skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It messes up someone's headcannon, that's for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Jesus
> In other words, Britain discovered coal, to some extent, then started using it earnest

Coal was known and used in antiquity. It has the same problem as oil: extraction was difficult and expensive except where it was on the surface or just below it.

People used more coal where good quality coal was easily accessible. They turned to more extensive mining and extraction as population growth and deforestation made wood more expensive - prior to that it was cheaper and easier to cut down trees that would regrow themselves if managed even half-heartedly. Once a steady supply of cheap coal was established it accelerated deforestation in a feedback loop.

* The sophistication of forest management varied a lot across civilizations and time within the same civilization, but very few took a "clear-cut everything" attitude. Clear-cutting was usually done to make farmland to grow more food, not for the lumber itself per-se.
I'm not watching a 1 hour video, sorry.

I've jumped around it and didn't see any mention of cost/transistor going down. So I assume that isn't a respected engineer saying the opposite of what all the data clearly shows, and instead it's a hyped title to a talk about something slightly different.
Huh, weird. I definitely read the article and just that bit just didn't register! Weird.

Would still be interesting to see if this can be made to work well at grid scale, feels like we need as many different technologies so we minimise specific resource constraints.
If it produces a better quality product/service with less volatility relative to cost, then yes.
This would be useful in the case when laptop lid is closed. TouchID/FaceID are still very fast
You could board with your other passport (this is for a dual citizen) - though in that case you'd need to have an ESTA, which is annoying.
As it did before. During the past three months only 10 (or about 6%) of its 170 flights have involved Ghana, either as source or destination. It's mostly been flying in US/EU.

Source: that URL, with an old free membership.

Here's a news article from Ghana regarding the whole thing, including photos of the official letter to Delta from their aviation authority, etc:

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Delta-Air...
Fake news. Nowhere was posted. This site is full of Binance affiliate link.
So? What's stopping him?
Regular SSRI had the same effect for me.
> Graduate degrees are already needed to provide the signal you could generate 40 years ago with undergrad.

Honest question, are they? At least as someone hiring for software engineering BS in CS is generally something I look for in a junior level candidate (I rarely pay attention to the education of a candidate with a few years under their belt), but no matter the experience level a masters has never added much, barring some really interesting projects.

Other fields might be different, but I don't think I'm the exception for software engineering.
Ask HN: Use my name or a nickname as custom domain and website?
Hello!

I want to move away from gmail for email and want to start using a custom domain and aliases, I also want to start a site/blog to use as portfolio and stuff.
This is because I just graduated from college and I read how important having this can be to find jobs and stuff, it also just seems fun to do.
My question is, should I use my last name (is pretty unique), or my internet nickname that I have been using for almost 20 years? I already own mynick.com, im just not using it.

The nick and last name got connected somewhere at some point, so if you google one you will definitely find the other identity. I dont mind people knowing my online name or looking at what I do (I still use it everyday in many places), but I use it for games, anime and other stuff, and because I've been using it since I was 10 its possible to find some pretty dumb 10 year old stuff out there associated with it. Also about 40% of the related content is in Spanish (now I live in the USA and only looking for jobs here). Im just worried about what prospective employers might think about that.

Do you have thoughts or recommendations on this?
This is a nonsensical question. History is not a march towards an end goal, or an elevation from 'primitive' to 'technological'. This would be like asking 'why no lizard civilization' or 'why no Chinese monotheism'. The things that happen are a succession of complex states and they bear no analysis of sequential 'achievements'. There is no finality. Lifeforms just hunt down energy sources and reproduce, and power structures in society emerge and dissolve. There is no finality, no ascent, no goal.

Edit: maybe in a couple thousand years we will have something like Mycenaean civilization but on the moon and with space elevators. Maybe a chain of volcanic eruptions will send us back to the stone age and in another dozen millennia another version of global civilization will have emerged, this time with oceanic floating cities. For all we know, given the amount of actual evidence and the margins of doubt, global civilizations might have emerged and failed 10 times before.
The mainframe code running the IRS, airline, banking, and credit card systems.
Not to mention some words like パターン (pataan/pattern) have either very specific meanings that an English speaker would not understand naturally or other words like テンション (tenshon/tension) have completely different meanings that an English speaker would not recognise as English.
And thus we become more resilient. I know a lot of people who trusted news, now they verify, research presented data.
I don't think that was it for me, though I see the parallels. I just wasn't miserable, the examples I gave were the highlights but really the core of it was that life felt tolerable. Looking at the hypomania symptoms I didn't exhibit any, beside the elevated mood.
Did you give up mowing lawns forever based on that one experience?
My stepson related a similar story once. He left out the part about he didn't return to mow until the next day. And the person who mowed was long gone when he arrived.
Not implying you didn't make doing the job a priority. That, however, has been a common them for my stepson.
so many that there will be less room for swimming pools, golf, circuits, tennis, and many other unnecessary things that pollute, double win
As a speaker of Mandarin and knowing phrases from inside mainland China and the phrases outside (ex: Taiwan), there’s already phrases and words of the same spoken language that’s mutually unintelligible: [credit card, ice cream] - completely different phrases used for the same ideas/objects.

