skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the article has rose-tinted glasses, but your post has (cynic coloured)-tinted glasses. I am replying here not to attack your post but to provide an alternate perspective.

> it's rare to break 1M isk a month (85 kUSD/year)

1M isk enough is very liveable here. If you disagree with this statement, I'm not surprised you left Iceland. Rightly so Icelandic society is undergoing a period of union-based striking in order to improve salaries for lower wage people (most recently teachers). If your motive in life is to maximise salary and pay minimal tax then, yes, Iceland isn't the best place to be.

> Most of that geothermal energy? Yeah, it's sent to massive aluminum smelting plants.

This is oddly snarky and vaguely frames this to be a negative when it is positive (especially for the economy). Roughly 85% of homes in Iceland are heated directly by geothermal energy. This drastically reduces residental electricity use. The economic situation in Iceland would be a lot worse if not for the smelters. Also, if the smelters were not in Iceland they would be elsewhere using electricity with a much higher carbon intensity. The article is wrong also, in that it praises Iceland for renewable energy when it is really just geographically lucky.

> the economy is collapsing

This is a pretty big statement that lacks any sort of support.

> the warring 10 parties of government are effectively slap fighting each other instead of changing anything just so they can not be the Independence party

As far as democracy goes, that sounds healthy to me. I agree that Icelandic politics is largely self-serving and is prone to "big fish in a small pond" mentality, but this is basically as good as democracy gets.

> Inflation has been hovering around 8-10% a month

No, annual inflation is 10%, so monthly inflation is around 0.8%. [1]

> Unfortunately, what used to be a very inexpensive place to visit is now incredibly expensive to fly to, and also expensive to be in

Yet tourism demand is quite good, which is creating a lot of jobs and bringing a lot of money into the country. It is now one of the 3 main pillars of the Icelandic economy (with electricity intensive industry and fishing). Odd that you'd look at this as a negative seeing as you have concerns about the economic health of Iceland.

> It isn't going to be the next hot tech spot though.

I agree.

1 - https://www.sedlabanki.is/annad-efni/verdbolga/
Paying for support on all 3. Pay for higher level support on aws cos that’s production. But the quality of support on gcp has been terrible. Not expecting immediate response but getting no response or unsatisfactory response is worse than slow.

Aws service integration would be another thing they do better. The level of service integration is kinda insane.
That one has an easy fix: store secrets in a separate repo that you never roll back. That's not the reason to avoid storing secrets in git. You might be giving some junior dev here the idea that if they can solve this issue, then storing secrets in git will be ok. Obviously it's not; it's still a bad idea after you've solved this minor annoyance and, indeed, this annoyance had nothing to do with the security reason why you don't store secrets in git.
The book banning and restrictions on content in classrooms in Florida are further examples of people being fine with restrictions on speech.

At this point it's pretty disingenuous to lay the blame entirely on the left, or the young.
What subject is this that doesn't have thousands of practice problems available for free online or in a $10 used book?
When it comes to putting weapons in space, there's a gigantic gap between some vague maybe kinda sorta one day future tense, and an actual happening today present event.
A friend once showed me his vintage electric train set that ran on full 240v mains power. You know, for kids.

The control box even had a 40 watt lightbulb on the top to show when the (bare metal) tracks were live.

The trains themselves ran pretty well, except for the sparks shooting out from underneath and a strong smell of ozone.

Apparently so many kids zapped themselves that questions about the set were asked in parliament.
This is one of those articles where the journey is far more interesting than the destination.

