skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are still people denying it,

Only a few crackpots

> and this is one of the biggest impediments to stopping climate change.

No I dont believe this at all.
The fees to the merchant can be quite exorbitant. That’s how the BNPL operators make their money.
They knew the real numbers and weren't having to guesss? What they were required to report to regulators missed the whole truth but internally they could accurately calculate the situation.
Hydrogen burns invisibly to the human eye [1]. It must be approached with caution lest one get burned. I have heard of a case where leaks detection consists of wiping pipes with a straw broom and noting if it bursts into flame.

This WSU post advocates for hydrogen's relative safety: https://web.archive.org/web/20210809163754/https://hydrogen....

1 https://www.crowcon.com/blog/the-dangers-of-hydrogen/
Try using Wayland and see how the touchpad feels. Should be much better. Nvidia makes it problematic to use Wayland, but it’s a good test to verify the quality of the trackpad hardware.
The one without the comma, absolutely.
"Yes, but ..." is a great way to move your goalposts.

On another note, do you expect your hotkeys from your Office program to work in a Firefox form field?
She dodged this using some hand waving about student data being private customer data so she couldn’t share it with the bank.
Ask HN: What seminal programming books would make up your programming Bible?
Depending on who you ask the bible can be made up of 66 - 73 or more books. If you were tasked with creating a "Bible" for programming what books would be inside?
Something interesting that will come from these LLM is university is all about writing papers, you get your degree by writing papers.

Now you can argue each year the value of a university degree will drop because more and more people will get LLM to write their papers for them.

The whole higher education model may need to change, its a similar paradigm shift as the invention of the graphs calculator.
Cash flow optimization is a useful skill but it’s on the fringes for sure as BNPL main revenue is from their interest.
Time and capacity is finite. There may be authors capable of creating both deep characters and insightful stories/settings in the same work - but there are more authors who are capable of only one or the other.

I understand you consider good characters the necessary part of a good work. For me, the necessary part is the ideas/setting/worldbuilding - good characters are nice to have, but they're not what I'm reading sci-fi for. Which means we'll both appreciate the stories of those few authors that nail both criteria, but otherwise we'll have opposite preferences.

Case in point: I liked the 3BP trilogy very much.
Many viruses have been linked to singular inflammatory diseases, making it hard to attribute any one virus to a specific disease.

Coxsackievirus B4, Herpesvirus 6, Enteroviruses, and Cytomegalovirus have all been linked to type 1 diabetes and pancreatic failure.

EBV, however, has been identified as a strong precursor for MS. Due to difficulty in conducting studies on viruses, research in this area has been limited, but recent interest in auto-immune disorders caused by COVID has led to renewed funding.

mRNA-based vaccines are also being tested for auto-immune diseases thought to have viral causes.
Chinese models will have different restrictions.
They obviously didn’t ask chatgpt to act like a sports announcer. And, given the expressions on the players faces, as you point out, is completely predictable and has been described a million times with a high rate of consistency, I would expect it could completely and reliably describe the feelings seen on a players face when they win the World Cup.
It’d potentially be a hassle, but I think perhaps by putting enough of there expenses on bnpl that one could potentially make a bit of interest thanks to the current rate environment.
Sadly. I've learned there is a lot of correlation to lack of discipline/self-control and success in life. Most of the wealthy and successful people I know also happen to go to the gym, monitor their diet, and seem to be able to control their temper in a bad situation.

It seems to spill into all areas of your life.
I know it's a joke, but the if you buy equipment to mine bitcoins, you don't let it sit idle waiting for those few times a year that electricity prices are low.

You computer will be obsolete before you've made a return on investment.

The same problem applies to H2, etc, if the process is rarely used and the setup to do the process is expensive, then it's cheaper not to.

A plant that can produce H2 from electricity might be more expensive than the value of the power discarded.
Yeah. I could stand an ad or two maybe, but I really really don't want any recommended tweets or anything non-chronological. Any ideas?
Recycling of plastic doesn't work very well, regardless of country.

