skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people believe in the freedom to do what you like if you don't harm others.

People doing MDMA or LSD generally don't harm others.

People smoking do. Bartenders, card dealers, etc have their workplaces polluted by cigarettes.

I'm sure there are plenty of libertarians who are against social restrictions on smoking. There are others who tolerate the restrictions because they personally find it to be a nicer experience to not have ambient smoke out in the world. Nevertheless, nobody thinks you should be thrown in jail for carrying cigarettes.

Taxing cigarettes and decriminalizing psychedelics are not the same conversation. Your attempt to conflate them is a fallacy.

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Moreover, that aspect of the conversation is just about the "should"s - should someone be free to alter their minds/bodies in the privacy of their own homes/if they aren't causing undue harm to others?

The strongest argument for legalization is to defund the cartels. Countless dollars are being funneled to violent mobs because of the remnants of Richard Nixon's paranoia. The world would be a better place if the cartels were less powerful, and the drug problem would be much less of a problem if drugs weren't adulterated.

The cartels and fentanyl poisoning are causing trauma for way too many families. There aren't enough pros to Nixon's line of thinking to justify that.
Your links don't really support your view that Americans despise working hard in school. As an American, my perspective is that working hard in school is widely respected and encouraged in US culture. The poll where a majority says "other people don't pursue STEM because they're lazy" is just another in a long history of American polls where respondents assume something incorrect about everyone else in the country. You should not put much stock in these opinions.

Paul Graham's "nerds" article is fairly out of date, and I would also encourage you to read between the lines a bit. Paul and his friends graded everyone by popularity and assumed everyone else was doing the same. Were they? In my experience, probably not. Popular kids generally just consider themselves normal and don't look down on the "nerds", so much as just not think about them much because they're in a different friend group that they don't interact with.

> Being smart seems to make you unpopular.

This is not true.

> most smart kids don't really want to be popular.

This is DEFINITELY not true, and you should be skeptical of anyone saying "I don't want to be popular" in the middle of a widely published essay about how smart and successful they are.

I attended high school many years after Paul, so it's possible what he describes was true at the time, but I don't think it is anymore.

Finally, you're right that Kobe Bryant is admired more than the average hard worker in school, and that's because he was among the best in the world. Results matter in American culture, and a kid in high school working just as hard as Kobe to be the best player on his team is not going to be as celebrated as Kobe Bryant, even if he's putting in just as much effort.
Bad faith actor
Also announced a way to call friends within Roblox
I mean, sure, but by that argument, LiON would be:

[x] it suffers from too few recharge cycles.

[x] it lacks thermal stability at low or high temperatures.

[x] it is too likely to catch fire or explode.

at least, right?
Here's his full 1000 page report.

https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/42_2021.pdf

Shorter 72 page one focused on mining resources

https://tupa.gtk.fi/raportti/arkisto/16_2021.pdf
Telsa is pumping them out. All stationary storage that isn't a boondoggle is welcome of course (looking at you concrete blocks on towers), just ramp, that's it. Make cells, package cells, ship packaged storage system to site, commission, operate. Easy peasy.

https://www.teslarati.com/370-tesla-megapack-batteries-lathr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSmMUdC_nA

> Tesla noted in its Q2 2023 Update Later that energy storage deployments are increasing, thanks in no small part to the Lathrop Megafactory’s ramp. The facility, after all, is still in its early stages, considering that it has a target output of 10,000 Megapack batteries annually.

> “Energy storage deployments increased by 222% YoY in Q2 to 3.7 GWh, another strong quarter due to the ongoing ramp of our first dedicated Megapack factory (Megafactory) in Lathrop, CA. The ramp of this 40 GWh Megafactory – the first of many – has been successful with still more room to reach full capacity,” Tesla noted in its Q2 2023 Update Letter.

(next two years of production is already committed to customers, demand is overwhelming)

https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/04/27/265... (The global stationary energy storage market is estimated to reach over USD 215.34 billion by 2031, exhibiting a CAGR of 22.19% during the forecast period.)
Better than being dependent on a soulless employer, while still having to take care of the family.

Actually, being able to depend on someone you trust is the real liberation.
athletes are not uncompensated. they get scholarships. but agree also that schools make huge sums of $ off them.
Colleges are able to spend 4 years promoting their brand, its kind of a cult of sorts.

Professional teams don't have that pull, you see them a few times a year.

