skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, we've never been running out. The government liquidating the strategic reserve distorted the price, but it will adjust.

Helium is produced from natural gas wells but with the prices for the gas where they have been for so long no one bothers to capture it - it's not worth it, it's just vented to the atmosphere and escapes.

So "running out of helium" basically means "running out of cheap helium and the price will go up until it establishes a balance with the cost of producing it from the ground instead of a government storage tank".

For as long as we get natural gas out of the ground, we will have helium.
Hello, i am the popup from the button you clicked 57 clicks ago. i just arrived asynchonously and i m going to destroy your entire form. but don't worry, i will do a slide-hover-twist-and-twerk animation when entering
This is geared towards qtquick (not widgets) applications, but to create a general theme you can use this pattern:

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.11/qtquickcontrols2-flatstyl...

Then before the engine is loaded in main.cpp call

qmlRegisterSingleton( QUrl(QStringLiteral("qrc:/Theme.qml")), "mycustomname.theme", 1, 0, "Theme");

Then in a qml file:

import mycustomname.theme 1.0

This allows you to do something like:

Rectangle {
width: 100
height: 100
color: Theme.mainColor
}

You can also do things like set the application font which would be done in main.cpp before the engine is loaded:

QFont appFont("NameOfLoadedFont);
appFont.setPixelSize(16);
QGuiApplication::setFont(appFont);

You would need to load the font, which you can do in the Theme.qml file:

property FontLoader someFont: FontLoader {
source: "qrc:/locationOfFont/Font"
name: "NameOfLoadedFont"
}
No it’s not. The need for work doesn’t offset that economic calamity that happens with a liquidity crisis and the subsequent devaluation of the dollar. That means people need to work and there’s no money available to pay them. You get a run on banks with more debt than cash available. Everyone is frozen.
There is a simple counter-argument to this:

“It is telling, however, that China is using its long-term planning and robust implementation capacity not to entrench state capitalism, but rather to advance economic liberalization and structural reform.”

Right, but whatever the plan might be, it clearly isn’t working, since the economy continues to slow. 50 years ago China clocked 8% to 10% growth a year, now they feel very lucky if they can get 6%.

And this is a truly incredible thing for anyone to write:

“The fruits of this approach are irrefutable. In the last decade, a number of Chinese private financial and tech giants have emerged that, unlike their state-run counterparts, have managed to establish themselves as global leaders in innovation.”

So, according to this, it is actually a sign of success that more and more large Chinese firms feel they need to export capital because they no longer see good investments at home. And that’s success?
I used to work on an endocrine disruptor (EDC) testing program (https://wwww.silentspring.org/detoxmeactionkit/). Analytical laboratories won't deal with individual samples from consumers, so our approach was to collect batches that we sent to the lab all at once. The cost adds up quickly because (1) the analytical chemistry done for the testing requires a mass spectrometer, which need constant expert attention and expensive reference standards, (2) urine needs to be mailed frozen, which requires overnight shipping. The program I worked on didn't test for phthalates because IIRC that would require sending the samples through the mass spec a second time, which substantially increases the price.

I think it would be possible to bring the price down if you had your own dedicated mass spec and high volume, but it's never going to be cheap. Unfortunately the usefulness of this kind of testing increases the more you can get tested, e.g. before and after a dietary intervention. I think the market for this kind of testing could be large if there was a way to bring the price down, but that probably requires the development of new analytical chemistry techniques.
I’ve bypassed the man trap for a DC by accident before so I guess I’m good? :)

Can’t remember how I did it but my former coworkers still tell stories about it. Lol.
Relatedly, here's a 2012 video of Jamie Hyneman talking about creating an electric outboard for Mythbusters for quiet operation while filming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EV2qq2-Lck

Pure makes a lot of the same claims about noise and performance. They seem to have upped the appearance though.
Its not just boats going electric with positive results. Electric chainsaws starting to appear on trial near me for emergency services dealing with fallen trees. Much less noise, no smell (two stroke) and recharges itself on the truck. Just need someone to invent a self cleaning and sharpening one :)
Commercial fusion does not exist, and the amounts of helium would be irrelevant.
Samsung will pre-install Microsoft apps on upcoming phone models
I think LA is a fairly bad example - drought, desert earthquakes all conspire very much against that use case
Check out the buildapcsales subreddit, that's where I consistently find the biggest discounts.
That might not be saying much depending on the country...
> like a used-car salesman who tells you the last owner of your car was an old lady who only drove it on Sundays.

Wow, that's literally what the salesman said when I bought my first used car. And I believed him, because of the low miles.
Are you familiar with the concept of a crab basket?
Why in the hell would you want vector graphics in GIF ever?

