skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your reseller. Here in Austin, we have Austin MacWorks (see https://austinmacworks.com/).

Apple actually sends them hardware to be repaired that is so old that they can't fix it themselves, because they don't have the necessary spare parts and experienced technicians on staff. Both of their hardware technicians have over 30 years of experience repairing stuff, and have every single certification that Apple has.

For everything Austin MacWorks can't fix in-house, they are very good about getting that stuff out to depot and getting it back ASAP, and they will do your backups and restores for you, if necessary.

If I have a simple problem, I'm happy taking that to the Apple Genius bar directly. For everything else, I don't trust anyone but Austin MacWorks.
Show HN: InSeason.eu – Eat seasonal and reduce your CO² footprint
With the cost of seawater uranium extraction getting so low I'm really not convinced reprocessing will ever become economical. Doing process stuff at scale in hot cells with remote handling equipment is expensive. Melting down solid fuel into vats makes fission products harder to inventory and track. It's just a pain.

Check out all this seawater extraction progress [1].

[1] https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4271
>> There does seem to be darker political overtones that are exacerbated by commenters

> Are we reading the same comments section? Which specific comments are you talking about? The comments section I read seemed quite apolitical, except for this particular sub-thread.

Please.

>> Low-IF journals are easier to publish to by definition.

> (...) By definition, Low-IF journals are journals whose papers are less-cited (this is an oversimplification, of course). For example, IF tends to vary a lot by field, so in your comment where you casually dismissed anything with IF<4 as a joke, you inadvertently dismissed whole entire fields. (...)

Accepted. So in this specific case, do we talk about a journal in a field where an IF of 4 is low or high?
For what it’s worth, I am a JavaScript programmer and I feel like HN shits on JS All. The. Time. Some people just like to shit on languages.

I think it’s just insecurity. They worry a lot about whether they’re a good enough developer, so they try hard to be on the “most advanced” platform they can figure out, and then need to talk down to the other platforms.

Secure, talented, older developers, in my experience, tend to be open to whatever technology is most appropriate. They have confidence in their ability to learn new things. And see the good traits of any tech, as well as the bad one—a necessary skill if you’re going to be the kind of developer who can make traction in any situation.

The platform fetishists can only really work from inside their special tower.
>what if PayPal decided randomly to deduct a ton of money with no reason and no notification to the account owner?

Your bank could do the same thing, I don't get notified when an ACH transaction or check clears.
Does anyone have any insight if this would affect market trading algorithms and bots?
The article says the law is "requiring that they reveal their “artificial identity” when they are used to sell a product", but I'm not sure how broad of a definition they want for the word "selling".
I don't see the value either, but I guess perhaps some people will find a purpose for this tool and regardless some developer might have had some fun working on this, perhaps learned a bit from working on this project.
>But should Twitter necessarily be such that everybody can reply to the President's tweets?

The ability to directly and freely communicate with leaders (and for them to communicate with one another) is incredibly revolutionary. It is unfortunate that Twitter, of all places, a site whose entire purpose is top-of-mind contextless microblogging, is where this revolution is taking place, and that the President in question is basically a shitposting troll, but I suppose beggars can't be choosers.

I still kind of love that the President of the United States can say something stupid on Twitter, and a million people, including other world leaders, can respond with scathing criticism, rebuttals and stupid memes, and no one gets sent to the camps, or gets a nuke dropped on them.

> "Everybody can access the Internet, but not everybody has near-frictionless ability to engage with strangers."

That's something to be implemented by any particular site as it sees fit, not the entire platform. As far as the internet is concerned, everybody should have near-frictionless access to everything and everyone if they want it, and if someone provides a platform for it. Universality of access, both to ideas and to people, is kind of the entire point.
Computational photography explained – from selfies to black holes
>And it was bad software, written by to engineers paid $9/dollar an hour.

I really wish people wouldn't grab onto this; I've found no authoritative source linking those outsourced to to the coding of the MCAS, and several that explicitly state that was not the case.

While the rest of the article has absolutely valid points, let's not cloud the issue with cheap mudslinging.
"You can only spend so much money on drugs and sex."

