skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You never had vaccination requirements in your life? If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements. If you were wanting to do sports, you had to have a physical. You had to take a driver's license test to drive.

Since the 1970s in the us most people were not impacted by health challenges where they had to do anything, maybe with the exception of aids. I never had to think about getting a vaccination or a health issue that might affect me, I always got my shots for school, never thought about it.

I think the covid vaccination was the first time a lot of adults had to think about a vaccination and there was a lot of pressure to get it (I'm in that category, I never gave vaccination a second thought, got a flu shot every year for example). People in my family who were engineers, always been vaccinated, even in the 50s knew some people with polio got influenced by the anti-vaxer world on facebook and started talking about the dark conspiracy and secret payoffs of us govt health workers. That was very sad to see.
Global warming also contributes to the proliferation of disease.
No, their entire economy revolves around exporting value-added goods.

They restrict currency movements, but that doesn’t work when you can ship out goods and deposit payments overseas. Drugs is one way to do this, but so is virtually any other good.
There's a reason all those software packages say they're provided as-is without warranty. Nobody will ever personally be liable for their software which is a fundamental requirement of most engineering disciplines.
absolutely nothing wrong with working more than one job if you can get away with it. It's not a lifestyle I want to live myself, but more power to anyone who wants or needs to in order to make their livings.
I could agree to it, if only I didn't know so many non-tech people who also think that tech started to go downhill at some point - and specifically complain about some of the same things, such as forced updates and dumbed-down UX that actually makes their life harder.
Whenever I see the bodybuilding.com forum, I always think of this and crack up about it.

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751
Exactly, that is demand side. For the generation side coal and nuclear got the label "base load" plants, but that is simply a function of them being inflexible and that they used to be cheaper.

Nothing intrinsic to functioning of the grid, simply an economic consequence.
China seems like a logical guess, but that statement could describe Israel or other countries that have very passionate supporters as well.
I really enjoyed his documentary series Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles. RIP Robbie.
I've never seen a real citation for this, do you have one?
Maybe you'll find something you like looking into a matrix slack bridge alongside a command line matrix client
I once had to attend a parked but running helicopter in a wind storm while the pilot went the bathroom. He said "If anything goes wrong, hit the lit up button." Do you know how many lit buttons there are on a running helicopter?

People early in their career tend to take the weight of the world on their shoulders. You, as an intern are the very definition of a person early in their career. You are not responsible for the outcome of your boss's decision. You are responsible for your communication if something goes wrong. Keep a work log.

Communicate often and widely. Ask for help early. Get tech support on the line. Document your work log and keep your written communications.

You can do this. Document, communicate, breathe deep and realize you're not getting paid to be the throat to choke if something goes wrong.
I doubt chemical batteries will ever be cheap enough for grid scale power. There are other cheaper forms of energy storage that work better in bulk. Batteries are mainly useful for being self-contained and dense. Neither of these are hard requirements for fixed grid-scale installations. Pumped storage is pretty cheap already in the geographies where it works, and geothermal storage has a lot of interest and potential at the moment.
Big enough for Apple to believe a critical mass of users will switch to another browser if they don't bend the rules.
Indeed. They must be justified; they are not "verboten" as GP claimed.
The thing about solar is this also includes distributed rooftop solar, which is probably easier to permit than one massive solar facility.
How much solar can you overprovision to have power at night time? North America is not wide enough to have at least a bit of it illuminated by Sun at all times.

And I bet local storage is more economical to build and maintain than an additional network of huge continent-wide transmission lines.
"Hope and pray." - yeah that'll solve it!
> carb boat

Heh heh. I imagine fishermen hauling in a net full of potatoes and pasta.
Yeah, that is what I meant. And specifically for the UI buttons (although links as well, I was just mis-remembering what wasn't working how I expected it to).
what a great way to look at life.
Useful relevance ranking is definitely difficult, but a lot of people are getting something that they believe to be useful from, say, ElasticSearch or Solr, both of which use broadly TF/IDF-baesd algorithms.

Are you suggesting that you can do just as well without TF/IDF, or with postgres fts specifically? In some/all circumstances? I'd be interested in hearing more about that, if it comes from experience.

Looking at the table of contents for the Büttcher et al book, it looks to me like it covers TF/IDF-based algorithms pretty extensively. BM25 is in the table of contents specifically. Büttcher's own pedagogical search engine, _Wumpus_, includes a BM25 implementation. http://stefan.buettcher.org/cs/wumpus/docs/relevance.html
A metal case is not an obstruction for a static magnetic field.
Interesting bits are to be found under the rug :-)
No civil nuke plant has ever been operated, anywhere in the world, without massive government subsidies, or by coercing ratepayers to pay well above market rates.

