skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As long as Americans are replaced time and again, it changes the US. We used to care for each other. I think the fact that the greed machine is so precise and backstabbing and self-documented and codified there's nothing to tell it to stop hiring people outside the US simply for cheaper labor.

Heh, the bit about caring... Let's go:

* strike busters (sometimes extremely violent, there are documented case of actual cannons or bombers)

* rampant child labor

* super high crime rates

I think perception of the past is often affected by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fading_affect_bias :

> The fading affect bias, more commonly known as FAB, is a psychological phenomenon in which memories associated with negative emotions tend to be forgotten more quickly than those associated with positive emotions.

i.e. we forget the bad parts faster.
The biggest irony of FIRE is that to stop being obsessed with money you have to be extremely obsessed with it.

The general idea is that you earn more than you spend so you can later spend more than you earn. However, yields are going down. So you won't be earning much from interest and even in the stock market people might be using stocks like Tesla as a Schelling point.

Ultimately there is a huge problem with this strategy. You are accumulating assets that are other people's liabilities. That means you are dependent on a young workforce that takes care of you.

Humans have a clear bias that they want to do "all the work" at the beginning of their life and "all the leisure" at the end of their life. Saving for retirement is obviously necessary because you can't work when you're too old, but early retirement can be implemented by simply working less. After all, if productivity rises but we don't consume more, it simply means we have to work fewer hours for the same output.
Disclaimer: I created https://fiers.co (financial independence site)

My focus has been on financial independence instead of needing emergency funds (for which retirement accounts should be a last resort).

I wish more people understood just how feasible financial independence is and the different strategies of how to invest money to reduce tax burdens. The IRS rule 72(t) that is mentioned in this article is one of those. I don't believe many people understand that you can access your retirement accounts tax free.

In a FI/RE (financial independence/retire early) sense - these are strategies you plan ahead for and when the time comes you execute on that plan and it could very well be to start tapping into your retirement account consistently before you get to retirement age.

Here's an overview of the model that's used on fiers.co - https://fiers.co/article/how-it-works
The parent post is claiming that the storage solutions are right now cheaper than the alternatives. If they are already here in terms of costs then bringing them online should be fairly quick ordeal.

I agree with you however that it will take much longer than 3 years. Lithium batteries can be done today for the kind of storage solution which they are suitable, but not for wind. The green hydrogen might work, but we have yet to see large scale production and we are nowhere near to have it operate as an alternative to natural gas on a nation scale. Germany should really make an attempt if they wish to take a different path from France, but it will likely take a few decades if its successful.
I assume the site has been changed in response to the things people are saying here as the search box works and I was able to start trying queries immediately.

First thing I tried was a dev-related query I was getting annoyed with Google about yesterday: GeneratorExecutionContext. This is a type used in C# source generators and is documented in the Microsoft .NET docs.

With Google, none of the first page results contain the string "GeneratorExecutionContext" or even relate to C# source generators. With you.com the desired ms docs result is the first listed and all the others are relevant.

I can get similar results on Google by enclosing the search term in quotes, but this doesn't absolve Google. GeneratorExecutionContext isn't an plausible typo for Thread.ExecutionContext or scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext or any of the other things Google listed. It's a verbatim match to something that exists in MS docs.

I find this kind of over-interpretation-by-dedault behaviour exceptionally annoying. Sure, if you think some leftfield interpretations of my input might be of interest, go ahead and add them into the results, but don't just assume I'm incapable of saying what I mean.

I don't know how you.com is actually working here, but frankly even if it's just a verbatim text search that includes common sources of programming info I'm interested. It certainly won on this single sample search.
> my take is that System76 had to fight for years to get an option added to fwupd, to avoid their users from getting tracked when downloading system76 firmware through the tool.

Well, no. They didn't 'fight' for that, they complained about it. For a while they decided that LVFS wasn't a right fit and went with their own tool and infrastructure[0].

To quote:

" I then got told that I’d made the LVFS and fwupd more complicated than it needed to be, and that I should have adopted the infrastructure that System76 had built instead. This was all without them actually logging into the LVFS and seeing what features were available or what constraints were being handled." [1]

But they didn't 'fight' for it. Richard Hughes fought for it. And even more than that; he implemented it, which is what counts.

> That... doesn't sound like evil to me?

Well, no. Spreading FUD on the other hand could be considered - if not evil - then at least somewhat mean[2]

> If anything, this actually makes me want to get a System76 laptop.

That's awesome. We need more people buying custom Linux hardware. The more, the merrier, the lower the costs, the better the support.

[0] https://archive.md/VPvhu

[1] https://archive.md/A4ZMS

[2] https://archive.md/UgGxn
Then start your own company. You can't blame MS for companies using their products. Nobody is forced to use them.
They still have to consult the local communities for the 75%.
> It seems like this generation's children will grow up having social media as a natural, integral part of society.

