skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some thoughts of why software is so hype prone and will likely remain so, if not accelerate

* Its intrinsically easy to come up with new approaches. Thinking and writing software is a mental process, it is not limited by physical constraints and messy manufacturing.

* The scope of use contexts in society exploded. You only needed the formula-translation language when you had five whitecoats in a research lab punching instructions on a single computer. Now you have multi-billions of devices.

* The process is self-feeding. With the internet came the development of online interaction tools, techies use them more than any other segment and this creates a large coherent mass of lemmings and network effects.

* The role of bigtech (oligopolies solving their own problems to maintain / expand their dominance and abnormal profitability) which creates a collective osmosis to imitate whatever they are doing.

* There is also intrinsic redundancy and near equivalence of solutions. You only have one way to roll a concrete something on a surface: it must be round. But one can have an infinity of ways to split a workload between a client and a server machine (let alone more servers).

Most of those factors will continue for the foreseeable future so there will be no respite. E.g., Now we are firmly into AI hysteria and this again already shakes things up as it deprecates/de-emphasizes patterns that are not part of the bandwagon and puts emphasis on obscure niches that are deemed critical.
I’m using “mega” for 20TB of media storage, they are sluggish with large amount of files so cli is very much of help.

For personal documents I backup into mega separate folder copy of iCloud Drive directory on each device - de duplication handles everything.

KopiaUI for offsite backups via sftp
Wind farms are built on top of land that could be used to build more housing. There's a huge wind farm in the the Bay Area (Altamont Pass) that is used for wind farms that could have been used to build a ton of more houses.
People are mad that a moderation team that they feel was stacked in their favor was removed, instead of being mad that a private company is used to frame what is acceptable to believe for several hundred million people. It's absurd.
Finland has just (in last year) commissioned a huge nuclear power plant. It's true it took them 14 years longer than expected (they started in 2005).

However, there are places in the world (Japan) where a modern design nuclear power plant is built in 3.5 years. South Korea is very close behind. And it's not just a one off. Japan built 8 new nuclear power plants and South Korea built 13 in last 20 years. These plants are every bit as safe as plants built elsewhere, perhaps even safer as they're new designs.

This suggest it is not technology that's holding us(US and majority of EU) back, but bad project management practices. We too could have a new plant built in few years.

Add to this SMRs (small modular reactors) which are hopefully becoming available in next 2'years and anyone that can't see nuclear is the only hope for decarbonisation is misinformed.

Then take a country like Germany that has recently shut down perfectly working nuclear power plants and opened the first new brown coal burning plant in Europe in a very long time (also they activated many others that were doing very little before). I don't know if this is irony or what, but when "green" efforts make an industrialised country give up nuclear and switch to coal there is something seriously wrong.

Also few words on the type of coal they burn there. There are (broadly) two types of coal. There is coal proper (resembles black stone, mined in deep mines, high quality, little sulphur and oil/tar content) and there is lignite. A brown smelly thing that crumbles when you squeeze it leaving a tarry residue everywhere. It's "mined" from just below the surface by gargantuan machines that destroy thousands and thousands of hectares of land leaving a moonscape behind. Why is it used? Because when you build your power plant next to a source of lignite the electricity is really cheap. This kind of "coal" emits a lot more pollutants when burned. This can be mitigated somewhat by using modern tech, but still it should be our last power source choice. Not first.

If the people say no to nuclear they'll not get renewable for base load, but lignite burning plants. BTW, CO2 is not really the worst these plants emit. They emit tiny particulates that get in your lungs. Incidence of child asthma is a lot higher near such plants as well as many other diseases.
I don’t know one way or the other. OP claimed elsewhere in this threat that Zanzibar is used to manage authorization records for services like Google Drive and YouTube.

But as far as Zanzibar itself, it’s not something Google makes available externally.

Having played in all the major (and common) sandboxes (so not like, Oracle), the GCP, Azure, and AWS permission systems are all fairly similar. They each have their foibles but their conceptual designs are all fairly similar. But that’s not a criticism: anyone designing that kind of IAM service really isn’t going to end up with something that different given the goals involved.
The cost of building reactors is far dwarfed by the cost on the environment and economies over time.
> The big push is largely funded by countries like Germany going for full renewables.

Funny that you quote the country with the worse energy policy in the world as a good example to follow.

Germany has some of the highest CO2 emissions per capita in the EU, has the highest kWh production price in the EU, imports tons of cheap clean nuclear energy from France to meet depend (exactly because they have renewables and there is no proper affordable storage technology that exists in the real world).

