skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are the official data related to electricity production https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/38...

Coal are the bottom two things on the chart (brown and gray). Drastically down. Gas use percentage wise is pretty much the same as 10 years ago. Obviously you're making things up.

Germany is also not turning coal plants back on: there were about a dozen coal plants put on stand by this year as an emergency, but they mostly stayed off. The funny part is that the emergency was mostly related to the collapse of nuclear in France where most of the surrounding countries suddenly needed to support it. But in the end renewables made up most of the difference. Here's a Twitter thread with the data https://mobile.twitter.com/CoalFreeDave/status/1620360558255...

Europe needs to get off fossil fuels and it's about to do that really fast. Unnecessary hurdles were removed to make renewable deployment easier. As a consequence there's been a huge uptick in nuclear lobbying and astroturfing - this industry is scared it's about to be made officially irrelevant. All sort of plans are being made but there will be so much new renewable generation by the time this plans are finalized, let alone the decades it will take to get anything done with nuclear, that it will not matter at all.
Kudos to them for not including an accountant numpad.
Even if it doesn't leak... France seeks strategy as nuclear waste site risks saturation point.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/france-seeks-st...

Moreover the long-term deposit site (dubbed 'Cigéo') isn't ready.
The only case where this setup does not cut it is when you wish to use the notebook as slides for a presentation.
As you claim, if they are a payment processor, then they shouldn't need another payment processor to handle money for them... their prospective customers could just use stripe directly.
It's going as well as it did. Stop reading headlines with agendas and look at the data. Start here: https://mobile.twitter.com/CoalFreeDave/status/1620360558255...
Well this has now made me reconsider ever using Stripe.
Bing’s app sees a 10x jump in downloads after ChatGPT news
Mars Code - NASA JPL
I think they miss the point entirely. The environment in the cell is mostly mechanical, but it's also dominated by random forces. If you are unable to guarantee where you are going to "enter the sled" or when the "tail hits the ribozyme" then the nop sled seems to be an equivalent feature.

So.. to me, it's odd they invoke "legitimate code." The comparison I'd consider would be "combative code." For example, the old game "core wars." Thinking in that mindset, I can see several uses for a "nop sled" in "legitimate code."
A straw man dressed up like a steel man, delicious
The meltdown is only in 'modern' things like nfts. Classic things like monero, eth, and bitcoin are chugging along fine.
That’s reassuring. She did say that the doctor she found was like the only one in California, maybe even the whole country, that would treat people with mental health comorbidity. So even back then it wasn’t a widespread thing, just this one trailblazing doctor in the very lgbtqi2 friendly city of San Francisco. And it sort of makes sense. Why couldn’t someone have both schizophrenia and gender dysphoria? Shouldn’t the mentally ill be able to address other health problems like gender dysphoria? It’s very difficult thinking through the medical ethics involved.
> For the rest of us it's better to write too many tests than too few. You might waste some time

That's a very bad attitude that is all but enforced by TDD proponents.

It's very easy to see which tests are useless and which are not. So you end up with people writing thousands of unit tests and little-to-no integration or functional tests because:

- "TDD told me so", and

- Testing frameworks are written by people who adhere to the same philosophy

Whereas there's very little utility in those "too many tests" while they give you a very false sense of security.
This is from a lecture given earlier this week [1], I hopefully there's a recording that can be made available.

[1] https://www.ucalgary.ca/programs/mathphil/2022-23
> What economic downturn?

Someone closed the interest free money faucet
When you have party refusing nuclear power plants out of fear from radiation and then same party agrees with extending coal mines and coal power plant, which are spitting radioactive waste around environment in uncontrolled manner from ash, then they are purely driven by anti-nuclear ideology.
On the other hand, autocomplete interferes with your thought process and makes you used to not having "long" programming thoughts: you can only think one word at a time.

I'm personally not there yet, but the way I've seen advanced programs write code is more akin to writing whole paragraphs at once and then relying on the compiler to catch any typos or similar trivial mistakes.
>fine of $425,000

Legally speaking, can Stripe keep that money? Flurly will be broke and cannot payout their customers. Aren't those customers as entitled to their money as is Stripe or the card networks?
> Yes, but that's because farmers are selling the food.

So if you ran a charity that gave the food away for free, you wouldn't be held to all the regulation around pesticides, hygiene etc?
Not in the UK; contractual penalty clauses are illegal. You can only be held liable for damages caused by a breach of contract.

