skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO of the three examples only the last one is a clear case of a company policy that can and should be followed even at the expense of productivity, and if their argument is really "how would anyone find out" you need to kick that up the management chain--this person could be putting your company at risk. For the other two your rationale is essentially "doing it the standard way makes the team more productive", but clearly comes at the cost of making this employee less productive, and your argument is empty--they are already seeking to be as productive as they think they can be. Assuming this person on net is more productive than average just assign someone else to backfill their unit tests and learn to live with the overly complex PRs.
Enforcement by means of CI is a fairly simple approach for many issues. Issues should have a minimum set of requirements including suitable testing. No colleague should approve a PR unless it ticks the necessary boxes.

Our CI does a check to see if Terraform was correctly formatted prior to push and will fail before any "init" / "plan" / "apply" step is reached.
> Except intermittent sources also need storage. They also need long distance transmission lines to bring power from remote areas of generation to places of demand

You are correct. They also need storage like nuclear for non-dispatchable loads in areas without good hydro or CSP resource.

For the remainder your battery production figures are off by at least a factor of two. China delivered 280GWh in H1 2022 at the peak of a market crunch in an industry that is growing at 50% YoY. There's no compelling reason to think the 5TWh/yr of factories under construction won't be completed on time as the renewable industry has been consistently over-delivering for a decade.

Your scaling for nuclear is new capacity. Which is around 5GW/yr right now. It has to increase tenfold to match the last year of new renewable generation, or fifteenfold to match the new capacity weighted installation.

> (whereas you can just place nuclear plants next to areas of demand).

Incorrect. Seismic activity, ground, water, temperature, security and many other concerns limit siting severely.

> If the price of steel and ammonia goes up because they can't run their plants as usual, then that cost is ultimately borne by consumers. You can't just use load shifting as part of the plan and ignore the costs of load shifting. "Virtual seasonal storage" amounts to "tell industries to shut off during winter". And no, heat production is not non-dispatchable unless you're okay with people freezing to death.

Hydrogen or ammonia continue to exist after you make them. Simply overprovision your $300/kW electrolyser slightly and use chemical energy as your buffer. This has the added advantage of being an emergency or low CF backup at minimal extra cost.
Found recently a no go for me against Linux on desktop (it's important for my workflows):

HDR, wider color space (P3 etc) + color management for all that things are not really supported in current Wayland desktops.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...

It will probably change next year (and the desktop software like players etc. need to catch up too) but monitors supporting these standards are existing for many years now. There is only Mac and Windows (Windows is even better with broader HW support actually) in this niche.
The Laptop from Hell
https://www.amazon.com.au/Laptop-Hell-Hunter-Secrets-Preside...

And of course, read the user reviews for some insight on the book.
The 91-Year-Old Mastermind Behind ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’
Not really. Apple Silicon has good battery life, but it's performance is actually fairly pathetic compared to last-gen x86 chips. Like, compare the M1 to the Ryzen 7 4800u, a chip that was like 9 months old when Apple Silicon hit shelves. Both processors have competitive single-core and multi-core performance, and the GPUs are even pretty close in terms of performance profile. The real kicker? AMD's chip put up competitive performance on TSMC's 7nm node, whereas Apple was fighting with 5nm.

Honestly, if AMD had access to the same silicon Apple does, there probably wouldn't be any comparison. I'd argue their processes are half a generation ahead of Apple's designs.
using your argument to sell something always weakens your argument
We know enough

People who know enough about what happened: The guy who got rescued, and the people who rescued him.

People who do NOT know enough: Every other person on the planet, including and especially the nattering nabobs on the internet.
Haha... I tried, never worked out for me ;).

Has one of the hundreds of ideas actually materialized into something? If so what was it?
Yeah, maybe. The main issue there is that I was buying for it specifically being a good laptop, with portability taking a front seat, without gimmicks that add fragility like a hybrid hinge. The X1 Nano (aside from CPU) excels at this, whereas P series for example makes compromises for better power, which I don't need. If I want power my well cooled 5950X/3080Ti tower offers that in quantities far greater than any laptop could deliver.

