skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By now, the market has other, more internationally accepted modes of payment.

Hundreds of millions of citizens gain access to instant payments through SEPA. It’s already compatible with the existing banking system Europeans are already used to, i.e. share an IBAN with someone and share money. Which other cheap instant payment methods are there that are available to so many people?
Natural gas isn't stored on site, it needs to be piped to the nearest plant to be processed and put into a sales line. Capturing methane from insufficiently capped old wells would not be economic in most cases. If a company was called out on it, they would just go dump more cement in it to make sure the gas is contained. 90% of the time, wells that are plugged are plugged well, the ones that aren't and are just abandoned maybe leak only 1-5 thousand cubic feet per day - nothing worth doing anything about (to the company financially). Fines typically mean nothing to E&P with where they are now - though some have gotten clever about it - example being North Dakota keeps flaring down by whatever you are flaring you have to cut your oil production in some proportionate manner (oil is the more desired product) - though that was rescinded during the last big price down turn and am not sure if that is back in effect. To your statement about APIs - that is one thing the oil industry is terrrrrrible with. Our data collection and cleaning is abysmal. I agree with your statement, and I would be all for it, but E&P companies can't even get their own production numbers right - a good example is if you check out the fracfocus database where companies volunteer up their fracturing job compositions. Generally it is useful, but the people who input the data, similar to who would probably be handling this can barely spell and data cleaning would be a nightmare. waste to energy facilities are great, and there are some interesting things out in the oilfield but, like everything else, there needs to be more financial incentive for companies to build them/use them.
After Children Poisoned, EPA Bans Hazardous Flea Collar Products
A number of people, myself included, have railed against the terminology that frequently surrounds these otherwise great achievements, because it does a disservice, precisely on this topic.

AlphaFold (I haven't looked at Meta AI yet, beyond a cursory glance), is solving the state of the folded protein, based primarily off the state of other similar folded proteins. There's some, but extremely limited, modeling of unknown states. The major breakthrough for AlphaFold appears to be that it is substantially better at detecting meaningful signal in homology-based sequence alignments. That means, it can figure out the parts of a protein that are similar to other known folded proteins, with much greater success than previous models (2x-3x better iIrc). As far as modeling proteins or portions of proteins for which there are no known homologs, the model becomes significantly weaker (although not nonexistant).

In my opinion, and also the opinion of a number of my colleagues, advertising AlphaFold as having solved the "protein folding problem", and other similar language (used by both the media and the AlphaFold press releases) is completely disingenuous. We are effectively no closer to understanding how proteins fold, nor are we closer to being able to predict how a protein folds without any a priori information. Furthermore, homology modeling, while quite successful so far for a lot of proteins, breaks down on edge cases, higher-order structures, and unknown folds. It seems unlikely that it will ever completely solve the problem, and therefore, an entirely different approach will be needed to modeling protein folding that encompasses the entire field, edge cases and all (a quite lofty goal that may also never be reached).

All this is to say: AlphaFold is a great tool that I use frequently and am grateful it exists, but it hasn't solved protein folding, and the thing is has solved is intrinsically limited, and we should probably use different language to describe what it's done. Either way, I'm glad to see progress being made here, and eagerly await finding out how proteins actually fold.
TBH I disagree. In some fields it has become something of a convention, especially when the thing you're pluralizing is a variable or some other mathematical expression. For example I might write $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$, and then refer to the sequence as "the $x$'s". Happens all the time in professional journals by authors who know very well what the prescriptive rules of written English are. It is just easier to read this way.
The old joke about the SLS being the Senate Launch System seems to be more accurate as time goes on.
> some banks use it.

Not so much banks, but investment shops like hedge funds use OCaml e.g.

Jane Street Capital - https://www.janestreet.com/technology/

Oxford Knight - https://oxfordknight.co.uk/jobs/ocaml-hedge-fund/

whereas others don't (e.g. Goldman Sachs relies a lot on Slang, a homegrown thing).
Oh sorry, I guess I misread your post. But yeah, Scala alone doesn't make the difference compared to Elixir, it's ZIO or alternatively cat-effect. Scala as a language just enables those libraries to exist and be used ergonomically. I don't see a reason why something similar couldn't happen for the BEAM, but there hasn't be a language that supports those concepts yet.
UK salaries on the whole are shockingly poor. That's actually a really decent salary here. Devs can start anywhere from £20k to £35k depending on background/where in the country you are.
It always feels like US carriers compete on anything BUT price. It's always this bundle or that free** phone

** Carrier locked
A starship + booster has almost 40 engines. In a year you could produce enough engines for 9 of them. You can use that many because a mission to the moon might take 10 or so launches including fuel tankers:

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-elon-musk-starship-orbital-...

