skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is. But the issue is that storage systems are quite expensive and not nearly as green as what feeds them.

Interestingly when you include these nuclear is much more competitive. But this depends on the studies and you should pay very close to the assumptions those studies make. Regardless, these are always in aggregate. So even with biases the case always is made that when considering the heterogenous nature of environment that some places will favor nuclear and others will favor renewables (which is again nonhomogeneous as wind and solar aren't always strongly coupled and certainly hydro isn't available everywhere). This is true for the studies that show the best results for nuclear and the studies that show the worst. A major problem with these discussions is people are operating on aggregate assumptions and acting as if it's one or the other.

One interesting part that people might not be aware of is hydrogen production. Nuclear is often argued as a base load so the question is what to do when the sun is shining and wind is strong? You can throttle nuclear but this is not cost effective. But you can in turn produce hydrogen, which can even be used to cheapen and make renewable storage more green. One of the biggest concerns here though is that hydrogen production might be so valuable that nuclear producers might favor that over providing base load.

So as everything, the reality is much more complicated than our general conversations reveal. It's even far more complicated than what can be included in a HN reply. But I hope I gave a sufficient response than can also point to more information.
> because confidently bullshitting unfortunately sometimes results in higher benchmark performance which looks good on competitor comparison reports

You've just reminded me that this was even a recommended strategy in some of the multiple choice tests during my education. Random guessing was scored equally as if you hadn't answered at all

If you really didn't know an answer then every option was equally likely and no benefit, but if you could eliminate just one answer then your expected score from guessing between the others was worthwhile.
How would you know that? My account was banned.
Good question. It depends on the service terms and intent. Agents will increasingly break these captchas, so exposing that ability will only delay the next time it fails. This capability is already built into Gemini Pro, for example, but it hasn't been advertised heavily yet.

This is not a technology anyone developed, but an emergent capability of the models and our system to prove how well it works. Courts will still have to determine intent and harm based on the user of the product.
> to do your work for you

It's not my work, since I'm not the one defending putting some comments to death while leaving lots of other, equally stupid comments up.
VS Code vs XCode situation is an exact counter example of this. Non-optimized native apps could be that much slower than well optimized Electron apps.
For what it's worth, my experience with the linked website was:

- Text selection isn't possible, except on the final slide when I change to HTML Renderer and then it works very strangely (randomly selects all texts sometimes)

- The page crashed: "Error code: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION"

- Also rounded corners look very strange
It's cause Countries are imaginary entities and humans just want drama and don't care to get it from their own imaginary entity or some other imaginary entity.
I'm a Canadian living in the states. The joke I tell my family is that I go to Canada to hear about US news. The other joke I have goes like this: the problem with Canada is that America thinks Canada is Europe, Europe thinks it's America and Canadians think they're American.
There’s also Social Engineering but I guess that’s a different thing :)
It's 100% a socially accepted form of bribery.

It's irrelevant if you pay people before or after. You can't tip the police after they perform some sort of service. You're still trying to influence them with money.
Disagree. In my argument I used “talented and impressive” to mean as the admissions group saw them. It’s subjective, it’s likely inaccurate, but it’s consistent with itself.

Essentially the admissions group stack-ranked a male pile and a separate female pile and pulled the top 100 off each. Having to stack rank #100 from the thin pile and #101 from the thick pile would reverse their order using the organization’s stack ranking rubric.

Filters for women aren’t high-pass or low-pass, they’re bandpass. Many of the top tier women with the background for Caltech simply have no interest in the school or the doors it can open, versus Stanford or Harvard or MIT, so that self-imposed filter is not a barrier to their qualifying.

You thrived in Physics as a minority not because you were lucky but because you worked hard. If luck got you here you’d see more women dropping out than men over the course of the program, and I’m sure you’ll let me know if you have numbers to show that happened.
Hmm, It's not just GPT. DollarAI.Store offers a range of LLMs and tools, each with its own setup and costs. Even with efficient pricing, it’s still a better deal compared to the $20/month for ChatGPT or more than $29/month or yearly subscriptions for tools you might only use a few times. Here You only pay $1 per tool when you need it, which is a huge saving compared to traditional subscription models.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylisascaris
I don't have much to add except to say that this is really amazing. I had no idea we had so many interlinked lightning strike detectors across the world. What's really interesting is from time to time, the detectors in Europe seem to be detecting lightning in the US.
Seriously this! Nuclear is held to the impossible standard of proving that no one will be harmed by it for the next 4000 years, as evidenced by some pointless bike shedding exercises like designing warning signs that can outlast civilization.
Does he regret facilitating the circulation of garbage?
There's randomness besides what's implied by the temperature. Even when temperature is set to zero, the models are still nondeterministic.
Because it costs too much to keep them running safely.
It's definitely not as simple as "watching a hurricane arrive" and required a lot of concerted effort and technological progress to get where we are.

