skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear your point that the act or process of doing the learning is good, even if the end result is that you shouldn't do the thing again. Such as learning assembly but then only doing web development for a profession where you don't need to know assembly.

However, I think that the statement below might be better with a bit of nuance.

> It's not true to suggest (or to read these stories as a new bystander and come away with the idea that) "if I were smarter I never would have wasted time on that"

I would say its "not true always," in some cases doing the action really wasn't worth the time.

Related to this, I believe the sentiment people have about regretting wasting time on some endevour, is a misalignment of what their intention was to begin with.

For example, if someone wanted to compile their own kernal because they wanted to learn and understand more about their computer its unlikely that they would walk away from that experience with regret. However if they wanted to compile their own kernal because they believed that in doing so they would make 10x more money in the long run (through learning so much), and that goal failed to materialize. They would likely tell others to not waste their time learning to compile their own kernal.

Not trying to be pedantic, or argumentative, I aggree with your point deeply, however I wanted to discuss it a bit further. Let me know your thoughts.
By exploiting existing long-established natural underground rivers and water basins ..
Do you have the text from the message that says all of your photos will be lost? I’ve never seen it.
All of Canada's power reactors are government owned, with about half of them operated by a private operator under long-term lease (Bruce Power) and the other half operated directly by provincial crown corporations. Additionally, essentially all of Canada's large hydroelectric facilities (gigawatt scale) are also owned and operated by provincial crown corporations.

Some projects are simply too large with too long a payback period for private investment.
Why wait until the final nail has been hammered before escaping your coffin?
Firefox has been my main browser for a long time but I've also been a mutlibrowser user for a long time. Right now I'm typing this in firefox, chrome is in my second monitor running twitch, and I will be using edge for my work.
I don't much care, TBH. Having worked in the Chromium codebase before, I know what an absolutely mammoth amount of engineering hours goes into that.

V8 on its own is a technological miracle.

But all funded by a firehose of crazy privacy invading ad revenue.

So. I'll live with the odd pause and a bit of battery drain. I gave Google 10 years of my life as an employee in exchange for $$, I'm not interested in giving them the rest of my life for free.
It's not the 'certification cost' that is the root problem, it's the liability cost of an accident, which will only ever increase in the future.

The 'certification cost' is just the threshold at which the FAA is fine with all the liability being offloaded on to them, for engines made and maintained to spec at least.

i.e. For this cost to actually decrease would require an entirely different society, one that doesn't settle things through the judicial/administrative system whatsoever. But then costs may increase somewhere else.
> I think the let it fails slogan is taken too literally, especially by people who don't use OTP

I like the philosophy - when taken literally, it saves writing error-handling code at unit-level for an entire class of errors (equivalent to JVMs unchecked exceptions). A well-architected supervision tree will handle that for you, when paired with the excellent out-of-the-box instrumentation for observability.

> You can handle errors and exceptions if you want

Yes, which is why it's standard to pattern-match on a function's results to check if returned a known err or not - after all, (checked) errors are just a return value in Erlang/BEAM.
I was referring to the hard drive part. Though yes, this would be more of an anonymity concern.
I can only speak for Japan but it makes a huge difference being able to rent an apartment for a year for a fraction of a price of hotels/airbnb, and also get a proper Japanese phone number which is practically a requirement for all kinds of interactions here.

Not to mention having a full year instead of having to do a visa run every 3 months and risk being rejected.
Surprised nobody mentions this: Firefox DevTools are so, so much better than Chrome's, especially shining in two areas: (a) inspecting layouts with flex/grid; (b) inspecting websocket traffic.

Been using FF for 10+ years, never looked back.
+1: They've been ignoring this one for years.
Ohh, that is clever - unless someone writes a test for these two new lines, and finds that they never return -EINVAL.
Or maybe the whole AI bubble is about to deflate as the inevitable copyright battles begin, and as more people turn against a technology that threatens to automate away interesting/creative jobs rather than mundane and repetitive ones...
> comparing retail price to wholesale price?

Yes. If you have an adjusted price, I’d be curious.

That said, we can compare the real-world France and Uruguay. On the basis of both price and cost, France runs cheaper.

Obviously there are many other factors at play. But while I love Uruguay and its bold energy vision, they are not an example of wind + storage proving economically viable.
Okay, at first, I was amused with the acronym's similarity to a certain Ford model that... didn't last too long on the market. I've snarked on things like this before, and been downvoted, likely for adding little else to the conversation, so I was going to give this one a miss.

Still, I was curious, so I fed it to the Duck, and got links like:

https://www.edsl.net/

https://www.insystechinc.com/edsl/

Not what was meant, I suspected, which is when I started this reply, and then remembered that other search site everyone seems to like. A search there finally brought up this:

https://wiki.c2.com/?EmbeddedDomainSpecificLanguage

which provided the answer I'm pretty sure I was seeking.

