skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cost of launch has likely indeed dropped dramatically. But cost != price. Price has stayed roughly constant and SpaceX's profit margin has dramatically increased.
Please enlighten us about where countries which have gone all-in on solar get their base power when the sun is not shining enough and there is no wind.

I don’t understand why people who have an axe to grind pretend to be more stupid than they are in these debates. The question is not average price per kWh and never was.

The question remains the same: where should we get base power when intermittent sources are off? The solutions are gas, coal, nuclear or some form of large scale storage.

Germany seems to be ok with polluting a lot with coal to appease the proportion of die hard antinuclear activists in its population. From my point of view, nuclear is not the worst of all the options - it’s actually unclear to me if it’s not even cleaner than building all the batteries required for large scale storage - but you might disagree.
I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of applications to Kubernetes clusters
> Chris Pavlovski @chrispavlovski

> I'm a little late to this, but for good reason — I've just safely departed from Europe. France has threatened Rumble, and now they have crossed a red line by arresting Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring speech. Rumble will not stand for this behavior and will use every legal means available to fight for freedom of expression, a universal human right. We are currently fighting in the courts of France, and we hope for Pavel Durov's immediate release.
Same reason that Ivy League admissions aren’t based on anything that could be considered objective. The gatekeepers don’t want them to be.
Buying a PC for local AI? These are the specs that matter
Worth noting that pattern matching and term rewriting are a sufficiently general combination that it forms the basis for Mathematica.
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There are variations between mysql and mariadb, I've used mysql for a long time now, when I switched to mariadb I found those differences. I find writing complex queries on the console first and then committing it to the code a good strategy. I can see the results right away and some error that I might have done.
Monumental architecture in Atlantic Europe: fifth-millennium BC enclosure
I agree with all of the comments above...
CTE's (at least in MS SQL land) are a syntax level operation, meaning CTE's get expanded to be as if you wrote the same subquery at each place a CTE was, which frequently impacts the optimizer and performance.

I like the idea of CTE's, but I typically use temp tables instead of CTE's to avoid optimizer issues.
I personally have used it because it can provide backtraces in stable Rust. It also can be used either similarly to anyhow (with the `whatever` macro) or more like thiserror (with explicit errors as enum variants). I don't have experience with eyre so can't provide a comparison there.
actually in that article from Reuters it says there were 62 deadly shootings in Sweden in the year.

Which is hilarious because it also says there are 62000 gang linked people in Stockholm.

One thing you are always told to watch out for is big round numbers in stats, because it is pretty unlikely it is just 62000 and not 62119 or something (not a big stats guy, just something I've read)

At any rate the article says 62000 linked to gangs, and 62 killings (pretty weird that). So a 0.1% violence among the linked to gangs people (if all the murders were linked to gangs), but out of the full pop of Sweden 10,490,000 this is a 0.000591% rate of murder, the U.S as a whole has 0.0075 murder rate right now.

Zoom in on parts of the U.S you get a much higher murder rate - https://usafacts.org/articles/which-cities-have-the-highest-...

like I said everything is relative, and Sweden does not have as big a problem as the reporting lets on.
Actually the use of dedicated microwave lids is not that old. It is somewhat new. These lids accumulate a lot of filth.
Wherever possible I think we should prefer ways of getting along with each other which make the state irrelevant.

It's never polite to record when you know the other party does not consent, but I'm not sure it should be illegal.
Why do Australians live so long?
https://archive.ph/fzhnk
Reflowable epubs in InDesign require discipline that a lot of print designers (and even some full-time typesetters) lack. You have to use a single content flow (all text must be linked between text frames in one unbroken flow), any images and sidebars must be anchored in that flow (you can't just freely place them on the page), and you have to consistently use paragraph and character stylesheets (i.e. you can't just ctrl-B embolden text, etc., you have to create/use a "Bold" character sheet).

It's hard to call that "difficult" because those are already best practices for print, but they aren't intuitive to most people and InDesign doesn't make it easy to track how much of this you're doing correctly or flag which parts you've done wrong.
It‘s unfortunate that the fill blocks seem to dip below the baseline. It looks untidy.
It is your thought controlling running all sides (more than two). Your thought control was birthed in the crucible of white hate, white terror, white power America. "The far-right" thinks they are Jesus in their own minds. And the voices in teenagers heads are convincing them to hurt other kids.

