skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And help us get rid of the waste old nuclear reactors created. Taking to account thwt we cannot store energy efficiently enough beside few edge cases, the ability to generate enough base power makes nuclear plants superiour to anything we have.

Solar panels production has very bad impact on the environment in different areas than CO2 and those panels are worthless after 10years. Smelting parts for windturbines has the same issue of huge amount of turbines which require maintenance and take alot of space to place them correctly.

All of those technologies have serious drawbacks. While nuclear powerplant using new reactors has only one - its expensive to build but will last a century or more.
You're drawing an average of 2.3kW around the clock, what are you doing with all that power? If it's AC, IMO the place to start is air sealing, insulation, and shade structures.
If his answer is on the right order magnitude it's kinda interesting that our signalling technology is getting up there in bandwidth.
Frontline did a piece on that approach and it was a retrospective on how it had gone wrong in notable cases. Not stating an opinion here, but highlighting that even sympathetic coverage thinks the approach is a mixed bag in practice.
Awesome. Reminds me of turning on the TV in the 70s on Saturday morning and seeing Open University programmes.
you can download your data from strava, individually as flat files and in bulk. this has been the case for years, and its more recently a requirement of GDPR anyway.

you have the right to your data, that doesn't mean strava has to serve it to some random 3rd party in perpetuity.
I get where you are coming from, but mental state is an element of just about every criminal law I can think of. You need to prove both that someone committed an act and had a certain "mens rea." That doesn't mean you can't commit a crime if you're on drugs or have other mental issues, but it's a relevant factor.
There is a benefit to UI uniformity for "boring" stuff like business sites and backends: less cognitive overhead or learning curve. When I see a standard issue wordpress bootstrap site I already know how to find stuff.
Around here it seems like runners use various different activity trackers, but among cyclist Strava is the de facto standard. If you meet another cyclist you can be pretty sure you'll find them later on Strava flyby (a neat feature, I'll have to give them that). It's mindblowing how they seem to squander such a huge market lead in what I assume is a pretty affluent market.

Besides improving their product they could easily add more monetization paths, like offering users to buy new equipment from affiliates, working together with race organizers and accommodation facilities, and there's probably other things as well. Instead they go into hibernation and do the old "more or less useless features behind a premium membership" business plan.
Cop who famously murdered unarmed man in hotel has been awarded $2,500/mo
Simply disallowing access to private network space is a non-starter, since it’s used so frequently. For example, a typical use case is that an office has a private IP space, e.g. 10.0.0.0/8, and various external services will link into it, e.g. Gmail, Okta.

Disallowing access to localhost seems more plausible, especially if there’s an exception for extensions so that things like 1Password can continue to work.
"GM stands to lose $9000 per car on chevy bolt" (2016)

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/gm-stands-to-lose-9000-dolla...

GM Finally Admits That Chevrolet Bolt Was Never Profitable (2019)

https://www.hotcars.com/gm-admits-bolt-not-profitable/

Thats why they didn't try very hard to sell them in the USA or anywhere else.
In the face of so many outages from big companies, I wonder how Visa/MasterCard is so resilient.

Is it because they are over the curve and don't make "any" changes to their system. As opposed to other companies, we are still maturing?
Looks like the so-called "carbon bubble" is starting to pop!
One thing set of alarm bells in my head from an operational perspective:

> Switching to either the re2 or Rust regex engine which both have run-time guarantees. (ETA: July 31)

That's short timescales for quite a significant change. I know it's just replacing a piece of automation with one that does the same task, but the guts are all changing and all automation introduces some level of instability, and a bunch of unknowns. Changing the regex engine is just as significant as introducing new automation from an operations perspective, even if it seems like it should be a no-brainer. I'd encourage taking time there (unless this is something they've been working on a lot and are already doing canary testing).

The other steps look excellent, and they should all collectively give ample breathing room to make sure that switching to re2 or Rust's regex engine won't introduce further issues. There's no need to be doing it on a scale of weeks.

Some quick thoughts about Quicksilver: Deploying everywhere super fast is inherently dangerous (for some reason, old school rocketjumping springs to mind. Fine until you get it wrong).

I definitely see the value for customer actions, but for WAF rule rollouts, some kind of (automated) increasing speed rollouts might be good, and might help catch issues even as the deployment steps beyond the bounds of PIG etc. canary fleets. Of course, that's also useless in and of itself unless there is some kind of automated feedback mechanism to retard, stop, or undo changes.

If I can make a reading suggestion: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0804759464/ref=ppx_yo_dt... The book is "High Reliability Management: Operating on the Edge (High Reliability and Crisis Management)" (unfortunately not available in electronic form). It's focussed on the energy grid in California, the authors were university researchers specialising in high reliability operations, and they had the good fortune to be present doing a research job at the operations centre right when the California brownouts were occurring in the early 2000s. There's a lot to be gleaned from that book, particularly when it comes to automation, and especially changes to automation.
Much better than batteries or gravity storage mechanisms is liquid air storage. It is not for small scale sites, but the bigger, the more economical, it becomes. As an OTS (off the shelf) solution i do not know why it is not used more...

