skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you refer to people who can't reasonably leave for whatever reason.

But even if you can't leave, seeing the results of another country that does something a different way is a valuable comparison point that can drive a change of policy where you are.
Awesome list! Was going to post the same lol

I've been ripping off Linear colors/fonts/layout for a few years, but didn't know it's such a trend.
Yes, the broken terminals happened earlier this year. You were unlucky.

I don’t get your point about “writing case studies how everyone else should operate.” - where does Germany write case studies about how payment systems in other countries should operate?
Apply business purpose test to license cost calculations.
Simplicity (2006)
The ‘new’ reactors are barely more advanced than the old ones and even more complicated.

Nuclear is pretty high end technology, it needs real investment to move forward. The government has shown little interest. Few reactors are built, what we have is aging, the number of people doing R&D is next to nothing.
The world would be a better place if Nixon never existed, how is it possible for one person to do so much damage
I fully agree with you, but as a warning: most people are lazy, so if valuable points are hidden in exercises for the reader, there is a significant chance that many will miss them
IMO they need to be exposed at a young age but need guidance to make sense of it... much like most things in the world. If you shelter them from it they won't learn how to deal with it and will be forced to figure it out themselves. As a parent I think it is my responsibility to expose them to as many of these sorts of things as possible and teach them to deal with them in a healthy way.
I think OP means that there should be one or the other, not both. Just increase the rate of one if you need more money instead of inventing a new one to double-tax the same income stream
Using open protocols and open source solutions: great idea.

Letting some random company operate your army's IT infrastructure: what could possibly go wrong?
Humanity isn't a process of talking about things in an objective way. You're talking about people as if they are numbers.

> And it is a fact, that non-nuclear, non-renewable energy sources kill a shitton of more people per unit energy

I once heard the circus of Congressional, reactionary policies described as thus:

"Something has to be done. This is something, so we will do it."

Yes, that's all perfectly true, and something absolutely has to be done. Many things actually. We're making good progress on a number of them. And turning off coal fired plants at a steady clip. It matters what you replace it with.

One of the things missing here is that when humans are involved, choices and the illusion of choice apply a multiplier on the risks. People volunteer for risks all the time, and they are happy to do so. Which is effectively what this is saying:

> Same thing with planes: people are afraid to fly them, but driving the same distance by car is way more dangerous.

If we only cared about traffic numbers we'd ban automobiles and force everyone to take public transit and airplanes to go anywhere. We'd save more people than we would by replacing coal with nuclear, and banning the cars would also reduce death by pollution by something like 10%.
I think it may not be that straightforward.

I was part of a group interview with Gibson years ago, and I didn't fully appreciate one of the things he said at the time until years later.

It was something about how everyone who loves a written story gets a very specific, vivid, custom image in their head of what it would be like to see it on screen. It can be so powerful that it's easy to forget that different people can come away with very different versions, based on what elements of the story resonated with them. He said this is why movie versions of beloved stories often get massive negative reactions.

For example, the Neuromancer in my head is a very gritty, 80s angular dark geometry highlighted in neon, Blade-Runner-esque film. It certainly doesn't have any comic relief in it. Most people I've talked to seem to have at least a vaguely similar vision.

I always thought it was a little weird that nearly every adaptation of his work was fairly light-hearted, even self-parodying in places. "Gibson must have the worst luck at being paired with screenwriters" was how I thought of it. The Neuromancer computer game, the film version of Johnny Mnemonic, his X-Files episodes, they all try to lighten things up.

A few years after his comment, I went back and re-read Neuromancer and Burning Chrome and realized the intended comic relief was there all along. The "Aryan reggae band". The space station full of Rastafarians (the implication being they're so high they're in outer space). The dolphin with a SQUID. Case running out of tanning lotion. etc. etc.

There are probably roughly just as many people that focus on that aspect of his work as the "looks like Blade Runner in my head" crowd. The people making this version can onlt make one version, so which do they go with?

I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out, but I expect the result will be very polarizing.
And yet there are millions of people that play Go who will never be anywhere close to as good as Lee and continue to play it after he quit.
Culturally? That would be interesting to think through.

I can be sold on the idea that covering one face (by any means) removes a lot of communication and social clues that are inherently human.

But control?
> I don't think the government considers it much of an inconvenience to use violence to handle all of those things today.

Of course it does. It’s expensive, inefficient, and plays badly on TV.

How much easier would it be if every single person could be identified automatically from a drone and arrested out of public view?

How much more efficient if people suppressed themselves, and never attended a protest, out of fear of it being declared illegal and automatically receiving a summons (or worse, an arrest warrant)?

> The government can already torture, enslave, and kill you. If you can trust your government to handle those well …

I don’t trust them to handle those well. That’s why the legal system incorporates strong checks and balances, and even then is still ripe with corruption and abuse.

