skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting comparison. Germany's GDP is ~$3T, so a $5B insurance policy is well worth it, even had it not made any revenue, which it seems obv it would have.

Side note..

SabinePass[1] 30 million tonnes = 30 billion kgs per annum
NordStream1[2], 55 billion cubic metres a year

Are those about equiv? LNG is 430 kg/m3, 55Bm3*430kg/m3=23,650Bkg, so 1000x more via NordStream, assuming same density. But looks like pipelines may be lightly compressed vs ships more typically higher compressed LNG? Anyone know?

[1]https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/cheniere-completes-n...
[2]https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/kremlin-nord-stream-...
[3]http://www.kosancrisplant.com/media/5648/1-lng_basics_82809_...
> mostly language learners, teachers, and tech people, but finding people, perhaps unsurprisingly, have a lot of trouble seeing past the curse of knowledge.

Respectfully, how do you know that you're making something people want?
Basically, they screwed up by using a monorepo with Python and have decided to try and badly paper over it by using a type checker.

For reference, don't do either of those things in Python.
I'm a native (American) English speaker and with a quick search of my 15 year old reddit account comments, I can guarantee you that native speakers would use "situate" just like that.
Perhaps it is, but the overall trend in the 18th and 19th centuries was away from peasant farming towards urbanisation and industrial wage labour, and I don't have a better term to refer to that. I was also assuming knowledge of European colonialism.

By actual wellbeing, I mean the subjective experience of overall happiness, as distinct from material possessions.
I think something that might help you understand a little better is this: Python includes everything you need to write type hints, but it doesn't include any type checking functionality. They're making a dynamic language where you can write types if you want, but they don't really do anything. To check your types, you need to use a third-party typechecker like Mypy.
Exactly this. It may be that it’s like this in the US but these are harder to find in other countries.
Glass is already basically welded, or maybe it's more like brazing. But an oxyacetylene torch can be used to work with glass just as well as to cut or weld metal.

Metals also have weird properties. Like tempering and hardening based on temperature. In an industrial setting you need expert welders with deep knowledge of the materials or a weld is going to fail and ruin your day.

So it doesn't seem like a huge leap to me actually, assuming ceramics or glass actually have desirable properties.
I'm sure China will see this as an opportunity as Pakistan hands over some of its BRI infrastructure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambantota_International_Por...
The Death of Poetry
"(OP) an artist and administrative assistant, earned a bachelor’s degree from Temple University and master’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College. She now owes more than six figures in student debt."

That pretty much sums it up. Why should taxpayers (especially blue collar taxpayers, who did not go to college) have to fund a bachelor's and a master's for people that don't choose paths that would likely lead to salaries that can repay?

This is madness. Of course giving away money will lead to more inflation. Covid checks were used for the meme stock bonfire. Giving money to people who can't handle money will not result in anything good.
I posted a few of them to show the flow and not be an empty website and then it was people on the stream going in with their ideas.
I was looking into parsing reddit like r/SomebodyMakeThis, twitter and keep on doing some streams picking stuff from the ideas in there to promote its use but you know life happened and it got put on the side lines.
The hardest criticism I received is "why would I give my idea to someone else, they may make millions out of it" which is not a big problem in my book, as I have way more ideas and problems than time to build solutions for them, but this might be the biggest pushback I received.

The plan was to let ideas float around, let people discuss and gather around, maybe mark that they would be willing to pay for a solution. When an entrepreneur or company comes along and want to tackle the problem, we can link people with the problem with the people building the solution, which in my experience was the hardest part of starting a project.
This brings back memories of a computer graphics course. It was (re)implementing part of the OpenGL 1.3 pipeline in C++98 as a 2D triangle-to-trapezoid engine using the painter's algorithm (and then W- or Z-buffering). Coincidentally, it happened to use GLUT+GLU and work on Windows 98, Solaris, and Linux... circa 2001.

https://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut/glut_downloa...
Wishes aren’t statute and GitHub isn’t a public good or commons. There are more valuable efforts for GitHub than fighting sanctions on money laundering code. One can always host the tarball on their website, or the code on their own Gitlab instance. Very common in the edu space.
Stripe has been pretty bad for us lately. Downtime yes, but also slashed our corporate card limits with no explanation and refused to restore them despite our bank writing letters supporting our position.

We've been with them for 10 years and their customer service is atrocious on this position, which is unfortunate since historically it's been quite good.

We went through the arduous process of switching our corporate credit card structure to Stripe away from another vendor, and we probably have to go back to the other vendor now. Starting to understand the anti-Stripe comments that pop up from various people on HN.
It's not valid to compare the UK to various small countries that have always had renewables in the form of large hydroelectric systems, which the UK's geography simply doesn't have.