Liquid air storage offers cheapest route to 24 hour wind and solar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20424313
Cool, that makes more sense. I will still complain that the terms are overloaded unnecessarily, but at least I know what they’re talking about.
Linguists have a word for everything.
>> Hopefully people are super mad about it.

Unusual windows activity, random rebooting associated with "updates", is a force of nature. People are beyond anger. They just accept it as part of the natural world. Linux guys like me are the angry man standing on the corner saying that the world doesn't need to be this way, that we can choose not to live like this. But if you believe that something is natural and unavoidable, eventually that guy in the corner looks genuinely crazy.
Why do you think Google knows more than Facebook?
An odd read that one. A huge distraction at the beginning with pages and pages of "why I bought a house in Montana", and pointedly avoiding any conclusion on Montana's issues. Just share everyone's lengthy perspective. A good book that felt it could have been a great book at half the length.

Out of interest what did you think were the better books in the category?
Hilarious how wearing pants in the source image turns later shorts wearing iterations into giant cankles.
Death metal band logos often have a spiky look while romance novel titles oft
Is the lot of money going to exceed $5B? And of course such a system could be implemented outside of a representative system influenced by voters, as many other national policies have been.

The mark of the beast is pretty specific in that it requires the right hand or forehead. I once thought maybe we'd see something with embedded RFID in that space get the fundies riled up, but machine learning of faces and gestures and gait and so forth are quite sufficient. The future for us meatbags will look more like an Amazon Go store experience, you carry the mark already as original sin just because of your slight differences from everyone else that machines can pick up on!
What was missing from the previous post:

> The program covers eligible MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models for 4 years after the first retail sale of the unit.

i.e. we get cover for a further three years, assuming your keyboard broke in year one (which AFAICT is equivalent to saying "you regularly use your mac")
> it was about privacy

Yes, and adblockers, umatrix/noscript, Tor, and other add-ons were universally broken.

That has an impact on privacy too.
> A lot of this problem stems from the deiinstitutionalization of American life in the middle of the century.

This was true thirty years ago, but is much less true today. The fraction of people that have serious mental illness is relatively constant, but the number of visible homeless people on the street has risen dramatically. What you're seeing today is a fraction of mentally ill people and then a larger fraction of drug addicted people stemming from the opioid crisis.

It's not the 80s anymore and that person screaming to no one on the street corner is more likely to be in meth psychosis than schizophrenic.
Latency is quite high though as far as I know.
Nnice work!
Jonathan Leitschuh shared the same complaint in his original writeup of the Zoom Zero Day, but also mentioned CORS-RFC1918 – a proposal to obtain permission from the user before allowing a public website to access a resource that DNS lookup reveals to be hosted on the private or local address space as defined by RFC1918:

https://wicg.github.io/cors-rfc1918/
> Or they might have debug versions where they do use the safety checks and then for production versions it's preprocessed out.

Why would you do that? Most attacks will probably target your production environment rather than your development environment.
Nah, no! Leslie Lamport is quite far away from constructive mathematics. You will for example see his explanation of logic in the TLA+ video lectures is entirely classical.
Is there an equivalent of an ad-blocker (and clearing all browser data on close) for the credit reporting bureaus?
Oh man, I hadn't even heard about that Mini.

re: 300 miles you're probably right, although things are a bit different in Europe where everything is closer together and non-Tesla charging infrastructure is generally better.
Google "scihub {papername}" and click on the first result.

It's not even just about the access restrictions... Even if I have access to a paper, grabbing it via scihub is so much faster and more reliable than via the publisher's garbage website.
Molten Salt Reactors
That is not what happened. A certificate built into the Firefox installation expired. It had nothing to do with "remote servers".
I think we're looking at regulatory capture here.

With just about every other commodity (and even with electricity in other parts of the country), you are given a discount if you purchase more. In the case of California, the regulators have been influenced by PG&E and have terrible pricing and tiering.

It's worth noting in Santa Clara, CA, the local power company Silicon Valley Power prices their electricity about .10-11c/kwh.
"Why are they wasting OUR tax dollars on this ridiculous, unneeded, IT infrastructure! My property taxes are going up to pay for your incompetence!"
No, because people can't agree on the source of the problem. It's complicated.
>wholesale energy cost is only about $0.02 per KW/H

Doesn’t this contradict the oft repeated news that solar is so much cheaper than our predominantly oil generated power?
> That theory is hard to square with the dramatic rise over the past 10-20 years.

How so? That exactly lines up with the timeframe of the opioid crisis.

