skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One wonders how quickly these pores will become clogged over time. If the membrane deteriorates fast, the energy cost of producing more membranes continuously needs to be factored in.

The article headline is pretty weird, by the way. So this technology can generate “thousands of nuclear power plants worth of energy”? But then in the third paragraph it sounds like they mean to say if you installed this membrane in every estuary in the world, then it’d beat 2000 nuclear plants.

It’s like saying there’s more water in a cup than in a bathtub, as long as the cup is the size of a car.
Yep, that page is perfectly ordered by priority: funding, free labour for annoying tasks, and only towards the end, if you really really have to, you can give us a hand under the hood or even (dead last! Why are you still here?!?) help with design.
Having looked at your site, I feel it's ok to ignore anything you have to say about UX and design.
Columns can be easily collapsed or hid; wasting vertical space is a worse solution than wasting horizontal space

Also tables align nicely in a grid, recfiles do not
Can anyone explain why the fresh water is needed? The article mentions that the ions in water are not bound to one another so why can’t we just use salt water entirely?
> and that our government is asleep at the wheel

No, they are deliberately misleading the public while attempting to shore up as much capital as possible for themselves, before the real crisis actually happens. It just so happens that more people are starting to catch on to their bullshit.

Don't make the mistake of thinking Morrison et al are incompetent. They are highly accomplished politicians who know exactly what to say and do to keep their jobs, and so far it is working.
There is Mapquest (based on mapbox) it is surprisingly good and works well for nearly most of my use cases.
Snarky comment aside, I'd suggest you to re-read my post, i specifically wrote "not add-on"
> The government having this much information on people creates an information asymmetry in society that makes the state incomparably powerful relative to private citizens.

Government, in a democratic society, is simply the citizens wielding their power collectively. It cannot possibly be more powerful than the citizens it serves.
I suspect it's because it's new and they are still flushing out how they want the overall framework to "feel." In my experience, this is more the norm than the anomaly. IIRC, Delphi would create breaking changes nearly every release.

It's two philosophies: 1. Backwards compatibility is king, 2. The best framework possible is king. #1, over time, can lead to a hot mess.
Ask HN: I'm about to switch from windows to mac – what do I need to know?
Hi,

Ive been using windows for years to a really low level (debugging user dumps etc.) but i'm thinking of getting a mac book pro and i've never really used a mac before.

My thinking is that I need a reliable laptop and want to get better with *nix like command line tools generally (I do use wsl but as windows is there always fall back to findstr/attrib etc).

I will mainly be running:

- chrome (azure, aws etc.)
- vs code
- pycharm
- intellij

Am I crazy or does this make sense? I will use things like office but don't care about macros etc.

Just looking for encouragement really :)

Ted
Why wouldn't you bet on panspsychism ?
I tend to think the same. But then I always question whether I just lack imagination in how to formulate the problem scientifically. Because it does feel a bit like an excuse.
Is Flutter Ready for Production? [Case Study]
Both "several" and "couple" are applicable. "A handful" or "some" have the same connotation generally, and I'm sure there are many others.
Good on him. We need more CEOs like him coming back to earth and getting off of their company thrones and discarding their God-complex personalities to behave like humans for once.

Perhaps there are several CEOs who are completely remote from reality that they struggle to identify the price of bread, milk and eggs from the local supermarket and would pay $10,000 on a pizza instead.
Jail food is already inedible. Further restrictions like meatless could only make it worse.
The page layout changes after the image loads, which is annoying as a user. Probably because users have been trained to hate page layout changes that happen a few seconds late because of that dark pattern where you change the page right as the user is about to click to change the thing they click on. How they achieve this on mobile is anyone's guess.
The funny thing is that QWant is currently challenged on its ability to monetize its search engine. Short answer (for the moment): it can't. https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/12/04/le-google... (in french)
Brave won't be affected by manifest v3 though

https://twitter.com/brave/status/1088914000379731970
> There are plenty of disabled men in functional relationships

That would be such an unacceptable response in any other context ( eg: there are plenty of women who are CEOs, there are plenty of <minority> millionaires. Please lose the victim angle). But somehow such cruelty is acceptable towards "incel" men.

I personally know someone who is an wheelchair and was abandoned by their SO ( can't really blame her ) after his condition and has ever since been unable to find someone.
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Show HN: UniswapDEX, a robust interface to interact with the UniSwap contract
Complaining about the dating scene does not make you an incel. You're being condescending for no reason at all. Nothing he said is related to the usual talking points of incels.

