skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn’t my experience. Using a good statically typed language means that refactors will be fast. Using Ruby/Rails or similar means that you may not be confident after you’ve introduced important changes in your code base. So you might be more conservative? Take more time, do more testing (than was necessary if you used less meta programming and a more statically typed language)
I'd wager they mean it like how the internet, the transistor or antibiotics destroyed society.
Still, ASML's latest EUV machine, the 3600D, does draw 1.3 megawatts.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/937966/0000937966220...

But when it comes to cost, evidently replacing many passes and other complicated processes with DUV machines with fewer EUV passes is a net win. And the energy required to create these chips must be a small fraction of the energy they will use in their lifetimes, so improved efficiency of the smaller nodes enabled by EUV would surely be a win, all else being equal.
There are hundreds of these "free databases of AI tools", and I get daily emails from the owners of these things asking me to "list my tool for a fee".

They all have different mechanics. "Boost your visibility", "turn off norefer", etc.

There's a race to build AI tools, but there's also a race to sell tools (and marketing).

Here's a sample from my inbox:

- aiwizard.ai - "We offer both FREE and premium listing options. Our free listing provides a basic presence, while the premium option delivers advanced features like full step-by-step tutorial & review creation, priority placement, highlighted listings, and direct links to different sections of your website, enhancing your visibility and customer engagement."

- domore.ai - "To improve your page's SEO ranking, we'll remove the 'rel=nofollow' attribute on all links leading to your portal from us."

- domore.ai (again) - "Pricing varies depending on the position, for instance, Spot 4 is priced at $110, while Spot 22 is just $20."

- 2030tools.com - "As we value accuracy and transparency, we would like to invite you to review the information we have provided on our website about your tool. We would be grateful if you could take the time to verify its accuracy and let us know if there are any changes or updates that need to be made."

- faind.ai - "Listing your tool on our platform is an incredible opportunity to gain exposure towards more than 20k active users this week"
As a Hindu I strongly condemn the burning of Quran in Sweden and Denmark.
I grew up in a similar place, which had too few freeways around it and navigating anywhere was a major headache. Now I live in a highly walkable town near a few freeways, and it’s much nicer; I can avoid driving altogether and walk/bike around town, or I can easily get to the nearby city by car. There’s a happy medium to be found.
Whose $200M?

That’s the rub. I agree with you morally, and I think most people would agree that inventors of fundamental tech should be as well-compensated as founders who “merely” bring it to market. But were Einstein or Feynman wealthy, or Newton before them? Perhaps it’s the scientific fate to be at odds with capitalism.

On the other hand, no amount of money can immortalize you the way this type of discovery would.
> This is not to say that there's anything wrong - morally or rhetorically - with breaking the game if you don't like the choices. There's no unfair play when the point is to win a debate. Debates are not won by changing your opponent's mind - I mean, who cares? They're won by convincing whoever else is listening.

This is a current topic of debate in debate...

https://radiolab.org/podcast/debatable-2205

> Unclasp your briefcase. It’s time for a showdown. Looking back on an episode originally aired in 2016, we take a good long look at the world of competitive college debate.

> This is Ryan Wash's story. He's a queer, Black, first-generation college student from Kansas City, Missouri who joined the debate team at Emporia State University on a whim. When he started going up against fast-talking, well-funded, “name-brand” teams, from places like Northwestern and Harvard, it was clear he wasn’t in Kansas anymore. So Ryan became the vanguard of a movement that made everything about debate debatable. In the end, he made himself a home in a strange and hostile land. Whether he was able to change what counts as rigorous academic argument … well, that’s still up for debate.
What were the challenges you were seeing or heard were the biggest? The light source?
Sometimes, when faced with button choices "OK" and "Maybe Later", I open devtools and relabel the latter to "Fuck off" before clicking on it. I used to think it futile, but now I understand that this allows me to dismiss the modal without myself being pushed by a button.
There are many issues facing the US, but consistently unsafe working conditions doesn't seem to me to be one of them. Can you explain why you think there's widespread opposition to workplace safety in the US?
London Smell Maps
I agree that it's reasonable for teachers to not want to do more work. And I understand that creating tracks will separate students — but that doesn't require creating the perverse incentives you describe.

Teachers can simply be evaluated based on how their students do, relative to the students' prior performance. This wasn't a problem before 2014, when CA made GATE optional. Everyone understood that different teachers had different cohorts with different average abilities.

The teachers with lower-performing students weren't dinged because their students scored lower than the students in advanced classes. Instead, teachers could specialize in remedial, typical, or advanced learning.
Anyone who reads these descriptions and doesn’t realize this is literally the magic of sorcerers predicted in our fantasy lore have lost the ability to dream. What an amazing time to be alive.
You need two line breaks after each item so they'll show stacked as a list
It's as good in an app that lets you adjust the curve to fit your hand (like Procreate, which is an industry standard at this point.) A Cintiq's curve is a little better out of the box, in my opinion.
10 million gives a person a nice home or two in most places people want to live, plus a six figure income for the rest of their life.

