skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The correct choice of infrastructure for a tech-based startup may help to cope with unpredictable user base growth, volatile demand, and server load. In other words, it’s crucial for scaling. And you should take a hard look at such infrastructure options as Firebase, Lambda on PHP, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm to understand how to scale a software product correctly and timely, in alignment with business flow. Therefore, our journey starts from dwelling into types of startup businesses.
I think a big part of the author's issue is the focus on current anthropological "study" rather than historical anthropological science – both when it comes to the things studied (their issue with the talk you mention) but also when it comes to priorities, e.g. caring too much (my impression of author's opinion) about whether or not something is sacred / etc.

Clearly the author is a person that likes anthropology for what it can tell us about history and the past and prefers to do this in a way that is as strongly scientific as possible (read: falsifiable). Whether or not her version of anthropology is the right one is up to the reader.

As with a lot of modern science there is a lot of jockying for funding, and Weiss is potentially venting frustration that such things are getting funding in place of work she finds more important / productive.
Do you really believe that though?

Slapping high tech panels on the ground seems peculiar.
Integrity (Operating System)
I can think of one, Ruby has a very healthy ecosystem for web development, with a very dominant an popular framework. A lof ot big companies seem to be invested on it to some degree. I don't think it has the brightest future and it might have a long but steady decline ahead, but I don't think risk of immediate dead.

(This is not to talk about the merits of the language, which it's really orthogonal to popularity).
My friend is 42 and got it at 39 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As I use XFCE as my daily driver, I never understand why the buttons in file dialog located as such.

Is it decision from GTK or XFCE team ? I almost put the blame on XFCE team for this, :-(

Can app devs who use GTK library overwrite this style?
What a vulgar rendition: "little nothing no-name universities."

There's more to a college than how much money it's going to make you throughout your entire life. In the case of St Lawrence and Adrian: this is where you send your children to if you don't want them to end up "of the world." They're small campuses, in controlled environments, with people from similar backgrounds (i.e. long-time upper middle class, no intentions of "moving up" or down). $40-50k a year for a couple of years is absolutely nothing if you want to make certain your offspring don't end up silly (and if you're of that notion, you surely can cover the cost).

For Landmark, it's obvious from a cursory glance of their info that this is a "special case," and different from the rest: it's a college tailored towards those with learning disabilities. Whether or not this justifies the costs is another matter, but it cannot be seriously lumped in as a regular college for comparison.

T1 is more marketing than substance. Most of the "Ivy League"s have fallen off since coming into public consciousness, and being flooded by people other than those that once brought it a good name. Even the "grinder schools" (e.g. CMU, MIT, etc.) are following in similar fashion (again, appearance over substance). Will they expose you to a wide range of people that may end up being useful towards some end in the future? Yes, but it's obscene to even think such a thought.
My guess would be it fixates on the most dominant source available and mutes the other factors. It probably favors human voices over other ambient noise, therefore singeing the man out.

It will really get freaky when there an ambient noise resembling a human voice. I'm thinking the Bear scene from the movie Annihilation.
That policy has been deleted in response to backlash, not just changed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050283

As you are aware, the formerly suspended account did not link out to Mastodon or directly name any Mastodon handle. The tweet that led to the suspension was also compliant with how the CEO claimed the policy should have been interpreted:

> Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288
Seen it a few days before, and indeed it does create absolutely beautiful videos. I'd love to make this one product demo video I need right now. However, I won't need to use the app for years after that. Is it possible for you to offer a monthly subscription or a pricing option for exporting a certain number of files?
> I'd love to see this serious proposal that says we can globally replace fossil fuels with intermittents and 4 hours of energy storage.

Not only is 48 / 4 not 4, but serious proposals like this one https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26355-z don't involve trying to replace the last 20% of electrical generation in the few areas without PHES resources before tackling the much larger and more cheaply solved emissions involved in currently non-electrified industries.

Once you have your ammonia, hydrogen, and ethylene supply chains mature, then you can just burn some of those in the handful of areas where a dunkelflaute can't be managed with 12hr storage and dispatchable loads.

> You're conflating my explanation for why U/Th supplies are not a concern with your assumption for what my proposed solution is. PWRs are sufficient for today and can be built today. We can and should work on new reactors and fuel cycles that don't just leave 90% of the energy on the table. US energy usage alone is 26,400 TWh a year. 10's of GWh a year may as well not get out of bed.

Putting U235 in a burner ractor just lengthens the time before your burner can come online. There is not enough viable uranium for a single fuel load to provide primary energy in existing designs. Your serial production of Gen III+ reactors cannot put a dent in world emissions before it needs to change course to breeders and all your new built reactors are mothballed for 20 years while fuel supplies are bred.