I beg to differ, good sir.
Solar cell efficiency could get a dramatic boost, MIT team finds
Yes, it is not a PD. I am talking specifically about the case of doing USB fast charging aka USB PD, which is much, much more complex
Anyone has interesting themes for Jekyll/Hugo? I liked the layout in this blog - https://www.jotaen.net/ However, it is a custom template.
We've been using Google's jsonnet with k8s and it's been a life saver. Think it works pretty well so wondering what gapes they're trying to address with Cue
whenever they will come up with a USB standard with a round connector, they will find yet another level of complexity to add... because it can't be that easy.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

The article does capture a sentiment I see becoming more common, and which I somewhat share. We are not nearly as hopeful or optimistic about the future here in the West as in times past. It will be interesting to see how we remember this period. Perhaps there is a precedent - something I’ll ponder and read up on in my ample leisure time as a white collar westerner.
Plenty of people play like this accidentally, moving up stakes when they are winning.
Perhaps your website could provide coordination with land owners to show which areas are eligible for tree planting. People could even use an app to designate which areas they intend to plant on, and mark as complete. New areas would be opened up as more municipalities (or private land owners) jump on board. There is already a federal effort for tree planting, as my family owns some hunting land that they are paid to keep trees growing (likely for local soil/water retention efforts)

This wouldn't be the first time people have banded together for "Emergency Conservation Work" (FDR administration 5 billion trees):

https://treesource.org/news/lands/ccc-tree-planting/

I've had decent success planting things after amending the soil where the rootball is expected to be. This involves removing some of the clay-like soil and replacing with both seasoned and fresh compost. Planting a trillion trees within a rather urgent window of time may not be eligible for this sort of micromanagement (plus the root system of a tree will be quite large), but I still like the idea of spending free time doing this sort of thing.
What a timeline we live in, where people choose to post their complaints about random bs on GitHub or Twitter...
TED’s giant summer reading list
2-3 months is really aggressive and the ones who do well are usually incredibly motivated and smart. Bootcamps that are 3 months long usually will involve an interview to make sure the student is motivated enough.
If people choose to be unhappy, that's a problem that can only be handled in people's social and private lives.

Happiness is orthogonal to success, once you're not being brutalized by the world through no fault of your own.

I feel blessed that I have time to write comments to strangers on the internet, that I have access to the internet, that the house I'm in is temperature controlled within 5°C, that I do not fear my neighbours.
Working on a few projects right now as I recently left my job, but the one I am working today is "Allons-ip!", a free and open source IP address API that uses pure NGINX to work.

Right now there is one dedicated server in Germany (AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 2950X with Hetzner) and all it does is display your IPv4 address, but once I am done it should work with both IPv4 and IPv6, and have servers around the globe to decrease latency as much as possible.

The API returns all data in plain text — or JSON/JSONP —, without any advertisements or extra data. Server has full disk encryption enabled and a no logging policy.

Usage is quite simple. There are no secrets here, just call the URL for the API and it should return the IP address of the machine you used to make the call.

Clear Text: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/

JSON: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/json/

JSONP: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/jsonp/

There are a few reasons for this, but it boils down to the need to improve my resume, as most of the work I done in previous companies are their propriety now. I also needed to get the public IP address of servers I deploy programmatically, and wanted to have control over how that was done, so I decided to turn it into a public project.

Since I did not want to reinvent the wheel and NGINX is so damn powerful, there was no need for anything other than pure NGINX.
The only problem with the old hardware is that it can't go over 16GB of RAM. And over time, things have slowly gotten to the point where -- IMO -- even 16GB of RAM is no longer really enough for simple baseline usage.

If you want an Apple laptop with more than 16GB of RAM, then you don't have much in the way of options. This is a problem that has only been fixed with the latest generation of hardware.

So, you have to pick your poison.

But either way, at least it's not Windows, or PC hardware.
> He is a business man selling stuff to a gullible public. Because the nature of the stuff is so amorphous you can easily distort and invent it as needed.

That is true. And the "amorphous" comment holds for any teacher. Had you really investigated his stuff (which I get the feeling you haven't) you'd probably have gone further. Chia's books contain a lot of repetition and in aggregate are confusing to follow. Some even contain such gibberish as claiming that water has a "crystalline structure". In my experience it's difficult to find a competent teacher who actually understands (and can teach) the overall system. However, the Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbits are effective as can be discovered with a day or two's effort and are widely referenced in much older sources as the Lesser and Greater Water Wheels/Heavenly Cycles. So it'd be unwise to throw the baby out with the bath water on account of someone being a businessman. The Fusion practices are interesting and insightful if done correctly and the Kan & Li meditations also appears effective (but I'm still exploring them). The Kan & Li is the mainstay of internal alchemy and is widely discussed in a variety of far older texts [1], so I doubt he's made that one up either.

Michael Winn talks about how the Communist government gutted qi gong of its spiritual practices and that TCM is diluted as a result (one of your articles mentions a clampdown on it too). I believe Winn's been to China several times and has studied with a variety of teachers apart from Chia. His stuff stacks up so I'm inclined to believe him.

While it's fine to reference older texts though, no one has a monopoly on our nervous systems. For me, the only thing that matters is efficacy regardless of lineage/culture. I don't care for names, superstitions, mythologies or rituals - I only seek (and keep hold of) what works for me. We are incredibly fortunate to live at a time when formerly secret knowledge is widely available. I would encourage the astute student to also study cross-culturally in order to find the most effective, personally verifiable practices available given today's opportunities for research.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Harmonizing-Yin-Yang-Dragon-Tiger-Cla...
Jaguar Land Rover announces electric car investment
The Python examples are delightful! If you input them at

https://www.speicherleck.de/iblech/zufall-im-browser/index.e...

