skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you see a difference regardless of helium or air? I assume from your description that it has to be inflated to work.
If you use "Octopus Agile" (which "directly follows half-hourly wholesale electricity prices") then on Friday 22nd in Southern Scotland [1] you could have enjoyed electricity prices ranging from 14.9p/kWh at 02:30 to 46.4p at 16:30 and an average rate of 24.8p

On a handful of days - such as yesterday [2] which was very windy - prices fell as low as -2.6p at 03:30

For comparison, a 'regular' energy supplier will charge 23.47p/kWh for anytime use.

[1] https://agilebuddy.uk/historic/agile/2024/11/22
[2] https://agilebuddy.uk/historic/agile/2024/11/24
I have had issues with YouTube constantly buffering video for several months now, only on Firefox.
DENOG16 – What could possibly go wrong with FTTH – ask the Swiss [video]
Implement as a state machine? But. Your program exists as a set of transforms upon memory. Your program is a state machine! You just need to define the proper morpisms to map your problem domain to the computer domain.
Why I create pydantic-resolve after using GraphQL and FastAPI
Skulls in halo are probably a good example too
I'm not missing out, I'm not interested in the persons.

And i don't think I'm an outlier. Some people find other meanings in life than watching others.
Also see "On 'Safe' C++", which goes deeper into many of the insights brought up by this article. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186475>
I think we shouldn't minimize the harm Chrome does by calling it adware. It monitors all your activity for Google to tie it to your identity, who then publish your demographics, preferences, history, and mental state on the global markets.
Let's call it what it is: a brain tap.
Dexter's Lab actually, you heathen.
Hiding a message in my PyTorch weights
Cows are extremely inefficient (2% conversion) at converting calories to meat, so putting cows on that land is also an inefficient use of that land. And land with bad yield for crops also has bad yield for cows and the grass they eat and the water they need. I don't see the proposition being made in these claims.

Cows are so inefficient that we don't need to use marginal land at all to grow food. The majority of arable land is already used for cows yet they produce a disproportionately small amount of food. Weening off cows is a good thing.
I am amazed by the idea (also popular among many in California) that one can “outsource” climate change to poor, developing countries by not producing for yourself
Throwaway here with a side question:

Turns out, we have money. My spouse's side did very well. We should have about 55M by time our kids get to college.

As long as my kids don't do something stupid, the money will outgrow them. Like, they have 'made it', by all my definitions, at least.

So, my question: Do I bother with this rat race for my kids? I was part of it, I hated it, but it did turn out well enough for me (minus marrying well). We have access now to the best tutors and can more than afford great schools and programs and the like. Not a worry at all now. So, do I bother to do it?
So effectively offshoring carbon production to places that don’t care?
Yeah, I don't end up fighting rust very often, and when I do, it is right. And when I run into a case that it isnt, I have unsafe and the rustonimicon to help me. You can do anything in rust you can do in c++, it is just that rust defaults to safe instead of unsafe, and there is no single keyword to let you know the c++ you are looking at is safe.
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It's mostly a certification issue. There are some hardware changes and integration work that has to be done, but the biggest obstacle is that the certification work is done in and by the US. So there's a diplomatic element.
It's China, it's what they do. 9 dash line can always have more dashes, they've already just claimed something that isn't theirs, claiming more is less of a leap.
Interesting, in my murky memory Chrome's developer tools were at most "quite decent" but for a long period of time could hardly compete with Firefox's, maybe even with mere Firebug. It it true that in total "feature count" Chrome most probably leads now, and especially recently they seem to adapt features that used to be Firefox exclusive in remarkably increasing rate. But I really do not remember being blown away by Chrome's devtools, like, ever, actually. Even today I pretty much prefer Firefox Developer Tools over Chrome's, because they mostly has more features I actually need and also feel way less cluttered. Most of the times I need to do anything with Chrome's devtools it takes me just a little moment to stumble upon some missing detail I am used to (for example overflow/layout/event listeners badges directly in the DOM inspector tree) or to be mildly offended by unfamiliar (or missing) keybinding, or confusing layout. There are quite a few features In Chrome that I'd like to see in Firefox (command palette for example), but still prefer "living" in Fx albeit without them.

Yes, al subjective, biased and anecdotal, but wanted to leave one real (yet still virtual) vote in favour of Firefox's Developer Tools here.
Why not? They are all celebrities. Celebrity status is not really correlated to the actual work they do [although some work requires some notoriety]. Gordon Ramsey's a restaurant owner and chef but he's also been on reality TV. Malala became internationally famous for being the target of an assassination plot, not her years of advocacy for women's education beforehand.
NUMA feels like a really big deal on AMD now.

I recently refactored an evolutionary algorithm from Parallel.ForEach over one gigantic population to an isolated population+simulation per thread. The difference is so dramatic (100x+) that loss of large scale population dynamics seems to be more than offset by the # of iterations you can achieve per unit time.

