skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, lots of people seem really sure about a lot things they are wrong about.

It's always the renewables isnt it. They kill birds and give you ear cancer and don't even really work. Not like those superb fossil fuels that have no drawbacks at all.

Who wants to listen to experts when you can just create a crisis by ignoring them and then blame it on the experts you didn't listen to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit_order

> The historic methodology for economic dispatch was developed to manage fossil fuel burning power plants, relying on calculations involving the input/output characteristics of power stations.
Just say "unlikely to". Leave some room for success, bruh.
Imagine a group of Java developers that use Eclipse. Can this be helpful to them?
I started reading the comment you link to in that subreddit, but I had to stop after it claimed that

> The European conquest [of the Americas] was hardly decisive. Furthermore, the difference between hemispheres wasn’t all that great.

I had to stop because that's the kind of statement on which lots of people -- many of them smarter and more knowledgeable than me -- strongly disagree, often with ideological or religious fervor. I have no interest in or patience for that kind of debate, so I will skip out from this thread.

That said, if you and others think the Wikipedia page on this best-selling, award-winning book is out of date, you should try to update it.
Why does there have to be time before The Big Bang?

IIUC, the hypothesis is that everything was packed into one super-dense black hole.

Wouldn't there not be any time?
Wait, the metal talks? And it thinks with its metal?
So the universe is a crazy huge Feynman diagram that got split at the edge of a black hole? Cool.
I could see this kind of luxury when there is a plurality of candidates but can one afford this when the presidential election in the USA is A choice between two opposites?
What if it never began and has simply always existed? That is the likely scenario, as the moment you think about it beginning, you again face beginning from what? What was that called before the universe other than the universe?
> "I ended up graduating at 25 with a degree in computer science years behind everyone else. For a long time I regretted this because everyone I worked for was far younger than me (18-22). I then wasted several years in graduate school, which I didn't finish because it wasn't my thing, and then wasted several more years drinking at bars for no reason other than boredom. I regretted everything for a long time wondering who I'd be if I was a social person, better in high school, did more things, was more popular, etc. I still have these regrets."

Honestly, you've done a really great job to make it to graduation at 25 by persevering. For many people, it's really not easy to stay as an undergraduate at an older age (it's much easier to drop out), then still make it to graduation.

Then you got into graduate school, at the same time as taking longer to graduate. That kind of experience gives a lot of non-traditional students hope.

Even the time spent drinking at bars is just time spent normally to many. It's a natural response to take time off, after working for so long as you've written. It's a great thing that you persevered and made it to graduation.
To me your younger life sounds a lot more fun. But that is me. I'm sure for some kids writing hours of code or doing hours of math or hours of reading was more fun. I was much like you and did more than just fine in life (in terms of material wealth). Like someone pointed out, ultimately everything is pointless. Just have fun in whatever you do.
Finally he'll be able to erase from the internet that some of the earliest versions of facebook were about perving on his classmates.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheSocialNetwork
Please stop construing your religious beliefs with sciences. Sometimes the answer is simply we do not know.
You talk of OP's tired points - which I agree with - then cite Chomsky... can both "stupid extreme capitalism" and "stupid surrender leftism" be put to rest finally.
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I really don't think you appreciate how much time is still ahead of you. If you start now to do the things you want to do, you will be just fine. Even ahead because for lots of people it takes much longer to figure out what they want. Also, don't compare yourself to people on the internet. Even if they are based and humble, you'll never see what they have going on internally, how gifted and rare they are. Etc.
Haven't read the article but I remember some mentioning these analysis are quite useless without spectra. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can explain this.
Subsidizing products with your attention span is not a natural thing in a capitalist system. What a ridiculous idea. Advertising is a service, it should be paid for with capital, not used as a subsidy or alternate form of payment.
The key difference from religion being the word “could”.
This suggests that either the MP is incorrect, or they were misquoted, or some sort of accounting shenanigans are going on (infrastructure costs already paid for, etc.)
The tracking is mostly present in the scripts running on those sites, not the browser itself. You have to run NoScript and other blockers to deal with those.
> Exception is when the noun is referring to its concept in the abstract

You need an article here.

If there's only one exception, it should be, "The exception is when...", and if there are multiple exceptions, say, "An exception is when..."
Also, we barely use gas - price is mostly driven by coal.
> So if you read yet another headline about some physicist who thinks our universe could have begun this way or that way, you should really read this as a creation myth written in the language of mathematics.

