skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The competition is not just coal and gas but also solar / wind.

Solar and wind is the cheapest energy. Then gas, then coal then nuclear.

Yes, we should (and will, the trend makes it inevitable) replace coal and gas with solar and wind.

We should also replace the most expensive (nuclear) energy with cheap and clean solar and wind.

We're not grading on a curve here. It doesn't matter WHY nuclear is most expensive energy, it matters that it is and we have technology that is both cheaper and cleaner to replace it.
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Then please show the historical evidence for that. You can't just disagree based on your opinion.

The US government has opened up a lot of documentation, we have a deeper insight into that process then most things in history. And pretty much all historians who look at it come to the same conclusion.
Which gets me nothing without a way to collect. And is not practical due to arbitration clause and service issues.
Which is killing more people per year, nuclear or coal? Nuclear or gas? Nuclear or oil?
Been a terrible day, like every other.
Good for him. I wish more Americans valued time with their little ones enough to make this (relatively small) career sacrifice. I realize this is a luxury, though it’s one we ought to try for.

I can’t imagine more parental time being bad for a nation.
That's a super fair point. I guess to me it matters more that it has all the usual field behaviors with the reals as a subset, but it is the first step "up" the hierarchy where you lose something instead of just gaining. I'm sort of used to substituting a metric in for order, but that obviously doesn't work everywhere.
>has a green glow

In what way, other than the fact that it would be convenient to the US feds?
Well-said.

Airplanes are relatively straightforward machines. Computers just do trivial math and logic very fast. Listening to Bach in a cathedral is just hearing metal tubes vibrating air in an artificial cave.

But if you've never stopped and wondered that you're "partaking in the miracle of human flight"[1] or that the block of metal and sand in your desk lets you see loved ones across time and space, or that countless people worked for ages so you could experience the music and art in that building, well you're missing out.

Humans are lucky that we experience both understanding and awe.

[1] https://youtu.be/b3dYS7PcAG4 (CW:LCK)
clone1018 It's nice to see more WebSub implementations out in the wild! I love the potential use cases of WebSub in enabling quick social feed polling in readers (potentially allowing near-real-time updates to show in combination with technologies like web sockets). Amazing to see an implementation in Elixir too!
Please don't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how strongly you feel about energy sources. You can make your substantive points without name calling, swipes, and personal attacks.

We've had to ask you this many times already. Would you mind re-reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29450803 (Dec 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460058 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460037 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459953 (Sept 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930219 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930134 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930099 (April 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339251 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339221 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22658166 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18500396 (Nov 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17822860 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17812247 (Aug 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15938294 (Dec 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517109 (Jan 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436656 (Jan 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11410709 (April 2016)
This is really pleasant to use. For years I've used https://paletton.com/ to similar effect, but I actually like the interface here a lot better. It's a bit simpler, and more straightforward. Great work!
Epic says there are now more than 500M Epic Games accounts
Great suggestion. I'd bet that many people, even if they know what the bar signifies, look around the front page to try to figure out who but unless it's a massively upvoted post and/or very prominent name aren't quite sure whose passing is being noted. There have also been cases of more than one person on a single day. Perhaps a link to their wikipedia page(s) or bio(s)?
As opposed to what exactly? Solar and wind have for years lived entirely by the largess of the federal government and chinese government's investments.
The suggestion being made is that developers should engage in unpaid labour to make Firefox better.
of the codebases checked yep (20 of 666 checked).

Bear in mind only 28% of codebases actually use built-in unittest package that this gotcha is affected by, so really it's 20 of 28% of 666 aka 10% ... but that claim would be hard to justify by folks that dig stats.
I must admit, I didn't consider that many US companies are incorporated in Delaware and otherwise hide their whereabouts. I checked the certificates of my bank and my tax authority and both provide sufficient information, which makes spoofing almost impossible.
Founder of @Neeva here. In my experience, this is mostly PR that will go nowhere -- these are efforts that are not structurally set up to succeed given the internal constraints at Google. The Chrome sandbox efforts have been going on for 3-4 years with no progress.