Why would I want to give them more powerful tools with far less oversight?

> If government can't handle those things well, the ids don't make for much of a change wrt to the government

That’s absurd; if you don’t trust a government, facilitating their abuse of citizens obviously has a material impact on the scale and scope of their actions.

Your argument, taken to its conclusion, would justify any privacy violation by the government.
We Can Do Better Than Feeds On Social Media Platforms
You could argue that the profit is made where the money is made.
Predictable large inflation each year with no taxes may make theoretical sense in some models. But it seems like it would not be compatible with human psychology.
> Not wanting to bother someone else is silly, since it results in bothering way more than one person

I agree with you.

> Most could ask friend or family for help

Most but not all. An alternative is asking a stranger (government programs where I am ended almost a year ago), strangers are kinder than people realize. But asking for help is challenging for many people.
Buf Studio: Now you can save favorite requests to your gRPC and Connect services
Encourage their interests in good things like physical activities, science, technology, books, music, theater.
I heard that too, but it’s in the hotel, it’s in a tropical aquarium doesn’t that mean tropical temperatures?

Germany has made an effort to reduce electricity usage, and I’d imagine this would require huge amounts.

Had they removed the fish and let it cool? I guess its cylindrical shape is dependent on it being full of water, so they could drain it.

I am not any sort of expert by the way. Perhaps I should put that caveat at the top of my reply.
There are some, even from this pandemic. They aren't great.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072811/
The second link shows that natural gas increases steadily for exporting and for domestic industrial consumption. If you click the Excel link under the table graphics [1], it shows that natural gas consumption for generating electricity remains below 2020 demand levels until 2047. As for why they think that demand will pick up in the late 2040s after decades of stagnation, I'm not sure; maybe it's projections of population growth finally overcoming trends in fuel efficiency.

I will note that the EIA has badly underestimated renewable electricity growth in the past. Their projections are very restrained, far from "optimistic industry projections." You can read a retrospective on their past forecasting here:

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/retrospective/

In particular look at the electricity section of the table, "Comparison of AEO Reference case projections with realized outcomes, 1994–2021." The EIA underestimated future usage of solar power 80% of the time and future usage of wind power 84% of the time. The magnitude of the underestimates was actually worse for solar power, though.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/production/excel/subtopic3_...
I live in the SF Bay Area. Yes you will always see masks but I’m surprised how many people you see who don’t wear them.
I would imagine it taking out plenty of minerals and nutrients from the soil though, needing constant fertilizer usage which comes with its own set of problems.
We don't actually know because they never shipped the feature. But having iCloud enabled was not a required part of their scanning system, it was simply an if-else check, and we just had to take their word for it that they wouldn't scan anyway.

Still, even if the scanning was only if iCloud was enabled, that's still a step too far in my book because Apple makes it very difficult for alternate photo backup apps to work well. iCloud uses background syncing/upload in ways that third-party apps are prevented from using.
How does something being popular ruin its quality? The reason people diss hipsters is because they’re reacting to what other people enjoy instead of just liking something for its own sake.
I tweak my Slack pretty heavily to suit my ADHD but 90% of it is: turn off (desktop) notifications entirely. Not "sometimes", all of it. (I just set Windows to DND so I still get Slack's red dot) I notice the red dot as soon as it appears anyway, but the lack of bigger visuals & audio means if I'm actually focused (and don't notice the red dot) I don't get yanked out of it.

The other 10% is:

* Mute unnecessary channels

* Turn off mentions entirely for channels where they don't mean much other than "@XYZ is looking at it"

* Set mobile notifications to "only if away" (+ a work hours schedule; if it's important they can click the "notify anyway" link)

* If you're on Android: change the notification sound to something custom that's a lot more "calm" and quieter, because you notice it anyway and it won't give off the "important! DM! check now!" feeling that all of Slack's do. (I miss this on iOS)

* On really bad days (focus-wise): don't be afraid to hide or close Slack entirely to just focus. I usually just put it away in Windows' extended notification tray, so I can occasionally check it without relaunching (or appearing offline/away).
“Narcissistic features can come from childhood environ­ments characterized by excessive deviations from ideal rearing, where either neglect/abuse (not enough caring attention) or over-pampering (too much caring attention) is present (Stone, 1993).”

https://estd.org/narcissism-consequence-trauma-and-early-exp...

“Narcissism tends to emerge as a psychological defence in response to excessive levels of parental criticism, abuse or neglect in early life. Narcissistic personalities tend to be formed by emotional injury as a result of overwhelming shame, loss or deprivation during childhood.“

https://www.farahtherapycentre.co.uk/blog/narcissism-and-the...
People love pointing out how bad GPT3 is at math - it’s just not remotely surprising, though. We all learned a long time ago that just patternmatching isn’t enough to solve math questions and we need to actually activate our brains and run algorithms to get valid answers.

