skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Gas is amazingly efficient, near 100%, certainly as good as a heat pump on 100% carbon neutral energy."

Heat pumps achieve far in excess of 100% efficiency. You get several times more heat energy out than electrical energy goes in.

Of course, gas has in previous years been very cheap in many regions. So despite their efficiency advantage, often there hasn't been enough of an economic advantage to justify the upfront cost. But with the recent gas crisis, that might now be changing in Europe.
Quality also applies to different temperatures of thermal energy. Low temperature heat, such as the waste heat from a nuclear power plant, has very low quality. It is worth very little, which is why in most cases it is just dissipated to the environment.
But it does create a divide in our politics and with elections coming up we may see some support for Russia from one or more politicians.
I like your attitude - not dwelling on the negative, focusing instead on the positive. There are some lessons there. Could you please elaborate with details?
The 1541 was slow because the VIC-20 shipped with faulty hardware that couldn't move data on the serial port at full speed, so they patched their software to get it working at a much slower speed. The C64 didn't come with faulty hardware but still retained the same software routines for backwards-compatibility. Those fast loaders then replaced these slow compatible routines with full speed ones.
Hate to break it to you my guy, but that is not ‘gender politics’, it‘s just her name and her pronouns. If you use he/him and I say she/her, that’s rude. It’s no different.
Check out CBOE FX (https://fx.cboe.com/) and EBS (https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/market-tech-and-data-servic...). Settlement and trading of FX may often be OTC, but that doesn't mean there aren't exchanges or aggregated marketplaces.
Same, this read like workplace violence. "Outage At" would be more accurate.
One of the things I learned here is that Chernobyl still requires active cooling to some extent.

The failure modes of nuclear fission power are just insane. Yes I think it's true that coal has killed far more people, but the economic cost of just one fission plant failure is so high that one serious incident destroys the economics of the entire program. It also tends to make fission power privately uninsurable since once incident would bankrupt the insurance company within weeks.

How much renewable energy and storage could you buy for the containment and cleanup cost associated with Fukushima?
I agree, but sadly deeper pockets have always meant louder voice.
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Sanctions are also a political tool used by countries to gain economic advantages over other countries. In this case it is naive of you to think they are been applied to punish Russia for its military operations. They are being applied by the United States so they can sell their energy supplies to the EU, by eliminating Russia as a market competitor. Ukrainian lives are the collateral damage created by the US. It’s really that simple. Just follow the money.
So when we want to use again that 200 MB app we have to wait to download those 200 MB again.

I have many data points for which the main source of clutter on the phones are WhatsApp images and videos received in a lot of chats and groups. I know people that remove them almost daily to let their 16 or 32 GB phone receive another day worth of messages.
The Ukrainian technicians are managing the plant under the guns of Russian soldiers.
>Whoa! Wow. Steve Jobs just dissed me hard!

I didn't read that as a "dis".

Put in a bad spot for sure.
Using Tor is illegal in China. In Russia the situation is similar:

"Since December 1st, some Internet providers in Russia have started to block access to Tor."

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-censorship-in-russia/

So I'm not sure if Twitters Tor support helps a lot.
That is neither an accurate description of the book, nor my comment, nor fascism.
Unfortunately, a big chunk of propaganda (to use the word very broadly - not just wartime propaganda) relies on information that is either true, subjective, or non-verifiable, and the dishonesty comes in the form of the context in which it is presented, cherry-picking, lies of omission, implications, assumptions, and optimizing for emotion rather than plain information delivery.
The total comp from a big tech company is 2-3x what any startup will provide. The risk is from missing out on a big payout if there isn't an exit (and having to wait ~5 years to see that) vs. the guaranteed extra income from vesting RSUs.
In principle, that's what the NSA would be doing. When DES was developed and standardized in 1976, the NSA had input in selecting some of the constants that were chosen for it [0]. It wasn't until the late 80s when independent development of differential cryptanalysis [1] came out, and people realized that the DES constants were deliberately chosen to be resistant to this attack.

The NSA has since turned away from this responsibility, and has done the exact opposite. When Dual_EC_DRBG was developed [2], there was a similar choice of constants, with the final values having been chosen by the NSA. In this case, rather than protecting against a attack method known only by the NSA, the constants were chosen to allow an attack method known only by the NSA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
>> anyone who has used AccurateRip can probably testify that CD ripping errors and manufacturing errors are surprisingly common.

CDs have significant error correction codes so if it sounds right it IS right. Having said that, I have one song I always skip because it ripped badly and I've never got around to re-ripping it and replacing the bad one. But it's obvious that it's a bad rip to the point that I skip the song so I don't have to hear the glitch.

