skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rick Rubin nerding out with his friends is a fun listen, but nothing ruins an episode of that podcast like Malcolm Gladwell showing up to do the interview.
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> that asked explicitly for a huge set of the users Facebook permissions which then led to scraping and spam.

I seem to remember early 2010s... I had written a few small FB apps, and ... the minimal permissions it would ask for from people were... large. IIRC, the minimal permissions always included access to friend lists, even when I had 0 intention of using that. I didn't want it, but there was no way to opt out. I suspect it's somewhat more granular now, and less intrusive out of the box, but... yeah, when your defaults/minimums are expansive, you'll get stuff like that. I think the CA stuff still happened while those defaults were in place (although they may have also asked for more permissions too).
> children, helped with AI tools, can learn whatever they want - as an innate ability? curiosity?

That's a cute naive sentiment, that kids want to learn on their own.
You have to make them want to learn, that's the role of a teacher.
That depends on whether or not your paranoia is warranted. If your communication is compromised, what's the cost?

Are you naive enough to think you're secure from the most sophisticated actors? Those with nearly unlimited funds? They run a lot of other 'nodes'. They're also involved in the development of many projects. They're involved in the infrastructure.
Was there a site like this for book titles too?
Explicitly flagging this llm as a tool for (potentially) writing fiction is a nice way to work on domain-specific text generation while avoiding many of the critiques of Galactica.
When those 1s and 0s are deleted and that delete is replicated (or other catastrophic change, such as ransomware) you presumably don't have the ability to restore if all you're doing is replication. A strategy that layers replication + backup/versioning is the goal.
Lol yes our app will probably go down sometime today fyi to everyone
As crater was already linked to in a sibling comment, the performance suite dashboard can be seen at https://perf.rust-lang.org/, and the suite itself at https://github.com/rust-lang/rustc-perf/tree/master/collecto...
Its clear if you know what to look for that the article is subversive propaganda.

Why bother engaging when it will just make you a target or candidate for subversion? Just flag it and move on.
It’s not that simple, because of adverse selection. I wrote another comment about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33924689
Isn’t this highly regulated.

Also, the article reports that the pipeline sends 620k barrels a day so this is 2% of a days output spilled and the pipeline started in 2010.

Obviously this is bad, but I think the reason we tolerate it is because otherwise there would be greater environmental impact from shipping this oil some other way.

When we no longer need affordable energy, I think we’ll stop tolerating.
I'm considered eloquent and poetic and I hardly ever mean to be.

I appear to do this by 'throwing the dart wrong', and storing similar concepts adjacently.

Like I just did in the sentence above. I could have said, "choosing incorrectly from adjacent elements".

But I didn't; I chose the vivid, short, memorable form that came up first when reached for <unintentional variability in speech performance due to inefficient retrieval selection and poor discrimination between adjacent concepts>.

You'll remember the dart and the dartboard, not the phrase between angle-brackets above.

Slight errors can make you memorable, and eloquence is basically memorability
I think, at least for the list-like examples, this is missing an important aspect of what delimiters ‘mean’ to humans.

The delimiter goes directly after the items because it means ‘but wait, there’s more’, and so mentally puts you into a mindset of being prepared for the next item. If list-like delimiters are placed at the start of lines, the reader is forever in a heightened state of ‘is this thing over or not’ as they go on to the next line.

I’m not arguing that this is world-ending or anything, but I do think it’s what makes me feel ‘uneasy’ when reading the examples.
I recently had a user (probably a robot) star all of my public repos. I never thought it could be a real user who didn't understand the repercussions of giving login to github.com.
Methodologies should help projects meet requirements on time and within budget, but expecting 100% success regardless of the project, experience of the team complexity of estimate and what not is completely unrealistic.
> Meanwhile, Facebook has invested billions of dollars in building and developing a platform according to their fair reading of that law.

I think the crux is that they instead implemented a system according to their most favourable reading of that law.

They took a calculated risk, it backfired a little bit (albeit after 5 years of using it to their advantage), and now they need to approach things differently.

Business as usual.
XFCE dates to February 1997.

CDE as a Linux desktop dates to June 1997, with the release of the proprietary TriTeal CDE for RedHat.
I don't know where the $15k number comes from, but I imagine that number is more about the parent company (Oxen) which runs a blockchain system. Adding a new server to this system requires an amount of cryptocurrency (set to 15,000 $OXEN according to their docs, or about $2,706).

I don't know exactly how their infrastructure is designed, but the direct integration with any cryptocurrency tech is reason enough for me to be sceptical about it. If their integration was just for sending back and forth cryptocurrency then that's somewhat acceptable (i.e. Signal's approach, though I still don't like it myself) but with Session the blockchain is deeper ingrained.