(with slight modifications), then you get continuously-updated histograms of the results.
Rationalwiki for those for whom Wikipedia isn't leftwing enough.
I'm enjoying Netlify as a intermediate step: mostly static site, plus their Forms and Functions to add small interactive parts. I'm not sure it's easier for a beginner, though.
Prototype Pollution Attack
> they absolutely will not answer any question they don’t have a pre-written response for, instead choosing whatever they think is closest to what I am asking, even if it doesn’t answer the question

I got the exact same feeling when talking to them. It sounded like they understood my problem, but the proposed resolutions were obviously not a match. Reasoning about it with them got me nowhere, they clearly had no other options.
Internet, as other technologies, is empowering individuals. Yes, we are facing the same problem as in real world, but the consequences are larger now because individual can do massive damage. Sooner or later, we are going to facing a real challenge that a person can do massive damage so great, it can hurt the world so badly. Technology is just behaving as it is. We probably should focus less on technology, more on people to solve any of these problems.
This is my biased take (I used to work for Facebook), but I tend to read some elitism and gatekeeping in arguments like the original article.

> “The internet wouldn’t have been created by people like Mark Zuckerberg, or any of the sort of corporate executives in Silicon Valley today,” he said. “They wouldn’t be capable, they don’t have the temperament, they’re too controlling. They don’t understand the whole idea of bottom up.”

I think the only people who want to use the internet in a decentralized, bottom-up way are engineers. The vast majority of people need a simple experience that doesn't require them to learn anything new or to make too many choices. That's not exactly the opposite of bottom-up, of course, and it's possible to have both sometimes. But optimizing for bottom-up vs optimizing for simplicity leads to very different outcomes. Sometimes when I hear engineers talk about how much they hate how popular websites like Facebook and Twitter work, it sounds like they don't care very much about whether their ideal internet would be useful for normal people.

I even think there's some of this going on in the privacy debate. Yes, normal people care about privacy a lot. But they mostly care about it when it impacts their life directly in ways they can understand, like traffic cameras or identity theft. It's hard for a normal person to engage in the debates about the Snowden leaks or the Cambridge Analytica scandal, because the details are technical, and the impact on most people's lives is indirect. Now, of course it's normal for people with a technical background to make decisions and judgment calls in their area of expertise, for the benefit of the public, without waiting for an informed public debate about all the little details. The world is complicated, and that's how everything works. But I think a lot of humility is called for in those situations, because you're mixing together questions of what people would value with questions of what they should value or of what you personally value. I worry about this when I hear engineers say things like "abolish Facebook". Like yes, many engineers would rather starve than give up their data privacy. But that really isn't how most people feel, and if you waved a magic wand and made everyone in the world an expert on cookies and IP addresses and databases, it's not at all clear to me that they'd feel the same hate for Facebook that many engineers do.
The history of associating disease with asbestos exposure dates to the ancient Greeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos-related_diseases#Hist...
I don’t have extensive knowledge of how crypto works, but for 1), most, if not all large-scale applications like FB operate with distributed systems somewhere in the chain (ex. image and video processing), which is the core of how ledgers work, and how mining works.

Their website tech is impressive, I’ll give them that. I still wouldn’t trust them with my money.
That's a big reason for why it got so expensive though :)

You could probably remove quite a lot of requirements and still have the safest energy generator and that would bring down the cost.
UK slavery network 'had 400 victims'
And then there are internal combustion engine vehicles which really take the cake for a long sad history of fires. Combustion is literally part of the name of the tech.
What is more important than deaths/twh? Costs? I would disagree. Perhaps, area lost to contamination (e. g. Chernobyl exclusion zone, Fukushima area). But then, how much is lost/flooded due to coal excavation, hydro dam flooding, etc.
Nuclear waste is mostly solid and very dense.

Water absorbs almost all harmful radiation within a few meters

The thought process behind just throwing barrels into an ocean trench as was done by the US was and still is sound but people are freaked out by the notion. The UK was encasing barrels in concrete before doing the same which is more than good enough by most measures.

Ultimately nuclear waste is easier to deal with than some other toxic industrial waste or chemicals.
That’s not accurate. “Rooftop” solar is minimally dangerous to install, but large scale solar fields on empty land is extremely safe per kWh.

PS: Nuclear also has many deaths not generally included in these statistics. As building and operating a power plant is not the only risky things you need to do to have nuclear power. Ex: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164879/
What I see clearly is that is not a good option to begin with R inferno, except when you are a fighter prepared to learn at any cost.
This issue is a good comparison of the two approaches:

https://github.com/cuelang/cue/issues/33
> Why not buy an off-the-shelf modern cargo airplane?

