skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know the school system in Singapore, but in the US, we have community colleges that accept everyone. Most people in your situation take a few classes at a community college to prove that they can succeed in that environment, and then try again with the university. If there are similar option in Singapore, I'd go that route.

I also am not familiar with the Singapore system, but that is my first thought as well. Also sometimes scoring high on a standardized test (if applicable in Singapore) can make up for some bad grades.
Related story discussed a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31957255 (165 comments)

Discussions on this link from years past:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22956832 (113 comments)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287 (106 comments)
Lisp did this to me for every other programming language.
Well this is not true because Biden has already started transitioning the US off fossil fuels without any long-duration energy storage and he is doing it in a historically inclusive manner[1].

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
> the free ad supported model supports millions of peoples livelihoods

That doesn't necessarily make it right. Online scamming also supports a lot of people's livelihoods.
That was going off of memory. I might be wrong about that part.
We had hype all the time. It's not recent invention. And in 48 years after 1973, per capita GDP increased 2.18x which, extrapolated to a 103 year interval (as between 1870 and 1973) means 5.32x increase which is almost as fast (6.7% slower, which is very easy to explain knowing that U.S. primary energy supply stopped growing in 1973 after skyrocketing in the century before).

In the last 50 years, Western civilisation learned how to do more with less. In the century before, we simply invented new and new ways of throwing more and more non-renewable resources onto all problems we had. Which isn't really all that hard to do - for as long as you may come up with sources for those resources.

Now we do better.
Would it be fair to say that all these problems would go away if a startup ISP was not trying to lease capacity from their direct (and much larger) competitor?

Or did I misunderstand why permits from Bell are required.
I tried to read The White Goddess about a year or two ago, and I gave up midway through. As much as I like Robert Graves, that book exists better in its ideas than its execution: the prose itself read more like a brain-dump by a clearly brilliant individual than a focused work. I'm not a Classics expert by any stretch, but t consider myself reasonably well-versed in Greek mythology and history/archaeology of the ancient world. Nonetheless, Graves writing makes no distinction between fact and assertion, and so it's quite hard to tell at times which is which. If he says something like "Hercules was originally a cult-hero worshipped in Crete", is that a fact, or his assertion? Should I expect a footnote to substantiate it, or is that such a well-known fact among Classical scholars that it's my deficiency for not knowing it?

His book has about fifty of these on every page. It's bloody difficult to follow, as a result.

I think he did a much better job, to be honest, when he implemented his White Goddess theory into his retelling of Jason and the Argonauts, Hercules My Shipmate. At least there you understood the theory through the context of the narrative.
This is why I always read the comments first. Thank you :)
Another good reason for a protocol is that there are limited places where you can run this cli. If I started using this and later needed to access a password from my phone, I would have a lot of hoops to jump through.

On second thought, maybe the fact that this only has a command line interface is a good indicator that it isn’t meant to be what I think of as a password manager.
I would say it’s logical deduction. Communication is when you send information, including something I can’t possibly know ahead of time.
I definitely agree, but can’t argue with the end results that Daft Punk come up with (they’re not really my kind of genre but I don’t think you can argue they make great songs) and there aren’t that many artists out there making such catchy and successful sample based songs, so they definitely still have some skills which are quite unique (but maybe it’s more like deep music knowledge and recognising catchy hooks, than surgically splicing samples together)
Consider crypto payments as cash payments and the problem(your expectations from a payment provider) is "solved"
> but this is mostly a question of rate limiting account creation, assigning a trustworthiness score to different accounts, some network analysis to detect coordinated accounts, and having some trusted accounts (run by the project) that can help double check results.

You make it sound easy. ;)
At some point, if yours is the only one left standing from that era, it becomes timeless. Coco-Cola management was very conservative throughout most of the 20th century.
Sixth Tone represents a sort of progressive Shanghai-based view of China that is more palatable to people in democratic countries than the usual party line reporting. But, to be sure, the level of criticism is still always below the threshold of what the party deems acceptable. That doesn't mean the stories aren't pertinent or interesting, but it's worth keeping in mind that they will only ever go so far in reporting the facts on the ground. You may see criticism of corrupt behavior or generally "uncivilized" practices, but not of the broader party policies that led to the situation. In China, this is the best you can hope for.
that model works to onboard a sector of the pie, the experience of hunting and pecking through a store is a familiar experience, mimicking the array of icons UI so common to phones, and app stores. having a "store" brings all the various ...downloaditfroms... to a centralized place of one stop shopping. thats the level of convienience expected by general consumers, and thats required to make the wedge of the pie widen and become a little more stable. The bigger issue is that FOSS is seen as difficult, dangerous, what hackers do, etc due to marketing forces, and the effort to keep people safe from the internet
I didn’t realise his stuff was all sample based. I’ve heard some of it and saw him live once, it’s a bit “frenetic” for me (I’m drawn to smoother more hypnotic stuff in general) but definitely cool!
> Jon Stewart popularized the format of taking a subject and reducing it to a very narrow aspect, mocking it, and associating audience applause with “winning”.