200 million is private jet money.
I worked on the other side as a dev lead who was responsible for a budget including dealing with cloud consultants before I knew anything about cloud. I know how much we were paying consultants. That’s what caused my career pivot. I saw what we were paying developers who were called “consultants” who were really just staff aug compared to real strategic consultants.

I also know what our partners bill rate is and I know what people who left ProServe to start their own consulting companies are charging.

Finally, I know what we bill customers and the gap between my pay and the bill rate. I choose to accept my total compensation because while the reward is lower so are the risks.

> So I don't understand why you allow yourself the better deal while chastising the writers and actors for also wanting the better deal.

I am not chastising anyone for trying to negotiate their market rate. I’m going to negotiate a lot more compensation based on my market value when I leave AWS as a cloud consultant specializing in application development based on my track record than I could as a run of the mill C# developer just like Shonda Rhimes can negotiate more than an unknown writer based on their market value.
Congrats on your 3 years!
https://notetoservices.com

Hi. It's me. I'm the problem.

Thanks Taylor.
Happy to. Ferret and jank have similar goals, but some key differences:

1. Ferret targets embedded platforms primarily; jank is more general and less constrained

2. Ferret doesn't have a JIT-based runtime, meaning no nREPL while you build your programs; jank provides the whole Clojure interactive programming experience, meaning you can start with a REPL and an empty file and end up with a whole server/GUI application/game without stopping to recompile/run again

3. Ferret is written in Clojure and requires the JVM to run, whereas jank's host is native, meaning its runtime and compiler and both native (C++)

My overall sentiment for Ferret is that it's great and I'm excited that it exists. I have my eye on it so that we might be able to learn from some of the decisions made over there. In particular, its interop and memory management systems are of interest.

Worth noting, when you look at all of the existing native Clojures (Ferret, Carp, jank, etc), only one of them aims to be Clojure source compatible while providing a true REPL-driven experience: jank.
A function on the reals maps any real to another [or maybe the same] real. Given some systematic way to order the inputs, you could describe the function as a vector lookup table with an infinite number of elements -- one output for each possible input.

That vector describes a single point in an infinite-dimensional space. Thus every function from R to R is a single point in an infinite-dimensional space.

Now you can use linear algebra to move these points around in the infinite-dimensional space, measure how far two points [functions] are from each other, etc. That's functional analysis.

The linear operators that do this moving around and measuring are called functionals to indicate that they take functions as arguments. (Like higher-order functions in a programming language.) "Functional Analysis" is thus "The analysis of the objects known as functionals".

Differentiation is an example of a functional.
I am confident you don’t understand what their circumstance is, such that your comments comparing it to the French situation a couple of centuries ago are born from nothing more than ignorance.
If you made this - the footer at the bottom of the site is unusable because of the infinite scroll.
That's weird, I have zero nostalgia of any food I had as a child.
Around high school I started being interested into any type of food and never looked back afterward.

I wonder if it's an american thing specifically
> because it would remove the commercial incentive to innovate

Not so. In a world were the FSF got their way: Organizations with a need for specialized software would be able to contract programmers to bring that software into existence. It's not as though every other profession in the world would throw up their hands and say they couldn't use computers anymore just because software could no longer be copyrighted.
I'm an anti-car urbanist, but this kind of comment makes me embarrassed to be one. Different people like different things. The fact that something is bad for the climate doesn't magically make it unpleasant for everyone. That remains true even if they accept the climate impacts.

It's true that the inevitable conclusion is that we can't rely on individual voluntary actions to solve climate change, but the obvious plan B is government regulation, not vigilantism.
Further destruction of our environment...
This seems almost super villian levels of evil if true. "We discovered the holy grail of material science and sat on it for a quarter century."
It ended 51 years ago in 1972, but there was indeed a top rate of income tax called "super-tax" or "surtax" (only for very high earners) of 90% for a few decades:

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

"The highest rate of income tax peaked in the Second World War at 99.25%. It was then slightly reduced and was around 90% through the 1950s and 60s.[citation needed]

In 1971 the top rate of income tax on earned income was cut to 75%. A surcharge of 15% kept the top rate on investment income at 90%. In 1974 the cut was partly reversed and the top rate on earned income was raised to 83%. With the investment income surcharge this raised the top rate on investment income to 98%, the highest permanent rate since the war.[14] This applied to incomes over £20,000 (£221,741 as of 2021).

