skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes no sense. If a person is an expert or has earned influence in a particular field, they don't lose that because they are awarded a life peerage.

(And Americans in fact fought a war because they didn't want to pay taxes to fund their own defense)
No humans have won against a top engine in over a decade, and they almost surely never will.
> But there is a space for advertising that is gentler, honest and educational.

I don't disagree, but there are a few points that I see differently.

First of all, I think that what you're looking for is promotion, that is based on someone or some entity promoting your products and services, putting their face on it and leveraging their reputation of connoisseur of the matter at hand. It's based on trust and works best especially for tech products

Nobody buy smartphones based on adv, well except iPhone users that buy the brand iPhone - that could be seen as a confirmation of the trust based promotion, they trust Apple -, people watch reviews on YouTube channels that they trust.

Advertising is low effort. it's usually someone writing a script for you, pretending to be you, that it is the company that is talking directly to you, but it's in fact an agency that wrote a claim and a story to tell, to actually sell, not promote, the service or product in question by exploiting your feelings.

Secondly, I don't believe that advertising made laptops affordable, research did.

Super computers still cost millions and are an order or two of magnitude more powerful than you regular laptop of today.
Doesn't a reputation of allowing criminals bring in more criminals, putting your users at risk?
> an experienced dev honestly take to learn a mid-level amount about e.g. Kubernetes or Go or Rust? at least months and months of common usage, not something that is comparable with someone who already knows stuff and can get cracking on day one

I'm not sure how this is relevant? You seem to be trying to make a point about hiring people with specific skills vs candidates with proven ability in the field, broadly speaking, before committing an apparent non-sequitur in which someone (it's not clear who) is "pretending that the internet is a replacement for education". Do you often interview candidates who learned K8s (or Rust!) as part of their education? I assume (given your apparent strong feelings on the issue) that you have some familiarity with CS curricula, but perhaps not.

As a related issue, you're certainly sending a strong signal to the candidates you're hoping to attract, judging by your profile. Whether it's a positive one is left as an exercise for the reader.
Often the entire bus stops are financed by those advertising there. At least that has always been the argument against finally disallowing tobacco/smoking ads in Germany because then smaller communities would (allegedly) not be able to finance these things.
Why Xen Wasn't Hit by RETBleed on Intel CPUs
LEDs are super efficient, household LED bulbs retrofit for e14/e27 are just a terrible example of overdriven ones with bad lifetime. That has very little to do w/ properly constant current (not over) driven LEDs. (Edit overdriven - higher heat output and worse efficacy)

The max efficacy woulod be 683 lm/w. Blue LEDs can reach 1/3 of the theoretical maximum.
We don't need nuclear. Even with decades of conservative sabotage, we generate ~41% of our electricity needs [1] on a renewable basis. Imagine we had used the last sixteen years to go all-in on renewables - we wouldn't need to kowtow in front of any dictatorship. No Qatari gas, no Russian or other dictatorship uranium, nothing.

[1] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/klima-energie/erneuerb...
Pretty odd that it's forced to display such a sign, after all, they arent free. Who pays for them?

Whether it's the state or school, it'd be pretty expensive.
There is a whole trolling campaign which has been extremely effective.

Lots of small towns in rural US say prayers before their town council meetings. The courts have ruled that this is ok, as long as there is no discrimination between religions - any citizen of that town can request to have their own religion's prayers spoken. People in these towns who are opposed to the Christian prayers have declared themselves to be adherents of the Church of Satan, and won court orders giving permission for Satanist prayers to take place.

There are videos of this happening on YouTube. It's, imo, remarkable evidence of something awesome about the American system. The Church of Satan sends someone scary-looking who recites something purporting to be a prayer, but is actually a speech in favor of humanism and tolerance. They are not allowed to make any political statements so they have to disguise it as prayer. They also make sure they get in lots of satanic-sounding stuff as well, to mess with the Christians. The local rednecks look worried and righteous and mumble anti-satanic stuff under their breath. They are allowed to say personal prayers to protect themselves from the devil, but not at a volume which covers up the satanic prayers. There are US Marshalls all over the place in these little town halls ready to jump anyone who violates any of these court instructions. And dozens of lawyers acting like it's an execution and they might be needed for a last minute challenge.

Most towns where this process has started simply get rid of the prayers at the start of the meeting.
Well, it depends.

A big part of the valuable experience comes from having memories of similar situations, and thus a shortcut to the solution. In IT it can be similar to “indexing”, like I may remember reading a relevant stackoverflow question and I know how to find it again, but I don’t remember the exact solution.

