skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4.5 is not so much. Gasoline is very energy dense, stores well (especially synthetic) and transports well. This is great - gas will be around for a long time to come - if we can shift the source of it to something better, I'm all for it.
So many problems would be solved if we could only cure dementia. Just my observation having taken care of my mom and dad and hanging around a lot in hospitals.

[Edit] Sorry my comment should have been placed in response to the one comment about what SV should really be investing in. Imagine if we had companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon trying to solve dementia rather than get more revenues through ads.
I don't see interest rates going up anytime soon. The fed tried that and a handful of quarters later is reversing course.

We know that debt will grow the economy, but it certainly seems like households are debt-saturated at this point.
https://he.net/colocation.html

Can't speak about the power given on their $400/mo cabinet deal.
That's not what it looks like to me https://yoo2080.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/it-is-not-hard-to-r...
> I was SUPER skeptical about the chat widget. I personally found them annoying, overbearing and could not imagine them working for customer support or sales.
> Boy was I wrong. As in completely, utterly, totally wrong.

I've found a chat widget really helpful for my own product (https://www.checkbot.io/) - I find the reduced lag of the chat format means problems get resolved quicker on both ends and the style of replying (e.g. maybe 16 short messages back and forth with chat via 4 longer ones with email) results in you getting more information and making more of a connection with your users.

I use the free tier of https://crisp.chat but most of them are fairly similar for basic usage. I would say avoid using one that has that annoying "Hey! You! How can I help?" automatic pop-up feature though.
That's right. That was one of the first ~five sentences that were spoken about JMAP.

Ubiquiti is a feature. Not having to explain the caching model to people is a feature.
When I was in college, I had more time than money, so it made sense to do these DIY things. Now that I have kids and a good income, I have more money than time, so I tend towards buying solutions to easily solvable problems. It sometimes makes me sad that I don't get to tinker, but I'd rather spend time with the kids.

Hopefully as they get older, we can combine spending time together and tinkering!
Sure, they certainly had some dreamless nights, but I'm glad they stood by their principles. We are all benefiting. Since then, all state-financed projects have to be accessible cross-platform, using open formats and protocols.
Please think twice about diesel - NOX is a killer. On the other hand, I expect particle emissions to be much lower with your fuel.
Zero and insignificant are not the same, but quite close. It doesn't have to take "zero" work to not hold them back.

Nor does it have to be the same team/people working on both.
The energy density of batteries is nowhere near as good as oil - the laws of physics limit how good batteries can get (there is some room for improvement, but oil is still better by a large margin).
How will this improve the global average of air quality? If you are removing the CO2 from the air then reintroducing it back into the same environment (assuming it is not repurposed in another sector e.g. jet fuel, commercial containers) wont the net effect be the same?

I understand this will concentrate the pollution significantly and may even reduce it in the short term, but wont the average effects be the same?
If someone is pesco-vegetarian and eating a lot of dairy, especially cheese, and fish, then their environmental footprint would be way higher than someone (a vegan) who is not eating those things. The NY times article you linked shows just that.
> That may be a saying in prison (and one which serves to discouraging reporting of rapes), but it's not an accurate statement about the law.

We are talking about people who don't respect the law.

> Of course, even where it applies, that's more of a reason to assure that a rape isn't reported and investigated, which can be done by means other than not committing it, such as being sure that the victim is sufficiently afraid of violent retaliation if a report occurs.

So by your logic, just because there aren't reports and investigations, it actually proves it is happening.
Windows 8 extended support doesn't end until 2023.
Not sure if that article touches on it but it also allows docker to be used without a VM
If you aren't doing AOT, why use CoreRT over CoreCLR?
What is not good enough?
Brains plus bonnets equal a historic first (2016)
> what's the point in a future where EVs dominate?

