skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh, yeah, I mean, clearly people want the symptoms fixed. And I think a reasonable number of people want to live in a city with low-income housing, public transit, and mental healthcare for all who need it.

I'd be surprised if anyone didn't want that. But I think the specific things when suggested, are things people oppose. "I want public transit, but I don't want them to put it on my street".

Also, full agreement that I'm not able to comment that people don't actually want this, only that the elected officials (and other powerful people) don't appear to want this (in Seattle). That is definitely who I'm referring to.
I'm fairly certain that cognitive abilities do not decline across the board upon reaching 30. Ability to learn probably does, but other aspects of intelligence such as memory and emotional intelligence probably do not peak until much later in life.
I went to a middle school were most of the teachers were (ex-) hippies. In 7th grade we had sex-ed which also covered various drugs. I remember my sex-ed teacher saying something like (unironically) "As supplemental reading, read 'Go Ask Alice'". I think the book was more or less accepted as near-truth/reality neither fully good nor fully evil, something akin to Hunter S. Thompson (this is the first time I'm hearing it's a crock.)

In the same class we had an anti-drug speaker in his early 40s who told us his story: "After high school I lost my way in life, sailed around the world in a sailboat, did a bunch of strange drugs, and slept with 100s of beautiful women. But now I'm clean and my life sucks." My friends and I had finally found a role model.
> Imagine trying to break into the smartphone market. Turns out, having less money than Apple makes it a little difficult. Availability? Limited. Supply? Constrained. Even with a design so compelling that people pay ridiculous markups at StockX, nobody can get their hands on your fancy new flashlight. To top it all off, the assholes at dbrand have parroted your design and are making it for the competition. Sorry, Carl.

Their marketing copy sounds like a Seinfeld skit.
I've always considered emojis to be an abuse of the unicode system: the purpose of unicode should be to standardize universal languages, not to let companies like apple push arbitrary vendor-specific crap onto everyone else.

Not just that, but I just find the design and usage of emojis to be very infantile and patronizing. An example I would point to is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistol_emoji

It is just humiliating and disrespectful to let these corporate pricks decide how we use language. Language is meant to evolve naturally. Imagine if these people got to decide how words were spelt or something. shameful.
> It takes over 1300 wind turbines to match the power output of a single reactor. Solar? 1-3 Million panels. Most civilian facilities operate 3-6 reactors.

At least for solar, that comparison is specious. It would be like separately counting each rod or even each pellet of nuclear fuel in a reactor's core, and using that as an argument against nuclear power. It makes more sense to compare whole solar power plants, not individual panels. From a quick look at the data for my country, most solar power plants have over 20 MW output each, and they are in facilities with 3-10 solar power plants. Looking at the same data source, wind also seems to use a similar grouping here (power plants containing several turbines with a total output over 20MW, then grouped into facilities with 3-10 power plants).

> Fission is the only technology that can make a dent in co2 emissions quickly. The only viable argument against nuclear is "cost" and that is only because of the ridiculous level of regulation and litigation surrounding nuclear power.

Cost is not the only argument. If you want to make it quickly, construction time is just as important, and nuclear loses badly here (though I might be a bit biased on that, since the latest reactor being built near where I live has been under construction for decades, with no end in sight). Solar and to a lesser extent wind have the advantage of simplicity and modularity, which tend to not only reduce the cost, but also enable them to be built quicker and in parallel, and make them much less risky to build; if one out of ten 20 MW solar power plants being built hits a problem, you still have the other nine, but if your single 1350 MW reactor being built since the 1980s hits some unexpected problem, you have nothing.

As for the level of regulation, it's an unavoidable consequence of how dangerous nuclear fuel (and the materials and fluids irradiated by it in the reactor core) is; you have to make sure it stays contained, so that a nuclear power plant is as safe as (or even safer than) other kinds of power plant. But that's not the whole reason for the high cost; there's the complexity of the reactor itself (including materials which can resist the radiation), and nuclear power plants tend to use things like a single hydrogen-cooled gigawatt-power turbine for each reactor core. Just the electrical infrastructure (transformers, circuit breakers, etc) which can deal with gigawatt levels of power at once is already costly.
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Exactly what I've been looking for: bespoke widgets.
The process is working fine. Scooters are far less likely to block sidewalks these days, because the apps now require riders to photograph where they left them and lock them up. Improper parking can result in a fine.

It's exactly these kind of tweaks that are appropriate, not bans.
I have no idea what you mean by "this idea that test is the common medium/ lowest common denominator", nor what these "escaping problems" are (I have to escape ASCII codes 0x00 through 0x1f, I guess, but it's unclear to me why that makes the result unreadable, especially since I hardly ever have to escape anything but \n and maybe \t. And the claim that "UN*X is buggy and half working" is just bizarre.
I don't need OOP to do a hash table lookup and then an indirect function call with the receiver as the first argument either but that ignores that there's more to a paradigm than the algorithm I use for facilitating it. You can embed unification of expression trees as a library in C++. People implement backtracking all the time in almost every language. Talking about differentiable programming as if it's just autodiff is missing the point of what a programming paradigm is.

