skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t have any general course recommendations but the strange loop conference videos have been the most inspiring for me. I hope to attend soon, and a life goal of mine is to have something interesting enough to present there.

For Elixir, Dave Thomas’ coding gnome “elixir for programmers” course skips all the menial BS about “what is a string” etc and goes right into the meat and potatoes of leveraging the language correctly. I loved it.
Meanwhile in Spain:

"Spain confirms nuclear power phase-out, extends renewable projects deadlines"

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/spain-confirms-nucle...
Depends on the state. Even then, in the last generation California has passed a few things by referendum that were overruled by the court.
Excellent! There are a few good ones in the US and around the world. Ones that come to mind first are, from the US, the Great Fruitcake Toss [0] (currently in season), and of course Punkin Chunkin [1] which involves fun technology and seems to have a current record of 2900'/883.9m. From Thailand, water buffalo racing [2], and camel racing from the middle east, which is starting to ban child jockeys and replace them with robotic jockeys developed in the UAE and Switzerland.

Seems Humans WILL find a way to have fun at every opportunity. (Goes with the saying I heard from a friend: "If there's two sailboats on the water going in roughly the same direction within a kilometer of each other, at least one of them thinks they're racing.")

[0] https://manitousprings.org/events/fruitcake-toss/

[1] https://www.punkinchunkin.com/the-competition/rules/

[2] https://www.worldnomads.com/stories/discovery/water-buffalo-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_racing
I don't understand your comment.

> even the unsubsidized fully loaded cost with current technology is far cheaper than anything else

What in the GP addresses that question?

What I mean to say doesn't require data, but perhaps I didn't communicate well.
If you're going to worry about software quality, you need to stop talking about developer productivity, and start talking about business productivity. You can't objectively measure the productivity of a worker in isolation. You have to measure whether the productivity of a worker increases the overall value of the business, or whatever goals the business has.

It goes like this:

1. "We need to improve how fast developers release features". Ok, so we throw out tests. Now they're shipping fast!

2. "We need to improve the quality of developers' code". Ok, so we add quality gates. Now they're shipping better code!

3. "The quality gates are slowing down productivity." Ok, so we'll introduce them at earlier stages, shifting left. Now they're shipping better code faster!

4. "The software works, but the customer is unhappy with the product." Ok, we'll focus on giving the customer regular updates and validating the results are what they expect. Now they're shipping better code faster that the customer likes!

5. "The software is now much more expensive than it used to be." Ok, so we...

...and on, and on. Each time, because nobody is focusing on the entire value chain, only a single thing is getting fixed, and it ends up having knock-on effects. It's not enough to perfect one link in the chain. The whole chain needs to be strong, and communication needs to go both directions, constantly.
Yeah, after AT&T was allowed to gain commercial value of UNIX they were clearly minded in recovering all the lost revenue from the free beer days of UNIX early adoption.
Yes, I agree with this. I have used USE flags immensely.
When unemployment is as low as it has been, employers lose leverage. They want to gain that leverage back.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/13/tim-gurner-u...
I'm pretty sure you can safely call him a him in this case.
> usually stated as fact with no backup

It usually comes down to two factors.

One, the time horizon over which we observe and discount the levelised cost of energy (unsubsidised) relative to the plant’s lifetime. Nukes’ long lives mean their tremendous capital costs’ amortisation matters. In this, the anti-nuke tends to fudge its numbers.

Two, the degree to which we believe the Nth model will be cheaper than the 1st. We’ve built two AP1000s in America, both in the same series. China has built four, one in just nine years (multi-year delay for coolant pumps), in two roughly-parallel series. So the anti-nukes’ too-slow argument is bunk. But the pro-nuke team needs a learning curve barely demonstrated in another country to continue.