> You must a different idea of what "in-volume" means.

Your statement about what was in the paper was a lie as evidenced by the statements made in the paper referring to industrial feasibility. Those statements were a lie as evidenced by industrial feasibility being already proven. Why does your reasoning about the transition from an imaginary PWR supply chain to an imaginary Gen IV supply chain not apply to transition from a real TWh/yr battery supply chain transitioning into a real drop in replacement already mostly built that uses the same equipment?
Some might even say 110%, but my grandparents are gone now so I can’t ask them to be sure.

Now excuse me while I ride my unicorn to magical lands beyond the veil of time, where constraints like the speed of light and gravity don’t apply.
This is amusing and all but there is no real consequences of this I think, it's just a twitter poll.
For many people "free speech" also refers to the rights of companies to determine which speech is supported on or through thier platforms. Beware any large shareholder who claims to be a free speech absolutest. They most likely think of free speech as a power to be yielded rather than a right to be protected.
Uploaded. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/456820-hacker-news

I'll give Violentmonkey a go and make sure my script works in both.
I tried reuploading and again the exact same thing happened, which is interesting because it seems that it's producing audio fairly deterministically, which is not how I think of most AI produced results are but I'm not an expert.
Twitter poll says Elon Musk should step down as chief executive
Your original statement was "Powerwalls are both a niche and premium product, provided by basically one company, "

Tesla has a very small fraction of this market. Most of the market is outside the US, and Tesla basically only operates in the US for power walls.
It’s naturally mentioned in the article, as one of the main sources for the period, but I’ve always enjoyed Priscus’s account of his dinner with Attila:

https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/priscus.html

Meanwhile, this is an interesting paper. Kyle Harper’s The Fate of Rome advances climate change and disease as some primary drivers of the Western Empire’s collapse, both internally and externally. He uses a somewhat hotly contested theory that the Huns were actually driven from as far away as Tibet by drought (the evidence of drought in the East from juniper tree rings mentioned in the article is quite strong). But clearly drought affected peoples far to the West as well so the argument need not rest in the Hun-Xiongnu link. Of course, it’s still fairly likely that the empire would have fallen even if the Huns had retired to some quiet, evergreen pasture elsewhere.
A magnet?
>And at least with Mastodon, you can leave and take your data with you.

Can I? Because if I go to Import settings, I can see options to import my "Following list", "Blocking list", "Muting list", "Domain blocking list" and "Bookmarks". How do I move my posts and media?

Also, are these export options still accessible to me if the local hall monitor bans me? With Twitter, they are required to allow me to export my data under the GDPR and I feel like my local Data Protection Ombudsman might actually have some power to compel Twitter to do so. With Mastodon, I have less confidence.
Post mortem of our 1st YC startup: a Reverse ETL
Show HN: Real or AI? A game to spot DALL-E 2 generated images
I built this project last weekend.
I was playing around with DALL-E 2 and I was impressed by how photorealistic the images generated are.
I decided to build a small game to guess if the image is real or AI generated.
This is my first ever weekend project, so I would appreciate any feedback :)
Thanks
Am I the only one who's really fucking tired of all the Elon Musk outrage porn on HN?
> Perhaps it's no coincidence that people started talking about Mastodon on the same day that Twitter lost its huge NFL live stream contract to Amazon (they don't even have a social network). It's a tough moment in Twitter's ongoing quest to pivot to on-air-all-the-time media streaming service

Most revealing segment.
Sort of.

This milestone is liberating more fusion energy than photons used to start the reaction, but the energy source for the machine was electricity and it produced zero electricity. If you tried to convert the heat back to electricity you would be talking less than 0.1% of the electricity used being recovered at the other end.
It depends on latency. If you have a slow network connection (or are simply far away from the cloud data center) you are in for pain. That being said, running a local environment on a constantly throttling 2019 MacBook Pro that sounds like a jet engine is probably worse.
They know how much torque they're dealing with so they'll just spec heavier components to deal with it.

> no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission because the torque will kill the transmission

That's just because it's a crap transmission or it's tuned to be crap.
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@dang does a great job moderating HN. Perhaps he should reach out to Elon and share advice?
Moreso, how the hell would they call MSc graduates?
Rust Needs [Throws]
You need a video matrix such as:

https://www.lindy.co.uk/audio-video-c2/matrix-switches-split...
Serious: I might be crazy when i say that i find most value of ontology exactly where the definition as used in philosophy differs from the definition as used in information sciences.
Will LLM's make this more apparent, less or simply cause new simulacra while intelligence is lost ?
Having the ability to do seamless frequent updates means that bad software can cause excess churn. They are not intrinsically linked.

