skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except this isn't true. We've always had and will continue to have a diversified portfolio of energy sources because the cost of production changes depending on your environment. There's this bad idea flowing around that prices are consistent. Some places nuclear is better. Some places wind is. Some places solar is. It is also good to not be solely dependent upon a single instance because of security issues (one of many reasons France is targeting a 50% nuclear power generation).

You can't use averages and apply it to extremes. The world isn't homogeneous.
I interviewed someone earlier this year. Some line of questioning on engineering topics and someone led to the person saying something like, “but I don’t really know, it’s not like programming is my hobby and I do it on weekends, it’s my job.” That was so refreshing to hear and was one of the reasons I fought for them at decision time and they’ve been a fantastic employee ever since.
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
The author of the page we're discussing recommends unproductive side projects and presents us with one. This is worth emulating. Productive side projects are just more work, and sometimes you're tired of work. A good unproductive side project gives you something fun to think about all the time. If your mind wanders at work, this gives it a good place to go. It only works if you're having fun though.
No black people? I refreshed about 50 times and not one black person. Small number of Asians.
TFA makes it abundantly clear that waste storage is a vanishingly small portion of the cost. Dig a giant hole in a mountain in the desert. Put waste in. Station security guards. Continue for a century. Repeat.
Reading your "the cost of forking a third-party library and maintaining it in-house solely for your own use is no higher than the cost of relying on the third-party's unforked version" I didn't realize at all that you were trying to only talk about JavaScript that runs client side. I think your deleted clarification would have been helpful!
Eh, there's nothing wrong with having programming be your only hobby, if that's what you enjoy.

The problem is when there is an expectation that as a developer you're somehow inferior if you don't code in your free time.
The generator seems to have improved since then.
Google makes the browser because they are profoundly vulnerable otherwise to platform owners demanding payment for access to their platforms. Android exists because Google wanted protection against a Microsoft mobile monopoly that seemed inevitable (of course it turned out to be the Apple mobile monopoly that was the real threat; notice that Google has to pay Apple billions annually for access to their platforms). Internet explorer was a similar threat. Chrome was the response to that threat.

If Google can't influence this, then there will be other platform owners who will the ones with all the margins. A world where Microsoft and Apple just squeeze all the profit out of the internet is not obviously (at least to me) better than one where they can't.
I sell vested RSUs & ESPP stock immediately. That's even worse than investing in the same sector.

I agree that it can be hard psychologically in a high-growth industry like tech.
This seems like an extraordinarily hostile inference to draw from Spotify's statement about the maximum amount of time it'll take. Do you have some specific reason to think Spotify is engaging in undue delay?
What doesn't work? I have a 5700XT and it seems to be fine to me. What am I missing?
I suspect this is a very deliberate decision.

Use Chrome -> everything works perfectly
Use Safari -> enjoy your deliberately degraded experience
Since I started this by inadvertently writing the most upvoted comment, I'd like to put on the record that I'm against returns waste (and it boggles my mind to imagine anyone, or at least anyone with a soul, being for it), but I'm also against sensationalised tabloid journalism because I don't believe it's a constructive contribution to the discussion of how we get to a more sustainable supply-return chain.

On the contrary it tends to cause exactly those firms who'd be most intrinsically part of the solution (and whose employees most certainly would love to say "we're part of the solution", because they are not the sociopaths some would paint them as) to get their backs against the wall, since anyone even participating in the discussion makes themselves primarily a target for invective.
I've wondered for a while if it would be possible to train an AI to create visualisations of dinosaurs and extinct animals.

We've got sample data from living creatures and their skeletons, so if we could somehow traing a model that takes data from the skeletons (3d models? pictures?) as input and the animal as output, we could then apply that to skeletons found from past eras.

Granted, I only have a very basic understanding of machine learning so this is probably an absurd idea for a multitude of reasons I'm ignorant of.
My high school in Indiana in the 1990s taught skepticism; there were two required classes called “citizen’s government” and “social criticism”.

We watched Dr. Strangelove in Social Crit and had a two-hour discussion following. It was awesome.
Nvidia has subpar support for Wayland on Linux because it uses its own EGLStreams buffer API instead of the standard GBM buffer API, which is better-supported. Both AMD and Intel use GBM.

Also, the open source driver for Nvidia (nouveau) has incredibly poor performance compared to Nvidia's proprietary driver, and lacks essential features such as reclocking for recent hardware generations:

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html

AMD's and Intel's open source drivers are their primary offerings on Linux and have good performance across all hardware generations.
That trick doesn’t work for all cars sadly.
Sorry, your argument does not make sense to me. If I understood correctly you assert that if importation of cheap labor via H-1B program is prohibited by law then it means all cheap labor is bad from the POV of the law authors. I believe if you thought more than 15 seconds you could have found some logical faults with this.
Can confirm I've had a similar experience, especially recently. A 4g hotspot worked perfectly for my work from home situation up until July. Post July I started seeing significant degradation in connection quality on Zoom calls that didn't occur on a WiFi network in the same house.

