skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This feels a mistake.

On the whole, I think the US should have strong, positive relations with China, and that's not a broader point about "tough on China" or any nonsense like that.

This specific decision seems like a mistake, though. Hundreds of more aggressive, confrontational, less productive actions have been taken by the US. The US should protect the IC industry specifically. If it falls behind China here, it's f*cked.
In the US at least, you have the right to freeze your credit report at any time. I've done it for the big 3 at least (Transunion, Equifax, Experian). It's all free (finally! it used to cost) and you can temporarily suspend the freeze to let someone run a check (e.g. applying for a new credit card).
So make the owners of renewables liable too? From what I know ONLY nuclear has that stipulation.
Why stop?
Can we have a tl:dr?
In Europe now that Russian gas is not on tap?
So you think you wear a seatbelt to protect yourself from smooth driving?
i used to know the "pension person". and she wanted to keep working from home to take care of her family. the execs said no, so she quit. never had a backup person because.... that would have cost extra FTE.

chaos did, in fact, ensue. pretty sure it was part of the reason some big clients left.
I’m not sure opting out is a good solution. Not only will Equifax still receive the data and will most likely still log it, but it doesn’t do anything to actually discourage this practice.

The only way to kill this, apart from government intervention (which has no chance of happening in the US) is to let the “free market” do it by rejecting jobs that leak your information to Equifax (and letting them know why). Ideally, do this all the way at the end of the interviewing pipeline so that they would’ve incurred significant costs as a result. You want companies to lose money by using the service, as to remove the business case for it.

The objective here is to put pressure on employers not to leak employee data to scummy companies. If they start losing qualified candidates because of it they will reconsider the practice.

If you are in a good financial position and can afford to do so, resigning is also an option. Again make sure they know why you are doing so.
Regular expressions library to validate information before dumping to rocksdb.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Regular-E...

Non-critical implimentation fun, use cello [1] for 'gawk' functionality in C with C++ objects/classes.

Compile C program with emscripten for use in web broswer for 'gui' & 'portability'!

[1] https://libcello.org/
you'd think the more data they have on you the _lower_ your score would be- i guess that's part of what this new proposed boycott is about
I think that's a bit harsh :-) They do mention DIN 66399 [1], which I didn't even know is a thing. It makes me wonder why Trump had to resort to flushing documents down the toilet?

[1] https://www.shreddingmachines.co.uk/securitylevels.asp?id=1&...
To try it out, I wrote a Hello World function, and it literally named the tutorial it was taken from. (ie: Hello, Tutorialname!) So it definitely happens often enough, although usually it is probably harder to tell when straight up plagiarism has occurred.
Is the shadow of Fridays for future influencing this decision? IMHO perhaps yes to some extent.
This is a quote from the NYT article:

> But attacks would come from the left, not the right. Arab and Muslim filmmakers and their white supporters accused Ms. Smaker of Islamophobia and American propaganda. Some suggested her race was disqualifying, a white woman who presumed to tell the story of Arab men.

> Sundance leaders reversed themselves and apologized.

> Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, had been the executive producer of “Jihad Rehab” and called it “freaking brilliant” in an email to Ms. Smaker. Now she disavowed it.

> The film “landed like a truckload of hate,” Ms. Disney wrote in an open letter.

You may not refer to it as a "woke mob", but that really seems what happened. As someone who has always identified as liberal, it is absolutely shocking to me how large swaths of the American left are OK with the idea that "Some suggested her race was disqualifying, a white woman who presumed to tell the story of Arab men". To me, telling someone they aren't allowed to do something because of their race is the absolute antithesis of everything I felt it was to be "liberal".
Great software is enjoyable to use.
Oh captain my captain, lead me to this promised land!
Yes, narcan for overdoses. What way did you read that I thought it was for something else. Its a list of policy measures not a consecutive thought.

What do you have in mind then?

I’m worried about fentanyl poisoning to people that accepted a risk to take something else, but got hit with a speck of fentanyl instead. A fixed supply chain helps them.
> Take a close look at how that question isn't answered.

I think that's the joke. I prefer this non-answer over a long-winded bullshit answer that ultimately means nothing.
Java Spring apps are sometimes (or even often) organized like this. The downside is that you jump around all over the place when making small changes. Also very visible when deleting features. Maybe a good test of the file structure is how easy it is to delete features without jumping around in 10 different places.
It’s more possible today than ever.

There’s more commitment to it today than ever.

There’s more command line mtools than ever.

It’s not about one solution of CLI only or some east front end. Both have their place as beginners become experts, and beyond.
If it’s listed on a marketplace, find their direct contact info and they’ll likely take a lower number since there are no fees.

If you’re emailing them, word your message to make it clear you’re not a bot. Persistence over time is often necessary.

