skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes that's my point, the stories you have read probably said something like:

Wind curtailment payments cost 1 billion a year (boo hiss renewables bad and expensive! even though, just like you they make no attempt to even argue that non-renewables would be cheaper, possibly because they know that's not true. Instead random big scary numbers get thrown around with no context)

A better story would be that 1/3rd of that was money spent on curtailment going to the wind turbines as if their output was used and 2/3rds was spent on gas to generate the same power closer to the demand. Because gas costs more than wind.

An even better story would point out that the UK has a single zone of pricing, so you can't sell the wind cheaper in Scotland so it gets used but only offer it on the single marketplace and when it gets bought in England, then supply it with gas at great cost and curtail in Scotland.

Aside 1: This can get so absurd that France can buy Scottish wind power and then get it delivered by gas generators from England.

Aside 2: If Scotland had its own pricing zone it would have the cheapest electricity in Europe due to its wind power, even including UK taxes and levies.

A great story would point out that the reason there is wind being generated in Scotland, but not England and the root cause of all that extra cost and curtailment is that the conservatives banned onshore wind for a decade in England. But that's never stated.

Apparently we can talk about building more transmission (at a cost to bill payers, boo hiss renewables are bad and expensive! Again, this is cheaper than gas.) and even zonal reform which would indirectly encourage more renewables being built in England, since the new government loosened the build restrictions but not directly address the elephant in the room.

And to bring it round to my original point, any cost or really just any large number that can be associated with renewables in the US will be used to write scary stories but I fully expect the financial impacts of this current act of self-sabotage to never be mentioned again.
> It you can shoot a satellite at 8 km/s, you probably can also shoot it at 11 km/s.

Assuming all else is equal (same altitude, same targeting capability, same flight characteristics), an interceptor for an 11 km/s target needs about 89% more kinetic energy than an interceptor for an 8 km/s target. Realistically, between the rocket equation and atmospheric effects, the faster interceptor would likely need to be far larger still. You're probably talking about a 2.5 to 3 times bigger missile. While a country that could develop one could likely develop the other if they so chose, it doesn't seem like a safe assumption that a country with one has the other.
Just because something rhymes, doesn't make it true, it just makes it more interesting.

I like your version better: He who cheats, does not advance.

Or you could say: He who cheats, cheats but himself.

It shapes every relationship and experience of life, until you accept it as reality, but it is the reality of a cheating man. A cheating man would say women are whores, because he's never been worthy of trust.
It's only scary if you try to hard to hold on. Relax and float down stream... In the moment, it does not feel like your brain is not working properly. I tend to feel more clearheaded (even when confused) than I am on alcohol.
It's rude to subtly accuse the GP of not arguing in good faith due to personal conflict of interest without any evidence.

I was enjoying the discussion until the parent broke it of with a comment that sounds like a SJW refusing to "educate" us.
>Sometimes you gotta fuck up to learn - I never did that again.

How did you not know to not eat someone else's food before your first job?
Then why should I (or my 401K provider) put my money in Joanns?

And this is why companies get sold to PE - traditional investors are investing to make money. If an asset isn't making money (eg. Joann's), you invest elsewhere (eg. Alphabet).

And if you're on HN, you probably have a 401K or IRA and are also enabling this, so cut the "holier than thou" BS.
It comes down to the problem statement and what the constraints are. This is solving for using the phone-only scenario, which is perfectly valid.

If you want to address a phone-with-internet-backchannel, that's valid too - but it assumes different problem statement and constraints.
Optimistic take:
Big box stores closing opens a gap for local stores to fill.
I was playing with Nan boxing recently. There are caveats like whether you can init a floating point Nan in immediate mode and how to do compares on the data. Basically it seems like you have to be ready to do most things with a two step process and cost yourself a cycle now and then.
Is it really "hyperfast" if it's just opening a microsoft edge webview window?

Is it really faster than the image viewers made 20 years ago that open a window with the win32 API?
> On vacation: set up auto response

Fired, you didn't respond as asked.

> Concerned about legality: reply that you are concerned about legality

Fired, they want people who aren't going to ask questions.

> Doing classified activity: reply that your work is classified

Fired, they don't care about classification. They are violating it anyway, and you not doing it for them is seen as disloyal.

> “Too engrossed”: over 48 hours of not checking email at all? I doubt any government job is that engrossing.

I don't. A lot of departments do most of their communication through other platforms now anyway, so email is only for interfacing with outsiders. If you do little of that in your daily duty, it's not unreasonable to only check your emails once or twice a week.

Why are you bending over backwards to make excuses for this shitshow of an operation? DOGE is an embarrassment, and I'm shocked that people are actually working hard on HN to try to defend its transparent incompetence.
Except that many folks use "they" as a sort of passive-aggressive way to mock trans people whose pronouns they disapprove of, and so now using "they" on somebody whose pronouns you have been told is becoming a faux pas because of that implication.
>r

Are we really still doing the "-r" branding (brandr)? It is so tiresome.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about Starship, not Falcon 9. Starship doesn't launch from Vandenberg; neither Starship launch site has seals present.

