skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a uni (just left), a high school friend went into accounting and is the CPA / Accountant for the football team (ok, _one_ of the accountants)...

When times were really, really bad at the uni, talking about furloughing employees, closing down schools, etc, I bumped into him:

Hey fred what's up? How is it going there in the football stadium?
"Eh fine..."
Yeah, times are rough here, we can not purchase pencils or toilet paper. Scared for our jobs.
"what!?! The football / athletics department has so much money, I am practically burning it just to get rid of it"

This was the norm at the university. Research labs? Not updated in 30 years. Football stadium needs a paint job, $@#% that, we are going to build a 100Million dollar new one. Oh, the AC in Engineering is broken, screw them. Oh, its hot outside? 50Million dollar indoor training for the football team.

Yeah, I hate colleges. If their goal was to win games, I would understand. Uh-oh, I was missing the point of college... dang.
> I'm not sure exactly why, but I wonder whether anti-intellectualism has a religious origin.

No but it goes hand in hand. Don't want to people to know what your good book actually says because it's easier to control and bilk them if they can't read.

An odd phenomenon I've seen in the last 15 years (I'm in South Texas) is a cohort of people that are actually proud to be dumb. For them ignorance is to be celebrated. I've even had several tell me that it lets them be more spiritual and in tune with the word of their god.
The ones that I can run on my machine, because I have a UI/CLI and a model running actively, regardless of whether I have a connection to the internet and better privacy
Aurora colors are visible to the naked eye. I've seen it myself.
Developers who see a static type checker as making their work more "difficult" have generally not learned to read code very well.

If you are comfortable reading code critically, a major part of what you are doing is inferring a type for each variable/function/class, whether you know that or not. You mentally infer types like "positive integer".

Developers who are not mentally inferring types instead reason about code purely at the value level. If you read code purely by walking through value transitions, it seems natural enough to think that automated tests (assertions about values) are sufficient.

The jump from value-only reasoning to type-reasoning is very much like the jump from algorithmic to proof-based mathematics.
Archeology is also limited by the things that will survive and what access to them the people had. If the people didn't have access to metal you will find very little metal tools (what you do find will also be used until worn out and then remade into something else; or restricted to the very rich. Either way limiting the usefulness of what evidence we find.)
After reviewing millions of PRs, we've found the 11 that are dragging down your engineering team.
The US military has a bunch of comms satellites. That does not mean the Ukraine military has access to them.
Home runs are a lot fewer in number than fouls or even base hits. Not entirely surprising.
> beyond the timespan a fad could survive

On the voodoo ridden land that is software development, we have plenty of clearly harmful fads that are much older than Rust and yet practiced everywhere.

Up to now, rust async has lasted for less time than the NoSQL craziness. I'm hard pressed to think of any large fad that lasted less than it.
In Germany they call it "Eröterung".
> olympics were for amateurs only

For varying degrees of "amateur". A lot of nations employed their athletes to do nothing but train for the olympic and international competition.
Over the last 3 years, our solar panels in London generated 12MWh of electricity.

We sold 7MWh back to the grid. And we only imported 7MWh.

Basically, we're power neutral right now. A standard UK roof can easily generate an average household's electricity use across the year. Panels are likely to get cheaper and more efficient.

At current prices, solar panels pay for themselves in under 8 years.

Batteries are harder. Our 4.8kWh battery means our electricity bill for August has been practically zero. As we go into winter, we'll switch to a tariff which does cheap overnight charging so we can arbitrage on cost.

Personally, I think big batteries for communities make more sense - the current domestic ones are big, noisy, and have a far longer payback time.

For less than the subsidy of one nuclear power station, we could give every home in the UK a 5kW solar installation. (Yes, I know it isn't that simple.)

Solar has convincingly won. But the inertia of the old way of doing things will take a little time to correct.
Did you finish reading the page you linked? After the Supreme Court overruled the ninth circuit, HiQ was found to be in violation of the user agreement. They had to settle and pay $500k to LinkedIn.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-...
The exact argument was made in the article

> There are a plethora of attacks on TPM in the past but we need to be clear that a system that is widely attacked does not necessarily mean it is fundamentally insecure but only that there are many implementation issues. Most of these implementation issues do not touch upon the points raised in this article (it doesn't matter if the gate to your garden is strong or weak if there is no fence around the garden). Nevertheless, many of the attacks demonstrate the lack of care and consideration in the TPM ecosystem.

The issue is that TPM is being heavily pushed while it provides no security value. When you have Secure Boot (no additional hardware required), you get everything that Microsoft promises. The entire idea of TPM is that it gives you an extra level of security and I argue that it doesn't.
Coast Guard arrests man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic
One thing I am bothered by is student athletes who don't even have to attend classes and have tutors do their work for them or there are special classes set up for them that guarantee an A.

