skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effort, in terms of time and money, required to move to greener power generation will continue to be substantial as evidenced by this extract from the Berkshire Hathaway 2020 Annual Report:

"[O]ur country’s electric utilities need a massive makeover in which the ultimate costs will be staggering. The effort will absorb all of [Berkshire Hathaway Energy's] earnings for decades to come. We welcome the challenge and believe the added investment will be appropriately rewarded.
Let me tell you about one of BHE’s endeavors – its $18 billion commitment to rework and expand a substantial portion of the outdated grid that now transmits electricity throughout the West. BHE began this project in 2006 and expects it to be completed by 2030 – yes, 2030.
The advent of renewable energy made our project a societal necessity.

Historically, the coal-based generation of electricity that long prevailed was located close to huge centers of population. The best sites for the new world of
wind and solar generation, however, are often in remote areas. When BHE assessed the situation in 2006, it was no
secret that a huge investment in western transmission lines had to be made. Very few companies or governmental entities, however, were in a financial position to raise their hand after they tallied the project’s cost.

BHE’s decision to proceed, it should be noted, was based upon its trust in America’s political, economic and
judicial systems. Billions of dollars needed to be invested before meaningful revenue would flow. Transmission lines
had to cross the borders of states and other jurisdictions, each with its own rules and constituencies. BHE would also
need to deal with hundreds of landowners and execute complicated contracts with both the suppliers that generated
renewable power and the far-away utilities that would distribute the electricity to their customers. Competing interests and defenders of the old order, along with unrealistic visionaries desiring an instantly-new world, had to be brought on board.

Both surprises and delays were certain."

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
The small kernel of truth at the heart of it makes that much better of a scam. A pump and dump works better if in the pump stage, you have a good sounding reason.
Had you seen this link elsewhere in this thread? https://superuser.com/a/623142/85273
I didn't call anyone an idiot, but if I'm a 19-year-old clerk I have other things on my mind than what type of cheese people like.

Nor would it be this 19-year-old's job to guess what your preferences are
Came here to make sure this was mentioned. Unsure how that's not the top comment.
> but renaming every integer seems senseless.

When the integer itself is self-explainatory but you can't just assign the integer as a name.

For example:

constexpr int 42 = 42; // compiler error

So instead:

constexpr int fourtytwo = 42; // yay!

However the obviousness of what 42 means is debatable.

int universe = fourtytwo; // why?
int sum = fourtytwo; // sum... of what?
int magic = fourtytwo / 7;
In the Nordic countries, those manual labor jobs are union jobs. Sure, pay is lower than other jobs, but thanks to collective bargaining and the union having your back in case of unforeseen overtime, it isn't "shit pay" like it might be in, say, the United States. I worked some of those jobs when I was in uni, and many of my coworkers were older people who had decided to stay for the long haul, because it does feel like a stable, acceptable working environment.
If something looks insane, but probablu sane person made it and it works then that's usually good indicator that you are missing part of the picture and should look around. It still might be bad, but probably not insane.
I’ll sell you an Instagram-esque Vue.js PWA MVP that’s already built - https://postdish.com.

I’ll even re-theme it to match your designs or liking, and also willing to expand on some functionality for the right price. Take a look and let me know if you’d like to chat! Thanks.
Im in Germany, since the beginning of the pandemic more than half of my YouTube advertising is some sort of MLM or other very obvious scams! Everybody seems to be selling their fantastic courses and really want to share it with the rest of the world :)
Are those running max setting 4k 120hz? Because a 3060ti even now under the rather ridiculous prices can handle that at medium on a lot of games. I'm legitimately asking, I'll probably pick up a PS5 when the world is more sane so I haven't looked into the latest generation just comparing my experience with the previous generation of consoles vs my pc.
Libraries can also be a PITA to maintain when you need to maintain widespread platform support, including for legacy/crufy systems. I quite enjoy the freedom of owning the underlying platform with cloud deployments vs my on-prem software days.
Short term yes, long term no.
Did you see the posts on WSB and /r/stocks about the claimed AI model that predicted the price would go to $100K? The original short squeeze narrative wasn’t really honest or accurate in the way it was presented. It was the narrative and the hype that drove the price up, combined with some gamma squeeze. The narrative about the “Mother Of All Squeezes” as they keep referring to it is not accurate.
I don't hear people talk about the design side of services vs libraries enough, but I think it's a huge part of the picture.

