skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>all of human development has been about spending more energy per capita at less cost

What? No. That makes no sense. Human development includes a lot of things that have nothing to do with that ridiculous and narrow definition.

>Those who take climate change seriously should have gone all in on nuclear, but somehow there was enough of an overlap between that group and anti-nuclear activists that it never happened. That's what's truly baffling.

Follow the money: https://atomicinsights.com/how-important-has-oil-money-been-...

>Barring [nuclear energy], abundant, cheap, stable, and regrettably unclean energy from fossil fuels is the second best option.

What about increasing renewable energy options? What about increasing carbon efficiency by introducing it as a concept into markets via a carbon tax significant enough to drive innovation and behavior change? What about increasing city density and improving subways and trains? What about reducing meat consumption?
Are they working on other API's besides Java and C++?
Correct me if I'm wrong but, if I understand things correctly... at this point we're wondering if manual locking hubs are a better (or worse) solution than electrically isolating the motor(s). Right?

And, off the top of my head I'm going to say the manual locking hubs will be better overall. Better from an energy efficiency perspective as well as overall convenience and simplicity of design. They might be worse for Tesla's P&L though since anyone with a tire jack and a standard parts dealer nearby could work on the car.

Then again, besides the fact that I'm a cynic... what the heck do I really know!??!
To be fair, all the interactions were sanitized with 40% alcohol.
You know else I don't see? Railroad tracks going through the entirety of a city, and trains delivering cargo to local stores and other businesses directly.
You're saying the world is worse off because we have more children alive today than 100 years ago? Weird way of looking at things.
Lessons Learned Running Presto at Meta Scale
“And the pandemic is another one of the many reasons this new requirement has been delayed by decades — there was no need for ETIAS when countries closed their borders to all travel amid fears of spreading COVID-19.”

Decades? The pandemic is only a few years old. I guess the writer had to shoehorn the pandemic into their piece somehow.
This.

Back in 2013/2014, my Jeep was rear-ended. Some of the body panels were back-ordered, so the repair took 2 months longer than expected. Even if I was could have done the body repair, I couldn't have purchased the parts.

Likewise, a co-worker had his airbags stolen last year and it was many months until Acura had replacements available.
Takes years until he loses 80% of clients, people are so lazy switchig even if it saves money
This is the key part of what I said:

> without paying API fees or relying on an unstable dependency that's constantly being tweaked

I see no evidence that this part will be possible with OpenAI. Usage fees will always be a thing because that's how they make money, and based on what I've heard from people who have actually tried to build on their APIs, I would not trust them to keep the model stable. There are always new safety features they need to add, and those changes break things.
I have an app that needs a media server, a webrtc STUN/TURN server, a PostgreSQL database, a JVM based web server, a worker that may or may not run on the same host and a way to run liquibase for migrations and certbot for letsencrypt certificates.

The whole app can be started with a single command and it works on most Linux distributions. I can't imagine wasting the time of users or newbie developers demanding that they install all these things separately and with no easy way to clean it up if they want to undo everything.
> “Carefully architected and written in C++”

Amazing to see a non-Rust product posted to HN.
I agree. Microsoft quickly iterated on Teams when the pandemic hit. The strategy seemed (seems) to be:

- Every idea is worth implementing

- Get it into the hands of people ASAP

- Hopefully we can make it performant later

So all in all a typical Microsoft product. But not bad by any stretch of the imagination.

And yeah…it’s bundled with Office 365 “for free”…Apple also bundles a lot of free stuff with your Mac purchase…is that abusing your market penetration or just reaping the benefits of it?
I don't understand the language preference; it's an implementation detail.
> The only real solution is to make energy ubiquitous and plentiful.

Renewables have been the boring, consensus answer to this for about a decade.

There's some obscure academic discussions about the exact makeup of the last 15% of energy needs, but most of those options revolve around how to best reuse the massive amounts of nearly free electricity that a sensible overbuild of renewables will create at other times.

