skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hypothesis is that perfectionism results from spare, UNUSED BRAINPOWER. It is an indication that current challenge is not big enough to occupy your brain, so you keep going back and grooming the little things over and over again.

Take on bigger risks and set bigger goals for yourself. When your pants are on fire, your brain will not care about whether your shoelaces are tied or untied.

FAANG stability and cushy salary does this to a lot of other people I know.
Doea anyone know about this Breakthrough Institute?

> The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
Lol what? UK and France absolutely have enough warheads to end Russia if they should choose to do so. They could level every major city in Russia and Russia as we know it today would break up into several states in the following weeks. Putin knows that.
How much area do you have to cover with turbines to get 400MW? This may be a figure of interest to, say, a small island nation.
Tell me you have lived in a democratic society your entire life without telling me.
Or just write down the commit hash. Or just learn your tools and stop worrying because git reflog got you covered.
The car brand is a BMW subsidiary.
> Russia would be all over the Baltics, Finland, parts of Poland and Romania, performing special peacekeeping operations.

Maybe, maybe not. There would probably be no point in peacekeeping operations if there was no transcontinental military industrial complex as a factor for geopolitical destabilization.

> Russia's track record goes back in history much further than 1949

Considering the historic period you are referring to, Russian track record seems much more restrained then other superpowers rising in 20th century. Maybe you should be more specific?
Show HN: I made a minimalist writing tool
This is the first ever release of Thunk!!

Thunk is a very simple and minimalist writing tool for anything you want: notes, blog posts, to-dos, recipes, bullet journals, etc.

What makes it different besides simplicity? Quite a bit.

1. Pages are cheap-you can quickly add them and just as quickly forget about them (they get "lost")
2. Pages are indexed so you can search them like you search webpages on the internet
3. Pages are formatted using a Markdown-like notation
4. Easily usable on mobile as there is no need for a bunch of toolbars
5. Git-like versioning-no change is ever lost and you can move between all the changes
6. Included helper tools: lookup dictionary, thesaurus, and wikipedia from within the app
7. Collections: create a Page consisting of other Pages

Unfortunately, I haven't created a landing page yet. To try the app you only enter the email and a login link will be sent to you (there is no registration step). Once you register, there is a Page that presents all the features.
The second article says "The target cost for each station is GBP1.8 billion (USD2.4 billion) by the time five have been built, with further savings possible."

This indicates that cost per station could be significantly higher before 5 of them have been built. It's reasonable to believe that doggedly continuing to build more of them will bring costs down eventually, but if early units have high costs (or worse, if build progress falls behind schedule) then it could be difficult to maintain support for building more of them.
Ah now, let's not get ahead of ourselves. 400MW of wind power is actually about 120MW of actual power when you take into account the capacity factor typically 30% in the UK. While it's true that nuclear plants also have a capacity factor due to down time and refueling it's >90%.

You also can't just arbitrarily increase the amount of wind generation and hope the grid copes. There need to be major structural changes to cope with the intermittency of power.
The problem is that it isn't better. No amount of sweet PR talk, neither any far fetched calcualtion is going to change the very obvious fact it's something that should never be used in practice.
It's less reliable, has lower sound quality, uses more energy and is more expensive to both broadcast and receive.
The reason I think it needs fixing (and the reason I created this thread) is because _I know_ every product has bugs.

Suppose I invited you to a party and I gave you directions but they were so bad you were lost for an hour. I would feel bad about that, even if you enjoyed the party. But that's just one person. If I discover a bug that causes one user each month to lose an hour of work, I'd feel bad and try to get the team to fix it. And then I find out in a couple months that because we have more users it's now affecting 100 people? I can't keep feeling guilty forever.

So I'm sort of asking how do I make peace with that and maybe even feel happy about the work even though it occasionally pisses people off, and as our user base grows the number of people who are pissed off will increase.
Yep, I remember spending far too much time reading kuro5hin.
Surely the cited 0.10 USD per package delivered, plus fuel expenses, must be a typo?
IMO "Reactors on Barges" is just a clickbait headline.

AND... it worked! i read the article and as with all cutting edge tech, i found it fascinating.

However, I vote for land based reactors. Let's reduce complexity when introducing new technology ok.
Look for a different job with a better culture.
How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is redrawing air routes
Every other fs works without tweaks. Having to fiddle with a fs to get it just right means it’s not production grade.

