jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Paying for 20 denser material is usually more expensive than just "buying" 20 times as much material. Gravity storage will always be a scaling problem because you would rather have 1000 times the material than 20 time the density. Doing something as nonsensical as using a mine shaft whose size is fixed is not going to work out.

The crane system could work out in theory if you make the crane arms 200m or longer. The covered surface area grows much faster than the length of the crane arm. In practice it's an engineering nightmare.

The piston idea has the benefit that you just use a wire saw and cut out a circle. The primary challenge is building what is basically the largest seal on the planet. The pressure itself is not a problem but the sheer size is.

Compared to hydrogen, reflow batteries, compressed air, heat storage, etc gravity energy storage is extremely questionable unless it's pumped hydro.
USSR is a failed civilization because they couldn’t steer good government policies. China is way different. Don’t equate the two just because they’re both “communists”

That’s like equating the US and India
The UK now has a "use it or share it" regime for operator spectrum.

I can go and get prime operator spectrum if it isn't in use in my local area, and use it at certain agreed power levels. That license is just for one location.

There's also dedicated "held back for sharing" spectrum in the N77 5G band (3.8 to 4.2 GHz), which is more widely usable without detailed coordination (but you still need a low cost license)

With modern spectrum access systems (see CBRS for example), geolocation of the radio is used to determine via a coordination server what spectrum can be used in a given location. Whether that's at risk of suppressing dissent or not is another discussion however - most radios in cellular networks will have some kind of backhaul and coordination management plane for interference avoidance and management - the threat model in cellular technology is a bit different still, and the communications are there to enable spectrum requests to be made in real-time. Spectrum coordination wouldn't need to be done by government - there's conceivable ways to do sensing and avoidance, but at the risk of tragedy of the commons scenarios.
I learned programming when I was 8 years old from books and experimenting

Mostly helpful was that I had a 386, QBASIC and GORILLA.BAS, but not much else. No games and no internet
I have been wondering about whether there is a limit to how much Amazon can grow in terms of number of industries they can expand into and also how big can they grow in each of those industries. At some point, there will obviously be attempts to create legislations to stop them from growing. Such legislative maneuvers will probably be rendered ineffective by intense lobbying.

I think there has be change in consumer behavior and expectation to stop Amazon at this point. But will there be significant enough change in consumer behavior so that it is longer feasible for Amazon to grow so much?
> "If everyone coordinated and reduced their WiFi power to just what was necessary to cover their unit, it would result in less interference and higher net data rates for everyone. But no one is incentivized to do take action unilaterally."

This is something that needs to be fixed in future WiFi specifications and enforced via device certification. You're lucky if a typical WiFi base station operator understands how to set channels, let alone adjust TX power levels.

People expect to be able to plug in a base station and have it "just work", so coordinating with other nearby stations to optimize spectrum usage, minimize TX power, etc is something that needs to be automatic.
You can’t add more arms to a trial and keep the number tested the same without losing “statistical power”.
Make sure you change your password every 30 days, too. That way I have to write it down, or use a sequential password just in order to be able to remember it.
Re: "What's wrong with HTML?"

It doesn't handle "state" well, and lacks common GUI idioms like menu bars, tool-bars, editable data grids, combo-boxes, model dialog boxes/windows, MDI, and others. Perhaps HTML can be modified to do those well, but it probably wouldn't be "HTML" anymore.

Re: "If changes to the markup language break a library in the scripting one, its clearly the library that needs fixing."

I'm comparing the emulation of desktop GUI's via HTML + DOM + CSS + JavaScript + JavaScript libraries to something that natively handles GUI's. Those 5 parts together have proven fragile. The chain is as strong as the weakest link.

Re: "Expecting browser makers to somehow keep their HTML engines backward compatible with JS libraries isn't really realistic or practical."

That's why we need a dedicated GUI markup language and browser (or pluggin). You would be very careful about breaking GUI's if GUI's are your tool's only job. HTML (current) browser makers have a lot of other concerns. Breaking a GUI emulator library is just collateral damage to them that makes them yawn.

Those who tried to do something somewhat similar failed because they put too much on their plate: Flash and Java Applets. They tried to be entire virtual OS's, making them a hacker haven. Lesson: don't be an application programming language, don't be a compiler, don't be an OS, don't be a code editor, don't be a toaster, just be a GUI browser and only a GUI browser.
I'm going to use this for every internal page I write, even if charts aren't necessary
Given style and contents of the comment - yes, I think that's very unlikely. The comment looks orchestrated.
Where I live, the phone system started with 3 and 4 digit numbers for the local area. Calling another area code adds 5 digits. Local numbers have grown to 6 or 7 digits since then. So numbers that have to be dialed are often around 11 or 12 digits these days.

