skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1 is entirely possible. Opera 12.x takes ~3-10MB per TAB (+the weight of the media used on the page). There is zero latency, opening new/switching tabs is instantaneous.

Google devs use 16-32 core machines, often with hundreds of gigabytes ram. Why would they bother optimizing?
MIT launches multimillion-dollar collaboration to develop fusion energy
Not needing storage is a real advantage. I see nothing "dishonest" about pointing that out.
My laptop has 8 GB of memory and I have to make sure to have no more than 4 or 5 Chrome tabs open when I use a VM.
Firefox Sync is insecure and should not be used. This didn't used to be the case — it used to be world-class — but the engineers decided to utterly destroy its security. All of your remote data is protected by whatever password you use, rather than by a high-entropy key (which means if you choose a poor password you might as well leave your data in plaintext). Worse, they use dynamically-downloaded JavaScript to handle your password, which means even if you use a high-entropy passphrase Mozilla can at any time send you malicious JavaScript and snarf your passphrase.

This means that any government Mozilla must obey can do the same thing.

Mozilla Accounts are thus fundamentally insecure and must not be used. It breaks my heart: they went from having the world's best password-sync security to having its worst. Even Google's system is quite so blatantly security-hostile. When your concern for your users is less than Google's, you really are doing something wrong.
Physicists propose experiment to see the ‘grin’ of quantum gravity
I know of several hackers that have gone through YC have autoimmune conditions, and I would say there is a larger population of people that have autoimmune conditions then our parents generation. I myself have ankylosing spondylitis, and live with chronic pain, back and neck problems. Probably just really interesting to people like us, who want to hack our way out of problems that medicine doesn't have good answers for yet.
Another implied solution perhaps... don't use so many tabs? (I promise you, I'm speaking to myself as I say that. I use way too many, myself)
A recent Corbett Report piece on YouTube and alternatives such as Bitchute and Dtube, given the recent purge and '3 strikes' 'community policy' constraints on commentaries unpopular with 'moderators'.... https://www.corbettreport.com/youtube-is-now-themtube-time-t...
Not every "fundamental" statement in physics is a natural law, for example the idea of grouping together like microstates into macrostates. We group together microstates into macrostates based on their macrovariables, which are selected to line up with emergent behavior that we observe on the macroscale. Temperature is well-motivated, but it's motivated in a different way than position.

In Multiverse, the projection-onto-eigenbases statistical rule (which guides the partition of the wavefunction into conceptual universes), is seen as being like thermodynamics: statistical, and motivated to compress vast microscopic information into variables that are nice for humans. Someone who thought MV was the right idea would say that projections were a way to calculate the fraction of universes in which something was true, and thereby your probability of ending up in one where it was. In that view, it's emergent, instead of fundamental - like temperature. This reduces the number of fundamental ideas necessary by allowing projection to emerge instead of being asserted.
Some trains have different classes of travel but not many urban subways systems do (I don't know of any. India?). Also, current train systems are not usually designed for individual vehicles to exit and enter the track system. And I don't think any train systems allow vehicles that can also run on the road system.
Bear in mind, though, that password-store doesn't encrypt its filenames, so you should only use it with git-remote-gcrypt or similar (which isn't currently supported by any password-store mobile app, so you can't use it on your phone).

Leaving filenames unencrypted means that anyone who can view your encrypted data (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, your local admin — whomever) knows which sites you frequent & care to protect.
Additionally, the number you come up with (as "MiB of RAM used by an application") might also depend on the OS features the application uses and not directly be obvious by its functionality.

Example: I've been doing some experiments around DWM thumbnails in MS Windows. My program doesn't really do much and shouldn't use too much memory (and doesn't, at least initially). I create a thumbnail for each visible window on the screen (say 5 of them), and -ding-, my process uses >400 MiB.
> Nuclear power is one of the few sources of clean energy

well clean if you forget about the waste in the aftermath..
One of the most amazing things about TRÅDFRI is that it’s actually well-designed. The software is minimalistic, and designed for security by default, it’s fault-tolerant, and it’s local by default.

A massive contrast to the silicon-valley node.js on each lightbulb products, reliant on cloud servers, with analytics everywhere; or the cheap chinese unsecured lightbulbs that are just days after purchase infected with Mirai.

A welcome change, indeed.
I think you're glossing over something very important though - which is that he visibly demonstrated that he was wrong. I understand his intention and how he was building up towards the end, but this video makes me question everything he says rather than believe him. He is very much telling us to ignore what we saw with our eyes because it disagrees with his prediction, with very little explanation as to why. He made a prediction, he demonstrated for us that his prediction was wrong, and then he told us he was still right. If that's not an appeal to authority then I don't know what is.
the problem with videos is that they require a lot more of a time investment to determine if they're worth watching.