Who fiddles with ext4 or xfs after formatting it?
Presumably because they forgot to refill the blinker fluid.
Wind farm theoretical maximum is not equivalent to sustained continual power generation.
> Case in point - we're talking about this.

Are you really sure? There are things people in the West don't talk about.
Since the most seen sign of those is the "Z", meaning the "Eastern Military District", does that mean Putin is sending "non-slavic" Eastern Russians (Mongolian etc) to be slaughtered in Ukraine? How racist...
I will give my personal experience as an experienced engineer in FAANG - while trying to be very pragmatic from resources pov.

Do this in the given order:
1. Add monitoring wherever you can. Not just the exceptions, but latencies, handled success/fail statuses, user flows from clicking on x to saving data on y etc. Create meaningful dashboards & alerts on them.
2. Add release canary process. If you have sufficient traffic, do an A/B test roll out. Have load balancer send 10% of traffic to new binary, 10% to old binary (and make it user sticky - so same user doesn't get bounced between different binaries) . You'd need to be mindful of caching (so version static assets etc).
3. Add tests to critical workflows. This part is usually the hardest to do and pay off is usually the longest but it's critical. However, only do this if your user flows are more or less settled and changes are limited.

Also - before doing 3 - it'd be useful to identify the kind of bugs you see - is it client side bugs or server side bugs? Client side bugs are a pain in the ass overall as UX changes can render tests useless, but try to test critical components using a realistic user flow. Also - as each bug shows up, definitely add a regression test for it (which would have caught some of your bugs that you said "repeat").

Remember - you need to adopt "swiss cheese model"[A] for catching bugs. Each layer will catch something with (1) being a catch all, and the more layers you have the better - but only over time.

The guilt goes away once you start catching bugs before client notices them, or as soon as the bug happens. And as you do (3) and (2) your confidence will improve.

Bugs are fact of human life - no human is perfect, and software is complex. The more complex it is from user interaction pov, the more likelyhood of a bug. Don't sweat, keep doing, keep improving over mid-term and long term, and they'll happen less.

[A] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
You seriously think the French wouldn't launch at Russia if Russia launched first?
China has placed themselves in a very good position as they are now pretty much the only ones that can sell technology to Russia, and, because of Russia's pariah status, I think that some of those contracts for energy that were put in place during the Olympics will be renegotiated in China's favor, as Russia has put themselves in a position where they can be squeezed by the remaining states that are willing to do business with them.
https://github.com/graememcc/micropolisJS
>ZFS doesn't have these kinds of hidden gotchas, and that's the key difference. Yeah ok somebody's being dumb if they never scrub and find out they have uncorrectable bad data come from two drives on a raidz1. That's exactly the advertised limitation of raidz1: it can survive a single complete drive failure, and can't repair data that has been corrupted on two (or more) drives at once.

Why is ZFS requiring scrubs and understanding the limitations of it's RAID implementations okay, but btrfs requiring scrubs and understanding the limitations of its RAID implementations "hidden gotchas"?

> If you are in the scenario, as the GP was, that you have a two-disk mirror and regular scrubs have assured that one of the disks has only good data, and the other dies, ZFS won't corrupt the data on its own.
Honestly, I don't know enough about GP's situation to really comment on what happened there. It could have been btrfs or perhaps they were using hardware RAID and the controller screwed up. ZFS is definitely very good in that regard and I want to be clear that I'm not saying ZFS is bad or that btrfs is better then it; I've been using ZFS much longer then I have btrfs, back before ZoL was a thing.
Not quite the same, but I follow a bunch of people on github, and see what they star/fork. That exposes me to new software.
I think heatpumps are something like 400% efficient for domestic heating, depending on outfoor temperature and so forth, so I guess resistive heating is inefficient by comparison, though I agree it seems weird to call close to 100% efficient "terribly inefficient". Probably losing heat from your lightbulbs to whatever is on the other side of your cieling is a significant factor too.
Software that has no bugs is no software at all.
Valgrind cannot be used for/in the kernel. However, the kernel has an almost-equivalent use-of-uninitialized-memory detector; https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.14/dev-tools/kmemcheck.ht...
"The UK is 51st (277/km2) on the list of countries by population density, greatest to least."

This average masks huge variance across the islands.

You can't dump the refugees into some Scottish wilderness, where, theoretically, another 10 million nation could fit.

