skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear plants don't deal with peak energy use either. For the peak, you need a plant that can quickly regulate it's power output up and down to respond to demand. Nuclear plants only work for base load.
When we tested a variant of this idea, we found that it didn't work for what I guess you could call psychological reasons: readers reacted negatively, even violently, to seeing junk on HN's front page. By "junk" I mean stories that were placed there randomly and that weren't of high-enough quality to otherwise be credible candidates for the front page. Basically, it was an "ow my eyes", "get that shit away from me" effect. (I don't mean to demean the submissions people posted that got randomly placed in this way; it's just that words like junk and shit reflect how users reacted to the random placement thing.)

HN users have an intense emotional relationship with the front page. This shows up in the inevitable "How is this on HN?" comments when a story somehow violates the commenter's personal contract or mental model of HN. Randomly placing candidate stories on the front page created a version of this that was like 100x worse. It violated people's model of what HN is supposed to be, in ways that the randomness exacerbated. Two lessons I drew from that experience: (1) people's relationship with HN is surprisingly personal; and (2) never jeopardize that bond. Runner-up lesson: don't introduce noise into an emotional relationship.

If we had software that could measure how credible an article is as a candidate for HN's front page, I'd be willing to try this again. But I suspect that would amount to software that could measure how good an article is, and that would be the P=NP of internet news sites.

I'm still convinced that a lot of the best content—i.e. submissions that would gratify intellectual curiosity and that the community would have a great time reading and discussing—languishes in obscurity in the lower echelons of /newest, so HN's front page is still far from optimal. The second-chance process has helped (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380) but I'm convinced that there are more things that we can do, mainly by building ways for the community to do them. It's important that we not build new mechanisms that just reproduce the upvote system, though.
Im always happy to see more funding for magnetic fusion research. Maybe this will put more pressure on US politicians to at least not renege on our existing commitments (ITER). For reference, here is how we have funded it so far: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._his...
I think I get what you're saying: endpoints that artists can use that would be beneficial towards their brand.
> Operation WizardOpium

Life is no longer distinct from a William Gibson novel.
No, this is Linux-only.
I don't know anyone who uses Crisco or Pam, and can't recall the last time I saw a can in someone's kitchen. The default cooking oil for many families is peanut, vegetable, or "olive" (very big problem with fake oils here). Butter is popular, too.

When I go to rural areas of the country, the supermarkets have very good selection of fresh foods and cooking ingredients, which indicates to me that there is a demand for them.

We render lard from bacon and save it for cooking. Works like a charm.
I'm pretty sure he only meant selling point as a "why should I care about your repo" or "what purpose is this program trying to fulfill" statement: not actually suggesting to selling as a product
1. Since we optimize quality over quantity, your deliverability won't be hurt. Actually, our campaigns have response rates between 10-25% (and open rates above 50%), therefore, your deliverability won't be penalized.

2. The emails we give are verified, spamming lists don't have verified emails.

3. We're not a list that is the same for everybody. We're a tool that builds a list that is unique to your needs.
"No guardrail environment" is a great way to put it.

I've worked in a large corp IT department and for start ups.

I'd say the most value in working for a start up comes from being in the core group of founders and first employees. After that point, my perception is that it's more of a toss up - if you're going to be a rank and file junior developer on the periphery of the decisions that shape the company, an established company could in many cases be a better choice.
There’s a difference between Somalia and states that tax lightly and derive that tax revenue in economically efficient ways.
Well let’s not forget “moving to the new world” also meant they process subjectifying the people whose land it was, in order to take it.
for NaNoGenMo [1] 2015, I wanted to run Racter [2] against Eliza, but 1) I run Linux and 2) I had an MS-DOS executable for Racter. I thought I would use DosBox to run Racter and pipe input/output to Eliza running under Linux natively, but DosBox didn't allow that. I ended up having to write enough of an MS-DOS emulator [3] to run Racter under Linux so I could pipe input/output. It barely functioned.

[1] National Novel Generation Month

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racter

[3] https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2015/blob/master/C/msdos...
"Excess syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."

GJS: Gerry Sussman attributes this quote to Alan Perlis.

_Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs_:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
I use synapse[0], although I'm not sure if it has all the same features. I think it can do things like search the web, but I pretty much only use it to search/launch programs, and occasionally some files.

[0] https://launchpad.net/synapse-project
>> You'll learn pretty quick when a fat burns quickly. Olive oil and bacon grease burn at really low temperatures and will create a thick cloud of smoke as it burns.

I was wondering about that because it's mentioned in the article also: I don't understand why people say that olive oil burns easily.

