skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still working on the golf course wiki: https://golfcourse.wiki

Currently finishing up the tournament software and getting ready for beta testing with some local clubs. This should eventually allow frugal clubs to operate golf tournaments extremely cheaply because no data needs to be licensed if they add their own course's data to the wiki.
Can you make a website that can block the blocker app for the board of ed and can you also unblock webs with blocked webs on them?
That’s really not how CAC works. Not all of their costs are directly tied to revenue generation
Microsoft commits to pay somewhere between $100/MWh and $140/MWh for 20 years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41601443

Microsoft's commitment allows Constellation Energy to restart the 819 MW nuclear fission reactor at Three Mile Island. This reactor operated without problems for approximately 45 years and was switched off in 2019.

The other reactor at Three Mile Island (880 MW) melted harmlessly in 1979 due to operator error. That reactor will never be restarted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

Clean baseload power is extremely valuable.

Nuclear fission is the only clean baseload power source mature enough to be widely adopted. Today there are 440 nuclear fission reactors operating in 32 countries. Having used fission reactors for 70 years, we know how to build them and operate them at 95%+ efficiency (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity). For example, Vogtle 3 and 4 have been operating at 100% of their capacity.

In contrast, solar and wind are not baseload power solutions. They are intermittent and unreliable, fundamentally weather dependent. If you have battery backup sufficient for time T and the weather doesn't cooperate for time T+1, your data center is offline.

Furthermore, even a day or two of battery backup eliminates the cost advantage of solar and wind. As a last resort, fossil fuel backup plants can be built, but building them is costly and using them is dirty. See Germany's power grid for an embarrassing real-world example.

Solar + wind + batteries is an intrinsically unreliable, unacceptable solution. Please see Yann LeCun's comments, reflecting Meta's view on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097
Decided after all these years to start to create open source libraries around things I've worked with in the past.

As worked a lot with Kubernetes in the past, I started with creating a Kubernetes Operator alternative to external-dns I call Phonebook: https://github.com/pier-oliviert/phonebook

It lets you control DNS record like you would any other native resources in Kubernetes through CRDs. Open-sourced it last week and there's already a bunch of features that are planned for the operator"

- cert-manager's support for DNS-01 challenges
- More support for other providers
- Increase support for each provider that already exists
- etc.

Check it out!
I’m an observer with no horse in this race, but from my armchair I think this argument in a vacuum sits very weird with me.

It’s strange that you can, in the first section, decry the situation of a company opting out of something that is optional on the basis of it being part of an unspoken social contract, and then later in the same article defend your own side’s decision to opt out of their part of an unspoken social contract because it is optional.

I also can’t help but keep going back to - if the founders view is that enterprise users, hosting companies, every business who’s name starts with R, or some other selection of users needs to contribute some resources to the project, why doesn’t the license say that? The argument being made takes for granted that the social contract here is common sense, but that’s not true. This is exactly why licenses exist - to clearly define these lines and avoid ambiguity.

If it’s not in the license, the presumption (legal _and_ ethical) is that it’s intended to be optional. If a company is trying to compel behavior, does that line up with it being optional?
which is why the statistics need to be careful annotated. lacking literacy at all is a different dimension than lacking fluency the national lingua franca
The original Smalltalk in 1972, the language of which Kay designed, indeed had some kind of message passing (even though it was synchronous, the receiving object interpreted messages composed of tokens). Smalltalk-76, essentially designed by Ingalls, who was also the sole author of the 1978 publication, made a fundamental shift towards compiled virtual methods, essentially as it was done in Simula 67 and adopted by C++ (though much less efficient). So yes, it makes pretty much sense when Kay claims that he didn't have C++ nor Smalltalk in mind when talking about OO. See also https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386335.
Tell that to me when we get to llama 15
added support for mysql and sqlite (in addition to postgres) to rainfrog, a database management tui: https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog

they haven't been tested as extensively as postgres though so are still considered unstable!
Lets Unblock This
It's possible that the analgesic and euphoric effects of opioids are one and the same. In other words, it's centrally dampening the experience of pain, both physical and mental. One is experienced as analgesia and the other as pleasure, but both may share the same mechanism, making one impossible without the other.
"not many systems"

"only erlang, stackless python, orleans, golang, current ecmascript with promises or web workers, python with asyncio, backends connected together with kafka or rabbitmq or ømq, and a few others."

That's a lot.

I do agree with both that Objects as used in programming languages is a very limited definition and not quite what Kay had in mind.

Kay Objects really exceed even all of the examples quoted above, which are plentiful.

Take a bank for example. Your system may communicate with a bank by using a stripe API or by sending an ACH file to process some transactions. The bank may take the transaction and process it only returning a response, in a somewhat functional request-response fashion. But they might also, by their own volition, send their own messages to the originator, for example a chargeback. They may even send messages unrelated to a specific message, like a request for documentation.