I think the concept of a student athlete is an oxymoron at this point.[1][2] Either the sport really serves no purpose and could exist as a club or the student is not really a student at all and should just be a paid university employee like the coaches. But this inbetween area is odd. I guess the facade of being a student is more endearing maybe because otherwise the university sports team people cheer for is just a bunch of paid professionals basically. Maybe that would ruin the fun for people idk. Not sure I even care. It isn't right to treat some students different than others.

[1]: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/365303-cold-hard-fact-st...

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/us/unc-report-academic-fraud/...
Many people underappreciate the value of liquid energy.

The utility of being able to put your energy in a 5 gallon container and move it anywhere you'd like doesn't compare with batteries.
How would your code look like if you wanted to fire off two concurrent requests and then consume their results later on? In C# it is just

var user = service.GetUser(id);

var promos = service.GetPromotions(category);

var eligible = GetEligibility(await user, await promos);
You may need one of the adjacent spaces in your capture group
> Don't scale for millions of concurrent tasks when you're only looking at a couple dozen max, no matter what language or environment you're in. Very common problem for programmers this decade.

And also with fibers/virtual threads (project loom) you can actually have a million threads using blocking hand-off on one machine. So the performance argument is kind of gone.
Unless some plans have drastically changed, the idea with Starship is to launch a lot from many locations on Earth.

Recent reports mention Gwynne Shotwell describing the factory being built at Starbase as capable of producing around 3 Starships per week. If such a factory works for a year (which doesn't look like a long time for a factory) that's ~150 Starships. 150 Starships each have a chance to launch about twice a year if the launches are daily.

Surely numbers should be modified, some of them don't look right. First, we are probably going to have (way) more than 150 Starships. Second, a Starship is likely going to fly (way) more than twice a year. It's not a Space Shuttle after all. Next, what about those plans - Moon flights, which need refueling on low Earth orbit; Mars flights which need the same; all other flights - like orbital stations, sending probes to planets, space telescopes; finally, business class-like suborbital hops for passengers on Earth?

All of that requires a lot of places to launch Starships. Unless some plans drastically scaled down, it seems like we'll have to see an industry for launchpads growing and prospering in the near future.
Bummer. I'd love to see what other people have generated rather than just the curated stuff.
A lot of this is plain naive and wrong.
Not OP, but synchronous code is much, much easier to understand and write than asynchronous code. What Java is doing is making synchronous code have all the advantages of asynchronous code by making blocking a Thread become a cheap operation (instead of blocking a real OS Thread), making the whole benfit of async code go away while getting rid of async's difficulties, specially in a language that doesn't have async/await (which makes async code "look" synchronous - but in Rust, as this blog post shows, that is not really the case).
In premodern times, it wasn't so much trust as societal mandate. You have to imagine that domestic abuse and neglect ran rife and was just accepted as par for the course.
I wonder if there's any chance of a beta programme? I literally just wrapped principle photography on a short film that has a bunch of animated elements I'm going to have to figure out how to do for budgetary reasons. Love ProCreate and this looks like a fascinating tool. November is quite a while away!
Every single word of that is bullshit. 100% lies paid for by oil companies. And at this point the evidence is so clear and overwhelming that there is no reason to believes anyone argues this bullshit in good faith.

Summers are getting longer and hotter, glaciers and arctic ice are receding at record speeds, those are undeniable facts that everyone can see that with their own eyes.

So fuck right off with your Rupert-Murdoch-provided lies.
Had a Whole Earth Catalog flashback looking at this, and it made my day. Then even more flashbacks when I went to the page where I can download the PDF: http://www.publiccollectors.org/CompletePublications.htm . Like traveling to another time.
Lithium batteries also have costs involved even though they have benefits. I feel that pumped 'hydro' energy storage with dense liquids will be more sustainable for power grids in the long run.

There are also aspects of our current energy usage that cannot yet be performed by renewables, such as mass steel production and recycling of solar panels or wind turbines. R&D should be done to come up with fixes for these problems.
There is a giant difference between nuclear tech of the 1950s and Solar+batteries of today. The scale of deployment, the engineering challenges and the degree of planning required are all massively different, as well as the biggest factor: the base cost of an installation per KWh produced. You can effectively call up a solar installer and buy the parts tomorrow morning and you could have a working setup somewhere mid next week if it is your first time.

Batteries are available today. Whether they are the right choice for you is mostly dependent on the kind of power hookup that you have (assuming an on-grid system), local certification requirements and available space (and of course funds).
I was referring his claims about electrification of glo al car fleet. Now that you mention, he had also some claims about lithium needs for replacing all fossil production with lithium batteries, baut also there the assumptions were not so realistic if I recall correctly. If you want to quote him, I would recommend going through his assumptions very carefully.
The Toronto region has a number of low head dams that have in my memory claimed at least seven people and one dog. A number of drownings were of people who jumped in to save their dog. Usually the dog got out on its own.