So, for all the rest of us less-enlightened visitors who might not actually know, I believe that EDSL (in this case) means:

Embedded Domain Specific Language
Can you explain the process by which Mozilla gives the unique identifier to Google?

The article quotes Mozilla saying they can correlate the two, but it doesn't state how.
The project was created and is maintained by Adam Bard, but is open sourced with over 1.7k contributors since 2013

https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs
That usually happens when you try to work with immutable data structures like you are used to with mutable datastructures.

For example, if you append to a mutable list then it's going to be fast. But prepending to it is much slower. With immutable lists, it's the other way around. Not knowing that will make you think that immutable datastructures are generally slow, but they are not.

That being said, I would say they are generally more tricky, so it's good to understand in which cases it's worth to sacrifize safety and readability and switch to mutable datastructures for performance reasons.
He actively gave to organizations that were formed to restrict freedom.

And the LBGTQ community, we're not going to sit and be quiet about those sorts of things.
Harnessing knowledge of human nature does not require government support. Governments don't create human nature.

They use the government where possible, but as just one of countless tools. They don't always get what they want from the governemnent, yet they still make money. As often as not, corporations end up making more money as a result of losing some fight with a government.

All they need to make money is activity. Any activity, even "the government just took away something we were using and dinged us for $200M" 6 months later they are worth twice what they were before, because that was big activity.

If the government takes away a toy they were making money from, they just figure out some other new toy, and in the end the shake-up and (forced) opportunity for change was worth more than what they were making from the status quo.
The format those files are delivered in generally do not simply contain a typeface. They contain code that draws the typeface, which is a computer program, and that is covered by copyright.
Those things are not rocket science, isn't it ?
> There are plenty of cultures from 2000+ years ago that never bothered thinking about the shape of Earth.

For those, we don't have any kind of indicator what they believed about earths shape, so why do they matter?

The way you phrased your comment indicated that you kinda believe that now one at any point in early history really believed in a flat earth, and it's all just a story made up later.
Landlords do not raise their rents because their own costs increase, unlike a gas station or any other sector of the economy. Landlords put the rent as high as they can get away with and are then very happy if people blame other people for it, for example digital nomads.

Home sellers equally sell their homes as expensive as they can and if the local work force can't afford a home then fuck them, they should move away or pay a land lord and stay broke. That's what most people think. But it's ridiculous to then blame the consequences on politicians or foreigners.

Businesses on the other hand have their own costs that dictates what they have to charge to remain in business. And they go out of business if they can't balance that. A land lord never goes out of business. A home owner can abandon his real estate for decades without losing it. There's a huge difference to businesses.

An example similar to real estate is natural resources, such as oil and gas. They generate enormous profit compared to investments and cost of operation. Some nations chose to let a few interests take those profits, some nations give their citizens cheap or free gas, some nations invest the profits into large funds and et cetera. There are different ways of doing things. Wherever you live right now, people did things differently in the past, especially when it comes to real estate.
I work outside of London in the UK and my salary was $91k, way above the visa requirement. I think most senior UK engineers could meet it.
It’s not a problem unless they do something I don’t like like Apple /s
I still hate Google for naming their browser Chrome for that reason. They made a perfectly good and useful UI term almost unusable.

Ironically, the modern web also led to UI chrome being harder and harder to distinguish even in native applications.
Wow I didn’t know that! Explains why it’s so much more competitive than the rest of Renault’s lineup
> Which mobile platform provides unlimited/better for no cost?

For one, Android. I use Syncthing; my phone reports that I've synced 27gb of local state to my PC and laptop without me paying a dime.

Caveat being, you have to use a mobile platform that doesn't prevent third-parties from integrating with the OS. iCloud's quality is almost besides the point when Apple uses their software control to ensure a feature-complete alternative can't exist.
Right... if you skip building a power plant for your reactor then it is "faster".

Personally the only number I find interesting is the time from investment decision to in service. Everything else is simply done to muddle the picture because the numbers would get pushback.
If GP is anything like me, they used Firefox before Chrome was released. The Mozilla/Netscape suite that spawned Firefox is older than Google itself.

For a time, Firefox performed worse than a rabid dog. Chrome ate their lunch and gained market share fast. I and many of my colleagues switched around that time.
It shows up as one device. The res you get depends on your source. You won’t get full res if your device only has an older HDMI or Display Link output.

I’ve got it set up for occasional PIP with a Bay Trail home server. That device has an HDMI out that does max 1920 x 1080 and won’t do the full width of 2560 x whatever.
I don't mind breaking websites, if I can fix them on my own terms.
As mentioned elsewhere: the guys who already wanted to invade Iraq, AFAICT, (e.g. according to the memos) still wanted to do so because of WMDs. So “they already wanted to go” doesn’t really change the substance of the conversation. Curious if you have any read on why Cheney et al were so fixated on WMDs at the time they wrote the memos. Was that all completely a ruse? (I am legitimately curious, idk how to interpret that)

Yeah it’s astounding anyone involved in Iran-Contra was allowed anywhere near a seat of power.