Is it a photograph? No

Is it vector? Yes

For a Website? No

Does it have a gradient? No

Gif

Wat? Once you get to "Is it vector?" it should just point to SVG
Facebook forced to change Instagram name in coming months – Read to find why
Was Apple late stage enough in 2000?
I disagree. If you do some research, you'll learn that the chiplet architecture employed by EPYC Rome is inherently and substantially cheaper to manufacture than the monolithic design employed for Xeon.

AMD priced these chips so low because they know Intel is going to fight back with deep discounts. AMD also knows they can manufacture more cheaply for any given level of performance.

It shouldn't surprise anyone if AMD is offering prices that Intel would have to counter by selling Xeon's at a loss.

Furthermore, some orgs do not put a price on security. With Intel's poor security track record in the recent past, it's no surprise that Google hopped on the EPYC train.

So at least one of the following two are going to play out over the next year: 1) AMD takes massive server market share. 2) INTC bleeds red to slow the loss of market share.
The Interface Neuroid
They may not have to wait long, nor do any replacing. Just let the ocean levels continue to rise, and flood the LA basin. Venice's canals will be useless, but downtown LA will be just about right ;-)
Why is WeWork a stupid investment?
Big names like Cray, Google, AWS, and Microsoft are already on board.

The next generation of the Zen chipset has already been designed.

EPYC Rome is likely being priced s.t. Xeon's would have to be sold at a loss to match $/perf.
Depends if he consumes it through the website or has a reader or stream-like view. I'm imagining a twitter like feed that could elevate controversial comments to his immediate attention.
Sounds like something to do with Russia, US, and the presidency...
One of the best reads is "Lessons from Habitat" [1]. While things have changed in the 30 years, one of the conclusions is still valid nowadays: the implementation is relatively unimportant.

The entire paper is a gem; worth checking it out. It has aged wonderfully well, and I never get tired of re-reading it over the years.

[1] http://www.fudco.com/chip/lessons.html
> Right, but whatever the plan might be, it clearly isn’t working, since the economy continues to slow. 50 years ago China clocked 8% to 10% growth a year, now they feel very lucky if they can get 6%.

I think your comment is quite incorrect, and shows a lack of knowledge of Chinese history. 50 years ago (1969) China was going through the "cultural revolution" under Mao which was absolutely devastating for its economy. In the 1980s China began economic liberalization under Deng Xiaoping and that was when its economy began growing tremendously. So, there is a direct connection between liberalization and growth. Of course no growth of 8-10% is sustainable over many decades, and it's likely they are simply reaching a new equilibrium.
Go read Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio. They (Bridgewater, biggest hedge fund in the world) look at data and economic history, and they’ve done quite well by it.
I know. I use server side rendering all of the time - well at least until I got back to my safe place doing back end work. It was one project for $reasons I had to use a very light framework that I could copy paste the entire library into the page. I couldn’t depend on the device having an internet connection. I could also precompile the templates.
I've always loved being on the water, but had a kind of instinctual revulsion at the gas usage, the fumes, the oil that leaks into the water, and the sheer noise from the engine -- like boating is about being with nature, but the gasoline aspect just ruins it for me.

I tried sailing, but even then you need a backup motor and to get in/out of the oil-soaked harbor. (And sailing is a lot of work.)

The idea of electric boats makes me actually interested in the idea of boating for the first time again... does anyone know if they leak oil just as much though?
Typing this on a Dell Ryzen system. They don't have Ryzen 3000 systems out yet, so that much is true.
The amount of study required to pass the law and ethics exam is perhaps an evening or two of reading. I did learn a few things in the process, but the level of knowledge it represents is on par with a learner's permit for a new driver.
If there is no difficulty in detection, then there is no need to go after a proxy (the product manufacturers) instead of the perpetrators (the telemarketing companies).
EPYC Rome wins on perf/watt as well.
Have you tried Razor Pages? I used it in my last project and I loved it, it was a lot simpler and subjectively more fun than using regular MVC.
Fission hasn't been practical in the past using old reactor technology.

Climate change makes a big difference in the equation, though. Marine nuclear power is one of the best understood, safest areas of nuclear use that exists, even using the old technologies.

The idea of using "modern sailing vessels" for shipping in the amounts that are presently moved from continent to continent is just plain nuts. Unless most of the world is willing to go back a hundred years in technology, we're going to need to use motor vessels going forward.

About the only way to eliminate all carbon emissions from large ships is to make them reactor powered. Batteries will work for short trips, but if you combine the need for long range and high power in shipping of large cargoes, the only way to power ocean going vessels in any practical sense are internal combustion engines running on fossil fuels or steam generating reactors powering turbines.

That's why the navies of the world run on one or the other.
> Most of what corporations are emitting is on behalf of the customers.

