skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you need a URL debugger? What’s to debug about a URL?
The same thing happened to me, I started getting Cosmopolitan and InStyle unsolicited. It happened shortly after my college-aged daughter bought a small Coach bag (using a credit card on my account), so I assumed they determined our household was the right demographic for their advertisers.
I don't think gas is a good option but I consider it a lesser of a few evils until renewables come along with a good solution to generate a base load. I'm not trying to invalidate what the EU is doing, but they are still burning fossil fuels and if I have to choose between a few I choose gas.

I'm in a country with a lot of coal you see. Coal is the default option and I would really like it not to be. Especially given we have a lot of aging powerplants that are going to need replacement shortly...

I know that nuclear is an option, but I am generally unimpressed by the cost*construction_time/power ratio.
Those have pretty clearly stated profit aims. Churches, not so much.
A noticeable number of websites outside the EU did block access to people who appeared to be from the EU when the GDPR was introduced.

As for over-reach, the practical reality is that laws can be enforced extra-territorially if, and only if, the country that wants them has leverage. In some cases, that comes from making deals with other governments, where one or both give weight to the other's claims voluntarily in their own territory.

In other cases, it comes from networking effects. If you are a US-based business running a US-based website with no presence of any kind in the EU, then maybe the EU can't do anything to hurt you. On the other hand, if you have any relationships with other businesses that are within reach of the EU, they might be used as leverage to reach you.

Worst case, you find that anyone connected with your business who travels to the EU or anywhere with a relevant extradition treaty gets arrested. Obviously a reaction that extreme is unlikely, but if perhaps a government thinks you owe them lots of tax money or the personal data you aren't processing according to their wishes relates to some matter of their national security, stranger things have happened.
How do posts reach the top of HN with 6 points and no comments? Confused how the algo works now :)
> does the same power lie with Facebook (or any other platform) to exercise a censorship on its users

This is a weird question. Of course a private business can choose what content they want on their platform. ESPN, for instance, censors tech news. If an ESPN journalist put together a story about Facebook blocking Dreamwidth, they'd censor it.

Having said that, I know there are some on HN that react emotionally anytime someone engages in "censorship". Oh well. No company is obligated to post content just because someone else wants them to.
I'm less familiar with Kilopower but I spent a couple years working on something very similar that ran off of PU-238. Looks like Kilopower is U-235.

Looking into this, it needs a simple control system. The PU-238 bricks just made heat continuously with no control. But, they were also much less power.

If there's a control system you can launch the reactor cold. With the Plutonium bricks you cannot, meaning your cooling system (engine in this case) has to keep running during launch.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200900...

https://rps.nasa.gov/technology/
I am using the pbp with sway (if you don't know it, an i3 like wm for wayland), works well for me. Hoping for gles 3.3 support in mesa (3.0 is experimental but there) to be able to run alacritty :)
The quote doesn't seem to dispute that?
Examples of what what the the aggressively conventional minded insist upon:

- Let's have a (pandemic) lock down. Given reason: let's protect everybody. Real reason: they are idiots who who cannot reason out the nuance of pros vs cons of lock down.

- Make masks mandatory. Given reason: let's protect everybody. Real reason: they are idiots who who cannot reason out the nuance of personal protection vs public harm

- Make rich pay their taxes. Given reason: they are not paying their fair share, Teal reason: they are jealous of the rich)

- Send all kids to school. Given reason: we need to 'educate' everybody, real reason: In their narrow world view they cannot fathom that at least some parents can do a better job of 'educating' their kids than conventional schools.

The concept of freedom that does not harm others is entirely lost among these sociopath individuals.
Codeberg looks like it’s just a hosted instance of Gitea, so it’s the same comparison between sourcehut/Gitea (which is largely the same comparison between sourcehut/GitLab/GitHub, etc)
Aside from the (obvious) energy density downside of hydrogen as a fuel, there is another substantial problem.

Hydrogen is challenging/expensive to store/contain. Kind of the direct result of it being the smallest atom we have. Even more important: when it reacts uncontrolled, in particular with oxygen, it does so at a truly frightening speed. Once it goes, good luck doing anything about it.

The fact that this is almost never mentioned in every yet-another-hydrogen-is-going-to-be-our-future-next-year piece, always makes me wonder if that's the result of not-so-honest entrepreneurs trying to lure investors, or that none of these jokers ever talked to any experienced chemist.

This is no attempt to spread FUD regarding hydrogen. It sincerely worries (if not frightens) me, how so many initiatives appear to completely ignore that any volume of hydrogen that is sufficient to power something that can transport humans or cargo, is pretty much inherently a catastrophic disaster in the making. That is, if such a system would ever fail in a way that makes the stored hydrogen react uncontrolled.

Every widely utilized technology is bound to fails, even if only in edge cases, and of course: extra safety margins/features can be added to limit the effects of failures. But with hydrogen that might be a hell of a lot more expensive and/or difficult than most would realize.