In other words, if they checked each song before uploading it would be fine.
Ublock Origin, obviously not on Chrome, blocks YT ads nicely.
Are there other expensive VESA compatible stands for monitors?
FX Prices effectively converge to a single price, because FX is an efficient market with little to no arbitrage that would be visible (thanks to the proprietary trading firms that specialize in it).
At this point the bad guys are the good guys. React, Kubernetes, and Go are A) paid for by B) really popular because of Facebook and Google. The only question I have is if the bad guys will stop being the good guys (aka funding OSS ).
One book often leads to another. Often someone quotes other books, and you find that a number of books and talks will quote the same ones.

You do have to go deep and not try to skimp on cost. The good stuff can often be expensive yet well worth it.

HN is particularly good with book recommendations too. There's a lot of tools out there that collect HN recommendations, with various algorithms.
It's useful because it's simple.

You are essentially working with functions that receive input and return output, and are not allowed to change anything outside them.

The simplicity is in that you create multiple levels of abstractions by only combining functions: low-level functions do some "dirty" work that the program needs to perform (slice cucumber, open oil, pour oil, add salt, etc); you then combine a couple of such low-level functions in another set of functions - making it a bit more abstract (make salad, prepare table); then you combine these abstract functions into even more abstract ones(prepare dinner), etc.
There will be also some "helper" abstract functions that can be reused in different contexts (slice something, open something, put some food on the table, etc).

Because each function - no matter the level of abstraction - only takes input and produces output - it's very simple to write, read, reason about, and test.

Obvious question you might have right now: how can you write a useful program if you can't change anything outside the function or interact with the outside world? Well, that's the "dirty" part of writing a FP program. You just write your program trying to keep it as "pure" as possible, pushing the "dirty" parts away as much as possible. Think Layered Architecture but for programs. You keep the "outer layers" of your program "dirty" - reading/writing to the DB, making network calls, etc - and preserve the "purity" of as many "inner layers" as possible. For example, when you want to write to a DB in one of "inner layers" which should stay "pure" - you can return your "desire to write to a DB" as a string(or however you encode it) to your outer layers, which will then perform the actual operation by actually talking to the DB. The inner function stays pure because it doesn't actually talk to the DB, it only returns instructions for outer layers to talk to the DB.

Depending on the language you are using it might be either beautiful and easy, or extremely awkward and overly complicated. Most of the time it's something in between.

Hope this helps.
Yes, it's "crap" not because GPU is slow but rather that most triple A title games are optimized for Windows. So it's difficult to expect a good performance from a game that runs with API conversion layer(s) (Windows -> Mac) and then CPU emulation (x86 -> arm).

So publishers/developers need to make more native games. Even though every Mac port will probably make 1/10th revenue of a Windows title I guess Mac users would be happy to pay more for better games. I certainly would.
> I flew home that night, posted my meeting notes on my website

Learned lesson, don’t be publicly sharing a companies plans.
Presumably the invaders did not bring their own crew for the plant along. The crew is still there and have communicated about the lost power.
I suggested you get literal direct experience from people who have used ads in their marketing mix. I gave you my direct experience. This is not an appeal to authority.

You then immediately appeal to authority by your own definition by bringing up your experience. Working in an A/B testing company is a lot different than doing A/B testing. I create and implement digital marketing strategies for companies. We do A/B testing as well. So when a client is making over 6x return on their ad spend, how is that 'not working' when the baseline has already been well established?
Ask HN: Contractors, indie devs, where do you hang out to talk shop?
I’ve been an independent contractor since 2018. It’s definitely a great way to operate, but it can be very lonely. Can anyone suggest a Slack, Discord, Forum etc… of fellow professionals? Lately I’m very curious to hear how people are managing their daily/weekly schedules when dealing with multiple clients at once.
It's not clear to me if that is still actually the case.

Seems likely some are but as their system presumably grew more automated I'm guessing that's not so much the case anymore? Possibly?
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I assume by limit OP means the remote system's bandwidth.

at 4 billion to 1, there's in practice very little difference between CVE-2022-26143 and what you describe. Both will be capped at the same number by the bandwidth available to the offending system.
I thought this was on The Onion.
What's not to understand? Russia is doing the pre-production research of how China will need to protect their economy when they put their military in Taiwan.
That assumes that the founders have enough intimate knowledge of the other founders personal financial situation. They clearly risk becoming a victim of it them if the other founder can find enough money.

If a company is clearly worth more than the offer, finding outside investment or even traditional financing through the bank shouldn't pose that much of an issue.
Apple hasn’t sold music with DRM since 2009
The problem as I see it is that people who screech about how "just following orders isn't a defense" when people they don't sympathize with violate this or that regulatory compliance statute without harming anyone are acting as though it's a valid defense when it's someone they sympathize with.

