skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in very general terms there are a few truisms about energy: economic growth and technological progress both seem to be very much correlated with energy consumption; modern democracies (eg the "Western world") are in gridlock and have increasingly become very myopic, short-termist, incrementalist with regards to energy policies (and others too, but that's not strictly relevant here)

so any advocate for any kind of energy policy preference is fed up, frustrated, and so on.

green advocates? yeah, completely right with regards to global warming, ecological disasters, fucking up the planet, etc.

based on one's morality we can say that advocates of global fairness are right in their view that currently the "West" has the burden to exert a heroic effort to fix the warming they caused, and help the poor countries to skip the "fossil phase". and anyone pointing out that this effort is basically non-existent is also right. (and so poor countries will be likely more affected by climate change and economic and energy shocks than rich ones. mostly because being rich helps with almost everything, and also because poor countries tend to be located in areas that used to enjoy year-round warm climate with occasional extremely warm days which will now become a lot more frequent)

on top of all this poor countries usually doesn't have the luxury of picking the best long-term solution. (but as we saw even rich countries have been optimizing for short-term nowadays.)

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okay, that said, economics of nuclear energy, it all depends on economies of scale. it's basically irrelevant what happens with 1-10 power plants.

if in a given country there won't be a healthy nuclear energy industry, then keeping one plant alive is .. irrelevant. (even if economically retrofitting a 40-50 year old plant is cheap, because the big ticket items are already paid for ~40 years ago.)

renewables got cheaper because they are mass produced. were nuclear plants mass produced they would be drastically cheaper too. (that's the promise of small modular reactors.) but even simply ordering 100+ big plants would push down costs from the ~3rd one. (if they were properly standardized and near identical. it parts were pre-fabricated, and so on.)

basically construction (so housing and transportation ... and healthcare and education) everywhere is getting more and more costly because technological progress is unevenly making other things more cheap. (and also our standards are going up, so we use the old inefficient technology and more skilled labor to build better things, it'll be simply more expensive.)
This $100 bounty was shared by an undergraduate student founder at Harvard College who is looking for contributors / new teammates. There are likely classmates/peers/developers who may find it fun and worthwhile to solve this bounty and collaborate with Caine. Certainly, university students have thus far found Algora to be neat. You are not wrong, the amount is very low, but it's ok amongst students looking to hack things up.

Personally, with my co-founder Zaf we cannot presently afford a full-time engineer, but with bounties we are getting a lot of work done while sticking to our tight budget. It's a modular tool, you can do what you wish with it and award as much as you wish. So far, we have personally awarded $7,876.68 in bounties to our own contributors, and our bounty payouts will be higher as our budget permits.

Your analysis is not incorrect. Of course, people who contribute to open source (mostly without pay) may beg to differ, sometimes it's just fun to build stuff and help out.

We certainly also hope to see more, higher-paying bounties :)

- Ioannis
I can't believe anyone else remembers this game but my best friend in elementary school and I used to spend our entire sleepovers playing Oni. What a legend.
A recent example I found: https://tools.usps.com/rcas.htm (the "Initializing Services" modal never goes away in FF, works almost immediately in Chrome and Edge)

This is just the most recent example I remember, unfortunately there have been enough at this point that if I'm doing anything important (such as filling and submitting some important form), I do it in Chrome because I don't want it to silently break in FF and cause other issues with invalid or corrupt data submitted to the service.
Mutually-assured-destruction is currently only a theory.
I notice no difference between chrome and ublock origin or safari and Wipr or Firefox Focus.
Ask HN: How to get developers to try your product (in a non-spammy way)?
Everyone knows that developers hate it with a passion when people try to sell stuff to them.

But many developers are also very generous in testing new products and offering candid feedback to the makers.

My question is - what is the cheat code for striking that balance? What gets developers to sign up and try your dev-oriented product in an authentic way?
- Are there specific platforms or communities where developers are more receptive to these requests?
- Maybe a specific type of pitch that is more effective?
- Perhaps a specific medium that most developers prefer?

I'm very interested to hear what's worked well for you.

