skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This resonates well, and has parallels to business orgs and startup culture: https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664 (slide #48)

Procedure is created as the percentage of high functioning workers decreases relative to the amount of work output necessary for the system to survive.

These procedures are for sure stifling. I recently read “From Atomos to Atom” and one of the things that stood out to me was the approach most philosophers who made substantial progress on the atom took: everything is false. To make progress, they started from a position of assuming everything humans knew about this domain was incorrect; they then systematically proved _to themselves_ why each step in human thinking was correct.

I’m starting to wonder if there are two distinct concepts that we’ve conflated in the term “Science.”

One science refers to humanity’s collective constructs, the things we catalogue and teach and reconcile the world with in mass. This is a deeply social philosophy that is based on trust and not personal rigor. The scale of our collective constructs is too massive for any one person to tear apart and prove to themselves, so we substitute trust for rigor - we trust that someone else has been rigorous in generating these constructs.

The other science refers to practicing the generation of those constructs. This is a deeply personal philosophy in which there is no trust. It dictates our personal relationship and understanding of the world we inhabit. Here, science is something we personally practice in developing that understanding. We trust nothing, validate everything, and build up our own understanding in the domain.

With both, the defining trait is that reality is the final arbiter of truth.

To tie it back into business org and startup culture, not everyone in science is working towards paradigm shifts. The processes we have in place for indexing, compiling, and reconciling the constructs of science are likely sufficient. But they’re likely insufficient for generating a paradigm shift.

That being said, I find it unlikely that you’d have to tell someone working towards a paradigm shift that they should shun procedure. Many seem to share the trait of insatiable curiosity, where they’re going to build a construct against reality regardless of protocol.
Sure, but

1) week storage and 3-6 months storage are extreme events, similar in probability as overlapping technical shutdowns in nuclear facilities. In practice, with interconnection, it is even arguable that such long term storage are even needed.

2) the technology built for short term storage is usually not that bad for medium term storage either. In any case, if you want a nuclear grid, you will need to invest in storage technology, and there is no reason the progress in those technology will only improve short term storage solutions.

But I 100% agree: a nuclear plant turned on during winter will help. I'm not against nuclear, I just want to react to the incorrect view that storage is just a renewable problem.
Are modern digital video formats good at compressing chunks of pixels far apart in the video screen? It's not like zlib where identifying duplicated chunks is part of compression.
I think Notion has what you are looking for. But that thing is a monster in terms of features. And I am still trying to figure out how best to use it.
Client / server initially. The app "runs" remotely with a JS front-end.
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Hello folks,

Since the last week I've been using ChatGPT for writing some of the code at my startup and I found it great!

I'm preparing an article about how my experience as a programmer and technical founder is changing thanks to these kinds of tools (ie: ChatGPT, Github Copilot, IntelliJ Machine Learning code completion)

I'm still pretty new to this world of AI-enhanced coding experiences so it would be great if you can share your experiences with me and I'll try my best to include them in my article matching them with my own experience.

So how as been your experience of far?
Mastodon is a nice project, but to me the architecture is wrong.

You sign up for an account at some server and the moderator can just ban you for no reason (which happens to a lot of people).

You need to own your account. The servers should merely be publishers and relays of content. I think Jack's Nostr is closer to what could work at scale and time.
But how much did that cost, and how long ago was it? Have you recouped the cost yet? I ask because if it’s a 5 year payback, that’s ignoring the cost of food spoilage from your new fridge that quits after 6 years.
Textual looks nice. I've been a happy Urwid user for years, can someone with experience with both can do a quick comparison? Urwid development seems stalled (no commit for 6 months). Is it now possible to embed a terminal as a widget with Textual (with Urwid it's possible)?

I'm wondering also how Rich compares to something like Python Prompt Toolkit.
App-based check-in is great, but I’ve found the phone-as-key system to be lousy when it comes to elevator swiping (to get access to higher floors). What hotels do this well?
The irony of us discussing this on HN, a centralized service

It would be cool if HN rolled out an activitypub instance
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Given the outcome of Flamanville 3, Olkiluoto 3, Hinkley Point C, Vogtle, Virgil C. Summer and NuScale that predictability leans heavily towards renewables. They get built on time and within budget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Gener...

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/nuscale-nuclear-reactor-smr...
Do you suppose laws and the legal system provide the social infrastructure to support the corporate ownership of housing as property? If so, that - outside of political will - can be modified, deleted even. Without legal support, it will collapse.
In the end, the real winner of streaming was sports leagues.

They were able to continue raise fees on cables companies while being cables top draw.
Have their own streaming which they for the most part kept blackout policies.
Create bidding wars for scraps to streaming services to help legitimize them.

