skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wouldn't call Element.replaceWith a codification of html-over-the-wire
Can it understand a design language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_language
"Re-processing facility" means it comes from used rods (i.e. "waste").

This is fine, you can have your thread dedicated solely to waste. Though I do think that waste reprocessing should also be included in such a thread.

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As to the more general matter, people aren't concerned so much with waste, as with everything about nuclear power. Including "accidental waste" such as that caused by the Chernobyl civilian reactor failure.

Yes, I'm glad we're designing and building meltdown-proof reactors.

The long-term waste, regardless of how it originates (whether from conventional waste, decommissionings, or what have you) needs to be processed such that people a hundred, thousand, ten thousand years from now don't have to do anything special about it.

I think this can be done. But without stringent, real-time regulations I am not confident industry, or even government, will do what's necessary.
In the 80s, I resided on a US Military base in West Germany. Currently, I feel like the world is getting closer to World War III, which is the closest experience I have had in my lifetime. There is ongoing conflict in Europe involving a country that possesses nuclear weapons.

Additionally, tensions are escalating with China and the economy seems unstable. I sincerely hope that reasonable minds will be able to prevent any further escalation of these conflicts, but there is always the possibility of an unintentional incident that could lead to an expansion of these wars.
My narrator, Maxwell Glick, just informed me that there is no such thing as "the Voice Actors Guild." It's all part of SAG.
This seems like a good time to ask web people to stop using the private unicode range for icons. It's bad practice because downloadable fonts are considered optional, and there is no fallback equivalent to alt text for undefined glyphs.
Hopefully this isn't on that kind of hair-trigger that shoots down civilian airliners by mistake. It's happened literally dozens of times [0], so it's hard to believe any kind of blanket "this can't possibly happen because..." logic.

Seems to be particularly likely to happen in panicky situations, or when someone has something to prove. E.g., the Soviet-American tensions surrounding an American spy plane, a RC-135, were a factor in the Soviets shooting down KAL-007 (they thought it was the RC-135) [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
"It is the uncomfortable statements which require speech protections, which in turn means that free speech and academic freedom are in a sense always going to be unpopular."

That sums up the article.

His other main point is that between adjunct professors and teaching assistants, the fraction of people able to push back against the university administration has shrunk. This is true in workplaces generally. That jobs have become more precarious empowers management to make labor shut up.
The article does not explain anything. There's no math to back it up either. From what I understand, the difference in the compounding rate of return is actually 0 at all time if you add the liquidation tax liability (which you have to) as a negative value to the net worth graph. The only benefit is that tax brackets (might) go down, which is exactly what people are saying.
While you don't need those things, the more that is within a 15 minute walk, the more likely you are to walk there.

I've seen people who have drove to a neighbors house even though the walk from where they parked on the street was longer than just from their door to door (cutting across the lawn). They did it because that is their habit: they have so few places where they can reasonably walk that it never in occurs to them to walk the few times they could. (the above case was an extreme that they laughed about when they realized it, most people wouldn't drive that trip, but the thinking makes perverse sense)
> I like to structure my files/classes/modules in decreasing order of abstraction: put the public API and high-level algorithms at the top

That makes sense. What I am describing doesn't preclude this organizational structure. It depends on the language design. You could either support c style forward declaration that you put at the top of the file and would be available for completion even if the implementation is below the first error in the file. Or the IDE could provide folding of the implementation so that you can scan the api without drilling down into the details.

> That also means I almost exclusively call functions that are defined further down in the file.

Again, to clarify are you calling things before they are _declared_ or _defined_?
Balmer increased his wealth 0.2%. For every thousand dollars he has, he saved two measly bucks. Mental illness may explain it but it is not a justifiable excuse for irrational behavior.
"Heat seeking" is a bit of a misnomer. It uses thermal imaging to determine contrast against the background and then heads to the center of the detected object. No engine required. This is the same missile they used last week.
It's considered a "system-guided" missile, not heat-seeking. It's much more advanced than the original heat-seeking concept and integrates additional optical technology in the fuse.
Right, you can be a few miles (5-15) west of Austin and be 500-1000ft above sea level. Sure it’s not Denver dramatic, but flat just goes to show the GP didn’t experience much of Austin at all
>How does a city try to be cool?

there is no try. only posers try. that's the point
Generate repetitive, default not interesting UIs and get stuck in prompt hell where being specific takes more time than actual designing and implementing with UI framework.

Ai revolution looks more and more like WYSIWYG editors hype long time ago.
Every manager thinks that he will be able to do everything on their own with AI but it will end with creating jobs like Senior AI Prompt Developer...
A high school project could definitely launch a car sized balloon.
GitHub gave us an eternal backlog by default. Anything we didn't want to ship got closed with some special label affixed to it.

