skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I could agree the average quality has dropped. But surely you agree that the sheer volume of high-quality content has ballooned. How many high-quality TV shows can you name from the 90s?

Perhaps I didn't watch that much content in the 90s :-) or there is some other factor. For example existence of really good content puts the bar higher, or the fact we had few really high value productions many had high hopes for flops? (like the recent "The Rings of Power")

However, there is one thing I'm eagerly waiting for. AI and other software led improvements to the ability to "remaster" some productions by fans. Perhaps then the entire series of "the rings of power" can be turned into a really good 30min short? Who knows.
this has already happened to most galaxies we can see - we're seeing the light they emitted before they "fell off the edge"
With the past winter it seems that people who do not want to pay a premium on power would prefer if the government then stepped in and paid it for them. With the Energy Price Guarantee program, customers don't need to bear the cost of 100% service guarantee.

At this point there isn't really any part of the energy grid that governments do not subsidize. They subsidize companies that provide grid stability. They subsidize renewables that provide capacity. They subsidize the customer who buy energy. They subsidize the grid infrastructure that transports the energy. They subsidize the interconnection between countries that enables trade between countries. They subsidize the cleaning up and associated costs from pollution.
Alpine.js is seeing an increase in utility as it pairs nicely with htmx[0], Phoenix LiveView[1] and the likes for lightweight interaction that doesn't require the server.

[0]: https://htmx.org

[1]: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Look at FB's staff from back when they had comparable revenue and way more users.

I believe that 2013-14 FB was comparable in terms of revenue and users, and they had approximately half the staff.
Ask HN: Are forced gender distributions for hiring interns legal?
A hypothetical company offers an engineering internship program. This company's applicant pool has a ~80%/20% gender distribution (which is consistent with engineering student enrollment). However, this company's hired intern class consistently has a ~50%/50% gender distribution. Such a distribution cannot be achieved via random selection from the applicant pool, unless either the minority gender was much stronger than the majority gender, or the distribution was somehow "forced" during the hiring process. Is this legal?
One good example are Battletech's Unseen Mech models. The stats were ok, the drawings were owned by some folks in Japan. Liscense agreements were impossible, so instead of risking a law suit, Battletech switched Mechs. And that required an in-universe retcon of sorts to explain why the Mechs everybody used and inhereted from their great-great-grandparents weren't there anymore.
maybe the only way to express speech precisely is the speech itself ?
Negative prices on power i.e. curtailment, is the perfect use case for Bitcoin mining.

Obviously there needs to be some amount of battery storage of energy too, but once the storage capacity meets the needs of the local grid, and the batteries are full... what do you do with the excess power?

May as well mine Bitcoin with it and make some profit on that excess energy.

Energy buyer of first and last resort.
The best way to improve your memory is getting a wife. She always says: "Idiot, do i have to repeat it for you ?" /s
How do you know that not much thought has been put into that?
> It’s like you saying you’re going to get your spending under control by stopping to pay your credit cards

I mean it's a pretty obvious analogy: raising the debt limit is like opening a new credit card. If you keep doing that you get more and more in the red. If you keep your current credit limit and instead stop buying so much junk you can reduce your debt.

> It’s just performative. Republicans had full control of all 3 branches of government in trump’s first term and all they did was increase the debt with unfunded tax cuts.

I 100% agree with you. It's performative by the majority of Republicans. There are some who I feel truly believe a balanced budget is the #1 issue, though, and I'm rooting for them. Unfunded tax cuts (TCJA) are _worse_ than the status quo of just bumping the limit; that made my blood boil.
> Anecdotal evidence from my Haskell experience: If my Haskell programs compiled, they usually worked. Which is amazing. Powerful types for the win.

I have the same feeling regarding Haskell, Elm and Swift, the latter I program in 99% of the time. I really don't feel like I get the same sense of security from Typescript, to be honest. Maybe I'm not using it correctly? I tend to lean more towards OP's opinion. I would probably prefer something like Rescript, but haven't looked much into it.
I think that part is still fine, because there he's only saying that he got different results for the same test on his hardware, which might help to set a baseline. Really weird is the table after "Let’s see the breakdown". It's not super clearly labeled so I'm not fully sure which data is which, but it looks he's comparing neo4j on his machine to memgraph on their older hardware, that would be very silly.
Looking at the source for the benchmark, that also seems to hold.
This looks interesting, but the front page doesn't say anything about pricing and then asks for registration. I don't really want to hand over my email address and create a password without knowing if the price will be in my budget, especially as there are no samples or anything.
Without wanting to sound condescending, you don’t understand modal editing. Working in different modes accelerates rather than retards efficiency. It’s worth knowing about for intellectual curiosity, even if you don’t care to use it. Google “you don’t grok vi” for a quick and interesting read.
Maybe you just have difference on opinion what their own interest is. Its pretty rich to presume that you know what in the best interest of everybody is.