I'm sure the card networks can do what they want and it'd be months before a court could catch up though.
Also a useful loophole to get around the license required to sell alcohol, as demonstrated by Tom Scott in a hovercraft: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLF7yife8YE
On the contrary, it's becoming common among doctors to make a 180 on the subject. It was a major scandal in Sweden last year when several who had transitioned went to the news and attacked the doctors for allowing them to go through with it. As a result, transition at a young age seem to have been stopped. Because the science is lacking, it's heavily associated with health issues, you'll need treatment for the rest of your life and you can't go back.
Re debug experience I completely agree - it just isn’t sexy… yet? Browser dev tools have proven that debugging is super important. It feels like code debuggers have been stagnant for past couple decades.

https://thonny.org/ has been featured on HN recently. Looks at least as an iterative step forward.
To be honest, I think he is way-overly critical. It would seem like he thinks there needs to be some sudden changes or something. Scala is great today - there is nothing better (for experienced programmers) in my opinion (at least when it comes to backend development), and it's on a great path and trajectory.

Slow progress and change is good.

I think he would do well just calming down a little bit. He has some good critique, yes, but it's overblown in my opinion. I don't think the future of scala is as "uncertain" as he thinks.

I also think the scala community is fabulous, it full of great, smart people who work together. Just because there's heavy disagreements here and there, mostly just with a couple individuals, isn't necessarily a bad thing anyways, nor does it necessarily reflect the community as a whole.

Scala will never attract the mainstream, because its principals take too long to learn. There is nothing wrong with this, though. It's a language for long-time programmers who are interested in becoming super effecient.

Scala is awesome, and I'm excited for its future. Will it live 100 years, no, probably not, but there's nothing better in the next 10, 20 years.
Yep. Even if your basic needs are met, there’s always conspicuous consumption and lifestyle creep to eat into the remainder.

This is what is really dangerous about remote work to the status quo: if I take a SWE salary to a low CoL area, I don’t have the same pressure to burn through it like in a tech hub. I can live comfortably compared to my neighbours and still save. This gives big business far less leverage.
Fun fact: governor of Montana used to run a software company, so perhaps he's reading this.
> Second, I don't know of any treatments for gender dysphoria (in trans people, not people with other conditions that've been misdiagnosed) that "fix" the mind and actually work. Gender reassignment, on the other hand, works, in the sense that it improves peoples' lives (see https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/transgender-teens-receiving-... for example).

There seems to be a prevalent problem in this area (and perhaps others too) to where the reporting on the "science" seems to be a lot more positive than the science itself. The original article alludes to this -- "stop questioning the science" like it's an open and shut case.

For that particular study, a more accurate headline would be: "In Our Pre-Registration We Expected To Find Improvements on Eight Measures but We Only Found Improvements on Two, Which Were Very Small, and Only For Natal Females."[1] It's not as snappy, but it's more accurate.

That complex and fairly ambiguous outcome gets summarised into an overall optimistic story by the press, which then in turn gets digested into "gender reassignment .. works", not just on HN but on forums all over the internet.

It's not just that study though -- whenever the field is looked at holistically the evidence for the effectiveness of these treatments is not strong.[2][3] and the evidence for such treatments on children (the subject of the article) is even weaker.

Ultimately I believe adults have the right to do as they wish with their own bodies, however when it comes to children we have to be guided by the highest standards of medicine and science.

[1] https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/the-new-highly-touted-stu...
[2] https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-d...
[3] https://www.cochrane.org/CD013138/TOBACCO_does-hormone-thera...
Besides external Assembler, MSVC's way is to use intrinsics.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/intrinsics/compiler-in...

Which is kind of nice and already proven in 1961 as a better way to do low level coding in Burroughs B5000, nowadays still sold as Unisys ClearPath MCP (naturally with improvements).

Intrinsics can be better understood by the compiler type system, both for safety and optimization algorithms.
Well, the setup was you told me people should feel embarrassed to be scared whether or not they support nuclear power. If they accepted the premise you are setting up now — that it is utterly risk-free — why wouldn’t they support it?
"Sell any digital product in under a minute and keep 99% of what you make after payment processing fees. No monthly fees either."

How is that shady?
My ThinkPad has a physical switch for airplane mode. There's a big difference between "turning off" the functionality in software and physically cutting the power to anything that can transmit.
> Do you see how playing this game of writing iterative tests would actually provude slower learnings than prototyping a call to an API and receiving a result that would inform a series of tests that would be much more informed?

And do you see that in many examples just coding ahead without conaidering how to test the code later will in many cases leave you with code that is such a pain to test that you start avoiding the tests because "they take too much time".

If you start with the test the question of "how can this be made testable" is unavoidable.

I am not dogmatic here. If you are operating on the level of "I am happy if anything works at all" then starting with writing a test is probably a bad idea, better try things out first, scrap the whole thing once you understood what you wanna do in which way and then start writing the tests.