Anecdotally, a large fraction of the RVs I see in my neighborhood are surrounded by needle caps and bike parts. The odds of those being drug-free cycling afficionados seem slim to me.
> Without having to charge the battery, a car could simply swap the battery out in second, completely removing ‘charge time’... Meanwhile, Hydrogen Fuel Cells would require a huge and expensive Hydrogen distribution infrastructure and a new Hydrogen generation system.

This is cool, but the above argument that battery a swap out system being much significant of a hurdle that developing an H2 infrastructure doesn't make sense. For a battery swap out, you need not only the infrastructure to deliver fresh batteries to points of use/sale, you also need to infrastrucutre to return the batteries to the recycling station, and the recycling station infrastructure itself.

H2 fuel infrastructure simply requires H2 liberation from a water source and delivery to fueling statuons. Fuel cells exhaust water. Now, the H2 fuel cells themselves and their platinum-based membranes are another hurdle, but that's not the argument the author made. This author (and others) need do a more complete cost-benefit assessment.
You put people in hospital as patients getting treatment, rather than in prison as convicts being punished.
When a Dating Dare Leads to Months of Soul Searching
Might be. Other sources claim it to be otherwise.

"As of January 2010, the USGS estimated world total lithium reserves at 9.9×109 kg (economically extractable now) and identified lithium resources at 2.55 × 1010 kg (potentially economic). Most of the identified resources are in Bolivia and Chile (9 × 109 kg and 7.5 × 109 kg, respectively). World lithium production is currently on the order of 2 × 107 kg per year.

If we would like to have a North American standard of living for everyone in the world – say, 1 car for every 2 people – then we would need about 3.4 billion Nissan Leafs. This would use 32% of the identified resources (all known lithium in the world), or 82% of the reserves (all lithium that is currently economic to produce). Even with widespread recycling, that seems like an unsustainable prospect.

Remember that the limits on battery capacity are fundamental. The only ways this percentage can go down are:

Battery capacity exceeds 73% of the theoretical maximum (unlikely)
New deposits of lithium are discovered and made economic (unknowable)
Smaller lithium-ion batteries are used (shorter range)
Fewer cars are built with lithium-ion batteries."

http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/
Peter Hessler's books about contemporary China are super-interesting reading. He's a very low-key, but deeply informed cultural translator. In all his books, he focuses on the stories and lives of the people he meets and gets to know, first as a young Peace Corps volunteer, and then as a journalist living in the country for many years. If you're interested, maybe start with _Country Driving: A Journey from Farm to Factory_.
Overall sentiment among my peer group in Austin is neutral to somewhat positive. My biggest complaint is also probably their biggest asset: they're wildly popular amongst people who would otherwise take a car (basically, non-cyclists) - so there's a lack of understanding around how to operate in this middle ground between being a pedestrian and being the operator of a 2 ton motor vehicle.
Uh... You have the same problem with Cobol written 20 years ago without comments.
Yea I was trying to imagine how https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_%28graphics%29 uses its GC.
Can you be my dad?
The blinds don’t increase it’s a cash game not tournament
Hey guys - I'm the author. Rare for an asian male in tech to have an essay in the Modern Love column - I"m sure this violates all of our standards on what belongs on HN, but just wanted to submit it here
Why the impulse to centralize everything?

In the past families would look after their own disabled members. Of course this is easier in large non-nuclear families. But maybe something like more like community centers in every town rather than imposing "Insane Asylums" run by scary officials would help?
But is the use of strcpy and memcpy worthy of a global boycott and witch-hunt?
History of Shorter Workweek: A Shorter Workweek Is Not a New Concept
So then the question is, why are all the other EVs competing with economy cars?
Ask HN: Is data localisation bill in India effective? Does it Bri
> without explicit consent on the part of the person being helped

But that's part of the brokenness of the system being complained about.

We need to be careful about compulsory treatment and detention without trial, but other countries manage it without it being catastrophic - at least not as catastrophic as leaving people addicted to drugs, mentally ill, and living on the street.
Yes, I do. Otherwise they

- go bankrupt faster than anything

- EU won't let them operate within the EU

- The USA won't let them operate within the USA
Well we are definitely in agreement about the long term then. Cheers
- Modem
- Cable
- Fiber

Maybe in the future we'll have... Spinal Tap
You are correct but will talk about Australia.

Australian rooftop solar is less than half the US prices. A 6.6 kW system installed retails at(AUD 2700 /USD 1870) and yet we have some of the most expensive electricity in the world at USD 0.25 per kW-h. In many places, 1 in 3 houses having rooftop solar. We have over 9GW currently installed and increasing at 1.5GW per year.

All this new production is taking market share from existing generators. And if you add storage, the utilities are in trouble. Therefore, it would seem to make sense if the utilities own assets and continue to sell electricity to clients. But, it is not.