From a technical standpoint, any API system that requires a callback address is probably because they need to send their own messages back, in that case there is a bidirectional channel of communication, and we are talking about Kay objects.

A feature of this interpretation of Kay Objects is that they are not necessarily computer systems, a bank is a juristic entity, its barriers of communication are human as well, they have NDAs and contracts which are not unlike code. They protect their internal state and data, and have specific channels of communication.
"Her" is from 2013. I came out of the cinema thinking "what utter bullshit, computers that talk like human beings, à la 2001" (*). And yes, in 2013 we weren't any closer to it than we were in 1968, when A Space Odyssey came out.

* To be precise, what seemed bs was "computers that talk like humans and it's suddenly a product on the market, and you have it on your phone, and yet everyone around act like it's normal and people still habe jobs!" Ah, I've been proven completely wrong.
Why Japan loves small things and minimalism [video]
Noted also in comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41689953 .

We're dismissive of "security through obscurity", but cost functions and diffusive compartmentalization are structural components of many systems. Yet exploring innovative approaches to mitigate the costs of our barrier reductions don't seem to get much discussion.
Cost as a perf metric is meaningless and the history of computer benchmarks has repeatedly proven this point.

There is a reason why we report time (speedup) in spec instead of $$

The price you pay depends on who you are and who is giving it to you.
TIL `go build -toolexec`. That... seems like it'd enable a lot of interesting shenanigans...

I'm somewhat surprised by how little I see online about it.
Still working on turtleSpaces (a 3D extended implementation of Apple Logo) https://turtlespaces.org

We're actually starting to get users!

Also, we're going to start working on a 2D arcade game builder that uses Logo as its scripting language
I think that deiliberate practice is needed to refine and improve the execution of actual physicaly tangeble artifacts of the creative impulse,but the creative impulse comes first
unbiden and often the "deiliberate practice" is anything but,and is rather an unstopable compulsion
different levels and outcomes,d8fferent drives
and aims and also must be recognised as an almost universal drive,that exists in other species
bower birds and chimp fads "stick in ear" is my
favorite,which I actualy practice occasionaly
the unique tribal hunting practices of killer whale pods,some of which are truely extreem
like the wave surfing onto a beach to grab a seal
and the wiggle back into the ocean
thinking that up was an exceptiinaly creative process
so...
Logical Fallacies built into the article headline.
It's not an "all the time" thing, but an aspect of how human relationships work. Like everything else there, it's contextual. In the context of public conversations and professional relationships, it's reasonable to consider there exists a threshold of intimacy beyond which further inquiry is improper.

That shouldn't be a tremendously controversial statement, I hope. If there's a variation on it here, it is only that "improper", again as with anything in human relationships, is contextual and not always obvious, but that there can exist subtexts in a conversation which indicate when it verges thereupon.
HN is not the place to be making weird assumptions and accusations of bad faith. See the site guidelines.
I always felt like if and when Go chose to implement Generics it would be like what Zig did today.
Agree. In the US in particular congress is by far the worst of the three federal branches. Most long term, strategic problems are due to their inaction whether taxes, current account deficits, operationally effective border control, gun laws. Even abortion: it was undone in the judicial branch but the same coterire of supporters know bans will never succeed as as an amendment .. so that's left in the air too without even the attempt to count votes publicly ... that's how chicken they are now that they've caught the bus.

Like a floundering company, the US congress spends most of its time in these modalities:

- trying to convince you they're not part of the DC establishment

- Fund raising off cultural divisions, and exasperation of same for the same goal

- blaming the other side

- blaming congress' culture as polarized hence can't get anything done

- US electorate laboring under the delusion that changing the president is a solution -- maybe helpful at the margins -- but fundamentally unable to permanently circumvent law.

- the far left and right are equally culpable in culture fights while the right is more criminally culpable in how it uses its agency.

And that's exactly right: we're sick of it.

In a floundering company with no product, poor quality control, cost overruns, disdain from existing customers, and non existent cross functional coordination
the first thing upper management must do is fire the people unwilling to stop whining, blaming, and take responsibility.

The focus must emphasize customer satisfaction through quality of service/product. In short the BS had to stop. Second focus must emphasize cross functional coordination. In-fighting is a fireable offense. No complicated product is made by one team. It takes coordination.

(I can name any number of examples from books to personal experience where this was done in US corporate history to get people to understand the old way is out).

Right now the US congress far left and right like the BS; it serves their goals. The middle 4 std deviations over the center stand around with their head down, hands in pockets, hoping nobody notices them. It's institutional incompetence.