Looks like the Swedish public will be on the hook for subsidies for decades more while the rest of Europe (France and Romania perhaps excepted) coasts on renewables at ever plunging prices.
Aren't you the one that brought up transportation? This is the most pedantic, exhausting thread I've ever seen on HN. So many surface level opinions that I feel like I'm on reddit
That's a small part of their sins. The big part is relying on gas for heating. When speaking with germans I've found that they think of gas as "clean" which sounds insane to me. Yeah, maybe locally, compared to coal, but it's their largest co2 emission source nevertheless.
If I was prez, I'd reserve a number of offshore "national parks" where no fishing of any sort is allowed.
That's actually genius.

Image the money potential: Bethesda can add in the next Fallout update this feature in: now you don't even need to pick up your phone/alt-tab the game and you get a pizza,

Bethesda gets a 20% cut!

Next version of IAPs?
I'd say the 'increasingly' isn't simply because of the loss of DB competency.

I worked at a shop that for years was an 'always oracle' even though every license renewal visit left management paranoid and dejected, that got won over by the level of similarity between the two.

MSSQL doesn't mesh well with oracle because it isn't MVCC by default, so risk of conversion goes WAY up.

MySQL, well it was(is?) missing a number of other features alongside a touchy datatype model and other warts in people's memory.

PG tends to do well at picking the right features from other DBs, and you just pay a quote tax to enjoy the benefits.

> the fact that with microservices (and managed DBs) the role of a specific DB seems to have decreased significantly.

I do think this is the third point in the trident. In some shops (I've yet to see one!) you can get a database per-microservice. More frequently I see 'database-per-ecosystem' which means your microservices share a DB.
I believe this data mainly comes from phones, not street view cars. There are about a million times more phones out there than street view cars, and they all have GPS and Wifi. Apple had this feature long before Apple Maps was a thing, and they didn't license Street View data from Google.
I went ahead and registered greybeardit.org I will create a github pages open source project where people can submit articles, it will be 100% open source.
Analyzing a new material that promises faster, higher resolution displays
“ The total number of pixels—and therefore, the resolution and display size—is limited by how many of these pixels can be addressed within a given fraction of a second. A new material called ITZO (for its constituent elements indium, tin, zinc and oxygen) promises to be up to seven times faster than the current state-of-the-art material.“
I haven't seen many interview processes less than 10 when we figure some initial rounds, some onsite or technical stuff, last rounds much less all the scheduling in between and the desire for everyone to meet during the work day when you are also working

a takehome can easily be 10+ hours

onsites have gotten a bit shorter since they went remote, but are still a lot. Let's say 8 hours. That means 5 companies, a whole work week to fit into full work weeks..
It really is. I will never understand the "i got mine" attitude. I'm no angel, but holy shit.
We let theology professors call themselves doctor. The definition of engineer is "a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or public works." Are we arguing that software is not a machine or in the case of social media, a public work? Many machines and public works are privately owned at that. Further, there is regulation for software and engineers are held accountable to it.
Any reason you have to link your twitter account instead of just inputting a username? Twitter API doesn't need a link to pull tweets
China has been the subject of multiple high-profile news stories (and popular HN threads) about overfishing. They’re also the standard xenophobic bugbear on HN.
The issue is that people en masse don’t actually care all that much about the cruelty of killing animals so long as it’s not reasonably torturous. The future, however dystopian you may see it, is sustainably growing the animals we want to eat for slaughter.
> Yes, I'm not from USA, and we don't have any cards with real cash-back. Typically exchange rate for all banks in my country is like xe.com + 3-5%. It is terrible.

Ahh, now I understand where the disagreement is coming from. For US cards, it's not cash-back rewards which make them a good value for foreign exchange. It's that the networks (eg, VISA, or Mastercard) offer currency conversion rates which are much closer to par than local retail services. (or, your bank, apparently.)

This article has a few good example charts for the networks:

https://www.thinmargin.com/blogs/visa-vs-mastercard-who-give...

Typically there is a 1% fee for the service. However, many premium cards will waive this fee as a privilege. If you have access to a card like this, it's a no-brainer.
And in the 21st century, everybody's using tab to autocomplete that string anyway.
If there were enough boats out there to reduce the population 90% in two years then we would know. Our radar isn't -that- bad.
This is about 40x more cells than they used to fly a fighter jet in a simulation back in 2004. https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn1572 .

I suppose the claim to fame in this similar study is the use of the title organoid and there's some legitimacy to that. Form and function are intimately tied in the brain and just a bunch of neurons on a petri dish isn't quite an organ.
Yeah the plan was to buy methane gas from Russia instead. Still a non renewable source, but the gas would have caused less CO2 emissions and less pollution (gas causes less CO2 per kilowatt hour). Of course, the war and the bombings of NordStream have put an end to that.
That doesn't answer the question.