You might go so far as to say that all of it is, but that's not the question. The question is, if e.g. concrete costs more due to the tax but we still need it, how much of the tax is passed on to consumers vs. coming out of corporate cash piles? If the answer is "anything less than 100% in all cases" then the difference is a net transfer from corporations to humans.
Influence and Pre-suasion by Robert Caldini

Difficult Conversations by Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen
Most emerging contaminants have no clinical reference levels for safe vs. unsafe exposure, so often the best you can do is compare your exposure level to a reference distribution to see if you have relatively high levels.

The CDC tests thousands of people in the U.S. every two years for a panel of chemicals (including endocrine disruptors) via NHANES, so at very least you can compare your results to that to see if you are unusual relative to a nationally representative sample of Americans.
I’d be long on Uber. Taxis are still a bad experience. A recession is coming too.
In more rural areas there are not neighborhood boxes like that. Each person is responsible for an individual box by the road.
The SAST program is probably doing a lot more than a string search tool does.

If the SAST has to process C/C++ source code, then the SAST will parse all the #include'd header files. The SAST may track values to determine if illegal/uninitialized values are used.

A string search tool will skip doing all of that.

If the class of problems you're looking for contains only bad functions/constants, then a string search tool may be fine.

But as I mentioned before, the string search tool may get confused if these bad strings occur in strings/comments/irrelevant #if/#else/#elif sections.

There are another class of bugs dealing with data values which a string search tool can't deal with easily.

As an example, PC-Lint lists the type of problems the program may flag - https://www.gimpel.com/html/lintchks.htm.
A string search tool won't know about classes and virtual destructors or other concepts relevant to the programming language in question.

For the string search tool, you'd either invoke the search string tool several times with different search strings for the same source code or slightly more efficient, have one long search string containing all your search strings as alternate search targets for the string search tool.

Either case, when the string search tool spits out a positive result, it won't explain why there is a problem. The dev will have to know or lookup the problem associated with that search result.

When I worked on this area, C/C++ compilers stopped at syntax errors. Most have gotten better at flagging popular problems like variable assignments within if statements, operator precedence bugs, and printf-format string bugs.

Some divisions at Microsoft required devs to run a lightweight SAST before committing changes to locate possible problems ASAP.

It's relatively easy to integrate an SAST into your build system to scan the modified source code just before you're ready to commit the changes.
Same. The Nutley St. location sold out on the first day and hasn't been any since.
Don't bother asking to be removed. Give them bullshit info and waste their time.

Considering they are committing a felony by simply making the phone call. It's a felony to spoof phone numbers. Everyone from the top down should be facing 20 years
> Often, in American baseball, you'll only have 2 pitchers for the whole game.

What? I think that in fact the main problem with baseball is that you end up with 4+ pitchers per game, and in fact, science will back me up on this[1]. "In 1964 (four years after the save rule first came to baseball), teams used an average of 2.58 pitchers per game, including the starter; today, they're using 3.92 pitchers per game".

[1] - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-bullpens-took-over-...
Telegram for desktop. Easily the most usable "modern" (read: not IRC) instant messaging client available today in terms of features, responsiveness, and portability.
there is a UI framework on top of a document platform, running on a VM inside a browser program running in a sandbox of a host operating system . Occam would be furious, and i think this extreme duplication of UI functions is bad for the environment, bad for the users' nerves and bad for the MTBF of computers.
You can use the PM measurement that the sensor outputs to calculate the Air Quality Index (for Europe: http://airindex.eea.europa.eu/) and for example, make it send you a notification when the pollution level goes up, so you can turn on the air purifier or vacuum or open the windows.
More analytics. I feel like these are an admission that you are unable to judge quality in any meaningful way, so you're just going to go with what's popular today.

If I look around the products I own, and especially the ones I enjoy and find useful, I don't see very many which could have been arrived at by the wisdom of the crowds. You're not going to create a car that way, or a bicycle, or an iPhone. That's just not how products are created.

What exactly does one do with the knowledge that "Axe throwing" and "Gut health" searches are way up this year? "Stay in touch with the world beyond your bubble" sounds rather vague, and the sort of thing I could get by going on Twitter once a week.
I have been a subscriber all these years, this goodbye is pretty sad but many many publishers are struggling these days, LJ is not alone, it's probably about time, sigh.

I wish someone can keep site read-only for years to come, still there are gems in those articles and could be hit by google.
How do you identify these apps/clients?
No, for God’s sake, no, the Cultural Revolution was not devestating to the economy. Where did you read that? During the worst year of the Cultural Revolution, China still managed to grow 8%.

Large scale civil rights violations are not automatically bad for the economy. The German economy grew dramatically during the Holocaust and the best decades for the USA overlap with the mass murder of the Indians and the savage oppression of African-Americans. In China, the Cultural Revolution killed 30 million people, but it did not slow the economy.
Sparsity Emerges Naturally in Neural Language Models
That's an interesting perspective considering the US Economy hasn't broken 3% GDP growth per year since 2005.
It takes human cognition to understand the degree of independence. A machine could not have figured out the broader macroeconomic forces at play that led to mass defaults.
On top of that, the bass boats are only on ICE powered engine while getting to their spots. Once there, they switch to electric powered trolling motors.