The problem with not having solid infrastructure for updates is security issues. Of course, there is a class of software where this is not a problem, but determining whether software falls into that category is pretty difficult given the structure of modern OS and the propensity for things like static linking. You have 3 choices:
* leave software vulnerable.
* track security vulnerabilities is all your software and its dependencies and manually update.
* Bite the bullet and have robust auto-update infrastructure.

I’d argue the bigger problem is that implementing robust, dependable and user configurable auto updates with easy rollbacks etc. is a complex problem, so every piece of software ends up implementing its own shitty variant that sacrifices user control and doesn’t distinguish between necessity and churn.
Is it possible for Crimea to become independent country?
Thanks for the insights.

> E.g. fixing log4j vulns is a lot easier when you can patch everything simultaneously.

This is true, though the refactoring action done can also be distributed and carried out via automated Pull Request creation to multiple repos. You still will deploy the changes over a period of time with a degree of parallelism.

> We had microrepos before and the main problem is that to this day I still get some random team coming to me for help w/ some rediscovered 7 year old repo that doesn't even build anymore cus lockfiles weren't a thing back then.

You can solve this by forcing a CI build for every repo to be run periodically.

> For us and companies like Google, monorepos work well with our organization model.

What are the concrete aspects of the organization model that make both orgs favor monorepos?
Caring about pit mining and watersheds is so 1972. Get with the times granpa. We care about carbon now. /s

All mining is bad for the environment to an extent. The total environmental impact of EVs appears to be substantially less than ICE vehicles, all things included.
You started by trying to discredit the work based on the author's work history. Then you threw out a few unspecific attacks on his data sources. Hardly convincing. Essentially name calling.

> The absolute most generous interpretation of the report you linked is that it was a mastubatory exercise by a completely naive person who thought he was the first person to think of problems that have been studied for decades

Here is a paper published by IEEE this year, On the History and Future of 100% Renewable Energy Systems Research. It is a comprehensive review of the research in this field. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9837910

Section D. Raw Material Demand for 100% Renewable Energy Systems

As the previous criticisms are starting to become less and less tenable, increasing attention is now shifting towards the more salient point of raw materials needed for the transition towards a sustainable energy system. Practically all research in this field finds critical limits for material availability. This may be a major concern and should be addressed with more consideration and analyses to truly test the material limits.

Hardly mastubatory, then.
How long until there's a way to process more than one hour at a time? After trying a sample, I cannot wait to run some old audiobooks through this. The results sound like it was made twenty years newer.
This is the real key. A LOT of people (and digging through their comment history, many of them) are MCF people who somehow poo-poo this result but then go on to extol how MCF schemes or companies are still a safer bet...even when none of them have even achieved any level of Q, heck they didn't even beat NIF's old result.

If this result is "useless" and "shouldn't be news," then the whole field of MCF and all the start-ups are even more "useless" and should be even less as news, because a small non-zero number is still larger than zero.
The original version of that has the right moving to the extreme right while the left stays in place. I guess both sides feel that the gap has grown, but both sides blame the other side.

Before we descend into both-sideism, though, it's worth to get a bit more perspective: the left-wing version of the comic looks at the growing divide over a period of decades; just after WW2, social democracy was strong in the US. Support for unions was strong, workers' rights, social security, all sorts of social democratic programs were broadly supported. Only with Reagan, did the Republicans suddenly start moving to the right: lower taxes, end social programs, deregulation, privatisation. And in the 1990s, the Democrats followed them on that part; both the regulation of the banks that enabled the 2008 crash and the crime bill that gave the US the largest prison population in the world, happened on Clinton's watch.

So the left-wing version of the comic is absolutely correct, and people have started to push back, which may have inspired the right-wing version of the comic.

Except I've got the feeling that the right-wing version is about something completely different: the pronouns issue. And frankly, that's barely a left-right issue. It's got nothing to do with economic inequality. It's entirely possible to support economic equality yet oppose accepting transgender people as their target gender (see JK Rowling, for example), or to oppose economic equality yet support accepting transgender people (classic/economic/neo-liberalism, many corporations).

Politics is simply not the one-dimensional field that these comics suggest it is.
Washington Post has had many "Opinions" in the past, which are directly related on supporting Bezos's wealth or business models.

Whether they have been pressured by Bezos or in some way, is uncertain, but it certainly leaves the benefit of the doubt.
Having worked in companies with a variety of skill levels, I find the higher skill you go, the less hacked together things get. While I honestly don't think Agile has to stand in opposition to good design principles, most treat it as though it does in practice. Whereas in less Agile orgs, I've worked with 20 year old systems that are still maintainable and fulfill their purpose well, in Agile orgs it feels like every system more than a couple years old has become spaghetti.