(Although I guess you could refly the same tanker a few times)

If you were really going to Mars you would need all the Starships you could get, even operations around the Earth and cislunar space could keep a substantial fleet busy if the cost per pound is low enough to encourage new applications. You will also need to replace engines at some rate.
I’m interested in your startup idea .

I’m needing todo some highly complex embedded development for my startup in a highly regulated safety critical space.
I personally know c++ and know others who are also well versed in c++. I have a disagreement with the computer industry and won't work in an embedded space. Others won't be hired because of their lifestyle, looks, or past record. The pool isn't running dry it's being drained.
I've burned out and been depressed(diagnosed and medication) they're different for sure.

You can burn out on an activity, eventually give it up. Depression is everything about your life. If burned out at work, I didn't hate everything, I still enjoyed my hobbies and put effort into them. I didn't stop cleaning my room and fight with my so.
If your point is just that machines can be more reliable than humans, that's not a terribly interesting argument. Humans are often held accountable for the behavior of the machines they oversee. This is no exception.
>But I thought they were re-usable?

A full stack Starship right now needs 39 engines (33 for Super Heavy, 6 for Starship). SpaceX will definitely lose some to testing (and indeed last I checked they are 100% going to lose all the initial ones, because they're going to do a mock-landing over the ocean before attempting a real landing, so even if it goes perfectly all those are going into the salt water). Once they have SH being recovered, ideally starting launch 2, that will cut the burn rate big time but they'll still probably take a bit to start successfully recovering SS. That's entirely expected and acceptable for MVP and as a worst case for HLS (because Lunar Starship and such aren't coming back to Earth at all, that's Orion's job). SpaceX runs hardware rich, so they will need hundreds just for testing.

Long term though they want 1000+ Starships for Mars and other efforts. There will still be expended Starship profiles, and reuse doesn't mean that cadence won't require having more raw vehicles. Fueling orbital depots quickly requires lots of vehicles and trips, and boil off particularly early on means just depending on a few isn't ideal (and that's assuming they have reuse working by then, if they have to just eat the refueling as expended to meet their contract obviously they'll need more). With the current design that's tens of thousands of engines, so at current production they'd be hitting the right numbers in about 22 years which seems in the ballpark of when such an effort might actually get going.

At any rate mass production is very important for their plans and how they operate. It's let them iterate very quickly, iron out more kinks, be much more aggressive about testing which in turn feeds back into doing each better, and pushes down the cost per engine dramatically. If you go to the Ars comments first page you'll see pictures comparing Raptor 1 and Raptor 2 and can just visually see the massive simplification (though note it's a little bit unfair because Raptor 1 was much more heavily instrumented, but there is far more stuff removed/improved then just that).
Yes - I used to program in C++, and left it for another job. 2 years later, when looking for other opportunities, I realized how much of the small details in C++ I'd forgotten, and didn't want to go back to all those minutiae unless it paid more.

It's a real relief to drop that cognitive load.
That's fucking hilarious. I filed a grievance when the medical professionals performed care on me against my (fully conscious and alert) consent, without a warrant, and without a court order nor arrest -- at the direction of a federal officer who had me "detained" but not "arrested" because there was no probable cause of a crime.

I wrote an incredibly detailed, 100 page report with several witnesses painstakingly describing the violation and details and associated license #. Included was my full medical report where licensed doctors clearly noted I had denied consent for care. Included on the report was the signed, official report showing care was rendered without consent.

After what I imagine was about 5 seconds of glancing at my report, a low IQ triage official who worked for the state board claimed anything the medical professionals do are excepted because they magically become police officers, except ones exempt to the 4th amendment, if they do anything wrong. So you can file a grievance, and an idiot from the board will probably tell you to fuck off or invent a fake rule, and there is no appeals process.
I love C++ and I have 15+ years of experience. But I have no desire to work in finance. Apart from that there don't seem to be many good job opportunities. So instead I'm slinging JS like everyone else and making 500k...
I've wondered the same, with the same lead into the industry. I don't think it's possible to extract the two from one-another.

I've nerded-out on the majority of the projects I've worked on through my career - especially in the latter years. But there are quite a few projects in the past that would not have come to completion without a big fat carrot to keep my belly full and my favorite bartenders' rent paid.

Some weeks - no matter how interesting the problem is - I couldn't possibly care. The money remains a great fallback motivator; And unfortunately, often can end up being a shackle to a project that's well past its sell-by date.
Hmm, well, instead of an ai we put a human, they could do that exact thing too. So what's stoping a human? Punishment?