In the world of belief systems untied to natural law and empiricism, even the Bible reminds: faith (beliefs) without works is nothing but cheap symbolism.
You'd think they'd learn from the streetlight cameras that it's just a waste of budget and resources 99% of the time to worry about petty things like that. It will still work on the same logic and the bias always tends to skew from profiling (so lawsuit waiting to happen unless we are funding properly trained personell.

I'm not against the law per se, I just don't think it'd be any more effective than the other tech we have or had.
Single-file vector database in C. Lots of work to do!

https://montyanderson.net/projects/vecdb
Will this be paid?
thats a very meta interpretation, interpreting calling out a new version of godwins law as invoking godwins law.
More on Unicoi Co. Hospital:

"MSHA buys land for new Erwin hospital" (Jul 8, 2015)

Due diligence done prior to the signing of the original contract included studies to make sure, among other things, that the site has proper access to utilities, has sufficient road access, can support the hospital and other supporting facilities, and that the actual site of the hospital is not in a flood plain.

<https://www.wjhl.com/news/msha-buys-land-for-new-erwin-hospi...>

I smell lawsuit incoming in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Financial information is sorely lacking from any coverage I've seen. Though the above article does note that "[p]lans call for the new 20-bed hospital to be built on 45 acres located at the south end of Erwin near Exit 40 just off I-26".
unblock everything
Maybe there is something missing from your analysis? By most metrics the US compares quite favorably to Europe. When you see something that seems like an outlier, perhaps turn down the arrogance and try to understand what you might be overlooking.
“Oh, just great. That what we need…more engines. These egomaniacs are going to ruin the world.” -sirsinsalot in 1898
You're thinking of power mosfets, but automobiles have entertainment systems too.
There's a fun moment in this interview where Matt says that WP Engine was warned that access to wordpress.org would be cut off. Theo, the podcast host, asks when they were warned and Matt says they were sent a term sheet a week before the cut-off.

Theo then reads out the specific terms that Matt says contain the warning, and there is in fact no warning about service disruption.
I’m not familiar with the others you named - got anything from them you can point me to? I’m also not plugged into the “whataboutists” and didn’t understand the point with bureaucracies - could you please explain?
I fear you missed something in the don't talk to cops speech.

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?si=fhqbLEK3jypnK-k0

Human nature may be to help. It is always a risk to talk to officers. If you are being obstinate, prepare for someone with an authority complex to sit on you. Be also ready for that same person to sit on you for no reason and twist anything you say into a problem. Just don't give them ammo against you.
Show HN: TurtleSpaces Web Logo – online 3D Logo implementation
My book. Halfway to the first draft !
Also DEI officers are a thing only at companies large enough to have an HR department. Their entire purpose is to ensure that the company doesn't get sued or fined for making illegal race-based hiring decisions. Once all the big companies have filled that new title there's not much reason to expect lots of job postings for the title: the market is saturated. Even if no company eliminated their DEI officer position you'd still expect the number of job postings to drop! Hiring for new positions follows a sigmoid curve, not an exponential or even linear one.
Probably a situation with stuck up neighbors most of the time. If you’ve heard of the homeowners association problem in the USA, this could be the cause. Having rotting fruit is fine for the soil and everything, but the stick up the butt neighbors or HOA probably would complain or ban the practice. US Americans are pretty separated from nature in their big suburbs.
The introduction of blockchain does not strengthen, or replace, the rule of law; it weakens it. Do you think that the fact that the Yahoo boys in Nigeria and the Black Axe in Nigeria are getting rich with crypto scams contributes positively to Nigerian society, or negatively?

The fact that the elite in Nigeria (those that can self-custody private keys safely, e.g. on multiple electronic devices, or a safe in their house) can now also hold unregulated USD-like funds, will that increase or decrease the pressure on the government in Nigeria to provide proper money?
For me it was to do with Rugby Football.
California was extremely successful for quite some time. They benefited from a large population boom and lots of industry developed or moved there. And surprisingly they were a republican state from 1952 -> 1988.
"lead to bad library design"

how?
I remember that era. The vast majority of "tasks" that were done in BASIC were simple games. It was all-but a toy.

It makes no sense to compare the execution speed of the output of a modern C++ or Rust compiler on one architecture to a BASIC interpreter on another.
I found Pagoda required me to juggle too many things that were only loosely coupled together.

GoBuffalo was great but as soon as I started using, it got archived :’)

Now I default to beego. It isn’t as batteries included as a rails or django app, but there’s enough there that I don’t have to write as much boilerplate as with only the stdlib.
> He also invented OOP which in 1964 inspired the creation of Simula

Not in this universe ;-)

See e.g. https://ethw.org/Milestones:Object-Oriented_Programming,_196...
> may also be circumstantial evidence that they don't quite believe all their own hype

No company, particularly one with negative cash flows, wants to saddle itself with long-term liabilities.

There might an opportunity for useful financial engineering: instead of a fixed power purchase agreement, one which floats and is married to a no-shop commitment.

