skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't repeat it "like a law of nature" but as an empirical description of our technological capacity. If there is a large advancement of construction productivity that may make nuclear more cost effective, it would be good to know about, but nobody who claims this is possible seems to have some sort of methodological description of this advancement. Similarly, those that claim that it's just regulations getting in the way of nuclear don't seem to have an answer for why Flamanville in France has issues, or have the specific change of regulations that will alleviate the construction issues that we regularly see in the Western Hemisphere.

Personally, I believe an advancement in construction productivity is quite possible, but that it will take an entirely new generation of bright, ambitious, and innovative individuals entering the field, as well as compensation to attract them from other fields that currently outpay construction by quite a bit. But that's a loooong and expensive change of economies.
It's not typical though it is the case at the moment [1] (in French)

The argument is a little disingenuous in any case because temporarily stopping reactors for maintenance, especially planned maintenance (in this case delayed because of Covid), is not at all the same as the inherent uncertainty that sources dependent on the weather (e.g. wind) suffer from.

As said, with nuclear/gas/coal/etc you know what you'll get pretty much day in day out. With wind it's never guaranteed.

[1] https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-questio...
Depends what you mean by that precisely. But you can load things from cloudflare's ipfs gateway without doing anything special otherwise. Directly from ipfs - not without extensions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

New to me, thanks.
AOL Keyword Hacks (1990s – 2001)
Show HN: Debase – drag and drop Git rebase in your terminal
After Putin's invasion in the Ukraine, Formula 1 management has cancelled the airing deal with the Russian sports channel that aired the races. Comically, this led to an immense improvement in coverage: long time TV commenters started commenting the races live on their page in VK, without the video stream, and others started streaming the race video, mixing the audio stream with their commentary. An there are NO FREAKING ADS! Ads were a curse - they took up almost 20% of the race time, but now there are simply none. And commenters and streamers get a lot of donations from fans for their service. Imagine that?!
Sounds like Sam Vimes' Boots Theory[0].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72745-the-reason-that-the-r...
Fits under “Goverance Fraud” in the Mindmap of Democracy Frauds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/electionfraud/comments/v85iy4/mind_...

edit: better resolution https://i.redd.it/zrpj1pxf2i491.png
That's not true, and you can easily check this for yourself: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624
Eliezer Yudkowsky and the whole AI alignment movement wants help.
Yeah - these are BS accusations ...

Also notice that Facebook in particular has been sponsoring lobby groups in order to elevate social media to national security. My guess they are just trying to protect their business from competition.
Hey HN, I've long wished that git rebase was less tedious, so I made a tool called 'debase' to help make it easier.

debase lets you edit your git repo using drag and drop in your terminal. I didn't want a full GUI because I prefer using git from the terminal, but rebasing is often easier when done visually rather than textually. So debase tries to fill that gap.

debase supports macOS (x86_64 / arm64) and Linux (x86_64). I spent a fair amount of time on it so I decided to make it shareware ($10) but it has a 7-day trial.

Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.
FWIW, if the title is actually correct, this is a big deal, and actual physicists will be writing actual blog posts explaining why in not too long. Sabine will probably have several, along with a video explaining why this breakthrough proves that the LHC was a waste of resources from the start :)

If it's not, then… ‹silence falls›
Spare mirrors and a repairing robot-arm!
>How could we benefit from having Linux on old iDevices?

On old devices that do not get updates your internet will stop working because of old browser, missing SSL certificates or old libraries. With Linux you might get an updated browser and you could use the device to browse things and you can do whatever your mind can imagine like maybe write a simple bash/python script to automate something.
Yeah, those are the "local" games whose broadcast rights were sold to somebody else.