There's a mechanism, yes, but that's just a means to an end of efficiently enabling a different way of approaching programming. In the case of differentiable programming, that's continuous code and continuous data enabling program search that doesn't have to use purely discrete methods (like logic programming). If that sounds like autodiff and backprop, then yes, that's because that's a good way to implement it. Tensorflow and PyTorch are DSLs embedded in Python and C++ both useable and used for more than just implementing neural networks, but most people aren't happy calling a library a language until it has a parser and a file extension.

> I'm not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate?

Most programming languages assume that a variable can only contain one value, or a composite value of values. Differentiable programming lets code be smoothly transformed from one to the other while being meaningful at all points between. In an object oriented case, this would be like having a variable contain an object that behaves like some known object A or object B selectively depending on which choice maximizes the success of the program at any given moment.
I just don't base truth on what Milton Friedman supposedly says or what legal precedent is. There are much better epistemological firmaments than those on which to ground reality.
Sounds like mocking the underdog.
The unsubsidized cost of renewables is (way) below the cost of any other source other than gas fired plants (which they are now competitive with)[1].

Subsidies are now mostly about solar vs wind. See for example the discussion in [2] about the tax credits and their effects on solar vs wind builds in the US (note that tariffs on solar panels from China offset some of these subsidies). Also note that they are tax credits, so somewhat different to a direct subsidy payment.

Most (non-coal) power generation has tax credits as a subsidy. [3] outlines the tax credit subsidies for the new nuclear plants in Georgia, as well as other subsidies including loan guarantees.

[1] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php

[3] https://www.georgiapower.com/company/plant-vogtle/vogtle-new...
Where I live it's fairly common for houses to have 230V single phase for most things, and then 400V three phase for things needing more power.
The OnePlus One was also a great deal for the price. I had one and it was great. However, I'm not planning on ever getting another OnePlus.
Makes me think that every HN thread should have one sub thread for the jokes.
It'd be possible to share blood between them and have imperfect seals like with oil and an engine crankcase, but sharing signaling or applying torque would require completely novel methods compared to existing life, as far as my biology knowledge goes.
It is funny how the same people (the nuclear lobby) who used to argue against solar due to economics (too expensive) are now arguing we should not consider economics anymore. The thing is though, at the moment most countries still produce significant portions of their elecricity from fossils. So if we want to remove them as quickly as possible, we should use the solution that gives us the highest capacity for a fixed amount of money (assuming we have only fixed funds).

Moreover because nuclear is so CAPEX driven both in cost and CO2 budget, it takes a long time to become carbon positive. So we would actually increase CO2 in the short term by building nuclear power plants.

So the best current strategy is to build up renewables to replace fossil as quick as possible, keep existing nuclear running, and develop storage. If the current trends of the cost for solar and wind continue, we might not even need much storage because building overcapacity is so cheap.
Too bad Australia, Canada and the EU don't have the 4th and 5th Amendments.
I don't have hard data on this, but I think Boulder has the densest concentration of pro triathletes in the USA. It seems to be a good location for bike training.
And why should we enable small business tax fraud?

I can't ask my employer to pay me in cash and keep my payslips private from the government.
I was thinking about the 2CV the other day with respect to drone motors and rollerblades.

A 75%-efficient 1000-watt 20000-rpm quadcopter motor is one horsepower, costs about US$150, is about 50 mm in each dimension, and weighs 250 g. If you couple it to an 8-mm-diameter output shaft, the shaft's surface speed is 8.4 m/s or 30 km/hour. Hook up a 10 cfm cooling fan to remove the 250 watts of heat (the other 25%), mount the shaft between sprung two ball bearings that press it up against a rollerblade wheel, and you have a one-horsepower roller skate.

An average human can wear two such skates at a time, thus providing deux chevaux of power, 1500 W, which is 180 N (the weight of 18 kg) at 30 km/hour or 1100 N at 5 km/hour, plenty of power to burn rubber. Accelerating a 100-kg human to 30 km/hour requires 3.5 kJ, 2.3 seconds at two horsepower, limited in practice by traction. Most of the time you would be using much less power than that, and of course you need active traction control so you don't burn rubber every time you pick up your foot and put it back down, but this seems like a tractable engineering problem.

If your average net power usage (losses to air resistance, road roughness, rolling resistance, and round-trip losses from regenerative braking) is 100 watts, a two-hour trip is 0.7 megajoules. This is considerably lower than the average power usage of a Citroen 2CV because a human has a lot less air resistance than a car, even with a helmet and kneepads.

