skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> PG’s “blub” thesis is particularly terrible, even for him.

How do you tell what your language is missing? That's a real issue. If you ask people, they usually ask for incremental improvements.

Useful directions for work:

- Much of programming today is hooking thing A up to things B, C, and D. All have constraints. Are they properly satisfied? How do you tell? Secondary problem: If they don't quite connect, and you can't change them, can you bash them into connecting? Type theorists work on the first of those two issues, but usually ignore the second.

- Much software is plumbing plus algorithms. Classically, algorithms were the center of attention. But today, most of the algorithms are off the shelf, while each system has unique plumbing. Should languages be plumbing-first? Attempts in this direction (modules, APIs, CORBA, XML schemas, JSON schemas, REST, etc.) have usually assumed a master-slave relationship, where one side defines an interface and the other struggles to match it. Is a symmetrical approach possible?

- You can have all the CPUs you want, but they're not going to speed up much. We've been at 3-4 GHz for well over a decade now. Parallelism in languages has improved quite a bit, but it's improved from "it's not the language's problem" to "we have some reasonable primitives now". Not to "as easy as sequential".

- Why does the complexity of web pages seem to grow without bound, despite them not doing
all that much more?

- When it really, really needs to work right, software isn't that good. Even for small programs. Consider Solidity and the track record of smart contract hacks.

- Some things don't need to be Turing-complete. We don't have good ways to make them. Older technologies, such as ladder diagrams, decision tables, and simple regular expressions, have fallen out of favor. Some of those are exhaustively testable, which is useful.
Ask HN: Why don't I have any email address nor email inbox with my domains?
I own multiple domains (Namecheap and Google Domains).

I recently tried to setup sendgrid to send emails but I realized I don't even have any email account on those domains.

What would you say is the best/cheapest way to buy an email-enabled domain?

Thanks.
The only companies I've worked for in Sweden have been tech companies, and union membership was very common. At EA we had a collective agreement, along with some other larger games companies here iirc. Many people are members but don't mention it unless it gets specifically brought up since it's such a non-event.

Edit: Was curious to find some numbers about this. I don't read Swedish fluently yet so having to use Google Translate, but one report I found from 2020 says that "Information and communication" (which I suspect IT/software engineering might fall into) has 69% membership [0]. It seems to say white collar workers actually have a higher membership rate than others at >70% overall; will look some more and add any other numbers I can find.

[0] - (page 13) https://www.lo.se/home/lo/res.nsf/vRes/lo_fakta_136602747878...
It's the year 2022 and we're sideloading tractors.
That's a nice idea. A more user friendly option is preferable though. (Something like - https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-paper-data-storage-option/ ...)
> "maybe you were a shit employee and were fired for it and your employer isnt in the wrong?" or "your Show HN really isn't that impressive". We're not allowed to say anything critical of other HN users without being downvoted or reprimanded by dang.

These things absolutely can be said on HN, if you list some points that make you think so. If OTOH your comment ist literally just that one sentence then I don't see why it shouldn't get downvoted and flagged. This is not the YouTube comment section.
Ugh... I somehow hadn't yet even considered the part where we all have to tolerate almost every single image we see during the day being generated by some creepy AI model; but OF COURSE that's how this is going to play out :( :(. I mean, mant of the products I purchase on Amazon don't even spell check their product marketing images as it stands...
It's redirecting me to a site that's down, but appears to be associated with https://twitter.com/haremtoken
I was a C++ dev, I went to Java first which syntactically was similar but with "Clean Code" and Spring everything was completely upside down and took a long time to learn. I did a bunch of Python for Datascience which is nice but I dont love it. I'm doing a lot of front end Javascript right now and I think this is actually a great place to learn. Lots of WTF moments in Java are now clear that they're copying JS and are easier to learn in JS.
Climate Catastrophe?
This is super cool! I have also collected quotes for some years, I think one of my favorite recent ones is, "The greatest crime is to do nothing because we fear we can only do a little." - John Le Carré (Little Drummer Girl)
That would not be a euclidean space.
True, but that also heavily incentivizes getting solar where possible, as using that free energy to also power your car makes the investment pay off quite a bit quicker, after which you'll be enjoying almost free energy for most of your needs.
They make it work via renting people's bandwidth at homes, so their connections source from residential ISP IPs. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/netflix-is-adding-re...
And your measurement devices can error or be configured improperly.

Seriously some large % of "breakthrough" results are just errors in methodology/measurement. It's why no one serious gives a damn about results until they're replicated(or at least they shouldn't). And that's before you get into outright fraud where they just claim they measured something.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you claim you've gotten that kind of fusion reaction, and can't reproduce it, then it casts doubt on if you ever really got that reaction at all.
This. People thought that photography would make artists obsolete, then Picasso came round (simplifying here, ofc). Who knows what crazy creative things humans will do in the presence of those tools?
debt is a fantastic instrument that solves a production / consumption mismatch of both individuals and humanity.