Recycling of aluminum works really well. Recycling of paper works ok. Recycling of glass is pretty pointless (it doesn't really safe energy compared to make new glass, however re-using bottles via a deposit system works ok).
Thank you for posting this. Restored a little bit of faith in humanity for me. It just felt like people were being needlessly cruel to someone who is clearly struggling.
She put a bunch of students at the top of a hill and let them roll down? /s
Author here to clear up a few questions: I did not run any benchmarks for Memgraph, just Neo4j on my machine and compared them to their numbers on their machine. My 8 faster cores to their 12 slower cores, so not apples to apples, but close enough to make the point that Memgraph is not 120x times faster than Neo4j. I used to work at Neo4j, then at AWS for Neptune, I work on my own graph database http://ragedb.com/, and work for another database company https://relational.ai/

If you want to be my hero, find a way to fix this problem: https://maxdemarzi.com/2023/01/09/death-star-queries-in-grap...
You can selectively have patents for the tier-2 designs and use trade secrets for the tier-1 designs that you wouldn't really want to diverge to the world. It's not mutually exclusive like you're implying here (okay, in the strictest sense a certain part of the invention can only be either be patented or kept secret, but the totality of the device makes it likely that both patented and non-patented trade secrets were used).
Ah if that’s only for the C ABI then that’s much better. I still see someone writing numerical algorithms might use y_* as one of the arguments, though the probability is a lot more slim.
It works because I take as much vacation as I feel inclined to, and I don't have to care how many days that is. I get what I want, so what difference does it make whether that's more or less?

If you have more of a maximizing attitude about your benefits, I suppose you might have a harder time enjoying an "unlimited PTO" policy, because it's not really possible to know whether you've squeezed all the juice out of it.
There is much more than stable-diffusion out there :)

Of course capitalism doesn't give up, I wouldn't even want it to.
> Anybody else had something like this?

Go for the Kojak look until your hands unlearn the motorics.
I now actually prefer Dart for services and glue code on the backend. I'm so tired of dependabot yelling at me about my hobby projects every week that have yet another vulerability in one of their million dependancies. In Dart I make do with just a handful of deps, then build a binary and call it a day. I tried using Deno with TS, but binaries it generated where absurdly big, 70-100MB depending on the target platform. Also, Deno's --allow-X thing becomes tedious after a while.
The UK produces natural gas, so their Russian imports was only 4% of it’s total supply. Non Russian imports in 2022 where fine so why you bring it up?

As to storage that’s hardly a fixed number, the UK is looking to add another 1.7 Billion cubic meters of storage for next year, but could easily have done so in 2022. https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/uk-gas-storage-capa...

Also, this may be shocking for you but people don’t store gas at standard pressure and temperature in big above ground tanks. So no 5.6 billion cubic meters of gas isn’t a 20km by 20km box. The UK has plenty of geologic features to store gas namely the same places it was extracting it from for decades.

For comparison when the graph here shows just shy of 4,000 billion cubic feet in storage in NA, that’s ~113 billion cubic meters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_storage
I understand where you’re coming from because it’s true XML is going to perform the functions required without all the problems implicit with YAML’s “readable” syntax…

But I have worked with some very complex XML and I feel you’ve chosen a simpler to read example.

I have seen very complicated XML from Microsoft’s own configurations that is so large, long, and complicated that it is very hard to follow
> There is nothing inherently wrong with that but it's a lot more risky then saving up.

Cash is king. Assuming 0% interest, it's financially better and less risky to do BNPL. This is separate from all the other financial decisions like savings, etc...

It's similar with CCs. I love my CCs and get a ton of value and free stuff by using them. I also have never carried a CC balance in 20+ years. Someone who is financially disciplined is leaving money on the table when not using CCs.
I agree that you should start with vanilla JS, but Alpine is a good follow up because it just adds conventions around what you'd be doing in vanilla JS anyway.
> When a bug arises this way, do you attribute it to the new code or the old?

