skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I look for them on eBay but I don't have any current recommendations. In fact, I'm digging around for LTE replacements at the moment since T-Mobile is ending their GSM-only service rather soon.

I have a few USB sticks plugged into a powered USB hub and Gammu watches all of them for inbound messages.
Comments are probably have positive usefulness expected value in a probabilistic sense. Unfortunately extracting that value, separating the insights from the dross, is work and requires effort. Effort that perhaps the person doing the original work being commented on shouldn't necessarily be expected to take up.

Additionally, human nature makes it hard to receive legitimate criticism dispassionately, let alone when it comes in a big pile of stuff that also contains pointless abuse.

There is value in comments, but depending on a project's circumstances it may or may not be economical to extract it.
this was much more informative than the website!
Can you explain this a bit more? I don't see how these things could have helped any of the construction failures that have plagued all nuclear attempts.

Operating costs are low for nuclear, it's the construction that is the problem.
Wait until you hear about font shaping.
We have helped clients in several industries and sectors where these words either mean different things, or people who use them are thinking of different things. An appliance has meant a physical thing before it has also meant a VM, and I have worked on projects where we used both.

The question you have asked includes solutions, which introduces a bias. Many client meetings start with that. This is what's called an XY problem[0], where the client says they want want Y, but that's their implementation of a solution to solve X. That may or may not be the only solution, but finding out the actual problem to be solved has never hurt me and saved a lot of time and money.

This is why we spend time defining the problem and stripping away every word of jargon we can, because that jargon can create a bias towards a solution that may not be optimal. For example, site-to-site VPN. Why? Gateway ? Why ? These are solutions. What's the job to be done.

Anyway... Have a look at https://www.replicated.com/ and https://kots.io/

- [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Judging by the name of this site, and other articles on it, I'm guessing that _maybe_ this author works in banking or finance, and that this may be a major factor in why they do not like their job.

Regarding the need to keep learning - for some people that is a big part of the attraction, not a downside. Sure, it's not for everyone, but saying that it's a generally bad career choice is a bit of a stretch.
I could ask for a TLS connection to internal databases. I'm evaluating options. Depending on clients, either solution can be too complicated...
Maybe because nobody had a strong enough use case to feel compelled to implement it. There are very cheap GSM to SIP gateways, that are way less expensive than a mobile phone.
By that logic we should legalize slavery.
Since this article doesn’t seem to be a WSJ Op Ed, it may actually turn out to be more balanced than the terrorist’s ramblings.

Perhaps someone who pays for the WSJ can weigh in.
I've been cashing out of my crypto weekly. Started in January, going to continue until i'm dry.

I can't predict when this garbage explodes, but i'll at least have the majority of the money out or all of it. If i'm wrong, i'm wrong, but all of this is fishy as fuck.

Defi loans, using your crypto as collateral to buy more crypto, tether printing off the charts. Most people don't care though, they see number go up and ignore the noise.
How about a peppa.h to generate a parser for the PEG syntax - like in the comments of the other examples - so users can define parsers in a natural way?
robotmay who also replied to you is correct for what I do, I have multiple prepaid US SIMs with PAYGO rate plans. It's trivial to get many of these and register them in bulk to get "real" mobile numbers.

(This is why I laugh and laugh at people who insist that VoIP numbers are more "fraudulent" because of whatever. Right now, breaking no rules whatsoever, I can get a hundred mobile numbers that any service will accept, and they'll go for a year without needing any more money. Stop using phone numbers as identity verifiers, people. All you're doing is making it harder for the people who aren't technically savvy and accomplishing nothing to prevent actual fraud.)
Amazingly prophetic.
How about this, then: Each school gets a share of the economic benefit it generates. That is, every year after leaving the school, every student is graded by what they paid in taxes, earned in income, contributed to social security, or whatever scheme you can make up. This grade then goes back to the school. This should be arguably the best and most relevant test one can conceive. Do you see anything wrong with that?
> The type of commentary that I find less useful, is the vague notions of "there is a serious problem here" comments that I hear sometimes on Hacker News.

In creative writing workshops, a common quip about the feedback of non-writers (eg, friends and family) is:

"If they don't like something, they're probably right. But when they tell you how to fix it, ignore them."

Which is to say, in this context of this thread, vague complaints usually are a reliable indicator of something wrong. But knowing exactly what is wrong and how to fix it is a much bigger ask, and even if they spent the time and effort most people wouldn't be able to help you here.

But that doesn't mean the signal they're giving you isn't useful.

> but can't rebut because the comment is vague.