Just saying its all because of fearmongering and to stupidity of the plebs is an elitists attitude that I dislike.

Of course lobbying has an effect. That literally what democracy is built on. Lobbying is effective also in things that you like, not just those that you dislike.

We also had a lot of initiatives that were accompanied by lots of fearmongering (vote for this or country if fucked) that were rejected.
Exactly. GUI apps trade generality for approachability. The GUI version of this already exists; it's part of Excel.
Of course they aren't going to actually suffer any consequences. We all know that's not how this works, which is exactly why it's so risible. But something reasonable and totally under their own control is to not brag about holding themselves accountable when they know nothing will happen.

It's basically making the layoff about themselves, rather than the poor sods who just lost their jobs. (There's some other common patterns in that vein too, e.g. "this is the hardest decision I've ever had to do".)

If you want to acknowledge being at fault, that's totally fine. Just write the facts. The over-hiring was a mistake, and you're the one who made that decision. Don't dress it up into a personal journey of failure and redemption.
You're missing the point. Their impact on the subject is much greater than simply making oil products available. They pushed a narrative that aligned with their self interests at the same time it was detrimental to the world. They did this through various means, including press/media and lobbying. The world of energy production could be very different from what it is today if they didn't act only on their self interest. Actions were taken much later due to their misinformation. In my view, the decision makers should pay heavily for what they did.
I can imagine dragging smaller asteroids and letting them "drop" into earth (e.g. attach massive parachutes and then guide them to land on some mining site. Totally sci-fi but I still find it less so than the moon. The reason I don't imagine robots mining the moon is that minerals, as you say, are not readily on the surface, nor is the moon mainly made up of a specific mineral.
This is true. But Zeno would still counter:

Infinitely many time intervals, however short, cannot have passed after finite time.
Bit late for those affected probably.
If you're just looking for general feedback, constructor typing has made my life really hard trying to type an existing JS library. In a JS object instance like `const user = new User()` you can call `this.constructor.staticMethod()` and it calls `staticMethod()` on `User` or up the inheritance chain. But TS doesn't type `.constructor` so you're out of luck. In the simple case you call `User.staticMethod()` but that doesn't work for an instance method on a superclass that wants to call the method of the constructor of the instance.

I understand why JS makes this difficult to type because you can mess around with the constructor. But for normal every day code you just expect `this.constructor` on an instance of `User` to be `User` and it really sucks that it isn't!
CNET Money: financial 'advice', AI generated, fact-checked by editorial staff
Are you really surprised though?

The crypto hype was a vehicle for VC backed companies to sell unregulated financial products to retail investors.

The "gig economy" was a vehicle for VC backed companies to skirt labor protections and zoning laws.

And now AI is a vehicle for VC backed companies to skirt copyright laws.

"Disruption" is often just about finding edge cases of existing laws and regulations and exploiting them for profit until legislation catches up.
Passwordless authentication for your website in 5 minutes
It's definitely going to hurt D&D, and I can totally see D&D getting overtaken by other RPGs. But D&D is much more than just a game; it's a brand and cultural icon on par with Star Wars. Hasbro still has the name. They can merchandise the hell out of it. The game will exist, and even if much fewer people will play it, the rich history of D&D will still be attached to it.

> Hasbro pulling an Elon is not them “learning from their mistakes”, it’s just another offense.

They think they're learning, but they're learning the wrong lesson.

What they don't seem to realise is that the editions that used the OGL, are their most successful editions. And 4e that didn't, wasn't. Ryan Dancey (one of the creators of the OGL and VP at WotC at the time) even suggested that Paizo's Pathfinder system may have contributed to the success of D&D 5, because all the players who were disappointed with 4 could keep playing a game very close to D&D, and when D&D 5 came along, many of them switched back to D&D. Without Pathfinder, they might have strayed further and not have come back. Hasbro sees Pathfinder as the enemy, but it's not. You can be big together, and the OGL did make the RPG industry much bigger than it was before. I hope Paizo's new license will do the same.
Where file handling is concerned, there are at least

- File System Access API, https://wicg.github.io/file-system-access/

- File Handling, https://github.com/WICG/file-handling/blob/master/explainer....

- Origin Private File System, https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/blob/main/AccessH...

There was also Storage Foundation API to which the reaction was "I don't think it's an acceptable outcome for the web platform to have that many ways to work with files" :) https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/481 This one never saw the light of day.
Patents are too damn long in tech. I wish USB-C had shorter magnetic connectors
I'm one of those that knows a good deal of Vim and Emacs, and moved to VSCode and felt things just work better there.