Rust has a hard rule here, if your code wasn't marked unsafe, but it can be (ab)used in a way which causes unsafety, then the code is wrong. If the code is marked unsafe, but the safety documentation misses a key requirement and as a result you can obey the documented safety rules and still get unsafe behaviour, that code or its documentation is still wrong.

Thus in Rust it's never OK to say "You were using it wrong" on APIs unless they explicitly say they're unsafe and provide documentation on how to use them safely knowing that. Rust's sort() and sort_unstable() are trickier than the equivalents in the C++ standard library because a silly or erroneous Ord implementation like claiming to be Greater even than yourself is (stupid but) safe in Rust and must not induce unsafety in the sort() methods. In C++ 20 if your ordering constraints are bogus, you've got Undefined Behaviour immediately.

Rust can't "correctly" sort six Ponies that all insist they're the Best Pony, but it can promise that attempting to sort them is safe.

Obviously legacy code in a language with no hard rule about what's required may be more fraught, most C++ ought to be labelled "unsafe" but chances are it does not adequately document all the constraints on parameters etc. for safe use.
Well, the lack of approval is a bureaucratic problem in some areas.

Otherwise, landfills filling up is a non-problem. Earth has enough space.
The issue is that financing changes what is available in the marketplace for you to buy. There are cheap new cars that don't break down every year (ex. toyota hilux) that are not sold in the US. Because it's more profitable to finance you a 50k truck than a 20k truck.

The housing market works the same. If we didn't standardize fixed rate mortgages houses would be cheaper smaller and more available.
High bar: $50

Low bar: $5

Would consider: $25

Bargain: $10
With the responses written by chatgpt.
and be trained on a different 'approved' corpus
Personally, when I find myself doing the things you mention, I realize it's time to back off and refocus on the things mentioned in p-e-w's second paragraph. In that state, I feel I am fidgeting with the code, and it is probably because some unresolved issue is blocking me.
Agree that a 'gut feeling' that something is off is not to be ignored; it's likely just factors unconsciously processed.

That said, how much of your 'Strong Yes' assessments are on your gut and how much on you have enough info to see that this candidate is qualified, enthusiastic, and a good fit? Also, how many times have those failed to work out and how many have 'Weak Yes' candidates actually worked out in the end? Those counter-examples might be worth looking into...
This is a nice way of looking at it. Another is that there is a sort-of "public consensus" and people are really trying to forbid anyone from (significantly) deviate from it.

And like any sort of large-scale consensus, it's dumb ("simple" if you like). Why? Because any sufficiently large group must accommodate below-average humans, and, well, those are below average. So such any large scale consensus cannot be very complicated, and cannot advocate for complex solutions.

For example, I prefer using something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_chaos to use very minimal resources to take control of weather, and the climate, and letting go of emission limits (at least for CO2). It doesn't require everyone to cooperate and will be a heck of a lot cheaper. This in turn protects a lot of mostly poorer people who don't really have that much to do with the problem, while remaining a realistic option. (or more bluntly: it's a realistic option that doesn't ask the poor to live in the cold)
Wish they can at least release previous conversations.

I have been seeing "previous conversations are temporarily unavailable" for days and all I wanted is just to save some of my previously generated essays.
Concentric Method for Product Development [pdf]
See the SNL skit: Don't Buy Stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ZJKN_5M44 which advertises a self help financial book whose contents are "If you don't have the money, don't buy it"
It's not as if dark matter doesn't follow any rules at all - hypothetically, it obeys gravity like any other matter. So you can't have arbitrary amounts in arbitrary positions - you have to explain what attracted the dark matter to that position.
I worked with a four person startup tech team that shipped a production rails system in six months based on a python/flask/mongo prototype that I demoed in a week a decade ago that is still being used and sold today, though I'm not sure of its technical evolution.