They have a chancelor who was/is openly in bed with Putin (Schroder if you want more info) who basically helped the Russians by making Germany dependent on their gas by making Germany switch to non-continuous energy sources (wind / solar, gas falls in for "the battery" that doesnt exist). All on purpose: got a nice "job" at Gazprom afterwards as a reward.

Now that the gas lines to Russia are gone Germany is importing natural gas in ships from the US. Very green! To fill in the other gaps they reopened their coal mines and started burning more coal once more. They closed their last nuclear power plant in the past year as well, so there will only be more of that.

And that's your good example to follow?

I would not invest at your investment bank needless to say.
It's "popular" in that it's widely deployed, but I think it's fairly unpopular in that people really don't enjoy operating it. When I worked for a high traffic website, I was told people would occasionally reach out like "hey can we just ipv6-peer with y'all so our users don't have to talk to you over our cgnat. it's putting a ton of load on the cgnat gateway".
Show HN: A recap of your performance in Valorant Episode 6
We build stats profiles for various games, including Valorant. This year we decided to take on a new style of project, with Spotify Wrapped being a major influence. We wanted to bring that excitement of revisiting past experiences to our users.

Motion, design and player identity were core objectives, and I hope that comes across in the final product.

I'll also share some technical details for those interested. Each page is individually composited in After Effects and exported using a plugin called Bodymovin, which exports the entire scene composition into a "compact" JSON representation, which is then rendered by Lottie. We then dynamically composite each page with the player's stats and tweak any relevant colours as needed. I'm not aware of anybody else using Lottie this way and I have to say it was a huge pain in the ass. But we got it done and I'm pretty happy with the result. Rive is on our radar as well, but there will be trade-offs to make in terms of it being feature complete -- After Effects is very powerful!

Here's a demo profile if you haven't played Valorant before: https://tracker.gg/valorant/backtrack/episode6/375282b4-7b56...
I should have started with ??

Well, dock my pay then.

In common Australian English if I state that we have done something in the past you can either take that at face value or call me a liar.

If I then proceed to link to the current installation activity you can assume I'm talking about current activity as distinct from past activity.

If you're confused about past activity you could look to the links which refer to past battery park instalation.

You're most welcome and I'd be obliged if you'd look in a mirror and reflect on your attitude here.
There is no way to install drivers on XBox other than whatever comes with firmware updates.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/_content/gc/ref...
You're using feelings rather than reason to argue, which generally doesn't find much traction on Hacker News.

The increasing politicisation of the flag button, and its pernicious use as a surrogate for strong disagreement is a disturbing trend.

And you still have not come even remotely close to justifying the assertion that I'm engaging in hate speech - and the reason for that is not your unwillingness to engage, it's that there exists no argument in support of your case.
Thanks for clarifying. I should indeed explain better what I had in mind.

You are correct that under AGPL-3.0 people still can provide the software as a service, but they’ll have to disclose any changes to the source code they’ve made.

This, in my mind, effectively discourages doing so as, if all you do is change the branding, people will eventually know and, depending on their ethics and the provided offering, they might choose not to use the “official” service.

In theory people still could distribute the product as-is or just be fine with the open-sourcing and actually add something of value to their fork. However, as I’ve seen in practice, this doesn’t seem to happen at a meaningful scale and people usually prefer to contribute directly to the original project.

Like you’ve said, there are other licenses that aren’t really open-source, prohibiting this from happening at all.

Most interesting options from these, for me, were SSPL (which puts the open-sourcing requirement on other elements of your stack, like hosting provider, making it a non-starter), or ELv2 (which just prohibits SaaS use entirely).

But again, not being recognized as official open-source licenses, using these puts the project more in the camp of source-available software rather than open-source.
yes, it's great, my son loves it.

if you're stranded at IAD check out the nearby Udvar-Hazy Center (air & space).

https://airandspace.si.edu/visit/udvar-hazy-center
Google, Facebook, Microsoft
Using Nginx to block Meta, Twitter and ChatGPT access to your sites
How to turn your site ( and/or fediverse instance) invisible for Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), Twitter and OpenAi ChatGPT.
It's not entirely his decision as to whether that investment or availability is called upon, there is the ex-wife's decisions, and others (e.g. court) that have bearing.
Wind? Solar? Coal and gas are even cheaper to build and run, and the lobby is much stronger.

Far more likely they’ll open new coal plants than nuclear, wind, or solar - nuclear and renewables are anathema at the polling booth, whereas the status quo is a safe bet.