Communicating information between threads of execution should be assumed to be growing more expensive (in terms of latency) as we head further in this direction. More threads is usually not the answer for most applications. Instead, we need to back up and review just how fast one thread can be when the dependent data is in the right place at the right time.
> It's great news in the sense that this new energy storage and EV production capacity is (part of) our best chance to avoid catastrophic outcomes from climate change.

How so ?

There are 1.4b vehicles on earth, petrol or batteries it just doesn't work out, especially if we keep using 2000-3000kg metal boxes to move 80kg meat bags 1hr a day and let them rot in a parking for the remaining 23 hours.

Not even talking about the fact that cars are but a fraction of the problem anyways
The problem is combining the "const generic" and "expression" part. If your "compile time constants" can actually be complex expressions, you arguably end up with the same kind of generality as dependent types.

This is true even for expressions that are only evaluated in a compile-time context, since dependently-typed languages do "everything" at compile time anyway, they don't have a phase distinction where you can talk about "runtime" being separate.
Except the complaint equally applies to green field projects.
This seems like word salad, are you sure you’re continuing to argue all this in good faith?

You’re now saying that medical procedures can change your skin pigmentation, so race is no longer immutable? You genuinely hold this position?

Is everything mutable then? Since with the right surgical and drug interventions you can theoretically change anything about a person’s mind or body, which trivially includes their height.

Wow, truly this is deep.

If there are short/tall people who are being targeted for harassment/oppression then yes they too are in the right to wish that heightists/heightism didn’t exist and their harassers are in the wrong.

What are we even talking about here?
I suspect every organization is as secure as its least secure/capable decision maker.

It's a scary thing as all you have to do is add one decision, one ignorant person and it's bad news.

I've worked in orgs where we made big leaps in security, very proud of our work. Then one ignorant person who had the authority made a decision with no valid benefit to anyone, completely compromised everything.

Seen it time and again.

Not sure if that was the case as far as the credentials went in this situation, but it always seems to be the human element as far as curious choices goes.
Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
I find it funny that the authors are from Google, of Google Analytics, where the recommended way to opt out of tracking is to install a "do not track" browser plugin (not available on mobile).

> Google has also released a browser plug-in that turns off data about a page visit being sent to Google, however, this browser extension is not available for mobile browsers.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics#Privacy
I much prefer StandardML's syntax as it's far more consistent and doesn't have all the weirdness.
Huh, I thought it was a reference to shooting: fling your hot take into the sky in front of an audience ready to blow it to smithereens.
I would also suggest that politics is how FOSS works - the only reason Linus was the "CEO" of the kernel was because people voted him in by sending him patches. And kept sending them. There was nothing preventing someone else being voted in except the politics of it all...

I would suggest that the first step in a concrete plan (see below) is that every line manager becomes the place where the next line manager does a git pull from.

Eventually you want to release code, the actual CEO needs to git pull and sign off.
I don’t see opting out as an effective method to counter over reach in this case, sounds like it just makes life slightly less convenient for the TSA staff and the rare people that choose to opt out. Is the idea that a critical mass of people opt out and that slows down security enough that this pilot program is viewed as a failure?

The other form of fighting back against this, pushing lawmakers, seems far more effective
Answer the question someone wants answered, not the one they ask (2022)
I'm amazed that anyone "invests" in these small pharma research companies.

There is no way to objectively evaluate them. It's really just gambling --- and the odds are better in Vegas.
> of course resistive heaters are cheaper than anything else when you got a ton of NPPs around.

No "of course" about that, especially with current heat pump technology and the fully loaded cost of power from new nuclear power plants.
I really liked the Windows 8/10 app for world time, until Microsoft axed that one.
I'm building a tool to help podcasters surface interesting stories/insights
I always thought this framework was neat: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/statemachine-api.html

Downside of course is now you have a dependency on qt.
I have spent thousands on the cool noise cancelling bluetooth headsets. Each of them is garbage. (I just kept buying them, hoping that at least one of them is not only hyped, but have some substance also)

Also, just broke a cheap Hama mouse into pieces, literally today. It was only like ~$5, but the worst piece of trash I have had: it turns off after 2 minutes of inactivity, and on top of that it can't wake up always... (well, couldn't wake up. It's in the mouse-heaven now)
There are no F-35 equivalents beside the Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20, afaik
Why do you think I didn't? I know the article is about art. My point was art like that should be welcomed or at least not prosecuted, as it seems advertising is today.
This has nothing to do with Co2
The "eu" is a purely fictious construct....eh!a massivly documented fiction, which was created to stave off the inevitable beurocratic apocolypse brought on by mindboggling redunancy.
They desperatly need an adversary to redirect attention from there essential uselessness, or worse yet ,that they are
a societal burden that only hurts citizens.
What we are witnessing is a last ditch effort to export there contradictions, secretly praying for a miracle of technology or just luck, to drag the whole
uggly edifice forward one bit more.
This is nice and has a very snappy UX.