My point is that, in the past decade, the UK has transitioned to renewables faster than any other major industrialised nation.

As recently as 2012, nearly 45% of UK electricity still came from coal. This has been cut to around 1% in 2022, and all remaining coal-fired power stations will be closed completely by 2025.

Obviously there is still much more to do, but the UK compares favourably here to, for example, the USA or Germany.
> Opposing nuclear power was probably a mistake at scale

Tell that to the folks in Ukraine who now have to worry about one of their plants melting down in addition to everything else they're dealing with.

Imagine a conflict on the scale of WWII with developed countries bombing each other day and night. Sooner or later one of those conventional weapons accidentally, or not accidentally, hits a nuclear reactor.

Nuclear plants are great in Sim City, they just don't work in the real world.
Switched to Paddle earlier this year for other reasons, glad I'm not affected by this. Paddle is not as pleasant to work with as Stripe from a dev perspective but it also handles so much more that what I need to integrate is tiny compared to Stripe.
I hosted a small site with .Net 5 and Linux. Works real well! You can use systemd, but I used supervisor.

Hosting a larger site or a saas would be even better..
Final Fantasy VI
Are processors like Square any better?
I think you don't give enough emphasis on the "if you even could before" part. Sure, this makes realistic fakes easier and more available to to the masses. So what? We've had the technology to 'frame' people in similar ways for decades now, and other than entertain the 4chan teens it does squat.

There's enough money interest in bringing down certain politicians, if faking a sex tape or back-room conversation would make any difference to the world it would have been done already. Hell, politicians pretty much admit publicly that they are rapists and we don't do anything about it. Who's gonna care about a couple of gorilla-pics of a normie?

People don't and never have trusted any evidence that doesn't reaffirm their world view, regardless of how true that evidence is. More realistic evidence won't change that.
Glad I didn't launch the finclout promotion on AppSumo last weekend.
I must not be parsing this correctly. Taking fuel away from the moderator sounds like a safety disadvantage. Maybe I don't know what a moderator does.
Wow, this the most incorrect statement I have read all week.

I am from this area, and Saxony before the GDR was of the most prosperous regions of Germany. If you are not convinced by the pomposity the former kingdom amassed in treasures and architecture, you can check the historical GDP per capita figures of the region [1].

Saxony historically was the number one state in terms of economic power behind the city states.

But the economic and political horrors that the socialist dictatorship brought, combined with the plundering done by Russia, completely turned this upside down. It is quite amazing how a few decades of bad leadership can bring a region to its knees.

It is true, however, that a lot of potential is still left in Saxony, and by many measures (like quality of schooling) it is still one of Germany's best.

[1] Page 11 on https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282329316_Human_Cap...
Labour won't be able to pay for it, because money is a representation of social power, not value, and in our current society labourers do not hold social power. See "Debt: The first 5,000 years", or the video by second thought on the subject.
The simplest answer is because this is what I want for studying Japanese and I wish I had when I was learning Korean at the defense language institute.

For a longer answer:

I also know a lot of people and am constantly meeting more who have successfully and unsuccessfully learned other languages. One problem that comes up constantly is the intermediate plateau or death march where it seems like no matter how much someone studies they never make any observable progress.

To be functionally independent in another language you need to be able to recognize and understand on the order of 25k words. Parsnip is designed to target that by finding and tracking your learning of all those words and automating the work of looking up, practicing and recording those words.
The products we have today are the result not of what people say they want but what people actually buy.
You would do a monthly or quarterly bill such that the billed amount is substantial enough for the end user.

And on your part you’re already doing net 60 with all the providers anyways.
I’ve heard that car seats expire anyway if you are following the rules.

It is true that you will probably need to plan ahead and buy slim car seats. But even if you don’t, three car seats is still far less expensive than many other child things. Three car seats is less than half as expensive as daycare for a single child for a single month, in my area at least.
Ultimately you would have "solar and wind supplemented by batteries/power to gas/hydrogen and fusion", but that's still years off, which we do not have.

So the more workable idea would be to have a percentage of nuclear for the critical always on load, and to provide some industrial overcapacity at time.
More details here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/code-speech-and-tornad...

> In keeping with our longstanding defense of the right to publish code, we are representing Professor Matthew Green, who teaches computer science at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, including applied cryptography and anonymous cryptocurrencies. Part of his work involves studying and improving privacy-enhancing technologies, and teaching his students about mixers like Tornado Cash. The disappearance of Tornado Cash’s repository from GitHub created a gap in the available information on mixer technology, so Professor Green made a fork of the code, and posted the replica so it would be available for study. The First Amendment protects both GitHub’s right to host that code, and Professor Green’s right to publish (here republish) it on GitHub so he and others can use it for teaching, for further study, and for development of the technology.
Has this happened before?
ML Used to Better Prep EV Batteries for Faster Charging
That's the subtlety, the clause is introduced thus:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software")

And I maintain that the use of this in reference to the software is dispositive that it doesn't refer to anything which doesn't exist in the repo/tarball/whatever, particularly not object code, and that the reference to associated documentation files is evidence that the omission was deliberate.