Paddlers are generally aware, but one fatality was a paddler unfamiliar with the river. His daughter survived because she was in the front of the canoe and likely entered the water downstream of the peak of the boil.

If caught in a hydraulic, your best chance of survival is to immediately dive for the bottom where the current runs downstream. Good Luck!

After a number of deaths, one dam was dynamited and others have been filled in downstream.
robots.txt is such a shitty implementation, it's like putting the "authorized admittance only" sign on the back of the door you're not allowed to traverse.

Were it a standard, it wouldn't be so easily neglected without consequence. In practice it's an arbitrary playground rule, like declaring the floor is actually lava. Unless you're directly involved with coming up with these "standards," you can go your entire career in total ignorance of all of them.
The Florida Starship factories and launch sites are in progress but watchers (NasaSpaceFlight channel) have reported things going on hold recently as Boca Chica makes changes.

My presumption is BC will be R&D-ish and FL PRD-ish with Vandenburg coming online after FL. If I had to bet, I'd bet on FL being where the first crewed Starship launches but BC where that vehicle class is launched first.

As a result I think the tempo in BC will be more irregular than FL where two Falcon launches in a week aren't rare.
> LinkedIn petitioned the Supreme Court to review the Ninth Circuit's decision.[9] In an order on June 14, 2021,[10] the Supreme Court vacated the Ninth Circuit's decision on the basis of their ruling on CFAA the week prior in Van Buren v. United States, which had ruled that the "exceeds authorized access" of CFAA only applies when an individual has valid access to a system but accesses parts of a system they are not intended to access.[4] The case was remanded to the Ninth Circuit for further review under Van Buren.[11]

> In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision.[5][6]

Is this not saying the opposite?
it's laughable that engineers and product teams wanted to unionize. get real, people.
Asking it for one eyed anything produces only outputs with two eyes
How We Continued Porting Turborepo to Rust (With Zig)
> “every machine is compromised and I should never trust anything ever”

This is where I am already at.

However, you can't totally live like this in 2023. You need to take some risks.

I just can't believe how bad iPhone security is STILL. Capitalism prioritizes profits over all, it seems Apple has no problem cutting on security and spending on marketing the word "SECURITY" with black text and a white background.
I hope this dfajklgsdfjklagsdfjklsd finds you well.
> Solar has convincingly won.

> As we go into winter, we'll switch to a tariff which does cheap overnight charging so we can arbitrage on cost.

Seems it really didn't. What is your plan for the new way of getting electricity in winter?
Using a decryption password on boot is less secure than TPM + measured boot/secure boot. Specifically, it’s vulnerable to a two-touch attack. In the first touch, the attacker replaces your bootloader with one that looks identical but steals your password. On the second touch, they now use the password to steal your data.
> Demonstrably by this 1.0 bun release it seems safe to say it ended up being a fine decision, no?

That’s just a decision they’ve made themselves. I honestly think it’s an interesting question: can software built on a <1.0 base legitimately call itself 1.0? What if there are big underlying issues discovered within Zig?
They are collecting lots more. I think the argument is that selling said data is not their business model. At least for now.
Like I have already said, there is no shortage of people who could write better EDA tools, but none of them can obtain the information needed to make them compatible with e.g. TSMC, despite the fact that one would think that it is in the interest of a foundry to provide the information that would be needed to enable the appearance of new customers.

However most foundries, like too many other businesses today, are not interested in new customers, unless they already are very big companies, which is one of the factors that has resulted in the extraordinary reduction in the number of companies that compete in every field, in comparison with the situation from a couple of decades ago.
My wife is an artist and she really likes her Samsung with S-Pen. It's pretty nice, and way cheaper than an iPad
Honestly, the low tech nature of grinding up rocks, baking them, and setting them out in a pile makes this seem pretty easy to scale, given any money
A slight tangent - I played small college football as a lineman and every once in a while we'd be in a televised game. Those games were almost a different sport because they'd stop play during commercial breaks, so it was as if 10+ random time-outs were sprinkled through the game.

While not an exact comparison, playing line during a possession is like having a series of 5 to 10-second intervals where you're either sumo wrestling or sprinting, with 10-40 seconds to recover between each. So during the off-season, linemen are trying to reach a balance of strength, speed, and cardio to meet their team's play style. Because most of our games were non-televised (and therefore we didn't get the additional breaks) our linemen conditioned more heavily for cardio/recovery. So when we'd play a televised game we'd basically feel like our cardio was "underutilized". I'd love to see an analysis of whether our team ran more line-intensive plays during these games because we had the additional recovery time.