I know the mainstream media flips between it all being a hoax and us all going to die but I still don't understand how it's possible for so many HN posters to have a worldview that so neatly excludes these world shaking tech developments.
What my $30 hamburger reveals about fees and how companies use them to jack up $
You're being facetious.

The "like your reaction" isn't applicable, because one would reasonable expect those with different senses of modesty, etc. may not agree with someone being topless in public.

The "donut and ice cream for every meal" is equally ridiculous -- yes, it's legal, but (a) suggesting otherwise is farcical, and (b) anybody with common sense knows that it would both be lacking in nutrition, and lead to other health issues.

By contrast, OP engaging in regular business while happening to be enjoying their constitutionally-protected rights, is not "dumb" or something they "shouldn't do" -- the only thing that "shouldn't" be done in this case, is be interrogated for simply open carrying -- they wouldn't have batted an eyelid if GP had a CCW and was concealed-carrying.

If you're going to make an argument that GP was "dumb" for open-carrying in a police station, make that argument -- don't resort to childish and laughable attempts at puerile analogies.
I don't disagree. But "crypto" as a product category is the confluence of all 3 and has thus far produced zero mass market solutions.
From the article:

"I always saw Checkout X as a limited-time-window opportunity and honestly I couldn’t see a future different to what happened to us."
authoritarianism != fascism

There are lots and lots of kinds of authoritarianism, and Democrats et al have embraced a Leftist type which pushes for egalitarianism through violence, which is antithetical to fascism (the egalitarianism, not the violence). There are a few big name Dem politicians who are pushing a modern brand of fascism, but they're the minority now.

Nothing that follows should be viewed as a defense of the Right.

> Somehow the folks that have traditionally been the champions of civil rights, anti-war, and watchdogs against the growth and abuse from corporate power, have instead become cheerleaders for an authoritarian state controlled mostly by the military industrial complex and big pharma.

Ah, see, that's your mistake. You were fed the cherry-picked history where the Democrats et al were the Good Guys of the 20th Century; this is a common problem when government schools are run by teachers unions that are in bed with one party.

Progressives were never liberal; they were always authoritarians. If you read some of the fascist writers before WWII, they often praised the progressives in the US, including FDR.

Marxists were never liberal; they've used various names over the years to avoid taking responsibility for the tens of millions of people they killed to achieve their utopia, but it's important to recognize how much of the modern US Left draws from Marxism.

During the anti-Communist years after WWII, the Communists tried to rebrand themselves as civil libertarians and the like. This was a show. The ACLU was genuinely liberal, but the Left was also committing terrorist acts as "champions of civil rights, anti-war, and watchdogs against the growth and abuse from corporate power". The terrorism part doesn't get taught in school. Kids hear that the Black Panthers set up lunchrooms, but so do Hamas and Hezbollah. They're still terrorists.

So we should recognize that Democrats et al were never the liberal champions we were taught in school or heard on TV. The reality is always dirtier and more complicated.

Pretend that I also spend 20 minutes typing up why I think the Right is awful, because they've rarely been liberal either.
Please forgive me for failing to get this idea across clearly, and I will try again, because I consider it an important one:

There are people in the world, many people, who do not have any access to either money or the ability to choose their computing device, and the only devices they have available to them, if they are lucky, are the ones which they have already been granted by the circumstances.

These people include, but are not limited to, people in disadvantaged financial situations, such as countries with low monetary flow; those living in abusive households, especially minors; those imprisoned or otherwise having their freedom restricted; those attached to a device for sentimental reasons; those who are able to exchange money for a device, as you suggest, and are waiting for it to arrive.

To the overwhelming majority of the world, 300 dollars, or even 20 dollars, is a huge sum, one that is either unattainable, or can only be attained through much struggle, difficulty, and sacrifice.

