skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a GDPR point of view the scraper would be acting as a data processor on behalf of their customer, no different from using a cloud storage service for your contacts. It's fine as long as the third-party doesn't misuse the scraped data or share it with third-parties and there's no evidence they did so in this case.
> But if you work somewhere where they do software development on the side (science, hardware, etc..) it is the main issue

I have seen this working in finance. I worked at a startup with a quant, and my job became waiting for him to go home at 6 so I could clean up his code and make it maintainable the next day. Now I don't blame him- his background was operations research and he was a professor prior, without any real software background. But, he would get legit mad at me for messing with his code. We had a really tense relationship for awhile. I would occasionally break things, but he didn't really have tests until much later, so it was hard to detect and there were often subtle side effects.

But anyway, I think for awhile he thought I was just a pain in the ass, until one day about 9 months after we started the project, and he wanted to run some experiments using a specific universe of securities, and just apply a few constraints to them, and I set this up for him in about 5 lines of code, and all of a sudden, I could just see the light bulb finally turn on for him as to why I was doing all of these things. After that day we became a lot more friendly.
> But I was feeling charitable

Making assumptions about the other person that set you up to argue against whatever position that entails is not what it means to be charitable. It is the opposite. It is uncharitable. (At least to the other person; it's charitable, perhaps, to you.)

> neither post has any purpose

Wrong. It has the same purpose now as it did from the beginning—reminding/alerting people to the fact that using backslashes in paths just because you're talking about Windows is not necessary.
I think I figured out why they like it.

There's an E (for economics) plan outlined as a proposed solution, that assumes we'll deploy a lot of the cheapest energy source, whatever that is. It then also assumes (!) that onshore wind will cost the same as Nuclear and offshore wind will cost more. Put those two assunptions together and you get a plan with lots of nuclear.

Note, he's not actually predicting this outcome, though it does seem to be his personal preference at the time. He mentions that cheaper solar-to-fuel might be an alternative, as what really mattered was which was cheapest, which he assumed, incorrectly, would be nuclear.

Actual reality looks a lot closer to his G plan, for 'greenpeace' named sarcastically because they just love wind power, because as it turned out wind was cheaper than basically everything else (until solar caught up in most of the world). Maybe Greenpeace got lucky, maybe they were just better informed.

So if he was to rewrite that same plan with today's figures, the Economist and Green party plans would probably agree. Amusingly ironic and a testament to his methods even if his clearly stated assumptions no longer hold true.
> "Because I can" is a good enough reason to do anything that doesn't cause harm to others.

It's hard to tell in advance how any action may impact others. The extreme example: jumping off a bridge doesn't physically harm others. But having to look at, examine, or otherwise interact with your corpse may inflict trauma on others.
Best thing I ever did for myself, taught myself to be able to listen to music whilst doing something else. I used to have a 2 hour commute on a train, so I would read a book. Bu trains are noisy. So I learned to listen to an iPod while reading. I read a lot of books that way. This then leads on to listening to Podcasts whilst reading. It blows some people's minds, but it is possible. It is a learned skill, not some magic.
I had this discussion with my longtime girlfriend (10 years) the other day. She'll frequently say something tangential, but unrelated and my brain will try to make sense of it causing a bit of awkwardness.

One time we were discussing an upcoming trip and she mentions that her friend invited her to come visit another city. How she phrased it made me think she was inviting me on the trip, even though I wasn't really interested, but she made it clear she wasn't. lol. Sometimes I have to sit her down and tell her that I don't mean anything by asking direct awkward questions because I'm just trying to understand if something is implied or not. I can never tell and that's just how she and many other people phrase things.

Sorry for this random comment. I just saw your comment and had to get it off my chest. IDK what I am but I'm the worst at understanding implied things and I fall for jokes all the time.
There are short term effects and long term effects. The short term effect is basically a lot of uncertainty, supply chain issues, and the market re-adjusting to not being able to depend on Russian energy exports. Chaos in other words. Putin's ability to induce more chaos is however declining. Except for going nuclear and starting WW III, he's basically played most of the cards he had. And given how his army performs in the Ukraine, that seems ill advised.

The long term effect is enormous investments in energy and defense spending. E.g. Germany just announced enormous public spending on both. That's after decades of not doing much public spending at all. Other countries are likewise accelerating investments on both fronts. That is a lot of money that is flowing into the economy in the next years. And also a classical recipe for boosting economic growth. We're only a few months into this crisis and it has already unlocked hundreds of billions of funding in Germany alone. Normally, spending that big is going to have an impact on economies. There are companies that will benefit from this. And there are effects on employment, etc.