40% of Americans do not believe in climate change, and the 60% that do include a good chunk who are not yet of voting age, and people who are otherwise unable to vote - and on a district by district basis, only about 35% of districts believe in climate change.

So, coal. It’ll be coal.
That's not what I am saying. I am saying someone has to play the role of a father. As a boy, someone needs to teach that boy how to become a strong man but also a man who lives correctly and fulfills his duties. If it was me, I would teach my son to be honest, honorable, to defend the weak and to understand different types of strengths (including intellectual), to treat his romantaic partner right and to learn how to make male friends and make others be comfortable around him and most importantly to understand his place in society and how to succeed as a man. Only a father can do that because a father understands what it is like to be a man and only a father understands the hardships a male child will encounter specifically because he is male. The same applies to mothers and daughters.

Being stoic is not what I mentioned but being strong and masculine, except in certain modern western societies is not optional. To put it differently, I wouldn't want my child to be violent in any way but I would also want him to be strong enough so that he wouldn't become prey to bullies and anyone trying to take advantage of him. But also to be strong enough to defend the weak and if the time comes, to serve in the military to defend his homeland and people.

Think of it as a job opening. Someone has to be masculine and someone has to be feminine . If your argument is that a boy should not have to be masculine, although horomones and generics disagree, I say that's a different topic because my argument is that both masculinity and femininity are required and for parents who wish to raise a masculine child, unless the mother is masculine and knows what growing up as a boy and becoming a man is like, the father is the only person that can do that.

> There's quite a bit of evidence that men who don't understand their emotions and have not been supported in expressing them safely

I did not suggest that. What I said was that it is not a father's job or rather, if a mother is available then she is best suited for that job. Boys want their mothers to comfort and emotionally support them and their fathers to teach them how to be a man and to be proud of their progress. I did not support toxic masculinity, just masculinity.

> We might ask, "Better for what?" Better to be a disposable cog in a rich man's machine, perhaps

Better equiped to succeed in life and be able to care for themselves and others. To live a long and likely happy life and find their place in society.

America's prisons are filled with men who never had a father model. Mothers, hard as they may try, at some point their inability to understand what their boys are going through makes it impossible for the child to trust them with emotional support.

A well rounded upbringing with all emotional, social and psychilogical needs met is all I advocated.
Surely somewhere in the EU there’s a sparsely populated country that wouldn’t mind selling energy to everyone?
I kind of see your point at the macro level, but in our case we are both working in the same product, and contributing to the same bottom line. I see no strategic advantage on shifting resources from a high to a low performing team.

And of course the triple whammy happens when low quality software written by one team is handed over to a better team to fix it. I'm going through that right now. We have an upstream dependency that it's always causing all sorts of trouble. We've been told by leadership that if we notice issues we should go fix them ourselves rather than asking the other team to fix it. Go back to the incentives, what message are we sending the other team?
This could make sense in Arizona not Seattle. You would have to build more solar farms in Arizona.
Without a phone number how do you prevent abuse and spam?
Personal preference. And clearly, from this thread, that's a common reason why.
I can't overstate how much I hate xml. I'd rather parse binary structs.
> Yet pointing to this I think is a cop out. A corrupt, secrecy driven regime 40 years is not equivalent to a modern society in the 2020s.

I’d say the current state of American infrastructure, with our collapsing highways and constantly derailing trains that poison entire towns, would suggest otherwise.
Are you speaking on behalf of the UHT milk industry? UHT milk is so processed it's not even milk anymore. Milk with 1 year shelf life? No thanx.
This isn't even new, what is surprising is how society refuses to listen to Men. In 2006 Norah Vincent a woman, pretended to be a man for 12 months and wrote a book about her experience called Self Made Man, see some interviews about the book[1][2]

The mental strain of maintaining a false identity during the making of Self-Made Man ultimately caused a depressive breakdown, leading Vincent to admit herself to a locked psychiatric facility

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-uv8gT9Kxw

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWkgCEPFmXo
we bought a home during the pandemic. there was some noise then, but it is a lot more now. Even the single one home without noise that we saw now has noise pollution, too.
Gotta move out really far to get away from the noise
And then there's New Yankee Workshop "and now let's go over to the xyz machine for <next-step>".
The seller was potentially buying the product off sparkfun with a stolen credit card. In return, they receive money from you through a legitimate business transaction.