Plus reduction in overall speeds beside Zoom during specific times of the day almost like clockwork, this too in recent months also made me feel that there is some hidden throttling at play.
Doctors I know frequently work weekends and nights between long days of more work.
You might not hear it anymore by now if you are still of a CRT generation since that tone is 16kHz and you quickly lose the ability to hear it.
Not everything has to have a purpose. If you're looking for solutions or life hacks, there are millions of SEO-d to death pages and self proclaimed gurus out there that peddle such things.

Personally I utterly relate to what the author is trying to express - so I heave a wry chuckle and after a momentary rush of kinship with the author sitting at his keyboard thousands of miles away, I move on. And what is HN if not a community of individuals sharing a connection.
From where?

I couldn’t see anywhere in the article that specifies where the data is stored.
You have any actual data backing up the claim about FB engagement? I don’t think there’s any validity to that
Likely, perhaps, but not true, since they still exist: https://www.dessci.com/en/

Microsoft probably started wondering internally why they don't just write their own equation editor, but didn't have time, so decided to do a crazy patch to this one and then start on a rewrite.
At least in Judaism, all forms of labour, including domestic labour, has been strictly banned on Saturday, for centuries at least. They managed to survive alright.

More to the point, a recent series of history blog posts discussed this question, and it seems like for most of the population, the food supply was not really limited by labour but rather by food storage ability and land area productivity (which is different). For much of the year aside from during the harvest, there was a lot of leisure time (even if people were starving, that wasn't something that harder work would necessarily solve).

https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
As a mentor for a high school robotics club, I have learned the freeing joy of tinkering, as opposed to the engineering I have done my whole career. It's great to work with foamcore, X-acto knife, glue gun, little motors and electronics, and create something crappy and amateurish and _successful_.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Where I am bike shops practically ran out of S/M/L bikes in Mountain bikes, road bikes and commuters. Second hand bike market has been insane as well. Most bike shops in my city also hired extra staff just to keep up with demand, and one of the boutique mountain-bike shops near me had to put up signs letting people know that their services are 100% booked out until March next year.
Visual Basic was awesome. I was making simple shooting games and card games as a teenager with minimal understanding of any programming at all. They felt like real, robust, desktop apps. You could drag and drop UI components and very easily add functionality.
> The Computer History Museum in Mountain View pretty clearly falls into three categories: government projects, genuinely innovative ideas from the private sector that failed, and the people who ripped off those ideas and made a killing. There is very little overlap between the last two categories.

This is ignoring two very important things.

The first is the number of government-funded projects that burned a mountain of cash and led to nothing. Unfortunately this is the rule rather than the exception in modern times because modern government has been captured by interest groups that divert money from where it's supposed to be going to themselves, which makes everything cost ten times more than it did when the government was funding the Apollo program and ARPANET. So you can't just say "government fund more stuff" without fixing that first.

And the second is that private companies inventing stuff only to see somebody else successfully commercialize it is still causing it to be invented. And the overlap between invention and commercial success can be very little and still cause people to do it, because the reward when it happens is very large.
It's kinda sad to see people that have incorrect expectations. It all stem from some geeks that love to code in their free time (my younger self too), then suddenly many employers or colleagues expect everyone to do the same. Then suddenly many programmers hate sunday.
If you can make it to Svalbard, it's worth it. It's like nothing I have ever seen before or since. Pictures don't do it justice.
I would like to buy:

- A dumb flip-phone.

- With a B&W display.

- That functions on a modern mobile cellular network.

- Robust enough to handle a good dunking and a few drops.

An old-school Nokia candybar or Ericson flip might fit the bill, funcctionally, except that 2G GSM is now largely phased out.

Light Phone seems to be the nearest general concept.

Phone, alarm, calculator, SMS (and I'd really prefer a secure messaging alternative).

If there were a reasonable Linux-based tablet, WiFi or in a pinch hotspottable, it could serve all other needs.
Pro tip: the google product sites tend to be more well behaved then the apps and don't nag like this. Usually all you lose is notifications.
POSIX only specşfies short options. So they may not be working on other platforms.
TI calculators, a mechanical pencil with a good eraser, and a notebook. It really let's me focus on the engineering and not the tools.
Save the world? Oh, please. He just wants to be the first. The first to do it at scale.

The fact that you think he's doing it for humanity is laughable.
Imagine the mess if Google just discontinued Chrome.
Look at the energy sources to understand why.