EVs won't dominate some important uses for a long time, e.g. aviation and marine shipping.
6 Years After Hurricane Sandy, Here’s What They Came Up With: Big Sandbags
http://popularlogistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/HP4.j...
While Powershell is pretty great and I use it all the time, I still think it falls short of Bash in terms of how integrated it is with the rest of the system. The shell is the default way to get things done in Linux but it feels more like a second-class citizen in Windows. This is a shame because there is clearly a lot of good engineering in PoSH.
Ask HN: What Keyboard Are Using?
Hi,

What keyboard are you using currently or used in past which you liked. Mostly for coding.

I have a Logitech 350 Keyboard[0]. I like it because the keys are soft and doesn't do the clicky sound, its quieter than the mechanical keyboards my co workers have.

The time has come to upgrade and I wanted to know what options I have and general ideas what HNers are using.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-White-Internet-350-keyboard/dp/B000RQU5VG

Thank you!
In the long term, electric vehicles may indeed replace ICE cars. That would be awesome. One way to see what we're doing is to make sure the path to that future is good. We can't burn fossil fuels while we wait to replace the existing vehicle fleet with electric cars. By using zero carbon we make sure that we are solving the problem right away.
I'm of two minds about this solution (I like the "it'll immediately destroy the whole business model" approach), but I'll bite. There are couple of reasons:

1) Children are already restricted from consuming alcohol and coffee.

2) You can only drink so much coffee before your body asks you to stop, or gives up completely. It's not pleasant.

3) Coffee doesn't have this level of addictive properties (alcohol has, and as you'll note, alcoholism is a big problem, though see #5 and #6).

4) There are already "social antibodies" preventing most people from overconsumption of alcohol (and to some extent, coffee).

5) Alcohol prohibition didn't work because it unfairly punished the addiction-free majority, but what's proposed here isn't a restriction on video games, but on a particular aspect of a particular set of them. The proposal doesn't restrict the fun-giving part, only the addiction-inducing and addiction-exploiting parts.

6) Nobody designs alcohol or coffee with the sole intent of causing addiction their users that can be exploited for money. Whereas these games absolutely are designed like this.
I always liked this example: Conway's Game of Life in One Line of APL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4 It's esoteric as one-liners tend to be, but I think it's a fascinating glimpse.
The funding discussed here is for scientific studies. But it's not clear what important question is still open and needs further study. From what I've read [1, 2, 3, 4], the psychological benefits are well-established and powerful if used in the right mindset, and the health risks are also well-established and rare or minor if used carefully.

So science seems to have answered the questions it can answer. The obstacle to wider use is policy and regulation.

Is funding scientific studies where the answers are already known an effective way to change government and social policy? It could be, but I hope everyone involved understands whether they're doing Science or Advocacy.

[1] Michael Pollan, _How to Change your Mind_

[2] James Fadiman, _The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide_

[3] Ayelet Waldman, _A Very Good Day_

[4] Dozens of popular articles
Thanks for the reply, I get the load balancing part now, I did not think about that.

I was thinking a lot recently about flying and how we could make it work in the (hopefully) greener future. This is definitely a more sensible way of doing it than electric jets, good luck with your company!
Do you think a long term use case for this tech is as a storage method for energy produced through renewables?
Nope, I give up. Volcano gods for the lot of you.
15A is more than you think these days, still probably need more for a full rack but a modern server can draw around 150W under full load these days. Hell, my entire rack at home hangs around ~.3A during normal usage (2x Dell R210 II's, Dell R320, Dell R520, Lenovo SA120 with 4 bays filled, Juniper EX2200-48T, Mikrotik CRS317).
> As someone who drunkenly bought 10 keys and unboxed gloves I can confirm. I'm now competing at a much higher level.

That's life and I'm glad that worked out for you.
I see, I was going by the note under table 2 that said 'annual global returns in 16 countries, equal weighted'.

I did find another reason that reported housing returns are too high though. This is their key input 'net rental yields [which] use rental income net of maintenance costs, ground rent, and other irrecoverable expenditure'

That neglects to factor in that after say 50 years most houses need to be replaced or massively renovated. Factor in that expenditure and the real returns should be somewhere between 1 and 2 percent lower.
I'm working under the GOV.UK umbrella at the moment. The browser compatibility is mainly achieved by using JavaScript very sparingly and trying not to deviate from the Design System[0]. Accessibility is really important and we can't take sites/apps 'live' without undergoing a full assessment.

