skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just Google - tech in general is rife with people who think their poo doesn't stink. Profits (or lack of) have a way of snapping things back into focus!
I think original report is written well, but it's written by pro-renewables anti-nuclear institute so they don't want to mention that nuclear is useful
> Most people attempt to achieve Idempotence whenever possible, and there are several reasons this is desirable in HA systems. Fundamentally, the REST paradigm broke peoples brains, and set many projects on a doomed trajectory into the sun.

Respectfully… wha?
IMO the question of whether some content should be allowed to be available at all is orthogonal to the question of liability for “recommending”. I was only addressing the latter.
Have people been posting fewer long comments in the last 10 years or so?
If you are trying to argue that a person's behavior has no effect on how likely they are to be killed by a cop then you are just completely wrong.
Does anyone have any good counter examples?
I think that Google has the ability to absolutely crush ChatGPT. Lambda is so far ahead that Google employees were raving that it was sentient. So they could disrupt everybody.. except for two things.

First, the woke crowd deeply embedded all over Google will burn the whole place down if there is anything controversial that comes out of the AI. They have spent years slowly degrading YouTube and Google to prevent anything from showing up under an extremely broad definition of misinformation or anything that could be considered derogatory of any sensitive group. AI is like a Chernobyl of potential microaggressions and misinformation. Evidence of this fear of their own AI is that the deepmind guys said they wanted to even stop releasing research papers because they were worried about what bad people would do with AI research.

Second, the innovators dilemma. How are they going to monetize AI and get people to click on ads?

They need Larry, currently hiding out in Fiji, and Sergei, playing around in retirement, to come back and do the work of changing the culture to actually allow these two disruptive changes.
It's shortsighted for other reasons as well. On Android, you had to have notifications enabled in order to buy through Amazon Smile. Being able to deliver ads via push notification is a useful way to increase sales. I guess they weren't making enough money from it to cover the costs to charity?
Seneca going to be real mad.
I agree, my experience is that state machines are great except the ergonomics of using them in programming languages tend to suck. In my experience you really want a great type system with really good inference to help you out as well. Otherwise I find they often descend into stringly typed messes despite the best intentions.
Emulating win32
If your strategy involves massive investment in nuclear you don’t need hydrogen in Japan.

Northern Europe and Canada have very seasonally-dependant energy demand that inversely correlates with solar availability. Japan has hot humid summers that require the use of air conditioners, so energy demand doesn’t vary nearly as much over the year. In most of the country you also don’t get cold enough to worry about heat pumps becoming inefficient, either.

Given that, nuclear, short term storage, a bit of hydro would do the job just fine, without the round-trip losses of hydrogen.

You still might well want hydrogen for other purposes (fertiliser, steel making, clean shipping, possibly long range trucks etc).
>to enable the government to spy on white people is... sketchy

My contention is that the government would like to spy on everyone/erode the bill of rights. I'm not worried about white people.
> the real innovation of the Cambridge design is its mobile app, CamAPS HX, which uses an algorithm developed by the team that Cambridge University states "predicts how much insulin is required to maintain glucose levels in the target range."

It certainly sounds like it. I've only read the linked article and haven't dug elsewhere but this seems like a new algorithm for closed loop systems (Tandem has one; Medtronic has one; there may be others). Technology like this is amazing for diabetics (am Type 1 and have a tandem/dexcom closed loop system and love it) but is nothing like an artificial pancreas.
Just How Common Is Corporate Fraud?
Your answer assumes someone knows big O natively unfortunately

Despite the prevalence of the question, most people (like myself) would have to break out one of our old textbooks to tell.

Do you have a reference measure that might help? For example: a process that would take 10ms under the following conditions [a,b,c] now takes 9ms?
I would imagine somebody has floated this idea before, but I wonder if the distraction of hydrogen rather than electric cars was a ploy by Japanese automakers to give them time to build up the cars / supply chain etc to switch to electric. Typically cars (at least in the US) take around 4-5 years of development to get to market, so rather than assuming the Japanese policy makers just made a dumb decision, it could be that they wanted to wait until domestic electric cars were widely available before pushing heavily on the transition.
I agree, I wouldn't recommend IRE games these days for anyone; especially newcomers. Same reasons and quite a few other ones. But it's has been quite a few years since I had time to engage in any type of MMO or MUD though, so I don't have any current up to date recommendations.
Building an Air Powered Lego Truck
Show HN: Synesthesia – Visual Website Builder
Synesthesia is a platform that allows you to create create, customize, and publish your own website. It allows you to select free templates to get started, it has a drag and drop editor to customize the website to your liking, and it publishes and hosts your newly created website. You can also view website analytics and upload content to update your website.

