skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if I wasn't clear enough: the fact that someone have used a tool for personal reasons and may recommend it as a good tool for work is not enough to justify spending on those personal use cases. You need this to be a healthy conversion funnel and valuable brand awareness channel, otherwise you are wasting money. To make a call you need data from marketing research and I would assume that Slack marketing team knows more about it than HN crowd, simply because they are in position to have this data and HN crowd is not. It can be the case that they are not acting professionally, but I would not assume unprofessional behavior by default.
> Making software is easy. Each additional copy has almost zero net cost to produce.

When people talk about "making software" - they are not talking about making copies of code. They are talking about writing code, which obviously costs money.
> 2004: First attempt to authenticate Internet mail senders initiated

This is the most insane part to me.
OBS Studio can do it on Windows.
I believe hand work can be lightened by a lot. People do too much by bare mechanical force or repetitive gesture. Fordism can happen outside of a plant, and not to drive people sick. But improve things for all parties involved.
Exactly! You can learn a lot more from computer science undergraduate courses as someone motivated to be there, versus someone going through the motions because they just want a stable job (nothing wrong at all with doing so, but the upside is that the original poster actually has an advantage here).
The difference, of course, is that electricity is a commodity: every unit of electricity is essentally the same as every other unit, it's not really practical or useful to distinguish between them (they literally use the same wires), and buyers' need is satisfied by any of them. You'd be pissed off if you ordered caviar and got a scotch egg instead, but so long as the lights come on you don't think about where that particular electricity comes from. Other commodities apparently work in exactly the same way where the price is set by the highest seller, including bulk foods like wheat and rice. There's not really any obvious way to change it either; if there's someone willing to pay the higher price everyone obviously wants to sell to that buyer.
You’re 23 - I used to have similar thoughts and beat myself up about it, general anxiety.

The right framing (imo) is that your previous behavior is a learning experience that enables you to make the decisions you want now. It’s okay it wasn’t optimal because you’re able to have learned from it and can grow.

Ruminating on it is not useful and ignores the growth that came from it.

This framing is both true, and generally strategically helpful for not being afraid of failure and trying new things. It also helps coming to peace with “wasted years”.

Don’t worry about it basically, focused time will let you catch up and surpass nearly everyone if it’s a goal.
Putin has invested much more into owning Russia. According to your logic, we must allow Putin to own Russia.
My move to Sweden continues to pay unexpected dividends. And what the map shows is I suppose based on the average for the whole country - it's several times cheaper in the north (the "real" Sweden with auroras and stuff) than in the south.

Let's be real though, the society will fall apart before energy costs become a big problem for people working in tech.
You are 23. Knowing what you know live your life in such way that in the age of 40 you regret nothing. That's what I did, though my wake-up age was 26 and before reaching that age I was wasting my life on, well, worse things in many ways than you.
> It is one option, if you are attacked, you just surrender and probably save a lot of lives.

This take is profoundly disingenuous. Russia is targeting civilians and razing Ukrainian cities and settlements, conducting forced deportations, burying civilians in mass graves, all while Russia's talking heads repeatedly claim Ukraine does not have the right to exist.

And here you are, claiming that not offering ay resistance to Russia's assault on Ukraine would magically save people's lives.
He also social engineered his way to Paris Fashion Week with a random fake brand from the cheapest shop he could find:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/59d8v5/i-bullshitted-my-way-...
You cannot change the past, start now. I know, once out of school, you get the first feeling of "I'm not young anymore" - but you're still are! You can still read books, acquire skills, take part in activities, get to know people, etc. Just do it now.

Also, I wouldn't reduce wasting time on games/social media to your personal problem. Of course you have influence about that stuff (especially now that you know about it), but this is something that is literally affecting generations. It's a much wider problem and one our industry is actively trying to worsen. The solution to that is not in promoting "personal responsibility".
There’s a language joke in Uncle from Another World, where to pass himself off as an elf girl he adds a “-wa” to his sentences in a completely unconvincing way because that’s “how girls talk”.

So in this case is -wa a particle? What kind?
I've never had a use for them and I've been working since 1999. :/ It's not a recent thing.

The only people that need them are mass marketing vultures at tradeshows. And there they will scan your conference badge anyway (Usually you must provide a phone number so I always make a "typo" in it).

Everyone else I meet will just look me up on LinkedIn. It helps that my name is not very common.
Yeah I mean I guess that's sort of a problem? No reason why people can't setup their own hardware other than cost/sloth.

Cloud providers made themselves the best solution for a lot of services.
https://archive.ph/EeAXV
Google: "Ignore sunk costs"

Viewing your lost time this way is both rational and liberating!
Ask HN: Which two books should every wannabe practitioner in your field read?
2 books minimum. Any field.

