skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sabine, wearing her science communicator hat, necessarily has to simplify a lot. Everything of hers that I watch or read is simplified science (including her branded Brilliant course), and it has to be simplified for me to follow it because I'm a software engineer not a scientist and I can't yet do the tensor differential calculus of relativity nor the complex-valued calculus of quantum mechanics.

But even without that caveat, science has to be as simple as possible (and no simpler), because every extra equation or variable beyond the minimum is necessarily a worthless decoration adorning the core idea. Computers don't always let you brute force your way past that extra complexity, but even when they do, it never really helps to have it.
I don’t often go looking in Astronomy or cosmology journals, but I’d be surprised if either scientists were trying to publish articles like that — or if they were, that they could pass peer review.

On the other hand, if you are working on theories that can extend into the early universe, it’s not unimportant to try and figure out where the model breaks down. Maybe t=0 isn’t possible, but t=1s? 1ns? 1ps? How much can we feasibly describe?

I’d argue that not exploring the limits of models is also bad science. Knowing the limits is a fundamental part of communicating a model.
Back in the day I was involved with an anti-apartheid group, one thing we were doing was targeting local companies importing wine from SA, we'd buy shares and attend their AGMs with the intent of gumming up the works so that they couldn't adopt their annual accounts and in turn file their final yearly taxes (this is something that is normally not in shareholders' interest, but it was in ours).

So one of the problems with Robert's (and the way it played into company law in NZ) is that it doesn't fare well faced with recursion .... our game play was roughly:

- someone makes an initial motion - say "I move a motion of no confidence in the chair under the 1873 Aged and Infirm person's Act" - this enrages the Chair, sowing discord, but they have to have a vote, chair steps aside
- I move we hold a written ballot (required if asked for)
- I'd like to nominate X as scrutineer
- Someone else - I'd like to nominate Y
- I move we hold a written vote on scrutineers (now we're off recursion can kick in)
- I'd like to nominate A as scrutineer ...
- Someone else - I'd like to nominate B ....
.... and so on - you get the idea

Now pretty soon we're into silliness, the pompous board of directors running the meeting who always have enough votes to pass anything at an AGM, certainly more than these raucous hippies have .... but they're useless if you can't actually have a vote ...

Eventually the original chairman loses it, gavels the meeting back under his control declares all of the above a pile of rubbish and continues on with the previously carefully scripted AGM without resolving any of this .... but we have him, the accounts are adopted by a chairman who was not the chair, the rest of the meeting is invalid ... next step is to threaten them in court with an injunction freezing the accounts .... their secretary couldn't keep up with all the motions, we had a recording ....

Better yet, we had 100 individual shareholders, under NZ law at the time we could call a special general meeting every 6 weeks .....

Needless to say as we started buying shares of the second wine importer, all the rest of the companies stopped importing wine from SA ....
See also: Nomic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
It varies by country. For example, in Malta the government is currently absorbing it:

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/greens-want-fuel-subs...

"Electricity tariffs and fuel prices have remained frozen in Malta despite skyrocketing international prices, with the government spending hundreds of million to cover the difference and keep local prices stable.

Times of Malta reported on Friday that maintaining the subsidy in place next year is likely to cost taxpayers €400 million."

OTOH in the UK:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/uk-energy-bills-to-rise-by-8...
There's the cost per MWh generated and the cost to build the plant. Once you build wind, the marginal cost of each kWh is very cheap.

In the UK Gas is about 10 times the price per kWh than offshore wind, and that's before the latest price hikes. Wind being £48 per megawatt hour ($56).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-low-price-for-uk...

2.6GW and a load of 44% would be 10,000 GWh per year. Over 20 years that's 200 billion kWh for 10 billion dollars, or 5 cents per kWh (plus maintenence/operational costs).

For the cost to build for a 2.6GW plant -- in the UK the Beatrice extension in 2019 cost £2.6b for 588MWh, so £11.4b or $13.5b for 2.6GW, so the price doesn't seem out there.
> they say "race has absolutely no meaning in humans - but here in animals it means exactly what lay-people mean when they say it"

Weird hill to stand on in a thread that started with me saying that race is a cultural concept that has little to no utility in science outside of its cultural context, lawtalkingguy.
SDS is cool, I use it in my projects and have also extended it further with some new features... but I worry about the amount of dynamic allocation going on, it would be nice to have an alternative solution such as using stack or pool allocations, or being able to declare SDS string literals at compile-time (probably only possible in C++). Every time I notice that I need to replace a const char* with an SDS I just know I'm slowing things down and adding more complexity.
The only fast option is another: arrest those who control the current energy market for crime against humanity and re-nationalize the sector. Really. With them in jail FOR LIFE other like them will do their best to avoid getting equally in jails and States have nothing to deal with "prices".

