skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the endless Scrum meetings where we debated points with all the seriousness of medieval monks discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. As a rough heuristic points aren't bad, per se, and they are a bit better than straight time estimates.

But when they become the subject of endless meetings it's a tell that maybe the company has hired too many people too quickly and is in the "bullshit jobs" phase where it's happy to waste precious salaried hours on meaningless debate.
"Track record? I don’t really think we are supposed to work continuously to 70 when our bodies are completely busted."

I agree, but the track record I was thinking of is the number of companies you worked for previously. Not the years spent working.
But the level they're selling still requires that the driver be able to resume control when notified. So the "the car notified the driver to take over, disengaged, and shortly following that the driver crashed the car" narrative is still possible, even when the "shortly following that" might actually be "0.1s later". Sorry, our tech wasn't engaged at the time, you're actually the one at fault here.

Yes, the standard requires that the driver be given "a few seconds" to resume before the system disengages, but things can change dramatically in a few seconds at highway speeds.
It's because efficiency is only a small part of the conversation. Someone putting panels on their roof only cares insofar as it helps decide which solar panels to buy. They are buying solar because it goes on their roof, costs less than grid power, and they own the generation (what that means to someone changes)

Likewise a municipality putting in a solar farm is probably doing it because it's cheap and easy to maintain, easier to distribute across your city, and when compared to a big machinery based plant like a fossil fuel plant, both wind and solar take less educated skills from the municipality to install and maintain. Solar is essentially commoditized at this point, it's barrier for entry is for a municipality is just money. Wind is productized too, just more complex and difficult to install and maintain than solar.
I think so too, and the wordpress market share is still rising.
Agreed! Those quantum mechanics people do love Fortran. I talked a bit with Schrödinger (the company) around 1997 about a job in molecular visualization, and decided I didn't want to be the lone non-Fortran developer in a company.

I'll add another factor to your consideration. Quantum chemistry is mathematically and numerically more challenging than molecular dynamics, and requires a more advanced understanding of chemistry than MD does of chemistry or physics.

I suspect this makes MD codes easier to implement, and more open to multi-disciplinary development, than QC codes.

This thought comes from my experience. My PI at Illinois was Klaus Schulten, who was a postdoc in Karplus's lab at Harvard. Karplus's group developed CHARMM, written in Fortan.

Our lab also used Axel Brunger's X-PLOR, another Fortran code. I know we had a source license to X-PLOR.

If the factor you described were the dominate one, we should have been a Fortran shop.

Yet in the late 1980s/early 1990s (before my time) there were grad students in the group writing their own MD codes, one in C and another in Occam. (Occam was developed for writing parallel algorithms on a transputer. The transputer was seen as the future of parallel computing. The grad students before me built their own hardware around the transputer.)

My generation then developed NAMD using C++. The primary author, Mark Nelson, who had been maintaining one of the older codes, and was annoyed with it. He was grad student from CS (or EE?), with software industry experience before going to grad school. Two other grad students - Bill Humphrey and I - were in physics but had undergrad CS training. Plus, the group itself was multidisciplinary, with Laxmikant Kale's group in the CS department, who developed the Charm++ language. (Also, we collaborated with John Board's group from the EE department at Duke, to use their multipole package for long-distance electrostatics; that was in C or C++.)

Which means in our group alone there were at least three locally-developed MD codes. Each one targeted a different way of handling parallelism.

This was possible because the core MD engine is pretty simple. Adding different integration types, and parameterizing the force field, and developing faster approximate methods to handle hydrogen dynamics, and other aspects of MD are not so simple, but the core is still something many undergrads could write.

While QM codes require a more specialized knowledge that I certainly never learned, and which isn't easy to pick up by non-chemists, leading to a more isolated development culture passed on in the way you describe.
There are answrs for those that seek rather than snide.

Shared grids, small industrial estate sized battery farms, heated sand, hydrogen generation and recovery.

