skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most employers subsidize, in part or in whole, employee health insurance as a part of their benefits. Private health insurance is very expensive. [0]

[0]: https://www.ehealthinsurance.com/resources/individual-and-fa...
I know right, what a firecracker.
> He starts talking at the ~6 minute mark and explains why renewables will never see more than 10-20% market penetration.

...and yet market penetration of wind and solar in the UK was 26.4% in July[0] and still climbing as we build more offshore wind. Plus 1.3% hydro (and 5.9% biomass if you count that as renewable).

[0]: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/electr...
The danger of tools like this is eliminating those margins. This type of automation will eliminate junior graphic designer roles and add new requirements for the experienced graphic designers. Both of these affect the job market by making it harder to get started and stay. There will always be the high end and boutique jobs. The picassos and rembrandts will continue to find work.

The starving artist who sells out to create ads or create content for commercial entities will find those opportunities dried up

A single agency using this tool effectively could "in theory" produce 500 times the artistic output from a single artist. Vastly shrinking the market for a decent paying career.
> I predict you�ll learn that lesson soon.

-tempsy (2019)[0,1]

[0] https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=2231

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21902942
Mind if I ask to what the vision is to have it stored on a QR code on paper?

Reason I ask is because doing it that way is creates some overhead vs just printing plain text on paper. Namely that you'd have to have the format of the QR-like-tech and create and maintain an application to execute the format for whatever current operating system.

So it's creating a bunch of additional work, and I'm not sure what benefit he has in mind.
I should have been more precise, but that can become a treatise by HN comment standards easily so consider there to be an asterisk next to all of this for myriad platform/toolchain corner cases.

To the extent that shared libraries economize on memory, or are claimed to, it's when a lot of different processes link the same version of the same library, e.g. your `libc` (or the original motivating example of X). The tradeoff here is that the kernel has an atomic unit of bringing data into RAM (AKA "core" for the old-timers), which is usually a 4kb page, and shared libraries are indivisible: you use `memcpy` and you get it and whatever else is in the 4kb chunk somebody else's linker put it in. Not a bad deal for `memcpy` because it's in everything, but a very bad deal for most of the symbols in e.g. `glibc`.

The counter-point is that with static linking, the linker brings in only the symbols you use. You do repeat those symbols for each `ELF`, but not for each process. This is often (usually?) a better deal.

A little poking around on my system to kind of illustrate this a bit more viscerally: https://pastebin.com/0zpVqA0r (apologies for the clumsy editing, it would be too long if I left in every symbol from e.g. `glibc`).

Admittedly, that's a headless machine, and some big clunky Gnome/Xorg thing might tell a different story, but it would have to be 100-1000x worse to be relevant in 2022, and almost certainly wouldn't offset the (heinous) costs. And while this is speculation, I think it would be negative worse, because there just aren't that many distinct `ELF`'s loaded on any typical system even with a desktop environment. Chromium or whatever is going to be like, all your RAM even on KDE.

There are couple of great CppCon talks that really go deep here (including one by Matt Godbolt!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOfucXtyEsU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVT1y0xWgww.

Don't be put off by the fact it's CppCon, all your GNU stuff is the same story.
I know, and I agree it's a problem. I don't know what the right answer is. I think building a big universe requires some background knowledge of the events and characters, but maybe in this specific case Wanda could have used like one more scene just to explain what happened in Westview.
I really admire the ambition of something like this but wonder how exactly the water receiving areas would be compensating those sending water?

Or would the majority simply be water diverted from ending up in the ocean?
For the driver a touchscreens is dangerous. For passengers or for configuration is OK.

I got the radio controls on my steering wheel. I would be dead or I won't be using the radio if they were on a touchscreen. Closing a phone call is on the touchscreen and I'd like to be able to do it from the steering wheel. The less the eyes leave the road the better.
You need to control the lifecycle of the file in some manner.

