skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By renewables I’m assuming you mean wind & solar because fusion is 100% renewable. Even fission is basically close enough in that there’s sufficient easily accessible resources to power human society for eons. Additionally, solar panels and batteries use rare earth metals, so they’re technically not as renewable as fusion / fission (although to be fair I don’t know what materials go into a fusion / fission reactor so those metals may be needed there).

Anyway, the cost of energy with solar / wind is obviously not 0. You have to produce the panels / windmills, perform maintenance, for solar you need to clean, etc. Additionally, the energy isn’t available always so you need energy reserves like batteries, pumped water, etc to store it for use which increases the cost further. Finally, there are energy demands that solar / windmills can’t meet where you need *really* hot temperatures.

That’s why fission repeatedly is shown as the only solution to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Fusion is great but we should be building insane amounts of nuclear reactors right now to meaningfully decarbonize our energy generation.

* EDIT: Here’s a talk [1] by Michel Laverne CSO of General Fusion. He starts talking at the ~6 minute mark and explains why renewables will never see more than 10-20% market penetration.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zzwnt0cNXM
The "being an engineer" podcast is great, I also like all songs considered by NPR, invisibelia, pop culture happy hour.
I have never understood why health ensurance is handled by the employer in the US, why don't people buy private health insurance instead? It feels insane to put yourself in that kind of dependency on your employer.
Why should I trust that site?
SAT for initializing nn parameters? Can you elaborate on this a bit, it seems interesting.
Sponsored content for sure. TLDR anyway because I don’t care about what corporations demand. They have long controlled everyone in the worst of ways and deserve e heavy pushback and life-wasting commute requirements. You want me to commute? Pay for my time at salaried rate, transportation (of my choosing) costs, and lobby for both of those be tax free to me. Otherwise, go fuck yourself.
Till GP finds the hidden and limited search API (I know it exists and I'm struggling to find it) he can search the comments here:

https://hn.algolia.com

Edit: I was thinking of news.ycombinator/from?site=X, but I realize I'm not even sure it can search comments.
https://nyan.global
An EVM disassembler and formal smart contract verifier (got bored, abandoned)

https://atomictessellator.com

Current project - small molecule chemistry simulation platform (no marketing, passion project)
are you asking what laws criminals are following?
For transaction processing, wouldn't a 1-3% margin be about the maximum achievable? That would translate to about 15 million dollars in potential profit against a 730 million loss.
The idea is to have more people understand your posts.
It's just a marketing meme.

It's actually really hard to get photos of real people in positions and context you want, and, there are so so many mitigating factors when there is more realism.

Cartooish characters radically simplify everything. Even things like DEI - not enough 'People of Colour' , that can be changed instantly.

One could just remove all of that and be judicious about the use of 'people' (Apple does that - not a lot of 'people' in the docs etc.) but then you lose the 'human connection'. People 'relate to' People.

Once a few companies start doing it the 2cnd then 3rd tier follow for reasons they may not understand (copying happens a lot, it's just like 'benchmarking', it's 'easier' and 'safer'). 4th tier never cared.
Not all in the genes: Are we inheriting more than we think?
The claim I made wasn’t about saying what everyone needs to eat, though, so your point doesn’t make sense in the context of the discussion. The point that I was making is that these dietetic institutions state that animal products aren’t necessary. Not that diabetics are required to eat things that risk their lives…

If you believe that diabetics cannot be vegan, then that’s a separate and equally untrue argument.
80% by 2030 is laughable. I'd be surprised if we have made a 5% improvement over the 2020 levels posted in this paper. Unfortunately the political will to transition will not arrive until it is far far too late. Too much short term thinking. I think most politicians would be hard pressed to explain what a positive feedback loop would is, let alone what needs to be done to prevent one.
https://cashapp.github.io/hermit/faq/#how-is-hermit-differen...
Another concern I have is that cool as zig is, it is still pretty unstable, with breaking changes almost every release. So, I'm not sure i would want to trust this with production code.
> Exec is slower because of the linking done at load time.

Oh, cry me a river. 30 years ago the performance impact was known and was very well worth the trade-off. Machines are orders of magnitude faster now and consequently the impact less significant. Next thing, you're telling me X11 is slow.
This is what I do with every single company I have even the slightest negative interaction with regarding my data.

Its a lot of fun.
The fact that we might have a technology to do something says nothing about whether it is actually will be done.

For example, there is no need for war, we can feed everyone using the technology available today but it is almost certain millions will continue to die from hunger every year and of cause the peace is just a wild dream.
Mutt/pine (or newer clients like sup/notmuch) are faster, handles quoting/threading better, allows decent keyboard operation and is workable with high-volume of email.

My biggest issue with Gmail (as someone who interacts with users of Gmail) - is that it generally breaks quoting and hides this from Gmail users with its magic conversation view.