In the real world [1]:

> South Australia has been effectively powered by green energy for a week, with one expert predicting it could extend to a month by early next year.

> From December 12 to 19, National Energy Market data showed wind and solar contributed on average 103.5 per cent towards the state's energy demand.

> No coal was used during the period, but gas accounted for 5.9 per cent of electricity when renewable sources were not enough to power the state at points at night.

ie. For an entire Australian state total internal renewable production exceeded total usage for a full seven day period - spot excess was exported to neighbouring states, minimal baseline generation in a shortfall period was boosted by gas.

That's a dramatic change from nearly all coal generated power of some years ago.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/renewable-energy-prod...
Sketchy ChatGPT App Soars Up App Store Charts
Probably not the OP's intent, but the choice of 'heaviosity' (over 'gravity', 'profundity', or whatever) invokes another surprisingly weighty movie from this same period-and-genre: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Maybe I'm just a child of the late 80s, but I didn't see either Ferris Bueller or Bill and Ted until late in my twenties, long after I'd ceased to be in the stated target audience. But both are hiding amazingly thoughtful reflections on adolescence, existence, and friendship underneath the guise of frothy 80s teen movies, and I love them for that.

(And I kind of love the OP for sending me down a moment's rabbithole of reflection by reminding me of both. Time to call some an high school friend and have a catch up!)
> It is simply impossible to deliver unlimited, high-quality care to everyone.

Anything "unlimited" is impossible in a constrained physical world. So I am not sure what contribution you like to make by stating the obvious here.

For most economies delivering reasonable high quality care to everyone who needs it is totally a thing they can (and in some cases: do) afford. It is just a matter of priorities. You would be surprising what nations can sustain if they really want it. War is a good example. When a nation goes into a long war and changes its economy to support that war we call that a war-economy. It is an economy, that priorizes a lot of what it produces and outputs for the war effort. Nations can be years or even decades in war-economy mode without going under and that works because they priorize the nations existence (and thus the war) above other financial goals. And in war nations also make companies do things that would be otherwise unthinkable, e.g. make a company share blueprints with a competitor, favour certain industries with resources, etc. If any nation knows that, it would be the UK.

So if any modern western government goes all cheap and naive big eyes on health care, it is not because they can't do better, but because they don't want to. Not wanting to do better is a very easy opinion to have, especially if one earns money by being of that opinion. Those who suffer and die are also a different demographic than them, so even easier to pretend all is going well.

I am not saying that any health care system should be inefficient. It should be efficient in certain way (e.g. prevent funneling government money into pockets, prevent paying too much for medicine and equipment and so on). But efficieny is not the primary goal here, the primary goal is to have an adequate health care system. And you will always get unethical rich people saying private payer is adequate, because THEY are covered by it. But the fact of the matter is that everybody profits when a nation has a good working health care system for all, even the rich egomaniacs. After all they cannot decide where they will have a medical emergency as well.
I wonder how the performance of Vision.framework on desktop Mac hardware compares to a cluster of phones. (The author mentions that it was "fairly slow", but it sounds like they were running an iOS app in the simulator and not a macOS app.)
I want an editor that integrates with my OS, not one that tries to replace it with something highly idiosyncratic.
I found it interesting to see a survey wrapped under "join waitlist if you want professional ChatGPT access".

As against, "can you please fill this survey for us?" - which will likely have less takers.
No.

ARM or RISC-V.

Apple makes some very nice ARM machines. If you’re running Windows, see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-arm-base...

Read Hennessy & Patterson and get back to us.
It's already scaled to an entire Australian state, see peer comment ^^

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34336253
IaaS - iPhone as a Service, coming soon to AWS.
I recently registered for Blood Stem Cell Donation in Australia (already a regular plasma donor).

