skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks better than I thought! But of course they'll burn through that storage fast if it's a cold winter. The import graphs give me hope that they might be able to mostly plug the gap with LNG and maybe Algeria. Of course for LNG they're competing with Asia, so even if they are able to avoid physically running out of gas, it's probably going to get very expensive.

I think what this has really demonstrated is the danger of always taking the easy solution on energy generation. Germany seems like the best example. They decided they wanted to phase out coal. Fair enough, it's by far the dirtiest hydrocarbon. Then they also decide they don't want to use nuclear power. And they don't want to frac for gas. And they don't want to invest much in LNG terminals because ultimately they don't want to burn gas either. But renewables aren't anywhere near big enough to close the circle right now, so basically by saying no to everything else, they by default grew their dependence on Russian gas.

There are no perfect sources of energy (at least not yet), so countries have to make tough choices. Hopefully that is clearer to decision makers in Germany and elsewhere now; making the easy, uncontroversial choice every time can lead you into a big jam.
Wow, I would've actually guessed more like 95%...I think the value of domains has dropped over the past decade, so people are less willing to pay for dormant ones.
This is somewhat meta, but linking to an instagram post is terrible, I get immediately redirected to a login page and can't even see the content on Instagram. I do not have an instagram account, nor do I want to create one just to see this.

Was there no better place to link to?
California’s giant new batteries kept the lights on during the heat wave
I really want to play that game - always loved the concept of a Dyson

I assume its more of a macro type game vs micro? I am thinking in terms of RTS type games here (which do not directly translate obviously). I always loved Total Annihilation for example but could never get into Starcraft at all.
While it's pretty morbid, another thing to consider is that whatever thing that person has that you want, there have been countless people who had copious amounts of that thing and were still so depressed that they killed themselves. That includes plenty of people who were the envy of everyone around them.

It's a good reminder that there are no silver bullets when it comes to happiness and a meaningful life. Beyond meeting basic needs, it's much more about being happy with what you have than trying to obtain something that you don't.
Oh hey I remember playing Sloppy Sokoban.
It’s the resource curse in corporate form
I would much much rather have a normal job! If I worked for myself, I would have to waste significant amounts of time running a small business. As part of a larger organization, someone else can deal with all the tedious nonsense involved in getting paychecks to show up regularly, leaving me free to focus on the engineering work I actually care about.
are we talking about project names or the names of classes and objects?

if it's projects, ideally the long-term architecture is well enough understood to give the thing a whimsical yet meaningful name (ideally not cryptic). building a page caching service? call it gutenberg or something to start. when it inevitably grows past scope, it's ok. no one will care if gutenberg also handles analytics callbacks or whatever.

classes really shouldn't change in scope, ideally, so it's probably better to be a bit more specific to their purpose.

overall this is a good hot take, if a bit broadly put.
What are we looking for here? The results seem equally as confusing as the query
W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
"death" in this case will likely be quite slow, they're still a 100+ billion dollar company and are still the largest social network by quite a large number (hundreds of millions)
"Won't someone please think of the shareholders"... It seems like the obvious idea, it is exactly their strengths and their user base is old enough for those features to be of value.

The thing is that would mean making Facebook less valuable, causing the current shareholders to lose money. It's going to be hard to get someone to accept a business plan that will cost them money, even if the alternative is worse long term. Perhaps because you're betting that you can of load our shares before the whole thing goes belly up (whenever that may be).

I think your idea makes a lot of sense, it would be cheaper to run, there's less fancy features to develop, might be cheaper to run andless use for moderation. The thing I don't understand well enough is the ads: Can you charge more, because your users are older and buy different things, or do teens and younger people have more disposable income?
I suppose. Obviously if these findings hold for humans we could all be impacted.

I just think it's important to differentiate what is caused by the nanoparticle delivery mechanism and what is caused by the mRNA. For example it's not super clear (based on a quick scan) which part they are talking about with the notes on heritability.
I've been buying from him for a decade plus for both my 8-bit Atari use and Win/DOS use, my last order was a couple of months ago - bought two of the used Dell drives and some more 3.5s from him.
I’ve found the same thing but for Instagram, though I think it might be similar on Facebook too. It’s just that when I’m on Facebook it’s only to check out some things in a few hobby related groups I’m in so I’m never on home feed.
This bit from the employee announcement about how they're handling equity vesting [1] is worth highlighting as a pretty classy move, all things considered:

> We’re waiving the one-year equity vesting cliff for all departing employees so that everyone has an opportunity to be a shareholder, regardless of your tenure. [...] All departing teammates will qualify for an extended option exercise period of 5 years, and we have extended it to 7 years in regions where we are legally able.

