skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nuclear power plants that were shut down would’ve needed extremely expensive maintenance to keep them running.

It’s a really complicated issue, with lots of misinformation floating around on both sides of the discussion. After all, nuclear power plants aren’t actually economically viable either without heavy subsidisation and socialising the trash management (at least the ones we’ve had in Germany).

While I can’t say wherever Germany should’ve built more nuclear power plants… I’m however certain that most online discussions about the topic are extremely misinformed.
The biggest reason for this situation is probably corruption, some of which has been proven and reported on going back decades with Schroeder for example.
But what exactly is the difference between POST and SEARCH? Both include the request parameters in the body, so they would be obscured from the user. Unless they aren't, in which case it is a matter of the choices made in the implementation.

Is it implied idempotency and the lack of a confirmation dialog when the user reloads the page?
Copy the data to disk and ship them to the place they need to be used.
> Please only your real-world experience,

Hard NACK, absolutely not.

Noticeable is not relevant. If there are a billion people who load 40 pages and each saves 2ms, we save 2.5 human years a day.

Http2 isn't even the good stuff. It still has horrible head of line blocking.

Where these protocols, http3 in particular, has real greatness is in it's ability to handle lossy & jittery connections. On http1 or http2 with a dodgy mobile connection, recovery from a missed packet or three can be egregiously painful. With http3 the bits can keep flowing.

In general I have high skepticism that you want to be convinced. This narrow on-guiderials "anecdote only" line of inquiry speaks to hang ups, about resistance to allowing progress. You are looking for personal annecodotes, talking about your experience, but I highly doubt humans have the mind to really be able to tell about very fine differences, but that doesn't invalidate time saved, as we load so many resources a year. Last, you likely have very fine internet connections where many of the overwhelmingly grand advantages don't come out.
I mean, sure. As do laws against breaching doors with explosives, shooting people in the head, and using automatic weaponry.
(Not a web developer just curious): does Astro also offer this?
What’s wrong with solar and wind?
If I could change one thing about federal office eligibility it would be to add a mandatory retirement age of 65. That would go for elected office as well as agency and judicial appointments. There are too many old people set in their ways at the highest levels of governent who need to get out of the way. And I say that as someone who's less than a decade away from that age himself.
As much as hospital administrators love to blame COVID for underpaying and overworking healthcare professionals, a person dying because they got a late cancer diagnosis because they couldn't see a family doctor for 6 months because of a shortage caused by burnout is too far removed to attribute to COVID in good faith.
Lit 3.0 Pre-Releases
In a world which has pageant moms, I don't see how this can surprise anyone, it's just a new expression of an old illness.
That's what ETag headers are for. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ET...
I haven't heard many criticisms of Snowden that fall outside of:

A) He's a Russian plant, HE IS IN RUSSIA!one!11

Which is easily disproven because he could have done a lot more damage from the inside and it's the US that forced him to stay in Russia, Snowden was provably en route to Ecuador when his passport was revoked.

"But he doesn't criticise Russia"; well, he can't leave and it's not his fight, his fight was for the soul of the western world (primarily America, though as a Brit I am glad he revealed what he did); Russia is very well known to be corrupt, there's nothing more to be said on that.

B) He put lives at risk!!two!2

Also very easily disproven as he only gave uncensored data to two Journalists whom had a track record for ethical disclosure (even to their own detriment).
No offense intended, I meant to playfully point out that you're stating the obvious, which has little relevance to the project and its goals.
Would that be surprising, or shouldn't that be the default assumption that they dream similar like us?

I would swear I have experienced bad dreams of my cat, with abrupt movements and mumbled sounds, and then when waking or woken up immediately relaxing or even coming cuddling for comfort, very similar as with my human partner. Also dreaming in general, not just nightmares, is well observable sometimes.

I believe I have read similar stories of other's with cats&dogs, too?
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows
Meaningless statement unless you correct at the very least also for demographics and infection rates.
Nowadays my primary concern is readability and understandability. Thrown into a codebase, can I understand what's going on?

OCaml (which at FB was used to write the Flow typechecker and Hack compiler afair) favored higher order functions. I enjoyed playing with these in my Haskel-based introduction course at university, and I even wrote a similar language that favored them.

But I now heavily dislike if `a b c` means "call to a with functions b and c with unknown arguments". I need to read all three (a, b, c) to really get what's going on.

This was my biggest gripe with OCaml as it was used at FB.

(purely syntactically compare this to `a(parent => b(parent), child => c(child))`, for some verbosity I get a clearer syntax - a is the callee, and I got some information about what b and c possible do - this is a contrived example of course).

