skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A simple google search of "nuclear vs solar cost" strongly suggests that you are very wrong

Kindly show me where I was making a cost comparison between nuclear and solar in my original comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31430747

You see, what happened here is that @ncmncm masterfully diverted the conversation into cost and project failures. A typical political argument form when you can't discuss the actual subject.

You spent a lot of time researching and composing an argument against something I didn't even touch in my comment, at all.

I can definitely get into relative cost discussions. I am not in the habit of making comments unless I devote a serious amount of time to understanding what I am talking about. In this case my research into this was triggered by trying to understand the realities of converting our entire ground transportation fleet (US, 300 million vehicles) to electrics.

That led to creating a series of mid-sophistication models to try to arrive at parameters, from technical to financial. For example, my power requirement model, done about five years ago, predicted we would need between 900 GW and 1400 GW of new, additional power generation. I other words, we would have to double what we have now. That's what led me to try to understand how we could go about doing something like that. Solar isn't going to do it. It can be a part of it, but solar and wind are not what people seem to think these technologies are in real life.

So, my claim was simple: In order to build a solar system that delivers power equivalent to that of a nuclear power plant you need a system with at least 7 times the peak generation rating. This is a matter of physics and it requires understanding how real-world solar systems work, not imaginary pink unicorn systems.

My favorite saying, by Mark Twain:

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way".

A corollary to this is to listen to someone who has before believing it's easy.
>> Currently, my imaginary perfect language

None of us are getting a pony but that's not the point. The point is about selecting the right tool for the job.

For example, I see projects like axum[1] and wonder what people are using it for. In a PHP or Rails or Django stack, this is your nginx / apache layer. It's not business value code, it's the fast plumbing under your stack. What are people adding to the fast underlying plumbing layer that's giving them a competitive advantage? Or is it just cargo culting?

>> If anything, Rust is an asset for large teams of devs

I mean i only asked for an example of a small team performing magic thanks to rust so if there's no examples of that, i can be certain there's no examples of a large team performing magic thanks to rust!

[1] - https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum
If just "slightly" is enough to make people move, there'd be more competitive pressure on Google to improve things, and for Apple to catch up or stay ahead. Don't estimate the power of competition.
https://frame.work/products/ethernet-expansion-card
Well you may care. But the market doesn’t and neither does the author of FairEmail - the subject of the submission.
My isp don't offer ipv6 either but I've worked around the issue using tunnelbroker.com from hurricane electric (free) to get a /64, it works really great. Route48 is another such free service.
I'm enjoying fly.io so far.

I just dropped DigitalOcean because of their price hike. No hard feelings. I was barely using it, and the product is growing more towards full-featured apps and teams, which is not as good a fit for me, an individual just screwing around. I don't fault them. I'm not their target customer.

Fly.io is very much designed for use primarily via their CLI tool. Their web interface needs some polish. But it does everything it says on the tin, for a price that's more than reasonable.

I only used Heroku briefly so I can't comment on similarities or differences with any authority.

As someone who is already very comfortable with container-based development, I'm happy with fly.io.
The problem with this premise is that by raising the bar for any IDE that wants to support that language, you risk the creation of an IDE monoculture.
> Why would google care about the email client people use.

Because the "client" is where advertising can be most easily inserted to monetize that user.
There’s this Western conception of Buddhism that stripes away a lot of the religious beliefs—Siddhartha wasn’t divine at all, there is no Amitabha, Ksitigarbha is a folk tale. The emphasis is all on practice. Meditation, the 4 noble truths, Middle Way, etc.

This doesn’t represent true Buddhism like Asians would recognize it, but I think it does highlight how you can build a practice and adopt the world outlook without the supernatural.

A low-level Zen inspired practice may be what you’re looking for
Good luck! I'm glad I could help.
>> often the result of thousands of years of evolutionary processes which refine them
>> Religious beliefs/texts are an extension of human evolution and should be seen that way.

If this is true, does it mean that churches all over the world did a big disservice to the holy books and stopped the evolution by creating institutions dedicated to preserve text of this books in unchanged form argumenting that those books literally are word of God and thus cannot be changed?
I suggest an accountability partner. The biggest problem I've had with that is that my partners didn't have it as badly as me, so they didn't understand.

The idea is you check in once a day (10 minutes or so), and just talk about what you've achieved, where you've failed, etc. It can be very effective.

I've done some pretty extreme things in the past, such as hired a "coach" who would hold me financially responsible if I didn't send proof that I got up and walked the dog to the ATM machine by 8 am every morning. (we had complex rules and she had a check made out to charity, ready to send if I didn't achieve what I was supposed to) It was extremely effective while I did it, but only for really measurable things.