Look at the table you posted: the smoking point of two qualities of olive oil ("virgin" and "extra virgin, low acidity, high quality") is above 400°F (204°C) at 410°F and 405°F respectively. This is close to the 400°F you cite as the temperature necessary for the Maillard reaction, but the wikipedia article on the Maillard reaction states that: "The reaction is a form of non-enzymatic browning which typically proceeds rapidly from around 140 to 165 °C (280 to 330 °F)." In which case, even "extra virgin" olive oil, the olive oil quality listed as having the lowest smoking point of 160°C, can withstand the heat necessary for food to undergo the Maillard reaction.

It makes even less sense that the Maillard reaction needs 400°F to get going. If you look at the wikipedia article for "Smoking point", where the table you link to comes from, it lists the average temperatures of frying and baking:

Pan frying (sauté) on stove top heat: 120 °C (248 °F)
Deep frying: 160 - 180 °C (320 °F - 356 °F)
Oven baking: Average of 180 °C (356 °F)

It wouldn't make sense for the Maillard reaction to need more than the average _baking_ temperature to occur!

Finally, I'm the third generation of women in my family to cook with olive oil, to always cook with olive oil and to cook everything with olive oil. I fry, deep fry, boil, stir-fry, bake, sear, and so on everything with olive oil. I have never seen olive oil burning (emitting a blue flame and smoke) and I've never heard of anyone in my family, or in my broad circle of friends and acquaintances who has seen that. I have never heard it in the news either and if it was something that happens to olive oil when the food you're cooking with it is about to get tasty- it should be happening all the time [Edit: note that I've burned plenty of food in olive oil- but still not the olive oil].

Small point to note: I'm Greek and we do have good quality olive oil (and wine; and feta; and yoghurt; and nothing else).

So my conclusion is: it's only cheap, low quality and most likely adulterated olive oil that catches fire in low temperatures.

(See the wikipedia article on olive oil about adulteration. It's a big thing in some other oil-producing countries, and I don't mean Saudi Arabia).
You've gotta play considering the probabilities, not score things after the fact based on the realised outcome. To a first approximation it's a good idea to not have any significant part of your wealth coupled to your employment, to avoid situation where a failing company destroys both your employment income stream and your investments in a single event.

C.f. Enron employees with company stock...
I was a web developer in college for an on campus organization that handled the web app for students applying for and selecting a roommate. After learning about state machines in one of my courses I decided to take the process and model it as a state machine, which made deciding what text to display and what options could be taken much easier than it had been before, with ad-hoc if statements about the various state involved.
The bulk of immigration to the New World happened after the first 2-3 centuries, before that, the plurality were chattel slaves.

That’s of course ignoring the post apocalyptic lives of the natives that survived successive waves of disease and collapse radiating out from points of contact, but it’s habit at this point.
> The second operational aircraft[38] designed around a stealth aircraft shape and materials, after the Lockheed A-12,[38] the SR-71 had several features designed to reduce its radar signature. The SR-71 had a radar cross-section (RCS) around 110 sq ft (10 m2).[39] Drawing on early studies in radar stealth technology, which indicated that a shape with flattened, tapering sides would reflect most energy away from a radar beam's place of origin, engineers added chines and canted the vertical control surfaces inward. Special radar-absorbing materials were incorporated into sawtooth-shaped sections of the aircraft's skin. Cesium-based fuel additives were used to somewhat reduce exhaust plumes visibility to radar, although exhaust streams remained quite apparent. Kelly Johnson later conceded that Soviet radar technology advanced faster than the stealth technology employed against it.[40]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

To be clear, a 10m^2 radar cross section is enormous compared to the F-117 (0.001 m^2) The F-117 was in a completely different league than the SR-71, but the SR-71 was in fact designed to be stealthy.
So... Looks like WSL1 wasn’t needed (Cygwin), nor is WSL2 (VirtualBox).
> where each pods are in the range of 2 digits MB, it woudn't be possible whith languages mentioned above.

Not sure about NodeJS and Python, but it's certainly doable with Java and C#. It's just that people don't take the time to configure the JVM/CLR correctly.

There's nothing magical about golang that you can't do in C# (and soon enough, in Java with the addition of value types). Arguably, C# and Java's value type implementations are superior anyway.
The interesting thing is that you could have a nearly continuous selection of links from latest/certain to newest/random.
> were due to the fact that the product was shipped too early.

Can you explain more about this? The mantra is generally ship early and iterate fast.

How come the tech team was spending 80% in a bugs rat race?

The earlier statement of "80% of the time was wasted supporting clients" seems perfect? i.e. what else should you be doing other than supporting clients who are willing to pay with features and bug fixes?

Feel like I'm missing something.
That was one of my intentions. I also started this project to learn more about reactive programming and exploring the technical sides of creating views in Swift.
Sometimes the people who are best at "working stories up for interviewers" don't always feel the need for there to be any truth behind those stories...
This is not the case, if your callback then goes off and does something asynchronous.
> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use?

