skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but it's a matter of degree. It's more true of articles about proposed bills than it is of the median submission, and maybe even the median political submission.

HN does better when it steers clear of generic discussion, the same way an exploring spacecraft does best to steer clear of the largest planets or any black holes in the vicinity.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

That goes 10x for generic ideological or political threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Something I've noticed about people that use words like regulation or deregulation are often fighting a very binary ideological proxy war that is incredibly boring. Instead, I'd like to propose an information based thread that purposely excludes the proxy war.

Some facts based on the information we currently have:

- looks like a series of cascading failures similar to an event in 2011

- a report outlined the failures in 2011, as well as causes and symptoms

- temperatures are more extreme than in 2011

- increased population growth in the state since 2011

- Texas has an independent grid with connections which have limited throughput and high cost conversion
> Government-run enterprises are not fair competition since they have unfair advantages. One does not create competition by allowing enterprises which can do dumping at worst, and always have special advantages at best.

Okay but as a consumer, I just care that there's good internet available. If the government can provide that using "unfair" advantages, then why do I care?
The MCAS of coffee grinders?
> Nobody just looks at your papers and hands out a white coat.

But that is my point. You show up with your white coat that you earned by passing a series of tests. The future employer is just deciding if your stated skillset and your personality fit what they need. They aren't testing your skills as a doctor, because someone else already did.
> In result we have Russian one 50km from our Capital.

And? You've been running one of the unsafest reactor designs in history and you were actually opposed to shutting it off.

You just built a brand new LNG terminal in Klaipeda [1] and, of course, having such a big plant in Belarus generating 2400 MW of carbon-free energy will mean that electricity production from LNG is getting a fierce competition.

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_LNG_FSRU
The ACLU has long complained that they end up defending the worst people. That doesn't mean freedom isn't worth defending.
Indeed, I must removed it a while ago. Please ping me at me[at]cpoul.dev and I'll check it asap
Given the sheer unemployment numbers and the amount of forced closures, this doesn't make any sense...
GPL license doesn’t function without copyright law. Do you want to throw that out too?
> Everyone is allowed to copy Stockfish/Leela and sell them, provided the terms of the Stockfish/Leela license are met. But don’t pretend that the product being sold is something it isn’t.

What's the issue? Did OS contributors suddenly realize you can make money off software? They're upset at marketers doing marketing?

Don't understand the downvotes. If they violated the terms of the license or did something illegal then sue, otherwise they're just whinging.
My intuition is that most conversions from monolith to microservices have a negative ROI because they are driven by anticipation rather than need. Company spends massive amounts of people hours planning and executing the conversion, but the company dies before savings are realized.
The fact that he started only 5 years ago is a conspicuous detail -- I keep googling trying to find why he started in the first place, but haven't found that question asked. There seems to be some shadow material expressing itself in the form of a book.

I know my own problems, way back when, really got going at around the 5 year mark, and turned from weekend fun to every day need. If I hadn't have met my partner who helped pull me out I'm not sure where I would be right now. Knowing what I know from personal experience, this book seems reckless to me.
More lives have been destroyed by alcohol than have ever even tried heroin. What you are describing sounds no different than an alcoholic. The whole point of this article, and Dr. Hart's research in general, is that it's not ok to demonize some drugs over others just because they are culturally accepted. Addiction is addiction, and there's zero evidence to support the fact that heroin is any more addictive
or dangerous than alcohol.
Kyligence Launches Intelligent Data Cloud for Interactive Big Data Analytics
Same. Never felt the slightest euphoria taking the prescribed dose. Maybe got a bit sleepy, but it's been so long I don't quite remember.
Talk about killing the goose that lays the golden egg. That would have put back pharma in the EU for a generation at least, and in the next pandemic, the vaccine companies would not have even talked to the EU.
1. We have nuclear waste already

2. We will continue to have nuclear waste if we want to have nuclear weapons

3. You can store all the waste you need to store in a football field (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...)

Nuclear waste management is messy, but it's something we need to solve no matter what. It is now a sunk cost we have to deal with because of what we have already done and what we plan to keep.

So if we already have to pay the fixed cost, we should reap as much benefit as possible.
You can certainly work like a dog in an actual startup with the hope that your equity will someday be worth something... only to have it be worth nothing because the company didn't make it. This is what happens in the vast majority of startups as few startups end up making the big time.
https://giphy.com/gifs/itt-13f5iwTRuiEjjW
Probably routed through the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Maven and possibly Europe's Mars Express satellites, rather than a direct connection to the Deep Space Network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAVEN
Looks cool , but the pricing is a bit high for me.