For the Vercel folks, how are you all thinking about this tool compared to offerings from Github[1] or Sourcegraph[2]?

[1]: https://cs.github.com

[2]: https://sourcegraph.com/search
Song is called "Alice's PDP-10". But Alice doesn't own a PDP-10
Also I wouldn't start by rewriting the thing that calls do_something, I'd start by rewriting do_something. Calling into rust from c++ using something like zngur lets you define rust types in c++ and then call idiomatic rust. You can't do it in the opposite direction because you cannot safely represent all c++ types in rust, because some of them aren't safe.
Server is back up now, here is Google drive link as well just in case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CkgnFdcbt_VsYBCpVIzGzDffYvU...

I do have mechanisms that are being implemented for both of those scenarios. Easy to detect fakes, easy to discourage sloppy work. It's about the quality and the results, so the incentive will be to produce the best work regardless of the speed. logtrees will encourage the best work, not the sloppiest.
Your curiosity is welcome, don't heed the sibling commenter: they essentially seem to be acting like a troll, most of their comments are flagged.

Then again, I don't have an answer here, just wanted to offset the negativity. Nice blog post though, some of the other comments are pretty cool, especially the mentions of the "clumsy" tool.
It's definitely worth it to try
Lonely people are weird because there's no social feedback loop, a lot of teachings are "self-taught" (for example how not to be an asshole), and even in engineering there's a "different" way self-taught engineers think

For a lot people this lack of a feedback loop started as children. In the worst cases, where there's child hood abuse and neglect, any seeking out of positive feedbacks either goes unheard or punished

The feedback loop reinforces itself in the short-term because being lonely and staying in the "hell you know" is better than dealing with the social failure, which might "prove" you don't belong in society and it will never change

Breaking the negative feedback loop is the hardest thing to do especially being born into it
How is this genuinely different from GitHub search? More advanced grep options? Also, I'd love to see repositories available in CodeQL. GitHub seems to be promoting CodeQL heavily again.
We use manure because it's coming out of the gills of the animal ag industry, not because it's necessary to enrich crop soil.

Just because plastic bags are ubiquitous doesn't mean it's the only nor best way to carry items around, nor that we'd lose the ability to transport goods if they were phased out, nor that they don't come at a cost despite perceiving them as free.
Bugzilla is the software the powers bugzilla.mozilla.org.
I browsed the article but didn't see any reference to increased power use or efficiency. Would such a proposed scheme only be used for cryptography and the remainder of the program run conventionally?
Everything is mutable.
> The intense political push from the Left to make any form of social cohesion and loyalty undesirable also hasn't helped. The dismantling and removal of tradition, religion, and nationalism/patriotism from society means there can't be a "song of the people" from outside of entertainment either.

Funny, because I don't think there is a "song of the people" on the right at all, while every leftist I know are all in on Charlie XCX and Brat Summer.
Since most solar panels, charging equipment, inverters and batteries are made in China, I would be very surprised if they did not utilize it on their own buildings, provided that they have sufficient money to fund it.

That being said, China still has very high air pollution levels, especially in the urban areas. As a result, it might not be as economical to build solar power installations in there.
Hundreds of hours of manual testing. I don't have to do safety certificates, but my code gets 500 hours of manual testing (I'm not allowed to give real numbers, these numbers are close enough) - they find enough critical can't ship issues where the fix is risky enough to start all over that we typically are doing 2500 hours of manual testing. on every release.

We have a large automated test suite that runs on every build and takes hours. The problem with automated tests is they only verify situations you thought of work the way you think they should, while human testers find slight variations of setup that you wouldn't think matter until they do. Human tests also find cases where the way you expect things to work don't make sense in the real world.
You Are Not Worried Enough About Nuclear Proliferation
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Prusa Has Learned Nothing
Not trying to “gotcha” you, but I would imagine that 10x the CPU of ls is still very little, or am I wrong?
> At the height of the dot-com bubble, the entire internet economy generated $1.5T in revenue (adjusted to 2024 dollars). Today, generative AI companies produce less than $10B in revenue while planning infrastructure investments that could exceed $1T.
Hmm... I don't know anything about 2 of the 5 celebrities other than their names. Ellen somethingorother I've never even heard of.
Reminds me of quote Sussman gave when asked about MIT switching away from Scheme:

