skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) "below nuclear" is a very flexible concept (the Levy plant in Florida cost $1 billion and they didn't even break ground) and people often confidently assume a nuclear price that is three times smaller than actual building costs.
2)"purely renewable" is a small phrase about a big assumption. 80% solar/wind is cheaper than operating what the US has right now; solving the last 20% has a number of options and we don't know which will work, but while we are quadrupling our current level of solar and wind we have some time to work on that. (Noon Energy makes some attractive claims but it's very early days.)
3) A small amount of "clean firm power" - almost anything's cheaper than nuclear- saves a large amount of storage. Maybe that's closed loop geothermal, maybe that's synthetic natural gas, maybe it's nuclear, but nuclear is REALLY expensive.
Getting 10TB of GitHub logs and extracting details of all users and repositories
Being smart enough to create click bait content is probably more valuable anyway.
Well, and the Guardian.

Here's today's piece (a Thursday, not the Observer's Sunday):

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/jun/15/shopping-bags-t...
I was trying to use SO for the first time in months (got a really freaky problem with jestjs) and it was down.
Most projects are created by programmers. That means that projects are not maintained properly, as most programmers focus on code, not on the build scripts. Making projects user friendly is an after thought. Projects are not advertised properly. Are missing documentation, screenshots, youtube tutorials.

Some projects live long enough to become bloated, big, do-everything projects, full of experimental technologies that were forbidden to use at work.

Adding layers, abstractions, interfaces may lead to adding unnecessary complexity, or dependency. How to spot code written by a senior? It is dead simple, obvious. How to spot project managed by a senior? Is is easy to install, well documented, easy to kick-off, uses little-to-none resources.
> (RC and RefCell)

Rc is Reference Counting

Arc is Atomic Reference Counting

RefCell is Reference Cell

I'm like a "medium at Rust" person and I very rarely use Box or RefCell or Rc. I wonder what I'm missing due to not really understanding them/when to use them. I don't really use lifetimes either. Maybe I'm not that "medium"...
Cancer rates are climbing among young people. It’s not clear why
True, but I think most peoples’ intuition is based on (perceived) changes in the number of homeless people they see over time rather than transitions to/from homelessness in any given individual.
For the moment:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
Oh this is one of my projects, thanks for the boost. :)
This video goes into some more detail about how enhancements to Cucumber help to build more descriptive tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdeVc2q6oB0&list=PLAAYJEX1Jb...
The section on multivariate Gaussians was a real life saver at work recently. Highly recommended!
Sigh. I hope this is satire. Or this person is only referring to their personal projects. Otherwise, I agree with their premise and suggest they find a different career.

HTTP Verbs? You really can't get more basic. At least you could try to wrap your brain around the idea that GET reads and POST writes.

Not using SQL? Okay. You're spending a lot of time and effort hand-rolling your own shitty database.

The combination of things suggests to me they have can't or don't want to deal with with non-trivial mental models. Things like transforming data between layers or figuring out how someone else will read your code.

The next person to work on their stuff is going to have a massive headache figuring out what "made sense" to this person.
This feels like it's playing out as I expected. I followed Python, and the Python community, really closely from 2008-2016 when there were tons of relatively small scale experiments happening. This all happened organically to a large extent and there was no one coordinating a grand vision. It seems like we have a continuation of this giving rise to the concern that there is some battle.

I suspect there will be some butting of heads for a while before they work things out after seeing how the community reacts. All of this could be handled better with some thoughtful proactive engagement, but that's not really how things operate and there is no one to really enforce it.
One unexpected benefit of LLM (to me) is that it memorized large parts of the internet, so it has some backup like properties. SO is down, but ChatGPT memorized it already.
We just looked at our options at work and landed back on Rails. The problem is the Javascript ecosystem is just bad for any project that needs to live for more than a year. The database libraries changes every 6 months, stuff is just constantly rewritten over and over. I agree that Typescript is nice but the eco system is awful. If you want a batteries included framework, that is used at scale, has a lot of history behind it, and doesn't churn every 6 months, there are only a few that you can use. Rails is one.
Forever Contemporary: On the Entrenchment of Taste in the Art World
Elon Musk never does anything without an ulterior motive.

