skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a bluetooth mouse and keyboard on my PowerBook G4 for two years before I even had wifi. It worked flawlessly. As soon as folks started adding wifi to their homes the mouse became unusable and the keyboard would occasionally miss keys.

The modern solution of vendor specific dongles is more reliable, but I sure wish we didn't need them.
> There are many reasons I have heard put forth for why vaccines should be mandated, but one dominant argument stands out: Mandating vaccines will protect vaccinated people from unvaccinated people.

That ones new to me. It almost sounds like a strawman. But I think its just the phrasing. Obviously, vaccinated people are already "protected" from the virus, especially against severe illness and hospitalization, but less so for transmission. So vaccinated people can't really be protected any further, other than by lowering the probability that the person next to them has the virus (which I suppose would be the definition of "protecting vaccinated people" above, or protection from transmission).
1) The article consistently minimizes vaccine benefits.

The study it points to shows that vaccination reduces spread by 40%. It’s a small study with n’s of <40 people, but 40% is a significant reduction in transmission.

Beyond that it tries to somehow ignore the massive benefits in reducing the risk of hospitalization (therefore ignores the fact that even when the vaccinated spread the virus, they are likely to in lower intensity), by claiming that a bad flu year has 50-70k hospitalized Americans. Which is true, and just goes to show how much worse the impact of COVID is on hospitalization when the hospitalization winter peaks have been 140k and 160k, more than double the worst flu season in the US. And no, 12% of the staff not being available (largely because they are burnt out because of COVID) is not even a part of the reason that hospitalization is so much of a problem when hospitalization is 100% greater than the worst flu year.

2) The article does not provide strong studies showing the benefits of reinfections. Other than a letter to the editor, the data ends pre-Omicron, but more importantly, covers a period which is well within the 6-9 month period of the last 2 surges where immunity from both vaccines and infection is considered strong. There is research showing that immunity due to infection does, in fact, reduce dramatically after 6-9 months. It may take some time for the effects of Omicron to be isolated, but either way, at best it shows that variants are able to evade immunity by infection.

3) Finally, they don’t actually provide any downsides to the vaccine mandates. And there are no novel civil liberty based defenses one can hide behind because vaccine mandates already exist for many vaccines. At least in the US, courts have ruled in favor of mandatory vaccinations even over religious objections.

Arguably the likes of Jenny McCarthy, who have been anti vaxxers well before COVID-19 existed can take a principled stance against vaccine mandates, but it’s very difficult for others to do so considering they’ve been accepting them for so long with nary a word against them.

Consequently, an argument against a strong vaccine mandate must test on a cost benefit analysis, and it’s hard to argue against the mandate on a cost benefit analysis, and I don’t see how pointing out a bunch of benefits, without showing any costs (to those who don’t have medical exemptions, who presumably would be exempt from any version of a vaccine mandate) leads to a conclusion against mandates.
According to geni.com[1], he is actually my 31st great grandfather.

Anonymized the first part of my line:

You → ********
your father → ********
his mother → ********
her mother → ********
her father → ** Johansen
his father → Johan Grove Kristoffersen
his father → Ingeborg Catharine Jentoft Henrichsdatter Klæboe
his mother → Henrich Johan Hansen Klæboe
her father → Maren Hansdatter Glein
his mother → Margaretha Johansdatter Grøn
her mother → Margrethe Christophersdatter Darre
her mother → Kristoffer Bjørnsen Bjørnsen
her father → Bjørn Rolfson Darre
his father → Maren Bjørnsdatter
his mother → Johanne Mattisdatter
her mother → Margreta Johannesdatter Kruckow
her mother → Anne Ludvigsdatter Barsebek
her mother → Magdalena Svare
her mother → Adelus Eringsdotter Erlingsdtr Tolstad, Hildugard
her mother → Elin Jonsdatter Hildugard Tolstad
her mother → Sigrid Erlingsdotter Bjarkøy
her mother → Elin Thoresdatter Bjarkøy
her mother → Ingebjørg Erlingsdatter Bjarkøy
her mother → Erling Alvsson Tornberg
her father → Ingeborg Bårdsdotter Rein
his mother → Bård Skule Guttormsson Rein
her father → Sigrid Torkjellsdotter Fugl
his mother → Hallkatla Sveinsdatter Av Aurland
her mother → Ingerid Svendsdatter of Denmark, Queen Consort of Norway
her mother → Sweyn II Estridson, King of Denmark
her father → Princess Estrid Margrethe (Margret), Of Svendsdatter
his mother → Sweyn I "Forkbeard", king of Denmark, Norway & England
her father → Harald "Blue Tooth", king of Denmark
his father

