skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear will run out much, much faster, though, particularly when it comes to uranium we actually know how to extract economically. People's proposals for things like extracting uranium from seawater have not even reached the prototyping stage--we don't even know if it's possible to do at the scale required to support modern civilization--but people are already willing to treat it as a done deal. It's one of the reasons I'm not nearly as enthusiastic about nuclear as many people here. For some reason, people seem very quick to point out at extremely minor problems with solar, which is technically pretty much already there and which we know can work, and has improved by leaps and bounds in a short amount of time, or argue that it can't work because of the storage problem (even though we already know how to build big batteries--pumped storage isn't sexy, but it works and can be produced at scale without requiring exotic materials or anything like that). But those same people are happy to use as-yet-unrealized technological leaps to deflect concerns about the sustainability and expense of nuclear power, even though nuclear power is a much older and better-understood technology and many of the breakthroughs being cited (like thorium breeder reactors etc.) have been studied and promised for decades without significant progress.
Tesla has liability clauses about the life of people and if they trust linux then any other serious project can do so.
BTW why just the kernel? It's ad-hoc. If your critical software project crash because of any open source user space library such as e.g .NET core, it's no different.
SRP of 199usd and 2x SFP28 25GbE.

It’s not for the enterprise but I’ll get some for home.
Software Design with Traits and Tag Dispatching
Footnote 21 (containing "the most important components to demonstrate academic readiness in the absence of SAT/ACT scores would be other standardized exams") is quite telling.
Yeah, when you're doing something that is politically/ideologically unpopular or in the minority you tend to need to have bulletproof justification if you want to get away with it.

Then again, with these sorts of things you can never be sure how much the tail wags the dog.
What is the value of Rust's idiosyncrasies, if it takes a book to explain how to actually benefit from them? You need to write a book to teach one how to do the same in C... is it just that that book will be longer?
What I learned from running a concierge search engine
Show HN: A Better Alternative to the AWS Console
Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/

We launched a new free tool to help engineers understand their AWS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up end up becoming cloud accountants or end up forking over a big % of their AWS bill for a tool to understand costs rather than focusing on business problems.

Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of smaller startups.

Here's how this new tool works: It's fully self-serve and free to use. You connect a limited-access IAM role (read-only + ability to manage RIs and SPs). You'll see cost reduction recommendations on the Recommendations tab, your active and utilization status on the Plans tab, and the ability to splice-and-dice your data on the Instance Search page via Filters.

We make money off of a 20% Savings Fee. If you choose not to let Usage optimize your spend, you'll never need to spend money on Usage. Happy to chat directly kaveh@usage.ai

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> our whole current way of thinking with regards to growth is doomed

Having to find extraterrestrial and/or extrasolar sources of power four hundred years from now is far from doom.
"Based on how little progress Russia is making..."

I see this narative everywhere, but I wouldn't call it "little progress" when the land occupied in a mere month is the size of the UK.

It took NATO 78 days of intense bombing of a much weaker and smaller Serbia to make any kind of progress. They even avoided the ground offensive. Imagine the disaster if the US went in with the ground forces.

The US first spent months clearing out Iraq, then it spent years trying to hold it by a thread. Still we don't have the right number of casualties from that war.

Russia could have just carpet bombed the entire Ukraine like it did with Mariupul recently. Why it didn't do it, we can only guess.
For Factorio:
1. Turn off biters (or turn on "peaceful mode", which mostly lets you ignore them until you want to start dealing with them)
1a. Dragon's Teeth wall design
2. Grab one of the quick start mods so you start with a backpack of construction robots
3. City blocks

After that it's down (and up) to you. I've been able to play Factorio like it's I'm gardening - where I'm just chilling, poking at the puzzles - and other times I haven't been, even when I've got the biter problem resolved, and I'm doing what you described.
The dangerous thing is not the tank production halting, but the tractor production. If the Russian agricultural production fails and they can't feed the population then it is an existential threat to the Russian State. And they have nuclear weapons and a policy that they can use them when faced with an existential threat...
They have no real reason to use NFTs right now.

They can create digital scarcity of in-game items using a centralised server. Any NFT linked to an in-game item will be just as worthless when the servers are eventually shut down. And they don't want players buying and selling items, they want to take a cut every time a player buys something.

You're never going to be taking your Fortnite skins into FIFA or your Gran Turismo cars into Mario Kart. Ain't going to happen for a multitude of reasons.

(And if one publisher/developer does something like that as a gimmick, allow importing items into a specific another game, they could do that with a centralised database too)
This is timely, as I’ve been riffing on a revised lean business canvas that much more directly digs into what you list as critical to any idea.

