skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I must have missed this but ... Wind produces 16% of UK electricity, and nuclear produces 13% ....

Ok wow.

I assumed solar would be the thing that takes over, and In Spain that's probably true. But here it seems wind is going to be a win.

Anyway I still need to work out how to spend my declining years - how to write software for renewable energy farms ... wind or solar.
You're envious of the fools who choose to burn themselves out by working 16 hours days? Insanity.
Ah that. Sort of. Ukraine has carried out a few deep strikes inside Russia so far. Military targets are not off limits even hundreds of miles inside Russian borders. But a ground assault is a different thing because then yes Russia can claim that it is being invaded and resort to nukes. But this also isn’t necessary to win the war.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard that for Monaco nationals, housing is heavily subsidized. Otherwise they simply wouldn't be able to live in their own country!

I personally know a Monaco national. Typical middle-class lifestyle, maybe he secretly has a fortune be he doesn't look like it. Interestingly, despite living effectively in France, he is not French, he is not even a EU citizen, it means that when he went to study in France, he had to do more paperwork than someone from, say, Germany.

And BTW, while I didn't live in Monaco, I went there a few times (2h drive from where I live) and it definitely feels the way you describe it.
I created the poll - https://github.com/getezy/ezy/discussions/35
How Your Adult Children Can Stop Relying on You Financially
Can you share the link to the study you're referring to? I will soon be choosing a school for my kid, and I'm very curious to see if there are any actual differences in outcomes. All the studies I found say there are. (For example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5670361/)
but key-based cryptographic sigs have been around long before Docusign
There are pretty much only three major inventions (he claimed boldly, hoping to spark a fun and informative discussion):

The Haber-Bosch Process, without which none of us would be here reading this today.

The transistor. 'natch.

Rare earth magnets (which enable small strong motors, which enable tiny drones and factories, which revolutionizes economics.)
Not to mention Apple with the Mac: 680x0 -> PowerPC -> X86/64 -> Arm
Can we use this plugin in production?
Could you elaborate more on how is this related?
> But, we need to learn as a society to not just walk off when we hear this. Always, always accept the job. This will keep them from actually fulfilling the job since they're planning on you working there.

What does this mean?
Because they don't refuse access. They kindly ask you to disable, but don't require it, and the users of an ad blocker know damn well they're not going to voluntarily disable it if it's possible to browse the site at all with it on, so rather than rote click "continue" 90 times every two hours, let the blocker block the nagging popup as well.

If these sites really don't want you there with an ad blocker, they can actually block you. I imagine they realize there is value in getting more eyeballs even without ads, whether that be that users might still recommend and create links to your content that other people without a blocker then follow, or you actually sell something and some of those people might buy it. Whatever it is, by revealed preference, those site owners seem to be indicating it's worth it to allow people to browse with an ad blocker.
Apple is not just charging for payment processing, you get access to the App Store marketplace with more than billion devices. With Stripe you only get payment processing.
Nice Interview with Coffeezilla and Lex Fridman: SBF, FTX, Scams
Deep dive into what happened with SBF and FTX and other frauds.
Seems like it would be much easier to just hire a few extra people for each shift so everyone isn’t pushed to a burnout limit all of the time.
I can't read the article because of they paywall, but has the WSJ finally moved on from hating on Millennials to hating on Gen Z?
It will obsolete essay writing or make cheating more of a problem. This may be good. Multiple choice tests will be favored over things like term papers, which are basically meaningless as of now. This will favor general intelligence (iq) at least until there are interface advances like supposedly neurolink or wearables, at which point iq will matter less and big five traits much more. That would be beautiful in many ways, but a major inflection point for humans; no more elites. A great leveling may reduce violence and oppression, and increase prosperity across the globe.
The End of High-School English
What? No.

It stores your private key, which is per site. You use your biometrics to unlock it and sign in.

If you upload your password protected SSH private key to Dropbox for safe keeping, a person will still need your password to use it even if they gain access to it. How is this any different?
I also heard somewhere (also don't have link), that he apparently watched in horror the killing of Gaddafi multiple times, possibly imagining himself in the same situation.

I wonder if there's a deepfake of that video with Putin's face instead of Gaddafi's - that would certainly freak him out :)
What is “character” good for if not helping society in some way? For the most useful ways you could help society, you end up getting paid. So while making money != character, there’s a correlation.
Because ALSA doesn't allow two programs to use the same audio card simultaneously. ALSA is good for exclusive access, when you want to remove everything between an application and audio card.