Investors of course are a mixed bag of headless chickens, snake oil sellers, amateurs and the occasional level headed person with a bit longer view on things. I'd offer advice, but I don't qualify as anything more than an absolute amateur. But the one thing I know is that the short term behavior of stock markets is perplexing and irrational. I wouldn't read too much into it other than that "there's a thing going on and it's impacting the stock market". I would not expect anything less given the thing that is going on. What matters is what happens when that thing is in the past.

IMHO, this situation is a blessing in disguise. It got world + dog moving a lot more aggressively on cutting their dependence on fossil fuels. I think that's a good thing. Going cold turkey on Russian gas is going to suck for a lot of countries short term but the current situation simply leaves no other choice. High prices are a great incentive for moving quickly. The good news is that there are companies itching to step in the void with solutions and they now have the full attention of investors and governments with very deep pockets.
You live in a country with a ~90% vaccination rate. Of course you see more vaccinated than unvaccinated get sick. How many of the people you are noticing getting Covid are dying between the two groups? How many of the unvaccinated are avoiding the vaccine for real or perceived health complications and have adjusted their behavior to avoid unnecessary exposure?
I don't think an H series i7 would be considered midrange (it has a 45W TDP, and will only really be seen in workstation/gaming laptops). The Qualcomm processor is not terribly impressive, but being on par with a 45W i7 is still very promising.
I've been using Digitally Imported (aka DI.fm) for years. Tons of (electronic music) channels and playlists to choose from:

https://di.fm/
This is the correct take from my perspective.
The same happend to:
- biogas
- solar
- offshore wind
The parent is referring to the fact that Watson and Crick relied on work of Rosalind Franklin without crediting her.
It's data.

make_pizza(toppings=HAWAIIAN_TOPPINGS)

or

make_pizza(HAWAIIAN)

or similar. Data should generally not be hard-coded, both because it changes and because it wants to be validated. Starting with:

HAWAIIAN = { TOPPINGS: [ PINEAPPLE ...

is okay. That can later be loaded from a config file, a database, or otherwise, as the system expands.
ScyllaDB 5.0 includes new Raft infrastructure
Predicted eventuality of all "digital sales" aka licencing of copyrighted works.

You don't have to classify yourself as the cognoscenti to stop playing their game and only play music you have on hardcopy or a memory stick unencrypted.

Plex connected to your home assistant has no commercials and all the tracks from the albums you remember, not the "deluxe remastered revamped filler added" junk Spotify et al are pushing.
For those who never had a Latin class, could you explain the joke? Thanks!
> There have been 10 plants in the US that have been fully decommissioned

According to your link, there are 10 plants that have achieved "DECON status": that is, the spent fuel and machinery have been removed from the site (presumably to some other site).

I'm sorry, but that's a cop-out: it's cheating to say you've decommissioned a site, when what you've really done is transport the entire site, including topsoil, to a new location. That's like saying your plastics are green, because when they are no longer wanted they are all shipped to Indonesia. And apparently at least some of those "decommissioned" sites still have spent fuel stored on-site; I don't see how a site with spent fuel can be considered to have been returned to "greenfield" condition.
Ugh sorry for weird autocorrect errors, I had to abandon for a mealtime haha... I was going to add that there are also mechanisms outside the language, for instance that you might just detect if you can do something by catching the exception if it doesn't work... If it's syntax like JS arrow functions this might require eval() or so. The API version is just to expect the failure codes that would have been present before you added the new feature, usually 404, and handle them elegantly. If it's a follow-up request that RFC-“must” be done for consistency, maybe your app needs a big shared event bucket where those can always go, so that when “POST /foo-service/foos/:fooId/bars/:barId/fix" fails, you can fall back to posting to the deferred request buffer something like

{
eventName: "foo-service.fix-bar-requested",
version: 1,
params: {fooId: 5, barId: 7}
}

Just catch the exception, record the problem for later resolution, use a very generic template for storage that doesn't have to change every month...

Think creatively and you can come up with lots of ways to build robust software which has new features. Remember the time reversal of adding a feature is removing it, so you have to fix this anyway if you want to be able to clean up your codebase and remove old API endpoints.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/
*) Please refrain from developing custom messaging apps. Please use standard existing protocols. If XMPP is not your jazz, there are others.
I think the simple answer is that they released an actual product after years of magical hype. The reality was a such a distant shadow that everyone stopped paying attention.

There are some companies researching micro led displays integrated into waveguides that have much better brightness, fov and size characterizes than anything MagicLeap has ever had. We could be seeing every day useable AR glasses in the next few years based on this tech.
> Now imagine you figure out how to do the hack, do all the preparation, and sell it ready to use to somebody.

Now imagine you notify the vendor that they have a grave security flaw in their product. They could totally turn you in to the police and the PoC is sufficient to consider you guilty. You won't be able to prove yourself innocent without a long, expensive and life-destroying legal battle.