And the only way to express these ideas is with phrases (combination of characters), as Chinese characters (spoken) on their own already are overloaded.
I don't know how thorough or accurate it is, but Microsoft has a list.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/differences-betwe...

The list was only a few lines the last time I looked years ago, so maybe they're actually trying to make a complete list.
I guess I was picturing just a GitHub, but for go, that is the same as npm. I have gotten excellent benefit from gists only and for that matter code on stack overflow.

Still I guess I regard open source as more like twitch broadcasts than shopping for shrink wrap. If some one wants to take patches and so on, great but that seems extra to just releasing the code. The fundamental advantage of code is that it is malleable. That gist might not fit my project but if it solves the problem I can meld it into what I need so fast.

And a lot of bug fixes aren’t really bug fixes per se but are extra use cases, so a fork per use case doesn’t seem so bad. And I guess the advice for “person that wants a popular open source project” might be different for “just wants as much code as possible to be part of the common knowledge of humanity.”
I have a feeling tuition would drop dramatically if you remove all this easy government gravy train funding as universities trim the abundant administrative and useless degree fat.

So even at 15% interest it would still be cheaper to go to university.

either the government needs to fund the university or the universities need to be subject to the laws of supply and demand like the rest of the world.

None of this half-ass naieve young enslaving kids in debt forever in order to hire an 10 questionable administrators and a degree program in scuba diving.
I don't think he regrets it that much.
If this were on almost any other thread, especially one focusing on the particular topic, the K-12 system would be shit on too along with the roads and post office. The only one of those that arguably reliably beats private services with similar level of funding would be water utilities, and that's partially because water rights in the Western US are a legal quagmire.
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I suppose it's more that it's closer to €55 a trip - and the conversion rate is a small part of it, really.

Even saying "passports are €130 but you can enter with proof of citizenship" would be better - it just seems bizarre to say "any citizen must be able to enter the US" and "but you MUST have a passport" and then "but not really, though we'll be super annoyed with you" as a policy.
Isn't that because rail freight is pretty much a solved problem with little left to research? Each one of those you mentioned have been discussed, optimised and reorganised hundreds if not thousands of times across hundreds of countries during the last more than a century of rail history. The answers are there, just not everyone bothers to look and apply them. Autonomous electric trains exist. Scheduling optimisations to the second are well developed.

However there's R&D into cheap electrifying with battery railcars - which is IMHO a dumb idea outside of niche railroads, electrification pays for itself in the medium to long term, a battery bandaid doesn't get you far.

Ans there's also a kind of innovation from India - dedicated rail freight corridors.
The frequency of these kind of posts followed by anecdotes about how it worked for the commenter (who I believe btw) makes me a little uneasy. Somewhere buried in the discussion eventually is a comment from a relevant professional urging caution in interpreting and reacting to these news reports and anecdotes. Now with something as serious as this I would not at all object to such cautions being placed a bit more prominently. This isn’t reckless use of goto being discussed but something much more serious. Anyway, I just wanted to get that off my chest. Perhaps it’s just me, don’t take it as a holier than thou attitude.
If they did see the utility, they might have simply killed you for threatening the pack animal / slave industries.
My complaint about cad is the exact opposite. That those traditional techniques have too much influence on how people use cad and how cad software was designed. People use low level abstractions that leave far too much to interpretation.
I entered college before the year 2000 and it was already know that humanities majors had low salaries after school
If one of that structure in a compound is problematic, let's see what happens when we cram in as many of them as we can!
Gosh, if I knew I'd be dealing with the your-specific-phrasing-makes-me-uncomfortable police today, I would have worn pants.
> no one was hurt

Check out https://youtu.be/7PQTMx7TZ9A, quite a few folks went through some emotional trauma over this one, unfortunately.
Why shouldn’t they be considered cases?
Why? Especially if you have an SUV or higher car you can easily crawl under. Just unscrew the original plug, screw in a Fumoto valve, and an entire oil change is done in under 20 min, and then you just drop off the old oil at Autozone or whatever. While the oil is draining, you can change the air filters too.

