skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if fossil fuels, especially natural gas, will be substantially replaced from the energy mix till we figure out massive high density power storage mechanisms at scale.

Fossil fuels provide base load power that, without storage, we simply cannot rely on most renewables to directly substitute. The only alternative has been, and likely will continue to be, nuclear power, which has its own set of challenges.

If you accept this contention, then the big driver / trigger / marker for the "end of fossil fuels as bulk power sources" is the development and at scale deployment of power storage. And I don't see compelling evidence that is happening anytime soon.
Chapium I'm glad you asked and I believe the explanation would fill a volume the size of the art of computer programming

I want to encourage you to consider the sociological and epistemiological implications taking into account every relevant consideration of which there are a plethora and perhaps you may arrive at the conclusions I have that manners matter and manner of dress falls well within this broad scope

Beyond that I'll encourage you to draw your own logical and intuitive reasoning to consider whether the unkempt genius is any more or less a genius than the kempt one and which one you'd rather work with all things being equal

I can't possibly explain it better than to say that some men wear neckties out of genuine respect for their peers and I am one such man

As a computer scientist I treat the necktie as a semaphore which it literally and figuratively is and as such let me propose the following game theory question based on the prisoners dilemma

What are the odds your adversary will cooperate if he is wearing a necktie

a) willingly
b) unwillingly

How about if you are both wearing neckties? (willingly and/or unwillingly)

I know it's abstract but so are human relationships and we all know than software is based on cooperation dynamics of this nature at its core

More than anything I'm sick of not knowing who around me just rolled out of bed ten minutes before showing up to standup
"State and corporate espionage isn't anything new."

'State espionage' for issues of security is understandable and nobody is screaming about it.

"I understand that the publicized outrage about Huawei and other Chinese companies stealing from America isn't natural"

This is really not true. It's 100% natural to be concerned about the blatant theft of research and IP.

Literally Huawei was rewarding staffers for stuff they'd stolen.

In fact, I'd argue that it's 'unnatural' for people not to be concerned about it.

"Most people were fine with Chinese advancing and copying, since everybody benefited from cheap labor/products. "

No way - that was not 'China stealing IP' - that was China using their competitive advantage: labour, factories, supply chains to add value. This is a good thing and few were complaining other than those who lost jobs. Everyone else was winning.

"Until the powerful in the West realized american economy is in bad shape" ?

The US has the lowest unemployment in 25 years, the lowest unemployment ever for African Americans, stocks are at crazy all-time highs. While nobody will ever say it's rosy, and historical growth is a little low, the US is overall doing just fine.

This is all a distraction: China and Huawei stealing IP and other elements and it's blatantly illegal and a serious transgression of international norms of trade.

Why would any company in the world even allow Huawei staff anywhere near their workers or offices, knowing that they're literally trying to steal whatever they can? The consequences of this are real and will factor into how nations contemplate trading with China.
Our manager is running one right now, but he usually proposes books about team-work, e.t.c.

Just finished 'Turning ship around', next on the list is probably 'The phoenix project'
Yes i think so its a part of onecoin and onelife community.
The Song of Love (1923): a Silent Film Review
I'm counting on self-driving cars to be viable by the time I'm too old to drive -- it was very hard for my grandmother to give up her car and it took a lot of coaxing (and a little sabotage of her car to make her think it needed expensive repairs) to get her to stop driving. But it was necessary because she was becoming a dangerous driver.
I read about something the other day where someone had a bag labeled "big bag of drugs" or something like that, and it was in fact full of drugs. But it was actually a commercial product intended to be ironic.

This is why the police are always going to seem dumb and literal, because if something is "obviously" a joke, it can be used as cover, and even if most criminals are more conventional, it will look particularly bad if they ignore something obvious when it was real.
Oh I love these detailed runs into the past. Also the fact that physics and chemistry where the main driver. Software became the most prominent figure in computing or at least that is how I perceived this growing up. I learned very late what the advances in semi conductor development really meant and how important they were.
C++Cast: C++ on a Watch
Roles that don't involve recursion? What next, no for loops please - we are developers!!
Yeah, your example stretches my analogy far past its breaking point. You’re right, revenue can be a pretty meaningless number. But where costs are relatively fixed, it can be helpful.

In the case of companies, it can also show how much of the market a company has captured (when revenue == sales).
I am considering organizing book-club to go through google's SRE book and workbook.
Ask HN: Should I start out as a junior developer?
I have finished a computer programming bootcamp and found I took to programming deeply. Some of my course mates have found jobs which are not 'junior developer' jobs (i.e. jobs which focus heavily on feature building, rather than on QA, etc...).

