skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> José: Why did you choose Elixir?

> Steve: We chose Elixir because we were looking for a system that was easy for programmers to understand and could take better advantage of our servers. I was intrigued at Elixir’s combination of friendly syntax, powerful metaprogramming features, and incorporation of the Actor model.

Am I wrong or is this guy in some sort of bubble where only functional languages are taught?
There may be several circuits, and they all have independent breakers. Certainly, an electric cooker/oven will be on its own circuit as it has higher requirements.

Then, standard ring circuit is 32A, and individual sockets are limited to 13A (via fuse in plug). So you will need to have 2 kettles on on the same circuit and then add a third device pulling not an insignificant amount of power (32 - 2x13 = 6A) before the breaker trips. This will be safe if the ring circuit is not faulty as they are usually wired with two 2.5mm2 cables (two because it's a ring) that have a standard rating of 24A each...
Yeah, I identify with that. It makes it harder that’s for sure.

The article linked to one of the author’s other articles which talked about how even if you love it, you start to be fueled by different energy.

> After working at high intensity for more than 90 minutes, we begin to draw on these emergency reserves to keep us going. In the process, we move from parasympathetic to a sympathetic arousal — a physiological state more commonly known as “fight or flight.”

> One consequence of relying on stress hormones for energy is that the prefrontal cortex begins to shut down. We become more reactive and less capable of thinking clearly and reflectively, or seeing the big picture.

I recognize that. Ive also noticed those stress hormones coming more often outside of work and affecting the rest of my life.
As someone on the receiving end of these types of LLM enhanced emails, I'd say just make sure you actually can be confident it is indeed communicating your message properly.

I work with a guy who has been covering up his poor use of the English language and it's been quite weird to be honest.

Fluent soudning emails full of convincing sounding gibberish is what I've been receiving. Unfortunately the guy just isn't good a communicating his ideas using written language and the LLM can't really fix that.
I damn agree. Especially older cygwin stuff is very very fast.
I personally still use my own fork of cygwin-1.3 DLL for my old windoze.

Works like a charm and I can use cool terminal (bash) with all CLI tools I love so much.
You're right, I didn't realize it was already decided in 2002.
Ask HN: How can I meaningfully object to WhatsApp processing of my information?
Following some EU requirements (GDPR), WhatsApp updated their TOS. They say that we can now "object to [their] use of [our] information": https://faq.whatsapp.com/781249240131848/.

When following the form, I receive an e-mail saying:

> Hi,

> Thanks for your message.

> In order for us to review your objection, please reply to this email with
> the following information:

> - What information processing you are objecting to. Your right to object applies where we rely on legitimate interest to process your information.

> - How WhatsApp’s processing of this information impacts you (example: what rights and freedoms you believe are impacted by the processing and why)

> - Any additional information you believe will help us review your objection (optional)

> We may ask you for more information if your request is incomplete.

> Thanks, WhatsApp Privacy Operations

Of course, I did not manage to get further than that: whatever I say, they answer that "We've reviewed your request and found that it doesn't meet the requirements for an objection to the processing of your personal information under the applicable data protection regulation.". They claim that they need all the information they collect, but since Signal does not collect any of that, it seems like they don't really need it. They also mention "Business intelligence and Analytics", it feels like it should be relatively easy to prove that they don't actually need to do that in order to provide WhatsApp to me, right?

Here they give more details about the information they collect, and the concept of "legitimate interest": https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy-eea/revisions/20211122#privacy-policy-information-we-collect.

My question: what should I answer to that e-mail in order to force WhatsApp to collect as few metadata as possible coming from my activity?
Sorry, I do not understand.

Each line of what?
Ours is a Smeg model. The two large rings are 2.3kW, with a outer booster ring to 3kW. The problem is if I'm just boiling water for my tea with a saucepan, only the inner ring is triggered. I can put a large pan on there and get 3kW to match the 3kW kettle, but then I've got to warm a large metal pan too, whereas the kettle has very little thermal mass and is lightweight and easy to fill too.
Grave flaws in BGP Error handling
Survival Time for Web Sites
Now, it's a smaller window thanks to the real-time certificate transparency log.
Understanding the Limits of Innovation –| Peter Zeihan
Interesting! So you'd provision a new VM, deploy and add it to the LB, and then destroy the old node? I think that's where a docker-based deployment would shine, it would be way faster.
Interestingly enough, European oven/hob combos mostly run on 400V 3-phase power. Same for many tankless water heaters. That's certainly one advantage of 230V per phase. It's probably also one factor in the decision to power things by gas vs electric.
Amazon does not have data to motivate the RTO

Source:

- https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-andy-jassy-no-data-re...

- https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-relies-o...
I don't necessarily agree.

> Stock prices are entirely based on what people think they are worth.