Thank you!
With this many subscriptions, no wonder piracy is up, not to mention free and open source alternatives to many of these apps, such as with weather, productivity or note-taking apps.
Because Jews are the primary enemy in Nazi ideology, and the idea of communism being a Jewish plot was an existing antisemitic belief well before Hitler was a known entity in Germany's political scene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism
I wonder if someone did the math how the plastic straw "problem" compares to vape litter.
Low energy levels are often caused by depression, which is common in the anxious.
extensive family policies and benefits during a time of extreme economic insecurity in Germany, rather than ideological or martial aspects of Nazism. Same reason the more conservative, less capitalist, more social and Christian wing of the Conservatives in Germany today (the CSU) is more popular with women than her larger sister party, the CDU.
I know this has come up before, but since the gulf in cost is so stark I thought I'd mention it again. In the UK I just signed up to a £20/month VDSL2 broadband service (approx 65 Mbps, FTTC, unmetered), rolling monthly contract, and £65 up front. The contract guarantees at least around 50 Mbps or they automatically pay compensation. $100/month seems pretty crazy to me. I know the lack of competition and widespread collusion is bad in the US amongst cable companies, but you saying people typically pay 5x more for what seems like similar service to what I'm getting is really eye-opening. Apart from Virgin Media most companies share the OpenReach network that's sort of publicly funded (ish). Yet, the UK isn't exactly known for investing well in public services so I'm still surprised at the gulf in cost.
What you pay for isn’t generally updates to the app, but the service of sourcing, processing and consolidating the weather data for the way it is presented by the app. I use three different weather apps (only one of them with a subscription, $1 per year) because each has unique aspects of its data and presentation that are useful depending on the use case. One of them has diagrams combining forecasts from 20 different data sources for the next week (which gives a nice overview of the spread of forecasts for each day), sources which I don’t think are all free.
I'm in EU and this didn't happen to me yet (although I've watched Friends while I could).

It sometimes feels like I'm the only netizen who is happy with the Netflix catalogue, but to be honest I think they have a giant pile of great shows; many more than I have time or mood to watch. I believe the issue is that they produce an even bigger pile of shows that are utterly shit, so if you just play something at random there is a high chance of it being low quality. To me that doesn't matter much as long as there is enough of the good stuff.
Sorry to be snarky, but this whole comment thread borders on satire for me.

If I can think of a "disaster for the human race", it's probably people being paid obscene amounts of money in exchange for advancing the destruction of the environment.
> Coffee has a lot of rituals

You might appreciate this article: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee

> Standing at my kitchen counter, I measure out two teaspoons of Maxwell House instant coffee into my favorite mug, pour in 12 ounces of hot water from a tea kettle, and stir for a moment. I look toward the automatic drip maker to my left and feel a pang of sympathy for its cold carafe that once gurgled and steamed each morning with the best coffee money could buy. On top of the refrigerator, my old friend the French press has gathered dust. When I notice a dead housefly decomposing inside it, I wonder what the hell has happened to me.
Truebill supports most banks in the US.

Source: I work for Truebill.

We use Plaid for this support - there’s more detail here: https://help.truebill.com/en/articles/931156-i-can-t-find-my...
Well, it's not a deposit. It's a tax that manufacturers pay, which finances some make-pretend recycling options. But consumes don't use the recycling options and the electronics still end up on landfills.
Yeah I'm still surprised MS did that too.
I traveled all around the world before Facebook was a thing, and it never prevented me from keeping in touch with the people that mattered.

What you realy mean is that you value more the convenience it offers that the price to pay for using it.
Definitely not normal.

> but I didn't think my list was particularly egregious

Grammarly is $150/year!! How is that not egregious?

My only significant subscriptions are:

1. Netflix
2. Amazon Prime
3. Youtube Premium

All shared with other people.

This guy was paying $40/year for a weather app and was surprised he was spending a ton on subscriptions. How?
The rendering engine has to be apple’s but the network plumbing can be custom.

Chrome’s browser has that ability.
Nice take.

But plz finish every doomsday article with at least one proposal how to fix this mess/solution/that believers of Chicago sekt of economics produced.

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller
Chefs provide their own knives. A lot of blue collar jobs require purchasing the uniform. Managers and execs in some industries still buy “work clothes” and though work pays for their travel they still buy luggage etc.

I keep my work on work owned hardware and my personal stuff on my own computer/phone etc. That means paying for my own 1password etc (I only use free dev tools, as it happens)
are you medicated for ADHD? stimulant based ADHD medicines have one of the highest reported effective rates among medicine based psychological treatments.

Finding out how you can break the negative feedback loop of being anxious/distracted -> not get things done -> feel guilty and get more anxiety and building positive momentum is key.

for me things that seem to work are:
doing some kind of exercise, from dancing, lifting weights, bodyweight exercises
going for sauna
short EMDR session seem to be very effective in toning down heightened anxiety levels (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DALbwI7m1vM)
or starting to clean my room

I also suggest to try to keep daily journal of how you feel, and keep track of things that worked/ that didn't work, etc. also helps to begin morning journals with clear 3 goals you aim to get done for the day.
Ask HN: Are older programming books useful?
For context, I'm a librarian purchasing tech books for my public library. We have around 30 books just on Python alone, not counting any that are about using Python for things like machine learning or data science.

Other than clear version changes (like Python 2 to Python 3), are older programming books still useful? The majority of the books span from around 2014 to the present, and they're all still circulating.

