skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LCOE for wind and solar certainly make it inevitable at this point.

I just wonder if there wasn't heavy subsidies for fossil fuel, direct or otherwise (and I mean things like the military budget which exists, above all for oil resource control and securing oil shipping) what battery, solar, and of course wind could be at if they started in the 1950s with aggressive research.

Wind blades are just fiberglass (invented 1932), silicon based solar panels might not be economical without the CPU fab industry, but perovskites and all the other kinds? Could the salt water battery coming online next year been done in 1950s or 1960s tech? Who knows.

Of course some of that is "perfect hindsight". But the notion that oil companies haven't gotten substantial subsidies and meddled in energy policy is not an extreme idea.
Needing to bring something special to any sort of event, bringing too many things - just in case.

It's overcompensating for years of not feeling like you are welcome, and years of only being acknowledged when you had a desirable item or knowledge, otherwise you were a person non grata.
In (basic) queue theory, at equilibrium (average input rate = average output rate), the length of the queue is proportional to the variance in the input rate. Make that what you want :D
Nothing. You can re-invent and re-discover everything. By yourself. From first principles.

You can re-discover and re-invent all of computation, Mathematics and physics.

Heck, you don’t even need computers if you have pen and paper.

You can do absolutely everything all by yourself. All you need is infinite time.
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>Which other country goes "skilled immigrants RAH RAH!" but also imposes a random lottery instead of going on the basis of some kind of points/job offer based system?

I think I've posted about this before, but yeah it's pretty ridiculous. My college girlfriend was a foreign exchange student from India, was here all through highschool, had a fullride to college via a (maybe government sponsored?) academic scholarship, graduated with her degree in electrical engineering 2nd in her class, and got a 6 figure job right of out college. She got kicked out about a year later because she didn't "win" the "lottery" and her visa wasn't renewed. What a sheer fucking waste of talent and time and money educating her just to boot her out of the country like that.

A literal week after she was forced to leave, I was talking to my uber driver who told me of her sister's boyfriend who was also an Indian emigrant, in and out of court/jail for petty theft and various levels of assault/battery, that somehow managed to secure his citizenship a couple of months prior. I know it's just one anecdote among literally thousands of possibly millions of cases, but what a fucking crazy world we live in today where that's how things can play out.

Being young and dumb and in love, I briefly floated the idea of marriage to secure her a greencard, but she talked me out of it and we ended up parting as friends when she left. Lost contact after she got married a few years later and moved to Australia with her new partner so she definitely landed okay and I am so extremely happy where I am today in life and with my current partner, but somedays my mind just wanders and I find myself reminiscing and wondering about what could've been.
We are living in a golden age of high quality journalism - it just coexists with lots of crap.

For example, on the Left you have N+1 and Progressive. On the Center you have Atlantic and Foreign Affairs. Conservatives have National Affair, American Affairs, and National Review.

But none of them is a biweekly paper/magazine intended to keep you informed of all major current events from an international perspective.

Realistically, you have to go with a daily: Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post.

We don’t have weekly or biweekly papers in the US.
Who hosts the signature? If you've hacked someones server enough to push out new JS what's to stop you from signing it?
I'm not a cryptographer, I just posted to HN seeking work as a product manager, and I have a profile here.

Could you give some examples of the non-scam blockchain companies you mention? Who are their customers and what value do the companies deliver?
Been in this situation a year ago. i cure it by creating a new project i haven't done before.

i solve new problem, give support to it, made my user life easier. fixing the bugs.

thats bring my adrenaline back again
Maybe I lack faith in Durov, maybe I'm just a cryptocurrency hater -- but this feels like a really bad time to be entering the market with a new exchange.
Why People Love Spotify’s Annual Wrap-Ups
What I'm wondering is .. when you own stocks of companies it is like having one type of currency, one per company or fund. (right?). Now when the stock-market goes down I lose money. And so do most people who own stocks. Where does that lost money go?

Everybody lost a lot in the most recent downturn and (most) nobody gained. We simply have less "value" now. Where did that value go? How could it have just vanished?
This sub-thread was talking about "that specific coding task", not about binary tasks [edit: trees] in general. You might be very valuable building, say, a database application, while not being able to balance a binary tree, but if you can't do whatever we can all come up with as a small coding assessment ("little deck of cards"). It sounds to me like a good first filter, plus then a good talking piece to have a conversation about in an in-person.
I never said that cops have to to pull the trigger. Just that another person's life being at risk is justification for lethal force.