One domain we actually wrote letters. The company didn’t even know they owned the domain. (They got it through an acquisition)

If their number is insanely high, see if they’ll consider a trade. That’s worked several times because they overvalue both domains.

Use some type of escrow service. We normally split the fees.
They are theoretical money that might become real money in the future.

They don't cost the government anything unless a power plant fails and defaults on it's loans. And even the it's not the full $40 billion. Just the shortfall between what the bank can recover and the cost of the loan.
And if the project got anywhere near completely, there should still be a nuclear power plant.

Given that one of the bigger risks to nuclear power plans are changing government regulations, it's actually a pretty low risk loan guarantee for the government to make. There is a decent chance they will never have to activate the guarantee.

> Or, how would you like to provide me loan guarantees? They won't cost you anything. Right?

I mean... What are you taking a loan out on? how does it benefit me? What are the risks of you defaulting? Why is my risk assessment different from the bank? In the case of a default, what is the shortfall likely to be?

With the right answers to those questions, it might be in my interests to guarantee a loan for you.
determine the smallest number that your sure is larger than the true answer. (2) determine the largest number that you are sure is smaller than the true answer. (3) take the geometric average of the two. (i.e., sqrt(a * b))
The reason this does well, is that oftentimes, (1) overestimates the true answer by roughly the same multiplicative factor as (2) underestimates the true answer by. So the geometric mean cancels the over and under estimates in order to get an estimation that does pretty well.
> But it doesn’t actually demonstrate that his anecdote is fabricated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor says that neither journalists or anyone else needs to bother disproving that schools aren't filled with litter boxes for students if no one has any evidence at all suggesting that they are.

Scouring every last school in the country over every totally unfounded and ridiculous claim would be a massive waste of time and resources. If someone wants to claim that the litter boxes exist they can "put up or shut up". The burden of proof is theirs to meet, not anyone else's.
It's hard to list all of the sorts because sometimes the needs are quite nebulous. Sometimes it's someone who's a great engineer who's just... really great at certain kinds of growth hacking, whatever that entails. These are more "you know it when you see" opportunities. Engineering leadership can be sort of similar. The kind of person who can "make things happen". More technical roles are often easier to describe. A few concrete examples:

Someone who got their PhD researching databases who is also a very experienced software engineer.

A senior software engineer who's worked for a few years in the finance world, and understands some of the more advanced math like stochastic calculus.

Someone with experience helping hypergrowth mode startups whose main DB is MySql to adopt Vitess.
>In fact, Smaker’s film is nothing less than a nearly two-hour indictment of America’s deeply shameful experiment with unlawful imprisonment.

Just absolutely wild to read this sentence in the National Review of all places.
> HN,m

what's the 'm' ? typo?
If global civilization collapses, the majority will starve. Some won't.
Building new nuclear plants would be a silly response to the current energy shock in Europe, since it would take so long for new NPPs to come on line. Renewables to reduce gas demand make much more sense, available both more quickly and more cheaply.
Apparently this[0] is a possible way of opting out by phone but can't speak to it personally as I haven't tried it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27703091#27705428
If they're not ready to replace gas and drivers, and honesty is more important than shareholder returns I still another 50% downside closer to something like what Meta has priced.
I'd heard the interview subjects were interviewed under false pretenses. Is this not the case?
It is more likely that there was some discussion over time. Then Musk did his part of the deal, followed by China doing their part of the deal 3 days later.
> Do you mean MW here? Capacity costs is nowhere near $15 / MWh.

Solar. LCOE. Joules put on the grid and money received https://renewablesnow.com/news/portugal-reaches-record-low-p...

> I think you're misunderstanding that figure

No, I'm saying if you offer me a contract where you give me $200 and I give you 1MWh of electricity distributed over the day proportional to demand. You guarantee my loans and I have free insurance. I can spend $30-80 of that on the energy (doubling for seasonal demand), $80 on storage and pocket $40. Then in 10 years I'll replace the worn out battery and start pocketing $160/MWh. I will also be able to sell my other variable MWh for another $15.

LCOS is presently much higher than current electricity costs, but you're not proposing current costs, you're proposing the deal the nuclear industry gets.
I'm amazed how large satellites have become. They are larger than small countries, like Luxembourg, Cyprus, Trinidad, ... How do they get these huge satellites up in space? Unbelievable...
I think you might enjoy Searle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XTDLq34M18
Are they fining Tesla as well?
Can’t be be build immediately.
> But they love the value of their startup(s) && SF housing when the speculation on assets benefits them directly.

