skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how anyone who's actually used plain Js and Ts in a large project can say it's a fad.

For frontend it might be different, but as someone who usually touches the Js ecosystem through node, I pretty much won't use Js.

Like why should I give up insane utility with negligible (if any) runtime cost, high configurability (with sane defaults), easy buy in (since all Js is valid Ts)?

Maybe the last part is what you're missing? Most "layers on Js" needed you to rewrite or annotate all your code to get and value at all.

But you drop a tsconfig in a project and you instantly get value out of it. What past layer on Js had that?
It's explicitly addressed in the article. 10% of the water heaters purchased in a year would offset the dam.

That 10% is 1 million out of 10 million.

I guess the lead time on water heaters is short enough to hand wave a yes.
> Is it possible to exert pressure on the regime without also exerting pressure on the people?

Not really. Every government ultimately draws their legitimacy from the consent of the governed. If enough people riot and/or strike, you're done. Even Rome had a grain ration to keep the people content.

Your options for pressure usually come down to making the people of that country uncomfortable, or military action. Neither of which are very comfortable for those on the bottom.

You can also bribe the government to clean up their act, but that has a mixed record. I also wouldn't really call it putting pressure on the regime.
Does it mean I can take out my enemies by sending them child porn?
I guess python 3 typing is also a fad? They're pretty similar in goals
Hhahah no. It's the attention economy. https://journal.businesstoday.org/bt-online/2021/the-attenti...
> South Korea has similar types of restrictions, by the way. No gaming for minors (under 16) between midnight and 6am.

I'm disappointed but not surprised that China makes rules like this, but I always thought South Korea was basically a free country and never expected this sort of rule from them.
Obviously, the article's example is scary but I enjoyed this one https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/
Properly livable landscaping isn't being sold as an alternative for air conditioning in the first place, which makes your comment seem like a complete non sequitur.
Anybody remember Cowtown Keeylocko?
I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with P
Just because someone says something doesn't make it true.

They could've chosen to not disclose it to you or don't know the true answer for themselves. In that anecdote, they must believe that something is worth just living for, even if it is just themselves.
It's interesting because it's a problem that crops up in every software shop to some degree. Tech debt is a wicked problem and certainly not exclusive to Javascript.

It's well written too; a good model for design / discussion papers.
Obviously there’s cultural factors at play, I just wonder whether strategically it’s wise to teach kids externally imposed restrictions rather than learning to restrict themselves intrinsically because something else is worth doing? It’s kind of the metaphor of the kid with the very strict upbringing that has no self control when they move away from their family.
It doesn’t matter. Anything running on the blockchain has no single point of failure.

Let’s say the government outlaws Uniswap tomorrow and throws the entire team in Supermax prison for life. The protocol will just keep running forever. There’s nothing that can be done unless the government can shut down every Ethereum node in the world. Even “outlawing” Ethereum in the US wouldn’t work, unless they put in a Chinese style Internet firewall.
RRIV. Rewrite Rust in V.

What abomination is this? https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/blob/rust/rust/alloc...

How could this code be safe?

Linus Torvalds is brainwashed and now a Google puppet. Nothing more.

Rust is dead.
It isn't, however, ignoring the exclusively licensed content Netflix also pays for, which the bulk of their "originals" are.
Derren Brown is an interesting case within magic. His stage shows aren't 100% stooges and almost seem less believable than some of his TV specials. He's one of if not my favorite contemporary magicians (especially since Ricky Jay died)
Well the US Navy has 232 Admirals for only 254 commissioned warships.

Job title inflation is also common in many businesses. You have huge numbers of "Directors" and "Vice Presidents" with no direct reports and little real responsibility.
Part of his technique is to plant tall shade trees on every street, shading both streets and houses.
Are you picturing something like a firearm magazine? Because those are LIFO.
One big missing disadvantage: XMPP may mean very different things. If you find something described as "XMPP client" in your package repository or the appstore, there is no guarantees that it will support basic things like multi-device message sync or offline messages.
- note that the official investigation meeting (before he disappeared for 3 months) had state officials from 4 different state departments in one meeting, meaning it was highly choreographed by the CCP

- Xi announced more hands-on CCP oversight for all companies in 2020 after a few decades of Wild West-style capitalism. The point of temporary capitalism was to grow the Chinese economy to a Western standard and avoid Soviet-style economic stagnation, which ultimately made the USSR non-viable. Then control and suppress the economoy going forward.