[1] https://www.geni.com/people/Harald-Blue-Tooth-king-of-Denmar...
OP has a very specific type of woman he wants to meet, and he sure as hell won't meet them in church.
Applicability of those methods depends hugely of external conditions.
What's a non flat address space, and what would I use it for?
While the building of nuclear plants indeed takes decades. I would like to point out that the US navy has taken delivery of 22 nuclear power-plants in the last 20 years for the Virginia class submarines[1] alone.

If there was a real push for nuclear energy there would be a way to build a plant a year.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine#Boats...
Fidelity – Bitcoin First [pdf]
Bring on the Silicon Valley haters....
I did, in fact, work directly with those people. For a while, I sat near Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat (I have a patent with them) and interacted with Larry and Sergey closely enough to get a fairly good read on them.
Wordle Sold to the NY Times. and That’s a Good Thing
How is copyright use it or lose it?
The (BTW I have seen one in person and it is actually cute IMHO) bare-bare minimum is the Citroen Ami (which is not a car, but rather a quadricycle) :

https://www.auto-data.net/en/citroen-ami-electric-5.5-kwh-8h...

5.5 kW to get 45 kmh speed (and 70 km range)
Applying a bare amount of image optimisation:

original 3_389_491 B
pngout 2_739_324 B
quantised 256 colours+pngout 636_135 B

webp lossless 2_210_112 B
webp default settings (lossy) 210_452 B
It's mind-boggling to me that so commenters are blaming fear and brainwashing for the demise of nuclear power, when the answer is crystal clear in the numbers.

As of this year, the cheapest wind and solar farms have a lower total cost than the marginal cost of the average nuclear plant.[1] That means that in many places, it is cheaper to immediately shut down the nuclear plants and direct the money that was spent on operating costs into construction of renewables.

Yes, we should certainly keep the better-designed existing plants up and running, and build some new ones where the conditions are favorable, but in most places in the world it doesn't come close to making sense.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
There are cryptocurrencies that do not need more power than any other kind of computing because they do not rely on proof-of-work. Proof of work is a waste at any price. Better to use low cost renewable power for synfuels for aviation or other high value applications.
Arch won't auto enable systemd services, but that doesn't mean e.g. Plasma won't load all installed plugins.
"In 1970, a leader of the petroleum industry and the head of the Atlantic Richfield Co. named Robert O. Anderson contributed $200,000 to fund Friends of the Earth, an organization that is strident in its opposition to nuclear energy, citing both safety and cost issues."

Why am I surprised at learning this?
dunno why this got down voted. Nuclear is a terrible peaker tech and yet pairing it with solar/wind requires it to be flexible and so you end up overproducing.

There isn't a perfect scalable peaker / clean generation tech unfortunately but storage does the trick instead.
In terms of technical solutions relevant to this community, I have often found that people understand, but they don't see why a given thing is useful, so they say: I don't understand. In fact it may be necessary to explain the preceding bad ideas in terms of how they were supposed to be useful but weren't, and even how usefulness was bypassed in favor of some irresistible (and misguided) idea of virtue. Either way, understanding begins with "Why I would ever use this?" It's sort of obvious but routinely forgotten.
Yes reality won’t care but some of the people who live with the fact that we aren’t ready to live in an era of cheap, easy disinformation do care. Saying “reality is what it is” doesn’t help.
Then bribe the miners

Caring about that reality is below my line

But with bribery you can skip the mempool these days
This is never not been a mainstream position. I can't easily get news from the Chinese government or Iranian patriots, but the Falun Gong have three OTA TV stations in Chicago. The same people complaining about the woke mob are also fired up about "critical race theory."

