skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Chinese-Built Highway Drove Montenegro into Crippling Debt
I believe black holes actually emit jets of light and energy though.
In one of the videos on the site it is explained that they are currently targeting people who want to build "backyard houses" or "ADUs" that are popular in some places like in California. Family members can live in them or you can rent them out, provided it has a foundation, power, plumbing etc.
We had an assignment in our junior/senior networking class in college that was to be done in Python.

Someone raised their hand and said we've never had a class about Python, how are we expected to do the assignment? The professor said "If you can't figure this out, you really shouldn't be able to graduate". The dude groaned, but I really agreed.

Now the same thing happens in job postings all the time. Companies looking for specific things rather than smart people. It happens on the job seeker side too. I understand not being interested in something, but say a job was in Elixir. I wouldn't hesitate to apply, but you'll see tons of responses on twitter that are like "oh I'm a JS guy" or something. Who cares! You'll figure it out.
If you can solve the molten salt problem, then you can hook that up instead to a concentrated solar power plant and you don't have to deal with nuclear waste or regulations at all.
Memo to all assassin brotherhood members - please keep messages to a single pigeon.
That is indeed closer than I expected! Thank you for the links / names.
Seem like the municipality needs to own and control it's own poles more than anything.
Very interesting. Do you know of even bigger price tag models to search for? Is it as easy as the second page makes it seem?

And, separate question, but I tried just scanning [2] and I'm having trouble understanding how to determine the resolution of the tags in [1].
Is anyone aware of the implications this will make for developers who might want to try software like this, but be under an NDA?

Currently consulting for a bank who takes their security very seriously. Would there be extra hurdles here to make sure there's no calls or requests being made using our data?
I have no problem with public broadband as long as commercial broadband is allowed as well. Let the best format win.
We live in a post evidence world
It's a mix of things. A lot of the b2c stuff uses big partners that are already dominant in eGrocery. However the tooling around the ad placement, fulfillment, product cataloging, b2b sales, sales intelligence and consumer profiling all make use of Elixir.

Basically we use React for most front ends, Python for data engineering/data science, and Elixir for everything else.
> for me it only helps me focus better and work on more hard problems

Ok great, then keep doing it! How on earth could it be a waste of time for you?! You seem to have a misconception that there's a single objective answer for this kind of thing, "X is good/X is bad", true for everyone. Everyone's different. Let them be different. Do what works for you.

Spending a lot of time worrying about what works for other people, and reading a lot of papers trying to get the elusive single objective answer, are possibly wastes of time.
I had visions of writing tests and then the AI would do the production code. I think that would be a lot better. Comments are too hard to get right. Good Luck!
Edit: I stand corrected, see below.

Sadly no in-unit washer/dryer.

Interesting that their product is called "casita" since the company "Kasita", which also specialized in tiny homes, recently folded.

https://www.kasita.com/
These are shitty books written by people that write and support bloated enterprise software.

Start with SICP.
Don't forget Oracle.
One must not forget that PG has an agenda to push just like every other influencer. I believe he was specifically aware of his use of hustle culture language.
https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/palo
>Anyone that disagrees with those sorts of principles can of course simply install a different distribution that aligns more closely with their own personal philosophy and gives them the absolute control that they need, but for me, I just want it to work.

This is really quite disingenuous, especially coupled with the jab at Nvidia cards. In case you weren't aware, there is no option to actually make an Nvidia card useful because of their locking up of P-state modifications and re-clocking behind cryptographically signed firmware they refuse to distribute. I think you actually know this though, otherwise why would you bring up the crippled nature of Nvidia cards of post-Maxwell and later?

PopOS definitely deserves accolades, but let's not pass off Nvidia's giving the middle finger proctological exam to the FOSS community as a point that makes PopOS better. Nothing is made better by that but Nvidia's bottom line, and vendor lock-in agenda.
Twitter faces three police cases amid growing challenges in India
>When does linux not "just works"?

The answer to this is "For almost its entire history of being used as a desktop operating system by users without a significantly above average level of technical knowledge."

I think Linux is in a pretty good state for at least the last few years but you have to be either unreasonably lucky or simply joking to be able to pretend you are unfamiliar with the concept of running into various hardware/driver/software issues attempting to run Linux as a desktop OS. Even if you stick to "Linux Certified" hardware like Thinkpads.

Linux is my OS of choice these days, but over the years I've had 10x as many issues as I have with my Windows systems and I probably have 10x as much time in raw hours using Windows.

I think perhaps something happens to those of us with experience and expertise is when we run into an issue we might know how to fix it in 30 seconds or a few minutes so it doesn't even seem like it was an issue to us, simply part of configuring the system. However, when it happens to someone that's not experienced that same "non-issue" might result in them spending 4 hours on forums and various websites trying to figure out how to do something that would only take a few seconds if they already knew how.