I did learn using the rotary phone and had little trouble using it, but I quite distinctly remember falling into all of the traps that I listed for some reason or another.
You don't accept the possibility this could be true?

What's missing here are facts.

To dismiss something based on something anecdotally unrelated seems short-sighted.
It's pretty much impossible to avoid the issue you described.

When I did an MVP of something similar to this, I encountered the same solution. The only solution really is the following:

- Use a reliable email, e.g. mymail@gmail.

- Encrypt forwarded email and send to mymail@gmail.com. So in this case, spammer@spam.com goes to mymail@gmail.com.

- You then would have another email, realmail@mail.com that would receive email from mymail@gmail.com (you would set up the forward in Google).

- However, mymail@gmail.com would actually send to mailproxy@proxy.com, which would decrypt and forward to realmail@mail.com

TLDR: You need to encrypt the emails, pass through a service that won't be blocked, forward and decrypt to target destination.
I wish Mozilla would stop criticizing everything that moves in the name of virtue and instead focus on making great products.
Where do you usually come across them?
I cannot recall (and Mactracker neither) of any MBP of this kind

That was the first generation 13" MacBook Pro.
Having been a landlord (I quit when I realized I had lost the last vestiges of my faith in humanity) I would say "Holy crap, not in my place" to this.

As an Internet denizen who travels, I love the idea - but I have no idea how you'd protect people from the many, many jerks out there who think it's funny to break windows and stab refrigerators during parties.
Correct, I believe that behavior is in place to discourage people from piling on lots of down votes.
It's some way off from being a weapon, I think. The bricks didn't so much blow off as they fell off (from being blown off balance). Ok, I did not say that very clearly. Still, awesome experiment.
This might be the killer app for next generation networks for countries that don't have it already. It'll go from "Oh well, Youtube is a little slow but I won't spend money on a better plan for that." to "I absolutely must have a 20Mbit connection in order to play all these amazing games."

I get 700kb-1Mb/s here in Berlin on a cheapo contract - I will definitely try it out if (and that's a big one) it becomes available here.
Seems like you really want to escape the cold. Can't you get a degree in California if money isn't an issue?
kayak.com/explore
Starting salary for typical IT roles (dev, etc) are about £35-45k p.a. in London depending on how well you negotiate. That's straight out of uni. It goes up rapidly as you go up the ladder. Within a couple of years, if you do well, you should be up to £65k or so, and probably start getting a bonus on top of it too (probably about £10-20k or so in IT). It's not that unusual for the salary to go up by about £10k per year if you do very well, which isn't necessarily that hard, because there are a lot of blasé, bored people who don't have any energy anymore (the environment saps it out of you).

If you're on the business side rather than IT, the equation changes dramatically upwards. I have a friend who's 5 years into a front office, commodities sales job, starting from the lowest possible rank, and who's now earning £150k per year plus bonus. She started on £30k because she really wanted the job - so her salary has gone up 500% in 5 years. That's not counting the bonus either.

That's not fuck-you money. Few people earn that even at banks. But it is a very comfortable salary.

It's cheap to get that salary, too. All you have to give up is your dreams. My friend who earns £150k hates her job, and used to tell me that every time I saw her.
And more powerful computer than anything they have ever seen...
Wild. What is your usual 1 day electric bill?

How long is this expected to continue?
Thank you for posting! What a nifty little site showing off things I didn't even know I wanted!

Small selection of things that I found interesting:

1. Turn your old Dreamcast VMU into a modern game console: Would never have thought of it but in hindsight its the perfect device to mod given its form factor!
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1306197....

2. Combine a Raspberry pi with a Famicom cartridge to provide the Famicom the ability to run DOOM. Given all the other Famicom related releases listed there, its amazing to see the Famicon still alive and kicking. Wonder how the N64 scene is like over there.
https://akiba-pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/news/1297530....

3. IPS Screen mod for Wonderswan (granted we have seen lots of IPS mods so this one for Wonderswan makes sense given its Japan)

The story about Akihabara stores being vacant seems sad though. Even they cannot escape COVID/the future of shopping being online it seems.
> We spent far more time figuring out how to notarize an application on MacOs that using jpackage.

Does that say more about jpackage or about the MacOS notarization process?
Ungoogled Chromium for Android has builds with extension support included.

I'm writing this comment from it right now and extensions work like a charm. All I had to do was add an F-Droid repo, install Chromium and enable a flag in chrome://flags to install extensions from the Web Store.

I use uBlock Origin and Tampermonkey.