I know you want to keep this conventional, however it must be said. We are not alone in our own minds and a secret war is upon us. The enemy of Truth, Law, and human rights is American Thought Control and thought controlled Americans.
Still slacking before I decide to work on that character controller for my minimalist, low-poly counter strike clone, with Godot.

I properly animated a model with blender, and am able to move the parts I want accordingly. It was not easy but I made it.

I also managed to implement the recoil algorithm I want.

I modeled guns.

I will probably struggle to implement server reconciliation to mitigate lag, I found 2 modules that does it, one in C++, one in gdscript.

Obviously the gdscript one is slower, but it's hard to know how much slower, since obviously a game like counter strike is very fast paced.

I also want to implement a panini/wide angle camera, also found a module for it.

Moving slow with bad mental health and anxiety, but having fun.
I just aggregate everything on Git and found that it works so far. Although some listings (short stories, movies) are growing a bit too much for simple files. What's the lowest level database/filesystem you have to store your data?
I have been recently thinking about the NP-complete class of problems particularly the knapsack problem (it is easy to understand and attack). And I think it is really solvable in polynomial time. I actually tried and posted my solution here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41341608
a bit of feedback would be really helpful.
what a fool you are. take for example the markets. the markets in NK are a thriving fixture of everyday life. they are also completely illegal. people cross the border into china frequently. there is a huge underground in NK but people who only consume american propaganda only learn about the NK police. there is more to the picture.
I love this script, it's a shame that it will probably never be a film. The philosophy question it implies - does science and technology have its own teleology, and if so is that good or evil - is one that fascinates me

for anyone who doesn't know the history, Carruth shopped this script around for years before giving up on finding anyone to fund it. Eventually he gave up and made a different film. And then he was arrested on charges of domestic violence, and a second victim filed a restraining order against him. Since then, he hasn't been welcome in Hollywood. The rumor is that he's returned to his old career, software engineering, where it's easier to find work.
I recently tried to setup Linux on a few machines with nvidia and AMD GPUs, and, while AMD could improve, they're way ahead of nvidia on all fronts except machine learning.

Nvidia's drivers are still uniformly garbage (as they have been for the last 20 years) across the board, but they do work sometimes, and I guess they're better for machine learning. I have a pile of "supported" nvidia cards that can't run most opengl / glx software, even after installing dkms, recompiling the planet, etc, etc, etc.

Since AMD upstreamed their stuff into the kernel, everything just works out of the box, but you're stuck with rocm.

So, for all use cases except machine learning, AMD's software blows Nvidia's out of the water for me. This includes running Windows games, which works better under Linux than Windows (the last time I checked), thanks to Steam.

On my 780m, I installed current devuan (~= debian) stable, and had a few xscreensaver crashes and reboots. I checked dmesg, and it had clear errors about irq state machines being wrong for some of the radeon stuff. So, even when running future hardware, their error logs are great.

After enabling backports and upgrading the kernel, the dmesg errors went away, and it's a 100% uptime machine.

The remaining hardware problem is that pulseaudio is still terrible after all these years, so I have to repeatedly switch audio out to hdmi.
And subtitles.
https://archive.is/AXsHD
how is that for a motivation to work in a dysfunctional company? ;-)

try reading the dailywtf. plenty of slipups there
There are two kinds of epub layouts, reflowable (the good kind) and fixed-page (the badly OCR'd feeling kind). Most print designers who don't follow best practices in turn don't do the work required to make InDesign output reflowable epubs.
I haven't used MacOS in years and have been forced to use Windows for work. I'm curious: what's great in the Windows layout that isn't in MacOS?

Coming from Hyprland and even KDE, Windows seems to be lacking a bit out of the box, but maybe I'm missing something deeper about how it all works.
Because freeloaders and/or malicious actors will abuse my generosity
Depends on the direction you are going ;)
someone can do some bad tnings on internet with help of your wifi?
Sure, the thing that you're missing is that there's extremely strong evidence that these plastics:

1. Don't degrade quickly (per your point)

2. Are difficult to mitigate/filter (per article's point)

3. Are appearing everywhere, including in our water supply, food supply, adult human tissue, and within fetuses still in their mothers' wombs