I would love to hear any feedback on the project.
No, you need to represent every state. Like let’s say there are two async operations: a disk read, then a network request. When you transition, you need to know: did I start the disk read? If yes, cancel the disk read if it’s pending. Did the network request start? If it started but didn’t finish, then cancel it. So you can see that there is a huge amount of state you need to operate on that’s not directly captured by states A and B.
Also Publix, the largest employee owned company in the US.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/employee-owned-publix-lesso... (Employee-Owned Publix Offers a Lesson for Other Supermarket Chains)

> One chain that stands above the rest is Publix Super Markets. The Florida grocer has net margins (net income divided by sales) of 7% to 8%. Compare that with margins of just 2% for the two biggest grocery chains, Kroger (ticker: KR) and Albertsons (ACI). And Publix earned $2.6 billion in the first nine months of 2021, more than Kroger’s $2.1 billion, despite generating a third of Kroger’s sales.
It’s industry jargon. The IT industry has plenty of its own.
While I don't doubt that employers would be happy to see salaries drop, I don't think they are as "orchestrated" as you suggest. This looks, so far, like a completely ordinary wave of 5-10% cuts which companies like to do every few years, as a legally safer way to get rid of people they regret hiring. You don't have to have legally justifiable "cause", or at least it's way easier, if it's all part of a general layoff. Plus, by paying some amount of severance, you get the person to sign a document saying they won't sue.

Not saying they're not capable of the kind of behavior you're suggesting, just that it's not really all that unusual (thus far), it happens every few years, and so it isn't necessarily "orchestrated", just normal reaction to a perceived economic slowdown (especially if you over-hired in the couple years previous).
I’m not sure I understand this. If you want to build up electric cars you invest in building electric cars. Investing in some other third technology does not get you to electric cars faster.
"Hydrogen Will Not Save Us" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34386155
"less time managing their condition", is such an incredibly low bar.

Edit: I'd like to see this contrasted with dietary changes and other lifestyle changes. Also, the words "artificial" and "pancreas" do not appear in the study.
You can see a great example of this actually working in Seattle's Pike Place Market, they're governed by an NGO established by a public vote.
Doctors are like any other profession. There are average doctors, there are really good doctors, and there are also really bad doctors. The world is full of nuance. Sadly some people don't want to believe nuance exists, and others deny that nuance exists for personal gain.
On the context of the report which this whole piece is about, skybrian linked to it, here's the english partial translation:

https://www.renewable-ei.org/pdfdownload/activities/REI_Japa...

I was wondering what this "renewable energy institute" was, and it's founded and chaired by Masayoshi Son, who's latest notable investments includes huge solar projects here and there.

Perhaps there's a lot of valid ideas in it...and I'm all for more renewable energies, but I'd take a lot of this with a shovel of salt.
Went from 230 to 145 at age 60. Cut out meat and alcohol and sugar. The pounds fell off. You're welcome to keto. I like food.
You are absolutely right. I read this as an appeal to the Democrats to “compromise” rather than the much more straightforward approach where some number of the GOP just agree to unilaterally shut this madness down. It was the word “compromise” that tripped me up.
The layoffs are all across the board, from Chrome to Cloud to AI to Fuchsia to their research division, so it's not like there is a specific role they don't need anymore. The employees also woke up to the news the same way everyone else did; they might have even seen the HN article before finding the email in their corporate inbox. It's a confusing situation, as the article describes, and the company seems to be handling it as smoothly as all the projects in its graveyard.

In the grander scheme of things, I am sure companies will use this and the other layoffs as an excuse to stifle raises, lower bonuses, and squeeze more out of the workers who are presumably on a spree of unproductivity scratching their hairy balls at home. The article also touches a bit on this.
Same here. I am a big proponent of state machines. I have found that state machines bring sanity to an otherwise complex situation. For example, most inexperienced developers will check presence of certain fields to imply where someone is in the process whereas it would be better written using a state machine.
login & signup flows, batch management, request retry/backoff/error, data compliance. State machines are ridiculously common - we just don't need to import a library to do it.
Hydrogen from nuclear will be more expensive than hydrogen from renewables.
It would also provide a financial incentive for them to make the ads even worse.
Ha. All models are wrong. Some are useful.

More to the point, I really like a quote from the Rupert Murdoch character on "Succession"- "The future is real. The past is...all made up."

Even the most carefully documented histories are more or less fiction. Those fictions are retold over the years as old narratives are discredited, and new ones emerge that fit known evidence and are realigned to the gestalt and updated mental models of the time.

The history I had included nothing about pre-historical peoples and their societies which of course existed in spectacular complexity but about which there was really no narrative starting point. Graeber's book creates that.