I've built a few Sinatra/Flask systems since, so I'm definitely a fan of the virtue of simplicity, no matter the language.

The design mistake here is not applying lessons learned reading Danny Greenfeld's book (which I don't believe shipped before 2012) on Django and realizing the chapter on "vanilla Django" applies just as much to any system, like "vanilla Rails", because they are the same "stranger in a strange land" problems where the system as we know it becomes undocumented and unbounded by architectural style - a kind of McMansion Hell for system design.

The use of DSLs is complex territory. When in the hands of a master, amazing work can happen, but when too many DSLs are combined together, you wind up with exactly the opposite of what Greenfeld described in the chapter on vanilla Django, you wind up with byzantine Rails, because the boundaries that Alan Kay described decades earlier are not architectural. As with much software, there is no physics, real or implied, that applies to the phenomenological understanding of the system, the individual and social human scaling of brains that turns out to be a larger problem than computer hardware and software scaling.

There is a semantic asymptote, if you will, where the problem leaves the empirical world and becomes phenomenological - very difficult to share socially unless you are Kay, Knuth, or one of their contemporaries.
>If the model gets as good as they strive for, its outputs would be indistinguishable from those of PHD level students. There would be no point in augmenting its results with human contributions

I don't disagree but in a world where every GPU on the planet is as intelligent as PHD student, the next year each GPU is twice as smart as the smartest human on Earth, and not long after that every person on Earth is either dead or turned in pure energy or something and homework isn't on anyone's mind...
Mostly agreed. However, isn't recycling of glass pretty pointless, as it doesn't really safe you energy compared to making fresh glass?

Metal recycling really is a bright spot!
I find these sorts of discussions unproductive in the absence of some specific focal points. Discussing how well the US is doing overall is sort of meaningless because it's so heterogeneous; you could have serious problems even while overall the country is doing well by historical standards.

Saying things are fine by the standards of the 1940s isn't helpful either; I'm not sure that's ever really been an appropriate yardstick (I think public health and wellness opportunity costs are often more relevant). I also think you can take many of these same sorts of arguments, go back in time, and find out that many positive indicators preceded very horrific periods in world history. For instance, there were a lot of societal advancements that coincided with the emergence of the world wars, and they still happened despite (or maybe even because) of those advancements.

I also have come to believe that many forms of societal collapse or crisis emerge fairly rapidly; things seem good by many objective indicators until they really don't. If you track some of these public indicators, they often seem to covary relatively weakly with the sorts of things you might expect, and no one really understands why. Seen from a distanced perspective those indicators don't seem to work as measures of what you'd like them to.

I'm not trying to adopt a pessimistic position, as I tend to think a lot of that is equally poorly posed, and I think the article is correct that if you look to history simply for benchmarks of what to expect when something bad happens, things aren't as catastrophic as you'd think. But in the absence of some kind of rigorous understanding of what to look to for societal collapse or catastrophe, these kinds of discussions in either direction are kind of pointless. What seems more relevant are more focal discussions of specific issues, or how to predict what is important.
> Have you ever seen someone get defensive at the mere mention of a topic?

i certainly witnessed that here during the depths of the pandemic questioning the reward and talking about the consequences of lockdowns! I think you'll find the same level of defensiveness all over the spectrum of climate change. People really want what they hold dearly to be true.
I actually find the graph confusing because they don't label what the other gray and dashed lines are. Are they just multiple estimates that Exxon made, and dashed lines are simply another shade of gray?
prirai.github.io
Why it’s difficult to measure developer productivity
I upvoted because of the PostScript, which has nothing to do with keyboards.
Well said, but I feel like practicing your first sentence makes it relatively easy to be good at avoiding the mental trap you describe.
Clueless article upvoted by cpp haters.
That code is working as intended. That ain't C#. Want to avoid copies? Use std::move.
Care is needed when writing code.
die hard vim user here, can't live without it, keyboard is all I need these days, I only use my mouse every 1 minute per hour these days, on ubuntu, productivity is higher than IDE for sure. and yes vimium for browering.
Bradbury?
> And mind-boggling you criticize and demonize technology on a forum about technology all while not only being on the internet but also using electricity, a computer, and certainty surrounded by gadgets and other amenities of modern life.