"Nowadays you muck around with incomprehensible or nonexistent man pages for software you don’t know who wrote. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job, and it needed a different course."
Is the reverse true as well? Unusual preferences can lead to lonliness?
Yes, a social feedback loop, but the internal feedback loop is what causes the downward spiral
Yes, this is a valid complaint from nuclear supporters. A better scheme would be a charge on CO2 emission, not a subsidy on renewable production, but that's politically unacceptable. Failing that, a subsidy on the capital cost of renewable installations (which nuclear fans are also asking for for nuclear, for example by loan guarantees.)
might get downvoted, but this was what came to my mind after reading the article: https://tomtoro.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1-tom-toro-ye...
Not exactly. I'll just copy a reply I made further down: in 2030, a tax will be introduced of 120 DKK (~16€) / ton CO2e, which linearly increases each year until it reaches 300 DKK (~40€) / ton CO2e in 2035. However, the farmers can get subsidies for changing their practices and adopting new technologies, in order to reduce their emissions. I.e., the government will give you money to change your production, so you can minimize the carbon taxes you have to pay. There are more technicalities to how it works, but that's the gist of it. The important part is that the goal is to transition to new technologies and production methods, which reduces emissions per unit food produced.
It doesn't matter much if your shitbox is made in US or made in China when it cost 50k and nobody has the money for it
The flaw in your faulty logic is that you are attributing intent and purpose to a tool rather than the user of the tool. Additionally, you might also be attributing a persona to a static and mindless tool which is also nonsense.

An "AI" is a tool just like a car or a crossbow, they enable its user to do something more easily. Cars democratize travel, crossbows democratize violence, "AI"s democratize productivity.

>Whether it's good or bad is also completely irrelevant to my argument,

You literally replied to a comment concerning the possibility of the word "democratize" having innate positive and/or negative meanings.
> Chronic loneliness is linked to mental health issues like depression and anxiety, as well as physical health problems, including weakened immunity, cardiovascular disease, and an increased risk of mortality.

A lot of pshycologists make that claim but I haven't found any compelling studies that prove it. Depression and axiety is understandable because we're social animals but the physical aspect isn't convincing unless the socially isolated person is lying around in bed doing drugs and eating unhealthy food all day. In that case instead of loneliness, we should blame drug abuse. It's unclear whether drug use is causing social isolation or if the latter is causing drug use.

All the studies I've seen so far have weak evidence and most of them don't address confounding factors. I'm no scientist but I'd appreciate if someone could point to studies with strong evidence about this claim.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

I have seen far too much VB and VBA that was written by people who were only *ish* code-capable.

BUT.

The thing is, the result did basically work, was extremely useful to the people who were using it, and if the 'ish' person hadn't written it wouldn't've existed at all.

So I'm genuinely glad that they did write it, and they were pretty much invariably somebody who was self taught, doing their best, in isolation, with nobody around them who even rose to the level of 'ish' to bounce ideas off or give feedback.

It's actually quite a fascinating challenge to refactor code like that such that it becomes more structurally coherent *and* is still understandable and modifyable by the original author (ideally easier to modify, but I will settle for not making their lives harder while also making it easier for somebody like me to debug weird shit problems for them when they ask me to pitch in).

So my 'aaaaaaa' here is in a spirit of 'where did I put the tissue box, my eyes are bleeding again' but not at all in a spirit of criticising the original author. They made it work at all!

But any thought on trying to make it possible for people who don't code at all to produce non 'aaaaaaaa' inducing results needs to account for the part where we can't even manage that for the 'ish' people, and thus I am very suspicious of the odds of it ever working out.
You would assume wrong, many (asshat) employers require them, so much that I actually have to screen that kind of sillyness when interviewing. Works a treat to filter out toxic workplaces, but exists nontheless.

As for leaking assets, maybe it does not affect the company at large, but that literally does not matter for this discussion. It will definitely affect your relationship, most often negatively.

And in any case, my usage of assets was clearly general, substitute the example for "clicking on the wrong stored tab while screensharing" can just as well lead you to leaking a plan.
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I’ve held the same position on that since the beginning.
Small, terminal friendly website to check if your ports are open
> As long as we're casting diagnoses

That's a snipe, which violates the rules. What I said doesn't support such a conclusion.

> Anyway, yes children should be disciplined in order to prevent them from plagiarizing

No one said otherwise, the point being made was it must be done fairly and equitably, without arbitrariness. If you discipline them arbitrarily you induce learned helplessness which few people ever recover from.

To be fair, one needs to have that element of identity, the means and measure, must be properly defined and not circularly defined or indirectly referenced.

Absent that, say your kid pissed off the teacher who holds a grudge the entire semester. Your kid does the hard work, but the teacher sets them up at the very end so they lose half a year of their life and damage their future outcomes.

You must design systems so abuses like that don't occur because they will occur absent the structure preventing it.

How do you suppose that kind of experience might contribute to them growing up? Would they become liars and con artists because only those people who can fool the teacher can pass?