To be clear though, that's all I'm saying. I'm not making a statement about my overall thoughts on the US's police system.
Counterpoint: https://twitter.com/ashleevance/status/1598163890546053125

"Very interesting person at Neuralink is Autumn Sorrells, the animal care director. I have been to some grim, grim animal labs at universities and elsewhere. Sorrells and her team do actually care about these creatures and are advancing a number of new, kinder training techniques

As a big time animal softie, I've been impressed with Sorrells and her team's work. Is part of the BCI story that does not get touched on very much"
>There's a term for this: Victim Blaming

What a ridiculous take. Helping people build the skills needed to defend from being bullied is nothing like victim blaming, at all.
Using CoPilot for AoC22
On Thomas Achord
Did it literally say he was born in Chicago, or that he was "from" Chicago? Barack Obama is in fact "from" Chicago. :)
> It seems for years in every thread about Gimp I've seen, people are shitting on it.

What is hard to understand? Gimp promised since ages CMYK editing or non-destructive overlays, nothing materialized or as a shit-show (CMYK can be exported but not edited)
That's why the programming tasks are simple. FizzBuzz, or "implement a deck of cards."

Sure there are different ways to do this but it's a small enough task that the quality of the solution is easy to judge.

I think the nail analogy works. If a blacksmith can't make a decent nail he shouldn't be hired. Same if a developer can't use one of a few very well-known standard library data structures to implement a deck of cards.
You have to have a login (Google, Github, Reddit, Twitter) to get inputs, and part 2 is only unlocked after completing (correctly) part 1 for any given day. You don't have to share your identity with anyone but the host of the server.
Canon also has a program like this, although they dont have that brilliant consumables separation of toner from drum that seems to be a brother-only hallmark at the sub $1,000 pricepoint. so you have to replace a perfectly usable drum with each toner change, like HP and all the rest.
That analogy makes no sense. An iPhone isn't a restaurant. If Apple is McDonalds and Google is Burger King, who does Epic, Spotify, or Twitter correspond to in the analogy?
First one’s free.
> Øyvind Kolås raises funds for his work on GEGL, GIMP’s new sophisticated image processing core

GEGL aka duke nukem forever
But as an app developer Samsung doesn't claim a cut out of my sales. That's where you start to see the difference.
Looks more like an artificial black hole as far as trust in and quality of science reporting is concerned, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33809177 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33807169
Not dumb. I just think this result should have been part of the risk-adjusted value calculation.

One of the main reasons I hesitated on DeFi, and I probably read a dozen white papers, was my concerns over not being in control of my assets when off exchange. The staking rates always seemed insane.

Certainly not as concerned as when I didn’t understand the Luna white paper and my friends who were rich off it couldn’t explain it to me, but still concerned.
Yes, my own company Yazz is a blockchain company that is not a scam, building a software development tool that runs on the blockchain using crypto technologies. Code on github here: https://github.com/yazz/yazz
Oh, I thought your point was that mathematics wasn't bringing anything to computers. As far as I understand it, category theory is more about finding commonalities across mathematical fields (or indeed, scientific / engineering fields), more so than solving more concrete problems.

What does that give you? For me, I think it gives me an easier way to see common abstractions across different problems I work on.

I am at the beginning of my CT journey itself, but a layman's understanding of monads, functors and applicatives gets me really far writing pretty much the same code when i do bare-metal embedded or frontend javascript. The point is not that I couldn't write bare-metal code or frontend code without, is that I am much quicker seeing "my javascript promises are like a monad" and "my coroutines are like a monad" and being able to shrink my cognitive load.
how long ago did you use nomad? nomad integrates with consul but isn't backed by it. it's also pretty trivial to run consul in quite a shitty network environment by bumping up some of the settings (they should probably change their 'production' suggestions).
wow, your username somewhat resembles mine!
Cool video! It feels like the love child of Zapier and Airflow — in a good way!
1. Have everything in place at the start (a script to grab the inputs helps).

2. Use a language that makes the edit/run cycle short.

3. Be very familiar with that language and how to process input in it.

4. Have solved many similar problems in the past so you can parse these problem statements quickly.

5. Have solved many similar problems in the past so you know exactly what code to write or use (if you have a utility library).
Thank you LastPass. You make me look better in front of our clients for using local KeePass.
You have to log in, but you don’t have to reveal your identity or username on the leaderboard.
Solving a 4k piece all white puzzle with algorithms
Most apps are grey today. Taobao, alipay, meituan.
Every time I do the AoC puzzles I wish for two things:

1) The site should ask for the language used to solve the problem and then use this as semi-scientific data for comparing "time-to-solution" for various languages. The sheer volume of data and the relatively high difficulty of cheating on novel problems would make this data set interesting and maybe even useful.

2) I wish all the puzzles had a "hardcore" mode where a naive approach would take a million years of compute, or exabytes of memory. Have multi-gigabyte inputs[1] such that the time-to-solution isn't just how fast you can bang out some simple parsers and loops, but the runtime performance would materially affect your time score.