4. Critically, and probably the point you're missing, they are disruptive to endocrine systems (hormones) which are extremely important to all sorts of developmental, behavioral, and psychological systems, including negative effects on fertility, e.g. a child born to a microplastic-poisoned mother will have reduced sperm count in adulthood. This is a bad thing, and in combination with points 1-3 is potentially catastrophic for human civilization.
Most companies wouldn’t want to spend the time making company specific exams so they would buy some off the shelf exams and we are back to Leetcode problem.
also since only 62 people were violently shot in Sweden during the year I guess that also indicates this 5% thing just doesn't add up, unless these people are getting violently exploded I guess.
Oven-shaped UV sterilizers exist, but I think bc UV really gets stopped at the surface, it would be really ineffective as an oven in the sense of cooking anything?
When I'm doing an interview, I really don't care much about the code being written; I don't even care if it runs, is correct on some percentage/point scale or whatever else like that. I care about how they're thinking about it, how they react to my hints, how they act when they are stuck, if they ask for help or not, if they try to cover up what they don't know or that they made a mistake or are open and honest about it and treat it as an opportunity to learn, etc.

A standardized exam result won't give me any of this information/experience. I'm going to be especially suspicious with people who have a perfect score, experience has shown me that the best engineers often (not always) don't have great academic results, while those who had perfect results often can't function well independently in a real-world unstructured environment.
My phone is running LineageOS and my banking app works, so YMMV.
Transcription services are still horrible if you have (a) some kind of accent, (b) non-standard terms, or (c) noise. They can be better than nothing if you want some meeting notes and no one is taking them, but they're definitely not something you want to rely on for an important conversation.

A human in a conversation of this type has the major advantage that, when they're not sure they've understood a word, they can ask the other party to repeat it.
Most of the best developers I hired never went to a university.
Well, suburbs where these social houses are located and where police is afraid to go, stop pretending you dont know what all this is about.
Tried to rewrite the Javascript 3D library three.js to make it smaller and more specialized for my game. Today I’m ending that and instead starting to write a 3D engine from scratch with the knowledge I learned from this rewrite process. Less object orientation and code organization, in order to get to the core of what happens in the machine (the phone/computer). There is enough complexity in the OS+browser to get through to use the device’s full power, so I at least try to remove all complexity possible from the code. Make it use less memory, download time and CPU time, and also make it go through the Javascript parser and bytecode converter as smoothly as possible. Then minimize the number of draw calls (that’s often what takes most time in the GPU) so I can render more varied graphics at the same speed (if less time is spent on sending data back and forth to the GPU, more time can be spent doing cool stuff in the shader code, I guess?).
The parser needs work; it thinks "${DEBUG:-0}" is not valid shell.

(explainshell.com is only slightly better; it doesn't explain the parameter expansion, which would be very useful as there's 30 different kinds of expansion. see https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Shell-Exp...)
Been using Radeon vii for stable diffusion and ollama (16 gibibytes of vRAM, HBM2 memory; 1 TB/s bandwidth)

Experience tells me it's not flops or tops or vRAM or bandwidth, but if it's AMD or Nvidia
I see the c# of unity as a major downside vs the c++ of Unreal. We have tried both for simulation engines and have had a much better time getting the performance we need out of Unreal than Unity.
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Even LLMs can see the false dichotomy here
I wonder how Go routines work in this?

They look to be supported:

https://github.com/tuqqu/go-php/blob/main/tests/Functional/f...
Ask HN: What is a simple CMS for personal blog / static website
I host a personal blog as Static website on Amazon S3 -- really small one -- I suspect I may be the only one who reads it :)

I used plain Hugo on my local desktop initially to build and publish.

Once it got tedious I switched to Netlify (free version, before the rebrand) with github integration to do the builds and deployments.

Netlify CMS is barely useable -- with not even an option to "save as draft"!

There is no great way to origanize / re-organize the content, cross-link posts, embed youtube videos, etc.

Writing a blog post there is a chore - and formatting it is painful. So I mostly avoid it unless I have a LOT of free time.

It is 2024 and I was hoping there are simple self-hosted solutions / free-tier managed services that can support a simple website.

Something were I can use a VS Code or Obsidian or Notion like interface to quickly author long text, freely play with the structure, maybe use markdown or similar, easly link to other posts, embed media, add images without needing dozen clicks, etc. and save drafts / maintain versions / publish / unpublish with ease.

Looking for any recommendations on current tooling.
Most interview processes are for making decision-makers feel better, not for finding the best candidate. Very few companies use interviews with a theoretical basis, let alone an evidential basis.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France
Ask a kid to draw a snake and which colored pencil will they reach out to 9 out of 10 times? Or just look at the snake emoji...
> Is IRC still a thing?

Yes.

> I mean seriously, do communities hang around there?

Yes. They've been around for years.
>Not entirely sure what you mean - the date I proposed (2026-08-23) is a full two years from now.

