just a personal preference anyways.
Still better than 16:9 though
This looks cool!

Shameless plug:

https://github.com/jankovicsandras/plpgsql_bm25

BM25 search implemented in PL/pgSQL, might be useful if one can't use Rust extensions with Postgres, e. g. hosted Postgres without admin rights.
True, you can only self-host.
Gotta mention: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
What do people mean with technically impressive? There are Blender renders that look quite incredible though and you just cannot differentiate it from real picture anymore

Example:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58586fa5ebbd1a...

There are probably some flaws here as well, but you need to study the picture in detail. And Flow used the fast renderer of Blender, not the quality one.

Still, it does have a unique style that is much more interesting than many other animated movies. So what is technically impressive, just throwing more compute at it to make it photorealistic?

I think art style will have a larger impact. In a way it is technically impressive as it didn't need a lot of compute power.
I’ve done that gig many times. I take your point but if there’s a problem, figuring out who to blame always means going back to the original dev CR.
I will buy my first solar oven this year and I often wonder why we don't harness the suns power more often, more locally, in our daily lives.

It seems to me that a parabolic reflector has the power to do a lot of good things - recharging batteries, powering pumps, etc.

I just wonder - why isn't it more widespread as a solution? There is a lot of energy out there - we just don't seem to be harnessing it ..
How's China's Marxist-Leninist society working out right now? Last I checked their economy was on pace to grow larger than the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic_pole_shift_hypothe...

> There is evidence of precession and changes in axial tilt, but this change is on much longer time-scales and does not involve relative motion of the spin axis with respect to the planet. However, in what is known as true polar wander, the Earth rotates with respect to a fixed spin axis. Research shows that during the last 200 million years a total true polar wander of some 30° has occurred, but that no rapid shifts in Earth's geographic axial pole were found during this period.

As a teen, I read an SF book with this premise, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_HAB_Theory .
Its a matter of scale. Compared to medieval times, we are much better off. But if you shorten the scale to eg. younger generations and eg. home ownership, things point in the other direction.

And there are many more of such indicators!

This "we are all better off" is partially true but helps to neglect valid criticism.
I agree! I think this is one reason why Rewatchability is an imperfect, though positive, signal - many people mean it in the sense you mean it, and would therefore mark them as not very rewatchable.

That's fine by me, of course. The more signals I have, the better my decision can be made on what to watch next on average.
There are also cooling and conduction paths taken into account. It was discussed in the design of the xeon version of the i9. Which had me consider clocking down the performance core communication while throttling up the performance cores.

Your sources are excellent. ( Thank you so much for the links. )
> The average net worth for people 65-75 is almost 10 times the average net worth of someone under 35[1].

Is that because they're older? Or is it because when 70 yo's were young they could go through college on part time work, buy a house with an average wage, and then have that house skyrocket in value because housing was turned into an investment vehicle?

Dig into those statistics, and look at how much of the €400k net worth is tied up in their homes, homes which they owned outright at 25-27 years old. That's unimaginable today. People that age are living with their parents.

Look at those statistics and compare the median to the average - the distribution is extremely skewed - you could even call it 'unequal'. 'Record levels of inequality' even.

Age isn't as much of a factor as the 'nerdwallet' blog seems to think; and to the degree to which it is, is a natural consequence of having had more time to work and invest during a boom period, then having a certain generation and class of people 'pull up the ladder' after them.
It's actually pretty similar when you get to the bottom of it. Lenin was a member of the nobility during the Tsar rule. He saw his oppurtunity when Russian leadership was weakened after the first World War (similar to how the British were weakened after the Seven Years' War) and took it. The biggest difference is that he had unsuccessfully tried before and was orchestrating the whole thing from his exile base in Switzerland. Hunger was just a useful tool to overthrow the government more easily. If hunger alone was enough, Mao would have gotten his ass kicked harder and faster than anyone else in history. But in the end hungry people don't make good soldiers and only soldiers can bring drastic change in governance.
Lenovo's new concept laptop can be charged by the sun
The hardest hit would be the middle class whose retirement depends on funds which predominantly invest in equities.
I highly recommend reading this paper^[0] on permacomputing. It explains the concept in depth.

> In this paper, we argue for the potential of permacomputing as a
rich framework for exploring creative design constraints building
on a long history of applying constraints in art, design and cultural
practices.

[0]: https://monoskop.org/images/6/6a/Mansoux_Aymeric_et_al_2023_...
I know about the paradox of tolerance.

What you described is black and white thinking, however, and there is much more to it than just "either Russia wins or does not win", pretty sure there can be a compromise, you know, a middle path, that is good enough for both parties and consequently there will be less deaths.

If people want to die for justice, so be it. Up to them, but:

Would you talk about suicide bombers in the same vain though?
did you consider integrating atproto with Radicle? if no, why not?
Eventually they sold out. Literally and figuratively.
There are zero rights without obligations. Why do we never hear about the latter?

To read about people standing up for their rights in a Marxist State read Robert Conquest's 570 pages of 'The Great Terror' - an account of the crimes committed against humanity in the name of the Soviet Communism that emerged from the 1917 revolution. 'We'll do it differently' is the usual response. Sadly this always leaves out appreciation of the human factor whereby charismatic leaders arise and are convinced they know the truth and the way. Before considering a revolution, ensure there's a solution for this human problem of leaders who lead the masses (they regard the latter as such) down a path that in retrospect is seen to be a disaster. Pol Pot, The Great Leap Forward, the Iranian Revolution. We need to sit down and think about this before taking to the streets.

How about evolution rather than 'eggs in one basket' revolution?
You can't ignore this fact: The US and Australia partner on Pine Gap, which violates the human rights of literally billions of human beings every single second of the day.

Russia and China have a long way to go to catch up.
Because we are very used to having option of using energy now. Not when it happens to be sunny enough. Or waiting for days potentially when there is heavy overcast for days...
At least Cloudflare has no network effects. They offer good services that I can migrate off of if I need to. Google owns my life and it's really hard to go elsewhere, even if I want to.
Any system that allows humans agency will end up with a Pareto-style distribution in that thing (non-linear). Doesn’t matter if it’s wealth, HN upvotes, Crime, Traffic accidents, Productivity, Tetris scores, academic papers published, etc.

As for the slight drift in US wealth distribution since 1980, it’s wholly explained by the change in age demographics. Since 1980 we’ve gone from a nation of people 30 years old to 40 years old. 10 years is a lot of time when it comes to compounding returns on productive assets (stocks, etc). Due to compounding, wealth held by each age group also gets more Pareto-extreme heading into retirement age.

Adjust that out, and this is mostly a nothing burger. But emotionally people don’t feel that way so nothing I say will change that. Narrative zeitgeist always wins over objective reality.

Average Americans are wealthier than they've ever been. Another chart to drive this home, the percentage of Americans who have a passport since 1989 (Note, this is also influenced by age demographics, but not as dramatically as wealth): https://www.statista.com/statistics/804430/us-citzens-owning...
You give a whole new meaning to branch prediction. I knew you were going there, and I still did not avoid the brain twang.