I can't 100% vouch for causality - as I said, the skill differences between the average developer in some of these orgs are immense, but it says something to me that all the more talented companies I've worked in tended not to go down the "fast and hacky is fine if you iterate" path.
I have a spreadsheet in that I have all my daily habits and I tick them off as I go. I make sure to include granular and simple habits, like taking my vitamins, drinking a glass of water and washing my face, etc. I also ensure that I keep it granular, so, putting my running clothes on is a separate habit from going for a run!

Then I have it color-coded, so I can see an overview of how many of my habits I am completing daily. It's great, the first time in my life I've been able to take vitamins on a daily basis, and journal every day!
My point was purely about the claimed impossibility of a hundredfold efficiency increase which is only true if you are already about 1 % efficient. I have no real opinion on what the NIF is doing or not, at best my layman judgment would be that laser fusion is way further from becoming practical than tokamaks or stellerators.
Yeah, I'm not talking about broken facebook or twitter, I'm talking about the various cdns out there, cloudfare, etc
Pyxel Studio is an online development environment for Pyxel (a retro game engine for Python). Create, play, share... games and apps.
I find it interesting that people talk in absolutes ("fusion will never be economical!") when the devices they're using were "impossible" only a few decades ago.

Also the difference between a 4:00:00 marathon and a 3:59:59 is less than a 0.007% improvement but it's a huge victory nonetheless. Once someone proves an arbitrary numerical barrier can be overcome humans tend to make a lot of progress shortly thereafter.
Yep. I refuse to use any of it. I want software to be like a screwdriver. You buy it, you put it in the drawer, it's there when you need it.

SaaS software is like a screwdriver where you pick it up and it goes, "Bing! Sign in to your screwdriver!" and you've forgotten your password so you have to reset it, then when you use the thing there's an "upgrade" button right on the handle that you've got to be careful not to press, and every couple of months the whole thing just randomly changes shape, maybe the grip disappears because a "sleek" look is trendy now, and so on.

If physical tools worked like that, it'd make everyone miserable. But when it's software, people just take it.
The Nioh remastered collection for the PS5 on disc is getting cheap. That's how I got both, only last month :)

Of course, right after my package arrived Nioh 1 went free on psplus for the month. But the collector in me is whispering that I make the right decision when i get (cheap) discs.
No you've misunderstood. What I actually said was essentially that a lot of experts, aren't. Even ones who really believe they are.

Whether Twitter is doing better or worse really has nothing to do with these predictions that were made. The issue is that you obviously don't need literally hundreds or thousands of engineers to keep Twitter generally running and providing a similar kind of service. It might see a down tick in quality or outages, new features might take longer to be implemented. But that's not the service exploding and grinding to a halt.

I was just musing -- maybe some of the people making these kind of predictions are people who think meetings and work groups and committees and powerpoint slides constitutes useful work as opposed to a (sometimes unavoidable) drag that is to be minimized at all costs.
Ping: your device, your router, your ISP's router, etc are already up and running and ready to participate in protocol interactions. Having done a bit of networking in the days where it was still reasonable to use analog modems as backup connectivity, I remember waiting 15-30 seconds for dial out + negotiation to occur before ping replies began flowing again.

Car: your car is an integrated system where all the components have been selected with the intent of working together as an integrated system. A display device often supports many modes and has very few guarantees about how sources will behave, thus inter-device negotiation is needed upon connection.

As other comments have noted, the control channel is fairly low bandwidth and there is potentially a decent sized chunk of info to exchange, plus timeouts and delays to ensure the display can work with older or less featured sources.
The kernel is just a bunch of code. What prevents the browsers from implementing all the capabilities of the kernel? Why can't my computer boots into a browser directly and it then figures out how to talk and manage the hardware directly.

The way I see it, OSes of today is simply an implementation detail of the browser. 99% of the world won't even care or notice f Windows 12 is is shipped as a Ubuntu distro with familiar UIs. Heck, not even most developers will I think.

I have this thought when I ponder on the fact that most programming languages of today assumes a virtual machine of one kind or another. But...the OS is already a virtual machine (of the yesteryear I suppose). The only reason we don't have yet another level of virtual machine inside our browsers is that most browsers are almost fully compatible. Even each browsers starts having diverging APIs then its only a matter of time before someone creates an OS on top of browsers.
I use a headtorch, and then end up staying awake for 2 hours after.
Show HN: Viewer for 3D Models by Quaternius