So, the way I see this is that we either end up very cost ineffective solutions, or ones that will be far more dangerous than many would ever realize. That is, until something goes terribly wrong, and everyone realizes they have been ignorant and maybe even intentionally fooled by people trying to make money. Reminds me a bit of self-driving cars.
If the government introduces a national emissions cap ("cap and trade"), then CCS can be used to offset emissions when it is too expensive to reduce them directly. If we had an economy for emissions, then companies could do CCS to get emissions credits for what they capture, and then sell them to companies who still have high emissions.
It doesn’t matter what you eat if you don’t move your body.

People have to realize that the wealth America gained post WW2 was poured into making life comfortable and easy (institutionally and economically).

This had the unintended consequence of making Americans (on average) some of the unhealthiest humans in the world.
CVE-2020-3442 DuoConnect client HTTP redirect
I think a lot of content producers have solved the problem by creating presences on many platforms and asking for donations. Developers are in the position of being able to host their own content (although you lose push notifications if you tick apple off which is something this site probably would do.)
Voting matters. In Arizona, state government prevents local government from more progressive policies.
No he's right, Jet-A has plenty of energy but it's not very volatile so unless you've got a very large hot fire it will not sustain itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nL10C7FSbE

It takes a spray nozzle atomizing it for him to actually meaningfully burn it with a blowtorch.
It loses a lot of metadata in the process.
> Founder-investor fit, which happens when the desires of founders match the products of investors, is one important factor.

This is a bit delusional to be frank, because of the power imbalance. Reality of raising VC money is more like Tinder: most founders frantically swipe right on every investor in the hopes of getting a match, while an investor swipes right on anyone they want and get a decent hit rate. From time to time investors gotta chase after the hottest thing (aka Clubhouse); and then all Phd-level hypotheses, investment focus, and fancy blog/tweet theories get thrown out the window.

If you have 5 investors throwing term sheets at you, then yeah, you might want to look into them a bit more deeply to figure out what they can offer beyond the check. But if not, just keep swiping.
This is the kind of crap that convinced me to switch to Apple handsets back in the day when they were still a pain to use for various reasons (remember upgrading by connecting to iTunes with a cable?). Apple does some shady shady things but not with my privacy.

Incidentally though they do have some settings you might want to check out though. One in particular let Facebook spy on your other apps so fine tune their ads.
If it were to happen, I would expect the requirements to be similar to what's typical for graduate programs that accept people with an unrelated undergraduate degree. Basically, on top of the standard graduate level courses, the individual student takes all the usual undergraduate courses or their equivalent while enrolled as a graduate student.

For random advice from the internet I'd say that getting a bachelor's degree via a conventional route will save you vast amounts of heartache and pain relative to trying to convince a hierarchy of gatekeepers to give you a pass through all the academic and bureaucratic gates you want to skip. There is a 0.0001 probability of passing through ten gates of 50:50 odds and none of the gates you will need to pass through are likely to be 50:50 and the number of gatekeepers is likely to be more than ten.

Or to put it another way, you are describing a goal that is almost entirely out of your control, almost certain to be unachievable, and where persistence is likely to irritate the people who you would need as allies for it to succeed. Though it is logically possible to get a Phd without a bachelors, it is an eminently unreasonable expectation.

The steps to getting a bachelor's degree are enumerable and the there are institutional structures in place to facilitate doing so...and if you start today in a few years you can make one happen. To me, that's a happier plan than one completely outside your control.

In the meantime, you could work your way through Knuth without running out of things to learn from a book. Good luck.
Or use bcrypt with a decent work factor, such as 10+.
LSD has been consumed in hacker circles for decades, especially Silicon valley - 60s and 70s were both time when LSD was widespread and software world started heating up.
And since hackers are intellectually curious, LSD is quite an attractive drug. Pretty simple.
Algae converts sunshine into hydrocarbons. I'm hoping we figure out how to industrialize this process.
Sadly, even at version 7.0, it (Digikam) still doesn't support virtual albums/collections, and it insists on direct album-file_system_directory correlation. Unfortunently, it is useless to me as an image/photo organizer. (I don't really see tags as a substitute).
Time tracking for ADHD: to get actionable feedback, not guilt
The forests really aren’t responsible for most of the CO2 removal. It’s mostly done by microorganisms that live in water.
The goal is to confuse us, so we can't fool the algo :)

In this case I assume the domain holds some weight?
You sound like a solid CTO for a scale up - you’ve seen it all, writing good python is a lot less important in the long run
Crude oil is 40 dollars a barrel. Gasoline is about 80-90 dollars a barrel (= 42 gallons).
In 2020, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Cloudflare are bigger gatekeepers of free speech than any government.
Can't find the exact guideline - but mods give 'second chance' to some interesting topics on case-by-case basis.
> Yes, the lockdowns and measures hurt both privacy and economics, but not dealing with it hurts people more, both privileged and non-privileged, there are no winners.