- Xi had himself declared dictator for life, well, to be exactly that. He doesn't need industry titans distracting the population, or leaving him in the shade. There can be only one.
Anecdotally, a friend's mother can stop pretty much all hiccups by putting pressure somewhere on the wrist. I'm not sure about how it works, but it does.
This guy is one of the most valuable contributors to the site, all the more so because we disagree about so much politically; I have almost total faith that he means what he says, and, especially on politically-tinged topics (also compiler theory), tend to learn a lot from him.

Always happy for the opportunity to say that, so thanks!
>"Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of

"free-floating" planets

, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star. The results include four new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar masses to Earth, published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The study, led by Iain McDonald of the University of Manchester, UK, (now based at the Open University, UK) used data obtained in 2016 during the K2 mission phase of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. During this two-month campaign, Kepler monitored a crowded field of millions of stars near the center of our Galaxy every 30 minutes in order to find rare

gravitational microlensing events.

The study team found 27 short-duration candidate

microlensing signals that varied over timescales of between an hour and 10 days.

Many of these had been previously seen in data obtained simultaneously from the ground. However, the four shortest events are new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar masses to Earth.

These new events do not show an accompanying longer signal that might be expected from a host star, suggesting that these new events may be free-floating planets. Such planets may perhaps have originally formed around a host star before being ejected by the gravitational tug of other, heavier planets in the system."

PDS: Absolutely, utterly fascinating!

Dare we dream that there are other free-floating planets like Earth -- somewhere else in the Universe?

Perhaps we do after this discovery!
> There's no benefit to the user to having no seatbelts.

No seatbelts means it's easier to get out of the vehicle (if you planned to or not). Some seatbelts are uncomfortable. Seatbelts add to the materials and assembly cost of the vehicle, and add weight to the vehicle which increases fuel usage and wear on the tires and suspension and road. Maybe they wrinkle your clothes? Installing retrofit seatbelts on a vehicle without them can be difficult and the result may be really uncomfortable. Very ocassionally, it might be preferable to be flung from a vehicle rather than retained in a vehicle during a colission, although that would have to be a pretty specific set of circumstances, because being flung from a vehicle results in a lot of undesirable injury.

Not having seatbelts has minor benefits. All of them are outweighed by the benefits of seatbelts in my opinion (and I think there's broad consensus) but claiming there's no benefit to not having them or that there's no cost to having them is silly.
I'm saying internally to Google. You don't have to do any of this at most companies.
One neat difference is that dams only provide benefits when they're done. Building a big dam takes a long time.

But with the water heater solution, every time a water heater is replaced, we get the partial benefits immediately.
It's interesting how many corporations don't actually "run the numbers" on what we think are important issues. Basically, internal focus and what the rest of the world cares about are disjointed and corps are often blind to obvious aspects. This can be improved by strong internal diversity, but Netflix doesn't look like a bastion of that (yet?)

On "just ok" vs stuff actually enjoyable, "just ok" is fine until there is no better competitor for attention (e.g. a new smartphone game takes over the world). If they get to fit on the "actually enjoyable" scale instead, there is a better chance for people to keep their subscription, sometimes even if they end not viewing anything that month for whatever reason.
These aren't the predictions you're looking for.
Grafica Obscura – Collected Computer Graphics Hacks (1977-1996)
Yes! Does anyone know what on earth it is doing during this period? It does not appear to be fetching data.
All US stocks, the API has prices, fundamentals, news, and then another API for social media sentiment
My pet idea is that our current world order (on average) has been great at lifting people out of poverty BUT ALSO great at keeping those at the top, at the top. And this looks great on paper: let the pie grow instead of taking from some to give to others.

But the result is: some people stop being able to climb the ladder, and some seem happily stuck at the top.
Indeed, it's impossible to get access for China's government facial recognition server for a company, unless the government wants it to.

Games were an anonymous chat outlet before, so they are closing on that now with radical actions.

Now I believe they will be feeding game chats to their version of PRISM, and want to tie them to reliable real world identities.

Basically, chicoms want to close any way for a chat message to not to have a reliable ID matched to it.
I think that "fundamental" doesn't mean "naturally occurring" or "universal", but rather "foundational", in the sense that more nuanced rights are based upon their basic principles.

So for example we have the principle of "freedom of speech", which might be accepted by courts and society as including a right to publish literary works that some deem offensive, but that could be considered a subsidiary or supplementary right which doesn't have the same level of protection.

More relevantly, a society might accept the principle of a "right to privacy", but might not think that grants a "right to privacy from warranted surveillance" or from "warrant-less automated mass surveillance".

Of course there will always be a tension, as rights activists will instinctively claim that denying some specific right is undermining a fundamental right, since they are sure that everyone agrees that the new right is an inherent consequence of that fundamental right, but the government will always claim that its policy doesn't impinge upon any fundamental right and that the specific new right that the activists believe in doesn't need to exist at all.
...a milestone towards the totalitarian dystopia previously only encountered in science fiction.
So, generally, I really dislike this kind of paternalism. This rule in particular doesn't seem that crazy, but enforcement just seems completely unrealistic without major privacy violations.

