skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chapter 11 can be useful for restarting companies that actually do something, like General Motors. There, much of the value is in the ongoing business. FTX, going forward, has no ongoing business.

I was looking for a diplomatic way to write "and nothing of value was lost...", but you nailed it.
Le Monde (french) made a special Edition titled Atlas of Energy with a section on Nuclear power (and of course nuclear power waste).

There is an article from science.org about finland plan to bury its own waste.

https://www.science.org/content/article/finland-built-tomb-s...

Tell me about olympic swiming pool.

Monde Diplomatique made a documented article about France plan to bury its own nuclear waste in Meuse department...

It has been a clownshow, with fire incident lasting weeks because an elevator tire went to flame, necessity to run a water pump for the next 10.000 or 100.000 years (no joke) because the underground storage facility would be underwater after 3 days and will probably leak radioactive materials in the surrounding aquifere and will go back to surface after a few hundred years. In short, they have no realistic plan for long term storage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meuse/Haute_Marne_Underground_...

There was also huge controvercy in germany about storage of nuclear waste in an old coal mine.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-takes-first-sma....

Maybe there is just an olympic swimming pool of radioactive waste in the US (I suppose so it's about 4000m3), but it is not the way you store it for tens thousand of years. And definitively not the cost of a swimming pool.
Oh you’d be surprised. I think most people are capable of this kind of fraud. It’s human nature to judge others by their actions, but judge yourself by your intentions.
I've gotten good milage out of messing around with something "different" than what I use professionally. Try something that challenges how you think programming should work.

Some examples I've had some fun with:

Haskell - functional programming will be applicable everywhere, and lazy evaluation will change how you think

Julia - math! Mess around with big sets of data: your country probably publishes big exports of data that you can use for free

Elixir - mess around with OTP and distributed computing

Ruby - delightful syntax, will feel python-y, could try making something in Rails, still the one of the few frameworks where the idea => working prototype cycle can be under 1 day.

Kotlin - statically + strongly typed, try making an android app!
“they abolished the fundamental distinctions between investment and speculation… they ignored the price of a stock in determining whether or not it was a desirable purchase.”

Benjamin Graham & David L. Dodd, Security Analysis, 1934
I'm a custom builder in SoCal and I can say a lot about what you are talking about. There are a few main issues with construction of a house that pop up all the time:

1) Most people just want the cheapest possible. So most contractors are used to dealing with that. Even if it's not really the cheapest long term, and makes no sense.

2) Perspective and incentive. Does your framer know, or care how much money/time engineered lumber can save when it comes time to drywall/tile/etc? Not really, because his material cost in the bid will go up, and he doesn't want to be noncompetitive.

3) Most people think the code is very rigid. There is a section of code that is prescriptive, but there's also a section that is engineered/calculated which is what makes the code very flexible. You can do pretty much whatever you want if you can show it will perform.

4) Guys are afraid of callbacks/lawsuits. So they tend to want to do the same thing, the same way. Keep doing what has been working. There is a lot of resistance to trying new materials, methods, etc. Even if they aren't new, they may be new to that contractor. And they are (rightfully) wary of the training time, and increased likelihood of making a mistake doing something for the first time. So they will send bids with the "fuck you" price.

5) If you want to use some material/method that is not super common, sometimes you are best off asking for references at the suppliers. That way you can try and get a competitive bid instead of asking a guy to do something he doesn't want to do.

6) IDK what you are talking about regarding the foundation. Usually a contractor is just going to follow the plan, and do what the structural engineer says to do, as the structural engineer has to sign off and do inspections. So it makes bidding and executing quite simple. I've spoken to engineers about different foundation strategies. If you want a big, thick, mat foundation I don't see why the engineer wouldn't be open to that. They are very simple...no contractor will care or bat an eye.
For fans of Dilla's music (you may not know the producer, but I'm sure you'll know some of his songs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Dilla_discography), I'd highly recommend the book Dilla Time.

The author goes into a lot of detail about what swing is, its origins in African music (polyrhythms) and the racial tensions that came from these rhythms, and how it eventually made its way into modern music.
Too bad flash was security cancer on top of browsers that already have enough of their own issues.
Oh please make this, it sounds fun!!!
Or coal power plants or something, since crypto energy consumption is massive
Every 400 visitors someone gets an opportunity to reset it and it picks a different Unsplash image.
Fun piece of Mastodon lore, of course, being that an employee of the Internet Archive was fired for a Mastodon post

so "F*** Brewster Kahle" was then heavily, heavily, heavily posted/reposted on the network

Having trouble finding any external writing on it from the time to link (to be able to show without pointing to someone in particular)
And we can even talk about back in time debugging such as https://github.com/hpi-swa-lab/squeak-tracedebugger
For whoever didnt read this story yet it’s worth a read/ listen.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027180943/https://www.sequo...

