skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DX can't be at the cost of the user's priorities and needs.

Whatever is developed is for the user, not the developer.

If developers making their lives easier (or appearing to through more layers of abstraction in some cases) is more important than the user, the users will go where the best experience is.

Beyond things like developer products, End users overwhelmingly don't care what anything is coded in.
Just to update on how this continued to unfold, following a detailed response by the OpenTofu team, this is the official statement by Matt Aasy the author of the article, apologizing and acknowledging that he was wrong to rush to conclusions:

https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108
I think I have somewhere a nice drawing of this I did in Illustrator back in grad school.
Autocomplete was very common in the 90s — installing bash or tcsh was generally one of the very first things one did on a commercial UNIX that didn’t ship with a decent shell.
I think standardized tests are better than no tests, but how do you weight the test scores to avoid the situation where you have one person who devotes their life to only studying for the SAT and does well, versus a person who can barely study for the SAT because they're, I don't know, working a job or helping raise their siblings, and only does marginally worse than the person who devoted their life to it?
This sounds interesting, could you give more detail on what you're referring to?
Agreed, I don't understand how these things keep getting funded.
How does the solar eclipse affect animals? Veterinarians share insights
>keep in mind that humans have been "genetically modifying organisms" for tens of thousands of years

That's called selective breeding and it's not even in the same ballpark as modern genetic modification of organisms.

Framing modern genetic modification as a mere exotic form of selective breeding is a dishonest frame that downplays the powers of modern biotech as well as the potential danger it poses.
Snowflake Copilot: AI-powered SQL assistant
Repetition is harmful. I've seen it play out on many expert forums (including an M:tG forum with several Level 2 Judges): sooner or later, depending on the person's stress-resistance, but always, they get too tired of answering the same questions over and over and over and over again. And manifestations of that phenomenon aren't pretty: they either leave the forum entirely, or turn quite acidic in their tone. In either case, their usefulness as the anwererers becomes quite low.
Also note that all products, especially successful ones, change (anyone used Excel lately?) and the cofounders are all long gone. They built something that was temporally valuable, (rightfully) cashed in and moved on.
RefinedC: Automating the foundational verification of C code with refine (2021)
Airline Routes by Revenue
Sending everything to the browser to crunch is a lot of downloading, and then available at the speed/mercy of the client computer, relative to the resources they have, and what they have acvailable (relative to other tabs).

Server side caching is pretty good these days and a valid option in more cases.

A lot of devs just started client side and the other side naturally seems bad or unknown. The time where this was an issue server side was when linux didn't network or perform so well with lots of traffic (and the cloud became popular). That's been largely solved.
That's exactly what this is, yes! I just wonder how many people would do this instead of, say, a dating app.

My prediction is either this becomes a dating app in all but marketing, or it fails to get initial traction. There's no in between.
There are definitely more countries where Intelligence Services spy on not only the opposition but members of congress. The FBI admitted to spying on members of the US senate as well as an adversarial candidate to the US presidency.
Visualizing the data distribution of a table's sorted column with Svelte
We should advocate for social programs that allow high school kids “make ends meet” without impacting everyone’s academic acceptance criteria.
Paralympians urge Nike to allow single shoe sales
I agree, my test score enabled me to get into a much better school than expected. All I did was borrow a test practice book from the library, take a few practice exams improving my score each time, and getting an even better score on the real one.
Per a link re:MIT in these comments, at that point, the best "solution" (such as it is) is to say they have a good enough SAT and move on to other metrics that may not be as accurate but are perhaps more illuminating. Does it really matter if someone has a Math SAT of 750 vs. 800 or whatever the numbers are these days?
You'd be able to generate 1.14 kWh at the panel level if you kept the panel pointed directly at the sun throughout the day [1]. This is called "2 axis tracking" and it was sometimes used for solar farms when solar panels were much more expensive. Now that panels are much cheaper, 2 axis tracking has practically vanished from the market. The added expense and mechanical complexity isn't worth it. Single axis tracking, where the panels just rotate to track the sun from east to west, is still popular in large solar farms. It captures more sun than leaving the panels stationary but has less complexity than 2 axis tracking.

For a rooftop solar panel, you're not going to have any sort of sun tracking. The lack of tracking will reduce your output at the panel level. You will also lose more output if dust, debris, and bird droppings don't get cleaned away regularly.

You also lose some energy when the direct current electricity from your panels gets converted to alternating current in the inverter. How much loss depends on the inverter and how heavily loaded it is.

