skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish I could deanonymize myself, @dang probably knows who I am. I hold 2 jobs. So, sorry, you're wrong.
I have to agree with this. While I don't like to victim blame usually, the VCs are too much in a position of power to truly be victims here. They absolutely could have pushed for more transparency or a board and likely would have smelled smoke when there was none
That does not represent anything in the article.

> Their power grid can't even support EV charging,

This is categorically false, and a ridiculous thing to say.
I don't think anyone is making the claim any of these platforms don't cause harm - at least I haven't seen that claim being made.

More relevant to the article, is it a net good or net bad? It's easy to make a claim motor vehicles are dangerous and bad, as motor accidents kill over a million people per year. It is much more difficult to justify the counter argument that "the benefits of cars bring much more value to the world than the harm caused by the million deaths per year".

The author of this article states that tiktok brings him and the content creators enjoyment and in some cases livelihood. If the net societal harm of social media outweighs the net good, maybe we should get rid of it entirely.

But if the net good outweighs, perhaps it makes more sense to treat it like cars - enact regulations, restrictions, and safety measures, rather than trying to eliminate it completely.
monads still keep me awake at night
> That page doesn't really describe how to fix the problems.

Clearly you didn't actually read it because there's a large section describing exactly how to improve the economics of nuclear construction: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#improving-modern-nu...
<< They weren't pushed out

I struggle hard to take this comment in good faith given how blatantly inaccurate it is. Still, I will assume poster is just ill-informed.

There were entire communities, who were effectively forced out of their respective online spots with arguments presented to them in order were: 'well find a different forum, website, cloudflare provider, isp'. Most recent such community was kiwifarms, but even before those there were multiple others than keep being 'moved'.

<<then you have to say that these are reasonable ideas.

No. A rational person can tell that 'sky is made of marshmallow' is bs. If they cannot, some thinning of the herd is clearly necessary. If a person struggles with basics of life and cannot comprehend basic language, I have little to offer.

edit: Seriously. If I tell you that all humans are in fact cappucino makers, do most people go into existential crisis? No, they don't. Do you know why? Me neither, but I don't see you serving me a cappucino either.

It is a ridiculously bad argument. Please rewrite.

edit: I apologize for the angry language. In retrospect, I would have written it differently. I decided not to remove as it would potentially change the flow of the argument ( and make it look like I am trying to hide it or something ). I admit that something about parent's post rubbed me the wrong way and I can't quite put a finger on it. It is a lesson for me of sorts.
i hope this ends up supporting `app.shagadelic();` like the parent framework
That freakin novel of a fawning profile of SBF on their website sure hasn't aged well.
The thing that puts the title of the reddit link into the reddit URL. Massively boosted our SEO.

At least that's the most visible thing I've done.
Aren't NuScale, Rolls Royce, etc planning to deploy several Gigawatts per year of mini reactors within 5 years?

That could be close to 1% of energy usage per year...
It should be obvious that it would be foolish to expect to meet all your power needs, including EV charging, with a small rooftop installation. Rooftop solar is to cut down on your power bill.

"For a society to run on PV on scale" you of course rely on municipal, commercial, and regional "actual tech" solar and wind installations, storage, transmission lines and backup peaker plants to make up the difference. Some storage might involve lithium batteries, or other chemistries, or non-chemical methods such as pumped hydro or other gravitational methods, compressed or liquified air, or synthetic fuels such as hydrogen and ammonia; and commonly a mix of the above.

Floating PV is sited at places where the water is habitually calm; calm water is always flat. Reservoirs and canals are favored sites, as noted in the article. Nobody talks about floating PV on breaking shore waves. It is hard to guess what could be meant by "string output", if anything, unique to floating PV. Solar panel output is the same, terrestrial or floating, and is handled the same way.

We are fortunate that planning for regional renewable power does not depend on people who cannot see how they would deploy it. Others, including other engineers, can and do.

Floating solar will be sited throughout most of the world. Ice on a solar panel does not reduce its output much, but being embedded in ice that, finally, breaks up could be damaging. Engineers are good at designing for local conditions.

The article makes a big deal of imaginary shortfalls of available land for solar, but there is in fact very far from any such shortage. So, solar will always be sited wherever it is cheapest. Some places, it will be floated. Other places, it will share pasturage or crop land. Others, commercial warehouses. In France it will be, by statute, on all big parking lots.
https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-defense#:~:....

>In FY 2022, the Department of Defense (DOD) had $1.64 Trillion distributed among its 6 sub-components.

Where are you getting this 767B number?
That analogy doesn’t really fit with the model of Twitter. If we are using the town/time square example, what Elon is describing is the digital version of putting a noise-cancelling box around the people saying “bad” things so that nobody can hear them.