The meta-debate, however, is between and and or. I’ve seen no good reason not to pursue both building nukes, where the cost curve is unknown, and building wind and solar, where the details around storage (and how we’ll pay for it) is unknown.
Mothers get this kind of advice during prenatal care. Fathers have fewer touch points with parenting educators.
The cards at those prices are quite scrawny, and arguably poor value for the performance. Even accounting for inflation, ~$275 bought you physically beefy GPUs in previous generations.

Everything has just moved up the pricing ladder.
iCloud is free (up to 5GB). That seems fair.

https://www.apple.com/icloud/#:~:text=Is%20there%20a%20free%....

Which mobile platform provides unlimited/better for no cost?
> Sales growth for companies in the S&P 500 is on track to average 2.7% this year, according to mid-December analyst estimates posted by FactSet. That’s down from an average of 11% growth in 2022 over the year earlier. Meanwhile, net margins are forecast to fall only slightly year over year to 11.6% from 11.9%, FactSet said. “Companies are extraordinarily committed to maintaining margins,” said [JPM’s David] Kelly.

IMO there’s no chance those margins are any more sustainable than anything else which had been normalized in ZIRP.
The consolidation of the medical industry has been one of the most terrible things I've witnessed during my lifetime. What is the end state for all this?
That was the original idea behind Hulu back in 2007 (originally free but funded with mandatory ads).
Originally you said I am obligated due to my education (which you also reiterate here), however you've now shifted the goal post: I am obligated to society because I gained education AND because I choose to participate in it.

I say my education is moot, and I am allowed to participate in society with zero obligation.

> As a member of a social species of animal, why do you believe this to be true?

Because it isn't false. Where is my obligation exactly? What "obligation" does any animal have? I am most certainly an animal, but I'm an intelligent one and I choose my obligations rather than letting others choose for me.

Edit to address your other points:

> if you’re participating in discussions on HN using a computing device, you have obligations.

No, I don't. I can do whatever I wish.

> The value of those books is not primarily monetary. Those books have utility because they are transmitting the collective knowledge of our species; ancestors whose thoughts and discoveries are the basis of our lives today.

Who cares? I'm obligated because they recorded their knowledge and I studied it? No, I am not obligated, I am educated.

> Many people never stop to consider or admit their dependence on this ancestral knowledge, or their own responsibilities as a beneficiary of it. Almost everything we come in contact with (unless you disconnect and go to that cave), comes with implied collective responsibilities.

Again, no it doesn't. This is lazy collectivist thinking.

> Paying taxes is the minimum legally required level of contribution

Taxation is actually theft and shouldn't be allowed. This isn't a contribution at all, it is theft by the government.

> but far from the only required activity to maintain a functioning society.

OK - sure. I never said it wasn't. I also don't care - it's not my problem, not my focus, not my "obligation".

> You might say that you don’t like this society

No, I just don't like humans.

> or would prefer a different one

No, I just don't like humans.

> but the only solution to these problems is to involve yourself in the process

Involving oneself in the process doesn't imply "obligation"

> which is the only path to changing the status quo.

No, not really. One can make a big splash being outside of "the process".
I was rounding up.
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If you've got an ultra wide monitor, maybe spin it and go for persistence of vision effect and a huge circular display? Could double as a fan to help spread all the heat generated by the GPU having to redraw it nonstop!
NYC in Kodachrome – Color Photos Found in a Trashcan from the 1950s and 1960s
Wasn’t that the original idea behind Hulu?
...renationalized EDF because it's so unprofitable, can't build a single reactor on time and on budget and has to subsidize every Watt sold with taxpayer money, so people don't go on the street and burn Cities down.
> Coincidentally, I just published a tool to manage unprivileged chroots for testing ebuilds.

You should check out what ChromeOS is doing. They are using bazel to execute ebuilds inside an ephemeral chroot:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/bazel/+/refs/he...

This way it's guaranteed that no undeclared dependencies get used.
Yes, but I was talking about personal websites.