Also, men are lonely and this reflects heavily in suicide rates by gender. If someone is lonely, they should be allowed to complain. Casting them away with a label only makes things worse for them. Don't you have empathy? Can't you garner sympathy for a person who is missing out on one of the basic human needs (emotional connection)?
the researchers estimated a single square meter of the membrane [...] could [...] power more than 400 homes.
I’m in Atlanta - not exactly the worlds greatest city for commuters. But once you hit the interstate, you just get in the lane that doesn’t veer off and drive straight.
Piketty's arguments are both wrong and tautological? Fascinating.
Why does it have to be somewhere?
Show HN: Nin, yet Another NES Emulator
Microsoft’s GitHub Mulls Expansion in China
Or "airplane seat" metaphor as Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. said.
Not legally binding, according to this ruling: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-rejects-li...

And how bizarre - isn't that at odds with their mission to "connect the world"? It's almost as if they are lying parasites whose only goal is profit.
It was a tornado risk assessment wind fragility modelling software, used by the nuclear power industry.
With the plugin active, you can load the tracking script manually and it will work. That said, it could probably be made easier. How would you like to see this?
When people are incapable of something, it isn't feasible for them. It doesn't really matter why "everyone getting rich" doesn't work.
Developers can opt into this with CSS now.

th {
position: sticky;
top: 0;
}

I don't think it would have been reasonable to include/force such functionality at the spec level.
> You're missing a couple of things - first, it isn't zero sum. I don't care if I'm poor relatively as long as I'm not poor absolutely.

Sure, but even people with benefits are struggling to get by. To not be poor absolutely we should be giving them $1000 a month on top of current benefits. Just $1000 a month will leave many absolutely poor. Also, I'm not an economist, but I don't think we can really predict what will happen with inflation, rent prices, etc, when the vast majority of people become $1000 richer. I find it hard to believe it won't cause increases in prices in at least some things. If that happens you aren't just poorer relatively.

> Second, the average benefit isn't $1,000 a month and in almost all cases the $1k per month is an increase on existing benefit numbers.

It doesn't really matter just changes the amounts a bit. Even if you assume benefits are $100 a month only, you still only gain $900 a month from the UBI(because you lose the $100). Everyone else is gaining $100 more then you.

> Third, since it doesn't come with strings, you don't have to worry about losing your benefits when you get a job or a kid leaves the home, when you relapse or when you get sick and can't manage the tangled web of government red tape.

Yeah fair enough, I'm not against UBI. I'm only against Yang's implementation. I think we should add it on top of existing benefits. I also think it is only a band-aid or should be a small part of the overall solution.
On the question of how to get reliable reporting from Hong Kong, the answer is Twitter! I've been keeping a list of great local reporters tweeting in English from on the scene. Many of them also write for established news outlets, but the tweets are more timely and very often more nuanced: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/lists/hong-kong
Ah, we didn't ignore dependent types, though it's true that we don't have them. However, we are moving in the direction of adding them, so maybe in the future, Rust will be that language for you :)
Deep Learning Books you should read in 2020
Capitalism knows no bounds. I dealt with that after my dad died, and went to the funeral home.

Every fucking thing is an upsell. Every goddamned thing. And the funeral home salespeople use the fact it's a death to capitalize on it any way they can.

sales: 'Do you want flowers for the casket? $1100'
mom: 'No'
sales: 'Don't you think he's worth flowers?'
mom: 'alright...'
sales: 'heres our selection of caskets, many families choose these ($6000)'
mom: 'but he doesnt care, he's dead'
sales: 'dont you love your husband?'
Nobody exists in a vacuum.

You're arguing a strawman. You are introducing absolutes into a conversation which was purposefully framed as fluid. For example, I said most of the positive things. Your post is built upon the premise that I believe all positive things in my life came only from within, however you said the word only, not me.

I am immensely privileged to have had the amount of support I have had.

That's great... almost comes off as bragging, but okay...

check your privilege, appreciate it for what it is, and try not to look down on those that didn't have the same opportunities that you did.

...Seriously? You are literally coming from a place of higher privilege and looking down on me. You are projecting your own fortune onto me and consequently expecting the same attitude. I have not had such fortune as you, in fact most people haven't.

I don't need to check my privilege, I am aware of everything I have and wake up every day thankful I don't live in a place like Saudi Arabia. But we aren't talking about Saudi Arabia. We are talking about America, and our conversation about privilege is relative to America. And relative to America, I have lived in abject poverty for most of my life.
Here is a link to the paper the story was based on: "A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula" https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.06709.pdf
This did not work to me - I just got kicked back to the login screen. It changed my background picture though :)

Also tried running eOS in VirtualBox - after installing and reboot all I get is a black screen. I can get the live version running though, so not great, not terrible!
It's really just a personal intuition. I don't have any good argument or explanation to offer...