To be clear, I’m obviously not treating it as if it’s muddy now. I am saying that it wasn’t that clear then, for reasons that include people simply lying.
Ask HN: Investing in pre-IPO companies on the secondary market?
I wanted to hear about people’s experiences buying private company shares on the secondary market.

* How accessible is it for average investors like me (provided I qualify as an accredited investor)? Do you need to have connections?

* What are the best platforms to buy?

* How likely is the risk of employees backing out of a sale when it’s structured as contracts for future stock?
> They have a nack for casting decent early career actors/actresses.

That's what Marvel used to do (dozens of A+ list actors in Hollywood were no-name when Marvel drafted them, think about Chris Pratt), but they lost the plot and started pulling in big actors.
You may want to rebalance a tree, or you may want to have multiple readers while a writer exists without relying on mutexes or locking.
Yeah, saying you're making tofu for dinner is interpreted ideologically in the rural US. Along with your choice of beer and snack chips. I'm not surprised that ideology (and anger!) has been commoditized in the states; after all, if there's a single founding principle in our nation, it's staying out of my way unless your way involves me making a buck. But it's more than a little depressing how easily people get schnookered.

Anyway, dinner is meat, and dessert is this: take one part 65% chocolate chips, melt in microwave[1], add to equal weight silk tofu in bowl of 12 c food processor, whir until combined, spoon into oreo cookie crust, refrigerate 6 hours or overnight. You might never make mousse again. I mean, mousse is better, but it's also 20x fussier. Want some deeper flavor? Add 1 tsp coffee powder, 1 tsp vanilla to the choc/tofu before whir, or lighten[2] with a few tbsp heavy cream.

I've got friends who can't boil water, and I taught 'em this recipe, and to this day it's their best dessert they know how to make. I'm a little proud of the simple recipes like that.

[1] Do you know how to melt chocolate in the nuker without scorching it? Look that up first.

[2] Yes, lighten! The cream catches more air, lifts up the "tofousse" a bit. If you like it even more puffy, add a tub of dairy whip topping, but this makes for a floppy pie when sliced unless you add gelatin.
> Republican officials from 18 other states are opposing a federal effort to strengthen medical privacy regulations

Against big government when it suits, I see. Hypocrisy is the worst disease in politics.
> Is it that hard to substantiate your claims that a 60 year amortization + 15 year construction = 75 years is reasonable

What do you mean reasonable? It’s real. We amortise over long time horizons in project finance all the time. Also, look up residual value. (And dams.)

And yes, I’m contesting both 60 and 15; they’re 80 and 10 and could be 80 and 5 with permitting reform. And within that latter envelope, it works with conventional financing. (The same problem plagues HVDC lines, which also take 10+ years to permit.)

> Do you see the year investment time ending up in the exponent?

You may actually enjoy reading some of the foundational texts whose concepts you’re glancing across. (Principles of Economics, Mankiw, is a classic. For a more-applied text, Fabozzi’s Fixed Income.)

You’re citing real things. But you’re connecting them nonsensically. Investopedia isn’t a replacement for training, though it’s a good reference once you’ve learned the material.

(The exponent comes from compounding time preference. Its time component is orthogonal to technological progress, which embeds in the rate. That’s why it’s constant. If you want to consider obsolescence risk, you start getting into hyperbolic discounting.)
Haha yeah, I saw that after. In that case, great job everyone!
i commented this before and it got reddit-style piled on, so i deleted it.. but on reflection- i'm not sure why i cared, so putting it back: i was looking forward to some good tofu in tokyo (in restaurants, not shops - i was on holiday), but was surprised it was much harder to find than in america (i'm not from the USA, but have also been on holiday there).
> aside from the fact that federal reserve notes can be printed at will in response to economic conditions, and yellow lumps of metal are extracted from the ground at haphazard rates.

That's a pretty key difference.

The value is based on scarcity.

When there's no scarcity constraint, we can all just collectively vote ourselves to be billionaires.

What could go wrong?
>As if "npm/yarn install" wouldn't work for the hypothetical Vue project?

I'm not talking in hypotheticals. No, if you do this for a Vue project that hasn't been touched in a few years, it doesn't work. Upon cloning the source, and running npm install, you'll run into loads of build errors between incompatible versions of npm dependencies, even after you've used nvm to switch back to an old version. A build process, especially one based on npm, intrinsically introduces great amounts of fragility to the project.

Yes, you pay for it by having to invent a lot of things yourself, but limiting the project to HTMX means you've just got one dependency to store and it'll work so long as you do that.