1st one presumably when they are starting to get into the field.

2nd one when they have gained some proficiency already and want to take it to expertise.
That would be two different people/organizations.
It’s healthy to grieve things we regret. Let yourself feel that loss and process it. If you’re struggling to do so, then seek professional help, because nobody here can really give you personally-relevant advice.

For the future, dig into yourself and find out what need you were trying to meet by wasting all that time. Maybe it wasn’t 100% a waste, but maybe also there are healthier ways to meet those needs.

Most of all, choose to live with a free conscience for today. It sounds like you’ve already made some admirable changes, but remember you are in control only of what you do today. Let tomorrow worry about itself.

As for me, I had a similar childhood to yours it sounds like. I spent nearly all my waking hours playing video games as a teenager. I eventually picked up guitar and became a bit more social through that hobby. But I was still basically addicted to video games (and porn). It caused a lot of pain early in my marriage (married at 22). I’m 37 now, and when I look back I see a lot of mistakes still, but a lot of growth, too.

I managed with God’s help to save my marriage, kept my family together, and my early background in computers has translated into a very stable lifestyle for my family to enjoy. They’re my mission now. That’s what really helped me change my priorities. I found something more important than following my vices to work on.
I think we're on the same side here.

My point is that all three statements are true, but that in the later two cases the otherwise "socially constructed" boundaries are so useful and so meaningful to people that to say they "don't exist" is very odd.

There is no clear boundary between blue and green (and some cultures have a word for green-blue), but nobody goes about saying that "colors don't exist."

Ditto embryos. Genetics, phylogeny, and taxonomy provide definitions, which are socially constructed based on ground truth and utility for purpose. Each definition is "socially constructed" but to say the categories "don't exist" because they are socially defined is nuts.
business cards for me. In the 80's every professional had one. People were delighted when 10 year old me asked an adult for their business card.
Google: "Ignore sunk costs"

Viewing your lost time this way is both rational and emotionally liberating!
Western half of Denmark is on the european/continental synchronous grid and the eastern half of Denmark is on the nordic synchronous grid.
Would you be happy about your brother sleeping with your wife after you die? I mean, I've got an uncle-father in my ancestry, but it's considered gauche these days.
The point is that everything is meaningless in the absolute sense but on the personal level, we create our own meaning.
I just tried it on my account (private browsing window) and confirmed that 5 digits of my phone number were revealed.
> Like sorry, but Trump proved that the right wing doesn't give one shit if one of their boys does it

And Democrats just proved they don't either. So maybe Democrats should take this opportunity to prove they aren't hypocrites instead of acting just like the other side they're criticizing.
M.T. Anderson’s “Feed” Still Frustratingly Prescient 20 Years After Publication
This is not even a clipboard problem. If the site is compromised, they can display the correct value in the input form, but submit the malicious value in the code that triggers the wallet transaction.

The user’s wallet software can detect these by warning the user that the contract address is unknown or never before seen by them.
You're 23. Just think how relatively bad it would be if you were 38 thinking this. You're young. Plenty of time. Keep taking risks. Be grateful you recognize this now, and trust the process. Everything happens at the right time. The dots make sense looking backward, you have to trust that, but may not make sense looking forward, to paraphrase Steve Jobs commencement speech, which I think you should watch right now. It's inspiring to hear someone share this at such a young age, because I think of all the cool things that you'll do now, that you realize the value of time. But the motivation has to come from you, intrinsically, can't come from wanting to emulate or a type of FOMO jealousy of some "hero" types...tho do be inspired, don't be driven by a sense of comparative inadequacy, is what I'm saying in this my last point to you now, be driven by your own sense of wonder. Love to hear you share this! :) ;p xx ;p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd_ptbiPoXM
how is this pronounced?
I once mentioned this in a meeting and got pronunciation nitpicked for allegedly not saying it correctly -
but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it:
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

but the smug pronunciation nitpicker insisted "Robert" was pronounced the French way, i.e. https://www.howtopronounce.com/french/robert
That doesn't happen.
Thanks, will need to find the source again and see if it was indeed 0.1/kWh and not MWh (talking about production costs at a cheaper country with nuclear power plants fully paid for in the past).

EDIT: Just found out production costs from another source:

Dukovany Nuclear Power Plant - 20.31EUR/MWh

Temelin Nuclear Power Plant - 34.52EUR/MWh
This is true. Russia is in fact a good case study of late-stage capitalism. You see, in American capitalism, everyone started equally and then had to build up to their monopoly positions today. In Russia, some people just started out with monopoly positions, due to corruption. So if we want to see what happens due to monopoly positions, we can just look there.
(Not the author, but in the know.)