To an individual in such a situation, their Chromebook, or 10-year-old Android phone, or 20-year-old PC, may be the only option at accessing the digital world. And we should do everything in our power to facilitate their ability to use such a device.
I believe it has its pros and cons. I like to land on the product but I might miss what's different.

I don't like that at first sight it looks like I have to manually add more rows and columns. When actually just need to copy paste and it expands. Or use the arrows.

Add rows on rows.. There's a joke here somewhere.
Despite smoother rail, computer dispatching, and computer safety controls: the trains are still running slower.
Are you really arguing the average car frequently makes 500mi+ road trips?

Either way, your NYC <-> Raliegh trip would be like 26 minutes of charging on an 8 hour road trip. Do you really not stop for somewhat that kind of time for an 8 hour road trip? You don't stop to eat for a minute, you race through the gas station as fast as possible, etc? I know for me I'd probably want to stop a couple of times sitting for eight hours.

You're really arguing the average driver frequently makes nearly non-stop eight hour road trips?

https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=34769a63-3845-47a...

I'm definitely not talking about which car is the most luxurious or comfortable. There's a lot of subjectivity to styling. I'm not really a fan of the Tesla style, but it's not like all EVs are Tesla's and they definitely don't all cost $90k.
It would be far more interesting to see whether this emotional numbness is caused by actual expertise, or if it's just the result of significant amounts of time spent doing a particular activity. I didn't see them differentiate between these two anywhere in the paper, but I only skimmed it.
Sure, but that's a lot harder to do. Making it illegal and making the penalty treatment would probably be a lot easier.
Yes and Tupac was actually talking about a woman when he rapped about “me and my girlfriend”.

https://genius.com/2pac-me-and-my-girlfriend-lyrics

But even in his third verse he said

> This is not a ho in the sense of having a p%%%%
Can't speak to julia..

The statistics built in are great. They're just there, less need to find a package (general stats, ttest, chi_squared test...). We tend to use the "tidyverse" packages [1] https://r4ds.hadley.nz/. Bio-python is amazing for manipulating biodata, but once the data is extracted and you need statistics, our scientist seem to use R. I really don't love R's syntax, but I get why they use it. I use python all the time for data wrangling (right now I'm pulling sequences from a fasta file to inject into a table).

Rstudio is like an IDE for your data. You can view the data tables, graph different things etc. If you try the first chapter of the R4data Science book, you can see how get up and graphing and analyzing quite quickly.
https://r4ds.hadley.nz/data-visualize.html

Though at this point Python and R are necessary depending on what package/ algorithm you want to use.

There are some good packages for single cell analysis: We use "Seurat".

https://satijalab.org/seurat/articles/get_started_v5.html

Jupyter supports R now with an add in, so its less of an issue.
> Why did you cite an article discussing black migration from 1965 through 2000

I'm sorry, I meant to cite this instead: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/a-new-great-migration-is-.... It shows big gains in black net migration to the South in 2000-2020. From net migration, West as a whole lost more black residents than in gained. I'd imagine there's been even more from 2020 till now, considering recent movement patterns.

> California's black population in 2022 is larger than it was in 2000.

In absolute numbers, yes (because the state grew a lot), but in proportion, it went from 6.7% black in 2000 to 6.5% in the 2022 estimates. In contrast, Mississippi, which isn't even a place people associate with the economic drivers of the New South, went from 36.3% black to 37.8% black in the same timeframe (out of a population increase of a mere 100k in the state).

> it in fact states that positions on diversity play little to no role in where people actually live

The study shows that whites regardless of their views on immigration/diversity, starting out from more diverse places, tend to move to whiter places compared to nonwhites starting from the same places. So yes, to be fair, it's not just white "champions of diversity" moving to less diverse places. But the gap in rhetoric vs. action is greater for that group, so I thought it worth notice.

> inflaming racial tension was the centerpiece of Trump's campaign

No arguments there from me.