I think the strength of ML and Haskell got eroded as more "mainstream"y languages got decent type systems (TS/Flow, Hack, Kotlin, even Rust, Python is getting there).
> The book's not trying to make you feel bad, like, "Hey, your password's too short." And I'm not trying say that we're all going to die. The truth is in the middle. For most people, the risks are not big at all. The culture presents to us a picture of hackers which is a sensational caricature: Somebody who is almost completely asocial, maybe has mental illness, maybe is morbidly overweight. There's the 400-pound person sitting in their pajamas in their basement in their parents' house, socially maladapted human beings who are malicious and evil. There have been hackers in the last several decades who've challenged that picture.

That's all true, though this vision of evil amoral hackers feels at least 10 years out of date, it's how Hollywood has historically portrayed it but not what people think about today. The new unhelpful assumption that I often encounter is that cybercrime is so widespread and automated that anyone who isn't a security expert has no hope, they've already been hacked. Maybe there's a generational difference.

>Yes, of course, hacking is a real risk. But the vast majority of hacking, of cybercrime, is financially motivated— to make money. They do not want to break into your computer specifically. They want to break into lots of computers easily to create a botnet or to distribute spam or ransomware. They don't really want to spend that much time on you. So for most of us, basic precautions make it just a little bit more expensive to attack you. They're more likely to move on to somebody else because these are basically automated tools that are very low-level type of things.

I don't really like this framing. The advice to make yourself a little harder to attack is good, but "they don't really want to spend that much time on you" doesn't match the experiences of many actual victims of cybercrime. Being part of a botnet is technically getting hacked, and it's very common, but I don't think that's the kind of hacking the average person considers a risk they'll expend effort to avoid. People who have their social media accounts broken into for sextortion are basically automatically targeted, yes, but it gets very personal once the hack happens. Victims of tech-support scams and the like are often faced with someone willing to spend hours or days working to get control of their bank accounts and target them again and again. I think any advice aimed at average people needs to acknowledge the actual threats they face online, not dismiss them with the broad brush of "spam and ransomware", and show how basic measures make you a more difficult target for these common types of cybercrime.
We'd have to change the behavior of browsers & server implementations to do this. Itvs much less risky, much more managable change, to do this with a new more deliberate difference. It'll make it clear that the new behavior is intended.
"These chips have been tested as stable up to an RP2040 clock speed of 280MHz, creating an effecitve SPI clock speed of 140MHz.", [0]

For SPI that should mean a data rate of 140MBit/s, right?

[0] https://github.com/polpo/rp2040-psram
Explain Japan.
> wrecked

I think the term you're thinking of is "has wreaked" which is the present perfect tense of "wreak" which means to inflict or avenge.
Finally.

This is long overdue.

I'd be happy to see AirBNB removed entirely from Australia.

Next best thing ... limit nights houses can be listed, charge a tourist tax, charge commercial council rates on AirBNB hosts.

In Australia the federal government does nothing to fix the housing crisis.

It appears the Victorian government is actually taking action.
We will never discover whether it's one way or the other via HN comments, so it's an irrelevant point.

It's not even possible to talk about it in any substantive capacity.
Locking down people in their house can be also a root cause. Our reaction to covid has been probably worse than actual covid.
Wealthy countries have way more old people, and way more vaccines. COVID is still more dangerous to elderly vaccinated people than to unvaccinated teenagers.

You can sometimes even see this effect in one country, if all the old people are vaccinated and none of the young people are, you'll still probably get more COVID deaths per old person. If you just look at mortality by vaccination status you'll see lots more COVID deaths in the vaccinated cohort, but that's because the vaccinated cohort is just old.
> While orca attacks on humans are practically unheard of outside of aquariums,

Inside aquariums I think orcas can reasonably claim self defense.
1gbit is 300T a month, 10g is 3000T a month.

There’s always a limit, that might be measured in TB, PB or EB, and may be what you determine practical or not, but it’s there
That's the opposite of my experience. Talkers are a dime a dozen. Tech talents are a gem and you're very lucky to get them. The few of them will do most of your work.
Link injection, ad replacement, their own cryptocurrency... It's close to getting bingo on the questionable behavior card.

Not to claim it's worse, of course. Chrome practically has the whole card filled in, and has to add extensions for the new terrible things they've invented. They're playing multi-dimensional 7x9x3i bingo.
Misleading title. If the current trend continues it will be larger in 2025.
Let's assume that eradicating covid (if somehow possible) via lockdowns and distancing would cost a 25% quality of life decrease for 2 years. That's equivalent losing 1% of all current human life.