I can skim an essay or an article to determine if the content is worth a proper read, but i can't skim a video. So i'm a lot more likely to ignore a video, unless it's already been heavily upvoted or endorsed by somebody i trust. Video is a great medium to convey an idea to people who already trust that you aren't going to waste their time, and that's why youtube works so well - subscribers to a channel have made the decision to trust that channel up front. but it's a poor medium for a link aggregator site like HN. It's not that HN readers don't take video seriously, it's just video is not a good fit for the HN format, where the default assumption on clicking a link is that the content is probably not interesting, and it's up to the content to prove otherwise before losing the reader's interest.
Laws and treaties aren't magic. Countries break them all the time and often get away with it.

China wasn't really punished when it blew up a satellite, and I doubt that was allowed by the treaty.

The better question, though, is are there any MOTIVATION to break the treaty?

Well there certainly already was motivation for china, I there is certainly motivation for other countries to engage in weapons testing. Especially if they could do their weaponization without being noticed. I doubt that every rocket in the world is checked, top to bottom for weapons.
The Eccentric Adventures of Captain Davis, Sea-Desert Dweller
> In Minecraft, the imaginary worlds my son dreams up are expressed and realized in a virtual environment multiple people can occupy and affect together. When he tells me the floor is lava, I look down and notice that the floor is indeed made of burning lava, fatal on contact. In response, I construct a bridge.

I always wondered about my nephews fascination for minecraft. This is probably one of the main reasons.
I would think the equivalent of that kind of thing in the software world would be things like automated testing and code reviews. (IE, processes that recognize people are fallible and provides mitigation). I think scrum is a different beast from those kinds of things (especially given that there's very little evidence for scrum's supposed effectiveness)
I consulted for a while - my bosses boss told a few of us somewhat off the record that it was our job to just deliver enough value each month to keep the contract for the next month as well.

Specifically if we found X,Y,Z things the company could improve the first month we were only to give them X and save some meat for the following months.
That’s why I, in the EDIT, then chose to assume 2^5 different characters, which is roughly lowercase ascii plus some special characters.

That’d still be 80 bits, and still secure enough.
It's actually better than that. The Shanghai-Beijing line cost ~$40 billion in 2018 dollars. The cost estimates for the California line are in year of expenditure dollars, which means the $78+ billion is amounts that are spent from 2008 until completion in 2033.

The dollars spent early in the project cost more because of inflation, and along the same lines, the dollars spent later in the project cost less because of inflation.

For instance, if we spend half of the $80 billion in the last 5 years of the project, that's something like $30 billion in 2018 dollars even though it's $40 billion in 2028 to 2033 dollars.
> I think the reason the example in the video is so interesting is that its non-destructive. It only involves bending and the paper and coaster remain intact.

There is a quadratic hole cut into the quadratic paper (which I would clearly call "destructive"). It is just not shown in the video how the quadratic hole is cut into the quadratic paper.

If this argument does not convince you, here is another one: Also for stepping through a postcard after the hole is cut it is just bending the paper.
Here's my take:

We need to encourage both boys and girls at an early age [i.e. we should not discourage either boys or girls]. As these boys and girls grow up into men and women in the workforce, having been side-by-side all through school, I think both, by then men and women, will both find they have a place in the tech workforce.

In the US (and other places) we have people who pursue fame (in acting, singing, etc.) when we know and they know their chances are slim. But we as a society value "celebrity". We celebrate liberal arts. We don't so much celebrate hard sciences. That's part of the problem. We don't need so many cashiers and delivery boys and girls with liberal arts degrees doing nothing in their careers.

We could have many of those people who study liberal arts go into more meaty things --there are better prospects for STEM than for liberal arts graduates.
I did, but that assumes the average person. This is HN, not Facebook, so we can make different assumptions.

E.g., we can assume that everyone has read the famous XKCD on passwords, and is using passwords that are a bunch of words after another, in lowercase ascii, which would get us somewhere around 80 bits of security, and still keep it memorable.
I’ve started to use Jupyter notebooks, with devop recipes as different sections, for this.

You can keep the notebook in the repo if you do two (or three) things:

1. The scripts read passwords from a key store instead of the notebook source. I wrote a Python package for doing this easily in Python cells; for bash, I just use subcommands.

2. A git pre-commit hook clears the notebook output cells.

3. (Optional) A git pre-commit or pre-push hook searches for text that looks like private credentials.
giving people what they want

This implies that people have static, immutable sets of preferences. Do you believe that?

Just curious. Were there any foods you hated as a child but now like? What about musicians? Movies? Books? Art?