For instance in France more than half of the national NPP are offline due to needed maintenance the private owners postpone at maximum to maximize their profit. Arrange the result take time. Jail the aforementioned owners telling anyone in the private sector that if they committed criminal business they can choose to be silent and cooperative of face an equal fate will suffice.

Private sector is THE SOLE responsible of the current prices, they do not came from war or natural scarcity. Telling them that "good times are passed" for them not for the Citizens at a whole as they want instead suffice for a quick U-turn since they know they are unarmed.

Renewables can't be nor fast nor an option simply because the sole that can live on them at unbearably high prices in the actual market are single private NEW homes in places where p.v. is effective enough and climate is not that cold. In a city, a dense European one, there is no room for renewables to really produce energy, you can only make some show for commercial purposes. Oh, I say that as one who actually have built a new home five years ago, with p.v. and small lithium backup, so to speak.

The quickest way is one: telling those who profit that revenge sentiments start to be in the air and they will FAIL to ride them to push a new hoax this time. However since people are not in that mood, actually many have thirst for blood but not for positive actions energy giants and their public friends are not startled at all. That's is.
I was like you once.

You have plenty of raw ability, and are capable of a lot, you've proven that. That can be hard for employers to digest when you apply for jobs "through the front door" (e.g. job boards, career sites, etc.).

A bigger question that might help guide you is, what are you hoping to do in your career next? Focus/clarity may help you here, especially to emphasize the skills that give you a better chance of being matched to and landing a job.

Also, I mean this with all sincerity, great for you for reaching out on HN. Do whatever you can to network, because the people who know you and know what you are capable of can be far more helpful in many cases than "going through the front door" applying for jobs. Going through the front door is notoriously difficult.

I don't promise to be able to solve anything, but reach out if you want to chat. I have 20+ years experience and started out much like you.

Email in profile.
This rumor made the rounds years ago, and it turned out to be a big pile of hot air. It's the same pundit (Mark Gurman)[0].

It's possible he jumped the gun in 2019 and it's finally coming to fruition. It is cool, and Starlink shows it's possible, but it may also just be wishcasting.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/20/apple-secret-team-satel...
Regardless of intent, today websites are often built as 'apps', making browsers more and more like your OS. JS is how that's usually implemented.
The same justification exists in JS (where it's copied from Java which copies it from C). However, interestingly checking the FORTRAN IV specification documents for the PDP-10, it's not implemented as a 3 letter ASCII abbreviation. That document dates to 1975, I don't know if I can find if the date exists in the first version of the document, which should date to 1967. I was unable to find a reference to a builtin in the base FORTRAN II, which only provides 20 builtin functions, date not making the list. I think newer versions of FORTRAN77 has idate which is 1-indexed but I couldn't find it in the older standard listed on wg5's specification documents.

[^1]: https://github.com/PDP-10/f40/tree/master/doc
Alright finally an explanation on why all the other explanations work. To me the most convincing theory how the universe began is this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Wbb1cqubo
I really can’t stand how stupid autocorrect is, surely in an age where deep learning can predict how proteins fold it can phonetically and contextually correct words?
Cured HTML
Once the 1970s happened and Keynes was accepted, the Revolution was over, wasn't it? My macroeconomics courses in the 2000s basically said, "Yeah, stagflation happened. How bout that," and went back to the G plus E plus I whatever.
Why is self hosting a huge undertaking compared to using the cloud?

What are the major differences from a layperson view? Is spinning VMs on your hardware that much harder than doing it on other people's computers? It's an honest question because I haven't done both
Your own quotes talk about workplace charging, which for a commuter is fine. Not everyone can do it, just as not everyone can charge at home. But its totally doable.
> Looking ugly is not a trivial concern

So important that it's worth it for thousands of pensioners and poor people to freeze to death this winter?
Exactly! Some companies use their brand to differentiate their good qualities from their competition, but other companies use thousands of brands to hide themselves, obfuscate, and confuse customers. If someone publicized that they found rat poison in one of Nestle's products, Nestle would rather people just stop buying that brand and not boycott its entire portfolio of brands. That's obfuscation and deception.
Stop linking stuff from this trash company. Godaddy are parasites and should not be made any more famous than they already are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5529766
To using reddit as reddit intends, either the default interface on the web (so not old.reddit), or even more likely the first-party apps on iOS and Android.
> It's the rabbit hole only hallucinogens can fill.

I am stealing this.
I'm on the board of a small non-profit and was the chair for a long time. Normally we let discussion flow and there's often consensus at the end or a couple people might mildly disagree about something.

However, we have had situations over the years where it really mattered whether there was quorum, how an emergency meeting could be called, the scope of authority of the executive board, whether phone/write-in/proxy votes counted, etc. Formal procedures often don't matter--but sometimes they do.
Yes, this is 100% true, re: it's a political, not technical problem.

