skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My introvert self sure does miss going out to a bunch of cafes around the city to work from my laptop right now.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower

>"Kilopower is an experimental project aimed at producing new nuclear reactors for space travel.[1][2] The project started in October 2015, led by NASA and the DoE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).[3] As of 2017, the Kilopower reactors were intended to come in four sizes, able to produce from

one to ten kilowatts of electrical power (1-10 kWe) continuously for twelve to fifteen years.[4][5]

The fission reactor uses uranium-235 to generate heat that is carried to the Stirling converters with passive sodium heat pipes.[6] In 2018, positive test results for the Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling Technology (KRUSTY) demonstration reactor were announced.[7]"
As long as you don’t buy a Verizon version, which has the locked bootloader, at least for the pixel 2xl and beyond.
No guide would work for TMNT, though. That game had randomized enemies and it was frustrating as hell.
> It is worth noting that pages are doing more after loading now than they used to be though. This won't show up in onload or first meaningful paint, etc. So the first paint is fast, but then if you try to scroll immediately afterwards you'll probably hit some jankyness while the rest of the page loads asynchronously (but only kind of asynchronously since there's a single main thread).

The question is whether those pages are doing more for me, or whether they are doing more to me. When I load a page that would have been a normal hypertext document 10 years ago, instead I get a clown show filled with "we have cookies" pop-ups, tracking scripts, ads, ad-blocker-blockers, and more.

> Some other things that could cause the regression are that more people own a budget Android phone now than before. People may not realize how slow these phones are. The single core performance of the top budget phone, the Samsung A50, is comparable to an iPhone 6 which came out in 2015.

If I owned an iPhone 6 in 2015 and own a Samsung A50 today, and the web is slower and jankier today than it was five years ago, then isn't it fair to say that the web got slower?
For those of you, who like me, couldn't remember what a Tardigrade is, they're microscopic animals that live in water and are also known as Water Bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

All I can think of is that this is some obscure word used to test functionality of their the piece of software that blocks payments based on a keywords contained within. I suppose someone could test out a transaction with obvious blocked keywords like "nazi terrorist child porn" and see if it behaves similarly, but I'm not going to try it.
How would an Epic iOS app store make consumers not buy an iPhone?
I liked Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Interface, Zodiak and even REAMDE and The Big U and cobweb (to an extent). I never finished the Baroque cycle though, despite buying the first book in hardback in day one.

I also never quite finished Dodge in Hell either but probably will some day.
Dropbox Smart Sync [1] is HSM using reparse points on Windows and kauth on MacOS. We prototyped using fanotify on Linux, but there were a number of edge cases around moving files and permissions that weren't comfortable with (if I recall correctly).

After we shipped HSM, Microsoft rebuilt the functionality into their Cloud Sync APIs which are used by OneDrive and others [2]. On MacOS, the File Provider APIs [3] provided similar functionality for Cocoa apps using Cocoa APIs but not for POSIX (which made it a no-go for us).

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/smart-sync

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/build-a...

[3] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/fileprovider

Source: I started these efforts at Dropbox (but left a couple years ago)
While this works, I'd have to downvote because of the side effects. Like other medication, they're fine if they prevent you from destroying your life, but they'll degrade your life.
As a University student, I had dual Athlon XPs on a Tyan board. It was a lot of money for me back then, and the power supply melted to the board (not the power supply's fault either. I soldered on a new ATX connector and the 2nd power supply also melted to the board). If I couldn't use those processors in any other machines except a Tyan, I would be insanely pissed off.
Can you elaborate some?
One example for you:

My parents are dead or gone. We moved in with wife's parents for a few months. It was a lifesaver. But (a) they were still not quite retired and couldn't help much, (b) they're older and don't have a lot of energy, (c) they were "over it" with Covid relatively quickly and wanted to take way more risks than we did.

Oh, and they have four kids, three of whom have multiple kids. We can't all just ask them to move in.

Life is not at all simple.
> (This is fairly normal in cpus. Picture 8 regular fuses. If you read across them, you’ll get 0xff. Now blow the first four fuses and read again. You’ll get 0xf0. Here’s the catch. You can’t “unblow” them. With real fuses, you’d replace them. If they’re inside the cpu, you replace the cpu.)

this made me think of the pencil trick from the earliest days of socketed athlons. not exactly the same I know.
I plan to have kids as well. I'm just not convinced that parents in well to do tech companies need handouts to do this. No one is having kids in lieu of their obligation to society, people have kids because they want to. The governments where majority of people are actively choosing not to have kids are trying to incentivize the population to do so; it's not clear to me why private employers should be doing it. Further, these incentives should be declared with significant notice to make sure people can make life choices accordingly.