Are are priced on what people think they might be work in the future current financial figures don't really matter that much compared to growth.

And the market is pricing in extremely high revenue growth (and also very high margins). So far Nvidia seems to be delivering. Their forward PE went down several times and it's now "only" 30. A few more quarters like that and the current stock price might seem cheap even by traditional standards.

Obviously it's a risky bet but I don't see what's illogical about it?
Doctors can touch, feel, understand...

Sure they can, but many don't either because of lack of time, or quite frankly, because many doctors are bad at their job. And even in the best case scenario we will never be able to provide doctors to 100% of the population. For many people the choice won't be AI or a (free) caring, passionate doctor who has time to understand you and answer your questions, it's AI or nothing.

Same with teaching. A lot of people simply don't have access to teachers, and if even the ones that do, might not have teachers that have the time and knowledge to actually teach what they want to learn.
You don't really have to clean a pot either if you just used it to boil water.
> With modern appliances, power requirements are going up

Things like lightbulbs and TVs and computers and refrigerators are using less power than ever before.

Of course, if people are buying electric cars or replacing gas furnaces with electric heat pumps, then you're right on that side of things.
3000 W / 230 V = ~13A, does this mean I could run two 3kW kettles and still have 1.3kW spare before everything shuts down?

That's massive.
I found it deeper than most concepts in the genre, the core of that plot is one of the most impotant questions in contemporary philosophy - the realtionship between thought and language.
I had indeed not known of Sarasohn. Thanks for sharing, will dive into his history!
Trouble in the Amazon
There is not one single all encompassing answer.

Safety was one significant concern. 230-240V is more likely to stop a person's heart. 220 is available in most US homes for specific cases where it is more practical.

Speaking from experience, I don't think it is uncommon for a person to have been electrically shocked at some point in their lives --- often when they were a child.
sure, but what percentage of their products have they shut down?
Then why wasn't Fukushima safe? Was the experience only gathered afterwards? What knowledge was missing in 2011?
I -think- that CIL being a bytecode-y language runtime that actually has things like an object model, going straight from MIR to CIL offers a ... higher fidelity translation, or so.

(I apologise for this being vague, but this isn't really my area so if I tried to get more detailed I'd rapidly go from "quite possibly wrong" to "definitely wrong")
I just watched the latest Star Trek show and something occurred to me: the Enterprise computer acts much like an LLM. It doesn't take actions on its own, but you ask it any question about the ship, and it answers politely.

LLMs are literally science fiction come to life, something out of the movies.

It's early days still, they're a bit primitive and the compute substrate is woefully underpowered for what we would ideally like... but the promise is there.
Google “global waste trade”, it’s the same mafiosi level as carbon credits: rich countries proclaims to have clean hands because someone in another juridiction accept their money.

Waste management is also a joke within the rich countries: landfills still exists and those recycling program seems nice on a consumer (=voter) side: you have a colored special bin, state flyers tells you how recycling (is supposed to) work and buy sometimes a (partially) recycled bootle or pullover. In practice 5% of stuff put in the bin is recycled, the rest goes to landfill or incinerators.
This is indeed a valid question, but I think it’s largely up to the user. For me, as a hobbyist programmer that sometimes writes code at work to automate certain tasks, I use ChatGPT to quickly create boilerplate/template type code AND to learn how to do new things. When I’m asking how to do something new, I try to actually learn what’s going on so that I won’t have to keep asking about that particular issue. But yeah, the temptation to just say “thanks, ChatGPT” and move on without learning anything is certainly there and could be quite harmful to one’s overall coding skills.
> Even old pre-7 PHP was much faster than Ruby, Python, and others.

No, PHP 7 was an impressive step forward in speed because it switched to better bytecode and object representations internally, but Python wiped the floor with most versions of PHP 5 for exactly the same reason. (PHP 5.5 with opcaching was roughly comparable.)

But this comparison overall is like trying to find the strongest two-year-old...
The UK used to be nominally 240V and a lot of EU countries used to be 220V, but we harmonised on 230V because it's comfortably within the tolerance bands for both. Nothing really changed in practice - UK installations still deliver about 240V and most EU installations deliver about 220V - but it was convenient to have a common standard.
One of my favorite quotes comes to mind and is #3 of the Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming: 'No matter how much "karate" you know, someone else will always know more.' :)

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles...
The newline may also be suppressed by appending `\c' to the end of the
string, as is done by iBCS2 compatible systems. Note that the -n option
as well as the effect of `\c' are implementation-defined in IEEE Std
1003.1-2001 ("POSIX.1") as amended by Cor. 1-2002. For portability, echo
should only be used if the first argument does not start with a hyphen
(`-') and does not contain any backslashes (`\'). If this is not suffi-
cient, printf(1) should be used.