This behavior is made doubly odious because a large subset of these same people are often in favor of strict enforcement of somewhat arbitrary rules (like a disclosure requirement on an application) against people they don't sympathize with.

This inability to have principals and be consistent with them is going to bite our country a lot harder than the occasional foreign scientist lying on a grant application or the occasional foreign scientist getting wrongfully prosecuted.

To be clear, I sympathize with Mr Hu. I think the organization should be getting punished here. He brought the issue to their attention and they advised him to do exactly the wrong thing and the feds screwed him for it. People, especially foreign nationals who cannot be expected to be well versed in US law, need to have a reasonable expectation that they can follow orders from HR/Legal/their boss in matters of mundane statutory compliance without getting personally screwed when the actions they took in confidence violated the law. UT is responsible for what happened to Mr. Hu and in a perfect world that would be a slam dunk tort. But his plight is just a drop in the bucket of a much larger societal problem.
Show HN: Turn your no/low-code apps into enterprise ready B2B SaaS apps
I have no idea what your suggestion is here? Do you want Google to just ban apps which are "too large"? They can't ban everything that's 229MB, that's reasonable for many types of games.
Average salaries from these types of aggregate reports are misleading since they are mostly representative only of the low-end local range. The median salary for senior engineers (5-10 years of experience) in Warsaw, according to levels.fyi, is 91k USD. I find that to match my experience in a different large city in Poland.
Google could solve a lot of storage issues just by not allowing device manufacturers to lock apps so they can't be uninstalled. There is a huge amount of bloat on modern android phones and tablets that cannot be removed.
Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
Help house 100k refugees fleeing Ukraine
Roblox’s female creators are building virtual empires
we use Slack for communicating and Pylon for coding.
> Or is this some long-term strategy “against the West”?

This. Both Xi and Putin chafe against the liberal order and see it as something in decline that stands in the way of their own goals.
> what I actually want right now is just to pay $10 to have this current batch taken care of

easyoptouts is the closest thing I know of to what you're after. It's still a subscription at $20 p.a., not $10, but you can sign up and then cancel after initial opt outs.
Free Speech for individuals does not mean that we have an interest in allowing foreign and potentially hostile actors to run propaganda campaigns using the ad targeting machine we have built using social media.
They can say what they want and every citizen can do so as well, but we should not allow asymmetric amplification.
Article was written in 2010 about events that took place in 2003 or so. Seems like a strange approach even then but I don't know much about music distribution back then, or now for that matter.
Other services are expensive, because they try to serve everyone - they are basically cross subsidizing between their customers that make them all of their money (by moving larger amounts), who end up paying for their customers who move small amounts. On average, this doesn't seem like a big deal, but it ends up being expensive for the folks who move most of the money.
I know!! That had me LOLing so hard. Why now? Hahaha. It's like Apple was playing some next level chess with this supplier. They'd angered them, and Apple didn't forget. My God :)
Chernobyl does not require active cooling today. It will be fine without power.
> if something is picking up the output and parsing it as JSON, it can deduce from a failed parse that the program didn't complete, rather than going by termination status.

This is bad advice. Consider output that might be truncated but can't be detected (mentioned in the article).

The exit status is the only reliable way to detect failures (unless you have a separate communication channel and send a final success message).
I found the 'Hallmarks of Cancer' papers by Weinberg and Vogelstein to be very well written. While those are reviews, their research articles are well written as well.
Can you imagine having to manually insert 100000 CDs and all their metadata into some GUI, even though you have everything on file elsewhere already? And not just any GUI application, but the complete garbage that is iTunes.

Because some dev/clown has the hubris to proclaim "there is no other way"? I'd not care if you're Steve Jobs himself. That's some just laugh and leave the room level of Kafkaesque ridiculousness.

Glad I work in the era of public-facing APIs. Even if Apple still seems to be clinging on to their consume-only mentality.
I'm on the other hand under the impression that a lot of drama he creates is quite spot-on. A bit like Steve Jobs. Inconvenient thruths originating from a certain shrewdness.
This happens on personal, non-managed Windows as well. In college, my friend dropped out in the middle of a LAN Starcraft game because of it.

Windows simply isn't a good choice for anything but a toy system or a specialized one to be used rarely (eg for gaming)
Will you actually not buy things from Amazon due to their app size? If the answer is that you’ll continue spending money with them, you don’t care.
media amplifying every piece of fear inducing crap spewed by both sides of the conflict.

scared people watch the news more often.
Based on my experience, I'd say there's a strong correlation between someone's enthusiasm for learning, and the time and initiative the put into it, and their performance as a developer.

In interview terms, that means I might ask "Tell me about the things you do to stay up to date in your field, and/or learn new technologies."

One answer might be "I read a few blog posts here and there."