X1 series is sadly Intel exclusive though, with the closest thing with AMD being X13, but that isn't quite the same. There's also the Z series but those are weird to say the least and decidedly "un-thinkpaddish". Might just have to settle for X13.
Making eggs on stainless steel is definitely more difficult... I'd say it's pretty easy with cast iron or carbon steel though, which were the traditional ways to make eggs pre-nonstick pans.
When you have less than a handful of companies creating the products there is no effective competitive pressure.

They control future supply which raises or lowers the price at their whim. The feature-set needed to get money from spyware is not mutually exclusive. Its a value, no-cost added to improve profit.

That's all the business people see, and Accurint is more than happy to pay with those government funds to enable historic lookups of your behavior in your private home sans court.
I stopped using SO at my first 2-3 years of coding anyway, that's when i started actually improving. SO has so many low quality answers and the cargo cult is doing more damage that helping young devs.
Can you write a death metal song about Greta Thunberg?

"The Thunberg Reign"

Verse 1: She walks with a purpose, A fire in her eyes, A voice of the future, A force to be recognized.

Chorus: The Thunberg Reign, A call to action, We must heed her warning, Or face our downfall, The Thunberg Reign.

Verse 2: She fights for the earth, Our dying planet in need, A warrior for the truth, A beacon of hope indeed.

Chorus: The Thunberg Reign, A call to action, We must heed her warning, Or face our downfall, The Thunberg Reign.

Bridge: She stands alone, But her voice is loud, A leader of the youth, A beacon in the crowd.

Chorus: The Thunberg Reign, A call to action, We must heed her warning, Or face our downfall, The Thunberg Reign.
> The hash idea works even in mutable land

Uh, how? Other than removing it from the dictionary, mutating it then adding it back.
My impression is that the international ski bodies (FIS et al) have fully banned the substances at this point. No phase out.
It really needed to replace a defective set of SSDs. They migrated because they were already planning to, but, with a replacement set of disks, it could continue serving more users for longer and migrate on a more relaxed schedule.
> My understanding is that a cloud-based aggregator (like Feedly) delivers feed and state information to clients, but not the content itself.

Depends entirely on the feed. Just checked my most recent 100 entries from Feedbin - that comes back with 23k of `summary` and 508k of `content`. That was one call to return 661k of JSON covering 28 feeds.

> So is making a few REST API calls a significant savings over checking a couple hundred (or whatever) RSS feeds?

I've made one call to get (assuming >2k in `content` is a full article) 74 full articles from 28 feeds. Add another 26 and I'm looking at 27 total.

Even just retrieving the RSS feeds is 28 and 26 more for the non-included articles to make a total of 54 - double what I had to do via Feedbin. That's before we start considering response times and latency for each of those sites which would drag things down even further.

There's a reason why people use RSS aggregators!
Open-source Midjourney gallery with nice UI touches
How’s the keyboard ?
The Framework isn't bad.

I've had a few freezes on my recently-purchased 12th gen running NixOS, but I've juste applied the documented workarounds for the issue and am waiting to see if those resolve it.

Other than that, it's been a surprisingly solid experience. Sleep on lid close, wake on open, Bluetooth just recognized my ear buds, fingerprint scanner just worked after I enabled it... not a bad setup.
Software horror show: SAP Concur
Farmers also want free money, they want blackjack and hookers too. Can you give it to them?

What farmers want means nothing if they don't pay for it. If there is some hidden wellspring of farmers who really want those options then any manufacturer who makes tractors with those options will easily steal lots of customers and profits from John Deere. That's what you might call a "lucrative profit opportunity".

But it won't happen, because farmers don't actually prioritize it when buying tractors, they prioritize tool efficiency and are content to idly complain about this issue without putting any money where their mouth is. Go ahead, start a root-access tractor business, then customers will suddenly tell you 99 reasons why John Deere's tractor is still better than yours because these telemetry options are some of the least important things when buying a tractor and practically no farmer will actually reward you for it.

