skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for pointing that out. What would be your suggestion/alternatives?
I think the idea of the pits is to increase the surface area contacting the water and heating it.
Also we are talking about totally different load over time characteristics. And we don't want time plus weather to dictate our industrial and shipping power needs.

Solar is great but not simply alone. (Latitude is less of an issue as (proper) power systems are interconnected markets that sell/buy excess load.)
I'd love to see viable nuclear fusion power, but the lack of more investment at the moment doesn't really seem unreasonable. As you said, there are a number of other green alternatives, including traditional nuclear fission power, that have proven they can be real alternatives to fossil fuels and that would benefit from continued investment.

Unless I've missed something, nuclear fusion meanwhile has yet to demonstrate realistic commercial power generation, even as a proof of concept or a complete path to get to that point. In other words, more research is definitely worthwhile, but it also seems possible it will be a dead end at least in the near term. It's hard to argue prioritizing that over other things that have been generating real commercial power for decades. I'm all in favor of an all-of-the-above approach, but prioritization almost always has to be the reality.
Yup and the theory is wrong. People and even animals who experience “trauma” (beat up, socially humiliated, tricked by fraudsters, etc) over and over actually have physiological changes in the brain.

One can train oneself to ignore trauma which is especially useful in sharp changes in life circumstances, or if what traumatized you is incredibly unlikely to ever happen again, but things like traumatized people being less confident and more anxious is actually useful and protective if you are repeatedly traumatized since the world is actually probably a dangerous place for such people and they should tread conservatively.
Solar is basically indirect fusion.
Interesting. Something like this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281902445_Two-stage...
Well, I don’t think this article did a good job of representing Adler’s real views. I’ve read a little bit of his work and he’s definitely a reasonable person who would agree that your trauma is real.

I think his perspective/emphasis just differs a bit from Freud for example. Like rather than saying this event caused my current state of mind (which is of course true from one perspective), he’d focus on the perspective that my mind reacted in this way for a particular purpose (e.g. to protect itself so that I can keep surviving/functioning in the future, even if it comes at a severe cost). That perspective is also true, just different.

I guess it’s important to have both—-empathy for your experience and the real trauma it caused (so that you still feel connected and supported by people) but also reflecting on what may be the purpose of some behaviors/mentalities that came out of the trauma, so that at least in the longer term they can be improved or substituted (e.g. if something exists for a purpose, we can’t just remove it because it’s “not normal”; we need to understand the root of it). All to keep moving forward to your best self. I mean, there’s no magic pill for trauma so every therapeutic approach is going to have limitations but it’s good to seek useful, self-empowering approaches which I think is what Adler was going for.

Just my interpretation. I’m not an Adler expert but I do like his work (as well as Freud’s).
The support person is almost certainly incentivized to get through as many appeals as possible. He's also probably paid very little. He has basically no incentive to help this guy and this guy gave him a disincentive. There's also likely correlation between people who speak this way to others and people whose bans were legitimate. Next.

Spitting in a burger is active malice that can get you in legal trouble and I've still seen it happen. (For the record, I didn't let the burger go out and the guy got fired.) There was also a case where a local restaurant cook actively poisoned people he didn't like.

Choosing not to help someone when you could is passive and it happens all the time. The worst consequence is you lose your job. One of the few freedoms of low paying jobs is that replacing those jobs is very easy. If you don't believe these things happen, start talking to retail and support employees. Or you can find plenty of forums where people talk about this type of thing.

Do I think employees need to recognize that they are representing their company and no one is saying these things to them personally? Yes. Do I think people need to stop talking to "companies" this way? Also yes, even if only because they're more likely to get what they want that way.
This is a good point: you need to get your methane leakage rate below 3% in order for synthetic methane to improve the climate-change situation rather than making it worse. Probably the easiest way to do that is to convert it into a liquid fuel, like methanol as I suggested upthread, kerosene as I suggested in a different comment, or ethanol.

At the point where you are doing enough direct air capture of CO₂ to supply a substantial fraction of the world fuel demand, you're also doing enough direct air capture to capture a substantial fraction of world CO₂ emissions. At that point you can just pump some of it into natural gas fields instead of converting it to CH₄.
The problem is far more nuanced.

The top individuals can be extremely productive and worth every penny, but most companies don't need top talent (they write mundane software that requires plugging some custom code to a framework) and can't even identify top talent, because it takes top-talent to spot top-talent. The best they can hope is just avoiding hiring the worst developers.

> But the top 20% of engineers is not that much better than the middle 60%.

Wrong. But since companies wouldn't be able to tell a difference, you might as well think it's true and be better off.