But the catch is, to index something you first have to crawl through it. In medicine for example, there may not be much point in holding every single extreme-rare disease in memory, but having memorized them once and mostly forgotten them will lead a good doctor to know about it enough so that he/she can look it up on the odd chance it gets relevant. It will be only possible when he/she memorized it once back then.

My point is, there is a point in memorization (especially that it improves memory all-around - one will remember facts much easily after extensive learning), what should be better distinguished is facts that are to be learnt for life vs those that are only needed for a given test. It’s like unknowns vs unknown unknowns - the latter can be much worse and you don’t want someone like that as a colleague.
Leaves is a misspelling, in the soure. It should be leafs.
The people are smart, but the country is not.
So 0.005% at 560 TWh total consumption.
Well, they were also quite hostile to the idea of targeting the Pi. I remember being involved in a forum discussion where it was dissed as a toy, another around ARM never being a relevant platform, and another about the Broadcom bits being proprietary.

To this day, Haiku has been dragging its feet on the Pi (and yes, I know it’s a community effort, that it requires sponsorship, suitable volunteers, etc. - I’m just pointing out that they dropped the ball in even acknowledging the need for a port).
> there is an almost patriotic attitude towards coal plants

As a German, i'm wondering where you got that idea from... Because pretty much every poll i know of, is in support of turning off coal plants.
Consumers can be served better by independent review of products in magazines, etc. Or if you really want to by catalogues put together by sellers. (I used those when I was younger quite a lot to discover and buy new things.)

The random road signs for biggest bank in the land, or one of the three telecom companies in the land, or for things like well known beverages is quite ridiculous. Almost everyone knows these companies exist already.
https://archive.ph/HMB0T
I think the intersection of [service where I prefer not to reveal my identity] and [matters if I lose access to the service and therefore control of the email address at 1000-1 odds] is very small.

It is going to be mostly for things like a spare "fun" Reddit account, or some one off crappy give your email to download the PDF sort a thing.
And folks wonder why companies don’t give out feedback after interviews. Not a good look for GitHub.
Old Problem About Mathematical Curves Falls to Young Couple
If anyone hasn't read Robert Caro's books about Lyndon Johnson, give them a try. They are a truly exceptional achievement in both storytelling and research. I had no concrete understanding of what the New Deal actually was until I read the (fourteenth chapter) of the first book. The stories about it are insane: judges being kidnapped, stripped and beaten by farmers etc. There is a whole book, Means of Ascent, that's devoted to this short period in LBJ's life – the Senate primary campaign that he ran against Coke Stevenson. The helicopter features heavily.
> We have to save energy to soften the blow of the climate catastrophe.

this is the wrong take. you can have as much energy as you want. you just need better politicians.

so your political actors failed. own up to it and replace them.
I'm forever surprised how much this has improved my day to day working life. Simple things like having to input test email addresses and passwords on our dev environment repeatedly, or typing out addresses, or scaffolding basic scripts and code, or massively speeding up note taking. Genuinely worth digging in to.
> They are just largely uncontested

I think this has a lot to do with the fact that the alternatives that have been tried have historically been either failures or catastrophes.
Tricky problem to implement. I tried to compute requests per seconds from multiple threads. Problem gets much harder if you reach a certain threshold. I think it was round 100 requests per second in my case. After this memory contention becomes a problem. Then I learned about LongAdder in Java. It was a really interesting topic.
The Elo system didn't exist until 100 years after Labourdonnais. There are several attempts to extend it backwards, but they're not well defined. It doesn't make sense to say Labourdonnais went "from 2600 to 2650" without changing his playing strength: it's an artifact of some particular guy's methodology to estimate historical ratings.
As a designer, I have to say you’re wrong.

You’re looking at these images through the lens as a professional illustrator who has concepts of what is acceptable to deliver as a professional illustrator.

The reason it will steal your job is because your client, instead of having the concept and then hiring you to make something concrete will just type in prompts and click storyboard mode in the eventual tool this is democratized into.

To this person it won’t matter if it’s perfect or not because they just did it in 30 minutes themselves rather than having to hire someone and go back and forth over a week.

End of the day you just need an image good enough to get sign off from the client, and the quality level you work to won’t be needed anymore.
LEDs can light a medium-sized room with <5W. That's incredibly energy efficient.
You prefer a password manager that is only installable from a zip download with no SHA hash for verification? Interesting.
> What are they looking for? Communicators and ... Adderall? Xanzolam?

Probably not Xanzolam, because there's no way it'd enhance your performance, but yeah, you get the idea.
Search engine backend specs are almost final & now open source (AquilaDB), we love to make more and more of it on the way. This is because we're still discovering a market-fit & final product shape - open source development need a finalized spec & consistency over time.
The German Green Party was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment. The older members see it as their absolute life goal to stop nuclear power. They would rather see everything burn to the ground than change their mind.