They will likely arrive in London etc., one of the biggest agglomerations in the rich world.
> although the back and forth motion of agitation isn't something I'd know how to do

A smaller wheel linked to a larger wheel, where the smaller wheel is driven by the bike. As the smaller wheel spins, the linkage will move back and forth. If the second wheel is sufficiently larger, it won't be rotated enough on the push stroke for the pull stroke to complete a rotation, and will oscillate instead.

https://imgur.com/B1ykmpB
and dumped on the top 20 protocols he promised would get airdrops, pumped for exit liquidity and so is now worth 9 figures
yeah, I think there was a study a while back that said most people tip the same regardless of the quality of service. Which is why I said "How well this actually works is a different conversation"
GCC 5.1 (released in 2015) is hardly latest-and-best, though: moving the version bar up only very slowly and with an eye to what distros are using as their compiler version is a pretty solid boring-technology approach, in my view.
It's a modern day memento mori, but is a bit nicer than keeping a skull on your desk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

I'm not to keen on motivating myself through nihilism, because I don't think humans are really supposed to work like that. When I start caring too much about something, I try and reevaluate my goals instead. e.g. what I think the good things in life are to me, and whether what I'm doing is genuinely going to get me there.
Would buying an option be less risky for the broker? Even when they enable "risk management" do you think they would halt option trading?

I'm no expert so I'm just speculating here. IIRC, an option is you making an agreement with some entity to say "hey here is $X (2-5%) for you to hold on to (PUT?) or to let me buy (CALL?) within the next 2 weeks."

The difference between that and a classic "short" is that you never actually hold the stock/asset with an option. (IIRC, a short means you buy and sell but need to cover within X days.)

I'm probably wrong on some level here. For this thread though I think others would probably enjoy some more explanations about how profiting in a decreasing market works because it's always trickier than with traditional "up and to the right" one.

Cheers!
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i've noticed things shrink a bit when the cool off ( at least with PLA ). What i do is print, test fit, adjust dimensions, then print again. It usually only takes one or two iterations to get it just right. I built a deck once, designed it, spec'd out all the materials i would need, optimized for minimal wastage, the whole 9 yards. I learned the hard way that in the real world dimensions are a matter of degree and what's on the label may or may not be what you get (to a ridiculous degree when it comes to lumber).

I'm use to software where it either compiles or it doesn't, it either works or it doesn't. In the real world with physical objects it's much more a matter of "is it close enough or not".
Got it! Given those criteria, my personal feeling is that it would only be possible in Silicon Valley, New York, or Seattle, but it may not be that base salary is at least $200k for senior-level. Moreso that the total compensation would be, particularly in a startup that hasn't gone public yet because the value of the company is speculative.
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Hi, I would be happy to verify this.

The problem is, I see we both have our contact details empty on HN.

If you can suggest a way for me to contact you, I will reach out. I don't want to be compromised (which for me, is a bigger threat than normal right now).
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Well there you have it, if money isn't really an issue, the cliche works well, no one got fired for suggesting the cloud.
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If Apple had given nominal help to Adobe, that would have been brought up along with the observation that Apple didn't really help.

Flash was available on several Android phones of the time. These phones had faster processors than their iphone competitors and the experience still sucked. I liked having the option at the time, but it was a terrible experience every time I was forced to exercise that option.

The biggest contentions of the time would have been videos and games. Video caused issues because flash player only sites were everywhere. On the other hand, they released canvas support (necessary for performant games) in 2010 the month before Jobs released his letter.
Why would someone who thinks they might have holy blood end their life.

If anything my story gives them conviction, the only person who would be upset is a religious vaccinated person, better repent now dear reader.
The CVE page returns now, with a whole bunch of "needs triage".

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0847
Yes! That's fascinating and thank you for writing that. It expanded my knowledge. You should put that in some sort of linkable format.

However, think about insane it sounds.

Like if we didn't have the subject physics or if you had to explain it to a medieval king in the 1300's.

They would think we are totally insane.

Because it is different than what our everyday hairless monkey lizard brain sensory organs are reporting to our brains.

That's why I struggle with it.

Cool example of satellites. That actually grounds it in an understandable example.

Also does relativity discount Newton?

Or can it be viewed as an extension?