For a lot of adhoc code test driven development doesn't make too much sense, but if the stuff you write could ruin someones day (or life) maybe it is the way to go.
> what about the vast majority of people who aren't making that kind of money and do have a family, are they wizards?

I have a large extended family who all make far less than me. Yes, they have plenty of kids, too.

Their secret is living outside of a tech hub, and near family. It takes a village to raise a child. Their village is free, mine isn't.

> when I look around where I live I see people are just outright mismanaging their money with frivolous luxury items

No offense, but you're either a robot or a sociopath. "Frivolity" is often what motivates humans to get out of bed and go to work, rather than sink into something like substance abuse.

I, personally, budget about $10k/y for motorcycles and art, which are definitely frivolous personal pleasures that don't directly benefit my family. Except it brings me joy, and who knows how productive or alive I'd be without it.
> People are scared of nuclear energy.

"But the people are retarded." [1].

"The proximate cause of the disaster was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which occurred on the afternoon of 11 March 2011 and *remains the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan*. The earthquake triggered a powerful tsunami, with 13–14-meter-high waves damaging the nuclear power plant's emergency diesel generators, leading to a loss of electric power. The result was the most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, classified as level seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) [...] and thus joining Chernobyl as the only other accident to receive such classification. [...] the INES ranks incidents by impact on population, so Chernobyl (335,000 people evacuated) and Fukushima (154,000 evacuated) [...]" [2]

Man, nuclear's weak. Worst two disasters end with just a few dozen people dead at most and merely a ton of economical damage? A single dam failure and you've got 100 thousand people dead. Coal alone kills 100 thousand people a year. Nuclear needs to step it up.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFgcqB8-AxE

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster
Hard landing? Soft landing? No landing at all more like!
Looks like a policy change to me...

Previously flying balloons over the US was ignored. Now you're gonna be shot down if you don't have overflight permission.

There are plenty of balloons that fly multiple laps of the earth, weather balloons, spy balloons, school project balloons. Some of them are untracked, and most are uncontrollable. Some are house-size, while others are as small as a party balloon.
What do you think they are “getting away with”. Is that something you think they should not be allowed to do? Who would stop them and how?
Yes everyone knows it is paid from taxes. It is not gotcha you think it is. This is what the comment reacted to:

> Requiring degrees is anti-worker because it places a cost on them.

Education being paid from taxes means the price is not paid by worker. I am ok paying tax and education being paid from the tax. Not everyone is full on allergic to the word tax.
Nuclear phase out took over 10 years. Coal phase out kicked off two years ago and will complete by 2038 with a possible goal of 2030.
I disagree. TDD shines most when you don't know what you are building. It allows you to to test hypotheses without needing to over-implement a system to be able to begin to gather data about your design.

In fact, if you know exactly what you are building, how could tests drive your decisions? You have already made up your mind. If you know what you are building you can simply implement it straight away without the data gathering phase.
Good point and all but shit is still too pricey.
> that's not what they were intending and you know it

Yes, I took the more charitable interpretation of what they said (that it was specifically about minors) and devoted the vast majority of my comment to talking about that. I spent maybe one or two paragraphs total talking about adult transitioning.

And yet, even under that charitable interpretation, saying "we should not be operating on healthy tissue" is an argument that sounds good but falls apart as soon as you try applying it to the real world and the numerous non-essential medical interventions that are supplied to children.

I am trying to be charitable in my takes, but "chopping off their reproductive organs because of a fad" is not an insightful characterization of the current debate. It grossly oversimplifies the full spectrum of medical intervention for transgender youth, and (again) ignores the reality that medical interventions for psychological/social/internal maladies, including interventions based on the possibility of future psychological/social problems, are not exclusive to transgender youth.
Wait, global warming is already killing people ??

Weather-related events has killed people since the beginning of times, but I was under the impression global warming was still about predictions of catastrophies.
Specifically, this could be amazing to map out non-public comms, radar and AA systems. This could provide the sort of information you'd want for a future military conflict. I hope I'm completely wrong about this.
My job doesn't need a college degree either. I think a certain kind of person venerates school rather than seeing it as a cost. For this type of person school is, by default, something that people should do. Personally, I don't share that view. School is something that should be required where necessary but optional otherwise.

You absolutely do not need a college degree, or lessons on pedagogy, to understand that children are immature or what abuse indicators are. The former is intuitively understood by pretty much everyone, especially people interested in childcare, and the latter can be covered in on the job training.

I'd like to return to my original question though - any evidence that childcare is improved by a college degree? Anyone could come up with things you'd learn in college that might make you better at childcare - but that's not the same thing as evidence.
Agree completely. This would have been interesting if they had tried to capture the look and feel of the original but still made it look contemporary. That could have worked perfectly with nostalgia and the recent popularity of vaporwave. Instead they made it look like every other modern game but kept the poorly aged 30 year old puzzles.
Great question! Being totally honest, the core idea was basically something along the lines of "What would you get if Unreal Engine Blueprints and Node Red (NR) had a baby, and then you made it available as a $5 SaaS app".