As long as they are in government any compromise will be difficult.

Also, the situation in Germany is much worse than people from the outside think. Our best-case scenarios actually plan for pretty brutal energy saving cuts. People will be fully expected to wear multiple layers of clothing in their own homes because apparently having a warm home is now considered a luxury.

Other than hoping for a early peace in Ukraine I don't really anything that could solve the issues. I guess we will just have to tough it out.
> At some point I'm tempted to get a fat server going so I can do my dev work remotely to it using a super light weight / long battery life laptop, but that's a complication too far at the moment.

A setup like that would be quite cool -- if it weren't for one problem: All the "super light weight / long battery life" laptops have tiny (= max 13-14 inch) screens; there don't seem to be any 16(or more!)-inch ones. OK, just the bigger screen and housing means a machine like that couldn't be as super light weight as a smaller one, but they could still be quite light weight...

Only machines like that don't seem to exist. Or does anybody know of some?
Why is it odd that regulations would require public schools to display the motto of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or any of that? These things seem like exactly what every country does.

[edit - This comment is currently at -2, less than 10 minutes after posting it. HN, you're changing, and not for the better...]

[edit #2 - I don't think this has been a very good thread at all.]
If they are so inefficient then where does the wasted energy go?
You appear to agree that solar and wind and batteries are the best options for most of the world even if your optimistic nuclear price point is reached.

So it's not clear what you are arguing against? Isn't that the best way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels which are a global commodity?
“suggesting this will not only affect Germany but also other EU member countries that implement it?”

yes, usually germany leverages the eu into pushing other countries in doing what it wants. such is the eu.
Good grief I can’t believe you are serious. Mass shootings almost never happen, and when they do they aren’t because of bad research. It’s almost comical that you believe extremists are scouring scientific journals to fuel their hatred.

Censorship has never worked, but oh don’t worry in this circumstance it will definitely work. Because reasons.
On Unix, sorry, but now Plan9/9front (the true succesor to Unix) made VMS something obsolete.
You would be surprised how many users don't want that. Take e.g. a startup run by two people in Singapore that gets featured on HN unbeknownst to the founders as they are asleep. They experiences a ton of traffic, which makes them exceed the free tier limits. If you were one of these founders, what reality would you want to wake up to? That your web app was hugged to death and you lost out on a significant growth momentum or that your web app stayed up and now you have to pay a bill to AWS (but hopefully have made some revenue, too)?

I'd also say that in the year of our lord 2022 literally everyone has heard about unexpected cloud bills (yes, happens with GCP and Azure all the time as well) and hence should know that they have to set their account up properly - there is a ton of tutorials by AWS and others on how to set up your budgets and billing alerts.
> The gas can be stored indefinitely

Storing hydrogen is far from trivial. It's a bit like trying to store water when you're only allowed to build tanks out of paper.
> I assume you are referring to power plants that has to shut down due to low water levels?

It goes way worse than the drought. For the sake of not spamming around the same text, I consolidated the list of issues here in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32605337

> Plenty of nuclear powerplants use seawater for cooling, and none of them had to shutdown.

Plants at the seawater border are vulnerable to floods as a result of extreme weather conditions, we've seen the consequences of that in Fukushima. Additionally, being close to the sea means the plants are vulnerable to the rise of sea water, which is a risk for the future.
>The wall was because I could never couldn’t develop an intuition for the physics behind it.

On the off chance that you can understand German, check out chapter 9.1.1 Fluidvolumen und Divergenz (until and including chapter 11 Erhaltung der Energie), in the book Einführung Theoretische Meteorologie by Michael Hantel (ISBN 978-3-8274-3055-7). It even uses a car analogy ;)

You will understand fluid dynamics, and by extension electrodynamics, like you never did before. And it will teach you the physical intuition first.

This book was such a lucky find for me ten years ago.

Equation (11.3) is the fluid analogon to the continuity equation (in electrodynamics that is: ∂/∂t ρ + ∇⃗⋅J⃗ = 0)--and you can see how, physically, you get to it, and what the parts and the whole mean. Lots of diagrams and geometry and simple analogies make that take about 30 pages.
Heating is a separate cost, rarely electric.
Cooling - did you know that Germans aren’t big fans of A/C?
Hot water - same as heating.