That's assuming they don't just throw their hands up immediately and ask someone to fix it for them.
If these proliferate all over the place someone is going to abandon one inside of a rusted out shipping container and its going to start leaching into the environment.
PG and all investors are incentivized to create environments that produce extreme results. So it makes sense that they want 100 sharp knives knowing that the 10 that succeed will far outweigh the loss on the 90 that don’t.

I agree that meditation makes you sharper, but it does also give you the tools to keep your fire from turning into an inferno. PG wants an inferno because he doesn’t have to deal with the damage afterwards. His losses are limited to his investment. Your losses are unlimited.

If you want to play the odds, meditate and strive for average or above average while being decent to yourself and others. If you want to swing for the billionaire fences then I’m guessing a little extra fire in your belly might help from time to time, but I wouldn’t know, I meditate and am not a billionaire.
Utility and maintenance are mostly labor costs, not asset costs.
It's been a long time but I recall foobar2k, with a few plugins, provides this feature.
How about we bring back Sears' prefab housing?
http://pathways.shc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HunterSTh...

Dangerous advice from a dangerous man:

Hunter S. Thompson
That's part of the cost of living in a democratic and capitalistic country. You are free to move where taxes are lower.
Goes to show how poorly constructed this list is with this one missing.
I think he has money for multiple generations of do-nothing at this point. But I also think he likes to be at the center of attention and a north star for ambitious nerds, and that's whey he proposes essays that are clearly propagandistic (but not for money). That's fine, I like people rooting for themselves.
The alternative to WASM isn't idiomatic JavaScript, it's workarounds like asm.js. Saying that browsers shouldn't have WASM is like saying an operating system shouldn't support binary programs just because you prefer interpreters. If you don't like a technology like WASM or WebGL, then simply don't use it. WASM is an important building block for the web platform, though, and it's not going away.
I agree with the need for neuralink and I don't expect it to happen in this century - we've just started to scratch the surface when it comes to our brains and how they work.

Putting all of human science together as well as not being realistic isn't that efficient, taking the covid response as an example.
Just to clarify, a DNA based vaccine needs a platform/vector, which is what the adenovirus is. The viral vector is not a vaccine by itself.
Did you see the latest Loki? In the year 2050(?), they had a town in Alabama owned and operated by a company named Roxxcart.
It's hard to use history to predict the implications of weird new technologies. But history is clear on at least two happy facts. Technology generates new jobs -- no technology has led to widespread unemployment. (True general AI could be different; niche "AI" like this probably won't be.) Technology raises standards of living generally, and making a specific sector of the economy more productive increases the wealth accrued to that sector (although it can change who is in it too).

There are exceptions -- fancy weapons don't widely raise standards of living -- but the trends are strong.
In the bay area, $250-300/sq ft is a more realistic low-end of the range.
I don’t really understand how a type system in and of itself raises the learning curve unless the language commonly uses esoteric types. You still have to understand your data structures in dynamically typed languages; does it really add much cognitive overhead to declare what they are?
> The best way to put pressure on the Chinese Communist Party and help pro-democracy voices in Hong Kong (and the reduce Uygher genocide) is to avoid buying Made in China goods where possible.

Decoupling could be helpful on several fronts, but it's not going to happen via individualist boycotts. Those are useless, and just too many things are made in China without realistic alternatives. If it's going to happen, it'll be through increasing tariffs (preferably slowly over time) and other government policy.
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True, but that definitely wouldn't stop Oracle from suing over it anyway. (See the rangeCheck chapter of Oracle v Google [0])

Also, Oracle v Google opens the possibility of a fair-use defense in the event that Copilot does regurgitate a small snippet of code.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11722514
>Right, but approximately 0 people are going to buy a new computer just to get Windows 11.

No, but people who need a new PC won't be able to get one with any Windows other than W11, and if the Legacy BIOS CSM option is removed from UEFI motherboards then those who need Windows 7 will no longer be able to run it on the bare metal.

So there will be reduced possibility of mass awareness among busineses where speed is an issue, about how much faster W7 is compared to W11 on the exact same hardware.

The hardware is definitely getting faster and Windows is getting slower.

As Windows performance slows down for W11, a lot of businesses still are licensed to use W7 if they wanted to switch back, it's a viable option for the majority of PC's that don't need to be on the internet, and of course it's a breeze to dual-boot to W10 when you need the web right now.

When W7 was finally very mature & reliable I see the purpose of rushing to W8, w10, & W11 as simply the same anti-competitive forced hardware obsolescence as if there was a competitive offering from a different company which couldn't keep up.