It would have a massive chilling effect on everything else instead of what you originally intended.
I wish I could've had this experience. I guess I grew up in too rural (13k as of 2020) a place to have this.

I think there was only a single new book store in our town growing up. The grocery store or school book fairs were the only other places to buy books.
now that's just great. now he is hyperactive and needs meds to calm down.
Eh, my gut tells me it will look more like the 3D TV market when it comes to scale. Smart phones have way more main-stream utility than anything AR proponents have come up with IMO.
I don't think the intent was to capture the price of the most-expensive model.
I always default to mcedit. I can't shake off being raised in Norton Commander in primary school.
This is exactly what Chia (https://www.chia.net) has done by using hard drive storage space to hold the proofs. This allows the generic hardware of general purpose computers with hard drives to operate profitable and energy efficient full nodes on the network. Especially if these are existing machines people already own. Also, the computing infrastructure needed to farm (mine) the plot files (files holding the proofs) is minimal enough that it can be run from a Raspberry Pi.
Tezos Blockchain Usage Trends
Plot twist: the savvy entry-level web dev will relocate somewhere where COL is tiny compared to the West without even being asked.
> After literal hours of reading, I think I know, I also think I am going to cry.

Why are you getting so upset over JPEG NFTs? 90% of all of these NFTs, especially the JPEG ones and projects will collapse.

Let me guess the template complaint: 'Grifters grifting on top of the entire grifting market?'
DRY is about readability. If it makes the system more readable, DRY. If not, don't.
Yeah, a lot of people would send their work to the line printer at the end of the day, and then start fresh the next day with a pencil to sketch out what they were going to change. Then using ed is a no-brainer.

I heard that a lot of people preferred fewer files and longer functions for the same reason--it was all there on the fanfold output and could be read at once, rather than working in 80x25 chunks. After that mode of working was replaced by interactive programming at the display terminal, we started to prefer functions that didn't span more than 1-2 screens.
>Sustainable Energy: Without The Hot Air

This book has come up on Hacker News before, and I've read it, and it has a crucial flaw, well, two actually:

- It underestimates the efficiency of solar panels by quite a bit, supposing that 10% would be a lofty goal (and arguing on this basis that solar farms are not economically viable). In fact, panels on the market are approaching 20% [1], and 25% seems well within reach.

- It uses the United Kingdom, one of the dimmest countries in the world [2] and one of the most densely populated, as an index for the viability of solar power in any country. In fact, the UK is probably the worst-case geography+population for solar power, and almost every other country would have a better time of it. In this context, it is worth considering that nuclear power may be particularly appropriate for Europe specifically, since it is peaceful, densely populated, mostly north of the 45th parallel, and cloudy, but solar is probably more practical elsewhere.

The real problem with cost estimates for solar and wind power is that they do not necessarily adjust well for the rate of construction. They may be reasonably accurate assuming a constant rate of construction, but a truly worthwhile implementation of solar and wind power would require a much higher rate of construction than is currently being implemented. I rarely see much of the methodology of these studies, but what I have seen basically involves taking the current price of solar and battery installations, applying a few fudge factors, and scaling up linearly. That may not be realistic.

Meanwhile, the cost estimates for nuclear power are based on data from the construction of large facilities, and therefore necessarily incorporate a much more realistic high rate of investment. Nuclear plants are big.

1: https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/energy/photovo...

2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/World_DN...
> While it's evident nuclear sentiment is not great in germany, from my point of view, I wouldn't characterize as great in france either

I think it is changing. Both the IPCC and the ERDF reports were unambiguous and politicians and technocrats who were paying attention noticed. Now, skyrocketing gas prices are a warning shot. A blackout or a brownout could completely change public opinion (not that si would welcome it, but at this point it seems inevitable; we almost had 3 last winter).

> Sadly, I think in this domain (as in many) france lives with the infrastructure and build of its past and currently fails to invest for its future, it's more managing decline than anything else.

That is very true, unfortunately. That’s why building a series of EPR would be a good thing long-term, as it would provide some justifications to train new engineers and a refreshed skilled workforce.

> My dream would be that france, with help of germany and other eu countries would build new reactors with an overcapacity for france alone and would then provide this energy to other ue countries.

This would make sense from a technical point of view (one large fleet in a single country is easier to manage and more efficient than the same number of reactors distributed across several states). But that’s very difficult from a political point of view.

> Nuclear energy is a chance and is not mutually exclusive with other energies.

This is something a lot of people do not seem to grasp. We need all the low-carbon energy we can produce, and we need it 20 years ago. There is no point bickering about the share of renewable and the share of nuclear. We need renewables where we can and nuclear where we must.

