skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the technical use of the word "cult": "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object". As is "the cult of Diana" and not "the Branch Davidian or The Children of God cults."
Fred Wilson: Some Thoughts on Twitter (Continued)
EU level energy emergency measures. So much time lost already since late February. Measures would have to radically focus on short term returns to yield a timely effect.

Some ideas to evaluate, in no particular order. Some are (close to mainstream), others elephant's shit:

- accelerated LNG terminal buildouts (butchering Nordstream 2 and making it a terminal at the coast, ...)

- EU level natural gas purchasing

- carrots for lowering per capita energy consumption: insulation, contests, subsidies, ...

- temporary ban on use of cars with >= 3l engines

- 100 km/h EU wide maximum speed limit

- no private jet traffic except for medical emergencies

- temporarily extend/unmothball coal and nuclear electricity plants
- temporary regulatory relaxation on wood harvesting for heating purposes

- 24/7 production at any and every solar panel, wind turbine, insulation and heat pump manufacturer
- faster rollout of planned (hvdc) interconnects
- EU wide helicopter money for paying energy bills or lowering them: per capita, differentiated by climate zone

- (possibly) concentrate large solar and green hydrogen projects in southern EU (higher immediate returns)

- intensive direct wage support for employees in temporarily loss-leading energy intensive sectors

- ..._
what is a police state?
Must be annoying… Sounds like a poorly communicated capacity planning thing though?
The real future is a fully distributed series of microgrids, which affords all of distributed generation, smart grid coordination, and resilience. If you want to work on this, think about joining Enphase, which makes grid-forming microinverters and the software to coordinate on a micro and macro level: https://enphase.com/careers

A 'smart grid' that continues to give utilities a mainframe style monopoly position will not work and will never be the solution. They simply aren't capable of building or maintaining the infrastructure, at any price.

Or email me if interested.
GitHub Copilot is the first real product based on large language models
> High level humans and chess engines play differently. You can see commentary on chess YouTube videos when they run across cheaters.

That's similar to people describing how to catch other frauds, such as fake Amazon comments or bots. It's medieval 'science': They usually have no evidence of their accuracy, either false negatives (frauds who they overlook) and false positives (people falsely accused of fraud). So it's easy to say, 'this is how to identify them' - nobody will ever test your claim.

Regarding false negatives, for example, there is reason to believe that people detect only the obvious frauds, and that our detection becomes tuned for the obvious. Regarding false positives, people will cite the 'obvious' positives - e.g., some humanly impossible property - but even if they are correct, the problem is the cases in the grey area. False accusations are no joke.

Ironically, now we want a bot to solve our problems. What data do we have to say that it's accurate, or any more accurate than we are?
OP and their family of course, since OP clearly believes animal lives are as valuable, if not more, than humans'.
The second best time to change course is today.
There is an ideological attachment to the gig company. See Macron trying to change the labor laws in France. In Macron's mind, France is "uncompetitive" and so Uber is like a straight-to-the-veins routing around the political system to change that.
Still, isn’t it more likely for the occupants to survive when a plane lands without power, assuming a decent landing spot?
You're posting on Hacker News, shouldn't you know basics of statistics or at the very least about anecdote vs data? I don't know anyone who voted Trump, does that mean no one did?
Indeed. Note that Swiss Watch exports to Hong Kong alone (7m inhabitants) were more than to the USA (330m inhabitants) in the last decade, until HK's recent demise. Asia is a 3 to 4 times bigger market than North America; Europe is between those.

So, it is no wonder that the number 8 figures prominently.

