skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you saying the software products used by (for example) chemical engineers are no good? What are they using the products for? On what dimensions could the products be made better? Ie, faster, easier to use? Something else?
What about AI/ML, Cloud, Workspace ? (+ of course ads and search).

Why didn't they launch something like ChatGPT? Even if it was half baked, they should have made more noise and marketing PR on what's cooking ... instead they let OpenAI and Microsoft take the stage.

Cloud? They basically invented the cloud! They were running in the cloud when the rest of the world was still copying files to production .. and yet they left that to AWS and Azure ...

Don't get me wrong, I loved Google, I had much respect for them, and that's why I am so disappointed!

They doubled down on monetizing on user data, search and ads, and completely neglected other areas they could have dominated hands down.
This isn't how it's always worked for Hersh, though.

The Abu Ghraib report was published by the New Yorker, which has fact checkers on staff. You cannot tell their stuff "my source is anonymous" and not have them confirm that source: the public may not know Hersh's sources for that work, but the New Yorker does.

Hersh's recent work is self published and not fact checked. Moreover, it is wild, and often logically at odds with itself (This operation was extremely secret, and yet the Treasury department was involved?). So: times have changed.

I love Substack, but Substack doesn't solve your reputation problem for you: if you were reliant on your editor to check your work (as Hersh clearly was), Substack gives you nothing to help out with that. It's a different world now, unfortunately, and it's made a crank out of Hersh.
Reminder that it only takes about 6 minutes to bike a mile, or 8 if you go at a leisurely Dutch pace. You don't need cars to go far enough to have quite a few options, you just need the infrastructure to let you do so.
Things that emit thermal radiation are not radioactive. An easy way to conceptualize it for stuff here on Earth is that radioactivity involves stuff flying out of the nucleus of an atom, while other forms of radiation do not.
Slightly unrelated, I have a friend who moved to the US from Mexico and was asking me about potentially buying a house. He started looking on Zillow with me and his reaction to houses build in the 1950s OMG how can it be that houses are that old and my reaction was wow that's pretty much a brand new house. He was blown away that a huge percentage of houses on the market are from the early 1900s and even late 1800s where we live.
Really? People absolutely went on the record about My Lai.
support for native RGB lighting control and all the telemetry to report it back to mothership in case they can find _some way_ to monetize it, I'm sure.
> Against what honest option? If fossil fuel plants had to charge to cover the deaths from pollution they'd be blistering expensive.

Solar, wind, natural gas, geothermal, thermal solar, hydro.

> Right, because it's not really a business. Power is infrastructure.

An infrastructure that underlies way too many things. Say we subsidize nuclear with taxes. But everyone uses electricity. So what does it matter whether the nuclear plant gets $50 from me from my power bill, or $50 I have paid in taxes?

In the end, it has to be paid for, and that means that if you go with an expensive power source people and industries will have a reason to move somewhere cheaper.
> No country in Europe is Socialist

I agree, but those are measures that come out of the socialist school of thought. Capitalists don't ask for better welfare.
https://www.agilitypr.com/pr-news/public-relations/how-to-cr...

Nuclear should be a part of decarbonization, and you can search my comment history here to see I've said so for a long time. But the breezy 'I was misinformed!' tone of this article is PR because it dismisses rather than engages with criticisms of the nuclear industry.

For contrast, consider that British Nuclear Fuels used the Irish Sea as a dumping ground for nuclear waste through the 1970s, becoming a significant bone of contention between the UK and the Republic of Ireland: https://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2012/11/filedownload31607en....

Though practices have since changed and risks appear to have been mitigated, the substack article just ignores the uncomfortable reality of past abuses which should inform policy assessments. When someone tells a just-so story, even if you agree with it - in fact, especially then - you should question whether it's purpose is to educate or to manipulate.
Nice fan fiction. Well done.
Show HN: HN Pop-Up – Chrome extension to let you see a user's HN Bio on hover
HN Pop-up is a browser extension that lets you quickly glance at a user's profile without leaving the page you're on. You can quickly see a user's bio, karma and account age
That's awesome. Wish the screens on these things were better, though.
Having read the article, I still don't understand how you could not see this as a joke?
Reddit still doesn't require an email to create accounts, even if it now heavily implies it does. Just click next without entering one.
Yep, I definitely wouldn't refuse one.
Building Carthage with Carthage
> If business 101 is marketing to fanboys then I guess you're right.

Basically, yes?
> Extinction rebellion have a page on her

You accuse someone to have a "cavalier attitude to science" and "being in cahoots with" parties you allege are suspicious and then you proceed to use Extinction Rebellion as a source? You should worry more how cavalier Extinction Rebellion are, and who they are in cahoots with.
I doubt sqlite will catch up soon in terms of analytics due to a few below reasons.