For what it's worth, I do feel that panpsychism was my "natural" belief when I was a kid, until the adults told me it was crazy to believe in that. I still don't think it's crazy, and there are some people who I respect a lot who believe in panpsychism.
The findings were reported recently at the Materials Research Society meeting and have not been published yet. Here is the abstract: https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD19/Session/B36.6
You can't just mention him in passing and not say that he was widely known as Mr. Pringles, for his majestic moustache!
Granted, I have not tutored new students. I am making the assumption that someone encountering this would be familiar with basic algebraic manipulations, and the solutions to x^2=a. This is all that is necessary to justify completing the square. The assertion that quadratic equations must have at most two solutions R and S, and that it can be equivalently written (x-R)(x-S) is what has to be taken on faith.
The comments from noel@chromium.org in this bug report are scary.

"We're not doing as the spec tells us to, BUT that probably gives us performance gains, most users don't care about it anyway, I prefer it that way, webdevs should fix it, we should fix the JPEG standard instead (!?)..."

Why so much resistance?
> Honestly, that sounds much more fun than living with a constant obsession over your own mortality.

It sounds fun until it's not. The reality of how fragile we are catches up to everyone, and living life like you're invincible just speeds up that process.
The "dating market" observation is straight out of incel dogma.

I have significant sympathy for him missing out on sight (he's probably american, but if he lived in a country with working healthcare I would say that I'm glad that taxes would go towards whatever treatment might help him).
> Why exactly is inequality a problem? Because people suffer[...]?

Yes. That and the fact that rich people don't gain as much utility from additional wealth, making inequality inefficient.

> Whether it should be possible to be arbitrarily rich is another question.

No, it isn't. Unless you think wealth is somehow intrinsically a problem even if it's equally distributed.
Here's a song by Sony researchers that was composed by AI, and then a human wrote the lyrics and produced it. The intent was to create a Beatles sound, and I think they did quite well. https://youtu.be/LSHZ_b05W7o

Add some Grover-like text for the lyrics (https://grover.allenai.org/), and you're most of the way there. Then use a deepfake singer ( https://youtu.be/k3qJOPrJOQ4 ), and you're most of the way to done.

Depending on the audience, particularly their level of attention or focus on the music, you can probably get away with playing a completely un-human pop song that people will like.

https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/vocal-deepfakes-music-h...

I find the possibilities here very interesting, but I also greatly fear that this will become the norm the same way that nearly every modern song uses autotune.
Apologies if this comes across as pedantic, but I think the mistake you may be making is projecting your narrow personal experience of your mother's problems onto a complete stranger, whose circumstances seem quite different than your mother's based on the article

I'm confused by the tendency of you and other users to call a post which is literally asking for other anecdotes of economic struggle to be projecting and indicative of a narrow mindset. I was simply providing my own data point to start. The very act of asking for other perspectives is not what I would call narrow-minded. This kind of response is why people are afraid to open up to others.

In fact, in this entire reply thread only one user bothered to actually share a story of economic strife, which even acknowledged fault on their part (no one is perfect). Meanwhile, tons of comments criticizing me for my point of view when I am literally asking people to change it. One user even called me sociopathic and then proceeded to offer an even more callous point of view while relating that they do not come from a position of poverty at all.

It's heartening to see that you recognize your perspective may stem from your own problems with empathy.

No, that is not what I said. I do not have problems empathizing with others, and I do not appreciate that extrapolation. This is a very specific situation I have trouble empathizing with. David Foster Wallace was a great author and the world misses him.
Show HN: Viyo – Turn any device with a browser and camera into a security camera
I used to think the same, but now do all web dev in Firefox. For my purposes it has parity with chrome, and works just as well.

Also means if it works in Firefox it will most likely work in chrome. The opposite was not always true.
Hi all!

We are two developers from Toronto that built a product that allows you to turn any device with a browser and a camera into a security camera.

We posted our product on Show HN about a month ago and received a ton of fantastic feedback. We've taken a lot of your feedback and made some significant changes to try and improve Viyo!

Some of the major changes:

- We rebranded from UView to Viyo

- We updated the homepage design

- We overhauled the privacy policy

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- We changed from free trial to freemium (free forever with optional paid premium)

- We added a referral program to add free cameras

We are still in the early stages of launching our product so any and all feedback is always appreciated!
I was wondering if the sticky advertisement on this page was meant to be ironic; navigating to the other pages proves it was. Neat touch. :)
No OS handling sensitive data should ever save on unencrypted volumes, ever. Particularly nowadays - with BitLocker and FileVault it’s trivial to achieve this even on desktops and laptops. When you want to kill the data, you just destroy the/any key and you’re done.