> An average engineer can do almost anything a top engineer can, but for a much lower price.

I've seen things that the company struggles for years being solved in a couple of weeks by a dedicated top-talent individual. But they were hard things - involving distributed systems, hard performance and data requirements, complex architectures etc. Things that "medium 60%" simply can't solve. But 90% of work in a typical company is actually nothing like that. And if you give top-talent a task to write some mundane business logic they might produce somewhat better code, somewhat faster, but it will be 2x tops, and possibly even less than 1x, because they will just not be motivated.

So you have to know what kind of engineering your company is doing and hire matching developers.
I just don't understand how cocaine doesn't make you a better person altogether.
As a service to my fellow readers, some relevant (IMHO) historical context...

> Grenada

A small island country in the west indies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenada#/media/File:Grenada_on...

> Reagan attacks Grenada

So, in a nutshell Reagen claimed US citizens were threatened by evil Marxists... and proceeded to invade and overthrow the government. The real reasons are up for speculation, but this was definitely part of the Cold War against the USSR.

The invasion occurred in 1983, when the CLODO crew was interviewed.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-in...

Grenada had been a colony fought over by Britain/the UK and France; both members of NATO alongside the US (as was the case in 1983). Many Europeans - then and now - feel their countries foreign policy has been more-or-less hijacked by the US since 1945, in particular for a cold war against the USSR, and in suppressing independence movements in former colonies, when they did not lean towards accepting US hegemony.
I've never taken any of the offers and have never used Elixir in a professional context. Most of these are small startups and can range from 100-200k + equity, and the only decision behind using elixir was probably the novelty, not beam or the success stories behind discord and whatsapp suggesting its utility for at scale throughput
Compare that to what we have invested in crypto globally and weep.
I have a different approach, I have a blacklist of languages I refuse to work with (for example, Java)
> Why would I want me and my family on a packed train with our luggage and gear rather than in our comfortable, climate controlled, and spacious vehicle? Who would seriously vote for that?

You don't need to. It's not like those countries with extensive train networks don't have cars and interstate highways. They do and people use them. The point is that in those countries, cheap options exist for all income brackets and all use cases.

In America, it's a car or bust.
Electricity Is the New Medical Miracle
I find the concept of gatekeeping who has been traumatized or not to be incredibly scientifically dubious and the only reason we have such a notion as some people facing real trauma and some people being drama queens is that it’s socially useful for the efficient allocation of societal resources.

All people suffer some degree of trauma, even if it’s something as pedestrian as a loved one dying.
Though from quick skim of https://rclone.org/sftp/ it seems you have to configure each remote. With sshfs you don't need to do any configuration apart from ~/.ssh.
It's only top 5 most promising if you're heavily weighting based on theoretical upside. We should always be taking moonshots but for climate change and global warming we need to be taking active steps yesterday, and for that fusion shouldn't even be on the list. Fission + some renewables is all we need anyway for almost everything, and carbon capture/removal can take care of stuff that will likely need to rely on fossil fuels moving forward, like aircraft. It's not a matter of way, just will.
https://archive.ph/8Norp
I wonder if there could be better design. Maybe on packing side. Why wouldn't you order files and links in such way that single pass is enough.
The problem with zero sum game performance reviews is that they're not about improving performance but about fitting everyone in the same boxes. And this usually results in ridiculous outcomes, some of which are particularly bad depending on how that "box fitting" is implemented.

> trade a HV3 down to an HV2 in order to keep an unpopular but otherwise fine performing engineer from getting an LE.

Like this where the company's goal is never to improve "unpopular but otherwise fine performing engineer" but rather to keep the boundary of the boxes. And this despite mounting evidence against such systems, and the known abuse with methods like hire to fire. To me this is always a sign of rotten leadership.
The clear path is... lying about his content? If that's your definition of a system working as intended, we have a problem.
The article doesn't touch upon the hardest and most interesting part: NLP and finding the most relevant results. I would like to see a post on this.
Almost everything relating to psychology and psychiatry is opinion and hogwash.

Psychology is not science.

Psychiatry has just debunked it's most important modern thesis (serotonin theory).

The reason? All the smart scientists tend to go into physics and chemistry.
I'm not one to argue etymology. Apparently nothing is real until it's realized. So "not being real" is meaningless and we should discuss whether something is "able to be realized".

Can fuels by synthesized at industrial scale?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasol

I'm sure the goalposts just moved LOL
That's because you don't understand thermodynamics.

You can't just put the power plant in space and keep the heat from generating the power away from the earth, because the heat gets created where the power is used to perform work. You have to avoid consuming any of that power on the earth entirely.

