skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The prices have gone up, so mining is expanding. There’s a clear next step to the way commodities work. That next step is not for prices to continue increasing dramatically, things should level off and eventually return to normal, as I explained.

> Understand that renewable activists are predicting that lithium battery production will not only increase exponentially, it will also exponentially drop in cost per KWh as this happens.

Battery prices don’t need to keep dropping for them to take over the world. They’re already cheap. Of course people would love for the prices to drop, and they have historically been dropping slowly, but the basic elements will cost a certain amount, so there is a price floor. I don’t know where that is, but it is lower than we’ve seen, because every step in the battery production chain has been making a profit up to this point, including the miners.

The fact that prices have increased only indicates a mismatch between supply and demand, not that the natural price needs to be this high, or that it needs to continue rising. As I pointed out, everyone was already profitable at a lower battery price than what we have today. If batteries are expensive because of lithium, more lithium mines will open and drop the price. If batteries are expensive because the battery makers are price gouging, someone else will undercut them.

The main concern for something like this is market distortion by patents. If the best way to make batteries is locked behind a patent, that can cause prices to be unnaturally high. This concern does not apply to elemental lithium.

> Higher commodity prices make it viable to extract the more inaccessible reserves, but those reserves will only be profitable so long as prices remain high.

You’re practically quoting my comment to me. I addressed that. It is possible that the price will settle higher than it is today if those methods play a big role, but it won’t matter. You don’t seem to appreciate how insanely cost effective batteries already are today. A modest price increase is fine, but it is still illogical to assume prices will stay high. Lithium is not hard to find. Why would the market settle on expensive extraction methods? It is a strange assumption to start from. We’re not talking about something that’s rare.

Either way, the outcome is unchanged unless batteries increase in price exponentially, as your earlier comments apparently assumed.
US FTEs were paid 6 months. We will see, but DE will probably get as much.
Yeah, this is something that bugs me about the rust ecosystem. Just to use a random number generator you need to pull in like 15 dependencies. In just a simple learning project that would have had about 1 dependency in c++, I ended up with like 75 for rust. I guess I'm old, but that seems like madness. Cargo being easy and simple is not all upside.
to me the solution seems fairly obvious, and as is tradition already exists in unix as groups.

sudo is for people who need root access. if you need anything less then create a custom group and assign the relevant specific rights there.
I was referencing the treatments for gonorrhea (antibiotics). Condoms would actually fall in the "act responsibly" category of my comment, as you pointed out.
Was it this person?

> This makes me so sad. Your iPhone app allowed me as a blind person to use Twitter so much better than the app that they themselves produce. Sorry for the hostility you are receiving from them, but know that you are appreciated for the hard work you’ve done.

> Maybe the best thing anyone's ever told us. Thank you for this, truly. It is everything. Please take care.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RustyHilliard77/status/1616174474...
Well no one claimed otherwise..
What's the problem? It's just that the information is presented as a back and forth conversation between characters.
An alternative explanation that's just as plausible: Faced with an 11 year federal prison sentence at age 38, she saw this as her last chance to have biological children.
I drew a schematic using https://asciiflow.com/

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+----------+ / Photon 1
| | /
Laser beam ------> | Crystal | ------------> Outgoing laser beam
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+----------+ \ Photon 2
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To human eye
Suggest an alternative then that kills fewer animals. (Hint: the grain and vegetables you eat kill way more than 1 per year with the rodents and insects that are being poisoned and sliced/diced by the farm equipment.)
Normally this is just tangentially related and not for Hacker News but I feel this time it needs a bit of attention.

My brain melted in the first minutes trying to read this article. I honestly just couldn't. It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities, makes me lose sanity.

Has anyone actually managed to read this? How is this on the front page? (Not a rethoric question).
Turns out you're supposed to do them one at a time, in order. Tracking the visited squares doesn't add much for that
Lifestyle? What’s commercial estates burning wattage overnight and residential buildings leaving their terrace lights on got to do with lifestyle?
> the people who are already irresponsible about prophylactics

> There's no moralizing

You can't use the phrase "irresponsible about prophylactics" in this context and claim you're not moralizing.
There’s a dev, I believe his name is Ben Fox, who has created a website purely dedicated to reading lists that you might find interesting:

https://shepherd.com/

He also created the weekly newsletter “hacker news books“ which collates the book recommendations in hacker news comments each week:

https://hackernewsbooks.com/
Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
The are quite a lot of "gotchas" with passwords being Unicode though. One of my favourite tricks is to include a null byte in passwords and see what happens. Sudo treats it as the end of the string. Passwd gives "token manipulation error" and nopes out. Many websites seem to fail in interesting ways...
It is, because you need to get to the square that's indicated, not any random square.
If you are already using GitHub you can write your own short scripts with GitHub's file raw URLs (which include a specific commit hash) and curl/httpie.

