skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it gave author unwarranted confidence in a flawed argument on the basis of a flawed assumption.
There does seem to be but sometimes you need more than forms.
Were the nuclear plants shut down in a way which prevents them from being restarted?

Restarting them could be faster and more cost effective than burning coal while waiting for new solar and wind installations.
I assume you were downvoted because downvoters would not believe your question was genuine.

It is a fact that in the past groups of people have been ostracized, ignored, paid less, acknowledged less, respected less than today based on their race, gender, sexuality, country, profession etc. This has been raised as an issue and for some years —perhaps decades— a counter-motion has been going on: openly promote/respect/acknowledge people that were previously demoted/non-respected/unacknowledged.

The exaggerated examples of these counter-motions are called “woke”. Imagine that we would like to promote the role of ants in the environment because they were largely ignored in the past, so someone makes a movie where an ant beats by sheer physical strength a lion; that would definitely be “woke“.

There are cases where people can disagree whether something is “woke”; for example, think a woman who travels in time to a patriarchal society centuries ago where women were considered property and part of the background and yet she acts in an independent, outspoken, audacious way to men around her without anyone punishing her. That could be called “woke”, but it depends on one's sense of exaggeration.

Reactions against such exaggerations is called “anti-woke”. A great example IMO of a humorous “anti-woke” statement is the image included in the following link, which is a poster for an imaginary documentary:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2440971-netflix
Those are countries with _some sort_ of skilled immigrant tax relief scheme. I doubt many are even in the same ballpark as the Portuguese one. The Irish scheme, at least, is _far_ more limited; it applies only to existing employees of foreign companies (ie people who transfer), is time limited, and applies only to earned income over 100k (30% of which is disregarded for income tax, though not social taxes). So, for someone earning 200k, the tax on the upper 100k would be at 40% instead of 52% (normally composed of 40% income tax + 12% social taxes, 0.3*40=12, 52-12=40). That’s worlds away from a 20% flat tax, on all income, forever.
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>When it would be on WSJ and The Guardian front page then, maybe, you would see the result

Good luck with that. Not to mention WSJ and The Guardian themselves are babanas heavy for no good reason - like every other media site.
It is also a basis for committee-driven hiring which inevitably leads to monoculture hiring and constant nitpicking. Centralized Soviet-style.
UAE, although it’s low taxes for everyone, but they do offer a fantastic digital nomad visa
It's quite doable to run your own tileserver. You will have full control over the colors, and you can hide/show things to create a more minimalist map.
With some tricks you can 2x the resolution, making it look better than OSM on modern high-DPI screens. Tile generation is quite CPU heavy though, so you may have to pre-generate tiles ideally. So it is not that easy actually.
I was taught that the necktie is too small to be a good bib, and too big to stay out of the way.
The problem with the current situation is that AI was oversold. Everyone expected to see Cortana and all they got was SpongeBob. If the product wasn’t overhyped then perhaps people would pay more attention on how to utilize it in their everyday workflow without expecting spectacular results. Even a 5% boost in productivity is good long term.
> What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution? So far the technology has had almost no economic impact

you could say this exact same thing about the internet for many years (e.g. mid eighties to early nineties) after it's first use.
Hot take:

It will moderate, but not pop.

Infrastructure spending will decrease but a bulk of purchasers are incredibly well funded with revenue sources that are not dependent on GenAI.

I have no degree of certainty, but I have seen enough of these takes over the years to always try to imagine the most likely counterfactual.
As someone with ADHD “streak freezes” are a thing I never knew I needed, wow. I’ve tried so many gamified habit things and the anxiety over potentially missed dopamine is just so present no matter how old or “wise” I become.

Excited to try this out
Behavior Driven Chaos with AWS Fault Injection Simulator
Where Did RFID Come From? [video]
I don't know about your first point, but the second doesn't seem correct. Here's a Le Monde article with details on where the Uranium comes from: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/03/a-qu...

It's in French, but thre's a graph showing the distribution which should be legible.

TLDR: a good chunk (~20%) comes from a former colony (Niger), but it's not the largest. Other main suppliers have not been French colonies.
No one gets a promo for maintenance work. Especially at places like google.
My team once walked ourselves right into this trap with management.
We had hit the refresh cycle with our existing servers. We also noted that some new vastly improved CPU generation was going to come out mid-cycle and that we could survive til them with just a partial refresh.

So we "negotiated" with management - let's do a half order now, and another half order in 6 months. The head of the department gleefully agreed and said that makes sense. This was spelled out in a deck that we went thru together, we had his buy in.

6 months later .. same guy - "why do you need servers again / you guys need to be more cost conscious / why can't you write more efficient code / you must be using the wrong architecture / etc".

And so we limped along on a partially refreshed estate.
I have had ideas that come to me, during walks, and other certain moments, briefly and they keep developing over time. It has happened that after I actually write them down, my mind stops caring about them and they stop happening.

