skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about one-off preparedness grants, which are probably unlikely to have any impact on "highly ambitious" terrorism. But you're right, we'll never know.

As a child, I was very aware of the psychological effect of terrorism - the IRA set off a bomb very close to my home and it was covered extensively in all the media of the time: TV, radio, newspapers.

However, I would argue that putting security theatre into public life has an equally profound psychological effect - it confirms that you are constantly at risk. As a child, seeing more police officers with submachines guns (very unusual at the time) and the removal of rubbish bins and the closing of some roads to cars around where I lived only increased anxiety. As an adult, I'm aware that this too has a chilling effect, but with little benefit gained.

I'll have to politely disagree on natural disasters not being an equivalent existential threat in a world where climate change is increasing their frequency and potency.
I hacked an old Kindle DX to run a screensaver, swaps out a full screen PNG about once every 30 seconds, been going for several years without a hitch.
You will be surprised to find most of what you describe is already in place in many forms.

Reach out to your local political party (hierarchical network designed to raise funds), the one most aligned to your values as that’s were you’ll meet a bunch of people, most over 50s that have been working to solve the exact problems you listed and they will be members of many other local groups with no party links.

They will have working groups and forums that meet regularly with people that have been campaigning and working for the last 20 to 70 years with your local community, on the ground, trying to solve racism, sexism, sustainability, education, local economy, corruption, inequality, poverty, hunger, climate change, civil rights...you name it.

The best part is that you can avoid 100% the politics if you so wish as they are most likely desperate for (younger) people that will actually get any work done, you’ll be so busy solving real world issues or implementing the structural changes you talk about that you won’t have time for politics.

Speaking from experience.
Allowing the API to exist but not allowing people to use it does not close that attack surface.
There are many marijuana shops in the United States, and many millions of customers of those shops who disagree with you.

Also, Prohibition.

The law is not some inviolate thing in a society. Many millions will happily ignore unjust laws if they feel they shouldn’t be laws. More alcohol was consumed during Prohibition in the US than before it was banned.
>But, what energy source will we use when the sun is not up and there's no wind?

A combination of storage, demand shifting and gas.

In a well managed system the gas could be used spasparingl
Anti-Pattern
The XML might be awful for viewing but I do wonder if it would diff better for storage? Git is awfully inefficient for storing binary data.
A professor on YouTube solved over 300 computer science exam questions
Yeah, I’ve been on DDG for a couple years now. It has not grown on me.
IMHO this doesn't belong on HN.
> If a truck has two drivers on board, can one sleep while the other drives?

There is a difference between "can" and "does it help re: times" - and the answer at least for Europe is no (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenk-_und_Ruhezeiten). The "down time" has to be in a stationary vehicle or outside of the vehicle (e.g. hotel) in order to count.
This is what all these smart fridges and smart everything in our houses should be doing. I don't need a fridge that can tell me that the milk is almost out, but it could be super cool with a dishwasher that can be set to run when the price for electricity is low.

Besides that, if ever electricity cost goes negative I think some electricity companies should invest in storing solutions. I know there are a few out there but most I've seen need more research and large investment. Maybe some can be distributed with making it easier for common folk to store and sell back.
I would add that technical debt by itself is not a bad thing. Just as real life debt is not a bad thing. It fact, it can be essential if you want to do anything at all.

It is all about proper balance. Too little debt is inefficient, too much and you are getting overwhelmed.

The metaphor for piling crap on crap would be a Ponzi scheme. You pay your debts by making bigger debts. It works as long as you find suckers, it will break down eventually.
Ever watched some film about ancient Rome from around middle of 20th century? I am of course aware that the Romans didn't use shampoos and hairspray 2000 years ago, but that's the level of "incorrectness" that I'm used to accept in order to watch any such movie. Still, imagine that the protagonists in the same movie have Seiko watches -- that would be to me much more distracting.

I'm of course aware that in both cases for somebody from that time much more would seem "wrong."
Show HN: Build Your Own Flight Tracking with Python and Open Air Traffic Data
He is. Gates has invested in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Bill-G...

Geoff Bezos has as well. As do Y Combinator.

There has been quite a growth in private Fusion funding in the past few years:

https://www.cleantech.com/fusion-energy-innovation-accelerat...
I nearly broke webflow itself building this. So I wouldn't be surprised if you encounter a bit of lag ;)
It's a prototype designed to push Webflow to the edge.

Everything will eventually end up in a browser :)
That is why it is safe to chew on pencils but not putting them too deeply into your nose.