I'm optimistic though that the YIMBY movement is actually making an impact, as evidenced by more pro-housing candidates are getting elected (in SF and across the country) and this legislation / regulations are slowly changing for the better.
> The Trump company stopped paying RightForge, a conservative web-hosting service, in March and now owes it more than $1 million, according to Fox Business, which first reported the dispute.

How normal is this for a potentially high growth startup that isn’t headlined by a former POTUS?
But that is the whole point. It's a question outside what science can ever know, even in principle.
Then we have a lot of explanation needed as to why entropy was low and smooth between 13 and 14 billion years ago.
The fact that this useful and educational tool exists simply highlights the fact that the Venture Capitalism model of today has become so ultra-saturated, that it almost comically suggests anyone on the street can/should get in on it.

VC's and cryptocurrency feel as if they have now finished their convergence to be nothing more than the latest sophisticated and legal forms of ponzi schemes where those at the bottom of the pyramid are holding the bag. While not knocking the usefulness of this article and accompanying tool, it just shows how far we've strayed from putting the highlight and focus on builders and visionaries that these funds must have to latch on to.
'Pig butchering,' a crypto scam costing investors millions
>The main problem is that C lets you typo this:
>strlen(s+1)
>When you mean this:
>strlen(s)+1

There are tools to find that, like:

https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/misp...
Part of getting older is mourning the person you could have been. You have inherent worth as a human being.

I'm 33 and started playing a new instrument and am more creative and driven than I have ever been. There is not a time limit for getting good at something, it just takes dedication and time.

That lame proverb: "The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The 2nd best time is today" is absolutely true.

Also... don't compare yourself to the 0.001% of talent. They succeed due to a mixture of timing and luck. Well, maybe not Carmack. He is sincerely a genius. But also grew up during the most prosperous age of American history and had a stable home life. And also had the timing to have the passion and training for a game as simple as Doom to be released and make a huge splash. If Carmack was 10 years older or younger, where would he be?

There are tons of people who started programming/drawing/playing music in their early life and now just... don't do it anymore. They didn't become John Carmack or Thundercat.

One thing you have to face is your time management probably sucks and you need to improve it if you want to be different. A therapist can help with this.

If you want some recommendations on how to have better time management:

1. Deep Work - Cal Newport

2. Atomic Habits - James Clear

3. 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management - Kevin Kruse
If we will never know, then there should be some kind of proof that the beginning of the universe is un-knowledgeable, sort of like Godel's theory of incompleteness. But there is none, so the affirmation is incorrect:

We don't know if we will never know.
The element of intent makes many laws difficult to enforce, and I think that’s a good thing. Taking away the element of intent just to make laws easier to enforce would encourage prosecutions of people for accidents or honest mistakes, which I don’t see as an improvement.
For me, this was an eye opener because it's a view of what happened while I was watching (Clinton era) and which I did not see at all.

That tells me that there is a need for a way to "view" realtime events, but "see" what is not obvious.

It seems to me that HackerNews is a tiny piece of that. But, I would argue that there seems to be room to either build on, or improve HackerNews.
Can they produce electricity though? Half their nuclear reactors are down.
Spend one or two hours every day learning new stuff. You get raise, you are not in dead end career. Employer does not get screwed by searching for replacement. Eventually they will have to hire more engineers. Everybody wins!
OP pretty clearly referred to USA, however.
Just as in most other parts of central Europe winds seems to be perfectly anticyclical to solar, e.g. higher when solar is lower: https://weatherspark.com/y/87583/Average-Weather-in-Warsaw-P...
Indeed. We'll never know the beginning of everything; science cannot accomplish that, religion cannot provide satisfactory answers, and philosophy will always leave you half empty half full.

That being said, discovering things is fun, so as human beings we should not stop doing science/religion/philosophy/etc ever.
There are so many programming languages to collect temperature readings.
«they», «us», «we» ? no matter what your beliefs are, I urge you to figure out where it comes from, by who, and how your beliefs are shared.
Show HN: Classix – The fastest and tiniest utility for joining classNames
classix is a npm package for joining classNames, typically used with React.

It is much smaller and faster than alternative libraries: clsx and classnames. Comparison: https://github.com/alexnault/classix#comparison

What's more, classix only accepts string expressions as argument (no objects). This simplification of the API enforces a single and consistent way of joining classNames, for teams and solo developers.
not the Copilot app either, oof
Command Injection in the GitHub Pages Build Pipeline
Econ is great at predicting the future. Let’s say your uncle tells you about his new stock trading strategy that’s guaranteed to make him 10% returns per month. Will he be rich two years from now? Econ’s efficient market hypothesis predicts he will not.

Or let’s say the president of Japan announces a plan to beat deflation once and for all. He says that next year, he’ll fire their central bankers and hires the ones from Venezuela, give them a 100% annual inflation target, and promise them millions of USD in bonuses if they meet or exceed that target.