When I was in Hawaii I couldn't watch any of the west coast teams - Mariners, Angels, Giants, Dodgers, A's, or Padres because they were the local teams.
It was somewhere between a sudoku solver and wave function collapse. Had to work out what tiles to use to accurately reproduce the slopes for rendering a Mario Maker 2 level. Most of the level tiles are just X/Y/TileID, but for slopes all you know is the start/end nodes. So you have to look at all the adjacent tiles to work out the correct TileID to use for each X/Y paid within the bounding box of the slope. But there's also ambiguity where there are multiple possible tiles with the same edge properties, so I had to work out the right priority/weighting to favour certain tiles over others.

I had to derive and then write out all the edges rules by hand, which was many hundreds of lines.
I tend toward this, especially with some canned performance report. Sometimes I take something relevant from their GitHub and introduce a glaring bug, like an impossible dependency or infinite loop.
In this case the production and development "environments" are probably the same exact file lol.

You are right on the backup thing. It's just funny to me because access databases on shared drives corrupt very regularly. It's less of it "just in case", and more of a monthly necessity
+1

It's not even clear if using Google Fonts is GDPR compliant (since you're leaking the fact that your visitor has visited your website): https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1495

Even if you do want to use your own hand-picked font on your site, just self host it, or bundle it with something like https://fontsource.org/

They provide the tools to bundle the fonts and serve them yourself: https://fontsource.org/fonts/merriweather-sans

EDIT: The original comment mentioned "fortawesome" instead of "fontsource". I mixed up the names, my bad!
Can you speak more about how the hosting providers were broken?
> All starts with showing some code, a class that does some stuff and its corresponding tests. The code is not glaringly bad, but it’s also not great on purpose. [And all that follows]

This is worse than LeetCode in my opinion. Because all it is, is a shallow copy of LeetCode. You've constructed a puzzle by laying out a picture and cutting out particular pieces. It's "find the differences" between what you've given them and the image in your mind.

> If I’m hiring a landscaper, I’m not gonna ask them to tell me about the classification of ficus in Fiji, or the specific reproduction period of Douglas Fir in the West Coast. I’m gonna ask them to trim a tree and see if the result suits me.

And the landscaper will walk. They will not work for free. They'll give you references, they'll show you pictures of work they've done before, but they won't do work for you.
I've moved probably thousands? of workloads to AWS in the last decade.
Not a single one of them has been 'internet facing' or pushed much/any data out of the environment. Average bandwidth bills are <$1k/yr.

I'd guess most of AWS's customers aren't....that kind of shop.

If you are, that's definitely something to be aware of though, no doubt.
Well, about the MVC terminology, if we want to be pedantic we have to read their official response about why they call it "MVT" and not "MVC"

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/faq/general/#django-ap...
> there are multiple blog posts from senior engineers who took 1-2 months off to grind LC just to get into Google/Meta etc.

Don’t read too much into blog posts. This is engagement farming to capture search traffic and trending topics related to LeetCode.

Taking months off to grind LeetCode all day isn’t common and doesn’t even make sense. LeetCode can be done on a lunch break. Even one problem per day in the evenings is more than enough for a senior to prep for an interview.

Having done LeetCode, I’m not even sure how a senior could justify spending 2 months doing all of the problems full-time.
If sites don’t specify image dimensions, the page content jumps around when the images load. Images were a terrible idea, I wish browsers would just drop support for them.

(There are many ways to avoid reflows with font loading, eg font-display: optional)
All software is web software now
Definitely. There's a scifi story I read some years back with relatavistic space travel and battle where the primary weapon they'd use is dust.
Not really sure this adheres to HN guidelines [1].

What's the substance here? What respectful idea are you adding to the discussion? Maybe this kind of comment would fit better a Facebook group?

If you like this community and benefit from "thoughtful" and "substantive" ideas shared here, I'd suggest reading these guidelines.

They are meant to avoid HN from descending to shallowness and disrespect, like many other communities around the web ended up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
Well I like CloudFlare Pages a lot.

Very much performance for the time invested.
Anarchy should be the ultimate (and always moving) goal of any healthy society.