Propellant mass 441,800 lbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy) to 906,000 lbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy) in the respective first stages.
this is using phone only
Someone more experienced that me could probably comment on this more, but theoretically is it possible for Electron production builds to become more efficient by having a much longer build process and stripping out all the unnecessary parts of Chromium?
Solvespace only seems to have simple STEP export, Open Cascade can import STEP as well.
I had never heard it and assumed it was gacha terminology, with SSR devs as the top 1-2% and SR devs top 20%.
Spiders are also a recurring theme among amantadine users:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amantadine

It was very easy to buy in Russia and neighboring countries up until 2012 or so. I've never used it (chickened out of trying out something like that), but there are tons of stories from more adventurous people.
time is money
> There is no way for Hyperspace to cooperate with all other applications and macOS itself to coordinate a “safe” time for those files to be replaced, nor is there a way for Hyperspace for forcibly take exclusive control of those files.

This got me wondering why the filesystem itself doesn't run a similar kind of deduplication process in the background. Presumably, it is at a level of abstraction where it could safely manage these concerns. What could be the downsides of having this happen automatically within APFS?
From the first glance, browser-use is compatible with more models, and has (much) more github stars ;)

Coincidentally I played with it over the last weekend using Gemini model. It's quite promising!
it is just astonishing that there are apparently ZERO republicans left who will even comment negatively on Trump just destroying the US's military, scientific, diplomatic and political domination of most of the world.

I've long been a critic of much of US foreign policy and of the patheticness of my country in standing up to them when they're wrong, but this is just an insane incineration of 80 years of structural advantage for the US.
Yes, it is beautiful that someone can potentially self-diagnose with ChatGPT* - but if you're worried about your health, you really shouldn't need to use it and just be free to go to the GP or GPC (outside opening hours) without worrying if you are going to have a debt for the foreseeing time.

* with at the same time having this data nicely collected for OpenAI to boost further training
Ah, fair enough. I've not done much with Elixir but I have done a fair amount with Erlang and you certainly don't need to sell me on how great it is for concurrency and distributed stuff.
The Cost of Ethical Meat [video]
Show HN: I'm building an AI form builder to monetize my open source library
Customisation has other major costs.

1: It locks you into a vendor. The vendor strongly encourages customisation for this reason (and for other reasons that are mostly against a business' interests)

2: onboarding staff is expensive because they need to learn your unique systems. If you're using a package/service off the shelf you can often advertise for people with knowledge of the package/service e.g. AWS versus inhouse e.g. known payroll system versus custom.

3: internal costs to upgrade. With stock standard systems your upgrades are cheap because the costs are amortised across many companies e.g. mobile app development in 2010's. With custom systems you pay for everything. The costs are often invisible e.g. horrific Mobile support (watching friends fight desktop websites on mobile is painful). Another cost is that internal development teams are often shit and certainly can never compete with Darwinian best-available-on-market software.

4: shitty custom internal systems. Sometimes the customisation provides business benefits but we have all worked with crappy internal systems where the benefits versus costs were slim.

Two examples of bad customisation requests:

A) HR systems in small companies. For some reason HR managers demand fractally complex systems and they all want different things so developing common features is really hard.

B) larger customers with demanding internal rules/regulations e.g. a client asking us to conform our UI to their UI standard. No way it was worth it for us or for them. Plus dealing with their UI despots would have been hell. I think their internal software teams decided to build inhouse instead (I bet the outcome was shit).
Absolutely! There is a PMF for stores selling craft goods to hobbyists.

It's not a business model that can justify a cross national big-box store chain, but it can absolutely support local businesses who can better manage margins.

And this was a major reason why Joann's (and similar big boxes like Toys-r-Us or Borders) couldn't compete.
The thing about RETVRN that's funny is that the definition of what is and is not modernity is very slippery.

Though my initial impression wasn't fair. I overstated the RETVRN aspect. The main vibe of this list is effort justification. One of the main criteria for being ranked near the top is being a doorstopper (The Bible included). Makes reading seem more like an accomplishment you can lord over other people. But maybe that's not fair.
pnpm tries to be a drop-in replacement for npm, and dedupes automatically.
Windsurf Prompt Shared by a User
Lol. No, you would say they have an unidentified febrile illness.

You could just as easily say they have symptoms of malaria, or an STD. The inclusion of "hemorrhagic" is either an indicator of information that wasn't expressly stated, or it's incorrect and fear mongering.
I don't think czkawa supports deduplication via reflink so it's not exactly the same thing. fclones as linked by another user is more similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173713
One of the reasons cited in their bankruptcy is that they weren't able to keep yarn and hobby materials in stock, diminishing their utility as a one stop physical stock for hobbyists.