France: Nuclear

Norway: Hydro

Sweden: Hydro + Nuclear

That’s why nuclear in making a comeback in the mind of those who care about climate change.
The SEO junk has ruined Google.

By having rules that ensure websites are perfectly accessable and use https and perfectly structured HTML has lead to a corporate takeover of the first page.

The average programmer doesn't have time to learn the rules, but they surely understand how to program better than interns writing tutorials or the average medium article.

Btw I'll be adding 700 words to every recipe on my website.
>To me, it looks like technology is the difference, making its case for neutrality suspect IMO.

I'm not convinced this follows. It's seems like what the OP is saying is that technology has the ability to amplify the morals of those wielding it. That technology is the difference is exactly the point. It's amoral and when owned by the "good guys" (whatever your definition), it amplifies those morals and ethics and vice versa for the "bad guys".

In other words, it's not the technology but the morals of those who own it that is the root of good/evil. Unless your point is that a neutrality requirement is that technology must be incapable of being used for either good or ill, the neutrality claim is valid. (Personally, I prefer the term 'amoral' to neutral but I suspect the OP meant the same thing).
I guess as serious as any other privacy threats but one that doesn't get enough attention in my opinion. CDNs and web fonts are definitely being used to track us and can bypass mitigations like private mode in your browser and ad/tracker blockers by tracking your IP address across sites.
This !

I recently bought two new monitors and had to return them, swapping them in for a laserjet printer, because my ragged Acer (manufactured 2011) gave better FAR perfomance
You could use a trusted / centralised source to produce a TOTP or some equivalent code, and generate some code alongside a timestamp, which would be verifiable. (You can't get the code ahead of time from the service, but can later verify a timestamp code combination.)

Honestly, just emit the message in the Bitcoin blockchain and it will be there for perpetuity with a timestamp that is fully verifiable.
Lawyers are expected to do a certain amount of free work.
Settles a lot of arguments and removes a lot of BS and preconceived opinions when talking about energy.

Case in point: look at France vs Germany (who has now spent 500 billion euros in renewables).

Now imagine if that money had been spent elsewhere...
"A little too indulgent and not that enlightening" is how I would characterize every Tarantino movie...but I digress.

In regards to creativity, the acts of exploration and cartography the guy undertakes are about as "creative" as it comes. And with regards to plot, I find it pretty incredible that the whole plot was cogent, given that about half of it was written by an octopus. As they say, the truth is stranger than fiction.

No one knows what the other nominees would be, I'm just saying this deserves to be one of them, and would also be deserving of a win.
You however voiced your opinion that her platform is meaningless based on a past profession rather than acknowledge the merits of her current profession, educational background or any external input she may have received to put forward this platform with many others.

Why not address the merits or lack thereof of the platform instead of trying to tear her down?

How is anyone of a lower socioeconomic demographic ever meant to make a difference if people like you simply dismiss them based on a job they had to hold to make ends meet? It's elitist
> In your case, are all CDNs equal?

The big data centers in this region are in Singapore and I expect all CDNs have a presence there, so probably. I haven't exactly done any benchmarking though.

> the issue is not CDN or not, it's caching content closer to people whose ISPs don't provide sufficient service outside their own borders.

How would you do this without a CDN (on a small budget)?
Thanks Viral. To be clear, I’m a python user who’s cheering for Julia, because I live the problems of python and do see the potential of Julia as a better path. But unfortunately I’m not prepared to be the early adopter (at least in my day job), and will wait until other, braver users have sanded off the rough edges. God speed and good luck.
Going by that chart standard oil looks to have been split into several presumably competing companies. Seems like mission accomplished to me.
The API is state full and the args it accepts are arbitrary. It just tries to guess what you want it to do based on the types of the args you pass and their order. I’m not sure which plotting API is better, but there’s nothing unique about plotting in all of computing that requires an insane API.
I still want my desktop, which is currently a Dania dining room table, to be a display. Wouldn't that be cool, even with my coffee cup and junk sitting on it?

I also want a true wall-sized display. No, not a projected image.
You already lost the bet judging by last six months. Will you still pay up?
Are there any American reporters reporting on failed sanctions? Yes, our first amendment freedoms are still intact.
It's hard to pinpoint a few topics. I'd just suggest to go through an introductory course like Gilbert Strang's intro to linear algebra to get a general understanding and build on your knowledge as needed.
A more good-faith definition of junk TV might be "television with an emphasis on entertainment and a notable lack of educational content". No need for trash celebrities.
> If it's an asset, why not just write more?

Companies do write more.
> The problem is when there is an expectation that as a developer you're somehow inferior if you don't code in your free time.

