skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they are terminated every Nkm anymore. We have been able for quite some time to re-energize the signal directly in the optical core without needing to convert it to electric then back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pumping
You're being facetious but I don't think this is a radical idea. Government already publishes the tax code in English language. This is just formalization of the tax code in computer code: More precise, testable and provable.
Perceptual error optimization for Monte Carlo rendering
You can just click "Clear All". Or right click on Web / tap with two fingers on mobile.
You're right, perfection is never possible. Free markets, however, have the wonderful property that the closer one gets to them, the better they work!

On the other hand, the closer one gets to socialism, the worse it works :-(
Apple has this feature, although it’s unclear to me how widely deployed it is. https://www.fastcompany.com/90372724/welcome-to-post-reality...
> It might suck to spend 4hr writing a doc

Maybe our releases are too big but our technical specs take much longer to write and even longer to coordinate stakeholders when conflicts do come up.

Can people really crank these docs out in 4 hours?
> genuinely feel angry about the anti-corporate "the system is for losers, follow your passion" shit

I feel you on this, although I'm less angry and more feel silly for falling for it. That said, there was some healing that I experienced in my adventures as a young rebel.
Appreciate you taking the time to respond! I have a bunch of stuff going right now but hosting Gitlab has been on my mind for a while (I already run a service that focuses on hosting the runners)...

Wondering if there's more space in this niche simply by listening to what customers here on HN and elsewhere have been saying.
There aren't any automatic notifications and that's by intentional design, to break the strong engagement loops that other social media sites run on.

Confirmed by HN's @dang here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930391

(You can *manually* scan for replies in your "threads" link, on the off chance you haven't noticed that).
> Centuries ago almost no one lived long enough to die from heart disease, cancer, or dementia.

Right, they were dying of infections, starvation, childbirth and cholera, appendicitis and anthrax, typhoid and typhus, polio and tetanus. Are you saying that those were better?
I’m sorry but I’m having a hard time following this page. There are at least two sizes of section headers, and I can’t tell if one is a subsection of the other or they communicate some kind of relative importance or what.

The large pull quotes (which I’ll be honest I’m never a fan of) just interrupt me trying to figure out the layout.

So I’m not sure how things are organized.

I’m on my phone now, maybe it’s better on desktop. Reader mode didn’t really change anything so unfortunately that didn’t help.

The article sounds interesting.
Tomorrow: AlphaZero has trained itself to play Duck Chess and has decisively beaten all the world's Duck Chess grandmasters.
Or as a compromise between time and taste, add crushed/chopped tomatoes to a bottled sauce.
Apple already do. One of the advantages of having a know physical design. See https://twitter.com/WSig/status/1146146914985009154 and https://twitter.com/schukin/status/1146359923158089728.

NVIDIA also have an implementation in their Maxine SDK (https://developer.nvidia.com/maxine#ar-sdk).
Checking the "threads" page. A notification on the main page would be nice (maybe in place of the useless and attention-hostile points counter?).
I agree with your last sentence. I spent years in adtech (equally soulless hahahaha). Honestly the people were great, management was happy, employees were happy. We had an office a 5 minute walk away from venice beach in los angeles.

Daily work was gluing together questionably written at best ad libraries. There weren't many promotion opportunities because the business grew horizontally by acquiring other websites. I ended up moving to Taiwan because I wanted to get better at Chinese and wanted to escape COVID in California, but otherwise working in a soulless field with great people was a good experience.
This is a good course with examples which can be ran online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z9TRANg4c0
> eccentric ideological choice over MySQL

I was on the other side of this trade. My experience was that everyone used Oracle. Then PostgreSQL and MySQL appeared as OSS alternatives. After spending a day reading the dev mailing lists for both it was very clear to me I would never deploy MySQL in any situation where I had control over the DB choice. History seems to have proven that to be a reasonable position.
COVID is the third leading cause of death in the USA.

But I suppose you’ll tell me that it isn’t in general destroying lives.

Or strangling the economy.

Or putting the healthcare system at risk.

Nope, it’s all good. Spread the Covid, everyone, it’s harmless!
Sounds interesting. I never would have assumed double-entry bookkeeping went back that far. Any good book suggestions?
> The people actually drafting the million pages of administrative regulations are overwhelmingly career bureaucrats, who are effectively unfireable.

They report to the appointed heads of these agencies, who both sign off on their work, and have the power to either fire them, or reassign them, when they refuse to draft the regulations they are told to draft.

The reason they don't tend to get fired, is because they tend to do what they are told.
We are limited by the rate that manufacturing capacity can be scaled up, and then by the rate that product can be built out. I.e., it takes time to build factories. Spending more, you can get more factories, but they are not done sooner. A dollar can be spent on more factory, or on factory output. The factories you have so far can produce at some maximum rate. More factories than you expect to need later are hard to get financing for.