In 2021, in Swiss watch exports in CHF bn:

to USA, China about 3 each; HK about 2; Japan about 1.5; Italy, Germany, Singapore, UAE, France about 1 each.

http://www.fhs.swiss/scripts/getstat.php?file=histo_regions_...

http://www.fhs.swiss/pdf/regions_210112_a.pdf
I think the gotcha here is they are saying : safer === less deaths.
If you purely want the safety of power sources at a minimum you have to look at deaths, unnecessary human suffering and also potential for long term deaths & suffering. I think another thing that I find missing from the article is acknowledgement of the long term challenge of safely storing nuclear waste and the potential loss of life/suffering it could cause in the future.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster
Six Ground-Breaking New Linux Laptops Released in the Last Two Weeks
I’m thankful you posted this. As a male with ulcerative colitis, I have a continuous fear that I will get PSC some time in my life.
I wish all the best for your daughter and while I’m not a US citizen, I wish I could support your cause.
In what field is it technical? I have a degree in Religious Studies and we were taught it was strictly jargon.
Sure, but why bother? These 3 plants would only add a tiny bit to the German electricty production. They really won't be missed. And they cannot be used to replace gas, as gas power plants are used for quick responses, not base load.
If the system suspects a cheater, maybe it can just match them up against a GM (or beyond GM) bot to confirm?
Forget Perl.

I used to randomly do a thing or two in it because it seems like "there's a CPAN for that".

Once in a great, great while I'll have a script that's part of something that needs a change.

But I won't write it if I don't have to. Why would I? Python has too many advantages and also has all the libraries I could want. My co-workers know it, it's easy to read and write...
I saw a university accrediting its new engineering department during a tour. It is a bunch of bueracracy and standards as opposed to something adhoc and fiefdom style. In that case the first few waves of graduates were conditionally accredited as graduates were required to accredit. Standards here seemed to be aligned in interests - they want to preserve reputations more than gatekeep. Given the sheer university volume gatekeeping is a dubious approach anyway.
The Uber propaganda here in this thread is insane. Taxi’s maybe have been shit but that does not in anyway justify Uber breaking the law to conquer the market (btw, now that they’ve done that, they’ve also turned to shit because it was unsustainable).

Perfect may be the enemy of good but we shouldn’t excuse companies using endless VC money and law breaking to achieve something that’s marginally better for consumers.

Obviously there are some exceptions to this in the comments but generally, in modern countries where the taxi firms aren’t run by literal mafias and killing people, we should condemn Uber’s behaviour.
Great suggestions. Thank you.
There is no Perl 6. They finally woke up to the fact that the Perl 6 never-ending development was hurting the language, and now it’s a completely different project (Raku).
To prevent "freezing to death" would require heating, not electricity, which Germany has enough. It is the house heating that is powered by gas. And no one is going to freeze to death, the question is only the impact onto industry.
There are many aspects where the analogy is flawed, when talking about the electrical grid, e.g. you will have different types of loads (capacitive, resistive, inductive) and those loads will change the way your grid behaves. This is not something that you have in fluid dynamics at all (to my knowledge) yet any grid operator who would ignore such things would have their gear just explode.
Yes. I was so new I didn't know that a cell full of ####### meant the column was too narrow.
While I don't agree with Fred Wilson's thoughts on Twitter I posted this because I do feel his opinion is important. For those too young to remember his firm was the first to invest in Twitter and he was on the board for a number of years.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netravnen/well-known-anyca...

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-wilhelm-grow-anycast-c...
Now we have a computer effectively accusing people of fraud (if I understand correctly). How does Irwin address the obvious risks and dangers?
Absolutely. There are still some good articles in the NYT but more and more is just political flak. There's probably a core of an insight in this piece, but I find with the NYT and especially the NYT's opinion section that I have to read several times and work hard to see beyond the cant.
From Monmouth to Malory: A Guide to Arthurian Literature
https://github.com/lakinwecker/irwin has more recent commits and I think is what actually runs on Lichess, or at least close to it. Not sure much fundamentally changed though. This isn't "the whole of Lichess' anticheat". It's a tool doing one specific thing which it mostly has been doing that way since it was created. There are a bunch of other parts to cheat detection, some of which are much more recent developments. For example kaladin, which has also been linked in the other thread about Lichess. But there's a fair bit more. Understandably though, Lichess doesn't really talk much about all of them, even though pretty much all of it is open source if you know where to look and how to use it.
We've banned this account for trolling.