The Government of Margaret Thatcher, who favoured taxation on consumption, reduced personal income tax rates during the 1980s in favour of indirect taxation. In the first budget after her election victory in 1979, the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% and the basic rate from 33% to 30%."

According to the history linked below, the super-tax/surtax was started in 1909, taxed only the top 0.05% of earners, and caused a constitutional crises as the budget was rejected by the House of Lords:

https://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Economics/History/Paper43/43atkins...
Based on the tweet it sounds like the problem stems from Nobel Prize only allowing a maximum of 3 names on a paper.
Hmm, I didn't notice any price increase. But then again, I have a habit of not paying attention to the price, and I buy them from England so I get them before the local shops do. So it very well could have come up in price.
I didn't downvote you by the way, was someone else. I am in holiday in Spain and surrounded by the use of the word Libre regarding libraries and books. So the same thought as your own also crossed my mind.
I watch them with a 2 second delay on subtitles so I don't read the text before the audio plays.

But if something isn't clear, I can then glance at the subtitles.
> Students were paired off and given a biblical passage to examine, say, Jonah and the whale. One student would have to defend Jonah while the other defended, basically, God. After ten minutes, the teacher would say "switch" and they would have to defend the opposite side with equal logic and vigor. This was the making of a mind.

I always felt the whole point of discussion and debate was to establish truth - given specific premises. This kind of "argue both sides" exercises seem more like practice in audience manipulation.
> then humanity is set

No. Whatever problems LK-99 might solve will be rapidly replaced by new, even more pressing, "problems."
One can scarcely help clarifying him: on the Brothers Karamazov
The title is actually perfect, but requires some context, after which you might appreciate its tongue-in-cheek beauty:

The author studied at CMU, where the proudly-paraded slogan for an introductory functional programming classes is "Functions are values", which has an almost cult-like status - appearing on their TA hoodies, laptop stickers, and so on.

Other classes soon caught on, first with the imperative programming class declaring that "Functions are pointers", then the introductory discrete math class's "Functions are tuples", and even "Functions are relations" from the databases class.

So viewed in this lens, passing up the opportunity to title it what it was would have been unthinkable.
more:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.06851.pdf

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277334558_Smelly_Ma...
Just for the fun of it, I googled muon production and found this at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland: https://www.psi.ch/en/media/the-sms-muon-source

It does highlight some potential pitfalls. Chiefly the rapid decay of muons and dealing decay particles. Also you need a source of high energy protons.

Proton lithograhy anyone?
Non-intoxicated drivers do slow down in less forgiving environments though.

It isn't that accidents are impossible but the impact speed if you were doing 30 mph is livable. If you were drunk doing 60 mph it wouldn't be.
Oh yeah, for sure. I got the S7FE for the S pen and battery life and upgraded to the S8U when it launched a few months later due to a pretty good trade-in deal. So it cost me a lot less than retail.

I hadn't intended for it to be much more than a portable drawing, reading and note taking device when I bought it, it just sort of fell into the laptop replacement role.
it's to mark the comments in these blocks to be extracted for formatted documentation generation rather than conventional code comments
The author's take is a little confusing in an activity where the validity of certain types of argumentation, including kritiks, is routinely debated and playing to judge's preferences is a (often underutilized) part of the game. I recognize it's probably changed a bit in the last decade or so since I participated, but at that time it was about as common to have judges refuse to consider kritiks as embrace them. Arguments that they undermined debate (using many of the same points as this article) often won.

Part of the activity is arguing over the rules, which makes it much more interesting, I think, than one as narrowly defined as the author seems to be advocating.
Ironically the reason LA's freeway traffic is so bad is because so much of the system was left unfinished: https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-forgotten-freeways-20141...
Isn’t The Prince satire? I could never believe this was seen as good advice. People have always made fun of those with their heads up their asses - and future generations have often mistook it because we believe those from the past were more direct.

Similarly, Polonius from Hamlet: “to thine own self be true” but spoken by a blowhard.
Newton at least became quite wealthy. Dunno about the others
Tinkerers really don't seem to understand how much average people want stuff to just work.

It's almost like how math educators sometimes don't understand that we mostly don't have checkbooks to balance. Math is important, but that doesn't mean I have ever sat down with paper and made a budget by hand.

Everyone always talks about flexibility and modularity and control, but what people want is stuff you just install and it works and has all the features already there.

Maintaining even trivial software can be hard, and people are very good at using what they have even if it's not explicitly meant to do the use case, like the story where the old lady was annoyed at her family for not telling her about the knitting program, which was Excel, that she found and figured out herself.
If that's coming from within, I'm all for it. Pushing that on a child as young as mine should be criminal.
I agree that Korea has a lot of idiotic bureaucrats who apparently think the purpose of scientific pursuit is to win a Nobel prize, but "pent up national shame" is a bit exaggerating. Go to the streets of Gangnam and ask random people what are Korea's biggest problems, and I guarantee not a one in 100 would mention the Nobel prize.
I don't mean never remove trees.