> Physics is like History. We keep on learning at school things that we know to be at best approximate and very often just plain oversimplification that leads to misrepresentations that are super difficult to correct.

I think all of science is like that. It's continually advancing and changing our views of the universe which is beautiful.

Im going to tell my boss next time I'm late that I'm not late it's just that our space times are subjective and aren't currently synchronized.
HTDP is exactly designed for beginners and the software tooling in the form of Racket is available as a batteries included download.

When Kiczales course first came online via Coursera, I took the first live version. It was a great curriculum, but that's an entirely different structure than a book, and with the automation that now infects MOOC's an entirely different structure than a synchronous academic class.
This era of design where there was still some "whimsy" is some of my favorite Apple work too. The austere modern era where everything is a slab of glass fronted metal has lost so much of the joy that was found in their earlier computers.

If you want a touch screen computer that used this design optimized for sketching, Microsoft took it to the logical conclusion with the Surface Studio:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/surface-studio-2/8sbjxm0m5...

This is much better for sketching, as can reach a much flatter angle than the G4 iMac ever could. It also holds its angle quite a bit more securely (I've used both). While I'm not a massive Windows user, the physical aspects of the Surface Studio are pretty nice and much more interesting to me than the latest iMacs.
Indeed, we're basically watching the real-time implosion of a super-power (if Russia could've been called that), and Chinese institutions will own just about every bit of intangible (and soon tangible) infrastructure that matters.

In his drive to reconstruct the USSR, Putin may have just given that mandate for a communist super-power and counterbalance to the United States to the CCP instead.
They are also either not respecting the agreement ([1]), or pretty much forcing people to go to Russia/Belarus by only allowing corridors in that direction ([2]).

Most importantly - Russia is NOT only targeting military facilities. They also:

- shelled a church ([3])

- targeted residential buildings in Kharkiv and many other places ([4], [5])

- are shooting at civilians ([6])

The Russian invasion on Ukraine has nothing to do with removing any threats to any one. The Russian government and anyone supporting it IS the threat to democracy, freedom and human rights.

- [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/russia-humanit...

- [2] https://gvwire.com/2022/03/07/live-ukraine-updates-safe-corr...

- [3] https://twitter.com/AS7404542949/status/1500840315330174977

- [4] https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/video/rus...

- [5] https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/02/russian-bomb-hit-a-resid...

- [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBkxV8Sch5U
See... this is again the rathole that leads to boondoggle spending. I'm not saying "buy wind only" as all the commenters immediately interpreted. I'm pointing out that this (hypothetical!) reactor is, even now, even in the development stage, already as expensive (plus or minus an order of magnitude) as readily deployed solutions already available in the market.

Be real. It's not going to catch up financially. It will never catch up financially. Nuclear will be what we start deploying only when we're working on the last 20% of capacity and trying to wind down the old fossil fuel generators (which will themselves be increasingly expensive as they become peaker plants).

Nuclear will never appeal to market producers of energy. It's just too expensive. Which is why we need to throw public funds at it instead. And if we're going to throw public funds at the problem, let's start with the low hanging fruit. The UK should be putting that money somewhere else, not here.
Since you are on aws cloudwatch/servicelens is an obvious choice
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitori...

Datadog is also pretty good at this but can cost quite a lot.
You have a lot of karma, so I imagine you're not a troll, but I would love to know more information about what you've said here. I imagine it carries with it some deep, meaningful info.
I actually felt that sharing this provided a more credible starting point for the discussion than my own viewpoint. I did not think to confirm whether the paper had been published so I’ve learned my lesson on that.

To be honest I’m a bit surprised by the strong reactions as today’s news is filled with different perspectives on the economic consequences of higher gas prices (as unimportant as that is relative to the war in Ukraine) but I appreciate the feedback. There’s no intent to be dishonest or self-serving here but I’m sorry if that’s how it was construed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220225062754/http://ars.userfr...
It's a cute analogy, except it fails to explain why youtube-dl is the garbage bag in this instance.

If we step away from analogies for a bit, are you actually arguing that we shouldn't have the ability to modify the markup and the code before we display it on our computers?

If you insist on making a cute physical analogy, a more apt one would be of a tyrant buying out all the stores and allowing free entry on the condition that people's eyelids are forcibly taped open before they enter. After some reasonable people start removing the tape from their eyelids, the tyrant throws a tantrum and attempts to legislate away removing eyelid tape.