The mobile app ads businesses (UAC campaigns) at Google are just too profitable, and depend too much on IDFA/ADID tracking for the Android team to be able to do anything meaningful here. So we all know the stakes here, and to put this abstract "tracking" into "real world" perspective, a big use case of ADID/IDFA tracking is gaming advertisers identifying "whales" (kids/adults who spend a shit ton of money on their games) and accurately targeting them across all their usage on the phone. If your kids are being tricked into spending hundreds of dollars by these ads, this is why.
In the US, most of the pumped hydro energy storage was built during the nuclear build out (because of the operating characteristics you note above). While chemical energy storage is growing quickly in the US, pumped hydro energy storage remains dominant.
I can definitely relate with this. Grew up hacking IBM PCs in the 90s, got heavily involved in BBSs as a young kid, even wrote letters to random software developers (remember scorched earth?).

I really dislike the modern tech industry. I think that money ruined everything. Vast majority of my coworkers over the last decade or so are the type that used to train to be doctors, lawyers and other lucrative careers, with no real passion in computers or tech. It's all about money.

I do dream about changing careers. I know at least one other thing I'd love to do but it would pay a fraction of what I can make now and simply isn't feasible.
Very well written post! I enjoyed reading it. As an early employee at a different start up I've noticed very similar feelings. I've also realized that I'm a very good 0 to 1 engineer, but 1 to 10 is something that I struggle with. The times of cowboying code and moving fast/not caring about 100% polish are slowly but surely dwindling.

Looking back on those days I miss them, but during the actual process of it I was stressed, scared, and totally unsure of myself. It would be interesting to go back into that stage with the knowledge I have now.
> I would appreciate it if the black bar was at least clickable for more info

Agree. Why not have it point to the pertinent HN submission.
but the key point about street art is that it is not funded (and I would argue that it cannot be funded - any attempt to do so destroys it).
I can give you a counter example. Previously I was a Linode customer - for nearly a decade up until the point I was not. My account was frozen, and when I called, I was told I was not [any longer] the account owner. I provided a billing statement -9- years old to validate that I was indeed the account holder, and always had been. The support rep had to talk to their manager, and asked me to call back(not wait on hold, or wait for them to call me). When I called back, I was told the situation is "very sensitive legally". Then they asked if I knew a first and last name combination that was not mine, because that name was now listed as the account owner. I said that I did indeed know this person, they were the C-level employee at a company I previously worked for. The C-level employee had contacted Linode and cowed them into believing they were the rightful owner of an account that existed before I ever worked for them. They gave the account to them, refused to give it back, and suggested I retain an attorney for any further movement on the issue.

If Linode is reading this - the incident took place over summer/fall of 2018. Yes, I'm that guy. No, I haven't forgotten. I've told _everyone_ who will listen this exact story, and warned them of having their own hard work and assets misappropriated by anyone with a fancy job title calling Linode support and demanding it. A phone call from Linode after everything was settled would have completely changed this sentiment. There's my own story of your outstanding lack of customer support. I was your biggest fan(for 9 years!) up until that point, and referred a dozen or more customers to your service.
This is similar to the coversation of only having 128k memory forcing extremely tight programming vs multiple GBs of memory where you can do whatever you want and put recommendations on your users to have a minimum amount of memory.

Just because you can be lazy doesn't mean it's the best way.
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> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
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I'm never giving any more money to this BS organization unless they can get back to their roots and focus on making a competitive web browser.
> I think your math is a bit off...

Yes you are right I went with rhetoric, but nevertheless Britain had significant parts of the world as a colony at one point or the other.

The idea that Britain intentionally or unintentionally created India when Indians did not see it as one is BS.
Great job you two.
Clearly we need Pollution Passes.
Wow. I was off by an order of magnitude. With 50K you can probably do a complete Apple //e!
IIRC, newer nuclear designs use the control rods to control the speed of the reaction, as opposed to purely being a safety measure.
I guess part manager part coder would be a good fit. Work along side those you assign tasks to.

edit: work from home?
What frontend library do you think offers less boilerplate, clearer abstractions, and more well defined rules?
There's nothing bad to be proud of your genes and your ancestry. You are the end result of all combined evolution and the culture, norms and survival tactics.