Another might be "I take online classes via Coursera and Udemy, read books, read blogs, read papers on arXiv, and attend conferences."

All things being equal, I find that the second person usually winds up being the stronger developer over time. It's not a perfect correlation though.

On a related note, part of what I try to look for in interviews could generally be described as "enthusiasm". People who seem to genuinely like programming and working with tech, and find it inherently rewarding, tend to be the people I prefer to hire and work with.

As far as nitty gritty technical stuff, I usually like to ask one or two questions that I know that most people won't know the answer to. If a candidate doesn't know the answer, well, "no harm, no foul" as they say. But if they do, it's their opportunity to score some extra points with me. IOW, not knowing isn't a disqualifier, but knowing is a perk.

On those, I try for questions where you can't just memorize a stock answer, but rather need some conceptual understanding in order to answer the question. Usually I try to phrase it in terms of effects, or needing to understand some causal chain. In other words "If I do X, what will be the implications in terms of Y?"
Ublock Origin still works fine on chrome and indeed blocks youtube ads.
The author coined the term, “security theater.” He argues here that the cards are easy to forge on purpose because they’re also easy to use which is exactly the factor you want to optimize for in a public health crisis.
All of those things but also, supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine is internally consistent with their views on Taiwan. They cannot denounce Russian aggression on Ukraine but still openly claim Taiwan.
The Parable of the Crow
> What's not to understand? Russia is doing the pre-production research of how China will need to protect their economy when they put their military in Taiwan.

China will not get sanctioned like Russia has. The world's dependence on Chinese manufacturing is like Europe's dependence on Russian gas, times ten.

Or, more precisely, it will get sanctioned like Russia has, but like the Russian sanctions, they will include exceptions for everything the West needs to buy from China, which is nearly everything.
None of your analogies are applicable. Nuclear power stations require extraordinary stability in a world that cannot provide it. Earthquakes, tsunamis, war, or another failure mode nobody’s even thought of yet can lead to entire states becoming uninhabitable. We should desire that the consequences of failure draw from the domain of the normal distribution. Nuclear power draws its failure consequences from the exponential distribution. And failures will always happen eventually.
It's not a bleeding edge-only thing, Pipewire was first introduced in Fedora (because RedHat), it's been fairly well tested as far as OSS goes.
Does this mean that objects that are on a trajectory out of the view have less resolution?
>And the worse thing is that they only get away with it because the competition is worse.

I'd say it is because some form of digital / streaming music is what a lot of people want ...

Is having access to "all the music" that big of a deal for most people?

I just want music accessible to me, most platforms all provide that now, and it's all WAY MORE accessible than back in the day when I had binders of CDs.

If someone has 4,000,000 songs, or 8,000,000 I probably wouldn't know... I don't really care what the justification for either is.
Thanks. This article seems to bear this out:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60638949
Criticizing the CCP has nothing to do with the Chinese people. You are not a racist against Americans when you criticize Biden or Trump.
That's odd. The university advised him to not submit his association with chinese laboratory and university, because it wasn't allowed for the position he was interviewing for? Wouldn't that be fraud?
That's interesting, so google ads don't work yet simultaneously if you don't use them your business will just break down into nothing. How does that work?
Cory Doctorow: Vertically Challenged – Locus Online
Apart from invoking it in writing, I think such manoeuvres go through a lawyer, which a court will usually accept them as stating the truth about when an offer was send and received. I'm also sure the clause have some text about how long the other founder has to answer and how long they have to come up with the money if they decide to switch it around.
Russia has a military doctrine of "Escalate to De-escalate" that they adopted in the year 2000 to deal with superior forces of NATO.

Basically the idea is that by escalating violence, threats, and otherwise increasing "risk" for the other side they can force a negotiated settlement that would be superior to what their actual bargaining position is. At the extreme, this is why Russian military doctrine allows the use of tactical nuclear weapons as they provide a last stop for negotiation before runaway Mutually Assured Destruction scenarios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon#Risk_o...

> According to several reports, including by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, as a result of the effectiveness and acceptability of USAF use of precision munitions with little collateral damage in the Kosovo conflict in what amounted to strategic destruction once only possible with nuclear weapons or massive bombing, Vladimir Putin, then-secretary of Security Council of Russia, formulated a concept ("escalate to de-escalate") of using both tactical and strategic nuclear threats and strikes to de-escalate or cause an enemy to disengage from a conventional conflict threatening what Russia considers a strategic interest.[21][22][23] The lowered threshold for use of nuclear weapons by Russia is disputed by other experts.[24][25]
Hmm yes a very common situation actually. I suspect this will lead to the collapse and dissolution of the company. Hopefully the OSS part will continue.
Endurance shipwreck found after 100 years