Prices for big solar installations are in the public record. And for nukes. Recently North Carolina and Georgia spent, what, $15B for exactly 0 watts out. They were quoted another $10B to get the 2GW they had signed up for, which they had expected to pay, what, $8B for, total? They won't get any of it back.

The corruption tax on nukes is withering. Nobody involved wants the money to ever stop flowing, as actually delivering would cause.

The best I have seen for nukes is $2B/1GW, but nobody knows how to get that with any reliability; and that is discounted by a huge government disaster-insurance subsidy, and excludes ~$1B end-of-life decommissioning. I see $1B/1GW for recently finished solar projects, but prices are still falling fast.
Sanctioning a country that can't feed itself for importing food seems even worse?
Do people want to pay for that?
Why the Manhattan Project was Unusual [video]
Video is already better because I can fart ok mute and no one will know.
A full ECS architecture? I don't plan on it. But using some sort of trait / component structure could be worth if enough particles with a mixture of different and overlapping behaviors were introduced.
I know this is probably driven by Apple's opposition to anything that looks like dynamic code execution in extensions, but it seems weird for a company that's not completely dependent on ads the way Google is.
Elon musk made a point in a recent talk, the entire demand of the USA could be satisfied with a 100x100 square miles of solar panels. Thinking in those terms, you realize it's quite achievable.

Edit - 100x100
Thanks @selimthegrim.
Money is fungible. Money spent on nukes is unavailable for renewables.

You need to watch some thorium debunking videos. I live near Indian Point, recently shut down. They tried thorium, early on. It cost too much. Every single thing about nukes costs too much.
> This might be useful for directors+ but is really a waste of the time of 50-100 other people. This is a problem with status meetings too;

A status meeting serves to reinforce the social status of the one who called the meeting. No other status is relevant.
Thanks @peterhalburt33
Rust Environment and Docker Build with Nix Flakes
Why does work have to be fulfilling?

It doesn't. Having it be fulfilling is just meaning we ascribe to it.

There's other things that are generally more associated with "being fulfilling" (e.g. having a family, volunteering at a charity, organizing a meetup to help mentor new software engineers). Those are worth trying out if you're looking for fulfillment.

I'm more of a service oriented person too, I did a career shift into management and now starting a job as a Solutions Engineer (similar titled jobs are Solutions Architect, sometimes Sales Engineer, sometimes Customer Success Engineer). Gig is basically going to be directly helping customers solve their problems for a B2B company. That career path might be worth looking into too for you!
I’m guilty of this one, but I do find it ironic that the potential of inadvertent lead consumption becomes a neurotic preoccupation and that neurotic preoccupations are a symptom of lead exposure.
similar. worked on invoice app having to apply tax, and working with existing foxpro(?) tables that were in postgresql. Trying to reverse engineer without having access to original code, and make things work "like they used to". Someone manually pulled down some free tax thing once per month, but there were so many exceptions that people knew about that were just hardcoded in to the code that I had no access to that I could never make it "just work".

We transitioned to using an external tool (taxjar, IIRC, but might have been something else). Was a pain to feed them data to get back tax data, and.. so many exceptions and exemptions I had to learn about. Weeks later I get "all these numbers are wrong".

I dug in and went through logs.

"no, these are right. taxjar is adding x% on ABC and shipping".

"We don't charge tax on shipping".

"Well, taxjar is doing it, because it's how you're supposed to do it in this state".

"We've never charged tax on shipping"

"Well... you've probably been non-compliant for years then".

I think when they'd started 'computerizing' this back in the early 90s, shipping costs weren't taxed. Or... (IIRC) the amount of shipping cost taxed was proportional to the amount of taxable goods being shipped in the state (vs out of the state) and when they started, what they were shipping wasn't mostly taxable (like... some of the main items were taxable, but the supplies weren't, or something similar). And... if they were shipping to a non-taxable entity (non-profit) then the in-state shipping charge wasn't taxable, but they were supposed to pro-rate it based on the proportional distance in the target state, if that state charged tax on shipping, then track that and remit to that appropriate county/state authority.

These were some of the rules that a variety of people had tried to describe to me both what they thought was supposed to happen and what they thought the original software was doing, but... they could never find 2 examples to line up to confirm or justify those explanations.

Another example: certain items (chemicals) were taxable in some counties and not others, and might be taxed differently based on whether they were being 'used' by technicians vs delivered to a customer (again, different counties had different rules - and some of these rules were indeed confirmed by digging through taxjar and their support and state agency websites).

When this company started, it was one location in two counties in one state, and as they grew, the specifics grew (and also changed yearly) and what they should do became lost to everyone.