I use a timer lock to keep cannabis locked up for a few days at a time, so I don't have to quit it (I think it is good for my creativity as well as for seeing "the big picture" and finding the positive, but it is bad if it is tempting me to use it while I should be working)

If you are interested in getting a group together to do accountability partners, get in touch. (rjbrown at google's mail service)
thanks for maintaining jemalloc :)
Treating people like people reduces labor acquisition and training costs.
Framework laptop actual has fewer ports than MBPs (although they're configurable which is neat, with the caveat that some like expansion ports HDMI are a big drain on battery life, even when inactive)
Which probably will be worth $0
> FDroid gave FairEmail a clean bill of health.

This means nothing.
I stopped actively using IRC about 15 years ago precisely because regular (for the time) people gradually disappeared.

I've stuck with too many dying communities.
document.querySelector('html')

And for React: https://javascript.info/custom-elements
Ironically, the English word 'umbrella' derives from Italian and the etymology is indeed that it is to provide shade. I suspect that this is what the first ones where used for: to protect ladies' skin from the sun during their walks. The specific word for them in English is 'parasol' (which is what Gucci is actually selling here).

In China parasols are popular (women do not like to tan and whiter skin is 'better' in beauty canons) and the traditional Chinese paper parasols are world famous, so it's not as ridiculous as the article makes it.
Haven't been able to find anything beyond his Jan 6 2022 tweet [0]. No response in the forums for this question [1] from 4 days ago. Frustrating to not be able to upgrade BIOS for Linux users without resorting to Windows or replacing boot loaders

0. https://twitter.com/FrameworkPuter/status/147913722834957517...

1. https://community.frame.work/t/lvfs-3-07-bios-availability/1...
There was a good talk with an overview (as well as owning it) at 36c3.

https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10942-uncover_understand_own_-_r...
Guy is also doing a very ambitious series on endgame concepts. I'm bad at chess, but learning a lot.
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Yes, but there are still over 40,000 deaths per year in car accidents in the US alone. If car accident deaths had the same emotional reaction as mass shootings, people would demand the government setup checkpoints at every intersection to "better monitor the drivers"
This was nicely written, and I don't know how the general experience was across the team performing this ceremony, but it is revealing that very many people completed the exercise at all.

When I've found myself in similar situations, part of what has dismayed me is observing that at least half of the people seem to enjoy it. It'd be nicer to think this was just management jerking the leash; The actual enthusiasm from colleagues is doubly alienating.
For what purpose would you need to wrap everything in a template class? In my work, I've only touched templates a couple of times in years. They're useful, but I don't see how it's always needed.
A gentle reminder that every retina MacBook has been shipping with fractional scaling as default for years now (and it's not even 1.5). Sure, you can put it back into 2x if you want to. But you can do the same on a Framework, and then you get... wait for it... almost the same vertical resolution as a 2x 13" MB Pro (93% to be exact). If you absolutely need more space and a 2x scaling, there is a large amount of 4K 13"/14" laptops that are more than happy to fill that niche. Free market is your friend :)

So the argument that Windows is somehow responsible for the death of perfect 2x scaling is a bit exaggerated. People just want more space and anti-aliasing is mostly good enough so that no one cares.
I haven't done a ton of research into VOCs, but my understanding is that most purifiers targeting them use activated charcoal filters?

Those filters are pretty cheap, you can tape them to a Corsi-Rosenthal Box without adding much cost at all. If there's something more complicated going on then maybe that wouldn't be effective, but in general air filtration is just a combination of how much air your filter is moving and what the surface area of the filter is. In theory (I haven't confirmed) tying your own activated filters to a box fan will probably be pretty effective.

A big reason why the Corsi-Rosenthal Box works so well is because there's not a lot of innovation or complexity in how good purifiers work. You just want a lot of air to go through a good filter with a sizeable surface area, so it's hard to compete with a 20 inch fan tied to 4 good filters. But again, take that with a grain of salt, maybe VOC purifiers are doing something more complicated that I'm not aware of.
Bad claim, or at least bad headline. Regardless of whatever feelings or ideas one has about crypto -- if you start with there is a moral case, and end up with multiple very different arguments, you've pretty much failed.
Nothing prevents you from doing

curl > install.sh
less install.sh
sh install.sh
Your response looks like the output of a poorly written shell script that prints meaningless fact checks when someone mentions religion.

Did you also know the universe wasn't created in 6 days?
Anyone who cares about ad blocking should not be using any Chromium based browser at this point, but isn't this the sort of tool you'd use at a network or virtual network level?

There's no reason to let applications on your device bypass your own network settings - and this is something we probably need to start accommodating in Linux distros to start with (specifically: disabling all the weaponized E2E encryption that vendors are using, and forcibly MITM'ing it with keys under the users control).