You can tell that no one prepares for the pandemic, and that's true. But the point is that this applies to everyone, not just those with kids. What if I have an ailing parent or a sibling? What if I run an orphanage on the side? Just give the same benefits to everyone instead of cherry picking people who make life decisions that are of no consequence to their day job. If you think that's too much to provide to everyone, then I will argue that it's too much to provide for just parents.
Simple wave-optical superpositions as prime number sieves (2019)
In case anyone else was wondering how this might compare to "normal":

>Morgan Stanley analysts pointed out in late March that the buying was running at eight times the pace seen in prior episodes of Fed purchasing under programs known as quantitative easing.

>Just before this latest round, principal payments from its mortgage bond holdings had whittled that down to 21%, but it has now increased back to 30%.
That Heinlein quote is nice, but also a little absurd.

I can change a wall outlet or a light switch, but if I'm rewiring my house, I'm calling my brother-in-law, the electrician, just like he calls me when he wants a trumpet player. (And if he wants a guitar player, he calls my brother, not me.)

Specialization is for people in communities, which we all are whether we want to admit it or not.
For me personally, I would add Hollow Knight to the list.

That is one of the few games I intend to always have installed on at least one machine.
There’s no denying that WFH works well for some folks. But is Gitlab, a company that trails its nearest competitor by a wide margin, really a good example of remote work being more effective for business?
There are some tools that "buzz" you for losing focus. Something like RescueTime or the Pomodoro Technique might do the trick.

But I find the issue is usually lack of rest. I don't mean lack of non-work activities. The brain doesn't get to rest if you're doing things like gaming, social media, or watching anime. It ends up 'fragmented'. Sleep and meditation helps, or even things like focusing on the road while driving without turning on a podcast.
> modeRNA

I can't believe I didn't notice that until now.
The term shovelware reminds me of the E.T. incident. A game so bad that Atari literally got out the shovels:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
Six Toulouse-Lautrec Lithography Prints and One of His Paintings
> I don't think that would shatter the incentive structure

The best available evidence is that fertility rates are highly sensitive to external incentives. For example Russia managed to raise its fertility rate from the lowest in Europe to one of the highest in just a decade. They did that through a combination of cash incentives, extended maternity leave, and various social status and privileges for mothers.
> odds are good their salary where they're moving to is less

so you're saying they are already getting the highest salary they could've gotten then (adjusted for cost of living etc)?

> this solution isn't highly scalable; only so many people can do it

If people move away enmass, then the demand for said worker increases, which should (at least, under the great invisible hand!) increase the salary, and a new balance reached. So it should only take a small % of people moving away due to low pay to affect the pay.
Agreed - an extreme example being Dwarf Fortress. :)

And popular games like Factorio or Satisfactory are far from simple. Also, in many survival games you can loose results of many hours of gameplay in an instant.
I was excited for a moment, because I was a listener of his "Daily show" way-back-when distinctly remember when Apple got on board for example. At the time he was legitimately a pioneer of the technology, terminology and the medium.

Unfortunately/fortunately? I'd pretty much not tracked him for 15+ years, so had forgotten what a sleazy Bagshot crazy he's become. Sad.
Because it’s use implies Homosexuality, which may or may not be known by the SO. Most SO would forgive cheating with the opposite sex before cheating with the same sex I’d imagine. It’s an extra layer of uncertainty.
Silicon Zoo
It may be stage of life too. RPGs seemed like work to a younger me. Yet that younger self got bored with action games and made mods and mini games for years.

Now I have less free time but enjoy the feeling of progression in lighter RPGs like Deus Ex.

Audiences change over time among with the game offerings.
Most likely depends on what you consider professional. Turns out the qualifications for watching other people’s children are almost enterally age base. Even then there’s wiggle room for a competence factor that is deemed by the guardian and confirmed by the court.

For example, there is no lower age a child can be left alone in my state, and no requirements for leaving with someone else — except that the child or person can reasonably recognize danger and avoid it.
The drone footage is of actual prisoner transfer from Kashgar Remand Prison extrapolated from shaved head and text on garbs. These are videos of actual transfer process in the reeducation and work programs. No shaved heads, basically bus tours, with no where near prison transfer level of coercion. They're boring, so you get propaganda trying to spin the former into the latter.

https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/china-uyghur-mi...

The buzzfeed study is one of the first decently comprehensive analysis. It doesn't go the actual step to break down each site in detail (i.e. calculate capacity by square footage) which would be actually useful. It does however identify ~300 camps total in the region. The 1-2 million estimate by Zenz that western media regularly repeats is based off his unsubstantiated estimate of 1,200 camps (ASPI). Yet, we're not seeing the corresponding downward revision in numbers.

https://www.aspi.org.au/report/mapping-xinjiangs-re-educatio...