This uses the Skywater 130 process. It’s backed by an open source PDK (SKY130B), and is going to be taped out via an Efabless shuttle, just like OpenMPW shuttles sponsored by Google.

The difference between this and a ‘plain’ OpenMPW shuttle is that this can fit a ton of tiny/toy/demo designs, enabling a lot of people to get their toes wet with ASIC design without having to take up a ‘large’ shuttle spot.

https://skywater-pdk.readthedocs.io/en/main/
Nothing you do is pointless if you had fun doing it. Think of life as a landscape to explore with peaks, plains and valleys. Every person gets their own uniquely generated landscape.

Life goes in phases based on age, events, crises etc. At each phase you need to figure out what is important for _you_. It could be a well defined purpose or it could be something vague like being happy or being with someone. You do your best to make that thing work and reward yourself for your efforts not for results. Learn from failures and celebrate the fuck out of successes. Within your limits, if possible, help people around you accomplish what they set out to do.

Life can take weird turns and luck plays a big part. It is self-inflicted suffering to evaluate your past or your present based on things that you didn't set out to do. So, like most of the comments say don't measure your life with others' accomplishments or failures.

Looks like you had a fantastic childhood playing games that you wanted to play, you survived hard obstacles to achieve what you set out to do - get into university, I presume you are working hard to finish it. You are living your life very well.

If you are inspired by John Carmack, set your goals for the next phase of your life based on his achievements but you are not in a race with John Carmack (or anyone else). You cannot have a race with someone when their landscape is completely different from yours.

Good luck :)
That data centres in Sweden pay almost no electricity tax (5 SEK/MWh if I remember correctly) while consumers pay 36 is not popular with everyone. The map doesn't show that Sweden is divided into four areas. SE1 and SE2, the northernmost two and where some data centres are, have prices that most days are in the single-SEK/MWh range while in SE3 the prices might be tens of times higher. SE4, the southernmost area, has even higher prices due to the fact that (1) power is exported to markets where it is even more expensive and (2) because plants have closed down. The transmission capacity between SE3 and SE4 tends to be maxed out (as evidenced by the fact that prices differ).

AWS is in SE3, where the electricity is tens to a hundred times more expensive than for Facebook in SE1.
I suggest trying to come to peace with yourself. You're so young. Take you "self" out of the equation for a year. Who are you bringing up in your surroundings? What are you sharing, and with who? No time to self-lament when solving someone else's problems.
>Hotel sub-brands are often (usually?) to differentiate significantly in quality / service / price.

That's the idea anyway. There are also specific traveler personas that they target. For example, Courtyard was originally specifically designed for business travelers. Of course, a huge chain like Marriott has acquired other chains and many of its own brands have morphed over time for various reasons so a lot of the sub-brands end up looking pretty similar to each other. This isn't really hidden from consumers though. Certainly frequent travelers are well aware of the overarching company because of loyalty programs.
oh wow. Right that is pretty bleak
Microsoft Video Editor. It’s simple and fast, and comes with Windows. Unless I were a Youtuber I stop there because there’s no subscription.
You're still young, and have an enormous amount of time ahead of you that you can put to good use, if you have the motivation and discipline. If you begin getting serious about developing yourself now, and devote your efforts towards reading, learning, traveling, gaining experiences, and otherwise becoming a more informed and well-rounded person, by the time you're 30 you'll be way ahead of most people of that age.

I'm 43 right now, and I still have an immense passion for learning new things. I love exploring new concepts or going over ones I've previously learnt in more depth, and that includes areas of computer science (both related to my career and not), as well studying music as a hobby. The wonderful thing about life is that there's always more to learn and discover, and that it's never too late to start. I hope to continue learning until the day I die.

Everyone is different, so I can't say what specifically what you should do, but I can say there's nothing to be gained by regretting the past. It's actually not that big a deal since lots of people don't make good use of that time, and anyone trying to compare themselves to John Carmack is being unfair on themselves. My point is the only thing that matters is what you do from here. Figure out what you want to explore and go for it.
What is the difference between being a publisher and being a distributor?
Meaning is mostly self-reflecting. You build meaning by the things you love to do, whether someone is watching or not. If you’re depressed this is the hardest thing to “get” , to give yourself the gift of worthiness and bringing meaning into the world. For yourself, and through that to others.
Value what you have, not what you lack.

The experiences you made, be it bad or good, look at the positives of it. For me I’ve spent a good chunk of my life playing a particular game (I’m in my thirties). I loved the memories I’ve made and the friends I’ve gained through it.