[1] A method for this would be to use an input-file-generator that is small to download but can generate huge puzzle inputs.
Perhaps the attacker determined how the software interacts with customer information, by reading the source code, and was able to exploit the information somehow.
The more you explain yourself the less this sounds like a pump and dump/FUDy territory this conversation started with.

Maybe I'm confused but even "dumb money" doesn't typically buy billion dollar scams at IPO where their financials are arranged by Goldman Sachs et al. Unless I missed some obvious examples in recent history where a bullshit (let alone crypto tier bullshit) tech company IPOd with hundreds of millions invested by legit Sequia/OTPP style investors and then the whole charade got exposed after the fact.

You could maybe point to a tiny set of VC companies in history, like Groupon where the stock price was overvalued at IPO, but even they are still a real business with 4000 employees 11 years later.

If anything you could say the grand conspiracy was betting on an acquirer buying them before crypto went bust. But I highly doubt that was a key part of some calculated plan.

Why is it so hard to believe some VC (who looked for external validation over their own dilligence) thought there was real longterm value in the business? That it seemed on paper like they were making revenue from legit sources and successfully hid their relationships/high risk bets elsewhere? Or even exploded in risk after they got tons of $$ invested? There's more than enough potential doubt here to wait before pushing this FUDy angle.
ChatGPT solves first advent of code
So ChatGPT can trivially solve the first advent of code problem
And no mention of the fight over the amyloid hypothesis
Hehe, I had the same question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33812666
Following up with an argument full of terms like "many" and "can" is not enough to support an absolute claim in either direction.
I have interviewed as a junior those who were senior than me.

It’s like I’m asking about their scope of work and what was their experience. I dig deep into what they did. And I try to learn as much I can about the path their careers took.

From there I ask questions after getting insight into them.

What I am looking for is a wholesome discussion. If they are holding back, or not being completely upfront, I know I won’t be able to have the patience to deal with them.

The most senior person I interviewed had 30 years of experience more than me.
You can use KeePassium for mobile, store your kdbx file on ftp or google drive. Not difficult. Takes only one time setup then all good for life.
Yep. See my comments on this the last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32767673
For the value of a stock to go down people have to sell it. What the people who have not sold lost, the people who have sold gained. Overall the money supply has not changed, money has just moved from holders to sellers
TSMC Plans to Make More Advanced Chips in US at Urging of Apple
Part2 is quite often what you wish for in 2), isn't it? At least for the later puzzles, part1 is often something that can be solved naively, while part2 needs some cleverness to not blow up.
It doesn’t assume that at all. Explaining the known facts relating to legal controversies sounds like reasonable journalism to me. Labelling somebody a crook is a conclusion that the reader may choose to draw from those facts, not one that should be prescribed to them. Have you ever broken the law? You almost certainly have. Does that make you a crook?
Wifi is a wormhole.

Wireless charging is a wormhole.

Someone recording a concert 50 years ago, that concert now being freely available on Archive, and me blasting it on my home stereo, via Bluetooth, from my wirelessly charged pocket computer with wifi is a wormhole. And also a miracle.
I really like the "Programming with categories" lecture because you basically get 3 teaching styles for the same material. Brendan Fong is very straightforward "definition lemma definition lemma", Spivak is slightly more example-oriented, and then Bartosz is... bartosz. The juxtaposition helps to unstick me. I do use Eugenia Cheng's Catsters video to complement as well. If I had to chose one personal favourite, it would be her for sure.
I wish the suicide rate was factored more into conversations about taking guns away due to "violent crime".
Or F# for that .NET ecosystem goodness ;)
I’ve raised a tween who became a teen step child. I also grew up as a teen in the 90s. I was accessing porn via gopher and usenet when I was around 10. Netscape wasn’t even around back then. The dotcom boom did not really ramp up until after I graduated high school.

There are a lot of factors at play in all of this. For one, in the 80s and 90s, I didn’t have the internet as you know it. I also enjoyed a lot more freedom, as many folks who grew up in that time will remember.

These days, as parents, we can get arrested for neglect because we want the child to be able to walk home from school with their friends school. The laws were put on the books due to fear of child trafficking — little do they know what kids are doing on the internet.

My wife and I now have a under-2 child and another on the way. I can tell you that for me, allowing the child independence forms a crucial part of the parenting, but independence for its own sake is not the whole thing. The key missing piece is somehow teaching the child to _voluntarily_ contribute something greater than themselves. There is freedom, yes, but also responsibility. One chosen by the person.

Without that “contribute something greater than yourself”, independence for its own sake is meaningless. So is forcing the person to take on a responsibility.