In college, your degree's reputation can depend on how well they are viewed nationally. For 2 decades a top school could not win games, the fanbase was outraged because they were spending record amounts of money on trying to win games. It seriously made me (and others) question how good the school was academically if they couldn't manage to win, despite setting records on spending.

Not to mention your friends go to the games, you have nostalgia from a vulnerable part of your life, etc...

That just doesnt happen as much in Pro.
Speaking of energy density: If I remember it correctly the energy density of a capacitor was easy to calculate and basically limited by the permittivity of available materials. Do you know if there is a similar upper bound for chemical storage batteries?
Use Erlang/Elixir for orchestration and call into rust implementations.

It's an amazing combination.
Concerns about using child labor to mine cobalt, and concerns over the poor safety of so-called "artisanal mining" practices are 'essentially oil company propaganda'?

Yes, oil extraction, processing, and consumption is also horrible. So what? The comment was on Li-Fe-P vs. CoNiFe battery technologies.
The specific issue is that youtube is a competitive market, where competition is enforced. Youtube stopped showing people their own subscriptions, and now only shows users whatever the algorithm wants. If the content you make doesn't achieve a high enough "conversion" rate, ie people clicking the thumbnail and watching the video, youtube doesn't just stop promoting it to new viewers, but also doesn't show it to people who have explicitly subscribed to you! This means that you HAVE to play the dumb click bait games or your channel simply dies, no matter how good your content is. It doesn't matter that there is very little overlap between your viewers and Logan Paul's viewers, you are still competing with their conversion rate.

Every single channel that considers themselves "above" clickbait has tried avoiding it and seen how hard youtube punishes them for daring to be different.

Clickbait isn't about getting slightly more revenue, clickbait is about attempting to stay afloat in youtube's absurd machine.
right..the autocomplete UI itself could be a hint..

i was thinking it could be like hangman style..

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California Code Regulations, title 10, Section 2632.5 - Rating Factors

It carves out an exception for "using a technological device to collect information about the location of the insured vehicle as part of an emergency road service, theft service, map service or travel service."
What a pile of garbage.
That isn't quiet true. One of the major pushes for carbon capture is CCUS which is a fancy word for greenwashing. You install carbon capture facilities and pump that carbon deep underground. But you do it not to store the carbon, but to get even more oil out of the ground [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_oil_recovery
> Fog Creek forums (the Business of software) which had a great cast of characters and drama (tail of the g!) for a couple of years.

If you know where to look, some of that cast of characters is still going strong on a forum of a similar design to this day. It's a bit crazy.

Stack Overflow came right out of Joel's complaints about Experts Exchange and is probably the best example of being with the right people at the right time with the right idea.
Even so, the spider has 10 legs!
One time as a lark my partner grabbed a bag from one of those buckets in Seattle and then flew it back to Colorado with her. Probably in that case it would've been more practical to just make concrete out of it, but it was fun to add to the compost pile.
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> We don't need any new technology

We need grid-scale energy storage.

Right now we have about 30 GW worth of it on a grid with 1200 GW of generative capacity.

Until that changes, every solar and wind installation is going to come paired with a gas peaker plant.
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...
The oval of the stadium is bigger for football for one. It's less frequent with maybe 6-7 home games per year. They graduate 10,000 seniors a year into being alumni who want to make it to one of those games every year.

Then there is the matter of building a bigger stadium means the super-expensive skyboxes are that much further away.
Indeed, it's a gigantic set of requirements that result in compromises and the theoretical storage capacity of the bulk chemistry can give some indication of whether it is worth pursuing a particular technology but it certainly shouldn't be read as an exact number until the product is sitting on a shelf ready to be ordered.
In this case SpaceX is not the only client the FAA is dealing with. Both the US military and NASA have a lot riding on the timely progress of Starship's shaking out the weak areas so Starship can become viable and reliable.
Having read most of Spolsky's blog posts, I'll make the inference that the spec being functional and having reference to code conventions isn't a far stretch for him.

He worked at Microsoft in the Excel group, specifically, he was a Program Manager (PM) on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). see bottom of https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/04/25/vba-for-macintosh-... and https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...

Functional specs and PMs go hand in hand at MS.

Microsoft devs, at least in certain groups, used the Hungarian coding convention (Systems aka DOS/Windows group had one dialect, Apps aka Office had another dialect) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

This seeped into VB/VBA as well.
> if(requests > bigNumber) banHammer();

If requests from who? or what? Account? IP? Because no one is doing it from one account or one IP.

> There are plenty of solutions for these types of problems.