I would like to take the course of maximum learning, so is doing a typical junior developer job an important stepping stone on the way to being a great developer?

Thank you
I was with you until you called unix tools janky.. how dare you! semi joking :]

there is some simple elegance and power to these old C tools
They should arrest them for their accent.
All these calls are basically money scum.
Oh realy thanks for comment here for this article. Thanks
What are you short?
Ah, sweet Delphi ... To this day, it remains the best visual development environment that I have experienced over 25+ years. Powerful - yet intuitive and simple - UI, blazingly fast compilation speed, rich sets of built-in and third-party visual component libraries. I have started with Turbo Pascal, which was certainly the breakthrough at the time, and have also worked with C++ Builder and a bit with Interbase & Firebird, but spent most of my Borland ecosystem time with Delphi. Recently, looking for potential better (Delphi-like) alternatives to modern convoluted world of Web development, I have explored Lazarus and several related projects, but none of them seems to provide the same comprehensive-yet-intuitive solution (backed by a solid company) that Delphi has done in the desktop development world. Perhaps, some good relevant projects will emerge in the future, but, until then, I will focus on mastering one of the "standard" modern Web development stacks (e.g., TypeScript + Vue) as well as exploring quite promising Blazor and, generally, WebAssembly technologies.
I second this. I like Signal and appreciate all the efforts people put in. But I don’t really care how Signal added cute stickers or optimized image showing. I just need a privacy app and keep my data. The only reason I didn’t recommend Signal to my non-tech friends was not being able to migrate/export chat history on iOS. This seems to be such a basic (not necessarily easy) thing to do but they just didn’t do it.
Crap companies don't want Vine reviews, they want "real" fake reviews without the "I received this for free" marker.

Legitimate ones go for Vine that would have probably kinda earned it anyway.
The UK is four nations (four nations united into one kingdom, hence the name), and the US is a mix of people from many nationalities. Israel is probably a nation state. I don't know much about Chinese cultural identity.
It's not accidental that young biologists dissect fetal pigs.
Steve Jobs had a theory about why this type of stuff becomes prevalent in the lifecycle of companies: https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-on-why-innovation...

Sounds a lot like google here.

Frankly though, I think there's something more fundamental about large organization as to why this sort of stuff happens (not just at companies). Perhaps it's the iron law of oligarchy, but corruption seems inevitable at scale. Very few innovative people seem able to reap or retain the most value of their work.
The article says:

"Closer to home, Los Angeles’ utility commission recently approved a new solar plant that will deliver 300 megawatts of energy at 3.962¢/kWh (by comparison, electric power from natural gas usually costs about 8¢/kWh in the US). Importantly, that price tag includes energy storage as well, meaning the plant will be able to deliver energy to LA residents day and night."
Thanks but these structures are size optimised, I'm looking for CPU usage optimised structures.
So first,why would what I said be a trollpost? Because you disagree?

Second, protonmail requires a phone or credit card to sign up(wasn't the case before). You can pay for protonmail using btc and i was lucky to have an account before their sms verification requirement but I don't wish to use that address.

Third, why the hell do I need an email address to join any service? I can list many reasons why I don't want to use email ,privacy being only one small reason. Let go of email and sms,please! I emplore you, so much is at stake! You can use email all you want but free your users from needing it.

Why do I need an email for mastodon? Why???? It's literally a communication platform you can send me messages on? You can make a backup email (or backup mastodon account) for recovery although there are more secure options? Why do you insist on demanding people depend on a technology from the early 1980s to use new technology today? Why do I need burner phones and bitcoin wallets fudned using cash to join a free federated service? I use to be able to join an irc network,forums or even email itself without everyone and their mother knowing my phone,address, work place,associates,demographic info,etc...

Why can't you give it a break?
Because it's used in the real world all the time?

The amount of times I've had to write my own sorting algorithm in my career: 0.

The amount of grep/sed/awk I've used? Countless.

Someone who is familiar with how powerful and flexible these tools are is likely to accomplish something that can benefit from them quicker than someone who isn't aware of them.

Also in my experience software devs that shy away from the command line because they don't like it rarely pan out.
We hired an engineer once. He wrote a tail recursive function. We had to fire him. We hadn't tested him on that on the whiteboard.
Most of these advances (besides flying cars, they're just dumb) are social advances, not neccessarily purely technical ones.