I’m not aiming for control of the internet for my child. I’m aiming for raising someone who can discover their own inner purpose and then can grow into someone capable of contributing that. The next generation will have to take care of the world long after my cold body is food for the worms.
I used hot reloading extensively when developing a roguelike in Clojure. It was incredibly helpful to have a tight feedback loop.
True, the best solution is to download the list of hashed "bad passwords" and check if the one entered matches against that.
It is illegal on some stock exchanges. You are free to only buy your shares there. Also you are free to buy stocks on exchanges that do allow it but don't have two classes. No one is forcing anyone to buy Meta
"someone outside the hn-tech-bubble" saves their passwords in excel sheet without protection.
Comparing a niche entertainment gaming device to a general computing device isn't very fair, is it?
That is especially surprising, considering that passwords are more than likely going to contain special characters.
Three excellent points, yes.

There's a reason that the technical term for "A/B testing in SaaS products" is gaslighting.

O hai werd uv yeer!

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Would you say it gives it a limp?
This is incorrect. Binance planned to liquidate the entire FTT over a month or two. They still hold a significant FTT position.
It's only for meeting rooms.
Let me counterexample where changing soldermask is good: In my experience, changing from Green Soldermask (everybody's default) generally gets you better soldermask coverage as they aren't trying to optimize usage to the micropenny.

If I want mega-cheap, green is good. If I want reliability, almost any other color is better.
My resting face makes people assume I'm very focused. I usually am, but only to the activity, not the task. People tends not to approach me as they assume I'm very busy, both a pro and a con in a social setting. I also realize I made some people uncomfortable, as they are not used to such investigative gaze. But the real pro is that people never really try to bullshit me or pester me with petty concerns.
I think the role of AI in healthcare is interesting. LAION (nonprofit and creator of huge image datasets) has a Discord with a medical channel, and it's interesting to follow, even if a lot of it is over my head. I think bots could someday be better than humans at MRI analysis and combining huge amounts of knowledge from different disciplines.
Hell no. I can smell the scam from here.
No, there is no way to submit answers without logging in. The "anonymous" feature is just a setting to hide your username from the leaderboards.
I’ve used AoC to dabble in new languages. This time I’m going to learn emacs instead. Vi/vim for over 20 years…
Fox "News", "Global" Times, "The" Stürmer
Anecdote to go with everyone else's: punching a bully in the nose in the 9th grade wound up bringing about an immediate, universal and permanent end to anyone bullying me in school.
https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics while you can do static analysis with this the dynamic instrumentation of UB isnfar more thorough than ubsan
But they are still the same, just more convenient. The state gives the money value, be it paper or digital. They could even create a third currency, literal plastic chips, and they’d also be the same. The articles goes from condescending to their conclusion, but they just fake explaining anything, they don’t actually.
So that's level 3 value right? It's not money (level 1) or even chips (level 2).

So I'd say it's inaccurate to say you lost money. More accurate to say you lost value.

When the shares were issued (out of thin air) they had speculative value - they are promises for future dividends (presumably level 2) based on future profits.

The stock market acts as a level 2/level 3 swap place, and hence let's you calculate the "current level 2 price" of your level 3 paper.

So yes, the value simply got lost. But balance that with the way it simply got created in the first place.

And bear in mind that _all_ shares go to 0 in the long run. Ultimately the future arrives and that future value speculation is fully realised.
What is the appeal of these compared to just getting a 10 inch under the counter filter set? I have a double filter set, with two different multistage filters. The water is extremely well filtered and it's relatively cheap to change the filters a couple times a year as per manufacturer recommendations. It took me 35 minutes to install, but it's been running fine for years.
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In High School, lined up waiting for an elective class, dozens of witnesses... I took this advice... I stood up to a bully, and since they were already "up in my grill" they were able to sucker punch me, right in the diaphragm, without having to raise their arm and make a big show, fist quick raise to ~90 degree bent elbow and jabbed strait forward.. leaving me struggling to stand and winded for several minutes... and because they were so close, no one clearly saw what they did... leading to dozens of people being, no witnesses at all... I changed classes.

For everyone that thinks this advice always works... some bullies aren't cowards they're worse... they are arrogant assholes that think they can get away with what they are doing, or are entitled to do it... they may not back down, and may just get worse when confronted.

... Be careful
> customer value is degraded if there are other App Stores available.

This doesn't compute. Does your home cooking tastes worse because restaurants exist?
> ultra-religious conservatives

As an atheist I have to object to this comment.

There's a vast difference between what you call "ultra-religious" across cultures and religions. For example, I have Born Again Christian friends who never miss an opportunity to try to bring me out of the dark side. I also have "ultra religious" Jewish friends. In both cases some of the nicest people you will ever meet.

We have to be careful not to classify-and-vilify. Every single one of us could easily fit into a classification worth of some level of vilification. That only serves to create further division and friction and does not make for a better society.
Higher-orderness is first-order interaction
But do you have a lot of experience with people that were groomed into cyber sex abuse?

There probably isn’t a lot of research wrt OP’s example since it’s such a new(ish) phenomenon.