skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sarcasm aside,I feel like AMP was the first time Google violated their promise to users, and to their own ecosystem. "Make the web fast" was Google's way of keeping up with native performance in iOS's walled garden, before Android came into its own. Obviously this same strategy is important for Workspace's competitiveness against Office, pre MS365.

But with AMP, Google's promise mutated into something which had no exchange in value: Google said, "We'll serve your content, we'll make it fast. You don't even need to sustain the traffic, we'll do that for you. It's the ultimate fast."

But then, Google turned around and cost-extracted that same market into semi-permanent chaos. This promise to users ("we both win when the web is fast") was borrowed and manipulated to Google's benefit and the publisher's detriment, and, in essence, became, "look at me; I am the [publisher] now. Here are your GA stats for the traffic we decided to send you today for your content."

I'm not even sure as a user that I care about AMP. So what, articles were faster for awhile. You could have accomplished the same thing for almost no money with a desktop version of Google Reader, but here we are.
Has anyone ever duplicated this, or at least tried to duplicate it?

I mean, it's quite common to have an alife experiment evolve an exploit if there's a bug in some part of the artificial ecosystem, so I wouldn't be surprised it it's easy to duplicate.
It is certainly possible to optimize the light spectrum for desired plant growth traits. An interesting and successful experiment over the years was http://ledgrow.eu , which culminated in producing a product. (No affiliation)
The argument against Chernobyl is Deepwater Horizon.
I tbink going back to opaque SOAP-esque system is a mistake too, but whatever disaster the post's author is seeing about bad security: it's not something I've seen. I dont see a new Meteor problem out here.

What I hate to it is that it's still much harder, much more personal opinion & few standard practices for building rest. OpenAPI has kind of "won" for defining endpoints & there are some fair stub client generators, but the rest ecosystem is far more piecemiel, far less well composed.

It feels like most of the last decade a been exploring alternatives like graphql & others, but little investment in rest & the web principled basics. On the one hand, investing in the existing fundamentals feels obvious, on the other hand, trying to become the winner in this widesweeping arena feels glacially slow of a game. Being an upstart is an easier flag to put up & have people rally to.
It would seem this amount of CO2 is negligible compared to aviation, and that forest fires likely put much more soot into the artic. Both Canada and Russia have had large fires in recent years

https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html
It depends on the user. You could argue that many users in technical roles would see a professional interface, as one with less white space that allows for more information on the screen at once. However, many users in non-technical roles actually prefer more white space. This is why the default options for newer software redesigns (e.g. Outlook) favor more white space, with a "compact" options in the settings for users who prefer more information.

I think the Teams design team tried to compromise by making the interface approachable enough for the greatest number of users. But for one reason or another (strategy to differentiate from Slack, company DNA, or other reasons), they couldn't make the interface subjectively feel more casual and less professional.

Everything from the name ("Microsoft Teams") to the logo (a bunch of people, versus the Slack logo with eyes and a mouth) is more serious, even if the team tried to soften it a bit by using less formal language in the interface.
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> The writing system is ridiculously complex

Most of the complexity is merely that it requires a lot of memorization, though. One has to literally remember a couple thousand of characters, memorizing their meanings and a few possible readings. Obviously one remember them not as a random opaque pictogram but by mentally splitting it in smaller graphemes. And there are, IIRC, like, about 30 or so most common ones that are enough for most characters one would normally encounter.

Either way, it's surely much more complex than systems that only have alphabets or syllabaries, but in a personal (and biased, because I know one and failed to grok the other) opinion some segmental scripts like Arabic are much harder to process.
It's interesting to draw a parallel between the popularization of acid by Leary and the popularization of the Internet by many. John Lilly experimented with hallucinogens, but knew that a lot of preparation was in order.

sed 's/acid/Internet/'

in Duke's quote. People just flock to the Internet and are immersing themselves in it as their reality, without a full understanding of the long term consequences.

Alternate reality is alternate reality, man.
I've done it twice. My gig for the last 20 years was a 4 hour work-week kind of thing. Years before that I actually made a good living selling a programming language (late 80s).

The tradeoff is that any venture like this is usually unproven. Your friends and family will probably not be impressed when you start, and of course launching any business is massively risky. Your spouse may be nervous for months or years. While I made out like a bandit, during that time I was also concerned about being tied to a single source of income. I tried several other ventures that failed, although never more than I could afford to lose.
Just do the first one. No need to force the issue. If nuclear is amazing as claimed it will be adopted. If the claims are the same empty ones we've heard for 70 years then we'll get some electrolyzers and gas turbines running green ammonia
But if big oil companies like Shell decide they'd rather own geothermal plants than oil wells, then the key thing we wanted "It'd sure be nice if our planet remained habitable" works out. Even though maybe we'd prefer Green Corp. Inc. get wealthy and Shell lose everything that's not how capitalism works.
ATEN seems to make some, like the ATEN CS62U, which I've thought about getting.