And, no, you very much do not want to be on the coast (look up storm surge) or anywhere watching a hurricane arrive.

I also mentioned it because the point is that it's clear evidence that forecasts can save lives and are therefore useful.
It’s not about data on your teeth, it’s data about your device and network… you can grab all sorts of interesting data on your spending and habits by scanning bluetooth, local network etc. as well as sending up your ip and geolocation every few minutes.

That’s the really valuable stuff. The app’s purported aim is simply to get it installed onto your mobile device.
That's an estimate to enable business to go on based what the bank is willing to risk.

For the proposal to work you would need an estimate good to within less a percent. Or lawsuits galore.
I think this has already been the case for years? Mono didn't really have much of a point after MS opensource .NET and ported it to other platforms.
I want one. Where do I sign?
I think "use paper" is good for lots of things. But if I'm trying to quickly make notes of lots of things, I end up not being able to find things. Org-roam (or some other similar system) is what I've found to be a good substitute for paper.

The thing about both paper and Org-roam/Emacs, is that it's under your own control, and can be tailored to meet your own actual needs, not how someone else thinks you should do things. That's where Apple Notes etc. fall down.
US Visa for Russian Founders (2024)
Hello,
I’m based in the USA and I have a developer on my team that is 17 years old from Russia.
I’ve been trying to find ways to have him come to the USA.
Anyone here has any experience on how Russians can obtain a visa to the USA in 2024?
Could be B1/B2 tourist visa, then switch to student visa etc.

Any info on the subject would be helpful.

Best
I think we agree on more than we don't. You're listing very reasonable reasons why Greenpeace has failed to, say, reduce our fossil fuel use to meet the Paris Accords, and why whaling hasn't been completely eradicated. (FWIW my family just got back from Norway, and there were many restaurants and stores that sold whale products for food.)

Having said that, your reasons for the campaign against nuclear power include the fact that it's related to bombs, which has nothing to do with Greenpeace. You also reasonably said that "Greenpeace" is short for "environmental groups at large". To me this means that civil society in general came out against nuclear power, which lead to nuclear power being curtailed, which is... how civil society is supposed to work?

If the underlying argument is "I wish people in the 1980s had a better understanding of the benefits of nuclear power plants and we had continued to build them, albeit with better safeguards" then I would 100% agree with you.

But every time there is a discussion of nuclear power on HN there is a top comment blaming the current lack of it on Greenpeace. It's lazy and intellectually bankrupt.

To say that civil society came out against nuclear power after two high profile disasters, due in part to mainstream environmental groups' campaigning, but also due to high construction and electricity costs, low trust in the industry, and the availability of (imperfect!) alternatives, would be much more accurate, if less exciting to upvote.
Nice! What are the other pieces of the stack you'r using?
As a (just) boomer, I'd be in favor of having the voting age lowered to 16. Certainly there are many reckless, feckless and uninformed 16 year olds, but the standard of debate coming from the seniors in the room is horrifying and needs to be diluted by the people who have the biggest stake in our planet's future.
wax tablet? (much better write endurance than paper)
And it's not even setting IFS to the empty string.
Why can't the MMO with a town of NPCs have an intelligence agency too?
Or just wait. There is a lot of inventory out there now, and not much in the way of sales activity. Something has got to give and, as you point out, it isn't apt to be the buyers.
that is precisely what people in this thread are talking about - users want native performance and memory footprint, they aren't concerned with native look and feel.
DollarAi tools leverage major LLM platforms to deliver high-quality and reliable results.
https://www.axios.com/2024/08/23/kamala-harris-unrealized-ca...

“Payments can be spread out over subsequent years”
Very cool site and a good reminder that we need more common/shared infrastructure like that.

One nitpick: why can I not open like KS to API sub-pages in a new tab? Are Hyperlinks unfashionable now?
(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again.

These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.
.NET now runs on Linux and other platforms, so what is the purpose of maintaining Mono separately at this point?
The "news" are just another form of entertainment. And there a fraction of the entertainment going on in Canada that exists south of the border so people flock there.
Well, challenge number one is having a consumer protection agency that's legally empowered to pull products that are defective by design from the market. Second challenge is precisely defining what is and is not allowed, but given the sheer number of stupid things that a business could conceivably do to fuck with their customers, I'm willing to give such an agency a fair amount of latitude to evaluate things and make decisions, so long as the decisions are based on a good set of core principles. (E.g., "functionality that can be implemented without a companion app must not require a companion app".)
I suspect many Tesla shareholder believe they are investing in Musk, rather than just Tesla. That explains much of their behavior.
Server to server communication still relies on STARTTLS all the time, and very often simply ignore cert errors or, my favorite, attempts STARTTLS and fall back to non-encrypted if handshake fails due to host name mismatch.
If you put a cap on income, then both you and the IRS need to maintain a record of the tips you received, to prove that you’re on the right side of the cap.