(Edit: this comment made more sense when it was replying to a different complaint about the article; the parent comment seems to have been edited in the interim.)
By general wealth, country of origin, education I'm a pariah. In relatively poor and primitive society I live in I wouldn't even use the term "social status" more suitable would be "pecking order". The only status I experienced in life is when using services and having high status in their royalty programs, and yeah I see the difference. The comparison with a situation when I'm a regular client is significant. Interestingly, paying for high status in dating apps is a scam - similar to how financial credit is. When you have a lot of it you will get more. When you really need it, even when you pay you get some crippled and exploitative form of it.
>USB4 uses USB-C

That's a relief I guess, I was afraid we were getting a new connector again. How do normal people keep all this USB crap straight? I consider myself something of a nerd but I find all of this cable/port diversity utterly bewildering.
how do you deal with token limitation? What is the maximus size of codebase it can work on?
See also: postgres with SKIP LOCKED.

Great talk on it from Citus Con 2022:

Queues in PostgreSQL | Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2022 -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIRy1Ws47ic&list=PLlrxD0Htie...)

Citus is a horizontal scale out extension for postgres -- imagine the power of those two things together!

JK you don't have to imagine:

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/01/24/citus-and-pg-partm...
>that doesn’t sound easy to me

Then we disagree. I think watching videos is easy work. Gruesome content is typically obvious so that doesn't even require much mental work.
It remains to be seen: Musk is making a bet that Tesla could win big or lose here. It is an interesting bet to be sure, but Waymo's bet is as well (sensor fusion, and LIDAR will become affordable over time). I like that we have some diversity in the bets being made at least.
That's because Eben was telling everyone it was about "protecting jobs" when it was really just about selling to the largest companies. All the cottage industry folks who needed Rpis here and there? They could get fucked as far as Eben was concerned.

Basically: greed (lower overhead from larger orders) and more greed (chasing large companies, I guess in the hopes of securing fat, profitable long term contracts, or maybe donations, or both) and probably trying to cut out distributors, too (the "email us and we'll work something out" he kept telling everyone), again because of greed.

Raspberry Pi foundation burned their brand image and good will to the ground. Everyone has moved on to using clones, other ARM devices, embedded systems that have AI accelerators, old PCs and laptops, ESP32's, and so on.

Half the shit people were doing with Rpis were better suited for things like ESP32's anyway.
Rowan Atkinson on Electric Vehicles
Sad :( I rarely use it on mobile and I didn't know this yet.

I bet it's only a matter of time before old goes
Save yourself the trouble and piss into the boot.
It's a one-sentence comment that undermines itself no fewer than four times; of course it's sarcastic. The only question is whether the two of you are being sarcastic.
> The bytes are stored in the cloud, which is slightly slower to read from than it would be to read data out of the heap.

Given latency and bandwidth differences, that's like saying that it's slightly slower to transport water by driving standard, 1-gallon jugs between the US east and west coasts than it is to transport it a few miles using a tanker truck.
Why sacrifice our children's future only when you can sacrifice their presents too? /s
Hard disagree. She was given the opportunity to voluntarily seek treatment and refused. She is a danger to herself and to the general public.

"The Tacoma woman, who is identified in court documents as V.N., was booked into a room "specially equipped for isolation, testing and treatment" at the Pierce County Jail, the local health department said, adding that she will still be able to choose whether she gets the "live-saving treatment she needs."
My follow list is ~200. But even under following every 3rd tweet is a sponsored ad. There is still a lot more noise than signal in this new Twitter.
Dogs attacked more than 5,300 mail carriers last year, the Postal Service says
I wonder if you can use 15% from each "edition" (since they're all basically the same anyways).
Depends on the food. Yeah, being paid 1-2 cents per pound of tomatoes picked won't raise the price much if you make it 10-20 cents even. But it can raise the price of other things like dairy where it's an hourly rate and usually smaller farms.

If it's such a small increase, then why hasn't it been raised/changed? Why do we still subsidize a lot of farm stuff too?
> spam

How can you spam by creating a free domain? Or did you mean that search engines currently rely on fact that it is expensive to have many domains and their ranking algorithms get broken with free domains? Maybe they should just change their algorithms then, for example, have human-moderated search.

