skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google threatened to bring fiber to my home years ago. Well, they still haven't, but doing so apparently motivated AT&T to do so. I've now had reliable 1 Gbps service for $70/month since Jan 2017, no price increases. They even started giving me free access to HBO awhile back. I keep thinking they've just somehow forgotten about my account. I assume I'll lose free HBO once the Warner sell-off is complete.

Aside, but I was recently helping my mother-in-law get Internet. She's in a place serviced by Sonic, but only over AT&T copper. Their pricing was not great. I ended up discovering Xfininty (Comcast) pre-paid. $45/month for 10'ish/50'ish Mbps service which is plenty for her, no data cap, no dealing with Comcast customer retention when she wants to cancel. This is not a well advertised service and I came across it only by accident.

https://www.xfinityprepaid.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/rsp555/question_co...
I mean was he really wrong? As models like OpenAI Codex get more powerful over time, they will start eating into large chunks of dev work as well...
That is huge, heating with gas seems to be very very common, on the order of 50% of all households use it, or about 460TWh per year. The electricity production is 580 TWh per year, so its a sizeable proportion of that. Now heatpumps are efficent so not sure how much electricity will be needed, but it will be a lot.
Extraterm – The Swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators
I don’t understand what you mean. Does AMD’s public disclosure of the microarchitecture prevent them from filing prior art?
Well... yeah! The magical word is "carbon tax" and economists have been screaming it into the skies for at least the last decade. Nobody wants to hear it, though.
As with most modern societal changes, I don't think this one is going to come down to "collective will." The massive scale of the problem limits meaningful actions to those that have a similarly massive scale of response. Only those in power can enact those.

Elect people who care. There are a lot of them.
As if moving billions of people to new countries is somehow cheap or easy?
I've 'watched' streams of stuff like teardowns, but normally that's just skipping around to watch as it progresses. I just can't bring myself to devote that much time to one video - a timestamp of much longer than 10 minutes on a Youtube video is a pretty big deterrent for me.
Is't spagetti code a design pattern?

One can make use of design patterns, clean code and separation of concerns and still get working spaghetti code without all the hacky stuff.
Much less effort if use C.

Engineered C case studies as goto solutions!
https://blog.feabhas.com/2017/02/abusing-c-switch-statement-...
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Just have to impliment the program as if it was an OS. aka mix/match abstraction levels!

Mix/match assembler / language macros / foreign language calls to other language libraries

Use C20 ability to assign case statement(s) to a thread (mixed with remote procedure calling and/or function stacks across multiple threads)

Mix & match unicode/non-unicode, hex, ascii, etc. where text is code that can be run.

Mix and match C# language extensions in which same thing can be implimented different ways (e.g. strings, vectors, templating)
AI becomes a tool for artists to use - generative art has been around for a long time, now that particular genre of art will presumably become much more prominent.

For anyone pondering such questions, I would recommend reading "The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art" - https://thegradient.pub/the-past-present-and-future-of-ai-ar...
superstorm Sandy.. Western wildfire.. Pacific kelp forest die-off? this is a political situation, as some people are deeply affected while others see nothing important or local economic change only
Alas, in some orgs you will need permission to authenticate davmail to Outlook. My IT department has not approved davmail.
Ask HN: Are there techniques to cope with acute anxiety?
I often feel anxiety for a specific reason. For example, when I have an appointment with a dentist, it will negatively impact my quality of life for several days. The days before the appointment. During these days, I cannot really focus on other things as much as I like.

It is not as if I feel terribly anxious. Just kinda constantly restless. And not really able to enjoy life. I constantly think "Ok, I need to get over this appointment first. Then I can live my life again.".

Are there techniques to deal with this?
General public is where politicians and innovators are sourced from.
Climate disaster coverage makes me think about how, as much as I love to think that our species will be 8B+ strong for millenia and eventually make it to the stars, that would mean that I am born among the first few percent of humanity.

It seems more likely that my random sample is from somewhere in the middle, and if an ~equal number of humans will be born after me as before, then at our population growth/levels, we don't have much time left until extinction or a population collapse from which we never recover.

I don't know that there's anything helpful in this thought, though - can I increase my odds of being born in the earliest percentile of the species by my actions?
Newly attributed Michelangelo expected to make €30m at Christie’s next month
Is this limited to what their service directly hosts / generates for them?

It's their service, their call.

I have some hobby projects, almost nobody uses them, but you bet I'll shut stuff down if I felt something bad was happening, being used to harass someone, etc. NOT "because bad PR" but because I genuinely don't want to be a part of that.

If you want some images / art made for you don't expect someone will make them for you. Get your own art supplies and get to work.
This comparison would imply that securities laws are unjust because financiers are regularly targeted by authoritarian regimes.