IMO it's a lot easier to use than NR (I've played around with NR quite a bit), which is the biggest difference in my opinion. Obviously you don't have to host it, which is a big plus. But the interface is also just a lot more user-friendly and intuitive.

Passing data from one node to another in NR is not super intuitive, and you can't easily visualise data flow coming from multiple sources and then converging into a single node.

As far as I'm aware, NR also doesn't have any kind of Type system - Types in G-Script help to lower the learning curve because it's a bit like building a PC... if the cable fits in the port, there's a pretty good chance it will atleast work and not explode.

NR does support "code reuse" too, but again it's just not super intuitive and user-friendly. To be clear, there's nothing G-Script does that hasn't been done before, but IMO it's packages in a very user-friendly format and priced very competitively.

I'm looking to add super simple Auth, Testing, and Data Persistence over the next few weeks, which I think will accentuate that usability gap even more.
We're there an actual such treatment, people might take it, but it doesn't exist.

Therapy can help with a surprising number of issues, but it isn't magic.
I misunderstood your post, I thought you were blaming stripe.

I agree with you though there is sometimes value in payment gateway aggregators. Having one for managing multiple processors, including payment methods stripe doesn’t support.

Stripe itself is a payment processing aggregator: you could just implement the direct integrations from the banks/card networks.

But yes fintech is built on middlemen building on top of middlemen. Sadly it’s too expensive to build from the lowest layer, so businesses tend to start from the highest one and only rebuild a layer below if they’re successful and have money.

It’s only fixable with more open source fintech layers imo.
I only have experience with this on Linux, where at least it supports scaling, so that if you use a constant one (my case), then it's OK.

Older ones will simply ignore the scaling settings and draw the interface 1-to-1. One such application that comes to mind is VMWare's remote console (for esx). I haven't used it in a few years, but I remember at the time it was painful to run on a 24" UHD screen.

On the windows side, I think things are somewhat better than on Linux, but there still is confusion, including Windows 11 22h2's start menu. If you start the computer in 100% mode, then plug an external screen scaled at 200%, it works OK for the app list (what it shows on first click) but if you start typing everything becomes a blurry mess.

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Edit: I actually think QT is one of the better toolkits, at least on Linux, in the case of scaling. IIRC it's able to adapt the scaling based on the screen DPI reported by X, so a full qt desktop should be able to handle situations like a high-DPI laptop connected to a low-dpi monitor.
That's just plain wrong. Mental properties in general (e.g. personality) are not easily measurable, but that doesn't mean they don't exist (or can't exist without a non-material soul), and I see no reason to think that an innate sense of gender would be any different.

In any case, while gender is not directly measurable, it does seem to correlate with some aspects of brain structure. A number of studies have shown that, at least in some respects, the brain anatomy of transgender people is more similar to that of cisgender people of the same gender than those of the same sex. It's clearly more complicated than trans people having one type of brain in the other type of body, but something sort of like that is going on. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-there-somethin... and the links at https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/gender-lines-science....

But whatever the basis of transgender identities is, it's clear that something real is going on. Dismissing trans people as "simply mistaken" is, well, simply mistaken.

EDIT: I should probably point out that the idea of someone developing some male-type features and some female-type should not be particularly surprising. Sexual differentiation is complex and has a lot of moving parts that don't always operate completely in sync. For example, a genetic male with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome will generally develop male-type internal organs (i.e. testes) and female-style external anatomy (a vagina, generally female appearance, etc).
It’s Time to Build Spaceships Not More Rockets
GitHub is aggressively caching raw.github, breaking many use cases
Context:

> An air quality disaster resulted on Friday night after about 50 cars on a Norfolk Southern Railroad train traveling from Illinois to Pennsylvania derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Ten of those cars contained hazardous materials, five of which contained vinyl chloride, a highly volatile colorless gas produced for commercial uses.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/toxins-ohio-train-derailment-p...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34758525
From a previous discussion Stripe's response seems to be reasonable. They have a solution to avoid this kind of situation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34747702

It seems that Flurry's well intentioned call (not asking legacy customers to move immediately to the right payment mechanism) backfired.
> mentally diseased

The mentioned commenter didn’t say it though.
Totally agree - the original idea was basically "I wish I could build a little microservice to handle some automation tasks, but do it with UE Blueprints rather than having to actually deploy some code somewhere".
I apologize, my question must have been confusing. I was asking for evidence of the claim. Something a bit more substantial than your speculation, perhaps.