skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sway 1.4 (wayland window manager), just released, has this in the changelog: Support for VNC via wayvnc.

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases

Wayland/wl-roots compatible screen-recorder: https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder
The fact that you're casually dropping Three Mile Island and Fukushima in the same list with Chernobyl has a lot to do with Jane Fonda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome
Coda raises $4m seed funding to grow mobile game publishing platform
IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API: Ipdata
I don't think the browser fingerprint and native app fingerprint are the same, what you say sounds unlikely to me.
> I'm also terrified at the thought that someone got shot at a place where I've walked countless times at night after school.

Why would you be terrified by this? There were 36 homicides last year in Portland and 49 traffic deaths, yet almost nobody says they're terrified of cars. And even of these 36 homicides, most were perpetrated by someone the person knew. Studies put it at around 90% where the person killed knew the attacker rather than just someone unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

So you're 13 times more likely to die from a car than from a homicide in Portland if you're not involved with dangerous people.

And yes, you're right: life is ridiculously safe there.
Unless you are carrying your cell phone at the time—not sure anyone is doing this yet, but I have heard of at least one chain that tracks customers' cell phone locations via triangulation.
What are a few examples of when we've caught, instead of merely suspected, a lying ancient historian?
Suppose you have the source code for gmail: how do you know that what you're interacting with when you're on gmail.com is compiled from that?
It is even older than C++, CLU, ML had it first during the mid-70s, Ada and Modula-3 got it first in the early 80's, and C++ STL work actually was initially done in Ada.
Best Open Source Games in 2020
VMware today laid off staff across the globe in various roles and departments
The US has the world's highest incarceration rate per capita.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
How to Find Your Calling
you mean the front page? same thing for reddit (when i used to go on there...)
Blaming Jane Fonda's anti-nuke movement for retarding the foundational nuclear industry is like blaming her and her first husband's movie Barberella for retarding feminism, instead of the patriarchy who fought tooth and nail against the ERA.

https://purpleclover.littlethings.com/entertainment/7556-reg...

Now how exactly did you mean she was responsible for Three Mile Island and Chernobyl and Fukushima?
I found this article illuminating on that topic:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
Some chat apps (like Viber and others) have Facebook SDK integrated in them, without any direct Facebook functionality people would use. Discovered after using NetgGuard, and seeing who is calling home, and not only home. (Why viber is making requests to graph.facebook.com anyway?)

Duolingo is a nice app for learning new languages, yet it might be using the same sdk, since it likes to call facebook.com domain.

Netflix is a good streaming service, but it has some option somewhere, which allows them to share data with others, and enabled by default. And yes, it's present in fb activity.

The list can go on...

There are developers who integrate dozens of SDKs, without any specific purpose for users, and not knowing what is happening. We need something like PrivacyBadger/ublockorigin for phones/laptops/routers/homes/cars. It's getting more than creepy.

And why would Facebook allow third-parties/businesses upload into FB info they have on their customers...

PS: analysis of how a simple menstrual tracking app is leaking data about the owner https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10693-no_body_s_business_but_min...
Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote?
Warren Buffett throws in the towel on newspaper empire
The State of SaaS Product Onboarding in 2020
I spoke with a blind woman this week who loves talking with her smart speaker, Alexa. "She's quite a character." I imagine that some lonely people might get comfort talking to their house plants, so a smart speaker that can actually talk back, however limited, would be a great improvement. So a chatbot can be useful even if zany at times. The big issue is how user expectations are set up. I'll put up with a digital assistant trying its best to help process my query with much more tolerance than a chatbot trying to pretend it is a human. Researchers are trying to narrow the gap between these two. But for now I will enjoy the former and be annoyed by the later.
> We haven't made much progress stemming growth.

The simplest and most effective way to limit population growth is 1) women's education, and 2) increase standard of living. With some or even one of those things, population rate naturally falls (even to below replacement rate, which is not good as Japan and increasingly Europe are learning).

Already, even China's birth rate has fallen to levels that will soon be of concern to the country (obviously, a small working population can't support a massive elderly population). And once India's birth rate makes the same transition, the global birth rate will start to level out. Already, projects are that it will level out around 2100.

Population growth is not the problem. Consumption levels and lack of environmentally-friendly sources of energy are the problem. We can solve one of those now, with nuclear power.
I started off seven years ago wondering why backlogs were so bad. It seemed like both small teams and large organizations always suck at them. I had read tons of how-to books and watched lots of videos. Many of the instructions conflicted with one another, however. What I wanted to know was why, not how-to. If I understood the why I wouldn't need the how-to.