Once hierarchies solve the issues they are born from, they cease to be necessary. Hence a government that permanently solves poverty and thus crime in the most common sense, eliminates the need for an authority to regulate interactions between individuals.
I was refering to a sane default of 6 TCP sockets that some browsers use per host when using HTTP/1.1. I don't think this is standardized, so its just an implementation detail and might vary across browsers and plattforms. Maybe you can even increase this in your browser settings. From a quick glance at the HTTP/2 spec, it seems the actual number of multiplexed steams is configurable per session: https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7540.html#SettingValues (SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS). Of course, OSes have limits how much outgoing TCP connections you can have (per user, per process, system wide) but I think will be much higher than 1000.

Edit: Firefox by default uses no more than 900 parallel HTTP connections (check your about:config page), and I assume this holds true for all windows/tabs combined - which is plenty.
Go for it @rishikeshs and when you are done, write in your newly created blog the entire procedure you followed so we can learn too ^_^
Somehow I don't think you'd be running the ad at the bottom of page 2 today.
Nope i dont. Not even sure if that's possible. Should not be too hard to add it.

The codebase is pretty rad. Rust makes it insanely fast, and the db schema alone thought me a few things about optimizing a PG schema for high perf.
It's great to see non-Western philosophy being treated seriously and on equal footing with the Western tradition. Too often it gets rolled into "religious philosophy." You can still catch whiff of it when certain ideas are called "Buddhist" or "Hindu" rather than being attributed to a certain author or book. That'd be like calling Kantian ideas "Christian Philosophy" - not entirely wrong, but very much over-simplified.
This approach also simplifies GDPR compliance.
https://www.localcdn.org/ is a fork that gets more frequent updates
> These days, it feels like the torch is being passed to the Arch based distros.

It does. What would you say are the features driving that? My guesses are:

1. Users find repository management painful or cumbersome, especially but not exclusively on deb-based distros. On Arch you've basically got a couple of distro repos plus a giant catch-all (the AUR) so there's no real repo management in practice.

2. Speed is a package manager's most visible, user-facing feature, and pacman is very fast, relatively speaking.

3. People have bad experiences of botched release upgrades, and most Arch-based distros just don't have those

4. The AUR has a very low barrier to entry, which substantially soothes the typical 'straying from the happy path' pain point, because it means there are easily available packages for novel, proprietary, and quirky or ill-behaved applications which can be difficult, impossible, or slow to get packaged and maintained so they can reside in a distro's main repos.
They did bypass it. IT students built and sold unscrambler devices.
Regarding bandwidth costs, there are new AWS services with much better pricing. I just happened to write about this here, https://www.vantage.sh/blog/nat-gateway-vpc-endpoint-savings
Thank you goodperson!! You made my week!
> A volcano, earthquake, or hurricane releases many TWh of energy, but not usefully so, for reasons.

I don't quite follow your point here. Presumably the issue with earthquakes and hurricanes is that they aren't dispatchable and the work environment for operating a plant is quite hazardous. The issue with volcanoes (although I'd bet we already do use volcanoes for power) could very easily be as simple as that they tend to be in difficult to reach locations because of the plate tectonics (ie, mountains) & the hot parts take a lot of drilling to get to.

If there is energy, we can find a use for it.
Harrison Bergerson.

That gifted students are disproportionately white or Asian reflects the value placed on education not racism. Outcomes will never be equal in a fair society. Provide equal opportunity. Those that take advantage will thrive. Those that don't, will not.
And reduces Google's ability to track you if you have are using an ad/tracker blocker.
Surely you are not processing data in this case though? The client (software) determines whether to make a connection to fonts.google.com. Your website never passed the information to google.
If you want to break the $200k TC barrier - leetcode seems to be the way to do it.

Does it suck? Yes.