But sure, they want it. They'll even go as far as writing an internet comment complaining about it!
Not sure what you mean for how long, but I have not has issues riding all day.
It’s very hard to scale when your persistent storage is failing and timing out.
Yeah AI seems to be very relevant for the future unfortunately I never really dabbled in that space, so I don't have any experience with it.

That's a good idea thanks!
> Tokyo is absurdly gigantic, I would not suggest randomly walking it.

Tokyo is not really a big city like London, New York or Paris. It is like a bunch of smaller cities clumped together. In fact administratively, Tokyo is a prefecture, not a city.

So sure, it is huge, but you can random walk one of the "wards" like you would a smaller city. You can also walk between wards, but expect to walk a lot, and you are unlikely to make it your primary way of moving around, but I still recommend you do it at least once. Biking is also common (note: biking is done on the sidewalk there).
I've struggled to come to a good analogy for why I feel this way. The closest I've come is to imagine a steel foundry that has developed a new alloy that is amazing. The foundry, being run by pro-social people, spend much of their effort on trying to modify the alloy so that it can only be used for good.

But that is never going to work, because they are operating on the wrong level of abstraction. Even worse, by focusing on an untenable abstract, they miss the lower-hanging fruit of more effective methods of control.
I was talking about US insurance where profit percentage is fixed, hence reducing bottomline reduces profits.
Rare footage of a 1999 performance:

https://youtu.be/LiXg_70rMeM
I'll ask because we're struggling with this now. What do you do to reduce the risk of an auto applied TF change going sideways? Our current workflow involves a manual review/approval by devOps.
This (and directly accessing my network card) is why I'm sad WSL1 is no longer being developed.
As long as 'hey google, turn up the volume' continues to work while I'm in the shower I'm good. This is my #1 most appreciated feature of living in the future. Thousand dollar computer phone, 500 dollar wireless waterproof speaker just to play worse that 1980 CD quality digitally compressed and over EQ'd music, but at least I don't drip water all over the floor going to turn it up.
On the last point, luggage delivery hotel-to-hotel and hotel-to-airport is easy and one of my favorite unique services in Japan! About $15 per bag and then you don't have to carry your bag through the train station. Except on trains that specifically go to the airport e.g. N'EX / Narita Express, seems all local tourists use a luggage delivery service service.

There's a long form to fill out in Japanese, but any hotel front desk has been able to help me with it. Most convenience stores also have a sign with the distinctive yellow cat-carrying-kitten logo of Yamato Taq-Q-Bin:

https://www.global-yamato.com/en/hands-free-travel/scene02.h...
Show HN: Query ChatGPT in Neovim
A simple Neovim plugin that lets you query ChatGPT :)
People already upvote fairly bland comments which reinforce common beliefs, so AIs which can distill popular sentiment and regurgitate it very readibly will get wildly upvoted on any social media platform.

Most humans don't like too much creativity and they want ideas that they agree with.

Wonder if the death of social media is more a descent into AI generated inane and bland commentary.
> Well, Big Tech is not the only concentrated industry. A bunch of concentrated industries use Big Tech antitrust as a pretext for going after Big Tech—not to end monopoly but to redistribute the industry’s share of the monopoly themselves. So, cable operators, phone companies, entertainment companies. I think it’s fair to say that the big entertainment companies don’t want to kill Google; they just want to take it over. Some of the energy that comes up to break up or tame Big Tech is coming from other sectors that are every bit as much in need of taming and breakup as Big Tech is.