There's no reason it should ever shrink in this kind of setup. The careful open/close visibility separation throughout seems to keep things at ease. We are almost at 20k closed issues, so I feel like any cracks would have formed by now.

The process for searching the "backlog" is about as simple as you might think. All you have to do is constrain for 2 things. Moving something from backlog to triage is literally 1 click.

Depending on how organized your software factory is, this stuff can become pretty magical.
don't put a led on the front for one. i think people would largely not care if they largely didn't notice. This is why surveillance cameras are placed somewhere out of the way.
Microsoft’s financial contribution was nothing, but Office on Mac was huge. Had there been some third OS that was thriving so Microsoft didn’t feel the need to prop Apple up for antitrust reasons, the world would be different.

But so what? I can’t believe someone is seriously arguing that the failures of the Scully era are somehow damning to Apple under Cook. Sure, every company can fail. Apple is the most profitable company in the world right now, so it’s an odd time to sing doom songs.
So it doesn't really narrow it down that much, then. Could be a plane, could be a balloon.
Brit who supplied 100 military vehicles to Ukraine has Barclays axe accounts
Yeah... I would say a large part of why I'm skeptical of Chinese made computing devices is because I understand what the US has been doing with ours over the last 50 years.

That said... from a national security perspective - it is still the right call to be wary of devices that are likely compromised by another nation. You should just be assuming that if you didn't make them locally (as in under your own territorial control) they are compromised during production. For everyone. Everyone should be acting with that as the default.
QGIS is very powerful, but it's not exactly user friendly. The UI is hard to learn, and important functionality is buried several layers deep in non-intuitive drop-down menus and buttons.

I think a simplified GIS program with stripped-down functionality and an intuitive UI could be a big hit. Think of SketchUp versus SolidWorks or ProE.
Tragedy of the commons seems a more appropriate analogy than prisoner's dilemma. This is "basically" (ignoring all the scientific differences) the same problem as antibiotic resistance, and the paradox where if everyone takes antibiotics, selection pressure leads to dominance of the bacteria most resistant to those antibiotics. And indeed, this situation is frequently framed as an example of "tragedy of the commons." [0]

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medic...
I include public transit time in my 15 minute city. However you have to always include the worst case: just as your arrive at the stop the vehicle closes its doors and leaves.
Buy two Asus RT-AX56U, install Merlin on it, then join them using the built-in wired (or wireless) mesh feature to cover large area on the cheap.
I think I may give it a shot at my home network's ELK stack. Elastic is a memory hog.
>I am convinced xenophobia is alive and well through the financial system.

It's really not. You don't make money by unnecessarily turning business away.
I had also thought about this, but this is much harder to pull off, since

1. You need a lot of instructions in sequence to succeed, enough that the chance that all succeed is very very small (recall that there's only about a 5% chance we execute an instruction correctly, if for example there are 10 instructions you need to execute, the chance is 0.05*10). If you write to a wrong location because an instruction didn't execute, you lose a byte of the flash.

2. Before writing to flash, you need to stabilize the clock of the chip (this is also done with 8051 instructions). For this, you need to wait until a register value changes. This is feasible, but an additional hurdle.
> It's also unclear to me why somebody would do that,

Because if you "contract" someone and they are later found to not qualify as that you can be forced to retroactively treat them as employees (e.g. pay their health/social insurance, fix your tax reporting about them, ...), it might be counted as tax evasion, ... Details about what exactly the rules are that need to be met vary by jurisdiction obviously.
Because I think that everything should be declared and/or defined before it is used. I don't want the IDE to autofill something that is declared below the cursor because I wouldn't be able to use it at that location anyway.
By that definition, as long as some people visit Las Vegas and play the slots with the intention of making money (as opposed to playing for fun), they too can be considered "investors".

If we broaden the definition of "investor" as much as you're describing, the word becomes meaningless. It's important to distinguish between "investors" and "speculators", and this is how we do so.
The laser is real. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34373672
So what’s the deal with these balloons? Provocation? Do they think nobody will notice?
DBeaver supports duckdb.
Ray Camden: Progressively Enhancing a Form with Web Components
The 46k website redesign was also a huge thing....

https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/
Extrapolating from here, expect 2^52 objects shot down by F22s this time next year.
Those pre-war suburbs often featured larger lots than what modern suburbs do. (not exburbs which get very large).
Don't most f-22s come with a 20mil cannon? Wonder we we're preferring the missiles to just plain old lead?
> What about AI/ML, Cloud, Workspace ? (+ of course ads and search).

"AI/ML" isn't a product, it's a tool, and one that is used effectively in a number of successful Google products (including the big moneymakers).