Buy the Kirkland brand oil at Costco, and you do not have to trust whoever the mechanic shop hires to bust your car up or use low quality oil.
Yes. Registration numbers can be reused. Even if Delta retires the plane, they are forbidden from flying a future plane with that registration to Accra (barring a presumedly easy appeal), so the code must stay.
We get this in the UK too but often it's someone driving the car and a kid that gets out and actually delivers the paper?

We also have car washes that are either 100% automated or have 6 guys all cleaning one car. You can guess which is the most popular option.

I hear we have a productivity problem, no kidding.
> Quoting a book as evidence that the book is true is tautological.

I wasn't arguing that the books were true. I do believe that, but you'll note my reply above simply tries to show that your bold claim that "the earliest known manuscripts of any biblical text post-dates Jesus by 300 years" is widely discredited.

I didn't "admit there were no eyewitnesses" at all -- my response wasn't related to that. Overall it seems like your reply had very little to do with my response above?
> France’s nuclear buildout, beginning in the 1970s, achieved the greatest decarbonization in human history; ... In North America, the mantle belongs to Ontario, whose nuclear plants replaced its coal fleet.1

I am dubious of this claim, but it probably depends on exactly how you define it. But switching from a country to a province immediately sends up red flags.
good point - adult passport book is €75, card (valid in Europe) is €35
https://passportonline.dfa.ie/Apply/Passport
Some AI is snake oil, sure. The wording in the cited tweet, however, makes it sound like AI in general cannot "work" (whatever that vague term means), which is untrue, as we have AI that does "work" already. The bigger issue is this assumption that the article makes that "humans haven't been able to make these predictions, and AI hasn't yet, therefore these things are unpredictable." To me, it seems obvious that there's a big difference between humans working with data and an AI ingesting terabytes (or more) of data.

It also seems obvious that the only realm in which "having enough data" doesn't equate to making accurate predictions is the quantum realm -- but even there, if you adjust your definition of "prediction" from "what will happen" to "the chances of each outcome happening", it's still predictable.

What I'm saying is, "humans can't do it, and machines haven't done it yet" does not imply "it can't be done".
Yes I thought so, as in you're quoted thing was exactly what I meant, sarcasm doesn't serialise well
Many engineers have degrees in physics. It's a perfectly legitimate degree to have for an engineering position. There is no stretch of the definition whatsoever.
Unfortunately I don't have much to say about Hetzner or ETH, but I feel like there may be some similar minds reading this thread, so here goes..

This is a thought experiment:

hypothetical scenario, pretend our fictitious p2p network is in a vacuum and all peers are speaking over ipv4.

How would it affect peer diversity if each peer refused to add an other remote peer that shares any of its IP octets? Obviously ip6 would break this to an extent. What if there were other stipulations, for example where nodes will not peer-exchange with a peer that is under X latency, or sharing any octets, or under N number of hops, rejecting signs of being geo-proximal?

Kademlia, Tapestry and other p2p schemes don't really address this as much as one might hope to. I know the practice of maintaining node diversity/non-diversity is there in the industry, but it seems as a practice to have faded out when the last of the good malware and p2p devs retired.
I've worked with a number of hardware companies (doing embedded systems programming), and the did the probationary period thing as well.

I honestly thought this was a universal practice. I learned something new today!

> since top talent is already well employed, doesn't want the risk

I've never seen top talent balk at this. They know that they'll perform well during the probationary period, so there is no risk.
Glad I'm a union software developer and don't need to worry about this.

https://twitter.com/WeBuildNPR/status/1484190346217148418
Oh right, I bet Pages is up there. I dunno though—I know lots of patent attorneys who are surprisingly non-technical and probably haven’t given a thought to cloud security issues.
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Thanks! Good luck to you, too, in whatever endeavors are on your plate these days.
> Then people can stop fighting about birth rates and immigration.

If human cloning ever becomes accepted, I suspect racism will end up promoting an even smaller gene pool than it already does, with anyone who isn't a clone of Dear Leader And His Chosen Ones forming the out-group.

Such a system would still hate immigration.
SimCopter and Crazy Taxi are older titles that come to mind.
If it's part of the type, then the compiler can automatically insert bounds checks. If not, then you'll have to insert the checks manually, which we both know won't happen.

Another trouble with two variables is there's no obvious connection between them. One can be modified without the other, etc.
I am not an economist so I don't know how to respond to your statement. I'm sure you're correct that it's absolutely a bad thing in some sense for some people.