As for server cost, I imagine hosting a server in a country where the power infrastructure is under attack from a foreign invader isn't exactly making life cheaper. I'd expect the price for electricity to skyrocket, especially for unimportant services like messaging servers.

Source: https://docs.oxen.io/products-built-on-oxen/session
Why do we hate Malcolm Gladwell now? Not disagreeing, I’m just not super familiar with his work.
I think what ZeroGravitas was getting at was the idea of optimising the actual software rather than the compiler.

For example you could imagine noticing that people make a lot of Vecs with 400 or 800 things in them, but not so many with 500 or 1000 things in them and so maybe the Vec growth rule needs tweaking to better accommodate that.
You still sometimes see this. My understanding is that it's usually against merchant credit card contracts however. You also used to see cash only stations but that's almost certainly vanishingly rare these days.
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Playing that game gets complex. Do you count 9/11 as a ICE externality because it partially stems from US/Saudi relations due to the oil market?
The Exxon Valdez spill was 10.8M gallons or about 250,000 barrels. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill
Critically, Narcan is pretty safe to use on most people who aren't suffering an opioid overdose, so it's likely to be administered before bloodwork gets back.
Damn, great landing page! Took me 2 seconds to understand your product and its value!
Why do you think people without passports (or uncomfortable uploading government documents to nearly every website they wish to use) should not be allowed to use those websites.
Elon is smart, he's making all these news on Twitter to increase user engagement on his platform.

I'm pretty sure he'll release this publicly à la "wikileak" to everyone after the exclusivity on Twitter has worn off.
I assume in those stories that nanotech has displaced photolithography in the fabrication of microelectronics. If you can get nanoassemblers to reliably produce a simple CPU, you can pick up the slack through software and bootstrap from there.
explanations and interactions. you can correct it or alter the outcome by giving additional feedback. Something copilot can't.
Because on the wire it's encoded as four bytes. If you can make eight binary digits count up to 999, you can do a lot more than just make IPv4 last longer.
Does the purchase also include an offline/PDF version?
Just imagine the imense wealth that will be generated if we can displace 99% of the workforce from what they are doing now. This is something to cheer, not to feel doomed.
You can easily buy cash in those small stores with surprisingly good exchange rates. Also I have converted my Rubels to Euros for months now on the stock market and sent them via Swift into an EU bank (in total above 10k€). So no problems there either. But the customs do question you rather aggressively about cash. Although he didn’t seem to believe me that I didn’t have cash with me, he didn’t search me either.
I think I found a Mac kernel bug (2018)
Related:

Nuitka: An extremely compatible Python compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377541 - Sept 2021 (84 comments)

Nuitka: a Python compiler written in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27537819 - June 2021 (181 comments)

Nuitka 0.6.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18092837 - Sept 2018 (14 comments)

Nuitka: A Python compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17683932 - Aug 2018 (6 comments)

Nuitka: A Python compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16980704 - May 2018 (4 comments)

Nuitka: A Python Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16822005 - April 2018 (5 comments)

Nuitka: a Python compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354613 - Sept 2017 (60 comments)

Nuitka Progress in 2015 – Python Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994267 - Jan 2016 (52 comments)

Nuitka – A Python Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9089523 - Feb 2015 (5 comments)

Nuitka: a Python compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8771925 - Dec 2014 (135 comments)

Nuitka — A Python Compiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746340 - Oct 2010 (33 comments)
While these jokes are funny, they unfortunately lend credence to people who need to be convinced that their conspiracies are true.

To be clear to anyone else watching this - there is no "indoctrination" going on, only people being exposed to new ideas.

Sorry for taking this overly seriously. It gets tiring dealing with people at least once or twice a week who actually, fully believe this.
Oh - Doggerland

About end of the Stone Age ~15,000BC you could still walk from UK to Europe - there is I believe evidence of civilisation and villages down there still.
I am excited about this but still a bit skeptical about pebble bed reactors.

There are two kinds of reactors that use Triso fuel particles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_gas_reactor

the prismatic type binds them into graphite blocks that are stacked to make a core, the pebble bed drops pebbles into the top and takes them out of the bottom.

Both of them run at higher temperatures than the LWR and could be attached to a cheaper and/or more efficient turbine. With the high temperatures you could make hydrogen with thermochemistry and skip the turbine completely. The pebbles can withstand very high temperatures so a loss of coolant or heatsink is not so dangerous an an LWR.

Some negatives though are that the fuel is bound up with a lot of graphite so the volume of the reactor vessel and the volume of the spent fuel is a lot greater than a conventional reactor.