Or force a reboot, I guess?
The Ethereum Merge Is a Monumental Blunder [video]
Not really my domain, but the arrow2 crate seems to be high quality work.
Sinking ship!
For code generators, sure. For code written by humans, never.
No, energy storage is a far more challenging task than generating it. To put this in perspective, the world uses 60TWh of energy per day. Most energy storage projects are in the hundreds of megawatt hour range, a few in the gigawatts. Estimated for a 100% renewable grid depends on the solar to wind ratio and degrees of overproduction, but they usually fall in the range of 12-24 hours for a 0 carbon grid. And that figure of 60 TWh is only going to grow as underdeveloped countries become more wealthy and want A/C and other amenities.

This is a colossal amount of storage, far outside the bounds of existing storage methods. Hence why plans for a renewable grid assume untested mechanisms like power to gas or compressed air will just scale to near-infinity.
> Why not? a cyclist is a "realistic android" to a runner. It would just be different, more like F1.

But the human element is the main thing. This is the crucial part. Take us out of the picture and there's nothing very meaningful left for other humans to see.
Yeah I was typing too fast in ranty mode, thanks for calling it. I did a much more detailed answer that gets it (mostly) right replying to another commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461766
There are many reasons to build a fusion reactor:

It keeps hot-neutron physicists, who you must recruit from among for weapons work, busy.

It provides continual practical challenges to plasma fluid dynamics physicists, who otherwise have great difficulty funding experiments.

It provides cash flow to the (chiefly) military contractors who build the test apparatus.

In this particular case, it lets you conduct tests for thermonuclear weapons concepts paid for out of a different budget.

Any expectation of ever getting useful energy out would be the worst reason, because there will never be one solitary erg of that.
Show HN: shortcommand – Easily run a set of commands quickly using a YAML file
This tiny command line tool was created mainly because I have several apps that I run on my server and finding the right set of commands for deploying an app is a hassle. So this basically documents the set of commands for each of my projects, as well as gives me quick access to them. Just wanted to share it here in case anyone else might find it useful.
Stanley Kubrick interview with Playboy magazine, 1968
All predictions come with uncertainty. That's what makes them predictions.

Even if someone says "there will be an ice cream shortage in France in the summer of 2025" they don't mean they are 100 % certain of it. They mean they find it somewhat likely -- but exactly how likely? That's what they have to tell us, because we don't know.

For an individual prediction, you can never tell whether it's true or not, because individual predictions always come with some level of uncertainty.

What you can do, if you know at what confidence level it was made, is

- Score individual predictions. One made at 99.9 % certainty that doesn't come true gets a heavy negative score, while if it would have been made at 60 % it gets penalised much less.

- Verify the accuracy of a collection of predictions. If I predict five things at confidence levels of 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.5 0.5 then I should get roughly 3--4 of them right. If I don't, my predictions aren't very accurate.
Consider switching to mobile :). Language anxiety doesn’t exist here, you either work in Swift (maybe some ObjC) or Kotlin (maybe some Java). New APIs come out, new patterns develop, but languages are quite static.
It is going sound odd, but I mildly disagree. Long time ago I listened a lecture of a Harvard professor, which went something along the lines of and I am paraphrasing:

>> We did so well to get here and maybe we just have not failed enough.

This really stuck with me, because in my eyes failing and having to earn each 'win' is what gets job done. Yeah, there is always someone smarter, but there are few people, who can stick to something until it is solved. I am actually saying ADHD may have been a blessing in disguise since it forced you to work harder for things others take for granted.

And that is apart from being able to see things in ways majority of population does not.
Silicon Lifeline: Western Electronics at the Heart of Russia’s War Machine [pdf]
It's a Swedish company but it's definitely one of the most hardcore California Ideological companies in Europe.
Why not just switch companies more frequently, each time negotiating a raise?
> No Investment Advice

Anyone else surprised by the caliber of the legal disclaimer on the site? I can't decide if that's part of the joke or if this is a serious result of the author consulting a lawyer and coming up with this. Maybe I should be more concerned that someone might take some random sentence I wrote out of context and use it as investment advice*

* This comment is not an investment advice
Oooh, I never even thought about trying that!
> You’re doing the same thing now.