We now know why he hosted DeSantis's presidential election campaign opener.
Okay I'm trying to map this visually in my brain. So, in 3 space, say I extrude a random plane out from a line segment. I keep going, now I imagine I've extruded every possible plane approaching infinity. This eventually forms... a cylinder, no? So a hyperplane is what, a cylinder? Or is it shorthand for "every possible plane..."
Personally feel that people should be allowed to gamble all they want with their own money.

But the gambling/crypto/options platforms need to be regulated and transparent. Because otherwise, you don’t know how much the game is rigged against you, the player.

Allow crypto platforms to operate and even thrive. But bring them under regulation so that users can buy without the constant threat of market manipulation, insider trading, and all the opaque shenanigans that currently happen with crypto.
If he couldn’t then how would he know the devices in it are unresponsive?
Check out Tranco [1], which uses Cisco Umbrella, Majestic and also now a list sourced from Farsight passive DNS [2]. They're "working on" adding Chrome UX and Cloudflare Radar.

There's also a list from Netcraft [3].

[1] https://tranco-list.eu/

[2] https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/mirror-mirror-on-...

[3] https://trends.netcraft.com/topsites
Doom, not Quake, but:

https://drl.chaosforge.org/
Gen Xers just want to go back in time to before the internet existed
An argument for a particular kind of opinionated simplicity with humility used as a rhetorical Trojan Horse.
> Gas heats up considerably faster, allows for more rapid cooking temperature changes, is considerably cheaper to operate in many localities, and is actually relatively clean burning compared to most fossil fuels. Go see what any world class chef outfits their kitchens with. It's almost always gas.

Resistive stoves are faster than gas though less responsive. Induction ranges beat the pants off both gas and resistive on basically all dimensions. The only thing induction can't do well is tasks that specifically involve an open flame ie charring pepper skins, the wok hei flavor, etc. Most of these can be reproduced by buying a $10 blow torch or using a propane grill instead.
Mandatory reminder that you can download StackOverflow for offline use (at least, you can once it's back online):

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/20/introducing-the-overfl...

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/stack_exchange/stackoverflow....

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/stack_exchange/stackoverflow....

You would definitely be an elite at your job for situations like this...
Show HN: OWASP API Security Top 10 in Greek Language
Hello to all Greeks out there,

For anyone interested, me and Apostolos Giannakidis have recently translated the OWASP API Security Top 10 2019 in Greek language.

Have a nice day.

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Google warns staff about chatbots
Hopefully it's enjoying a comfortable retirement now that GPT is here.
There’s also mentioning anything with psychedelics or dieting.
I do crypto the airport (opening the barriers with my passport, where the computer in my passport signs a challenge encrypted with its pubkey) and do crypto with my phone (making a call, which is encrypted with Ericsson SNOW), and do crypto at the corner shop (using my card, same as the passport).

If airports, phones, and corner shops claimed they 'work in crypto' it would be similarly misleading.

Even Toly refers to himself as a distributed systems engineer, because building a blockchain involves more DS work than crypto work.

FWIW I work in web3/defi, used to work in PKI.
You obviously RTFA, but it's intellectually dishonest to state that all it needs is a new battery and a little carb cleaner. Sure, you get it running, and take it down the road. Now the forks seals demonstrate that they're dried out and cracked, and leaking oil. I don't know how old the bike was at the time of writing, but let's assume 30 years old. Odds are really good that the brake lines have never been replaced. Hell, it's possible that it's riding on original tires.

As one who has made the mistake of buying a bike that had been sitting a few years, if someone asked me to ball-park an estimate, $1000 might begin to cover it. One might very well get away with less, but I wouldn't count on it for my estimate.

(And I've owned several Honda V4s over the years: those carbs do NOT come out easily, and they go back in even harder.)
So let's review these "4 main reasons":

#1: "As a boss, I can't effectively mentor remote employees so they're the problem"

#2: "As a boss, I can't make an effective plan for hybrid work so remote work is the problem"

#3: "As a boss, I don't want my people getting too much leisure or sleep so I need them to waste more of their day commuting"

#4: "I heard from literally one guy that remote work was bad for productivity"

The last one is flat-out anecdote and even the article's author admits it. The other three are BOSS problems, not remote-work problems.
According to the article, “98 percent of volunteers ranked public security, race, LGBT+ issues, and the economy as political themes,” and at the same time “98 percent of volunteers ranked…transportation, health, education, indigenous and feminist issues as adjacent to politics.” Is that plausible? Did they miswrite something?
A note of caution: never scrape the web from your local/residential network. Few months back I wanted to verify a set of around 200k URLs from a large data set that included a set of URL references for each object, and naively wrote a simple Python script that would use ten concurrent threads to ping each URL and record the HTTP status code that came back. I let this run for some time and was happy with the results, only to find out later that a large CDN provider has identified me as a spammy client with their client reputation score and blocked my IP address on all of the websites that they serve.