Many people reach for services too fast because they feel more comfortable thinking about APIs through the lens of HTTP verbs and resource URLs than they do in the comparatively infinite garden of options inside a program.

The REST paradigm, despite most people not understanding, needing, or utilizing it fully, has out-competed most other software design memes. It was well-positioned to do so, with its creator being an author on the HTTP RFCs and the internet exploding in popularity and use right as the work was published.

REST (and earlier, SOAP) also had good business/network reasons to become very well known: a business who wants you to integrate with them must tell you about their integration pattern. They need to document it and motivate it. Then people have to actually write a lot of software that works that way, over and over. Exposure spreads at the speed of business, and a broad culture of REST-knowledge was inevitable, as was an industry of teaching it. Learning "REST" has long been a compulsory part of learning web-interfacing development.

By contrast, can you name a similarly restrictive organizational zeitgeist for internal program structure?

Domain Driven Design, maybe? The broad concept of "design patterns"? "OO"? None of these are anywhere near prescriptive enough to answer the classic question, "how do I organize this greenfield project from scratch?"

Maybe someone could take a restrictive set of best practices for internal API design, write a dissertation on it, give it a great name (like NICE) and then proselytize it effectively enough to gain mindshare and improve the design options available. (This seems like an interesting marketing problem as much as it is a software design one!)

As it is though, most people just don't know any other consistent, repeatable way to break a complex system down.
Perhaps, but at this point you're just assuming they're scoundrels. The article says he makes most of his income from trading. The first week of his course is free. It's $50/week after that. This is not a Bezos level of wealth.
> ~10% annual returns

That kinda checks out to me given the overall markets tend to return ~7% to 8%
>I was more referring to job opportunities after release; even if an inmate received a bunch of hands-on training while incarcerated, a lot of public and private sector employers alike consider a criminal record to be a disqualification. This makes getting a job harder, which makes supporting oneself legitimately harder, which makes crime more attractive to put food on the table, which drives recidivism.

That's irrelevant to the question of whether prisons are wrong to provide it.

>On the topic of inmate vocational training and prison labor, the primary objections to said labor revolve around the lack of compensation (we're talking multiple orders of magnitude less than federal minimum wage) and poor working conditions

As in the cousin thread, this may be your objection, but it isn't the popular objection; Bloomberg was famously forced to drop prison labor, regardless of the terms offered.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26392005
I've been using this to work around it in Firefox: https://janschejbal.github.io/disable-ctrl-q/

Sounds like we'll be able to disable it altogether in newer versions of Firefox.
MLM in America target predominantly stay at home moms.
Generalists can easily adapt. Adapting is key for survival.
With hiring posts and launch posts they are open and upfront about it at least.
They might pull the old oops the plumbing broke and is unfixable excuse. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-ove...
Twitter sues Texas AG over investigation into content moderation practices
The GME craze absolutely relies on people joining and perpetuating the scheme. The price only goes up because Reddit-tier idiots keep buying. Instead of old school pump tactics, the pumpers used memes and hivemind manipulation, but it's still just a standard pump-and-dump. The "short squeeze" was the kernel of truth that it made it all the easier to sell idiots on the scam.
Angular Timeline
In "Cybernetics" the voice is from Stafford Beer [1] lecturing about the Cybersyn project [2]

In "Basilisk" it's Buckminster Fuller in the first minutes of 'Everything I Know' [3]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_bXlEvygHg