Outlook(web) does atrocious top-quoting rendering it useless for mailing lists.

In general the web interfaces doesn't work well with hundreds/thousands of mails IMNHO.

They also tend to needlessly lean on html formatting rather than plain text - with things like "my replies in blue" - rather than just proper quoting.

Ed: in general I've just given up the idea that the average user has any hope of interacting well with email lists - which means such lists aren't useful for general discussion (but can still work for specialist groups like Linux kernel etc).

The conclusion being that one will need "something else" for a general audience.

Zulip might be a reasonable compromise.
It can be automated. And if it can't, there are armies of people in the third world who can "automate" it for you, like solving capchas.

Also It's not a $100 loan. The insinuation is that it'a $100 dollars that you take and run.
I like his content, but his persona is obnoxious and bratty.
I have now, thanks to you(r suggestion), but it doesn't show all the tabs/windows in one place. It only shows tabs of current window. Nor does it even show everything in a full new page. This add-on seems to be made only as a vertical tab bar as an alternative to the horizontal.

It has a quite impressive list of settings, but none of them enable the basic fundamental functionality I'm looking for.

I keep trying all the add-ons successively, although without success. I'd really appreciate a solution.
That stupid article that originated the word "blub" was nothing but pure lisp wank.
Oh all the things I wish they would use their marketing budget on. For instance they still can't correctly compute different VAT classes in their merchant reports.
Duke Master of Engineering in Financial Technology
Oh yeah for sure. The only reason she could do it is because we all got along.

I would not recommend this approach for most managers. :)
You may find Pollen (https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/big-picture.html) interesting. Pollen also blend text and program by Lisp, and can output HTML.

I loved the idea of creating my own text format by code, but now I think markdown + pandoc filters are enough for my need.
They have achieved ignition multiple times.

If reproducibility demanded getting the exact same numbers, a lot of good results would be thrown out for no good reason.
"...the assertion that Mozart is the best music there is dubious at best."

I've had a great deal to say about this story in my comments and replies and at NO time have I ever said Mozart's music was the best.

In fact, I have been assiduously careful in choosing my words to the extent of being excessively prolix to ensure that no one could reasonably accuse me of making that claim - for the very reason that in previous discussions on this and related topics it's common for people who don't like Mozart or 'classical' music or both to make this accusation even though these stores never actually make such a claim.

The case is the same here with this story. It too is about the dubious-at-best claim that listening to Mozart improves IQ, it's not about claiming Mozart's music is the best per se - and I even make the specific point in one comment that my IQ never changes an iota whenever I listen to Mozart.

This is an old story so there are many other instances of it and comments about it are numerous. It's a curious observation that so many people have claimed and continue to claim these stories are about Mozart's music being the best when they're not. One can only speculate the reasons are that they're annoyed or upset that their favorite composer wasn't the center of attention.

The only other reason that's likely is that when the original authors of this story singled out Mozart by claiming that listening to his music improves one's IQ is that those claimants who don't like Mozart's music or never listen to it have misinterpreted the story and or read into it the implication that they're less intelligent beings than those who do.

Any such notion, of course, is sheer utter nonsense.
Relevant quote that I saved a while back:

> The tendency to prognosticate without any real evidence will increase in the future. — whatshisface (2019), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567417
I don’t worry about it. Which language you’re using ends up way down the list of Things That Matter in terms of building something useful.

I’d think way, way harder about what database I used than which programming language. Most of them are just different stylings of C when you really get down to it. (Ok fine, not Rust.)
Ethereum Merge May Be Coming Sooner Than Expected
Curious if you have any blogs on your experience with the development process over the past 13 years. How was that time spent, what did you find most challenging, and what did you learn in the process? Is the website and forum written in your language?
I've done a bit of international work around startups and government policy, as well as lots of checking out various "startup"/entrepreneurial endeavours around MENA,US and EU.

Safety nets, be that a psychological one ( the US with the American dream ) or a welfare angle (sweden, Norway etc) but what seems to be truest or at least in my observation is the psychology of the country in terms of its approach to supporting startups of all flavours matters more. This means,broadly, it being considered an acceptable and successful route of learning business and is not a hyper risky endeavour.

In stable global north countries, it was, historically, considered a radical act to not join a big national or even multinational company. Hell, the terminology of the description tells you the sense of import that we held for the the large beasts of industry.

This all radically shifted with the advent of software, games, websites, SaaS, PaaS etc etc.

It was perceived, over the last 40 years, no longer risky to be in computers, but very wise, and a smart move.

With this rise of the geeks, then came adjacent entrepreneurial activity, fancy coffee shops, better food, etc

Now,this has probably played out one way or the other on every country.

What I have seen, is that entrepreneurs are more present and more numerous than ever, but there are numerous obstacles in their way.