Is it basically the only way to make real money in tech aside from toiling away with startup after startup. Also yes, from a person who spent five years thinking I was getting somewhere working for startups.
UI cares whether you resign voluntarily, vs your employer demands that you no longer work there. Tesla is trying to get employees to say "I quit", meaning they forfeit their rights. OP needs to get Tesla to say "You are no longer employed".
“One thing I don't think you should do is quit.”

Second. Under most circumstances, if you quit a job, you are not entitled to state Unemployment Insurance.

Not sure if this is what you’re referring to as ‘severance’ (what I usually think of as granted by the largesse of the employer).
This is the playbook though. It's used by everybody.

Microsoft, for example, has all of their certified developer programs. Company that use Microsoft development infrastructure like SQL Server end up getting huge discounts based on how many developers they have on staff with MS certs. This biases companies to hiring people with those certs, which reinforces the perception of value that developers have from getting the certs in the first place. Then when you have a ton of people on staff with MS certs you're NEVER going away from MS technology because at that point the company is so heavily invested in it.

It's very much an evil genius situation.

A few years back I worked for one of these companies and even though I wasn't doing much with the Microsoft stack in the company (they acquired a Rails company) I was still asked to go get an MS certification just to help with the discounts. I'm now a Microsoft certified HTML5/CSS3 developer, which after going through the IE6 years felt like the most ironic cert I could get.

The lock in mentality is very real though. As part of an architecture committee at that company, we went through many months of analysis for some of the issues that were being faced at the company. The root cause was simply limitations of SQL Server combined with horizontal scale out limitations due to licensing costs. There was absolutely nothing that could be done though, because the company wouldn't move away from SQL Server for any reason.

It was hard to watch.
More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web (2021)
The position was for county coroner. I don’t think proportional representation would have helped.

What is rcv? How would runoff’s help if there are only two candidates?
OSL is also the IATA metropolitan city code for Oslo, basically meaning "all airports around Oslo". Some booking engines support these for convenience - for example, ones using Sabre as a backend may support QSF (also listed in this file) for all airports around San Francisco. I flew to Oslo recently and know I saw OSL used as a metro code first on at least one booking engine. It doesn't really make sense to put these in a list of physically visited airports but I wouldn't expect most people to know the intricacies of IATA codes.

Why it's designed this way with namespace collisions, I have no idea. Technically QSF also is a tiny airport in Algeria.
Wrong, I received this in 2022.
Thank you! :) We have an RFC for adding this type of short lived tokens to Ory Kratos. If you want to go deeper in the security space, there is also Ory Hydra which supports things like Service Accounts using OAuth2 Client Credentials (with PKI!) as well as OAuth2 Token Exchange :)
Do you factor programming language and library and operating system and cpu architecture into your vendor locking and specific tooling you need to write?
Windows 11 update accidentally brings the OS to older machines
Why would you make line plots, with a category variable on the x-axis? Bar charts would be appropriate here.

Also, the lines seem to have way more line segments than there are labels on visible on the x-axis, so what do the graphs even mean? Are they based on a larger number of instance types than what the labels show? What are those non-labeled instances then?
Maybe not all but quite a few of them are. On news sites for instance almost everything that gets loaded besides the text of the news item and one or two images are bloat.
Thanks for sharing, gave me context.

But the parent comment and video were not worth the time at all.

Maybe I'm failing to see the value? Happy to reconsider if you have more perspectives.

It seems to me such video will only serve as fuel for cynic behavior. Which I wouldn't like to see more on HN.
I wouldn’t say its bonkers at all. That’s a good blog post not trying to lay a ton of blame on any one person. But having worked with Macromedia/Adobe and Mozilla engineers at the time who already successfully implemented a majority of the spec they were quite frustrated with everyone else looking for ways to slow things down or stop it wholesale.