For example: start-up agrees to purchase 10 units of power at a fixed price for 10 years. It has the option of only purchasing 9 units, but must pay a 20¢ fee on the unpurchased power. In this way, if the start-up hits a rough patch, the burden is shared in a way that is meaningful to the start-up's surival probability. In exchange, the start-up commits to not reducing its power purchase while ramping up usage with someone else, presumably at a lower rate, and, once lowered, commits to ramping up its usage with this provider before ramping it up with anyone else.

Now here is the critical part: the utilty doesn't hold that risk. Instead, it pays a fee to a hedge fund or endowment or whatever by which that party agrees to make up the 80¢ (or some fraction of it) on unpurchased power.

In summary, the utility winds up with a reliable cash stream in all worlds except the start-up failing. (One could mitigate that risk by requiring some pre-funding.) The start-up gets a long-term, guaranteed-price source of power. The hedge fund gets a weird financial thing to play with. (A natural provider of that guarantee would be one of the tech giants. I like the idea of it going into the market because one can see those contracts being aggregated and thus diversified.)
So your argument is that the good things about the state have nothing to do with the governance, but all the bad things do? Just want to make sure I get your point.

Also, I'd argue that if you broke down the contributions to the state's rules and regulations from the local governments, the ballot initiatives and the state government, the state government is creating the most benefit and least harm of the 3.
Inheriting Dune's gameplay required inventing another valuable substance in a new setting. They didn't come right out and say he who controls the tiberium controls the universe, but…
I met him right before the pandemic and I remember he did respond to my email around the time it was kicking off so I know that he does communicate to alums but this honestly might’ve been below his radar
The problem with all biomass-based solution is the low efficiency of photosynthesis. This is why producing liquid fuels from biomass cannot be a general drop-in replacement for petroleum.
I rest my case regarding the cult thinking.
Strategies to Beat the AI Bots
> I believe discussion is the best way to resolve conflict, that’s why my door is open to Lee Wittlinger, Heather Brunner, Brian Gardner, or any WP Engine or Silver Lake representative who wants to talk to resolve things.

I can't blame them if they don't want to talk to him, since he called WP Engine a cancer. I don't think he meant it to sound so dehumanizing, but it's a hell of an insult to throw around.
Read the comment you’re replying to.

In it OP says it’s not slow, and the “hundreds of messages per second” you are referring to is not regarding the performance but the expected rate.

It’s possible for something to be fast, but only happen infrequently.
The subtle rebranding of Democratic party to democrat party is a pretty strong tell for highly partisan perspective. How does California compare with similarly large Republican-dominated states? Anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot of really bad legislation originating from any legislature that has no meaningful opposition.
The left don't support Hamas.

Sadly, a large (though difficult to measure) portion of them do. If you don't believe me, just try hanging out at their events and talking with a decent sample size of them. And for bonus points, try reading their flyers and other propaganda. In some cases you'll find downloads of PDFs directly from pro-Hamas sources, and of course not just "contextualizing" but explicitly celebrating the glory of Operation al-Aqsa Flood, and so on.

The portion isn't as high as the hasbara / generic rightwing propaganda makes it out to be of course, but it's definitely not a negligible contingent or even small contingent. Even among those who aren't explicitly pro-Hamas, many just can't give a straight answer as to whether Hamas is good or bad or even as to what actually happened on Oct 7. The just start spewing jargon and polemics. And as what they know of the actual history of the region - forget about it.

What the hasbarists/rightwingers get wrong, though, is that the situation I'm describing actually doesn't come from a place of antisemitism. Rather from the simple fact that many of these people are very young and naive, and to all intents and purposes, basically were born pretty much yesterday. In most cases they were never taught how to recognize propaganda for what it obviously is, and they have almost no grounding in history beyond what they had to cram through to get past their multiple choice tests. So when you put sufficient quantities of shiny propaganda in front of them (that seems to resonate with their social justice narratives), they eat it up like candy.

Source: me, myself, and I. Basically left-wing (by most characterizations) and if you spend 2 seconds reading my comment history you'll see exactly where I stand in regard to the broader suite of issues. That doesn't change the fact of what, again, you can easily see for yourself on the ground by just stopping to observe the protest scene in real life for even a tiny bit.
Definitely just get started and see how it goes. Maybe also start with a "Sign up to get notified when we launch" form on your website, to generate some interest and start building a mailing list.
The US has no official language. There are fluency requirements for the naturalized citizenship test, but those can be waived with 20 years of permanent residency. Citizens are under no obligation to be efficient for the sake of the government.
Case in point: My phone can go from "off" (sleep) to taking pictures in less than a second with basically no effort. Why not do the same on a dedicated camera? You'll get better battery from sleep if it has zero wakeups or radios on in sleep, which is fine for this use.