skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also the idea that electrons act the same is incorrect. Many people don't realize, but things like the weight of an electron, charge of an electron... they're APPROXIMATE, and they actually vary a little. We only know the average properties of an electron.

Incorrect, we have never experimentally found an electron with a different mass/charge/behavior/etc. We don't know the exact value of these properties because they are very hard to measure, but there is no evidence they differ between electrons. To my knowledge this is the same for all elementary particles.

The rest of your comment seems to be latching on to my "stick around for much longer" point which was honestly weak and I probably shouldn't have made it. I consider point 2 to be much more relevant: for some sort of "evolution" mechanic to exist for particles there needs to be particles that have differing properties from the common set. I am not aware of any experimental evidence that has found non-identical elementary particles.
Alright, if it's not too much trouble, can you show me what the equivalent of the following code would be in Go? I think this is extremely clear as-is, but I'd love to see how you can apparently make it even clearer by avoiding iterator combinators.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=release&edi...
Pure functions are incredibly simple thing to understand, much like an algebraic equation you provide inputs and get an output.

There's a lot to love and learn from functional programming.
I have tried lots of static rendering systems over the years. Userland Frontier, pyblosxom, Jekyll, Lektor, Pelican, Hugo, etc.

One that I would note for being very simple for the end user while still having lots of potential configuration is Blot

Blot allows you to organize files (.txt, .md, .docx, . odt, .html, images, bookmarks) in a Dropbox folder or Git. (That is plain git, no dependence on GitHub)

A superset of Markdown is supported, with many of the most common additions plus some very interesting layout formats to support columns, call outs, side bars and more.

A variety of site templates are provided and you can customize the templates.

Blot is primarily a paid hosted service and as such is VERY simple. The code is open source but it is a complex nodejs app with some big dependencies.

https://blot.im

I have used blot in the past, and think it is very much worth consideration. At the very least I think it deserves attention for a variety of very cool features.
>> I don’t think having there’s anything wrong with having some sort of social interaction coach or the equivalent to help learn what the social norms around dating are.

If you're looking for something long term why seek advice from someone that's chronically single but an expert at "dating". And if someone has been married a long time, they probably don't know anything about the current "dating scene". But if you just want to learn to hook up with lots of people then maybe they have something to teach you.
Same for car thefts. People imagine it happens in the dead of night at their house and that they'll be around to hear their alarm, but chances are high it'll be in a carpark while you're at work and no-one will think twice about an alarm in a carpark.
It still prompts you to install an update when one is available. In Firefox you still have to accept a prompt about restarting the browser after that, so it doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

But fair point about "extreme" vs "sane". They're quite subjective terms.
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20092118
In the documentary 'inside bill's brain', you hear that regulatory problems led his team of physicists to look to China for a manufacturing partner and a location to build a new reactor (which the trade war between US and China also squashed). If they could have built it on US soil, they would have.
We switched from Datomic to Timescale and haven’t looked back.
> Perhaps one day, I shall scan, OCR/type in, and publish it.

My grandpa (who I never met) was in Fiji during WW2 - not combat but support staff on some base. Turns out he kept a journal that my uncle now has. He made a photocopy and gave it to my dad. I was super excited to read about his experiences, so I asked for my own copy. I typed the whole thing up and even looked up references to what he was talking about. (There were a lot of entries about him going to see this movie or that with his buddies, but I hadn't heard of 90% of them, so I added IMDB links.)

Almost the entire thing was mundane day-to-day goings-on and temperature and weather comments. He built cabinets for the base, went for beer with his friends, got letters from home, etc. I was expecting/hoping to at least hear his thoughts on things or what he wanted to do when he returned to the States.
Instead criminals just steal mirrors. They go for decent money and are trivial to pop off while walking down the street.
The faster we can move off of polluting sources, the better.
> I've honestly never understood the appeal of a completely unmoderated space.

Unmoderated sounds good on the surface only. If dang and the other mods weren't present, I'm sure none of us would be here either.
Just wait for it. The nuclear submarines were one of the last holdouts from woke politics and affirmative action, but that ended in the last five years. Within a decade they will be as woke and mismanaged as the rest of the military.
About time. Previous discussion (from before the recall): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846641
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> When we launched TimescaleDB, we met a fair amount of skepticism.... The top voted Hacker News comment at the time called us, “a rather bad idea[0].”

Good old HN with its healthy skepticism :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036554
Totally support it.

