skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humongous batteries or humongous nuclear reactor?

Which will be cheaper? Especially, what will be cheaper in 10 years?

Which will be online faster? As in, can be scaled out in 3-5 years?

With forthcoming 200 wh/kg LFP / LMFP, 140 wh/kg sodium ion, and various other schemes, I will heavily bet on batteries + solar / wind beating out nuclear. I don't know if you're engaging in FUD based on cobalt and nickel chemistries, or just are ignorant of the forthcoming Gotion/CATL production lines for high density LFP and sodium ion chemistries. Those aren't resource limited, they just need to build the factories, and factories are a lot better than nuclear power plants in timescale.

PLUS, storage + solar can be distributed to the home to reduce the amount the grid needs to move from a centralized generator, make the grid and homes much more resilient, and function as a backup battery store to grid storage.

I never see hydro listed on LCOE charts. I'm going to assume it's at the scale of nuclear which is already not competitive. Hydro is actually the best grid storage if you have a mountain and two big lakes or some similar setup. As I understand it, the efficiency is 90% pumping and then getting it back.
There is a third party software product that does exactly that, and I used it before a few times (Reincubate Camo; originally saw it in mentioned in HN comments, actually).

Great results, and works cross-platform (tested myself on win10 and macos), but it comes with limitations and is paid through subscription (outside of the basic tier with plenty of restrictions). The UX is also a bit annoying, and it requires a USB cable.

If Apple manages to integrate this functionality well as a first party macOS tool, and makes it seamless, it will be a great and welcome feature, imo. People underestimate how shitty laptop webcams are compared to any flagship smartphone camera from at least the past few years (if not earlier). People were consistently blown away by my results with the third party tool I've mentioned, so a lot of people would imo be pleasantly surprised by how awesome the results could be with the native one.
> Deadspin got killed effectively by the Hulk Hogan sex tape civil trial

That was Gawker, the gossip site. Deadspin is still around.
No need for hand-waving, there are publicly available benchmark results: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

It's not the only benchmark in town and it needs to be taken with a grain of salt, but so does every benchmark.
Conquest – An open source strategy game similar to Risk and written in Godot
For me, those things are too complicated for a card. I want my cards to drill one thing. I might even want five cards to drill one thing five times, but with five different contexts. I want them to help me retain facts, like a syntax, a library, configuration, keywords, and enumerations/flags/switches with arbitrary names.

Programming practice is what I do after I have (or while I'm putting) these facts at my fingertips.
This looks like a scam.
“Don’t tell people they aren’t good enough to work at your company” is not Hollywood film stuff. It’s the basics of being a normal person and well well below the basics of professional behavior.

It would be reasonable to fire the architect in OPs example if it was a repeated behavior that had been discussed with them. If it wasn’t a recurring behavior the appropriate response is for their manager to document it as unacceptable with the person.
There are tons of children who could learn to program, could even teach themselves, but who are unaware that the option exists.

This just isn't true, there are a billion ways into programming that there weren't in the 80s and 90s, and computers are cheaper too. Sure you don't get to tinker with your OS as casually but the scope of "learner" programming environments is so much greater. Even a keyboard isn't a necessity - look at the results from Dreams on the PS4. And Scratch is ubiquitous in (UK) schools, my son picked it up without any prompt from me.

It might just feel like kids don't want to learn programming because most people don't want to learn, but most people (you know) are now using computers compared to the 90s. So proportionally that is fewer computer users becoming programmers, even if numbers are going up!
My ad-blocker takes care of the majority of these, but if some slip through I will do my best to find the "reject all" option or navigate away if it isn't there. It's unlikely to show up in metrics though because whatever is supposed to collect those metrics would be blocked anyway.
Why does a company necessarily need to grow by a certain percentage each year. That is called exponential grow and not realistically sustainable.
That’s an interesting idea. I might try this myself
> Claiming mRNA vaccines failed is ridiculous.