Just like the history of trade I learned focused on ideas like barter being the basis for economic engagements (rather than credit), a juvenile fiction that Graeber addressed in Debt.

What Graeber did in both works was create a vividly imagined holistic and narratively compelling fiction- with some factual bases- that serves as a useful and improved mental model for non-specialists. Useful even if it is wrong.

Cheers.
Bader-Meinhoff phenomena for me here, as I read this post while hacking away at refactoring my spaghetti code in Unity into a FiniteStateMachine.

One thing I've found is that the end result can still be spaghetti with an FSM, but if you have tools to edit these things graphically, it becomes very manageable spaghetti!
It's Ars Technica. If the headline wasn't misleading, they wouldn't publish it. They are among the worst publications to regularly show up on this site.
This is the slightly confusing part: a call to another constructor is mandatory, but if you don't call any other constructors yourself, super() automatically gets called before your code, without you having to write it.
I don't get it, how will tape help?
Th student revue at University of Copenhagen made a music video ten years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvokQUHh08

Instead of saying "Barbara Streisand", they say "Banach-Tarski" and a number of oranges double:
It works there but the later trilogy just falls apart and makes no sense how invested everyone is in jedi-ism...
It sounds like they've taken the existing Type-1 cgm plus self-adjusting pump and used it on type-2 diabetics. Solid medical study. Hardly a breakthrough, IMO.
A few observations to take or leave:

Your website does not scream out to me that you are targeting the landscaping market and is a micro-startup going for the same market that the big companies cover so it might be a big hurdle to get the next client.

the genericness of the first few sentences are kinda not idea because they don't capture the "clickbait" nature of your product. you want to enthrall them into checking you out more. "The Perfect Mix of Sales Automation and Operations Management." doesn't really tell me much. "Create quotes in 30 seconds from your phone" or "control your business from anywhere" or whatever does capture my attention more. the headline doesn't have to encompass everything your business does but the subheading should have something like "complete business automation on the go"

getting customers is a hard problem® if it wasn't one of the biggest companies in the world wouldn't be an ad selling company with a swath of ways to deliver ads to you.
* The proof uses the Axiom of Choice, so no, it's not constructive;

* The boundary of the pieces has to be unmeasurable, in that sense it's similar to Vitali's set[0];

* No, the pieces are more-or-less a "fog" of points.

* I don't know why you have "proofs" in quotation marks, and I don't know what you mean by the second half of the sentence (even if I replace "contraction" with "contradiction").

I do feel like a careful reading, or perhaps re-reading, would let you ask more specific questions that we can help you with.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_set
Which corporations are you referring to?
I think he means that they are intentionally trying to get the government to push hydrogen for the next few years while they are secretly working on electric cars. If the government focuses on electric and spends money building electrical infrastructure, the domestic automakers stand to lose a lot of ground to foreign companies that have already developed electric technology. They don't want a repeat of Tesla installing a supercharger network and controlling the infrastructure.
Are there any other resources in this space?
If you have under 40k users, than you can get away with a lot of bad choices. =)
Pizzino
I worked at NI for two years out of college. Almost everyone in my cohort has never used it and after training most legit were convinced it was going to take over the world. Internally the juice is strong.

I ended up working as an “applications engineer” which is a glorified way to say “support”. And I saw some really gnarly code. Just literally spaghetti.

I think though the big problem with much of the bad code is that it wasn’t architected and modularized (at all). As the tool is sold as “it’s so intuitively obvious anyone can use it”

I don’t think many people train to use it the same way we were trained. That’s a big bit of the problem.

Hell is always someone else’s code, but if I every had to refactor some labview today, one of the first tools I would reach for would be state machines.
Hydrogen is a battery with very particular uses cases.

In particular: hydrogen is bad for use cases with large numbers of charge/discharge cycles, because the "cost of inefficiency" is proportional to the number of such cycles.

However, for use cases with small numbers of charge cycles, like seasonal storage or backup against rare grid outages, hydrogen's big advantage -- the low cost of storing it, vs. typical short term storage technologies like batteries -- will dominate. Storing hydrogen underground in caverns has a per energy capacity capital cost of just $1/kWh, two orders of magnitude cheaper than Li-ion batteries.
>Why do other mood improvement habits seem more approachable, like making a cup of tea or exercise or a shower, while sitting and breathing seems harder?

The Feedback loop is longer and impact more subtle so you don't correlate the effects with the action as strongly
I'd leave ASAP if I got a 10% pay cut so the poor performers could remain coasting. Thank you, but no thank you. I'd only consider staying in this scenario if I felt there weren't poor performers around, which is almost never the case in the big companies capturing the headlines right now.
It's not misleading, it is exactly what happened.
> Actually, an ever better example is: "The set of reals that are not the solution to any equation that can be written with a finite number of symbols." -- an infinite set that has no nameable members!