Also ALSA cannot do other nice things, like switching audio output when you plug an USB audio card.
Who doesn't like naps? Having the flexibility is a bonus if you ask me.
Amazon built a brand new warehouse near me in summer of '22. As far as I can tell, it's still sitting there empty. I haven't seen a truck enter or leave in months.
“Silicon Age” is being used, though “Information Age” and “Digital Age” are more common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Age
>In the end, it is still a system for producing workers that fit in whatever the current regime needs, and I think there should be some space for "i dont want to be a part of this, there must be some other way to live"

https://www.youtube.com/c/ForestAnon

you might be interested in this dude. he just walked away from society and built a hovel in the woods.
I'm embarrassed to say we're still on Python 3.6 which reached EOL back in December. A lot of dependencies to work out in order to resolve, packages that need to be completely removed and replaced. It's a project. Remaining on 3.6 is giving me anxiety.
I'm arguing that the law itself is wrong here.

I don't see any value in dozens of different, bad, private apps rehashing the same weather report data.

That the law values the rights of those companies to rent-seek higher than the right of citizens to be informed is extremely dangerous. The same reasoning could be applied to news, laws, or even firefighting.

Some services should just be provided by the state and not by private companies.
I see exactly the same news going around Ukrainian telegram channels about Putin. First they thought China and now they are buying real estate in Venezuaela and Argentina. Some say it's fake and some not. I tend to believe it's fake news to show the regime is weak and is loosing.
Oops. That was meant to be a comment on the 'Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer' thread.
It is for people that want to bypass account creation protections. So if I was github I would flag the account too.

Bypassing captcha is likely against terms of service or ar least it should be (most of them have a button saying "I am human")
Use ChatGPT Programmatically in Python
Aka, “parallel reconstruction”
I mean transistors are neat and all, but what really sets things apart for me is integrated circuits. When you look at the size of the discrete MOnSter 6502 CPU[1], featured here[2] recently, and realize it has around 3k transistors and the latest CPUs and GPUs have several billion...

And not just transistors, but analog circuits as well, allowing for extremely compact designs.

[1]: https://monster6502.com/

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33841901
Comma-first is absolutely conventional in many parts of literally millions of C++ files, particularly for member initializers in constructor definitions, but often, also, argument lists.

It makes for cleaner edits and diffs.

If you are designing a syntax that does not rely on line breaks like Python, reach for "introducers" instead of "delimiters". Commas make awkward introducers even though people can and do get used to it.
A common problem with payment processors is international support. Stripe isn’t perfect by any means, but they support much more than than most of the US focused competitors.

As an example, a few years ago the EU brought in Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Stripe was one of the few companies ready for this, being ready about a year before. I used them at the time and adopted their SCA support and it worked well.

We also happened to be considering alternative payment processors at the time. Braintree had some basic support for it, not fully ready, and seemingly undocumented. Other suppliers didn’t even know about SCA despite notionally taking GBP payments.

Of course it’s fine to only sell to the US market, but Stripe is pretty good in many places and I suspect that’s a significant contributor to their popularity.
>they are the only ones who genuinely are pushing for annexing what they call “so called ‘ukraine’” due to their strong nationalist beliefs. Basically they are the most ideologically aligned with Putin but also the most critical of his failures.

The only loud protest voices coming out of russia seem to be complaining about loses, poor soldier conditions, not killing Ukrainians fast enough etc. Even so called ru opposition turned out to be all in on helping russian soldiers (TV Rain). No anti war/regime protests to speak off, plenty anti mobilization ones tho.
> re-startup phase for a company with a massive user base: how often does a chance like this come around?

A chance to experience all tbe downside of a death march startup with a firm with a massive burn rate due to acquisition costs foisted on it by its new owner, who also—already, before the offer was made, alienated the existing base of paying customers, further shortening the already short runway, was already openly trying to rehire key individuals who had apparently been erroneously terminated in both mass and individual terminations, and who had only vague plans to maybe re-incorporate equity into compensation of the large (even after massivd cuts) firm so that, while much diluted, employees would have some of the potential upside of working a startup?

Who wouldn't be envious of that? Even before considering all the regulatory drag Twitter’s size and past history bad gotten it, preventing it from being able, without existential legal risk, from maneuvering like a startup?
Wait, we do? Where is this? How do I use it?
I’m pretty sure Wise does something like this. Protip, you can get a Wise business account and collect stripe payments in a local currency, then bulk fx it to your local currency.

Why Stripe isn’t partnering with them, I don’t know. My bank partners with Wise to get the best exchange rate possible (Bunq) when I’m out of the EU. It’s fantastic.
That's my main takeaway so far. It helps me get started. Having a piece of code that might be wrong but that I can refactor is easier than starting from blank.
That is the only thing that Zig offers over Modula-2, which without an ecosystem is hardly worth of change, when it is just as safe as C and C++.