Alternatively I have had ideas in mind that get stronger and stronger and at some point I just have to work them and so I work on them without writing them down and I actually bring them to fruition while writing down might have oddly killed that motivation or obsession.

It is mainly various side projects. The act of writing somehow diminishes that motivation or reward feeling as opposed to immediately starting to build the side project.
There's going to be a whole slew of these, similar to the "existing process, but on a computer" patents that were all struck down with *Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International*.
Early closure of nuclear plants is climate arson. There's no reason for it aside from ideology and hysteria. I'm not in favour of new nuclear for most countries (excepting those that have a track record of building plants quickly and cheaply, or due to seasonal instability of solar) because the capex makes it uncompetitive with solar and wind, but existing nuclear should be kept online for as long as possible.
OK, so? Should we keep burning coal for base load?

My top comment was "we need both" and the reply literally two messages down is "no. Nuclear bad." I give up.
If Germany gets this right, then, very little gas. The role of gas peaker plants in a system dominated by PV and wind is as a dispatchable backup for weather patterns in which storage is insufficient. By building out storage, load shifting and long distance transmission, you can squeeze out gas almost completely.

You still need it for those very low probability situations that would be disproportionately expensive to also cover with storage (since storage becomes exponentially more expensive the more you build, since it needs to be used exponentially less).

At some point, it'll hopefully be possible to eliminate carbon emissions from gas plants entirely with CCS or by burning synthetic gas.
"I saved XXTb of bandwidth with this one simple change!"
I think a good indicator here is that EDF, after several years of partial privatisation, became an essentially (92%) state owned company again - partly because they've lost €19bln when it suffered nuclear power plant outages along with scheduled maintenance.

France doesn't really seem to have a plan for when their current fleet of nuclear reactors reaches decommissioning age. There's no schedule for replacing them, much less expanding generation capacity.
Is ‘responsibility’ really something that deserves outsized compensation compared with, say, actually creating the product being sold? In this context, it doesn’t seem to come worth outsized personal consequences for failure, indeed quite the opposite. I agree there should be some consideration for the additional stress, but not multiple extra figures on the salary.
> And why they are not shared across different sites.

Cross site resources caching has been disabled in all major browsers for a few years now, because it was used for tracking.
Cajun cuisine and multiple types of BBQ come to mind.
The German supreme court decided in favor of forced state TV fees (even if you do not have a TV), so it is unsurprising that they decide in favor of big money and the establishment again.

This is a stupid decision that will allow for brute forcing the patent system. The patent system of course was broken before, but it is left worse now.

But the BGH shows its colors and further degrades humans as replaceable servants for the state bureaucracies and the capital.
Agreed, I'm really lost on what this even is.
That's not automating your job. That's like saying I'm automating my job by running commands instead of manipulating electrons. It's doing your job.
For me, when I first tried cilantro, it tasted like soap also. This was when my wife and I discovered street tacos several years ago. As time went by and I used hot sauce to mask the cilantro, I developed a taste for it and now I don't mind it at all. I no longer taste soap, but a kind of sweetness.
There’s many many genuine use cases.

It’s not all hype.
Adding your email to HN and adding it to your public profile are different things, you can add your email without make it public.
How a 'once in a century' broadband investment plan could go wrong
Yes, mostly by using insulating (double) glass to let warmth in in the form of light that then warms up the interior. Think greenhouses. Surround that with poorly insulated walls and limited ventilation and in cold weather they'll leak out heat while in warm weather they'll also heat up in the sun and radiate that in.
Thank you for sharing - especially with the green flag of "no account required"!

I wanted to go habit tracing in a minimalist way, and ended up using checkboxes in Obsidian daily notes (and take them anyway, previously in Evernote) and plugins (there are a few, I use a combination of https://github.com/pyrochlore/obsidian-tracker and https://github.com/hedonihilist/obsidian-habit-calendar).
Why does responsibility require or deserve more compensation? You're stating something as if it was a law of the universe but provide no reasoning.
> "According to the spokesperson, Target accepts several forms of payment, including Target Circle Cards, cash, digital wallets, SNAP/EBT, credit and debit cards, and buy now-pay later services."
A simple skeptical summary of what the current generation of AI has accomplished to date—economically—relative to the huge investment in hardware and brains.

You have probably already read this kind of “money only” analysis (there was a better thinktank HN link last week on the topic of the massive investment overhang of about 500 billion dollars).

The Economist piece also asks (with almost tacit disappointment) why AI has not already allowed us to lay off many more employees.

This is only puzzling if the time-horizon of an analysis is measured in months (or at most a few years) and if you think of the world economy as a nimble gazelle.

