skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the coal and gas storage currently exists. We need to stop using that for non-storage uses, replacing with solar and wind, before we need to replace its storage function once we get down to the last 15% or so of grid electricity being fossil based.
the issue is that these return a bunch of html so using them from the command line is not ideal.

I made wgetip.com back in 2008 to solve this. icanhaz must've been pretty suboptimal back then to have issues with traffic. wgetip still gets about 3M requests per hour. All from a single $5 droplet.
Mastodon has more than 10 million... but a lot of these are probably duplicated, bots, etc. Active users are about 1.7 million iirc.
If we start doing it at scale, a lot of people will assume it will work and think it's okay to make cross country trips in a big RV.

Already there are people who think recycling will save the planet.
I'm astounded by how much some people can not stand their own thoughts.

Shared a hotel room with a friend who refused to go to bed until he was nearly collapsing from sleepiness cause he terrorised himself with anxiety every time he lay in peace.

That seems like hell to me.
Yeah but the point is that megacorps have dedicated teams of specialists to do that kind of bullying and they do it with organizational consensus and coordination between relevant departments. No random individual engineer is ever going to be authorized to do that.
Psilocybin too.

I swear, 'they' don't want us free of addiction. (Why would they - they're making bank).
His point isn't that web development is or will be so easy that it will be easy to hire for and thus not in demand. His point is that, most of people who work on "web" code do pointless busywork or just don't work very hard. He believes that this situation will fix itself up eventually, when economics of this amount of waste will become untenable (e.g. when big tech will stop making easy money and will have to actually look at costs).
But.. banning things doesn't work. People use illegal drugs anyways, and they do it openly. Legalizing weed alone didn't make the problem worse, the shift of the marijuana industry to mass production did. And that shift was caused by states granting business licenses to dispensaries. After that companies decided (just like alcohol until recently by the way) that the only metric to compete on was strength.
Next step is to train models directly on syntax trees. Higher probability of correct output.
Can you guess which of the popular OSes doesn't support stateful DHCPv6?

Answer: Android.

This makes DHCPv6 pretty much useless in practice, when 30% of the clients simply can't use it.
Another thing I found is that it can have "obvious omissions". As in: the answer is correct, and it works, but it's a bad solution and there's a much more obvious and better way to solve it.

"Technically correct", but also not good.
The one where I struggled the longest was trying to put together the right webpack configuration to generate multiple static files based on input in markdown format. It kept switching which plugins it wanted me to use, or mixed up functions from conflicting plugins, and often mixed up syntax from different versions of webpack itself.

I finally gave up on that one when it got caught in a loop somehow where it apologized for giving me the wrong line of code for an import, gave an obviously wrong explanation for why it didn't work, then "corrected" it to the exact same line of code.

Another attempt I was asking it to compare different ways for measuring the amount of difference between data trees -- it did give me the names of a couple of different algorithms, and very wordy, plausible-looking descriptions of how each of them worked... neither of which was terribly helpful, because they both boiled down to "recursively examine the tree and tally up the differences."

Asked for an implementation example, it gave me code that expected input arrays of pre-calculated edit costs, and suggested I write my own function to convert the tree data into that array format.

So that one was extra weird, in that it wasn't wrong, just unhelpful, like here I'll do the easy part for you and leave the thing you asked about as an exercise for the reader.

I dunno, maybe with practice I could learn how to drag it towards helpfulness, but for now RTFM still seems easier.
> Except they are not.

In what way is new media more accountable?

It seems the vast majority of Twitter accounts spew lies. In the last few years it seems to have become even worse for social media.

I can write a complaint to the BBC for them to run a retraction, social media embraces the division and lies because the platform is not responsible for the content.

I cannot envision at all how someone would consider old media less accountable than new media.
I know. I understand the tech and the business decisions behind all of this. I understand the value of a CDN.

It's still a MitM. It's a centralised entity that sees a huge share of the global Internet's traffic, unencrypted. I doubt most people are aware of that.

Someone in another comment mentioned AWS is one as well, and they're right. AWS, GCP and Azure all have TLS-terminating gateways of some kind.

Take Cloudflare, AWS, GCP and Azure, all USA companies bound by the CLOUD act, and nearly all Internet traffic is immediately accessible by US authorities, unencrypted.