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nMMzErQhE
Sure, but this post had 4 upvotes in 42min when I commented. That shouldn't be enough to get to the first page.
hi! thanks for your reply, and notes gratefully taken! in fact it's avoiding touching memory that's important for vms clusters since the model is shared storage but nothing else. the language support hopefully leans towards implementating a initial subset to poc. there's a serious problem going forward for the vms fs with a major adoption and migration from ODS5 recently abandoned. where my thinking is going is towards extending RMS the record management system which was extended to become what's now Oracle RDB. RDB still uses RMS and behaves cooperatively with fs tools and semantics. without more concentrated contemplation I'm stretching to venture there's a text search tool in the making, but I can say that is going to be carefully investigated and I imagine quite quickly because of the potential. halving licence costs per cpu and going from 8 to 28 cores with features separately very expensive in Oracle iXX.X is behind a lot of new commitment. Because everything is obedient to the system TM, that'll require integration, but let you run the ripgrep function on the raw database from low memory clients ~ so my tentative elevator pitch is going..
This does not appear to be a reputable source.
how low has gmail fallen from being the pinnacle of user interface design /s
Why? Why are you worried about disclosing how much milk and eggs you buy?

I know this is the age old "I have nothing to hide" argument but I truly am curious why people are so afraid of saying where they're travelling (train tickets) or what they're buying (shops).

Don't you think that once that dystopian future comes - when that info might be used against you - we'll have much worse things to worry about?
Microsoft's ZeniMax Acquisition Officially Complete, Bethesda Now a Part of Xbox
It is indeed an empire. Two good books:

[1] How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
https://www.amazon.com/How-Hide-Empire-History-Greater/dp/03...

[2] Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Power-Indispensible-Cho...
What Is the Field of Thermodynamics?
----------

Nature has no internal mind. Entropy and relativity and space time are as mystical as a bag of potatoes falling on the floor at the grocery store. Thermodynamics, why we study it and why it's important, is as best of a model one can get which strips out the internal mind from nature. No momentum. No charge. Just internal probability and the external environmental constraints needed to maintain it.

What Are Particles?
----------

Not what most people think. Can heat be transferred to or from the object in question? That's one part. Is there a capacity for heat, or a latency between heat transfer and external environment effects? Then you have a particle. So it's not little grains of sand or little specks of dust. Anything that absorbs energy without moving the thermometer or multimeter.

What Is the Second Law?
----------

If there is no conductive surface or convective medium, such as the Sun warming the Earth, what is the medium of heat transfer? Relativity, speeding up and slowing down internal clocks, works just the same for heat transfer. So does uncertainty, nature's built in tolerance of measurement. Their amount is much more than any cloud of dust in the air or specks of pollen in a slide. They have a long time to go before reaching equilibrium. The insight is the Second Law is not some mystical holistic property. It's a bath of internal states working themselves out.

Why Is Explaining This Important?
----------

Entropy, uncertainty, cosmic scales, tend to cower people's ambition. It should send us the other way. Go for coherent control and pair production. Think of applications where the Earth is enveloped in a matter wave, and the medical treatments we could have down to the quantum biological level of mitosis.

Or if we had control of fusion of the Sun. That core is orbiting a black hole. We make it easier for particles to pop in and out of existence on the surface of the black hole, than it is for them to complete an entire orbit. That's a microwave, ready to melt any incoming asteroid, and will likely be humanity's first gravity application, giving a little black hole-ness to our Sun itself!

Part of me thinks humans, at the very high levels of power and state secrets, have been doing this for decades, if not for over a century.