Which is ludicrous. They aren't the underdogs here. They _are_ the powerful parties who need to be kept in check for democracy to function. A journalist publishing despite censorship is in no way comparable to wealthy promoters distributing unregulated securities.

I think what you were going for may have been that distributing these securities is in some way freedom of speech, which is also just incorrect, or correct in some way so limited as to be irrelevant. If it is freedom of speech, your freedom to distribute securities stops at scamming your neighbor's nose. But the burden of proof here is on your security _not_ being a scam, and that is because unregulated securities markets readily devolve into scam after scam.
It's suspicious that you link this together to create a narrative. Sorry, don't want to offend. Just pointing this out. Only asking questions.
mushrooms are certainly not conscious

Considering we don't understand consciousness it might be wiser not to claim limits with certainty.
>with the last (non-war induced) famine happening in 1990s Ethiopia (if I’m not mistaken)

You are mistaken. Why write that when you are unsure, without looking it up?
It's really amusing when the URL is something like cats_are_better_than_dogs_science_shows and the article has been updated to be titled "Study shows dogs, cats basically the same".
How to fold a Julia fractal (2013)
It turns out if you link a large enough area, a local lack of wind doesn't really matter.

If you inter-connect the whole of Europe you get a pretty stable source of energy with just solar and wind: https://twitter.com/ntsafos/status/1480560060044652546

Now add secondary sources like nuclear, hydro and storage and nothing's impossible.

It does mean keeping good relations with your neighbours, which I think isn't a bad idea anyway.
Shanna Swan: 'Most couples may have to use assisted reproduction by 2045'
I mean, I wouldn't say that we as a species lack the collective willpower to bring about broad social change. I think that it's very difficult to get that power on the ground with any traction when you have mixed messages coming from both sides of something that is always framed as a debate.

For decades, climate change was studied, warned about, and yet the way it was referred to and is still referred to by some like so: "more news regarding the debate on climate change" rather than "more news regarding climate change" — as long as it's a debate, it's undecided, you don't know if you should do something or care because the scientific community has yet to reach consensus, and government inaction is seen as a reflection of this apparent lack of consensus rather than simply governments' unwillingness to go against the grain of business and the comfortable status quo.

Even though the rhetoric surrounding climate change does seem to consider it a fact as of the last few years, you still have "experts" on both sides of the fence saying that it is and isn't real, which further enables people to put it out of their mind as something that's for other people to worry about because they're not in on it.

And for those who do accept that climate change is a reality, I wouldn't mind betting that a non-trivial subset of those people largely think it's too late to do anything urgent or drastic and are therefore content to endure some bizarre weather while society slowly transitions to eco-friendly models in the next fifty years.

It probably couldn't have gone much better, and if big bad business was truly all powerful, I doubt we would have seen any changes in society, but business has also driven the R&D of more efficient solar technology and the rapid expansion of wind power installations. I think the crowd that consider wind farms to be a blight on the landscape have mostly gone quiet after realising that J. M. W. Turner probably wouldn't have wanted to paint electricity pylons, freeways or Airbuses either, yet they're here to stay.

I'm surprised geothermal didn't take off, though I probably shouldn't be surprised given that I know practically nothing about geothermal power extraction and thus have an overly simplistic model of a magma steam engine system in my head that probably isn't at all viable or efficient.
Hum. Over provisioning doesn't help when you have a month without wind (or you have to overprovision by like a factor of 100), neither does geographic distribution (cf UK electricity grid last year, the whole country goes down to a small production [1]).

Is biomethane considered as green? Isn't it like natural gas?

International grid ties basically means you are using coal/nuclear/etc from your neighbours, who will likely have shortage at the same time given they also have their own share of sun and wind.

[1] https://gridwatch.co.uk/
Ask HN: Is open source ruining your job satisfaction too?
I've been working as a programmer for about 7 years now.

Increasingly it feels like my job has just become gluing together opensource components, which doesn't feel creative at all -- there's little problem-solving going on.

All the areas where I could feel like I'm contributing something aren't valued. For instance, shareholders don't care less if the software is reliable, performant, or secure because they only want something that "works." If it "works," everything else is irrelevant.

It wasn't like this when I first started. Back then it felt like open-source was mostly limited to template engines, URL routers, and so on -- stuff you wouldn't want to write yourself and probably couldn't do better. I'm working on a (non-JavaScript) project with almost 200 dependencies. I've had entire weeks at work where all I do is edit YAML files (I don't work in DevOps, it's not k8s) and write glue for code that I'm not allowed to write myself.

Any code I do write myself eventually gets replaced with another open-source package. Even if the package is worse! When I've tried to talk to my manager, he's told me we have to think about how maintainable the project is. It seems the company is trying to optimize for having as much code as possible be maintained by "the community" so they can minimize risk.