My wife does call me her favorite hypocrite :)

My statement was certainly an oversimplified assessment.

> Valid, level-headed criticism

This is a good clarification to make, thank you. Ultimately this is what I'm longing for more of in the world. "shitting on" either yourself or someone else isn't helpful.
From the CDC page:

> “The mRNA and the spike protein do not last long in the body.

> Our cells break down mRNA from these vaccines and get rid of it within a few days after vaccination.

The paper “Immune imprinting, breadth of variant recognition, and germinal center response in human SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination”, Röltgen et al. 2022, published in the journal Cell:

> “Prolonged detection of vaccine mRNA in LN GCs and spike antigen in LN GCs and blood following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

> The biodistribution, quantity, and persistence of vaccine mRNA and spike antigen after vaccination and viral antigens after SARS-CoV-2 infection are incompletely understood but are likely to be major determinants of immune responses.

> We performed in situ hybridization with control and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine mRNA-specific RNAScope probes in the core needle biopsies of the ipsilateral axillary LNs that were collected 7–60 days after the second dose of mRNA-1273 or BNT162b2 vaccination and detected vaccine mRNA collected in the GCs of LNs on days 7, 16, and 37 postvaccination, with lower but still appreciable specific signal at day 60 (Figures 7A–7E).”

> https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00076-9#sec...

Maybe I’m reading it wrong, but I understand this as saying that the modified mRNA (using pseudouridine) does not degrade nearly as fast as normal mRNA, “Our cells break down mRNA [...] within a few days” vs. 60 days or more.

Now, this is not my area of expertise and I can’t say whether that’s important or not.
>Outlook(web) does atrocious top-quoting rendering it useless for mailing lists.

The weirdly aggressive way people talk about top vs bottom quoting is probably one of the things turning new users away from mailing lists.
> We still don't know when it will be safe for freelancers and small companies to drop IE 7 and other dinosaurs. But I predict that day will come much sooner thanks to Google.

- -jarrett (2011)[0,1]

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675741

1: https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=189
> This site uses "smartest" and "most pedantic" interchangeably.

Couldn't have it any other way for HN!
> It need not be this way. Gender studies is an important field from which we have much to learn. We could desperately use an influx of sharp and disciplined minds willing to explore the connections among gender, sex (i.e., biology), and society. But as it is, the deconstructionists rule the roost, and that means that their abuses of the sociological method are permitted to proliferate largely unchallenged. To be fair, gender studies remains in a state of infancy. No doubt like other sociological fields, it will mature through a process of controversy and critique. But that has not yet happened, and in the meantime, gender studies is doing major cultural damage.
"I predict it is doomed, and before long even you will abandon it. "

Talking about HN to jacquesm.

I laughed.
When I was doing repair, the shops referred to the charge for lifting your set onto their workbench as the "bench press." It was usually given as a minimum labor time charge, such as 1 hour. You were doing well if you could get most repairs done in less than an hour. This depended on having both excellent diagnostic skill, and the experience to know what component was most likely to fail.

I ended up in an Apple repair shop within a government agency that served school districts. Since we didn't need to make a profit, we skipped the bench press, and if your Apple needed 15 minutes of work (typical), we charged for 15 minutes, while also letting you watch.

The pinnacle was TV repair because TVs were expensive but cheaply made and relatively simplistic. There were not many different ways that they worked due to the evolution of cost cutting measures. There were also good published repair guides -- the Howard Sams "photofact" series.