I’ve also realised that the game is what I enjoy as long as I still progress in my life in other aspects. These days I enjoy 20-40 mins a day playing it if I have the time. I try to balance it with my other things/pillars in life: money, relationships, health, fun
I believe the classic go to on this topic is Bernays book "Propaganda".
Ugh, diesel, what an awful thought! People running noisy generators and diesel thefts etc (heating gas theft is rife in Ireland, where heating gas is common).
"You just don't understand the market."

Any sufficiently big scam can waived away with "the market has spoken". It's like a religious belief
Maybe try to realise that the past is past and can’t be changed, but the future of yours to mould as you please. When you do that, don’t compre yourself to others, find your own unique way to be you. Be honest to yourself, and be kind to yourself. The worst thing you can do for your happiness is trying to hold yourself to unreasonable standards, or other people’s standards. You are unique and beautiful as you are.
What I learned working with the Akka framework in Scala is that actors are a really nice concurrency primitive, but I don't generally want to be writing business logic on them directly. I don't know about Ruby, but with Akka, there are all of these higher level constructs, like Akka Streams, which make better building blocks for business logic.

Another thing to note is that famous actor-based platforms, like Erlang's OTP and Scala & Java's Akka, offer a lot for building network distributed systems with features for dealing with faults. That's a big part of their appeal. Not sure whether Ractors offer that.
That’s all perspective. Many people who realize you work the government will see you as a do nothing bureaucratic leech and for most government employees that is the correct assumption.
I find this article rather confused. The difference between は and が is not adequately explained, there are questionable analyses (verbs of motion analysed as transitive just because they can take を), weird terminology ("genitive case"... in a language that doesn't have cases, also it's not like the article is at least consistent in calling を an "accusative case" marker), and at times weird English to the point of being confusing (誰が described as "confidential", I think what they mean is "non-polite")...

but regardless, that's nowhere near a "complete introduction" to particles. I have a textbook (The Structure of the Japanese Language by Susumu Kuno) that devotes three entire chapters only to は vs. が. Of course, you can give a tl;dr of it, ignoring edge cases, but you do have to at least talk a bit more carefully about what a topic is, and what a subject is.
Knew it this was coming.

Since the big bang theory has started to falter in light of huge number of evidences provided by observations from JWST, a better way to save this theory is to discredit competing ones.

That's all is in the video. Blatant attempts to discredit or shutoff people critizing bb theory.
I don’t think the point is “everything is pointless”, insomuch as “everything is more pointless seeming than social interactions”.

Social interactions seem to be at least part of the “human motive” for most people I’d guess.
No, we shouldn't. It's possible and desirable to air your political grievances in a civilized manner, without stealing sneakers.
They have an incomplete dataset, I wonder why PT and IE is missing?
Hacker news can do (and does on occasions) all of those things as well. It’s called moderation.

Is Hacker News a publisher?
Government work is not respectable.
That would probably be fraud keep in mind.

They did it by faking reviews not pretty pictures
I like Monterey a lot, seems to run perfectly on my old MBP and my Hackintoshes.

The OCLP project came a long way, at first it wasn't very stable, but with later versions it got better. Make sure you have the latest version and all works well.
A Pretty Visualisation of the European Power Grid
As a high school student I was in an organization called Future Business Leaders of America, where I competed as a parliamentarian at state and national events.

I use that bit of my high school education more than most of my actual classes.
Buying panels, inverters, heatpumps and booking installer times are significant bottle necks at the moment for further household PV installation.
Except the story wasn’t “fake news”. It was real.
Google is not getting any data when you connect to a GCP VM through TLS. Or did I miss another huge PRISM-level scandal? Same for Azure and AWS. But if you block those no wonder a huge part of the internet is gone.
The issue is less the shady deals and more the fact that the shady deals were brokered in part by the big guy, Joe, himself as vice president.
I've always wondered if most expats are Democrats? Every US election the media tries to find Republicans living in the Netherlands and aside from a GOP donor ambassador they always fail.
Understanding Visual Art as Computation: A Hypothetical Book Introduction (2021)
Exactly, because it was all done without a proper plan. And they have been warned multiple times, laughter and sarcasm is unfortunately all they had as a reply.
Now this.
If anything this article talks more about the author than art.

Most artists I know would be happy doing their thing on their own. It only becomes social because there's a need to market and sell it.
Don't hate the path that leads to success.

If you're 23 and motivated then you're on the right track.
> It works, right now, at A76 levels

That’s hard to believe. Are there any benchmarks?
Where did you live before? How hard was it to move there?
True. So the timing is probably not entirely coincidental.