A bankman fried after all
I admit that it took me having to look at "clever" short code that I wrote years ago to really take this lesson home. Now I get that code has to not only be correct and concise, but also it needs to document to the reader it's function. That often means being more verbose than it could be, and being broken into obvious discrete steps.
Society at large already prescribes what is best for others. When the government or major business owners choose to do A versus B. In many cases, people do not to choose on their own for the opposite.

As a clear example, if you want a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the newest iphone, that is just not possible. Apple chose for you.|

In many cases, these choices are more obscured, but it is not at all inappropriate (relative to what currently is acceptable) to force degrowth.
I remember some impressive native demos of platform games 12 years ago. Did the Flash to HTML5 converter work well? I never migrated my own "masterpieces"
> That's why PG has been adopted by Heroku early on, to the new Heroku-like render, and Supabase. They can offer a low or even free database plan because they can serve many users with a single PG instance.

Just a note to say every Supabase free tier deployment is a dedicated instance
Fake account and $8 blue checkmark wipe $20B off Eli Lilly's market cap
2 questions raised from this article

1. Did they try cashing out the promissory note?

2. Is there a compilation showing all of the interesting finds in IA scans?
> Another approach I thought initially was to treat colors as 3d points and check the distance between them.

Granted, it doesn't matter much at all because they're just looking for the closest color, but it might be nice to do a transform into a perceptually uniform space (Oklab is both nice and computationally cheap) before calculating the distance, rather than just taking the euclidean distance of the raw pixel values like they do here.

If you combine that with caching the best matching emoji for each palette instead of calculating everything on the fly for each new color, there wouldn't even be a performance penalty for this.
Written in haxe.
2.5 years was the industry average like 5 years ago. Probably shorter now
It is simply a fact that a a much higher percentage of black people do not have a government ID. The GOP know this and it is the reason why they push so hard for voter ID lays despite the fact that their is almost no voter fraud.
XKCD has you covered

https://xkcd.com/1683/
Sam Bankman-Fried Fooled the Crypto World and Maybe Even Himself
Laika's story is far more heartbreaking. Everyone involved with handling Laika hated to send her to death. From a technician who was the last person to see Laika,

> One of the technicians preparing the capsule before final liftoff stated that "after placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight."[16]

One of the lead scientists involved expressed regrets over Laika's sacrifice,

> Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die:

> "Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it ... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog."

"We treat them like babies who cannot speak."

The US Air Force's aeromedical research division, under the aegis of the Air Force Missile Development Center, became the first entity to send an animal (fruit flies) into space on a captured Nazi V2 rocket. They also became the first to send a mammal into space, Albert II. A rhesus monkey who suffered the ignoble fate of dying on impact after a parachute failure.

These experiments led to the development of the first aeromedical research studies that supported the eventual development of crewed capsules. NASA has a great series on the topic, https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part1.htm

You can also watch an early film made by the USAF describing their research, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSBO0haqAwc
don't forget to run that docker container inside a xen or KVM VM first
Twitter Impersonations End With Twitter Blue Suspension
I would like to hear that you are working on construction robots to install bifacial solar fences on working farms, making them dual-use, as opposed to dedicated-use solar farms, which I consider a dead end.
Can you elaborate? How does crypto going to zero create money that has to go somewhere? How does crypto dropping in value in any way create money that needs to go somewhere?

I think you have things backwards...
djb had a similar tool called 'nobuf', released as part of his ptyget package [0] way back on comp.sources.unix during the usenet era

[0] http://jdebp.info/Softwares/djbwares/bernstein-ptyget.html
> It's pretty simple - don't tolerate this sort of behavior around public transit stations.

IIUC, it's only that simple at a very superficial level. I.e., the complexity arises when you have to answer what you do about the offenders.

TL;DR:

(I'm not actually from SF, so apologies if I've misunderstood residents' views on this.)

Do you punish them? I get the impression most San Franciscans see drug addicts as pitiable victims of bad choices or the opioid epidemic. So behavior modification via punishment would be evil.