The NREL tool you linked says it's designed for "homeowners, small building owners, installers and manufacturers", which implies that it's for rooftop systems. It includes estimates for those loss factors I mentioned above, which is why I expect that it falls short of the number you calculated.

[1] EDIT: I forgot another significant factor: temperature coefficient of performance. A panel gets its efficiency measured at "standard test conditions" which include a moderate (near room temperature) panel temperature. Panels lose some efficiency as they heat up, which means that they don't perform as well as you might naively expect in the middle of the summer. The loss varies by panel technology. The very best conditions for panel output -- where they actually surpass reported efficiency -- is "bright sun but cold air," like noon on a freezing cold day with clear skies.
An official apology from the author of the article that sparked the entire discussion - https://twitter.com/mjasay/status/1778454498664690108

It takes guts to publicly admit you were wrong.
Are you talking about home or work network? If you have dual-stack gateway, then your LAN has should have IPv6 unless you deliberately disabled it. For simple networks, should just need to enable IPv6 on router. If you haven't disabled it on each machine, they are using site-local IPv6. I don't know which devices on my home network use IPv6, but I haven't had to enter IPv6 addresses anywhere.

IPv6 networks are simpler. They do many things automatically that have to be entered manually. The big one is don't have to worry about subnet size or subnet masks; all subnets are /64 and effectively infinite. This doesn't matter for home network but it is big advantage for corporate networks.
Surprising facts from the UN's 2024 electronic waste report
I'm not sure this is true

> There are many more nations than there are countries, especially within the US.

Each US state has "a political boundary, a flag and an anthem". So that's 50 of them. How many nations are there in the US?
As a bridge perhaps, and not all authoritarians are equal - of course, so being rational is fine - aligning with a less worse, less captured society is a reasonable stepping stone; and a maneuver can be to pit one tyrant against another, where India-China relations aren't good - however that could be useful to both tyrants towards manufacturing consent to send all of their young military aged men - who would be the strongest, most capable to go up against the tyrants - instead sending them to a meat grinder of a potential WW3 that the military industrial complex is also likely drooling over in their fascist wet dreams; the two sides of the fascist coin being authoritarian politicians and industrial complexes.

However the longer we allow revenues to be generated in relationships with authoritarian economies-states, the more we're empowering them.

That in a way is also a carrot - at least until a certain point of no return - where in America there's an effort to collapse the USD, and they might succeed - and then where BRICS will have buying power to influence the rest of the world to align with bad actors in each countries who aren't yet toeing the tyrannical line - and help them navigate towards a totalitarian state.

Knowing who is your ally in each nation is important, and keeping communication lines open is the bare minimum - and tyrant wannabes in different nations, except in places like China where they already are locked down in their systems, still need to creep forward in as incognito method as possible until they've captured all of the various positions necessary before they can recruit and grow their Gestapo.

Most people are unaware that Canada is about to be captured by fascists, and where laws and mandates have already passed that could allow those politicians to pretend they won the next election (multiple people in our intelligence agency CSIS already whistleblowing that China, the CCP is confirmed to have interfered in at least our last 2 elections which kept Trudeau-NDP in power) - and then pump that out and control the narratives in our state-funded media channels like CBC; mainstream news - including the biggest dissident media company called Rebel News - aren't shown on Facebook, for vector example, another vector being an arguably manufactured false flag 3-day outage of Rogers Telecommunications - where this fascist government immediately afterward mandated all telecommunications companies cross-integrate their services "to act as a backup" for other companies - which conveniently creates-allows for a centralized system for monitoring, etc.
The CPU budget, for sure, is used in google's ranking of websites because they know how long it will take a site to load, and that is a way to test the speed of a site.

Server side is generally lower cpu hit for content that is more SEO specific.
Hah! I knew that previous article smelled like a poorly researched hit piece on OpenTofu!
Misquoting Einstein
> If I have a fruit which is an apple or a banana, I can't pass that to a method expecting an apple or banana. It can only be passed as a fruit.

You can by overriding the method on apple or banana. If your method is on some other object, then yes, you cannot do this unless your programming language supports multiple dispatch.
Not quite the same thing, but this reminds me of DAS using fiber optic cable for various acoustic sensing tasks--basically as an alternative to geophones/hydrophones. There have been a number of papers using transoceanic fibers for various monitoring tasks.

