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I've been working with the GPOs api. The engineer is quite responsive on github and the api is pretty snappy. Constantly asking for feedback and releasing new features. I think we're headed in the right direction. A shame my project isn't further a long for a shameless plug.

If you're interested in informing the public on legislation, have experience on the hill or UI/UX experience hit me up. I'm just some dude with an idea who lives in a terminal. Money is secondary.
I used to love watching my kid play with the various games in GCompris!
At least in my city (Chicago), the term "white flight" refers to a specific time period with quantifiable demographic shifts (that occurred due to the "Great Migration" out of Mississippi). My Japanese grandparents also fled to the North Side during this period.
It is a good precedent for moving to a decentralized naming system.
I'm planning to set up an old laptop with Linux for my 7 and 5 year olds, so I'm curious if you have any other software suggestions in addition to GCompris?
It's amazing but also creepy because characters still retain the non-animated face and/or limbs like in Messi example; making faces moving seems to be logical next step for this technology.
"That also includes every nuclear disaster ever."

Assuming there won't be any disasters worse than what has already occurred.

Presumably any new nuclear capacity would use safer designs, but still, the tail end single event worst case scenario is a lot scarier.
Ask HN: Are you selling your stock?
With the stockmarket as volatile as it has been recently, are stock savvy HN'ers on the buying or the selling side? I have no dog in the race at the moment (fortunately), but I can't help but wonder how people here respond to the daily dose of the roller-coaster.
my point was when this happens (pollution in a river/lake), the legal jurisdiction is a little more black/white. by that i mean it's in one country or one state or one county or whatever so from a government perspective jurisdiction isn't hazy.

when it's 1000s of miles from any government in the ocean how does that work legally?

who makes the companies pay?
Ahem... I think that the tipical implementation is a triplet of base pointer, allocated size, initialized size.
I actually think Facebook is very well equipped to combat disinformation campaigns on it's platform. At least more equipped than radio and TV. Due to the political environment of the present day I look at Facebook and other social media platforms as analgous to when radio became popular.

Radio was definitely a great platform for propaganda among authoirtian states, but the nature of radio infrastructure lends itself to be controlled by the state so if the state is authoritarian then they will naturally turn the radio.

Facebook is a platform that has no borders, and it is ubiquitous in a way that TV, radio, and even other parts of the internet are not. Add on the all seeing nature of AI and machine learning and I think over time Facebook could definitely prevent the spread of these ideas on it's platform.

The major point of contention for me is the question of if it's Facebook's rightful place to regulate political speech, Zuckerberg definitely seems adverse to putting his thumb on the scale but at this point I'd say that not weighing in is a form of weighing in. The bring up the often cited Voltare/Ben Parker quote: "with great power comes great responsibility", Facebook has reaped all the benefits of becoming the social infrastructure of the internet, at some point they have to draw a line in the sand when it comes to accepting that responsibility head on.
I respect great C developers, and a lot of great software is written in it. I can just write an equivalent or better program much more efficiently with less effort with C++ metaprogramming. I also think macros are a valuable tool for the language and wouldn’t choose for them to be removed because it allows for concise shorthand.
I don’t understand the article. It says you can have a flow battery that can run for 4 hours for $150, or one that runs for 8 hours for $100. Clearly the 8 hour model is superior, since it holds a charge longer, and costs less.

Based on your comment, I guess they mean to say that you get 2x the sustained wattage (not kWh) out of the $150 model.

Is that right?
If I’m understanding you correctly, you are saying the time off allowed him to realize he could get the same point across without being as caustic as he was previously with Mauro. If so, I’m not sure why you are being downvoted.
The iPhone hardware meets my standards. The secure enclave for touchID is detailed in it's description and security. The Apple business model is not data collection, and the legal fights they have put up give me a reasonable belief that they take my security and privacy seriously enough for me. They are also printing money so it seems to be workable as part of a business model. I think you are wrong on all accounts.
FWIW I think you’re completely correct. The use of that image was near as tone deaf as I can imagine. It almost seems intentional.

With a very charitable interpretation it could be said that it’s a warning, a harbinger of the callousnness with which this tech will be used - but the reaction of this crowd to your comment is bizarre, and concerning.

Wtf HN. Any of ye silent downvoters want to outline where you’re coming from?
Meaningless at best. For some users the relationships and one-upmanship is detrimental to their mental/emotional wellbeing.
On the one hand, knowing an implementation detail is (or shouldn't be) very important; also, those can change. But on the other hand this is helpful in cases when you need to make a judgement as to the efficiency of certain constructs. For example, I find it is very instructive to learn about the actual implementation of the shared pointer.
Ask HN: Have the Facebook scandals impacted your choice of JavaScript framework?
Curious whether anyone who's learned React is considering another JS Framework due to Facebook's controversial year. And if yes, why?