I don’t think that saves much in administration costs.
The blog post is a bit poor; this seems like a packet racing vulnerability where by the attacker attempts to hijack the session.

This means that the attacker needs to be on the same network network as the victim as spoofing the IP on a TCP connection is rather challenging.

Not great but also not particularly useful in the real world either.
> We want to recognize that the Mono Project was the first .NET implementation on Android, iOS, Linux, and other operating systems.

Is this true? The pre-releases and version 1 of .Net came with the source for a reference implementation of the CLR that ran on Linux or BSD. I can't remember what license it had and I thought Mono was a separate project, but maybe Mono was based on it. Not that it matters now.
Every other one is dead. I'm guessing wildly here but maybe there's a reason they need to limit visitors.
Microsoft's own FOSS multiplatform implementation of the .NET runtime is now much more performant and feature complete than Mono.

However Mono is easier to embed into other applications and easier to port to new platforms. That is for example why it's used for the .NET/Blazor WebAssembly stuff. Microsoft still maintains their own fork of Mono for this specific use case.

Mono also implements some of the legacy Windows Desktop GUI frameworks like WinForms and WPF that Microsoft never bothered to port to their new .NET runtime. This is probably why the Wine developers might be interested in Mono.
Just one man's anecdote: I worked a short walk from a specialty Japanese food store when I lived in New York city. It was the kind of place that had fresh produce and fish/meat flown in from Japan a few days per week. They had a very large section of Japanese rice that had been produced in Japan (e.g. all of the packaging including ingredients etc. were in Japanese and the store manually overlaid printed labeled stickers in English). I pretty much exclusively ate rice I bought there for 2 or 3 years cooked in a mid-range Zojirushi rice cooker (as an aside - this is my favorite and most used kitchen appliance to this day and I would replace it in a heart beat if it ever stops working)

The premium brands of Japanese rice that I would buy were slightly better than the current Kokuho Rose brand I get now (this is the best I can find in semi-rural Canada). The biggest difference in quality were brown rice variants (e.g. genmai) that I have been unable to find anywhere else. But the short-grain white rice weren't so much better that I really miss them. The quality is maybe 5% better but the cost to have it imported here is more than double, so very much not worth it.
The idea is to help focus brushing on specific teeth or quadrants, and it uses Bluetooth to know when the brush is on or off. Maybe it signals when you push too hard and the brush pauses for a second as well.

To my knowledge it does not know where you are in your mouth when brushing (positioning via accelerometer/gyroscope), so a synchronized start would likely give similar results.
I haven't tried it but clay seems pretty cool.
Fission power is a loss leader non-renewable technology.

Initially the $/kWh is actually one of the lowest cost services, but this hides the $9B subsidy the public pays for construction and the 30000 year waste stewardship.

Some people think easy solutions are without tradeoffs. Yet fission power only makes sense for remote regions and space missions.

Renewables overtook coal this year in some regions. As the economics are an unstoppable force, that will silence the hubris of those that like dangerous toys.

My bet is on goat carts for our future =3
Except brushing is just one piece of an overall oral health. Flossing is another thing. Then you got your diet which plays a great role in your teeth health. How would one tracking app know all of this?
This guy decides^
Reverse Captcha
This was done as part of a hackathon for CodingWithLewis under the theme "dysfunctionally functional" - a project that is functional but has some sort of strange unconventional thing about it.

Reverse Captcha is a web app that replaces traditional CAPTCHAs with a unique challenge: match a text description with an image. Written in Go, HTML, Tailwind and JavaScript.

I would love for you to check it out and leave a star if you liked it!
https://github.com/DanielShemesh/reversecaptcha
This is great - bookmarked!
How so? I can have a preinstalled WordPress with a quality theme such as Astra with Elementor and I am done in less than 5 minutes and $4. It is pure laziness not doing it this way and waste of money/time. Not to mention unreliable as you trust another company not to jack up their price. If a price change happens to a VPS you simply move to another cheap hosting for a $3-5 per month with your own WordPress.
Workflowy is also good, keeps getting better. Used it for many years with a small team, but mostly for myself.
I am an American and I support having less "American news"...way....way less

When I was younger I enjoyed reading my local newspaper (local news/local sports/classifieds), the USA Today (national news/sports), and the Wall Street Journal. Between those 3 I felt pretty well informed and enjoyed my daily ritual of reading them in the morning at school in the library. Unfortunately as other commenters have noted the quality of journalism has gone way down hill since then.
Injection molding houses are heavily concentrated in LCOL areas -- but it's a massive market, so, so much of modern materials are plastic that there's a lot that's done in the US/Canada/Mexico, in North America, and Germany/Italy/Austria.