Or perhaps we would not eradicate COVID, but we'd avoid dying from it, and we'd have reduced quality of life forever.
Nuclear plants take 15-20 years to build in practice, cost double, triple or more of initial estimates just for construction, more billions for teardown, and even more for storing all the waste. On top of that they're at real risk for natural disasters (of which no US state is secure - either it's hurricanes or earthquakes) and accidents due to mismanagement and corner-cutting. And no one wants to live near one either, which means a shitton more cost in construction because you have to build them in the desert, or the project gets boggled down for years by NIMBYs.

In contrast, you can build a solar or wind plant in less than a year. And the profits for these end up in the local community where they stand instead of investment funds owning the nuclear plant operators.
Isn't this Office for National Statistics data?
"... criminals noticed the constant demand for decompressors, making them a target for ridealong adware and malware. Many a download site also tried to confuse those who sought decompression tools with dark patterns, luring users to unintended downloads. "
How to Parallel Park
and it'll still generate bullshit

the technology is not capable of knowing when it is wrong
Yup. Managing the CF account is a hidden cost you need to account for.
Annual migration of 700,000 people to a country of 70,000,000 is absurd and completely destabilises society.
Cute. Would be nice as a crate but the impl is small enough to copy with attribution
TIL — going forward I'll use see for 'compare' and cf for 'contrast'
Yes, there is [1]. I remember vividly this one cop that quit his job of so many years over a vaccine mandate. He was invited on TV, and was all proud and righteous of his great deed. He died of COVID. His name was Robert LeMay [2].

I wonder how many deaths could have been avoided were it not for vaccine skepticism.

[1] https://www.deseret.com/coronavirus/2022/3/17/22979105/covid...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trooper-co...
but how can sending power through the lines, and then paying someone to accept it really be cheaper for the power company than simply sending it to ground?
From everything we know the opposite is true in that deaths directly due to COVID are undercounted, not overcounted. Multiple states in the US were directly seen undercooking the numbers so that it looked better. See here [1]

Also even in the scenario you post as a semi-gotcha moment wouldn't be counted as COVID-related, but I would hope it would be obvious to you that certain fast growing cancers have significantly better prognosis if caught early.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236613
Yes, that is a good thing.
alternate. have your camera ready, but don't record obsessively. for special events like birthdays take a few pictures at critical moments, but don't dominate the event with the camera. in particular for me that means i don't ask people to pose, on the contrary, i hope they don't even notice me taking photos. if people react to the camera to much, i stop, because that's not what i want to record.

on the other hand, do also record the not special moments. let everyone get used to the camera. make it normal that you take photos and videos often. then doing so at the special events hopefully becomes less distracting.

in asia, taking photos at events is more common, so it is a more natural part of any event, and people are not bothered by it.
I am afraid I am not sure what you are saying.

Noticeable is relevant. Either it is noticable faster or it isn't. In my experience it isn't, hence the question.

If you can convince me with a site where one can actually notice that, I'd be more than happy to change my stance, but multiplying 2 millisecond by X humans or using a kbps connection as baseline won't cut it I am afraid :)

As for your assumption on the Internet connection, we are talking about a mobile connection, so not exactly fiber :)
Building a Scale Model of Time
Starting from this page I was not able to figure out what Lit actually is or does
This is a false dichotomy. There is jo binary choice. This brings forth useless statements like money can't buy happiness.
Looks like he's having a seizure for all I know. The paper is mostly a discussion of observed footage, and making guesses without presenting evidence that these episodes are actually linked with nightmares.
One of the weirdest parts of using Bing Chat is that it has tab-to-autocomplete function that is almost always wrong about what I want to say. I wish there was an LLM that actually was an "autocorrect on steroids" because that's honestly one of my most-anticipated features of this technology.

Having an LLM spell-checker that would autocorrect my spelling as I typed, based on the context of what I was typing? That would be magnificent.
Reliance on coal & gas. High energy costs. Residential rates subsidizing industrial.
Xen provides a great security design and a protocol to do hypercall that makes sense (unlike kvm+virtio which is DMA all the way, with all the plus in terms of simplicity but the bad on the isolation aspects).

If I wanted to caricature the situation: KVM is more simple to work with in terms of dev (you have results fast), but kind of "fuck security".

Xen is hard from the dev perspective, because it's a more micro kernel by itself, and you can't cheat to have access to the memory, you have to use grant tables (see https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2022/07/27/grant-table-in-xen/ ).

So if a part of the industry took a shortcut, doesn't mean Xen isn't still relevant :)
Backblaze, MEGA, or S3 RRS.
Strictly speaking, 100% of any energy network faces shortages during extreme demand.
Amount of courage doesn't even matter, NSLs are handed out like candy and force companies to comply without saying anything.
Well it's good for limiting a company's liability, at least.
As it says on the Spectacle homepage, Spectacle is no longer developed. Spectacle fans should use Rectangle.

https://rectangleapp.com/
I literally just posted a dismissal of your claims in a sibling comment.