This is the crux of it. The average HNer either already is a beneficiary of the legacy financial system (i.e. wealth derived from investor-provided capital, be it through investment rounds or a "successful exit") or aspires to be one. They're coming from a place of privilege - and decentralized finance threatens that privilege.
Unlikely, but it's also a class marker.
Yes that's what I say to myself as a consolation.
> he work is a proof of principle that neurons in a dish can learn and exhibit basic signs of intelligence

Absolutely not. This shows that you can teach neurons to exhibit a reflex behavior adapted to the given stimuli - which shouldn’t come as a surprise. At best this is jellyfish-like level of intelligence.
I think it was a joke. You know, a double entendre.
You don't, though it's not necessarily a wise idea. But you definitely don't want to market yourself as a lawyer if you aren't one.

Nor do you need to be an engineer to do a lot of things, but for whatever reason that's considered fair game.
Right: the fossil fuel lobby has discovered that nuke-mongering is in their interest. The nukes don't need to ever be completed, but as long as they haven't been, their market is secure.

They know the writing is on the wall, but profits can be good right up to the end.
I think what I did was just force myself to use it and if there was something in particular I wanted to do I would look it up, or if there was something that I was doing repeatedly I would try to find how to do it in the lowest number of keystrokes.

After I got the basic movements down (doing vimtutor if I needed refresher), then I would watch videos on youtube of peoples favourite keybinds, or lesser known keybinds. A lot of times this would open up a lot of things I didn't realize was possible.

Eventually I started to understand the vim "language", and things became natural to the point where I don't even really think about the keybinds I'm using, it just happens.

It was definitely a struggle at first though. If I could go back and be a TA again for intro to programming labs I would have found a way to give people extra credit for learning vim. The best time to start putting in the work is now, you'll thank yourself later.

If you program in C, google "Ctags" and the associated keybinds and vim command line argument (-t). Most useful utility for me personally.
At a previous place I worked, the company was not even aware this information was being shared with Equifax. The payroll provider would share this data by default unless it was explicitly turned off.
And you know they don't have a good perspective on this how exactly?

Judge not, lest ye be judged
The article is written by Sebastian Junger, an author and documentary-maker who co-directed Restrepo with Tim Hetherington. He also used to own a bar in Manhattan called The Half King.

When Hetherington was killed in 2011, The Half King was soon filled with Hetherington's incredible war photography, which was an odd thing to look at if you were there for a quick pint after work, but a good way to remember an incredible photojournalist.
GNU Modula-2 patch review status
Yeah, lemme get the firmware under MIT or GNU and we'll talk. That's open, not side-loading.
Rooftop solar doesn't work for renters, apartment buildings, and those who can't afford to purchase panels.

Those groups buy power from electricity retailers.

Show me an electricity retailer who has deceased prices in the past 10 years.
Hmm. Assuming we could feed in the sort of indicators and summary statistics that already form the way nation-states see reality, we could attach a literal brain to the organs of the state!
I don't think I would trust hired security, unless you are literally the richest person there could always be a higher bidder. The mercs could turn double at any time and you gave them the keys.

And not showcasing power, concealing or misdirecting the perception of your power or lack thereof, has been identified as an important strategy from Sun Tzu to Teddy Roosevelt.
Is the left wing not supposed to be racist? I've heard some interesting views from some old school union guys.

I don't really think of racism as a strictly partisan thing, the biggest partisan divide is regarding who the mob is most likely to be racist towards.
Little Rules About Big Things
Terrible story. This should not have happened to this film. I do not know what has happened to a country which has free speech and press enshrined in it's constitution.

It is also sad that the National Review which paints itself as this bastion of objectivity publishes such breathless headlines.
(sorry, dumb question) How would you find out?
How Mobile Phones Became a Privacy Battleground
Fact: transmission lines are the bottlenecks of EU energy markets.
> It's naive to expect big corporations to act morally. Best you can do is force them to act legally.

That's not the only avenue. Big corporations do what their managers, customers, employees and investors want.

Eg restaurants will typically try to serve tasty food, even if there's no legal requirement to do so.

Similarly Google has free lunch, because that's what employees want.

The recent fad for ESG shows that investor can want 'morality', too, and companies are willing to satisfy them. (I quote 'morality', because different people have different ideas, and often people only want the fig-leaf of morality, but not pay the price for what they would consider real morality. See eg greenwashing.) Customers and investors etc get what they are willing to pay for, and that's not necessarily what they say they want.
Setting the speed to 1 will make the clock tick at 1 second per second.
So we can trust them to break and enforce the law. Sounds confusing and like a net zero to me. Why are we paying for that?
Runs better than I expected on my browser, it gives me ideas on porting other software to webassembly :)
I think I conflated invented with reproducibility, etc.. Without relatively precise (for the tome) tolerances on your components you can’t build a steam engine that works. I have machined a steam engine from pretty limited pieces before on my lathe. The cool thing about them is they do tolerate a lot more variance than what comes next in the evolution of engine design, but only so much. Wish I had my books detailing the intertwined history of precision machine tooling and steam engines developing hand in hand. Anyhow I think other comments covered it. I should have been more precise with the claim :)
If they were drawn actual size, the visualization would not be very interesting, you wouldn't be able to see anything.
The adulation towards voluntary segregation disturbs me. I can't help but explain this queer desire as some sort of side effect of the various "bans" against discrimination. As best I can tell, regardless of circumstance or intent, there is a fundamental hunger for sameness, and the exclusion of otherness.