The prismatic reactor has to be shut down for refueling and the core disassembled like an LWR, whereas the pebble bed reactor is refueled continuously and could have very high uptime which is good for the cost. Both of them need less uranium than the LWR.

We heard a lot about pebble bed reactors in the early 2000s because a South African utility wanted to develop one with a helium Brayton cycle turbine. First they gave up on the closed-cycle gas turbine, then a whisteblower came out with allegations that a German pebble-bed reactor had problems, then they gave up completely.

The whisteblower pointed out a few problems: In air the pebbles slide past each other nicely but they stick to each other in hot helium so you get dust formation and also pebbles cracking. You can't put a thermocouple into it to measure temperatures in real time, but you can put in test pebbles that partially melt at high temperatures. They found that some of these pebbles were getting much hotter than expected. The Triso particles don't fail entirely but there is increased diffusion of fission products so the dust that is generated is more contaminated with radioactivity than you'd hope.

You might have to lower the temperature a bit to deal with the hotspot problems but China is making a serious effort to make it work, just as they are trying many other advanced reactor concepts such as molten salt.
I love Montessori and I had both of my kids in Montessori schools...

However, it's not for every kid. My son did basically nothing and they wanted to have him repeat 2nd grade. My daughter, on the other hand, thrived in the same school.

There is no single fix for education except for choice (in my opinion). Parent's should be free to choose the school for their children and line up the unique characteristics of their child with the different education options available.
I've informed my son of the exploitation of labor aspect and he understands that if he is trying to sell on the platform he is being massively ripped off.

He doesn't try to sell and knows if he wants to make money his time is better spent elsewhere. He still loves writing and modifying scripts that he just shares with his friends exclusively. He spends nearly an equal time writing code and reading the Roblox programming book as he does playing the game which doesn't seem like a terrible trade-off for the time boxed gaming time. Kids aren't dumb, they can just be naive.
The GP didn't mention powder. I think they're referring to liquid nasal spray.

"Substance" often means a solid, but not necessarily.
That's correct. He ignores and sometimes intentionally misconstrues the evidence in order to tell a compelling story. He makes bold claims that are not really backed up by anything.

Take the 10,000 hours claim? Based on very little. There's nothing special about 10,000 hours. And the research roundly rejects the idea that deliberate practice is as big a factor as Gladwell claims.
"better than just having a bunch of programmers self-organize"

The problem is right there, most people are not organized.

To do coding for sure, to scope things, evaluate, prioritize etc ... not so sure.
I like zig better than rust, but zig is still a bit too sophisticated for me.
Yeah a lot of the "monthly" consumer tasks have slowly been eliminated, almost imperceptibly. You used to have to pay bills by check and balance a checkbook monthly; those are all gone.

Even passport renewal is available online now.
scarier: hoodie on top, shined shoes on bottom
I agree with everything here except for:

> the common approach to dealing with breakpoints (device width) is to assume certain width parameters and build media queries around that.

I am opposed to targeting a fixed list of breakpoints. Instead, build the site to work at the very smallest screen size (probably vertical phone). Then, increase the size of the browser window until the site “breaks”. Note the width and set a breakpoint. Adjust the css to fit that size. Repeat until it works at the largest size. Typically this will only require two media queries.
Thank you. You are correct about my point.

However I don’t think That posting “this will get thrown out in court” in a humorous / sarcastic tone is “using my account for ideological battle.” and warrants a personal callout by Dang.

There is snark all over HN in many worse instances and it looks suspect to myself and the audience when a mod flags this specific content.

Lets be real : if I used the exact same phrasing but it was anti-Twitter / anti-Elon snark our mod friend would turn into Stevie Wonder in an instant.

It would benefit HN to at least pretend to enforce the rules evenly.
The Virgil repo contains every stable compiler binary produced in an unbroken chain back to the first interpreter. You can literally check out every single one of the 2,200 commits and build the compiler from the source and binary checked into the repo. If that's not a bootstrappable build, I don't know what is.
And what might we expect the second order effects of “EAs are philosophically committed to fraud” be? Like this only looks rational if you kind of take a first approximation of a dynamical system and call it good.

“Worse than a crime, it’s a mistake”
It's a build tool that converts your JS authoring environment into code your browser will understand.
I find that with relatively low protein intake, simply because the tradeoff for me is money and desire, I'm definitely able to build muscle, but I also feel like it just goes away in other areas, and likely would be easier to work on multiple major muscle groups with a greater intake.
I'm in a public speaking club and we often separate content (topic, grammar) from the presentation (e.g. good use of gestures)

I've come to regard Gladwell as strong on presentation (writing-wise), weak on content.
Do you have an example of them advocating for or encouraging violence against anyone?
As a matter of process, this isn’t a new law. It’s the same law that was in place in 2018 when the first complaint was filed. The courts have only just decided what it means for this specific scenario. They decided you can’t rely on contractual necessity to excuse not presenting the user with a choice about whether to be tracked, just because Facebook’s business is tracking. Up until now Facebook had operated assuming they could.