Stereos were not all that much more complicated, but a contemporary repair shop would suffer from lack of sufficient business to sustain a working knowledge of failures and repairs, and often obsolete or irreplaceable components such as output transistors. Paying $150 to sustain the shop, and learn that your set is unrepairable, are not far-fetched outcomes.

Also (in the amplified musical instrument world that I now inhabit), there's a declining number of good techs. For one thing, those guys can make a lot more money servicing million dollar industrial or medical equipment.
This seems great for my RC planes and other things! It would be nice if the site could generate a nice sticker-looking thing with a QR code, though.
> functional and built to last.

How about making it cost effective. The same can be achieved for far less.

The city is massively mismanaged. The world is laughing at us with our $20k trashcans that would still be overfilled and not enough capacity to empty them on time. These types of programs make me question any policies to increase taxes, instead the question citizens should ask is "How can the gov increase efficiency by 2x?". Focus should probably be entirely on improving productivity. Programs like this are everywhere and a giant insult to tax payers.
Again, that's all too vague. It's impossible to debate whether it's true or not. Please give specific examples.
A continuous process for improving programming productivity
Story time. I was looking to buy a 911 in the past. Found one at a dealership. The car was 3 years old, just off lease, in good condition, and with no accidents shown in Carfax.

I searched the VIN number in the state’s DMV car registration database. Well well. The car had an expired tag and had high thousands of dollars of unpaid taxes, fees and penalties against it. The owner had never bothered to pay any taxes and fees over the years. I would have to pay all those when doing the car transfer at DMV.

I was kind of pissed and disgusted. I then searched the VIN number on the web. Found the VIN in a post in a car forum for an attempt to sell the car. It had a phone number!

I searched the phone number. Got the name of the guy and his company. He was the founder and CEO of a startup.
No.

Also I'm not quite okay with asking a 3rd party to spend resources on something what could be not even used.

Also there is archive.ph link in a comment made 45 minutes before your comment.
> When you have a quiet quitter on your team, it's obvious to the rest of the team that they're carrying that person, and they resent it.

I have no problem with quiet coworkers. Their salary does not go out of my pocket. In contrast to them, I can appear even more competent. If the team does not meet some arbitrary deadline, it's not my problem -- I can show you the list of Jira tickets that I completed, and it's not my fault that the company decided not to hire more people for the project.

I am not in the business of persecuting my fellow human beings. Not because I am an angel, but simply because I literally have no incentive to do so.

Hypothetically, suppose that I get super resentful towards a quiet colleague, and I expose his behavior, and I get him fired. Congratulations! What happens next? Most likely, instead of hiring a replacement, the company will simply split that little amount of work he used to do among the remaining team members. Without increasing our salaries, of course. So now I have successfully harmed all team members, including myself. Why would I do that?

Also, you often do not know what is happening in your coworkers' private lives. Maybe their parents or their kids are dying of cancer, and they just can't find in themselves the energy for enthusiastic unpaid overtime. Or maybe not, and they are merely exhausted. It's not my business to investigate.
I think I’ve argued with you about go in the past but I’m glad to see we share some common ground
That does not come across from the other post, but yes that seems fair
Scheduling around game installs would be tricky yeah. I don't know how the various console do with having their storage swapped... I know the switch can store downloaded games to SD cards, but I don't know if it lets you put that SD card into another console and play the games if a licensed user is logged in... Or if it needs to be downloaded by that specific console. I think the current xbox and playstations also have user replacable storage, but again, it may be specialized per console? I know the platforms already have code to check for licensed user on a downloaded game when the game is downloaded to a console not deemed the 'home' console for a user.

If you can swap storage, you can build around NAS connected storage emulators.

Otherwise, yeah, big storage and guessing about what should go where. Like Netflix CDN nodes, but with more black boxes.
I recommend you study the so-called “duck curve”.

Peak consumption occurs after sunset across Europe, when German photovoltaics generate zero electricity. So what do the Germans do to keep up with the demand? They spin up their extremely polluting coal plants, or buy electricity from their neighbours, forcing them to spin up their peaking plants.

