skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then we can discount all people being hurt from falls when building solar plants because the panels themselves did not kill them, they just did not follow OSHA regulations!

Solar = 0.0!

Why don't we abolish the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act and see how far nuclear gets when having to pay the true cost for their insurance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
Yes, a very good point. The goal is not "build a rocket". It's "build a factory for building many rockets".
The people who criticize these questions do so out of insecurity - they know they aren't at the level required to solve it, which is embarrassing because it's pretty simple stuff, so they try to poke holes in it and justify their ineptitude with comments like the one you're responding to.
the thing is, for the most part this is straight up good.
sure it has bugs and stuff like that, but its solving a real need. Bringing more value to the buisness than almost anything else for its cost
they're good at hiding that they have those opinions

I think the answer to this question is that most people simply don't have opinions on the vast majority of subjects, and that "having an opinion" is largely an identity marker of the intellectually-minded – and not a basic quality that everyone has. So it's not so much that such people are good at hiding their unorthodox opinions, but that they haven't really thought about it in the first place.

PG's other essay, "Keep Your Identity Small" is a good solution to this tendency of intellectually-minded people to want to have an opinion on everything.
Possibly ridiculous question, but does GPU lifespan decrease with more intense use?

I could imagine, if so, that they bought some hardware, which needs replacing sooner than they thought, and the running costs are catching up with them.

Or not. Nigh impossible to speculate!
> in a military capacity

"But overthrowing the democratically elected governments, meddling with politics and financing gallant people is fine, because it's not our boots on the ground who dies there"
Having room enough in your worldview for an FBI that goes so far over their brief that they could start a war is well outside my comfort zone. Note that what you are describing goes directly against anything the FBI stands for and with a flourish you equate that 0.0000001% possibility with the 98% possibility (based on the evidence available) that this is Russia acting to sow dissent in the EU.

Note that these are borderline acts of war, we're not talking about some minor stuff, even though in the context of the present conflict they are in fact minor, but that's just because there is already a hot war going on and most parties are trying to contain the conflict, not broaden it (they've had plenty of excuses to do so).

Just the fact that two things are possible does not make them automatically equally possible, this is the 'both sides' fallacy and hence logic failure.
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Huh? I do that all the time (run Alpine compiled exes on other distros). I use an Alpine Docker image to build statically linked exes (using MUSL as libc) which are distro agnostic since they don't depend on glibc. Works just fine (for command line tools at least).
I was talking about this with a friend the other week... I think what IT depts really need to do is let people go crazy with Excel/VBA, but write a script to monitor activity on xls files on the network over the long term.

If there's an xls which has been in regular use for more than 18 months, and it contains macros, then it can be assumed it performs some important role and should be properly documented and checked and could also be rewritten in a "real" language and officially supported. Set up a meeting with whoever made it, and whoever's touched it most. Approach it more like "we're improving your cool thing" than "we're taking away your toys".
Yeah LOL comes from the BBS days as do a bunch of other acronyms/initialisms https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/lol-s-25th-annivers...
This view is extremely US centrict with regards to what socialism is. It also ignores decades of history when it comes European relations with the USSR and Russia later. Mixed with some red-scare level fears it turns into pure dilussion at the end...
Depends on the project.

Terraform is for when you are doing large projects in company, and want to have additional management features that CDK doesn't have.

On the flip side, for personal projects, you can get away with using boto3 library with the api it provides to create infrastructure, considering infrastructure probably won't change much, and its free. You pretty much just have to write a little wrapper to create the resource if it doesn't exist, then modify its attributes whether its just been created or if it already exists.

CDK, and pure cloudformation, and others are somewhere in between
You can just install Telegram and send messages on any platform including desktop. Why use telco-controlled, unencrypted RCS?
I think Sylvian Chomet is way closer to 'animation Mozart'. Miyazaki is very good, but overrated.
This is frequently talked about regarding the scientific disciplines - it's very hard to make progress with novel ideas; and this despite the fact that every leap in understanding has been due to the novel contributions of novel minds.
People want to be bonded, formally, officially. Marriage is not some artificial thing, it’s baked into human nature.
Show HN: Mywanderlustmap.com - chat, locations, get ticket info, upload photos
Hi all! I recently created this Wanderlust Map based on the awesome wanderlust demo from OpenAI demo day and it's sort of taken on it's own life.

I would love some feedback.

You can chat, get locations, get ticket info, upload photos of places of interest to go to places, upload documents to extract data about locations, flights and chat in several different languages with build in text to speech.

I recently added google auth to allow ppl to save their threads and past trips.

I am looking for a co-founder and any advice on how to develop this idea.