Being a good hacker, I pulled at that thread until I had another, and another. Now I'm writing about semiotics, language, lambda calculus, and philosophy of science stuff. It's all related to my original quest for a better explanation, and it affects everything from AI to coding practices. I'm about done now. Now the trick will be getting it all in a format that's consumable by the average programmer.
Backward compatibility (although there's a spectrum here -- not every breaking change breaks a lot of codebases) is virtually always more important than any feature you can think of. Breaking it might cost a lot of work, and you have to be fairly certain that the cost is more than offset by the benefits from the change, and over a relatively short time period. Given that the cost of breaking changes is easy to perceive, and it's been years if not decades since we've seen programming language features with substantial, tangible benefits, breaking compatibility is almost always the wrong decision.
It was often not Chinese whispers though -- that's dismissive. Our being "modern" there's a tendency to think because they didn't have ink cartridges and internets they were stupid and all knowledge ephemeral. How about an alternative that fits with aboriginal, and African oral culture:

Imagine explaining a complex process, using language carefully structured to be memorable, to the next generation. Then spending hours repeating, testing and checking their recollection over the coming days and years to ensure their memory is as yours. Rather like rote learning of tables and other "modern" learning. 2x2=4 doesn't become something else that way.

Each generation gets a complex story they may not see the applicability of, but if it's evolved to be important in the culture to remember, maybe they figured ways to remember until it is useful again. Africans did, pre-Medieval Europeans did, and for the longest period known, aborigines did. Why not these?
The Hottest Known Planet Continuously Melts Its Own Atmosphere
A better clue than that is that they had guts as small as a modern human's which tends to indicate they evolved for a diet of mostly cooked food.
We're talking specifically about people with deficiencies. Yes, vitamins are very helpful for people with deficiencies.
Remember all of those times Facebook was telling us it doesn't "sell" our data to other companies?

Technically true, it was merely "bartering" our data (exchanging its users' data to data from other data brokers, large companies like Macy's, and many of the phone manufacturers that pre-install the Facebook app).

In other words, a distinction without a difference.
At the same time, nuclear, coal and gas are exactly the power sources that you do not want located close to usage centers, due to their environmental problems. If grid strain is a concern, local storage is likely the best solution, which could be charged slowly from large remote sites. A small windmill or solar farm could also be present nearby.

Plus, with solar panels on the roof and batteries like the PowerWall, it's possible for many homes to be self-sufficient from the solar panels, as well as run off their storage (even if charged by the grid instead of solar) to offload the grid, either due to supply issues or just to level out peak demand.
1) Increased investment in nuclear energetics should bring the cost down

2) 2x cost for these attributes does not seem particularly bad to me.

3) I am not aware of any production ready options that have been deployed at scale somewhere. I know there are a lot of ideas however. If you have time can you please point me to the most promising ones? I am genuinely interested.
Well, it is a matter of who is willing to submit a paper and champion the idea.

I think the problem is that those features are an uphill battle with the crowd that wants performance above anything else, given the implicit allocations that they might need.
Too bad the try proposal didn't make it. It was a good improvement on the great but too verbose error management system.
I think taking this sort of context snapshot may be very difficult. If you assume no direct application integration. It would almost be like you would need a mechanism to operate in a partition of RAM where it could not interact with the current running context but stream all of the RAM in use to disk.

Also it'd would be a data integrity nightmare because if one context shared the apps from another. How would you manage memory corruption, and allocation and saving in this sort of scenario.

Anyway, sounds awesome.

Good luck
I heard people get stable btrfs when certain features are turned off, so it may be helpful to say what you have turned on or off with its features when saying how it has been stable or not.
to be honest, just an off-brand youtube mobile app would do it, so I have control rather that goog.
Could you list some of them?
I agree with everything you said until the last sentence. I think the issue is it's a lot to ask of someone to change their lifestyle, especially within areas that have a lot of contradictory (mis)information.

The easy choice is for someone to side with their confirmation bias ("what I'm doing is already ok"). As soon as they sniff out some misinformation in the counterargument, I think the arguing party loses credibility and any hope of convincing them otherwise. ("If you're willing to fudge the facts on that, what else are you misrepresenting?") It's not a matter of being pedantic, it's a matter of trust.

You see this with all kinds of controversial topics. Agriculture, nutrition, climate science etc. People will latch on to any misrepresented information as use it to discredit an otherwise well-reasoned argument. I just think it's best to clean up the point to avoid that risk.
I’m working on making email SaaS providers behave reliably as a side project. I’ve written a piece of software which is self-hosted that does failover, retries, queuing, logging, and monitoring for sending mail via SMTP so that people don’t have to spend time implementing all of that plumbing themselves.
if you're using android you can get add-ons for firefox. Also, you can use a firewall app like Netguard [1] to prevent apps from calling FB (graph.facebook.com)... I see most apps attempting to do this, and it's often the first thing they do.