But Linux is not a threatening competitor yet, plus it's open source and already infiltrated by Microsoft.

Tne only real competition is W7.

As we have seen W11 can actually function ideally on a BIOS mainboard. Plus some UEFI boards do not fail to support Microsoft SecureBoot even when the Legacy CSM is enabled.

Whoever would ultimately benefit from running older Windows on a brand new PC, that possibility is targeted for extinction with the continued movement in this direction.
My point was more that since they’re from the same party, these things can get smoothed over. The losing candidate will be far less likely to cry foul. The winner might appoint the loser to their team, etc.
Yet we get things like the mass surveillance conspiracy mentioned by other commenters, the Iran Contra scandal, Things like MK-Ultra, where, even up here in Canada, a friend of my dad's mother was actually put through experimentation on the CIA's behest and wasn't acknowleged by the Canadian government for decades.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/brainwashed-mkultra

I mean, just do a quick search about conspiracy theories that turned out to be true and you'll quickly see the kinds of things that have actually occurred throughout history, and how many times the crazy conspiracy theorists were right.
>The first mistake is failing to recognize that many governments (case in point) are not nearly as vulnerable to bad PR,

I mean we're talking about the same government on the bad side of the Tank Man photo. I think that's kind of obvious.

The difference is in HK I don't think people were anticipating China to completely break the Basic Law and the handover agreement. They were protesting the elected HK government, not Beijing directly.
Nope, I’m going to enjoy the cuisine experience with friends or solo and still want to get out of there in a timely manner. It’s not the only thing I am going to do that morning, afternoon, or evening.
Why do I see no ads in windows 10? Have you tried using WPD?
Show HN: Direktiv new VSCode plugins and Direktiv-in-a-box
Anything by James Gleick.
>providing sub-standard housing to the lower class.

Can you elaborate on the problem with this? I don't see how adding an ADU to the market hurts the lower class.
No doubt. But (if I may disappear further down the rabbit hole) for this to be meaningful we would have to know what level of monitoring we are under without subscribing.
Little Tikes made a Peloton-style stationary bike for kids
Dozens of women sue Uber claiming drivers sexually attacked them
Amazing, this is exactly what I was going to type!
pretty sure I gave like $50 for a license for win95
So about the same as this.

I love the idea of modular houses, but they seem so expensive. Especially when factoring in the inability to sell the same as houses, etc etc.
Inflation and productivity might be correlated but neither is a function of the other. Given any hypothetical world where increased productivity leads to inflation, there's a corresponding world equal in all respects except that the money supply shrinks enough to offset that inflation.
“ Now, when I'm not working hard, alarm bells go off. I can't be sure I'm getting anywhere when I'm working hard, but I can be sure I'm getting nowhere when I'm not, and it feels awful.”

I recognize this feeling, but oh god, it’s a perfect recipe for a burnout.
I don't understand how code ownership will work. The application is "trained on ... source code from publicly available sources", but "code you write with its help, belong to you". I get that most code it generates appears to be unique, but they admit that fragments of verbatim code occasionally appear. Unless the code they are using is all BSD-licensed, surely this breaches those licences?
Probably a way to industrialize it a bit. Run a management company that leases these out, handles site prep and paperwork and offer the homeowner a buyout option after a few years.

Add an Airbnb service on top that markets, cleans and maintains it for those that want to dip their toes into it.

Then start stacking them on top of each other until something gives.
One other thing, last I checked one third of the world doesn't have access to clean water daily.

Facts like these should be a mandatory preface to any success stories, tips, or tricks shared by the ultra-wealthy. The preface should also include this xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/1827/
Amazon is building a bunch of workforce housing in some cities I believe (probably someone here knows a bit more).

Also, queue up Sixteen Tons and some mentions of company scrip.
3. https://www.hela.eu/en/hela-at-home/products/product-finder/...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hela_Gew%C3%BCrzwerk_Hermann_L... which I prefer over any Heinz(I have tried so far). Though I have not much use for Ketchup, so can't tell with certainty.
Pre-emptive caveat: I do not know much about the three things you mention. THAT SAID, I'm familiar with Erlang, and moderately familiar with Elixir, so wanted to still give you some areas to explore.

For #3, you probably would need to NIF out to something. You can also execute an uncompiled script of Erlang using escript, but that, obviously, is not something you'd expect most users to learn (and not sure you can execute it in a running Erlang context, rather than from an external shell). You can also evaluate a string, and/or compile and load new Erlang code from a running Erlang program, but these are suuuuuper dangerous if it's user supplied.