In the end, what matters is that even a carbon-free electricity supply is just half the journey, and the easy half at that. It’s not something we will solve with a one-size-fits-all approach.
The expressivity in Python is a problem that needs to be solved though. Moving to JS goes the wrong way.
Regulations can and do change. Cryptocurrency fanatics are expanding their regulatory capture with various senators and state governments friendly to the 'movement.' I worry about the next crypto crash tanking the economy after this crypto crash.
The one constant throughout time is that things sucked if you were poor and rocked if you were rich.
There's a long-standing rumor here in Alaska that a major real estate developer got his $BIGNUM starting capital by swiping seismic oil prospecting data while working as a janitor for an oil exploration company.
DRY is about readability. If DRY makes the system more readable, do it. If not, don't.
true, i was being facetious <g>
Google sent more than 50,000 state sponsored attack warnings in 2021. And those warnings started in 2012. So a lot of people have been helped. Meanwhile Apple didn't start doing similar warnings until less than a year ago.

> Apple is in the process of giving a few hundred million iPhone owners

Um, no? Lockdown mode is explicitly for "very few users". There's no way a hundred million iPhone users would benefit. Google's Advanced Protection offers protection from state-level actors to anyone with a Google account, so if you want to count by the number of people offered optional protection, Google wins by a landslide.

> for free

Haha, no, you have to buy an iPhone from Apple first. Google offers protection to anyone actually for free. All you need is a free Google account and a security key which doesn't have to be purchased from Google.
State and federal tax credits offset it somewhat. There's also the benefit of, y'know, not burning fuels at the site. My paying somewhat more over time for the initial outlay seems a reasonable expense.

A purely selfish side-effect is NO NOISE from outdoor condenser fans. Three of them necessary would have wasted a lot of space too, and been more maintenance items.

Near surface only works if you've got a lot of square footage to spread it out. The average suburban lot would not have the space for it (I thought that would have been obvious).
Translation: I took DRY in isolation, never learned larger architectural concepts like SOLID, things that change together live together, loose coupling. Didn't really study up on code smells and their solutions. Didn't learn design patterns and the problems they are designed to solve. Then I ran into trouble and now I blame DRY.

The point of DRY is that when you need to change something, you should only have to change it once (a common code smell that comes about when not employing DRY is "Shotgun Surgery"). If the rest of your architecture is broken, DRY is not going to magically save it. That should be obvious.
Internships? Yeah, nah. TSMC doesn't hand out technology NDAs to interns, which makes them kinda useless.

All in all, the IC design field is a decade or two behind software dev in terms of ergonomics. They're not going to attract a lot of talent, if the tooling remains as kludgy and unreliable as it is. What if GCC or Clang crashed on you once in a while "just because"? That's the reality of IC design flow.

On the flip side, the world at large has just realized the importance of chips, which makes the outlook mildly positive.
You do not have to cite every paper under a specific topic nor do you have to cite the first paper that introduces a paper. Why? Maybe those papers are not well written. Maybe a recent paper covers the idea better, etc.

So no, he does not have to be cited just because.
> If I read between the lines of your response, it seems tech founders should absolutely move to the US to get a bit of that infinite money, as they can pivot and re-pivot while improving VC tax benefits.

If they like toilet paper money and want to speed up their extinction, that's exactly the play, you are right!

"Fail fast, fail often" is the quote they use to make sure they renew their VC funding as often and as fast as possible, and make you burn your money for their own profit, it's a trap, what happens to the people who fail, nobody gives a shit, the entrepreneur is a resource we have to burn

> Seems the US is so great at internet companies because the Data Protection Directive, "instituted highly restrictive policies governing online data collection and use" prevented innovation in Europe.

Hell no, the EU had everything, but the US wanted everything for them instead, so they killed everything that's coming from EU (and asia btw, and they don't even have any of the data protection laws btw) and they push theirs

How come they get customers then, easy when you can lobby and https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_...

You joke about EU's bureaucracy, but nobody points US's bureaucracy and their army of lawyers and toilet paper printers
Aye, this rings true... but the source...
Development is simple. What happens next is another story altogether.
Be honest. How often would you expect to do zero homework assignments throughout a course and get straight 100s on all of the exams?

That's the parent's claim that they did no HW and got 100s on the exams.

Debating whether different HW assignments have varying ROI is a different issue.
Ah, you're right, I had a different Huawei laptop page open for the spec sheet. having 2 x USB-A ports is great (personally, I usually have a wireless keyboard and mouse dongle, so it's something I'm still concerned about).

If 16GB is enough then that's great. Sadly, I will usually end up hitting swap even with 32GB, so getting to at least 40GB (8GB+ soldered, 1 SODIMM), but preferably 2xSODIMMs for 64GB ends up thinning out my options considerably.
Maybe it weeds out the more stupid investors.
That's a neat way to think of it. Coming from the other direction, for emacs users, using the command line is like using the editor since the gnu readline lib offers keyboard navigation like emacs.