If you care about people being fired for being canceled, work for labor rights. If you support at-will employment but also worry about people being fired for being canceled, work to make racists, sexists, and homophobes a protected employment class. If you've successfully passed special rights for racists, sexists, and homophobes, specifically protecting their employment, but you're still upset because people can still call you shitty, protest you and drown out your voice in public, and not invite you to their parties - add racists, sexists and homophobes to hate crime legislation, and start rounding up the people who are oppressing you by speaking.
OP will also make a ton of friends, get ripped, and have a purpose by enlisting in the defense force and fighting off the Russians.
> Fortunately, wind and solar are doing very well in reducing CO2 emissions. In the coming one or two decades, wind and solar can easily outpace nuclear in reducing CO2 emissions.

Germany has proved this is a huge lie.

Edit: to elaborate a bit, what it proves without surprise is that wind and solar can't significantly reduce CO2 without a clean baseline. By their very nature (not producing at night and without wind), and without some miraculous tech breakthrough, wind and solar can't be the major part of the mix for our developed societies, that's the hard reality of the orders of magnitudes involved here. So the question is what is the realistic plan for that baseline to complement solar and wind for at least 50% of the mix? Because the only options I see are A/Nuclear, B/Bet on imaginary storage tech, C/Bet on fusion becoming viable with decades earlier.
Why would you say something so controversial, and yet, so true?
Shooting an animal with ammunition too small to kill it quickly is cruelty. Wounding an animal and failing to track it down and finish it off is cruelty. Shooting when you're not confident you will make the kill is cruelty. These are pretty basic things.
> Still only make up little more than 10% of global electricity generation

Only? Not very long ago that stat was less than a percent, if it was mentioned at all.
> either naming your file `.mjs`

But why? This makes it much harder to ensure that identical code works in browser and nodejs, to the point where I sometimes just can't use nodejs. And I don't use package.json, so having to name files ".mjs" is a really painfull restriction.
I like the article much but I am missing some statements around IDE. What I like about typed languages is the code completion and refactoring it enables when used in a good IDE. Code completion also enables me to "explore" what is possible at the current location. Are there any good IDE's out there for Haskell?
> So first up, the stat is usually fatalities per TwH, since that skews things in Nuclear's direction, not just number of fatalities which would be won by some obscure but not very successful power source.

We aren’t debating obscure energy sources anyway, so I don’t see what the point is. This is absolutely the correct unit.

> solar and wind are now beating nuclear and projected to continue to do so, widening the gap over time

Rooftop solar is still losing, but yes renewables in general are still competitive. If the anti-nuclear lobby would allow nuclear to advance beyond 70s tech we could probably see a lot of advances on the nuclear side as well, especially with smaller mass-produced reactors. It’s pretty crumby to criticize nuclear when you’re putting your thumb on the scales.

Moreover, are these figures measuring the actual production or just the capacity? You need a lot more than 1TW of solar or wind capacity to produce 24TWh of energy in a 24 hour period because these energy sources aren’t reliable. You also need something to store the energy (or transmit excess energy to places that can use it)—the construction of which increases the cost, carbon footprint, and fatality count.

Frankly, all of these sources blow fossil fuels out of the water so I don’t much care which of them we use, but we should have a diverse mix for reliability and we should prioritize what works rather than waiting for a technological miracle for economically storing renewable energy.
>> ...a really cool new motor design...

It's not that great a motor design. It's good, but we had similar power to weight motors where I worked 10 years ago and could run 200kW for more than 20 seconds. Good motor designs are cool, but IMHO they are usually not news-worthy but are just marketing.
Well, if we talk about the big issue of the past couple of years, we can certainly contextualize in the context of that because we have an end goal for the communication, which is to attempt to convince an individual to take action A over action B.