Actually not a lot, it's a really hard problem to solve, unless you're referring to unsophisticated scrapers that have no idea what they're doing and are following some online tutorials on how to scrape Twitter. Out of desperation, they even implemented blanket bans on entire legitimate mobile carriers in some EU countries, but it didn't have a lot of impact on the business of Twitter scraping.
Maybe set a once or twice daily alarm to check your email. As a person with ADHD, my life has improved a lot after I started using alarms and calendar events for everything. Much better than hoping future me will magically develop better memory skills.
Exceedingly uninformative. All this information has been known for months. This is corporate boilerplate, for reasons unknown.
Everything you're asking about happened after I left, so I have no idea. I didn't even know they'd discontinued FogBugz for Your Server.

[Edit: We did discontinue Kiln for Your Server while I was there. We nuked that because the support burden was monstrous, to the point we needed three extra SDETs/sales engineers purely to handle testing and on-prem bug fixes. It threatened Kiln's ability to be profitable. The FogBugz team may've made the same calculus a few years later.]
Good afternoon.. are you open to Senior Level contract dev's?

Thanks in advance
Your best bet is probably the OpenAI discord, they have relevant channels for this. There's also /r/PromptEngineering.

> For instance "what are the advantages of putting instructions in a system prompt versus in the prompt itself?".

That sounds more like a LLM usage question (people would think of LLM research as building the models themselves), hence the OpenAI discord.

For other people looking for LLM research, there's Karpathy's one, and the EleutherAI one.
GitHub Forks Visualizer
any alternatives?
I learned this lesson dealing with auditors many times. These people whose job really should be collaborative in nature (internally) still feel the need to find something, because if they don't, then their bosses say "did you look hard enough?"

So yeah, sometimes as we presented our security policies or documentation, we would highlight an existing problem for which we had a solution or proper executive backing to justify, so that when it was called out, we would haggle and then say "okay, let's fix that". Everyone had done their job.

Off-topic: I was blocked from reading that site using Proton's TX datacenters, but it worked as soon as I switched to Sweden.

Stop blocking VPNs, Rachel.
I would be lying if I said I didn't toy with the thought of making AI girlfriend several years ago before ChatGPT blew up, but it feels scummy. I'm happily married, but I can see some people wanting to make some sort of connection. ChatGPT probably can do that well enough.
Even better: just uninstall the apps and only use the sites via mobile web. The benefits: you'll never see a single notification from apps you don't have, they'll never be able to eat your battery, openings for tracking are much reduced, and the slightly less awesome UI of the web version will somewhat reduce the dopamine hit you get from interacting with them.
I’ve worked remotely for almost a decade and for the last 2 years, I worked at a fully remote company. The company had just as much “company culture” as the precious primarily in person companies I’ve worked at.

And from our survey results, our completely US based teams reported higher team cohesion (and demonstrated better performance) than teams with a mix of nationalities.

Unless a company is willing to completely relocate offshore, there is always going to be an advantage for US based developers. And as long as a company is targeting primarily US consumers, their is an advantage to being located here.
“I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram” (2012)
Never use deferred shading [video]
These days almost every file I touch is either downloaded from somewhere or, if I wrote it, pushed to a git repo. Recycle bin is rendered useless.
This is not the way TPMs are used by most of the industry. For example, Microsoft and now Canonical are advertising it as a way to do FDE which Microsoft has known to be broken since 2006. They are requiring it for Windows 11 because of "security" and have provided no software feature on Windows for this kind of use case. It is only done by the OSS community.

> The other useful application is to prevent block device data extraction without knowing the passkey.

Nope, read the appendix. Since 2006, BitLocker without PIN is vulnerable to physical extraction with $80 worth of equipment. And to enable enhanced PIN for BitLocker you have to jump to a lot of hoops that most people don't even know about.
What is more likely?

>We get US Medical Reform that actually helps the general population and doesn't just give medical workers/owners more money and power.

>Football gets a minor league

:'(
they both compile to a case expression in Abstract Erlang Format

another use case that has not been mentioned is generated functions

you can't generate case statements as easily
We originally planned to release yesterday, but there were test failures in fetch() body streaming that needed to be fixed. The blog post was not meant to be public until Bun 1.0 was available on GitHub, but the blog post link was publicly accessible and our RSS feed had a bug that didn't hide drafts

The specific bug ended up not being in fetch() body streaming, but in our JavaScriptCore binding for getting a property from an object that may not have defined the property. Not all of our code was checking that the value was an object (only that it was a JSCell, which usually is an object, but things like symbols and BigInt are not JSObject)

Thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37424724
Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement is one of the most exhilarating songs I've ever heard, if not the most. I can't believe a piece of music written a few hundred years ago still sounds so modern and exciting and new, it's an incredible work.