But even with business websites, the two aren't equivalent. If a shop has Facebook as their only web presence, for instance, then they are completely invisible to me.
I think that one solution is to cut red tape on construction and remove related taxes or rent caps. Create the incentive to construct. Seldom any government does that, on the contrary it looks like they just reduce/remove the incentive to build.

[update] Also the regulation on gear/materials is insanely costly, in Dublin new houses need to have a BER [1] rating of 'A'. Looks great in paper but this severely increases the cost.

[1] https://www.seai.ie/home-energy/building-energy-rating-ber/u...
I absolutely agree! I finally went in that direction. The only reason I was trying this whole ordeal was because I was trying to get some private dependencies included in the build without going through the whole hassle of git submodules. Now I just include those deps as a path include in mix.exs. Not a great solution I know...
> Statistically they’re also a rounding error in the total mobile-using population.

Understood, but that has no bearing on the point being argued. You have no control over Apple IOS hardware after Apple stops supporting it. The fact that there is that "rounding error" is good for everyone as it is a force against closing that ecosystem which currently exists. It matters.
Or, it makes sense for industry to move to those darker skinned places without seasonality.

PV, the anti-colonial energy source. Poetic justice for Europe, don't you think?
GCC does eliminate one of the recursive calls but retains the other: https://godbolt.org/z/dof4T4vYv

But it also does some magic that I don't quite understand (what do the two `sub` instructions do before the `call`? Do they prepare the stack?) because x86 assembly is so confusing to me sometimes.
Sorry, but I only meant the free donation part is like Wikipedia, but currently its me that is running the website.
Take Hinkley Point C, a Nth of a kind nuclear powerplant under construction in the UK.

After much turmoil the government negotiated a fixed strike price for £127/MWh = $160/MWh for 35 years after construction.

That is simply insane costs to pay for electricity. Those costs are expected and is why the only projects that ever gets going have government backing.

On top of this we subsidize the accident insurance. In the US it called the Price Anderson act, each nuclear plant pays a miniscule insurance premium compared to the Fukushima accident cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
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Instead of complaining you could be writing code to fix those issues and optimize the 22 degree layout.
Earth's core wobbles every 8.5 years, new study suggests
A max-specced M3 would give you 128GB of ram vs 48 total from the 2 RTX cards and you'll still need a computer (CPU/MB/RAM/case/fans/etc). They might even out in price but you have more ram with the M3 and a way lower power usage if you care about (I know some people don't), not to mention it's portable.

If all you want to do is AI/ML then yes, a M3 is not your best option but if you want an extremely powerful laptop that can run AI models locally fairly easily (and it's well supported) then the M3 is a great choice. I love being able to download and test out AI models on my M3.
Depending on what you mean by "studios", is this not what Hulu was? A joint ownership between multiple partners... ultimately down to Disney now but not originally.
Definitely if they live in an inland region. Seaweed and fish have abundant iodine.
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It seems like a close comparison to me. The inputs to nix derivations aren't always directly named after the build flags they control, but ultimately they control build flags. If you disable the binary cache then you're building everything yourself with system wide control of build flags.

Purity has to do with whether you let those builds depend on things that found lying around on the system versus things that are explicitly in the derivation (i.e. a pure build can tolerate missing files by building them, an impure one may get stuck for lack of a dependency or because a dependency was not as expected).
The attackers managed to steal the $500 worth of pocket change in the devs hot wallet.

Saved you the click.
Back 7 years ago this is exactly what my company (one of those listed) decided was the right move.

Then they changed their mind and pivoted to streaming, now. They're thinking maybe they should have just been an arms dealer.
I like items 1 and 6. We too often ask, "What did we make last time they came over?"
This has been posted several times over the years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701556 seems to be the only previous discussion with comments though.
Coasting on old nuclear. They’ve been importing renewables from Germany due to reduced capacity factor. The fleet is a money pit.

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/embattled-edf...