Anything over 50$ isn't an impulse buy
This is a natural consequence of releasing an open source project.
It’s the equivalent of leaving a car open with a key, documents and an invitation to drive it for free.
The Future of the Video Game Market Is Roblox
Just for comparison's sake, aren't plants/photosynthesis something like 5% efficient?
The point of language is to convey a shared concept, is that what you are doing? It seems like we already achieved that, which word choice would you prefer over “no correlation” to convey the same concept that there is not a useful signal to glean from an industry standard interview process
Stockfish is under the GPL (IIRC) so I wouldn't be that worried.
Maybe they would take the dosis from US and sell them in EU for more (LOL).
Or, take the excess 40e and pay someone a fortune to build few more factories overnight (ROFL).
I think everybody knows where the excess profit goes, but, if they could deliver really immediatelly, I think EU would pay it, the same way as Isreal (probably) did. But EU has a 'bit' more citizens than Israel...
The issue is it is fraud
If I understood the livestream correctly, it's because they were able to (maintain|quickly establish) lock to the MRO after touch-down and zip a couple of images up through the "bent-pipe" UHF-to-high-power relay into the Deep Space Network.
Unexpected costs of fossil fuels that cause climate change is a historical failure of regulation (politics) and not markets.

Markets are not magic. They're just a tool.
Freemium models as well as services being in free to get market share is also a model other companies have also done in the past. Granted this is something that should be slightly regulated. Companies must be forced to give N months notice for pricing changes, particularly those that can also be classified as utilities.

About the actual method of pricing though, one needs to compare to the likes of Oracle - where they charge based on CPU cores that you are using (where it is entirely based on how much can they extract out of a company). Or let us take the case of your favorite TV/Phone company wanting more $$ for an extra extension in your house. In those days, I would have never imaged that Netflix or Youtube additional "profiles" would be free.
It was already communicating with DSN the whole way down, via one of the orbiters, and "send a pic" was apparently a pre-programmed command not requiring Earth initiation.
That's a pretty terrible reason for UBI imo. If UBI is built to offset the lack of jobs, more people will choose not to work. If people choose not to work, the price of labor will go up. If the price of labor goes up, more and more labor will be outsourced to countries without UBI. It will create an underclass of non-citizens who don't get the luxury of UBI but live in an economy built for people who do.
I'm not sure which part of my reply you disagree with: the fact that new projects should be written in memory safe languages if they are security sensitive, or that it is not always feasible to do so for existing ones.

For the later case, the amount of friction you introduce for the devs, the amount of new bugs you write in because you're moving to a new paradigm are not worth (in my humble opinion) the memory safety this rewrite would bring, especially for something like libcurl which was fuzzed by 20+ years of monkeys with keyboards. Why you're feeling entitled to know better than the people that spent years of their lives doing this one thing is puzzling and leads me to perceive your answer as being knee-jerk dogma.
They don't have to be perfectly safe. We can accept risks that are possible but contained. Risks that are uncontained (a meltdown leading to evacuating a huge area) have to impossible I'm afraid. Or much much less likely than they currently seem to be...
Yup. Licenses are for losers.
> Not sure about the other ones, but the ones in (East) Germany were decomissioned presto after reunification

Which was completely unjustified. I visited that plant and the engineers there confirmed me that the VVER-440/213 is safer than all the BWR designs in West-Germany.
That particular question is actually quite sensible (/s), it tests whether you actually have some experience coding in C and are looking to get hired in the late 1970s/early 1980s -- it's a "weed out the interviewees who are overstating their experience" question (h/t to Hillel Wayne, who did the research on why the question is used, and has a good talk in which it is the main focus)
Well then I guess people should post these hashtags to other places.
username checks out

(and yes, well said)
Watching these is always a stressful experience, I can't imagine what it would be like sitting in that room, praying that the object you spend years of work on is able to land by itself 7 light-minutes away.

I'm looking forward to what Perseverance will teach us.
FWIW: In one of my classes, the teacher taught us Prolog by making us write a text adventure using it. It turned out to be well suited to the task. Except for the "publish to the web part".

https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~matuszek/cis554-2015/Assignments/...
Free college education

4-6 weeks of mandated paid vacation

Substantial paid parental leave

Option to opt in for half-time working and the companies are mandated to comply

Universal healthcare not related to your job situation nor to the whims of the coverage of your health policy

Option to join an union with no repercussion

Any other question?
NASA Perseverance Rover Touch-Down Success
I guess the devil is in the details but I can't see how mirrors will be positioned to support vertical farming. It's be interesting to see some viable ideas (if those exist).
It's closer to releasing a genetically engineered racing driver for that car.