So far, the entire situation can be summed up as willful ignorance to facts because propaganda > truth for geopolitics. State level institutions in the west have the resources to extrapolate the scale of the XJ programs accurately, but the reality is an underwhelmingly boring dystopia (and it is extremely dystopian) as revealed by leaked CCP documents itself. So the narrative is built on a mix of cherry picked facts and fake news. For instance the codastory on XJ work programs cited the minimum compensation for those in the program is 13RMB per hour as a negative, but that's basic entry level manufacturing wage in China and 2x higher than average income of Hotan where that batch of workers were from. Yet no one is going around reporting XJ vocational training detainees from poor agriculture towns are being paid double their usual income for manufacturing jobs. Incidentally maybe also why the Buzzfeed study, partially funded by RFA / Open Technology Fund goes so far as to identify the number of camps but don't go the extra step of estimating internment capacity, preferring to again, repeat Zenz estimates based off poor methodology that concluded 4x camps existed, something the buzzfeed study itself invalidates.
am do a confuse :(
It's a combination of arrogance, lack of skill and sheer stupidity. For an example, look at nuxtjs docs, there is an example config, that everyone seem to use, that lints on each build. Because code using 4 spaces indentation is slower than code using 2 spaces...

The last ui dev I had to work with managed to produce in about 1 year a very complicated dockerfile, that was spewing, between other things, an image for e2e testing - but no actual tests and you needed a huge makefile to actually build the thing, a soup of copy-pasted config files that resulted in a vendors.js bundle of about 100 megs - there were more config files than source code, 2 branches named <username>.wip.somedate with commits that commented out some parts of a config, just to uncomment them back in the next commit. The app itself, with ssr no less, was a logo and some text, that was using some custom components, built with some third party vue component that was rendering css in js, thus you had to wait for the entire vendors.js to download before you got anything rendered. His answer to anyone questioning his choices was "this is how modern ux development works".

After he was let go, I took over the ui and along with another coworker we managed to have a working version of the app in 9 days, with no prior knowledge of vuejs and nuxtjs. You can imagine how complicated the app is...
> What's your point?

It is ironic and amusing.

</point>
Why did I think k-9 was no longer maintained?
Are you talking about antibodies? There are papers on T-cell immunity and clicks who've tested staff a month apart with no increase in antibody positive tests.

It's probably WELL over 10%. There are more ways our immune system can develop memory than just antibodies and a number of studies are showing that.
I don’t think the cancer analogy is good either but to be fair no one planned to have children in a world that removed all their expected child care options.
Do you think artificially constraining compute resources would bring great software into being?

For example, Pico-8 gaming engine: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

and TIC-80 computer: https://tic80.com/

These are way too limited, but I could imagine something a little more powerful - 1024x768 pixel buffer, 64 MB ram and 100 MB space. All apps natively running on this (or even emulation) would instantly load and the latency would be unreal.
Let’s say Amazon joined in and started selling Kindle and Audible books without using Apple’s 30% digital cut. Apple would have to pull the Amazon app, possibly the Kindle app. Actually, they’d have to do that if Amazon simply said, Apple won’t let this be sold here on reasonable terms, buy from the website. Amazon would lose some, but Apple would also be crippling iOS. Then Spotify joins in, and Tinder, and Duolingo. All of a sudden, Apple’s platform looks pretty lame.
The other countries in the negotiations have a similar population to the US (hell, just Japan, Mexico and Vietnam combined do). Having that many people prefer trade with the US, with a legal framework written by the US (instead of China) probably wouldn't have hurt the US.

The treaty would have tended to favor larger US corporations and not US people (because that's what US "IP" laws do), but it wouldn't have been bad for the US economy.
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally was 'superspreading event,' cost public health $12.2B
Europe is making faster cars and better batteries than Tesla
The URL was duplicated in the submission.
http://paperjs.org/about/ might be a good starting point
Push notifications don't work on iPhones and yet a lot of sites use them, some in a spammy way but some I actually allowed on my phone and are quite useful.
You're absolutely right, he sarcastically spoke for 3 and half minutes, during a press conference about deadly pandemic, to the clear shock of Dr. Brix (and I'm sure other medical staff, but we only have her on video) and then he stopped doing press conferences, because joke was so great.

But who was the audience?

Dude you voted for a person who managed to bankrupt a casino!
Of course it is. How on earth did you get to that conclusion?
Dude, I was just asking for games, not a ill-informed critique of my parenting abilities. We play plenty of Minecraft, Code.org, Scratch, etc. Looking for quality educational games is in no way "helicopter parenting". We let our kids pick a language, and Duolingo has taught my 11yo Dutch and 8yo Latin. I want to replicate that experience in other areas.
They pay for child care (daycare, summer camps, nannies) or use free child care (family, friends).
>"Xiao-Guang Yang and colleagues, Pennsylvania State University, USA, have found that an asymmetric modulation of temperature prevents lithium build-up even at high charging rates.