Don't rebut it. Don't take it personally. Just take it as a data point and say thanks, or don't respond.
That’s a problem that has already been solved in various ways by existing cryptocurrencies. For example, NANO was premined and then distributed via a faucet that required solving CAPTCHAs. Other cryptos just award holders more coins, or use other solutions.
Also, if anyone has any good advice on pricing your service, please drop that here too!
>What percentage of fossil fuel consumption do you think is related to keeping people from freezing vs maintaining materialistic lifestyles at the expense of the planet and sustainability?

It seems you took my comment out of context. Global energy policy is not relevant to 99.9% of the people employed in the energy industry, who must make decisions about whether their participation is ethical.

Joe or Jane Schmoe who is a project manager at Exxon-Mobil is not making global policy choices or even oil-company-CEO choices.

They are contributing a tiny bit to whatever good and bad things the company is doing, but it's likely to be very small and indirect.

There is no choice on a daily basis when developing an Excel spreadsheet "should this spreadsheet help people who are cold or instead the greedy materialists?"

The granularity of the choice that is made is, should I continue working for, say, Chevron? Should I go work for Exxon-Mobil if they are slightly more ethical by some metric? Should I go work for some company that has a much lower carbon intensity because it isn't in the same industry? Or one that has more ethical leadership according to some public opinion of someone?

It sounds to me as though you have made statements about ethical responsibility that aren't consistent with the limited choices ordinary people can make.
Sure!

(Might be a day or two longer than I thought; I'm midway through making a pot of chili. But I'll for sure be in touch!)
I think that's their plan: https://usnc.com/space/
I personally would not have gotten the US citizenship due to the negative tax consequences (global taxation), but to each their own. Unless you own substantial assets they can still renounce it in the future if interested.
This assumes there is always a problem to be solved. Commenting can also be a way to synthesize thoughts into more concrete and actionable thoughts.
A "lunar gateway" is much worse than useless for getting to Mars.

A side trip from low Earth orbit to the gateway takes nearly the same delta-V as to Mars. But unless you are willing to take weeks getting to the gateway, you use up most of a Mars transfer delta-V to stop there, and as much delta-V again to get to your transfer orbit to Mars. In other words, LEO-to-gateway-to-Mars takes almost 3x the delta-V of going directly from LEO to Mars.
FATCA is a pain though
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There's used Tesla M6 cards (top of the range Maxwell GM204 cores, 8GB of RAM) going for really cheap sometimes. They have no video output, but you can use them in laptops with hybrid graphics thanks to the output being routed through the CPUs IGP as you said.

Needs quite a bit of driver fuckery to have it recognized as either a GTX 980m or a Quadro M5000m, and you lose HDMI/DP output, but it's not a bad card for an upgrade if you only use the internal display.

I'm surprised there are no MXM to PCIe x16 adapters, these kinds of cards are cheaper than desktop ones (due to the market/pricing being totally screwed) while providing similar performance.
I forget sometimes in interviews not everyone reads HN religiously. And I also forgot where I'd learned about "innovation tokens". Needless to say it would have helped to point interviewers to this full talk when explaining why we focused so hard on simplifying our technology stack.
Good point. Standard deduction and payroll taxes make it hard to compare tax schemes across the world. It's all apples and oranges...
Not really when it comes to dns. You cant put a domain name in an A record or an ip address in a CNAME.
Don't ever expect anything different.

HN is the McDonalds of Ivy league elitism.
These guys explicitly want to couple their nuclear plant with wind/solar: https://usnc.com/mmr-energy-system/. And from top level, it looks a lot like a natural gas plant.
There are browser plugins that you can use to bypass paywall sites.

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Thank you for resharing this - this post puts clear words to a feeling I've felt for a long time. I'm in agreement with the author that noticing bad things does not make you bad unless you can solve the problem in totality. In fact, following that line of reasoning leads to a lot of what I consider "immorality dressed up as morality" today.
bitcoin is now significantly contributing to an existential threat. Its not alone of course...most things we do daily do so. However, I wish it wasn't such useless work.
That's neither true nor the reason why Nvidia is doing this.

What Nvidia is doing is like a dad making his kids share their sweets in a 50:50 ratio by taking advantage of the fact that one of his kids has a peanut allergy and the other has a walnut allergy and therefore 50% of the sweets contain peanuts and the other 50% walnuts.
And what a shining beacon for online communication the chans have been.
MathJax uses MathML. :-/
If I have to do a Magento project I charge double.
If I knew COBOL I would charge even more.

Simply put, if the job is not enjoyable I'd rather look for an enjoyable job or ask more money until it's worth it.