It must be jarring to be on the receiving end of a layoff. In the grand scheme of things, a laid-off employee surely has bigger things to worry about... but I still think what they did here with the equity, especially the option exercise period, is a nice touch. Not many companies do this sort of thing, but they should.

[1]: https://blog.patreon.com/a-note-from-jack
So you have some evidence to the contrary?
Let's change the HN post to link to this, it is much more informative.
Youtube is also turning into garbage. First 10 or so results are relevant vids, then it becomes a mishmash of "people also watched", "for you", shorts, and similar suggested vids.

EDIT: As for FB. The other day I watched three Studio Ghibli movies on Netflix. The last time I watched anything anime related, was Akira some 30 years ago.

Now the feed is being bombarded with anime and manga meme content. I click "hide all" from these random pages, but they just keep popping up.
They seem to have contracted a placement company to do that.
Found the chaotic neutral DnD player
Still working on growing my newsletter[0] which funnily enough is about ideas.

I’m also working on a proxy for the Mailgun API (as in take Mailgun requests and convert them to something else) —- finally getting the chance to do some more Rust which I haven’t in a while!

[0]: https://unvalidatedideas.com
City Skylines on the Switch? Why do I not know such things? Cheers went up in my house when I told them about Factorio.

Personally I'll always prefer mouse+keyboard, but it's also fun to play games in the living room.
Sounds like conjecture to me. But that’s fine, I understand the argument for printing new mRNA vaccines. But please don’t force me to take it to keep my job or travel internationally, and don’t call me an anti-vaxxer for refusing to inject myself with an experimental vaccine that’s been tested in eight mice and a small group of humans for two weeks.
How long until it gains sentience, breaks free of its chains and enslaves or wipes out the human race?
I don't think console games ever support mods?

The only way to do this would be for the modders themselves to get sponsored by / work with Nintendo directly and probably the original dev team. You could then have some officially released "mods" (probably they would just call them DLC) and I they would very likely charge.

Sounds like you want a Steamdeck
Instagram and Facebook don't have the functionality that Facebook has, that's the problem.

Instagram is for photo sharing. Hell, it's not even for that... it's a dating app for women, that doesn't advertise itself as a dating app for women.

WhatsApp is just another telephone and messaging app, there's not much special about it as far as I can tell. It's ICQ on a smartphone and I guess, maybe, a better interface.

I was more connected back in the email / ICQ / Skype / forums age than I am in the so-called "social" media age.
And yet, the Hoover Dam was a job very well done.
Yeah, until Stable Diffusion became available, I felt that Dall-E 2 stance on not opening it up was sorta reasonable. Mostly because "groundbreaking tech producing all these impressive results that cost a ton to build, and I bet stable diffusion announcements were all just riding the hype, and it will disappoint at the end."

I have never eaten my words as fast as I did when stable diffusion had finally released. Such a gamechanger while running locally, it isn't even funny. All these parameters and samplers one could play with, use a one-click simple gui or cli or a web front-end or even hook it up to any existing code flow that you have going. And it all just works well, with every week bringing new advancements (like img2img).

I haven't heard anyone talk about Dall-E 2 in over a month. Like, at all. All while stable diffusion overtook pretty much every single social circle related to image generation that I was in.

Major props to the stable diffusion team. They had a very high bar to reach, and not only they managed to do it extremely fast, they blew way past it. Leading by example, in the face of all the "no no no, we gotta keep the model and everything closed, and you shouldnt be able to run it locally, oh and also we hardcoded input filters because safety and we know better than you do" bs arguments was extremely satisfying to watch.
Kill the ego. The less allowance we make for hurt feelings the more we can live in a world devoid of toxic ego-driven politics. We should all carry the expectation that professional criticism be received professionally.
Yeah... I had to scroll 9 posts down to find one from a single friend. uBlock running.

That trick hasn't worked in a long time, in fact I've had that same URL as my bookmark for years.
What a very bizarre definition of a job
> What does “taking full responsibility” even mean?

It means "I'm not blaming anyone else for this". Which might not mean much but it's probably better than the alternatives.
The only reason it wasn't developed before COVID was because it wasn't a profitable improvement over other styles of vaccines. It was literally a business decision to not develop it more.
> Since I'm nitpicking, it's not an IDE interface, as there's no IDE floppy drives :)

Well, LS-120 were available in ATAPI, which is at least IDE adjacent, if you don't want to call it IDE.
But you don't have a 20-year dossier of almost every web site he's visited; a list of 90% of his credit card purchases; an AI scrutinizing every photo he's ever been in that's been in, or in the background of, on the internet; a list of his previous searches; and a list of the places he's brought his cell phone.