Cloud and Workspace are the non-ads bright spots, which is why they keep receiving plenty of investment, but they are both still very far from dominant in their markets, behind both Amazon and Microsoft. They are good businesses but not at all a full solution if the ads business declines substantially.

> Why didn't they launch something like ChatGPT?

Because billions of people would have used it immediately, and it's way too expensive for that. I suspect nobody yet has a way to serve these chats without the marginal revenue being negative. Google can't launch search features with rate limits, they can only launch things that are capable of serving billions of requests per day.

I'm not sure what argument you think I'm making that the Cloud thing is a counterargument to... My point is very much not "Google has always done everything right and made no mistakes". They absolutely missed the Cloud opportunity, and that's probably the only thing they've tried that could have been big enough if they'd entered the market early enough. (Maybe also if they had started making their own iphone-competitive hardware much earlier.)

But they thought going the social route, competing with Facebook, was going to be the answer, and the failure of that strategy was a major setback.

It could still be the case that this new era of AI is their saving grace. They still have a very real chance to be the first ones to figure out how to turn it into an economically sustainable product in some form. For all the hype, I sincerely doubt anyone has accomplished that yet. Definitely not OpenAI, and I'm guessing this Bing integration is a loss leader.
was at amazon at peak covid.

distribution/warehouse problem and over hiring problem are two separate problems.

i will explain overhiring problem.

from 2018 to 2021 many amazon executives and director leave company. this continued in 2022.

these “tech” leadership very hands on..strong technical acumen. they have vision..manage people..understand business..understand the tech and how to scale.

these people not perfect. under them it very hard burnout factory of place to work. good chance if you work here you need therapy.

these people all start leaving.

they replace by “professional” managers. professional manager has one goal: grow headcount and build empire so they get promoted.

entire teams exist with no valuable output. team of 8 people supporting a service built 10 years ago maybe doing patching like replace outdated java log4j library and redeploy. no feature work. entire team can be fired and service ownership could be given easily to some team doing feature work in another space.

this problem happening all over amazon. innovation at amazon is on how to increase revenue. what they do is hire mba grad, put pressure on them to deliver. Mba grad does obvious shitty thing… let show more ads. if you see amazon.com and search it is now flea market but before you buy any cheap trash first you see walls and walls of “sponsored” recommendation or what is actually fucking ad.

it a massive grift.

amazon need Bezos to return like bob iger do at Disney. jassy only focus on aws
Reminds me of all that hype around Business Process Management (BPM) and we ended up with "Integration Specialists" to actually build the process flows because the fancy diagram builders only went so far.
That's a pinball-specific nomenclature. From the outside, all the games are "EM": the primary nouns and verbs of gameplay occur relative to those mechanisms. The distinctions of "SS" and "DMD" exist mostly to describe the shifts in rulesets, servicability and audiovisual feedback.
A lot of libertarian-types might say "IT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S FAULT", but seems like this guy had a ton of potentially hazardous chemicals lying around to make foam. Those regulations exist for a reason, resins are very nasty.
I just learned (yesterday[2]) about the rolleron[1], a stabilizing mechanism that prevents roll. It uses the airstream to spin up a gyroscopic mass.

The AIM9 is the only use I'm aware of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolleron

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfzj3rRIVU4
The servers would be banned but TikTok itself is complying and blocking Indian Ips
You are correct. But Seattle's history with desegregation bussing had a major impact on the nature of the schools in Seattle today. It was very common for students to spend a total of 90 minutes each day being bussed across town rather than walking 15 minutes to their closest school. It gave birth to a thriving ecosystem of private schools that still dominates the social fabric of the city today. Over 25% of all students in Seattle are in private schools, with that figure being much higher in the wealthier North Seattle neighborhoods.
Interesting. My experience with air fryers has been that it doesn't do anything in particular any better than other appliances and those other appliances are more capable than the air fryer.

Big weekend roast? Nope. Make more than just two slices of toast? Nope. Reheat leftovers (other than fried junk food) without drying it out? Nope.
You mean influence the population of European allies or their leaders?

The hypothesis above is roughly connected to this wider idea about international relations that the 'big ideas' happen behind closed doors, and there is a second 'public' face. Here the balloon type incidents leak to the public strategically while other incidents go unmentioned except in private or in some esoteric place.

If true, why would the US press and mainstream media be headlining it when of course it'll enrage the population. It was a choice to publicize it and a choice for our political parties to point fingers at each other over it, as part of the typical spin cycle.
Halving per-capita energy consumption has an economic cost in terms of reduced production, consumption and thus employment. Which will have a political cost in follow-up elections.
But that's not what this thread is about, it's about why the companies have so many employees. These 130 jobs that so many people want to complain about don't even begin to have relevance to why there are 190,000 people at Google.
There are UI templates that are generally better than this because everything is tightly integrated from a design perspective.