And you can't just beam the waste heat from every process away from the surface of the earth, that violates the second law of thermodynamics. The heat exists because the energy performed work, you are keeping the energy organized by beaming it in any direction, so it is not waste heat, it is direct infrared from the energy you've produced. You can only do this by not actually using the energy for work. This makes the whole exercise of even producing the energy pointless.

I think the biggest hole in the argument is the jump to 100% efficiency. we don't consume mor energy because we feel like it, we consume it because we need it, and a factor of 5 increase in efficiency would equate to a factor of 5 decrease in production of energy resources.
The Technology Behind BLOOM Training
Several groups of people even throughout the story, really. Leitch left in 2008. Daulerio left a few years later, the Craggs, etc. Honestly, I think the Defector's version tells the history in a more complete way than this article since there were several eras: https://defector.com/how-we-got-here/ - a lot of prominent quotes from names in originally linked article that were out of the picture relatively early in terms of the Deadspin/Defector "changing sports journalism" story vs more of just a "controversial posts" story.
Some people strongly disagree with playing the game this way: however parent is fantastic advice because you need to know how others are playing to win, and you need to recognise those players and fit your game style appropriately to adjust for that.
SF Chronicle: Chesa Boudin wasn’t the problem, Walgreens caused the drug crisis
Every bus company that I have used in recent years (UK, Norway) has an app that allows for route planning and buying tickets. In many cases it is an umbrella app that covers all transport in a given region. So if you have a smartphone there is no paper ticket.
One advantage of other technologies over solar is space efficiency. Obviously we're not physically lacking in space to install solar, but when even solar farms installed in the desert can be shut down by "climate activists" [1], then we really need all the help we can get

[1] https://apnews.com/article/technology-government-and-politic...
How about option C? Drop out of college and form a startup. If you have this much ambition, imagine where your business could be in 4 years!
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Article from BBC News on the same topic https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-62261094
yikes!
you must have felt so dirty having to do that!
My primary points are that 24h turn around to get the issue resolved is not bad, and that blaming the AI is silly when the human in the loop didn't fix anything.

But yes, I am also saying we don't know the reality of what the content moderation team is dealing with, we basically only see the false positives. I'm not saying they're doing a good job (especially the team handling appeals), I'm saying that we should be more sympathetic to the trade-offs involved in automated moderation.
I'd just finish the first degree.

Changing your major / school a bunch of times is a good way to not finish.
Isn't a border collie crazy need as a high energy dog that needs a lot of stimulation?
Agreed. I don't know what to make of this. Is it marketing, the result of developer creativity or the outcome of an A/B-test, and why do Google search result quality go downhill so quickly?
Don't forget that we're perpetually one temper tantrum away from nuclear winter now, which would cripple all solar infrastructure for years. I'm actually a little surprised the DoD hasn't deeply invested in fusion for this reason alone.
Adding to the other replies, there's an off by one error in the interval names.

The unison is an interval of zero notes, the second an interval of one note, etc...
Not GP, but from having run a small/niche search engine that got hammered by a crawler in the past:

Webserver was a single VM running a Java + Spring webserver in Tomcat, connecting to an overworked Solr cluster to do the actual faceted searching.

Caches kept most page loads for organic traffic within respectable bounds, but the crawler destroyed our cache hit rate when it was scraping our site and at one point did exhaust a concurrent connection limit of some kind because there were so many slow/timing-out requests in progress at the same time.
Five bucks? 1kg of beans in Sweden is like 3 bucks.
One of the things I like about getting older is that you're old enough to see industries forget lessons they've already learned. A few years back I invested some time reading the entirety of Joel Spolsky's blog, and because he writes so well, a lot of it stuck to memory.

Back in 2006 he wrote "Finding Great Developers", and in it he says:
"The great software developers, indeed, the best people in every field, are quite simply never on the market."

This is as true as it gets.
So, for most companies, they're not getting top talent. The best next thing is to get VERY, VERY CLEAR on the hiring end on what the job actually demands - and hire for that.

Separately, and you can see it a lot on HN, there's a competitive element around being "talented" or "good". As in, "Oh, she's super talented", or "I'd like to be as talented as they are". To be fair, it's not unique to those who code, you can find it in every STEM department in every college, but it's nonsense all the same.

