skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I foresee AI eventually replacing the need for soft skills as well. What happens when we have indistinguishable-from-human androids, or wireheading?

But yes, the shorter(?)-term "all physical and intellectual work can be achieved by AI/machines" leaves us with caring for each other, and that's the most fulfilling task.
Read the book a few years ago, then watched the series. Doesn't quite follow the book but is entertaining anyway. You also have to pay attention as not everything is explained right away. The series 1 ending is a bit confusing. The only complaint I have is the actors' accents may cause you to turn on CC at times.
Non-JS readable version [1] and BreakingPoints discussion on this topic [2]

[1] - https://archive.ph/wip/9D2r4

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFTMG0I7Dg8 [video]
> Why should public opinion override the need for energy security

Ah, you've made the mistake of believing politics is rational. There's no reason for this other than "politicians would be punished otherwise". Is the public wrong? Yes. What are you going to do about it? You can go round and round about the way things should be. That doesn't make them so.

> Leave it to the experts and the technocrats, not the average Joe and Jane who operate with asymmetric information.

This is going to be an extremely tough sell. Godspeed.
If PG&E requires taxpayer subsidies, withhold them and buy the assets out of bankruptcy (negating the need to negotiate with a board, shareholders, or the C-level). Show up to bankruptcy court prepared to wire the funds to the trustee. You want to avoid paying top dollar to people who have a proven track record of mismanaging the enterprise, in order to not reward the behavior.

As a last resort, eminent domain offering fair market enterprise value and an orderly transfer of control.
> Is it anti-trust?

No it is not. Twitter does not have a monopoly on social media.

> It seems blatantly anticompetitive but I’m curious what specific law they seem to be breaking (so I can add it to my anti-Twitter complaining heap).

None. They have done it in the past [0] and no-one complained apart from techies here getting emotional about it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31607941
Brit here, so it's always interesting to see how things operate across the pond. We have an AIM market in the UK, which is a junior market. There are some good quality companies on there, mixed-in with a hell of a lot of the worst dreck imaginable.

The US has a lot more entrepreneurship than the UK, and I think it is something that us Brits could well do more of. In the UK we're too conservative, whilst the US plays it much more fast-an-loose. The UK has its fair share of financial scandals, mind.

I get the impression that in the US there has been far too much money chasing after far too opportunities. Blasting through $10b in a single business seems, shall we say, "quite an achievement."

I mean, Juicero, what was that crap, anyway? And then there was the whole Elizabeth Holmes thing. It would have been a large-cap company by UK standards. It seems that there's a lot of US "businesses" out there who are looking to hoover a lot of that sweet sweet VC lolly. I'm not sure what "due diligence" the VC guys are doing, but it doesn't seem much.

Another thing I have noticed is that, fairly recently, VC has seemed to switch into reverse gear. Now growth seems to be de-emphasised. It's like the whole Venture Capital market has collectively woken up one day and decided that they are much more sceptical about funding growth opportunities. What has changed really, though? It seems that just because Facebook and a couple of other titans decided to have a round of layoffs, that everyone else should, too. It's not really logical when you think about it. Sure, there's the whole Covid and Russian conflict thing throwing a spanner in the works, but have things really changed that much? It seems more a case of a lack of "animal spirit" compared to formerly that is causing the problems rather than any real problems themselves.
> Atom provided the seed, excitement and vision for what is possible on this platform, and should be proud of that fact.

Atom provided the seed, excitement and vision for bloated Electron apps, and shouldn't be very proud of that fact.
Yet. It's not slippery slope, it's looking ahead. Is the ice on the lake cracked? No. Therefore there is no chance of it cracking? Setup, then execute, not necessarily immediately.
It's not hard, it's just that they're supply constrained.

And if you're supply constrained, you only make the expensive ones.

And if you start making some, you make expensive ones because why not get that profit whilst you can?
Wastewater analysis is a new and very difficult measurement problem. There's continual discussion of how to do the analysis, and no strong consensus in the field.

This is the best part of science: not knowing, but working to discover.
I like F# and I think its a great language. But I also think it will always be second class for Microsoft.
Slightly related, but I'm a fan of web serialized fiction (fanfics, but also original works like Worm, Worth the Candle, Mother of Learning, Unsong, etc), and when I occasionally order paper copies I'm always astounded at just how physically large they are, in a way that doesn't come across in a purely digital format.