Back to the point of TFA: you can have a cold blooded project with a dependency to HTMX and one or two other JS libs. Once you introduce an npm build, you're squarely out of cold blooded territory due to the constant updates and maintenance required just to keep your build working.
Not to mention on iOS your choices are really between Safari and Safari with a different skin.
I expect that you have two months to find a different bank and move your money.

So nothing much will happend.
Hey yes: https://github.com/yogendra-yatnalkar/storyboard-ai

Jfyi: Sorry I just hacked up end-to-end stuff right now. I am in the process of cleaning the codebase and documenting it. Will do that in next 2-4 days.
I use it for R Studio occasionally, and I appreciate being able to see my code and my data at the same time.

My main use is writing, and it can a little overwhelming to see all my copy at once. I tend to fill out my screen with other resources that I’ll use.

Since it’s an odd-ball ratio, built-in Windows 11 window snapping also has some weird default behaviour that assumes that I want my windows a third of the height and stacked.
I wish there's a community-driven Google Search alternatives.
Already did a few years ago. My only current annoyances with it are that the NixOS search page is blank in it for some reason, at least on Nightly (https://search.nixos.org/packages) and that I can't access its password store on iOS. (iOS added Google Chrome password access from any app's GUI right around the time I switched from Chrome to Firefox... UGH)
That might have been it. It seems that narcolepsy is also correlated with a deficiency in growth hormones.
Yeah. This doesn't appear to be the same sort of thing (malicious code being integrated into the kernel itself). This is just a backdoor that leverages an exploit.
Generative Models (2016)
It's worth noting that Google's internal scale-out filesystem is append-only (for various distributed systems and operational reasons), so you end up with append-only data structures proliferating in that ecosystem. That does not necessarily mean that the append-only data structures were chosen for any technical merit other than ability to be implemented on the append-only filesystem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

1975 Chinese Dam fails

150K deaths
4.6 million homes destroyed
11 million people displaced

Number of countries getting out of hydro: 0 ( in words: zero )

Japan and Ukraine are both among the countries that signed the “tripling nuclear by 2050” pledge. My guess would be that they have the best information on the risks of nuclear.
Thanks for that! Excellent article. Too bad that they're not quite "there yet" but it's about what I expected

Edit: ah they look similar in construction and filtering to the etymotic ones I have from years ago. They work well indeed. But etymotic seem to be unavailable now.

They don't seem to have a version with volume control though just like etymotic.
I feel like the Gentoo userbase has been stolen in part by Arch these days.
Is that true for all kids? I thought popular opinion was that all new gen kids have insatiable content appetites with low attention spans demanding constant newness?
Why do you need natural gas in that mix at all?
>The average person clearly is not paying attention to how much of a stranglehold corporations now have over the populous and how often they just buy themselves power

Sounds like the actual issue is "corporation control over government". Why not say that directly instead of making a tenuous point about how "corporations own people"?

>the average populous just doesn’t care or is willfully ignorant

Have you been living under a rock? "big corporations bad" is a bipartisan issue. The only difference between the parties is the reasoning for why they're bad. eg. "big tech is bad because they're hoarding wealth" vs "big tech is bad because they're pushing woke agenda".
Or just work at off hours. That’s how I’ve always worked with asia-based teams.
I think OP’s point is that, without privacy, there is no standard at all.
I feel like I need to go back to the basics: build great things.
Switched back last year and even use their services, even one pain one: firefox relay to mask my email
There is not, unfortunately.

Apple has an extension for Chrome ("iCloud Passwords") that lets you use the keychain passwords there, but nothing for Firefox. It's less-restrictive than it used to be, since the extension used to only support Chrome on Windows, but they gave in back in July of this year and made it easier to use Chrome on Mac.

Apparently, Firefox removed a bunch of password-related APIs back in Firefox 57 that broke some existing keychain extensions[1], so it might not be Apple's fault that they've not provided a Firefox extension. There's no progress on Firefox bugs related to making such an extension possible again, that I could see.[2]

[1]: https://github.com/jfitzell/mozilla-keychain/issues/88

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650212
Maybe instead of high res textures you would load an AI upscaler in memory. These upscalers are also quite memory demanding.
Then simply use the works from people who choose to publish that way! It’s well within their rights to do so.

Hey if you really believe software companies should be obligated to release their source code, I can at least respect the coherence of your opinion. Seems extreme and like it’d kill a lot of valuable incentives, but at least it’s a coherent view someone can hold!
Many in the Fediverse are aghast at the idea of some large corporation reading their data, processing, and using it; and seek to protect Meta (and others) from consuming it.

Yet, without copyright on the content they publish they have no legal standing to say "no, you don't have the right/license to be able to do what you want with my content."
The only way I'm getting off Firefox would be if google actually makes the Web completely DRM'd and i can't do banking without chrome