I don't demonize all technology. There must be an optimum somewhere, and I would like to engage in open discourse in order to understand where that optimum is. I believe advanced AI takes us away from the optimum.

Extending human life indefinitely is a terrible idea. We have a natural lifespan and we need to function within it. We should not proceed towards being saturated in technology as that will surely destroy the natural life on this planet.
> I've begun to talk less to friends because I keep comparing myself to them, and I'm the example on who you should not try to be.

Definitely stop doing that and that. Having people around you who have their act together is helpful. Remember: monkey see monkey do. And that final expression of your self image is the root of the issue. That will not go away if you cut yourself off from friends, it will only get worse.

This puzzle of an existence is in the main an entirely private and internal affair. Here's an old saw (which is still sharp and of utility): The mind/self can be your friend or your enemy. Time to make friends with your mind/self.

(Never hurts to see a therapist.)
Dramatically improving my learning. The ability to ask questions & ask for examples has helped me learn far faster than books, videos, blogs, etc.

Yes, I know the information isn't always 100% accurate. Neither are the books, blogs, courses, etc., I pay for. They also don't let me ask "what about this scenario..." This gives me such a strong base to build from which I can then use other sources to verify.
Your claims are not true for several reasons:

- Whenever you see a BNPL offer for 0% it means the merchant is paying the interest on behalf of the consumer. The merchants are in charge of making that decision, not Affirm.
Affirm earns interest on every loan. Many merchants choose to assume that cost because it greatly increases conversion rates. Replies to my comment only confirm this fact (“I only ever used BNPL cause I got 0%!”)

- "attractiveness" is in the eye of the beholder. You may be unwilling to pay a fee, many other people are. Plenty of people roll over their CC balances each month and pay even higher APRs.

- Interest rates have little effect on BNPL financing; many can either lend out of their bank account due to their size, or they sell the loans immediately upon origination and thus pass the risk of changing interest rate environments onto another party.
I think that a lot of folks are forgetting that it doesn't matter how much you're paid or how well of you are when it comes to compensation reductions.

If I had my pay cut, I'd quit on the spot out of principal. "You pay me, I work. You don't, then I don't either. Kiss. My. Ass."

In fact I'm able to do that _because_ I make a decent living to start with.
> Only a few crackpots

That's overly dismissive. They might be crackpots, but they're sometimes powerful crackpots. Like US Senators: https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/james-inhofe-snowbal...
Good on Paizo for this. It's been heartening to see them turn themselves around in recent months, as they got rid of some toxic management and unionized their workers, as well as putting out one of the better crunch-heavy TTRPGs in recent times (Pathfinder 2nd Edition).

This move will likely cement them for some time to come as the major tabletop gaming company that actually cares about their customers.

From where I sit, the only better outcome we could see from this OGL debacle is if some coalition of TTRPG designers could get together and come up with a fully open TTRPG in the same basic mold as D&D and Pathfinder.
Referencing recent stove discourse, it's likely to be better since it won't produce carbon monoxide.
What happens if you agree to a BNPL but you BNDP (buy now, dont pay): https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-happens-if-i-c...

Hidden costs of BNPLs: https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/buy-now-pay-later-hidde...

"I’m sure you’ve read a ton of stories that Gen Z is using “buy now, pay later,” all the time. The most recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pointed out that actually the biggest age cohort for “buy now, pay later” users are people ages 34–40. They’re millennials."

People with low/no credit are usually denied.

NYTimes article about downsides of BNPLs: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/your-money/buy-now-pay-la...
Drawing graphics in the terminal is trying to use a hammer as a screwdriver. I'm looking at you, Textualize.