> and abuse of free domains

What harm can you do with a free domain? I don't understand.
Russia, Myanmar, Mongolia, UAE, Belarus are all significantly worse then almost all of the European countries (only Estonia is worse). I wouldn't consider those countries more individualistic than Germany for example. Vietnam and South Korea are at same levels as most of central/western Europe. India and Italy are also similar. There simply isn't any correlation (a formula if you will) between how individualistic a society is and how much drug abuse it has.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
I don't think you could just pre-tension rails so much and be done with it somehow, considering... temperature of a rail can probably stretch between -10 to +50C, and coefficient of expansion for steel is 12*10^-6/K, let delta T = 60K and joined rail length = 1km, the expansion can be +/-36cm(~1.2ft). At some point, the error can be more than one rail segment worth, and maybe it's just me but I can't imagine that amount of expansion just solved by clever tensioning alone.

Usually they are joined to a rail with a slant cut or a tongue section at ends, and let ride into the opposing cuts/tongues, IIUC.
I have a small stack of Raspberry Pi boards that I bought one at a time over the last few years. My issue with them is I could never buy three or four at once. I was always hit with the full shipping cost on something that weighs an ounce. As far as I know this has always been the case in the US.

I want to be able to buy a few at a time, like any other product.
60 days is life destoying for them, perhaps, but what about them walking about public adding years of pain to many others?
At some point you can also discover it is Turing complete.
Starlink is close to magic as far as the situation in Ukraine is concerned. There is no such thing as a price too high. There's losing the war with Russia vs paying whatever it takes to keep your information networks functional.

Go ahead and list all the other companies or countries that have done what SpaceX has with Starlink (the answer is: something like it has never existed before in human history).
Canada, of course!(1)

(1) https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMYEGwwSD/
Long-awaited Microsoft Paint refresh finally adds a dark mode option
You hit the nail on its head right there. It’s all based on a doomed technology that is not going to give us the benefits it promises. I do think future models will improve on this, but there’s likely very little room (read: data) left to make that happen.

Developing symbolic reasoning further would likely be a much better use of researchers’ time, even if it takes longer. But the incentives in the short term just aren’t there, sadly.
It's certainly a strange time to be alive. I was explaining to my child my work in AI, showing him images of himself as a character from his DnD campaign and at the same time am gently introducing him to the increasingly dire state of our climate. For parents of my generation "the talk" is not about sex, it's about the reality that we might not have a future to offer our children.

It feels like I am very literally living the life depicted in sci-fi novels of my youth. Equal parts wonderful and terrifying.
Can you be more specific? Is this legal?
“Kids don’t vote” - Thomas Carcetti, “The Wire”
I wrote an implementation in Python.

https://github.com/starqueue/starqueue

The code is in there for Postgres, MS SQL and MySQL (which all support SKIP LOCKED) though at some point I abandoned all but Postgres.

If I was to write another message queue then I wouldn’t use a database, I’d use the file system based around Linux file moves, which are atomic. What I really want is a message queue that is fast and requires zero config, file based message queues are both…. better than a database.
I attend a school that bundles books and a laptop into tuition. It's honestly a god send and when i want to keep a book i can just go online and buy a cheaper used version. Plus, the discontinued books get sold by the school for $2 each. Most of them are just management and accounting stuff I'm not interested but I've built up a pretty significant biology and chemistry library for less than $30.

And this is the cheapest college in the state for me. It really emphasizes how lots of the cost of college is just the fancy name on the diploma.
Are you considering becoming a professor? Salaries for many US colleges and universities are much higher than most think.
Wait, are you saying that AWS S3 is turing complete? How the hell if so.
It's really sad to me that companies will so readily and routinely do every bad thing that isn't explicitly disallowed by law even when they're fully aware they're doing a bad thing. It's at a point where it'd almost be easier to just deny them all activities which do not appear on the "short list of approved activities".
> The grifters/leeches/scammers and their bot legions haven't invaded yet.