Abusing HN like this will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you know that most likely nobody died from radiation after Fukushima? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
> Harvard’s course seems to be aimed at people who are coders or want to be better at coding, so you learn about different languages, algorithms/data structures, SQL and such.

Hard disagree on this one. I learned how to program from CS50 with no prior experience. That introduction got me interested enough to pursue it as a career. I would highly recommend it for anyone who just wants to see what the whole programming thing is all about.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32049189.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048489.
This.

Things aren't going so well at work? Work harder. Work more. Then burn out and quit, of course.
Okay, so how do we know that A wasn't like that all along?

edit; Been trying to read up on this, i think i get it; Its a random outcome whether B has been looked at or not, but when you check them later, they are opposite pairs randomly distributed.
Very strange understanding of the word "evidence".

No sane SSD manufacturer would do such thing on purpose. You do it and you loose business, that's it.

The simplest explanation is that somebody made an honest engineering mistake.
Hyper-fast solitons in Einstein-Maxwell-Plasma Theory (2020)
Fascinating -- What about the SmackMBU breakdown made you lose all respect? Love that Rage sample they used in that track -- iconic! Sampling/Curating/Slicing is an art in itself.
Someone pointed out on the other thread that it could be 2^57 nanoseconds:

>>> 2**57/10**9/3600
40031.996687737745
Lasers reveal an ancient Amazonian civilisation
A government is a law unto themselves. They have power to do what they need in times of war. Germany shouldn't be pulling a Chamberlain moment while Russia is hot to commit genocide in Europe and roll over whoever they want.
To me they're the timekeeping equivalent of pole vaulting yourself onto the second floor. A normal person would use stairs, but it's impressive and even cheered on by a bunch of onlookers when someone can do it just by jumping on a long stick.
So basically, poor man's Nototo?
Here, Canada, it's Delissio. It may be the same thing though.

For me, out of the brands I can try locally, its crust seems best.
> but people murdering others

What is stopping them murdering Uber drivers?
Your story seems a caricature and makes little sense. "Uber saved my country from assassins"

Which country it was? Wich political party?
You are linking to uranium production, not the production of fuel rods.

And yes, the nuclear power plants produce less CO2 than coal. No doubt about that. But that is the consequence of a decision over 10 years ago. Unfortunately, the same government who decided that, didn't built up renewables at the required speed, actually slowed down the buildup of renewables.

This is going to change now rapidly.
Yes, an enterprisey firmware update - all very boring until BLAM!
> some kind of phenomenon that happens to photons but only when they travel great distances. Or that maybe the space(-time) is not uniform

I think people have explored the photons thing with regard to “solving” dark matter, and found the evidence lacking. As for spacetime… trivially yes, but I don’t think this is what you meant? I mean, spacetime being non-uniformly curved just means there’s stuff in it, and that is literally one of the things we can directly observe, and we see that in e.g. the Bullet Cluster the dark matter kept moving when the visible matter collided and slowed down.

> What happens if JWST sees galaxies that, according to their redshift, were formed before the supposed moment of the big bang?

If, after careful work to exclude all other possibilities, then a party and a Nobel prize.
What is your $/kwh rate? I've also been a resident of the desert southwest, but that bill seems insane, about 5x what my bills were. At the time, I think we were paying around $0.13/kwh peak and $0.09/kwh off-peak. You may just have a much nicer/bigger spread, though
No we don’t.
It's a flat watch - no doubt mechanically clever, but it also happens to be jarringly ugly.

There's an entire economy dedicated to pandering to the pretensions of the vulgar rich, and it certainly fits in there.