The three big electricity companies are vertically integrated. They own both generation and energy retailing. (aka Gen-tailers). If they started owning small scale PV they would be faced with devaluing their existing generation assets. Or worst the grid (poles and wires). As long as the gen-tailers can pretend that solar is "marginal" they can produce huge profits from worthless assets. Over the next few years, the companies will shut their old coal plants and go all-in on solar but the longer they delay it the more profits they make.

Eg the NSW Government sold an old coal-fired generator for $1 million, the company who purchased it revalued it for $720 million a few years later. Electricity prices rose and the Federal government removed a Carbon Tax making the plant highly profitable.

The Australian electricity market is broken and so people make rational decisions to use rooftop solar. But if the energy companies moved into rooftop solar, it would cause them problems in operations and Balance Sheet problems.
Supporting local businesses and local jobs. This may lead to worse or to a better product, it depends on many things. There is no necessity of a catastrophe where the local product is worse and everybody is worse because having to use it. See China.
The scarcity of it makes you crave it
Interesting to see everyone hating on strava for not changing much for a long time. It has thousands of apps and browser extensions built on top of it to give you power features you want or need for training purposes. Strava is not probably not going to "steal relive's feature", although they have had something similar for years https://labs.strava.com/flyby/. If you want something actually cool for unique routes use http://www.loopieroute.com/. AFAIK, Strava cut Relive off because they were unclear about showing data within privacy zones and because relive is trying to build a competing social network.

1 Year ago:

* Signed up to relive with my strava account

* Started getting a lot of spam from relive that they made a video for my commute twice a day.

* Couldn't find any settings to stop making videos after every single ride, filtered out their emails, marked as read.

2 days ago:

* Received 3 Emails from Relive that "[friend from strava] wants to be my relive friend".

* Remembered that I never could figure out how to turn off relive syncing, signed in, found a way to delete my account

1 day ago:

* Get email from strava saying relive has been banned

Today:

* HN users decide to make a better alternative in their free time because strava sux

Keep in mind that if you as a user want to keep using relive you still easily can, just upload your gpx files. If you want it to automatically make videos you can setup a zapier/iftt/many many more ways to pull your data after every activity and pipe it to another service. Strava is not user hostile, it is friendly to 3rd parties, offers an amazing api, allows you to pay them money instead of being the product. What more does HN want?
Thanks for the suggestion, we’re adding a clarifying note to the report’s timeline.
I babysat servers for a couple of decades. Now I can concentrate on writing software, and some Terraform plans to glue all the components together, instead of screwing around with hard drive failures or power supplies or failing switch ports or [...].

If Amazon exploded tomorrow, I could rack up some white box servers and have a customer-facing cluster running by next week. You know, I don't want to do that stuff any more, though.
Maaaaybe. I'd like to think that there is an evaporative effect occuring there.

Assuming that more ethical people are better to work with and vice versa, then as more ethical people leave, the work enviroment gets worse and worse.

Like, payroll issues take longer to deal with, your co-workers aren't as up for beers on Fridays, your boss isn't as on your side as you'd like. So, the elves leave middle earth.

Eventually, the company can end up in a situation where payroll issues are impossible to deal with, where your co-workers are far too free to hit up a bar on a Tuesday night, where your boss could care less about you. So then even some of the skuzz-bucket people say they have had enough.

So, yeah, FB is good right now and can use their funds to pay people to deal with those issues. But fines like the one they got today are going to hamper that process.

As has been said for decades: Culture is everything.
No, it hasn’t.
> I'd much rather "be the product" in this way than in the way ad companies cause at least

Your customers are the product. Cloudflare sets a first party tracking cookie on every domain they serve. They unwrap TLS and can see every product your customers look at or buy.

Whether intentionally or not, they built the Ad Network 2.0. They found the solution to ISPs not being able to snoop, and browsers locking down third party tracking.
Doesn't seem to want to build against NDK 3.9 with gcc 4.7, but it was fun to try.
Communicating in a non-native language is difficult even if you know it well. It doesn't come naturally and is taxing on the brain
Worked at an office on 2nd and Pine for a few years - every summer, if you opened the windows, you’d get a steady wafting of crack pipe smoke coming in the building. You could tell if any cops were nearby because people outside would be singing or whistling as a warning call. Good times.
In C++ you typically access arrays with unsigned integers (size_t), and a common pitfall is:

for (size_t i = v.size() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
std::cout << i << ": " << v[i] << std::endl;

To fix the infinite loop you could write:

for (size_t i = v.size(); i > 0; --i) {
std::cout << i - 1 << ": " << v[i - 1] << std::endl;

Neither is great. Switching to signed integers might make your compiler throw warnings at you.

However, 1-based indexing does not work out well with modular arithmetic:

# 1 based
v[1 + (i - 1) % v.size()]

# 0 based
v[i % v.size()]

There's pros and cons with both schemes.