This is why lawyers should write licenses though. The ambiguity sucks.
Looks expensive, though. 5% + 50¢
> The system clock will always be set to the correct local time.

I work on a sometimes offline educational product for children. Kids for some reason love to mess with their system clocks.

The hoops we've tried jumping through to get a reasonable time frame of events from iPads that were offline for any period of time is hilarious.

We gave up, and if the time of events is unreasonable, we just shift the entire set waiting to be synced so the first one is sync time. It's not perfect, it's not even really good, but it's gotten the least complaints.
Exactly what I do. Or adjust manually since I use mirrorless.
This feels so wrong this AI thing, strangely enough Im not that stressed.

Look at the recursive side of it its hilarious. Im an artist. AI is around. Do I want to put my work online? No. So no artists put stuff online anymore? So how does future of art work exactly? Will send booklets by mail again?

There is the democratic side of it. We the people ultimately decides. Those pictures are generated by using artists works, not out of thin air. So not a freedom question here but a people one: do we want that or not? Maybe with 30+ years old pictures for example, could be good for economy.

I mean you can literally replace any job you want but the artist's it seems. Imagine when people will be jobless because AI replaced them. You'd think they'd want to make art during their retirement right?

Its a case where the snake eat itself. If AI ruins our online life, we'll stop going online.
personally, I think it's easiest to just think of the speed of light actually being the maximum speed of information propagation.
They also do more AFAIK.
What do you feel makes Python less suited to monorepos than any other language? I've worked in Python-heavy monorepos and they seemed about like any other kind.

And there is nothing wrong with using a type checker for your Python type annotations.
Possibly. I'm still angry at Square because I emailed them repeatedly 10+ years ago telling them to add gateway processing (which they didn't have), and they took forever. Stripe's business shouldn't even exist. Square had a head start and should have just made a payment gateway/API and eaten their lunch. They absolutely had an internal API, quite obviously, so not productizing it and letting a whole new business in Stripe come around and launch that product and crush them was absurd.

I've used Square's on-premises processing for minor stuff like a side business of mine, but nothing too serious. Their fees aren't too good; they're comparable to Stripe but Stripe's ecosystem for developers is far better.

If/when we switch, we'll probably just go to a bare bones payment processor that is much cheaper than Stripe with less support.
I mean, you're sort of there already? The galactic barycenter is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.
If it goes down though, you're up s's creek without Paddle ;)
Sorry, but I disagree. You have to look at the customer base crowdstrike is serving which can be wide and varied. There exist environments where the user "needs" admin privileges but should not be able to uninstall the sensor. Think corp where users code etc, but they dont have the admin staff to do some more complicated IT security. In that instance this is just what is needed. Also, privilege escalation exist and these sensor server to help prevent do IR for real malware.
That's an interesting explaination, but I'm not sure why they'd need such a complicated scheme when they could just point at the state of the German armed forces as justification. (Which was basically their response to the invasion of Ukraine)
I feel like you're arguing from an absolute.

Yes, we're all arguing in favor of responsible disclosure, but if the vendor is not communicating in good faith, what else can you do?
Agreed. I used to play this game as a kid and I have fond memories of it. Recently found myself playing it on an emulator. Still fun. The music is so good.
>> Statistically the US is also the best country to end up destitute, homeless and harassed by the police regularly.

The first two points are false, I could present to you high double-digit countries where it's much worse than the United States. Charitably though, I assume you mean non-developing nations, in which case, you have a point.

It also does not apply to the parent poster.
Exactly, they glue is that thick for a reason, they very carefully design everything to be a perfectly integrated device. If everyone got their 0.1mm we are looking at a phone that feels substantially thicker.

Apple know better than random people on hacker news about what makes their phones sell, they don’t make them thinner for no reason.
Sorry for the issues here—could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?
I see. So there is a pretty simple explanation. Thanks.
The bigger issue is that the green capacity should have been increasing almost exponentially. The cleanup is not keeping up, especially for industrial sources.
Disclaimer: MacBookPro18,2

On the face of it, it would appear a big change from a PR perspective. Still though, you can't upgrade or change the RAM, CPU, SSD, or anything else. The parts are insanely expensive and it's designed for manufacturing (DfM), not repair or durability. Just ask any tech who has ever worked on a Thinkpad T-series vs. a MBP. Although it seems like they're going through the motions of R2R to quiet down the shrieks, only time will tell if they really mean to return to almost serviceable computers.
C'mon man, we all saw the president of Ukraine very vocally and forcefully asking the West for help in the form of advanced weaponry.