KVMSwtichesOnline (https://www.kvm-switches-online.com) has a search capability with a filter for "Switching Method" that includes "Hot-Key Combos."
I know we dumped AMP at The Daily Beast because revenue per page view went down significantly enough to negate any supposed benefits of using it.

If I remember correctly pageviews didn't increase when we used it, which was the idea as google would rank us higher.
Environmental groups fought it tooth and nail.
The second sentence is a statement of fact in the world of genetics, phylogeny, and taxonomy. Your criticism of it tells me you are not adequately knowledgeable about these areas of science to participate in this conversation at the level required.
Unfortunately it hijacked scrolling, navigation and search which more than made up for the lack of annoying newsletter popups.

I personally use the Amplosion plug-in for Safari on iOS which nukes AMP pages from orbit transparently, substituting their standard variant. [1]

[1] https://amplosion.app
Thank you for posting that. In taking a second look, I do see a link about installing it yourself. Though given the section mentioning it on the pricing page is below the fold, I'm not sure that I would go so far as to say they _encourage_ it. But it's good they have the option (and I did see info about vendors who also host)
Controversial—I know—(and I'm happy to hear counterarguments) but I think there's a much simpler way of accounting for the present state of software quality.

It amounts to 'tolerance'. Commercial software is optimized with respect to a set of business goals, and one dimension of the space that process operates on is software quality. Beyond a certain threshold, increasing quality has diminishing utility. (I.e. there's effectively a tolerance for quality; it can be imperfect and not change the operation of the machine—i.e. business—which it's a component of.)

The present state of software is precisely in the neighborhood of where that added utility begins rapidly diminishing.

(This assumes that the business in question is competent, which we can approximate by observing that they survive. Outside the possibility of that being incorrect, this implies that the level of software quality hovers right around where it it's good enough that improving it more wouldn't significantly impact customer purchasing decisions. Of course this is not an ideal state of affairs—but how could you expect otherwise? —and interpreting it as a sign of societal collapse... seems a bit absurd to me.)
Anything interesting in it? Would you recommend it and why?
I have worked on a widely deployed product that _internally_ uses something similar: 28 month days, 13 months to a year. Data is aggregated in the product into daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly aggregate files. It does two things differently from the article: 1) it doesn't add a day at the end of the year to get to 365 (28 * 13 == 364, 1.25 days short of a normal year), and 2) it considers the beginning of time to be Jan _4_, 1970, not the more typical Jan 1. This was chosen so that each of the weekly data files started on a Sunday, as opposed to a Thursday which is what Jan 1, 1970 was. The most fun consequence of this odd scheme came up when I was trying to figure out what date a yearly data file should start on. Eventually I figured out the pattern, and realized that the date is slowly drifting backwards, starting from Jan 4, 1970, at a rate of 1.25 days per year from 1970 due to only having 364 days per year. It's been 52 years, and so the current year file starts in late October this year.
One difference is that Zulip is 100% open source, whereas Slack is not.
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Note that there's not enough uranium to use at 3% burnup. At 90% there's plenty for baseload providing we end growth immediately, but breeder reactors and reprocessing are even less likely to happen than an affordable LWR
Green party managed to stop the process of getting new reactors many times with different political tricks. And when they finally reluctantly agreed to build more nuclear energy, they demanded that only one (or was it two, I cannot remember the exact details anymore) reactor should be build. And because of this limitation on the number of new reactors, we then needed to have a higher power reactor instead of several lower power reactors.

And because of the foot dragging by greens the other new reactor project failed. They managed to slow the process long enough that the German reactor was of the table (thanks to the foolish politics of Merkel in Germany) and then only Russian reactor was available. And after Russia started war on Ukraine that Russian reactor project was canceled.
We already live in a surveillance hellhole so I welcome open season on billionaires.

Also, if you make a habit of hostile edits like that you're going to be banned.
OK in Firefox desktop Linux.
Ha nice, I hadnt heard either before. These both rely on (I think) informal/slang way to contract past-tenses. Plus it seems (only after I looked them up on prirucka.ujc.cas.cz) the second one is a missing “se” as it’s reflective.

So I think the verb “smrsknout se” would more correctly be used as “smrskl[a] jsi se”, and contracted as “smrskl[a]s se” - but then I’m a foreigner who repeatedly messes Czech up so I’m likely talking nonsense :-D
It's yet to be proven it's possible.

I'll stay tuned to see if it happens, like everyone else.
> pay or lose months or years of history.

You can download all your workspace data now, includes chat history.

Chat history on free plan was already limited, so I don’t think anyone who was aware of that was using it as an archive.
A new one will pop up.

