skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I could say the same about roughly 2/3 of my immediate co-workers, and most of the rest are at least good to work with.

Maybe I misinterpreted your comment, but you seemed to imply that engineers at FAANG making FAANG-level salaries in part earn those salaries due to rare technical acumen. My point is, for many of them, that probably isn't the case. Sure the 300/400k positions will go to the Wozniak and Carmack-equivalents of the world, but the 150k entry/mid level positions at FAANG are still well above entry/mid level for traditional industry despite, as best I can tell, performing roughly the same work with roughly the same talent. I don't know exactly what kind of salary the disgruntled Exxon engineers had in mind, but I don't think a market correction to that 150k level would be out of order if these companies really want to put their money where their mouth is, particularly given inflation and, in the case of Exxon, record profits.
I cannot imagine a happier person right now than the owner of a LNG tanker. Sure, using it as a dumb storage is a good business, but it's sure a better business to move the ship around to do arbitrage between gas markets with crazily different prices.
> Not bad, considering Witcher 3 volume includes a portable Switch release.

I've seen the Switcher. Wasn't actually half as bad as I anticipated. All the more surprising that CDPR is abandoning their own engine in favour of UE5.
I think people on twitter, and some here as well, forget that Docker adds layers to restore functionality that was lost because of deliberate decisions from OS manufacturers.

Windows, Linux, Mac, BeOS, Solaris, whatever else; they have different binary formats solely because they didn't want to allow binaries written for other systems to run. (there's more to it than this, but not much more) Docker just brings back what was taken away by abstracting those decisions out of the execution path and uses Linux instead. The stuff that was taken away? were those things taken away for a good reason? Not at all. incompatibility solely for incompatibilities' sake.

Why can't we just revisit that decision to introduce incompatibility on top of identical hardware? I feel like that is the correct way forward, rather than WASI. WASI will just replace Docker as a runtime for these things, and it will incur a performance penalty well beyond what Docker itself experiences, because it lives on top of the OS rather than using virtualization or isolation to go around the OS, in a manner of speaking.

Everyone these days seems to want necessarily worse performance at every opportunity. It is amazing what even a single core on my laptop can do in one second, but it takes a handful of seconds to launch any graphical application on my computer... apparently things are still too fast for the people stewarding this stuff.
That argument is insanely stupid and assumes that one isn't upset about this IN ADDITION TO already being upset about our impending ecological future.

Sir or madam, it is quite possible to be upset about two things at the same time; thank you.
> The argument of size given in the article isn't very convincing, when images like Alpine exist

For a lot of uses you can go even smaller than Alpine. Static executables for example don't require standard Linux tools to operate. I expect WASI would be similar. Just drop the runtime and your Wasm files into a scratch container.
Waiting for someone to glue themselves to the wall at the Getty Museum.
Blackberries proved the smartphone market. Many people used and loved them a ton. VR not there yet.

Apple takes existing markets grows them and sets the new standard: PCs, smartphones, fitness trackers, headphones… Not first or early mover.
Another anecdote: In the South of Germany at least, long stretches of sunny days are often followed by sudden thunderstorms with equally sudden bursts of rain. That "fact" had been so deeply ingrained in me that it was subconscious. You'd have a careful feeling if it was hot for too long, suddenly you might find yourself running for the next awning to escape the torrential rain.

Sunny weather was a bit like building up a sort of pressure, that must release violently.

Took a while to let go of that feeling in California. It basically rains in winter, and does not rain in summer. Like, at all.

(Note that I moved away about a decade ago, climate may have changed in the meantime.)
Do you mind if I ask what settings you run it on and how happy you are with the performance? I'm precontemplatively considering a steam deck but haven't really looked into it.
>critical thinking and focus

if he can get into them, i think tekken and soulcalibur are potentially great for both while also having enough action and cool factor to hold his interest. sc might be more approachable for a kid (i was his age when i started playing sc2).
Who Does Accessibility Affect?
And if PayPal was funding exclusively the "white European/American male" community, such that organizations that cared equally about black people were not eligible for their cash, do you think that would pass by unremarked? Of course it's not a "contribution", it's racism in which people are being given money because of the color of their skin.
Literally none of them are using Instagram for their social network - they are just spamming likes, sure with people they know, but as much following influencers, celebs, bands, whatever.

Snapchat is where the teens spend their time keeping in touch with their friends, Meta has lost them, they aren’t going to get them back to Facebook or WhatsApp. The teens have moved on because their parents are there.
There's like 10 tweets, so you must be incredibly lazy

https://twitter.com/finkd

It looks to me like you don't know what you're talking about.
That sounds just like hand wringing over killing off the buggy whip industry. Markets are disrupted sometimes, people cope.
My impression is that most "PV+storage" plants have storage enough to handle uneven loads and production rates on maybe hour timescales during the day. The storage required to provide overnight supply, though, is much larger, not to mention that required to handle seasonal variance in PV production. It seems hard to imagine batteries would provide that, but for that maybe the most cost-effective option is to just size the PV capacity for the worst-case season.