[citation required]
Extremely web centric list. Any other development (mobile, desktop, games, embedded, …) will find a lot of these steps very weird.
> where you almost an't see the difference.

Which is 100% an intentional dark pattern designed to maximize profits for the ad economy by tricking you into looking at something you don't want to look at. If users liked ads and found them useful, their brains wouldn't automatically learn to tune them out. On the contrary, if ads were so valuable to users, it would be a plus to make it easier to see them!

I mean, search engines throw an absolutely enormous amount of computational power at "organically" discovering, classifying, indexing, and searching the entire internet for the most relevant and useful results, and then the dollar machine instantly demotes them below paid placement. The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Still hoping that Iain Banks' estate accepts some of that money.
All great books. I'd throw in "The Singer of Tales" by Albert Lord, which can really shift your thinking about how oral traditions work. For pure music, I'd highly recommend "The Rest is Noise", by Alex Ross.
So I have a medium sized koi pond in a residential area. The frogs have insane orgies in there every year. When the tadpoles finally turn into frogs the size of raisins I have to watch where I walk when heading to my car or coming back in so I don't step on them since they are everywhere. 1.4 million is a lot of frogs, and I don't think even my frog orgy produces that many.
Sure it applies, but that’s why binding contracts were invented. Otherwise it would be a free-for-all with everyone claiming “I’m only human!”
We will need it later, you can't go 100% 0 carbon without it. Just running peaker generators, figuring out how to heat/cool houses, charge EVs when there is surplus, ... are all cheaper alternatives to storage, but won't cover everything
It isn't FUD if it is still true for a majority of deployments, even new ones.

One popular example: EV chargers still rely on easily cloneable Mifare Classic for access and billing and are only very slowly changing over to more secure alternatives. And in case it isn't obvious: Mifare Classic security problems were literally more than a decade old knowledge when EV chargers started to be deployed.

https://community.nxp.com/t5/NFC/good-alternative-for-EV-cha...

It isn't FUD if reality is that bad...
First few comments have focused on the CO2 compression storage, but that's just one of many technologies the article talks about. It's worth a read. For that matter so is this whole quarterly special section on climate change and energy technology: https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2022-06-25

Pumped hydro is the largest current energy storage system we have deployed. There's a lot of interest in chemical batteries but they're expensive, particularly given how fast the batteries degrade.
Licking 9V batteries should be a rite of passage for EE majors. That and playing capacitor hot potato.
I think the current answers to your questions are fairly inadequate - so I'm going to give you a more nuanced answer.

> Is this not just competition working the way it's supposed to?

Yes. This is competition working exactly as you would expect it to in a free market: One company is a dominant supplier, and they are able to match rates for a new entrant. They are able to out compete this new company, and they will do so - more marketing, lobbying, cost matching (or undercutting), etc. They have the ability to beat the competition, and they will.

So everything is going exactly as you'd expect - except the points from the parents comment still apply: the consumers in this market are actually getting fucked - the price drop will be temporary, the competitor will be forced out of business and leave, and the total infrastructure investment in the area will go down.

This is what's termed "Market failure". The free market here operates in a way that doesn't increase the well being of all (or even most) participants.

So yes - this is just competition playing out as we'd expect in a free market, but instead of doing what it normally does in an area (force infrastructure updates, service improvements, cost reductions, and higher efficiency as companies compete - all good things) it's doing bad things. Why?

Well - this case is the literal textbook definition of a "Natural monopoly". It turns out that when competition appears, Bell is able to outcompete them not by actually improving, but by leveraging existing infrastructure and scale in a way that the startup company cannot.

The free market isn't making Bell better - they're not having to work any harder or improve. That's great for Bell, but pretty bad for everybody else.

So (at least in theory) we regulate this case of the free market, because we've seen that "normal competition" doesn't actually work here.
Like I said in my very first sentence, sometimes it takes a spade to call a spade. I’m okay with arrogance punching itselves in the face.
That sounds interesting. Do you have a link? Or more details? Ta.
The US Copyright Office on June 29, 2022, rejected a copyright applicatio (cont)
The comment could also be read to mean that race is irrelevant to the crimes and shouldn't usually be reported.

As it stands, the media is a bit selective in reporting the race of suspects, to the point of misinforming readers.
Innovative technologies need time and capital for R&D.