Also probably the only language that is able to beat Objective-C in the amount of @ per line of code.
Been enjoying my HD3 for a couple years. Great pair of speakers.
* Are they as prone as us to street-mugging?*

This isn't a problem in a lot of areas. Believe it or not, some places are fairly safe. If you live in a safer area, why would you bother paying for security, especially if no one realizes that you might be worth getting mugged?
There are advantages to opening up all of the functionality of the web front-end as an API to allow alternative front-ends.
You can't make a business out of everything. By the same reasoning you could argue for banning breathing because it prevents a potential canned-air market.
It's funny to observe the tide shift against Stripe on HN in recent years. I think they are a phenomenal, once in a generation company. Their APIs are beautiful (still, even though fewer people agree these days) and the use cases that can be built upon those APIs are endless and amazing. I always felt the pricing was a steal for what the product delivered.

Their support, on the other hand :(. ! Maybe it will get better with advances in LLMs, because I'd be shocked if I was ever talking to a human.
Then put them on pip and get rid of them.
I am not sure about "better latency". The latency with Pulseaudio cannot be controlled via GUI and is often quite large (on order of hundred ms or more). In my opinion, to get minimum latency one needs to access audio card directly, without intermediate daemons.
Good luck screening for someone dishonest enough to break the law, honest enough to go to jail for you like he promised, stupid enough to put your interests before his own, yet smart enough to rescue you from a foreign government.
From the article:
>R is extremely slow at a lot of tasks, for one thing, even more than Python.

Base R is quite slow. R + data.table is faster than Python + Pandas in a benchmark that I did recently.

For a 1 million row CSV file, Read + Sort + self-Join + Write took on a Windows box:

Base R: 47.56s

Python + Pandas: 6.44s

R + data.table: 2.99s

More details at:

https://www.easydatatransform.com/data_wrangling_etl_tools.h...
Well bare in mind that capacity's different from the current (as in now, not amperes.. but that too) generation on this Winter day.

(Not saying it does go the other way in capacity though, I don't know.)
Practically speaking, there are not many routes in and out of Monaco, and they are usually very congested. Combined with surveillance, the chance of 'petty' criminals actually being able to pull this off is effectively zero.
They could offer a user-paid alternative. Given the value of data, the alternative price in money might be driving some users out though.
So if China refuses to grant them exile they will tell the army to attack people randomly or to detonate a nuclear bomb? How many would follow this order?
I dunno. Make a patreon or something. Do it for love. Don't do it at all.

If you send me ads, I'll delete them. If you send me DRM'd data, I'll get rid of it. These are not acceptable business models.
I believe it's also occasionally brought up that the public was generally on the side of the National Guard re: the Kent State Shootings.

The public sucks sometimes.
apologies, yes i believe its a fork
Python 3.11 broke a lot of stuff in Debian, as did earlier versions of Python 3:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python3.9&...
I was so excited when he reached out asking me for some of the microscopy images I took of beaver teeth during my PhD! Great video.
Needing advice as a young aspiring entrepreneur
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As a consumer in the US I always pay with a credit card when I can. The businesses have already baked the credit card fees into their pricing so I might as well get a few percent back from my card plus the extra purchase protection, etc.
Hardly an apt comparison.
I run a discord related to software internals. So if the discussion you want to have is about how compilers/databases/emulators/distsys work then come on over!

https://discord.multiprocess.io
> It doesn't take a `T**` so it doesn't seem relevant to discussions of std::out_ptr though? You won't be able to use std::out_ptr with realloc so there's no chance of making a mistake with it. [...]

The problem is the same, it just happens to not take a T**. The problem is the same for any function that takes T**, I just couldn't think of one off the top of my head. I listed some below now. But also note that the absence of many APIs taking T** would also be an argument for these smart pointers not being so useful, so it's not really a counterargument!

> What function do you have that is both releasing resources and also doing other work which might fail?

See for example getdelim() or even asprintf(). asprintf() isn't guaranteed to return a valid pointer due to an error, so you can't free it unconditionally. getdelim() also isn't guaranteed to free the input if there is an I/O error, so you can't release that unconditionally either.

It would be helpful if you try to list some functions you believe you can use std::inout_ptr on.
> Graph databases also excel at discovering distant relationships between loosely coupled data entities and deriving previously unknown facts about the data that would be otherwise too cumbersome to unravel using document or relational database queries.