How the Standard of Living Is Measured: The generally accepted measure of the standard of living is GDP per capita. This is a nation's gross domestic product divided by its population. The GDP is the total output of goods and services produced in a year by everyone within the country's borders.

https://www.thebalance.com/standard-of-living-3305758

If living consuming less and living simply is "absolutely a bad thing" then consuming more and living more complicated lives is absolutely a good thing. But good for who? It's not good for the planet and it's not good according to many spiritual and religious traditions because it's driven by always wanting more, which implies a certain amount of dissatisfaction with what you already have.

Rabbi Hyman Schachtel (1954) proposed that "happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have"

Is happiness having what you want, wanting what you have, or both?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18399890/
1M square ft. of L.A. roads are being covered with solar-reflective paint
I'm gonna of gone?
How do you create a long leaky pipe without bio-fouling clogging it up? I guess the high salinity itself could prevent fouling.
Thanks for the info and I stand corrected. I had based my information talking to a few graduates from MIT/Penn State university.
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> I mean, animal agriculture accounts for 14.5% of GHG emissions, roughly more than all global transport according to the IPCC.[1]

If you are doing full accounting though, that iceberg lettuce that required cold shipping, and extensive plastic packaging, moved 500 miles from growth to consumption point, is not any more or less "green".

That is the whole point of being a locavore - consuming foods grown closest to you so we are not spending huge amounts on shipping, but then greenwashing it when it goes into the supermarket refrigerator.
Off-topic: I bought a drone in the US, during a recent visit. I live in Italy. I cannot use my drone here because of some BS from the drone manufacturer.

I hate how drone companies essentially dictate many things that don't make any sense, such as the above one.

I wish there were an open-source firmware, or something, to allow us to use them more freely.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that steam engines were the first crossing between science and industry, and that the industrial development and use of steam engines preceded their take-up as a subject of interest by scientists (or the approximations of the time).
In my university teaching experience, I found that everyone up the administrative chain to the top gets a cut, with the teaching faculty themselves receiving 1-2% of the annual tuition...
Probably more professional to use your name for a job application.
For those afraid of misconfiguring/running their own server, you can use a ready to use docker with everything in it and with nice security defaults (no relay, for instance):
https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver
In general, our industry lacks a sense of "mechanical sympathy"[0]. Whether it's understanding what knobs are tunable in an operating system or using streams for reading data to keep a consistent memory profile, we often don't dig deep. Ditto for folks understanding database systems.

I think in very big systems, you see folks dig deep, but it's not encouraged with smaller systems. I think there's a lot of inefficiently run services - not from a price perspective but from a "what could I really get out of 3 compute nodes and a well designed database schema."

[0]: https://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/
HVACs are very rare outside of industrial and some office buildings across most of Europe. Buildings with innovative designs(like opening up during the night to cool itself and using that cool air to refresh during the day) exist. Thermal efficiency is taken very seriously and is a serious part of building codes.
Try "publishing" in https://researchers.one
what they do is let you get close and blow the powder in your face and that is enough. usually a distraction like they will get you to open a card and doing so it sprays the powder as you get close to inspect it. super scary.
As regulated utilities the operators of nuclear power plants sold electricity to the grid on a cost plus basis. The larger their costs, the more their profit. So a lot of it was these operators rather than oil companies pushing for ALARA standards. Normally regulators would prevent huge, useless expenditures on their parts but now they weren't able to.
My household has seen 1800 kWh of electricity consumption in 2021, a year in which I worked a full-time job on a computer and two displays at home. So did my wife. We have two little children.

While we might not be close to the average consumption in Germany, because our house is quite new, I'm regularly wondering what other households are doing with that much energy.
I am not sure I've ever heard someone being happy for being monitored at work.
The coolest thing about resource forks is how it encouraged separation of data and code. You could often alter a program's behavior and UI in ResEdit without modifying any code.
I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF.

I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you know how it goes.

[0]: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md

(Yeah I shamelessly inserted my own résumé.)
carmack is a brilliant engineer, but he's not really known for empathy or even being a good game designer. supply and demand is not really the best indicator of a positive vs predatory experience
This is the right answer. Industry and then position within industry matters above all else when it comes to payoff.
Probably depends on whether the claims are substantiated with good evidence.
Do you have a critique of the idea, or just an ad hominem?
Sorry, but I disagree. It's not about the "image nature" of CL (which, btw, is a very outdated way of using CL), but the interactive nature of CL. They're similar, in that a Lisp REPL has a memory image, but a running program in any language has a memory image.

Python, Ruby, Haskell, or any language with a REPL can experience this same problem, only in those languages there's not a good way to handle it.

Edit: To expand a little more, the "image nature" of CL has historically referred to dumping the in memory image to disk, quitting, and then loading that image back into memory later when the program starts again, and that's really an orthogonal concept to what TFA is talking about.