I really need to publish and share that thing…
Batteries were $2,152 per KWh as of 2015, and now go for $137 KWh. That's a 15x improvement in 7 years.
>landing millions of users can forgive the lack of a business plan _at that scale_

yeah, if your business plan lands millions of users you better have more than $40k ready to fund it. Since most people don't have that at hand it's actually a really problematic plan, because you've got to be able to secure the funding for it right when it starts to hit, if you don't you're done, if you do you might have to do it by giving up too much control, if you won't then you're done.
> Further, visuals do impact the gameplay.

Not only that, sometimes they can affect the basic mechanics too. For example, some guns in Destiny 2 the range is measured from the end of the weapon model, and some skins extend the model out so the gun is further from the player. This in a one v. one scenario can give you a slight edge on one shot kill distance if you have the skin, so you can shoot earlier than an opponent without it.
> A language like C but with lambdas isn't really C, not that that's a bad thing.

The C standard working group is currently debating whether to add lambdas to the language:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2924.pdf
This is how I feel about "growth" as a business function.

Obviously growth is desirable, but "growth engineers" and "growth" teams, in my experience, tend to create and/or operate within perverse incentive structures, and tend to focus more on gimmicks and trivialities than on core product/user value.
Nuclear has the same problem though. It takes on the order of days to change the power output of a nuclear plant. You can't just run it at night or when the wind dies down like you can with a fossil fuel plant.
I wonder, does the sun /have/ to run out? Could we find a bunch more hydrogen from outside the solar system and dump it into the sun to recharge it?
It's far easier for rich students to game GPA, college essays and extracurriculars than it is for them to game the SAT.

For GPA, they can hire a private tutor in the subject they're struggling with. There are services out there that will basically write your english essay for you / do your math/science homework.

For college essays, they can hire college counselors to help them draft a compelling essay.

For extra curriculars, they can hire a private coach, etc.

However, there is very limited evidence that SAT coaching actually increases your SAT score. The NACAC did a study on this and they found that average gains of test-prep students is ~30 points (this was when the SAT was 2400 points).

A 30 point increase out of 2400 points is not material to college admissions.

Out of the college essay, gpa, extracurriculars, etc. the SAT is the least influenced by your socioeconomic status. There obviously is an influence, but removing the SAT means more reliance on even more skewed factors.

Here's the study -> https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505529.pdf
Population isn't growing exponentially and is expected to peak around 9.7 billion in the 2060s and declined by about 0.9 billion in the subsequent 40 years.
I'm used to numpy and I can't understand np.c_ even with the docs. It says "Translates slice objects to concatenation along the second axis." but the examples pass in a list of arrays and use no slice objects (the builtin slice, I'm assuming)?

If there was an example using just `np.c_[1:5, 11:15]` it would make sense. But clearly np.c_'s meaning has been extended beyond slices in some way. (Maybe I'm coming closer to understanding, but still miffed about the misleading doc.)
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10613813
Interesting according to the map, the standard for first class mail from New York will reach the most northern part of Alaska in 4 days versus 5 days for Los Angeles.
Ask HN: DSLR or Mirrorless for a beginner-intermediate camera?
What are people's opinion about buying a DSLR versus a Mirrorless camera for a beginner to intermediate user aspiring to get more serious about photography?
How important news is too you depends on your relationship to where the news is coming from. In times of disaster, we pay greater attention to those places we are most familiar with, or emotionally attached to.

Before email was so prevalent, my mother said the same thing when me and my siblings went travelling overseas for months at a time without calling. Now, she's in contact with us a few times a week and acting as the central news source for us all.

So of course: if one of us was in a country that was having some "news" she'd pay extra attention and reach out to share what's going on with us and the entire family.
>. Well beyond

Is it? This adds nothing to the discussion. If it were actually 50% and i claimed 30%, that would be a distinction worth pointing out.

Since we are being pedantic, you should really look up the figures for energy share from wind in 2021 in Ireland. It fell to 29% which completely negates your claim of it growing rapidly.
I think I get where you are going with this, can you expand a little bit on the wagging the dog part? I am not familiar with that term. I get what it means, having looked it up, but being new to the concept I want to make sure I understand the context of that segment of the comment correctly.
"Invest (a lot of) capital to market the service to doctors, offering it for free to them, with the angle of improving their patient outcome"

At this point the strategy fails. Patient outcome is not the metrics to be focusing on with this group.
How to secure your end-to-end supply chain on GitHub
Within 31 miles of the coastline or 62 miles of an international border. Costs about $1000USD to setup a bank managed trust as part of a real estate transaction and $500USD/year in ongoing costs.
Russia is dying out: On the country's demographic crisis
Frictionless spheres are fine in Physics 101 and Homo economicus is fine in Economics 101. Like all models, economic models too are wrong but some of them are useful. The bulk of economics after 101 is about how the models break.