Something I found particularly funny about the process was that the registry here (https://strengthtogive.org.au/register/) offers you the opportunity to get a cheek-swab registration kit mailed to you

…only to tell you on the next page that they have huge demand for the kits but the state/federal government haven’t approved their use :(
Term Rewriting in Mathematica
The article doesn’t mention the cutoff speed for L3 though. I think in Germany it is limited to 60km/h or 40mi/h.

Also, only certified in Nevada currently (but California to follow soon). And seems like available only in S class or EQS class.

Basically, for now benefits chauffeurs of expensive limo companies ferrying customers along the Las Vegas strip (admittedly an over simplification for the purpose of humour)
It's fine, I won't be staying up late just for HN points!
Token based pricing will not be understood by common user. Per-question pricing is psychologically repelling. My hypothesis is that there will be 3 tiers of pricing. For example, FREE (limited to 10 questions per day. Logic is that an average person searches 3-4 times a day). PERSONAL (100 questions/day - $10/month, you will be billed additional $1 for every 300 questions). PREMIUM (1000 questions/day - $100/month, additional $50 for every 1000 questions). Similar to how cloud resources are priced. Most of us will happily pay $10/month. Developers will have to shell out $100/month. 3rd party apps will end up paying in thousands.

This has potential to be disrupted a commodity LLM (say freely available that you can embed in your devices).
At least for the German version, they notify the driver with 10s before they need to take over.
When was Tesla ever a software company?
> My preliminary speed tests were fairly slow on my Macbook. However, once I deployed the app to an actual iPhone the speed of OCR was extremely promising (possibly due to the Vision framework using the GPU). I was then able to perform extremely accurate OCR on thousands of images in no time at all, even on the budget iPhone models like the 2nd gen SE.

I suppose that’s an old Intel MacBook? I’d be very surprised if the Vision framework performs better on a 2nd gen iPhone SE than even the first M1 MacBook Air.
If the actual source is extremely powerful, does the efficiency matter? The whole life on earth is solar powered since billions of years and it works very well and organisms did develop efficient energy storage for the times when the sun isn't shining.

IMHO solar is a proven source of energy that just needs more engineering to improve practicality. It kind of feel like we are getting there.

What I would like to see is nuclear power dedicated in producing solar energy hardware. After all, these things are not exotic and it's matter of putting energy into converting some abundant raw materials into solar cells.
What makes you think the spread on turning Pesos (-> BTC) -> USDT, or vice versa is any better? Market makers and exchanges don't work for free.

And since you can't buy groceries or pay rent with tether, and you need to convert it from/to fiat, you're not actually solving any problems by using it.
QuickLogic [1] seems to support and target the open tool environment for their devices -especially the F4PGA [2] toolkit (known earlier as symbiflow). Others have mentioned Lattice FPGAs. But the impression I got from Lattice is that they like the development of open tools, but don't want to invest too much in it. QuickLogic on the other hand, contribute code and design directly to F4PGA project and allied ones like Migen.

[1]: https://www.quicklogic.com/software/qorc-mcu-efpga-fpga-open...

[2]: https://f4pga.org/
Returns incorrect results regularly and convincingly. Should be worthless. Stop chasing anything that has "AI" in it.
Outrageous effort! So far japanese, mandarin returning results as well.

Do you have list of sources where memes are ingested from?

Would be nice to have some option to explore memes by category.
I would not go so far and say this is the only thing that makes sense. It made sense for my service, because it runs in a context where people can trust me to not copy the password suggestion and store the clear text.

But every application context is different, so maybe offering a clear text password for your users to choose might ring the wrong bell in yours.
Iran Says Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Hijab Laws
I've met such people, hell, I've been such a person and to me this is different in a way that's not visible from the outside and that is (not) giving a single fuck whether this makes life harder for others in the long run.

Paraphrasing something one person told me(not the 3h guy, someone else):

"Look, I'm building a house right now and that's my main focus. I'm billed by the hour so if anyone finds out something is wrong with my work and orders me to fix it, then that's just more billable hours for me. I don't complain - at least there's work."