I also nabbed a few other good domains such as TravelMapGPT and Mapg.pt

:D
Maybe I am misunderstanding, but if I read this correctly, he says that he pushed out a major v2.0 release with new dependencies just minutes before a launch event that cannot be moved or changed. Even worse, he says that he never ran the prod build, and only in his personal browser.

If this is in fact the case, this sounds like a severe lack of testing or foresight.Testing should include prod builds in multiple browsers and operating systems, and it should most certainly be released at least a few days before any launch events, if you depend on a potentially lengthy review process. He didn't even take into account that the original v2.0 review could have also been delayed.

Maybe I am severely misinterpreting what happened here (apologies if I did), but to me it sounds like a he is blaming Google's review process when he should be looking at his release and test practices.
Stripe is cracking down on AI Companions – Why?
I'm polite and thankful in my chats with ChatGPT. I want to treat AIs like humans. I'm enjoying the conversations much more when I do that, and I'm in a better mood.

I also believe that this behavior is more future-proof. Very soon, we often won't know if we're talking to a human or a machine. Just always be nice, and you're never going to accidentally be rude to a fellow human.
Am I going to get push-back for saying economic policy makers should hold USSR reports with suspicion? Their ability to make rational decisions was so hopeless their civilisation collapsed. Doing the exact opposite of their economic recommendations is a strategy that is legitimately on the table.

And oversight is different from strangulation. If we could dial back the regulations to mere oversight I'd go find something else to talk about.
I am increasingly finding myself using ChatGPT powered Bing over Google (or rather, DuckDuckGo) for my daily driver.
What amazes me the most is the incredible ability of humans to rationally understand all this and just go "...meh".
Stop Trying to Make Financial Literacy Happen (2015)
Solar was never “unfairly sidelined” because it was never regulated to death. That’s why it’s gotten cheaper while nuclear has stagnated.
> Gmail works best on Chrome.

Is this true, and if so, in what way?

> Google Docs uses cutting-edge features first (or only) found on Chrome.

Such as?

(I haven’t been a Google user for over six years, but back then neither of these were true, to my knowledge—if anything, Gmail worked better on Firefox due to significantly lower resource usage—and I can’t imagine what could have changed. Google Meet I’d understand, working properly depends on I think it’s WebRTC stuff Firefox still hadn’t shipped last I heard, but nothing that would be relevant for Gmail or Google Docs leaps out at me.)

I know I’ve heard at times of Google doing inappropriate user-agent sniffing and sending a degraded experience unless your browser claims to be Chromium, but I don’t think that’s reasonable grounds for saying it works best on Chrome, when it’s deliberate/malicious (organisational malice even if no other form) and works just fine in other browsers if they just pretend to be Chromium in their UA string.

Google has pestered and bullied and underhandedly bundled people into installing Chrome, but through most of the time they’ve made any claims about it, they’ve simply been lies, plain and simple. (Most commonly, they made a claim that was true at first, but were still making the same claim years later when it was no longer true but rather the converse in some cases.)
> I think that is often down to them not being as general purpose as many people try to claim.

Is that the claim actually that they are general purpose, or do people not understand the claims made? Go has been very explicit that it is designed for systems programming. The Rust camp seems to hold a similar position. "Systems" implies that it is not designed for all tasks. But I'm not sure "systems" is properly understood by a lot of people.
They don’t care.
Free cgpt users and low tier API users are downgraded opaquely to lower models when demand is high.

It's irritating because I have over 4000 API chats in a DB that I like to analyze, but I cannot now know for certain which model was actually being used.
> not sure if they are very profitable and have no need for additional money

You’re going to make someone choke on their drink. The idea that a US tech mogul, and Sam Altman at that¹, would decide “you know what, I think I have enough money” is the realm of bad science fiction.

¹ Sam used to be the president of Y Combinator (i.e. a startup accelerator) and founded the Worldcoin cryptocurrency scam: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
> I’d personally prefer it if vendors also had to distribute signing keys, but that’s a separate question.

This would completely and entirely defeat the purpose of signing. Once a private (signing) key is no longer private, it's useless.
There are a whole lot of people whose "strategy" for navigating life is to always pick the side of the strongest group. For them being part of the mainstream as a form of protection is of higher priority than being correct/truthful/just/moral.

I don't think pg was referring to this demographic, but there are certainly a whole lot of people who even take pride in being mainstream on every topic.
TensorFlow Playground – Tinker with a NN in the Browser
Sad state of affairs in AI: Jeremy Howard remorseful
A good essay, and one that relates to a bigger idea, which I think you could summarize as: a major trait of modernity (or post-modernity?) is the insistence that identifying and labeling things that happened in the past prevents them from happening today.