Moving things to an external hosted tax-as-a-service system was supposed to 'simplify' things, but it just introduced a lot of turmoil and headache, because routine numbers people were used to for years were suddenly replaced with "new" numbers which no one trusted.
Insulation isn't that challenging. Houses eventually need to be upgraded and remodeled. That's usually a good time to insulate them better.
This article is about withholding crime footage from the news media, not withholding it from the police.

In fact one of the justifications given by BART is that "juvenile police records are protected", implying that it was reported to the police. Stop spreading misinformation.
For the costs of nuclear, they are pretty abysmal, because it's a construction project and Western countries are terrible at construction logistics. One cost estimate:

https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

Every year the cost of nuclear increases because we have fewer examples of successful construction and more examples of failed construction. The industry is in shambles, effectively dead. The US attempts at construction of AP1000s resulted in 2/4 failing, and the other two reactors being several multiples behind in schedule and pricing. The latest excuse for the failure is that they began construction before design was complete, so of course they failed. However this was the request of the nuclear industry, in an attempt to bring down prices, and the entire regulatory approval process was changed to accommodate this, which was supposed to bring down prices and prevent the failure of construction. Look at any attempt to build nuclear in a modern economy and you will find failure, not success.

As for spending infinite dollars to solve climate change, no, that is not possible. There are real productive limits to capacity to build things. The solar, wind, and storage industries are growing at massive rates, but still its only barely enough to meet the speed needed for our energy transition.

If we had infinite money to spend on nuclear, we still would not be able to build sufficient new restore by, say 2040. In the US alone we would need to build ~100 reactors simply to replace those reaching their end of life. We do not have the construction capacity for that, much less a design to build, or willing financial backers.

For the foreseeable future, nuclear is a dying industry in the US, not because of regulation or public backlash, but because the industry can't build.

The only hope for nuclear in the US or Europe is for small modular reactors, a design that in the past has been rejected for being too expensive. But since it's closer to manufacturing (like a plane) than like construction, there's hope, even if it's a long shot.
no, it's just that particular shrine... Ise Shrine.

https://theprepared.org/features-feed/ise-jingu-and-the-pyra....

80,000 is number of shrine in the entire region.
I don't have kids, and I'm not certain I want them, but I've gotten to where I can understand that people would rather create people instead of ideas / impact / change.

This is because, in some ways, nothing ever changes. Ideas will inevitably be remixes. Impact will just be percentages, non-unique contributions to systems. Change is reversible (see e.g. US Supreme Court).

But having an important part in someone's life is non-fungible.
AFAIK, some people put their money in the SP500 ESG, feel good that they are investing in ethical companies and use it as their preferred index fund.

Being in an index fund or not can do interesting things to a stock's price.
The Earth will keep spinning round no matter what. It is ourselves who we harm
Lina Khan and Amy Klobuchar’s Microsoft Temptation
Path-dependant hindsight is a beautiful thing. Others chose a boring path, but viscerally feel they have screwed it up.

When your friends win the entrepreneurial lottery, while you are still grinding to pay the mortgage in a dead end job, perhaps you would feel differently.
The language describing the rules is not 100% clear:

> Each player’s turn always consists of two actions: (1) making a standard chess move, and then (2) moving the duck to any empty square on the board. (The duck must be moved – it cannot be left where it is.)

You have to make your move, and move the duck. Do you have to do them in that order? (ie, is it legal to move the duck first, then your piece?)

I suspect there is an implied "in order" there, otherwise the impact of the duck-block is not as profound.

It might be hair splitting, but I've seen rules fights on smaller points!

edit: yea, I need to read more carefully. I missed the "and then" which is the clarification I was after. Thank you for pointing that out.
It's just as bad on desktop. I found it hugely helpful to tweak <h2> with margin-left: -4rem, and <h3> with margin-left: -2rem (using the Developer Tools that the author works/worked on?). Worth the effort, great advice here.
> hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space

I like to keep in mind this romantic i MaDe tRaVeLinG a LifEstYle BS is enabled by the folks who are typically working their asses off in shit jobs like grocery, warehousing, manufacturing, supply chains, transportation, hospitality, etc.

If everyone suddenly stopped their work to pursue this nonsense we'd all quickly find ourselves in a non-enjoyable situation. Life enjoyment is a societal gift offered by the margins of collective suffering. Sure, take your breaks where you need but keep in mind life enjoyment, retirement, etc. are all tremendous blessings and not entitlements.
Having only cheese to create leverage limits your options
If the government ran Uber, it would be...public transportation, which everyone complains about whenever prices hike, just like people are with Uber.