They’ve just washed money from a stolen credit card.
Have you specific examples? The biggest failures associated with the last nuclear “Renaissance” were project/budget failures - e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal - same in Europe where the “new generation” ERP has been a budgetary and timeline disaster.
I remember Lavabit. I think he gave them a fine Print-out of the keys they requested before shutting down.
Entire compact cars can be obscured by the a pillar in my 2018 vehicle. Textbook case of unintended consequences.
> I'm frequently told that I have no right to treat my own depression with mushrooms

What a bizarre thing for them to say. In my experience, psilocybin mushrooms are absolutely amazing for mental health. I think that everyone should take mushrooms at least once a year to clear out the cobwebs.
The hash key is only an index, and the same input always gives the same hash value, so you can retrieve your item just fine even if you can't recover the original key from the hashed value. A hash _map_ is not a hash _function_.
Plenty of parents in America have taken classes like that at local hospitals or through their school, but the reality is that a lot of people don't have the means and the desire to take some.
That huffpo article is really rubbing me the wrong, getting major “solve your problems with this one weird trick!” Type vibes.
Nope. Do the math. Even if you rented prime farmland for solar instead of scrubland, it’s still super cheap. Like 1% of the money you’d make. Farmland is around $125/acre-year, you get about 350 MWh per acre in a year, and so even if you only got paid like 4¢/kWh, the rent would still be like 1% of your costs.
LOL, yeah, housing prices in the Texas (ex|sub)urbs are high because the wind farms are squeezing the home builders out. Where do you live again?
Put more generically, I think we could add: “unless you build it all yourself, you’re going to have to work with other peoples decisions.”
Mobile Safari was advertised to have gotten a WebGL upgrade (w 2.0 support) about 1.5 years[1] ago but has since been plagued by reports of performance problems. It seems to take a long time to mature there. Chrome shipped WebGL 2 in 2017, hopefully WebGPU case won't take 6+ years for Safari to catch up.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370852
Electricity itself is cheaper in Germany than e.g. in nuclear France, especially now. The difference is that most of the actual costs in Germany are on the utility bill, whereas in France the EDF made a 20 billion loss last year and it only exists still because it's state owned. But the true costs will be paid, likely through taxes. Around 300 Euros per capita will be paid to plug the hole for last year alone. My family of four would thus pay around 1200 Euros in taxes just to make up for that loss, which is almost two years of "expensive" German electricity we actually spend. So what is expensive again?

What is unfortunately not on the bill in Germany is the price of nuclear waste storage. The producers of nuclear power paid a fraction of the actual costs (that could end up at over 100 billion) to rid themselves of the responsibility. If it was on the bill where it belongs, that would really kill nuclear forever.
I'm curious if you've ever been to the Bay Area and noticed the huge Altamont wind farm that could have a million homes on it.
Would anyone trust RedHat enough to fall for that and wait for RedHat to start squeezing them by gradually lowering that number over the years?
How Nvidia Became ChatGPT’s Brain and Joined the $1 Trillion Club
Rest in peace, and Hook 'em.
It cannot be understated just how much his invention changed the world. Li-ion batteries were the key that allowed us to have truly portable devices that had decent battery life and light weight. It also broke us away from things like Discmans powered by disposable AA batteries. From Laptops, the smart phones and nowadays bikes, cars and trucks - the amount of change that it has brought is astounding. Anyone old enough to have used devices before Li-ion can remember the weird oddities you would have of inconsistent power and odd charging properties.

However, from a hyper environmentalist position, this invention unfortunately ended up fueling all manners of wars through the specific material requirements, cobalt being the prime example, it also sort of helped kick off the idea of devices that could be almost disposable (non-replaceable batteries) but these are all secondary flow on impacts of Goodenough's core invention.

More a lesson that even things intended to be good can have weird unintended consequences in a chaotic world. It was never his intent to do so it just worked out that way.

The John was the living personification of the scientific inventor should be admired, we need more like him and here is hoping that the future will continue in that endeavour of progress.
Their motives are probably compliance with the interoperability provisions of the European Union’s upcoming Digital Markets Act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-act...

Since that’s a legal requirement, it’s not something they can yank in the future.
I've never seen a technical writer on a team in all my years in software. In wich types of software development are these likely to be found? My guess would be very large b2b sofware product teams ?
This is all fine but... the rest of the world is not freezed. Let's say you are happily mantaining a stable, boring ERP app for your... cigarette lighters plant.

Out of the blue, one of your main suppliers declares they will accept orders only through a REST interface starting next quarter. And that you can/must use it to track your orders, instead of sending an email to one of their employees.

One week later, you are required to provide invoices in PDF instead of just printing on paper.

And your accounting system will switch to Oracle Finance in October...

Your ERP was developed on Progress ABL, and nobody really cared to port the old code to a web-based architecture because it was just for "internal use" and Putty was fine.