The idea that humans are not perfectly rational self-interested actors has been part of mainstream economics at least since Keynes.
Correct but who told you it were connected to eating alive things? It is very explicit
Maybe there is an opportunity here for someone to create a reliable website/dashboard that shows the status of futures, pricing, etc. and can charge for access?
That's fair but the strong Islam presence has lots of people upset to the point where I would say the Dutch (as a group, of people without religion or subscribing to some religion) are now less tolerant of (other) religion(s) than they were 20 years ago. This is a factor in the right wing extremist presence who use this to drive a wedge between people who otherwise probably would not care that much, it is clearly positioned as 'Islam against the rest'. Most notable for this is Geert Wilders, who is a complete asshole but there are others as well.

Gelderland (where my family is from) is definitely more religious than say Amsterdam, but far less than the South of Limburg or the 'Bible Belt'. At the same time, those are all various offshoots of Christianity, whereas if you were to look at Islam you will find the opposite, it is strongly represented in the big cities, where there is hardly any Christian offshoots left (and if they are they are dying).

Churches are disappearing, Mosques are rising up everywhere, and I'm not sure if the longer term will find NL with a more tolerant version of itself or if it will regress at some point.
The claim here is that people are priced out of Macs, not that they aren't more expensive. If a Mac is $2100 instead of $700, that's only a few hundred dollars more per year, or $20-30 a month.

In the US, $20 or $30 is negligible to the frivolous expenses of the average household budget. In laptop-buying households, even more so. Let's not confuse misperception of value to affordability.
I can appreciate self-disclosure. With him identifying as such, you're either going to get an insane deal or shanked, and should not be surprised by either outcome.

"Honest Eddie," on the other hand-- stay away from that guy.
Are you complaining that there is no way to "bypass censorship" on Facebook? Because it is pretty trivial to host your own site. The web has absolutely delivered on that promise; just see how the efforts to shut down The Pirate Bay have failed.
I loved reading the story, but it sounds like the founder targeted the wrong customer.

Individual doctors are not the customer. When the incentive for the customer doesn't outweigh the investment, that's when you need to scale up the customer.

The customer for this product is a business that deals with tens or hundreds of thousands of patients: health insurance companies, government healthcare purchasing departments (large market outside the USA), the sales department at the drug companies themselves, etc. These companies are all incentivized by getting better treatments for their patients because that either lowers their costs, or sells more of their drugs (when they're the best option).
And yet again the whole conversation on HN is around alleged "irrational fear".

There are other risks to be considered: centralization.

The world is facing climate change and potential social unrest. Democratized and hyper-local energy production creates resilient communities.

Highly centralized power generation increases risks of government corruption, terrorism or just plain failures (like Fukushima) leading to power failures.
The boringness could actually be a big part of the effectiveness. Efficient study habits and ability to work through boredom certainly help with some undergrad classes. The test would have some predictive power even if it's just measuring those.
EU’s ‘Digital Market Act’ Is Good, but for Online Users Not Good Enough
Recent updates in TypeScript have also made ADTs much better to use and make expressing business logic in a statically safe way. It's incredible how much mental overhead that good typing systems (and good utilization of them) can save you when navigating complex code bases.
The best way to get less anxious about doing something is to practice doing it. Job interviews are no different. Next time you are applying for jobs, apply to twice as many as you normally would. You can put the jobs you're less interested in first, as kind of "practice interviews". You'll get better at interviewing and better at performing under pressure as you practice. And hey, maybe you'll change your mind during the interview about which job you're most interested in.
> I don't understand the reluctance of looking for an additional maintainer to help curate the issues.

You need to find someone who won't sneak a cryptominer or ransomeware in your library. That's hard.
> So much for that common, popular notion that standardized tests do not predict anything of value.

To be fair, I don't think the debate was ever about the quality or predictive value of the tests. There is a small, but well-organized and vocal subset of the population that hates the idea of excellence and differentiation. They want, and have been quite successful in, the replacement of standards of excellence with vaguely defined (defined by them, of course) buzzwords like "equity" and "diversity".
1937 with the Japanese invasion of China.
> The market has pretty clearly spoken and decided that people prefer cosmetic micro transactions with free to play games.

I wonder how many people on HN complaining about this model actually even consider themselves gamers.

I'm a gamer. I spend 30-40 hours/week on PC games. I think the "Free-to-play with paid cosmetics" (Apex Legends, Rocket League, Splitgate, tons of other games that follow this model) is perfectly fine.