It's all of the ski boats and jet skis that are the annoyingly loud and high emission crafts. One thing that surprised me growing up is that most water craft do not have mufflers. They just exhaust directly into the water which muffles. I used to think how the fish must love that.
>Often, in American baseball, you'll only have 2 pitchers for the whole game.

!!!???

You must have not watched baseball in the past several decades, major league teams are averaging 4.5 pitchers per game now and it's rare for a team to use three or fewer pitchers in a game. [1]

[1] https://baseballwithr.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/historical-lo...
i think it is more likely that "real" developers who started working as web devs missed the hierarchical ecosystem and built up one out of straws. Of course, that's a cargo cult.
Intels 10nm node has been a disaster for years. This comes off as less "Intel has been doing nothing forever" and more "what they planned to do blew up in their face".

That being said, if AMD never made Ryzen, you can bet your bottom dollar we would have been really enjoying ourselves 6 core hyperthreaded Ice Lake desktop and 16-24 core server CPUs next year for prices that AMD is now pushing 12 core and 48 core chips at.
> Man I wish HN had a downvote option for articles that are just not worth reading.

I have to strongly disagree with this sentiment. Thoughts which are against mainstream deserve to be visible and thus open for debate.

My company for example decided to go with our own production hardware. I'm not saying it's easy. But it's doable. And very educational. =)

One has to remember that running your systems on 3rd party cloud provider will not strip you from responsibility and/or software maintenance cycle which usually presents most of the "human workload". Their nines are not yours.

According to my experience with two reliable machines (redundant PSU's etc) one can create a very reliable service platform. Using correct kind of management tools of course is essential. RAID disk system and a reliable backup arrangement are essential too.

We used Ganeti (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganeti) in our 1st generation setup. The next generation will use our own manager (Deux).
Is this inherent to the way law works, or did practices develop this way to route around the messiness of simultaneous changes without git?
I don't know much about the US housing dynamics but it seems very unlikely that prices will get lower due to less parking being required. It's more likely the builders will profit more.

We went through a similar situation with airplane tickets where I live. The govt agency in charge of aviation and the airlines all wanted the free luggage requirement gone citing cost reductions. They got it, the fares didn't get any cheaper and now you have to pay extra.

I really don't see the 17% reduction in space required for parking being passed onto buyers. People will continue to demand 1-2 parking spots because that's a high cost area and people buying there don't care that much about that discount, if that even happens.
It is really great and I use it 50 percent of the time. But I fuck with them the other 50 percent. The more I waste their time the less money they make. Ive started calling my reps Everytime I get a call. I am reporting multiple crines
I have been paid to write PHP for several years of my career. More than any other language, I think, neck and neck with JS.

I have also written heavy amounts of Python and Java at various points in my career. A few other languages too.

PHP has many, many bad spots. It's easily the ugliest, clumsiest language I have been paid to use.

It's slightly dated, but this is still the best summary I know of:

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Wishful thinking?

PS - this “child” started working as a developer, at least part time, back in 1985

C++ eventually passed into a bad memory, and so will MSIE.
>If ships travel slower than the hull displacement speed, they could travel on electric motors and solar power today.

Check your math here... it doesn't work out. Most large ships DO travel at less than displacement speed, going faster would take more energy than their engines produce.

Even covering an entire ship's deck with present solar panel technology, the ship couldn't run on the panels... they would have to charge a battery bank, then when full the ship sails a certain distance, stops, recharges, and repeats.

The only practical means of powering modern ocean going vessels given their range and size are fossil fuels or nuclear reactors.

If you can get by with sails for some things, that's great, but unless someone starts building massive numbers of sailing vessels, there's not going to be enough of them to replace motorized shipping, and even then some routes and cargoes won't be able to ship that way. Some cargoes are perishable, for instance.

Any plan anyone comes up with for fighting climate change will fail if it requires a significant portion of humanity to change its behavior all at once.
There is nothing less convincing about that. It takes a lot of plants to get some meat. So a little 'inefficient energy converters' are better than a ton of them.
All of them use the same process.
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If everybody would rather live in France than Africa but not everyone will fit, we have a supply shortage -- a problem that markets like phones would solve with pricing. So are you suggesting that governments start auctioning off immigration slots?
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Tofurky Mounts Free Speech Challenge Against Arkansas Meat Label Law
Yes absolutely everyone. Everyone that is on the phone. They get 10 years. They absolutely know what they are doing is illegal. Fuck those people.
You may know this, but for others: In the 1940s the word 'computer' would be more associated with a human performing computations (aka calculations) [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(job_description)#War...