Obviously, that's not easily portable to other hosts (though most of the big ones have similar URL patterns that you can discover), but depending on your use case may be a handy option.

> But it still comes with git - which I'll then have to remove for my use case.

I don't know what your use case is, or why you don't have a local history anyway of the repo so that you need to spot-download sub-trees, but if this is a somewhat common workflow this seems to indicate you may possibly be looking for something like git-archive [1]. That's a tool included in the "corners" of the git "suite" to take a `treeish` and build a tar or zip directly from it (with no git metadata inside). You can use a commit or a tag name for a `treeish`, but if you wanted it to be a specific folder inside a commit you can pull the commit, examine the tree it points to until you find the tree ID inside that representing just the subfolder you are looking for. You can pass that tree ID to git-archive. (And other things that take a `treeish`.) It's not quite a "completely trivial oneliner" to write a script to do that, but it may not be that much more complicated of a script to write.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive
If you use binary search on the length of the substring then you can get to n log(n) expected time, independent of the input distribution.
I live within a Class 2 location and can get to a Class 1 in about a 20 minute drive. It’s one of the few things I actually like about where I live.

In fact it’s probably the single best thing about where I live and it’s an extremely rare privilege to have in North America.

I really need to take advantage of it and get a good camera/telescope.
Ah, thanks for the clarification; I didn’t realize the protocol is being built by Bitcoin people as the main repo doesn’t give much indication of that. I hope it can grow independent of the cryptocurrency use cases, as they’re a farce and doomed to failure eventually.
I find it funny that both your and parent comments destinations advertise as being "first", and probably Atacama stargazing tourists predate both of these initiatives
AirTag helps rescue dog swept away in California floodwaters
I feel like I wasted 18:40 seconds.
Did your manager survive the cut? Google should have started there before ICs.
Wow. Thanks. Totally missed that.

Maybe throw a little highlight on the square on the board as well.
The west doesn’t have a monopoly on evil. Plenty of Africans participated in the slave trade, and sold their brothers and sisters. And still do today.

There's something weirdly racist about the idea that only people in the west (or American diplomats) have any agency in the world. That America somehow is so powerful that y’all created the modern world. That local people and local leaders have no capacity for determining their own future.

That corruption in the police in South Africa is America’s fault. That the problem of gangs in Mexico was created by the US and that the Mexican gang members are blameless when they decapitate people. That Americans were the people who voted in Bolsenaro. Or the west are responsible for Japanese aggression in WW2.

Maybe ending colonial ideas starts at home.
I look forward to when the list is leaked to the public unredacted. Let’s have fun with this.
The currently ongoing UK trial of Nurse Lucy Letby has made a number of such statistical claims plus other allegations. Is this article submitted because of this or is it (also) co-incidence?
What are some of the common skills? Things that you learned as a bartender that give you an advantage in the new job?
you're....actually right. I totally misread this headline. There were no context clues to help with the reading.
"a rounding error."

I wonder what's smaller than a rounding, for what we would call the number of users of dental dams?
It's officially called 'Face with Pleading Eyes', which also conveys the meaning. :)

https://emojipedia.org/emoji/%F0%9F%A5%BA/
It fails if someone merges main into their feature branch, and then performs a fast-forward merge of their feature branch to main. Now the two parents are in the opposite of the expected order, and --first-parent will follow along the feature branch. This can cause the new state of main to have a lower number of first-parent-commits than prior to the merge!

However, if you have infrastructure that prevents fast-forward merges to main (prevent developers from pushing directly to main, allow only PR merges and disable fast-forward merges for that), then the `--first-parent` approach can work.
Judging by this thread every single person did the same thing and became equally frustrated (myself included).
Hey, I appreciate the honest feedback. You're right that competing tools are very feature complete. That is one of the reasons I built Timeretain: I needed something much more minimalist. Having said that, I do get your point. Is there anything in particular that you're currently missing?
This is what I don't understand. How is this and other public WEF content not guaranteed bad press/fuel for social unrest? Or is that the intent?
How many people use third-party Reddit clients versus using third-party Twitter clients as a percentage of total users on each site? (I don't know—not a rhetorical)
Lawsuits will be needed. the amount of collusion is truly illegal
I wished I'd had legit 'bad' experiences, then I'd know they were outliers and would make for a story, but really I was shocked by deep mediocrity of several therapists, diff regions, male and female, diff costs etc.

The costs / risks of trusting important matters to average middling people makes it not worth it.

It's not a horror show, it's just a waste...

The reputation of therapy came from the top/excellent practitioners in the field over several decades.... and now it's a cheapened wonder-bread experience and even app based, lmao

The hype needs extreme push back.
You already know the answer to that, as it has been explained to you dozens of times.