Could be though, finding materials that are believed to be harmless and turn out deadly a lot later seems to occur quite regularly.
Facing Self Control problems? This can help
It's very clear you have not read the book. I highly recommend it. It is largely about the problems of parking policy and I do not recall much if any content about cycling.
Yes, this is quite well known. See (e.g.) the third paragraph on Terrence Tao's blog here

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-collatz-conjec...

For what its worth Tao is possibly the only person in the world I wouldn't be shocked to hear of making progress on the Collatz conjecture. He actually proved a pretty nice result on it recently

https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.03562

but the technology employed doesn't seem strong enough to go beyond "almost all" statements.
That is the function of puritanism. Consider it as a product:

Want to look or feel virtuous even though you are a horrible selfish person? Are you not openly having sex with more than one person? With prudity you are qualified! It works by reducing virtue into who you have sex with there by freeing you to commit crimes while considering yourself righteous and decent! Order today!
The devil always lurks in the details.

1. Choosing 5015 spec: as if this deprecated standard's threaded mating interface isn't super annoying to handle, you'll likely only encounter select insertion patterns of this circular interconnect spec on well-designed modern systems for high power interfacing, whereas this toy uses it for...low voltage GPIO.

2. Choosing AlCd olive drab finish: likely for no other reason than it looks "mil spec". Cd is a heavy metal useful as a sacrificial corrosion inhibitor that allows the interconnect to satisfy a 500 hr salt spray performance requirement...but Cd is toxic and can be absorbed through the skin via contact. You won't be seeing much of this once preferred finish on new designs these days.

3. Choosing front side receptacle mount: makes disassembly and servicing more difficult than it needs to be, especially given solder cup termination...made even more difficult to access by a seemingly nonfunctional spacer plate.

4. Interconnect spacing: clearly unfamiliar with 1472 human engineering requirements...I'm liable to suspect the designer has never actually attempted to mate both plugs simultaneously...may be in for a surprise, and if they happen to clear, it'd be by a gnat's ass and a significant encumberance to do so.
Local administrators can still configure their own machines to speak any sort of DNS they like to their own servers. Indeed, the default AD setup used by many such admins does precisely this.

DoH is a great tool for end users to be able to disregard their pipes and preserve their own individual privacy. An ISP network admin is not the administrator of the private customer machines that are connected downstream.
That's exactly what I mean. Pre-modern etymology was different than it is now. For example, the ancient greeks weren't interested in tracing a word back to some geographic-historical commodity. They were interested in tracing a word back to the source of its own meaning (which they often traced back to the gods), whereas for you, the meaning of a word is just the geographic-historical roots of its signified or whatever.
To add to the software list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Bak_(computer_programmer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
Ages ago I wrote a little Word VBA that exported a plaintext copy to go along with the .doc every time I hit save. Worked quite well for eyeballing the changes in a diff. Obviously you don't get merge support for .doc but since that was still running on SVN where workflows tend to be less merge-heavy (or was it still CVS? I feel old..) and I was working solo anyways the human-readable diff worked well enough.
Last I checked FF was not even supported :)
I don't know about you but the number of times I had to drive my car until the tank is empty on a whim is pretty close to zero and even if I was stuck with an EV and I had to suddenly drive 300km I could always just go to a fast charging station to charge the car quickly.
> Congress will do nothing about this, and the EU and other governments are busy legislating other problems.

The EU already has legislation, and will absolutely be passing further legislation on it in the next year to eighteen months.
Parsing: A Timeline (2014)
Maybe we're thinking of cyber security as different things, I'm mostly thinking about application security and enterprise security? What are you talking about?
On windows any program can read the contents of any window on the current desktop (with some exceptions, like UAC prompts and other windows that dim your entire screen). This has legimate use cases for screen readers or dictation, but of course it can also be abused. Same for X11. On more modern operating systems like Android the user needs to take very explicit action to allow an app to do that.
Monarch: Google’s Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database [pdf]
> Every petrol station has an electric connection.

It's not as simple as using what's there. For fast chargers you also need to install a high power grid connection.

However, battery based chargers are an interesting option for low installation costs without a high power connection while still achieving 120+ kW charging. The battery can either be integrated into the charger unit itself for the lowest installation cost or a large battery pack can be placed on site to run the chargers off:

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/vw-group-components-e-on-...

https://freewiretech.com/products/dc-boost-charger/

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129240_battery-boosted...

https://thedriven.io/2020/05/07/new-goulburn-battery-beats-g...

As battery prices continue to fall these types of charger configurations will become more attractive.
A lot of people really don’t seem to get that users rejecting Linux binaries isn’t just them being idealist, it’s also a big usability thing.
Congrtulations, it seems really easy to use.
Just one thing: I noticed formatting changes (such as italics) are ignored. Is this deliberate?
Because China thinks that territory belongs to them, their motivation has nothing to do with TSMC.
I gave up using Word to write manuscripts when I switched to Markdown documents in git.