My wife was bummed when I told her about it, but I also recall going several times where they were stocked out of many items, so I kind of get it. Hard to justify a 30/60 minute trip if there is a good chance you wind up empty handeded
whats the price? doesnt seem to be published anywhere
Do you have an example of the expression problem that can't (yet) be solved in today's programming languages, but could theoretically be solved?
Crusty it is. The fillet tool STILL totally sucks after 27 years, and I STILL frequently find myself needing to define surface geometry, fillet the surface, and use that to split the solid rather than just directly filleting the solid, in order to get the same type of fillet intersections that you get when you machine the part.
Since when is there a Signal web app? I don't think there is, but even if there were then presumably it'd work the same as the desktop app: "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."
>We could have wide-spread elimination of malaria transmission now.

The vaccine doesn't work that well. As your article [4] says

>The highest impact will be achieved, however, when the vaccines are introduced alongside a mix of other WHO-recommended malaria interventions such as bed nets and chemoprophylaxis.
Is it file level or block level copy? The latter, I hope.

Update: whoops, missed it in your comment. Block (changed bytes) level.
This is a list of books that everyone wants to know but no one wants to read.
Time for the other Four Eyes to axe the unreliable fifth...
Show HN: Tach – Visualize and untangle your Python codebase
Hey everyone! We're Evan and Caelean, the authors of Tach.

Tach lets you visualize the architecture of your Python codebase, and gives you the tools to incrementally improve it. It uses module boundaries to give teams the benefits of microservices without the deployment complexity.

If your code has been getting tangled up as your team and codebase grows, Tach helps you move back in the right direction, incrementally and quickly. You can use Tach to incrementally adopt a "modular monolith" architecture [1], for better local reasoning and smoother feature development.

Since our last Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41359181) we've shipped support for layers, third party dependencies, visualizations, and more.

Tach is: * Open source (MIT) * completely free * fast (written in Rust) * in use by teams at NVIDIA, PostHog, and more.

One way Tach differs from existing systems that handle this problem (build systems, import linters, etc) is the ability to be incrementally adopted. Also, runtime speed.

If you struggle with dependencies, onboarding new engineers, or a massive codebase, Tach is for you! We built it with developers in mind - with clean integrations into Git, CI/CD, and IDEs, and the performance for it to be effective in any form factor.

[1] https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/what-is-a-modular-monol...
If I remember correctly, Joann is one of the (too many) stores that fucked around during COVID: Defying business closures and stay-at-home, denying paid sick leave for sick employees, and trying desperately to get themselves declared as an "essential business" so they could remain open. Fitting end for a scummy company IMO.
Yes, both are correct spellings of the word.
I have a couple, they work fine, but there don't seem to be that many options for apps/web.
https://archive.is/eXzQs

> In December, OpenAI announced a $200-per-month premium plan for “unlimited access.” Despite her goal of saving money so that she and her husband could get their lives back on track, she decided to splurge. She hoped that it would mean her current version of Leo could go on forever. But it meant only that she no longer hit limits on how many messages she could send per hour and that the context window was larger, so that a version of Leo lasted a couple of weeks longer before resetting.
until you hit the generative AI camera mode because, well, you're tripping, and it hears your description of the fire and adds flames to your image. In the words of Neo, "whoa!"
> If you have users/customers in a certain country, even if your product is purely software, you can be considered to have operations in that country.

If no money is changing hands, good luck with that. (Or, rather, bad luck with that.)

(If money is changing hands, you might find your payments blocked by local payment providers, though even then that would take a while and might or might not happen.)
> Async Rust is painful

On the other hand, I've found normal threading in Rust quite simple (generally using a thread pool).
Even when you tell it “no code, just talk. Let’s ensure we are in alignment and discuss our options. I’ll tell you when to code” it still decides it is going to write code.

Telling it “if you were in an interview and you jumped to writing code without asking any questions, you’d fail the interview” is usually good enough to convince it to stop and ask questions.
That's deeply untrue and unfair, and the fact that you've reached back 12 years to find an example, when YC has funded thousands of startups since then, is evidence against what you're saying.

YC has turned down many startups because they didn't think what the product was doing was right, and it has defunded and banned startups for ethical reasons over the years. It's not your fault that you didn't know this, since no one makes a big deal of it, but I think it's proper to bring it up when you say that the people at YC will "back anything that makes money".
I think you're going to scarcely find a company that has a direct open source -> hire pipeline. However, one of the most valuable parts of contributing to open source that I have personally found is forming connections and having those connections referring you to companies. I encourage you to find a company + project combination that you enjoy, find ways to collaborate, and make relationships. Doing that will likely yield huge dividends.
But those are also vulnerable to these laws, no? App sideloading seems the only escape.
Can't mount my ZFS system.