This is the most notable bit of information in the article

The whole big tech thing has three camps: big tech itself, other corporations like telecoms which want to buy out tech companies like verizon bought out yahoo, and politicians in DC who want to blackmail tech companies and control the flow of information[0]

government regulation is a double edged sword, and wherever there's a bunch of money there's a bunch of people who want to take it

[0] https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...
This immediately reminds me of that trend of 'light dancers' that was prominent on America's Got Talent for a few years until people got bored of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvrCyIZb5q8
I’m known on Twitter for posting GPT-3 (and now ChatGPT) examples. I have had at least 100 people tell me in the past few days “They fixed it” or “Doesn’t work for me”. Every time I’ve looked into it it’s either that they typed the prompt wrong (omitting capital letters is a common mistake) or they needed to start a fresh session. I’m extremely skeptical of any reports of new changes now.
> An AI cannot, by definition, create better HN content. Because HN content is about hearing what people think about a certain topic/thread.

Hmm. That's HN proposition value but that's not necessarily what keeps people coming back. I am thinking about the dopamine hits from the news cycle and comments.

If I am right then it follows that:

> Hearing what an AI statistically regurgitates doesn’t satisfy the purpose even if it’s better written.

..actually does the job.

How much chatGPT content can we/you/I stomach before we stop visiting ? We all have a different threshold (and language is a barrier for non-native, it would certainly take me longer to spot the AI).
Here is the quote from Jacques Pepin about the utility of non-stick, starts at 1:35, https://www.nytimes.com/video/dining/100000001116746/jacques...

Basically, yes, it's certainly possible to get non-stick properties with a well-seasoned, very well-maintained pan. But even someone like Pepin, who has more than enough knowledge and experience to keep a pan in good working order, went the route of "that's too finicky, nonstick is just easier."
Isn’t the MacBook Pro also manufactured in China?
I bought one from Clemens at https://framelabs.eu/en/

I've been extremely happy with mine. There are contrast limitations, of course, but you quickly develop an eye for what works on it and what doesn't. But sure, you can't just throw any picture on there and expect to get away with it.

Note that it's made in and ships from Germany.
I don't mind soldered memory but it's hard to imagine buying a new laptop in 2022 with a mere 8gb if it's going to be soldered.
There is also a Computer Algebra System called Magma: http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/magma/
IME it’s pretty much impossible to change rules adopted by a bureaucracy if you are just a cog.
Yes, but I got it several years ago and wasn't as concerned about China at the time

Future gens of mbp might not be made in China (but afaik they still are)
Performed a search for "pareto + budget", here's one result. https://malpaper.com/blogs/news/using-the-80-20-pareto-law-f...
Insurance companies want expenses to be predictable first and foremost, given the fixed nature of premiums.
The largest mastodon instance is truth social
If this is the company I think it is, privately contact opensource-licensing, or just cc them on the review.
My favorite paper on zippers (and one of my favorite papers in general) is Norman Ramsey’s and Joao Dias’s „An Applicative Control-Flow Graph Based on Huet’s Zipper“

https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/zipcfg.pdf

In section 5 they say their zipper turned out to be a little bit faster than the imperative version (they use Ocaml). And the resulting code is simpler and less buggy than the imperative one (section 6.3).
Absolutely. Stand alone GPS transponders with satelite connections must be expensive too.

Having this as an extra layer of protection seems like a game changer.
Yep, it has recommendations for every single subject!
> x1 is made in china, human rights issues

I was under the impression that most MBP are made in China?
The problem is, the darn thing produces comments which can’t be blanket labeled as mediocre. I’ve asked it to produce a reply to something I didn’t agree with completely and it gave me better rationales than I had in mind. Scary!
Not really related, but I did see an art installation where the screens had been completely disconnected and removed but retained the grainy image which was on them last.
It feels great to me. Nice and firm, with a tactile movement.

It has all the right buttons in all the right places, except for Home/End/PgUp/PgDown being hidden behind the Fn key, as is unfortunately the trend these days.
Is there a viable alternative for running a web app offline as a “native-ish” application?
You know what works as a MacBook replacement? Pretty much any laptop. I have yet to encounter a laptop that didn't run Arch Linux just fine.
I think you both recognized a very valid point but missed each other’s point. Respectfully, of course!
AMD's 5000 and 6000 series CPUs are much more power efficient (6000 series being near m1 levels of efficiency) than Intel's current offerings.