[0] https://design-system.service.gov.uk
Humans were torturing animals and each other long before Descartes. We basically don't need a justification for it, it is a natural tendency, just look at small children (among all animals really, we are just so much better at everything).

If anything we need a justification _against_.
None of that is necessary to know unions/monopolies are bad (for some definition of bad). Their impact is well understood. Economics textbooks usually have at least one chapter devoted to monopolies - which unions fall under.

Whether monopolies are bad or not is somewhat subjective, but the impact of them is not. Most basically, monopolies lead to price increases.
But that article says:

"Both .NET Framework and .NET Core will move forward, and both will be fully supported"

???

Which is why I found this one confusing... because it essentially says the opposite.
Can Technology Help You Lose an Accent?
Deals like this, as the article discusses, are not made before a race, they are made during a race.

Typically (but not always) this happens toward the end of a race, where competitors race prisoner’s dilemma of sorts: by working together, they can have a higher chance of clinching the 1 and 2 spots, but when one racer is demonstrably stronger than the other, the stronger rider might reasonably worry that the weaker rider will “defect” and sprint for first place. Working together improves their chance of a first-or-second finish, but might decrease their chance of a strictly first-place finish if the weaker rider defects and sprints for the finish. If the stronger rider defects and drops the weaker rider, they risk getting caught by the pack and not making a podium at all.

The deal is that the weaker rider will take second, giving first place to the stronger rider and ensuring mutual cooperation that increases both their chances of a podium finish.

In this instance, the weaker rider promised to cooperate and later defected.
>I'd believe the impediment to that will be not the regulation, but lack of horse-support infrastructure along the way (inns with stables and feeding stations, blacksmiths who could reshoe your horse if needed, etc).

You're not wrong about this. But even if there was horse-supporting infrastructure along the way, riding a horse from Quincy to D.C. would still be way harder today, if not impossible. Just due to riding on the roads with cars, and find routes that aren't the interstate, or some major road where horse riding isn't allowed.
The offering of www.gitpod.io also allows to operate an online IDE similar to VS Code for your users: You could host it yourself for your users or gitpod.io can host it for you. In any case: custom extensions, integrations, and branding is possible.
Look at it from an economics standpoint... because of the efficiency loss, energy from this process would always be twice as expensive (or more) than freshly generated renewable electricity. So you'd only want to use it in places where grid electricity is impractical.

Vehicles are the obvious market. It took over a century for electric vehicles to become even remotely practical. But vehicles are necessarily disconnected from the grid.

And even for vehicles, this is only desirable when consumption needs or disconnect times are very high, like aircraft and oceangoing ships. That's because combustion is very wasteful. There are about 33.7 kwh of energy in a gallon of gasoline. A Tesla goes as far on three gallons' worth of energy as a comparable Mercedes goes in ten or more. That's because an electric drivetrain is 3x (or more) more efficient than a combustion one.

So using this process, it could cost 10x as much to operate a fuel-based vehicle as an electric one. You don't want to do that unless you have no other choice.
How much control over molecules do you have? Gasoline is a mix of things (which changes based on season). I know today you can buy synthetic diesel (last I checked 3x the price of pump fuel, but it has enough more energy to make the difference between a win/loss in a race).
Actually, this looks like bad news to me.

If WSL v2 is running VM under the hood, no wonder it will be Hyper-V. We already have such lightweight VM for "Credential Guard/Device Guard" and it already conflicts will any other hypervisor: VMWare workstation [1], VirtualBox. Resolution is to disable Hyper-V, for instance, with command line

bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

So most probably WSL v2 will do the same, which means one cannot run WSL v2 and non Hyper-V VMs at the same time, because two different hypervisors can't coexist.