The market still favours developers and finding a job is pretty easy, so developers have all the incentive to look for a fulfilling position, while it lasts.
Adding lead to gasoline was an attractive innovation, and very profitable to oil companies.

It was also a known poison. Market forces alone don’t always solve these problems.
I've got at best mixed feelings about Nassim Taleb but his thoughts on "skin in the game" which I believe is exactly the same concept as what is being discussed here is really profound in my mind.

And the basic idea is that all ideas need to be weighted relative to the "skin in the game" of the person throwing out the idea. If people are not willing to take a consequence on their idea being wrong then they basically get a weighting of zero or near zero on the importance of their idea because they have no incentive to care about the quality of their ideas and are likely instead to be much more focused on the signal they send by projecting the idea itself. Whereas if someone is willing to take on personal risk on the outcome of the idea they are proposing, the idea should be taken much more seriously.

And the key point, is this isn't about moralizing that the person with skin in the game is more moral or righteous because of their skin in the game. It's a game theory proposition about signaling the likelihood of validity of their idea.
Exactly. I don't share the Unabomber's directional disdain for leftists, but most people are simply too dim to understand the concept that liberalism/illiberalism exists on an axis independent of leftism/rightism. If you're planning to burn down liberal norms for short-term partisan gains, you better understand the long view, but that's simply beyond the capacity of the majority of people.

To be clear, there are leftists and rightists that explicitly own the rejection of liberal values (Communists/tankies, racial essentialists like the "woke" and neo-Nazis, neoreactionaries). But the majority of these dynamics are driven by useful idiots who can't even grasp what's happening.
Most of his essay is spot on. It’s not that he’s prophetic per-se, but that a lot of people are myopic (including most of HN) and cannot use their minds eye to see and weigh risks and benefits of what might happen. Whether it’s due to (willful) ignorance or just inability is an exercise left up to the reader.

For anyone who can connect the dots and has not read the full essay, I strongly recommend it. It’s not too long and every section is to the point.
You can try to raise this probability by DDoSing representatives with high stakes.
How many towns were transformed when water was used to power new factories during the Industrial Revolution? Detroit and the automobile revolution? San Francisco in the Gold Rush? Houston in the Oil Boom?
I second this sentiment. Played it once a long time ago computer supported with longer turns. Couple of days. Could not bear the betrayals even though it is 'only' a game. There are a lot of negotiations, talking and discussing with your friends and little game mechanics.

I quit the game early. Not worth losing friends over.
The article is so vague that people can read anything they want into it, and judging from the comments here, they are. My question is, who is the target of the article, who is supposed to avoid commenting? Your coworkers? Your boss? Your paying customers? Your non-paying users? The media? Twitter/HN randos? All of the above?

If you're a maker, then you're making things for someone. If you're only making things for yourself, then of course nobody else has a right to comment. But if you're making things for other people, then it seems to me that those other people have the right, perhaps even the obligation, to comment on the product, right? The article verges on the parodic idea that no maker should ever be subject to any criticism. If that's not the author's intention, then the author ought to be clearer what is intended.

That's my drive-by comment.
The two things that endeared me to this movie:

1. The theme song; Joan Baez's "Rejoice in the sun"

2. Huey, Dewey and Louie, the little Robots that assist Bruce Dern's character Lowell in maintaining the space ship.

I always take the trouble to show my kids Joan Baez songs on YouTube so they don't feel that good music only started with their generation :). Oh what a beautiful voice!
Fun fact: one aircraft carrier (CVN-78) has the same number of nuclear reactors as the entire state of California.
what , you live on another planet?
Pretty sure my parents damaged, if not ended, several friendships over the years due to this monstrosity. Always found it alluring.
>I'll grant you that trite dismissal of cryptocurrencies in general is quite common on HN.

The unfortunate reality is that Bitcoin advocates all sound like people who bought into an MLM scheme. They desperately convince others that it has value and should go up.
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Not the first time they do this, either. They started limiting performance via firmware/software since Fermi iirc. Basically, nVidia's GTX and Quadro cards use the same exact chips but the latter have additional features and higher performance in professional applications.
Do we not realize the massive incentives Bitcoin is providing for energy production? If we could just agree to tax carbon emissions (the thing most of the world agrees is bad), then we should encourage this behavior as much as possible.

We’re creating a wonderful scenario where miners would be investing in as much cheap energy as possible. If their cost gets to close to average, then they can just leave it to the market.
They are taking away my choice to use the hardware as I see fit. And are granting themselves the ability to alter the value of my purchase after the fact. What's to stop them from deciding to update the driver in 3 months to cut the hash rate to 25%? Sony did this with the PS3 when they retroactively removed the OtherOS capability years after purchase. They were sued over this and ultimately settled.
Similar situation here. I disagree that frameworks are the problem though. Build tools, especially related to CSS and assets are IMO the biggest issue. TypeScript's support for monorepos could also be better.