A 55 year old is the most productive member of a society, but that is also the age where you start to consume very little.

Imagine if you had to 'save' to get your college education, your home, a laptop, or starting a business. There is a reason we don't ask babies to 'pay up' for milk or shelter.

Imagine if Larry Page or Sergey Brin had to work and save to start Google.

Imagine if government had to save trillions of dollars before investing in Carbon Capture and renewable energy generations.

Yes, all good things can be abused. But you can't prevent good things for 95% society because a 5% of the society abuses it
I'd say this is a solved problem. It's easy to get all build dependencies of a package and for every library that gets updated you build the world.

It's a more computing power and bandwidth that is required, but the maintenance burden is mostly solved by now by modern package managers or tooling on top of not so modern ones.
wait till you start seeing spongebob squarepants articles in 5-10 years ;)
What the heck petercooper, first link I got on this site: https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3007 and he predicts an oil crash in the next year which then happens spectacularly. I hope he put some money on that and not just some HN karma.
Yeah, and we should really do something about those abominations like Excel and Python that let ordinary people create programs without hiring us to do it the right way.
Agree, if you examine Swedish modern history since the industrial revolution you will find that Sweden has always produced lots of startups (or the equivalent in the old days) with both low taxes and high taxes, with a welfare state and without.

High taxes and a welfare state do of course have some role to play (positive and/or negative), but as you say there other important parts that probably matter more.

One thing we can say empirically is that Sweden have had it difficult to create large sustainable companies from startups like it did hundred years ago, Spotify is a notable exception.
Some good choices here (though I like Benedict.)
> You cannot seriously, with a straight face say "yep! Having 50k in an offshore account is worthless!"

Good job I didn't say it seriously then, or at all, for that matter.

I was writing in context of a thread about a guy who "robbed" a bank to get back his own money to pay for essentials. I still don't see how owning crypto or any sort of global currency would have helped him (or the millions of other Lebanese currently in the same boat) very much at all.
Fusion is trivial high school level physics, too. We all learn about the physics that goes on in the sun's core.

You're right that hydroelectric offers lots of storage potential. But it's geographically limited. Great for countries like Norway that have lots of it. But countries that don't can't just summon dam-able mountain valleys.

You need more than just a hilltop to build pumped hydro. You need a hilltop, with access to a water source. It also needs to be close to a transportation network otherwise construction costs will be prohibitively expensive. Pumped hydro plants do indeed cost a lot: the biggest one in the US in Bath County cost $4 billion dollars for a capacity of 24 GWh.

Furthermore, it will get more expensive as it scales up: as the most accessible sites are developed, subsequent facilities have to be built in more and more suboptimal sites.

> The reservoir may be much cheaper than a hydro power dam because it does not need to contain high pressure; an earthen dike suffices

This makes absolutely no sense. I needs high pressure to generate electricity. Low pressure would mean there's hardly any potential energy to tap. If you're suggesting we have a tunnel leading out from under the reservoir, then those have to be built in exactly the right geography where there's an alpine lake with a height difference.

> There are numerous other, equally simple methods, for places without enough hills or water.

Yet, despite these methods purported simplicity you didn't actually specify them (Edit: you added a couple in an edit after I typed my reply). Because then you'd have to defend their viability.

Since you edited in hydrogen and ammonia:

* Power to hydrogen: electrolysis of water remains expensive, hence why most hydrogen is built with steam reformation. It's not just the electricity costs, but also maintaining the electrodes that perform the hydrolysis.

* Power to Ammonia: this needs a source of hydrogen, so it shares all of the above's issues. Ammonia is really just a storage mechanism for hydrogen, actually producing usable energy from ammonia is done by releasing the hydrogen from the ammonia and then running it through a fuel cell.

You're the one being overly optimistic about the practicality of storage. We've had excess production during peak renewable generation for close to a decade now. The excuse that we won't build storage until there's an excess of electricity isn't valid. Places like Hawaii and California already are saturating the energy market, but the storage is systems you propose aren't being built because they aren't feasible.

Intermittent sources are fine to chip away at fossil fuel use, or in places with widespread hydroelectric power. But we can't kid ourselves into thinking that storage will make it feasible every. Grid scale energy storage should be approached like fusion: maybe it'll be invented and change the energy landscape. But it's foolish to treat that possibility as a given.
Can you share more about the EMR system?
Rest hours are also required in the US. However, trucks will stop almost anywhere - rest areas, off the the side of highway on-ramps, Walmart, etc. Now the trucks will have to find charging stations to rest, which will certainly impact the routes.
This question has been settled for years on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989. If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

It's not a perfect or even particularly good solution but it's much better than banning all the sites with soft paywalls or any other solution I'm aware of.
Does anyone with an EV that has a KW/h gauge actually believe that a semi will run on the highway at 2KW/h?