Our cities could be much more futuristic, but that's clearly not due to a lack of technology - it's due to a lack of clear political will. Technology regarding health could be better, but start at implementing a decent health care system that doesn't let people avoidably die because they can't avoid treatment (this is US-specific, but a bad situation made even worse by the president Thiel so vehemently supported). Space travel, again, is in a large part just a matter of funding (we could be at today's point 20 or 30 years ago).
I think it’s a good case study on why the state of security in the world is the way it is right now; people want convenience more than security.

I even fall victim to this myself: Signal not having a search history or losing message history when activating a new device is often too much of a show stopper.

I really hope Signal will be able to pull this off somehow, but seeing how much these type of apps rely on a network effect, I am skeptical.
It smells like a “you’ve caused by brain cancer” lawsuit.
no you’re equating pay to skill and there’s no correlation. there’s incredible pickers and you still want your team staffed with them
How can you think clearly when someone is watching and judging you?

The ideal scenario would be - give a problem, leave the room, and come back after 15 minutes - give the candidate some breathing room.. to make mistakes, to try out few methods, to collect their thoughts.

This concept of 'We want you to think aloud, We want to see your approach', doesn't match reality.

In reality, the only time that happens is when both parties are trying to figure out a solution collaboratively. Not when one party already knows the answer and is 'testing' the other party.

An author's first draft, or a speaker's demo, has a million corrections before it gets to print/stage. Can RR Martin write freely if the NYTimes reviewed his every draft version ? Can Steve Jobs go on stage and give a demo if he has not already rehearsed the entire saga ?

It's like judging a person at their vulnerable stage. Unless they are a saint who can completely block out the existence of another human being sitting a few feet away, it's hard to concentrate.

You're more worried about how your thought process looks than you are about solving the problem at hand.
> The best example of induced demand ignores price.

> Build more freeways and you get more drivers.

That's like having a McDonalds without enough cashiers and then saying "hire more cashiers and you sell more hamburgers" is induced demand because the hamburgers cost the same but you sell more of them.

That's not induced demand, you're just changing the price. Having to wait in line (or sit in traffic) is a cost. If you reduce the cost, demand goes up, but that's just ordinary supply and demand again.
Bert for Predicting the Missing Word
RethinkDB Java Driver 2.4.0 is out
Naw, I just shadowed a new young interviewer and he asked a similar question that was unreasonable. As a recent grad he legitimately didn't recognize that the interviewee wouldn't necessarily know this one specific thing. We discussed it and he's going to try again next time with a more reasonable question.
Here is some real practical advice (since the article is missing that):

One of the big hotshots in your company likes cycling? Well, you like to go cycling too! Let's go cycling together in the weekend!

Become friends with one (or multiple) of the big bosses, and your career is set. And it's probably going to be a clique of higher ups, since they are all buddies at this point.

Golf is not as popular in Europe as in US, but it's still a place for the higher up's to socialize.

Humans are mainly emotional, not rational. They will promote their friends first. Whether this is good or bad is not the discussion, it's the reality of human nature.
Humans are a finite resource but the comparison to livestock seems unwarranted. A business optimizing talent isn’t inherently removing humanity from its workers.
What does solve the problem?
An LA Times article [1] on the solar power plant suggests it can supply 6-7% of LA's annual electricity needs and deliver upto 4 hours of power each night.

I don't read that as 100% of LA's night time power requirements each night for 4 hours though; rather, that it can continue supplying at a steady rate 4 hours after Sun down. It's not nearly a replacement for base load power.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-10/ladwp-v...
I found a job posting of theirs a while back while trying to figure out their tech stack. It required experience in docker, redis, node, can't remember what else if anything. Given the on demand nature of the game you can kind of imagine the kind of microservice architecture built from those components. For example each container handles X number of users, redis cache has a copy of game state/user state, each round questions/answers are handled and losers are kicked out so load is progressively reduced through the course of a game until only a winner remains. Most likely cloud was used to spin up containers right before trivia starts so you only pay for compute while a game is in progress then spin everything down.
Took me all of 10 minutes to set up irssi on a free google cloud vps many years ago. It's still chugging along.

~ uptime
23:22:27 up 787 days, 15:10, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

It's not that hard.
It sounds like a cliche new year resolution but I went cold turkey in 2020. I had been smoking moderately for almost a decade. The first ten days were really hard. 45 days on, I still feel the occasional urge to smoke but it is far better.

My personal experience so far is that it is a mind game. You need to truly tell yourself that there is zero possibility to smoke. Unless your mind accepts that, it is not easy to stop.
And how many of the ones who don't announce this are you aware of?

There's also something about many TV-watchers which compels them to comment as you have (though similarly: those who don't are far less visible).