Insofar as diversity of experience matter, coding less and on a narrower array of projects does make you inferior. So, yeah, I’d expect developers who don’t code outside of work, all other things being equal, to be inferior to those who do.

I’m curious what, other than simple self-interest of those who don't code outside of work, would lead one to argue that that isn't the case.
The awesome inline assembly macro doesn't seem to be stable though. Isn't it only available in nightly builds of Rust?
That sounds logical to me. Do you see anything the OSM community could do to make this easier? Or do we just need (more, perhaps) companies like Mapbox and recommend those rather than self hosting?
I have returned 2 Radeons that I bought for specs but returned because the drivers were bad enough that I couldn’t get the same-clock performance as Nvidia or worse dealt with driver crashes and system reboots - note that this was between 10 and 20 years ago. I am highly considering trying again at eom when they announce the new cards but that it’s a Radeon is still a downside to me.

Most of the Linux community has a historical hatred of Nvidia because of the driver issue so there’s a lot of relative love out in forums, but just “stable” would be a step up for me for Radeons on windows.
But somehow was able to get a job? Who are these people who have the creativity to get a job, but none to work on a project.

I will never understanding this perspective of being in a great position and not having to worry about money while being apathetic toward the entire situation.
Rust does have a steep learning curve and Python is a very productive language... until you are the one responsible for builds and deploys, or performance, or concurrency, or quality, or etc. I think you’ll find that Go hits a nice sweet spit between all of those competing concerns even if it isn’t the best at any of them (in general; however, probably not for data science in particular).
Oh, I didn't even notice that you, the OP, are also the author of the post :D
Reneweconomy's widget shows coal being ~3/4 of the current supply, but solar being the majority of the rest. There does seem to be a bug somewhere.

http://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/

Edit: OpenNEM gives figures similar to reneweconomy: https://opennem.org.au/energy/qld1/
My experience with linux is that the nvidia drivers and support are the worst of the bunch, and if I had a nickle every time I could trace a kernel panic through their driver I'd get a very nice lunch. Their popularity seems to be driven primarily by exclusive access to CUDA APIs and windows gaming. Nouveau is OK for accelerated 2d but is hardly in the same ballpark as the AMD drivers.

That said I just picked up a quadro (not my choice, came with a prebuilt NUC) and I've been pleased to find that it "just works" on freebsd (I use it to realtime transcode video), so clearly great experiences are possible and I don't want to be needlessly harsh.

Personally, I'm dying for a discrete intel card. I can't recall any hiccups with intel chipsets, ever, and that matters WAY more to me than raw performance.
Right, the actual proposals to do this are obviously more sophisticated than that.

The way that the bigger/better hedge funds and such avoid someone else doing latency arb on them is by having their own points of presence near global trading hubs. Their traders and algo systems decide on the trades to make, communicate them all to the POPs where they're held behind a release gate, then the POPs do a global drop of the gate based on gps/atomic time synchronization. It becomes impossible for any external system to get a latency arb advantage. An arbitrary number of exchanges could implement the same sort of ingress/egress system.
You can't subpoena for data that doesn't exist. If facial recognition is implemented in businesses and schools, the associated databases will be used by police and government.
Intel has actually gone downhill lately, especially for prior generations. I've had to live with 5 or so years of tearing with multi-monitor support on Ivy Bridge, and even single monitor tears inexplicably with some software (that shouldn't). The Intel Xorg driver is unmaintained and the generic modesetting driver doesn't work quite as well. When I first got my Ivy Bridge system, triple head mode didn't work for a while either, so it's not like they have great support when the hardware is current either.

I've switched to AMD now and things are much better. Go with AMD.
It actually shows live output and total capacity.

Solar capacity is listed at 52GW. Wind total capacity is 61 GW, with an mediocre 15% output.

That’s not a lot to show for 500 billion euros...
When I ask the question, I do it out of genuine curiosity. I like my potential coworkers (since that's kinda half the point of interviews-- see if he/she is a feasible coworker) to be easy to talk with.

I've had interviews where we talked about Tiger King.

Though I do agree, this is the minority. I feel that, especially in the cybersecurity world, it's an expectation that you should have several CVEs or public bug bounty writeups under your belt, things which oftentimes take tens of hours of time outside of work.
I think you’re in the minority, one that gets smaller and smaller daily. Downvote all you want.
Yes. We are using nightly Rust for this reason.
Doctors are a terrible comparison - the ones I know work insane hours and are often in the hospital 60+ hours a week.
Tell that to all of the institutional investors that have lost money shorting Tesla.

No, there is no good reason for Tesla to be valued the way it is - but there is no shortage of people willing to buy it without putting too much thought into the price, either.