Since you say "laws of physics" prevent renewables from supplying out energy. I call bullshit.

Name the law.
> How do you envision energy storage of the future? Where are you going to get the metals? How much fossil fuel is going to burn in order to extract it?

Where do they come from for electric vehicles? Also where do you get the uranium from? If we significantly increase nuclear energy production we run out of uranium in 40 years or so.

> Also, why are energy prices locked for 40-60 years? The energy required to create a nuclear plant is equal to what it can produce in ~5 years.

Maybe you should have a look how contracts for these things are made. Nobody would invest into a nuclear power plant if they don't get a guaranteed price.

> I don't understand how you believe the future is "very unlikely to include nuclear". How else do you provide base load requirements? It's naive to think we can transition to a "green grid" without nuclear.

Wind, solar are provide base load, they are not load following, to quote wikipedia:

Base load demand... can be met by unvarying power plants,[2] dispatchable generation,[3] or by a collection of smaller intermittent energy sources,[4] depending on which approach has the best mix of cost, availability and reliability in any particular market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_load
Lots of people have had their servers randomly deleted one day because a google script thought they were a bot. And then of course, there is no one to call at google to have it resolved.
It’s almost as if handing a $600B industry to criminals might have been a bad idea. Instead of dealing with national level corruption, we could just end the war on drugs.
“Fuck off is my very diplomatic reply to you,” tweeted Andrij Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany. “The only outcome is that now no Ukrainian will EVER buy your f…ing Tesla crap. So good luck to you.”

I guess that kicked it all off.
To be fair, grid-scale storage does not have to use lithium batteries, and likely should not use too much of them, because they are such a fire hazard.

A number of alternative chemistries exist, which are much less expensive and less flammable. They of course have lower energy density, but it does not play a major role: batteries sitting on the ground can afford to be be bulky and heavy.
Gesture-Controlled, Touchscreen Casio At-552 Janus Calculator Watch from 1984
You know, the difference is that marine animals travel a lot more than land animals.
Its an FCC regulation, why would I need to cite it :p
But anyway
https://www.businessinsider.com/phone-airplane-mode-flight-e...
That mass wishful thinking is call “climate change denial”.

We keep adding more and more evidence that climate change is happening. Even on a local scale we can all see significant changes in our local climate from year to year. The older among us can see this even more clearly if they chose. From what we know of the atmosphere there HAS to be heating from the rapid increase in CO2.

You can stick your fingers in your ears as much as you want but it won’t prevent this from happening and at an accelerating pace.
By 'rebound' do you mean slightly above such catastrophic depletion that action was finally taken? Kind of a low baseline.
The last Apple ad I remember was that song 1234 by Feist.

Which was… 2007.
You ask them. And when they tell you that your product sucks, you listen, and don't tell them that they're holding it wrong, or that they just need to give it some time and they'll love it, or that everybody else loves it so clearly they aren't average, or that telemetry shows otherwise etc.
So what happens where there is a high electricity requirement and no wind?

People don't understand that electricity production has to be CONSTANT AND RELIABLE as it cannot be stored at our current technological level.

What good is 100% renewable energy generation 3 days in a month if the other 27 days will need to turn on and off constantly gas plants?
I remember reading about this as a child in the 90s, it seemed like there was a lot of hype (and hope) that this would be possible in a few decades. This was also accompanied by some skepticism and fear, similar to how people talked about cloning and genetic modification. Then there was the legend that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen (he wasn't).

Interesting read. I was hoping they'd mention suspended animation and studying how some people managed to survive or be resuscitated after accidentally being frozen for lengths of time thought to be impossible to come back from.

Personally, I think if there is a way to bring about immortality it would look more like transferring/uploading consciousness than reanimating a whole human body. Besides which, wouldn't people want new bodies anyway, especially depending on what caused their deaths. (which reminds me of the head transplant that was supposed to happen) There are a lot of different issues also involved with this, besides the ability to succeed, which I find fascinating to think about and discuss.

Perhaps both these options will become possible... maybe neither.
This is my definition: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/equilibrium...

"The equilibrium macrostate is that with the most microstates, and this is the state of greatest entropy. A macroscopic flux is most likely in the direction of increasing entropy."

>I’m not making up the idea of an equilibrium state being associated with a macrostate.

I know you aren't. TBH not even sure why equilibrium needs to be brought up. The topic "is entropy is independent of knowledge?" You disagree with that statement.

Macrostate is defined in terms of microstates and is independent of your knowledge of the exact configuration of the microstates. You have some blunt tool like the thermometer that gives you macroscopic data and that hides the microstates from you.

But if I had some precision tool that reads the position of every particle I can still identify how that configuration of microstates will influence the blunt tool. The blunt tool hides knowledge, but your knowledge of the microstate does not change the reading on that blunt tool.