You could provide this energy with 1.9 kg of lithium-ion batteries in a backpack, costing about US$300, but plausibly you could make it cheaper by using high-discharge-rate lithium cells for half or a quarter of that (US$75 or US$150) and US$40 of deep-cycle lead-acid batteries (4 kg) for the rest.

The "2CV" in the car name was kind of a tax fraud, though. An actual Citroen 2CV offered 9 horsepower even at the beginning and 29 horsepower by the end, which is a lot more than you can strap onto your feet even with modern drone motors.

On the other hand, if you used a larger shaft, you could get the skates to go a lot faster than a 2CV could. But I'm not sure that would be a good idea.
The accused is not yet on trial, much less found guilty.
That's an interesting perspective. I am also a sysadmin and I sometimes care about the kernel I run (I run the Zen kernel on my XPS running Arch), but I also don't really find much value in the version number unless it has a feature I need/want. Like you, it wouldn't add or detract for me to know that a feature I want is in kernel 5.19 vs version 2022.5.2.

Huh, although, the one question I'm not sure about would be LTS releases. For some reason -- in my head, at least -- it feels unorganized to mark a version based on date as an LTS. I guess Ubuntu does that and it doesn't bother me but for some reason I have a double standard with the kernel.

Tangent: is there an official timeline where the decided support lifetime for the kernel versions are? Something like Ubuntu's lifecycle table[1]? I ask because there was one time I was gonna run 5.10 but wasn't sure when it was EOL because Greg K H was going to shorten it but then decided to extend it.

[1] https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
Great execution, I like the "always-on" dictionary definition panel.

I built an offline mobile dictionary app about 10 years ago for a language where there was no existing app - New Zealand Sign Language. Fortunately, the dictionary work had already been done by the Deaf Studies Research Unit at Victoria University of Wellington [1]. They kindly gave permission for me to use the dictionary data (and images for every entry, because it's a visual language). As a result they properly licensed the dictionary data as CC-BY-NC-SA, so anybody can use it now.

All the dictionary entries and images were built in to the initial download of the app. This was a bit amusing in 2012 when there were still 50 MB app download size limits, I had to sacrifice some image quality (converting PNG to JPEG, among other things) to get the file size small enough. I had always intended to add an optional download of all the sign videos, but never did get around to it, and online on-demand access to the videos always seemed to work well enough for users. (My #1 user is my wife, I built this app at the start of her studies and she is now a qualified NZSL interpreter and still uses the app every day.)

Since then, the DSRU has done a lot of work on the online dictionary web site [2], and I have passed on the responsiblity of app maintenance onto them. All their work (website, apps, conversion scripts) is now open source [3].

1: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/centres-and-institutes/dsru

2: https://www.nzsl.nz/

3. https://github.com/ODNZSL
Nothing Phone (1) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32086641 - July 2022 (97 comments)
499€. It's not sold in the US.
Yes, this is of course one of the saner options. It brings a few issues down the line if you intend to have a server component for synching, or plan to maintain the app for a long enough time and/or expand its features etc, as paid upgrades are a PITA in iOS. But it could make sense.
Aluminum wiring is the thalidomide of the construction industry. No matter how much you improve it, you will never get over the stigma. No one will buy a house with state-of-the-art aluminum wiring just like no one will ever take thalidomide, even though they know exactly what caused the birth defect issue (chiral molecules that were created during the manufacturing process).
I'm surprised that it doesn't come up in the article, but I would have thought those bail conditions substantially interfered with his ability to have a fair trial. How can he communicate with his lawyer in a secure manner if he can't use any kind of encryption and the police have all his phone passwords to look at any time? Are the the police going to read all his communications with his lawyer?
Maybe this is part of an out-of-court settlement with Autodesk to avoid a lawsuit.
I see a big "Buy now" button in the bottom-right corner.
Seems a bit of conflation of notions going on here: Just because logic/quantum/probabilistic all end with "programming", it doesn't mean that they all are what is called a "programming paradigm" in the typical sense [0]. Where does a paradigm end and a library implementation begin?

For example, varying how a program arrives at the answer induces impertive/OOP vs. declarative paradigms [0].
On the other hand, quantum programming assumes a radically different type of "CPU" (i.e. instruction set) on which your program runs - which in turn obviously changes everything. But this can safely by implemented within existing paradigms, e.g. ProjectQ [1] is implemented in an OOP language: Python.
Thus, I would not call this a new programming paradigm (unfortunately [0] does that, but I think that is bad form).

> you can view differentiable programming as extending logic programming [...] that allows interpolation between data and code.

Reference? I have browsed one of the standard references [2] on automatic differentiation and googled a bit and could not find something that supports your statement. Even more so, is seems that even defining semantics for differential programming is barely in its starting stages [3].