If the lithium-ion batteries are heated quickly and briefly to around 60 °C during charging, even at 400 kW of charging power, lithium does not deposit on the surface of the anode.

This allows to fill up enough electricity in ten minutes to travel 320 to 480 km in the car."

This is fascinating, not just from a fast charging perspective (though the discovery is truly awesome in this area!), but also from an electrochemistry perspective as well!

In other words, let's say we have an electrochemical process which moves metal from solution or cathode to the anode (or the reverse)... well, perhaps, if all of the components are quickly pre-heated to a certain temperature, perhaps that no longer happens! Or perhaps you get other reactions!

In other words, perhaps there are other electrochemical processes / reactions possible -- if the constitutent parts (cathode, electrolyte, anode) are pre-heated (or pre-cooled!) to various temperatures...

(Also, it seems logical to assume that pressure, that is, perhaps, high pressures -- might influence electrochemical reaction results as well, as is well known in other areas in chemistry...)
> That very much depends on circumstances. If you have two children born one right after another, probably not. If, however, your spacing is more spread, say, you have two children first, and then another child 8 years later, you'll easily need childcare for 15 consecutive years. My youngest sister is 11 years younger than me, and I'm not even the oldest of my siblings.

Are you going to argue that in a society that has relatively wide spread access to contraception that when you have children 11 years apart - it's not a choice? Come on. It's a choice to have kids 10 years apart, it's a choice as to how many, and how far apart you have children (assuming no biological limitations). Thus, you don't need childcare for 20 years if you have your 2-3 kids over a span of 4-5 years.
I have found too that people get mad if you happen to bring up Germany of 50 years ago though
You mean the children are subsidizing the parents?
K-9 Mail's last stable release was in September 2018. However, they've been steadily producing beta releases and "would like to release a new stable version as soon as possible."

https://k9mail.app/2020/06/01/Whats-Up-With-K-9-Mail
It's a bit dramatic.

Most large companies still eat the 30% and launch on Google Play Store anyways, even with alternative app stores or just shipping .apk files.

I don't know why, but my guess is updates. They've probably done some user research and decided it's easier to deliver updates that install in the background. Since the .apk update method is just reinstalling the app, it's very annoying if you ship freqeuent updates.
Not on HN, please. Some people have different backgrounds than you and it leads them to have different views than you and different post histories than you. HN is a much more diverse site than readers assume it is. This is often a perfectly legit thing, and you don't get to harass someone merely because of your perception. Innocent users have been hounded off this site that way—which is mob behavior, and something that none of us wants. I'm sure you don't want it, either, so please follow the rules in the future.

The rule is that you can't make insinuations about astroturfing or shillage without some sort of evidence. Another user having different views than yours—even when you find them wrong, or even perversely wrong—does not count as evidence.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...

I get accused of all sorts of things because we enforce this policy straight down the middle. Guess what: I'm not a secret communist agent. I just don't like mobs.
Is this about Vitamin D or Vitamin D supplements? We already know taking supplements does not equate to the body actually being able to make use of the vitamin. I'd be interested if this study also discounts Vitamin D produced by the body, or if some extra ingredient is needed to allow the body to benefit from the vitamin.
Open source companies and their GitHub repositories
Qs about Thama: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24396951
I'm saying they are proportionally beneficial to the parents if the portion of time they spend with their kids is drastically higher than the portion of time you are inconvenienced by that act.
Civ 4 was the greatest Civ. Civ 5 and beyond tried to turn it into some kind of board game.

"Death stacks" happen in real life. e.g.: every human battle ever, including Normandy in WW2, I don't know why Civ 5 chose to remove them.

Civ 5 and 6 have nice features but it's no longer Civ to me. Plus, the excessive amount of $60 DLCs are a no-no.
We went from Shakespeare to "lighght." It's hard to see that as anything other than a decline.
Trains were too fast to safely hand off bags of mail between train stations and trains while the trains were in motion, so instead they had to stop the trains entirely, which was slower than before. (I'm not sure why they couldn't just slow down the trains; maybe it was more a combination of higher speeds and changing priorities).
WordPefect was the first software that showed me the power of user programmed macros. I think I was in high school at the time.
Biden also called Xi a “thug” in the debates. This is definitely as strong a rhetoric as the current administration. However, like you mention, countries like India have a better response and more teeth than US.
The latest POSIX certification is POSIX 2017, not UNIX v7.
No source, not relevant anyway
> Haskell will not catch on because the community thinks it is too smart to have to actually accommodate the programming community.

Like, you don't literally mean there are Haskellers saying "we're to smart to write beginner-friendly documentation haha" right?

Jokes aside, can you give an example of this?