So you can easily show high quality contextualisation - it's showing that the case against is less preferable, e.g. arguing against yourself.

For example, Government posters can say "if you go outside, you have an x% change of having coronavirus, an y% chance of passing that on to someone, who then has a z% chance of being seriously disabled or dying, and they have an a% chance of not obtaining that disease via some other mechanism".

You take the opposing viewpoint and try to dismantle it. This is the role of the media, to inform, not to latch onto micro-facts like "lockdown saves lives" and push them because they're easy wins.
I've compared the build costs of HPC to the build costs of wind turbines. Not total costs.
Oh there's many reasons for sloppy software but I wouldn't call it all bad. There's plenty of good software around but of course people generally point at the faults first.

I'd say top 2 reasons are tied to either adversity in software engineering or simple economy. Devs are pressured to work fast, overtime, in understaffed teams, prioritizing features over quality. Once a project becomes old enough changes suddenly become much more expensive and issues start getting lost in the bottom of backlog. Large projects are chock full of tech debt, bad design decisions that used to be good at the time of writing, undocumented features, untested edge cases. IT workers constantly changing jobs means knowledge slowly evaporates. And lets not forget how fast tech becomes a piece of legacy and all the associated difficulties of working with old tech.

The economy part is simple. Businesses prioritize profit. If people can live with a few quirks they'll stay there indefinitely. If a company gets X cash for a project they'll maximize the profit by doing as little as possible while getting it done. If a product isn't really making that much profit it goes to maintenance mode sacrificing quality for a shiny new thing that will hopefully be more profitable. Projects once they go to maintenance mode only fix what's being payed for and that's the bare necessities.
AFAIK "bottle" is just a commonly used alias for a wine prefix. It predates this project.
Perhaps we could do something like: if a company is not actively using a patent themselves, they lose exclusive rights after a short period of time (3 years lets say). Even when sold, the time counts from when the patent was created, not bought.

Should limit the extent of the damage caused by patent trolls.
Something as paramount to daily life shouldn't be treated as an investment. Yes, it has significant upfront costs, but it generates energy for many decades ( there are literally reactors built in the 1950s still operating) and can't work in a "free market private capital" mode, but why should it? Railways, highways, dams, etc. don't. People need reliable energy. Everyone needs climate change to be reduced, mostly through CO2 emissions. Nuclear solves both of those for a very long time, stably and predictably. No other power generation method can do this at scale while being deployable almost everywhere ( geothermal and hydro are pretty great but don't work everywhere).
Loved the post, and congrats on the success of TinyPilot this year!

I thought the "Do I still love it?" question was so interesting and so important. I'm curious if you harbor any regrets about the type of business you got into (with the complications of hardware, supply chain logistics, complex customer support, etc.). It seems like a pure software business would have so much less complexity (though maybe is also harder to get off the ground because so many other people can do it). Did you think about what running a business like TinyPilot at scale would look like when you were evaluating it and decide it was worth it? Or did you just kind of fall into the success.
Not at all, Patent is there for protection. So if you invent something that requires capital, but are a non-practicing entity, you can't enforce your patent. So lets say a bunch of companies start to practice your patent, all of them now have incentive to buy your patent because if any of them own it, none of their competitors can use it anymore.
Having children is the worst thing that could happen to OP. He has too many issues that no child should ensure.
I would recommend you read Deep Work by Newport. It's not parent commenter's inefficient scheduling or his opinion; even just knowing you have a stop coming up interrupts the deep work process. Every meeting is incredibly disruptive on both sides of it.
Probably, but I'd rather drink only water and tea. Considering how bad I feel after just a bottle of Coca-Cola Zero, I'd rather not try it again and stick with natural drinks.

I think we've allowed our society to become addict to sugar, and I don't think Aspartame is our savior.
It is an ideology that is sustained through censorship, faith, loyalty tests, and suppression.