In a complex social context, behaviours and adornments are social signifiers. They indicate tribal affiliations, and status. What you wear, eat, drive, listen to, do recreationally, watch, and other elements, aren't simply goods and activities, they're social signals, and they act as such because the underlying realities are far too complex to express succinctly.

And what others do, or criticise, isn't simply about behaviour, but about tribe and status.

Which is almost certainly why the urge to state one's own preferences, and to comment on the expression of preferences by others, is so ingrained. And so emotionally-laden.

Incidentally, I think this is one of the reasons why markers such as hairstyles, beards (generally for men), tattoos and bodymarkings, and the like, are such culturally-persistent indicators of status or relationship. It's possible to change your clothes in a few moments. A hairstyle is a committment -- of at least a few days or weeks, but potentially of years. Tattoos are as enduring as diamonds, effectively, and cannot be worn or doffed. Complex braiding, dreadlocks, and the like, require hours, or months, of cultivation.

(Or the ability to spend conspicuously on hairdresser services.)

Even within a given religion, different monastic orders will often have subtly (or profoundly) different hairstyles. Some rounded, some squared, some shaved, some long.

(Also notable: shortening hair, rather than lengthening it, is a rapidly-attained style, requiring only a few minutes with shears and a razer. Tan patterns may take a few days to normalise, but also adapt quickly. Which may be why shaved heads and faces are frequently seen as less credible, or are applied to, e.g., prisoners and fresh recruits, as a rapidly-achieved unifying (within the cohort) and distinguishing (from society) mark.)

There's relatively little serious work on the topic of fads and fashions, which extends to other areas, also typified by complex underlying structures: academia, music, literature, technology, law, and business management. Thorstein Veblen is among those who's written on the topic.
Sounds like you just got triggered. Sorry about that.

I saw some of the symbols featured on this page:

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/...

And some symbols on this page:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/12/flags-and-oth...

A lot of it was from European neo-Nazis about European issues (threats directed towards refugees, Muslims, Communists).
Well I personally like unlimited vacation policies and it’s been a hit with most teams I’ve worked on. Adding some basic “mandatory” time off usually solves the problem of workers feeling like they shouldn’t take it. It’s really just dependent on office culture.
No, cling to TV, we are in the golden age of television! There are so many great shows. And these are worthwhile: there's narrative arcs, stories told, actual art.

Let go of TV, you fall into 3 minute YouTubes, then into 15 second TikToks, and I don't know what's after that but it's not good.
Its been a couple of decades since..
I would add "C Interfaces and Implementations" to his (excellent) list.
I stopped watching TV 8 years ago.
There is no meaningful ETS in Australia. The chart used must come from around 2013.

The stranded assets story is pretty bad: states are going to have to step in and remediate giant toxic industrial waste zones. Remember that methane leak from an underground gas storage site? Now magnify that thousands of times for the uncapped fracking, open cut mines.

Then add the methane clathrates releases from Arctic zones....

There is also "the rush to the door" effect. Burn it now to make profit now?
> It's trivial to layout memory as you please, where you please, very directly, in C

It wasn't trivial before fixed width integral types, which is fairly recent in C terms (C99), and it's still far more complicated than it needs to be.

Furthermore, the fact that C is the defacto language of performance means that our hardware has been constrained by needing to run C programs well in order to compete.

Think of all the interesting innovation we could have had without such constraints. For instance, see how powerful and versatile GPUs have become because they didn't carry that legacy.
Exactly ! See - https://leetcode.com/discuss/career/509258/Social-anxiety-in...

But the issue is that they're not just judging you by the approach, they are also judging you by your results.

Some people, especially those with social anxiety (not some fancy psychological term, just someone who feels uncomfortable when someone is watching over their shoulder), can only achieve results if they are not judged during the journey.
Optimizing for growth requires forgoing profit, which is the model in place for GCP (and what everyone seems concerned over) so I don’t see what the problem is.

Is it really that you just don’t feel they’re committed enough for your standards?
Am not, but your point has merit, if you mean a networked system without physical rails. As a drop-in replacement - I don't see how a human vs. robot driver, on the same vehicle footprint, helps congestion.
How did you get rid of the byproducts ?
Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search
Cool. Could this be used for wireless charging and/or less snoopable RFID/contactless replacement?
The majority of software teams fall outside of this classification.
it is a long time i don't own a tv and don't see much on the laptop even. For one main reason, compared to the 80-90, today programs are very bad. I can't stand them.
I think after the primaries start performance in the primaries (especially unexpected performance) is a better indicator of expected media coverage.