They are, unfortunately, on their way; just had my first crypto spam on Mastodon the other day.
That’s an argument to make every part of the supply chain free.

Positive externalities of free labor far outweigh the negative externalities. We shouldn’t have to pay for labor.

Positive externalities of free capital far outweigh negative externalities. We shouldn’t have to pay to get capital.

And so on and so forth…

If this $21Bn was split over the many gallons of oil extracted it wouldn’t have ended oil extraction or the growth of the economy. It would have simply priced it better, which would have meant alternatives that didn’t impose such negative externalities would have been competitive sooner.
I think it has to do with the fact that the majority of their product line is based on a few very specific SoCs that are quite hard to replace so fast.
I like this feature, but to really make it pop I would like it to be combined with comefrom control flow.
I think I've only ever used the row of GPIO pins on the Pi for UART, and for running the dog-slow screens that use up most of them. These days, I'd put Micropython on a Pi Pico or other MCU for GPIO.
States with the most dogs and most letter carriers have the most dog bites. Amazing! https://xkcd.com/1138/
That about matches my experience. It's a neat project but that's about it.
Broke the Internet. If NAT was never invented we would have IPv6 by now.
WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
I am thinking the same. I would rather have my 15-16 year old working on 6 hour hard labor job learning real life skills than playing video games or their IPad. So this is not a simple thing and we need to look at the nuances and details. This article is very low quality without any specifics.

I personally think that we have gone in the other direction too much where our kids are overprotected from real life skills and are shielded too much until they are in early 20s and then they struggle big time. I know at least 2 20+ year olds who are very lost and have never worked a real job in their life.

Personally as a parent, I have no issues getting my kids getting a tough shit job in a McDonalds for a 5-6 hour shift. Does that count as Child Labor ?
Or maybe (shakes fist at clouds) they should just turn that gosh-durn music down!

If there's not even a dance floor, why is it fun to have to shout to the person next to you and have your ears ringing the next day? It's it simply that if you can't talk, you buy more drinks?
Unless you think 44.5% of contruction workers are under 18, the results are still significant. Do you know of another study that controls for age?
Yet the harm from that (10,000) was in many ways tiny compared to the harm from not deploying treatments that turn out to be good.

For example 780,000 people died of polio between 1988 and today. Yet for all that time there has been a cheap, low risk, well tested, near 100% effective vaccine (many in fact). And polio is probably one of the better cases because governments and charities have been pushing it pretty hard.
My ISP still doesn't even support ipv6. From my limited understanding that itself would already make it a problem to access an ipv6 only site.
Show HN: SQL Dry Runs with SQL Simulator
My name is Weston Goodwin. I created a tool called SQL Simulator which allows you to do Dry Runs with your SQL Scripts. The reason I created the tool was because I wanted to verify that my SQL scripts did what I thought they would do without executing them against the database.

It is similar in concept to Redgate SQL Clone or Windocs. If you are not familiar with these tools they make clones of your database. The key difference with SQL Simulator is, it only makes a clone of the database objects affected by your sql script, not the entire database. Nor does it copy the entire table (if your sql has where clauses). Once those database objects have been cloned, SQL Simulator then executes your script against the cloned database it created.

This software is only compatible with Oracle and SQL Server at the present time. My plan is to make it compatible with more databases in the future.

For a more in depth technical overview click here:
https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-sim...

You can download the software here:
https://www.tribalknowledge.tech/download.html

You can read the documentation here:
https://docs.tribalknowledge.tech/ratifier-tutorials/sql-sim...
... unworkable, maybe for now.

We have to build the infrastructure to handle it, soon. Otherwise, there will be a day where the AI will be so good that there are no moderators left who are good enough to make the right decisions.
This is a great speech, and I recommend anyone to listen to the whole thing.

An aspect it doesn't touch on is that today, free speech is often legally constrained by social networking sites, when they are, all too quickly, label certain things as "misinformation" or "hate speech", censor it, and ban the author. Facebook is particularly brutal in this regard.