The SQL dialect is so much lacking that it seems intentional. They are meant to be a transactional database, not an analytics one.

Sqlite also takes pride on stability (deployed on a billion android devices). Adding 100+ analytics capabilities e.g. functions is not gonna be easy in terms of maintaining stability.

I want to be wrong though because my paid app (superintendent.app) uses Sqlite. Not supporting analytics well is the number one complaint.
Why would the trucks need to charge at the job site if they can charge at home? And why would solar be required to charge an EV? Any additional range on top of a there-and-back trip could be used to power the tools.
because someone has to be on the other side of every transaction

and socially because the goal of the system is to get participants to behave in "optimal" fashion, for a certain very specific definition of "optimal".
I think this is rather a silly thing to be concerned about given the consequences of the world either running out of cheap energy or continuing to dump huge amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. I will roll the dice on your crystal ball being defective rather than the alternative.
Like I said, until someone can provide hard evidence, which that is not, I'll continue to hold reservations as any reasonable person would.
arithmetic is evaluated by 'is'

?- A is 10-2, write(A).
8
A = 8.
%or
?- use_module(library(clpfd)).
true.
?- A #= 10-2, write(A).
8
A = 8.
%this lets you do the other thing too
?- 8 #= A-2, write(A).
10
A = 10.

foreach doesn't really work the way you want it though, in this case you want forall.

?- forall(between(0,5,N), (A is 5-N,writeln(A))).
5
4
3
2
1
0
true.
It's game code that was written in the late 90s. Unit tests aren't very likely. And a quick glance at the code probably looked completely sane.
On rooted android you can use Advanced Charging Controller (ACC) [0] to control at what levels to charge. I use it to exchange normal capacity for longevity.

[0] https://github.com/VR-25/acc/
Voltage injection is (IMO) the easiest attack. There's also optical fault injection, where you remove the black encapsulation from the chip and hit the bare die with a laser (that sounds really difficult though).

On some chips, you can drill into the black encapsulation and find testpads that are not connected to pins on the IC. This is sometimes used for smartphone unlocking.

Edit: Thanks for the compliment by the way, it really made my day that I got someone interested in hardware hacking
Written by ChatGPT - seems like it...
That's a gas, making it the easiest possible case. I think a more plausible threat are the decaying temporary storage containers that a lot of low-grade waste is sitting in because nobody can find a permanent location for it. (Yes, that's largely due to political reasons, but political reasons are real!)
I don't know where you got that from. You defined the criteria. By that criteria, neither Apple or Amazon ran a risky CPU project.

Now, the reason is that your criteria for what is risky are pretty stupid, as evidenced by not even the iPhone meeting that bar. But don't blame me for it: again, you are the one who set the bar at the failure of the entire company.
Blast after unplanned WW2 bomb detonation in Great Yarmouth
Indeed. BUT 2.9% transaction fees and the right to disconnect make it suboptimal IMHO.
It's one of the cheaper form of relaxation after a hard days of work.
Hopefully you didn't learn too many false things, like e.g. her claim:

> I also learned that batteries cannot be recycled.
"Temporary damage", really? The deaths of those downstream from a burst dam are no less permanent than the death of an irradiated Russian. And there are a lot more of the former than the latter.
Software contractors were not included in the exceptions to my knowledge.

To address your sibling comment, you will have trouble if the contractors work is directed, which it often is.

To address the grand parent, yes I'm aware of it and why I made the post. The work continues in spite of the law. Another wrinkle is Uncle Sam being the plaintiff. Should ask on Lawyer News I guess.

(Am limited to a few comments per hour, so need to conserve them.)
God bless Universal for being the only studio still trying to put out original, crowd-leasing movies.
Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?
I'm a web developer who has been in the market for a new job for a while now. As someone who has never enjoyed working with frontend JS frameworks (yes, I sucked it up and learned them and have worked with them professionally) I'm wondering who all the companies are who have embraced the semi-recent "HTML over the wire" movement (Can you imagine... using hyper text transfer protocol for transferring hyper text? Seems nuts, I know). It's a massive slog shifting through endless React/Vue/etc-focused jobs out there. Even if you use React in small areas where it pulls its weight but generally try and stick to simplicity of sending plain ol' HTML, I'd love to know who you are. Even if you aren't hiring, it's nice knowing you're out there fighting the good fight :)
The EPR and AP1000 reactor designs were supposed to be the end of "designed for the site" reactors, and they were. The same designs get built at different geographic locations. The problem is that they're no better at meeting cost and schedule targets than older reactor designs. They're still late and over budget.

Can small modular reactors like those designed by NuScale do better? Maybe. But we're not going to find out sooner than 2030, which is when NuScale plans to have its first plant operational: https://www.nuscalepower.com/en/about
The test video for storage canisters does not disappoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1YFshFuI4
A former primary school colleague (we met 50 years ago next year!) and his daughter wrote a pretty decent book on death anxiety - "Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society" https://good-grief.com.au/mortals-with-ross-and-rachel-menzi...
Do you think any US or Norwegian would say that Soltenberg is "the glove that fits America's hand"?