I should note that this rebuts the idea that long-form fiction is disappearing, it's just not getting physically published, because the internet remains the best way to distribute information (and often make a living, since patreon can often end up paying more than a publisher).
Slightly curious why it's on the google github account, if it's not an official google project, or even endorsed by google? Surely this should live over on github.com/dragostis/forma then?
> The structure’s use of tape makes it far from permanent. If you wanted to make this structure something more permanent–one man mentioned a hunting cabin in the snow–I’d definitely look into something more hardware-based. Something that used hinges/washers/bolts or the like to provide a lot more strength at the junctions
It was on the front page for 6 hours, and btw the reason for that was that we specifically turned off the flags on it.
The strength will mostly be a constant scale factor, hence proportional to.
> fad

> /fad/

> noun

> an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze.
Indeed, many non-fiction books seem to be really solid long form essays that were inflated with needless filler content to 100 pages. (Note I'm saying 'many' not 'all').
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And his decision to shoehorn his robots into it really watered down the psychohistory focus, though Demerzel is an amazing character on the show.
But if their adaptation of Foundation is a sign of things to come, we should hope it's not Apple TV+ that is going to produce any of these movies/series. Yes, that's what I really came to say here, they gave Foundation to some movie industry bureaucrats that A/B tested the storyline on some Joe Hillbillies and completely butchered the genius of Asimovs novels.
How else would they get food? Not everyone can afford to order in. Is your opinion that these people should just starve?
I feel like streaming services and premium cable have really nailed down the long form narrative on screen.

I don't really want an 8+ season show anymore. That's a recipe for dragging things out that distract from the narrative. A show that hits you with 5 minutes of story, 30 minutes of monster-of-the-week, and 5 minutes of story + a cliffhanger isn't nearly as good as a 8-10 episode season of pure narrative.

If it lasts only 3 seasons it's still better, and leaves more room on the proverbial marquee for the next story.
Thanks for sharing. I'm a bit surprised about the second paragraph but then I realize it is indeed two skillsets.

I think I'm split between career growth and hobby. My career is much closer to a sys admin/devops than a low level programmer, but my hobby probably is closer to the later. Of course it could be just my fancy about low level programming that fascinates me as after all I have never done any low level programming except some entry level MCU programming.
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Masks are primarily for protecting other people, you cough and sneeze and breathe out infected water droplets into the mask- not other people's faces.

Why do people like you have such anger about mask wearing?
VSCode might be better feature-wise than Atom but I'd choose Atom any time of the day over VSCode if it was still maintained. Just considering CVEs popping up every now and then. Also I found the UX getting slightly less in the way. Otherwise Sublime is my go to "normal" editor but it's not really free...
> Except, of course, that the story about the Russian soldiers in Chornobyl was completely made up.

There are satellite photos of trenches dug around the red forest where Russian soldiers had deployed?
I want to see Seveneves :(
Every action by myself acting in my official capacity is an action by my company and they cannot disentangle themselves from that obligation by blaming an employee.
1. oracle's query planner/optimizer is smarter and more efficient, especially with complex query. postgres for quite some time did not do well with nested, lateral queries with CTEs that include views - it's performance would randomly degrade on complex queries, which is rarer thing in oracle world.

CTE expression is an optimization fence in postgres, which is not the case in oracle.

2. oracle does not need vacuum, unlike postgres

3. postgres has problems with many concurrent connections, thats why you need workarounds like pgbouncer. Oracle doesnt need that.

And same picture with almost any other feature - it is sort of "works" in postgres - but with crutches/workarounds, while in Oracle - stuff just works out of the box.

You dont need to search and install some obscure opensource extension to get the thing you want working, like you do in postgres world. and then keep updating that extension with every new version, etc
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Can't believe we're still arguing about whether pErSoNaL rEsPoNsIbIlItY will save us
I hope for the death of the recipe book with a separate recipe for every sort of nut or berry or so on that you can put into a cookie or a muffin with extremely modest adjustment.
I loved the book and struggled watching the show. You could tell which scenes were written by William Gibson, and which ones were written by the Westworld people. Around episode 3 or 4 the plot completely diverges from the book, and almost all of it is generic 'prestige TV' type writing. I would have dropped the show around episode 4 or 5 if it I didn't love the book. Can't really recommend it to anyone.
Totally fair. I think the issue has been that the various parts of the US government have been working at cross purposes with respect to nuclear power.

> and I also suppose that the contracts with private corporations are such, that they don't just lose their money if regulation changes.

The way the NRC works, they can without notice change the rules in a way that will force you to redesign a plant that is under construction. If you're too far along you'll just have to scrap the whole thing. If you look at this list of closed or abandoned nuclear projects, 4 are explicitly due to NRC changes[1]. This doesn't include any cancelled plans that hadn't begun construction and isn't a complete list. If coal power were regulated the way nuclear was, there would be no coal power in the US. Coal plants release 2 orders of magnitude more radiation per kwh than nuclear in the US and in a form that is more dangerous, e.g. coal ash which goes deep into your lungs[2].

