skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have enough lithium for DT fusion then, either. If we assume fusion reactors have a wall loading of 1 MW/m^2, and assume 50 cm of LiPb in the blanket, then fusion reactors capable of supply (as heat) 10 TW would need the 6Li from 80 million tonnes of lithium. Current Li reserves are a fraction of this.

That ARC reactor design, if extended to world energy demand, would require 100x known beryllium resources.
And Iraq is taking Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and Libya was... what again? Considering the Uyghur population doubled in the last 50 years and China has 20 times more mosques than the US, China isn't very good at geocoding.
> It's easy to write Python 2 code that seems to work fine but immediately crashes when it has to process Unicode. But if your Python 3 code works at all it'll probably handle Unicode fine, or at least handle it better than naive Python 2 code would.

Yeah, that's the biggest benefit, and the reason python 3 handles it better, is because it crashes early. When it it sees that you are making an incompatible conversion, it refuses to run without waiting for some specific unicode character to show it.

> Whenever I have to write Python 2 code that has to handle Unicode, I mainly just try to write it so that it would be able to run in Python 3.

Thankfully I no longer have to write python 3 code, but from my experience, it works the best to write the code for python 3, then adapting it (sometimes with help of six package and imports from `__future__`) to work with 2.7. It is easier than do it the other way.
You say that today. Back then it was the great unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-yZ-31j9A
I'm sure it has been checked. This effect is not strong and they probably needed to "aim" for a specific part of Venus. Also newer telescopes and data analysis methods may be able to see the effect when before it would be lost in the noise.
Doesn't matter in practice if you are really trying to re-create Jurrasic Park. A working dinosaur is already useful for monetisation, even if Hollywood's idea of what dinosaurs should be like does not quite match up to reality.
More likely that they'll just become cynical and stop believing everything altogether. Marking a post as a lie doesn't educate the user how, or give them the tools they need to independently confirm the truth of a post.
I can’t imagine that enough time has passed for Earthly life to have spread as widely as the article suggests.
> "As for innovation? US isn't even top 10 when it comes to Nobel prize per capita (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Nobel_l...)."

Interestingly, those tables show the EU, as a whole, being several places behind the US per capita, both overall and in terms of science Nobels specifically. Kind of negates your point.
> Which means unless you hit product market fit, have incredible unit economics and lots of traction within the first 18 months you are going to die.

Dieing after 18 months is a winning scenario for many founders, especially those who already came from privileged career positions such as former positions at Google. They get to raise their ~500k-2m and pay themselves pretty solid salaries while building industry connections. Then they either return to their old job, take a long vacation with their FANNG + founder savings, or jump into their next startup.
Berlin at least still doesn't appear to have any significant added coverage over the past decade. Yes, there are pictures uploaded by users. But the Street View picture seem to be old. In Germany looking at taxis is a good way of telling the age of a picture. All the Street View pictures I clicked on have pre-2010 models. I'd thank they would update the touristic areas or city center first but they seem just as old.
I'm taking the "minimum cognition principle" ... the least time required to make a decision the better. It's like riding a bike - if you had to think about it you might get in an accident.
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... ironic to discover Greatly Filtered life on another planet
Yep, I always have this with mortgages. People have been pretty good about agreeing to send me the documents the night before so that I can actually read them. But I also at least skim them before signing to make sure they say the same thing they did the night before. I haven't found anything objectionable, so maybe the rational thing to do would actually be to just do what everyone else does and sign based on what the person says they say.
A certain subset of developers and/or companies want to keep users stupid and lazy, so they can push the users in the direction they want without too much opposition.
Just in general, Emacs first class treatment of the "old school" IDE features. Wiring up with grep output and ctags files. It's nice to be able to jump right into any project, any language, with minimal setup and get cracking.

M-x compile is nice.
JVM as a platform is doing just fine, but other JVM languages seem to be taking over Java’s territory:

1. Kotlin replaced Java for Android development

2. Scala has become the primary language for some of the major tools in the data stack - spark, kafka etc

I’m sure there are other examples as well
Dumb fucks anon more like
are we really? Could you explain exactly what you believe the great filter to be?
You do realize the Native Americans used controlled burns for many centuries, as a way to prevent mass fires? The government hasn't been doing that, and the amount of combustible material on the ground has accumulated to dangerous levels as a result. Just some food for thought.
I've read several stories that start exactly with what you're doing (quitting job, selling everything, moving...) where the author didn't stick to the plan but gained a lot from the journey anyway and ended up back in the workforce, except they were more productive and happier than before.