It is not that vacccines failed: the government failed.

If they advertise them as “you will not get sick” they are 100% success.

But they advertised it as “we need to have mandate so that everybody will get immune forever”. This is where things failed adding ammunition to crazies and conspiracy theories.
Well, I'm proceeding from the assumption that thoughtful review, which takes time, is desirable. If the situation is really that dire, then it's even more important that you ship product that works. Code review happens to be one of the, if not the most, effective ways to catch bugs and prevent disasters. It's a good idea to make the review process work for you, even and especially when the pressure is on.

It's not about humongous reviews being "inconvenient". A drop of thousands of lines of new code takes a long time to review thoroughly, whether the company is at risk of folding tomorrow or a stodgy enterprise with decades ahead of it. If you have to constrain review time - or ditch reviews altogether, why not? - you can, but there are consequences regardless.

I haven't worked in early startups, but I haven't only worked at large corporations either. I hope that most of us, most of the time, aren't less than a business day away from unemployment, and so there's usually time for code reviews. (If not, there's a lot of useless material about it!)

Without sarcasm, and potentially getting off-topic, I would like to hear stories about how a startup survived impending doom with heroic, fast shipping of product that set aside a lot of time-consuming processes. What were the most crucial steps to keep? How was the technical debt repaid?
200m split times are routinely tracked - see e.g. https://world-track.org/2022/07/what-are-noah-lyles-splits-f... (it turns out the US national 200m record was broken a couple days ago)

And it is absolutely the case that the times for world class second-100m of a 200m sprint are generally lower than even world record 100m sprints (in that report above, out of the field of 8, 6 runners beat the 100m world record over their second 100m)

Usain Bolt's world record 100m from a stationary start is 9.58s.
His world record 200m splits were 9.92s and 9.27s.

Over the middle 100m, his time was 8.84s.

(see https://speedendurance.com/2009/08/21/usain-bolt-200-meter-s...)

So yes, a flying start makes a massive difference. 200m runners are generally slowing down in their second half (Bolt's last 50m took 4.75s, while he covered 100-150m in 4.52s, and 50-100m in 4.32s), but their average speed over the final 100m is still faster than a 100m runner. In a 100m sprint the runner may still be accelerating by the time they reach the line.
> There were some serious considerations to port over ML libraries to Swift due to its ease of use, similar to Python, while providing much better execution speed.
Google abandoned that Swift work (if that's what you're referring to)
>Haiti has, and has had, an utterly corrupt and incompetent government/state. That's why they are in the situation they are in.

Relevant Reddit post: TIL that Haiti has had 23 constitutions since 1801, with the most recent being enacted in 2012. At least two have declared the country to be an empire.

<https://np.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3t5wzt/til_th...>
This has saved me many times. Memory is cheap these days, this should probably be a more common editor feature, on by default.
I take interest in open source 'business UI' friendly UI frameworks, this is actually a very good choice (besides the weirdness of looking like AWS). A lot of people don't realize there's a lot of basic things that go into this.

Blueprint (https://blueprintjs.com) made by Palantir has been my go-to otherwise but it misses some common things (like a table).

Elastic's recently open sourced framework (https://eui.elastic.co/) looks pretty good too, though I haven't tried it.
i'm a hardcore macbook loyalist but I've gotta give kudos to Framework for finally creating a sexy and reasonably performant modular laptop. i've wanted one for a long long time when i was younger; this is literally the dream.
The Beth Harmon that almost was
If you’re working on open source, stream straight to YouTube or Twitch. Can be private or not.

I do this sometimes. the accountability hack works even better if someone could be watching.

Bonus points is that it feels way more natural to narrate aka rubber duck problems when you are streaming.
I got fired for sharing my salary on TikTok
Shout out to the Polaris team! Personally I was already using the open sourced AWS UI components, looking forward to the refresh.
If you’re worried about beating inflation, have a long time horizon, and don’t mind some risk you might looking into investing in total market index funds. An index fund for the S&P 500 has averaged ~10% returns when looking back 30 years [1].