Import limits, sending money internationally, basic banking, travel restrictions, gender limitations, sexuality limitations, freedom of the press, dictatorial governance with a lot of religion as the policy.

These are the limiting factors to growth. Investors will always invest, we can derisk it somewhat with tax breaks, but money makes money.

Ultimately what's designs a great startup ecosystem is excellent people making excellent things with or without government assistance and working together, as a cohesive unit to celebrate and champion making cool shit for money. Be it coffee, be it BBQ, be it software, be it yoga.

Independent businesses require a state that trusts its people, and the people trust the state.

Germany is an odd example, but from my experience with German entrepreneurs is the risk tolerance of Germany investors is very very low. So it's get customers then get money. However, that said, Germany has produced a few good businesses so perhaps there's a method!

It can never be one size fits all when it comes to creating the perfect environment, much like gardening, you've got to work with the strengths of the plot, the soil, the weather etc.

However, if we all think we should replicate the valley on our respective locations then we're truly missing the strengths and values of our communities.
Gmail can't do basics properly like replying in the middle of a quoted text, etc. It shows you something relatively sensible, but sends completely garbled mess to the recipient.
"Electrolysis from renewable energy" isn't an obvious boogeyman. That's essentially the definition of green hydrogen--maybe you're arguing that someone is selling counterfeit green hydrogen, but that's not an indictment of green hydrogen. In any case, would it kill you to spend a couple sentences explaining what you mean rather than trying to be all mysterious and making us guess?
You can't have lead actors perform actual dangerous stunts (despite what marketing might tell you). The financial risks are far to high and insurance would never accept that. Just imagine the financial loss if the actor is not able to complete the movie due to an accident. It only really happens in B-movies and movies produced outside of Hollywood.
I know I could search them, but I'm way too lazy to copy/paste it somewhere else. Especially on a Sunday morning.
This is a terrible take. So bad I can’t even comprehend asking it.

Let me give an example of the inverse of this idea:

When I was 10 or so my mom had me read lord of the rings. She also gave me a dictionary to look up words I didn’t yet know.
I learned so much. The resplendent delivery of my loquacious lexicon is beatific in its copious verbiage.

Momma dun learned me cuz I dint know words gud.
As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
Programming Language (PL) is such a small part of the Software Engineering / SDLC, let alone running a business.

Also no real-life product or business is built using a single PL.

When choosing a PL there are lots of other factors to take into account beside its level of abstraction and/or expressiveness.
>Is your goal to (try to) teach people new words, or to communicate your points?

Fancy words exist for a reason, and it's that their semantics are different from other words. Sometimes using a fancy word is the correct choice, and sometimes a more common word will do.

Synonyms don't actually mean the same thing as each other.

If I'm reading a text in French and I come across a word I don't know, I look it up. It's my second language after all. I certainly don't expect French authors to dumb anything down for me.
Send me a message to my user name at gmail or github and I will send you the apk.
I have added about ten movies so far, but I am planning to add some more when I get the time.
Usually they kill your VPN/email/AD access as soon as you hand in your notice.

You can also be put on gardening leave when you are fired, if there's a notice period there.
I'm fortunate enough to be in an organization where I could easy call out and regain some balance.

I get a lot of closure from expressing "I had to overshoot, give me time to address"

For an encounter as heavy as this one, I'd probably take Monday and maybe even Tuesday off.

Mind you, I end up doing a lot of the same things... My work is also a hobby. I'll keep a much slower pace, probably watch a lot of TV, or anything else I'd normally do in my time off

Thankfully this pattern ended for me before it got too bad. I'd consider shopping around if this is a regular occurrence
Those people can look at a dictionnary when they don't understand said word. I am not a native speaker and I do it all the time.

It has never been easier and it enriches my language, why would I want to avoid that?
How about GitHub discussions? One open source library I depend on uses it to good effect. You could keep the Discord for realtime chat for stuff that should be realtime. Of course, you’d probably have to make effort to push support questions to GitHub. People would probably still ask questions there.
https://archive.ph/pjSUk
The issue is the business processes the government uses to contract, and purchase products and services as well as the processes for moving money between different agencies and departments are horrendous and involve a lot of people. This is true wether the value involved is $1 or $1 million. If any of the people involved is incompetent or decides they aren’t going to do their part in a timely fashion you are screwed.

Nothing will change until that changes.
Writing assistant services like Grammarly accomplish this.
Cool concept.

This panics for me after install. Any suggestions to make it work ? {I have Python in my path, so writing python would not return "not found" }

Starting the REPL server...
thread 'main' panicked at 'cannot execute python: Os { code: 3, kind: NotFound, message: "The system cannot find the path specified." }',
The responsiblity is on the author to communicate at a level appropriate for their audience. It's not on the browsers to encourage/discourage certain content.
I learnt on PHP. It allowed me to learn the full stack of web development very easily. Deployment is dead simple. You couldn't ask for a better intro into web development.