Maybe that's why I dislike this kind of paternalism.
It's several orders of magnitude easier with Brazil and the NPM Brazil wrappers at Amazon now, for the record.
Relevant sci-fi: Daemon, by Daniel Suarez.

(AI-controlled cars feature prominently as weapons.)
Remotion – Virtual Office for Hybrid Teams
Revolutionaries don't want change so much as they want power.

"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder."

~ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Hippie Trail
Yeah, but only if it is flowing across the deposit.

If you do the "bare minimum 140f once a day" method, you have to flush all the hot lines with this for long enough to kill it.

All this also presumes correct thermostatic calibration and generally even temperature distribution in a system planned to age with minimal maintenance.

The process isn't instant, you also have to ensure the hot water hits all the lines down the way at the appropriate hold temp and, well, hold it there for long enough.

These outbreaks still occur today. Not a huge problem, but why design such a well controlled hazard back into your potable water?
When I was younger, single and more foolish, I did work late and I did have personal projects that I was interested in. However, if I had a social or family thing to go to, I'd drop what I was doing to have some fun.

There was a period when I was at a startup and I put aside my social life for work and that's when I burnt out.

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" really is true.
If you knew anything about Bolivian history you would not suggest Paraguay > Bolivia > Chile as a viable option. In any case, both routes depend wholly on the agreeableness of Paraguay.

I am very glad you are not responsible for planning for the availability of power I depend on.
HN specifically filter out emojis but pass other utf8s and zalgos(which is a well balanced decision IMO)
I stumbled across this site via [1], and went on to read [2]. I was about to submit one of those to HN, when I realized the entire site was full of gems.

[1] http://graficaobscura.com/matrix/index.html

[2] http://graficaobscura.com/interp/index.html
This is an interesting read - I didn’t know how unsubstantiated a lot of the “sightings” of Jack were… was dumb of him to say what he did, but doesn’t warrant the apparent mistreatment
Things like BTC swaps don't really have settlement periods: every so and so numbers of often (often 1 or 8), longs pay shorts using some premium formula is swap > index, and vice verse if swap < index.

I suppose you could construe that as some periodic partial settlement mechanism, though.
Have you used any calculators from an installer like Tesla or frequented solar owners forums to read about actual experiences?

It is extremely dependent on the state you reside, how much electric you use & the energy company you have as incentives vary.

Tesla, in NY on PSEG LI for example-
$9K would get you 8kW solar w/o storage
$20K would get you 12kW solar + some storage, installation and tax included
"I'm from YC and I'm here to help you"
Average is higher than median.
But if you compare two friends, by symmetry you can’t tell who has more friends.
The Villages is interesting as an example because they mostly drive golf carts everywhere. There are gas stations / charging stations specially made for the carts, tunnels and bridges to allow the carts to pass under/over highways, and small parking spaces everywhere for them. Carts are honestly a lot more practical, in my opinion, for a modern city design. You can still easily run errands and carry kids with them, you can drive on slower roads comfortably, they remove a lot of traffic off the roads, and they're cheaper to build special lanes / paths for.
So, you want to teach your kid all kinds of hateful weird cult theories from a young age. That's incredibly weird and almost nobody else would think that's a good idea, so I really can't see how you can possibly think you can speak with total authority on the matter ("that is exactly how you develop it", etc.).

You are firmly an N=1 case here. I'm not going to argue the merits of your teaching ideas any more because it's clear you believe in them, but if you don't realize your ideas are pretty extreme and fringe, then you should.
Well that mechanism for arbtrage usually occurs through settlement. ie at contract settlement, you trade one for the other.
Would that be economical? Places with abundant geothermal power like Iceland are probably going to make much cheaper aluminum smelting than anywhere else.
Yeah, for sure. I was using them as early as this morning, haha. I've been through the whole end to end spectrum of this at Amazon, from wild-west every team doing their own custom things to building BrazilGrunt/BrazilGulp, and moving on to all the successors since then.