If I understand correctly, you wouldn't be allowed to prepackage it in your distributed software anyways.
I 100% agree.

A European FB or alternatives for literally every US Big Tech product already exist, all of them OSS.

Even search (Google) now became much easier to replace with LLMs.

What it misses is solving the chicken and egg problem, basically getting people to use it.

Without its people, social networks are useless. The same is search.
Depends! If you know the schema, you already have this information. If you don't know the schema, the most common approach is to store the type and value in an object, e.g.

{
"_t": "float64",
"_v": "3.14159"
}
If you really push CATIA hard, you can get it to crash in French, or at least crash with a poorly translated error message.

"The Document cannot be unloaded because he is dirty" was one of my favorites.
These studies generally don't include the large amounts of domestic labor that had to be done in addition to farming. Lots of food preservation, home repairs, tending to fires, etc that we simply don't have to worry about today in nearly the same way. There was a lot less work in winter, but there was also substantially less food and with less energy for recreational activity, a lot of people's leisure time was occupied with sleeping.
Possibly but in my experience LLMs are more useful for brainstorming and generating original ideas than “being accurate” all of the time. Hence my idea that they could be useful in diagnosing difficult conditions.
I don't have an immediate use for it, but I quite like it!
Square people are never going to agree with cool people.
You can be cool and code some monstruosity or you can be square and say "we have to rebuild this entire project from scratch" everytime you see a long method.
It's because it's very hard to chisel a curve into stone.
Back when I did consulting, I started locally and eventually went nationally. I even had my state in the company name and emblazoned on my web page; didn't stop Big Names from across the country from hiring me.
Here's what an impartial LLM has to say about your replies to my arguments using the reasoning deep thinking option:

>Please read these comments below. Is fredrikholm correct or did he misinterpret what FirmwareBurner was saying? Would you say fredrikholm was arguing in good or in bad faith towards FirmwareBurner ?

>Conclusion
Fredrikholm misinterpreted what FirmwareBurner was saying. FirmwareBurner’s criticism was specific to people who judge others’ buying choices, not a blanket dismissal of everyone who cares about purchases. Fredrikholm’s sarcastic reply exaggerates and distorts this into a broader attack, missing the clarification FirmwareBurner provided in response to palata. Thus, fredrikholm did not correctly interpret FirmwareBurner’s intended meaning.

Fredrikholm’s comment leans heavily toward bad faith. The sarcastic tone, misrepresentation of FirmwareBurner’s position, and reliance on a personal jab rather than substantive rebuttal indicate a lack of sincere engagement. While online miscommunication or emotional reactions could explain some of this, the overall approach—especially ignoring the clarification and contributing nothing constructive—suggests fredrikholm was not arguing in good faith toward FirmwareBurner.

In other words, you've been caught acting as what youngsters refer to as "a roach bitch" in the comments mate.
Use mechanisms that spread but that aren't limited by geography. Blog, social media, books, youtube, posting here, etc...
That’s not a role the framers ever envisioned, and it’s a bad thing to have in a democratic system. The government should be responsive—voting should result in visible changes to the government. A lot of the current polarization is due to the fact that people have been voting against globalization since 2008 and somehow we keep getting more of it. It’s dangerous in a democracy for voters to perceive that elections are just a suggestion to the bureaucracy that actually runs the country.

It’s also incorrect to assume that the bureaucracy averages out to the same place as the public. Public support for increasing immigration, for example, peaked at 35%. It’s never been popular. But we have been getting more of it for decades: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...
Also models that various AI libraries and plugins love to autodownload into custom locations. Python folks definitely need to learn caching, symlinks, asking a user where to store data, or at least logging where they actually do it.
I wish there were modern benchmarks against browser engines. A long time ago native apps were much faster at rendering UI than the browser, but that may performance rewrites ago, so I wonder how browsers perform now.
Giving Up a $250k Salary to Retire Early Is Hard
Virginia Tech Bicycle Helmet Ratings
I don’t think it’s fallen, I think they just repost press releases and 99.9% of the time it’s uneventful.
Better tell Michaels and Hobby Lobby then, because I don't think they got your memo.

Joann's won the industry consolidation phase in the 80s-90s, but took on a lot of debt to buy out House of Fabrics, So-Fro and others. They had almost completely retired that debt by the mid 2000s and would be sitting pretty today, but sold out to private equity in 2010. The PE did the usual LBO shit of borrowing a the purchase money and then transferring the debt to the company. Boom, one billion in the hole, buyers strip anything of value, no coming back from that.

I'll miss them because touching fabric is important. fabric ain't like resistors, one 100ohm feels pretty much like the next, and Joanns covered quilters, apparel sewers and upholstery/decor sewers pretty well.