At companies that already have a billion users?
> If you (as Uni) try and do that, you'd immediately find your quota of those who have finished a degree to plummet.

Indeed: as a teacher, I have had the experience that there's pressure to pass underachieving students in the elementary courses (we don't want to scare everyone off by flunking them out of their first courses!) and then there's pressure to pass underachieving students in the advanced courses (it's not fair to pass them to this point, and then suddenly hold them to higher expectations!—or even, directly, "if we don't pass them then they won't be able to graduate").
Glancing at 4th quarter 2018 from https://investors.boeing.com/investors/investor-news/press-r... commercial aircraft are about 60% of Boeing's revenue and 65% of its profit.

They do not separate NASA from defense department spending, but government was about 35% of revenue and only 16% of profit.

The rest is consulting.

The upshot is that if SpaceX embarrasses Boeing in space, it is a black eye and a sizable chunk of Boeing's business but not critical. But if suborbital flights replace even a modest chunk of long-haul commercial flights, Boeing will be in a world of hurt.

Consider, aircraft tend to operate for about 30 years. If SpaceX causes a 20% reduction in long-haul flights, it would result in a period of 6 years where nobody wants to buy new aircraft, followed by a resumption in sales at about 80% of the previous volume. There is no way that Boeing is prepared for that kind of business shift.

And SpaceX does NOT have to replace 20% of passenger trips to do it. If only the most profitable few percent of passenger trips disappear, then between more expensive seats and fuller flights, the number of flights will drop by a lot more than what SpaceX does. The impact on Boeing will be outsized.
This reminds me of these discussions:

https://wiki.c2.com/?MaspBrainstorming

https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/brrzad/universal_p...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/e8f8c...

I don't know if there is any relationship between authors. The idea of applying the lessons and benefits of XML to imperative programming to form a kind of meta language or meta-friendly language is present.
Right. Once again, never really thought of that. It could be a useful tool for others to learn off of: the app employs a MVVM and Coordinator architecture with reactive bindings. It's also a good example of using the Spotify Web API for Swift since there aren't many examples out there.
I use GitUp.
A god that does not tell you what to do. It's the god of random chance and it has it's temples and followers.
The ideology just happens to align so well with the interests...
> You might want to look up all of the reasons why they made this choice, including but not limited to the amazing impedance mismatch between Linuxy I/O operations and Windowsy I/O operations.

Could you provide a link to this?
Just hit win+s in Windows 10, it's not quite as nice as spotlight on the Mac, but it helps keep your hands on the keyboard if you're transitioning to Windows.
The concentrations of valuable materials in the landfill are minuscule. It doesn't make energy sense to sort it even though the fractions are relatively ready to use.
Latex for PDFs
Just to add to the list - Go/Redis/gRPC: https://github.com/LevInteractive/dwarf

And a js/ts client to interface with it: https://github.com/LevInteractive/dwarf-client-ts

Edit: Fix url.
The same maker is behind the Numberphile and Objectivity channels. Love the content of both, the former helped me in a job interview.

Periodic Videos is also great, I like the enthusiasm of the Professor.
I feel better about this than a commercial service I suppose.

But links should be what they are—the address of a page and not the product of a cloaking and tracking service that takes you to a page with added delay.
Probably to most people, but some people have wild imaginations.
Not hogwash. Just the truth. Go read the history of oil. The US was decades ahead of europe and europe never had the oil that the US did hence why major european powers like britain, france and germany relied heavily on coal. No european country had the oil fields of pennsylvania, ohio, texas, california, etc. That's why europe had to take oil from asia, africa etc. Standard Oil became the most valuable company and rockefeller the wealthiest man primarily by exploiting oil within our borders. Britain, france, etc had to steal oil from the middle east, etc. The dutch stole it from indonesia. So on and so forth. But as I said, they were decades behind the US in oil production and oil use.

If you are still unconvinced, go look up oil production before and during ww2. Before and during ww2, the US produced more oil than the rest of the world combined. And after ww2, with control over saudi/OPEC oil, venezuelan oil, canadian oil, etc, we controlled the world's oil supply.

The bountiful oil reserves within our borders and the early exploitation of it is why the US became the world's dominant power. Oil is why ww1 and ww2 was fought. Oil is why we won ww2. Oil is why we won the cold war. Oil is why the american international world order exists.
I do make it a point not to use Google or Facebook products (because they are both evil companies that don’t have my best interests in mind) but I don’t understand what such a thing has to do with “corporate allegiance”, or maybe I misunderstood.

If I want a product I buy it, if it doesn’t let me down or exceeds my expectation I’ll buy again, but it’s nothing personal, I have nothing to gain from trying to make them look better than the deserve.