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=echo

\c Suppress the <newline> that otherwise follows
the final argument in the output. All
characters following the '\c' in the arguments
shall be ignored.

* https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/echo.1p.html
Don't use Whatsapp. Work on a replacement on Veilid.

https://veilid.com/
Starting a new job after burnout
I've been pretty burnt out in my current role, which finishes in a couple of weeks. I've got a fortnight off before starting a new role, and I want to make sure that I'm not getting myself in this position again because I've now got additional responsibilities (a child!). Does anyone have any tips about how to set expectations the right way going into a new role and avoid burning out again?
This is my favourite story about standardization.

It used to be the continent used 220V, and the UK used 240V, until we standardized on 230V.

The UK defines this as 230V -6% +10% (i.e. 216.2V – 253.0V), and nominal supply is 240V

The continent defines this as 230V -10% +6% (i.e. 207.0V - 243.8V), and nominal supply is 220 or 230 by region.

We called this harmonisation - in reality it's more like agreeing to disagree. We just fudged the tolerances until everyone was happy.

(To put some context around this - most sites don't receive nominal supply. The actual voltage delivered depends on your distance to the local substation. Typically they over-deliver such that sites closest are a little over, sites furthest are a little under. If they actually delivered ±0%, sites at the edge of their network would be further from nominal. So end-user equipment should be built to expect variation.)
Fully agree. I'm the creator of the website but AFAIK, it is not easy to get the license to use images. If anyone knows more about that topic, please let me know!
Thanks, that's incredible. I won't have to worry about tripping the circuit breaker anymore.
Was playing with the library this morning, the interesting part to me was the 'goal explorer' which generates the questions to asks of the data.

Keen to see more research into this part specially making the questions more specific to the dataset in question and overlaying real-world situations.
Interesting thing about faster distance calculations is that a very small change in the dot product calculation makes code compile to much more efficient CPU instructions and up to 2 times speedup for the whole algo.

But the real jewel in the crown is HNSW support that makes pgvector much faster than the competitors (the measurements with thorough and transparent description of method are in the linked blog post).
Note that the 3.7kW element can only provide all that to a single vessel if it covers the entire area of the element.

The resistive element submerged in the water dumps very nearly 100% of energy into the water. The stove heating the kettle has many more sources of loss, but mostly that it first heats a piece of metal, which is not fully submerged in water.
Sure, obviously. But you'd expect power requirements to be more or less the same, and the ideal wire diameter to be dependent on voltage. But instead what happened is that the wire diameter is more or less constant, and Europe just uses more powerful electrical devices.
What is the power of your kettle?
I think this should have been the link:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/maps-platform/going-b...

It's a new initiative with multiple new API's: Solar API, Air Quality API, Pollen API. And that link gives an overview for them all.
"D doesn't really have a niche where it might be a good language to use."

I'm wondering if metaprograming would be a niche D could exploit. I have yet to find a systems language with the same introspection and code generation capabilities (minus JAI but its non public). Though not sure what business use case that would fall into... You are right C++ is catching up, Andrei Alexandrescu has a talk that about proposing changes to constexpr to effectively recreate D's static if so he can do Design by Introspection in C++ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0)

--Examples/more info--

They literally have a "function" that takes in a regex and spits out D code that then gets compiled in to the executable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdzwvY8Mo-w DConf 2017 Day 3 Keynote: Design by Introspection -- Andrei Alexandrescu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lo-FOeWecA DConf Online 2021 - Metaprogramming in D - Bradley Chatha (this one gives a great overview + quick dive into what D meta programing can do)

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html
That perfectly describes my usage of Pinterest.

People have written browser extensions to remove Pinterest from search results, as it is almost always a dead-end
> cumbersome over-designed

It's a pain they are not the same as the rest of Europe, but what is cumbersome and over-designed about UK plugs?

Follow up question, why Swiss plug needed to be so close to the rest of Europe, but different anyway? (same distance between the 2 pins, but the pins are a bit thinner and the ground is in the opposite way).
Appeal to authority is generally classified as a subconscious flaw. When its conscious & deliberate, given the history of authoritarianism in the world, it does come across... oddly.
> in Italy most residential circuit breakers have a limit of 3.3 kW

Wait, really? That’s seriously underpowered, though I guess if you never need electric stoves or heating it could be somewhat usable. An ex-Soviet big-city apartment building will usually support 40A (~9kW) per apartment, and in France I had the impression that the values were similar—except for student dorms, which are supplied and wired like apartment buildings despite the density of occupants being 3x that or more, because apparently the builders could not into engineering and the uni authorities find it easier to blame the occupants (yes, I’m still a bit salty about that).
Because I will code once 64bits risc-v assembly.
> WSJ is US media

Yeah but I don’t see how could I disagree with this article too much.