Thanks! (And thank you for the book recommendations posted here as well, I have definitely purchased some of them for our collection.)
This is also what keeps me from considering FF for a daily driver. I have the same workflow and it's very easy to keep straight.

I have hotkeys assigned to each profile via macOS shortcuts. Cmd-shift-# focuses a given profile. Or opens a new window of that profile if there wasn't one already.

Links from other apps always open in the most recent profile.

This makes it very simple to ensure links I click in Slack/iMessage/etc open where I want them to.

(Took the time to write this out in the hopes some Firefox folks see this..)
>very hard plastic (blue).

mmm... microplastics
"Pillaging" lmao what are you talking about?
This kind of calculation is what convinced me to quit smoking before going to university in 1990. Cigarettes were $5 / pack. I smoked a pack a day.

$5 x 365 days x 4 years = $7300.

Given that I was saving up the money beforehand, quitting was the difference between starting school in 1990 or 1991.

I felt like a 'cold turkey' for about three months. But it was so worth it.
> Companies say their A.I.-powered tools are the best way to fix accessibility problems online

I'm not blind, but I use to read everything about how blind people use computers. IMO accessibility is the worst application for AI due to unpredictability of modern AI. All what blind people need while browsing internets is a semantic web which will not cause a stupid situation for their text synthesizers.
> peg this deposit to inflation. 20 years ago the 5c deposit on a beer can meant a lot more than it does today

Adjusted for inflation, 5¢ in 2002 would just be 8¢.
Would be far more interesting if he considered the local labor market and how that's going to interact with all of this. I'd also like to know why he thinks the GDP per capital will be 10x higher on Mars, or where the "virtually unlimited" amount of supplies will actually be stored. There's a massive difference between "just in time" production and "stockpile" production.

This seems to view the problem down one dimension, and I don't find the analysis particularly satisfying or complete.
> Newer languages avoid having these old warts, its only matter of time though.

That is sort of the summary of the post.
So long as everyone's using Windows, pirated or otherwise, it means that Microsoft dominates the market. The best thing that could ever happen to Ubuntu would be for MS to start cracking down on piracy, but they don't because they know better.
My God, that video made me wince when he revealed the insides of all those devices. Perfectly good lithium and manufacturing, made to be used once and literally thrown away. Such a disgusting level of waste.
As an ONLYOFFICE user, I would just use the JavaScript API to write a macro that iterates through the cells and calls something like Regex.Replace(val, "[^0-9.]", "") on all the values.
When the wheels fall off (Sri Lanka does have a history of stability long ago) it’s hard to get them back on.

Sri Lanka’s problems go back decades.
How to get it 99% cheaper:

- https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/coconut-cold-br...

- https://www.traderjoes.com/home/products/pdp/050759

Can even upgrade to the French roast.
Ye not being able to buy stuff at whatever quantity is annoying and probably a huge reason for waste.

The biggest problem with hamburgers is the bread which I can't seem to get in packs of one or two. Lettuce and tomatoes you can use for any meal but if you buy 4 buns you either eat hamburger half the week or throw them away.
> I’d never seen one before up close, but since that day I’ve been unable to not find them and pick them up, typically one or two a week.

Same. At a previous HOPE, I'd mentioned to someone in the lockpicking village that I had never been able to find them, despite living in a city with weekly street sweeping. We walked outside and promptly found 10 or so. As you say, after you know what they look like, and where they usually are, you can't help but see them!
If one bit of js can query google and bing, what hinders an evil developer to query my current session of my banks website? Or my <your favourite online store> account?
A Weird Painting App?
A simple,"weird" and hackable paint application.
Find a new activity. Maybe on meetup.com or any other similar way to do it. Hiking daytrip, playing a sport, random social event, anything
Filipinos are buying books to preserve the truth about the Marcos regime
The European Commission’s disinformation fail
Ah, good to know that this was the input being referenced when health authorities were issuing proclamations that there was definitely 0% chance of any impact on fertility from the mRNA vaccines.

They didn't just have a broad, open-ended "did you notice anything was off?" question?
I don't see it as a problem. War games don't transfer to real world violence, anymore than street racing games translate to real world dangerous driving.

I remember when I played need for speed most wanted for the first time and they had the main actress in the opening cutscene to the game telling you that... this is all just a game and in real streets you should drive safely and responsibly and wear your seatbelts. I never skipped the cutscene because Josie Maran (the actress) is really really pretty, but the message is absolutely and unimaginebly dumb.

You're sitting in front of your computer manipulating a car through an interface that doesn't look remotely like the controls of any real car, "driving" through a world with bizarre physics and collision logic with zero haptic feedback, again, an experience unlike any in a real car. Does any reasonably intelligent person really need an actress telling them that "remember, this is all just a game" ? isn't it all kinda obvious ? would a person who somehow got the idea that real driving is as easy as mashing some buttons on a keyboard with zero consequences be snapped back to reality by a character inside the game telling them that it's not true ?