People are proud because it is who they are, the media, peers, society in general can twist and turn but in the end, you didn't pick them but your genes became you and are you.
I kind of like that its not on the iPhone. That means I know when I try to WT my wife that its going to her watch
>>the fact that the plants cannot easily be shut down and restarted means that they sometimes operate at a loss when there is ample supply on the market

>This is an interesting economic quirk I hadn’t thought about.

this "quirk" should be a non-issue with a functioning energy market. if renewables are flooding the market with cheap electricity, but only during the day, and there's a massive deficit during the night, then the deficit would cause prices to go up and make the remaining generating capacity (natural gas, nuclear) more profitable.
I wish this was a universal truth. I've had various degrees of success maintaining a steady workout routine during various periods of my life, but I universally hate exercising, even during periods where I'm doing it very consistently. After a good workout, I feel exactly the same as I did aside from being a bit more tired.
It's true, but it is a Java subset - not a complete Java SE.
> Lack of adoption of new technology
> Rushing to adopt immature technology

How do you balance such things (and under/over engineering, good enough vs perfection)?
Thank you! Please let me know if there's anything that needs to be improved.
Ask HN: What important points my NFT Marketplace's landing page is missing?
Hello, HN.

I am currently demotivated because many people have stated that the NFT marketplace project I am working on and its landing page do not make sense to them. Please help me in identifying elements that can help to clarify the message of my NFT Marketplace.

The landing page can be found at https://www.nft91.club/
This problem inspired me to found Supersynchronous.

While I’ve been more of a product leader than engineer, my best friends are engineers and we’ve had many long talks about the experience.

After serving as an agile coach, SaaS founder, and doing lots of freelance web dev/digital agency work, I came to the same conclusion.

How is there not a model for harnessing the genuine power of programming?

The other answers I’ve seen here are ones I’ve said myself many times before, but they’ve just proven unsatisfying.

So here’s the conclusion I came to:

We need a new business model design explicitly to achieve this outcome.

I ground it in intrinsic motivation:

(Some) engineers love building things that help people

That’s the beauty of a small startup, as an engineer you are proximal to the user.

You don’t just get to build something helpful, you get to feel when it’s helpful. You get rich feedback, you can use your intuition.

So my question was - could we create even more intimacy between engineers and the people they help in a way engineers enjoy?

At first that might sound scary. We’ve all faced the overwhelm of engaging with users who don’t “get” the process.

So the key is to edit the context.

First, we rule out “growth at all cost.” The engineer needs full autonomy to regulate the pace at which they engage with the user.

So at the entity level we’ve made the decision to never sell - meaning no investment capital, no board with a vested interest in overriding the engineering experience.

That also means we need to edit the alternative model - a service company. The engineer must have decision making power over whether or not they want to keep working with a client. We put that into our agreement with each client.

We’ve already fired our first few clients that weren’t a culture fit. It’s amazing. Our engineers now work with companies and people they want to work with.

Once the engineer has autonomy and real control over pairing with users, something magical happens - they get really excited about the novel problems they uncover and just dive in. The productivity is ridiculous.

And we keep it at 80% WIP.

Here’s the technical innovation that has enabled this: Coda.io

It turns out sophisticated low/no code tools enable computational thinkers to solve business problems so fast they can even design internal products in real-time with the user.

Talk about feedback loops.

The emotional payoff is incredible - we’ve literally had users on calls cheer, cry, and say they feel like they have hope again that their work won’t always be a grind.

If this all sounds a bit unbelievable, you aren’t alone. Every engineer who has joined our team has gone through a journey of testing “wait, is this for real though?”

I’m not sure if we’d be a fit for you or you for us.

The wisdom you’ve gained, and that you seem to still have your curiosity and heart, makes me so curious to get your take on what we are up to.

Everything we are doing is so new most of the time my answer to questions are “I don’t know” but I’m having the most fun of my life figuring it out with our team.

My info is in my about section.

Good luck on your journey!
That’s not the way I would do it, but is there really a problem here? Assuming the library itself isn’t littered with print statements that cause false positives.

Experience has taught me that the “right” testing framework for a project is whatever the developers are happy and productive with.
According to analysts, Apple made $5bn in ad revenue in 2021 [0].

[0] Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business. https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...
Fair enough, but I expect browser integration and so forth to be done via the backend, which is rust, so native.
Wow. Do I need more reasons to hate perl?

Yes, apparently.
Nick Clegg Promoted to Meta President of Global Affairs
As long as it doesn't get in the way of fixing it it cannot hurt to spread awareness of Firefox.

(Not saying it is worse than anything else, just that it used to be better.)
That's the wrong way about thinking about it, though. Historical processes don't operate solely based on first principles, they operate according to contingency.