Network-namespaces should make this eminently possible - launch the user's entire environment into a network namespace which can only speak to "user rights" networking stack.
Using an external monitor with OS X, you're often stuck with those in-between sizes if you don't either have hawkeyes or enjoy seeing super-crisp 1080p resolution taking up half of your desk, which is a waste of space.

I'm mostly not going to be looking at a 1 pixel wide line at 4k on a 27" monitor. At 32" it might be debatable. Above that you're stacking them oddly (top+bottom, one vertical, or both), or you're down to one monitor and the real estate issue becomes a more pressing issue.

I'm at 'stacking weirdly' and my old main monitor (a "4k" monitor that is actually 3840x2160) is vertical, and angled on the corner of my desk. OS X defaults it to 1080p, which is too big a font for how close I sit to it. Full resolution is way too tiny. So I use 1440 (1.5).

The smallest graphics I use are in grafana, and those happen to be on my vertical monitor. I don't see any weird moire patterns when I scroll them, so if there's an issue with line width, it's well covered by things like not using #00 or #ff for all RGB color channels, which tend to show artifacts more overtly.

But then again, it's not just the hardware it's also the software, and Linux has struggled to keep up with Windows and OS X on some issues related to graphics. The saga of good fonts in X took an unseemly amount of time to sort out.
I was replying to this specific part:

* "We should better monitor these sites" might be an entirely valid conclusion.*

No, we should not have to monitor sites for the minuscule chance that a psychopath is planning a mass shooting. Senators are already pushing this type of surveillance on social media, it's a matter of time before this type of surveillance is used against thought crimes, and people that don't agree with the establishment.
They'd be even better to just use the browsers CSS animation support...

gov.uk doesn't have many animations anyway.
That's a very Christian idea. Christianity is (was) the religion of slaves, and outcasts. The whole ethic is that the individual is divinely (infinitely) valuable, despite circumstances on earth.

It doesn't take much of a leap to go from "I am valuable [because G-d says so]", to "I deserve to be equal to my fellow man, free to make my own choices".
Health care in the US was cheap only if you never got sick. It was a false promise.
> All written in Java with Activities instead of Kotlin

> The app implementation is out of touch with modern Google Play privacy requirements and APIs.

Kotlin is never required. I think you might be the one of touch.
That's not actually the name of the Act, that's the "name" given to it by it's opponents.

Whether you support it or oppose it, this Act makes perfect sense, given the US position that it does not recognize the sovereign authority of The International Criminal Court at The Hague.

Since this court does not have legitimate sovereign authority over the United States or it's citizens, this Act is necessary to protect the United States from the court exercising its claimed authority over the US. It is a declaration that the court seizing US servicemen would be treated by the US no differently from how the US would treat any other political body taking their troops as prisoners.
He Was a World Renowned Cancer Researcher. Now He’s Collecting Unemployment
>Or if you do find your job satisfying...

I work for a Healthcare company (not insurance). I don't find my job satisfying or meaningful. But I feel like what I do in my job is useful to users and stakeholders. My management layer does a good job of pushing back on pointless work.

To look at this more broadly, I've worked in a bunch of different industries in consulting roles. Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods (e.g. laundry detergent),Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Medical Devices etc.

Arguably the most morally questionable of those was Oil & Gas. However, the most and least satisfying work I did was in Oil & Gas. When the project was useful to the users and stakeholders, I felt motivated and useful. When the projects were pointless and the users didn't care I felt useless and felt like every day was a waste of my life. The whole "Oil and Gas Industry is Evil" was always there in the air, but it never really changed my sense of fulfillment or meaning in my work.

I imagine every industry is the same way. Let's take a social media company. Some people are optimizing ads to better target new parents who feel lost and unsure. Some people are optimizing the data centers to reduce power consumption. I imagine some people would find a job doing the latter useful and a job doing the former as not only not useful, but harmful.

I don't think I can find fulfillment or meaning in any job. But I can chose a job where I feel like what I'm doing in useful, even if it's only useful in the tiny microcosm of the context of my job.
The main issue is world randomness.

You have no idea and irregardless of evidence that you have gathered if something will work or not. Based on this, it would be very bad to work on something for a year without knowing or getting frequent feedback (cash sent to your bank account by customers).

So the only way is to treat this like poker. You place several bets over a period of time (max 1 month). This way you launch 12 projects in a year and have a better success chance of hitting something that actually works. You have to place bets until the card is right, then you can go all-in.
I use a bitmap font such as Unifont If I want the text to look sharper on a 1080p screen. it is useful for programming, not so much documents.