The doomsday clock is ticking and we don't have time to waste debating. We must buy time now
Submitted here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27020317
At a guess I'd say that a number of them are regarded as Top Secret, a big issue would be hard to cover up.

Although I'd imagine if there were many issues they be known about. I'd love to learn morea about nuclear reactors on carriers and submarines, but I imagine most of the engineering knowledge is secret.
It's a sensational opening that he spends the entire rest of the article contradicting.

HN comments are horrible...except here's a thousand line blog about why they're not horrible.

Judging by the content of the entire rest of the post...a better opener should have been "Hacker news comments are mostly awesome and here's a thousand line blog post about it.... but they're not all perfect".

What a bizzare article.
Well, I'll let them make that judgement for themselves.
What kind of Orwellian world are we living in?

Serious question.
It is instructive to remember that the first five words of the First Amendment are "Congress shall make no law"
Show HN: Cast AI built EKS Optimizer – platform to analyze and reduce AWS costs
The “fun” question is whether prions are present in milk and other dairy products. One might argue that they are not, by virtue of them being largely localized to neural tissue.

Of course, this raises the question of how CWD is being transmitted in elk, since elk don’t eat elk.

“Scientists believe CWD proteins (prions) likely spread between animals through body fluids like feces, saliva, blood, or urine, either through direct contact or indirectly through environmental contamination of soil, food or water.”

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/transmission.html

Milk is clearly a body fluid, though is curiously absent from the above statement.

And as other comments about the difficulty of sterilizing prions make clear, pasteurization will have no effect.
Do you know how much waste in m^3 do we actually produce?
Hi HN! Excited to share this with you. If you've tried using EKS or other managed Kubernetes platforms native to the cloud provider, you know how the story goes. It's easy to set up and use, but there's not much consideration to how much will it all cost. What we've built at CAST AI is a platform that both analyzes and optimizes your compute resources on EKS clusters. The process goes like this:

1. You connect your EKS cluster with read-only permissions

2. CAST AI delivers you a free savings report with suggestions for cost savings

3. You decide if the numbers make sense and either enable the automatic optimization with CAST AI or implement them on your own.The savings are usually 50% and up if you're spending at least somewhere around 4 figures on the cloud bill. I'll answer your questions here, but you can check the platform as well.
If you end up transitioning to multinode deployments from a single node deployment, there are a bunch of tradeoffs to consider.

A good reference point for this to check out the `multinode` label in their github issues. https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/labels/multinode

One of the big items that stood out to me is the inability to be able to migrate data from an existing table when creating a distributed hypertable. There were also some significant query performance reports as well.

These all may improve with time of course, so watching the dev cycles will give you a good sense of that I think.
I wouldn't say dying, maybe peaking. And a peak is quite natural considering they've taken over the world(in internet terms).

They are not covering some user stories as well as others, e.g. security minded users and DuckDuckGo, but overall still doing more than ok. "Googling" is also a verb so there's that.
Nearly everyone has physical dealbreakers, and height is a very socially acceptable one that the vast majority of women have. Most women also filter on somewhat less politically correct factors like race. The total hypocrisy when it comes to this topic is considered acceptable since women control the market.
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Forth for the Game Boy:

https://gbforth.org/
> The problem is that some use them as hieroglyphs.

Well, that's those people's problem. They won't be able to communicate with anybody outside of their group, so they must eventually give the style away or learn to tone it down when talking to strangers.

Not differently from any other kind of group idiom people created at any time in history.
Novogratz’s Galaxy Buys Crypto Custodian BitGo for $1.2B
Direct subsidies are from deductions made on taxes and direct government investment into modernizing the equipment on older coal power plants.

One way they do this is Percentage Depletion. A mine take out 10% of the available coal, they can deduct 10% of the value of the mine, to the point where the total deductions can exceed capital costs.

There is also deduction that came about because they wanted to promote domestic energy production and reduce dependence on foreign energy fuel, which between the year 2002-2010 awarded $12.2 billion in tax credit to coal alone.
No, I don't. I'm talking about when we start seeing the changes, not when they're done.
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> Isn't that just proving the point? Powerful figures should absolutely be more careful when using words like "fight" out of context because a certain percentage of people may very well misinterpret that as a call to violence. The platform evaluating it in a certain way doesn't change what the rest of the audience is going to evaluate it as.

No, no, no! The answer to idiots misinterpreting words literally isn't to dumb down our speech. That would be double plus ungood.
It's disingenuous that you're using quotes to represent something I never said.

Education is lacking, democracy is suffering because of it.