Companies prize people who can get things done. And that ability is multi-faceted: it's not just about how good a developer someone is. How much they understand the domain, how much relevant experience they have, how good they are at mobilizing other people to work together on a solution, how capable they are at getting others around them unstuck, how well they can explain their ideas and discuss others' in a productive way...So much goes into this bucket of "getting things done".
on my FF developer on mac it is in the bottom right corner of the image carousel.
If there's some externality in the way that someone is using public air, like burning garbage in their backyard, then they should be expected to pay for it
At least the Gladiators that lost!
Yes, a male mouse posing with a cat would be seen as very masculine — perhaps foolishly so!
Its not really a pre-processor stage. Probably better to think of it more like a pointer cast to some binary blob. Though it'd be interesting to see what `gcc -E` would produce.
Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.

— Leopold Kronecker

(“God made the integers; all else is the work of man.”)
yes. and one of the ways to stop letting freight trains preempt passenger trains would be for amtrak to build their own tracks. but as long as amtrack has to rely on operating revenue for that sort of project, it's never going to happen because they can't attract enough customers.
Google Fires Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Conscious
@OP: incidentally, i'd love to see examples (thesis or otherwise) of your groff documents and related makefiles if you have any publically available
> Stack ranking and quotas suck, and you feel like shit having to abide by them, but I've also seen managers being overprotective about underperforming employees.

Then those managers are bad at their jobs and should be PIP-ed even more ruthlessly.

It's always interesting to me how managers get a complete and utterly unexamined pass in these conversations. The bar is so, so low for them. Managerial incompetence can be breezily cited as the reason for a horrible policy, like managing out a fixed percentage of every team, and everyone considers it a fait accompli. After all, what would be the alternative? Managers actually being held accountable for doing the most important part of their jobs?

ICs must be held nose to the grindstone every minute of every day... but ya can't do anything about bad management!
If I were a transport operator, I would be worried about losing access to the trip data you get from people constantly scanning their tickets at the start and end of journeys. How do you know how people are using your services if nobody is scanning tickets any more? Maybe counting passengers gives you enough info to deliver capacity at required times. Hopefully the need for data on what actual trips people are taking (to influence line design etc) is not so necessary that operators start doing facial recognition. Yuck.
I partially agree with some points, personally I see the social part only solvable with two separate life, one in person, local, another remote. The issue here is that locally we often have not much matching people: if we work together probably we share some interests, ideas, ... if we simply live nearby we might be TOTALLY different witch might be very good for certain activities but not for others.

Long story short: IMO, so far, WFH is mostly chosen by skilled people and since they are a minority it's hard to find matches outside restricted areas like universities and some companies HQs... That's NOT a WFH issue, but a social one. That's can only be solved after a significant amount of time.

That's means: now many try to relocate to nice places for climate, nature, leisure, ... and so far it's a virgin territory. After a decade or more, like we have "good" and "poor/bad" neighborhoods in cities now we will find "WFH places" where people match enough to satisfy the physical proximity need. The issue is that such process is long and hard, but I see no other evolutions so far...
If you're an actual problem solver, you don't even need a CV. Your clients will be so happy that they will recommend your services to their buddies.
Ok, but this is currently on the front page of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32205535 "Why Writing Your Own Search Engine Is Hard (2004)"
So is all other energy production methods we use... Apart from some fraction of geothermal.
Wasn't hired by Apple because I am Ukrainian
I really thought this would be some convoluted way of having loss be detected by some sort of AI so you can prevent seeing it.
Sure: some athletes get a lot of protein that way, and others get a lot of protein without eating any meat. It's beneficial for muscle-building either way you do it.
Good point. Yes I am.
Well, with that logic, coal is also indirect fusion
There have been a number of high profile athletes having questionable performances after going low meat/vegetarian/vegan. Most recently Canelo in his performance against Bivol.
59MJ over the short period of 7s, equivalent to 8.5 MW (https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3722). A research reactor (not built to be a power plant) that is still capable of powering over 20,000 households while running isn't really as underwhelming as you seem to imply it is.
I agree the cost is important. I disagree in the breaking point at witch it’s “not worth it”. To me, assuming our battery tech doesn’t find a similar breakthrough before, if fusion reaches one order of magnitude above the cost of solar, it is worth it, as a backup. Better to have it and use it when there’s clouds instead of coal or gas
> They don't care about you, the user, because you are not a customer, you are the product, and your are easily replaceable. The CS rep's boss also doesn't care about you.

And this right here is the root of the problem. The problem isn't that customers are "abusive", it's that CEOs and stock holders can offload the fruits of their own abuse onto people who are powerless to change anything.

It's not exactly a surprise that that breeds resentment from both sides.
Don't they watch the movies? Does this ever end happily?
> The reason? All the smart scientists tend to go into physics and chemistry.

Really? This honestly sounds plausible to you?
This isn't surprising at all. It has always been my instinct that women would find a man less desirable if he owns a cat. Good that they did a study on it to drive the point home but it seems like common sense to me.