The pattern nowadays for me always goes like this:

1. Let me try Vim again. I do miss that kind of efficiency
2. This is so fun, I really missed it (for a few minutes or hours)
3. And then *one little comfort* from VSCode is missing... and I'm back on VSCode for months.

Maybe if my brain could just accept that one can edit the same set of files on two editors at the same time, it would be the best way to work.
Has there been any studies on how incorporating ChatGPT into a search engine will affect the search results and in turn millions of people that use it? I would like to read it.
Did you read the article? The Eastern HVDC will run from Peterhead to Drax via the North Sea.
>"most science is written like it hates you and wants you to stop reading immediately."

As an educated lay person who dips into scientific papers occasionally I completely agree with this. And now I have a nice phrase I can remember next time I read a scientific paper and think "why does science hate me?".
Yes, I know.

You would believe that at some point in the past decades, with the multiple crisis caused by failure of leadership in the financial sector and with the numerous scandals in both auditing, energy production, manufacturing and shipping, people might have started to question if there might not be something fundamentally wrong with the way we do corporate governance and more generally how we have organised our society and economy. But apparently no, it’s really going to be denial up to and over the edge of the cliff.

I remember as a kid being fascinated by the idea that while decline was felt throughout the Roman Empire, something which once stood so powerful had then become powerless and was rendered unable by its own structure to restore what used to be and prevent what was to come. I kept wondering how it was even possible. Now I know.
Hydrogen electrolysis and increasing interconnects seem a more useful thing to do.
It's funny that tiny Singapore is an example of a country with different pricing nodes, instead of uniform pricing for the whole place.
Just don't buy. Worst garments ever.
Are they worth to buy for modern/semi-modern cars? I think I owned one for Peugeot 106 2002. There wasn't that much really useful stuff in it No detailed exploded mechanical drawings of all parts, just drawings showing major assemblies and selected parts.

Then I bought some "service manual" cd on ebay and there was everything there. Even estimates how long it "should" take to replace specific parts.
I lost all my files during the transition to APFS.

Luckily I had a backup, but it was about a month old.
how much time do you spend to develop this project?
They don't have the scale to sway large parts of the public opinion, so they are irrelevant. Also, what you call "left" might simply be the truth, and it's very hard to fight against that.

For an example of toxic ideological delusion in the left camp you can see the harm done to adolescents by the gender nuts, it's absolutely out of control on Reddit and there will be reckoning day with its many victims.
For what it's worth, I have no problem using the mouse, or the keyboard, but I hate having to switch between them all the time. The longer I can use one without having to switch to the other, the better. Editing text can't really be done without the keyboard, so for that activity the use of the mouse should be absolutely minimal.
I think markup would always be more work and less effective than using your own voice input to guide its tone.
It is interesting that what the author considers "foundational knowledge" in the context of running a sucessful advertising campaign to be "the HTTP protocol and Session management". I would argue that while this is not completely irrelevant, surely foundational knowledge in this sphere consists of an understanding of human psychology, sales, how to identify your target audience etc. If I were asked to choose between someone with an in depth understanding of the http protocol and someone with an in depth understanding of human behaviour to run an ad campaign I would definitely choose the latter. I would go so far as to argue that if I had to choose between training engineers to understand user psychology, sales and UI/UX, or training advertising people to better understand the technology behind their campaigns that I would get a much greater return from investing in the former.
And at the very least, until then at least pay their cell phone bill, come on man
Is gnuplot better for the use cases demonstrated on the page here?

I've always avoided gnuplot because it has looked pretty hard to get anything useful out of. But uplot looks much more approachable. Just piping some data to "uplot hist --nbins 20" is something I'll remember.
The thing about last straws is they're usually just a small bit of straw
There have been 37 magnitude 8 earthquakes in the world in the last 40 years
You can get a RSS feed of every Mastodon account
>as far as I know, there exists no proven, cheap, scalable technology to store power at grid scale at all

It's called pumped storage.

We dont need as much storage as people think. Solar and wind anti correlate and a vast amount of demand can be time shifted.
Several power companies are using synchronous condensers with flywheels to increase inertia
Ask HN: Have you noticed the subtle increase in font sizes around web?
Have you noticed the subtle increase in font sizes around web?
I've been noticing it on especially on sites targeting programmers like hn it seems a lot more people are having vision problems
I certainly don't like the fact that I'm going to blow a third of my life unconscious. I only get one of these and to know that a third of it is off the table from day one does sting a little.
I once heard that the one thing we might mine on the moon is He3, once/if we get to that level of fusion power. There's apparently a lot of it, and it's right at the surface.