I thought that was very insightful. Today people try to pawn of all sorts of opinions as “science” by covering them with the language of science.
Isn't the inability of nuclear plants to keep production up part of the problem? If anything, the screwed up electricity markets in Germany killed oil and gas plants by favoring flexible production costs. And there it is solar/eind followed by hydro and coal on third. Germany even built new coal plants, the latest of which didn't get a legal construction permit and thus operations oermit in the first place. Bad environmentalists, paid by Putin to push for any energy source other than gas for electricity!
You come to peace with it by recognizing how it made you what you have become today. It comes from developing a keen sense of self and requires curiosity, not regret.

Also, don't be hard on yourself. Nothing good comes from it. And, as many comments on the thread have already pointed out, you have your entire life ahead of you, so look forward to all the amazing things you will come to do from _today_.
> We have a simple to state problem. There was nothing, then there was something.

Natural language is woefully inadequate to express these issues, but believe it is a mistake to state the problem like this. There can be no concept of “before” if there is a T0. Perhaps the “why is there something rather than nothing?” version comes closer to what we are asking.
"The best time to start was yesterday. The next best time is now."
I no longer really play games, but I once played a lot. More than I care to admit.

One day I became interested in game development itself, and started reading about the psychology of why we play video games. I became fascinated by a book called "Glued to Games"[1], which looked at the question through the lens of self-determination theory. It suggested that we play games to satisfy our basic human needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. As I read the book, it suddenly became clear to me why I spent so many years of my life playing video games; I wasn't getting those needs satisfied anywhere else. Where would I have turned for that same fulfillment if I didn't have video games? Perhaps nowhere. In that way, games saved me. They kept me alive.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Glued-Games-Video-Spellbound-Directio...
My bad, it was the WP that did the verification and pointed out both the verifiability of the emails and obvious evidence of planted content
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...
Seems like ATT also already had a partnership in the works: https://redd.it/wybhuh
Hard disagree, I am not depressed at all and side with the parent comment's perspective. Everything is pointless. This also doesn't invalidate your enjoyment of your career and other accomplishments. They're good things [for you and those you touched], yet still ultimately pointless, merely tangential randomness to everyone outside of your little bubble.

The Earth is a tiny, insignificant blue dot in the vastness of space which is the Universe. It appears to be rare but there is no evidence it is important or otherwise significant. It's eventual demise (in a very long time) is the likely outcome, just like what we observe with other planetary bodies.
Which one? The Hindu / Buddhist / Sufi Islamist philosophy of everyone being connected and being reborn / recycled comes pretty close to the scientific postulation that "energy is constant and can neither be created nor destroyed but only converted from one form to another". So when we die, our energy conserved in our body becomes something else. The caveat of the first law of thermodynamic is that all this happens only "in a closed system". So is God within this system, a part of the system and part of the energy in this system (which would mean that when we attain Moksha / Nirvana and escape the cycle of rebirth / reconversion, we become a part of God)?. Or is God outside this system?
The controls are quite inconvenient. A common type of controls for top-down games is WASD movement relative to camera + mouse to rotate and shoot. If you spam shooting button, it starts showing the same "not enough power" warning many times. For shooting it would be better to simultaneously play the animation and spawn the bullet, not waiting for the animation. The tutorial windows can be replaced with text on screen to not block movement (controls, level objective; power warning replaced with animation maybe)
Enjoy them while you can, less than one year left.
Additionally (IANAL), if someone knows about something dangerous and does not reasonably mitigate it, it goes from negligence to gross negligence if something happens. Having a sign indicates that someone knows about it.

Also, a sign can say anything like "We are not responsible...", but that doesn't mean that's true. (Take a picture of such sign if anything happens, because it's evidence that will most likely help you in court, again IANAL.)
Support for WebAssembly at the Edge – Vercel
If you want to record sound generated by the computer itself only (not the microphone), you can use a tool like BlackHole [1].

BlackHole adds a loopback audio device which can be used with the default video capture tool (select the loopback device in the options menu after pressing shift-command-5).

To be able to play audio from the speakers while you're recording, you need to add a multi-output audio device in the macOS "Audio MIDI Setup" app. Switch to the multi-output device by option-clicking the audio icon in the top menu bar. Now both the speakers as well as the BlackHole audio device will receive audio.

[1]: https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
That sounds like a fallacy of composition. Energy market is just one part of the whole and right now a very weak part. Capping the profits/restructuring the market temporarily would benefit the whole more than keeping running the same old approach that is literally destroying the economy right now.
He's trying to make "not being racist" sound like a bad thing while derailing the discussion.
> Carmack and Romero spent all their spare time writing code because that's what they loved to do. If that's what you loved to do, you'd have been doing the same thing.