Even mathy people fall into this - we all know that some numbers ‘look prime’. And up to 100 that instinct can work really well (except for 91).

But we all apply a heuristic for when to stop guessing and start mathing.

But guess what! GPT3 can do that too!

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1568448128495534081

This thread predates chatgpt - but it really shows that GPT can pretty reliably spot when winging it won’t work. And in this case, it could effectively be given the ability to whip out a calculator to figure it out.

(Edited to add)

Found the follow up thread where Riley went into more detail and enhanced the results:

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1581805503897735168?s=20...
I have a good friend like this, he works remotely now after graduating and moving and he’s pretty lonely.

Won’t be true of everyone of course.
.. I look forward to parents having to be licensed to be parents.
#1 will depend a lot on:

* Team or solo

* Existing knowledge

* Performance requirements

* App complexity

* Is it more traditional (forms and submits and reports) or modern (infinite canvases,
realtime collaboration)

* What can I assume about the users browsers? Are they stuck on old versions

* Do I need React due to complexity, or even just to make onboarding simpler if everyone has used it.

* Maybe the team is small and we all prefer Svelte so use that

And so many more things to consider.
This is architecture / solution design space.

Web development is now like trying to choose a shampoo at the supermarket! If there was
only one brand it would be much easier to pick!
Yeah, the process is _mostly_ useless, but a 'good' self-review is a handy cheat sheet your your manager and is worth doing well. At the margins, you're "helping them help you."
I suspect a big part of the reason why submarine reactors are able to be so small is because they sit on a planet-covering heatsink. Terrestrial plants accomplish the same with artificial lakes and large cooling towers; the actual "nuclear" parts are already pretty small in comparison.

But yes, assuming the cooling systems could be similarly mass-produced, it would make sense to mass-produce small-scale nuclear plants as well.
I'm basing it off of what this guy is reporting. He seems to have an inside legit view.
https://www.zerohedge.com/user/105370
It's a combination of user flags, software penalties, and moderation downweights. But there have also been moderation upweights - for example last night we turned off flags on the Twitter-Musk-journalists thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383) so that it would be on the front page. It ended up being there for 6 hours.

If you want more explanation, I answered a similar question the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824 - though more in a cri de coeur style.

Btw, none of this is new—it happens every time there's a major ongoing topic with divisive qualities. The principles we use are: (1) downweight the follow-ups so there isn't too much repetition; (2) upweight (not a word - I just mean turn off user flags and software penalties) the ones that have significant new information*; and (3) downweight the hopeless flamewars, where the community is incapable of curious conversation and people are just bashing things they hate (or rather, bashing each other in the name of things they hate).

The most important is #3, because it's about preserving the ecosystem. We want HN to live another day. No thread is worth more than that, despite how huge and existential these stories always feel.

If HN were an art house theater, those principles would look like this: (1) don't show the copycat movies; (2) do show the interesting movies; (3) when the theater catches fire, stop the movie and deal with the fire.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
You can also generate a certificate. Registering it requires receiving a letter by snail mail and it expires every X years (5 maybe?), but otherwise it's just like your certificate for your server you use to SSH in.
Sorry, my comment was a bit misleading: as the other commenter noted, they are doing testing in rivers, etc. When animals defecate/urinate onto the ground, some of it eventually gets carried and aggregated into flowing water.
I really do appreciate that my current employer doesn't do this crap. I haven't done one of these in close to 10 years now.
The continent already feels like it's trying to tax itself to death. I don't know how Europeans survive, and this was before the energy crisis. I do worry European wealth will start to evaporate and we'll see the kind of social strife that occurs when the pension funds run out and people who were promised dignity into old age find out they're not going to get it.
> Abandonment isn’t the problem here. I’m sure Tesla wouldn’t be worse off if Elon paid token attention to it.

Musk’s personal attention isn’t the only Tesla resource that has been diverted by the acquisition; Musk has been using Tesla staff to perform tasks for Twitter associated with looking out for his interests after the acquisition. [0] (Sure, its described as being done “on a voluntary basis” and “after hours”, but these are salaried staff without fixed hours, and “volunteering” time for your bosses other businesses has the same consent and conflict of interest problems as other “free, consensual” exchanges where the same power dynamic exists, which is why most workplaces strictly look askance at people in authority within the organization using that position to recruit subordinates for their outside business ventures; obviously, as CEO, there is no one in the organization to hold Musk to those kind of standards, but investors are likely to be concerned with it in the CEO for the same reasons upper management would be concerned with that behavior in lower management in most organizations. Public corporations, particularly, are not personal toy boxes for their CEOs.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/elon-musk-defends-tesla-1.6653...
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34013000 which links to the guardian; this source is a little odd.
I've been doing these for the best part of a decade and it was only in the last couple of years I realised completing a performance review (for me) has been the same as updating your CV - the same advice applies.