The only real way I can see a "fiction leads to the real thing" argument working is through propaganda, a military might invest in war movies and war games to make it look glamorous to a gullible teenager who will be of military age soon. But how can you prevent that without demonizing all fiction ? Before video games, before movies, before even reading and writing, the military had no problems whatsoever with getting recruits. Propaganda is just the symptoms, the real problems are all downstream.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
It was after all the press about quantum that I last gave FireFox a go and was disappointed. Still, I'm willing to try again - I'd like to do what I can to prevent another browser monopoly.
You don’t need to use command line options to open new profiles in Firefox. Just open the about:profiles page.
But if you can crack the code in solving the transaction cost/friction, it would open up a tremendous amount of creative value. I hope this team succeeds.
Mortgage backed securities are mortgages.
Firefox had the chance to remain relevant when it still had some significant market share and if they had gone all in on ad blocking (basically something like merge ublock origin directly into Firefox). Unfortunately, since most of their revenue is from Google, it could never happen due to conflict of interest.
Even an absurd system can exist, for a while.

Than either mankind learns or goes extinct.
I was taught programming by a teacher who stood in the back of the class and asked us to give her instructions to get to the front of the class. She placed chairs in certain rows to make it difficult for us. She also said we had to give her one instruction at a time(turn left, take one step forward, turn right, take one step forward). I think we need more of this, more exposure in the grade-years (elementary). We are losing a lot of talent due to the late offer of programming. By that time, other interests have materialized. I think the main problem we have is that we are not teaching critical thinking skills. I am 46yo and just recently I came across the bomber problem of WWII. (you know, bomber comes in with lots of bullet holes, first thought process was to reinforce the areas with the visible bullet holes, until one genius says, "wait, these planes came in, they made it back, perhaps the others who didn't make it back, where shot in the other areas, so lets' reinforce the other areas). We need to compile stories like this one and expose elementary students to these stories, this is how we engender critical thinking. It's 2022, how difficult would it be to search for and compile these anectdotes? Trivial right??
We've standardised on the M1 Pro 14" for work in a webdev environment (Python, JS, and some PHP) - works really well for us.

They're fast, they run docker & other nice dev tooling, they have great displays for text, and they're super quiet.
Yes.

There are spots where Orwell gets convoluted. His famous and impactful (on me, lol) essay "On Nationalism" includes a confusing/backtracking carve-out for (presumably) Churchillian patriotism. But I think this is the nature of such ideas. They aren't absolute, falsifiable, scientific ideas. Just observations about people.
>Arguably some speech on social media should be protected and not a reason for employment termination.

Why? Not saying I disagree, but I find the selective support of this concept interesting. So I'm curious to hear your argument and the framework for determining what speech should be protected on a private platform.
Wasm outright forbids things like GOTO and other potentially insecure features opting instead for structured programming. Java has been the subject of countless security vulnerabilities.

Wasm also has the ability to stream bytecode and validate/compile as it streams (fast parsing was a major design goal) resulting in much faster startup times.

Wasm is easier to integrate into the JIT/VM already shipping in browsers so they don't have to ship two massive engines.

Wasm is a bit lower level which should result in faster execution than the JVM in the future.

Wasm doesn't require garbage collection.

Wasm has unsigned integers.

Wasm isn't encumbered by Oracle.
This is a pretty great tool, despite the limitations of existing in iOS-land.

It obviously has the same problem any Tor browser has though, you run into bot blocking on a very large % of the regular (non .onion) interwebs.

Worth consideration for putting on your daily driver phone.
The difference is, CCP controls the central bank and can print money for that purpose.
Once you go Firefox, you can never go back.
Just have to admit to being impressed by how succinct and clear yet deep this writing was. Easy to read and understand, and certainly gets the point across.
If you’re deciding to buy a subscription you should calculate the price for 2 or 3 years. So it is comparable to other things you buy. New phone (I will use it for 3 years): 1000$. Some weather app, 2.99 per month, so 107$ for 3 years, is it really worth it?
From an Australia perspective, as one who has been to the US on 6-7 different occasions, I'll not be taking my family there. Everything from the medical system costing a fortune if you need it, gun violence, unbridled and often blind nationalism, to the attacks on women's rights now being asked about by customs agents is a disincentive to go anywhere near the country. It is, frankly, too much of a risk and not an appetising destination given the abundance of other locations largely without those issues.

Edit: downvoting my pointing out the issues, and why I choose not to spend my travel dollars and time there, is a good indicator of the blind nationalism I spoke about.
I have to say, it seems ridiculous that we're at the point where people are dying in Europe this week from a heatwave exacerbated by climate change, and we're not even implementing basic measures like this yet.