Without the climate crisis, doing this R&D only once the technology becomes required and therefore economically feasible would be fine. But with the current decarbonization targets, you cannot just build renewables until you hit a threshold, and only then start testing out storage methods while putting the green energy infrastructure industry into hibernation for 20 years. We pretty much need to do everything, right now, at the same time.

This is also why there is a big economic advantage of hydrogen storage. Decarbonizing steel and ammonia production with blue hydrogen (i.e. electrolysis using electricity created with the current fossil fuel heavy generation mix) is already a big potential market which is already kind of feasible, reducing the need for government subsidies to get the tech off the ground.

Once the R&D, production and sales pipelines for blue hydrogen are up-and-running, you just scale up with increasingly mature technology. Then transition the energy input from carbon-intensive to carbon-neutral. This should happen automatically, as green electricity is the cheapest form of energy, and the hydrogen production acts as an energy-sink for any surplus production, mitigating those adverse market pressures acting on renewables after you reach a certain percentage threshold on renewable energy generation. Only then you eventually ramp up the use as energy storage via normal market mechanisms.

Unfortunately the media always seems to put the cart before the horse. Energy storage is not the first step, but should be the last.
"Impressive" isnt really a category for me, but also, I havent mentioned that my issue concerns how impressive anything is.

I am, yes, anti-wonder; I do think people get hopped-up on wonder and that lowers their threshold for reasonable belief and they end up in (religious) absurdities.

My issue here, in these terms, is that the "wonder" associated with the magic trick of modern ML is preducing a gross cognitive bias in which people believe this is an example of intelligence; or otherwise, an example like us in some significant sense. This leads to pseudoscience, charlatanism and a religious techno-utopian faith.

At the heart of it is a wonder-scam in the vein of all miracle-based shysterism. The fool looks at the miracle, is impressed out of all reason, and concludes miracles exist.

For sure, I dont really trade in wonder and I have never found it to do anything other than profoundly distort people's beliefs.
With police departments, it might be worse. Imagine any local news outlet frozen out of police communications. The choice is to cease to exist, or to fire or demote the person that the cops want fired or demoted. If you live in the US, the reason you've seen 900 videos of cops dancing with children, opening fire hydrants, and handing out toys (on every network news show on the same day) is because they're press released by the cops, and there will be retaliation if the videos don't get on the air.
Rebuild the Internet Narrative (Part 1)
> 11. Do you include ticket IDs in your commits or branches?

This is one of the things that sound 'good' on the surface and are totally worthless in practice (especially when practicing minimal commits).

In the wild this devolves into a meaningless umbrella issue (Deliver Feature Foo) or 1 liner issues that sometimes did not even match the pr contents.

Just use the commit message and in pr review enforce commit message norms.
Not really. The process is what keeps IT guys from being overloaded by 5 people competing who is going to push them harder so that their issue take priority. Or simultaneously screaming at them when they will be done. And it prevents them from drowning in issues reported by multiple channels (mail, chat and phone) spending time trying to organize them into single queue or figuring one which mail has additional information to what was said in which phone call.

Process like jira tickers are literally the thing that improves quality of life of non-idle IT worker.

Your example is actually example of the above. You want your screw to be treated as #1 priority right now. Allowing the technician to finish what he was doing and only then get to your request is not fast enough. But, with that being the norm, work becomes jumping between tasks and trying to finish three things parallelly. It becomes impossible or super ineffective to finish larger tasks.
When I was an undergrad first learning about Semantic Web, this idea was so obvious it was frustrating that it didn't already exist. It would make current citation seem primitive. Different fields would perhaps follow different citation ontologies, analogous to citation/bibliography formats today.

Imagine what it would do to literature review to draw from a 'tree of knowledge' of all the supporting texts of a work, or to see all the work that claims to derive particular meaning from some seminal work.

>Most academics can't even be bothered to write alt-text for their images, so any extra labour is likely to be resisted.

This is probably true, and it will ultimately mean authors sacrificing their agency over the semantic understanding of their writing; allowing e.g. Google Scholar to decide the meaning of their works' relationship to the literature.
hmmm....whilst the Roman Empire (like all true Empires) was multi-ethnic, it was nevertheless predominantly what we today understand as 'white', and it was certainly male dominated, with very clear gender roles. We may well need to refresh the syllabus to be more inclusive but have got to wary of retrofitting todays values onto a society which did not hold them. Human diversity, includes cultural diversity, and we have been super diverse throughout history in how we structure our relations with one another
The table in the article indicates a 70-80% round trip efficiency for electricity storage to liquid CO2.
Google, Apple, other Big Tech firms face antitrust investigation over AV1 licens
You are probably thinking of a global surplus in a sense “when renewable energy worldwide exceeds our energy needs”. But right now we have a local time based surplus (i.e. solar works during the bright days, wind farms work when wind blows etc) that does not make sense to export too far, where there is a need. Hence storing some share of this energy is important.
All of these are compelling reasons to take this course. I do believe you've talked me into it.
> We will need it later, you can't go 100% 0 carbon without it.