You owe it to yourself to think critically about what you think you want out of intelligence services, being secretive is one thing, not permitting any oversight is not ok and being in direct violation of the law is also not ok.

It's not a hypothetical situation, people were using these tools to stalk women for crying out loud, you can't defend that. Those tools shouldn't have even existed in the first place, it was a flagrant violation of authority.

The reason in the UK police are charged with harsher sentences than ordinary criminals is because they have authority and an enormous capacity to do harm. So do these agencies.
Yep. GB News might be cranky but the data underlying the story is just fact.
How does that mesh with this article?

Also where do you live? I'm curious what your experience was.
I helped run a wireless research data archive for a while. We made smaller data sets available via internet download but for the larger data sets we asked people to send us a hard drive to get a copy. Sneakernet can be faster and cheaper than using the internet. Even if you wanted to distribute 10TB of _new_ data every month, mailing hard drives would probably be faster and cheaper, unless all your customers are on Internet2 or unlimited fiber.
I rarely see actual "social skills" rewarded.
> and message size may be limited (e.g. SMS)

There's long been a transparent in-the-background upgrade to MMS when the message gets too big, so this shouldn't be a problem.
It might be worth generating a version that excludes Russia and Ukraine.

https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-globa...
Too expensive for all but critical use-cases. MEGA and Backblaze are way, way cheaper.
>> Stalker’s son

Um, daughter.
> Electricity isn't even a market where people can 'panic buy' like toilet paper.

People can "panic buy" generators, and have been doing so for a while. With solar panels on the roof for when the sun is available and some alternative source like your generator (cheap to buy, expensive to use) or batteries (expensive to buy, cheap to use) for when it is not and power has failed you can be mostly energy independent.
I would guess that this drives a non-negligible number of people to playing the game for the first time. My personal anecdote is tab completing `apt-get install` by mistake and figuring I should research this 0ad package more to make sure I didn’t screw up configurations.
I think it was Steve Klabnik who said that it's basically the version of Rust with a garbage collector that people ask for. Might have been this episode of Oxide and Friends: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1208089
I don’t follow—what in particular becomes destabilized?
Respectfully, I think you're wrong and assuming a personal speculation.
It's delightfully hacky, but we actually have our prompt (that we parameterize later) stored in a feature flag right now, with a few variations! I actually can't believe we shipped with that, but hey, it works? Each variation is pulled from a specific version in a separate repo where we iterate on the prompt.

We're going to likely settle on just storing whatever version of the prompt is considered "stable" as a source file, but for now this isn't actively hurting us, as far as we can tell, and there's a lot of prompt engineering left to do.
Ask HN: Can I ask for an acqui-hire?
Hi HN,

tl;dr: I have my own angel-backed startup that failed. I interviewed around and have several offers to join other teams. Would it be unreasonable for me to ask that the condition for me to join has to be through an acqui-hire? I don't need any additional money/compensation. I just want to save face for both myself and my angel-investors. Any additional tips about how I can achieve this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

More context:
1)Raised under 30k in angel funding.
2)Built a product, but don't have customers or revenue.
3)Been grinding for a year with little to show for. Family needs me to provide. The anxiety and stress have just gotten too much.
4)Maybe some people will think this ask is too outlandish/unreasonable. I have no idea. I just want to know my options and set my next career move up for success.
5)In the ML field, and I have pretty decent experience.
6)I have looked through the HN acqui-hire posts but haven't found an answer to the specific question I have.
At this point, the only people dying are the ones who refuse to get vaccinated.
Why? It’s an increase of 1%
If you use Electron your app is bundled with Webkit + NodeJS and runs two different processes. Servo is like a minimal/limited Webkit and you dont need to write your app logic in NodeJS.

A great example is Sciter and Sciters Note app

https://notes.sciter.com/

The x64 is 5mb impressive compared to an electron application.
Brian Kelly (the CEO of CAHSR authority) is in DC to ask for funding, I think the strongest part begins during the Q&A segment at 30:30:

> No megaproject at this magnitude can succeed without a strong federal partner. It’s true for the interstate highway system, it’s true for major airport improvements, it’s true for all kinds of megaprojects and 85-15 in favor of the state is not the usual recipe for advancing a project of this magnitude.

> [...] We’re being quite candid. This is the year. We have to have the demonstration of the federal partnership, and we have to have it in 2023.

> I’m trying to move this project [...] from being a 119 miles that’s not a great operating segment to a project that is a 172 miles to start, to start [emph. theirs], that will actually move people and connect cities, and I can only do that, if I have a federal partner.

> For me the project has always been San Francisco to L.A. and Anaheim, and it still is. But we don’t have all the money to do it right now. And just like every major transit project I’m aware of, you build what you can build with what you have.