A message spreads on Twitter because individuals on Twitter amplify it (with engagement, retweets etc.) which is itself a form of speech: if you say something bad, and I retweet it, I am engaging in speech. Imagine a piece of land with 500 million people on it: a person 500 million people away from you cannot hear you, but if you say something and people choose to repeat it until it reaches that person… that’s Twitter. To prevent that is, in any framing, limiting free speech.

Twitter has some magical engagement-driving algorithms (for example, the homepage) but these are not the primary driver of engagement/reach on Twitter, so they could be removed entirely and this problem would remain.

So you’re probably right to say this isn’t a sudden 180 on his thoughts, but it still highlights how faulty his framing of free speech is.
As a mildly autistic person who grew up in the Midwest, my understanding is that it is not at all direct haha. East coast is much more abrasive and easier to get. If someone things you’re an ass they’ll let you know. And you can let them know why they’re wrong in a loud back-and forth. Then laugh and get a drink.

In the Midwest people are too polite to say anything. Many midwesterners will bear an annoyance for years before speaking up as they are afraid of offending.

On the west coast if you’re an ass people will just stop interacting with you. You just won’t be invited anymore. The lack of interaction is the interaction.
TinyTinyRSS, Matomo (Google Analytics alternative) and Joplin (note-taking software). Also, since someone mentioned bots, I'm running Redbot for Discord, and PhantomBot for Twitch/Discord.
GetCalFresh.org. Way easier way to apply for food stamps. Felt good to have left after 6 years going from helping 1 person get help to over a million. Still going strong.

Also lots of strangler pattern iterations! That was fun.
It’s actually in Google’s best interest to help keep Mozilla alive. Mozilla is an innovator and helps push the envelope with technologies like Rust and WASM. Friendly competition helps prevent stagnation and encourages innovation on both sides.
> print them in a small acid-free paper book

any good recommendations for printers?
This gets to the wildest thing about the Musk's "go hardcore or leave" email. There was no indication of what people were going hardcore for. It was all about how hard the road was, but no talk about the reward or the goal or the destination. And if your recommit or quit email is so poorly thought out, it doesn't bode well for whatever "vision" eventually follows.
> There's no way around this.

Uhm, yes there is.

> If you try to "keep them around", then you have to say that these are reasonable ideas.

No, you don't.

Apologies for the terseness, but there are solutions here. It's a problem of signal-to-noise ratio, not an issue of principles and tolerance. Reddit has done a lot by looking at user behavior, as opposed to content, and it's the best system so far for any public, global social media with plenty of bad actors. They've also federated human moderation, which is a step in the right direction.
That's a good point. But I think also what mattered are how the content policies are enforced. I think Musk misread the situation. I do believe Twitter was biased about bans previously but that is because its user base wanted those bans. Social media apps tend to have a specific target demographic. In that sense, Twitter was not really in the "public town square" business but the memes and speech business of a specific demographic. It's not surprising there is an exodus from Twitter now that Musk has shown no loyalty to that base. Yes, it's petty but I've seen far worse on the internet. If Musk wanted something different he should have spent less money making a new app.

I am not trying to provoke a flame war here either actually if it comes off that way. I think the business of social apps is trendy and you have to know your audience.
The first thing I consider when looking at Express-alternatives is if the API is fully compatible because almost every other 3rd party library/package (e.g. sentry) expects the Express object. This doesn't look like the case as I have no idea what the mojo context object is.

On a side note, I'm surprised to see frameworks trying to use benchmarks against Express as a key feature. Framework overhead is insignificant when requests delays are mostly due to the database/network.
I think a more generous reading of the comment you are replying to could be (and probably is reasonable): It is hard to pay a lot of money for somebody that is living in agony with no chance of getting better, where death might be a good option for them personally. I would not understand the comment to criticize supporting people living in relative comfort.
Not sure if it counts as building something concrete (I have been programming commercially for ~20 years so I'm pretty sure there's something if I dig) but does Stack Overflow impact count? I have over 6,000 answers posted and a calculated reach/impact of over 50 million people. That sometimes makes me smile and feel that I have contributed something.
Sounds nice in theory, but when the outcome is people behaving like this and using it as a justification it rings hollow. The idea seems centered around making the most money possible as a core tenet. That alone is a pretty corrupting thing to build your whole ideology on judging from how we've seen humanity behave for thousands of years.
Why is it so much cheaper in countries other than the USA?
In the Amazon rainforest, the consensus is that spirits are real.