Does this mean we need to make the ai understand punishment and/or consequences?
Google Maps has one of the most abusive license practices I've seen; effectively they force every one of their competitors to use OSM. As a consequence, OSM is the default for every company in this space.
There is also something incredibly "simple" about the end result of an analog connection - literally a pair of wires connected across thousands of miles.

Digitalization has added so many layers people don't even know - it's sad that there aren't many actual direct analog connections you can make anymore to see how "realtime" it was.
To have a program crash on null is a feature. There was a trend in OO caused by you know who that made people always initiate variables and return stupid things like empty lists instead of null. Among the worst APIs to work with are the ones where you never can tell when you get an empty list if something went south or if it is a correct state.
A recent curriculum of languages taught at a German TU I skimmed over includes C, C++, and Haskell. Can't help but agree with that choice: C gives you understanding of low level operations and appreciation of higher level concepts such as GC and/or verification etc. while Haskell lets you experiment with functional and logic idioms, type theory, DSLs, etc. Starting with Java or C# might be ok for training and getting a job, but would be unsuitable for foundational education IMO.
Interpreted languages are also more flexible and easier to work with.
The cardinality of one set is much bigger than the cardinality of the other one. Pantone 871 is mapped to #84754e. If you see #84754e and also get the instruction "use only Pantone colors", it is not ambiguous!
No, because in 10 years they can have postmodern C++ and after another 10-20 years we can get mid-century modern C++.
Hi there! "Author" here - glad to see this picking up. This was a fascinating project to work on and I learned a ton in the process. As it's often the case, I would do a lot of things differently if I were starting from scratch today.
What do you mean by 4-6 daily pomodoros? Is that 45 mins of work with 15 min breaks?
Some of those companies have like 1 or 2 projects in Rust out of thousands. I mean most of them are running millions and millions of lines of Java and C++. Java and C++ aren't going away - ever.
I was briefly confused, because I was recently charged that fee ( long story; I genuinely needed cell at that very moment -- first day at work ). Upon going through the story it seems that the fee was expanded to postpaid activation and upgrades. I was annoyed, but I was in a real bind so I just shrugged it off.

But yeah, each time a merger is proposed remember that the customer gets squeezed in the end. How we ended up with the same 3 major telecoms as our cell providers is beyond me. No, I do not count virtual ones as real competition as they rely on original oligopolies and exist at their whim.
> so what comes after rust?

rust.iter().next();
Harder yes, but at least you don’t have to keep up with “flavor of the month” frameworks and toolkits that frequently change.
This article is basically "old man yells at cloud"?
>>Apple is the worst thing that could happen to VR

Like they were for MP3 players, Smartphones, expensive headphones and Smartwatches?
Trends in profit (and profit margin) are a better measure than revenue for most established business’s health than revenue.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/tomtom/earnings/
At least EU working to give bitcoin the hype! Thanks EU!
I am very excited about my first launch, and I hope you will take the time to subscribe.
>>> The only thing missing is forcing banks to provide an API for third party integrations

I believe they have to provide this API to comply with the PSD2 directive. Namely, they have to open the bank to TPPs (Third Party Payment Service Providers)
It depends.

Is this a lovingly crafted book where the pictures are expertly prompted and currated to the point you can hardly tell an AI was involved?

Or is this another GPT-3 generated book shat out on the market with zero quality control where the AI is not used to push creative boundaries but rather to mass-produce endless noise designed to overwhelm any sort of curation and degrade the quality of the internet just that much further?

If you haven't figured it out by now my personal qualm with AI art isn't with a person's livelihood or copyright issues or whatever. It's with everything else that happens when easy AI comes into the mix
My family and a few friends are on Facebook and I don't see a reason why I should ask them to switch to ... what exactly?

They found old friends on the platform and they keep sharing pictures and stories and seem to be having fun.

That is useful and I'm willing to scroll past ads and even - shocking I know - click on an ad.

I'm pretty sure I'm a regular user and FB has hundreds of millions of those.
Not sure if someone in the comments already recommended this. But I found that simply doing less work for a period of time while I got myself back on track was an important aspect of curing my burnout.

Not caring is actually a healthy step. Care less, do less work, and if they fire you tell them exactly what happened, and go find yourself a different job. When you get this different job, set better boundaries. Eventually you will find your output increasing.

Going from burnout to no work back to full work also did nothing for me.