I think the way forward is autonomous, affordable electric cars and designing our streets to be more accommodating to them.
Insufficient to claim causation. If it isn't detectable in 75% of MS patients, it's probably not the cause of MS..
great article. fun to see things like

> Transmeta usually steers the conversation toward performance on DES algorithms or MPEG loops, tasks that play into Crusoe's (and Efficeon's) strengths.
'MPEG loops' got a lot more important in the intervening years

transmeta was right. their approach was better, it should have won.
I said this last time and I'll bring it up again: quality of equipment is not the problem, poor UX design is the problem.

1. We still don't share a common digital space when having meetings, because everyone sees tiles in a different order. "Let's go around the table and give our updates!" Uh, in what order? There is a lot of power in the subtle social cues available when everyone knows who you are talking (or listening) to by shifting towards them.

2. There's still no effective way to non-verbally signal that someone wants to speak. If everyone was push-to-talk, then holding down the unmute button would let the UI emphasize your tile and signal to others. This would cut down on verbally stepping on each other. Nobody uses those "raise hand" buttons, because they are too single-purpose and relatively high effort.

3. Often, there's no way to tell at a glance if you're muted. I can't believe Zoom still does this: you have to move your mouse to get it to show you the UI. Why are you hiding the UI.

4. What is the point of reactions appearing on your own tile? You're not talking: nobody is looking at you. Reactions should appear on the tile you are reacting to!

It's small things like this that make video calls a mess, and nothing's changed since the beginning of the pandemic except for video filters.
its worth a shot, to see what kind of companies they partner with, maybe you can find a good one.
Most Uber rides I've taken are around $20+ each way. Anyone relying on that as their main method of transportation can afford a car payment.
Blood lead levels of Flint kids were barely elevated during the crisis and far lower than levels from earlier years.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30871386/

"Conclusion: Analyses of GM and percentages ≥5.0 μg/dL of BLLs do not support the occurrence of a global increase in BLLs in young children of Flint during the entire 18-month period of FRW exposure."
Ask HN: Agreements for finder's fee for introduction to investors in Europe
Who can be a finder?
What jurisdiction applies?
What are the risks involved?
The world is full of interesting people doing interesting things, who come with interesting problems, who don't even know there might be a software solution for it.

On a tiny scale, I'm a programmer. I happen to be between programming jobs and to keep the roof over my head I'm working as a Medical Receptionist. I see lots of ways my skills (totally exotic in that arena) are useful. For example, I see someone doing brute-force hand search-and-replace on a document. I said, give me 10 seconds and I'll do it for you. Regexps, despite the "two-problems" joke, are fantastically powerful and made them drop their jaws. But there's larger problems I have written Powershell scripts to solve, python scripts, macros in the software they use, excel spreadsheets, etc. Whatever tool to get the job done.

Problems are everywhere where people are. Go talk to them.
“ I ditched them when they pushed so hard for DoH which looks a lot like ad delivery tech to me. ”

Agree Mozilla’s move to enable this practically by default with just a slimy quick pop up message about privacy was weak

Setting the default resolvers to cloudflare was also weak.

They even presented the problem in a misleading way. How is centralizing DNS requests to a major provider like cloudflare improving privacy. Ohh because wink wink … Mozilla said that they got privacy “guarantees”. Your local ISP will no longer snoop but instead we will just sent all requests to one of the largest resolving services in the world.
Yeah, the "and then" implies you first move and then move the duck. At least that's how it makes sense to me. That way you're blocking your opponent's move with the duck.
M1 GPU Reverse Engineering Explained
Part of ESG is Governance. No matter what else you might say about Tesla, it's governance is "The CEO does whatever with no controls". That can be great if you think Musk should have that much power, or horrible if you don't. Every dictator had people who thought his autocratic rule was superior to democracy - and I'm sure for some individual dictators it is. But it's a shitty system once you remove the specific people.
In german, ghost driver means somebody driving on the wrong side of the road.
> Well, if you had 100 million dollars, what would you do

I would write, interview people for my YouTube channel, and finally learn to make great music. I would buy a house and throw parties where I'd dress up in wizard robes and read ancient Sumerian texts to my friends with incense burning over delicious offerings. I'd get people together to play summer camp games on the weekends. I'd help my siblings and cousins do whatever they want to accomplish and see the world. I'd volunteer. I'd get in great shape.
if you have any long term subscriptions on the internet that you are not sure of, i suggest cancelling them as soon as you subscribe (assuming they dont immediately stop the subscription).

when the subscription nears its end, they will contact you to ask if you want to continue your subscription.

if you don’t do this, you will be resubscribed at the next payment date, and you’ll find out afterwards.

not great if you don’t actually use the subscription. this way, you don’t pay for stuff you forget about or don’t use and can evaluate whether you want to continue before you pay again.
On this planet step 1 is followed by step 2.
Do you have two million liquid bucks or not?