You can see this play out with religious belief, politics, biology, on and on. We read about the Salem Witch Trials and laugh at those silly irrational people from the past...and then act in extremely similar ways ourselves.

I'm not sure what the solution to this is, but I think studying the origins of popular contemporary ideas (in the way done by Nietzsche or Foucault) [1] is a good start.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_(philosophy)
As I understand it, PowerShell allows you, out of the box, to write some C# code in a string, and then run it. And by C# code I mean regular classes with all the bells and whistles.
It's a common term in online video gaming as well
> Aren't languages like C notoriously difficult to parse? I've read that they're actually context sensitive.

All programming languages with identifiers are context-sensitive if you put well-formedness into the grammar. C is not exactly difficult to parse, rather it just needs some specific approach compared to most other languages. The biggest (and technically the only [1]) ambiguity is a confusion between type-specifier and primary-expression, which is a roundabout way to say that `(A) * B` is either a multiplication or a dereference-then-cast expression depending on what `A` is in the current scope. But it also has a typical solution that works for most parsers: parser keeps a stack of scopes with contained identifiers, and lexer will distinguish type identifiers from other identifiers with that information. This approach is so popular that even has a name "semantic feedback".

[1] As an example, the notorious pointer and array declaration syntax is actually an unambiguous context-free grammar. It is notorious only because we humans can't easily read one.

> IIRC much of Go's syntax was designed to avoid parsing complexity.

Go's semantics (in particular, name resolution and module system) was designed to avoid complexity. Its syntax is quite normal, modulo personal and subjective bits which all languages have. I can't see any particular mention of syntax decision to performance in the initial spec document [2].

[2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/18c5b488a3b2e218c0e0cf2a7d...
Fun fact: Haskell was established by a committee based on best practices from a jungle of ML-type languages.
A simple way to enhance class methods using JS/TS decorator
# Method Enhancer

Enhance the class method in a simple way.

## Install

```
npm install method-enhancer
```

## Usage

```ts
import { Enhance, enhancer } from 'method-enhancer'

const speakerEnhancer = enhancer<Speaker>({
say(arg) {
console.log('Before')
this.$say(arg)
console.log('After')
}
})

class Speaker {
@Enhance(speakerEnhancer.say)
say(arg: string) {
console.log(arg)
}
}

const speaker = new Speaker()

speaker.say('Hello world')
// output:
// Before
// Hello world
// After
```

If you set `strictNullChecks: false`, you can write like this:

```ts
import { Enhance, Enhancement } from 'method-enhancer'

const speakerEnhancer: Enhancement<Speaker> = {
say(arg) {
console.log('Before')
this.$say(arg)
console.log('After')
}
}

class Speaker {
@Enhance(speakerEnhancer.say)
say(arg: string) {
console.log(arg)
}
}

const speaker = new Speaker()

speaker.say('Hello world')
```

## Typescript Support

Only support Typescript 5.0 and above

## How Does This Work?

`@Enhance` decorator make `this.$originalName` point to the target method, and pass `this` to the enhancer.
Kagi is still fundraising & most of your subscription fee goes to sourcing results from Google. We don't know yet if it will be a sustainable business model.
The answer to both of those is “de beers” I think.

Monopolies/cartels can create all sorts of market inefficiencies if they want to.
I would say it's a secular international standard of Christian origin, similar to how "information" is an English word even if it's actually a French word. The origin of concepts is important but usage is what ultimately defines them, not etymology. The exceptions prove the rule and most of those countries only use the other calendar ceremonially, and the ones that don't are still familiar with the Gregorian calendar.

Regardless, just because the standard is not used by 100% of humanity doesn't justify programmers coming up with their own calendar instead of using the obvious choice. It's unnecessary.
Ask HN: YC reacceptance rate post interview?
We've been through our bi-annual YC rejection. The rejection letter contains the beautifully optimistic line, "Over 50% of the startups we accept are repeat applicants." However, 2 years ago we were invited to interview and ultimately rejected with the feedback of our target market isn't big enough. Does anyone know what proportion of companies in a batch were reapplications that had been rejected after an interview?
Damn bro tell me more about how easy opium is to make. time to start a garden
It's a great shot for sure but there an element of luck and the fact that one of the best golf players in the world can pull it off, on occasion, isn't in the slightest bit surprising.
There's a bunch of things on there that haven't had a release in over 25 years. Are they still doing current builds on SCO, Xenix, OS/2 and NextStep?

I've run these, I know some curl exists on them, but in my experience that curl is always like at least 15 years old.