Do you put imprison the drug users for the safety of others? That sounds like punishment, which again most SF'ers reject.

Do you put the drug users in mental institutions / forced rehab? I suspect this reminds people of the dark days of abusive mental institutions, and is therefore rejected.

And what about people who are clean and sober, aren't homeless by choice, but for whom public housing isn't available? I.e., they're not mugging anyone, but they can't find anywhere else to sleep, poop, or pee? You have the sticky question of whether or not residents are legally obligated to have a home.
> why on Earth stable systems are even possible...

They aren't, but it just looks like they exist. The more complex something is, the less likely it is to notice a bug in the complex dependencies.
Those kinds of font ligatures are still separate characters.
The introduction to the edition of The Leopard that we have remark that the author and his wife were used to stashing important papers--letters, high-denomination bills, what have you--in their many books. Some they then forgot and lost.

I did once find a $20 I had left in a book; movie tickets and a postcard are about all I can remember finding of someone else's leavings.

Did you fold the bills so that you could slip them down between the cover and the spine?
Funny enough this project is a descendent of the flash lineage – it's written in haxe which first existed as an alternative ActionScript compiler. It's since evolved to be a strong functionally focused language of its own and perfect for writing games and interactives like this and now exports js instead. There's even a project (OpenFL) to preserve the old APIs!.

A good example of how haxe has evolved since AS2, the author (saharan) has written their own shader language _in_ haxe which they've used in this project. Haxe has a compile-time macro engine which you can develop DSLs to improve your workflow
https://github.com/saharan/HGSL
Show HN: Eev and TikZ, or: how to learn TikZ using a REPL
Hi all, I made a video that at first sight is about a way to use REPLs to explore TikZ - and TikZ is a huge (La)TeX package for drawing graphics...

At second sight that video is about a series of tricks for using REPLs in Emacs, and TikZ is just an excuse to present them. As far as I know those tricks are very unusual; they implement a kind of "meta-REPL" that controls other REPLs, and they do that in a way that is much simpler, and much easier to hack, than Org's code blocks and than the cells in Jupyter notebooks.

The page has lots of screenshots and links, and it has instructions for downloading the video and its subtitles, and for reading the subtitles in plain text. I tried to make everything as accessible as possible for the people who just want to watch the the first two parts of the video - "Introduction" and "Trying it" - in super-high speed.

I'm especially interested in pointers to related work. Cheers, have fun, etc! =)
A tried and tested money making strategy scheme.

Step 1. Buy stock options betting the price will go down.

Step 2. Engage in fraud to damage the company, legitimizing it through Twitter Blue.

Step 3. Profit.

Totally morally bankrupt, unethical, and sleazy disgusting , though.
If you fix commonly occurring bugs, you're left with rare bugs - and there may be tons of them in mature codebase. For legacy systems with dedicated operators, it may make more financial sense to teach users a workaround to a bug, than to fix it.
Get that share price up! Mammon demands it
Thermal mass inside the conditioned envelope is.. less so on the exterior of the house. Especially if it thermally bridges from outside to inside.
Greed can be a form of incompetence - the inability to set goals that are reachable without recklessness or imprudence.
The conventional wisdom in the U.S is that the only way to fix transit is to vote for politicians who will increase spending on transit projects. This ideology of just spend more money has lead to spiraling costs in health care, education, and government. I'm glad someone's actually looking into what the heck actually costs so much money and not how to spend more money.
This took me forever to understand the first example because that is not saturation, that is the proportion of red/green/blue. Saturation would be something different.

This isn't a nitpick, its a very cool article
If you keep looking for excuses not to try, you'll find plenty.
You are looking for meaning where is none. Musk mismanaged Twitter because he does not understand its business. It's like seeing a kid playing with loaded Glock and accidentally removing safety and shooting itself into a foot.
For learning new languages and especially if you're mostly interested in getting a "feel" and not interested in the little thorny bs that comes with a new syntax, I highly suggest buying copilot.

Once you're up to speed you can decide whether to take the training wheels off
At this point ICANN is hopelessly corrupt. Every giant corporation with money to throw at having its own GTLD is not how the internet was supposed to be.

Look at the revolving door between ICANN and private for-profit domain name companies like the people who tried to "buy" .org, and the people who run Donuts and its competitors.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=icann+fad...

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/21/chehade_ceo_ethos/

Also google "ICANN ethos capital"

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=icann+eth...
Why does this need to be a thing that exists?