It's all left me feeling extremely depressed and I don't know what to do. I'd just leave and work somewhere else, but it seems like this is becoming more and more common. After all, most problems are solved by now. Why not just pull yet another package off GitHub?
Is it summer now? Germany generated more than 15GW from solar today at its peak.
Okay, I see the issue, it describes London as "City of London", which is not the same thing. That's a bug. (The City of London is a square mile near the centre of London [0].)

It's also frustrating not being able to see the departure/arrival airports at a glance so that I can ignore the airports that are not close to me (given that you can't be selective about which airports to include). It shows connecting airports, so why not departure and arrival?

For Paris to Tenerife, for which there's (surprisingly) no direct flight, it's missing Easyjet via London. For options with one connection, some list the two airlines by name, others say "multiple airlines", when there are only two, so you have to invoke the tooltip to discover them.

I don't appear to be able to select a currency to display prices in.

It seems there's still some work to do on UI/UX, so the announcement here might have been a bit premature! Hope you have better luck with this than HipMunk, but for now it's not especially useful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
I think it's actually the opposite. In the US, the regulations changed several years ago from "First to Invent" (which is ambiguous) to "First to File" (which is pretty clear). In any event, I think you can only claim something as prior art if it's in the public domain. So, if you're very shady/greedy/lack an ethical backbone, and you get your hands on a private brief that isn't protected intellectual property, technically you can file that patent. I assume the owner could try to prove theft if they can determine how the IP was leaked and stolen intently.
I don't think the reason I'm about to discuss is behind all of these stories, but I think it is a persistent force in our industry.

I am somewhat convinced that a not-insignificant portion of engineers is under-employed in an intellectual sense. When $BIGCO announces the release of a new tool that supposedly helps with their planet-scale needs, the engineer just lights up at the thought of needing to dig into a new challenge. (The impulse to grow is well and good!) It also helps that places like HN buzz with new tools, it is good resume material, and a vague feeling of not being left behind if said thing takes off.

The real fix is to get away from domains/companies that bore you in this way, but it is not an easy realization. There are a ton of interesting problem domains out there! I did this and am much happier with my career.
> Sun is only present in the summer

Your general point is not controversial (sun/wind are unpredictable). By stating that the sun only shines in the summer,though, people are not going to take you seriously and will miss your point.

The obvious solution to the unpredictability of solar/wind is to couple renewable power generation with short/medium term energy storage capacity. There are many ways to do this, all with their own upsides and downsides. E.g. pumped hydro, grid-scale LFP batteries, etc. Also, long-range interconnects to places with more sun and/or wind.
Climate change is a scale, from bad to really really bad, and positive change is already happening. Here's some uplifting news in a well articulated video worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgMdjyw8uw

Apathy is their weapon, and it's very effective.
I've just assumed Germany is working towards electrification for heating. From a cursory search, this appears to be both de-facto the case[0] and an official policy goal[1].

I agree this should be explicitly mentioned when talking about renewable electricity generation targets, but the good news is that it is being addressed. (I mostly looked at heating, but I'm sure industry is also a huge portion. Presumably that's also being worked on.)

[0] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/heat-make-german-buildi...

[1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-launch-emergenc...
What if people choose to elect those that don't?
I would caution that artwork is only 'solved' with relatively simple text prompts. To create a novel painting with a precise mix of elements that would take a paragraph or more to explain is still tough, though DALL-E 2 does seem like a big step towards that.
I am oddly in agreement with you. It is not the same, but nuclear weapons suffer from the same issue. Things are way worse than only 30 years ago ( more countries have access now; there is at least one more country likely to add that capacity in a year or two ). In a very practical sense, things got much worse from doomsday clock perspective. But each time this fear is invoked and nothing happens, people get 'used' to the idea.
I could be wrong, but I thought the point of the GP comment was that there are many industrial processes like smelting that don't have good electric replacements. For example, it's nigh-impossible to maintain the temperatures required to run a steel plant with no combustion and only resistive heating elements.
At this point with WaveNet, GPT-3, Codex, DeepFakes and Dall-E 2, you cannot believe anything you see, hear, watch, read on the internet anymore as an AI can easily generate nearly anything that can be quickly believable by millions.

The internet's own proverb has never been more important to keep in mind. A dose of skepticism is a must.
HN has edits, in conversation and flow, and it does break sometimes, but in general it's a good.

Discussion forums have had edits forever; reddit famously lets you go and delete all your existing posts at anytime by replacing them with "edited by autodeleter9000".
Self-confidence and curiosity in humans can be so fleeting, but the draw to rhetoric seems to be insatiable.