That's not a good example; the problem you're creating is due to sloppy use of language, not any cleverness in the definition.

All real numbers, and all numbers of any other variety, can be written with a finite number of symbols. That's what it means to give something a name.
Anyone criticizing ChatGPT now isn't thinking about what's possible with GPT-4 or GPT-5 when lots of research has gone into getting it to be better with answering accuracy. It doesn't take too much of an imagination to see a path where people aren't doing nearly as many searches on a search engine and just asking questions to something like ChatGPT.
I definitely use state machines and quite like them. The benefits are real. And they're mostly quite simple.

However, there can also be complexity. Different customers inevitably want different sets of states and different behaviors on transitions. The pre-transition and post-transition logic can get complex. And it can sometimes be difficult in retrospect to figure out what happened if you didn't log and directly relate the transition event to other things (common if you're using a separate generic state machine library). And sometimes you can end up needing overrides to allow a transition from one state to another that isn't normally allowed, in order to fix bad data or mistakes.

But you can control some of that, and the state machine makes a lot of things easier to reason about.
Algorithms bad.
I ran it on a Packard Bell Legend V 286 16MHz machine.
I can fully understand how one could turn against the Covid vaccine during this tumultuous time, but How did Covid cause your family to become anti medicine?
I recently tried to run it but failed! I even considered making an old PC just to play that. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.

I never stopped listening to the build mode songs from this game, they are the best tracks to get me full nostalgia mode.
Question why is rollback networking good for games? To play devil's advocate with the lag hidden wouldn't this lead me to make decisions without considering the possibility that the opponent has already made a decision that is opposite of the prediction I'm seeing is.

With no rollback code then I feel the lag and can properly make decisions based on not only what I see right now but the exact amount of lag I'm feeling. How I play the game should be adjusted based on the latency of the lag. With rollback that feedback of the latency is hidden.
now add concurrency, the system state is a superposition of concurrent transitions
Two times I can recall using them in real life were for parsers to identify MIME and CSV files. I thought it was pretty elegant, but zoom forward a few years, and I got to listen to the new guy tell everyone in scrum how he had to fix a bug in there and it was all, ugh, *weird*.
Meat is food :)
> is a very different ball game than "our model understands the rules behind this sequence".

The authors state plainly what they mean by "understands the rules". That the phrase could also mean other things is no reason to dispute their conclusions.
From the air, scientists map fast paths for recharging California's groundwater
https://archive.ph/N0aRj
Hydrogen powered vehicles are like natural gas vehicles, but worse. Pressurized fuel tanks expire, and your vehicle becomes a pumpkin, because parts+labor to replace the tank on 15-20 year old vehicle doesn't make sense. But hydrogen is even harder to work with than natural gas. And it's yet another fueling network to build.
Thanks for the correction.

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For example, Toyota makes good reliable cars, and saw massive success with the Prius because it was the only good alternative to a full internal combustion engine.

Now, years after that success, Toyota has only a very limited selection of fully electric plug in vehicles, and all their competitors are a decade in front of them because they continue to chase some pipe dream of hydrogen, is just disappointing.
A 60m^2 apartment just around the periferies of the center of tokyo (I'm talking 10 minute train to Shinjuku) costs about 700k in dollar terms[0] if you want to buy it, and between 1500 to 2000 per month if you want to rent it.

Move further away from the center, and the cost drops dramatically. A house near a station that's 30 minutes from Shinjuku the same size above costs half the price (~350k).

[0] If you think about a 100 Japanese Yen as 1 "Japanese Dollar". It's not equivalent to 1 US dollar, but if you adjust for typical salaries and cost of living it comes out about the same, when you are considering the price of housing, etc.
As a recently diagnosed type 1 im really concerned about adopting a pump system out of security concerns. Is there a way to disable wirelss communication when not in use on the pumps?
I'll repeat the question:

Where in the US do we have a power transmission line that goes significantly farther than 300 miles?
This youtube video does a good job explaining a few problems about hydrogen in cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklo4Z1SqkE
I feel like a large part of the US population wants to go back to the Articles of Confederation, which were so ineffective as a system of government that they had to be replaced after 12 years.
So are plenty of other things that a keto diet restricts. Not saying I gave it up completely; just not eating a pound of New York strip at a meal with everything that goes with it. It's amazing how much less you want to eat when you start eating less.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, whatever gets the lard off one's ass is a good thing. Whatever works for you is what's important.