For western countries, we agree, economists are pretty much in agreement that the lockdown measures have been good (although the long term outlook isn't looking good).

For poorer countries, like India, that's simply not true.

When you've got a country of young people that are literally dying of hunger if they can't go to work, a 1% fatality rate starts to sound pretty good ;-)

And this is even true for the poor in the US as well. People are freaking out because they lack a social safety net and even the less fortunate in the middle class have burned through their savings. Good luck explaining to them that it's for their own good, because it isn't. It's for your own good, not theirs. It's privilege because you and I can afford to stay at home. People also judge such measures via what they can and can't afford. It's not bad to be privileged, but we need to recognize the position we are in.

And if you want to force people to stay at home, fine, but be prepared to pay the bill for it ;-)
Renewables are crony capitalism. Without consistent government subsidies, incentives, grants, etc...they are not profitable.
I don’t think there is a single viable climate model that doesn’t rely on massive carbon capture. Carbon capture is one of many things we will have to do to avoid mass extinction.
Considering how one or two seeds can be enough if the purpose is simply to acquire the species it seems like an impossible task to prevent that.

It's far more difficult than drug smuggling which only works in some reasonable quantity - and becomes more like information smuggling in biological form where you only need one copy.
not the original publication and duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23940320

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As one of the authors, I can tell you that Pijul development has never been as alive as today. It isn't public yet for a variety of reasons, but will be very soon.
I don’t live in, or generally care about the deep south where the Southern Baptist and Evangelical churches apparently share control of the state, so in a sense yes.

I thought you were talking about the USA as a whole, my mistake.
This is the same in Poland.

The recent elections confirmed the conservative direction of the country, fueled along others by the catholic church.

The good thing is that religion is not compulsory anymore. There used to be a time where not bring part of the church meant beung a real outcast.

This included the communist rulers who were quick to chistianise their children because otherwise they wild have hell in the family.

That was acually not bad as the church balanced the state.

Now they are omnipotent, and this is also the reason more people can be outside of church - because church is not unanimously seen as a savior anymore. Quite the opposite in the ranks of 30-50 yo people.
Sort of an odd use of the “oid” suffix which means “like” or “resembling”. “Like a fact, but not”.
I think a lot of people really like the pull request UI.
Clicking one of the random buttons, it looked like Tumblr to me except it supports freedom of expression. I guess now we know why Tumblr's new parent corp chose to censor nsfw content...

(Unrelated: whenever I read something about Tumblr, like its Wikipedia page just now, I'm always surprised to find it in the present tense, not "Tumblr was" but "Tumblr is". To me, it's just dead with the censorship, I never see it being linked to anymore, and I wasn't even regularly on the nsfw part. Every time I'm reminded it wasn't actually shut down.)
While accessing any user personal details you need to have user consent to process their personal data.

Consent is only one of the lawful bases for processing data under the GDPR. In practice, it's the one almost everyone tries not to rely on unless they can't avoid it, because it comes with extra obligations that other bases might not.
Damage from climate change won't exactly be free either. We're already starting to pay those costs.
What truly flabbergasts me is that businesses today still feel that Google's platforms and services can help their business.

The reality is, if you are a business, Google is your competitor. Which means Google getting a hold of any information about your business should be part of your threat model.

You may not be in Google's sights today, but you very well could be tomorrow. And they will use your usage of their platforms to screw you.
Beatport Techno: Electro Sound Pack #136 (2020)
There are a couple more poems I know and love on a similar theme, but they're probably not of interest to this audience as they're in Sanskrit :-) (“सा रम्या नगरी…” by Bhartṛhari, “ मान्धाता स महीपतिः…” by Bhoja, and “…शान्त्यै मनो दीयताम्” by Kṣemendra)

Not another poem on that theme, but something cool I remembered related to Ozymandias: Gilbert Adair, somewhere in his amazing translation (A Void) of Georges Perec's work La Disparition — written entirely without a single instance of the letter 'e' — has this rewrite of Ozymandias that maintains the lipogram constraint (and rhyme):

Ozymandias

I know a pilgrim from a distant land

Who said: Two vast and sawn-off limbs of quartz

Stand on an arid plain. Not far, in sand

Half sunk, I found a facial stump, drawn warts

And all; its curling lips of cold command

Show that its sculptor passions could portray

Which still outlast, stamp’d on unliving things,

A mocking hand that no constraint would sway:

And on its plinth this lordly boast is shown:

“Lo, I am Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, O Mighty, and bow down!”

‘Tis all that is intact. Around that crust

Of a colossal ruin, now windblown,

A sandstorm swirls and grinds it into dust.