Anyone else is free to use said driver, but in this case if they make him faster they have to make their changes public because of the GPL
Clicking the link with lichess installed just opens the app. Long-press to open in a new tab.
While you are technically correct, those who study C++ security note that those are a tiny minority of all security errors. Still an issue, but not nearly as common an issue as the ones that come from the C roots of C++.
"In the USA it's apparently common, but seems unusual everywhere else."

It's not just common in the US, it is the de facto standard across almost all mortgage types and sizes. Even weird, non-conforming properties with "jumbo" sized loans can get fixed at 30 years.

Also, I will point out that in both Switzerland and the Nordic Countries, 40 and 50 year mortgages are now in very common use:

"Repayment periods in Switzerland can be incredibly long, with deals lasting between 50 and 100 years being relatively common."[1]

"Swedish regulators calculated in 2013 that the average mortgage term was around 140 years."[2]

In fact, now that I think about it, I am surprised that the US culture of "financial innovation" has not produced more standardized long-duration mortgages ... I do not know anyone, for instance, with a 40-year term ...

[1] https://www.expatica.com/ch/housing/buying/your-guide-to-swi...

[2] https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan...
This should be top comment. I didn’t really understand the article but you’ve explained it perfectly. Did you read a more thorough explanation somewhere?
> Plenty of doctors are idiots whom you wouldn’t want to hire.

Sure, but someone else has already given them the medical equivalent of fizzbuzz and other stupid generic whiteboarding challenges, so you can skip that for more specific tests of whether they are an idiot that you wouldn't want in the particular job.
We already hate it enough to pair it with capitalism, where people are forced to work all hours of the day instead of getting to sit down, think, and discuss. Charging for education too, is hatred of free speech, since you gate the tools of expression behind wealth

Ditto with not providing safe spaces for people to discuss without their oppressors present.

If we can make some tradeoffs for freedom speech, we can make others

I for one don't necessarily care about free speech itself, but the benefits it brings for ensuring that new ideas are proliferated and people at the bottom of society aren't forgotten about. Free speech is an implementation detail, rather than a requirement
https://graphue.com/
Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep
I would have assumed that most people interested in chess engines are a pretty savvy and will do their research before buying anything, making the whole "create a sub-par ripoff" a rather ineffective strategy.
Surely it is easier and cheaper to make the land arable or a greenhouse or whatever than equivalent vertical farm + solar. KISS
Comparing heroin to unhealthy eating is an interesting take.
I'm not sure it's fair to call them unintended consequences when this exact thing was predicted by skeptics when the law was passed.
The same could be said about flowers.com, macys.com, or literally any company doing business on the internet. Scale is basically a solved problem so pretending that AirBnb is a "Tech Company" or that they have any interesting tech is incredibly naive.
This should be taken as proof that economics is about defining a political world view, and not about explaining what actually happens.

As such it's a closed loop of ideology, which makes it a predictably terrible source of bad policy.

Texas isn't just a solvable problem, it should have been an avoidable problem. But when your premises are wrong, your ethics are questionable, and your biasses are brittle and never challenged - this awful utter state of Texas is what you get.

Variations will keep happening until these beliefs are finally discredited and replaced with models that not only have genuine predictive power, but also a solid record of preventing problems instead of causing them.
Hell yeah. Everyone says they care about diversity. But you aren’t going to build a diverse workforce if all your offices are in SF, NYC, London, and Seattle.

I’ve wanted to see big tech expand into the South for years. (Austin doesn’t count.) Atlanta and Nashville please.
While this is something I would expect from a small random company, ChessBase is pretty big in the chess world.

For them to promote this "new" engine on their shop[0] feels wrong, I would expect them to meet certain quality threshold.

Lichess does mention this in the bottom of the post, which has the same feeling:

> Everyone is permitted and encouraged to modify and improve code from Stockfish/Leela while giving credit; that is the intent of open-source software. Everyone is allowed to copy Stockfish/Leela and sell them, provided the terms of the Stockfish/Leela license are met. But don’t pretend that the product being sold is something it isn’t.

[0] https://shop.chessbase.com/en/
Stallman himself has repeatedly said he only devised the GPL because it's the best option in a world where copyright exists.
No problem! As I said, rooting for you since this is a much-needed actor especially with acceleration of remote work.
Apple silicon Macs are not vulnerable.
> I guess under Soviet regime Lithuanians and Latvians didn’t have any say in the matter where the nuclear power plant must be built (or be built at all).