The advice around therapy and medication for potential ADHD is important as well.
Ikigai is an excellent conceptual framework. I think something that many people tacitly work it out for themselves. For those not reading the article, please do click through for the Venn diagram of:

* What you love
* What you are good at
* What pays well
* What the world needs

Each of these are somewhat independent factors and Ikigai is at the intersection of all four. "According to psychologist Katsuya Inoue, ikigai is a concept consisting of two aspects: "sources or objects that bring value or meaning to life" and "a feeling that one's life has value or meaning because of the existence of its source or object"." [0]

In that I think Ikigai acts as a method for fumbling towards the higher bits of Maslow's hierarchy to self-actualization. [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
For Gen X, Fight Club explained it clearly:

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact.“

In the TV/movie days, the dream of being a star was also there for many, but it was also so obviously out of reach that only the most daring and talented even attempted it.

The difference with your generation is that everyone grew up with a movie studio in their pocket, and watching YouTube makes everyone think that being a star is a real possibility. For some it will work out, and talent may be discovered that otherwise wouldn’t have been, but that vast majority will have to come to terms with the cold really that work is actually work, same as everyone else.

It is possible to find something you like that also pays well (most tech people here probably got here that way), but it does mean that you need to do the “hard things” early in life. Figuring out how Linux or Rust works is far less fun at the beginning, and you need to make a real effort to pull away from social media and video games to focus on things like that. I suspect it’s much harder today than it was 15 years ago.
Which article are you referring to? The one posted here doesn’t say anything about Reddit.
> I have my phone set to silence calls unless they are in my contacts list.

My ringer is always silenced, I get notified to calls because I have notifications for calling enabled on my watch. I should consider disabling notifications altogether for calls not in my contact list.
What is such a big difference as not to keep using it?

You seem to believe a community supported distro was as good as a corporate supported distro and put such a high faith in it but now somehow it's all corrupt when RH supports it putting it as an upstream?

If your usage is that critical, why not buy RHEL (or Ubuntu extended support) for 10 years support and stop freaking out like your Linux days have come to an end?
Yeah I am a regular heaven's above user (too bad they dont have iOS app) but this looked almost spooky when I saw my the sky with my building where I live (pulled from Google street views). At least in stellarium you see random horizon not your own freaking house
I thought our software dev methodologies come from the automotive industry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban
Sorry for what happened to you. My anecdote was that years ago, I was stressed out from a high pressure project where I was literally vomiting in the office parking lot, immediately cleaned myself up, and went inside to repeat the grind. I took over a project/contract that was more than a year behind schedule. When I got the ship upright and actually completed the project, the thanks I got was nil. That's corporate life. I learned my lesson and left as soon as I could. No job is worth your health.
So it is really a link aggregator with a focus on personalities more than specific topics. Did I interpret you correctly?

If so, I think I'd much rather get the content from a topical aggregator (reddit/forums/blogs). I am interested in such a wide variety of topics that it is much easier to organize my browsing time by topic.
Seven App Store creators share their tips for forging a career in coding
Pixel 7 Pro, but I wouldn't avoid it because their dialer sucks. It's still a really good phone when compared to the iPhone/Samsung Galaxy/etc., and it's the only Android phone series I'd consider in the future.

When I had a Samsung Galaxy, I installed the full suite of Simple apps onto it because the included apps sucked so bad. Simple gets it mostly right from a UI/UX perspective, and I was happy to support the author by purchasing the apps in the Play store.
Tim Wu covers the evolution of comms platforms from the telegraph(1) to the internet. Censorship, and propaganda, is nothing new, each new tech advances the reach exponentially. For better and worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Wu#The_Master_Switch

Edit: (1) from the Gutenberg Press to the internet.
People love doing things that they think they are good at and get respect for.

It just so happens that our culture over-values things that are not aligned with contributing to a better society right now. Someone identifying as a musician will get more accolades from one's peers than a plumber and therefore feel that their passion is in the music.

We require a culture shift wherein we start to see, in a deep way, the value in the hard work of trying to make things better in the small, humble ways we are able to do ourselves. It is our values that are at fault.

Maybe this new generative AI will help us re-align our values by showing that art regurgitation is not a defining characteristic of what makes us human and therefore virtuous. Maybe what makes us human are the smart applications of insight in ways that improve the lives of those around us.
I read articles like these and have a melancholy reassurance that these aren't Amish problems, but then I get sad because other people have to put up with it and don't see a way not to.
I wonder about this all the time. In the past 5 years I've learned a lot of IoT projects, electronics, arduino. I've played around with linux for decades, but my passion was originally music.

I went down the music path but the money was awful. It taught me how to apply myself to different projects, and I don't love tech as much as I love music, but it allows me to have the freedom to do other things, which I also love.