As for hard drives vs SSDs, I can hardly notice the difference in read/write speeds day-to-day. I merely use an SSD because it is more durable in the situation that I drop my laptop.
If you don’t need code reviews just… SSH into your server? This is what I do with my Synology, works great.
Generalist is the most sensible option. "Specialist" is essentially merely a bet in favor of the tech you know.
That definitely relies on a lack of deadline pressure... which is really about knowing that your team lead trusts your judgement in how you allocate time.
I like what dark mode does on that page!
Footsteps-VSCode
Can I ask more about your interest in NLP? How can I contact you?
I think the article is illuminating. When I was actively interviewing, I found that I struggled in code interviews precisely because I was trying to be engaging, but it interfered with how I was actually solving the problem.

I think I would have done better if I had taken the advice to communicate less during the code review and explain after I solve.
It doesn't identify the client, though.

So the site only learns that the IP has someone on that domain among its contacts. They probably already know more than that, because they've seen some emails being exchanged. Not 100% tight, but definitely less problematic than using Gravatar.

The traffic can be sniffed as the certificate validation looks disabled and it falls back to HTTP. Meaning ISP can take a peek.

But it's definitely not malicious in any way.
IMEI is not sent to websites
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Rust developers are doing an awesome job of identifying those things and changing the language to meet it. Today's Rust is much cleaner than it was 5 years ago (or 8 if you count nightly).

But yes, there is still a lot of it.

Anyway, most of the noise comes from the fact that Rust is a low level language that cares about things like memory management. It's amazing how one is constantly reminded of this by the compiler, what is annoying, but the reason it doesn't happen on the alternatives is because they never let you forget about that fact.
If I wait six more months to buy will they have a really solid linux story?
> I think the era of stupid money chasing silly ideas are over

It's quite possible that this era of that is over, but I'll eat my hat if another era of stupid money chasing silly ideas doesn't spring up within a decade.
I think the vanilla JS is better actually, because I actually know what it's doing.

I've never used JQuery before and would have assumed calling .hide() on an element would set the CSS attribute "visibility: hidden" rather than "display: none"
How We Use Rust, SQLx and Rocket for Oso Cloud
If that were true, wouldn't Google have to verify the security and privacy compliance of every browser out there?
Does anyone know if this would be difficult to connect to a second monitor?
Glitch acquired by cloud service provider Fastly
let me introduce you to the famous '?' operator.

The code above can be written as:

let foo = foo()?;
Yes. I always need 1 dollar for 95 cents.
Yes, the DOM API is painful to work with.
LOL. Keep trusting crypto bros, everyone. They're different con men this time, we swear!
You mention self-help books and videos, but have you tried talking to a therapist? The video watching could be an avoidance behavior and they could help you figure out the reasons and how to cope if that's the case.
> I'm a new SWE Manager and I've been thinking alot about power dynamics since I got promoted. You would think that you can just tell you reports "hey you can be honest with me and speak your mind", but the difficult part about that is no one will take you at your word when you say that.

I've also become a manager in recent months, and have had to think a lot about this. The approach I've mostly gone with is to try to be vulnerable and open about my own issues of the sort that I would want my reports to share. In the hope that they will reciprocate. It's hard to tell for sure, but that seems to have worked reasonably well.
Learning to play an instrument is fun and can be just as addicting. I'd recommend a small form keyboard that can be kept nearby at all times. I adore my Yamaha Reface CP, if you manage to find one. The best part - grinding through chords, arpeggios, scales and challenging song sections to get them into muscle memory can be done while watching unrelated videos.
I am not a professional, I am just a student.

Edit: If I was an artist or something I might care about resolution or color accuracy.
Where can I read more about this
Search is very useful. If I find I am not using a service I drop it. This is handy to see what is available where.

But never been much bothered with recommendations anywhere.
I can recommend the browser extension unhook. Going to youtube and seeing no recommendations forces you to use it as a tool. Searching for specific things and not letting yourself be led by recommendations changed the way I use it. Additionally to that I also have separate browser profiles. On my work profile I block youtube entirely
1) therapeutic dosage is much less than recreational dosage

2) Drugs work differently on ADHD brains than on “normal” brains.
Fog Creek renamed to Glitch as we transitioned from being a bootstrapped product-incubation lifestyle company to a single-product VC-backed startup. I think of the Fog Creek storybook closing with that rename, since Glitch always had a very different business focus, but technically (and perhaps culturally) they're of the same lineage.

In other Joel track record exploits, he's also our co-founder over at HASH.ai [1] and a driving force behind the Block Protocol [2][3]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2020/06/18/hash-a-free-online...
[2] https://blockprotocol.org/
[3] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/01/27/making-the-web-bet...
Main discussion/post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31434321
I've thought that maybe it's a good idea to play Chess 960 because memorization is out of the question from move 1. This way you learn to analyze each position individually and hopefully understand the consequences of candidate moves. I think obviously it's important to learn specific openings and problems that have already been solved as well, but 960 can help develop "chess eyes" a little bit. Don't take my word for it; I'm bad at the game, but these are just some ideas that I've had.