Once again: renewables+storage, backed by combined-cycle turbines. They will powered by NG until synthetic fuel becomes plentiful.

Right now, most storage is at hydroelectric plants built in past decades, with small amounts of battery. In the future, it will still be small amounts of battery, along with plenty of other storage, much of it underground hydrogen and hilltop hydro.

There is no hint of any shortage of hills, most places. Flat places will use other methods.
FWIW what we see are whole different categories of workloads. For primarily API-driven microservice workloads, ETL of data stores into Snowflake makes sense. But for primarily batch or stream workloads- implemented literally as batches or as data streams that have varying unit-of-work semantics, and where the target data model isn't read only analytics but read write operational- something like Spark can make a lot of sense.
The dialog format is the best part!
I've done a 5 1-hour round interview once, and have refused to do them since- including actively turning down a second interview when the process wasn't clear prior to the initial screener call. I've the good fortune of pretty much being able to pick and choose between jobs, but I also essentially have written off working at a FAANG and at companies run by former or wannabe FAANG engineers.

Fortunately, there are still lots of good startups, small and medium sized companies that pay well and actually respect your time.
I’ve been complaining about this in my area for years. Where I live, the main problem right now is private property owners (mostly condos and commercial real estate, not so much private homes), refusing to put lids (or hats) on their security lights to point it down. We’ve lost half the night sky since 2011 in my area due to these lights going up. In various discussions, I’ve been informed that the insurance companies are behind this problem. If we could convince them to mandate night-protective lighting (with metal hats pointing the light down) this would return our night skies.
Small correction: "your boss" means AI.
> how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf and these were guys that loved the idea of living in the wilderness.

Kaczynski lived in the woods for like 2 full decades, right? I'm not sure I get the point.
My (Founding) journey – 2022 – Part 1
I wrote something about my experience of entrepreneurship, amongst other things, in 2022.
Tell HN: T-Mobile breach- double fuck up
I work for Metro by T-Mobile. Our store computers run thin clients operated by T-Mobile and the internal account management software EDGE fucked up the internal memo disclosing the recent data breach.

Upon accessing a cx account today I see the following memo:
————
High Priority Memo | Created by 11111 on 20-Jan-2023)
Customer received the following SMS notification: IMPORTANT: Some of your account information was obtained without authorization. Passwords, SSN, payment methods were NOT affected. Your name, # of lines, contact details and other account information may have been. Learn more: metro-tmo.co/CustInfo. See https://www.metrocare-agent.com/announcements/<Redacted>…
————

First off, “metro-tmo.co” is a spam domain that isn’t owned or operated by T-Mobile. Not only could the person who wrote this memo fail to write complete English sentences, but they fail to link the correct domain to the announcement regarding their own data breach. as of this current moment, their internal account memo system continues to link this incorrect spam link. and to make matters worse, they even sent this spam domain to potentially millions of customers phones via sms.
And then use su or whatever to control access to the actual root account? You'll always need some amount of access to it, although I suppose you're correct that in a truly well-functioning system it would be needed much less since everybody would be in enough groups to get access to the stuff they actually need.
Please show your reasoning. I could be talking about legal responsibility, not moral responsibility.

Irregardless, places like the CDC study what would be effective approaches. What makes you think a vaccine is an effective approach?
We absolutely go in the direction of the SF dystopias.
Another great example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_inferior from 1982.
The question is that have they ever tried to get it right?
I didn't even use it all that often but, yes, I also feel like this was useful to have. Every now and again I come across an ftp site that I now have to copy into a dedicated program instead.
For the second time, there is no "natural price". You need to iron this kind of wishful thinking out of your head. Companies want to buy more and more lithium, so unless you've got some breakthrough that makes mining a heck of a lot cheaper the cost will keep going up and up as more and more inaccessible reserves need to be exploited. If I have a reserve that costs $4/kg to operate when the price is $5/kg and another reserve that costs $7/kg, I may open the latter if the price rises to $8/kg. But if the price drops back down to $5/kg it's unprofitable to operate.

Here's a way to articulate this that might better mesh with your mental model. The "natural price" of a commodity isn't static. If demand increases and the only way to meet demand is to use more and more expensive mining operations, then this raises the "natural price". As per the above example, the "natural price" rose to $8. It won't drop back below $8/kg unless either we find a way to make mining cheaper, or demand drops back to levels that can be satisfied by my cheaper-to-operate reserve.
I hear arguments like this on HN all the time. This seems similar if not the same as, "CXO has a fiduciary duty to <do something terrible>".

How often do execs actually get punished for _not_ doing something terrible? I never seem to hear about cases where they are held responsible for not following fiduciary duty. I only seem to hear it brought up as a justification for shitty behavior.