You can do all of this in the relational model, with the new support for recursive CTE's that now enables arbitrary queries to be performed. Even seamless inference of "additional" data points (often given as a unique selling point of "semantic" solutions!) is just a view, plus indexes on the underlying query if you want it to be fast.
Of course I am overthinking it, I am sending my kid there for the better part of the day :) if there is one thing I am allowed to overthink its the education system.
Crypto is too volatile to really make day-to-day purchases realistic.
HN is as guilty as twitter IMO.
Ecosystems matter more than single language features.
Who’s going to write the software to read those keys and validate them?

Google and apple. That’s it.
Hopeless fight how? Personally? Because I don't think the army won't stand with them forever.
You can also view the effects of a frontpage post on HN here: http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/admin/
>The people of Russia don't seem to want this war, they are conscripted. (From what I've read from afar.)

People in russia want the war, want to win and conquer Ukraine, they just dont want to be conscripted personally.
> JACK exists becase some people need low latency

Wouldn't latency be lower if the application would access audio card directly without any daemons in between?
Where is the "chance" part in that picture? Are you saying you envy a chance of burnout?
LoL, I don't think Iranians officials want to apply asylum in there anywhere near Albania, the quota is already taken by Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) (hint: terrorists org/cult)
SSRIs like many psych meds are probably overprescribed, but they can do incredible things for people who actually do suffer from a psychiatric condition.

I've also never heard about permanent cognitive harm, though going off their requires step-down over time and shouldn't be done "cold turkey."

The same is true for ADD/ADHD meds. They are overprescribed too but for people who actually do have these conditions they can be absolutely miraculous and mean the difference between a fully functioning life and one in permanent discomfort and functioning far below ability.
I'm very interested to try Codon, though I note there are no Windows binaries. Do you think building from source on Windows would be straightforward?
I was part of a project that knew this siren song well. Here's our Swift implementation:

https://pastebin.com/eAFYgqvL

Winternitz signatures are fascinating because they're secure while still being within the reach of most programmers and--as the article points out--they're quantum safe.

We never got around to implementing the Merkle tree portion because while it saved space it added more complication and still didn't quite solve the "one time" issue. Instead, we implemented a simple blockchain. Users would sign a block containing the signature of the content they wanted to sign and their next key. Again, within the capabilities of most coders to verify themselves, which was the goal.
For the Montessori aspect, yes, there are a bunch of “Montessori” schools that don’t really follow Montessori principles (at least there are in my area.) If you want to find a school that does actually implement Montessori principles, you have to do research (looking for membership in an association like the American Montessori Society is a good first-pass filter) and interview the school. There’s no substitute for due diligence for this.

My wife, a Montessori preschool teacher for 30 years, calls these unaccredited schools Monte-sort-of.
Precisely. That's exactly what we end up doing
In my family we have always had livestock. I was in software for a while, and am open to certain aspects of that work still. I have other jobs too, because agriculture is not a dependable long-term venture. (That is more related to the fact that antitrust regulations are not enforced in USA, than it is to any inherent quality of agriculture.)
Girocard was actually still significantly cheaper than the capped credit and debit cards (0.125% end-to-end cost (!)), and yet now we're seeing banks drop it because MasterCard has threatened to stop business with any bank that doesn't drop it.

IMO, the EU should either break up MasterCard & VISA, nationalize them, or build their own system (maybe unify Girocard, Dankort, etc?) and make that mandatory.

The difference between the MasterCard & VISA fees and e.g. Girocard fees is almost 2%. That's equivalent to paying an additional 2% tax on everything.

With that amount of money we could make all transit in the EU entirely free of charge and expand it quite a bit, yet all it's doing right now is make some rich assholes even richer.
Indeed it's pretty easy to digitally sign electronic documents in my country. I do wonder though if it's also possible to digitally sign my own generated documents (pdf, docx, stuff like that).
Any alternatives you can recommend?
> Pure nostalgia seeing that Instagram app icon

I really miss the skeumophic design of the iOS ecosystem from the early-to-mid 2010's.

It felt so premium, especially with the retina display which was miles ahead of basically everything else (especially desktops and laptops of the era).
Real coders still program with punch-cards, you kids with your fancy text editors are spoiled.
Sudden vacuum of a central authority in Iran can result in seriously messed up situation. I very much hope that there is a peaceful transition of government rather than a sudden vacuum.
sed 's/running out of/unwilling to pay for/'
PA isn't great when it comes to latency, but JACK and PW are.
There is a good reason I'm not migrating to rust: I have 15million lines of C++ that we have written over the years, for a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars (probably over a billion by now). There is no way we can migrate to rust for less than more hundreds of millions, there is also the loss of new features that our competition can add while we are doing the migration effort.

I'm looking at how to fit rust into our project, but it isn't easy. I can report already that bad programmers in rust write worse code than great programmers in C++...