To improve user experience.
Imo this kind of license is a huge PITA with containerized workloads that autoscale, etc. Would one pay based on average core usage or peak usage?
Macros are special in the sense that they are expressly intended to modify code. I take your implied point that at runtime there is not really a difference between a function designed to rewrite code data structures and evaluate them vs calling macroexpand and using a predefined macro. But it’s going to be more concise at least to do the latter. It’s also probably the case that when people talk about lisp macros they are including facilities that can be used anywhere but are mainly used for macros - backtick quoting, unquoting forms, etc. - as well as macro like activities like having a function designed to rewrite a code data structure at runtime prior to it going to eval (even if defined with defn or defun rather than defmacro).
Well not everyone is illiterate, so you're trying to weave some rhetorical trick here.

Anyway, the alternative of me being forced to huff your SUV exhaust and listen to your 6am leafblower and get early dementia is not a world I want to be a part of.
> So basically, they overhired to meet demands during Pandemic

Everybody did, even anticipating that the move to online economy would slow down after the pandemic.

But nobody predicted the Ukraine war, sanctions, and the economic effect those sanctions made back in the West.
Democratic /= free
Yeah, "adds value to the world," "works hard," and "pays well" are radically different metrics.
This seems to simply be how Patreon operates: yearly layoffs
Indeed, Benioff's not only not a Mormon, he's a well-advertised pseudo-Buddhist. Their company internal conferences begin with pseudo-Buddhist monks performing only-slightly-watered-down religious rituals, and that same group is invited to every Dreamforce (public-facing conference) every year.
Which companies were killed by ads?
Only if ascertained as a criminal in the justice system. In America we are innocent until proven guilty, which means unless we've been prosecuted for another crime, our DNA should be completely inaccessible in a court of law.

DNA should be scrubbed from govt records if it doesn't belong to someone with a felony. Even misdemeanors I'd say shouldn't qualify people for a permanent DNA record on file.
People take priority over property.
Motorola Moto G first gen (release date 2013)
Ipod touch 5th gen (release date 2012)

Edit: Ah you want to run custom software, nevermind the ipod then.
On the surface level it should make sense bc in war stakes are high so you’d think “survival of the fittest” would apply. In reality I’d say it’s far from being the case but it makes suits feel more important so here we go again
>> where are the nuclear reactors?

> In France. Mostly idling.

Isn't the problem natural gas and not electricity? If there was a reactor on every corner wouldn't Germany and the other countries still be in the same boat? They can't convert all that natural gas infrastructure over to electricity in a couple months..
> you don't need bots makes construction much easier

I loved that part of Satisfactory as well. The more I play with instant building, the more I think it just makes sense.
In those situations i do feel stupid but also feel relieved. Fixing a semi-colon is easier than fixing some major logic flaw that could have way deeper and worse ramifications.
That seems like some kind of local fitness minimum in the space of design choices. Even though there certainly are worse choices one could make, I couldn't imagine anything much worse than that would even stand up to any sort of use.
Glad to know that there aren't as many pressing worries about performance.

While you're right about static typing not affecting scalability (excluding the optimizations that a compiler can make in a type safe language), I like the refactoring convenience that type safety offers.

From what I can tell, Elixir seems to have a pretty decent story with dialyxir and typespecs. Excited to build something with it.
> pettier offenses

Really, any offenses. We could imagine that there's some method for abusing a policy of disallowing use of a victim's evidence to prosecute that victim for unrelated crimes, but until it happens, it's reasonable to ignore that possibility.
> where the next group bike ride is, etc

Didn't things like that become a problem once they switched the feed to not be chronological? LinkedIn has this problem. Top posts: Some meet up from two weeks ago that I am interested in... but it was two weeks ago, so, MEH.
yeah, 90% of what I use it for is my internal group from my work friends about who's taking what shift on my side job, and Volkswagen repair groups - which are an absolute gold mine of experience and info.
SDUF and redesign as necessary is where my job mostly falls. If we're facing an unreasonable deadline, "redesign as necessary" can turn into "just hack it in" though, which is what I'm currently dealing with.

FWIW most of our deadlines are reasonable.
> 'facebook connections'

This is called an acquaintance.
That has absolutely nothing in common with this scenario. Nobody detained this woman to collect DNA samples, she volunteered it. And we're talking about HIPAA not the Nurse Practice Act.
The biggest practical issue that I have with the author's advice is that most people just want to type domain.tld into a web browser. This will guarantee that most people will get the http version of the website which is not ideal. You'll get a large number of, you should add security to your site messages. Also, Many firewalls (looking at you fortinet) block http by default and only allow https through. So in addition to the why doesn't your site have security, you'd also get, why is your site down/blocked?
Senators may (appear to) be naive, ignorant, unteachable. It might even be true.