Horrifying!!!
Got it, buy the cheapest possible 600$ server, pay 200$/month to collocate it (also do a cost benefit of different facilities), be responsible for all hardware failures and availability issues.
That was a great video. Extremely well researched, very engaging, fantastic production quality and eye opening. Thank you for sharing.
And a crime in both cases.

https://www.bsa.org/
If this article were anti-Union, or pro-Amazon, there might be a case for concern. But after reading it, it seems somewhat pro-Union (not outright, but nothing anti-union that I saw) and anti-Amazon's tactics (is this mailbox in the parking lot legit? Amazon was being intimidating by putting police officers outside a warehouse during a walk out). Not the sort of piece you'd expect if Bezos was heavy handed in editorial control over the Post.
And that solves double frees through ___?
> The GME craze doesn't rely (or at least doesn't appear to) on people joining and perpetuating the scheme.

Yes it does. The entire WSB narrative encourages everyone to buy more GME and never sell it. They’re not doing this as a favor to readers. They’re doing it because encouraging others to buy and hold is what drives the price up. Their “mother of all short squeezes” theory doesn’t match reality at all.
> it's basically the same as GME was over here

Still is. GME was $2.50-$20 across years. Now it's magically $239 (up 22% as I write this); up ~500% in ten trading sessions or so. It's a twisted joke on a whole lot of amateur investors that think they'll be the ones to successfully navigate the pump & dump and get out before it crumbles. The party will no doubt continue until the music stops (treasury yields rise too high).
OnePlus 9 phones coming on March 23, and Hasselblad cameras are the focus
People replying to you claiming that the GME hype wasn't a scam is just great proof that the suckers will always be with us.
Code doesn't determine intent - a judge/jury decides that. The model will merely state that if there is intent to do X => consequence of intent X.

The code atop the model should be an open source inference engine.
Yeah, GNU Make is actually a functional programming language. When I discovered this, I almost reinvented parts of autoconf in GNU Make. It's like trying to write a complex project with C preprocessor macros! It was a lot of fun.

GNU Make is hurt by its minimalism. Doing anything interesting in pure GNU Make is a herculean effort. Even something simple like recursing into directories in order to build up a list of source files is extremely hard. Most people don't even try, they would rather keep their source code tree flat than deal with GNU Make. I wanted to support any directory structure so I implemented a simple version of find as a pure GNU Make function!

At the same time, a reduced feature set would be nice. GNU Make ships with a ton of old rules enabled by default. The no-builtin-rules and no-builtin-variables options let you disable this stuff. Makes it a lot easier to understand the print-data-base output.

> The core syntax of a Makefile is just so close to perfect.

It's very simple syntax but it has its pain points. Significant spaces effectively rules out spaces in file names. It also makes it much harder to format custom functions.

Speaking of functions, why can't we call user-defined functions directly? We're forced to use the call function with the custom function's name as parameter. Things quickly get out of hand when you're building new functions on top of existing ones. I actually looked up the GNU Make source code, I remember comments and a discussion about this... It was possible to do it but they didn't want to because then they'd have to think about users when introducing new built-in functions. Oh well...
Perhaps in cities, where there is more footfall, it might save money to employ one. But you're certainly right, in these rural Swedish shops, there doesn't seem to be.
I created a few fun stuff in CSS like 6 years ago:

https://codepen.io/Eliteware/pen/PqKgmg
https://codepen.io/Eliteware/pen/ZYBQNq
https://codepen.io/Eliteware/pen/aLxGQy
https://codepen.io/Eliteware/pen/ZGdrEj
https://codepen.io/Eliteware/pen/aOxrOz
User Experience Is Everything
Ansible 3.0.0 Q&A
I also think it's the way to go:
https://github.com/metacall/core
AWS has mac minis by the hour (not cheap though)
The value is what you make of it. For me, its worth it. For you, only you can tell.

It's not my job to convince haters to like something, but at the same time, just because you don't enjoy it doesn't mean that millions can't either.

For many of us, Xbox Game Pass is a serious bargain. Going forward we don't need to buy Microsoft studio titles, which the game pass makes super affordable and as for historical games, having 100s to play on Xbox or PC is super nice.
I think the problem with schemes like this forex one is that you can legitimately make money in a fairly low risk way if you are selling the training/entry fee. You just pay $50, or $200 or whatever to be a part of the org, and then convince a bunch of people that you are getting rich off of forex and that they need to buy in as well. The people who lose are the ones who actually try and trade forex, rather than selling courses since they are paying an upfront fee to participate in a 0 sum game.