So, perhaps the same argument should apply to unfettered access to online porn as well, yes? If not, why not?

Perhaps we should allow kids unfettered open access to porn as well.

I fully understand that the above is a provocative argument and am not suggesting we do that, but IMHO there is only a very fine line between the two since both are very addictive and at a young age can result in psychological harm.
The Transistor Museum
>The claim: The CEO of Pfizer canceled a trip to Israel because he "hasn't been fully vaccinated"

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/09/fact...

>It’s true that Bourla canceled a trip to Israel due to his vaccination status.
Student loans that can’t be wiped out in a bankruptcy should not be a thing, in my opinion. Combine that with the loans being guaranteed by the government & you get a system that is ripe for abuse by the people in power. There’s an incentive to create low quality, high margin degrees for profit. It’s horrible.
Sweden's last phone box was demolished in 2016, which is surprisingly late! In the early 80s there were 44000 boxes in operation, apparently.

https://blogg.tekniskamuseet.se/minns-du-telefonkiosken/
Get the first job in the field, almost no matter what.

Once you have that first job and about 1 year of experience, things become much easier.

Also, practice interviews, find books, courses, etc.
At this stage in my life I'm not really having 'big' weekends.
> A battery consisting of a pile of rocks can't be expensive.

> The idea is to not only adjust supply to the demand, but to shape the demand to the supply.

> I am utterly astonished that this is never, ever discussed when talking about solutions to fluctuating supply. Having fixed electricity rates 24/7 is simply madness in today's electricity generation situation.

It might not be the same everywhere but in France and Belgium at least, it is very common to have two rates: peak and off-peak. A signal is sent by the provider to your electrical meter (basically 220V when off-peak, 0V when peak) that can pilot a switch that turns the hot water heater on only during off-peak hours.

Some electric heaters also work on that principle, they are filled with bricks and heat up during off-peak hours then release the stored heat later, when it is needed. That's your "battery consisting of a pile of rock". However, I have lived with those things and it doesn't work at all because storing heat in anything else than water just doesn't work well. Basically at the end of the day, when you come back from work and need the heat that was stored during the night, it's already gone (and totally wasted as the house was empty). The most modern designs don't work much better. I think these only still exist because the idea seems good enough to convince people to buy them, but it's not actually technically feasible.

Anyway, everything you say is already possible in western Europe, and already done (except for HVAC, but that's mostly because HVAC in private homes isn't very common in the first place). What could be improved is to have more dynamic off-peak hours, but that's not a technical problem, everything would already work as is.
As dumb as it was, IE was providing free VMs preloaded with IE versions for developers. Apple is horribly developer hostile.
My company refuses to test and run around with Safari bugs, the advice is to install a better browser.
Everytime a professor has said "do this in your free time", they've really meant that it's an ungraded class project that you need to do to the same high standards. Unfortunately, you get less guidance and zero feedback, but if you don't push yourself to do well on your own you're going to fail the up coming projects that implicitly depended on your "free time" project.

In some ways, school can be more insidious in its demands than enterprise.
From all the questionable design choices you argue about a good one. Starting in an empty space means you go to the overview to launch an app (unless you have hot-keys to launch apps which I think GNOME doesn't have configured by default).

So it both saves you a click/gesture and it allows for new users to understand what's going on.
good reason to not use comma when destructuring an object
> you start explaining how what the client says it needs is not necessary and how he can manage with less than he demands?

Sometimes, yes, it is necessary to coach a client. It takes trust, but it isn't unheard of.
Ability to demonstrate hypocrisy is the main manifestation of one's power. Rules for thee but not for me, as it were. Or "to know who has power over you, see who you're not allowed to criticize".
Cannot agree more on the brainwashing part. It happens in many, if not all, vectors of education. Loss of harmonic perception in many aspects of science.
Let's say there is a website, google app and apple app. When user buys and uses digital tokens on a website, are both google and apple entitled to 30% commission just because there is a link to the website from both apps?
The poll details: https://www.jaif.or.jp/en/japanese-opinion-poll-finds-that-v...