There is plenty of work to keep humans busy and even satisfied with their lives. We just need a lot more human intelligence and cooperation to adapt to AIs impending impact. And keep it safe. It will make the 500 billion dollar investment overhang look like a small blip.
It seems that you haven't checked out the reference, because during the same time renewables became 2x cheaper than Nuclear at it's best, and 4x cheaper than Nuclear is right now.

If you still buy the same brand of 4$ bread made from exotic imported ingredients and a non-bio-degradable packaging that needs to be stored for thousands of years and can only be bought in 2 Ton Loafs from a government-owned centralized bakery that hasn't baked bread in years, and requires a nuclear physics degree to be sliced.

Instead of buying the 1$ Bread that is currently produced in high quantities, can be bought from your lokal bakery, has bio-degradable packaging, mostly local incredients, can be baked by any engineer and bought and cut by private individuals.

Then I think that could be called nostalgic at best. It certainly doesn't speak of economic literacy.
Give kids the mental equivalent of meth

Why are kids so addicted to meth? :O
I have received multiple emails that were initiated by my email in HN. Most of them were legitimate contacts related to job positions or participating in open source projects but a good 20% that I didn't engage were probably scams.
The Metropolis Algorithm: Theory and Examples
The Metropolis algorithm is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo optimization technique of stunningly broad applicability.

This short monograph quickly develops the underlying theory of ergodic Markov chains, explains the algorithm in general terms, and presents eight specific applications ranging from a Sudoku puzzle solver to the Traveling Salesman Problem.

All the applications are implemented with the accompanying source code freely downloadable on GitHub at
https://github.com/CDouglasHoward13/Metropolis
For me, I think it's that you learned every nook and cranny of StarCraft. You knew the units and their strength, their health, how quickly 12 of unit X would wipe out 24 of unit Y. You could basically predict health bars in combat (assuming you knew upgrade level.) In StarCraft II, everything felt softer, less crisp, less exact. Throw 40 marines at something. Throw 100 zerglings at something. Just keep throwing things out while you focus on upgrades and expansion. You didn't know if you would win or lose a battle, so you just spam the enemy with the units you expected to do best. But you never felt quite so in control as you do with the original.

That's what it was for me.
> Building a skyscraper [...] is hard to organize even once, let alone to abstract over the process of organizing and building it so that it can be reproduced. I don’t think that problem is solved at all.

Hong Kong has over 9,000 high-rise buildings, of which over 4,000 are skyscrapers standing taller than 100 m (328 ft) with 554 buildings above 150 m (492 ft).

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_H...

A fair number of the Hong Kong skyscrapers appear to be cookie cutter | symmetry (reflection &| rotation) patterns.

Elsewhere:

As of September 2023, fourteen cities in the world have more than 100 skyscrapers that are 150 m (492 ft) or taller

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper

I'm going to suggest that high rise engineers have some pretty solid skyscraper templates today. The greater challenge likely comes from architects and investors wanting unique 'statement' designs.
Sure, and that’s the avenue to take rather than the GP stating across the board that the sounds are bad. Loud sounds, regardless of the source, are harmful.

So again, now do sirens, and music.
Cool, but not in the English I learned.
The front page of Hacker News remains one of the only effective places to file bug reports against Google products.
Comparing the two is inexact: AI has leapt directly into the commercialization phase, while the Internet wasn’t allowed to be commercialized until the 90s. And there’s an additive effect: the Internet should accelerate AI’s commercialization, if AI is as big of a business as we’ve been told.
maybe it should be mandatory to watch all episodes of "Big Bang Theory" on a trip to mars for educational purposes ;-)
What?! I’m going to send them an angry fax about this!

(jk and they probably still accept faxes too…)
I think the point of it is to let everyone decide their own learning journey instead of providing a set of books or any resource links
I’m actually rather surprised to find that this wasn’t phased out a long time ago. I’m in Canada where there is no Target, mind you, but I just cant picture the last time having ever seen someone writing out a cheque at any store.
Sadly a lot of the KPI driven madness has trickled down into smaller and smaller orgs. I've seen it even in ~200 person engineering orgs these days.

Always because management is some guy that's never been in the hot seat himself and doesn't know how to talk to users/customers. So he needs a pretty dashboard with green lights and KPIs he can shout about.
Apparently yes: https://www.radiantenergygroup.com/reports/restart-of-german...