In the era of "content", sports is the ultimate renewable resource.
I call this the "Lie back and think of England" stance.

You're not wrong, until the end, it should be: "you have to distrust the Rust org, all of it."

And not just Rust, Python and JS and all the others. There are languages and systems that take trust and security seriously, but these are not they.
Iceland is the geothermal poster child, which may cause this idea, since both countries are volcanic. But Japan's population density (330/km^2) is nearly 100 times larger than Iceland's (3.6/km^2). So the intensity of geothermal extraction must be correspondingly that much higher, which turns out to be impractical.
Yes, there will always be workarounds, but those come with prices of their own (such as time spent getting around them, people to hire, etc.)

As an analogy, we catch more dumb criminals than smart criminals - but overall it's still worth having police, even if a few bad guys get away.
Perhaps the price of globalization, where it’s considerably more profitable to import cheaply produced goods with the consumer happy about lower prices. I assume with inflation taken into account and price of raw materials that juicer from 70 years ago wouldn’t be very affordable for the majority
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tbh I believe that people seek mentors to partake in some kind of social circle jerking rather than to do deep thought and the actual work. don't look up to them too much, the best insights I got was reading widely and doing deep work.
> when I recently watched Apollo 11 I was quite moved by the spirit pervading the whole enterprise - this idea that we sent people to the moon with hopes for the whole world. That everyone was watching, hoping, praying for the success of the mission. That is a sort of unity that is awfully hard to find today.

I'm not sure this is historically accurate. The Moon landing was the culmination of the nationalistic Cold War Space Race.

"While most Americans were proud of their nation's achievements in space exploration, only once during the late 1960s did the Gallup Poll indicate that a majority of Americans favored "doing more" in space as opposed to "doing less". By 1973, 59 percent of those polled favored cutting spending on space exploration. The Space Race had been won, and Cold War tensions were easing as the US and Soviet Union entered the era of détente." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#Cultural_significanc...

See also:

"Why Civil Rights Activists Protested the Moon Landing" https://www.history.com/news/apollo-11-moon-landing-launch-p...

"Not Everyone Wanted a Man on the Moon" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/opinion/apollo-11-nasa-wo...
I recently started using the Solargraph LSP with neovim and it's pretty nice.

Doesn't quite get you to the level of RubyMine in terms of smart-ness, but I find it's close-enough in practice. And I also highly recommend using TreeSitter for syntax highlighting if you're gonna go the Neovim route -- for whatever reason, I've found regex-based highlighters to be unbearably slow on even medium-sized ruby files.

I also work on a project that uses Rubocop for linting which is nice since it gives you some Prettier-like auto-formatting.

There may be some more goodies to be had (e.g. debugging via nvim-dap), but I haven't dug into that yet. As it stands, I'm pretty pleased with my current setup.
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Apparently Islamic principles have found a balance for this, so why can't we apply it directly?

Short term stock holdings - pay on the net gain of the sale.

Long term stock holdings - pay on the net value at that point in time. Non public companies are charged based on the last valuation round. Companies without funding aren't charged because the intrinsic value is zero.

Dividends - pay on the dividend amount received

All payments above are in cash, at 2.5% for all.
Radiation is a little out of the ordinary, sure. But it is not uniquely hazardous or long term. Particulate air pollution from normally operating fossil and biofuel combustion kills 8 million people per year according to the WHO. Climate change from CO2 causes long term ecosystem damage.

Radioactive waste uniquely becomes less hazardous with time, unlike forever non-decaying thing like mercury. It's also small and easy to place into 500m of crystalline bedrock or massive salt where it will not impact anything.
Amazon warehouses are no picnic, and their attrition numbers show it. But compared to industries that exploit immigrants and where wage theft is common, a warehouse job is objectively better.

A lot of people don't understand how hard it is at the bottom of the labor force.
They would create a separated business for each property
There are many effective medicines for which the mechanism is unclear or disputed. Should we stop using them?
I guess we are at a point in regards to AI driving where it actually doesn't matter "who" drove the car, as in the driver is always fully responsible, regardless of what the sticker on the FSD says, so they would ask Tesla out of want for statistics or something and not to prove anything that would shift blame away from the driver in any case.
It is fundementally different to have a camera above a military base and a person infiltrating it. Nobody dies when your drone hits a power line either.
16 kg on 3500 kg is nothing and you definitely need 200W and not 40W
Should it be possible one day to scale up this technology …

I think I’ve seen this one before.
>No, because new resources don't materialize like manna from heaven.

No, you're wrong. Me finding gold or pretty much anything of value does mean that it did materilize from heaven. Many more examples...
Or just put it on the parking lot?