But the advantage of asteroids is that everything is at the surface.
What's so weird about this article is that the author recognizes that querying KV databases and querying relational databases is not the same thing and trying to overlay relational semantics over a KV database causes problems but then doesn't seem to take much notice of the fact that the interface ORMs provide (querying graph databases) is also mismatched with relational databases.
If you don't understanding anything about Bitcoin's properties and the utility that provides, I can understand why you would think its a waste of energy. But many disagree with you for good reason.

Some people think clothes driers or Christmas lights are a waste of energy, but it's not for them to decide how other people spend the energy they've paid for. Some people think those things are worth the energy cost and so they pay for it. That's their choice to make.
I'm happy with Ruby for a CLI tool, but I'd love to have something like this as a python library!
There isn't one. Not everyone works at a company with a 5 figure head count.
What is the benefit for enrolling in the program? Is it just money? Sounds like a very bad system indeed if the fines are lower than the payout.
These are also Clevo rebrands and I find mostly pretty poor user reviews.
Korppu (hard cracker/bread) and lerppu (floppy) in 80s-90s Finland :)
There should be a special circle in hell for companies abusing velocity as a metric. Story points are made up points and looking at their velocity or acceleration will result in noise. Managing that noise may look useful, however, it is waste of time. It is as useful as going to the seaside and writing reports on underperforming waves.

What is useful, is to understand why certain task take longer than anticipated and learn lessons from that. Were there hidden requirements or was the task too ambitious and should it have been broken down in smaller tasks.
> We never needed OGL to publish material compatible with D&D

And we never needed Apple's permission to have overlapping windows. Alas…

There was a long history of C&D letters and outright lawsuits. Heck, up until recently one of the head honchos of WotC was working at one of the companies being targeted by TSR in the 90s for their "Role Aids". A detente where you didn't have to worry about that as a small time publisher or hobbyist was rather appreciated.

Never mind that "mechanics" isn't as clearly described as we engineer type of nerds would like. So I'm writing my third party D&D-ish adventure. The players encounter a bunch of Orcs lead by an Evil Wizard. "Wizard" and "orc" existing way before D&D, so we're good here. But now I need to provide stat blocks, with abilities, hit points, "magic missile" spells etc.
How far can I go where we move beyond "mechanics" and into "trade dress" or whatever lies beyond that legal dimension door?

Never mind that from a usability POV, there's a big benefit of having your stats exactly as WotC did them.

I often get the feeling that people citing the "rules can't be copyrighted!" adage don't game or are one of those people with three binders full of house rules.
I wish Europe would just block companies that are known to have this kind of conditions from selling inside its borders
When I see tools like this, I remember once again what a great revolution angularjs was. If people are happy with tools like this, of course that's important, but I don't think I'll understand the logic of writing javascript code in an attribute.
you get into an armsrace where twitter will obfuscate the markup to just wear out the scraper devs. which they can, because $$$
> by having IntelliJ keep the branches in sync.

Wait. How do you do that? This is precisely what I need right now.
You are right up to a point.

The problem is that building wind turbines in Britain has opportunity costs.

For simplicity: assume a status quo of 100% gas. We are burning 100 units of gas for that per year.

Now assume by building a crazy amount of wind turbines we could satisfy 95% of the UK's power demand with renewable. However, for the remaining 5% we'd need to burn 50 units of gas.

In this scenario, efficiency of burning gas drastically plummeted, but so did overall gas use.

However now the question is: for the resources invested into building all those turbines, could we have gotten a better climate bang than 50 units of gas saved?

(All numbers made up, obviously. In practice, we can probably make the economics work. Though we might need to deregulate the grid. It's crazy to pay wind turbines for not running. At least mine bitcoin or smelt aluminum or something.)
I think you misread me. I think crypto will be very, very big in terms of utilization and value, much bigger than it is today. But I also believe this does not imply that there will be much expected gain from purely speculating in the price of current cryptocurrencies.

That's where the tulip analogy comes in. Not an implication that crypto is useless, just like tulips, but that a speculative mania can leave a novel and in-demand product (asset class, in this instance) with prices that are much higher than they will be at the steady-state in the future where both adoption and production is much higher.

I will probably buy Coinbase stock if Tether finally blows up, but before that the speculation is too much for me to commit to anything.
Bad things come in large packages: .pkg signature verification bypass on macOS
The discount for local wind already exists, currently available in Yorkshire and Wales:

https://www.octopusenergygeneration.com/fan-club/
Even weirder than PartiQL is Microsoft's CosmosDB for NoSQL. Its query language is called SQL, despite the database name being NoSQL. Also a very limited SQL dialect, just a bit more convenient than PartiQL. Without joins across tables/containers it is a very different experience than real SQL.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/nosql/quer...
Then just OCR the rendered output. It's cheap and easy these days.
just a tip, if you really need it for some interesting accounts, you can consume twitter feeds as RSS by using nitter, eg: https://nitter.net/dril/rss