But as a design classic - no.
Unfortunately it doesn’t even matter. The infrastructure simply doesn’t exist and takes many months to build. Germany could choose to buy from anywhere but it doesn’t matter, there’s no way to get the gas to where it’s needed in time for winter.
This one seems like a genuine attempt to train for valuable trades while providing some of the college trappings. It’s also significantly cheaper than most grifty schools like ITT Tech or Devry. Though I couldn’t find anywhere saying they’re a non-profit.

If they do a decent liberal arts portion of the Catholic studies the students would gain a good grasp on reading, writing, and history with some philosophy too.

Their mission page actually has some interesting parts about their view of the dignity of manual trades and labor: https://www.collegeofstjoseph.com/mission-and-vision

To be honest many employers will also see “BA” and “college” and not look further since they don’t actually care; it’s just a filtering mechanism.
The author mentions demand charges where a substantial part of the bill is based on the peak capacity available to you at the most congested time rather than energy unit charges. In many places, large customers already pay this way.

In France, which has low marginal production but high capacity costs due to its nuclear fleet, even residential customers have been charged this way for a long time. It's easy to charge anyone this way now with smart meters but the way that EDF did it historically is that your meter has a circuit breaker set to the peak that you've paid for. Go over, the breaker trips and you need to reduce load and reset. (Of course there is a safety circuit breaker with higher rating as well). If you want more capacity, you pay for it and they come and install a bigger breaker.

I do think that future electricity networks, energy will be cheap most of the time but peak power at congested times will be very expensive. That's pretty inevitable with the grid mixes being proposed since the grid will be net over-supplied most of the time (energy very cheap) and very occasionally undersupplied (energy very, very expensive). This asymmetry arises from the asymmetry between the economic cost of too much energy (linear economic loss to the producer) and too little (non-linear loss to everyone). This is intuitive: A grid that has too much energy 1% of the time is fine, not enough 1% of the time is three days of blackouts a year.
Uber is well known for paying to manipulate on-line discourse.
The amount of propaganda just adds to my grievances towards the company.
Back in the day if you were working as a contractor you'd quote a price that reflected your higher costs. Let's say I'm an employee in a software company, that company may offer health insurance, if may provide me with a laptop, it may provide me with an office, it may provide me with severance pay if it lays me off, it will cover the various overheads of said office (electricity, insurance, whatnot). So if I'm an employee and I make $100/hour and I switch to being a contractor for that same job the company might expect to pay me $150/hour or $200/hour. Companies that employ contractors in that manner are fine. If a contractor is paid $70/hour vs. the full time employee $100/hour before overhead that's exploitation. A business that bends the laws so it can get away with attacking the business model of companies that are decent while at the same time exploiting employees shouldn't have a right to exist, isn't that pretty much the business model of organized crime?
> we still experience all of the same thoughts, feelings, vices, worries, failings and dreams that anyone who has ever kept a written record has throughout history

That I agree with to an extent. I don't have thoughts that a witch cursed me, for example, or that I can accuse people based on a revelation rather than objective evidence.

> Our wider scale dealings and political intrigues are largely the same

Unless I misunderstand your meaning, that claim is clearly untrue. There was no democracy, rule of law, freedom, etc. etc. etc. for most of human history. We handled political issues much differently; intrigues don't involve murder and civil war.
You may want to check out Snaplet at https://docs.snaplet.dev. I'm the co-founder, but we're not open-source (yet.) Our goal is to give developers a database, and data, that they can code against.

We identify PII by introspecting your database, suggest fields to transform, and provide a JavaScript runtime for writing transformations.

Besides transforming data, you can reduce, and generate data. We are most excited about data-generation!

The configuration lives in your repository, and you can capture the snapshots in GitHub Actions. So you get "gitops workflow" for data.