[1]https://www.powermag.com/interactive-map-abandoned-nuclear-p...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Austria has mandated N95s for months.

No improvement in comparison to neighboring countries could be demonstrated.

Mostly because it was pure theater and no attempt at proof was even made.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008383 was on the front page for over 6 hours. We turned off the flags on it for a while to allow for that.
> There was a common sentiment that speed was everything in VC over the past several years.

And for the VCs it has often worked out. If you're fast enough to get something IPOed before the bubble pops, who cares if there's a real business model?

Personally, as somebody who thinks actually delivering value is important, I'm delighted that this era of easy money and massive hype might be ending. Hopefully companies soon will have to be able to actually turn a sustained profit before IPO.

And I don't know about you, but I'm immensely enjoying WeWork's fall. It never made any sense, and since the wheels came off before the IPO, it's not retail investors who are taking the loss here.
I have long since stopped being excited for modern makes/remakes of titles I enjoy, and just anticipate disappointment and cringe when its "updated for today's audience" into stupidity and garbage.
Turning on a power plant is a slow and cumbersome process. If you need them to handle loads in excess of renewable capacity, or to handle sudden lows, you unfortunately need to keep them running...
It's just very hard to write a solid concurrent GC. There are not many in existence today. Here the challenge was doubled by the obligation to preserve the single core performance of existing programs, with the very fast allocation path on the minor heap. It's always harder to add these features to an existing language that already has significant programs written in it.
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He recently left The Witcher to play Superman again but just two weeks later studio changed their mind and announced he will not be playing Superman anymore. With WH40k series he will be on production team so it is less likely he will get dropped again.
I am not disagreeing. However, the premise of normal masks is primarily for sick people to not spread disease.

"It is important to wear a mask or respirator when you are sick or caring for someone who is sick with COVID-19."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

"Wear a high-quality and well-fitting mask if you must be around others (for example: going to get tested), even in your home."

https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/coronavirus/sick.htm...

Framing masking as protecting the wearer was done to psychologically make people care. People are more likely to care about themselves, than others.
I guess I’m skeptical, isn’t the majority of covid spread through prolonged close contact? Running into a grocery store without a mask for fifteen minutes seems extremely low risk compared to other activities.
I doubt what you said is true but irrespective, number of companies != size of market, and the companies you mention serve different markets/functions, so a consumer product company also != an EV company. It is relatively easy to design/build/sell a functional powerwall or generator equivalent, but one person cannot get into the market with an EV.
In the northern hemisphere the winter solstice is five days from today.

Where I am, in Seattle, the sun will be above the horizon for only about 8.5 hours. It will also likely be cloudy.

Contrast this with the summer solstice, where we get about 16 hours with the sun above the horizon.
And with strace -p pid you can somewhat "spy" on what a process is doing.
Peripheral (the TV series) is awesome. Easily the best TV show I've seen this year.
It was Liberty ships—slow, high-capacity, not especially durable cargo ships built as fast as possible, assembly-line style. The median construction time only got that low after the assembly line really got going and they were able to work out some kinks. It was over 200 days early on.

Warships—none of the capitals ships, certainly—weren't built that fast. Not even the cheap-as-hell escort carriers we built tons and tons of, I don't think. Destroyers and little corvettes and other smalls screen and utility ships, maybe some of those weren't too far from 39-day construction times.
Okay. In that case the cutoff was around $80,000 in today's money, which is certainly not poor (but not rich either).
That's not so bad. 'Foundation' clearly was not a beat-for-beat recreation of the original work. Anyone trying to do that would have created an abomination anyhow. It took a few interesting pieces from the Asimov work and made an interesting TV show that was IMO visually stunning. I think if we get 'riffs' on the original material and not a retelling of the original that's fine, especially when the original is impossible to recreate cinematically
Not disagreeing. I am pointing out the mask is to block the spreader, moreso than shield the recipient.
I'd be curious as well. I realized in the last few months that I rarely enjoy looking at anything on my phone. I like it when my friends and family text me. I like the discord group I have with my friends, especially now that we all have kids and have moved away. I started by deleting apps that weren't essential, keeping the utilities or the things I don't do compulsively, or do situationally.

With Twitter in particular, I don't know a better way to find artists, writers, and podcasts. I have never enjoyed Twitter less than I do now, but it is unfortunately the best way I currently know. I guess it's time to start digging.
Which is longer: a game of thrones #1 or Harry Potter #6... I think they're similar page lengths but got is probably at least 2x the words. Kindle sections or word count really do make more sense for pure length. But thickness and heft are real as well as is paper cost :).