>The same country which is a net exporter can import in some parts of the day.

Yeah, except the time when they want to import is precisely the time when everyone else is experiencing peak demand. Now tell me, what happens in a market when demand increases across the board? The price point moves higher along the demand curve, bravo!
The other reply already covered the definition of hard links. It's a directory entry that points to an inode.

And file system corruption is definitely a loophole.

> Directory entries in a UNIX file system do not ascend nor descend, they are linked into one or more directories whether they form a hierarchy or not.

All the filesystems I'm sufficiently aware of insist on directories being a tree. Every entry except the special .. descends in that tree. And each hard link is in a specific directory.

> if a hard link to the same i-node exists in a another unrelated directory outside the current hierarchy that has more permissive access

That's why I said every hard link to the file!
Before you decry statically linked systems as "perpetually vulnerable", I'd advise you take a look at the number of privilege escalation vulnerabilities caused by LD_PRELOAD alone.
Why isn't this just tax deductible?
Maybe you were not paying attention but it doesn't matter: the world did change a lot with Covid and especially with the war in Ukraine, at least in Europe. It's definitely different than up to early 2020.
If a title contains a question, the answer usually is No.
There will never be a commercial fusion reactor power plant.

And if there were, this would not contribute to its development.

Fuel for such a plant (tritium) is practically non-existent. What of it that exists is synthesized at great expense.
The same author has been reporting diligently on Pollen, and has said he will do a write-up on the collapse there. I will be very interested to read that.
In hundreds of miles in every direction from here, houses are selling for 50%-500% more than comparable houses did, just 6 years ago.
If I am not mistaken, WWII was a bigger driver for that legislation than the Great Depression.
>> I predict that every time the favicon changes, the consensus will be that the change is bad

https://hnpredictions.github.io/

Beautiful really:>
Google introduced Carbon language with a goal to become a successor to C++. This immediately brought up some questions like

How Carbon is different from Rust ?

We will go through carbon vs Rust comparison in detail including side by side table. If you have other comparisons listed other than this let us know.
Quite the opposite! A prediction is an estimation of the most likely outcome in a binary event.

I mean, I get that just saying the above seems to confirm your "too much machine learning" hypothesis, but I guarantee you that's not the case. At my own peril, I'm too old fashioned to have read much about machine learning.

What I can say is that when making strategic and tactical decisions that affect a lot of people, I have found it incredible to know things like "I am 85 % sure we will not make the next release in time" (an actionable prediction) compared to "there's no way we'll make the next release in time" (when in fact there's still a 15 % chance we will, if we take proper action now.)
Hypothetical element of atomic number zero, Neutronium
Absolutely not. Dynamic libraries are crucial for security.

Static linking again and again has proved to be a security nightmare. It makes security updates dependent from upstream release or full rebuilds making things difficult.
I would be super interested to see it.

The aspect of text adventures or MUDs [0] that attracts me the most is the fact that you can actually move through a "textual landscape". Sorry, I have no better words to express it. Ditch all the quests and puzzles and fighting. Just immerse myself in a landscape evoked by words, that maybe adds some surreal elements, or other stuff that you couldn't express in a graphical way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
Not at all similar.
No one said traditional. Time tested would be a better phrase for what I've described.

Cast iron, steel, glass, ceramic

We have thousands of years of evidence that these things are safe

Edit: traditional? That's not even what that means anyway. Old?
> The CEO said employees at Klarna are superstars, and superstars don’t want unions negotiating for them.

Actual superstars are happy to take advantage of what the Screen Actor's Guild does for them, just as the crew working on their shows are also happy to have their union, the writers are happy to have their union, and so on.
Note: 1942 is the middle of ww2, not the great depression. The war effort dramatically reduced labor availability. (back of the napkin math says roughly 12% of the US population served in the military, disregarding the massive labor pool required to support the military industrial complex)