Even though this plan is going into effect next year, what will you see the next day? (Assuming people believe the president is serious.) Econ predicts you will start seeing inflation immediately. And we see effects like these all the time when looking at how the actions of central bankers effects the economy – if Powell says he’s going to change interest rates, there’s a reaction in the markets when he makes the announcement and not one when he makes the actual change.
This. The subject is definitely not the rigorous science that its practitioners would like you to believe. They mostly just fit some sort of regression model and analyze it, but rarely is there any serious work to demonstrate that reality actually obeys the model. I understand that proving the real world actually conforms to theory is very hard, but that is what makes science what it is, and why science is really hard.
Choose your own adventure:

> I'm talking to him; not you or all Europeans. He's being taken advantage of and feels as much. His story is too common for people from the UK.

> All the things I value I have.

> shitposting on the internet

> And the crescendo, sorry if I caused offense. It was not my intent.
Have people considered battery trucks? I don't mean battery-powered trucks, but trucks full of batteries. It seems kind of silly when you can use hydrogen or natural gas in your trucks instead, but battery trucks may be the lowest-loss form of long-distance electricity transport.
Here's how I understood it: "The Gods themselves are part of creation. Even if there were a Creator, he may not know for certain whether it was indeed him who created"
Right. I remember a friend trying to share the link, and the app on the phone said "No - this link cannot be shared." My friend took a screenshot on his phone and then posted it to a Discord server I'm on. I forget if it was Twitter or Facebook; but both were complicit.

I've also seen posts by people defending this censorship with the lie that "you could still get to the NY Post article, so it wasn't censorship." This is bullshit. How am I supposed to even know there _was_ a NY Post article if your platform shuts down the attempts to share that link?

That Discord screenshot was the only way I learned that there even was a story.
The NumWorks is now a fauxpensource device. They changed their license months ago after a debacle with their exam mode. Delta/Upsilon firmware are based on the pre-license change firmware.

Where does the statement around rust support come from?
Looks good, can you tell us more about the tech behind it? Are you running FFMPEG in the browser or something?
I agree it's pretty complicated. Although the general principle of 'definiteness' covers many/most cases, it is far from complete.

I found this page by the British Council to be quite comprehensive, but may still miss something (eg. 'go to school' vs 'go to the school')

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-gram...

Do you know of some other resources that explain many grammatical points well?
Question: What to read to understand how economists think.
Answer: Mein Kampf, just replace Jews with Humans (superset of the Jews).
Backlash is probably because such argument can sound like “better give up on EVs and go back to ICE” rather than “let’s invest more in the energy infrastructure”.

If you call people fanatics, they won’t believe you’re making a good faith argument.
Venture Investors Put Billions into Nuclear Fusion and Fission Projects
I can't open that link right now. If that's what I'm expecting it to be, the abstract begins "Panic!" as part of a disco pun?

If so: https://youtu.be/I7lxzS6K9PU

and: https://youtube.com/shorts/1S2CxPUZDOY?feature=share
On Regrets of Youth
Have your CV checked by a (document) designer and copywriter. I've seen many many IT people having an appaling CV that just doesn't get noticed by anyone.
>Economics is about making decisions when your decisions have trade-offs because you have limited resources.

But land isn't limited in the sense that there isn't enough of it for everyone, there is a fixed quantity of land on this planet but more than enough for everyone. Somehow some people got this absurd theory in their head that once there is abundance there is no need for economic allocation mechanisms. This completely ignores that even if there is enough land for everyone, a single person may have more land fenced off than he needs for himself, meaning that someone else ends up with less land than he needs for himself. Despite abundance of land you still need to allocate it properly and you still need economics to do that but economists shrug and do nothing. Artificial scarcity is the new normal.

Since all producable goods tend toward market saturation you will have this problem in more and more sectors in the economy as your country gets wealthier. In fact the problem isn't poverty, the wealthier we gets the worse things get.

Why is that the case? Why does the economy fail to allow abundance to happen? Why did economists put on a brain cage that tells them that scarcity is absolute and that if something isn't scarce it should be made scarce?

Reality is quite boring. Assume that there is a floor on capital yields meaning the income share in labor can never reach 100%.

Since economic activity gets siphoned off into the pockets of the owners of capital aka the rich get richer and they don't spend their wealth back into the economy, the rest of the economy must shrink. A game of musical chairs starts. There must be a loser and people will do absolutely everything to not end up as the loser. To prevent the non rich economy from shrinking and shriveling into nothing, we must keep up this farce of endless economic growth so that living standards don't get worse.
I agree with this. I would also consider talking to a recruiter or paying a professional resume writer (one that specializes in tech) to help rewrite your resume and adjust your positioning.