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230105-how-france-s-pri...
If LLMs drive GPUs manufacturers to add more memory, will that mean game developers will create ever-larger textures to fill up that memory? Will we see multi-terabyte game downloads or streaming textures from a CDN?

Alternatively: What would a AAA game be able to do differently if it had access to a GPU with 48GB or 96GB of fast memory?
> is not sufficient to make the machine accessible on the internet unless the wallet machine is publicly addressable, in which case I think running untrusted code is the least of the dev's concerns

Whole raison d’etre of IPv6 is to enable that.
According to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Fran...

the last time France put a new nuclear reactor online was over 20 years ago.

There was probably a window where we could have powered our grids with nuclear and done well with that versus the alternatives. A bunch of factors, including lobbying by fossil fuel interests, meant that didn't happen. These days that same lobbying and other factors are fighting against solar+wind+hydro but hopefully this time it's unstoppable. The fact that solar and wind are distributed and don't have extreme tail risks helps a lot. Nuclear was too easy to stop because of the extremely complex projects and very unlikely but very high magnitude risks.
I met a consultant in Oman once who, talking about the sports he watches, said “I’m British! I’ll watch anything someone can lose.”
But almost no kids to join with 0.70 births per woman. They should think of a foreign legion visa. Or maybe the digital nomads could be made to join.
Whatever a diagonal rotation essentially is the same like using a big display of classic aspect ratio with two corners blocked. What is the benefit of not having these corners present? Why not just buy a 45-inch 4k display, put it right in front of you (instead of a TV-like distance) and use it with 100% (or close to it, maybe also tweak some fonts) scaling? I actually do it this way and I fail to understand how can a wide&low display placed diagonally feel better.
Show HN: WhatOnEarth.ai, a retro chatbot that also includes web citations
As Phil Karlton, “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache validation and naming things.”
Seems like you found a way to work on both!

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/19836/has-phil-...
> The post itself isn't very generous; its title is “You can’t do that because I hate you.”

Well, sure, the post is a good old-fashioned rant to vent his frustrations. The title is part of that. A well-written one, but nothing more than a rant.
The rust borrow checker often requires too much critical thinking for ChatGPT, as well.

LLMs confer a tremendous productivity boost. You just have to understand their limits and know when it's faster to think through and write the solution yourself.
When does Simone become something else?
I agree on customizing the package flags, and features. When using Gentoo in production it became an important part of our security posture to omit the features and integrations with unused software.

That being said we've always had a build host dedicated to producing binaries, but the actual support for binaries in Gentoo hasn't been great. Unsigned serving over HTTP or NFS of compiled artifacts is about all you get. I'm really pumped to see that the new package format adds in cryptographic verification that really should have been there all along even for internal only serving.
I don't think this is generally true.

Especially on mediums where sequentially writing large blocks is faster than random writes, you get much better performance to use a log-structured datastructure and put anything new/any changes at the end.

Due to the design of modern SSD's, 'write in place' is pretty much an illusion.
Just keep in mind that the financial system is very locked down in South Korea. Foreigners have very limited access to Korean bank accounts while crypto exchange accounts are completely banned even for permanent residents.
One company owning everything?

To be fair, some of the consolidation is purely because the costs of business have been raised so far that both doctors and pharmacists can't operate independently. From mountains of school debt, to requirements for IT services and compliances, to the insane cost of real estate everywhere.

This country is heading towards one of those cyberpunk endings where corporations own people.
Dunno depends on your browser. In firefox you should be able to add it by just right clicking the URL bar while at the marginalia search website.

Chrome is constantly finding ways of making it harder to add new search engines to the browser, but what you do is this:

* Go to settings

* Add a 'site search' engine called Marginalia Search, with the pattern 'https://search.marginalia.nu/search?query=%s'

If you want to go all in on MS (don't think it's ready for that), you can click the 3 dots on the right and make it a
default search engine there.