If you’re just concerned about inflation, don’t like risk, and don’t mind locking you money up for a little bit Treasury Inflation Protected Securities [2] are also a thing. Their returns are tied to the Fed’s measurement of inflation (CPI).

1: https://www.fool.com/investing/how-to-invest/index-funds/ave...

2: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tips.asp
It may be fine.

Keep in mind, though, that humans are not perfect and some choices are unwise.
> If they were actually top talent, they wouldn't need to move there to get what they want

This may be true now, but it has not been that way for all of the last 15 years. Top talent was moving here for at least a decade because it was the epicenter of tech, and the vast majority of them aren’t going anywhere.

SF has many very well documented problems that I’ve definitely done plenty of ranting about. But SF still has a lot going for it, and it does not make up the entirety of the Bay Area. Aside from the near perfect weather, you have easy access to an unbeatable amount of natural beauty. Yeah, maybe you could get a big, comfortable house in Texas for a fraction what you could buy here, but then what?
Apparently, the side effects can last multiple months but the condition could heal in a few weeks in some cases: https://felixwong.com/2015/08/my-experience-with-shermers-ne...
How do you calculate the reading difficulty?
1. I brought the Dresden plant up. You started arguing about some other plant and tried to pretend that it was the Dresden plant multiple times, even though the one you brought up is on the other side of the country. Now, you're suddenly an expert on the Dresden plant? Stop it.

2. You're attempting to say that "diesel isn't gasoline," when you previously tried to bring up a hydrogen plant. Stop it.

3. No, they also produce regular gasoline. Stop it.

4. The discussion isn't settled; you've just caught up with the thing I said earlier, that you tried to argue with, and now are pretending was your position. Stop it.

5. That plant got shut down, and no longer produces gasoline or diesel, which you didn't know, and which I brought up before you showed up. It now produces fertilizer. However, its webpage is out of date. Since you're arguing out of a search engine, and have no actual knowledge here, you have no ability to come to the correct position. Stop it.

6. There was only ever one, on Earth, ever, and it was never economical *BECAUSE IT DID NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY*, which was the point I was making before you showed up. This is why I say that the technology "isn't real" - for all your search engine pseudo-knowledge, in the real world, nobody has ever been able to make it work, and you're reciting face-saving press releases as if they're a way to make engineering decisions. Stop it.

7. Every single point you've made was wrong, and yet you're still "I would like to point out" ing. Stop it.
There's lots of examples of folks packaging non-container-image things and stuffing them in a registry:

- cosign signatures, SBOMs, attestations: https://docs.sigstore.dev/cosign/overview/

- Istio wasm plugins: https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/proxy_extensio...

- OPA bundles: https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/v0.13.5/bundles/

- Tekton bundles: https://github.com/tektoncd/resolution/tree/main/bundleresol...

There's even a demo (plug: in a talk I co-presented) of running a RISC-V emulator where its memory is stored in an OCI registry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt_G-pUArTM

These all tend to include a CLI to collect/generate/validate resources and push/move/pull them, but the underlying implementation is roughly the same -- package content in a tarball, generate some JSON pointing to it, push that JSON to the registry (with auth).

The real benefit to this is that basically everyone has access to a registry these days -- in their cloud provider, on-prem, whatever -- with exactly the same APIs and mostly sane auth and client tooling.

If you're interested in exploring it for your use case let me know, I'd be happy to give you some pointers.
Fun idea. I'm a big Anki fan for learning languages. I'd consider turning off case sensitivity and ensure you're stripping spaces and making it as easy as possible to match answers. If you have to manually type in the answer its a pain to remember what case the answer should be in too. Still not sure what the sweet spot is for click vs typing outside of language context.
grep is indeed fast!
Human resources platform for software companies
Hi everyone, in NOSTRORUM we are developing a human resources platform for software companies. We just finished the main structure and data bases for employees, you can see it here: http://nostrorum.io:4210/login?returnUrl=%2Fhome (it will be updated to english).