> a video glorifying vigilantism in front of a courthouse where falsely-accused black men were lynched by vigilante mobs

Cooler heads have analyzed that the singer in question, Jason Aldean, does not in fact support lynching[0], and that the people accusing him of such are actually engaging in that very behavior of inflaming racial tension.

[0]: https://www.thefp.com/p/jason-aldean-isnt-pro-lynching-and
What is the faster / more scalable alternative to a message queue, or are you hyperfocusing on the word queue?
Appears 10^3 times latency for 1 KiB message according to here but better at lower 16 B size https://www.cloudamqp.com/blog/lavinmq-benchmarks.html

Seems situation dependent.
Some portion of those incidents were backing over pedestrians and children, not just backing into stationary objects.
I personally feel much less safe around police and I know many who feel the same or experienced unjust harassment and violence from them, especially nypd and including inside their stations. I know people who were tortured by county jail guards, ostensibly there for protection, while holding them awaiting trial (including later being proven innocent). I don’t agree that when encountering police that everyone should surrender or otherwise dispose of their firearms. I think that would make police even more aggressive at scale. Police are adversarial, not protective for common folk. I would advocate for the opposite - police should not be allowed to carry, and I think they are weirdos for doing so
Well, he’s alleged that whoever is apart of the conspiracy has killed to protect this secret. Perhaps people have been too afraid to whistleblower because their lives were at stake
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
Hi! I liked some parts of the post, and others not so much. But please, don't pay attention to haters. The world need brave people like you that believe in their work and don't care about what other people think. Please, keep writing in your blog!
I did the same thing! I remember we called them flat files or at least I did.

Then you go full circle and realize some databases just work with a file in the end and maybe we were on the right path to be db engineers
It is cute but since it is a negative word, I would suggest not using it. Instead use something like "Amazingly Simple" or "Incredibly Simple".
My mechanical engineering curriculum included courses that touched on the most substantive points of what we're apparently calling "Design Thinking". I won't speak for whatever bastardizations of IDEO's process are now being shilled and cargo-culted, but I can say that it was an incredibly valuable piece of my own education. I'd agree with the author that trying to recast the liberal arts as one big design problem is probably A Bad Idea, but outside of that very basic observation, the article is just pointlessly non-constructive sneering.

Some people evidently think that the process is too obvious to merit teaching, but to fixate on this is to miss the point. It doesn't matter that the principles are easy and intuitive to understand. It's about providing a framework that nudges people away from unhelpful human tendencies that arise in the context of a design problem. People tend to assume the type of solution they need up front without doing due diligence of establishing exactly what problem they're trying to solve. When left to their own devices, people tend to zoom in on particular ideas and do "depth-first" searches, immediately looking for reasons why an idea might not work. This is a natural instinct, and it's the wrong way to behave in a brainstorm. IDEO's original process was merely meant to push people towards a more fruitful approach. To politicize this as the solution to all of world's problems is dumb, but to throw the baby out with the bathwater is equally ignorant.
In the early days I managed to register administrator@gmail.com. It was of course taken from me.
The French solar power pioneer who was light years ahead
So you have to exclude the word Shopify, or just not use it?

Like if you bid on the phrase "Checkout Software" and people searching for "Shopify Checkout Software" were reaching you that would be against the TOS? You'd have to tell Google to suppress your ad from reaching people in that way?

Or you're just not allowed to bid on the word "Shopify" if you're a partner or whatever?

The latter seems inappropriate but at least arguable to some extent.

But the former, where you're actually required to suppress the results, seems anti-competitive to the point of being actionable, and is certainly not an ethical business practice.

Curious which one it is.
I've been around the country myself. As with anywhere else there is, to quote you,
"the beauty and the ugly". Maybe I'm being pedantic but to say your "CHIEF TAKEAWAY"....you know.
I get it, too. I've seen some people that resort to ad hominems online. We are allowed to evaluate suggestions critically.