(Hat tip to the Grugq for pointing out this weirdness)
Or you can cut and redistribute the non-performing changes, increase the distribution of the well-performing ones, and let evolution take care of disentangle correlated behavior.

But if need that kind of analysis for usability A/B testing, you most be doing something very wrong on a previous step.
What are you making that saves money? When I half-assed got into it (hasn't everyone, at least once?) it became obvious fast that even if I scaled up enough (including significant capital investment) that it wasn't more expensive than equivalently-good commercial beer, it'd only take a failed batch every two or three years to wipe out the savings, even valuing my time at $0/hr.

I've considered getting back into it to make mead and maybe cider, but mostly just because mead's expensive (here) and really good cider is usually imported and marked up like 4x what it would be back where it came from, which is usually England or northern France (back there, it's cheap—though I do doubt I can match theirs without turning it into a high-time-commitment hobby, since the method is part of what makes theirs so good, plus I'd have to find a source of the right kinds of apples), but the economics for beer didn't even come close to working out. Fruit and honey can also be fermented without some of the steps & equipment you need for beer, which helps a ton.
The only real debate is whether completely upending the climate in a very short (ecologically speaking) time frame will be net beneficial for humans or net detrimental for humans. We know it will be net detrimental for the general ecology and currently existing species.

And from what I've read a bunch of the people claiming it will be a benefit for humans are speaking strictly on an economic basis, not a quality of life basis.
I got a message this morning that I was accepted into a sub that I never heard about, as if I had applied (but I didn't). It seemed to be a notification, not a message. I don't see it now. I'm guessing it's related to the hack, but it's not obvious what the scam or purpose was.
Google is working on a new code change for ChromeOS that could boost VM performance on Chromebooks. ChromeOS uses a custom VM, or virtual machine, to run Linux on Chromebooks, as well as for Android apps. The change would enable CPU affinity, which is a way to constrain or enable the VM to use certain processors on a multi-core Chromebook.
No, because both requirements you just stated are only attractive to criminals, terrorists, ransomware authors, billionaires and utopianists who have an unjustified extreme dislike of the state all to not pay taxes.
Now you have to check generated code and generated test cases for correctness, instead of just code.
The fossil fuel lobby has actually promoted nuclear FUD, including by funding anti-science "environmentalist" groups.
Or it is actually real and it is those who are imagining it to be only imagined who are mistaken. Almost everything we do is composed of substantial imagination, the whole system runs on it.

What I find interesting is the substantial curiosity and effort people will put towards solving questions in video games, but when asked to solve problems in the game of life that we are embedded in, people often seem to have opposite instincts.
Looks like IVF costs around $12,000 today. Considering that this is for your own child, I bet it would be one of the least expensive parts of raising them. I also expect it would become very cheap after it went mainstream.

> The Human Genome Project was the international research effort to determine the DNA sequence of the entire human genome. It took 13 years and was published in 2003, with an estimated cost of over $300 million. Today, a whole human genome can be sequenced in one day for under $1000.

https://frontlinegenomics.com/a-history-of-sequencing/
Germany declared war on Russia which was allied with France. And Germany did not declare war on any of those countries out of will, but due to an alliance with the Austro-Hungarian empire.

The situation is not even remotely comparable.
Well, a strategic goal to let Europeans suffer during winter in order to shatter our resolve to support Ukraine, while avoiding contractual penalties for unilateral cessation of gaz delivery, can explain the benefit of exploding the pipeline. This can explain also the fact that the fourth pipe was left intact - as a potential carrot to Europe...
I do not pretend that the above is truth, but it seams to be a plausible explanation.
Because ideas that don't add value should not be pursued, else you are wasting resources.

Imagine how dysfunctional the world would be if you could never loose money investing in something.
To the people are saying "oh this is just nitpicking", it's not. Hersh's claims are extraordinary[0], and require if not extraordinary evidence, at least evidence that's not sloppy as hell.

Given the subject matter it's completely reasonable that he could only have anonymous sources. But when you have anonymous sources then their information has to line up with reality. If it doesn't then you're either getting played or dealing with someone who has kind of lost it and maybe is exaggerating/misinterpreting information that they _do_ have access to. Getting basic claims wrong like the kind of boats involved, or the location of the attack, or the equipment required is disqualifying enough to disregard other more salacious claims.

That all said: the US may very well have been behind it, but Hersh does nothing to prove that in his original article in light of the inconsistencies.