To people without EVs, at 2KW in your car is idling forward from a stop. When you press the gas at a normal street at a normal start, you’ll be at 10-18KW/h until you are up to speed. A hard pull is 24KW/h, and on the highway I would assume 4-6KW/h in a light unloaded vehicle. So maybe they had some new amazing Tesla transmissions and Tesla low friction tires too?

EDIT: yes, obviously I’m talking about KWh instantaneous. So /second/minute/hour for the short frame until the next update. If you were to hold this power for the end of time you would use xx KW in an hour. Which is useful for the feeling of torque I described.
Climate Change I assume
Yes, on average every 8 hours, so battery capacity needs to be at least that (probably by a bit of a good margin). And then just the rest stops need to be retrofitted with 100s of charging points that charge this capacity in time (and all at the same time). Semis in Europe are used for long haul.

This will probably replace the last mile delivery for the foreseeable future, baring some drastic shift of cargo to rail.
What happens if its exposed to air?
This article is a typo-ridden rewording of this tweet thread: https://twitter.com/alex_gayer/status/1557828064347693057
Czechia is a dubbing stronghold with 10M people. The tradition is just too strong.
It's a niche thing people who don't know any better try to use and then get stuck, not wanting to re-write their codebase.

For the most part, every dev shop has separate iOS and Android devs.
If you replaced their entire post with "PG dumb dumb because prideful especially blub" it has the same intellectual content. Even if you agree that the blub thesis is wrong that doesn't mean the post itself is well laid out. Their reasoning is belied by the existence of YCombinator itself.

Seriously - read it again: it really is that shallow. Try to find a single point within the Blub essay that the essay actually makes which the comment refutes. There isn't one. They don't even try.
This leaves me suspecting that projects like DALL-E are gunning for Shutterstock's $500 million annual profit and that's it.

Do you think AlphaGo was motivated by a burning desire to discover better board game strategies?
All domains are "email-enabled", all of them /can/ be used for email.

You just have to setup an email server (or buy 'email server' access from someone who sells the same) somewhere that handles email for the domains. And then point the MX records in DNS for the domains for which you want to receive email at the email servers that handle email for those domains.
What? Isn’t revenue kind of … revenue? What else can it be?
That looks like global statistics. Of course most developers in the developing world aren't using MacOS. I'd be interesting to see the OS breakdown when selecting for just the developed world. I'd imagine Windows percentage is much lower.

Also, looking at some strictly web development surveys, Windows is behind Mac/Linux: https://medium.com/codex/jetbrains-django-developer-survey-r...
I’m not writing from an American perspective. I love Tokyo and go there a couple of times a year for business. Half the people in Tokyo have a car, and outside Tokyo nearly everyone has a car. Nobody takes the Tokyo Metro or Toei subway to haul junk.

Your comparison is invalid: building minimal road infrastructure is vastly cheaper than building rail. You need economies of scale to justify the expense of rail construction. It makes no sense to build rail past my wife’s grandma’s house in rural Oregon. At the same time, even when my wife was growing up in the city (Eugene, where the University of Oregon is), they were going to grandma’s house or somewhere similarly low density regularly enough where they needed a car anyway. And once they had incurred the expense of a car, it makes sense to vote for more car infrastructure in the city rather than the capital expense of rail infrastructure.
I hope that your definition of success is healthier than your definition of failure.
Yes, my oven only goes up to 250°C. I adjusted the recipe for the dough and use 70% water instead of the usual 60% (baker's math).
I think this term started in the enterprise software space, and was probably coined because subconsciously, enterprise software sales and management people realized that their products were on par with dog food - ground up mystery stuff that is just barely edible except for animals that will practically eat anything. But package it up in nice marketing and sales efforts, and away we go!

This is coming from someone who spent WAY too much time in the Enterprise software space.
None. Too distracting.
I built a review website (think G2) for political tools as the industry seemed incredibly opaque and driven by word of mouth with the idea of also eventually expanding to giving rankings to individual campaign consultants as well and also sketched out a "toptal for campaigns" site but never built it.
Whatever my company tells me I need to learn (or see that they are looking at, then I get a head start on it).
If you have a Marantz receiver/amplifier, this is also a good place to start:

https://irebuildmarantz.com/classic/html/restoration.html
We've never been up close, but the neutron star is probably smoother.