I mean that we removed healthy trees in the name of safety.

Certainly verifying the health of trees and removing those that aren't healthy is a good thing.

My point is removing all trees within X distance on a non-highway was common practice.

Certainly clearing for highways is good as well.
He would be horrified to find out that people are watching movies and tv at 1.25 or 1.5x speeds these days!

It's not just slow paced or talky YouTube videos that get sped up.
I've tried a few times over the years but it never sticks. Proportional fonts make scanning for character-level differences slower and most don't distinguish important characters strongly enough (e.g. parens and brackets taking less space than alphanumerics). I'll echo others' comments on alignment too.

To my eye, they also just make code look… I don't know, messy somehow? Especially with serifs it looks like a tractor trailer wrecked and spilled its payload of characters all over the place.
> the risk profile is SO different from wind.

As is the power generation profile. Wind/solar/tidal are important to develop, and the risk profile should include whatever peaker or storage backs up the variability in generation.
How are residuals from streaming working out for musicians on Spotify getting $.0006 per stream? Why would it magically work out better for most writers instead of suffering the same power law where the Taylor Swifts gets most of the money?
Reminds me of the time I ran "killall" on SunOS, which didn't kill a process by name as it did under Linux, instead it killed all processes.

That's the kind of mistake you only make once!
> The pro-RMS vs anti-RMS thing going on since RMS's removal from the FSF in 2019

it's been going on MUCH longer than that.

No matter what he's done for free software, he's also a super-creep based on some of his comments
Thanks! I'll check out your other response as well.
I didn't see any ads so I was wondering what the angle was...a race to be an AI billboard I guess.
Nobody's growing corn in the mountains.
Oh no, nothing like that.

One team said verification and validation techniques would prevent AI systems from failing catastrophically (must've done homework on their judge...) and then there was some back-and-forth that included one of the teams reading a snippet from some arxiv paper that contained a reference to an interesting piece of work that I didn't know about.

It was fairly amusing because I had to explain that they were perhaps missing the forest for the trees with that whole exchange, but also that I had learned something new.
Show HN: SolarThing for Monitoring Charge Controllers
Hello Hacker News!

I have been working on SolarThing for about 6 years, so I thought I'd share it here. I created it to monitor an off-grid solar setup. It's been running flawlessly for about 5 years, only having problems when a Pi's SD card fails. I have it set up to monitor a Renogy Rover, an EPEver Tracer, and an Outback MATE2. I have Grafana setup for viewing the data and even have the ability to turn a generator on/off from SolarThing Android.

It's designed to be usable by people without programming experience, and can be configured via JSON. I've recently been polishing the documentation to hopefully make the installation experience a little easier. Some of the more advanced features need documentation, but otherwise it's pretty up to date.

If you have any questions about it, fire away!
Why? I just told you I have no particular interest in politics…
People in this thread are really talking past each other. I've been to the nice Asian mega cities with great and clean subways and buses. And I've lived in the American suburbs. You can't make the American suburbs like the mega cities by just making them walkable.

Everything in a mega city works together to make transit work. Those tall buildings? They provide great shade no matter how sunny it is which is critical for walking to bus stops and subway stations. Also, the walk itself is so much more interesting, random stores to stop at and places to eat and go to. Density makes transit work.

You can't just put random stores in a suburb and make it "walkable" and expect the same thing. Just as everything in a mega city works together to make transit work, everything in a suburb works together to make cars work.

We need to give up on the mass transit solutions that work for dense cities (subways and buses) for suburbs. It's a waste of money and completely the wrong solution. It hasn't worked for decades and never will.

Shut down bus systems for suburbs and use the government funds to give out ride sharing (either Uber or government run) credits for everyone to use (low income can get more credits). That's what a suburb is designed for, point-to-point travel such as cars. And invest massively in real protected, useful bike lanes and stop trying to kill e-bikes with regulations (which a lot of cities are trying to do). e-bikes are finally a real alternative to cars in suburbs, it has just the right amount of travel speed and ease to challenge the car, but it's already under attack. Ride sharing credits and e-bikes, these are the solutions for suburbs. Stop trying to fit a square peg (buses and subways) into a round hole.
> We couldn’t even be having this discussion without the decades of VC spending that’s gone into technology.

Unless this is a reference to the fact we are having the conversation on the Y Combinator website specifically, it's is a fallacious argument to suppose that the only way any of our current technology could happen through the historical accidents that have occurred.

The nature of complex systems mean that larger systems process more information relevant to their continuance are more successful.

I do agree with the point underlying your rhetorical question. I am just not so certain we should be grateful for naked self interest.