Why would they be hallucinating? Most people don't drink ayahuasca.
Where would you set the line of the right to reach? Would it be fair to say "not on my platform"?
Alternative hypothesis: he needed to cash out a lot of Tesla stock at (or near) the peak, without it freaking people out. Twitter was mostly just an excuse to do that. If he had not had the Twitter excuse, he could not have sold as much Tesla stock without a much bigger drop in the stock. So, from his point of view, he basically got Twitter for free; if he hadn't bought it, he would have had to hold onto more Tesla stock, which would have slid in value, so the money he "spent" on Twitter was mostly just replacing money he would have "lost" as Tesla stock followed everything else down.

He probably regretted it, hence the attempts to get out, or maybe that was all just because he likes attention. Regardless, he now has a Twitter, essentially at no cost to himself because if he hadn't bought Twitter with that money he would have lost it anyway as the Tesla stock slid. That doesn't mean he wants to pay anything to keep it going. So, a much smaller Twitter that is break-even is better for him than a larger one that (at least in the short term) requires him to put money in.

Just an hypothesis; not sure if I even believe it myself, just putting it out there for consideration.
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned on HN. We've already had to ask you once not to do that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334274.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
What does the cost of nuclear vs renewables and storage look like in a decade? The cost curve is what will define success. Nuclear never gets cheaper.
I don’t think so, from what I’ve seen it’s a premium price to Cloud SQL.
Overall, his point that "Actual mental illness is grubby, sad, gross, dispiriting, destabilizing, undermining, exhausting, unpalatable, ugly, and definitely not politically correct" is totally correct. But it's couched in a fairly self-righteous tone. I have trouble with that tone because I'm OK with other people having the same problems as I do in finding a balanced and appropriate response to mental illness.

Still, problems with tone aside, this reminds me of the HBO series, Deadwood. There is a tragic and deeply moving scene where Doc wants Al and his ladies to take care of the dying preacher. Al doesn't want to because he doesn't want to take care of a bag of shit, and Doc end up shouting at Al: "A human being in his last extremis is a bag of shit".

I think that this is a hard truth -- sometimes people are basically bags of shit. And it happens when they are seemingly healthy and vital and alive. Examples: an addict who's spiraling down to their bottom, a parent who neglects or abuses their child, Putin's war in the Ukraine. I'm sure everyone here knows a million other examples of people basically loosing touch with reality and destroying themselves and others.

Sometimes, in some situations, I can be compassionate and try to help. Most of these people are salvageable. I've seen some people who are nothing but a burden, who are bags of shit, over time, become decent and upstanding people. It takes the right people in their life, the right environment, etc... But it does happen. Other times, most of the time, I have to write them off and move on with my life. Trying to be compassionate towards people include me, too. I have my limits, I have only so much time and motivation. I struggle with the balance between apathy and compassion, between helping others and taking care of myself, between dealing with my own faults and helping others deal with theirs.

Its such a particular thing. I don't personally deal with broad, abstract class of mentally ill people. All I've ever dealt with is people, individuals; and my response is, naturally, dependent on that particular individual and at that particular time. I wish I knew what the answer was. I think that the best I can say is that it's worthwhile to struggle with these issues -- and that it's important to be compassionate towards yourself and others. But, what that looks like in any particular situation? Who the fuck knows? You just gotta' figure it out as you go along, just like everybody else.
great stuff, would love to have it as an outlook plugin
Safari has a bigger influence when it comes to stopping Google from total dominance. Firefox is irrelevant market share-wise, however much I like its developer tools.
I'm not sure how this is the lesson you're taking away from twitter when the workers are getting three months severance, unlike your typical service sector worker who can basically be fired by their manager on the spot. The US is a dynamic economy and your compensation is for the most part whatever you can negotiate. At the VP level it's not uncommon to get severance packages of a year or more at $200-300k, and at the C-suite level the numbers can hit millions of dollars.
The main thing that House MD has, that no other doctor in the world has, is not so much his superior intellect. It's that he and five other doctors spend 100% of their time on a single case, and can sit around all day discussing it, trying different things. If real world doctors had even a fraction of that luxury, you would see a lot more of what you describe.
I strongly recommend against telling them a made-up deadline or talking about the rest of your job search at all unless you have a firm offer in hand from someone else. Employers often ask questions if you bring up your job search and then you have no good options, either lying, walking it back or telling them information they don't need to know.

I'd also avoid asking for a specific date by which you should hear back. If the date passes then any emails you send after that might look pathetic.

It's fine to set a deadline for yourself though. Send your one or two emails and then if the particular date you've set for yourself goes past without a response, count it as over and done with. If they get back to you later, treat it as a pleasant surprise.
Did it survive even 48 hours? I wonder if the plan always was to take it down so quickly.
Super cool project!! I can really imagine this being helpful,

I love alternative language learning tools, also keen on for e.g., Language Learning with Netflix which lets you see dual subtitles while watching netflix.