Take Western music. Early music is mostly vocal, and early principles of music theory evolved around what would be possible (and practical) to sing. Different people have different vocal ranges, and the constraints that puts on the music lead to certain constraints in counterpoint. Eventually instrumental music becomes more socially important, and that changes what kinds of music can be made. Mathematics progresses in such a way that new tuning systems (12 tone equal temperament, and its precursors) make it easier to modulate between keys, and more modulation (and chromaticism) becomes common.

Even things like the way the music is structured depend on social practices, they're not spontaneous. The sonata form depends on an audience that listens attentively to music so that they can perceive the way the themes are gradually transformed.

I could go on, but nearly everything in music goes this way--there are principles, but they only have a limited explanatory power, you need to get into historical contingency to really understand why things evolve the way they do.
It’s more that I’m happy to help people if they show me they’ve done their homework. The homework required of a 12 year old is obviously zero, because if they’re asking me they already know more than they should.
I stopped my subscription to LastPass and bought a 1Password subscription because LastPass discontinued their native macOS app and went with an electron wrapper. But the new LastPass client was slow, glitchy, and broke OS integration (It lost a lot of features. I tried to report some of that, and their support team ignored me). The 1Password experience already seems to have more robust features than my experience with LastPass, so I am happy with the switch. I really hope they can preserve all that through the transition, or that they maintain the native client!
Why? Probably no one will take it seriously. Hell, people probably still call it Facebook when Mark isn't around.
Deep learning can be supervised - it all depends on the application.
Niche and Nerdery is fractal, I find. I also find sharing my findings from exploring random niche corners of obscure topics to be rewarding.
Ask HN: What is the most important thing you could be working on?
And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

I go first:
1. I believe that humanity will only survive long-term if we move to an economic system that is antifragile and importantly orients towards reducing rivalries. We should be building protocols that solve problems today and move us in this direction. The key seems to be to change the way we pay for things. I'm thinking about an open-source approach to all work where customers pay for future developments instead of past work.
2. I did work on it but got stuck because I wasn't confident enough to share it with the world and involve other people. This time around I will push myself to build in public.
The launch of this material is probably safer than the transportation of that material to the loading/launch facility.
I have some experience with effects, mostly from noodling around with Koka and implementing a small effect-based toy language. (Which I intend to integrate into a larger language I'm working on.)

There are a few downsides, and they fall into four categories:

1. Effect sets get rid of external effect ordering. If you have an effect set {A, B}, you can't know if A happens before B without reading the code. Same issue as monad transformers.

2. Handlers are sometimes hard to reason about. A handler is essentially a fancy try/catch block for resumable exceptions. And construct that introduces a non-local control-flow dependency can be hard to reason about. (This is especially true as a compiler writer, haha)

3. The syntax is hard. I'm serious: how do you even represent an effect set? I went with a unison-like approach in my post, but this breaks down in an unsatisfactory if you make some other decisions. Also, what is an effect set in relation to your languages type system? Is it just a fancy enum? Should we allow other sets of types? What does an effect set mean on its own?

4. Lack of idioms and libraries. Result<T, E> is well-established - what idioms arise when programming with effects? In my experience, effects are rarely explicit, and are only used if you're trying to implement something using non-trivial control flow, like generators or cancellation.
This doesn't ring (pun intended) true:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
As one datapoint: I’ve used 1P for 11+ years, have over 1200 items in it, and I’ve literally never lamented the lack of multiline fields.
Firefox is already as good or better than Chrome.

In the long HN thread from a few days ago the consensus was that Mozilla should focus on Firefox and actively engage in promoting Firefox to increase market share. Here Mozilla is clearly doing that and very well IMO, and now its "stop wasting money blah blah blah." It just so easy to tear people down, that listening to it is usually a waste of time.
Kind of curious, how much money have you given them and how did you give it?
I use it for this as well.

P.S: I'm not one to write "me too" comments, but there's no upvote count visibility for users. And since a designer working at 1p has eyes on the thread, it might make sense to add "me too" comments?
I've been using sidekiq (paid, free) for years, the next app (mostly rails apps, but not exclusively) I implement background processing probably will not include it.

Reasons to avoid Sidekiq not mentioned:

- Sidekiq does not implement all of or discourages use of activejob abstractions (retry_on, globalid for example)

- Paid support can be curt, hostile, or down-right "works on my machine, sorry!"

- Sidekiq's better performance has never materially mattered for my applications; they're almost always waiting on IO from the db or some net connection.