I ask (somewhat acerbically) because I see this argument so often and I struggle to see how anyone would believe that humans have static preferences over time. The natural corollary of humans having mutable preferences is that the entire discipline of marketing is geared toward discovering and shaping preferences for profit.
> almost criminally unknowledgable

Do yourself a favour and develop a sense of proportion.
"But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule. It is from fear of this, as it appears to me, that the better sort hold office when they do, and then they go to it not in the expectation of enjoyment nor as to a good thing, but as to a necessary evil and because they are unable to turn it over to better men than themselves."
- Plato, Republic, Book 1, section 347c
There is very little water in modern reactors, especially if we reprocess the spent rods. There is much more radioactive waste in Coal fly ash.
Great comment, that is exactly what I think is going to happen.

The big risks I see with the Telegram ICO have nothing to do with the tech. They are as follows:

A) They build out all this functionality to support crypto currency, etc and it sees low adoption/usage with their users.

This happened with Snapchat and messenger when they introduced the ability to send money. People still used Venmo, including many of my friends who work at Facebook.

B) They roll out this tech, it starts taking off, Facebook detects it and they smoother it by cloning the functionality and rolling it out in messenger/WhatsApp. Aka what happened to Snapchat with stories.
> Or maybe people are naturally more attracted to the extremes [..] What if youtube was just giving people what they want

That's part of it, but I think the point is more subtle. YouTube shows the content that will keep people on YouTube (to maximize advertising), but that doesn't mean it's what they most want.

Given good or bad news, we may prefer the good but spend more time on the bad, even if the bad news is something that's irrational to worry about.

The way to get people to spend more time on YouTube may be to make them worry more, care more, and overall be more involved in the topic by showing more extreme aspects of it. That may be more exploiting human psychology (perhaps unintentionally) than giving people what they want, or maybe it's giving our darker sides what they want.
Was in the DoD contracting world for 14 years, was told explicitly never to actually deliver a finished product. Rather, deliver 80% and then tell them you need more money for the other 20%. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Got to do a lot of fun stuff, but the BS is so deep, there is geologic stratification!
Key thing, consumers prioritize initial capital cost. Where for utilities it's all about total cost.

Utilities probably also like that you can do continuous maintenance on battery systems. Servicing involves two men and a forklift vs multi day/week shutdowns. Friend is a millwright. Worked on a 7F gas turbine installation. They fired it up and it threw it's blades.
One thing I noticed about "Insta-pubs" in the Midwest in the early 2000's: Well over half of them seemed to be converted gas stations. Maybe a new era of batteries means even more instant Irish Pubs? (Which, long term, actually means more sports bars with Irish pub decor.)
Perhaps that's how the mythical homo economicus would see it, but that's not how real people see it.

See also: the way that most people view a tax refund as "free money" that the government is "giving" them, rather than them having given the government an interest-free loan of that money (which is the actual case).

When they get a (partial) refund of the taxes withheld, they're happy, rather than being disappointed that they've had too much withheld (as homo economicus would).

If, instead, no taxes were withheld and they were forced to come up with the (non-refunded) portion in a lump sum payment once a year they'd be outraged.

Human psychology and math don't really overlap that much.

In one sense, yes, the money the employer pays would be available for wages, but the problem is that any savings would come out of a pool of potential wages for all employees. There is no direct incentive for an individual employee to save money on health care, because those savings will make zero impact on his paycheck.

One way of trying to get around this is, of course, the "copay". If the employee saves money, he does, in most cases, have a somewhat smaller copay. But the incentive isn't nearly as high as it would be if all the savings accrued directly to the employee.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072
Touring the worlds that my son has settled over the last couple of years, I find a lot of the imagery one might expect from a kid his age. Throughout are standard fantasies like living in a treehouse or on a boat. The dominant themes vary as I pass through time: trains in his earliest worlds, then robots, a long streak of pyramids. Pirate ships, particularly half-sunken ones with treasure chests, remain a constant.

If only all kids were so innocent. Maybe he's just young. It'd be mildly amusing to read this from the perspective of a parent horrified that their son developed into one of those raging lunatics that occasionally haunt Dota 2.

When I was about 14 or so, I used to play this oldschool game called Underlight. It was a roleplaying game unlike any other, before or since: You're forced to play a character. You're not allowed to talk about real life or even admit that real life exists at all.

It was so cool, mostly because this was the world of adults. This was also before the era of voice chat, so they had no clue I was 14.

It was also around that time that I was discovering myself, and it usually took the form of various relationships with various women. These relationships could feel quite real, though it was solely a text-based medium. And "sex" was obviously involved, or as close to it as you can get. (On the forums it was called "Quality Roleplaying," or QRP, hah.)