If you say you don't want to break some support matrix and the last build on a bunch of that matrix was well over a decade ago, how do you know it's not broken?
I don't understand how people can accept the browser hiding the URL.
Github has denied the reports that Copilot is losing money:

https://nitter.net/simonw/status/1712165081327480892
Yep I can appreciate the misunderstanding. For completeness of the discussion, I think where sgarland mentioned a sub-shell, he was possibly referencing the Bashism `$(<` detailed on this page https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Command-S... in addition to what I called a "statement" above.
so basically you're saying that the cpu frontend missed the opportunity to ignore the 0x90 because it was an actual instruction which would be converted into an actual nop uop?

Is this still the case or modern intel CPUs optimize out the nop in the frontend decoder?
We do not need another ludicrously over-engineered solution. The world is drowning in them.

Mosquito nets work and are cheap and environmentally neutral.
Bad experiences shape good future sometimes. Thanks for the support!
I think it's from the image creator.
Funny thing: this new version is 412KB, and is also 412 times smaller than the version from the original post (which was 170MB).
Same here, I started to work at 1.4 and thought it'll never change.

Now I things it should be an occasion to open champagne with fellow developers, as it's rarer than new years!
Get yourself a big old tub of anhydrous citric acid from Amazon or wherever, make up a 10% solution and use that in place of rinse aid. Just check with your dishwasher manufacturer that it’s not going to cause issues first.

I got a new Miele unit a few months ago and the manual specifically advises the use of such a solution, with caution not to make it any stronger.

It’s been working like a charm.
ChatGPT had outages recently, when it went down people who relied on it went to Bing chat which is based on GPT4 and is free
your first two links are duplicates
You're exactly correct on the solution, but allow me to take it down to a more fundamental level; the traditional liberal arts education!

1. Grammar to understand language

2. Logic to construct arguments based on reason

3. Rhetoric to articulate those ideas and refine them based on communicating with others.

You're also correct in that it is post-modernism which is the root of much of this weird new orthodoxy. It has its place in academia, it's useful for deconstructing an idea or thing, but no place in running a society in which there must be standards of truth upon which we all agree.
Ask HN: How is your early retirement working out?
I am curious how many of you on the FIRE path have reached the retirement stage and how it's working out for you.

How do you spend your time?
Is there any friction with your still employed friends and family?
Do you miss work?

Thanks :)
> Energy subsidizes in Europe looks different. Wind/Solar are the single biggest recipient of subsidies and receive about as much as the combined total of all other subsidies in the energy sector. They get far more per watt produced than anything else, mostly going to grid connections, building, deconstruction, and price guaranties. (The yearly report is produced and published by the European commission at ec.europa.eu)

So we should cut off subsidies agreed on 10 years ago during renewables learning curve to make it even? The renewable subsidies for new builds today are miniscule in Europe, which is what we are making the decisions based on.

How many Hinkley Point Cs costing ~€0.15/kWh to the consumers, very similar to energy crisis prices, should we fund just so you can stop complaining about past history for renewables?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
AFAIK this is not something the model was intentionally trained for but an emerging property that was observed through trial and error.
What a rude response. I doubt you have ever built any electronic products, or you would not say that.
I've been in manufacturing for ~13 years across 5 different organizations. There'll inevitably come up a spreadsheet use case where you'll have to execute a well defined series of steps on a recurring basis (and some of these steps may not be possible using the built-in functionality alone). Which is where VBA comes in. I've sometimes wondered what I would do in the absence of VBA and come to the conclusion that

a) I'd be forced to complete a painstaking task "manually", and likely committing the occasional error in the process, not to mention all the time I'd have "wasted"

b) In the case of "optional" tasks (whatever that may mean) I'd have had to give up on whatever functionality/feature VBA enables and some level of detail/sophistication/speed would thereby be lost.

To get a bit more concrete in terms of use cases, any spreadsheet task involving a bill of materials or having to do with stock management is probably ripe for some VBA enhancement. I am aware that it is looked down upon by some, but advising against VBA in favor of Python or some other "proper" tool that calls for an IDE is a bit like telling someone who wants to take up home cooking to get a fancy Japanese chef's knife set plus a sharpener instead of the good old all-purpose knife he is certain to have lying around.
That 25 seems a generous understatement.

I don’t think you can build for Xenix, the most modern GCC that can target it is 2.7 and that’s already ancient, not to mention the network code. It’s probably “at some point it was running on those systems”.
As much as an echo chamber other big mastodon instances are, which all defederate quite quickly.
I ran into this the first time I tried to cite an essay that was dependent on many internet sources. A shocking amount of it was 'date unknown'.
Indeed, on one hand you have a convoluted modern caste system which can irrationally change form at any given time - and on the other hand, you have philosophical ideas that have matured over hundreds or even thousands of years.

It's not difficult to choose which way to follow.
"a startup accelerator" that created and operates this very site, dude.