> differentiable programming is at the level of syntax sugar for reverse mode differentiation, so I can't blame you for that conclusion.

By the same argument you could say that probabilistic programming is just syntax sugar for painless specification of statistical models.

Care to provide a reference where differential programming is presented as something more than "syntax sugar"?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_paradigm#Further_p...

[1] https://projectq.ch/

[2] Griewank A., Walther A., Evaluating Derivatives, SIAM 2008

[3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.04523.pdf
And what would be the consequences should, say, Russia attack, say, the Kakhovka dam? Consequences, that is, for the attacker?

More sanctions? Direct military action against a major (or any) nuclear power? Condemnation and isolation for decades or longer?
Fast, and ‘in-typescript’ seem to be mutually exclusive. At least for something as compute intensive as a full-text search engine.
I didn't start my PhD until well after 30. I don't think that it hindered me.
They customise, backport patches, and use different kernel versions.

If you run kernel version A in docker, and try and run a container that was designed to use kernel version B you may run into problems.
Why glass on the back of the phone? It doubles the surface area susceptible to breaking and it serves no useful purpose (the widget thing looks like a gimmick). I've had two phones with glass surfaces on the back, and they both had cracks in it within the first year (the front luckily survived though).
Holy crap, 2.25% fixed for 30 years? Wow.
Canada is comprised of 9,984,670 km^2. I don't think that your 3200 km^2 is going to make that much of an impact.
>buying a new phone with what?

Your bank still issues you physical debit and credit cards, bedside your digital ones, no? Cards which you can leave at home as backup, no?

At least that's the case for me and everyone I know in Europe.
Thanks! also related:

The Max Headroom Incident - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29319651 - Nov 2021 (197 comments)

Max Headroom Signal Hijacking - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28148673 - Aug 2021 (2 comments)

Max Headroom Signal Hijacking (2020) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25923243 - Jan 2021 (1 comment)

The Max Headroom Christmas Special - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25535365 - Dec 2020 (2 comments)

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611551 - Nov 2019 (54 comments)

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18167508 - Oct 2018 (1 comment)

The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16816663 - April 2018 (53 comments)

The Max Headroom TV Hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845038 - July 2015 (81 comments)

Oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9313865 - April 2015 (3 comments)

27 Years Later the Max Headroom Hackers Still Remain a Mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889388 - Jan 2015 (1 comment)

The Mystery of the Creepiest Television Hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824715 - Nov 2013 (11 comments)

Max Headroom and the Strange World of Pseudo-CGI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803755 - June 2013 (21 comments)

The 1987 Max Headroom Pirating Incident - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1207937 - March 2010 (5 comments)
Well, the types only exist at compile time, so they're fast at least!
Would this likely break of goal of having / leveraging pi-hole?
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We use azure app service so it would be overpriced at scale and we'd go broke paying for log analytics and intrusion protection because reasons that the engineering teams wast allowed input on
> You are handwaving away the nonexistent storage tech required to stand up a power grid. Please stop.

This isn't true.

If you accept 5% non-renewable power generation (which - lets face it - will be with us for a while!) you need storage at $150/kWh to use renewables for everything else[1].

This price is available now (and forecast to drop below $100/kWh next year)[2].

[1] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(19)30300-9

[2] https://about.bnef.com/blog/battery-pack-prices-cited-below-...
Germany does not do absymmally. It could actually do much better if not for the coal and nuclear lobby trying to slow down the move towards renewables over the last 20 years. Talking about the regulation argument which people bring up for nuclear. The amount of regulations needed to follow for wind are insane in Germany. Essentially even if you want to put a small (5-10kW) turbine in rural yard you have to become a mini electricity company. Let's not even talk about the Bavaria which have essentially killed off a wind due to regulations that requires huge distances to any dwelling.
file drop apis weren't so bad. drop a file in the input directory with a unique name, wait for the response to appear in the output directory. with samba these became easy to work with.

i wrapped a couple of these with soap webservices back in the day and any reliability issues almost always came from the soap server.

ups used to be a gigantic as/400 shop... i wonder if they're still using them...
Three pinhole failures in 30 yr old copper pipe in ten years in this house says otherwise. We've (hopefully) torn all that out - tired of replacing 1/4 of the house every time there's another pipe failure.
exactly. if you read the bug it's clearly not a k8s issue. they cannot control aws jabbering elb bugs.
U.S. towns paying up to $20k for remote workers to relocate
> So does the ads

This is true, but this just means that there's something wrong with both ads and gambling
Slightly terrifying if you ponder the implications of a significant solar flare hitting the planet in this day and age.
Ask HN: Has anyone gone to med school after working as a SWE?
What's the process like, and what convinced you to go to med school?