Just submit a list of single sentences that say things like "Designed and implemented a doodad that saved n hours per day and enabled $BUZZWORD". List the outcomes of things you did this year, use STAR, whatever you prefer.

The best part of doing it this way - if they don't give you a nice bonus/raise, you've just updated your CV ready for your next place of work!
Almost. He could have completely side stepped doing any problem solving or mathematical / logical reasoning by applying machine learning to it.
> Google says its data centers in the Oregon town consumed 274.5 million gallons (1 billion liters) of water last year.

The census population of the Dalles, about 1.5-2 hours/85 miles east of Portland on the other side of Mount Hood, is 16,043.

274.5Mgal / 16,043 people = 17,110 gallons per resident per year

As of 2015, USGS's estimated per-capita household water usage in the US is 82 gallons/day, or about 29,930 gallons/year.[1] Google adds the equivalent water use of about 9,171 residents to the Dalles, which would represent a population increase of about 57%.

1: https://www.epa.gov/watersense/statistics-and-facts
> but it's created this effect of fraud-voyeurism that feels more tabloid than news; more celebrity gossip than business news.

Publicity giveth, publicity taketh away.

The schadenfreude does not happen in a vaccuum. Silicon Valley is addicted to the Steve Jobs messiah narrative, which is why they constantly deify 'personality' CEOs like Holmes, Neumann, Kalanick, Musk, even out and out frauds like SBF.

You do not see gloating about people getting busted for PPP fraud, because those are anonymous nobodies, that have not had a PR machine behind them pushing Galt-esque tales about their exploits and soapboxing their bizarre ideas about the future of millions, dreamed up from their NYC penthouse bubble.

If you dress someone up as Superman, there will be chuckles when he's found out to be a guy in muscle suit wearing his underwear on the outside.
I spotted that too, also the next iteration is 3.5 even though 5 should have never been fed in?
Pretty much trash, maybe $100
How long before tweets and tweeters critical of Tesla start getting shadow-banned or outright banned? So far, Musk has been benevolent.
Anyone who thinks reading Dostoyevski is an acomplishment must be borderline illiterate*. None of his works are a hard read. Dostoyevski is the acomplishment, not the reader. Almost all fiction is a passive medium, the "work" has already been done by the auhtor. Tens (hundreds?) of millions of copies have been sold, and his works are required reading in many high schools.

>I am glad to see "the kids" continuing to question & challenge

They are the children of (rich?) Brooklyn hipster parents at a Performance arts school[0]. Who exactly are they challenging? If anything, they are being congradulated and pushed along on the hipster path. There are Brooklyn hipsters who unironically use 1980's antenta phones. If anything this is a worn out trope.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow_High_School

*I don't mean to imply that you are illiterate, just that you haven't thought this through.
> They have a nasty bug where if you buy "all access" membership now for say June next year (set start date in June) you'll get free access until then. You actually can't pay for on-demand while you wait for your membership to start. But you can book desks for zero credits. However many parts of the app don't work and it seems the wifi doesn't work - but you can use guest wifi.

Good job posting this publicly on a thread I'm sure at least one WeWork corporate employee is reading.

Expect to find a charge on the credit card you put down for your June purchase for all the services you have used. It is 100% legal for them to bill you for their price mistakes. Check the terms and conditions.
Neither of these is nationalization, and both examples you provided that are a different approach of trying to use state power to crush a private business have never been tried or tested in court, where they would fail. So I'm hoping the parent poster can correct their post since there is no method for a US state to nationalize a company. It doesn't exist, and as a fiction, it should be treated as such.
Their hot-desk monthly membership is around $300 without discounts. Not cheap but probably cheaper than most dedicated office rents.

Depends. The one thing that WeWord did was locate itself in the better, more desirable, more visible business districts.

If you don't mind having a Sam Spade-style office, you can rent one far cheaper than that. I almost leased one in Seattle's Chinatown for $100/month, but ended up getting a free sub-lease from a friend with extra room at his company in a downtown skyscraper.
Meta just halted a major data centre project to focus on AI
Highly suspect Wework won't survive 2023, expect it to fold possibly mid-year next year, maybe sooner.
AI is good at generating simple examples in any given domain, including programming.

AI can't refactor code, or debug (or at least debug well as far as I know). Folks here can correct me if I'm wrong, I stopped looking into AI once I realized it wasn't as far along as most non-technical people seemed to think.

Things like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI have made great strides, but they will only serve to enhance humans' skills and abilities. There are limitations to what these tools can do, I wouldn't worry too much about having to compete with them once you're in the work force.