Anything else you interpreted is based on your own biases.
Show HN: Paragon Connect (YC W20) – Plaid for SaaS Apps
We're Brandon and Ishmael, co-founders of Paragon (https://useparagon.com). We're building a platform to makes it easy to integrate your product with other SaaS apps like Salesforce / HubSpot / Slack.

To share a little backstory, we started with a slightly different product (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22813834) and decided to build Paragon Connect after hearing so many customer requests for this specific use case.

If you’re a B2B software company, your customers have probably asked “does your product integrate with Salesforce / Slack / HubSpot / Jira / QuickBooks / etc.?” But building integrations in-house is a big lift - learning the differences between each vendor’s API and authentication methods, managing user tokens, and building the UI for users to manage their integrations can take months of engineering.

Companies we talked to consistently shared this pain point with us, so we wanted to try creating a 'Plaid-like' experience for embedding 3rd-party SaaS integrations into your product.

You can add Paragon's SDK with a few lines of code, then 'switch on' integration with any of our supported app providers. We provide a pre-built UI portal for your end users to activate and configure their integrations, and managed authentication so you don't need to handle the different auth strategies for each provider.

Once you've setup our SDK, you can use Paragon's drag-and-drop workflow builder to map data between your app and other SaaS apps, or you can use Paragon's REST API to access the app provider's API directly.

To show how it works, here's a quick demo video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcwOUMRXg_k&t=5s) where we build a Slack integration with Paragon Connect in about 8 minutes.

If you're interested in trying Paragon Connect, you can sign up for a free 14-day trial here: https://dashboard.useparagon.com/signup. We'd love to hear your feedback - thanks for reading this far, and looking forward to your thoughts in the comments!
Government positions are on the frontline of the policy making debate and the execution of it, paired with how humans communicate imperfectly, it's doomed to be controversial. If anything we should give more leeway to politicians to express themselves in areas of contention.

We in fact already do that, just not uniformly. The media run defense for one side while distorting and assuming* the worse of the other. We have plenty of examples of the media covering the exact same thing but coming to different conclusions based on the political leaning.

It's so tiresome to point this out and get immediately gaslighting replies.
So cheap it needs huge subsidies. So safe no one will insure it. So clean we have no idea how to deal with the waste. So simple they take decades to build.
Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale
A better idea - have the navy build them and then sell the completed, operational plant (say, after a year of successful operation) to the highest bidder in an auction. Put whatever constraints are needed on the sale, and guarantee the construction for a decade.
Counterpoint: the board is supposedly “independent” from Facebook so Facebook’s feelings on transparency are, theoretically, irrelevant and the board is, theoretically, free to disclose minutes, discussion, etc.

Of course, over here in reality, the word “independent” is quite a bit of a stretch. I give it about as much weight as Facebook’s claims they “value user privacy”.
I think you view subsidy a little too narrowly. I'd be inclined to toss in a good chunk of the money spent in Iraq over the past ~20 years as a fossil fuel (and military complex) subsidy.
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He's talking about what communism turns out to be, not what it wishes to be.
Has anyone bothered to ask Trump if he wants to get back on Facebook?
Maybe let someone else read it?

You could then ask them about it in non detailed ways.
Unimaginable technology also includes technology to increase energy efficiency or to completely change what needs to be done in the first place. People don't care about "using energy" - they care about making themselves happy, which is often related to, but removed from that.
Sounds like you've done the research, and I'd genuinely love to learn more about the board. Do you have some specific examples of board members whose ideologies could be reasonably construed to be sympathetic to Trump (or at the very least, sympathetic to free speech absolutism)?
I'm excited to share that Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges is out. It's my first-ever paperback book and one that is free as a PDF for the rest of the month[1].

I had worked for years at Uber, first as a mobile engineer, then an engineering manager. Despite being a mobile-first company, I could not shake the feeling that non-mobile engineers and managers consistently underestimated the complexity of large-scale mobile development. I've been in so many meetings where an engineer, a PM, or a director would say, "oh, compared to the backend, the mobile part should be simple enough... it's just another frontend, right?".

I found myself explaining again and again to PMs, engineers, and stakeholders all the hoops the mobile team needs to jump to ship things in production. How mistakes are very expensive - and thus, we need to ship almost all changes behind feature flags. How the build train means that the changes we make today will take at least 2 weeks to get to prod. How devices being offline is something we need to actively support, and anticipate... and so on. I noticed similar "aha moments" each time. Talking with other mobile engineers in similar environments, they were having similar conversations, and battling similar assumptions on mobile being relatively simple.