The problem is when you love programming, but your day job is programming and it begins to suck all the joy out of it, such that you can no longer enjoy doing in your free time anymore. It's not as cut and dried as "if you loved to do it, that's what you would do".
I been for a while on technical side of one of delivery company.
Fixing electric mopeds for them.
Its a BIG business and it does not really matter if makes money, its the investors corporate funds getting pumped into the food delivery industry.
EDF, the French electricity provider is able to produce electricity at about 20€/MWh. It is forced to sell it to leeches (read: "competition"), up to 100TWh, at 42€/MWh through a mechanism called ARENH. Should they need this 100TWh (and they do), they are forced to buy it at current market prices, or anywhere between 530 and 715€/MWh.

The "competition" are resellers that have not installed a single MW of production, essentially leading to starving what used to be the most talented and biggest energy producer in Europe, all under the pretense of the free market. The resellers are actively dropping clients so they do not have to not buy on the open market.

It is happening, and is happening with the blessing of our leaders just greasing billionaire pockets.
Direct link to the site, which is more interesting than this article: https://horg.com/
Watching tons of PBS Spacetime the only theories oI see is that Universes are constantly being created with different properties, with an externally rare one having the right conditions for life to be possible.

Still leaves the same questions as to why a bunch of universes are being created or where the energy comes from.

End of day there isn’t anything I’ve seen other then a true all powerful God or equivalent being responsible.
There's probably at least two different aspects. One is how to discuss/debate opposing viewpoints so people at least feel they've had the opportunity to express their opinion and then there's how a decision is actually made. The specifics of which are very important on a board or other structure that is some variant of majority rule.
What's on your resume? You sound like a full stack dev + DevOps. Both are in high demand.
Please ensure that every quarter has exactly 13 weeks.

Except of course for that extra day (or two) here & there somewhere in the year.
I see 2 paths to forgiving yourself. You can either use a valid reason that proves your gaming experience was truly valuable (maybe even more important than staring at OS and driver docs for 20 years), which means you stop beating yourself up -- after all, you did the "right" thing! Or you just make a conscious choice to let go and forgive yourself -- sort of like if a close friend or relative hurt you deeply in some way, and there's no way they can make it up to you, but you chose to forgive them and bury the hatchet anyway. The latter is not fair, but it's not reasonable to expect fairness in everything.

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Similar boat as you. I had no close friends growing up and all I did was go to school, play video games, watch gaming channels on YT, eat, and sleep. I spent little time with family. All I ever wanted as a kid was to shun the world, eat junk and be in front of a pc/console forever.

Today, I work as a programmer. I have some close friends from college. I am feeling the gaming drive go away, not 100% sure why. But my gaming experience doesn't quite apply as well to my everyday experiences as it used to. It helps me to just make peace with myself even though I didn't "optimize" that part of my life. I'm still happy and tremendously lucky. (oh yeah, that's another thing -- it might help to be grateful you didn't end up on the street, working shitty jobs, not smart enough to be in tech, dealing with terrible health conditions etc. Life could always be so much worse.)
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What you describe still exists, and with much more variety than what Old Reddit offered. All it takes is the time to seek out the right subreddits for your interests. Places like /r/askhistorians have no equivalent anywhere else on the internet.

The site may crumble under its own weight in the coming years, but it won't be because it offers no discussion.
My employer's Mattermost instance has been running on a small VPS for a few years with no issues, fwiw. It's braindead simple with docker+compose now, too.
I don’t think this is wise advice. Something can bring joy for a while but may ultimately bring negative emotions if it becomes too large a part of one’s life. e.g. if it excludes exercise, spending time outdoors, in person human interactions etc. It may also rewrite your dopamine and serotonin
reward pathways which can be hard to reverse.
You can make the read-only conversion "free" by storing both the size of the string, as well as terminating the actual string contents with a NUL. So the String "bar" would be { length: 3, contents: ['b', 'a', 'r', '\0\] }. All your functions dealing with the "rich" string type work the same using the length, except they have to be aware of the need to preserve the terminating 0, and you if you want to pass a read-only string to a legacy function you can just pass it contents.

Of course that also generates a giant foot gun because you might manage to get the old and new strlen to disagree on the size, because one reads the length field and the other searches the \0.
https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fy23pbr....