My bad, I could have sworn I read 2025-08-23.

>I think training generative AI on private data would be a huge violation and a big deal.

Just to be clear, I think a local LLM user input leak is by itself a big enough deal before getting into using it as training data for a public MS LLM. The former is getting hit by a car, the latter is getting hit by a train depending on how bad a "mixer" the public LLM being trained is.

I would take a $100 bet that has me winning if there is a data leak or shown to accessible by a third party or a case where it has been used as training data by 2026-08-23 provided it's released by Jan 2025.
This is false. You can see exactly what was changed: https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/1157/files
How is the Emacs on Androide? I am going to check it out but last time I looked it was pretty far from what I think as Emacs.
Hehe I wish. You are forgetting that you can locally decide the measurement setting. For a setting the bits are (anti)correlated, for another one they are uncorrelated. If they always had a value, not only it wouldn’t work: even assigning a value per measurement setting wouldn’t work because it is what we call local realism, which is disproved by Bell’s theorem. Look up the GHZ game for an example of a system where you cannot assign pre-existing values consistently. (In the CHSH game, which is the equivalent of Bell’s theorem the explanation is a bit more subtle). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy
This is the opposite - Franken is PHP in Go. This one is Go in PHP.
Sounds interesting! I have a projector I use for tracing art, never imagined it could be used for sewing too. Good luck!
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Ask HN: Do I have to use the internet slowly?
I've run across more and more websites that are blocking me because I am fast at navigating the internet. I realize that this is probably an anti-bot safeguard but it prevents me from using websites in normal ways. Has anyone else run into this?
This was my first thought as well. I like the language, but I’m hesitant to adopt it without tooling that can extract an AST, ideally interoperable with the hard-won tooling we already have for SQL.

Improved UX at query development time is nice, but data teams need so much more than this. Stuff like lineage, linting, cross-dialect interop - these are no longer niche concerns, they are table stakes, and they come from having a shared syntax for data transformation.
I had a magnetic mount antenna on my car and a marine GPS that I used with Netstumbler sometime around 2001. I used an Orinoco PC Card adapter, too. I remember the external antenna connection was very fiddly and fragile. I would run the rig anytime I had a long trip to take. It was fun to see the relatively huge number of networks around bigger cities, as compared to the sparseness of rural Ohio where I lived.

I still remember a few of the more amusing network names when I drive past their locations. I can't ever drive on I-75 south of Bowling Green, OH without thinking of "Chickenfeet".
> What an unnecessary comment.

It's 2024. Accessibility is absolutely worthy of comment, particularly if you're boasting about being a language used for web development. They could have used one of the thousands of available existing solutions rather than rolling their own.

> a language used for back-end development have to do with the quality of the front-end code (non-Ruby)

Ruby is used for a more than the back-end. Check out Sinatra or Rails.
I see two kinds of technical job interviews: the FAANG style and the rest.

Let's start with the latter: the problem is that not every company wants exactly the same developer profile. Acing a standardized exam means that you are really good at what the exam is testing. But because you excel at leetcode interviews really does not mean that you are the best fit for most companies in the world. Maybe this company will want somebody with experience in a specific framework ("we have a Qt mobile app", "we work with Laravel", "we write firmwares", ...), that company will want something with domain knowledge ("we need someone who understands the medical domain", "we need someone who understands maritime navigation", ...). You can't standardize that. For the small parts you could standardize, it exists: a CS degree, "5 years experience as a dev", etc.

For the former, it seems to me that it is already pretty much standardized. When you interview for FAANG companies, you need to read a lot about the interview process and prepare it like you would prepare an exam. If you are super ready for the interview at Meta, you are also super ready for Google. It is some kind of standard already. Maybe the FAANGs could team together to share the exams, but the economy would be marginal (otherwise they would have done it).
You don't care about ranking in the International Olympiad in Informatics?
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You are right.
And it seems that's the case with several other arguments that follows `tar`such as `cvf`, `xvf`, `czvf`...etc
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I can tell who has never made anything. Or only made software before.
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The different dialects have complexities, but they are they are known and explicitly defined. This task is natural to solve deterministically, and I'd say it's also important to do so - accuracy and consistency are paramount when migrating. I am having an extremely hard time understanding what benefits AI has here over a simple transpilation approach.

Two benefits coming to mind are that AI is a good buzzword, and "shove it into ChatGPT, that'll do" takes less effort than building a proper transpiler.
I hear what you are saying but remember, many people did not think a computer would ever pass the Turing test.