Makes the whole "think of the children" rhetoric being spun to pass anti-E2EE laws tame in comparison.
We have our own nuclear albatrosses that we are overpaying for in California.
Lol 40 years of the war on drugs proved that wrong. Can still buy bud illegally just as easy as mum could 40 years ago. If anything there are more users today given its more socially acceptable to be a stoner than an alcoholic.
It's an overused distinction - but certain drugs when used over long periods of time result in such large biochemical changes to the human body that if they are suddenly withdrawn, the person may experience various medical emergency situations that require hospitalization (delirium tremens with alcohol, seizures with benzodiazepines, dehydration due to vomiting and diarrhea with opiates).

These extreme physical effects are seen at the upper end of abuse limits, and the majority of people who legitimately suffer from addiction don't need round-the-clock medical care if they quit - and even those who do can generally avoid such problems if they go through a tapering-off process over the period of about a month.
Great observation. You can easily and routinely see all five hazardous attitudes in software development, especially in small companies and startups where there is sometimes no formal process in place. I wonder if you could measurably improve your software by focusing on those attitudes during interviews…?
I'm not sure uncle-smearing is necessary.
You can also see nuance in humor, in particular when recognizing a joke.
FWIW, I love you, Netlify CEO. I've got a bunch of different static-ish websites hosted with you---my personal site, the sites for three different books, etc., etc. Everything is build using the CI, with a different frameworks and/or build processes (essentially whatever I felt like playing with at the time), and it makes it incredibly easy and cheap. So don't listen to the haters.
> isn't the difference in population between states going to cause statistical oddities with the biggest states trending to the average and the smallest being potential outliers?

The population sampled for the estimates is not the same as (and probably smaller than) the entire state population. So the potential outliers would be caused by differing sample sizes more than state populations.

It's worth to examine how much variance we can expect due to sample size effects. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error#Standard_error_..., the standard deviation of the measurement (stdev_m) due to sampling effects is stdev_p/sqrt(n), where n is sample size and stdev_p is the standard deviation of the measured variable for the entire population.

So if n=100, then stdev_m is stdev_p/10, and if n=10'000, it is stdev_p/100.
I assume some PR person managed to convince him that going to court to try to assert the right to flash lights into random peoples' homes was a bad look, even by his standards.
None of that is the root problem. Nuclear plants are too big, and we can't build big things cheaply in this country.

The idle corruption of middle managers is what kills these kinds of projects.
The principle reason I've stopped using Stack Overflow much, which I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere, is that its content has become too dated.

Most of my questions relate to web development — how to do something in HTML/CSS/JS. When I Google, I can almost always find a related questions on Stack Overflow, but both the question and the answers are usually from a decade ago. The techniques they recommend are totally anachronistic by modern standards.

For example, search "how to vertically center a div". The top Stack Overflow result is a question from _14 years ago_, wanting to know how to do it in all browsers "including Internet Explorer 6". And the the accepted answer is a horribly convoluted hack that could be replaced with a couple of line of CSS nowadays.
ip4.me and ip6.me have /api endpoint for programmatic access
Might be because there's a lot of people like me that only like that style of beer. I don't dislike other types of beer, but I'd rather drink something else than a lager, stout, porter, pilsner, etc. I've found that there aren't a lot of diehards for any other style, but IPA diehards are a dime a dozen.
Search - googling

Modifying picture - photoshopping

Sending a short message to the public - tweeting

How someone thinks that changing a name so strongly rooted is beyond comprehension.

Anyway I look forward reading more twitter messages on X.
This is purported to be a video of what you saw a photo of: https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n
Yeah I do the Sinclair method. I wasn't a daily drinker, it was once or twice a week socially, but it was unstoppable binge drinking.

It certainly works in my case. Now when I have another drink, I choose to do it, and it feels like I'm wading against water forcing myself to get it. Before, my brain would go on autopilot and order them automatically.
Control reversal, when the surfaces move opposite from the command, have happened. They nearly always result in a crash. How does Boeing prevent controls from being hooked up backwards?

The hydraulic actuators (rams) have an input and an output port. Connecting the hydraulic lines to the wrong port results in control reversal. To defend against that:

1. One port has left handed threads, the other right handed threads

2. The ports are different sizes

3. The ports are color coded

4. The lines cannot be bent to reach the wrong port

5. Any work on it has to be checked, tested, and signed off by another mechanic

And finally:

5. Part of the preflight checklist is to verify that the control surfaces move the right way

I haven't heard of a control reversal on airliners built this way, but I have heard of it happening in older aircraft after an overhaul.
Yes in hindsight it's obvious the tank is non-harmful, but when it was a complete mystery it's important to do due diligence to ensure it is safe.
Building Fast and Slow: The Empire State Building and the World Trade Center
You can't pay for your legal defense with illegal funds. Well, you can, but the lawyers if not careful might be subject to clawback and therefore not likely to defend you.
Making something illegal also weaponizes the state against an entirely new group of people. It's not something to take lightly. The FBI was just found to have framed four muslim men for a terrorism plot to bomb a synagogue. This is what happens when you make new crimes and incentivize our broken forces.
For real? 60 is barely “I feel stoned for me”, and I’m not a a super-heavy user. I’ve had doses… considerably higher than that.