Personally, I've a concern re continuing quality, given the rumors of defecting engineering talent. Also, I've a desire to support a framework that have an end game other than productizing users. But I'm curious what are the counterarguments to the above. (Hoping for something persuasive as I really don't want to learn yet another JS framework.)
Humans tend to naturally do this. The danger is hindsight bias; we can't put ourselves in the same position as those making the decision. (Not just in an informational sense -- people's worldviews were different because society was structured differently).

Hindsight bias is incredibly powerful, it's impossible for us to blend "obvious" signal back into the noise. Think about the discussions around whether the US should have "known" about the Pearl Harbor raid -- in hindsight, there were signals that should have alerted leadership. In reality, there was so much information that the actual signal blended into the noise. It's only much later that we know the Japanese telegrams were meaningful.
Absolutely off-topic, I initially read "June oven" like I would have read "March hare" ...
> The case in question was filed by Universal Music over Robin Thicke's album Blurred Lines.

Incredible. The same guys that were found guilty of copying that song ..

> Robin Thicke has lost the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit he has been engaged in with the Marvin Gaye estate. Robin Thicke, Pharrell to Pay $7.2 Million in 'Blurred Lines'

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robin-thicke-p...
What I meant is this ~ Linus is able to express himself just as well as before, but with different language, without using swearing.

Actually, instead of hot like before, this Linus is cold. Instead of raging, he coldly expresses his disappointment. In some ways, this feels more brutal than his old style.

Criticizing the mistake as "complete garbage" is great. You don't even need to read anything more to sense Linus is annoyed like he always is when shit hits the fan like this.
Why is this comment so far down the page? Is it factually wrong some way?
That Theodore Tso seems like a sharp guy. Hopefully he can put the controversy (whatever it was) behind him.
Huawei exceeds 200M smartphone shipments, setting company record
Have Two McDonald’s-Containing Countries Ever Been at War with Each Other?
For a nondystopian (depending on your perspective, I suppose) version of this reality, see Daniel Suarez's daemon and freedom. Highly recommend.
Speigal is yet another disciple of the Steve Jobs school of management. The idea that if you are an asshole to everyone and care a lot about fonts, you’ll repeat the success of Apple. It’s a toxic notion of startup culture and it needs to die.
True - however if you consider the true lifecycle from start to end (including construction costs, and decomissioning) nuclear is one of the most expensive power sources.

The costs for proper decomissioning of a nuclear plant and safe storage of the used materials are excluded in most analysis, as the time and cost horizon is so large.

On Solar Panels: there are some very interesting projects by large environmental service providers underway that use high pressure water or very high temperatures, to separate the glass from metal frame.

I think a similar hurdle are carbon fibres, you can't burn or shred them (carcinogenic micro fibres).

There are some interesting projects that try to clean and reuse the fibres through some kind of chemical baths..but most of the old e.g. wind turbines are just stored at a giant wind turbine graveyard right know.

It's a fascinating field!
Why do so many people out there keep harping on nuclear? Are they willing to pay for it? No. They'll be the first ones complaining when their rates shoot through the roof.

Look, if you want nuclear power, then the government will need to finance it. Some of these other sources are at 1-2 cents a kWh, how is a private investor supposed to finance a nuclear power plant that competes with those rates? Even if there were no safety or environmental regulations at all, you still couldn't get there. I'm sorry, but there exists no private investor dumb enough to finance a power generation facility that expensive, that would reside that far down the dispatch stack. It just won't happen.
https://gcompris.net/wiki/Artwork_guidelines

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/gcompris-devel

https://gcompris.net/wiki/Developer%27s_corner
> Why can't these companies either listen to their customers directly

They do listen to their customers. We just aren't their customers.
Well no duh, Facebook itself is authoritarian.
> From a grid storage standpoint longer energy storage just means you have fewer cycles to make up your investment.

It also means you can wait to charge at the cheapest possible times, and sell on the absolutely most expensive ones.

And since it's cheaper to add further storage, it means that you can do both the faster cycle with low margins and the slower one with higher margins.
CTO should be a leader with big vision how the technology will fulfill problem. A CTO should be fluent in understanding big picture pitfalls and hurdles. But in a larger team/well funded startup, their role is not to do the everyday coding.

That being said, the CTO should be able to jump in on code reviews of major components and be part of the discussion on how to architect the solution.
Microsoft Making 4K Webcams for Xbox One and Windows 10
The True Story of the Lost Sci-Fi Movie 'Brainstorm,' Natalie Wood’s Last Film
Pedantic. You know what I meant.
It seems really to boil down to: can you spin off a server and run on your own place or not ? If not you get a free for-all place with bouncers (privacy policy, rules, modes, etc.) coming up at some point or not.