Things have improved a lot since 2009 however, IMO. There was barely a concept of modularity at that time, the tools (e.g. AMD / requirejs / r.js) were way worse and managing the state of the DOM was a pain, jQuery or otherwise.
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Half the time. It's not even snarky/rude. It's usually just "meh, I don't have anything good enough to say"

I just went through the process with this very comment since other people have said something similar and almost clicked off before deciding the irony was enough to go forward with posting it.
> being able to work remotely in the EU for a US based company is a huge deal. I just have to get the US based employer to agree to use a payroll company as an intermediary to deal with payroll taxes

Can you expand on this point? Fellow US-EU dual citizen and cultural American here, looking to do the same thing, for similar health reasons.
Those figures never weigh parental wealth, income, and credit access.
Solar power (or any other type of terrestrial power source) does not generate or capture electrons, so I don’t know what you’re trying to say about steam cycles. Similarly I can’t imagine what you mean by arbitrage of renewable electrons, a charged battery doesn’t have any more electrons in it than an empty battery.
Nuclear isn't really on demand either, it takes days to change production capacity.
I made the mistake of advertising one of my sites as 'free speech', got over run with lunatics, alt-right, nazis and flat earthers!

Their money is as good as anyone else's (better even because they appreciate having a platform that doesn't kick them off) but sanity wise it's quite draining and not something I'd recommend.

When it really comes down to it 'free speech' is just whatever the owners of the platform tolerate, and that changes from site to site.
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Party in power tries to do anything it can to hold power.

This is not an interesting or prophetic statement, it's simply how human beings have worked and have always worked.

This is honestly restating the obvious and IMHO not contributing much to intelligent discussion here.
Geothermal.
> Yeah, imagine if this applied to trucks. No one could use one for non truck bed usage.

John Deere has entered the chat.
Nuclear was largely built 50 years ago. Our technological capacities have shifted vastly since then. Also, the nuclear industry is completely unwilling to reuse those same designs, and regulators don't want that either.

So the nuclear from 1970 may still be operating, and operating somewhat cheaply, but that doesn't mean that nuclear as a technology still matches the technological productive capacity of our economy.

The thermal conversion of steam to electricity used to be considered dirt cheap, as far as the overall cost of electricity: low capital costs that last a good amount of time. The primary expense was fuel.

Zero-fuel electricity generation capital costs are starting to eclipse the thermal conversion capital costs. This has huge implications for what we should think of basing our future grid upon.

Take natural gas for example. Turbine-driven generators followed by a steam cycle-combined cycle- have completet obsoleted thermal-only gas plants. It's why coal is so much more expensive than gas.

The world is different, and nuclear only seems like a solution because we paid massive capital costs at a time when the competitive environment was entirely different. We no longer live in that world.
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It’s more complicated than that. Stage 1 - you can’t do subjects they don’t think you’ll do well in. Stage 2 you won’t be “offered” a place studying for GCSEs if you didn’t do well in the previous year. Stage 3, If you get bad GCSEs you won’t return for A levels. Stage 4, you get an offer from a prestigious university but get caught smoking pot (or some equally expellable act) you’ll be invited to study from home for the rest of the year so they don’t damage their statistics and don’t need to report your behaviour.
Diamonds aren't quite as useless as bitcoin currently. Bitcoin - as far as I'm aware - is currently mostly used for speculation. Whereas diamonds are very useful in many industrial processes which require hard materials (think cutting/grinding tools).

One could argue that diamonds are considerably more useful than bitcoin, most of the world's diamond consumption is for industrial use rather than jewelry.
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Even if you got the construction costs down and were willing to suffer the inefficiency of low population densities, neighborhood streets and buildings are still hostile to people who aren’t in cars. To do it right you have to rethink every inch space, curbs, power lines, street width, driveways, lot sizes, load zones, commercial zoning, etc. For example, new urban buildings in American cities typically have underground parking. So a store or a restaurant in an old building that was 100 feet deep would have had a back area for storage or kitchens. In new construction at street level there are ramps down to the garage, so the commercial spaces are much shallower. That’s why the old shops and restaurants are typically replaced by Subway, tanning salons, and banks. Now the neighborhood services and amenities are harder to get to, which creates more work for the transit system. There are good solutions to these problems but it requires looking at the big picture.