I think part of the problem is that it's hard to have a conversation about this model because someone will always make references to games that are pay-to-win (Most mobile games) or gate content behind a paywall (Not sure which games do this today), which are an entirely different beast and not a part of the conversation.

EDIT: Just remembered League of Legends. It gates content (characters to play) behind progression, or you can pay money to unlock them immediately. But paid characters aren't necessarily more powerful, and they're constantly making adjustments to characters to try to keep them balanced. Any experienced player will tell you that paying money for a character perceived as being overpowered is foolish as it's guaranteed they'll eventually get nerfed.
Ask HN: Does your company's code – suck?
I'm not a very good business man. I care more about the code than the product. I grew up writing code and this what puts me in the flow state and gives me joy.

Imagine the shock and devastation I've had when I've learned that code doesn't really matter. The product is what's important.

So. From an Engineer perspective - how's code in your company? Is it readable? Maintainable? DX friendly? Or do you need to remember 7 different, cumbersome commands and edit 5 different files in order to locally debug your services?
>But insurance companies want you to need as little care as possible.

Sadly this isn't true. Regulated insurance companies that must pay out a minimum percentage of premiums (in other words their profits are limited by cost plus pricing) don't care if prices stay down. They only care about stability and no surprises in a given year and are okay with prices continuing to go up and up and up.

*Amount of care and prices/costs are not exactly the same thing but they are highly correlated.
accepting only pull-requests and discussions is fine if the maintainer can live with it. apparently the js ecosystem is a shithole.

I couldn't, as a prefer silly bug reports over none.
but I have disabled many issues on forks. issues should go upstream.
How so? Things other than standardized tests are easier to game. Letters of recommendation, extracurriculars, GPA, etc.
Hahah...

I happen to really like ECS with ECS Anywhere (for heavy compute the price CAN NOT be beat in my view) and Fargate (for simplicity).

That said, App Runner a great possible fit that would do exactly what I want (build my docker from my repo!) in some cases and just weird there are SO many services that you really have to be paying attention to learn the next one.

My only real complaint is some products the quality really is below expectations I think. ELB / Workmail / CodeCommit / Cloud9 I was expecting more from and pace seemed off on some of these. I think they might distinguish maintenance mode products from active dev products just to give you a feel for trajectory.

AWS RDS / ECS and ECS Anywhere and Fargate - enjoy the experience.
bruh what I meant is obvious no need for such truisms. Third world can be intended to mean a pejorative qualiticative of weakness, here the U.S has become third world-like regarding nuclear energy knowledge and production, basically synonymous to irrelevant.
Aso your rigid and off-topic definition does not scale in a multipolar world with new powers and changing dynamics, e.g China
Major factor reduced to a bullet point: they acknowledge the existence of other testing and evaluation frameworks, but that those are even worse distributed in socioeconomic access than the SAT

Thats pragmatic, and sobering, since people hoping for more diverse representation in admissions are faulting the SAT pipeline itself (access to study prep, study materials, wording of questions in the test) but the known alternatives are more niche exacerbating the outcome
Also, a train from Folsom to San Antonio??
I know I was always in the minority, but I loved the Rocket Labs maps and wished for more funky, mind bending ones.
> It is not surprising that there are no historical documents outlining this, for it would likely pre-date even the written word by centuries or millennia.

Huh? During the 17th and 18th century European colonization of North America there was no existing standard of payment which all settlers had access to. Before the circulation of paper money by colonial assemblies, tax and wages for public servants shifted to tobacco due to the liquidity of the export market.

> There are many historical accounts of monies being displaced when new, superior forms of money enter into economies, which is an extension of Menger's thesis (Also known as Thiers' Law). If a society is using a form of money which for whatever reason becomes much less saleable, and a new commodity enters the market which is more saleable, the more saleable commodity will eventually displace the old money

In the American colonies, commodity money based on farm products was replaced by paper credit money loaned by governors on security of property. Gold and silver were skipped over as official forms of money because they were not in large supply, and because activists such as Benjamin Franklin argued that if people invested time in digging for Spanish gold and buried treasure they would be poorer than if they spent time plowing fields.

> for silver would remain the most saleable commodity for millennia until it would be later displaced by gold

What's important is not simply salability but liquidity. In industrial countries the value of credit money is secured by the value of the assets of borrowers, they have to collect money back in same unit of account after investing or spending it to avoid default and foreclosure. In America the colonies tobacco-money or farm-product money was displaced by paper money with no metallic backing. Metal-backed money was imposed by Great Britain.