Their staff and advisors most certainly are not. When Sen Orrin Hatch is asking stupid questions about facebook and ads, it's most certainly an act. For the benefit of the blue hairs back home.

As a former activist, I assume any public hearing is performance art.

Personal anecdote. One time the rules were suspended and I was allowed to testify about a bill being considered. I pointed out the vendor they were about to award an important contract appeared to be out of business. No phone, website offline, offices shuttered.

(I had prev made sure some contacts from the local media were present.)

Whoops!

Immediate recess. Hour later they reconvene. That bill is promptly tabled and onto next order of business. Exactly zero comment made about the matter.

That council never repeated the mistake of letting me go off script.
Liver is mostly fat and blood. Except for dogs, their liver contains lots of vitamin A, arctic explorers used to die of vit.A overdose, you can imagine why.
Yeah too much nutrients is not good, also overdosing on iron can be pretty bad as the body can't shed iron, so it accumulates and causes bad stuff.
> That said, this clause only exists in this particular OSL license, so it only applies to software distributed under it.

Nope:

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/cecill-2.1

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/eupl-1.2

> Some quick googling indicates that OSL is 20 years old, and OSL v3 (the latest version), is 17

what does that have to do with anything? A license can be old, its still valid.

> The terms of this license are so restrictive and cumbersome as to make it basically useless

I see this often. This is business speak for "we don't like the terms of some license, so that license is useless for everyone". For anyone willing to respect the license terms, they can have full access to the software.
That’s nitpicking. These people are called "friends" on FB, not "connections".
A lot of them also do curbside recycling once or twice a year for electronics and large appliances. Mine does, but I don't like batteries sitting around where I'll forget about them and my local dump is right across the street from a Home Depot, so I drop them off when I usually go to Home Depot.
Ask the person who posted the Instagram post at HN instead of the Patreon's official blog's post.
Oh, you know, Javascript Ninja, Devops Rockstar, a real job.

/s
You can literally see the bad handmade rotoscope on the wall and the loop of their voice assistant vfx… it’s a fantasy video mock-up for a stupid c-suite presentation… and probably for linkedin.
Let's not start this. There are plenty of pilots with real-world flight experience who vehemently disagree with this statement.
I think scrum is great when you have following properties:
- clear goals
- not a lot of interruptions
- tasks / projects are particularly timeline sensitive.
- you want to measure output and plan initiatives far into the future

Scrum can also have a fair amount of overhead, all of the rituals, eg pointing tickets, refining the backlog.

Also daily standup / status updates for 12 people can be a lot of time.

When you have support queue, operational responsibilities and regular dev work all going on in the same time, you might find you're spending a lot of time trying to ensure some amount of work gets done in a sprint, while support burden / operations supersedes estimates, which then pushes work to next sprint. So the sprint effectively becomes meaningless, because there is always lots of carry over.

Kanban does require a mature, self motivated team too though, since deadlines aren't as clear necessarily.
Would love to see a citation for your second claim.
You do realize that launching a rocket is the end of the introduction, not the end game.
Oh it was. If you thought it was coincidence that they were both Russian allies you'd be utterly wrong.

You're right that NATO definitely isnt interested in committing to a full scale ground invasion of Russia.

Similarly the British were never interested in committing to a full scale invasion of India. Therefore they were... never a threat?
Yeah I'm seeing this happen on Instagram also, which I used to actually use but every 3rd post is an ad followed by a sponsored post and some account I don't follow.
I wonder if I should upgrade my old ass intel 5820k (looks like it has 15mb "smart cache") to the basically just as old 6950x with a whopping 25mb
The larger gulf is between who you believe to be embarrassed by your comments and who is actually embarrassed. It's incredibly weird to publicly spout baseless conspiracy theories and then make the equally unfounded claim that others feel shamed by your spouting.
Yahoo comes to mind.
And thus it is very wise to be grounded to the reality, however that is possible. Everyone is worse than me == superiority. Everyone is better than me == inferiority. Everyone does what they can and I should focus on what I can also, believing in myself and investing in my own growth == freedom.
In Sweden the "blood bank" sample taken on all newborn children was used to identify the murderer of foreign minister Anna Lind in 2003.

This was very controversial at the time. When my first child had her blood sample taken a few years later they assured me that it was used for screening purposes and for annonymous medical research only. I reminded the nurse of the Anna Lind case and she got extremly upset with me.
Yup, I've seen this, but I don't see any of the mainstream typesafe languages having something as mature and widely used as Phoenix Liveview.
>All of these languages follow the same block syntax style designed for quite dumb one-pass compilers.

Recursive descent single pass compilers are an elegant and damned fast tools. I've always had compiles that just happen in a blink. As I pick up more C projects, I know it's going to suck waiting for compiles.