Besides, in Germany we don’t say “Car charging”, we say “eat healthy and ride your bike”.
Like higher quality / cheaper prices wouldn't spread by word of mouth... if anything advertising behemots are keeping actually improved products out of the spotlight by selling us whatever pays most in advertising costs, regardless of externalities.
> if people want to cheat they can find some way to cheat regardless of any countermeasures you deploy

I was a Academic highschool teacher for 8 years and I agree with your statement but also don't think that we should make it too easy for them. At minimum a screen recorder so the students know even if they were not caught during the exam, they could later be caught

Bonus anecdote
When the first bluetooth phones hit the market we had students use their (pseudo) smart phones (that looked like expensive calculators with greyscale displays back then) to send each other the solutions during the physics exam. No teacher at the time had this as a threat model
So that has been "in the works" for 7+ years, and I think it repeatedly stalls because someone needs to really drive it against the bureaucratic internal obstacles ...

There's no reason they aren't doing it, except "nobody has time to do it".
Those areas are the only areas I can think of that have LED signs in Germany though. Of course not entirely sure but I don't think there's a single one of those large LED screens (like the ones on time square) in Hamburg. Maybe Berlin/Frankfurt have some?

Unless I'm completely blanking on these signs being used elsewhere, excluding the bus-stop signs sounds like this will not have any noticeable effect apart from providing a nice sounding headline.
Efficiency is less important than cost. Maybe ammonia is so much easier to transport and store that it's worth the efficiency penalty.
Magnus Carlsen: 2864 Elo

Stockfish: 3585 Elo

"Elo suggested scaling ratings so that a difference of 200 rating points in chess would mean that the stronger player has an expected score (which basically is an expected average score) of approximately 0.75, and the USCF initially aimed for an average club player to have a rating of 1500."

I guess that means that Magnus has expected score of roughly 0.25^((3585 - 2864)/200) = 0.00675 against Stockfish 15, which is basically 1 in 200 games?
Happy to answer any questions btw :)
Thank God the Constitution provides a mechanism to get this emergency law take effect immediately to stop godless schools from throwing away framed posters!
I'm not sure how the ordering is done but I feel like the dataset is incomplete. Many "classic" links that get re-posted every few months don't show up and I barely recognize any in the first ~50.

I also think the threshold is too low. I'd go with something more strict like 50 upvotes and reposted at least 10 times.

Example: Currently at position 0 in the list: "Watch a VC use my name to sell a con (jwz.org) Posted 2 times, created in 2011". When I check the same link in https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... I get 4 results not 2.
I'm using TeXworks, bundled in MiKTeX.

It has a compile button and syncing, that's all I want for a LaTeX editor.
Well, infamously, German households tend to generate heat using gas, and not electricity. AC is rare. EVs are rare.

Either way, I wanted to know what the actual power draw of those signs is, and since it was given in multiples of a (German) single household, well, that's probably about the number they are working with.
A straw man does not need to be intentional, it's easily done through ignorance. I do wonder why you'd be bothered about having an off-hand remark that is clearly wrong corrected? If it was truly offhand I'd think it would be easy to accept such correction.

Maybe you'll tell me more about your belief that Paul is insincere but I don't count mind reading among my beliefs, so we'll just have to agree to disagree and - hopefully - agree that wilfully ignorant offhand remarks add nothing to HN. Perhaps take the time to find a non-libertarian, non-doctor from the Republicans to use in future and the tribalism will at least be less blatant and egregious.
The wasted energy as per usual - heat/entropy. It's just that LEDs are the best we have.
> Texas requires ‘In God We Trust’ signs in schools. A man wants some in Arabic

They forgot the "l".
Berlin definitely has some.
It doesn't specify a religion only in a very narrow sense. It rules out atheism as invalid, it rules out polytheistic religions (singular god).

Stating that somethings is the case does not make it so. The very article you link to states that it was intended to merge Christianity and patriotism, if you can't see how that makes it very much specific to a particular religion (although not specific to a specific church), then I don't see what evidence could convince you.
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The one that's the most neglected is natural lighting. Light pipes, solar collectors, and microprism window treatments are all available.

The second thing is white paint. You need less outdoor lighting if the built environment absorbs less light.
The supply chain is a chain because it is like a relay race, information passes from person/organization/custodian and then to another. Unless they all cooperate in keeping the bureaucracy correct then there is no security, it can also be undermined while the information is in the of custody the traitor.

While you can benefit from being a traitor then there is no way to secure any supply chain.

We need a new economics if we want to solve the tragedy of the commons (in this case w.r.t. bureaucracy).
Can’t they just reject it on the grounds that America uses English as the de facto language? In Texas they might also allow a Spanish sign but that wouldn’t provoke the same xenophobia.
absolutely and I am well aware of this, but it's also one of the richest cities in one of the richest states and it's crazy to see how bad it is to live there.