A neutron star has a diameter of about 20km and surface irregularities are currently estimated at under 1 mm. (See https://www.livescience.com/millimeter-tall-neutron-star-mou... for verfication.) Scale that up to the Earth's diameter and irregularities are on the scale of 64 cm.
Can you give examples of when technology was successfully rolled back for social reasons (not because it was found to have dramatic side effects, like asbestos eg) and that didn't coincide with a massive drop in HDI (like the fall of the Roman empire)?
What’s your reason to believe the CDC would “come after” archive.org? It sounds like pure conspiracy-theory fantasy.
> You can try to get out of your country with your wealth intact.

Sure, but how scalable is that?
I'm not really interested in solutions that are only going to work for a tiny % of the population.
Thanks for explaining it so well, that gives a lot more perspective. Some have replied fusion is still to expensive to run, is that true?
I don't think it'll play out this way. There's no new tech needed to scale up recharge stations, and they can continue to scale up linearly with demand, so you'd expect the supply will increase to meet demand. Fast-charging stations are most needed near highways where land value isn't too expensive so I think you'll see a lot of solar local to the recharge stations too.
Microsoft/Fluentui-Emoji
Swedish unions aren't perfect for sure, but so far I've only had positive experiences myself. I've luckily never had an actual conflict at work to bring my union in over though, so the extent of my experience has been calling them for general advice and getting an extra week of vacation as part of a collective agreement. I've also heard a few stories of coworkers bringing in union reps when they felt they were being pushed out on unfair terms and negotiating much better severance packages.
Isn't this at the NIF? The goal was weapons all along.
iPhone FaceID Trackable with Night Vision
How difficult would it be to use interchangeable/hot-swappable batteries? Stations could just be constantly charging banks of batteries. Would make refueling much faster. Also could make repairs easier as you could take batteries out of service without need to take the truck off the road.
Small bug, it is attributing quoted replies to the quoting comment instead of to the source comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661020 and https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=1539
Cryptocurrencies didn’t take off? Does Bitcoin reaching 60k from nothing not count as taking off?
99 out of 100 times this would have been 3 spidermen pointing at each other.

Glad your manager was able to recognize your team could handle this decision themselves. But, wow.
Accoya: Ultra-High Performance Sustainable Wood
Silicon Valley royalty in Atherton fighting to prevent building 58 housing units
The author is also a Tesla bull.
They're much riskier bonds. The market can change, or competitors can try to win customers over, or anything else to throw out those lifetime value calculations.
What does “community” mean in tech?
I think the tweet author is missing the meat and focusing on the gravy - they themselves indicate that the AI just replicates existing styles, so it will only ever produce existing art styles with the signature AI blurry weirdness on the details.

A main hallmark of breakthrough artists is inventing new styles and making them their own, a feat that AI has yet to perform very well (unless you include the aforementioned blurry telltales of generation and scrambled letters). Otherwise artists are just borrowing ideas from each other anyway so AI removes the need to learn someone else's style to replicate it.

In my opinion it will hurt the bottom tier of artists, but the ones who create new styles along with their own works will continue to thrive.
> the only qualification to be a professional is whether you make money with your work

Which, on top of the aforementioned resources limitation, means client agency and a lots of time spent marketing and selling... Many amateurs are experts who just don't want to deal with the commercial relationship.
Similar age here. It was so easy to learn when I was younger. Now I'm slow. Part of it might be that I see much of the newer tech knowledge as being throwaway. Why learn it when I'll have to learn the same sort of stuff next year for the new tech stack or language?
This kind of scam was so rampant in Indonesia until the government took strong stance, effectively sweeping the practice across the country.
It's like Google doesn't even care about this things, in contrary they're so fast blocking and suspending app submissions that against their bottom line, like digital goods and payments methods.
Actually, a searchable history of no longer valid statements together with an explanation what invalidated them (plus links to the relevant articles) would go a long way towards teaching people how science really operates and that it isn't a kind of "just trust us and our dictate" authoritarian system.

It wouldn't have to clutter the most recent info page, but just be provided as a link somewhere.
By quoting her wrongly you missed precisely the reason why her's was considered a good approach to communicating this.
> While the repeat attempts have not reached the same level of fusion yield as the August 2021 experiment, all of them demonstrated capsule gain greater than unity with yields in the 430-700 kJ range, significantly higher than the previous highest yield of 170 kJ from February 2021.

That looks like some steady progress. How long should it take to consistently yield one more order of magnitude? Are they expecting to hit a plateau at some point?
Indeed, I'll get worried when DALL-E gets sick of everything it has seen, and comes up with something that's new, and maybe not even very good at first, but perseveres until it's recognized as important. All, while earning its living in some soul sucking day job.

I'd actually love to see DALL-E take on the greeting card industry. Now that would be fun.
We're just biding our time until 2050, at which point we will unlock the ability to build industrial scale fusion energy plants.
Have you tried it? Very curious to know what happens in practice if you try to do this