Overcoming the incompatibility of npm's multi-version allowance and Brazil's need to have a single version of each package in the transitive closure of the dependency graph without hacks like shrinkwrapping was a key turning point.
I have a tankless hot water heater system in my new home that runs on a city natural gas line. It’s super efficient and thus my energy bills are very low compared to what I used to pay for the traditional electric hot water heater in my previous home, however it’s not a silver bullet. I find myself running the water for a ridiculously long time in order for the water to start getting hot, sometimes for more than a minute, depending on where I am in the house (obviously the farther you are from the heating unit, the more time it takes for the hot water to travel to its destination). Our water consumption is therefore quite a bit higher, thus I am not confident this is a good ecological or financial tradeoff. I have used similar systems in Europe and they seem to be a little quicker, but that could be from higher water pressure. They seem to suffer from the same problem though. Perhaps a good solution would be to have a small (4-5 gallon) booster tank that is periodically heated like a traditional tank-based system, so that when hot water is run, it can immediately be delivered while simultaneously engaging the on-demand system. Forgive my layman’s terminology, I’m not a plumber or HVAC engineer, but hopefully the idea is clear.
On the other hand, all of the JS here has been fully typed for 10+ years, so there are some pluses
You don’t have to be so dismissive. The research suggests that there was a common standard of weights from the near East to the Aegean, which is indeed surprising; there is no reason to believe that, in the absence of a centralizing force, the weights should standardize.
This has nothing to do with "hacking" the system and wall street is not gambling the system - they provide value otherwise they would not exist.

I think it's more about utility. While the value of fusion research or asteroid mining is potentially very high, there is a large probability of failure. The risk adjusted return is actually quite low. Providing liquidity and services to markets has a higher risk adjusted return because it affects people now and with high probability.
> Taxing emissions just allows some government a-hole to make a buck and you still get the emissions how is that better?

Easy: sanction their asses. We banned CFCs, remember? We didn't even need 100% compliance to be effective at repairing the ozone hole!

> Think I’m wrong? Cigarettes and alcohol still kill people they’re just highly taxed.

Taxing alcohol and tobacco reduce their use, thereby reducing the harm they bring. [1] [2]

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-publh...
You are making sweeping negative statements without specifying where in your experience this is the case. 20 year pay back would have to be a state with super low electric prices and absolutely zero incentives.

Please specify where this is the case and why, per your math.

Fed is 22% tax rebate, NY state is $5k incentive.. and power in the state ranges in the 20-30c/kWh range.. so pretty expensive power with pretty good incentive.
https://archive.is/NrQQC for those who don't want to support Salon with clicks.

The article just wanders aimlessly between lies.

Pumped Hydro dams are tiny compared to hydro-power or water dams and are beautiful, the same size as solar or wheat farms. A cool seawater based one in Japan - https://www.google.com/search?q=okinawa+pumped+storage+&tbm=...

A good example of a government doing something that worked is the Australian government which wanted to spend money fighting the global financial crisis so insulated homes. Unfortunately deaths from the scheme, which were at the same rate as normal but became larger in number stop people talking about it much.

This tale of heat pump water heaters stopping a dam is rubbish. Where is the mathematics?

Heat pumps are awesome however, go to Technology Connections, not this to learn about them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto
On the other hand, internal tooling like cider, bazel, etc. are so advanced at these companies that the old frameworks like vanilla javascript are a lot better than what outsiders using javascript have. Moving to Typescript is still a huge benefit but I don't think the old development was that bad either.
My understanding is that it's not clear to what extent Panini understood or attempted to explicitly treat articulatory phonetics. Addressing articulatory phonetics well in writing alone is still hard, and understanding it in detail was immensely hard before the creation of audio recording, spectrograms, and x-rays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Sutras#Arrangement

So while a present-day understanding of classical Sanskrit grammar could be derived fairly directly from his work, that's still not any guarantee that you would pronounce Sanskrit just as Panini would have.

A moderately imperfect analogy is that while Jews have been carefully learning to read, recite, and copy the Torah for thousands of years -- including reading commentaries, which, while nowhere near as systematic or thorough as Panini, elucidate lots of grammatical issues -- there still emerged huge, systematic regional differences in the pronunciation of particular Hebrew letters, even in liturgical use.

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

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

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

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

among several others. The people using each pronunciation were often incredibly sophisticated in their religious scholarship and incredibly familiar with the underlying material, but they definitely didn't (and don't) pronounce it the same way.

Modern linguistics has been able to find evidence for comparing these pronunciation variants and also understanding their histories, and I believe something similar is true for Sanskrit pronunciation.
Housing is not included in the CPI. The housing figure is Owner's Equivalent Rent. They survey owners and ask them what they think that they could rent their home for.
I took the opportunity to rename all my master branches to `trunk`:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk_(software)

Because y'know, branches? Trunk and branches? It's the older term. I ran into it using Fossil and liked it, now all my git repos have trunks as well.

Of course there's nothing wrong with master, that was just histrionic bullying. At best it was people doing something they can do (change variable names) as a substitute for something they can't (meaningfully affect racial injustice).

But like I said. I took the opportunity. Way better name than main... or master for that matter.