Because the procurement procedure would take 10-20 years, have to go through congress several times, and get pork barreled everywhere, and the 'modern freighter' would still likely be old as dirt once it's all done.

Look at the fuss over the KC-X/KC-30/KC-45/KC-46 for an example of how it would pan out. (The KC-X procurement started in 2002, settled on the KC-30 from airbus, modified to include pork barrelled 'Northrop Grumman' changes to be the KC-45, boeing objected to a non-US company winning the contract, and thus the KC-46 (a modified KC-767) was the only option left)
His Eulogy for RadioShack might be my favorite essay of the 2010s, no hyperbole.

https://www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7281129/radioshack-eulog...

I enjoy his chart parties and other sports deep dives, but really love his cultural commentary the most.
I wish i wasnt on a nokia feature phone or id go into depth on the misunderstandings u state about memory, the hippocampus, and the utility of repetition as a mnemonic. Perhaps another memory researcher can in my place, as it has taken me a while to type this already on this old style phn keyboard
Caddy 2 Is Ready for Developers
How to decide which help desk software will work best for you and your business?
This promised investment will be too small in size to matter. They are very late and the investment will be too small. But, we'll see.
Study 329. GSK paid a PR company to ghostwrite a misleading paper, with the intent of concealing the fact that a) paroxetine is no more effective than placebo in the treatment of adolescent depression and b) paroxetine significantly increases the risk of suicide in adolescents.

GSK knew that their drug was worse than useless, they knew that children would die as a result, but they deliberately withheld damning data and misled clinicians. For this (and many, many other acts of deceit) they were fined a total of $3bn by the Department of Justice.

The paper has never been retracted and paroxetine is still widely prescribed to adolescents.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study_329
Do you actually know how long it lasts? What if it lasts only 100 years? With DNA we know the lasting period very well because of carcasses and corpses that died thousands of years ago and whose DNA we were able to sequence.
The spec does try and make it simple to build compliant devices for basic features. It's only if you want higher power or bandwidth than the existing USB 2.0 that you need any kind of digital logic.

For instance, a USB-C analog headphone adaptor is just some resistors and the connectors themselves, and a USB A-C cable just requires a single extra resistor so the USB C device knows there is a USB A plug on the other end and not to draw too much current. Unfortunately, dodgy manufacturers got even that wrong, see https://www.extremetech.com/computing/217556-google-engineer...
Ivermectin-based regimen reduced scabies prevalence 24 months after intervention
If you just want to distribute content, you're better off sharing bittorrent links. The problem is that those podcasters want the visibility and the ad money of those platforms. Which is valid, but not something that is solvable by self-hosting at home.
An async function that throws and error will return a promise that will reject with the thrown error.
Some people enjoy reading non-fiction full of facts, some people enjoy reading fiction with non-plot-based-fluff. If you don't like the piece, move on to something else. Doesn't really add to the discussion of the story to make a writing style comment.
Hear hear! I think the nuclear industry struggles with finding a balance between sunk costs (e.g. TRISO fuel development under NGNP, the TREAT reactor, ATR, the BISON fuel performance code), and what advances the nuclear industry really needs to survive and thrive. At a NRC meeting a while ago, one of the members of the ACRS asked pointedly what regulatory relief they expect to get from ATF. No one knew. Is the NRC going to relax a bunch of regs when we have ATF and somehow allow nuclear to be cheaper without compromising safety? No way.

We need ways to minimize financing costs during construction, and get the number of staff required at operating plants way down to decrease O&M. My favorite solution? Shipyard-constructed nukes on floating platforms, tugged to locations for power and tugged back to port for maintenance. Solves almost all problems assuming you can get them to operate largely autonomously. In attacks or ship collisions, design it to sink safely and cool itself with seawater. Build in a recovery operation to the design.

Also, the nuclear industry really needs to find ways to consolidate effort. There are literally 50+ SMR designs in work right now, and dozens more larger reactors. The industry is wayyy to small to be fighting over limited investor and government money to develop that many reactors in isolation.
The size of the human brain makes this physically impossible.
The article states it is an issue with an eMarked cable, not the charger. With a different cable, the Pi 4 started up with the same chargers as it was no longer detecting the Pi as an analog audio accessory.

The issue still lies with the Pi 4 for not having two CC resistors.
The counter could be that we don't want anything from the big corp either.

But regardless, would you think anything new will become mainstream in this space? We already have json, yaml, perhaps a few more. It appears that the problem that the new ones solve start paying off when the software they configure go over some pretty high complexity threshold.
It's important in terms of adoption. Fukushima destroyed the economics of Japanese nuclear power. One accident like that per 100 years and nuclear suddenly becomes very expensive.