Can someone give us feedback of what would you need on it? We are looking for a mentor. Our first approach is a human resources management software but we want to find a special need.
I have made it a personal philosphy to close any site which hassles me one of these, and the same for sign up for our newsletter.

I have noticed that the quality of material I read has gone up in the process.
Agreed. It’s a common desire to boil benchmarks down to a single number.

Some of those languages, however, are far more complex then the others. And as any complex tool, it requires certain methodology. If you are to use heavy machinery like C++, forget iostreams and character-level processing on your hot paths.
Cisco Study Finds Hybrid Clouds Are Now the Norm
Serology studies don't tell you health outcomes.
honestly this sounds like a much better outcome than getting a proprietary laptop where you've gotta replace the whole thing when a port goes bad
It's a fascinating dead end in the history of hypertext. Ted Nelson has always come across to me as either 51% visionary and 49% crackpot, or the other way 'round. Technically, Xanadu's bidirectional links and document transclusion (e.g., not just including links but whole sections of other web pages in yours) are really interesting. From a copyright standpoint, they're kind of a mess, and an integral idea of Xanadu is essentially being able to make links and embedded microdocuments require micropayments for usage and/or inclusion, which sounds like the kind of thing that people who don't like libertarians use to parody libertarian ideas. And, from a practical standpoint, they've just never gone anywhere -- as far as I can tell, in no small part because Mr. Nelson is apparently impossible to work with.

Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15269827

A famous (and infamous) article, "The Curse of Xanadu", on "the longest-running vaporware project in the history of computing, a 30-year saga of rabid prototyping and heart-slashing despair" (now closer to 50 years and counting): https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

I don't think I'd actually clicked through and seen this demo before, though, which adds some interesting new objections to it on my end -- I find the user experience here ugly and cryptic. I'm sure a much nicer one with these ideas could be made, but it seems oddly telling that Xanadu's proponents think this -- and the Xanadu web site in general -- are great ways to sell the ideas.
That's like 80lbs of LFP batteries, I really don't see why there isn't some easy way to add this to existing ICE cars.
What a great project! Would you have a need for a veteran web dev who also happened to be an English major? Took a look at the volunteer page, but nothing jumped out.
Right? How could you possibly write a story like this without mentioning whether the kids were 2, 7, or 14? Those would be very different stories from each other...
>>but I rather live in a world where the police or CPS chase every frivolous compliant than them unable to do anything without a court order or not stopping abuse enough.<<

This is a noble goal, but there's a very serious flaw in this logic. Money. Our government doesn't prioritize child services as much as the military and CPS works on less of a budget than you would think,so chasing down frivolous calls to action and malicious calls without repercussions and someone saying, "They weren't parenting the way I thought they should be parenting" (like letting a 7 year old walk alone in a safe neighborhood - which is fine). These take away much needed resources from very real abuse cases and placement services and treatment services for children who need them. CPS workers are often over worked and under paid, as is.
Funny how you can take the "optimized" C++ and make it significantly faster (vs. gnu/linux standard libraries) with little effort. A lookup table for to_lower, instead of bit math, helps slightly. Building with the LLVM-libc string functions helps a lot, because the GNU std::string_view::operator== is calling an AVX-optmized memcmp via the PLT, which is a terrible strategy for short strings. LLVM-libc has an inlined bcmp (note: bcmp can be significantly faster than memcmp, but on GNU they are aliases) that is resolved for the target platform at build time instead of run time.