Google sucks though they are not loyal to the US, but they do act on their loyalties.
It sounds like you shouldn’t go to a startup. I’ve done a mix of both (from #1 hire out of 2 total engineers all the way to a Fortune 25). Across the board, I’ve found the smaller the better (more enjoyable, more learning, more energy, more urgency, better colleagues).

Yeah, there’s no formal time laid out to do step X in the course of development. There’s the chance that you won’t make payroll someday.

It’s definitely not for everyone, but when you get a good team together on a good project, it’s fantastically energizing.
Part ii: https://www.filfre.net/2019/11/new-tricks-for-an-old-z-machi...

Part iii: https://www.filfre.net/2019/11/new-tricks-for-an-old-z-machi...
Psychedelics and Mathematics [video]
Goldilocks Principle
They do, but it’s not as nice as it used to be (I’m not sure it was ever nice but it’s gotten worse)
It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.... I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.

https://www.wired.com/2006/01/lsd-the-geeks-wonder-drug/
What has Ram Dass taught that was anything more than feel good self-help level material put into a palatable form fit for those wanting to hear soothing words?

Sure, he was intelligent, had a PhD, and was a likeable guy. He also spent much of his early years doing drugs (LSD experiments) and bouncing around ashrams in India with less than reputable gurus.

The guy was quoted as saying Jerry Garcia was a Bodhisattva, if that says anything about his state of mind.

He was, like most gurus, exceedingly arrogant at times. 'It is useful here to remember that your guru, even though you may not have met him in his manifest form knows everything about you, everything.' Who says stuff like that?

Dass was no more put together than anyone else, especially considering how he boucned around with ideas, even becoming a devout evangelical Christian at one point. The guy was put on a pedestal by people and he made the best of it.

There is tons of stuff that weighs against the guy, but I'm on mobile and out and don't remember much. I don't consider him to be wholly malicious in his actions like many purported 'gurus,' but he is still a scam artist for letting others follow him while reaping the benefits.
Similarly, how many actual physicists actually seriously argue about interpretations of quantum mechanics? I'm not a physicist but i'm pretty sure its a thing more talked about by philosophers and the popular press than actual physicists.

Not that there is anything wrong with philosophizing and inquiring into metaphysical questions.
I find that saving developer time or large amounts of money can be rewarded well in my position at a FAANG, you just need to save an amount commensurate to the opportunity cost.
Optimal strategy seems to be work at FAANG while iterating on side projects until something sticks.
Being a developer in St. Louis, the median developer that makes 85k here is not really the kind you’d find at a good Bay Area company. When you look for the good ones, they often have competing remote offers with salaries not that different from the bay: The biggest difference is that nobody gives real, useful, valuable RSUs the way FAANG does. Barring one of those jobs, the trade off is pretty appealing for developers.

The problem for a startup here is money and customers. There is some local money, but in practice, you will be raising from firms in SF or Boston. To do that well, you will be sending a founder on trips a high percentage of their time: Our CEO was out 50 percent of the time this year. It’s OK with three founders or a small team already, but the seed stage is very rough, especially for a solo founder.

There is also the matter of customers. If you are doing B2B for startups, or straight sales to developers, the market isn’t here. Consumer? Any physical bits are not going to grow the fastest here. Do you want to start selling to large masses of people with little time and loss of disposable income? Not the best test market. So you better be doing something that is better done from here. An agriculture startup, with farms across the river, for instance. Still, it will be rare for this to be your ideal location there.

Still, I wish for more startups here, but the negatives are very visible, and we have very few success stories that tell people it’s worth trying.
Interesting. I am glad that you tested it.

I would suggest as a followup that you allow people to opt in to getting a mix of new stories. My suggestion would be that "people are automatically opted in, and every new story comes with a link to opt back out". I do understand if that version scares you though.

I suspect that only a vocal minority of people will have a strong negative reaction. And if objectors have a painless way to solve the problem, you shouldn't get many complaints.
If they discovered that there are infinite universes similar to our own, and they figured out a way to communicate between them, they could do distributed research and experimentation like the way we do distributed computing. Instead of one team spending years doing trial and error, they could divide the experiment among however many universes they can communicate with, and whoever gets the solution shares it with everyone else. It wouldn't work for iterative experiments, but if they have a lot of potential solutions and just need time to try each solution, things could get done much quicker.

I know nothing at all about multiverses beyond what I read in articles though, so I don't know if my idea would even be possible.
I've noticed the same thing in biotech startups. Some people are meant to be part of smaller, bootstrapping companies and others are meant to be part of more established, good business corporations. The most interesting people are the ones who get in early and stick with it, growing along with the company.
"Extremely old" compared to the general population? Are you saying HN mostly consists of retired Cobol programmers?