There's similar setups on iOS, I am just not very familiar with the app names.

[1] https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
Given the quality of the search results I've seen recently, I feel like Google has made the ranking almost random... it's only within the past few years that I've had a lot more of "I'm pretty sure there's more information on this out there, but Google isn't showing it ot me" experiences.
I suppose that would explain it. I can't see what Deliveroo get out of it though, and how they might expect Facebook to have a better handle on what sort of food I would order and how often as opposed to Deliveroo themselves, who know. I wonder if they have plans for service expansion into "Deliveroo but for X" and want to see what their customers are into. Or perhaps they want to see if I am two-timing them with Just Eat!

Funny, I now remember reading a post from someone claiming that if they ordered an online grocery shop off a company that was not their usual, like magic a voucher would appear from their original company. I assumed this was coincidence, but this is the exact mechanism that such a thing could happen.

Of course this could also just be a manifestation of the trend of companies desiring data for data's sake, and a load of deliveroo managers are sitting in a meeting somewhere looking at a graph showing an intersection of people who are into retro computing and also like burritos and trying to brainstorm some strategy off such trivia.
> relevant

Problem is, opensourcing Windows 7 under a permissive license might make ReactOS itself irrelevant.
You answered it yourself, it’s not about day night cycle only but also about the weather. But I agree that in this particular area we can probably achieve solid innovation.
I was a stay at home dad, so I understand the dangers of continuous stream of snot. Still seems very high. I can't find if they say what time of year the study was carried out.
Well, hydro is still a big source of energy... A diversified renewable energy mix, including offshore wind is much less intermittent than what u imagine

Massive investment in both energy efficiency and demand-response would reduce the need of electricity (even with electric car), and would make the energy consumption more controlable...

And mechanical, thermal and electricity storage could be the final peace allowing a mostly renewable grid... Nuclear could definitely help, but not required
You can easily find people that did the math for those cases.

Basically we still need to do x10 or more in electricity storage (hard to do when you already built all the reversible damns you can build in your country) in most places by still having the risk of a several day grid cut if we don't have wind and enough sun for a while.

In France for example, we don't have space to build reversible damns anymore. Which represent a huge majority of the electricity stored (batteries are only 2%). We can basically store 14h of the country consuption. Handling those "no wind, no sun" cases would need up to weeks of storage.

Moving to renewable energy is basically stressing the grid. The Germans can use the other countries to limit the impacts but it doesn't work when everyone is doing it.

Except if our society is ok to have multiple times per year global power cuts of several days.

I'd also like to stress that CO2 emission are also massively coming from transports and buildings. Focusing massively on electricity generation decarbonation only is I think a nonsense.
Well, here he is claiming they didn't sign that document at all: the signature was copied from elsewhere.
Where are you based? Here in dublin (ireland) there is a housing/homeless crisis that needs some resolution, that the feckless gov is unlikely to provide..
Title is a bit 2 clickbait 4 me.

[edit] Oh, they declickbaited it on HN, removing the digits. That's nice.
Hey! Looks cool, I tried compiling it on Windows (at work ATM, hehe) but so far it does not seem to find any files. If I start it in a folder, the search always says 0 in 0 files.

Is windows a supported platform?
Problems of Python 2 to 3 migration were mostly not about clever tricks. They were largely about making Unicode strings and byte strings incompatible (as they should have been from get go). Much of Python 2 code mixed them up, and that was a source of actual bugs. Hence the need to fix manually.
I'm working on improving the understanding of systems through research, writing and presenting. I write this regular set of articles about unintended consequences coming from tech, politics, and business: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/
We plan to do the traditional 2 small deposit verification. After discussing we decided not to force our customers to give up their bank logins to Plaid just for a quicker verification.
it seems there are confusing / multiple sources of income, patreon is only one.

I don't know if it's fair to say he's not making what he asks for.. or basing a 1/10th claim without knowing how much he gets from other sources. (Bronze/gold partnerships GitHub donations, stripe, crypto donations, and some others).
In my case a comment box doesn't appear at all. I also don't have Firefox containers enabled. uBlock is blocking google-analytics.com and facebook.net domains only on that page, while Firefox's own tracker blocking is not accepting 3rd-party cookies from disqus, fb and google.

https://imgur.com/a/gehE6nF

Although these days I'm aware that most large tracking companies are probably going beyond just 3rd party cookies and building shadow profiles based on device fingerprinting which as it stands is effectively impossible to avoid without crippling modern browsers.
Standard Math Libraries are not IEEE754 floating-point compliant
Chernobyl and Fukushima came long after her no-nukes romp.