I will drop my own (very naive, possibly incorrect) side project that I made while learning German myself, always happy for feedback! agol.io/trainer
From the conclusion:

- Multiple hypothetical approaches to reduce nuclear costs are ongoing. No one knows for sure if any of them will work, or which one will work best

And it didn't address the time scale issue at all.

OTOH, solar power has a 5 decade history of 90% cost reductions per decade.
John Carmack on hard work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJitSreSL78

I can't see this going well on HN if he said the same thing, verbatim, but posted it as an anonymous comment.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments - not just in this thread but in many threads - and ignoring our requests to stop.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with. It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33662814
There's some analysis of this and an interview with Mozilla's CEO at https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/mozilla-looks-to-its-next-...
First implementation of CAPTCHA circa 1997
Put me in a hole in the ground but skip the coffin. Worms need to eat, too! And that way no one will stumble across my decaying corpse.
Oh I like this a lot. This a helpful little tool.
Andy Matuschak offers $30k for interface inventor internship
None of this is correct, the projects have not been stopped due to environmentalists, or regulations, or even willingness. It's just been construction incompetence that caused billions of dollars to be abandoned on a half-finished project at VC Summer. And it's the same construction incompetence that caused Vogtle to be so far behind schedule and so far over budget.

If somebody has regulations to change, it's time to propose them.
Spyspace and the Mitch Hedgeberg Quote Generator pages were a hoot!
You're right, I definitely forgot the Pixel Phone, Chromecast and Chromebooks, all of which seem to be doing well enough to get regular support and a decent userbase.
Where do you draw the line? At what age, what illness do you refuse to treat a patient even though he may not want to die?

You could give a lot of people medical treatment with a proper healthcare and tax system. Why don't we try that first?
Cue the crowd of "you can't ban math and numbers!".

Yes I can. I might not be able to effectively stop it for operating, but I sure a shit can put big, fat roadblocks with long jail sentences at every on- and offramp to privacy coins within my jurisdiction, and coerce anyone who wants to do business in my jurisdiction or the currency I control (euro) to do the same.

* A crypto exchange offers privacy coins? DNS block it, force every banking and credit card entity to blacklist it. No swift, Bacs, visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Venmo, alipay, etc.

* Anyone offering services to exchange bitcoin or fiat to privacy coins is labelled a criminal.

This will shut down 99 percent of the volume, making it a lot easier to focus on tracking the remaining 1 percent of illegal money and actually catching criminals.

You can absolutely ban cryptocurrencies.
If you are going to try to get your company regulated legitimately you probably want to do it somewhere people have at least actually heard of in most of the world, but that is the least fishy thing about it out of everything I find concerning here.
Free 3D Repository
Totally FREE 3d CAD repository - lots of cool models - definitely a ME thing FYI
Not sure if anyone from Mozilla is here to comment, but now that Google has decided to abandon support for the otherwise-promising JPEG-XL standard in Chrome, will Firefox press on with support for it?
The Pestle app is pretty great. It's not cheap, and is Apple only, but it scans text, scrapes most recipe websites, does unit/portion conversions, can produce aggregate shopping list for multiple recipes.
No solar installation will block all of the light. Gaps between panels or rows may provide as much light as could be desired.

Note, most aquatic wildlife benefits from shade, even where they depend on an algae-rooted food chain.
https://youtu.be/uxPdPpi5W4o?t=403

Veritasium video about Los Angeles' reservoir black spheres project. They used black because

- The goal was light-blocking more than anything else; black worked best

- The black pigment held up to the environment (especially UV degradation) better than anything else they tried

I expect the second point was the most important thing. Black plastic is very stable.
^^Thank You!
You seem to have followed the development, but anyway in this blog entry they explain the motivation and the plans for the TS version:

https://mojojs.org/news/mojo.js-1-released

Among other things I find this quite interesting:

"Software supply chain attacks around NPM are a hot topic right now. And it can be quite problematic to audit your whole dependency tree. Thankfully, while the Perl version has no dependencies at all, in JavaScript we only have 23 trusted third party dependencies. And we are prepared to replace every single one of them if necessary, with a port of the battle-tested Perl implementation."
They give pronunciation in the picture toward the bottom of the article.
And 1 ronna-mcdonald's is over 9.9e37 served!
>What can I say that prevents you from saying something?

Any syntactially correct but illogical thing, basically. The textbook example is "have you stopped beating your wife? yes or no, asshole".

Most humans aren't very good at being rational. Undermining someone's capacity for correct reasoning and effective communication is a whole dark art - one that is fundamental to our entire social reality. Also known as "trolling", in the offline world - as "bullying", or if you want to be academical about it, "exercising soft power".

Of course, it's only considered reprehensible if an individual does it.
I use Firefox across all my devices. It's fantastic. The people who actually care about browsers (and, perhaps, "anonymity", or "doing the right thing") have all largely moved on from Chrome.