It is the chat client circle of life. An old chat client has to do something unpopular to obtain some return on investment. Users look for a new solution. They find one that is still in the "basically mature but trying to grow marketshare by using investor money to provide services and features for free." It works well while that investor money holds out/as long as they can get more ("look at our user growth!"). Eventually investors get tired of paying for things, look for an ROI, and they have to do something unpopular...

Hopefully the "gamer" branding will keep Discord in their niche for a little longer. It will be a shame when we all have to transfer our gaming groups to something different.
> Stuttgart railway station reconstruction

I lived there for some time so I know a lot of details about this; and I have to disagree with your statement.

This wasn't a lack of knowledge - quite the contrary. "Stuttgart 21" (the core in Stuttgart itself, not the smaller sub-projects in the surroundings) is nothing more than a prestige project and most of the local politicians and a lot of the business folks wanted it, e.g. to have some new area for buildings and to have something special in Stuttgart to attract people, tourists, plus more advertising for the city.

But they ignored _all_ warnings about the unsuitable rock layers for an underground rail station, the shortcomings of the rescue system in the tunnels itself, the too steep slope of the platforms, the decreased amount of trains, the accessibility problems, the water problems, and so on - which all became clear in very early discussions, as some folks (including railway enthusiasts, as well as scientists such as structural engineers and geologists) formed a small club against the project and also did a lot of lectures to inform the public. This all was years before it even was announced widely.

Later all of these warnings came to be true, hence the multiple cost explosions.
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Finally someone noticed!
I'm sorry but let me just drop this reality check here real quick:

Nuclear provided 50 years of low cost energy to France despite an uphill battle in the public opinion. Renewable energy is failing to save Germany this winter despite being hailed as the holy grail for the past few decades.

Everytime you listen to environmentalists talk you'd think we're already there, that countries are already covered with batteries for long term energy conservation, that a continental-wide energy grid has already been deployed (or will in the incoming week) so Finland can get electricity from solar pannels in Spain, that solar panels or wind turbines are great for our sovereignity when they're being produced in China, that they are infallible ecologically when they require rare materials and aren't systematically recycled.

No, green energy is not there yet, and it definitely won't before quite a bit of time. People failing to realize that and fighting teeth and nails against nuclear are gonna cause our demise if they keep at it.
> But why did China discard movable type, while it was transformative to Western culture?

A simpler explanation: That Chinese characters number in the 10,000s, while the characters in the Western alphabet number 26. This means that the latter is much easier than to former to turn into a profitable business, because the early movable types themselves are costly in time and capital to make, and easy to break or so I'd imagine. With 10,000 replicas of 26 characters you can print 24/7. However, with 26 replicas of 10,000 characters, your business will be halted every type the movable type of characters you need are inevitably broken and wait for an artisan to make new ones.
> two hours before a General Chemistry II test [...] Mr. Ogletree replied that there were confidential documents, including 1099 forms, in the bedroom where he was taking his test and that he would not be able to secure them before the exam.

This policy is stupid for a variety of reasons, including that it seems completely incapable of preventing cheating, but using "confidential documents I can't move" or "medications" as an excuse just seems silly to me.
This is a strength of theirs. They have a very strong maintenance program called TechOps
The intent of the law was obviously to get rid of hijabs. That's the context, and nobody really disputes that, even though the text of the law doesn't explicitly target any particular religion.

I'm not sure I'd call it an extreme symbol, exactly, but I'm not a fan of the culture behind sexist cultural policies like that, where women are treated radically differently from men.
> I wonder if this is a factor for the decline in software quality Jonathan Blow talks about in his video.

Wouldn't hold my breath; I recall a tangent on programmers being "afraid of pointers". Depending on your favourite not-C-pointer way of managing memory, that's saying that use-after-free bugs are a sign of bad programmers, or shunning substructural/region/etc types for verifying that explicit memory management is correct.
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Hey everyone, I'm creating a Python tutorial aimed to be super practical.

This version is still a draft, but it exemplify how I will approach the final version.

Any feedbacks are valuable!
no because its not supperior to a proper lisp repl which you use to develop and interact with a live production system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93pr...
Isn't docx technically an open file format? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
Reads more like: "DOE to spend toilet paper money to advance domestic geothermal energy." given the pet projects of members of congress eclipsing this by many multiples.
But now we're not only relying on physical phenomena but on psychological ones and there lies the typical mind fallacy writ large. The prisoner's dilemma, technological overreach, etc are things characteristic of human brains but there's no reason to believe they're universal.