That last bit is specific to my corner of the world where the previous decades were marked by high unemployment.
Was Salesforce's Acquisition of Slack a Bust?
Good overview, despite the unfortunate writing style.

It's weird how I can find more or less live precipitation maps, and quite detailed flood risk maps, but very little information about flooding right now in map form. Searching for 'rain California' on google maps laughably brings up a list of businesses with 'rain' in the name; turns out that weather systems don't buy adverts so organizing information about them isn't a priority.

It's quite disappointing that the national weather service maps are so poor and the most -up-to-the-minute maps come from news organizations, eg https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/10/us/california...

There's definitely a demand for better scientific mapping that can show extents rather than just location while still being accessible to consumers rather than requiring GIS expertise.
"The ‘best job in America’ pays over $120,000 a year — and offers a low-stress, healthy work-life balance"

Do you all agree? I say no. It's well paid but there is a very empty feeling about the work I do. It's mostly solitary and it comes down to solving the same problem over and over again. It was exciting at one time but years after my initial job, I now feel like I've wasted my time. Anyhow, I wouldn't do it again, if I had a choice.

TLDR:Software developer.
Powell Says Fed Will Not Become a ‘Climate Policy Maker’
Can you elaborate on why you think the paper is flawed please?
ChatGPT has gotten so much worse since it gained popularity. All the fun and novel things people had discovered it could do are now hamstrung by a rush to censor it, make it politically correct, and try to turn it into a knowledge engine rather than a machine you could chat with.
> Is it the largely unaddressed battery storage problems?

Afaik those are not solved at scale, as in they're not even "problems" yet, the "battery storage" just doesn't exist at an industrial scale. As in many other past cases a form of pseudo-religiousness has taken over the discourse, hence the disconnect between what certain people believe can be done and reality.
How Much Money Will You Spend on Hosting a Database
why you need to block analytics? As a bloggers I just need to know how many views I get daily. And with this kind of tool I don't get that anymore.

And I see that you use Google Analytics for your own website and what do you think about that?
Thank you, Dan.

I meant to ask my question in the spirit of HN (intellectual curiosity). I have found this community insightful when it comes to programming languages. Examples:

Vale

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31786487

Lobster

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160

I think this question will also be raised eventually since there have been other examples of Zig ports of Go projects:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31993429#31994394

I'm looking forward to OP's update. I believe it will be objective and insightful (surprisingly Google returns 0 results of "vlang vs. zig").
Halved our water heating bill.

I don't care about water usage, it's extremely cheap here and highly recyclable. That's why I framed my comment with the energy conservation context.
>What I miss in JS ecosystem is something single which solves all my problems. Like npm which can also build website, which can hot reload it for dev mode, which can autoformat my code with single blessed unconfigurable code style, which can lint it, which can run unit tests and so on. I don't want to spend a single second setting up my environment.

For this, you have Next.js/SvelteKit/Nuxt.js/whatever framework you prefer. For React in particular, Next.js with the default setup has all of these features but unit testing (there's a template for that, but it isn't as commonplace in frontend as it should be), and more such as server-side rendering, routing, data fetching, etc.
More efficient only if you ignore cleanup costs. Fixing climate change isn't a freebie.
You mean at the Python driver level? Unfortunately, that doesn't work with ctypes.

I've tried it by adding the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to os.environ before calling ctypes.LibraryLoader.LoadLibrary (https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html#ctypes.Library...) and it didn't work. I suspect ctypes gets somehow initialized much sooner and adding environment variables in your apps doesn't help.

TBH I didn't research it further, since the problems of the post are more general and it can happen that you trip into them regardless of runtime.
> What keeps you from investing half your clients making bets in one direction, and the other half making bets in the opposite?

The fact that would most likely be fraud and a breach of fiduciary duty for one thing[1].