In the last few months, though, I gave up on Markdown to switch to a more robust format - LaTeX. Before I switched, I didn't know LaTeX at all, but I knew from my reading that it had the features I needed.
Fitness watches generate useful information, but increase patient anxiety
> Every time the coin turns out heads, I take half of the money on the table (i.e the total you have left is divided by 2). Every time it turns out to be tails, your money is multiplied by 1.5 (plus a 50 cents bonus). It’s obvious that this game is totally rigged to my advantage as the amount of heads will converge to be similar to the amount of tails, but the loss you incur with each head result (money divided by 2) is larger than the win gained with each tail result (money multiplied by 1.5 + change).

This game has positive expected value, the only problem is risk of ruin if you size your bets too aggressively as a percentage of your chip stack
They tried and got absolutely hit hard by anti-trust and legislation in the US and Europe. They no longer try.

The same is pretty inevitable for Apple at this point.
Servo isn't necessarily dead, though it is ambitious for a community-run project. There's still activity on the repo.
I think we should see things relative here:

He's not investing short-term so in a sense his profits will already be much higher due to "not chasing the latest fad".

Secondly, for long-term investment, I believe crude theses are sufficient. If you believe in a tech future, go for it. Be ready to lose it all but got for it.

Same goes for theses like transport revolution, war, china will be the new superpower, AI etc.

I personally don't believe in all of them but having a few of those (and diversifying also across asset classes) will either teach you wisdom and humility or net you a nice profit.

I also believe it's in the long-term bimodal - either it's factor 10+ or factor 0. So one positive investment neutralizes 9 negative, with two positives you're profiting.

My only beef with tech right now would be that it's the most crowded trade I've seen in a long time. AAPL is worth 20x BTC, add the other FANGs and draw your conclusions.
Electric vehicles will change that.
Well, except for maybe a language that doesn't force you to remove (temporarily) unused imports and change your variable name to an underscore if you simply comment out the only section of code that used to refer to it, making your variable freshly un-used. I find there are some highly opinionated, unconfigurable aspects of the language that pretty much only waste time. They actually get in my way constantly.
The Big Data Delusion
In practice, I reckon you might be the only person in the world - or maybe one of a dozen - who has this problem. And in that context that's not snark at all, it's an accurate description of what is most likely the cause of the error.
Thanks! It is, it's quite hard to highlight exactly what changed regarding formatting and we found our users mostly cared about content changes.

Having said that, adding an option to include formatting changes is on our roadmap.
Those blinkers are called "not being utterly insane". The whole model of disruption is seeing a stupid practice saying. "No we aren't doing that stupid shit." watch practicioners of the existing stupid froth at the mouth and then either succeed or fail.

Seriously that is why honor based lending died to banks centuries ago. Relationship driven is a fucking stupid way to do finance.
The point I'm trying to make is editorialising is against HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Cropping is inevitable with the original here, but the poster should not be pushing a point of view when doing so.
3 years ago I got diagnosed with IBS after I landed in the hospital with a stabbing pain just right next to my belly button (sometimes I still feel it lightly) what they first thought was caused by kidney stones. Nothing turned up on the xrays or echoes. Since then things have only gotten worse as if it has spread upwards first causing constipation, then silent reflux (causing a constant burning sensation in my throat, mouth and nose), pain in my neck, foggy brain (which started recently) and so on. The GP, which in my country decides if I have to be forwarded to a specialist to relieve the medical system, keeps attributing everything to my IBS. Once I got the diagnosis IBS it is as if they stopped taking me seriously and act as if I am just being a hypochondriac so I decided to just let it be.
On Windows you can just use TortoiseGIT, it can do diff and even merge by calling Word's internal compare tools. I can attest that diff works fine (differences show up as if you had used track changes within word), but I haven't had occasion to try merging Word documents with TortoiseGIT yet. The same functionality was already available in TortoiseSVN.
What storage systems exist today that are capable of storing the amounts of energy we're talking about here?
This is the largest Webflow project ever made, it completely pushes it the edge and runs entirely on one screen. So you might notice lags depending on what machine and browser you use. This is not a typical website or a reflection of Webflow projects in general.

I'm a product designer and I love Civilization.

I made some personal additions to the prototype that I felt looked and worked better in my subjective opinion.

I integrated nearly every feature, left out some details because the project was already too heavy. But things like the leader info could be easily added.

The sliders aren't meant to work but can easily be set up with logic. I left it out to avoid confusion.