We can’t change the past. Unfortunately we are reinventing a lot of what was done in that early work, but now with some strange syntax because of compatibility with dead features or 3rd party libraries that picked up the slack. At least we finally have a standard for importing packages…again.
There are always bugs that don't require extensive familiarity with a codebase. Even if it's easier than most day-to-day work, it still shows the candidate's approach to problem solving, how effective they are at reading code, allows them to show off some relevant domain knowledge, etc. And as a bonus, it easily works to weed out those people who don't actually know how to code.

> Especially not with someone looking over their shoulder deciding whether to hire them.

That would help in this case, since presumably the person looking over their shoulder is familiar with the codebase (or at least as much is relevant to the question), and can answer questions.

I think the signal-to-noise ratio on an exercise like that is going to be way better than with leetcode questions.
Those things are tiny and easily travelling at a few km/s, not sure how you could detect that
One has time and patience to practice for leet code interviews, while the other is too busy for it.
"Why is that? You can download everything for free. I don't think people use Netflix to access otherwise inaccessible content but rather because it's more convenient than searching for the right torrent link."

Some people aren't comfortable doing illegal, potentially immoral, things like torrents of copyrighted works.
If we're going by car metaphors, in this case HTTP would be the wheels of the car, though. It's what makes the web pages appear in your page.

HTTP is the wheels, HTML is the chassis, CSS is the paint and JS is the instrument panel. APIs are your roads and JS/CSS web frameworks are the upholstery and infotainment panel, nice pretty features that are easy to modify and customise, carried along by the rest of the stack.

I wouldn't expect web devs to read the browser source code to see how the sausage actually gets made, the fuel injection cycle so to say. However if you can't tell a HEAD from a GET or learn about Content-Type, Content-Security-Policy and all the other headers that will make or break your applicantion in practice, you're severely limiting yourself.
I keep a journal for all my professional work (IC and consulting). It is extremely useful:

- Detailed invoices for free

- Identify and communicate accomplishments over past X time frame

- Identify problems. i.e. we've been working on this for weeks and it's gone nowhere

I use Tap[0], my own creation, to send me a text reminder to capture a log for the day, and relay a digest back to me via email monthly.

[0] https://tatatap.com

edit: formatting
No, the Internet is fun, in moderation, and it pays the bills. But then I want to switch off, step outside my front door and sit in the grass, soothed by the sound of insects, birds and wind.
You are learning that perceived consensus on an upvote/downvote site doesn’t mean much because if 60% of people agree with something because of upvotes it seems like 99% do. Reddit rediscovers this every election.

People often downvote thoughtful discussions they disagree with. It’s tiresome to see your text fade with downvotes so often people don’t bother.

If you hang out on Hacker News you might also think every engineer thinks crypto is a scam and no engineers want to return to the office. Neither situation is the case but if you disagree with the majority on those topics you will get downvoted to oblivion, your comments won’t be visible after a point, so why bother?

I personally don’t care about the endless leetcode debate but it’s a bummer there’s so much exciting technological advances in crypto that can’t be discussed on this site without an army of “crypto=scam” bros emerging from the woodworks.
Signaling is definitely a thing!
RunKeeper's icon makes me remember I run. So I sit with better posture, maybe eat a little better. Because I will be less happy on my next run if I don't. Having that help with my physical health benefits my mental health pretty directly.
Amazon's Virtual Try-On Shoes
Symbiote: A New, Nearly-Impossible-to-Detect Linux Threat
Can also do it in Firefox on Windows.
A somewhat newish iPhone would be more powerful than the raspberry pi. And I have got good use out of the pi for hosting game servers for small numbers of users. You can also get old apple devices way cheaper than new equivalent single board computers.
Organisational know-how. If economic entities make a habit of sinking huge amounts of money into ventures with a high risk of failure then they disappear quite quickly (even governments, if the costs are high enough). The economic system is optimised to reward well calculated risk & evidence based decisions.

Looking at the graph in the tweet, I'd bet the strategy is patience. It seems clear that current research efforts will eventually produce net-positive-energy fusion, then the capitalists will start to swarm in. No need for anyone to take a big gambit.