A typical git-ops workflow:

1. Add a schema migration for a new column.
2. Add a JS function to generate new data for that column.
3. Add core to use the new column.
4. Later, once you have data, use the same function to transform the original value. (Or just keep generating it.)
Yes and no. Unaccredited are a red flag but proven abilities shows it was legitimate enough. Still makes it harder to get through the door with an unaccredited degree. Which is reason to care.
So does everything else.
I genuinely wonder if this has anything to do with China not having to deal with loud people on twitter. What I mean is that the politicians in the USA regularly require things from the military based on political points and virtue signaling since the military is easily under their control. China on the other had is free to do what is most effective regardless of what is the "in" thing politically.
Waffle parties and Hawaiian shirt days come to mind.
Related:

The Curse of Konzo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16979456 - May 2018 (5 comments)
This is a good reason (for the purposes of stability), but IMO a misuse of `Result` in the standard library. It really ought to be something custom, closer perhaps to `ControlFlow`[1] (which is newer). But even that's not a great fit.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/enum.ControlFlow.html
Russia’s Giant Submarine, Carrying Nuclear Powered Nuclear Torpedos
My experience was the opposite. I went in with absolutely no programming experience. It took me a week to figure out how to do the first problem set (boy are loops ever amazing).

CS50 got me interested enough in programming to pursue it as a career. I have a CS degree now, and work at a well known tech company.

I don’t think the audience is “people who know some programming already.” It is designed for absolute beginners and assumes very little about your prior programming knowledge. I recommend it to any beginner looking to see what computer science is about.
How did you find out that it uses stuff from other websites? Reverse image search?
The same people benefit every time (the reactionaries). It's hard to believe that is coincidence.
I’ve heard people say variations of “Trump won because people say latinx” hundreds of times from centrists.
Rules are meant to be broken. That's how progress occurs. The courts will decide what, if any, sanctions to apply. This is as it should be in a liberal democracy.
>>>> Presumably not wanting to engage Sagan in a string of legal proceeding

I had to read that 3 times. I read that sentence as a Corporation... not wanting to settle with lucifer himself....
"bends the knee" might be buying gas at 1/10th the price and considering it a huge win for the terrorist state called russia
The Dollop just plagiarizes content from other sources. They have a (not always complete) list of sources on their website, but on the podcast itself, they read other sources word-for-word without giving attribution:

https://www.damninteresting.com/appendices/dollop-exhibits/n...

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/07/15/how-a-comedy-podc...
We do this via Copycat (https://github.com/snaplet/copycat). We generate static "fake values" by hashing your original value to a number, and map that to a fake-value.
Perl is great.

The lack of stackoverflow questions probably has something to do with code written 10, 15, even 20 years ago still working, without a need to constantly rewrite it, because language writers change the language every two versions, or distro mainatainers decide to deprecate the language.
> I have a degree in Religious Studies and we were taught it was strictly jargon.

sounds like you were in a cult
Thanks for the context - I haven't spent a ton of time looking around but it does seem like there are several moving parts (and evidently some important stuff isn't in the same github org)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)

just like 'cultic practice' is used in the article which is not related to the 'New Religious Movement' meaning.
Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity (1994)
Being an asshole is something you can only be as a result of interaction with others in some way. A perfect hermit can’t be an asshole. Therefore, assuming being an asshole means your interactions with others are negatively felt, you’re therefore imposing your will on others at the expense of others. It’s fundamentally anti/democratic and anti-social. The reason that’s important is because we live in a society and well functioning society requires its members to play nice. Otherwise it begins to fall apart. In other words, I’m saying you should logically choose to not be an asshole. Assuming of course you gain some benefit from being part of a functioning society.
Right. There is no dispute that the Bavarian forests are still strongly contaminated from the Chernobyl disaster and will be for many decades. You still have somewhat to be careful to eat mushrooms from there and especially wild boar.
git-gui/gitk

... wait those are actually Tcl.
Maybe when winter comes, 1% will make all the difference. We will see
What makes you think it didn't work out? Seems like they're still offering quite a few "experiences" on their website.