TMI was a minor event that was fearmongered way out of proportion by the movement.
At best, Google is correlating concrete things to quality. There are plenty of SEO contests where you can see they can still be fooled. Including a pretty famous one where a site that's 100% Latin ranks for a competitive local search query.
Anything is viable if you want to pay Australia's electricity prices.

Australia (Hornsdale) enjoys some of the highest electricity costs in the world despite being a major coal producer and using coal for 75% of their electricity.
Validate CSP from Command Line
Drawing empathy from the victim is a common technique in interrogations such as this. The victim is wholly unaware it's happening. This is clearly the case here, the author makes no mention of being self-aware of these techniques.
Wind + Solar + hydro + demand response + some thermal and electric storage has a reliable, predictable output and works after dusk

And for new capacities, that is cheaper than coal or nuclear
I'm no finance expert but doesn't this all seem way too good to be true? At first I was reading this and thinking "how is this not exactly like Bernie Madoff?"

Then they say "The Medallion fund has been closed to external capital since 1993 ... whatever profit they make, they pay out". So clearly it can't be a ponzie scheme?

Still, it seems too good to be true. If financial experts are stumped as well then that also seems like a red flag.
Interesting. Haven't heard of them but I'll check them out. Thanks!
If you go to wireguards donation page, you can make a one-time donation too.
I am not sure about transferwise but n26 seems to send data, based on some obscure privacy policy here https://support.n26.com/en-de/get-more-out-of-n26/other/cust...
It's linked in the tweet:

https://twitter.com/StateFarm

https://www.statefarm.com/
Solar power towers can be built with molten salt heat stores, which continue to power the turbines during the night, so they do work after dusk now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
A more recent reference and thorough analysis on moving to 100% wind, water and solar (WWS) can be found in the soon to be published, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. A draft is available online

https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSBook/WWSBook...

While I am still bullish on nuclear, particularly for space operations, the time delta argument is most compelling against nuclear plants. It can take 20 years for a new plant to become operational. Even after 70+ years of controlled nuclear fission. This is the cost then of not allocating research dollars to civilian long term projects.

And even with a transition to 100% WWS, carbon capture tech will still require some sort of Manhattan Project level of urgency. This may be a great candidate for AI-mediated materials discovery. To search for the "tungsten filament" which will power next-gen "artificial tress" ;)

https://asunow.asu.edu/20190429-solutions-lackner-carbon-cap...
Not sure where I claimed there was no difference.

Yes and by far the biggest difference is with countries that use nuclear like France, Switzerland, Sweden.

Many of those gains, can absolutely not be achieved by US population 'purely improving their lives, before difficult decisions'. That is simply not the case.

It would require a total change in energy and transportation policy. Massively increasing the price of gas and flying. Changes in the way they live. And so on.

A comparative person living in New York City, Berlin, London is already not that different.
Investing is like tech, its winner take all. This is like being surprised that Google dominates search
Allegedly, I ditched my Facebook account years ago. Not just deactivated but delete, though I don’t really believe it. Is there anyway to see what’s in this (or to see if my account really is gone) without accidentally re-upping?
Jail Officials Profit from Selling E-Cigarettes to Inmates
Trump is more than a few towns over from the carcinogenic wind farm he protested and tried to block in Scotland.

https://qz.com/1291269/the-scottish-wind-farm-donald-trump-t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0s5Zqmb09g

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-story-of-...

>The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills
That only works for English speaking viewers.

I couldn't care less who voiced the Spanish version of the genie, and animated movies are huge internationally.
Ask HN: Professional Resume Critique?

If this was a proper question you may have gotten more response. It's not at all clear from that what you are actually asking, which, now I'm here, are some very good questions. I assumed you just wanted people to read your résumé. No idea why I clicked on it. :-)
Question: do you know anyone who has served in prison? What do you propose to do with those inmates with life sentences who are raping and murdering in open population? And thank god protective custody (in same place/conditions as solitary) is available, for the sake of the people at risk of rape and murder in open population.

I don't doubt that living in a small area has measurable effect on the mental and cardiovascular health of many inmates. But what is the alternative? Let those inmates live in open population? Try for a moment to imagine being a physically weak inmate in a prison where some psychopath has decided you're a snitch. Can you imagine the fear that induces? And then when the violence happens, the weak inmate will be lucky to come out alive.

Seriously, that's a real question. What's the alternative for murderous, raping inmates who pose an active thread to inmates and wardens? Maximum security prisons have many of them. Where do they go with no solitary?
This essentially comes down to quantity vs quality. Keyword research, link building etc. helps you optimize for your time. You can achieve the same traffic from fewer posts. Otherwise you have to keep churning out posts and make up for it in terms of long tail traffic.
I've heard that diffusion can disrupt work of diodes and transistors by corrupting p-n junctions. Don't know what time is required for diffusion to destroy p-n junction and couldn't find an answer via Google.