The problem with saying that something is "misinformation" is that it must mean "something we believe is false". If I claim that it's raining, and you that the sun shines, then we both just say what we believe. Unless we express our mental states ("I'm cold") we never express facts, just our more-or-less justified beliefs about states of affairs. You can't "ban misinformation", you can only ban information you believe to be false. When an authority controls "misinformation", they are necessarily forcing their beliefs upon others.

Second, "hate speech" is an insidious concept. It ascribes a motivating emotion to some speaker where it is unobservable from the outside whether that emotion even exists. Claiming that something was done out of (unobservable) hate serves as a convenient excuse to ban things where the observable evidence isn't sufficient.

Of course many of those pieces of alleged hate speech and misinformation aren't illegal in many countries, but that's of little help when they are banned on sites like Facebook or Reddit. Allowing speech only where it is hardly audible is not much better than banning speech outright.
I’m curious what it saves you. I’ve done the same for a couple months, but found its results too unreliable to be of any use to me, in terms of time savings.
Ask HN: Do Americans write better software than the rest of the world?
I've seen a few example of software written by two independent groups—one in the US and one in Europe—which ended up giving drastically different user experience.

For instance, Microsoft Guidance (written by two people) is a framework for working with large language models and upon my first try, it worked really well. I was able to generate controlled sequences of tokens using Guidance, no problem other than my linter yelling at me for some minor issue.

But there's an equivalent software written by folks at ETH Zurich. It's called LMQL (https://lmql.ai/). I actually like its syntax more than Guidance's, and I appreciate their good documentation and tooling support. But... LMQL just doesn't work on my machine even though I have set up the env variable for OpenAI API key. It's a nice research project with interesting ideas, but it seems to be lacking when it comes to good programming.

I wonder if it's a pattern. Do Americans (or more generally, programmers in the states) write better software because they're more closely in touch with the tech industry?
I mean, the people who die of cancer are the problem. If 88% survive instead of 78%, 55% of those who would have died survived (taking these numbers just from your comment).
I'm in the early stages of learning about them! We have a thicket with some hedges on the right side of our property that I don't touch much. There's wild blackberry and rose vines that grow around some of the naturally occurring hedges. I trim the vines back a bit to incentivize growth and so they don't take over the hedge, but they've been providing a nesting space for the bushtits that protects them from predators.

Second to that, our property is lined with previously unmaintained Golden Goddess bamboo (the clustering kind, not the invasive kind). I was originally going to remove it because frankly I'm not a fan of them, but I read an article about how bamboo provides much needed cover for birds that are migrating or traveling in general. I've started shaping the bamboo at about 8-9ft to incentivize lower tier growth and I regularly trim out dead shoots. This seems to have upped the number of birds who hang out in them when it's hot out, though I don't think they can nest in the bamboo. An added bonus is that dying bamboo fertilizes itself by dropping it's leaves at the base of the plant first, basically resulting in mulch.

I have ticks too, and they suck (pun intended). Beneficial nematodes right as spring turns will cut down their population immensely and does not result in harm to plants or wildlife. I've found they're incredibly hard to buy in stores, but easily available online. Beneficial nematodes will also chew through your mosquito population if you have those.
Yes he is. He is and it's frightening.
Sounds like you would probably get some inside you if you did that right?
Well said. I have two small kiddos and difficult to know how to engage with them on topics like AI and climate change.

As a related experience, I picked up my son from a birthday party and the birthday consisted of a rented massive trailer with big screen TVs and 7-8 different video game consoles for couch coop gaming. All powered by a generator. Very cool and very frightening all at the same time.
If you don't want to understand that's sad but fine.

The video will explain why you're model is wrong if you watch it.

> So, the best solution is to reduce their power.

If Bezos can buy the cops, should we get rid of cops so he can't exercise power through cops?