— PBS

He does similar things in some places in the book with other works, such as Poe's The Raven: http://whatwouldpuskasdo.blogspot.com/2004/07/dropping-e.htm...

And on the original theme, see also https://abstrusegoose.com/89
HN has been a really bad experience on mobile for me. It's really difficult to tap links accurately. In particular collapsing and expanding comment threads is super annoying. I've been using Hews from the Play store instead.
Newbie investors: 'I didn't know I'd lose money so fast'
These templates (especially dynamic realtime) give me a 1990s Geocities vibe. Cool
For the moon, I'd plan on batteries being used to meet demand peaks (like we are starting to do here).
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23953421

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932585
> It's perfectly possible to write a good Reddit web client; they chose not to

Good for whom? "Good for the user" does not mean "good for Reddit".
Is this a serious article? I know Intelligent people who have studied Mandarin for 10 years actively making an effort and are still unable to read a newspaper. So it’s extremely unlikely that mandarin will become a dominant text based language, possibly might become more popular for verbal communication in Africa and places like that.
The article doesn't mention SECCOMP_RET_TRAP which was an existing way to inspect syscall pointer arguments during interception (when combined with a SIGSYS signal handler).

I'm curious how the two approaches compare - does USER_NOTIF give a greater range of possibilities, or is it mostly just a different interface?

In a small application that forks once and uses seccomp on the child process, would there be much benefit in moving from RET_TRAP to USER_NOTIF?
Lightning strikes more than 100M times per year in the tropics
Although it's great news this is being worked on, that thread strongly suggests that this is still very much in WIP status? The only thing they state is that Firefox supports VAAPI in general since 75/76 (which is what I said), not that the RK3399 can actually use that functionality.

> 06-07 libva and libva-v4l2-request are basically broken except fro mpeg2.
any government?

Tell that to people who live in China, N. Korea, or any country controlled by a theocracy.

Even in the US some states ban doctors from talking about abortion and/or force doctors to give women seeking an abortion false information.
Fossil fues are subsidized because the users don't pay the true cost.
You might be right, and if we enact a carbon price that gives credit for CCS, the market will do a good job at figuring out what's most efficient for any given situation.
> 30.6 TB?!?! how is that even possible???

Someone downloading your files from S3, that's how it's possible
Firefox is definitely slow on some of these smaller machines. Although a delay between app switches sounds like some virtual memory got paged out (either swap or executable pages got evicted to make room for FS cache.)

EDIT: apparently they’re shipping with plasma as the DE? Yeah that’s going to be slow.
Yes, I would indeed say that 40M is not his estimate. It was him ridiculing other people's numbers as unrealistic. (Note also the sleight of hand of switching from US numbers to global ones). While for the 10k number he had used the previous sections to estimate a range, and then chose the middle of that range. Again, it was not phrased in any way as a lower bound, he got to make all the assumptions, and he must have known that this is the number that would get reported in the media.

When Ioannidis published that 10k number, the US death toll was at 120 people. Three weeks later, it was at 20k people. Even at that point Ioannidis was still predicting (and this time there can be no ambiguity about it being a prediction):

> If I were to make an informed estimate based on the limited testing data we have, I would say that covid-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA.

It was an absolutely nonsensical number, there was no possible justification for it. Given the time delays involved, you would have gotten to over 40k deaths even if all further Covid transmission were to stop on dime the moment he made the prediction. This number was exceeded 10 days later.

If his "informed estimate" in this situation was 40k, it's quite implausible that the 10k number in much better conditions was just intended as some kind of illustration of what the low end of the range was. Certainly calling him out on the 10k estimate does not make the posted article a hitpiece, like you claimed.

> Or do the current numbers fall somewhere within his range?

So even if we're charitable and assume he consistently meant IFR when writing CFR, the low end of his range was already known to be impossible at the time of writing. The reality will probably intersect with his range, but that's just because it's so absurdly wide and if we're only concerned with the IFR. But the problem is that what uncertanties remained at the time had an inverse correlation between R0 and IFR. Ioannidis was assuming both to be low.

If this article had been all there was to it, one could maybe give Ioannidis the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he really was trying to highlight the amount of uncertainty, and was too naive to realize how the general public would understand the 10k number that he just put in as a meaningless bon mot. But this article wasn't the end of it. He's continued to consistently cherry-pick and misrepresent the data, always in the direction that tries to make Covid appear less serious.
CloudFlare's TOS is clear on using the service to serve up 13.7GB files.

https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content

[...] Use of the Service for serving video (unless purchased separately as a Paid Service) or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other non-HTML content, is prohibited.

So 500MB limit or not, the author is already violating CloudFlare's terms of service.
Or plonk three clusters of solar cells at 120 degree gaps and lay cable to connect them? No storms or weather to worry about damaging the cable and you'll always have power.
Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Well why is a countries system so broken that you need these churches to do charities.