The efficiency is so low on these, good luck. Covering a corner of the parking lot with standard panels is going to be cheaper and easier than doing the roof using these.
I came to this conclusion long ago. I called it the gravitational model of the economy. money has gravity....the more it has, the stronger the pull. it wants to join....
No one claimed that salt usage made no difference. That's a far lesser claim than concluding that someone driving a 17 year old car has obviously never lived where the roads are salted.

Despite being a lower percentage than CA, there are plenty of perfectly usable 17+ year old cars on the roads in New England.
Is it just me getting older or has this trend reversed? I don't the cheap brags anymore when people buy crappy cheap stuff you could hear in the 00s.
> most of the business logic of a system can be in the database

The problem of this approach is the tooling and lock-in.

If databases had first-class versioning support for their code objects (which could easily interoperate with git), testing automation, and a parvence of standardization across the industry, then a lot of people would be very happy to work with that model.

But they don't.
How would simple hard clipping cause aliasing?
Sell them to land trusts, co-operatives, and housing unions. There are creative and viable alternatives.
I generalized. Over a broad time period (like a year), you can predict the wind production of a wind farm, but on a daily basis you cannot consider wind a reliable source of energy. You can't make predictions today about the next day, and that makes wind a not very reliable source of energy if you have to run a country on it.... The only solution to this problem are seasonal storage, which is a lot of lithium, or energy mix with nuclear (imho, the most logical rational and economical way).
Pyrex is a great example of the problem here.

Original PYREX was borosilicate glass which is extremely resistant to shattering due to temperature differences and therefore excellent for cooking.

The brand and reputation of quality was established. Time to profit. The brand was sold and gutted.

The material was replaced with cheaper soda lime glass, which if you google “exploding Pyrex” you will discover is dangerously far less resilient to temperature changes.

Presumably out of shame the brand changed to pyrex from PYREX except for lab glass which retains the capital letters.
Does anyone have a link to the original 1975 version, preferably a digital one? In the foreword to the new edition it says that the publisher now provides it online, but it seems to have vanished since then.
U.S. Senate reaches agreement on $1.66T spending bill
Is ECS similar to Data Oriented Programming?

I watched this talk years ago: CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

I was very impressed by the ideas presented.

Java/C# can be used to write a program with "just a bunch of structs + static methods". Isn't that data-oriented enough? Ya, I know we can do 72 levels of inheritance also... for ignore that for a moment.
> Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One.

The price in terms of deaths was low thankfully, but not because the released material was not dangerous, but because they have done an unprecedented cleaning project. 150k people had to leave their homes because they were not safe. Hundreds of people died during the evacuation, but if they had not been evacuated that death toll of one would have been higher too. Also, cancer can show up years/decades later, and linking it to radiation exposure might not be easy. Basically the dying with vs from covid discussion :).

This entire cleanup project is estimated to cost in the high three digit range of USD billions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup#Cos...

Nuclear is safe if done right, but the Fukushima accident was definitely a big catastrophy, even if the death toll wasn't large.
As more people are finally recognizing, LCOE is wholly unrelated to systems costs of large scale decarbonized systems. It assumes you have a free and giant fossil based grid hanging around to back you up when you hit a calm month.
Now show which one makes billions of dollars
Unless you do a “mystery” deal, where you can save a ton in exchange for some uncertainty.

It’s always worked pretty well for me, tbh.
They also get paid reliably. Gig apps advertise for workers, in part, by touting their fast reliable payouts. Hotel cleaning is often contracted out to shady operators.
It has only 64 shades (6-bit) instead of your more typical 8-bit, so this more limited colors than you'd expect.

Banding is more typically seen in monochromatic gradients - black and white or shades of sky blue. But this image is a yellow/blue gradient, and it's super unnatural to have the RGB channels transition at the same time - typically they transition at different locations and that helps smooth things out.
Disclaimer: I’ve only been looking into this for a few days, so I may say something incorrect.

My understanding is that there is a single Mastodon implementation, but there are a number of similar projects which can interoperate by sharing data via ActivityPub to become federated. Some of these other projects implement all/most/some of the Mastodon REST API so that GUI clients (phone apps, etc) can be used for reading and posting. There was an article on LWN recently which listed several of these with some commentary [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/916154/
Not exactly the same, but check out the CMU database course lectures on YouTube.
We were funded with Venture Capital. Which means full-time developers for the foreseeable future. But its worth pointing out that both projects existed for a long time before funding.
Do billionaires really create enough value to warrant obscene wealth? Sure they deserve some wealth, but do they really deserve a billion dollars?

Are you forgetting the thousands of employees that are enabling them to become obscenely wealthy?