[1] https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2146361
Why not? Alvin Straight went from Laurens, IA to Blue River, WI in a lawn mower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Straight
It's actually almost the same amount of time C-to-Java as Java-to-now.
Great to hear. I couldn't get more details from them, but it was something about both rebalancing and data recovery. They picked SwiftStack, which is at least in part open source. Maybe by now you have figured who that company is.

My team is still very interested in Ceph and Rook, for the record.
To put things in context; If we wipe from the planet ALL vascular plants, all flowers and trees and ALL vertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, the full pack, plus SIX major phylums of invertebrates including all molluscs, snails, clams and squids, ALL corals and jellyfishes, ALL starfishes and sea urchins, ALL sponges, ALL flatworms, parasites and free living, and every one tunicate described by science...

... after killing all of those, we would have still to wipe 366.000 extra species to reach one million.
You seem to be under the impression that it is currently legal to drink alcohol and drive.
> Or will I need to buy yet another VS upgrade to enjoy it in full ?

Don't most developers using non-Community VS get it via a Visual Studio subscription, either annual Standard (formerly, MSDN) ir monthly Cloud, both of which also include current and former Visual Studio downloads?
I think maybe they are using the word "garden" in the US sense of "part of your land sectioned off to grow vegetables, fruits, etc.", not "the green space in your land surrounding the home" which we'd refer to as the lawn.
I have $2MM in my 401k I can't touch until I'm 59-1/2. I'm in my 40's and I'm worried of being broke when I'm 60. Insane? Probably. It's like no matter how much you have there's always fear. I keep thinking, "Yeah, it's all in funds and could just go poof if the DOW corrects back down to 7,000 because it took 20 years to get to where it is now..." Does the anxiety never end?
Today in 2015 court rules NSA phone surveillance revealed by Snowden is illegal
Battery replacement is not really a factor under any kind of "normal" use. One Tesla owner driving for Tesloop was able to burn out a battery after extensively (exclusively) Supercharging from low charge to 95-100% charge after about 350,000 miles. Maintenance cost over that time was calculated as $0.05/mile. [1]

With V3 Supercharging, you can drop in with your Model 3 at 15% and be at 80% in 24 minutes. In my road trip experience, that's barely enough time for everyone to use the bathroom and pick out a beverage. [2]

[1] - https://www.tesloop.com/blog/2018/7/16/tesloops-tesla-model-...

[2] - https://twitter.com/privater/status/1103567772301193216/phot...
The handling characteristics change, but from what I understand it just tends to pull up. Any pilot should be able to deal with that as long as the artificial horizon is working and they are paying attention.

Plus, even if their attention does wander there are other safety systems (like stall alerts) that will kick in to help them.

It's not like the MCAS disengagement makes the plane uncontrollable.
OK, what happens when a member of the Human Driving Association impacts a member of the I'm A Goddamned Pedestrian Stop Fucking Killing Me Association?

My idea is simple: If, in an era when self-driving cars are the norm, you choose to drive and you hit someone, that's it. It's First Degree/Premeditated Homicide if you killed them, or the highest possible degree of Aggravated Assault if you didn't. You did something deliberately contrary to the norm, which was significantly more dangerous to everyone else, and, as a direct result, you caused them death or permanent damage. You can't rely on the excuse of needing to drive yourself, as you can now, so the penalties go up proportionately.
This would be an interesting premise for a sci-fi story: an Amish-like subculture in a far-future America, only their level of acceptable technology stopped at the early 21st century instead of the early 19th. So they drive everywhere in gas-powered cars when everyone else is teleporting, amuse themselves with movies recorded on disc when everyone else is immersed in holographic VR, talk to each other on cellphones when everyone else communicates telepathically via brain implants, etc.
> If the use case needs to be inverted, make it a user preference.
If nothing else it would be a great technology for solar and wind plants to employ on-site to convert excess power into fuel that could drive standby turbine generators for the times there is no sun or wind.