Why rely on hardware encryption, when software encryption is basically free?
I feel like capitalism here was used in place of the current regime
Bitrix24 isn't on the list, even though self hosted editions are available since 2008 - https://www.bitrix24.com/self-hosted/

Am I blind or there is no 'Submit' section on the website?
That's enough to charge my car. I'll buy two!
Have you tried Countly alongside other GA alternatives by the way? Would like to hear your opinions on that as well.
> humans can boot from disk

Now I want to read a sci-fi book with this sentence in it.
More than 140k people died from measles last year
Speaking only for myself, it's at this point simply a matter of trust. I no longer trust Amazon to do right, so I've simply taken my business elsewhere. Maybe one day, far in the future, I'll trust them again.
Yes, and former house speaker Newt Gingrich famously left his dying wife while branding the GOP as the party of family values, for which everyone should in fact blame him. Anecdotes are useless, do you have any data that suggests that women are more likely than men to leave a partner due to illness?
C# is certainly on the maximalist end of the spectrum. It already has classes and structs and now adds records. That's at least one, possibly two, too many in my book.

But hey, some seem to prefer to have all these different ways of doing things and I'm not the one to tell them what to like or not. I don't have to use C# myself.
Relevant GitHub repo: https://github.com/eemeli/chrome-kill-sticky
Adopt These 12 Cybersecurity Tips for Staying Safe in 2020
Good job it wasn't in america, she'd have woken up, seen the bill, and had another heart attack!
Strategies to Effectively Propagate Master Data Merges
ECMO saved my daughter when she was born. She wasn't breathing due to Severe Meconium Aspiration Syndrome. After they worked on her for 4 hours they gave up and medivaced her to a nearby hospital that happened to have 2 experts in ECMO in their pediatric NICU. She was on ECMO for ~10 days (fuzzy memory). The ordeal was heartbreaking, but the result was amazing. That was almost 7 years ago and she's a healthy and happy little girl now. ECMO is amazing.
when your whole existence revolves around just getting to work and back, is it fair of us to require people to have the horizon and insight to understand how to progress their situation?

The implication is that I expect people of reasonable intelligence to do whatever, and I mean whatever, they have to do within ethical boundaries in order to increase their economic opportunities. I don't need a crash course in the history of racial socioeconomic exploitation in the US.

Ask any successful black entrepreneur in the US if they agree with me.
Calculating Pi with Block Collisions
Yeah, they are almost literally vultures. You should probably buy those for yourself while you're alive.
I've been using Apple Maps for years now, but the new maps are practically unusable for one of my favorite use cases: scanning for roads in remote, wooded areas.

I was trying to show someone one of my favorite state highways through the Hoosier National Forest, but the road (remember, a state highway!) literally vanishes into the greenery until you zoom quite far in. Maddening.
Those RFP are coming from either DAX or Fortune 500 companies, none of them eager to rewrite WCF into gRPC, rewrite EF 6 stuff with unavailable features on Core, buy new licenses for 3rd party dependencies or buy replacements with the respective rewrite and so on.
Regulation of tech giants does nothing to mitigate issues relating to data privacy as they fail to take into account major offenders like the chinese government who are far more dangerous in terms of privacy and data breaches.
The levels of complexity involved are hardly comparable...
I feel this is just an unnecessarily complicated newsletter subscription form.

> Great Job! You've finished the audit
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Hm. HTML links work without e-mail, you know… /s

> But first, you need to verify your email. Simply click the link below and you'll be all set.

The link just leads to a web page without any verification: https://www.cowop.org/quiz-work-schedule/noon-racher?utm_sou...

> If you ever change your mind, you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link that's at the bottom of every email I send.

There is no link in this e-mail other than the "noon rancher" one above.
The Throughput Problem: Recharging Electric Cars Requires the Patience of Job
I don't know for you, but all images were 404 in this article for me.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170905210806/https://www.busin...
There are some documentations of incarnation and related phenomenon, ranging from anecdotal to quite convincing. So I'd say that the disk might not be critical; humans maybe can boot from network.
discussion of Uview, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21473220
Schedule is critical for me but I do the oposite of you as much as I can. Try to get showered, ready, and sitting in my chair by 5-6AM. Then I spend about 30 minutes writing in a bullet journal what I plan to do today, reviewing the previous days notes. I always start the page the same way with the date, time I'm sitting down, day of the week, and how I'm feeling. Then I open my IDE and get to it.

I like the morning because no one is around ever. Slack is quiet, my phone likely wont ring. It's the highest probability that I'll get uninterrupted flow state. Then after lunch when people start asking questions I switch to a more social mode and it works. I tend to not be able to recover from moving into a social mode and going back to technical work.