I suggest this might be fun for ideatio though.
That is entirely up to China and what it decides to do with regards to Taiwan.

Xi has made it very clear he would like to invade Taiwan, and soon. If Ukraine was going well for Russia, he may have already invaded.
People did actually do this for a few months but ultimately the competitors because good enough that they just switched
Everyone has political views, and one of the privileges of a blog is you get to share them. Something I've noted over the years is that Devereaux is a pretty typical left-leaning academic who will come out to bat occasionally with some slightly radical interpretations. I enjoyed his take of January 6th to the fall of Athenian democracy [0] which has not aged particularly well since the investigations turned up nothing politically interesting and no new enemy to fight except some vague concept of the Republican party.

So this very mild pushback against diversity statements represents a really interesting position. There must be quite wide consensus on the idea that they are a bad idea if even Bret is willing to support the idea that "others will argue that this actually protects academic freedom since diversity statements can be little more than political litmus tests thinly disguised". Even though it is somewhat indirect. I would not have expected anything less from Bret than a full-throated support of diversity, equity and inclusion condemning its detractors.

[0] https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-anci...
Al Capone would fail KYC just on reputational risk and negative media exposure before we even get into unclear source of wealth.
I don't regard this as a mistake. Tools and docs don't necessarily flow from the same source, and even good docs can't anticipate every need or blind spot of every reader - if we have perfect custom documentation, then it too would have to be AI generated. If good mental models were sufficient, there would be no ned for experiment and all great programs would flow from perfectly written specifications and never contain any bugs.

I like to go back and forth between the docs and hacking together little things that do one job to maintain a feel for what I'm doing (also in many other contexts besides programming).
It wasn't a hair-trigger decision. From the AP article [0]: "U.S. pilots who flew up to observe it determined it didn’t appear to be manned"

[0] https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-shoots-down-unknown-flyi...
I learned QGIS arguably the hard way (creating a new non-Earth global basemap from scratch, with no prior GIS experience) but:

- The QGIS Training Manual is good. Not great; don't be afraid to go out of order after the first few modules to get to parts useful to you, because the module organization after "Creating Vector Data" stops being terribly linear. https://docs.qgis.org/3.22/en/docs/training_manual/index.htm...

- https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/ is more project- and task-oriented, and where I learned georeferencing and digitizing (drawing over raster maps)

- If you prefer video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHolzMgaqwE is geared more toward using third-party data

EDIT: There's also this UCDavis workshop for people with no mapping experience. Haven't used it but at a glance it looks pretty comprehensive. https://github.com/ucdavisdatalab/Intro-to-Desktop-GIS-with-..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAcZUPSmqDE
Be careful when asserting that things are not Turing-complete! I'm fairly sure OpenSCAD is indeed Turing-complete, if you discount the recursion limit of 1000000 (it even sports tail call optimization, so I'm not quite sure why it even has a recursion limit).

<edit> apparently the recursion limit is a deliberate feature to prevent infinite loops, as there is currently no way to interrupt such loops.
I wrote some jQuery-based code to enhance a page rendered by Rails this week, it felt pretty great as compared to waiting for Webpack to do its thing
No. They are not remotely cost competitive, the data saying otherwise is a case of lying with statistics.

Yes, the cost of generating a watt-hour of power from renewables is competitive with fossil fuels. If you could put those watt-hours in a tank somewhere those numbers would work. However, a tank for a watt-hour is called a battery--and storing that watt-hour is going to cost you more than creating it.

In practice what happens is that renewables reduce the fuel use by gas plants. You still need just as many gas plants, though, and once you count those costs the renewables are no longer the cheapest.
and https://htmx.org/ which is ... access to AJAX, among other things
> powered by AI

I dislike this.

I don't care if it's powered by AI or gerbils. I care how good the output is.

> curated AI-generated illustrations and images to match your vision and style.

The example is quite ugly

> “I am blown away by the ingenuity and complexity of this machine-learning implementation, the level of fidelity of this engineering challenge is remarkable.”
Aditya Agarwal // Ex-CTO, Dropbox

That's just embarrassing. Did ChatGPT write that quote?
Someone added a ColdFusion Markup Language generator to https://curlconverter.com/cfml/ last year and after a few months I decided to remove it since I've never heard of it so nobody could possibly be using it, and the next day the guy who added support for it and 3 other people complained about it, so it seems like they're out there.

https://github.com/curlconverter/curlconverter.github.io/pul...
Yeah, he’s … a little excitable. Dude runs Air Mobility Command, he could stand to remember he’s not running ACC, he’s FedEx for things what go bang.
or Bob reincarnation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
Design Patterns in TypeScript
Because the financial priority of the economic regulatory system (which includes taxes) should be the economy. And working people add to the economy much moreso than rich slackers.