Giant batteries are a pretty easy to beat cost and maintenance wise.
Yes, water is turned into fuel and oxygen. In most places the water can be obtained from moisture in the air (there is much more water than CO2 in air, and we are already mining the air, so we can get both). In the process the fuel is separated from the water, which remains in the reactor, and is topped off as it is used to make the fuel. No waste water.
Unfortunately you will be disappointed by Windows 10's user interface. They have made it ugly and harder to use; mostly partially implemented changes. So Windows 10 UI is still in Alpha it seems. I suggest that you keep your macOS for now. Hopefully they will get the GUI in order soon.
Hijab Jihad – Crisis Magazine
My favourite solution to this problem is how rust does it. In rust every block can evaluate to an expression, so if/else is the ternary operator.

let x =
if cond1 { expr1 }
else if cond2 && cond3 { expr2 }
else { expr3 };

It’s more verbose this way (‘?’ Vs ‘else if’) but there’s no question of readability because it’s just if/else. You can format it however you like, and add statements into the blocks later if you need to, too.

Rust also has the match statement, which is cleaner whenever your conditions are mutually exclusive.
We've gone from "Linux is a cancer" to "This is an exciting day for all of us on the Linux team at Microsoft" in just one generation.

Good. I hope this trend continues.
Why will your fuel burn cleaner? Soot and NOx are fundamental to the combustion process. I guess you have no sulfur, which is worth something.
Spam could be half-fixed with forcing DKIM, SPF, DMARC and TLS. The very least there would be no impersonation of other domain names (filtering the rest into a spam box will become much easier after that) and insecure transportation then.
LLVM Weekly – #279, May 6th 2019
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I had no idea what 'autobattle', 'heroes charge', 'idle game' meant, and wonder what exactly gets people interested in games of this kind.

It doesn't even look like a game in the traditional sense at all - for enjoyment / fulfillment / fun. More like a colorful spreadsheet, with cheap visuals and not even mechanical skill. 'Gameplay' videos on youtube show people flipping cards and clicking through a dozen inventory management screens, nothing really happens. Really puzzling.

Is this what getting old feels like?
Yes, it is perfectly okay to dynamically link with a GPL component from a proprietary component, as long as that component is remains handled as per GPL.

(You kind of need to be able to use GPL code dynamically to be able to run it from a proprietary OS of any kind in any way.)
There's no sane response to this. I am veering back in favour of testing the volcano god theory.
I use WSL at work and use windows docker as a server... I use docker client form wsl ubuntu and make it connect to the Docker server running on windows. I do the same thing with databases. I’ve grown fond of this approach, as it integrates well with the Services app in windows.

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-docker-for-windows...
People with iOS apps on the App Store are a small subset of developers. That's the reality now. Marzipan isn't going to grow that number.
It is inconsistent to hold those beliefs. Because "insane" implies that the Rust team made wrong decisions with the syntax, in fact so obviously wrong that no "sane" person would make them. If you acknowledge that the syntax decisions make sense, then they aren't "insane".
I believe that as long as we have a huge worldwide oil / diesel / gasoline infrastructure in place, from transport to refining to distribution to combustion, it makes a lot of sense to build reasonably-efficient carbon-neutral mechanisms to plug into that infrastructure.

In other words, for the next handful of decades, the worldwide fleet of cars, trucks, generators, boats, etc. are going to be burning carbon that comes from somewhere. Products like this provide a carbon-neutral means of supplying that demand.

It's like working on a huge existing codebase, but at much larger scale, and with geopolitics. People are working on rebuilding it all from scratch, but iterating within the existing infrastructure could also deliver huge wins.

And, if we somehow found ourselves in a world in which carbon-neutral petrochemicals were the norm, well, we can always generate a surplus and sequester that surplus, right?
app domains basically now have a better alternative with Application Parts or for the heavy lifting AssemblyLoadContext (https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/dotnet/core/tutorials/creat...)
When 4.8 is installed, 4.7 is going away. Here .net 5 will not replace .net 4.8, it will exist side by side (if I understand correctly). That's two frameworks to me.