The only issue is that I have to enter chrome://extensions manually in order to manage extensions as there is no UI for them.
god finally an article with some moderated sense! I'm beyond sick of seeing social media posts and politicians (most recently here in GA) touting they "follow the science".. As if 'the science' is some monolithic book of f*cking truth that one can 'choose' to read from.
You say that but the fact that dark patterns in games, apps, websites, and advertising are so effective would seem to contradict this. Also, a psychiatrist is an MD and completely different that a psychologist who usually has a PhD and is actually running experiments. That said, psychology does have a repeatability problem for sure. The sheer volume of papers submitted is so much noise that picking out the signal is a hard problem with no good solution at the moment.
Does anybody else remember PowerBuilder?
For centuries in a row, in different places all around the world, most everything lasting that has been built most of the time has been done for compensation by gold or the promise of gold.

Plenty of destructive things have also been paid for with gold, in those cases sometimes the only thing left to show for it after the dust settles is the gold itself.

For enough millennia where it can not be determined how far back toward the dawn of man it extends, and it will never be known if there was ever even another form of currency that was as universal.
> Two can play at this game. I predict that at some future date the stock market will be higher than it is today.

If you said that about the Nikkei 225 in 1990, you’d still be waiting for it to come true. Though as of a few hours ago it’s within 30% of the peak: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-15/japan-s-n...
> Remember to vote Republican!

In NYC and SF? Sure. Or Greens, Independents, Socialists, anyone but Democrats.

I'd be giving the same advice to anyone from Alabama about voting not Republican.

Politics isn't about good and evil, it's about who gets what. If people who keep failing to give you what you want keep getting your vote they will keep doing what they were doing.
Research into this could have clear and fascinating military applications. They're already well aware that a controlled psychopath is an asset:

https://notes.utk.edu/bio/greenberg.nsf/0/bd7eed04567bfe2b85...
There are a lot of people that are railroaded into prison for simply being in the wrong place, looking like the wrong guy, or simply having a bad attitude. In some states it's extremely arbitrary, where they will brand you an accomplice simply because you picked up a hitch-hiker who happened to have drugs on them.

It's insane.
Actually two of my favorite apps ever are on linux, Amarok and Digikam. However, in full disclosure I haven't used Mac seriously in a while. I am sure there would be things I would love on it but for the most part I am very happy with the apps available for linux, especially now KDE4 is becoming usable.
Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why -http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1973516
The process is extremely heavily tested to make sure it just works.
That's exactly what historio.us does, no?
"Open Source Developer" is not a job or career or profession. How many people out there really make their money checking in open source code? 0.1% of all developers? 0.01%? Most people do it in their free time, use it as marketing tool for their consulting/commercial offers, etc.

Miguel de Icaza for one might have Macbook, but I am sure it at least dual boots to Windows. It would not be possible otherwise, since he needs to run .NET non-stop and copy/paste code from Reflector to his Mono implementation, or whatever they are doing to clone .NET to Mono.

And I am pretty sure Apple Software has nothing to do with how they really win their bucks. So no need to look for logic here - they just like the shiny hardware cause they are geeks. That's it. No rocket science or philosophy here.
These rely on the vendors secret sauce and an analysis years back found these frequently horribly broken like my password is password levels of broken.

Bitlocker by default on windows will happily depend on these broken implications in favor of actually secure options that are now and for years specifically accelerated by your cpu.

They are also potentially worthless at protecting data in suspended laptops which for some is a machines condition 99% of the time when it is apt to be lost or stolen.
And yet Visual Studio is weak against Delphi and both weak against Visual FoxPro.

No mainstream debugger today is good with visualization of data structures (still you see 0xf... everywhere) and much less if have more than 10 entries.

With Fox I was able to debug the whole database visually!
What has happened to SF is such a sad story of bad government it will be in history’s textbooks.

Edit: For those who aren’t familiar - check who SF’s DA is, google SF’s school board, daytime population decline, etc.
One source I learned about recently is sandwich meats like packaged deli turkey & chicken. I should have known better, but I didn't realize they are cured just like salami, bacon, etc.
I've seen that FOSDEM chat are archived, does element web interface allow user to save their chat room to text files on their computer ?

https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/2630

This issue has 149 thumbs up, as I noted I don't know of any other chat software without the ability to save discussion to a local file.

Thanks!
It's a lockdown. I could see myself spending the weekend doing this.
Always reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1357/
I hope he stopped posting just so that he could move his money to a different account/investment - obviously you don't want that cash sitting in the broker's account just to make pretty progress screenshots.
I think the short case is pretty obvious - basically a re-run of blockbuster.

I do think they can adapt and survive as a business, but i doubt they have a future of growth or big profitability.
I find it hilarious when affluent areas complain about food costs. That 17$ salad is a product of their 10,000$/mo lease on the building, 15$/hr living wages, and healthcare for the employees.
It's nice to say this algorithm is virtually O(n) in practice, but that's about the "cycling" mechanism only. It needs to prepare a dictionary with offsets, which has to loop over all the keys, perform an O (log n) insert operation on all the keys, and allocate memory on the heap. This already makes it (almost) O (n log n), without even doing the actual sorting.