Changing your IP address with AT&T is a pain (even though the claim is that your IP is dynamic, in practice it hardly ever changes) so I opted to contact the CDN vendor by filling out a form and luckily my ban was lifted in a day or two. Nevertheless, it was annoying that suddenly a quarter of the websites I normally visit were not accessible to me since the CDN covers a large swath of the Internet.
Sibling comment is flagged and should not be.

Would be interesting to know the process and details that led to that.
Ah yes the sim city approach to firefighting
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Crap, ChatGPT is down too, guess I'm not getting anything done today.
> It’s important to keep in mind that pretty much all the techniques you’re too „stupid“ for all aren’t necessities for small projects, but rather being able to manage complexity (or workload) at scale

Most of the techniques people use to manage complexity at scale are too stupid to actually do that. Their only benefit is that following them prevents people from doing something even worse.

It also prevents people from doing anything better. Instead we dogmatically follow patterns with mountains of useless boilerplate and unnecessary abstraction, but somehow it's considered less complex.

I hate software sometimes.
If I remember correctly, Linode used to use UML for their VPS service. (And probably a lot of other hosts before OpenVZ and KVM became available/more popular.)
Russians are willing to trade space for human lives.

Then, it is another cauldron and the artillery storm all over again.
It's not clear that money was involved here, or how much. Rather than jumping to paid advertising, this might be a "more modern form" of political free speech and advocacy
> Schedule 1 also requires that there is no medical use for the drug

Technically yes, but that didn't stop marijuana from being schedule 1. Actually, isn't it still schedule 1 in the US?
I can't help but to think it's a complete "me too" play.

Realistically, these guys will have to fight an uphill battle for talent. Dev comp in France is nowhere competitive with the US, and won't provide employees with a green card.

For smart graduates coming from the Polytechnique in Paris or Montreal or Lausanne, it'll be a hard sell compared to Bay area companies.
Yeah lol this entire blog post is basically extolling the virtues if golang.
I guess, it will get paused like YouTube app, until you will unlock phone again. I can completely imagine that.

Can't wait on minority report like front camera watching your eyes checking that you are watching the ad.
Even football has its official "laws of the game":

https://downloads.theifab.com/downloads/laws-of-the-game-202...

https://www.dfb.de/fileadmin/_dfbdam/271144-Fussballregeln_2...
Zluda: Run CUDA code on Intel GPUs, unmodified
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [0]

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2013/06/15/nytfrontpage/scan... [1]

Should be helpful—the date syntax is straightforward.

NYT does this daily. The first one I can find is:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/07/06/nytfrontpage/scan... [2]

[0] NYT front page scan from 15 June 2023

[1] from 15 June 2013

[2] from 06 July 2012, seemingly the first
I don’t think your definition is badly chosen. In fact I think it is a pretty good demarcation between language ideals. However, I would define ‘kitchen sink language’ as one that has a bit of everything in the language itself and has the syntax to ‘support’ those bits of everything. Like a language that has lambdas, functions, methods, type classes, value types, box types, Types of types, macros, lifetimes, templates, multiple looping constructs… the list can go on. I think the real exemplars for ‘kitchen sink’ in this conversation is to differentiate between Go and C++. The amount of concepts in C++ is staggering and Go is in contrast brain dead simple. I think Rust is absolutely on the C++ side of this divide and is primarily what GGP was getting at in their comment.
I'm not disagreeing. In fact I would say that faux politeness is a strong sign of low empathy.

On this particular case, Linus has publicly admitted that he struggles with empathy.
He probably also replaced all gaskets, seals, possibly even belts. Flush and replace all fluids. Just had this done to an even simpler bike for $1300.
> Mostly you look at things for what "they are" or "how they look" but not "how they work" or "their potential uses"

Say more. I feel I'm the exact opposite if I understand you correctly.
The fact that we waste endless billions failing to stop the drug trade, while simultaneously enriching violent gangs and ensuring overdose deaths IS a good reason to legalize widely used drugs that we have proven we can't ban.
Their boss, Kim Dotcom, is an actual "Mega" asshole but nobody deserves to go to prison for data piracy.
It seems like commenters have to do the authors job here since the author asks a good question then basically stops writing and doesn’t explore any of the ideas proposed.
> The combination of things suggests to me they have can't or don't want to deal with with non-trivial mental models.