There will always be a time and place for C/Rust. If you like embedded/firmware, or HFT stuff, I think rust would be a great level up.
> this approach was the fairest option for all

I have heard this line a few times for HR recently and it makes me cringe every time. Putting everyone in the same shitty boat is never fair. Takes me back to George Orwell’s Animal Farm every time!
I prefer to release the information for free on the internet. It benefits more people and it still pays better.
And how did that work out?
I do agree with that point as far as it goes. There are definitely cases (like single-player games) where logic bugs like these suck up more developer time than memory corruption bugs. But I'd push back in a couple ways:

- Much of the time, maybe even most of the time, memory corruption means security vulnerabilities. Logic bugs can be security bugs too, of course, but at least we can reason about them in local terms like "Is this particular part of the program security-sensitive?" Memory corruption doesn't admit the same kind of local reasoning. For any program that touches input from the internet, that's a huge deal.

- Just like C programmers can reach for Valgrind, Rust programmers can reach for design patterns that are more robust than Vec<T>. In this case, HashMap<u64, T> with an incrementing key is a very robust pattern. In practice (until you overflow that u64), that pattern catches 100% of your use-after-free-style mistakes. And I think a major advantage of Rust's approach here compared to Valgrind/ASan, is that it runs in production, so it works even if your test coverage isn't amazing.
Software as the chips in the stock market casino.
"English words in your posts that not everyone will know?"

How do you define that?
This is a Tumblr post with a budget.
Are there any studies to back that claim the EV busses make public transport safer?
Clearly, that is the leverage the lenders have over their clientele, instead of credit reporting or asset seizure.
> Hugs are super common in California, even when meeting people for the first time.

My CA experience is that hugs between anyone other than family and close friends are rare, at least in Silicon Valley and San Diego. Although I imagine this varies quite a bit by culture.
Very cool. Is there any way to generate audio data like this one:

https://glicol.org/demo#chaos

I am very interested to see some audio/algorithmic composition applications with the language.
So, it's not just me, then.
That doesn’t really surprise me, I don’t know that I visit .gov sites quite often, but people located internationally probably do lots of things that would require it (e.g. visas & immigration, talking to the embassy)
I actually worked providing infrastructure to tech companies; from large enterprises to startups. I think I realized starting in the early to mid 10's that all the startups I was working with were just about taking VC money to provide the founders with hip, well paying jobs - the stated goal of the company was mostly immaterial and the "change the world" talk was virtue signaling to the rank and file so they don't feel so bad about their place in it. I wasn't all that thrilled but I've got to eat too and I'm not built for retail or labor, so what was I going to do?

Might be worth noting that I tend towards the depressed side already so my point of view might be a bit skewed. But when I watch Office Space or other works by Mike Judge, I realize I'm not exactly alone at least.

And keep in mind that this article is about a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) type business - what about that is all that revolutionary? I'm sure the leadership wrapped it up as "empowering people to purchase goods they need today" or something else, but everyone knows they're selling people baubles like TVs with predatory lending, right?
The goal is to communicate, so I'm going to use the words that mean what I want to say rather than trying to dumb it down. It's the same reason why most if not all professions have jargon; the goal is not to gatekeep, but to efficiently communicate well understood concepts within the profession.

All of which isn't to say that people shouldn't occasionally step back and question whether they could convey the same thing without the jargon and fancy words, but frequently the answer is no, or at least not anything like as succinctly and clearly.
Fascinating, didn’t know about dry cleaning. Found this article:

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/982953808/coronavirus-pandemi...
I don't know why people are downvoting you for sharing your suggestions. Your syntax suggestion for _OnBreak and _OnComplete does seem better for the following reason - 1. Both are related to the for loop, and the usage of :: makes them stand out and seems to gives them more context. 2. Easier and elegant to read. (But is that because the example uses a 1 line code? What would be the best way to present multiline code without confusion?)

(I would have preferred if the _OnBreak and _OnComplete statements was inside the for loop as that removes any ambiguity that it is part of it and effects the for loop).

However, `if v == 11 {break}` is definitely more readable than `break if v == 11`. If you are using curly braces as part of your syntax, and for blocks of code, it's better to use it with consistence. That can be confusing with `break {if v == 11}` as it breaks the syntax grammar, when you consider what break does.
> ... universities should also adopt institutional neutrality, scrap all ideological training for staff or students, institute secret voting at all decision-making levels and offer free-speech induction for incoming students, essentially saying: you can say what you like here, and so can anyone else

Hell yeah
You can install the Grammarly addon to do that, if you want. It shouldn't be a core browser feature.