The main fault of the process is that it took 4.5 years. That’s 4.5 years of illegal revenue. Speed is justice. We all know this. It would have been preferable for the law to have been so clear that it didn’t take that long to argue. I forget the exact wording but I think it was pretty clear, and they just managed to draw it out long enough to turn more profit in the meantime. Possibly not so much a problem with lawmaking as with the litigation.
Check out your local Toastmasters club. Public speaking is part of it, but meetings also feature conversations on a topic.

For me, taking improv lessons helped a lot. It forces you to focus less on trying to be funny (or eloquent) yourself, and more on paying attention and reacting to your scene (or conversational) partner. Doing so in real-time helps with recall, which should unlock (useful) vocabulary, connections, and ideas.
There is absolutely nothing wrong or controversial about Raspberry Pi's hiring decision.

The reactions to the announcement have been so absurd and offensive (what you call 'criticism') that they could only respond the way they did or just try to ignore. IMHO taking the 'criticism' seriously would have been nothing more than feeding the trolls.

At the moment the Raspberry Pi's team must be scratching their heads in disbelief.
I understand how you do it but I don't understand why that is eloquent and poetic. I wouldn't want someone to constantly choose related but incorrect concepts. That wouldn't really be a good communication, it seems to me.
My key take away from this is different - be very sceptical of third party packages! Both performance issues were traced back to them, and his replacement of their functionality - while not being "battle tested" and surely constituting "re-inventing the wheel" - were faster, easy to read, and easy to understand.

Any front-end devs reading this? :)
Sure - don't know what proportion of solar panel installations that is though - it was an early adopter incentive.

Bottom line - not all the local solar production is measured at the grid level - much of it results in demand reduction which can't be directly attributed.

I think this will only increase - either due to local batteries, or more electricity driven heating systems ( heat pumps for example ).

And this isn't just homes - if you have a farm and have a big water reservoir which you fill by pumping water - and you had some solar panels - you'd just run the pumps when it was sunny - there is no particular need to run them at particular times ( same if you had a wind driven pump ).
The only methodology that worked for me and the teams i work with, is contract-driven development.

When two services talk to each other, you must define a clear contract first. We can name it "specification".

But in real world, bad task management will break the law !
And that Dickens quote is amazing—talk about apoplectic opulence! (his phrase; see quote)
I'll add that _usually_ a backup strategy includes generational backups of some kind. That is daily, weekly, monthly, etc to hedge against individually impacted files as mentioned.

Ideally there is also an offsite and inaccessible from the source component to this strategy. Usually this level of robustness isn't present in a "replication" setup.
I suppose you could look at the list of nuke plant operators [0] who do not run the other way and instead choose to keep operating. Many of these are for profit.

This is easy to look up. Duke Energy is one of the biggest companies in the world and definitely for profit. What makes you think they don’t want to invest in new plants?

[0] https://www.nei.org/resources/statistics/us-nuclear-plant-ow...
legumes, grains, potatoes, seeds, nuts (if you can afford them).

plenty of protein in all of those things.
I've been vegetarian my whole life and vegan for the past 19years. I've never once had to think about getting enough protein. Having never eaten real meat and I don't much care about the fake processed stuff. I mean I'll eat it, but I don't buy it much. lentils and rice is a lot cheaper and tastes better imho.

I guess if it matters, I would say I'm a fairly active person. I bike for transportation when ever possible, I backpack and hike a lot, and typically work jobs in the trades or farming. So not a pro athlete but just keep active and moving.
> according to their fair reading of that law.

I do not care at all what FB claims. They repeatedly lied, cheated (see 2 factor phone numbers) and deliberately misinterpreted law in insane ways.

One of their attempts was putting serving interesting ads as service given to users and claiming that it means that they are obligated to track them.
starting a micro SAAS on the side (https://margindash.com/)
A few times a year I get a flyer in the mail advertising open positions at my nearest Amazon warehouse, which is 120 miles away. I assume that it's because they've already burned through most of their local workforce and have to keep casting a wider and wider net to find anyone willing to work for them
Art Deco are the best, but I wonder how much of that is "the skyscraper looks good" and how much that is "it looks good on the ground".
I can see myself using Codon for projects in the future. One thing that concerns me, though, is "automatically falling back to CPython in cases we can't handle". Sometimes, I want the compilation to fail rather than fall back, because sometimes consistent high speed is a requirement. Please keep that in mind as you design that part.

Great work so far!