I think this is just what capitalist is trying to make people believe, the economy will adapt and jobs are already booming as the unemployment in US is at a historic low which shows just how historically strong the economy is [1].

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Doesn't that cover most organized religions?
Since people are having trouble believing this, here are some relevant regulations:

CFR § 95.1761 GMRS transmitter certification.

(a) Each GMRS transmitter (a transmitter that operates or is intended to operate in the GMRS) must be certified in accordance with this subpart and part 2 of this chapter.

CFR § 95.1761 GMRS transmitter certification.

... No GMRS transmitter will be certified for use in the GMRS if it is equipped with the capabilities to operate in services that do not require equipment certification, such as the Amateur Radio Service....

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-D...
It’s an important reason, but being connected enough to get noticed and getting the right instruction to succeed are also major pieces of the puzzle.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/left-out
Are functions part of the course? Functions are both extremely practical for real world problems where code is repeated but with different values, as well as of course being fundamental to the theory of computation.

I very much enjoy introducing my pupils to functions. It is the first time they really get to use the computer as a tool for accelerating their abilities. Up until then, their code has utility in the order of how much they wrote. Functions can let you write a page of code that does so much more.
Ask HN: Is your mobile phone more expensive than your personal computer?
> Voting helps bubble up the best top-level comments.

Does it? Seems like early top-level comments take on a life of their own. Everyone wants to reply to the top top-level comment (possibly to maximize the chances of their own comment getting noticed, or possibly just because it's the first thing they see on the page). And the way HN is designed, with discussions expanded by default, you may have to scroll down quite ways on the page to even get to another top-level comment, much less multiple top-level comments.

Crazy idea: how about presenting comments at each level in a random order on each page load, and get rid of voting? There could still be flagging to hide the worst comments.
If I tried really hard to devil's advocate that position:

"If my boss can't start this 90 min Zoom call that could be an email because his headset is broken, that is some sweet blessed relief from this drudgery."
I run squash-only repos. You can't just run a squash-only repo though; the practice is linked with things like trunk-based or branch-based development. More broadly, a single "thing" (feature/bug fix/task) needs to be done in a single merge.

That gets tricky too - what about features being developed by multiple engineers? Generally, I create a branch that embodies the full scope of work and devs treat that as the default branch while working on it - merging their branches into that one. That branch needs to be consistently rebased to be kept up to date in order to avoid conflicts, and devs will sometimes need to merge or rebase their own branches based on that branch. Usually, this isn't too complicated, unless someone buries their head in the sand for a little too long (pun intended.)

This also means that all CI jobs have to be configured to use the current branch rather than a static target - which makes logic a bit more complicated when dealing with things like E2E tests that create real environments.

What does it accomplish? A linear, well-constructed history and it ensures resilient CI jobs. The other side of that, is that the real product branch gets a very organized history, while feature development branches can have non-standard commit messages like, "I screwed up", and can allow force pushes that can't be done on my default branches. This allows for both clean history and me to not be policing people's commit messages. If you value none of those things, it's a total waste of time and energy.
No. My video card cost as much as my phone.
> What should have happened is everything closes for 2 weeks, the virus dies, and we go back to normal. We should all know who fucked that up.

ROFL Yeah, that worked so great for China or for everyone since we had flu.

Closing schools had no impact on virus, not saving hospitals from overflowing. Hospitals were not overflowing with school kids or their parents.
Politicians need to pick skilled policymakers. This can be done either by being good at policy themselves so that they can identify this skill in others, or by having above average people skills so they can identify it that way.
I never noticed that they'd replaced their distinctive red-white-blue logo (1950-2008) with something that looks more like a basketball than anything else.
Apple responds after woman describes ‘nightmare’ of being ‘tracked’ by AirTag
TCO for EVs in the EU already crossed over, so they'll actively increase the standard of living by introducing EVs:

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/analysis/...
Keep wishing, it might turn into reality.
I used to be a big proponent of rebase+squash, but migrated everyone to merge+no-ff. I needed the previous commit to be easily accessible for CI purposes, and merge+no-ff gives it to you without the additional hassle of rebasing.
How hard does it get later on? This looks very tame and quite fun.
In comparison, here in Hungary our "Basic computer science" was filled to the brim with graph theory and was absolutely joyless.