Given the evolution in PV cost, maybe it will be cheaper to size PV production to worst-case days rather than size it for an average day+storage? You'd still need sufficient storage for overnight consumption, obviously.
The US has the most expansive free speech laws in the entire world. Perhaps 'extremist' is a bit hyperbolic, but it's certainly true US free speech laws go far beyond any others.

Reporters Without Borders maintains a press freedom index. Their justification is detailed here: https://rsf.org/en/index

Canada ranks 19, the US 42
Jsgrids: A List of JavaScript Spreadsheets and Data Grid Libraries
Hi Avery. I think we may have chatted when I worked at Google (you can figure out my username pretty easily).

To be honest I can't evaluate your product at work- to determine whether it helps our users and whether the idea of moving more of the network stack into the application makes sense- because my corporation (a large multinational pharma) disallows us from visiting the entire tailscale website because you sell a VPN product(!) which isn't our standard one. I'd love to change that policy but I'd still want to move to a BeyondCorp world (https w/ auth), not put a VPN in my browser. Or make Tailscale our standard VPN.

I see the point of "it's really handy". That's how we got Javascript which is a cost we now all have to pay.
Not OP, but I can't think of a dream that I remember where I didn't know I was dreaming. Sometimes they are nightmares, but if it gets too bad I just remind myself that it's just a dream, and then that's pretty much that.
Not only do they not sell it, that tablet was a financial disaster. It did fairly well on the Wii and so they decided to make a ton for the 360 and PS3. They barely sold.
> Getting more people talking about climate change is a good thing

While I would normally agree with this sentiment, this way of protesting does more harm than good. Wouldn't you want the "fight climate change" standpoint to be the majority standpoint, instead of being the standpoint associated with idiots who threaten to destroy priceless art?
No native client is running. The browser makes a WebSocket connection to our relay server, and we run the WireGuard tunnel over that.
Like, "we can't enjoy nature cause you're blowing it up, so you can't enjoy your precious art safe space."

Why provoke reactionism? When has that ever helped? Here in the US, it's not hard to imagine the footage of these "protests" showing up in campaign ads sponsored by the party that's least responsive to ecological concerns.

In fact, this almost sounds like a false flag action. It's that counterproductive.
It is, however, in the top 21 most valuable U.S. companies.
If real, I don’t think we need to worry a out the CTO here. Plenty of heads will roll.
Aileen Getty inherited a fortune that was made from oil.

But given that she is a climate change philanthropist, I strongly doubt she has any active investments in the oil industry, and would not benefit from "making climate change seem crazy".
Interesting that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33360234 is considered to put other people's work down.

I asked about some terms and if they are common among the HN crowd. Ako replied that people who are doing enterprise software integrations know them. Then I ask if the HN crowd is nowadays people who are doing enterprise software integrations. (Because that is not what I would associate with hackers / startup founders. So maybe what initially was a community of hackers + startup founders is now a community of grown ups with enterprise jobs.)

Whose work have I put down by asking this?
There are no removals in the CLI, and std is considered unstable, and due to that has different versioning that is still in 0.x
Merci pour la leçon :)
Now you have me thinking.

What if we nuked the pyramids? I'm not saying we should, but I am saying like, you know, maybe.

Nahhhh, we would never do something like that. It would be a travesty.

But like, maybe, we could just like, ynkow, just drop 1 nuke on the pyramids. Just as like, a little thing.

No, no way would we do that. Neeeever would we do that.

But just 1 nuke? right on top? That would be, that would be something. It would be interesting. I mean the pyramid is so symmetric. It's one of those things with a mythical power. Same thing with a fission weapon! Mystical power. It would take just 1 nuke going off right on top of the pyramids for like -- something crazy might happen.
> So from their perspective, it's worthwhile, because it lets them feel better about themselves.

In short, typical trust fund hippies. Disgusting!
For everyone calling these people crazy, you are talking about these stories for way more than a day now, I've seen them everywhere and I don't even read the news anymore.

But I agree it's not going to lead to any policy changes so yeah I don't get it either.
300TWh of batteries per decade is a lot easier than 90 million barrels of oil per day yet somehow we manage to do the latter.
I, for one, am tired of consuming warmed up content I've played through before. Be it Diablo 2 Resurrected or Mass Effect or or or.
Create something new, don't refurbish old stuff. Such a waste.
What is the difference in meters? If not much, the effort of building will not be counterweighted by the energy storage capacity.