The other places in the UI are either based on either the destination you've entered or the last 5, 15, or X miles driven. They only make sense in that context: Just using one of those numbers on the dashboard would be misleading and inconsistent.

Guessing based on the Wh/m of your last ten drives might be a closer estimate, but would be wrong if your next drive isn't like your last ten. It might even be more accurate when guessing your last nine drives, so then you learn to trust it, but those were city miles, and for the next drive, it's highway miles. And now the estimate is way off.

It's just meaningless. We'd quickly learn that the number given is a bad estimate that can't be trusted and needs to be adjusted based on the way you'll actually be driving and other real world conditions... and that's where we already are. The only difference is that currently it's at least consistent, both between trips in the same car and from one car to another. This additional guesstimate would just add more confusion.
Because they're not making money off of their queueing system, but what they build with it; to them it's a cog in their machine, and open sourcing it means others may adopt it and help them maintain and improve it.
Soup's on and on Thai Beef Noodle Brew Has Been Simmering for 45 Years (2019)
Defining Elegance in Software Engineering
I think something like Twitter and Discord could be written in it, but something like Google Maps or VSCode, definitely not. For anything where you need server data rendered, it's perfect.

I'm currently writing a website that contains user generated content for a game, kinda like Steam Workshop.
>> Saying that a mtf transexual is not a woman is hate speech according to these terms

> If women have hysterectomy's are they no longer women?

You know that's a pretty disingenuous misinterpretation, right? If someone says a "mtf transexual is not a woman," they're almost certainly using a classical definition of "woman" that was never so reductive as to classify a woman who's had a hysterectomy as a non-woman. Their actual definition is almost certainly something along the lines of:

1. Gender and sex are the same concept, which is assigned at or near birth based on physical inspection of genitalia according to traditional standards.

2. The identity is fixed throughout life, someone can't "transition" (because if injury, etc.). The only possible allowed exception is if point #1 was not done correctly.

3. Certain developmental and genetic problems that result in ambiguity are so rare and insignificant that they do not affect the definition of the categories.
I never got that notice. There is also a firmware bug related to undercharging the battery(shutting the charger off too early) which was also not communicated to me and resulting in getting stranded with a dead battery. Fortunately the car was in a retail parking lot that time and not in the middle of nowhere on the 5 freeway in central CA like when we ran out of gas.
An amusing and interesting legal analysis of what is happening in the referenced traffic stop.

https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lj/vol56/iss2/7/
Cool. What would applications be here? Could we for example make basic alloys of vehicles, railroad tracks, and refrigeration systems more resilient when they undergo temperature variations, and therefore last longer?
Looks good! Do you have any benchmark against Debezium for CDC?
It's weirder to care in the other, PR-narrative-preserving way. But yes it's weird to care. No it's not a hill for me because I don't lose friends or experience other consequences for disbelieving media narratives. I'm mildly amused you phrased it that way.
Not sure about AT&T because I've never done it, but with Visible (another phone in my family) I can login to the app and install a new eSIM again.

It really does depend on carrier policy I would say
Glad to see a realistic take on HN. Endlessly frustrating to see people be like "this will be replicated in days". Yeah, sure, let every other lab just drop what they're doing, order all the reagents on express, do a thorough characterization making sure they understand the impurities and crystal phase, then perform good airtight measurements in a couple days. Crystal growth always has complications many times outside of your control - the most minor of things can cause ridiculous problems.

Especially when they admit to having phase impurities, and it's not really clear how they've gone from bulk sample to measurement sample (are they really measuring just the superconductor or the impurity phase?). Needs addressing, especially when the Cu2S phase impurity seems to have a phase transition of it's own at or around 370K (suspiciously close to where some of their Tc measurements are).
Tick-linked meat allergy may be far more common than previously known
Micron Publishes Updated DRAM Roadmap: 32 GB DDR5 DRAMs, GDDR7, HBMNext