[1] See for example https://gowlingwlg.com/en/insights-resources/articles/2015/i... The example they cite is from a closed-end fund but the same principle would apply to a hedge fund
Modern app click farms already have walls of iPhones.
dont invest in non-viable things. if you can't cover your expenses, it's not a viable business.
You’re correct, but this is the point of this announcement - 10secs to reorient yourself is a lot of time - it’s vastly different to “oops, you’re about to crash in 0.5s, sorry, you’re on your own”
Let’s share our local/national equivalents of Gift of Life, where you can register and potentially donate:
> You have many options. Joining another startup seems like an easy fix.

I have an honest but blunt question: how enticing is the idea of hiring a non-tech founder of a startup that failed only two years in and at best raised only 500k in funding?
Seems more of a TV gimmick than a test for sycophants. You know Branson does daring activities, you know you're on a TV show where the utmost care is taken by a whole team of professionals, ... it's a cheap trick.

So, instead of people who trust the proven professionals around them to do their job you get people scared of heights or averse to physical risks (who could be perfectly happy taking massive financial risks)?

Do you really think it shows anything useful?

[Where, when, which channel was this series shown, please?]
PHP has been here for quite some time. Some CMSs also. Take a look at WordPress. I didn't check the recent stats but at one point something like 50% of all web sites were powered by it.
Emacs: Org-Present in Style
Archiving Your Teen Self
I think it's likely the other way around, a product like Copilot is actually much cheaper than if you were to build off of OpenAI's API. ChatGPT, the product, will be much cheaper than if you actually ran the API yourself.

Some context is that I work for a company that builds a product called Codeium, that's a free Copilot alternative. If we were to use OpenAI's API, we computed our costs would be high 100s of dollars a year per user (we've opted for something more custom / in house).
They won't "have to". But the dynamic pricing will make them "want to" turn of their non-essential appliances when they don't need them.

Would it be a big problem for you if energy was essentially free 12 hours a day and 10 times more expansive than it is right now in the other 12 hours?

This is the only thing that we will need to change - granular, dynamic pricing to reflect the new constraints.

The rest will be solved by consumers adapting to that pricing. It might be by shifting the usage of non-essential devices (does it matter to you to have your laundry done at night?). It will likely include some batteries.

But for me the best option to me seems to be synthetic fuel production. Make hydrocarbons when there's too much solar and wind, and burn them again when there's not enough. The roundtrip efficiency is low (I think about 10% currently), but the capacity of such "battery" is effectively infinite and the investment is very cheap compared to regular batteries. The whole world already is adapted to burning hydrocarbons. So we wouldn't need to change much - just produce hydrocarbons in place instead of drilling for them in dictatorships all over the world.

BTW the implications on world politics are Earth-shattering. The difference in available renewable power per square meter in best vs worst countries is about 3 to 1 - maybe 4 to 1. Imagine if the least fortunate country on Earth had 25% of the oil that OPEC countries have.
I disagree that it is worthless.

What I agree with is that it is not strictly necessary, but that is a label that you can stick on a lot of things. Things that make our lives easier. Memorability of names is not a necessity in software engineering, just as is descriptiveness, but it certainly does not hurt.
https://archive.is/50XXh
Reading https://insideevs.com/news/584686/mercedes-level-3-autonomou...:

“Like related Level 2 driver-assistance systems, Mercedes' Level 3 technology handles driving speed, following distance, and steering. In the meantime, it keeps tabs on a preset route and traffic signs and signals. The system can also brake and/or maneuver to avoid potential situations.”

So, it reacts to traffic signs, and can change lanes to pass slower cars.
Germany: DKMS (Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei) https://www.dkms.de/
What? Actually solar is pretty decent, even generates DC - lots of stuff is DC nowadays, incl. all direct drives and induction cooking (incl. the obvious all electronics). Both wind and solar are pretty decent at capturing the only (non-nuclear) energy source the Earth has - the Sun.