Because entropy is defined in termms of macrostate it stays the same regardless of which tool you used to do the measurement.
Nowadays, the precursors go to Mexico, essentially in unchecked volumes. A widespread network of tiny independent producers then manufacture a kilo at a time in little shacks all over the place, selling their stock to the cartels, who handle transportation to the US market.
I suspect a lot of that is what we've been building in the last 10 years, but that the low-hanging fruit is taken. Some next-level fruit is solar shade structures over parking lots at existing retail and office sites.

Big wind projects have had issues reaching viability due to insufficiency of the transmission grid. T. Boone Pickens and the Texas Panhandle comes to mind.
Germany’s Apokalypse Now
> The modern web seems pretty great to me. Why do you feel that way?

A quote I once heard about the modern web browser: "I want this program to do everything my computer already does."

Imagine a simple hypertext markup language which tells a program how to render the text, link to different text or sites and perhaps paint some images on a screen. Seems pretty strait forward. Now make that program into a worse computer. This is what makes many people nauseous when they attempt to build "modern web" things.

I heard a great comparison of game dev to web dev: "You write programs to reach goals or a finish line. game dev feels like you're building and fine tuning a race car. Web dev feels like you're running a marathon in the rain and everyone is throwing garbage at you while booing."
Good on Nvidia for owning up to and quickly fixing the marketing mistake
Many people think this is Apple now having to give a charger with a new iPhone, when in fact now the customer has to buy a charger when purchasing an iPhone.
The idea of nuclear power is good. The facts of nuclear power are much less good. It is not too much to ask that lifecycle costs and safety get addressed. For example, the French success with nuclear power looks much less successful due to decommissioning costs coming in at a multiple of estimated costs. The French low-balled their estimates, to be a fraction of estimates by Germany and UK. Which estimates do you believe?
The Vim/Neovim ecosystem has gotten unbelievably better over the last 5-10 years. "Living in the terminal" for core development work is IMO better than pretty much anything else out there; my Neovim setup has a modern plugin manager; an IDE-like experience with fast autocompletion as I type, goto definition, and automated refactor support; and a side-drawer file browser navigable with Vim motions. It feels like an IDE, except that it launches in ~100ms and has ultra-low typing latency. Using it with tmux panes means I can have various drawers and panes with a series of full, incredibly fast terminals wherever I want, with long-running tasks like automated test watching/running while I edit code placed wherever I want around the editor panel. Not to mention the Cambrian explosion of "modern" terminal tooling getting built, like xplr [1], hyperfine [2], httpie [3], etc.

That being said, I think "living in the terminal" for general purpose computing, like browsing the web or talking to your coworkers, has been in a kind of frozen standstill while the rest of the world has moved on. I think it isn't worth trying to push non-dev work into the terminal currently.

1: https://github.com/sayanarijit/xplr

2: https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine

3: https://github.com/httpie/httpie
I doubt this will be seen as there is no notification in HN but this is kind of what I was saying in my comment. the problem is a bit subtle if you think about it, in order to get paid more (& I mean significantly more) you'd have to be much better than others or hit some kind of a niche. issue is that if you are good then you don't necessarily want to stop working (maybe just stop on somebody else's schedule). Now that is fine but our ability to enjoy life or even enjoy work goes down significantly with age almost akin to a 1/x curve. so you are really trading your best years for some money that you may enjoy in later years, because trust me unless you hit some startup jackpot you arn't early retiring under 40. Plus you'd want a family before that at some point.

So then I say a better strategy is to do work that pays above market but you still enjoy instead of something significantly higher paying job that you dont enjoy. Just 2c from a middle aged techie.
For anyone interested in this national referendum, it’s peak bull crap.

No option available to continue with nuclear power

https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kärnkraftsfrågan_i_Sverige
You're right. In order, the cheapest options are:

1) an account in the local currency with a debit card;

2) credit cards without foreign transaction fees and cash-
back

3) ATM withdrawal with a no-fee debit card

Changing USD in cash to get local currency is almost always the worst option. They charge 5%-10% on the exchange rate plus whatever fees.
Did you happen to write down what you tweaked? I use an MBP M1 with an external 4K, and I've had a sneaking suspicion that my keyboard inputs are somewhat delayed. Just hasn't ever felt quite right....
If you accept that certain bodies have metacognition, then this arguably predicts that each body’s metacognition will perceive itself (the metacognition) and the body as two separate but connected entities. That is, your own perception that “you” are separate from your body would be predicted by the theory. That is, this perception would be predicted by the theory. But it is a mere perception, because the metacognition “machine” (within the brain) is physically part of the body, and hence inherently bound to it, even if its own internal perception differs from that.
War is just the straw that broke the camel's back. Shutting down nuclear energy while depending on a dictator's gas set them to fail.