I can see "the next messenger app" plus "total privacy à la signal" capturing that feeling back.
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Take Script, Add Snow https://longreads.com/2018/12/24/take-script-add-snow/
The P/R angle of it is the problem. It's just politically easier to sell something to the public that has a gradual and constant risk and death rate rather than something that bunches them.
Naming is hard ? Not sure in this case. Naming an advertising framework as "social network" is false.
Erm, no. I was never suggesting that. Maybe I expressed myself imprecisely, then.

What I meant by attitude is exactly what you meant ~ the nonchalant attitude towards breaking userspace, and thinking that it's okay if no-one notices.

Which is when Linus gets the most pissed of all.

Linus was polite, yes, but he expressed his anger and disappointment in a great way. Feels more brutal than his old style, actually.
You say afraid as if it is a bad thing.

When you consider the timescale of nuclear power plants and how long nuclear power has existed, safety stats seem to have a pretty low sample size with a lot of uncharted territory.

That fear you mention is a very real and important one, because even if 99% of plants operate under strict safety, it only takes one failure to cause massive damage. Beyond lives and into land and resources, and additional risks of further ecological harm.

For me, when considering if nuclear power is worth it, I think that we have so many alternatives that will work well enough for a long-term horizon (let's say 200 years) that any sort of risks of charting that new territory in nuclear power and having that very large risk is not worth it currently.

That's not to say it won't be worth it in the future perhaps as climate change worsens or in a century with additional safety tools possibly fueled by additional scientific insight, but right now I think you're severely undermining that some (not all) fear of nuclear power comes from a very rational place.
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> That's not a problem with nuclear that's a problem with people.

This is very much the "true communism has never been tried" argument, isn't it? Unless you know a way of building it without people?
50 Hilarious Introvert Tweets That Were Spot on This Year
I'm not sure how to feel about this. From social media I've been able to connect with old friends, enjoy good memes and keep up with current affairs.

It's also been useful at times where I've found people willing to put in a good word for a job, mentor me and there are a few people who are really good at providing a fruitful environment for discussion (even controversial topics) that makes me sad to leave.

Unfortunately, it just got too extra for me. I mean, there is a lot of bullshit in the world, but at times it looks like people just want to get mad for the sake of it. While I'm not a big proponent of don't feed the trolls, I doubt quote tweeting some asshole to score a satisfying dunk does any favors. It just seems to import garbage into other people's timelines.

Also, they'll be done people going about their day, or writing something intended for their like-minded friends and it catches wind far beyond where it was supposed to go, setting you up for an unwanted roast.

Even though I deleted my social media, I'm hoping that it becomes less extra because there can be a lot of value in it.

Sadly, it's hard to see that happening, especially with how social media is becoming the whole internet and IRL for many people in the world. The Telecom operators in my home country insist on selling unlimited social media packages rather than just giving us cheaper internet even though they can somehow provide 2GB of data for $5 that has to be used in 24 hours.
Nor should it be.

The way discussions about Facebook policing content are framed rubs me the wrong way. Facebook should not be put in a position where it's responsible for dealing with authoritarianism, extremism, and other societal ills. The only reason it seems like it has to do this is that we've allowed Facebook to become a near-monopoly on a certain form of social networking.

The solution is not trying to compel or convince Facebook to act as an arbiter of morality for the world; it is to break Facebook up and restrict it's ability to monopolize the online space. Real competition in social networking would mean communities could form their own rules and norms around what's acceptable - like in the forum era - without relying on a central authority such as Facebook to do it for them. A decentralized protocol/system like Mastodon allows this kind of partitioning of the social space.

Would this stop authoritarianism? No. But it would turn censorship into a game of whack-a-mole, and limit the spread of authoritarian ideas to the social networks whose communities are already OK with that.
I really don't see what's lacking with CSS Grids for equal-with items. Even accommodating different sizes, and allowing reordering for packing, works fine with just CSS.
Currently, they don't look great for many applications. But on principle they should be the best option for any stationary application.

What we are seeing here is that real vs. possible gap getting smaller.
Human eyesight is much more acute than a phone camera, especially filming video at 1080p. The runway at Gatwick is two miles long, plus taxiways and the apron. To a passenger in the terminal building, a drone flying over the runway is likely to appear as little more than a tiny speck.
The article mentions of days when you were anonymous

It's funny how in the early days of the internet, everyone was so open and honest about who they are that it was very common for their e-mail messages, Usenet posts, finger plans, etc... to have their real names, home and/or work addresses, and home and/or work phone numbers.

Then the scammers discovered the internet, and everyone had to dummy up about who they are.

Then the corporations got involved, and decided to use "AI" unmask everyone and sell that information back to the scammers.