You mean… they’re stupid? Like they say in their title?
The Aztecs and Mayas built an empire of stone buildings, sure. And they were still proudly building their stone buildings in the 1500s, almost 7000 years after the pyramids.

Lack of plough animals doesn't extinguish the human creative spirit, it just slows it down a lot.

It is curious why bison were not domesticated. I did a bit of research and could not find a clear reason (some suggestions that maybe Aurochs lived in forests and smaller herds, and that may have made them easier to domesticate... but that seems weak).

I'm wondering how much is due to what I'd call the Harari perspective, in Homo Deus - that Eurasians also invented the "god-centric worldview package" that shifted the view of the world from a more animistic perspective (where all beings share the world and so treating animals in the absolutely horrific ways that domestication and agriculture requires is just unthinkable, since they are seen as other beings sharing the world with us) to the "gods and humans" perspective (where god created humanity, and then every other being is just subservient and lacks a soul and therefore can be exploited, murdered, treated like goods, etc).

Mesoamerican religions, despite all the human sacrifice, did see animals and plants as intrinsically valuable and spiritually significant. Native Americans in the North definitely did that too (and they had more exposure to bisons). That would perhaps have led them not to seek to domesticate animals.

It is curious (to me) that no culture emerged that even tried, though (that culture would likely have outcompeted everyone else).
I am honestly baffled — what kind of program are you working on that can be AI-programmed?

In my experience most CRUD apps are ultra-trivial for the most part in a language with sane ecosystem, you literally just glue together things. That’s one day either with ChatGPT or without - the real benefit are the ecosystem (as per Brooks), that’s not the bottleneck (besides the occasional “this doesn’t work together with that because..”, to which chatgpt is just as susceptible if not more)
Awesome! Thanks!!!!
Unfortunately, you’re probably right. I’ve been self-hosting (email, web and DNS) for the past 10 years. So far, the only issue I’ve had was GMail rate-limiting my server when I had to email about the 30 members of a local voluntary group as part of secretarial duties. However, it made me aware that the delivery of emails sent by my server is more akin to a “privilege” than a “right” on the modern Internet.

By the way, I just upvoted a reply you previously made to another comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36032588 Thanks for providing that example of how homoglyphs can be used to “fingerprint” plain text. I also discovered that with Vim digraphs, I can easily input spaces that are look the same as regular space characters.
> This is just more political gymnastics that only serves to ensure the continued dominance of black markets and all of the violence and death those black markets bring.

It's progress and it's pragmatism, because it's either this or nothing. There is no meaningful amount of political support for what you describe.
> HTTP Verbs? You really can't get more basic.

Every REST API codebase I've ever worked on would like a word. There's TONS of subtleties that determine whether you should be creating a GET, POST, PUT or PATCH for many different use cases.

And this isn't even taking into account the hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of endpoints I've come across that were obviously wrong, but some Senior or even Principal dev had somehow managed to completely botch it - NOT a rare occurence.
> Alcohol has existed and been consumed since before humans existed.

Ditto cannabis and opium poppies for example, arguably a million times more naturally manifesting than a distillation process.
Get there first, be using superior prompts to avoid overdoing it, be using the best/latest available models (public and/or private).
> you can download StackOverflow for offline use

Probably not for long. They've already discontinued the public data dump: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da...
It has been recorded from the earliest days of the Christian holiday. Maybe even before that with its predecessors.
In modern companies, there is a tendency to use the word "leaders" for everything.. however, for me, it comes down to autonomy and power. Managers typically do not get a lot of autonomy - their job is to implement the policies as dictated. A leader, on the other hand, owns the means to meet the end.

For e.g., if you have the capability to create the team you want for achieving your goal, you are a leader. If you have to make to do with a team given to you, you are a manager.
Canada needs to do this, it’s out of control on every media avenue.
Yes, sorry for the confusion, you’re absolutely right.
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what? just click on "cached", SO doesn't just drop out of google
> readability in many contexts matters more than performance

I completely, whole heartedly agree. Not just in many, but in most contexts.

And Rust or C shouldn't be used in these contexts. Use typescript or python instead.