I had been collecting the numerous challenging areas that I planned to publish as a blog post. After I shared the draft on Twitter[2], I got an unexpected amount of interest in people offering to contribute. The contents became too long for a post, and so this book was born. Several people asked for a paperback version[3], and I decided to create the book in print as well, as I felt the contents warranted it.

I hope you find this book useful - both if you're a mobile engineer or if you work with mobile teams. And I'd love to hear any feedback!

[1] https://www.mobileatscale.com/#pricing

[2] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1335305213394251780

[3] https://twitter.com/elevenetc/status/1335595203411972097
I used Basecamp's free tier for a personal project and have listened to quite a few podcast interviews with DHH. I used to respect him and the company culture he helped build. I never called him any of those things. Don't be so presumptuous just because I got CTO and CEO mixed up.
I searched for javascript and received results. So... works for me?
Definitely a conversation that needs to happen before
It does, but your service doesn't. Might have checked it in your browser disabling javascript before submitting.
Nuclear has very low marginal cost per watt produced, but has a very high upfront cost and very high cost for plant shutdown.
This seems pretty dark to me:

- I cannot see the community before joining

- I have to pay a price that varies based in some complex formula
The survival capsule site is awesome and looks like a time capsule from five years ago. No updates to news or Youtube channel since then.

I always wonder about websites stuck in time like this. Someone is paying for the bandwidth and site maintenance, yet no effort toward new sales/marketing.

I have a few mostly abandoned side projects in which I periodically renew the certs, update packages, and pay monthly hosting only because I can't bring myself to shut it down.

Wonder what the story is for the Survival Capsule.
Interesting! Thank you for answering.

How long is the waiting list to join Sudowrite beta?
Peloton recalls treadmills after child's death
Nuclear makes little sense for climate targets. The construction is too expensive and too slow - allocating capital to nuclear ends up slower than allocating the same capital to renewables for hitting climate targets. If you look at reports of lifetime costs for utility scale energy, Nuclear is the most expensive and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future. Solar and wind is already 3-4x cheaper than nuclear, and by the time the decade is out it will likely be 10x cheaper even with attendant storage.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020
I remember porting this to Objective-C for an iPhone project forever ago. That was fun exercise, and the algorithm works surprisingly well for how simple it is.

https://github.com/ddunkin/dollar-touch
Are there better articles about this? I got a pop-up trying to sell me their stock tips. They blocked my back button to give another popup ad.

Anywho,

>While Peloton doesn’t break out sales of its treadmills, Cowen & Co. had previously estimated that the Tread+ would represent about 2.2% of unit sales in 2021. That’s out of about 1.63 million stationary bikes and treadmills combined, it said.

That's going to be an expensive recall. I wonder if they'll come out ahead on these ~~bikes~~treadmills or if it would have been worth it to design them more thoughtfully in the first place.
Not really. A small shareholding is still a shareholding. You can still go. If you read the meeting instructions they ask for a statement showing you have a holding in street name. I've been a couple of times flying from London to Omaha. It was kind of fun.

Also you are technically and legally a shareholder even if your broker holds the shares on your behalf as is usually the case these days, and attending any shareholders meeting is a legal right whatever the size of the shareholding.

Although just now they are online due to covid but I'm sure the physical meetings will return.

If you do hold 0.001 shares with a broker and you want to go you should request with them to be sent the annual report, also a legal right, and that'll have the invite card. Or if not you can phone Berkshire and ask for one.
Nuclear promised to be cheaper than coal - but it never materialized - not in decades if ever.

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/lcoe2020
It's probably possible to create a wrapper to do that. But if you need a closure, you can also just use a struct implementing the trait to manage the state. It's not perfect, but it's so much nicer than in C++.
> As far as regular physics is concerned, these forms are the stable ones. I don't see why that rules out self-reinforcement.

For there to be some sort of "evolution" mechanic for particles (like there is for life) there has to be competition between particles of different properties. Then the particles that are better able to capture energy or whatever wins, and those fill the universe. However, to my knowledge, there is no experimental evidence that there can be elementary particles with differing properties, which suggests this is impossible.
I'm not sure what this remove-js.com page does, but if I open google.com with "Disable JavaScript" set in Chrome Devtools, it works fine. All images load, all links work etc.

I definitely get a limited set of features compared to a modern browser with JS enabled, but everything that is there is functional otherwise.