Edit:

Even if you ignore LLVM-libc, just slapping this into the optimized.cpp and replacing the critical `==` with `our_bcmp` makes it 10% faster. IFUNC calls to micro-optimized SIMD functions are counterproductive. It is far, far better that the compiler can see all the code at build time.

int our_bcmp (const char* a, const char* b, size_t sz) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < sz; i++) {
if (a[i] != b[i]) return 1;
}
return 0;
}
alright, fine, you got me, not all of them said I should apply online. but about 90% did. it was still an awful time in my life.
I love this project. Just became a patron. Thanks for all the hard work and commitment over the years.
My dad would drop me off in an area with 10-20 resumes and tell me to just try dropping them off everywhere.
Ford is building other battery plants. Huge plant going up in Tennessee, "Blue Oval City", for lithium-ion batteries.[1] The battery technology comes from S. Korea. The lithium will come from Ioneer in Nevada.[2] Another plant is going up in Kentucky.
Plus there's existing electric production at the Rouge plant in Detroit. Ford is serious about electric trucks.

Tesla's Cybertruck initial delivery was just delayed another year.[3]

[1] https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/money/business/2022/0...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-b...

[3] https://observer.com/2022/07/tesla-cybertruck-production-del...
Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas
I see this happening all the time, majority of the people working in service based companies are bad at all the steps of development of any kind of software project. But there is an other side to it. Form a long time I am trying to get into consulting, companies don't want to see the background of us(devs). Majority of the times there is no response or they want to see some "white papers".
Unless you've encountered anarchists, few truly think all government is terrible. Rather it's that government must always be scrutinized. Who will will intervene on you're behalf against a government that can have you castrated under an assumption that you're mentally deficient enough to deserve it (Buck vs Bell)? At least one can have his day in court against against another individual. However, thanks to broad interpretations of the 11th amendment, qualified immunity, and national security laws, the means to achieve vindication against government abuses have grown narrower.
absolutely love amethyst! i wish I could long press a hotkey to remind me of my own hotkeys sometimes but as far as a non-linux tiling wm goes, this is the way.
Strange, as this has been my Go-To for finding meaningful work over wading through pages of stale, unsavory job offerings. I walked into a PLC shop last week & scored a tour and informal interview, on the spot. The owner is OoT ATM, waiting for their return for the real interview.

If a potential employer's priority is online applications & utilizing various on-boarding agencies, IMO, you dodged multiple bullets. They likely are content just feeding a stream of fresh meat into their grinder. As always, YMMV.
Many assets associated with a program or system are fixed/readonly/constant data.
Slowly changing key sets can also take advantage of Minimal Perfect Hashing.
www.mydatamyconsent.com
Changing the defaults is not the same as nudging. There is a logical error in your thinking here.
So what muscles are responsible for this? Upper traps?

Could bad posture behind a computer cause the same problem?

By the way, Michael Shermer is quite an interesting person:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer
get smoothscroll (paid app, i think $10) to fix the scrolling and Amethyst (foss) for tiling.
It's stupid. They didn't know someone would retroactively try to change the rules. Maybe someone was chatting with referee in their inspection time. Maybe someone just look at the cube for a second and then spend 10s with breathing exercise or relaxing.

They didn't and couldn't possibly know you will change the rules and judge them retroactively.

What if you try to count time to sit on chair next, should they preemptively start to sit really fast in competitions in case you decide in the future to change the rules?

The time they made were made with current rules, you cannot deduce absolutely anything from them. Maybe the fastest total guy is just really stressed and to be done with it. Maybe the slow total guy is just enjoying the show, maybe he's watching his friend doing his best time on next table. Or maybe he's checking if his camera is recording. It's just totally unfair and meaningless.

Also if you count inspection time, referee can now deliberately slowly reveal the cube to slow down someone's inspection.
Be careful. Factor is a gateway to lower level stack based languages.

I saw Zed Shaw do a presentation using factor and decided to spend a weekend playing with it. It was the start of a two year journey that ended with me writing forth for microcontrollers. That was time I should have studied but was somehow always sidelined by other things.