I don't see that as good or bad, but merely a confusion of ideas counter to everything the world seems to bombard and repeat and echo, on some kind of loop.

I just wish everyone would make up their mind and move on with living.
That is a terrible efficiency.
Just for clarity and equanimity about this stuff:

- If you sign up to see your TWN data (which is just the usual KYC-type sign-up), you can generate a report and will likely see that no employer has pulled your data in the past 24 months (the most they give). Most people who work in tech don't seem to have any inquiries registered for TWN when they check their report after hiring (from the handful of anecdata I have at hand).

- You don't have to mail anything in. They have some hokey secure email thing that is basically a link to a webform upload. Is it a weird process? Yeah, but it'll work just give it time.

- Opting out won't prevent partners that "subscribe" to TWN from sharing your data with them; it will only prevent partners from having access to your data until you unfreeze it. My current employer has been dutifully reporting my comp every month despite it having been frozen.
It was a shameful time in our history, especially when you consider the fact that we didn't even attack the right antagonists
Since we're all speculating, I would guess that ocean acidification could be at play here. The arctic regions are carbon sinks so they experience acidification earlier than other parts of the ocean. When the CO2 is absorbed into the ocean it causes the pH level to decrease, making the waters more acidic. This inhibits CaCO3 (calcium carbonate) formation found in many ocean species like crabs.

If there's a rapid die off of this magnitude there aren't many other problems which would match this level of impact. It could be something else environmental like the water temperature but it doesn't seem like an anthropogenic problem. Similar problems have happened already for other species like oysters.[0]

I was an intern with NOAA in a fisheries lab studying ocean acidification back in college in 2011. There was a large die off in oyster farms the year before which wiped out a good size of their production. The issue then was that the farms were cycling the water in directly from the ocean into the tanks without adjusting the pH. As the pH in the ocean water dropped, it killed off all of the oysters in the farms all at once. They had to do a quick about face to treat the water to regain the catch.

Ocean acidification seemed like a problem that would get worse and worse over time. The estimate back then was that it would take roughly 50 years for the CO2 in the air to equilibrate with the CO2 in the ocean. Since we won't stop emitting any time soon it's going to get a lot more acidic.

I'm a decade behind on the status but back then it seemed like there were a lot of unknowns around the problem too. I'm not sure if more has come to light on the impacts it might have for ecology or the biochemistry of different species. It was a complex problem so predicting the outcome seemed extremely difficult. Hopefully more is known but if not surprises like this would likely crop up. For shellfish, once it goes under a certain pH threshold for a species the young will be unable to form shells which can cause them to die en mass in a short time period.

It doesn't seem like a problem that we can engineer our way out of. The best we can do is probably to monitor and perform science experiments to see some of it coming. Then try to mitigate the damage.

It seems like NOAA would have been able to call out the calcification problem for the snow crab in advance though since there have been issues with other crab species.[1] They probably would have detected the pH change in the waters too so this might not be the cause. Either way it's an interesting subject to learn about.

[0] https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/breakingwaves/2011/06/28/ocean...
[1] https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2581/...

NOAA's ocean acidification program
https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/Home.aspx

This was a good 2011 report from the IPCC if you're interested.
https://www.ipcc.ch/publication/ipcc-workshop-on-ocean-acidi...
A related question: can I indefinitely test they're performing their task correctly? When operating these neurons for actual tasks, real time challenge-response-like testing is probably a good idea. But if they can learn, eventually they may be able to trick the tests. How would one design automated tests to evaluate the state of learning-capable systems?
You're speaking in generalizations that are not true, and also in extremes ("a lifetime of crap for their children to deal with" is not what was meant).

Personally, I find it incredibly fascinating to come across those kinds of breadcrumbs that give an insight in how a life was lived decades ago. Be it from my parents or even from more distant people.

I came across a personal office ones that was long abandoned, complete with decades old wall calendar, magazines, wrappers of old snacks etc., and it just had a certain magic.

I, too, lament how much of the "physicality" of life has been taken away, and enjoy the little mementos that I kept from both my own life and my family's.
A deaf couple devised a scheme for communicating amorous intentions when the lights are out at night.

The wife said, "How about, if you want to have sex, just give a little tug on my breast once, and if you don't want to then tug on it two times?"

The husband said "That's a great idea. And if you want to have sex, just tug on my penis once, and if you don't want to, just tug on it two hundred and seventy seven times!"
Pumped hydro only works in certain locations, almost all of which are already used, and any that remain are at the whim of environmental approval.