AFAIK salton sea is pretty much at sea level?
> Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

Stock price has nothing to do with how much money CDPR has in their bank accounts. Stock trading is basically a public opinion poll on the future of the company, but not a penny from those trades actually goes to company accounts.
Guns, knives, and sharps don’t go leaping out of your hands to kill anyone simply because these people are in your presence. You need to intentionally use or mishandle these items for them to be lethal.

Viruses, on the other hand, can make you a lethal object to anyone who comes close to you simply by you breathing without a mask.

And that’s why we have laws on the safe storage, handling, and public carrying of these items. We have RESTRICTIONS on their usage, in the same way a person can be restricted from being a Typhoid Mary who only has to be in the physical vicinity of someone else in order to kill them.

Your logical fallacy is: Slippery Slope.
>Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it?

It's new to me that the company makes its money selling its stock, not games.
Not at all, they have lots of new games coming.

Sibling comment has a link.
Based solely on my observation as a "staff engineer", the engineers that suffer most from remote work are the junior engineers. They are the ones we've had to help along the most, proactively coach the most, etc.

I think there's something lost with not having junior engineers in office with senior and staff+ engineers.
Because you're not disrupting a river's flow and natural ecosystem, you only utilize the watershed some more during the initial filling period. After that, it's a closed system separate from the river ecosystem where only evaporation causes leakage.
> How in the world does this help stop climate change?

It doesn't really; I think these are expressions of frustration over the inaction and ridiculous politics of it all.

On an emotional level I find it hard to to be sympathetic to be honest. The solutions aren't even that hard, and the amount of investment needed isn't even that large (relatively speaking). It's very frustrating things go at a snail's pace just so $political_party_x can claim 0.2% extra GDP growth or whatever, which will of course be paid for many times over down the line in a country like the Netherlands, half of which is below sea level already.

Does this sort of activism help? No, almost certainly not. But it seems like everything else has been tried already, so... why not try it? For my part, I just accepted it's going to be fucked and not much we can do about it.
Usually you can single-click on any non-link text (which admittedly can be hard to find in an SPA!) to un-highlight the selected text.
Thank you, these are great!
But they weren't using them. That's the whole point.
Things are more important than the planet.
> My last post was about either How to transport a convex object on a camel or Android Studio’s “Code contains easter egg” inspection. Find out which.

I realize one option is supposed to be ludicrous, but based on this post, either option is possible.
I think the left side of the Drake equation is pretty challenging too. If we assume that faster than light travel is impossible (which is likely) and all galactic civilizations are subject to the tyranny of the rocket equation, then it’s quite likely that there are no alien spaceships wizzing around, even if our galaxy is full of intelligent life forms.

And then our best way of detecting advanced alien life forms is through direct observations of remote star systems, a field that is in its infancy at best.
Lots of changes afoot. Twitter employees should look for more emails to come!
Man. They keep this shit up and everything at museums is gonna be behind glass.

One of the few remaining sorts of place that don't treat everyone like a probable criminal and lock everything up like a pawn shop in a bad part of town, these days.
> Whether or not that's actually what is happening here is a different story.

So you agree. The actions and not the birth are what matter.
Are You Being Served?
It totally makes sense because you always compare price of installation against a certain installed capacity in TW.

I was not speaking of the efficiency of transforming 20% of the sun energy into electricity.
Do you think there should be podcast that are paywalled, or are you against that on principle?

And if you support paywalled podcasts, what, in your mind, would be the correct way for Spotify to implement them?

(I'm genuinely curious your answer, but to lay my cards and biases on the table: I prefer paid podcasts to the ad supported ones; I'm tired of hearing all the Casper and Squarespace ads woven into the content. And I have trouble imagining a typical Spotify listener (interested in, say, Joe Rogan podcast) properly moving a personalized premium RSS feed into another client without a ton of chaos and confusion.)
They have to throw Facebook's name if they want traction. Devs and public alike have a really bad perception of Facebook. Tbh, Zuckerberg needs to resign, enjoy its billions and let someone else to start the PR "healing" process.
Embarrassing question: what exactly is "the browser sandbox model"?

What I mean is, what are the first principles behind it? What makes it different from other sandbox models?
That's still what I'm talking about. Any number you're looking at that's "in a year" is falling victim to the time-shifted demand effects from the pandemic.

Compare 2022 to 2019 and look for the average change over three years. That's the real signal over the temporary noise. There are still some real effects, but it's much smaller than all the one-year-over-year numbers seem to indicate.
Can someone enlighten me on the

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

part of this? This is changing to the directory of where the script is all cases?

EDIT: I should've just tested this to see :) I did and it does exactly that. Very helpful. I didn't realize $0 is always the first argument. Kind of like how `self` is the first implicit argument in OOP methods?
Probably not as that would be quite a... pharaonic task.
I don't have much info any their organisation and teams, but it may not be a bad idea. Adding people to IT projects beyond some threshold doesn't really make them faster and spreading the risk across 5 projects may be better than going all-in with one.
even though the result of that is Germany chain-smoking lignite coal

Or buying more fossil fuel from Russia.