Peace to you as well, fellow traveler!
The fact that users don't want their edit history visible is precisely why making it visible would be a useful tradeoff. Sure, you can fix your mistakes — but you have to balance whether the fix is worth sending up a flag (e.g. "This tweet has been edited") that may draw even more attention and scrutiny to the original tweet.

It's like the "Hidden replies" feature [0]. Sure someone can maliciously use it to hide valid criticism. But in doing so, they're essentially doing a public curation of "these are the replies which really rankled me"

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/twitter-rolls-out-its-hide...
Humans are extremely resilient species which has already adapted to all but one or two areas in world, namely poles. Humans won't go extinct, that is just not going to happen anymore....

Now civilizations as we see them today might, but I think they entirely deserve it.
Yep. I actually purchased a subset of his blog in Praxis Volume 2, which has three chapters dedicated to the topic. And, frankly, I didn’t really care for the rest of the book, but it was worth it for those three chapters.

https://www.amazon.com/Extend-Your-Mind-Praxis-2-ebook/dp/B0...
BitWarden's Android app is great. I've been using it for 2+ years now, and while earlier versions were buggy, the latest ones work well.
The thing I like the most is the support provided by Kubesimplify and it focuses on growing everyone up
I would rather iPadOS continue its journey to achieve parity with a "fullOS". iPadOS has a lot of new concepts about how we should be computing, and it would be a shame to throw it away for what we already have.

If dual boot ever becomes a thing, all momentum on improving iPadOS would probably just stop as "if you need PC-level features just use macOS".
The web has archive.org for that. Or, ‘download webpage’ from a browser.
I really appreciate this reply as a reader too. You are absolutely right. I've done the same in the past too and you've made me aware of this.
Because having kids with the mindset of: "I'll be a burden to them instead of the nursing home staff / society" is a great reason to have kids ...
Adding an edit button is a “one way door”.

Better be sure about it before you roll that out, because there is no going back.

Maybe this will be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Twitter should do it. I don’t see people leaving Twitter because of this occasional inconvenience.

It seems like there is little upside for Twitter doing this, and there is potential for misuse. People are already used to how tweets work and are mostly satisfied.

I prefer knowing that something I already read (and potentially liked) will not be changed later. If the author wants to make a change, it is easy enough to delete and tweet again, or just reply to your own tweet saying “whoops, I left out this word” or whatever.
Not a bad idea, or make it so a tweet isn't quotable/retweetable until the 5 minute edit grace period ends.
Those AMD presentations are publicly available though. It looks like hot chips is a tech conference, and those AMD presentations were published as part of HC 28. I’ll follow up with a link if I can find one, but I think it’s pretty clear they are not in any way trade secrets.
You are right, but I think it's performance art plus narcissism and greed.
>> Do you work in software development?

Yes I do.

>> I have, on multiple occasions, introduced bugs that are orders of magnitude wackier than this.

Those would make a nice blog post. I've done some stupid things and seen some unexpected results, but I've never encountered the likes of this "accidentally" incrementing price thing. ;-)
Right but someone doing something different alone doesn't typically mean it is a better way. For every new better way there are an infinite number of new worse ways
CaspianReport has a good video on why it's hard to make the transition to renewables. Renewables are already being built at an exponential rate, but we're starting from a low starting point. Since we can't get off of coal and oil and go straight to renewables, we're moving to LNG as the transition fuel. LNG, though, is very expensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUTCPYwHguA
> every time it does get touched seems to end up needing half a day to untangle everything.

This is exactly why I run everything in docker :-) One shell file or docker-compose file per service, and each concisely documents exactly what's running and where all the important stuff is.

Now, if I have to touch zfs for any reason at all... that's half a day of sweating bullets, worried that one of those arcane commands will wipe out the whole volume. The UI is like Git, but what's at stake is all your stuff instead of one easy-to-restore code repo. "Oh you want to do what must be one of the five most common things someone might want to do to a zfs pool? Sure just run these six arcane commands in order. Don't mess any of it up or all your stuff is gone."
Thats all going to depend the constraints you place on consciousness. Hell in the animal kingdom we struggle to define which animals are conscious and they all have very similar compute hardware.

Mushrooms are so different than anything we know it's hard to rule out what they are or are not doing. There are mycelium networks that span massive spaces, 10s of square kilometers. There is a lot of mass, a tightly interconnected network that senses, computes, and changes its environment. So its hard to really rule anything out yet.

Honestly, I think there is a lot of complexity happening on this planet that we are missing, especially if we open ourselves up to larger timescales.
What kind of excuse is that?

That’s like saying it would cost tens of millions of dollars to comply with health regulations in different countries when you sell foodstuff. Yes, of course!

Maybe electric automobile mfgs can just ship cars all over the world without going through safety standards too!