I'm not trying to say it doesn't happen. I'm genuinely curious.
Ian Bremmer on How Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk Are Alike
Did you really not expect this?

I can’t think of a time where a way to take away rights without judicial overview wasnt massively abused, often to target politically disfavored groups.

Look at asset forfeiture and police robbing cash on highways.
Love it. Anyone found a strategy better than “choose a path that will get you there that has a square in the largest quadrant, and jump from there”?
Urban Terror is apparently a Counterstrike clone based on the Q3 engine.
twitter is dying...it's like a soggy sandwich....edible...sorta...for now
Would banishing yourself to Western Sahara for the rest of your life be that much better than spending a decade in some low security prison?
I think the website is excellent, and it’s a joy every time I see Xe’s posts here or anywhere. If you don’t like the way it’s presented, but you do sincerely want more information on the topic it presents, there is a vast (world wide!) web full of information. Surely you’ll have better luck finding it if you look for it rather, than spending that time trashing something that isn’t your cup of tea.
Nice challenge. Can someone help me understand why other posters want highlighting for visited squares?
By “at scale” I mean building enough pumped storage facilities to meet current energy demands when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. It seems much more likely that we could build sufficient pumped storage facilities than the kind of battery farms the poster I was replying to rightly points out are not likely to meet required needs for the foreseeable future, if ever.
> c'mon, stop being deliberately ignorant.

Attacking the messenger is a good example of unsatisfactory answer.

Is a legit question. Do you have something to say?
CEO salaries are sky high due to supply and demand... truly good leadership skills are super rare, and still virtually unobtainable even with high salaries.

Think about this- they pay those high salaries, yet the best leaders they could get at this salary level think this private concert was a good idea. These people are still not high caliber leaders. Maybe they could have recruited better with a higher salary?

Ultimately, there is something wrong with the pipeline to leadership skills in our society, if these skills are that rare that they're nearly priceless. The world could really benefit from having a lot more skilled, strong, and empathetic leaders that know how to take responsibility and suffer hardship as needed to stick to their principles and goals.
That ignores the “let it crash” motto of the BEAM. Don’t bloat the code with error handling when the supervisory tree can retry crashed processes.
There's nothing stopping JS devs from combining pipes with heavy use of a Maybe library. You don't need to use pipes everywhere, but it would be useful for a system that was designed with that pattern in mind.

I already use Maybe patterns quiet a bit in my TS project but there always the libraries and frameworks you work with that don't. So yeah I can see it being a language level thing (the way Promises were used) pushing for wide adoption.
Why is 50,000 about right?

Why is 1M too many?

I’m not sure I follow your logic beyond it’s how you feel things should be. How did you arrive at those numbers and that conclusion?
I think Putin, Xi, and Ian Bremmer are alike.
<sigh> I still use the svn bridge as my primary way to acces GitHub repositories: I get around much faster in svn than in git and have little need for a VCS except in special circumstances. Kinda dreading this.
Ha, that's interesting. I'll keep this in mind. If I keep this name, I might change the logo to improve legibility. Thanks for sharing.
I really haven't found ChatGTP to be very good. Ask it the lyrics to a song and it'll come up with some of the lyrics but not all of the lyrics. Like this is what I got for "In Bloom" by Nirvana:

Verse 1: Sell the kids for food Weather changes moods Spring is here again Reproductive glands
Verse 2: A country battle song Multiply, exciting people Come on, join the party Come on, everybody
Chorus: In bloom In bloom In bloom In bloom
Verse 3: Subhumanity is fun You have one, you have none A soap impression of his wife Which he ate and donated to the National Trust
Verse 4: I'm not like them But I can pretend The sun is gone But I have a light
Chorus: In bloom In bloom In bloom In bloom
🆔 this type of thing works too
I don't see anything about happiness in what you wrote. Are you happy being a jack of all trades? If yes + financially stable = why change? You're not losing anything fundamental not knowing job titles and how office life is. In the end, one day, when a new business requires it from you, you're gonna learn about HR and all the other stuff you don't know just like you've learned all the rest.

Have you thought about finding others like you and start a collaboration, or at least check what are their feelings?
..

When you just don't seem to have as much to lose?

Strange how the night moves.

With autumn closin' in.
You can increase their peak power production to deal with the variability.

For example this hydro plant, about the size of a nuclear reactor, maxes out at ~1 GW while the production is on average 250 MW.

In other words, it facilitates renewables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harspr%C3%A5nget_hydroelectric...
> November: Interviews all day erryday

What a luxury! I only had 3 weeks of vacation and burned through almost all of it because every company expects you to do multiple rounds of interviews during business hours.

Eventually I just quit because it was literally impossible to search for a job while working full time.