> whose bias in owned outlets is also renowned

I’m not sure. High degree of bias seems to be the standard (with a few exceptions) regardless of ownership.
UFC, NBA and NFL Want to Fight Live Streaming Piracy with Instant DMCA Takedowns
> Does it help you learn better spelling and grammar...

Yes. (Of course I still have a long way to go)

> Same with dev. Does it actually make you better...

Also yes. In terms of "scripting" it helped me tremendously. There were many little tasks that I wouldn't bother to automate without ChatGPT, because the time spent on looking up those niche APIs would outweight the time saved.

Without ChatGPT I would have learned 0 about them. With ChatGPT at least I learned a bit.
Async/await and any module won't save you from global state, data races, and the fact that you're running on an imperative language with mutable state. Additionally, the ergonomics are not the same, so even if you could replicate the BEAM in Node or any other language, you'd have to be a masochist to do it.

Lastly, the concurrency are primitives to the entire runtime, not a set of external libraries maintained by whoever, which might be incompatible with other libraries you might want to use.
If it comes to pass that AI dramatically reduces the cost of making a movie that works for Hollywood as well as small countries and probably doesn't result in the small countries being able to compete as a result?

In the same sense that the revolution that occurred in the digital distribution of games and general improvements in the accessibility of tooling meant the market for games expanded into more niches rather than producing more AAA games from smaller developers.
First of all, it does take balls. Look at the response he's getting - he is ridiculed, flamed, called a grifter, and bullied. And he put his reputation as a professor and academic on the line. He had risked his career to do this.

AFAIK he did make some arguments about both oumuamua and those other interstellar objects. His claims aren't "evidence free". He has insufficient evidence and I'm not convinced, but without people willing to pursue evidence out of their comfort zone, science can't make discoveries.

Despite 40 years of research, Tarter risked nothing. She never put her reputation on the line. Neither did her colleagues. You can't get funding for something you yourself aren't willing to take risks on. Their cautiousness and lack of confidence and aversion to taking personal career risks reflects on their own confidence in the subject, and any person that would've considered funding them reads those signals and acts accordingly.

He's the first to have taken a personal risk, and taking a personal risk is the only way to convince others to follow you with monetary risk. "performative masculinity", also known as having balls and self-confidence and taking personal risks, is a precondition to getting others to follow you because you can only lead by example. Women can do it just like men - but it is usually a masculine trait.

If you're a feminist and you still don't get how men are more successful in some areas, you could cry about masculinity, but maybe you should learn from them that what it takes is taking personal risks and leading by example, and getting over your personal risk-aversion. And if you can't grow some balls and get over your personal risk aversion, at least have the decency to appreciate those taking personal risks to further a common cause. How the hell is Loeb her enemy in your twisted mind?!

For every man you see at the top, there are 10 men at the bottom whose personal risk failed. Most likely, Loeb will be one of them. I'm actually going to bet on that. While Tarter will continue with her comfortable job with mediocre funding, or maybe bigger funding thanks to Loeb. He'll be the one with a ruined career, not Tarter. So easy to cry "toxic masculinity" when he's in the spotlight, lets see whether Tarter will wish to swap places in 10 years after he's failed. Then tell me with complete honesty which action was the harder one to do.

That's exactly toxic feminism. Pure envy towards the men taking the risks that you couldn't muster the courage to take. Next time, take the risk yourself or be grateful to those that have the courage to take risks that benefit you. Women can be just as brave, look at Greta Thunberg. I don't believe her either by the way (you can look my post history about climate change), but she did have more effect than many "evidence-builders" and she also took a greater risk, and I appreciate that.
It's really strange to me how people continue to build services using python, knowing it is 100 times slower than appropriate languages, and then get surprised by it being 100 times slower, so they eventually rewrite it.
Because Opera had no tabs, it had MDI with a window-bar. This was Tab-like, but not real tabs.
> It's a pain they are not the same as the rest of Europe, but what is cumbersome and over-designed about UK plugs?

The size is definitely cumbersome. Look how much bigger they are than US/EU/AU plugs, basically any other countries plugs.

I'd call having a fuse in the plug itself over-designed.

> Follow up question, why Swiss plug needed to be so close to the rest of Europe, but different anyway?

I have the same question about AU plugs. Literally the same as the US plugs (newer ones that don't have one side larger at least), just at an angle.
Hi there! This is Chris, Design & Integrations Lead at Hetzner Cloud. Thanks a lot for the kind words on behalf of the whole team! Your comment got passed on to our team channel in our internal chat. Really really glad to read comments like yours – keeps us motivated to do even better :-)

Anything you'd like us to improve in terms of UX or DX of our Open Source integrations?
When allergies act up, we need to start polling the pollen in Poland.