It's not even clear that those psychological factors are universal across human history, since we only really know much about a few thousand years of it.
You can easily obtain a /44 and your own ASN as an individual, through various RIPE LIRs, no questions asked. If you're in the US, you'll have to procure an overseas VPS so you have a European presence.
Sure thing!

unzip resume.docx; cd resume; dd if=/dev/random of=crap.tax bs=1M count=19;cd ..; zip resume.docx resume
I would argue that the decline in software quality is related to the rise of SaaS coupled with Product Manager-driven development. If a product is generating consistent revenue, resources are devoted to expanding that revenue. It's extraordinarily difficult to justify bugfixes and incremental improvements using exclusively analytics data, so organizations are generally not incentivized to reward that kind of activity.
Person: 人

Rest: 休 (person leaning against a tree)
start getting these gigs and boom, now you're a bonafide digital transformation consulting company
There are some up-and-coming monitors based on LG C2 42 inch like ASUS, and on Samsung's QDOLED like recent Alienware 34 inch.
Slack allows image and file uploads, and in every slack I've been on that feature is used heavily. Those stack up fast.
Congratulations on healing from moral injury and good luck with your interesting project!
matlab or octave (oss clone) may be of interest to you.

for symbolic math try wolfram alpha, the matlab symbolic math toolbox or one of the symbolic math packages available for python.
which cases?
Yeah - one thing I dislike about Reddit - it has eaten up all of the small forums and killed them. On one hand Reddit can be great but on the other hand sometimes you just want to discuss some niche stuff or hobby - and too much other crap will spillover from other subreddits sometimes to make that as useful
Save your shekels and get some honeycomb blinds; past experience has demonstrated that a monitor with higher output in a bright room will negatively affect your eyesight.

As for me, a Philips (AOC) PHL 329P9 (4K / 31.5 in) monitor has been a excellent companion, whether macOS, Windows or Linux.
The parking lot of Dodger Stadium looks to be about 6M square feet, and would probably last a lot longer than a road where vehicles regularly friction at speed.

I'm curious as to why they don't paint the roofs of houses instead. We don't have to air condition the ground under the road. https://www.rawlinspaints.com/blog/the-benefits-of-heat-refl...
Indeed; though I thought EU had a lot of inter-country grid connections (perhaps more as backups). The distances don't seem outrageous compared to other grids.

Edit: looks like Finland does indeed have international grid connections and imports about 20% of its electricity
I'm not sure, they spend decades at sea essentially doing nothing, but fulfil their purpose, without performing.

Also if you're happy pushing buttons, you're probably unhappy.
The wiki situation is really not helped by how wikia turned into fandom turned into a garbage fire. I am not even sure whether there are any active, thriving wikis on fandom any more. Maybe Wookieepedia but there are noises of moving that away, too. What they have done to that site can not be borne.
I always wonder how the lowfi channels can get the copyright to basically all these popular songs.
Saw this interesting chart recently on the French case. Shows generally decreasing costs between first to last of a generation but then stepwise cost increases when moving to the next generation.

https://twitter.com/autommen/status/1559097869940006916?s=21...
I admire your concern for people, but you might be getting a little bit ahead of the data when you start imagining others getting obsessed and develop your own fears for their sake.

But I’d also mention, as a fellow student of balance, that it can be found amidst great highs and lows and not just in the absence of them. Acrobats exhibit tremendous balance. :)
Some counterintuitive “cheery thoughts”.

The “safety” aspect of nuclear power is usually discussed in the most narrow sense. The regulatory burdens may be excessive but no other power source is a thermonuclear weapon in a “close to critical state” as its normal condition.

Yes, one could fly a small plane into one and maybe nothing will happen but as the Ukraine war points out military grade attacks are not counted in safety calculations. Nor are the impacts of natural disasters especially earthquakes. Cyberattacks are not counted either.

Therefore one needs to secure a nuclear power station to the same level of physical and cyber security as a military stockpile of nuclear weapons. With the added risk of direct takeover by live cyberattack or malware. Personnel hiring needs to be at the same level of background checks and security as a military nuclear reactor.

All this in a practical sense, and counterintuitively, means that the construction and operation of a nuclear power station with fissile Uranium needs more burdensome protocols not less.

Finally the calculations often talk in the language of probability but what is needed is to calculate or estimate Expectation. This sort of “it won’t happen because p ~= 0” thinking is also the kind of thinking that led to the 2008 stock market crash ie “house prices will never go down”. The Expectation calculation of what happens if/when they do was never really thought through. That tends to happen when humongous amounts of money are involved as is the case with energy.

We owe it to future generations to not create another multigenerational problem because we short circuited safety considerations trying to save the planet in the medium term.

Other than that - stay happy :-).
> It's extraordinarily difficult to justify bugfixes and incremental improvements using exclusively analytics data

Why would analytics be any less capable of conveying how these attributes of a software product affect customer purchasing decisions? If the metrics relate to e.g. retention, new users etc., these are independent of which aspects of the software cause them. A correlation is a correlation. Unless there is some reason to think product managers would be especially unaware of quality as a variable to observe.
Hm, I thought Europeans were R1A1