It's weird for me to see these huge guys in D1 college and the NFL playing line, because I'm pretty sure they'd cramp up/get gassed during a drive in a non-televised game.
One of the leaps about AI is that there used to be a human bottleneck in this kind of content. Youtube needed youtubers (content creators), porn sites needed women (the primary bottleneck), etc etc for all digitizable forms of human experience. I find it ironic that in close time proximity to NFTs and digital real estate we see the ability to generate practically unlimited of those things being a foreseeable reality.

I think this will only further increase the value of the real, if only as novelty like owning a muscle car that is as/more expensive but slower than a 2024 corvette.
If I don't use something often enough I just forget how it works.
Also methane burns cleaner, which helpful when you want to launch a rocket multiple times per day. Performance is pretty great too.
NFL teams have to do deal with a city government to get their stadiums built. I'm surprised there's any at all. Colleges football has more autonomy and can actually accomplish things.
FreeBSD pf bypass when using IPv6
They're not afraid because they know eventually it would culminate into a 0 - instant - "you win the game." card in the end. ;-)
And yet apple make so much noise about privacy, but don't activly block access to personal information.

Like why do they allow access to the health data stored in the phone?

It's almost like they need facebook to be the devil so they can say how good they are.
There are some concerns that the internationally recognized image of Saxony as an extremely xenophobic region will deter international talent.
The main problem isn’t staffing the plant with human assembly and packaging drones but having engineers and IT join permanently after production starts.
Rural saxony is not a place where you want to live if even your last name isn’t deemed ‘white’ or ‘German’ enough. And after years of cultivating this image it started to work against the best interests of the more rural parts of the region: brain drain galore and no sane person seeking work in a future proof place to build a life would come.
I love this comment. You've packed a lot of snippets of wisdom and good ideas into an "economized" length (# of words). And, you're exactly right - I see a lot of "meat" here, but even a decade ago, I would have seen a lot less and some of this would be more of a starting point ... some outlining and ideas to learn more about.*

Picking up a habit of 'reaching for dialectic' is one of the most valuable things I've ever learned. I've found that it even helps to 'decouple' 'ideas' from 'identity' more completely and thoroughly than quite a lot of learning about and practicing 'mindfulness' in various forms - at least, for someone like me. And, that is about as helpful as anything gets if you want to be able to "see clearly" ... to get more clarity in terms of what is "more actually true" (as opposed to whatever mix of nonsense and shades of truth(s) any of us may have in our heads at any given time).

In that vein, and I may have written this on HN before ... not sure and not bothering to check this second: true 'skepticism'** STARTS with skepticism of one's own thoughts! It's about as inefficacious as 'methods' get to spend all of one's time picking apart ideas and 'information' and the like presented from 'the outside'*** while spending no time subjecting what's presented internally to any amount of scrutiny at all.

* vs. a "parsimonious" solid set of wisdom with some breadth even if tending towards a little "ad hoc" - yet, it all hangs off common thread(s), IMO

** In more of an original [Ancient Greek] sense than modern connotation

*** I.e., NOT "the half behind the eyes", as Terry Pratchett phrases it in one of his books
Yes, when implemented correctly (I've never seen Google's implementation so I can't comment), D-RTM + Secure Boot is good. If Microsoft would give us this before shoving TPM down our throats, it would be good :) But they haven't even fixed the weaknesses they identified on their own in 2006.
> We need grid-scale energy storage.

We need some grid-scale energy storage. But having distributed storage is a welcome element as well, it makes the grid far more stable and reduces the impact of peak production times as well as the day/night cycle.

Anyway, on a planetary scale energy is more of an engineering challenge than a serious problem, the issues all stem from the hundreds of local fiefdoms that all vie for control of a slice of the pie.
Claims that China is the world’s biggest polluter ignore the fact that so much of the rest of the world has outsourced their manufacturing to China. Those emissions mostly aren’t going towards bettering the lives of Chinese people, they’re for producing the stuff we buy.

In the same vein, a lot of the clean air improvements in the US can be attributed to moving those factories to China. Chinese people are dying early from air pollution to make stuff for us. People in Pittsburgh used to bring two shirts to work because it was so polluted. Not anymore.

“Convincing China to stop expanding their emissions” is akin to stopping consuming manufactured goods.

Americans are also far more prolific polluters than Chinese at an individual level. Due to poor urban design endemic to North American cities, most travel involves cars and airplanes, some of the worst conceivable means of transportation from an environmental perspective.

This isn’t to say China is blameless. They’ve definitely made some choices favoring expediency over sustainability. But it seems a bit rich to shift blame to China and other poorer nations now when CO2-driven climate change was a problem Carl Sagan warned Congress about in the 80s (and he was ignored).