For just the automotive industry, there are 120 injection molding contractors in Michigan alone. Onshoring and reshoring are desired for really customer facing parts -- you spend a lot of weight on packaging to mitigate scratches when you produce abroad then assemble domestically.

Staying with automotive, electrification is driving the injection molding industry -- as your weight shifts to "big battery with a shell around it" more of the total components of a vehicle are injected.

Zooming out of automotive, biomedical device packaging is a huge injection molded business that's stayed in the US and is growing.
Pretty much, by the look of it. But we still don’t know everything or what exactly the Wine project has on its metaphorical mind.
Time for physical switches for device microphones methinks
I've only seen a handful of prompts that were better than just a few words asking for the result.
Although, those prompts were more chains of very creatively asking what result you want.

In other words, I highly doubt this is providing much value.
I know little of dotnet beyond trying various semirandom things to make some .net apps work on linux. With that out of the way, my understanding is that

- Originally there was .Net Framework, by microsoft, for windows only. Versions 1.0 -> 4.8 were released.

- Then mono came along as a somewhat clean-room reimplementation of .Net framework, focusing on making it run on Linux. Though mono does not implement windows gui widgets, so for that there's stuff like Gtk#. And you cannot run windows GUI applications on mono for this reason, even though the core parts might be portable. Eventually Microsoft acquihired the Mono team.

- Later on Microsoft made the core of .net open source and portable, creating .Net Core. Or .Net Runtime, linked above, which is apparently the same thing (not sure when they dropped the "Core" part of the name). Applications written for .Net Framework can't just be recompiled for .Net Core/Runtime, there is porting work that needs to be done. And similarly as for .Net framework, even though the core is portable and open source, the windows gui libraries are not. So again windows GUI applications written using .Net Runtime cannot run on Linux. Not sure if there exists anything like Gtk# for .Net Runtime, allowing creating native Linux GUI applications with .Net Runtime?

- Finally, we have wine which is an implementation of the Windows API on Linux. And in a wine environment you can install e.g. .Net Framework including GUI libraries, so you can run .Net GUI applications that way.
It seems rather inefficient since most users will only have one model of toothbrush.
if you're referring to the fact that we are an entire continent, most of Australia's inland is uninhabitable desert.

Having said housing problem comes from lack of developments more than anything.
Tips, and in general, taxes and fees should become part of the advertised. It should not be on the consumer to be guilt tripped into paying for a living wage of server, nor to be guilt tripped into a 3% healthcare surcharge, or to be deceived by seeing a price advertised, only to have to pay a whole bunch more because of added fees.

I can understand the justification for taxes to be separate, I don't like it, but I get it.

But the 'fuel surcharge' / 'healthcare fee' / ... should be part of your price. How can I compare 2 places if they get to advertise super low prices, only to make it up with self-imposed fees?
If I know I’m writing the code under protest or to deal with a bug in a library or elsewhere in the system, I put it in the commit message, and set up the commits so the worst change can be reverted by itself.

Essentially here’s the reason we “had” to do this. Subtext: here is my blessing to revert this when it’s not necessary anymore.

In a way it’s my Chekov’s Gun. Load the weapon, leave it lying around and wait for the third act.
You can use volumes for that.
I like being able to use Node in Jupyter, but I can't say that how I'm using it feels as natural as it does with Python. I'm way stronger at python than node so it was pretty hard to get set up with it.

There's also probably a way to do it, but I haven't figured out how to use ESModule imports in Jupyter, so that's been a bit annoying also. It also hasn't crossed my mind until literally now, that one could write typescript in jupyter notebooks given that typescript needs to be compiled.

Do you have a link to your current work? I think I'd be interested
Any amount of American news is unhealthy, unless it's local news.
von Tiesenhausen's Law of Program Management- To get an accurate estimate of final program requirements, multiply the initial time estimates by pi, and slide the decimal point on the cost estimates one place to the right.
Garmin occasionally sends me customer surveys, and the questions on a recent survey implied that they were looking into boat to diver communications as a use case. I don't know whether they're actively working on this, but it seems like it could possible to add to future versions of their boat sonar products.
Here are some more interesting related resources.

This Wikipedia article explains how the lightning strikes are localized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzortung#Detection_method

And this map uses the same data, but looks a bit nicer: https://www.lightningmaps.org If you zoom in a lot, you can also see an expanding circle, which visualizes the sound of thunder.
It's not for the rocket.

A moon rocket for 2.7B would be a steal. This is just for a mostly static steel tower (on a mobile carrier?) that holds the rocket up and provides some piping etc to the rocket before launch.

The mobile carrier is not included in the price AFAIK, but not sure.
Wikipedia's Doxxing Penchants
And charge them more, maybe sell some of their personal data too