Linux also tends to be quite a bit worse for battery life than Windows.
> add mechanical tools that fail the build

I wish this wasn’t so damn effective.

Anecdata says that people who are too stubborn to adapt to other people’s best practices often don’t mind the practices, only the way they are conveyed.
It's been an hour, did you read it yet?

I would rate your prediction "mostly false". Interesting comments on Big Tech and politics, blockchain, development of cyberpunk, future of AI, etc.
Same here.

OpenAI commented on the verboseness of answers as something they need to work on.
If you’re using randomly generated UUIDs, then collisions of any kind should be extremely unlikely, no matter how you’re using them. <0.2% chance in 2^60 random UUIDs.
> ChatGPT is a very promising start

It is not the start. It is at least the third iteration (if not more) of this tech.

> In the end convenience wins out at cost of correctness.

There's nothing convenient about a wrong answer. Wrong answers have no value. I could very easily build you a convenient service that is rarely correct but nobody would care.
Apple outdid themselves. My 2018 Macbook Pro got only 6 hours away from the wall, and my friends tell me the 16" experience from that era was even worse. Imagining the battery life of those ill-conceived i9 models... just thinking about their idle TDP makes me shudder.

> I really hope the others catch up

When was the last time you tried a Ryzen laptop? Any AMD APU made in the past 5 years should perform pretty admirably relative to the M1.
In Florida, living between the coast and the everglades, rain is a daily occurrence. Having grown up there for 20 years, I feel that rain doesn't phase me at all.

I have questioned the averseness northerners have towards getting wet. Living in Maryland now, so many I've interacted with will just not go outside all day if there is rain. They've been raised by parents who've trained them to wait for the rain to stop, to postpone yardwork, to waste time and space fiddling with umbrellas.

Is it just a comfort thing, or is there a real advantage to waterproof/breathable clothing?
Yeah I agree. In his story it sounds like he put himself into a situation with no backup if things went wrong. He didn't have water, only had dehydrated food, and only bought a single gas bottle. He hiked down a steep mountainside which he felt he couldn't hike back up.

It sounded like thought he could use the SOS button as an instant escape button. In the end the Sheriff's department literally came and got him and his complaint is that they made a snarky Facebook post. That wasn't professional, but personally I'd prefer them doing that than me freezing to death.
> I was under the impression that most MBP are made in China?

afaik they all are, but this was a purchase from several years ago
Right? This thing is more eloquent with its words than I am with my own.
It’s possible that they believe it’s not impotent.
The University of CA decided to drop college admissions tests–that is a bad idea
I have tried several non-apple systems with windows or Linux. No, sorry, but unless you want to go crazy behind the PC and/or operating system Apple wins hands down.
What particularly did you get screwed by with Big Sur?

The only problem I had was with a Qt app that would not run on it and that turned out to be a problem with Qt rather than macOS.
Someone wrote a lengthy and detailed critique of Clean Code a little while back:

https://qntm.org/clean

As someone who also recommends against improving developers reading Clean Code, I think the arguments in that piece are generally on point.
This is a good example of a premise that isn’t generally acceptable. If we agree that persons who lack agency have no right to not be killed then we can kill infants, the severely mentally ill, involuntarily commited persons, and arguably severely physically disabled persons.

Not to mention, determining who does and doesn’t have agency and thus a right to not be killed strikes me as considerably trickier than the basic medical definition of dead, which is basically no heartbeat. Hence the observation that cold and dead might not really be dead. Severe hypothermia can make the pulse undetectable.
Does this efficiency justify this law?
https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10311
You aren't losing your job short-to-mid term. Long term - it's so hard to predict that it's pointless to give advice so do whatever you like.
If it’s better to travel by train, then no need to ban short flights, because people wouldn’t use them much. Empirically, since people ARE taking short flights instead of trains, the people who are doing so believe that flights are better for them.

Why take away a choice from people?