Back in February, at the outset of the war, the U.S. offered to evacuate President Zelensky. His exact words were, "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride".

Nice try though. I'm sure the pro-Russia contingent on HN will throw a few up-votes your way.
Awesome I'll see you on the RxDB Discord!
It doesn't, but any material used needs to withstand 4 extremes - high temperatures (650-850 C), corrosion (dissolves uranium), very high neutron flux, and US govt. regulation.

Graphite is the current favorite non-metal option. It is already widely used in traditional reactors, so it is approved, and its interaction with radiation is well understood. On the other hand, its interaction with radiation and molten salt is not as well understood, but hopefully this test reactor and others like it will solve that.

One of my favorite solutions seals the reactor in with a crane and 8 graphite containment vessels. The best estimate of the lifespan of structural graphite in this environment is ~7 years, so the plan would be to monitor the system and move the reactor to a new vessel as needed. The goal is 50 year life-span for these reactors.

Anyway, there is research into alternate materials, but to really test them you need to expose them to both molten salts and radiation. And if they pass, you need to get government approval. The last material to get govt approval was Hastelloy N, and I heard the process was a slog.
I'm hoping the government makes money laundering harder. North Korea laundered a billion dollars through Tornado: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/north-ko...
Using type checking in Python is always the wrong thing to do. You need to learn to use Microservices where you split up a large code base into seperate 3k lines Microservice chunks of code that interact over well documented APIs.

That's just how effective Python is done.
> Pakistan is a big and important country, so their position is actually important.

To further your point: Pakistan has the 5th largest population in the world, has complicated relationships (including contested borders 20 miles from its capital) with #2 and #1, and has a weak enough economy that a little money can go a long way. I would be shocked if the US weren't applying any force to its politics.
Judging by the global reaction to the Ukraine war, the post-Washington order is less fragmented than the Washington-centric order.
Well if it wasn't a genuine improvement it wouldn't be so addictive. IMO it's worth it and my galaxy A52s has better battery life than any phone I've had in recent years and that's with 120Hz on.

I can even limit the battery to 85% (to make it age slower) and still last a whole day with ease.

So I don't think this is a heavy trade-off.
Most of those contain plastics which are usually not good for high temperatures but also have long chain molecules which get broken by neutrons and other particles and cannot heal defects the way metals can.
Why is complaining on HN necessary to get proper customer support?
Don't forget that this was sanctioned by medical professionals at the time and is not much different than what occurs today throughout America where psychiatrists and psychologist work with corporations and police gangs to justify almost every despicable behavior you can imagine. Cop rapes and murders a teenager? You can find a psychologist that will say it was due to the pressures of the job. Government conducting experiments on people against their knowledge that results in harm. You can find a psychologist that authorized it and that will try to destroy the lives of people trying to expose it. Company uses sex or lies to sell a dangerous drug? There is a psychologist behind it.
You... don't think I'm a native English speaker? My guy, I was born in Canada, of British descent and live in San Francisco. I was just being highfalutin. And to head that one off, it was a self-referential joke. Technically English is my second language, but I don't think that plays into it these days.
> The most interesting part, to me, of a release like this is the amount of "please don't abuse this technology" pleading.

> Why bother asking people not to? I guess if it helps you sleep at night that you tried, I guess?

I've perceived this as them doing the necessary amount of virtue-signaling and ass-covering to avoid the ire of groups that are loud/powerful enough to cause issues for them in the short-term. I've been following the developments in this space for a while now, and I don't get the impression that Stability AI cares too much about forcing Western ideals of "correctness" onto the public.

It's plainly obvious that this is going to be immediately used to produce content considered obscene, offensive and/or illegal by various groups of people. And it is what it is, we're going to just have to figure out how to live with it as a society. It's going to get far far worse (from certain points of view) as we continue to replicate functionality previously exclusively featured in human brains.
Headline misleading: they state in the body that tonal languages are different, so Chinese, Vietnamese &c

Lead paragraph also has the clarifying some -It's misleading in the headline of the original article, not created in this HN post btw.
maybe a more pragmatic question: what's stopping people from ignoring the governments restrictions on digital resource blocks? The government doesn't have the means to enforce blocking firearm designs or decentralized cryptocurrencies.

In my opinion an unenforceable law is detrimental and erodes the credibility of the authorities that impose such restrictions.
Attempting to regulate alcohol, as you note, is a fool’s errand.

Regulation isn’t the answer. It will take centuries of messaging and a shift in consumption patterns before it’s not profitable to commercially produce. Possibly.