That was a very small component of the game, but it was there. The point was that it emulated real life in a few ways. There were politics. There were 8 "houses" (basically clans), with various leaders. I even participated in a murder once, an extremely rare event in any game. It was true murder, in a sense, because you're not allowed to log in to your character after that, and only a select few people ever had the ability. It cost 10 points of health permanently. It was basically the world of Harry Potter, and I was in Slytherin. So we had certain abilities that no one knew existed, one of which was the ability to end other characters. As far as I know, this ability was used only three times in the history of the game, so it was quite lucky to see it firsthand.

My dad once came down and sat behind me, perhaps out of curiosity. Unfortunately this was right in the middle of one of the QRP sessions. I spent about 20 minutes doing nothing but staring at the screen and frantically clearing the text whenever she said anything. He never understood what was going on. Eventually he got bored and left, and I was able to pick up right where we left off. Quite hilarious in retrospect. He never bothered to try to understand what I spent so much time doing, and I certainly never offered any info.

Video games are an increasingly important component of childrens' habits, and we shouldn't be quick to dismiss or trivialize their positive effects. I wasn't so good at writing until a few years of being forced to be.
they all are, but indirectly. I challenge you to find any manufacturing plant that's powered by a direct energy source instead of grid power - it's simply not efficient to manage demand peaks and valleys yourself when there's a huge amount of infrastructure already dedicated to doing exactly that.
Not a direct answer to your question, but 'the great suspender' extension puts unused tabs to sleep.
Some examples I've noticed personally:

* Clips of Bill Burr on Conan O'Brien > Men's Rights / anti-feminism videos

* Animal videos > Creepy channel where someone makes various mousetraps and sees how many kills they get a night

* Videogame longform critiques > Pro-Gamergate / Men's rights

* Movie analysis video essays > Video essays on how SJW's are ruining Star Wars / Marvel

* General psychology / self-help > Clip from a ho-hum Jordan Peterson psychology lecture > "Oh, you watched one thing featuring Jordan Peterson, you must agree with his more extreme views. Have some videos about that."
Yes, absolutely. I've had Chrome tabs take an inordinate amount of RAM and CPU and make the fans spin up. Enough so that other things were slow.
> But those games are about stretching and challenging him to fit the mold of the game’s demands. When we play Minecraft together, the direction of his development, and thus our relationship, is reversed: He converts the world into expressions of his own fantasies and dreams. And by letting me enter and explore those dream worlds with him, I come to understand him in a way that the games from my childhood do not.

Is this a Minecraft PR Piece? Because the games of my childhood were not just action games of the NES. Adventures games made you think and be creative (even more so the text games!) - RTS made you build bases from scratch and react to impending waves of enemies until you finally could crush them. Flight simulators were all about "open world" since you could have missions and the like but let's face it, it was more fun to just fly around and test your plane where you went. Games like 4D driving were also Minecrafty-like since you were encouraged to build your tracks from scratch.

No, really, I don't feel like I missed anything in my childhood by not having Minecraft. If anything, it's sad that Minecraft is so popular that it eclipses everything else for most kids.
I still have a stack of floppy disks of Roller Coaster Tycoon Savegames. I should probably go convert them to some solid state media.
Where's the evidence? Why is this being upvoted?
Why shouldn't it? It works just fine for Germany which gets the same amount of sunshine as southern Alaska.
Immutability vs. Data encapsulation
What are Alex Karp's "left wing" stances? He's a billionaire.
Afaik, Chrome(ium) no longer has support for the Mac keychain and uses some kind of mechanism of its own :/
Its quite sad that people consider videos about "Men's rights" a radical view.
"Put the money slider all the way to the top" ?

Can't see any such slider. Do I need to get a user ID at the site, or is it just that there is no such thing at indeed.com for Europe? (It only returned jobs near Helsinki [Finland] when I left the City field empty, so I also tried Berlin [Germany], which returned a link to de.indeed.com.)
>[not] giving people what they want

>giving our darker sides what they want.

This almost sounds like people have almost no agency or say in it.
>He loves extreme symmetry, varying bands of bright colors, and elaborate lighting comprised of dozens of fixtures.

Um I'm pretty sure if you don't go overboard on the lighting monsters spawn. This is more of an in-game thing than a preference thing.
I also have visited old minecraft worlds i made with my friends, but I must say that bitrot is a serious issue. Once the world is corrupt or lost, you cannot look back at it like you did.
This save and restore is what I have grown up with. I remember the day my Pokemon Silver savegame got erased, due to a depleting battery, for example.

People should not forget to take pictures and movies and make them physical, instead of dumping it on the internet.
Having a small amount of pictures is more than enough, that make those events even more special.

I had a lot of gaming memories saved on Xfire. They stopped their service a couple years ago and all the contents and thus the strong link to memories are gone. Just like people you have had contact with online, eventually you'll loose contact and then these pictures can help you not forgetting that time...

Maybe we are making and processing so many events, that we'll get issues remembering stuff in a couple years?