10mg I’m not sure I could reliably ABX with a placebo.
More:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllSides
https://www.ipify.org/ is my go to, mostly because it has a really simple JSON version. Funny how many ways there are to do this simple thing.
If she could pop a legal supplement would there be a problem?
That's interesting, I've seen a few papers about this. I'm personally curious about editing syntax trees using language models, since it would prevent syntax errors altogether.
This should be one of the highest voted comments in all of the AI threads this year.

Meta is no doubt doing this because it’s in their best interest, but if both the quality and licensing of LLaMA 2 start a trend that’s a pretty effective counter-weight to eyeball scanner world.

And there’s other stuff. George Hotz is pretty unpopular because he does kind of put the crazy in crazy smart (which I personally find a refreshing change to the safe space for relatively neurotypical people in the land of aspy nerds), but tinygrad is a fundamentally more optimizable design than its predecessors with an explicit technical emphasis on accelerator portability and an implicit idealistic agenda around ruining the whole day of The AI Cartel. And it runs the marquee models. Serious megacorp CEOs seem to be glancing nervously in his direction, which is healthy.

It’s not locked-in yet.
> By your logic, it's futile to ban harmful products, which is a weird take.

You are engaging in the fallacy of composition: the argument was that it does not work for marijuana. Not that it does not work for harmful products.

It is not generally valid to conclude from “X does not work for Y” and “Y is a Z” that “X does not work for any Z”.
> Smaller renewable solar and wind sources with battery storage are perfectly fine, and the correlation in heat with sun works to reduce the need for storage capacity.

Again, peak electricity demand does not happen at noon. It happens at around 9pm, when the sun either has set or is about to set. Unfortunately, solar's production does not match demand patterns.

> Instead of proposing cross-continent distribution lines, just build more small regional renewable sources...

Again, all the renewable sources in the same region are subject to the same weather patterns and and day/night cycles. Sure multiple solar farms gives you redundancy against some sort of mechanical failure that causes one specific solar farm to go down. But the most common failure mode in intermittent sources is cloud cover or lower-than-expected wind speeds. A backup solar plant a mile away isn't going to give you redundancy against weather patterns. This is why a lot of plans for renewable grids are contingent on thousands of miles of HVDC lines to move energy across continents.

> Capacity factor does not address reliability or emergency planning...

Capacity factor describes the uptime of a power plant. Nuclear power has the highest uptime. The point is it's less likely to go down than all alternatives.
How does that work for a question asker? Can I revive an old question that I want a modern answer to?

As far as I know the original asker owns the question, so I, modern asker, can't edit it asking for a modern answer or de-select the selected answer for being now wrong or out of date.
This might be a good time to mention that the organization of the researchers does take donations.

https://donate.counterhate.com/page/88254/donate/1

(Disclosure: Not affiliated in any way, shape or form.)
This is a re-blog; Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27415537
I think this is a great list. I would point this out.

> * Let's use the word "drug" for any compound that alters your state of mind.

> * If you are going to use a drug, treat it as dessert rather than a meal

Consider that your definition rightly includes things like antidepressants, but people for whom antidepressants are working should take them regularly (which I assume is the distinction you're drawing with dessert versus meal).
> Sure buddy. The single biggest purchase most people will ever make, let's call an 80% increase a rounding error.

They're now choosing to buy a > 200% size home. And this is because inflation adjusted median household income has gone up, tada! you guessed it! Over 200%!

And here's some real number voodoo for you - put inflation adjusted median income and median house size over time into Excel and look at the correlation. What do you think happens there?

So, here's the facts, which you don't care to address:
1) House cost is around flat per inflation adjusted sq foot for decades.
2) The main component of median house prices in the US is NOT land, as you claim
3) The reason houses now cost more is because they are bigger (and looks like a slight lower amount per sq foot than 1950), and....
4) the reason houses are bigger is because household wages are equivalently bigger, correlating quite well for at least 70 years, so people choose bigger houses because they can afford them, as well as 2 cars, many TVs, more trips, relative food cost has declined, and on and on.