If you go to USPTO Operating Levels FY 2021-FY 2023 note that the Estimated Fee Revenue and Total Estimated Spending are approximately the same.

There are no tax dollars hard at work here.
I think most statements like this have an underlying conceptual problem in that they assume the existence of causality.

Since the Big Bang is the beginning of space and time, it doesn’t make sense to say it “came from” anything - not nothing, anything. Nothing could have “caused” it because causality depends on there being a before in which the cause could take place. Causality breaks down with the beginning of time and that causes us a lot of conceptual confusion.
Cool cool cool, we're breaking browsers because Google has complained that their daily doodle can't be copied. Not worrying at all.
All energy problem reduce to problems of energy transportation

Don't make us tap the sign.
If you've worked for 8 years doing all that and aren't getting any interest, your CV may well suck. If you were hiring a new PHP developer, consider the things you would care about in a CV you were reviewing.
to which the current best though unsatisfactory answer is “because!”
It seems like GG&S was the way people sounded "smart" for a while and now the way is to say "well actually....". Mostly it seems because people don't like the conclusions.

Like the post as an example. It says the European conquest was "hardly decisive". Which is just so ridiculous that it should disqualify them as a source.

But moving on they try to say that native alliances were the most potent weapon. Which is again just so ridiculous. Small pox wiped out double digit percentages of the indigenous population and devastated their society.
I agree. We're not disagreeing :)
None of those things are impossible based on known physics. Traveling backwards in time to observe the beginning of the universe, and/or somehow existing outside the universe in order to do the observation, is impossible. Could we learn new physics that make it possible? Yes, but it is still a totally different class of problems than the ones you listed. Those were ONLY a question of knowledge. The problem at hand is a question of both knowledge AND the laws of physics actually allowing for that knowledge to be had. There was never any reason to assume that we would be unable to cure a certain type of cancer with the right knowledge alone.
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Nice! Feel now the benefits of marginal pricing.

Where 90% of the electricity producers make profits out of nowhere, just because some inefficient folks had to provide the 10% of missing energy.

Like Saudi Aramco and Chevron, they will post record profits, without lifting a finger.
It's the honest answer.

Our best cosmological theory applied backwards results in singularity. That's bad. See her droplet example.

According to maximally projected Penrose diagrams in singularity time and space evert into the multiverse. You move in time and space flows around you.
https://youtu.be/4v9A9hQUcBQ

And according to our other most successful theory, space-time is divided into chunks. And boiling. Opposite of infinitely divisible, smooth relativistic space-time.

Not to mention if we go with current astronomy theory, we end up with unexplained dark matter and dark energy, that give different answers depending on the methodology.
In that one image, the extra month sure looks like the month of "SQL". Which would be a special kind of hell.
Make it oxygen, methane and water and I’ll happily consider alien life discovered.
Does this matter if we could transport electricity from somewhere not cloudy or evening ... -y?
> She's not in research anymore

What are you talking about?

She is still publishing proper research papers as recently as this month!

https://arxiv.org/search/?searchtype=author&query=Hossenfeld...

Some people pick up weird ideas about her and I really wonder why.
Can you please not treat other people that way on HN? In the cat-and-mouse ban-or-not game, that's definitely stepping on a mine with the mods.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sports and dating still exist today, but, both of these combined do not come close to the amount time a kid spends by themselves on a weekly basis.

I was a 12 season runner in high school (averaged 30-60 miles per week), but I still had 6-8 hours of free time once I got home from school every night.

Now imagine this same high school scenario in 2020 vs 1990. In 1990, no social media, no games, no decent phone (for texting), and no computer (for most people in the world). The only fun thing to do was to literally pick up a book and read it.
The conclusion of her article:

"So if you read yet another headline about some physicist who thinks our universe could have begun this way or that way, you should really read this as a creation myth written in the language of mathematics. It’s not wrong, but it isn’t scientific either. The Big Bang is the simplest explanation we know, and that is probably wrong, and that’s it. That’s all that science can tell us."
Ive put "tech lead" because I developed + orchestrated everything (code, severs, "internal services" (AutoDesk (AutoCAD, Revit), MS Office, ETC).

You think that's to much?

Technically my job title is "Director of IT" but I dont go to enough board meetings to justify that title.
The story's title isn't explicit about the means by which the knowledge is gained, nor exactly which details are being sought.

I think it's a mistake to treat the scientific method as the only plausible source of knowledge. My opinion is obviously based on a particular worldview, but so is a claim that the only useful source of knowledge is the scientific method.