Of course at some point you run out of customers and it collapses, but there are a lot of people in the world who are interested in getting rich off trading.
Ask HN: What are some ways I can help my daughter get exposed to and enjoy STEM?
How can you inspire or encourage (or spark) an interest in these fields?
You're absolutely right, and that's the reason large companies end up being so inefficient.

Eventually, some nimble whippersnapping startup who only hires "A players" eats the large enterprise's breakfast. But to satisfy the shareholders, the startup takes on more work and to cope with that work, they start hiring B players... and so it goes on the enterprise merrygoround.

There's no real solution, just different ways of playing the game.
They don’t have to be.

Look at the primary sources which they cite.
Yes, but still better than no regulations. It's an arms race.
Not when coronavirus is around.

We have voluntarily destroyed lots of economic growth and plunged millions into extreme poverty because of a virus that is not especially bad when compared to historical pandemics.
And how do you multiple dispatch on that?

But if you just want a free MATLAB, use Octave.
Phil Libin: Find a new way to ski
ZAPcon Application Security Conf [Free] Starting Now
See my other reply in this same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399788

Long story short, you pay $100/year or $8.33/month for access to a suite of services that make apps frictionless for your users, and easier for you as a developer to offer high end features like authentication, notifications, and sync:

- App discovery, hosting, distribution, updates
- CloudKit, iCloud Documents, iCloud K/V Store
- Push Notifications
- Sign-in with Apple
- etc. (NFC is also in the list)

Details: https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6

You do not have to pay anything if you do not want any of those services, however you will have to “refresh” your test app cert weekly or work around that.
I've always liked Apple's DRI[1] concept. You have a single responsible person who is the final decision maker about the [product | feature | initiative]. No more dodging tough calls and diffusing the responsibility over a project across 5 different PMs, 3 designers, 4 tech leads, and 2 executive sponsors, so that really nobody is responsible for anything. The buck stops at a single, known decision maker. Most company cultures can't quite manage to do this, as everyone seems to have to have this weird fractional "ownership" of some part of the product.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/10/02/how-well-does-...
>They either involve implementing technical solutions or preventing humans in certain conditions from driving at all.

I disagree, they facilitate (signs, markings), persuade (public awareness campaigns) and incentivize (DUI penalties) "doing better". Arguably road design, markings and signage are a technical solution but the humans involved are heeding them of their own free will. It's not like an airbag that goes off based on certain criteria regardless of how you feel about the matter.
The idea here is just to be precise in what we're communicating, when providing a forecast, because different departments have different risk tolerances on that forecast.

What the lognormal says is "it might even be done by late May, most likely by June, but almost certainly by December".

The dev department needs to allocate people, so for them, the most useful thing is the mean completion time. So for them, June is the important thing, although they want to be aware of potential delays in case they need to reshuffle.

The sales department is playing a very different game. Upset, impatient customers cost a lot, both in terms of sales and reputation, and can be very unforgiving. Sales much prefers to communicate a hugely pessimistic version of when something will be ready, that they have confidence in, and possibly be early, rather than a 50-50 estimate.

This is decision theory in action, where each actor combines the same probability distribution with different payoff matrices and so arrives at different conclusions suitable to their role.

To enable this, we clarified the language around "estimates", "commitments", and "promises", as shorthand for different intervals of the same underlying distribution.
What kind of pressure? It seems that China has the upper hand in terms of economic leverage.
Check out the "Firefox Doom Party" screen shots: http://toastytech.com/doom/ffdoompics.html
Regular corners. Road width isn’t even that important really. Smaller roads makes some people drive very inconsistent with their speed, which annoys people and encourages overtaking at possibly risky spots.