And I don’t buy the “deterrent effect” argument. IMO discouraging billionaires from acquiring more is a good thing and opens the door for other people to step up.
Once you identify what you need - you must also identify what the mentor will get out of the relationship. Primarily the mentor gets to feel high-value and appreciated. They may also be interested in hiring you or people you know. They may want to leverage your ideas or time - particularly on things that are not worth their time but are worth exploring. The relationship should not be exploitative, but should be mutually beneficial. You can indicate your value to them by doing some homework. Cold email is great, but have a specific question - "I'm interested in AI but having a hard time finding the right role to transition into the field - do you see good areas for me to apply my loosely related skill-set and get a toe-hold?".
Yup. the rich were lucky when they were born. they have a surplus of luck...they can. afford to be unlucky for years and years.....it's the same as the money thing....they can afford to lose
I see this loophole brought up a lot. Is there really no way to prevent it?
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Everytime I find myself trying to break down what I want from a mentor, I discover it's just a gaping hole in my heart from effectively being my own father and teaching myself how to exist, and then I get sad

I'm being serious though is the non-obvious part, I'm not making a quip. A mentor to me is someone who isn't teaching me "how" or even teaching me "why", they are teaching me "hmm"

I'm in my mid 40s and I try to remain receptive that a me from 20 years ago is looking for me now, and try to pay backwards what I couldn't steal forwards
Agreed... ORMs can be nice, but one should understand how it works. I'm a pretty big proponent of simple mappers (Dapper for .Net, template literals for JS/TS) with straight SQL over ORMs at this point.
The bureaucracies demand quantifiable results. You can't quantify people. You can quantify material garbage.
Also the expensive stuff is often built to last a few years instead of decades.
Yeah, you didn't mention their families though. And regardless divorce rates are way up.

If the incentive to work is "yeah you can show up and nothing will go wrong." Great. The same thing happens if you don't leave your parent's basement/subsidized housing/your friend's couch and you won't have to put up with as much crap or pay for a car. Do you see why people aren't bothering?
A lot of people are not comfortable learning languages beyond the ALGOL-like paradigm. SQL's building blocks are incredibly odd if you're used to the idea that work gets done via variables, conditionals, and loops.

Personally I think it's a wonderful (if imperfect), ultra-powerful, and easy language to learn. But if it doesn't click for you and you're under the gun at the job, I bet it's very easy to develop a bad attitude towards SQL.
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There is definitely a lot of fiddling with the text when writing, because you aren't really writing in English but instead a programming language.

On the other hand, the results can be remarkably readable, and in a fascinating way. As an example, here's a small game I wrote using it:

https://dwheeler.com/accuse/source.html

I don't know if there's a lesson to be learned, but as someone who's learned many programming languages, Inform 7 is intriguingly different.
Tangent: it drives me nuts how HN editorializes headlines and adds capitals to function names (it’s “strcmp” not “Strcmp”).
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Ah, so that also explains the significant use of asyncio for all UI operations.

Are you also considering a "WebView" front end, a little like Electron?
That is not Kropotkin's analysis; it is a very commonplace current "evolutionary psychology" analysis (as well as probably a common 19th century "social darwinism" analysis!)

I don't really want to get into the whole argument here -- it's one of those that we will go on forever with.

But the Kropotkin point of view would probably point out that humans as a species (and any species, in fact) have improved survivability and natural selection when we cooperate with those in our communities/populations without regard for family relations.
Renewables don't yet exist with the capability to do all season power. See Germany last month. Notice also how much gas is being built as we speak. So the straw man is actually renewables. Also the world is about 82% fossil and biofuel.
I see you have a bottomless appetite for taxing more and lots of imagination on how to do so. Do you have any answers on how that taxed money will be spent? How we can ensure that it's not just lining the pockets of the politicians and bureaucrats in charge of disbursing the money? How we measure the successes and failures of any taxpayer-funded program, so that we can be reasonably confident that the money is being put to good use? How all of this would play out over generations, knowing that the less money (and therefore power) the people have and the more money (and therefore power) the politicians have, the more likely it is that we will slip into authoritarianism?
50g of fentanyl has a street price tag of $5-10k USD.

that itself is another problem. if the system can make it extremely risky to sell such deadly drugs, its price will have to go up significantly, forcing many many people to stop abusing it.

you won't see that many fentanyl deaths if it costs say $10k per gram on the street. sadly, it is dirt cheap now, at only $100-200 per gram, people are dying.
Five years ago, in Las Vegas, it was cause for suspicion if you refused housekeeping for more than one or two days, see eg:
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/hotels-revise-room-s...

But people forgot the reason why.
Heavy taxing is not the take away from the model the article discuses.