In addition to making additions to the prototype, I also discovered dozens of mistakes across the UI and fixed many of them or completely replaced them.
The internet supposedly exists because it provided a more reliable way to order nuclear missile launches.

DNS over HTTPS is controversial because the current implementations take power from the end users (by moving the resolver out of libc who’s configuration and often implementation is controlled by end users and into certain applications where the user is lucky if the app allows them to adjust the parameters, especially if the interface is stable and intuitive. They really have to because cramming http and tls into libc is a bit crazy.) Furthermore it concentrates power and data into the hands of a couple of organizations where previously using their resolvers was optional. At this point I’m not entirely sure I trust Google any more than most foreign governments or even my own.
Plutonium-239 is an alpha emitter. Nuclear missiles on submarines actually have to spend more money to create highly pure Plutonium-239 specifically because it's long half life means it has a low rate of spontaneous emissions. This makes it safer for crew who have to live and work in close quarters with these missiles.
That definition is really ambiguous for government use, I wish people would address that specifically in these clauses.
Enterprise Selling Is Like Marriage
My SaaS deals primarily with legal documents that for years had been maintained with Word. The pain of emailing documents is real, but the comfort level with how Word works is also real. Over the years, most organizations have developed internal workflows to share and send documents around that bypass the pains, and while they may not be perfect, they work.

The funny thing is that the document authors like these ways of working. It is the tech people who don't. I've seen "Git for Word" proposed many times a year for a while now. And all of the ideas are interesting, but none of them appeal to my audience because they don't care about git's feature set. Nobody wants to branch and merge. Nobody wants a straight version history. ("Nobody" meaning nobody in my market, not nobody in the world.)

They want a storytelling experience. They want to know the why, not the what. And the workflow tends to be unidirectional, not with collaborative changes coming back together, but with expanding changes as each person adds their ideas and makes change for a specific instance of using a document. The experience we build for them bring in pieces of version history, pieces of comments, pieces of telling the story of why something was done, so people down the line can have more context to decide whether to accept or reject the changes.

It isn't that "Git for Word" is a bad idea - on the contrary, it would be great if someone pulls it off. My point is that building something that improves on Word isn't actually about the software, it is about the document workflows. If you find groups who work like software devs do, where documents receive small updates from a team, and bring all changes together for a final product, there is probably a market. But when evaluating such ideas, there has to be a reality check of whether the actual use of the documents truly matches the use case for git.
When will the B3LYP paper come out?
Cool, do I have to pay 30% of my revenue to show up in the search results?
I developed this in two weeks during my spare time and it was a breeze. The hardest part was extracting all the assets from the game one by one manually by screenshoting, editing, and uploading.
PCB reverse engineering photography on a budget
It's been a while since I last tried Vim emulation, so I don't remember the details, but I remember feeling impaired. :g and :v commands were missing, which is a big deal for serious vim users, I think?

Though comments under yesterday's post about scrollbars made me realize I might live in a :g/:v bubble :)
The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf]
Primary energy includes waste heat so it's a pretty useless metric. If 50% of the energy in a coal plant turns into heat then a 1GW coal plant will generate 2GW of primary energy. Is that primary energy useful? It can be if you build district heating but even district heating won't need that much excess energy.

How about cars? Most ICE engines are less than 40% efficient. If you charge an EV with renewables it will consume 2.5 times less primary energy. Renewables look small in primary energy comparisons because they are less wasteful.
"Spaghetti" means that the code is tangled because of improper control flow usage, lack of adequate control flow syntax or the language encouraging certain patterns. There are very few mainstream programming languages which can be said to encourage writing spaghetti code, I can think of VB6 and early versions of PHP which encouraged mixing e.g. HTML with code. Claiming that C++ spaghetti code is idiomatic is nonsense. There are many very popular references on how to structure and design C++ code and idiomatic C++ code is making use of structural, OOP or functional programming where appropriate.

"Magic" refers to the implementation of certain language or library features directly in the compiler without using the language features. C++ is on the least magical side, since the entire standard library and major libraries are implemented exclusively using language features. Everything is specified and C++ is one of the very few languages which has an international standard.
It's especially odd to call other languages out for this when Go for example has magical generic data structures when this feature isn't supported by the language.

Next time consider limiting your comment to praising Go and don't pretend that you know enough about other languages to draw a meaningful comparison.
Thanks for sharing.

Yes, No worries, I am not glorifying them.

But I guess they try harder than I do. That’s good enough for a start...
Everything Is Unprecedented. Welcome to Your Hotter Earth
It's the perfect storm of being very affordable for scammers as a cost of business but being attached to a fundamental lack of anonymity and a single point of control that makes it so dangerous for anyone developing tools to fight oppressive governments etc.