I have the above analogy from teaching my kids not to be afraid of long books. It actually works both ways. "Look you finished hp6 when you were 12, got is like the same size don't be afraid."
I completely agree, I say all that as someone who is happy to pragmatically work with Python, but who is also very tired of the ecosystem and wouldn't choose it for much outside of data science. Which is unpleasant to admit, because it was my first language, and I did a lot of fun stuff with it.
They aren’t jealous of the tech. They are jealous of not being included. They might not get invited to events or understand their friends jokes because they weren’t part of the group chats. This can make them resent their parents and give them social anxiety. Kids can be very cruel and lack the empathy skills to understand why their friend isn’t allowed a phone.

Overdoing it either direction can be a serious mistake.
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Both of the examples I used had mandatory state IDs during their dictatorships. The IDs were not significantly instrumental to the government's power. I don't think the addition of RFID really would change that in the event of a new dictatorship.

But even if mandatory RFID IDs were a critical tool of authoritarian governments, what would prevent the dictator from issuing mandatory IDs after taking power?
Perhaps you could have 's/will/may'
not sure if this is furthering of the joke, but this was an april fool's post
It’s been extremely reliable in Boston.
He did it, but still would have a preferred a Dune TV show, especially after the success of GoT, and the streaming wars. The money was there. Characters played by Jason Momoa, Oscar Issac etc only got a little bit of screen time. And all those cool characters would have been amazing to watch over a few seasons.
It gets dull when that mule character appears, that supernatural twist just didn’t fit the rest of the story IMHO.
Personally I wouldn’t advocate for these as I don’t believe it’s a good idea to automatically generate a GraphQL schema based on your database (I haven’t worked on anything in years where this would’ve been a good idea). But YMMV as always.
The expensive part of coal power is the coal itself. The upfront costs for the power plant are quite low. This is the opposite of solar. It has an very high upfront cost, but for the next couple decades, you only need to pay a little for maintenance, so the amortized costs are cheaper. However, poorer areas of China can't afford this large upfront cost, but they still have a lot of demand for energy, so they build new coal plants.
Roastedd coffee beans, actually
I was iffy about AppleTV+. Why do I need another streaming service?

Then I got an offer of 6 months for free. Decided to try it out. Started For All Mankind. And was pleasantly surprised! Good visuals, great acting and despite being technically science fiction (alternate world timeline) it felt incredibly grounded in reality. Science is on point. Even more so than The Expanse. I had high expectations and it exceeded them.

I hope they don't drop the ball. Although to be fair, these days that's not even difficult. The first streaming service that promises to finish the series they start will get my subscription. It's a huge problem in sci fi.
Sir, please try a good pair of footwear, for your sake! If you need convincing, look up the Boots Theory. Personally, I live in my boots and have worn out many cheap pair. Sometimes 2 a year. Invested a little more, my body was never so happy, and I didn't need to replace them for 4 years. Easy math.
Based on the open list seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jB...
As someone who didn't read the book, the dune adaptation felt pretty hollow. A lot of visual splendor, but a very thin story with very empty characters. Extremely shallow interactions.
> and I suppose a lot of people would say that they have not been effective.

They really aren't. Q8, the gas stations, have been in Denmark for 30 year, if not more, they've apparently never been profitable, certainly not enough to pay taxes. The same goes for Coca Cola, which may have start to pay taxes.

The only solution I've seen propose is a revenue tax. Similar to a VAT it would be added at the point of sale, making it impossible to avoid for companies. In return corporation would pay tax on profits. It has it own set of problem though.
Two animated series this year did a decent job of portraying different parts of the world portrayed in Neuromancer, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Pantheon (based on short stories by Ken Liu).
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So instead we just pump energy waste / byproducts in the air?
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We Europeans are continually surprised that talking about masks is still a thing.*

Except for 1 or 2 outlier countries masking is over.

* Unless they are familiar with U.S. politics
It will be interesting to see how they do it...

Neuromancer was mind-blowing in, what was it, the mid '80s? I think I had just upgraded from an 8K PET to a Commodore 64 w/300 baud modem and was finding local phone numbers to log into BBS's.

We're all well past that now.

A faithful retelling would have some nostalgia value, but I'm hoping they go for something more ambitious. I know they can't drop a brain bomb on me like Gibson did, but hope they can make me jitter a bit.
The only difference is, I suppose, the fact that one comes from a people that got very close to experiencing the "social justice paradise" and the other is just a made up phrase by an internet troll. Otherwise, they are practically indistinguable.
There are a lot of problem related to nuclear, including its cost, the centralization of political power and the centralization of the energy grid.
ChatGPT has mastered the confidence trick