60% want "the nuclear power to be discontinued" either right now or gradually, and ~27% "don't know". IMHO there is a large majority of citizens wanting a phase-out.
FOR querytopic race LINK TO FILTER META_SUB_QUERY music, location, politics, slangdetect.
> but I wonder if this isn't a clever story placement by the French

of course - because the british press are famous for being sympathetic to the french /s

the daily mail picked it up as well - and if the comment section are to be believed this is clearly the fault of biden and 'Cackling Kamala' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10182839/Metallurgi...
Power goes up exponentially with size. To get good RoI, you need to go huge.
Records of 320k Punjab soldiers from first world war uncovered
But you need some level of technical skills before you should start worrying about user concerns, so junior engineers should first and foremost think about the technical parts while the seniors who are more skilled can take a bigger picture view.
I wish people would just show their product in their webpage instead of selling/telling what is can supposedly do
That last one is a recent addendum as a result of the murder of Sarah Everard.
I saw one of these used as a place to swap used books, and another as a coffee stand. Seems reasonable. In any case, do people even carry coins anymore? How would you operate the phone for anything other than a 999 call?
Doesn't your link point to Teflon? What is missing from the article?
Of course China as more than enough land for renewables. Ever heard of the Gobi desert?
I really hope not, because of the amount of abuse that happens in family and domestic situations. This absolutely needs to be approved by the account holder. No amount of death certificates should let you in.
Migrating a static Hugo blog to AWS Amplify
I think I have to agree about the "peak HN arrogance" bit

Most things about software dev are never taught to college students. This is actually an excellent project to teach students beyond programming for computers and building things for humans. Not thinking about UX is what leads to most software projects failing because we are fundamentally different from computers (do I even need to explain this?)

I wish I had teachers teaching me stuff like this in my software dev classes instead of the usual stuff. I wouldn't have had to waste years trying and failing to learn this
It absolutely is not a win for anyone.

The in app payment system was exclusive (and advertising other payments forbidden) because IAP was how apple extracted their royalties for platform use by app developers.

This only changed the ability to freely link to external payment options. It does not require Apple to allow in-app payments, it does not forbid Apple from requiring a royalty/commission on those external payments.

So now the firewall is gone, and there could be really ugly fights where developers are told to prove they are in compliance with whatever commission scheme is coming. This could even result in Apple now extracting additional revenue from developers.
There's a pretty big difference between wiki-first sites and discussion-first sites, though.
Wow! Every week it seems on HN there are articles about the porous nature of iPhone impenetrability. Everything from zero click attacks in iMessages that have been unpatched since iOS 4 to Wi-Fi bugs that could be exploited for remote code execution without any user interaction at all. The problem that these exist is not even the issue. It's the glaring number and breadth of the exploits that make it likely these are just the tip of the iceberg. Apple has been sleeping at at wheel with regards to security and I can't imagine short of a "Snow Leopard" style crusade to fix security (back then it was performance), that this is going to change anytime soon.
This ruling does not allow for alternative IAP.
> why are we hung up on either/or?

I agree that we should invest in both. But it is not as easy as waving a magic wand. Energy project development is a complicated dance between local power market regulators, local and federal incentives, private investors, and shovel ready/cost-effective technology. And in the rare occasions when congress opens up the wallet, it is a small pie that everyone is fighting over, so the lobbyists start slinging arrows.

The fact is, nuclear can and will be a really great addition to the energy mix. But there are models out there that show that we can build a carbon free grid without it. The big question mark is on the future cost of storage. The consensus is that those costs are going to come down considerably. If so, then going all in on renewables likely gets us to a carbon free grid faster. But this is also a very US centric take. For example China likely has much easier road to rolling out nuclear (less regulatory hurdles, less local interference/input). Where as in the US, I am sure we can build a big national pro-nuclear movement, but the second someone proposes a real life project, the NIMBY's will come out of the woodwork.
Some companies have international teams. National holiday awareness can be useful in that context.
Measuring mathematical problem solving with the MATH dataset
The newly built "street hub" public phones offer free calls to any UK number, so there is no need for payment.

If there was, NFC payment is ubiquitous in the UK, so a simple card reader would suffice.
I’m no fan of the Chinese regime, but maybe they just concluded that the preening do-nothingness that goes on at these summits isn’t worth getting mixed up with. From last week:

“China has reported overnight to be planning 150 new nuclear reactors over the next 15 years — more than have been built around the world since 1980 — a signal that uranium production needs to be stepped up, fast and soon.”

That’s a reported planned investment of $440B.

https://smallcaps.com.au/china-supercharge-uranium-race-150-...
I'll defend the more boringly obvious answer of "privilege".

My points:

Although some women get mentioned here, they are outnumbered. Why didn't one of their sisters become a general in the British or Indian army? Was that genetic, obviously not since they wouldn't even have got the chance to find out. Instead, marrying another famous person is listed as one of their achievements. The ones that do make the list have tales of the many obstacles they overcame.

More widely, I read a history of science and it was remarkable how often "rich, idle guy devotes all his time to the newly emerging science and buys all the new toys" re-occurs as a story. Does that mean they were dumb, no, but they clearly were in the right time and place with the right situation compared with other human beings on the planet at the time.