Also, why hasn't one or more independently wealthy folks disrupted this by obtaining their own TLD and running it on donations. Allow the registrar give out names for free. The only rules would be "no spam or activity illegal in <Country>".
How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Went From Crypto Golden Boy to Villain
Off-Topic: For some odd reason, recruiters seem to gravitate towards employed people compared to freshly laid off or unemployed briefly.

On most days, I receive plenty exciting opportunities spamming my inbox but when I was briefly unemployed, my inbox was entirely barren until I started a new job and updated my linkedin. :thoughtful:
i never felt guilty about it, Angela Landsbury is a legend. RIP
From TFA:

> Port added the money, if approved, would go to install a 5 to 6-foot-wide pipe between Market Square and the Merrimack River.

It’s not 5-6 feet long, it’s 5-6 feet wide.

You need heavy machinery to move those culvert sections into place, heavy machinery to dig the trench, you can only get a couple 20’ sections of 5-6’ diameter concrete culvert on a semi so factor in lots of freight costs too. If you cross any roads or sidewalks, those need to be sawcut and removed, and then replaced afterwards. $655k sounds reasonable to me, if you include all the engineering/utility/heavy machinery/manpower/material costs.
If enough people pay, why would they remove it? Clearly their costumer base isn't expecting the ads to go away, why would you remove a revenue stream?

Removing ads from everywhere would be a benefit to society but clearly musk isn't going for philanthropy (reminder that he could have solved world hunger for a fraction of the price he paid for Twitter)
> After my last post, which hypothesized a relationship between the total size of a program and the bugs in it, I was led to this paper, via this blog post, via this comment. This, by the way, is my favorite thing about blogging.

"this paper", "this blog post" and "this comment" are all hyperlinked. "this paper" gives a 404. "this blog post" gives what should be a 404. "this comment"? Well, that a HN comment linking back to the now-missing post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2991224
I hope this extension costs $16
Don't forget the utterly insane amounts of both financial and human capital that have been invested in this space with virtually nothing to show for it. The whole thing is an infinite sinkhole.

Cryptocurrency kind of reminds me of that Star Trek episode where they were going to destroy the Borg by giving them this impossible n-dimensional object to ponder. It had no solution but was infinitely interesting so they would ponder it, and ponder it, enlisting more and more minds in the collective until the entire Borg were occupied doing nothing but considering this shape. Cryptocurrency kind of seems to have done that to hacker culture. It's infinitely technically fascinating and pushes all the right cyber-libertarian buttons so it sucks in more and more resources forever but amounts to nothing.
Banksy: Borodyanka, Ukraine [img]
I had to scroll down to see it on my phone.
Did you see the one where she stumbles upon the murder of the very last resident of cabot cove, and she is forced into the realization that she is in fact the most prolific serial killer in history.
Seems like a terrible strategy to me. You would stick out like a sore thumb to the SEC when they came looking and go straight to jail.
> non-photography 2 MP distance-measurement sensor

It's distance-measurement sensor has more pixels than my first digital camera did.

Other than the squarey-roundy corners on the front, it looks like an attractive camera. And I think the addition of knurling/ridges on the sides will help the well-heeled owners hold onto it. More phones should have something like that.
Genuine question: which cryptocurrencies and/or crypto companies do you still believe in? Which part of the space still stands a chance?
Twitter Was a Lifeline for People with Disabilities. Musk Is Changing That
This is not an either/or: learning another language may make you more proficient at Python.

You could try C, which is pretty much everywhere out there under the hood. You could try one of the Lisp family. Or you could try one of the functional languages.
This has vibes of the old Web, where amazing and niche things were happening. Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform.

Sometimes I wonder what I'm missing out by looking at lists curated by points given out by people who come together by hyper specialised interests. Should have heard of it before hearing about the millionth JS framework.
I’m still amused by how much investment still VCs make into this space. If the industry shakes the bad apples out that would be truly great for the entire economy.
California Finance Regulator Revokes BlockFi's Lending License
I especially liked the one for the works page itself! Very fun.
> they'd think they just need to hold on to it till it recovers

Well that's the problem isn't it?
What I don't get is how everyone here seems to fail so spectacularly at understanding the needs of the average internet user. Don't ya'll work in tech? Users are not like you and I, and anything other than the standard sign up process is going to devastate the new user funnel. Which is fine if they don't want to become a household name! But it is absolutely not fine for those who desirer Mastodon to function as a legitimate Twitter replacement.