Things that make you go "Hmmm."
Yeah, US is not oil-export dependent in any way.
I would say W1 was successful too. At least for me it has stronger story telling then W2 which is too political for me.
Wow I actually was expecting more like 10-20%.
Ask HN: Contact Form Solution?
I have noticed that most contact forms on websites really suck.

Right now, I'm paying a monthly subscription to Hubspot just to use their contact form, and it still sucks.

I would like a contact form solution that can do the following, would anyone else like this?

1. Integrate with major CRM systems and Google Sheets;

2. Integrate with major video conference systems to allow for scheduling like Calendly;

3. Integrate with all major PPC/SEM and media platforms to track the lead origin;

4. A/B testing to help me better determine how alterations improve conversion rates;

5. Automated email validation to prevent invalid accidental submissions;

6. Advanced anti-spam functionality;

7. Device and browser level testing to ensure across-the-board compatibility
The price going wonky is the trouble at hand.

I am not thinking of an alternative unless "having more storage" counts.
And, it seems like a fantastic way to learn a new engine.
I had 3 points, I believe the 3rd addresses this.
Can y'all chill with calling every instance of a message being deleted censorship? I've heard everything from minecraft chat profanity filters to copyright infringement detection called "censorship", meanwhile there are systems filtering and changing SMS messages based on political sentiment and people living in fear of being arrested, tortured and executed for saying bad things about the ruling class.

Call it what it is: Signal is keeping their spam filter private. And history has shown that this is usually the right move.
I'm sorry but I think you're missing a lot in your assumptions.

For example, there are only rough estimates on how much methane is trapped in the permafrost. The first estimate I saw by Natalia Shakhova et al was 1400gt over a decade ago (so about 45 years of human emissions at the current rate). I found this recent MIT article which mentions 1500gt [1]. Let's not forget methane has a 25x more heat trapping capacity than CO2. Do the math on that. Also the permafrost is just one of many feedbacks.

Another point you're not considering is that the capacity of the biosphere to absorb carbon is being reduced. For example, the Amazon used to be considered a carbon sink but it is becoming a carbon source [2].

[1] https://climate.mit.edu/explainers/permafrost

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01871-6
Having inactive usernames is not an actual issue when people can just use other names. He is just trying to make more money by selling them and he is blaming it on the users. "See, they did not use the names in the artificially short period that I defined. I had no other option than taking them away and selling them to the highest bidder."

Obviously he's not only selling Iranian names.
Nuclear fell out of fashion because people do not understand statics and were unable to address peoples concern about their safety.
Sure, I also fast-charge sometimes when traveling. But I have found that USB-C is not available on planes, in airports, or in hotels. So if I want to be able to charge conveniently, I actually would rather have a USB-A to Lightning cable.

But regardless, it sounds like there is no additional speed advantage to having USB-C to USB-C versus the currently available USB-C to Lightning. Is that right? As for getting a bunch of dongles, that's one solution, but means spending more money.
All these are existing variations of cables with a USB-C tip: Quest link cable, thunderbolt cable, charge only, data only no video, video but not 120hz, etc. It's not like you'll have fewer cables to manage if one device changes its port to USB - C.

The biggest change will be in people's backpacks and suitcase. Now they'll have one cable instead of two(or two instead of three if they carry an apple watch). All your other devices still need their own dedicated cable. I'll still carry two cables though because sometimes I want to charge two devices simultaneously.
another big reason is the difference in pricing between pipe and shipping. With pipe it's instant while with ship the spot pricing is before the ship start it's journey from the filling port.
Added to the complexity that in EU all the ships with natural gas are stuck at ports because unloading capacity has not been upgraded.

Combining both has reduced the spot prices so that more gas is not sent. It does not reflect the real demand which we are going to have in few months or the volatility.

if you like volatility, natural gas is the best product. One contract is around $60k and could net you thousands in minutes if you play it right.
I also have never been able to lucid dream. Even the few instances where I realized I was dreaming I almost instantly woke up involuntarily.

I have heard keeping a dream-journal and using a few techniques inside the dream can give you the ability to lucid dream, but these haven't worked for me.
It will also raise demand for whatever runs air conditioners. This is all factored in.

What isn't factored in (guesses are, but we have no idea to know what guesses are right) is how much will we become more efficient, or how fast we will switch to renewables. This year heat pumps were very popular to install in Europe this summer, and they are more efficient, so all models need to be updated. Predictions that are more than a few years out are all being updated for expected growth in EVs, solar, and wind - all of which are growing (probably in expected range or your predictions so far, but all above the expected values)
"Based on the analysis of the publicly available information, it appears reasonable to conclude that the COVID-19 pandemic was, more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident."

Here is the important part.