That is also used for various industrial applications, e.g. for strain sensing by Luna Innovations. I know that Schlumberger has various patents on fiber-optic sensing relating to towed streamers (e.g. for marine seismic acquisition.) But I haven't seen it used for soft robotics before.
>it is not possible for it to block an individual website served over HTTPS by altering the status code. The fact that you get a 451 indicates that the server is blocking you.

I think I just realized what they're doing. Here's what I think is happening: my current ISP just downright blocks the HTTPS site, but when you try to access it through HTTP, you get a blank page with text in bold type that says "HTTP 451 – File unavailable For Legal Reasons". However, other ISPs show you a different page: a blank page all the same, but with a different message ("For reasons beyond [ISP]'s control, this webpage is blocked").

It could be that they are injecting these pages to the visitors and that my current provider just copied and pasted the status error's default text, instead of posting a custom message, like the other company. If it was the page who's blocking me, based on my geolocation, the 451 error should come up both over HTTP and HTTPS, but it doesn't. It's either that, or my ISP is altering the status code only for the HTTP site, and blocking access to the HTTPS one.
Maybe they reposted it? But there is a June 9, 2014 timestamp at the top of the article. Also the timeline clearly doesn't make sense. The trial occurred in in 1995. That was 29 years ago.
I mean, if they're all corrupt, I don't really feel bad for them going after each other either.
It is interesting that this effect is not carried by a chromoplast, as fungi don't have plastids.

The mechanism for the bioluminescence must reside in some other cellular organelle.

However, if the genes are added to plastid DNA instead of the nucleus, then female seeds would have an exact copy of the bioluminescent DNA additions, since only DNA in the nucleus changes at fertilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid
I literally meant south of huntsville as in, draw an E-W line on the map at huntsville, and look everywhere south that's still within ontario.

2.5 hour commute sucks and wouldn't be long-term sustainable, but if it's what you'd have to do to get into housing it's something to consider. I know; that was my commute when I bought my first place in the bay area. I did it long enough to build equity & sweat equity, then used the profit to buy closer to work.
Download all the emails from the server.

Create a backup dump file from your email client. Encrypt that with any program you like. Upload to eg Google drive.

Verify the backup and then delete all the server-side copies of your emails.
> “for_each” implementation for “import” blocks,

Well, I'm officially on board with this project. We've been told this is impossible for years.

Seems like this is pretty air tight for OpenTofu, but cease and desist letters are usually hoping to intimidate you into action anyway.

edit: looks like I may have confused import blocks with provider blocks... please give me for_each support for provider blocks! please!
13th Generation Intel Core Processors, PCN 818660-00, Product Discontinuance
https://archive.ph/GjVGj
I spend way too much time on HN, and having seen how often flags are abused or simply used too liberally, I think they are way too over powered. A lot of good discussion gets killed by flags right it of the gate. Sometimes it gets vouched and redeemed, but the vast majority of the time the damage is done and that comment or story languishes in obscurity.
I would suspect there aren't an excess of people at Google to manually override.
Unforced error by Hashicorp. Did an engineer even review this code?
I'm curious if banning cash is profitable because when the business is at capacity, the no cash business filters out thriftier consumers, and not because an individual (who has both cash and credit) spends more when they are told cash is not accepted.
Because really it should have been ReAdMeGoDDaMMiT so people rtfm :)
Same. Lots of concrete info out there the more time one spends in SEO openly seeing how non-tech people achieve SEO, and most of the time (not surprisingly) Wordpress is server side.
Sub-Nyquist Sampling: The Modulated Wideband Converter
so?

sex education is still being developed by pedagogy workers... you can't skim old practices as what's now & how important that is!

heck, we even have teens using vapes... i mean, who knows the benefits of some substances from the tobacco plant but if you truly think you need some of them, at least eat it, not smoke (& maybe this discernment escapes teens maturity and maybe they can't buy pure nicotine or whatever that easily)

alarmism may or not causes scientists to study something... curiosity isn't always driven by popular interests and the author just cited that as an example and don't correlate those with the main topic, which in case of violent media, i think they should [0] [1] & [2]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2704015/
[1] https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/bul-136-2-151.pdf
[2] https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2020.29205....
And LICENSE has no file type!
It’s “true” if you, as the GP seems to intend to, define “country” to be “state that is sovereign in the sense of a principal subject of international law”.

This is, to say the least, not the only definition of a “country” (and is also among the definitions of “nation”.)
Could history education usefully emphasize a theme of time-traveler surprise? - "You've traveled back in time, and find... wtf that's weird!"
To me, all the arguments against AGI appear unconvincing, motivated by religion/faith, or based on definitional sophistry.