It's a nice idea, but it's not O(n).
" If you a have code that just completes within the timeout, then guess what? When the system is under load it isn't going to complete."

Unless the platform scales as it should, which is the whole point of accepting all the limitations. If there are tight and hard limits on request timeout, then there must be equally stringent guarantees provided by the underlying platform. "We're working on it" is just not enough under these conditions.
I don't think anyone is going to invade Switzerland for a RISC cpu design
Сrowdfunding platforms are glorified blogs with Stripe integration. What exactly are you afraid to opensourse?
Chrome extension - first test; probably has issues as the Firefox one can be updated much quicker, so is more up to date.

Note - it is supposed to be Adject:

Adds adjectives to mentions of Boris Johnson on a web page.
Good, I hope they can insulate themselves and be very successful in their pursuits.
You think? It seems like about the one valid use case for tracking. I bought phones for my kids on the proviso they would be primarily for safety purposes.
Though it will start to get a bit grey as they get older.
>The frequent (or at least frequent enough to be concerning) shootings of unarmed black men for example are generally excused with police officers saying they were "afraid for their lives."

Police officers only ever say that to lay the groundwork for a legal self-defense argument.

>Gun ownership is the smallest contributor to that problem

On the one hand, maybe, but on the other hand, it's difficult to stab someone from a distance, so the effect of guns as a force multiplier is relevant.
It’s vicarious living, there is so little real conflict in modern society, people enjoy participating in artificial conflicts such as sports teams, etc. Or inventing new categories to feel oppressed over.
Please don't do this here. If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; otherwise please don't post until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
>Every feature you have in C++, Rust does it better.

IDK. I miss variadic functions (not macros) and being able to do certain simple things without resorting to strange paradigms, like arbitrarily closing an std::fs::File without needing to go out of scope or calling drop. Things like that.
One thing I personally like about Linode is that they continue to contribute code, sponsor conferences, and otherwise support the open source community. Of course there is a certain amount of self interest involved, but not every VPS hosting company gives back like this.
Honestly, not much. Like another commenter said, that's about 1-2 days of a developer's time. You can't get much done in that amount of time. I would recommend finding someone who has the expertise that shares your vision and make them a partner.
I like it a lot. My one quibble is that a lot of the animations seem to take forever.
I doubt they need to artificially limit supply anymore for such an established product like iPhone (even iPad supplies weren't that limited).

My guess is #2 - Apple wants to release the product as soon as possible to be as far ahead of the competition as possible. Thus, the time between the finalization of the product specs (after all engineering has been done) and the launch date will be kept pretty tight. They'll make all they can in that time, and then sell what they have on launch day.
Well, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.
Oh thx, I thought my mousewheel had broken!
Aren't they doing some kind of goofy open source/proprietary differentiation, just like FoundationDB was doing? It looks like "the full copy of HyperDex Warp" (whatever that means) is what people are expected to pay for.
IIRC they are very popular in Russia because the insurance companies reduce your prime. This cause a lot of interesting videos, like the meteorite a few years ago, and a lot ow weird accident videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dashboard+camer...
I would start mocking up your idea in something like Balsamiq (http://balsamiq.com/). This will make it easier to find a hacker to partner with and to show the concept to potential investors.
This is amazing data, and I expect that much more research is coming our way. It would be interesting to speculate on what kind of databases might be needed.
How does this work for a case like DOM nodes? Where each child is constantly re-assigned parents? Is there any way to reset the parent?
What about some visual demo - maybe a YT movie or few pictures on the web site. The idea sounds fantastic, but will it actually work well in practice?
Good Luck.
On the whole, I think talloc() is targetting a very specific use-case and if you have that it would be great to use (just like obstack).
How would one get involved in this sort of programming/research? I basically want to understand the world (of humans) as a whole, the really big picture, and this kind of thing is right up my alley. I'm thinking I should learn R and statistics, but what else? I already study history intensively.
Anyone have a video of these in action? They look like fun.
Yes, my idea behind it is generally draw a sprite, copy it into a new frame, move some parts of it, then reconnect and clean up the ugliness that results from an arm being completely disconnected from a shift in the rest of the image.
This is what I'm saying. Everyone who is worth anything has got a ton of irons in the fire. Probably projects from people in their network. It'll be a long shot to get someone to take your project on without some serious incentive. You may be chasing devs for a long while and have nothing to show for your effort.

Learning to code may not pay off for this particular project, but it just might come in handy later. I'm just sayin'.
Thanks! We make a big effort on putting up only the games that we like the best, as to avoid the firehose of sub-par games you might find on other sites.
I think this is the first time I've seen somebody suggest with a straight face that their isn't that much porn on the internet.

After spam, pornography is one of the largest demographics of internet traffic.
What does eating lunch mean in this context?