For #1, I've never seen anything, but if you just need something that allows you to change out or customize logic on the fly you can do so in a pretty straightforward manner. Because it's a functional language, you can do stuff like have a stateful process template that you can swap out on the fly, i.e., submit a list of function identifiers a la [read_data/1, transform/1, write_data/1], and now whenever you call run(data), it spins up a new actor that effectively calls write(transform(read_data(data))). Technically you can even provide new code snippets (using one of the mechanisms from #1, or, if opening up an Erlang shell to the running instance, supplying it directly as a lambda), but you'll need to be mindful about persistence. I am not that well versed with workflow engines, but that partly comes from the fact that I haven't really seen the point given how easy many languages make it to create and customize workflows without having to learn special semantics.

I am not at all familiar with apache camel, but I think your concerns here aren't easily addressed; certainly, the library support for Erlang/Elixir isn't anywhere close to the JVM. But I -will- mention that sometimes writing the integration(s) you need to enable using a different technology are worth it.
There is a shortage of residency slots in general, not just for foreign doctors. That shortage is caused by lack of federal government funding. The AMA has actively lobbied for more residency slots.

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-fun...
> They were protesting the elected HK government, not Beijing directly.

I don't think it's ever been correct to say the HK government was elected. It had some elected elements, but they were never in the majority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Ko....

IIRC, one of the five protest demands was for a fully elected government.
> having two parents who don’t suck, is a regular American baseline that public school kids experience

Is it? Not from my experience, but I wish every community could boast such "baselines".
If you render the inputs via a list, like

const inputs = isBob ? [name, confirmation, request] : [name, request]

then it complains that there's no key prop and the issue persists. This shows it's because of confused identity. In the example, it doesn't complain because it doesn't understand that {name}{confirmation}{request} is essentially an unrolled loop.
The secret afterlives of medieval widows
Why is your takeaway that the Apple employees are “entitled” , in a negative way, rather than that the average worker in America should be entitled to more?

Indeed, companies are not democracies, but comparing them to countries isn’t really accurate, because unlike countries, people can and do just leave. If they’re dictatorships, they’re dictatorships in a world of open borders, where each dictator is competing to attract citizens.
Any conspiracy powerful enough to affect world events in a major way would be the source of some or all of the popular conspiracy theories. So they tell you something, but not taken at face value.

People have been talking about Israeli and Saudi conspiracies since it happened, so I think it's safe to assume that is what the real conspiracy wants people to think.
Who wrote that snippet? Who knows? That’s anonymous. Just because I committed it it doesn’t mean I wrote it. There’s no link to the source, so it’s anonymous, even if committed by me. This is 100% equivalent to copying a whole function from StackOverflow but without placing a link to the answer for context.
This is kind of amazing. The willingness to try, at least on the surface, ridiculous things is great. There are lots of ways to spend money, and in 1957 there were probably better ways to spend the money. But for pure research, this highlights so many things. How to record? how to clean the sound? How to broadcast? what the heck is the marine life actually doing? Perhaps marine life behaves differently around submarines?

Even if it didn't work, you could pretend it did, and transmit disinformation.

The only thing that didn't work out about this (imho) was keeping the research secret. The US never could keep secrets anyway. Partner with universities. Put post docs on ships for research. Do silly, silly things. Learning more may not be the right thing, but it's almost never the wrong thing.
Perfect timing https://copilot.github.com/
I'm not worried about programs like Copilot, in the same way that I'm not worried about outsourcing. If price was the sole factor in software engineering then all jobs would have already been shipped overseas. Instead, an awful lot of companies tried that, and realized that it's far from the bees knees.

AI tools like this will be force multipliers, the same way that IDEs are. SWEs 20 years ago decried the rise of the IDE the same way that some are moaning about this. "It'll lead to a generation of know-nothing programmers." Instead, SWEs are more productive today than they ever have been before.

Software engineers should welcome the day that an AI makes it possible to describe what you want instead of telling the machine exactly what to do. That's where I see this technology going in 20 years. That said, it will likely never be good enough to replace an engineer completely because the value of an engineer is in deciding what to build and how to build it. Not in determining exactly which lines of code to write. SWE will be more enjoyable as a field in 20 years because we won't have to wrangle compilers, or deal with fundamental limitations of how computers express ideas versus how humans express concepts. Instead, we'll let the AI translate for us and deal with all those problems automatically.

In the short term, I see lots of potential for this technology to make something like the ultimate cross-compiler. If you can take someone's code, convert it to some kind of universal representation (embedding), and then convert that to another language (and get working code that verifiably produces the same results) you would make a ton of money.
Supposedly, there were even handbooks on how to crush these protests. Look at Belarus, Myanmar and Iran. So far the oppressors are winning.