I urge everyone to listen to it, specifically the 3rd movement. It really shocks me that Beethoven or anyone could write a piece of music so brilliant like that!
To be fair, the reason this has so few views is because the original was deleted. There are earlier HN threads on this, e.g. here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14236711

Regardless, still a great post and highly worth watching.
My hot take is now that most of the climate change focused people are on board with solar+battery its time to shift the story to focus on the benefits that will accrue - irrespective of climate change.

Solar+grid scale batteries could lead to true energy independence. It would provides optionality in energy sources that can provide energy pricing stability in times of crisis as well as enable lower long term negotiated prices overall.

If OPEC is opportunistically price gouging oil, solar+battery can step in. If China is opportunistically hoarding solar panels and battery raw materials, we can look to OPEC to provide a price ceiling.

I'd rather be dependent on OPEC+China and be able to play them off each other than just be solely dependent on OPEC.

For national security, US reserves should be kept in the ground as long as possible in case of true emergencies. I never got the narrative that we should be pumping it now and selling it on the open market.
Haskell supports this, but right from the start Rust was always wary of trying to add higher kinded types, which are necessary to support this.
I know! Are there no alternatives to Flash? I miss it so much.
You should spin up the new cluster, deploy the apps there, then start shifting traffic to the new one gradually.
Weight-loss drugs seem like another bit of sci-fi becoming fact
The NTSB does not investigate DOD mishaps; the DOD does. Every unit has a standing Aircraft Mishap Board nominated by the unit commander which includes the Safety Officer and other senior aviators. There are formal Aviation Safety Schools which you have to graduate from in order to hold the position of Safety Officer which train you on how to conduct an aircraft mishap investigation.

Every time there is a mishap, two investigations run concurrently. The Aircraft Mishap Board conducts a safety investigation, and another officer conducts a legal investigation to ascertain criminal culpability. The safety investigation takes priority for resources, access to evidence, etc. The legal investigation is FOIA-able. The safety investigation is privileged and confidential under Federal law, cannot be released to the public, and individuals who testify for it are granted immunity. The goal is to ensure that everyone's cards are on the table and to have complete transparency in private, so that the proper corrective actions can occur.

The investigation reports go up the chop chain to a general officer or flag officer who is authorized to approve them, and each commander along the way can offer their comments or propose alternative interpretations of the evidence. The approving commander then orders the proper changes in procedures or rules to be applied, or orders discipline or administrative sanctions if warranted.

And yes, if classified information was deemed germane to an investigation because it related to one of the assessed causal factors, the investigation would be classified appropriately. Or perhaps there might be a classified annex attached to an otherwise unclassified report to simplify handling, with notes saying "see reference (a)." when appropriate. Or if Controlled Unclassified Information was involved, that information would be blocked from release if there was ever a FOIA.
I'm not an Apple device user so I could be mistaken, but Apple devices must be collecting all of this information about their users if Facebook is able to access it.
There are more songs in the menu (I think).
> For grid storage we need batteries with 30+ years lifespan

Why? Lifespan is basically irrelevant even without considering that battery technology continues to rapidly improve: the thing that matters is the cost of upkeep.

> in harsh very hot/very cold weather conditions.

They don't have to be capable of being placed in every single possible location: the whole point of the power grid is that generation doesn't have to be colocated with consumption. But even if they did, EVs have the same constraints, except you can't design an EV to be permanently in the shade.

> They also need to be much cheaper per kW/h than current lithium ion tech.

This depends on what they're competing against. Even current batteries are cost-competitive in some scenarios (i.e. ones where you can't do pumped-storage hydroelectric, either because you don't have water to pump or it'll take too long to build).
People are fond of the “ship debt to a debt buyer” narrative but I don’t think it makes as much sense as people assume. The debt buyers are presumably rational with their pricing. The failure of 2008 was the unanticipated correlation of the default risk of individual debtors. Which I think is less relevant for credit card debt. And presuming the prices are rational, making the debt riskier to sell off shouldn’t make a lot of sense.

Capturing fees in the short term but incurring defaults feels like it should be a net loss to the creditors. If it’s not I feel this deserves some regulation.