Now, I cited good data for all of these. Do you still dispute any of them?

Go ahead and cite some good data - median, complete US market, any time period, that supports any of your claims otherwise.

> Here's what I actually said:

>>the vast majority of the increase of property values is _land_.

The link where I gave you average per acre cost for housing completely blows that out of the water. Did you not look at it? Here are the steps:
1. Look at the per state average acre for housing price.
2. Look up median house acres (< 0.25).
3. Look up median house prices.
4. Multiply the acres per house (0.25) by the acre cost to get the amount of land cost per house.
5. Subtract 4 from 3.
6. Note how large 5 is compared to 4.
7. Note that it's mathematically impossible that the small amount in 3 can contribute to the inflation adjusted increase in house prices from 1950.

Here, I'll even do a decent estimate for you: from the list Florida has the median land price of around $35000 per acre for housing. Average house land is still under 0.25 (one site said it's now 0.19). So land per house in Florida is around say $8500. Zillow says average Florida house price is ~390,000. This likely has doubled in price and size since 1950 (and if it's an outlier, then some other place in the US counters it, thanks to the magic of medians).

Tell me again that the current cost of $8500 land in a $390,000 house is the cause of the near doubling in price? Did the land cost negative $400,000 in 1950?

So, keep claiming your claim. It's so mathematically impossible as to be ludicrous at this point. If you want to continue to make that claim, show me the numbers broken down just like gave you.

Or are we done since you keep ignoring facts you dislike, and misrepresent the double prices ~ basically flat by completely ignoring that the doubling in price is also a doubling in size which was my very first point (and a doubling of incomes which is why it all fits).

[1] https://www.cbpp.org/income-gains-widely-shared-in-early-pos...
> With marijuana that doesn't exist or is so vanishingly small that you don't feel anything.

What? For many, many users this is just completely not true. Insomnia, headaches, nausea, irritability are all common symptoms of weed withdrawal.
When you control for different career choices, women make the same. However:

Women die far less at work:
http://phsinverter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/workplace-...

Not to mention work place injuries and disability from a lifetime of difficult physical labor.

Also note:

"Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, and control or influence 85% of consumer spending"

They control most of the money despite not actually earning it.

https://girlpowermarketing.com/statistics-purchasing-power-w...
France can't do it these days either. Look at the fiasco of the EPR; it drove their nuclear corporation to insolvency.
Because I’m an annoyingly precocious child of thirteen and this is how you capture my interest and enable my future glittering career in deep space telemetry engineering.
The ticket was not serious and the local government never followed up to collect it.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34928/did-nasa-...
> Becoming a regular smoker is often a hunt for something that can get you just as high as the first time, but nothing will. (Concentrates can get you very high, though.)

At my peak, I was a half-gram, gram of concentrates a day smoker. There was always the option of taking three or four good dabs in a row and getting past the point of high and into psychedelic panic. The idea that "you can never get as high as the first time" is a total myth peddled by the same people who claim it's a "gateway drug".
Sorry to pile in a bit, it's tough as there is a lot to comment on.

> "I read comments like this almost every time SpaceX is mentioned here, and climate crisis extremists bang on about it endlessly. It’s impossible to ignore, it’s just that most people disagree."

Respectfully, I feel you are responding to those comments, rather than the ones placed here. How can anyone disagree with the statement that the impact of rocket launches on the atmosphere is not well understood. AFAIK, that is fact. If there are such studies, that would be super interesting, to my knowledge, those studies have not been done (and could not be done because nobody was launching rockets at an appreciable frequency for anyone to even study it).

If those studies had been done, I would not expect the punching of holes in the ionosphere to be news.
I doubt they would... Its not going to make someone more likely to buy their product just because they know how much is going to tax.
I have been using Markwhen since ~6 months. It's nice. I use it to track life events and books/projects/moocs etc.
I quite like twitter being a free for all in the same vein as the early internet and GeoCities.

Be mean to people all you like so long as it's not the usual big no-nos like child porn, violent crime etc.

I will never use Twitter cause it's a cesspit, but I would still like to have an old school wild west corner of the internet.
Probably the migratory patterns were as import at as any other reason to travel.

What I seem to be noticing is that the ancients used calculus all the time but it was the geometric tools that they used.

This gave technology a form.

Arabic numerals made tabular data more useful leading to the more number based tools.

This seems to have removed the form from technology.