[0] Not so extraordinary that we would blow up a pipeline, but that Biden would pull the silly "I'm-not-covert-actioning" word game. It's stupid and wouldn't shield him from accountability any more than just telling DevGru/DO(or whatever the abbreviation is now) not to tell gang of 8.
I noticed that too. Since the article is from 7 years ago, I suspected that the site's CSS has changed and that the second one, since it was all by itself, used to be a pull quote (an important quotation that is emphasized with large stylized text as a graphic design element and to draw in readers who are scrolling the page without reading).

I looked at the page source, and yes, that second instance has a CSS style applied to it called "feature-quote". I guess that style is no longer in their stylesheet, so now it just looks like a mistaken repetition rather than a pull quote.
Context: Matklad is the main dev behind rust-analyzer
> The fossil fuel industry is funding pro-nuclear PR because they realize that renewables do pose a major economic threat to their business in the short term

Last time I heard, it wasn't pro-nuclear France that urgently built a new LNG terminal, it was staunchly anti-nuclear Germany (in 2023!!). So I have doubt about your analysis.
There's a lot of fun places a 20-ish minute drive from Seattle. It's definitely worth it to have a car. And Tacoma is only 45 minutes away.
There was a P8 dropping a sonar bouy a few hours before the blast. Monkeywerx on YouTube has a few videos on that. Then there's Biden explicitly stating it would be no more and they would end it, also on YouTube.
I do not. Therapy does not work for me for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

I have however attended AA meetings and ordinary folks stories have impacted me deeply in therapeutic sense.
"I was told that if I wanted to, I could vote with my feet and choose a job that didn't use B2I. The only problem was, they didn't exist anymore. What good is a choice when only one option exists?"
> but solar is now so cheap and easy that it will be harder for large scale nuclear to ramp up in time to matter

There's still the storage and base load problem. But I am 100% with you that we shouldn't slow solar in deference to nuclear; what we should be doing is mapping out what we want our next generation energy mix to look like (solar, wind, pumped storage, nuclear, geothermal, etc) on a regional basis, stop fucking around and arguing about it, and just get on with building it.

I live in an area (Canadian prairies) where max energy consumption lines up with with minimum solar and wind production (-40C in December on a calm night). Even during the day, those calm bitterly cold days only have about 8 hours of sunlight from a sun that barely comes over the horizon. We're starting to build solar, we've had wind for a while, but even though we've committed to building SMR Nuclear, we're still in a situation where we've got coal and natural gas plants that are approaching EOL and they'll likely be replaced/retrofitted to burn more fossil fuels because we won't have any sufficiently reliable baseload ready.
Asserting that

“[Jens Steltonberg] was a hardliner on all things Putin and Russia who had cooperated with the American intelligence community since the Vietnam War. He has been trusted completely since.”

when he was actually born in 1959 is not a small thing. It’s simply making things up.
> It's not clear to me who else even has a motive to do this.

Putin. Blow up the pipeline so no-one can offer cheap gas in exchange for being recognized as the next legitimate leader of Russia behind his back. It's one of the simplest explanations and falls into the overall pattern. False-flag terrorism[1] is how Putin got into power in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
It does though, MMO are very complicated to do and there is a lot of tech to build by specialized people. The content is an other issue. You won't build anythinng close to wow bellow 100M.
> That first set now has both features, and 56-FF have none. It turns out you can't draw meaningful conclusions when some users get every new feature and some get none at all.

00—1A: have feature flags A and B

1B-55: have feature flag A only

56-FF: have no feature flag

So the actual gotcha here is that there is no cohort for "feature flag B only", right?

This setup can actually be desirable if feature B depends on feature A.
foam companies have an incredibly shady history in California -- my dad was the customer of one in the 80s, the owner had hired an incompetent forklift worker and a huge chemical spill proceeded.

I remember my dad getting a phone call in the middle of the night from the owner 20+ years ago : " X, you've always been a great customer of mine, if you want or need anything I have at the shop then you're free to come get it tonight."

We got in the car and got sheet after sheet of urethane foams, we were using it for aerospace and bicycle stuff at the time, as well as some small hand tools and miscellaneous stuff that he offered us.

The facility was chained and barred that next morning

A week later the entire facility burned down

A month later people from the EPA started contacting the owners' business partners and larger contracts; turns out that after the fire there was some extensive soil testing, and the owner and anyone involved was nowhere to be found to be asked to pay for the extensive environment rehabilitation to deal with (among other things, i'm sure) the huge chemical spill.

We never heard from the owner again. I don't know whether or not the fire was an accident , but even as a kid I just presumed it was a failed fraudulent cover-up attempt or insurance grab; but I guess we'll never properly know.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least bit if Clark Foams shut down as a preventative measure to avoid a huge EPA hassle for the owner; making foam is a nasty business, and it's expensive to do it by-the-book.
We were affected by this layoff, software engineering family over here.It seemed to be so random. It was people from so many different areas. We have beena GoDaddy family for over 17 years. This was a shock for sure