Why didn't they shut off the plant then right after the Iron Curtain fell? In fact, they actually opposed the closure of that very plant.
"Light, its what plants crave!"
Blocking violations in reactive Java frameworks (paper) [pdf]
I'm excited for the HD video of the landing that was promised.
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Chipmakers Halt Production in Texas After Power Outages
If a seller only gets sales because of the ignorance of their customers, it's a rip off. I'd be annoyed if my work was being used to rip people off, even if no licence terms or laws were being broken.
They're not that hard to make and fly... in Kerbal Space Program ;)

(I'm totally kidding; what they've accomplished is incredible!)
> The vast majority of startups go bust before IPO or acquisition

In recent times, these giant late rounds with the amount of preference given mean that when acquisition happens, it often doesn't pay out for regular employees/common stock. The common stock employees get is for the moon or bust, or hope an acquiring company is generous.
Where? Plus, "maal e ghanimat" is invalid Arabic.
Exactly, I’ve been to at least 4 DMVs in different states. Some are better than others, but all are better than the service I’ve received from Comcast. In all those same states.
I've never done an interview at a place like that where I've worked (even in my early career), but you're very, very likely correct if you want to get into a FAANG early in your career without being able to "shop" around. My experience isn't universal to be sure, but neither is the opposite. :)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26181766
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I'm glad the group spoke up. Free software or no, details matter, and in this case the details point to false claims and unethical behavior:

> It is sad to see claims of innovation where there has been none, and claims of improvement in an engine that is weaker than its open-source origins. It is also sad to see people appropriating the open-source work and effort of others and claiming it as their own.

> Everyone is permitted and encouraged to modify and improve code from Stockfish/Leela while giving credit; that is the intent of open-source software. Everyone is allowed to copy Stockfish/Leela and sell them, provided the terms of the Stockfish/Leela license are met. But don’t pretend that the product being sold is something it isn’t.
Not solving it unless you solve the other problems such as where the energy comes from how do you deal with waste where do you get the water from.
The stock market is certainly not zero sum.

Bitcoin provides very little value outside speculation, not zero, but very little. That is the difference.
NASA's ability of succeeding at landing things successfully on the first try on foreign bodies since 1969 is mind-blowing.

Meanwhile, SpaceX takes half a dozen tries before managing to do the same on a fully known environment on Earth.
>Vertical Farming Does Not Save Space

Vertical farming in its current form doesn't save space. I use regular recycled containers, milk jugs, cans etc. with a DIY mount on one of the walls of my house. Last season's harvest was about 80-90 pounds of tomatoes, multiple harvests of beets, lettuce, spinach and herbs. The wall is almost 20 ft x 20 ft. Even if my spacing is double that of regular farming, that's still a lot of space saved. Sure, not all crops can be vertically farmed, but plenty of them can be and thereby saving precious land.
And it is supposed to be safer than a language that is only memory-safe

The memory-safe languages can still panic or have integer overflows, Wuffs should prevent even that
First few low-res pictures posted here:

https://twitter.com/NASAPersevere

I'd bet they post the first high-res pictures once they arrive. The link from Mars to earth is sending a lot of information about what just happened, so understandably bandwidth is pretty saturated
That live stream was epic! It was great to see them so happy :)
If you live in the EU, you might need to request account deletion, I think GDPR doesn't require that data is deleted

GDPR also requires you to be able to cancel by the same way you signed up, so any company that doesn’t let you cancel online is in flagrant violation.
I would add to scenario 3 that the startup needs to do well enough to grow at least a bit (growth is a great teacher) AND your position at the startup has to scale with that growth. Otherwise from what I've seen you might be better off just starting your own company sooner, as founder equity is 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than non-exec early employee equity so it's arguably worth just taking more shots on goal.

"What I wouldn't do: keep a job at the mega corp, and work on new ideas nights and weekends. This may seem like having your cake and eating it too, but it works far less frequently than you would expect (you end up sucking at your job and at your startup, not to mention that your work-life balance is possibly worse than in any other scenario). Again, the alternative would have been to be an early employee and learn first-hand about entrepreneurship."

I like this point a lot, it mirrors my own experience watching many extremely smart people try and fail at this. This is actually potentially the single activity that I've seen really smart people fail at with the highest frequency.

What does seem to have some payoff is investing/advising/sitting on boards while keeping a job at a mega corp. But that isn't the experience that a lot of people are going for and is also hard.
Resiliency is incompatible with optimization: if you have spare capacity, you are leaving profits on the table. If you enforce the power plants must work at 0 or below, you are wasting money 99.9% of the time.

The only solution is to displace the problem where it matters: to the clients: let them decide, one by one, if they want efficiency or resiliency.

Assume the former by default as most people are cheap, so rent on-prem diesel generators to the chicken little, and everybody will be happy.
It's on my to read list. I need to bump it up to the top I think though!
That does not make it the same thing.