It is particularly amusing when it pretends to be a science and makes recommendations on how to manage your company, hiring, or engineering teams. Don't hire smart people or good engineers, they say.

Get any individual that appears to be a zealot of this religion publicly to meet privately, away from microphones, and they will typically acknowledge the absurdity of it all. People are often happy to brag, gloat, and acknowledge they are just gaming the system for maximum benefit. Their willingness to disclose this to you does require trust.

So, when does this end? How much damage will this do? Is this a strategy designed to divide the lower classes during a period of runaway neofuedalist inequality?
Ask HN: How to send SMS cheaper than Twilio?
Not spam, all double opt-in. Even with 10DLC it's too much $, even on cheap providers like SignalWire. Email to text is unreliable and can't do above certain volumes (unless there's some way to get whitelisted I don't know?)

How can I do this for cheaper?

Here are some numbers:

Pricing varies by carrier but with my carrier mix it is between $0.0065 - $0.007 for 1 message on average. I need to send ~250k each month for now and also need lots of room to send more. These prices are SignalWire which is the cheapest I found so far. Bandwidth looks like the same. I think maybe Teli and Telnyx are a small amount cheaper but not so much.
You can, you just don't share the instance-local timeline. If you're mostly talking with people you follow and vice-versa, it all works pretty seamlessly. But people on other instances won't discover your posts via the local timeline, which is where a lot of people start when they first join.

You might be visible in the global timeline depending, but that's a mess. :)
If you can't make what you invented, the whole world can't have your invention? That seems suboptimal for society.
A lot of what these YouTuber's do looks fun as side-projects or hobbies on an on-grid plot of land. The fun gets taken out when you have multiple "must-do" tasks adding up.
I find it interesting that here on HN we seem to have more conversations on censorship than actual world problems. We have two countries on the brink of war, rampant poverty/homelessness and limping economies in just about every country, and all we can talk about is why we should censor misinformation. Anyone else feeling we’re hopeless as a species?
Monopolies, Linux and race to the bottom.

Monopolies like Microsoft, Google, Apple for stuff that have no real competition, so the manufacturers have no incentive to polish their products.

Linux for products made by volunteers that work when they can, how much they can and have the attitude "you get what you paid for, so don't complain too much". it is totally fair, but it leads to sloppy software.

Race to the bottom, like our MES supplier that fired most of their US based people and hired juniors in India; the quality went downhill, but the lack of better alternatives (again ... monopolies) makes it good for them, financially, for a while. Their CEO gets the bonus for the savings this year, not for the death of the company 5 years later.

EDIT: adding Internet, the way you can ship shitty software that you may partially fix later.
If we string solar plants all around the planet, the sunny side can always supply the night side.
> Thats my point. Even with hate speech laws the protection is apparently still better than in the US.

Free speech protection from government sanction is as strong as ever, but the culture of free speech is losing force in the US. Partisans seem unable to understand how it benefits them to allow speech that they find reprehensible. There have been many, many incidences of college administrators caving to complaints and sanctioning and threatening teachers and students over the past several years; not to mention de-platforming even of invited speakers.
> Nuclear fits in locations with insufficient wind and solar resources and provides reliable base supply.

So remote islands basically (places not worth adding to a super grid). Fair enough. That's a very small niche though.
> Sorry about the AMP link, I couldn't figure out how to get a normal link

I suggest the Redirect AMP to HTML browser extension:

https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html
Are doctors being paid less? Isn't this about supply and demand? If you flood the market with women that used to be housewives, the salaries will go down. But high demans fields stay highly paid, even increase.
> 'bad'

Given that japan had a giant radioactive ocean leak and I still haven't heard comprehensive reasoning about why we think facilities for storing nuclear waste will not be slowly defunded, I think the scare quotes can go. Politics anywhere (at the moment) simply cannot be trusted to properly manage nuclear waste, so we should not be producing it.