I wonder what the next move is. Maybe we should all go back to blatantly stating who we are to make the corporations' information gathering worthless.
Recycling the panels costs more than the value of the salvaged materials - but the alternative is expensive environmental damage and danger to people. Recycling is surely less expensive than the alternative.
Not sure how accurate it is, but I found this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

According to that page, it is 4x higher than nuclear. But it is also 10x less than natural gas, 100x less than oil, and 200x less than coal.
Only practical reason I can recommend this would be either you'd like to experiment with cluster tools or connection outages (e.g. seeing how system tolerates when you unplug an ethernet cable).

Also, while OpenStack/K8 could seem to be a reason having something like this, I discovered it is a bit overkill for home needs. For that part, I'd go for a small server instead and manage it manually (no shame).
Nope. Buy and hold long strategy
OEMs won't mainline their drivers with all their trade secrets. That's impractical, unrealistic wishful thinking that harms consumers.
Well, yes.

He was both polite ~ yet criticizing. His expressed his annoyance in a great way.

"Complete garbage" is polite for Linus, compared to his old style. Still brutal, yet effective.

Linus is something of genius when it comes to criticism, whether he's swearing and venting, or coldly and bluntly saying the above to make a point.
My group of real-world friends did an overnight migration (well not quite but once it started it was very fast) from Livejournal to Facebook; in retrospect that was a mistake and we all should have stayed on LJ.

The killer feature? Being able to tag people in photos, such an obvious thing, but LJ was unable to do it. Add events and it was game over for LJ.

Incidentally, I said at the time, it was a massive strategic blunder for Google+ to launch without full integration with the Google Calendar. People want a one-stop shop and FB was it for photos and events.
Production Ready Node.js REST APIs Setup Using TypeScript , PostgreSQL and Redis
It seems that grocery stores are consolidating into the big chains. We had a couple of IGA[1] grocery stores in the town I grew up in - locally owned and operated grocery stores that were much more responsive to customer demands. Now there are none.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA_(supermarkets)
I'm not a nuclear expert or anything but can you cite this? Isn't a big negative of nuclear exactly that the waste lasts for so long? What exactly does "relatively harmless" mean?
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Who says it's just about quantity? Persistence and danger matter immensely, and some waste remains deadly for many thousands of years.

It sounds like management of toxic solar waste is merely labor-intensive.
Mechanics of closing a round (signing and funds)
Looking to understand the kinds of closings that you've done at different stages with priced rounds, for instance: signing docs and funds xfer have to happen within a 5 day window; signing on one day/funds must be received within 60 days; two distinct closings, use of escrow until round is fully subscribed, etc... Interested to know what and why, what were investor concerns
Beware: the devil is in the details. The trick is to choose the most provocative, trolling or insulting words. I let people discuss generic terms such as income distribution, fiscal crisis, education, etc. But I filter out terms such as "comunist", "fascist", "Bolsonaro" (the Brazilian version of Rodrigo Duterte) etc.

> Did you notice any improvement on the level of discussion?

So far, people are still on a "treading the waters"/"sensing the environment" period. But I sense that:

* The posts tangent to politics don't immediately trigger a knee jerk reaction. Surprisingly, when people discuss politics in a more abstract way, there is a lot more "I agree with you" between people that used to fight a lot. I count this as an improvement, although it is too early to see an increase of depth of understanding on the issues.

* In the beginning some people complained about my heavy-handed approach, calling it censorship and authoritarianism. I just didn't engage in their complaints. My standard response was "my house, my rules".

* There is a lot more of light-heart, especially among the younger ones. Childish jokes and memes are still around, but nothing offensive. In friends and family groups it is ok, these are habits I don't want to break.

> Also, do you just censor the keyword or remove the post entirely?

I remove the post and post a standard bot answer. Often, the bot gives some false positives, but people find it funny (e.g: "PT" is the acronym for both the main opposition political party and for "total loss" in Portuguese). Because I use regular expressions, people started a game of trying to outsmart the bot. Since it was for fun, it only helped sharpen up the expressions.
Am I the only one to find -rcX and -previewX type of versioning confusing. like how much time is remaining etc.
> I actually think Facebook is very well equipped to combat disinformation campaigns on it's platform. At least more equipped than radio and TV.

The fact that Facebook can even be compared to radio or TV speaks to the level of centralization the internet has experienced in the last decade. We've nearly come full circle - from restricted, centralized media like TV, to the wild west of the early internet, now back to re-centralization with a few huge companies which control access to a huge chunk of the internet audience.

I think we need a new push for de-centralization.
The Ethics of (not) Tipping at Restaurants
there have been pundits and intellectuals all along that predicted the current state of affairs (to a greater or lesser extent). When Facebook arose in the beginning, it caused (and still causes) quite a bit of anguish in those circles. Some of the less-stable people had actual despair and negative life-outcomes, seeing what was basically their "worst-case scenario" come true, and the wealth that went with it.
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