I have no Apple hardware so I have no idea about Safari.
Look up the odd/eveness of every 64B integer sans the modulo operator
Do you have an official statement from them on this?
On the flip side, the old content is exactly what I want. I'm a big fan of Star Trek, including TNG, Voyager, DS9, and even Enterprise. If I play music while I work, I find myself getting distracted by it. So, I prefer to have Star Trek playing in the background since I've seen every episode multiple many times it's really just comforting background competence porn. Other than that, I don't really watch much TV but it's nice to have if I'm bored.

In the last year, I've had to switch streaming providers four times to access this catalogue. I've moved from Netflix to Paramount to Crave (I'm in Canada) and now I'm back on Netflix. For Christmas, I bought myself a Mini PC and a subscription to Proton VPN. At this point, I've spent enough money on Star Trek and a small amount of movies that I don't feel the moral issues I would if I were pirating indie games or something similar.
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
With the way the sound is mixed, I always have subtitle shown. But I’m a fast reader.
I have a dual up from LG and it is the greatest coding monitor ever made!

In Intellij and VSCode, I can see project outline, 120 columns of code, and DB details all on the same screen. I use it as a side monitor, with main monitor being a Dell 32 inch 4k.
It's Friday in US, but Saturday in Korea. On Monday in Korea, you have to wait until the next day for them to work. You only have 1h-2h before the work day in Korea to sync with them in US, only on the West Coast, only 4 days a week.
It's unfortunate that the indie web etc. isnt very useful for most commercial pursuits at this time. I hope that changes. I love the indie web for what it is, for personal use.
Thanks, I should have mentioned this. Lots of tradeoffs here and Apple is far from ideal. I really want a desktop equivalent of an A100 with 80gb, although $17k is just insane*.
https://www.cdw.com/product/pny-nvidia-a100-80gb-pcie-gen-4-...
Everything was doom and gloom for Netflix as I remember it. They were wholly dependent on the licensed content that they will inevitably lose. I guess it turns out that becoming a studio is easier than becoming a streaming platform.
This is a pretty good rule of thumb. I had never thought of it explicitly like that.

I also have had some success with an 'office hours' type approach. I let everyone in my social group know I'm available for a drop in or call from 5 to 8 on Thursdays and it helps reduce the friction.

The less active planning required, the more likely it is to happen.
With the rise of investors, second homes and single-person households, demand is going up even as population decreases. (This is a generic statement about what I see in the west. I don't know the situation in Korea.)
>as they are playing the anticompetitive artificial segmentation game right alongside Nvidia

Product segmentation might be anti-consumer (in the sense that they can charge higher prices overall), but it's hardly "anticompetitive".

>than seeding AI development on their cards

*ceding
There's also a possibility of using methanol, which is not as dangerous as ammonia. This would involve some complexity:

1) Have CO2 storage.
2) Make hydrogen by electrolysis. Store the oxygen.
3) The hydrogen is reacted with CO2 to make methanol, which is easily stored.
4) When power is needed, use the oxygen from 2) and the methanol from 3) in an Allam-cycle turbine. The CO2 of combustion is easily separated and put back into CO2 storage.

One ends up needed long term storage of CO2, oxygen, and methanol, but this could be easier than storing hydrogen, especially if the CO2 and oxygen can be liquefied and there are no salt formations to make H2 storage easy.
I forgot to explain the most valuable thing about watching a timelapse of your own day. It puts you "outside" time so you can view it from "above", essentially see the whole thing at once. (Not quite, since that would be a (still image) timeline, but the effect is very similar if the timelapse is short enough.)

Really puts things into perspective.
And rightly so, because people need ways to make a living of their work. I live of my salary, a full-time artist lives of his work. This has to be protected. People not getting this, should try working without a salary, aka being adequatly reimboursed for their work.
That's actually surprisingly low. For reference, the median US remote employee makes $63,323[1] per year which means roughly 50% of US remote employees are eligible for a Korean work visa.

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/Remote-Salary#Yearly