But in practice as long as you have Greens in the government you'll never be able to do it.
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I get the feeling these won't be cheap. Do you know of any other X280 cores available for mortals to buy? The only other microcontroller core I know of with a vector unit 512 or wider is the Xtensa Vision series, which is typically only shipped embedded in ASICs.
I am trying to do that. I am
Happiest when I am on holidays away from my job. I just need to get to that number and I’ll never go back to selling my body, soul, and time and talents for a wage.
Now we only need to force bloggers to stop using GitHub Gist embeds. Hugo (and probably other static site generators) has built-in support for code snippets with syntax highlighting, and more dynamic sites can rely on highlight.js which removes dependence on third-party services. It's just insane, using heavy iframes for small code snippets.

https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting/

https://highlightjs.org
Besides the burden of knowledge and the flaws of academic funding, another factor to explain the slowdown in scientific progress is: the world has more things to be entertained with, including books, comics, games, movies, music, p@rn, social media. These things have dramatically increased over the past decades, meanwhile the number of hours in a day did not increase at all.
> all signaling of how clever the guy who wrote it is

This has unfortunately been my experience with a lot of geohot’s work.
I worked for Zellers in Canada in 2011 and we accepted cheques. I only remember ever seeing one though, but we did take it. Zellers has obviously been gone a long time though, and 2011 was quite a long time ago.
> Jake particularly liked the Final Fantasy and Soulcalibur series: “Anything with killing,” says Dee, wincing.

This line lost the author a bit of benefit of my doubt. Certainly there is violence in those games, but they’re not particularly gory or murder-oriented. Seems like this article was written by and for people who have never played any video games.
Fax? Not hand written letter on parchment, by courier on horse?
If we’re being honest, the “pixels” contain multiple colors and discernible shapes.
Well, the dam that killed those people was built to prevent flooding, and help with water for irrigation. It's was a neccessary preventive structure to avoid people dying in the first place - that failed after 15 years of lack of government, civil war, and related non-maintenance. Not something they've built despite having other options.

At least it wasn't a nuclear factory that could fall into the hands of ISIS (also operating there), and whose materials could be used for bringing havoc all over the globe.
You’re right, people are born perfect so this is felony behavior. We should limit their rights as a result.

Thanks for giving me a new interview question.
Much ado about a single line of CSS :P I thought this would lead to something a little more interesting, like dynamically modifying/drawing the elements of the map or something. CSS filter is the way to go; and I'm glad to see that applying the filter on-the-fly client-side was performant!
I really tied to adopt stevia into my diet, gave it several months, however the rumbling in my stomach turned me away from it. I also experienced some discomfort in the upper intestinal area. When I looked up stevia before trying it, there were warnings some could experience these symptoms.
I cannot tell from your comment if you're aware of StarCraft: Remastered - it's $15, includes original/Brood Wars, and has modernized skin, but plays identically (and is compatible with) the original. $15 USD.

https://starcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/
Shouldn't class lty-playbtn be lyt-playbtn?
As someone who has done a lot of those things (beyond programming), I can assuredly say that "writing about something" is neither a proof of understanding nor a proficiency in a subject. (Case in point, our educational system)
Right. Basically shooting from within Russian territory. Doesn't that seem like oddly limited use of an air force?
A reawakening of systems programming meetups
Again reductionism in action "an oncogene" is so vague that its meaningless. Do you have any idea how many oncogenes there are and how many different things they do?
How can you realistically build out storage when the bulk of current storage is pumped hydro, which can't realistically be scaled up and is not obviously enough for the possibility of lengthy, geographically vast "cold snaps" of renewables-hostile weather. Is this about feasible, proven technology or just sci-fi speculation?
As nobody has yet mentioned it, there is also WiGLE [1] which has tracked over a billion unique networks.

[1] https://wigle.net/
As an American, I find this very reasonable for the value per sibling comment.
If you respect people you invest in them and aren’t trying to replace them with the cheapest option you can. Or, if you do, you make it clear with contracts. At least you give them the warning that they should start looking for other work as you pivot your workforce. Respect means you try to help minimize disruptions and your impact.

Now, I know that very few businesses actually respect their employees so I’m not surprised by it. That said, very few businesses treat employees as family and yet way too many claim to and it’s really gross as it profanes “family”.
What congress exists to do that? In my experience the last few have done precious little. I agree that this is the ideal but reality says it’s very much not the case. Congress spends probably more time campaigning to stay in office than they do debating bills.

And I’d be surprised if you were surprised how lobbyists and special interests actually write the bills. Congressman and women are just the cheer leaders for these efforts.

Actually I take umbridge with the “unelected administrative state”. Do you think your Congress rep does all the work? Do they do any? (Probably not). It’s their staffers that do. It’s the lobbyists and special interest bodies that craft the legislation.

So then why hate on the executive branch appointed heads of agencies? When voting for a candidate you’re voting for the party they represent. Ostensibly a candidate from Party A will put folks aligned with Party A into government agencies to help the government run.

“Unelected administrative state” smh.
Feel free to identify any distortion here.
Mongo but on Postgres and with strong consistency benefits
Have you ever lived in Spain so you can accurately assess said value?
Apparently smart triangulation of the game world, A*, plus boids pretty much.

https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014514/AI-Navigation-It-s-Not
Barbeque originated in the Caribbean