Religion is belief in the unknown without reason or logic.

Do you know of any inanimate object that is truly "intelligent"?

Without ever knowing or seeing a single, real working example, you "believe" and have "faith" that it is possible. By so doing, you are practicing religion --- not science.
Ask HN: How to make management accountable to time?
I have two project managers assigning tasks to me.

One project manager has given three weeks to achieve a task which will potentially require all of the three weeks.

The second project manager has repeatedly assigned small tasks which have accumulated enough to set me back on the first deadline.

I might have the ability to tell one or the other "no I can't handle your assignments" right now but it would cause me a lot of anxiety in the future. I don't have the authority to tell a given PM no. Upper management seems to have no mechanism to assign my time to any particular local manager.

Yet I'm accountable for my time, and the PMs expect me to be able to answer for myself. But if I answer for myself, I poison the well with one PM and ostensibly our future relationship.

Any thoughts on how to solve this?
This is a moderately persuasive argument.

Although the crawler should probably ignore all the html body. But it does feel like a grey area if I accept your first pint.
Thanks -- I definitely relied heavily on my wife in order to maintain that pace.
It looks like the message encourages users to update "to the latest software version, iOS 16.6." I wonder if their message is different to users on devices which no longer can be updated beyond iOS 15, like iPhone 7, 7 Plus, SE and so on.
Most websites, especially templates are extremely heavy in their assets for first time load.

The vitals bvetween the average client side compared to the average server side can be staggering.

For example, if you take a website that is using client side, on a headless cms or something vs Wordpress, wordpress has many, many plugins that obsess on optimizing the assets and delivery of the file beyond most client side implementations.

I love building myself a client side site, it feel so fast, until the need to communicate better or at scale increases and it is a reminder why the website should just be something that is good at being a website.
I was imagining them flying close-by, so any failure would have a higher chance of causing a cascade. I couldn’t find any info on how close they are, but I imagine it’s too far for this to be an issue.
Lots of these are nice sounding, but still far from quality of simply importing a text file ebook and getting a nice sounding audiobook.
A serious problem with Stack Overflow is it allows only one right answer. As time passes, in cases when the question author haven't specified an exact version of a library in the question title (which is the case more often than it is not), better solutions become possible. And the old solution can become impossible. Yet the initially accepted answer to the question remains chosen forever.
A Visualization of Global BitTorrent Downloading Behaviors
Those of us who remember the SCO Group are probably tickled pink that ‘source code origination’ is apparently a term of art abbreviated ‘SCO.’
Smells like stinky tofu (臭豆腐）
I remember the MS-DOS variations.. README.DOC (before .DOC applied only to MS Word files), README.TXT, READ.ME, README.1ST, README.NOW...
Sure, the buck stops with the CEO. That said, if things are so dysfunctional that your only goal is to ascribe blame—which, incidentally, is a common behavior of bad managers—then you are already fucked.

High performing teams require trust. Workers need to trust that management has a sense of what's reasonable, not take estimates out of context and generally listen to the pain points/challenges on the ground. Upper management needs to trust that teams understand the vision enough to make the right tradeoff, not sandbag every estimate or fixate on the wrong details (because ground-level details matter, but some more than others from the business perspective).

I realize many people have spent their whole career in such adversarial circumstances between workers and management that the above sounds like a fairy tail. I will say though, that it is possible, but requires a healthy understanding of the limitations of human communication, and the recognition that good intent is necessary but not sufficient to avoid dysfunction. You need a critical mass of folks spread throughout the org, able to do the necessary bridge-building, and (at times) emotional labor to work through all the challenges and differences of opinion. It's very easy to describe a problem and solution from one person's perspective, but much harder to prioritize and solve the 10 most important problems out of a group of 100 people where viewpoints differ and cooperation is needed to improve anything.
Isn't the urban legend around this that it mimics the "EAT ME" and "DRINK ME" messages from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll?

The missing space is probably from UNIX preferences.
Until there is an update to the original article [0], I don't find this apology particular meaningful.

0: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714980/opentofu-may-be-sh...
Tin based perovskites have been studied for almost as long as the lead based ones but they have been less efficient and much less stable. Work continues to increase their efficiency and stability, e.g.:

"Efficient tin-based perovskite solar cells with trans-isomeric fulleropyrrolidine additives" (2024-01-29)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01381-7
Hey, that's great to hear.

Best of luck with everything!