Similarly Bill Gates, was he the smartest natural computer guy in the world at that time, or from the big set of people with the genes for IQ was he the one that was a white, American, male who went to a private school with early access to a computer and who had a mom that has a fellow board member that was on the board of IBM. Any one of which would have been a handicap to his dramatic success if it hadn't been true.

Obviously the latter.

A further recent trend, pop stars all having a background of family wealth and connections. Genetics? No.

Basically, meritocracy is a story we tell ourselves, because reality is harsh. And most of the genetic nonsense derives straight from that.

> You just get one chance, she said. You live for maybe seventy years, and if you’re lucky you get one chance.

> Think of all the natural skiers who are born in deserts. Think of all the genius blacksmiths who were born hundreds of years before anyone invented the horse. All the skills that are never used. All the wasted chances. -- Pratchett
True, but I don't think this invalidates OP's point. Nuclear disasters are scary in a different way.
I'm going to go ahead and say it then, this is suspicious as fuck.

It would have been slightly less suspicious if the response to "this is a security concern" would have been "oops yeah we see that now, let's disable that requirement until we gain some trust first".

I do not trust a company that brands itself as privacy-oriented when they insist on peddling a security vulnerability to their users "because Google is evil so trust us". Google may be selling my data but at least they have a lot to lose so they are likely to abide by legal guardrails.

Especially since there is no value-add to the extension. It's whole purpose is to make it harder for less tech-savvy users to stop using the service.
Is there a solution to version control/deterministically see/deploy active scripts? How do you manage all the scripts? I've used it to compile/summarize spreadsheets and serve as a simple endpoint (testing webhooks), but not much more.
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"We've lost nearly seven months in litigation and that likely has pushed the first human landing likely to no earlier than 2025," Nelson said, pinning the delay in NASA's return to the Moon firmly on Blue Origin and its lawyers. During the legal process, NASA was forbidden from working or even talking with SpaceX …
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Boggles the mind that Blue Origin would rather put their money into legal battles than making their space flight tech better.
In a Free Economy, Prices Would Be Going Down, Not Up
That's in terms of operational payphones. Phone boxes that are decommissioned can be adopted by community groups typically for £1, to turn into eg a defibrillator station, mini library, etc. so of those 75% a good number will remain in place, just without the phone.
BTW, initially I thought the article will be about 3D house printing. And that may actually be the way out of this grey box boredom.
my worries were more about access control, it is sort of fine if a costumer experiences data loss because an insert fails and the application doesn't retry, it is less fine if a collision causes a user's documents to be swapped with another user's docoment and they end up showing kinky porn on a live press conference.

Sort of the distinction between unspecified behaviour and undefined behaviour in C.
In hexadecimal you're only 30.
> That just reflects the size and complexity of stories they're asked to estimate.

In any reasonably complex application even the smallest task will likely not be available to anyone in under a week anyway. Need to change a button? Sure, that's an hour or two to change it and ensure it didn't break some other scenario. Maybe that takes another day or so to verify with team X or dev Y in a PR. Wait for tests and processing for release to QA environment. Maybe another roundtrip if something is found, at which point you might be working on another button. Then it sits for a while until it can catch a production push.

I'm also assuming that the senior dev is working in a fairly large machine. If it's a startup then sure, anything goes depending on what shortcuts are in place.
> I wish I had teachers teaching me stuff like this in my software dev classes instead of the usual stuff.

I think this would be a great class project with the teacher acting as a fictive user. I think it is a horrible hobby project to suggest.
"Well, i will be here on saturday. I hope the team does not let me down. This is the last time we will crunch over the weekend. Come on, whos with me."
Simply because it's not enforced doesn't mean it's not against the developer agreement. This is part of the issue--selective enforcement.
One thing to consider is that when running on-prem, you will be able to procure disks that advertise 512B sector size, and actually performing well when doing so. With that, you can use 8KB record size on ZFS, and still obtain the same 5.5x compress ratio, assuming you are currently using 4KB sector size with 64KB record size on ZFS.

With 8KB record size, there would be no read/write amplification caused by postgres. More importantly, ZFS fragmentation would be much less of an issue.

Of course, disks procurement can be a nightmare process, which is why AWS is printing money.
Note as well that not a single one of them would "quit for equity" either. Do it, folks, practice what you preach. Free up some $300-500K/yr spots for minority hires, show some real leadership. Talk is cheap.
I don't know.. poisoning the very air we breathe sounds pretty scary to me, and we're doing it in an immense scale right now
Read up on how the army trains soldiers to fall asleep quickly in war zones.
In your analogy Apple would be charging the gas station owner 30% not the person pumping. Why should the end-user care about developers fees? Apple built the entire ecosystem and infrastructure, they should be allowed to charge whatever they like.
Thank you for introducing me to babushka style "Check - Set - Check" methodology. I assume you meant this:

https://github.com/benhoskings/babushka