I think it takes a certain amount of reflection to reach a mental state where you become the person you want to be. That is crucial to avoid subversion of the self to the corporation. Once you get there, you can have a more symmetric relationship with your employer. Both parties end up better off. It's a shame that society often doesn't have the "speed bumps" which allow people to do this without going through radical ups and downs, but it is harder to change society than it is to change yourself. I hope you get what you need out of your journey.
> But, the ecosystem is really something different entirely

Most of the ecosystem changes are driven by externalities - web-servers, browsers, developers. You can still choose to use an old web framework and it will work on modern browsers.

That is entirely different from the Python 2.x -> 3.x change.

The days of a simple CRUD web page delivered by a server are long gone. jQuery is still brilliant at adding adornment to HTML produced on a server. Putting your view and controller into JavaScript just makes sense.

SPAs need completely different frameworks to support the highly complex needs of client-side rendering and interaction. Ten years ago component based renderers were not common and developer-friendly syntax hardly existed. Frameworks are being pushed by the needs of huge systems (Facebook), server side pre-rendering, and partial updates (correct term? to improve first load and responsiveness).

Also the features available in a modern browser are radically different. Remember building up a string of HTML in JS for performance reasons? Avoiding the DOM because it was slow? So many features only started becoming reliable or available around Internet Explorer 11, yet now IE11 is hardly ever supported because it is missing critical features. An example is that in older Internet Explorer and Safari, you could theoretically update CSS rulesets from the DOM, but in practice doing anything dynamic risked crashes and memory leaks (even loading new CSS pages was difficult and error prone and browser specific e.g. detecting CSS load failures).

Note: I was supporting the same JavaScript codebase for over a decade (initially IE5.5). There were no breaking changes in the ECMAScript, and very very few in the DOM (mostly driven by dropping IE specific DOM). The changes in the codebase were mostly driven by wanting to support new features in browsers.
If you are interested in Combine but need to support older versions of iOS, you might want to check out https://github.com/OpenCombine/OpenCombine
I was a huge fan of the old "Scrapbook" plugin. That one died as FireFox switched their API's.

Looks like there's a new version WebScrapBook [1] based on that old code base which is now available.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/webscrapbook/
Obligatory CGP Grey video:
https://youtu.be/e-ZpsxnmmbE
'Wendy Carlos: A Biography' Is a Comprehensive Tribute to the Synth Pioneer
Why would they call it 4.X then ?
By tribe I am firmly in the machine learning camp but I have serious doubts that one can be a good hands-on data-science practitioner if one does not have a good foundation in statistics.
Do what you need to to work on something niche but very important, and then get recognition for your accomplishments. Work will then come to you and you can be more selective about what you choose to work on.
If you let the fission fragments out the back of the reactor you get more thrust than this. (Even if the EmDrive worked).
That red isn’t possible with the nanostructures found in nature doesn’t imply no such nanostructures could have evolved.

_If_ structures that produce red can be made, the question to answer would be why they haven’t evolved.
You're welcome and welcome to entrepreneurship. :)

Another option, often not considered, depending on where you are in your career is to join a very early stage startup that is doing something in your domain, for 1-2 years.

This may or may not be an option for you depending on your own factors, but that is a good option as it helps people migrate from the large company mindset to a startup mindset. Also, it helps extend your network with the right kind of people that may help when you go on your own.
Yeah I ordered one 15 months ago and had to start using a flip phone. I can't wait any longer though, I am going to have to get a different smartphone :(
Could be a number of reasons. Most likely of which could be technological.
Oh man I had the exact same experience about 10 years ago. I couldn’t get “hello world” to work despite doing everything the tutorial said. Disheartened me from trying any more programming for several years.
It is a HN thing, on my circles the choice is only Java or .NET and it isn't going to change for years to come.

Java is dying so fast than nowadays even Microsoft contributes to OpenJDK, having bought jClarity in the process.
>Why should some occupations not be eligible for a living wage?

Because they do not create enough economic value to earn that?
It really is amazing how well real estate photographers do in making a dump look attractive. And I'm not just talking about saturation or other photo editing (though that helps, too), but in just choosing the framing and the time of day to take the photo.

Using Street View probably whittled my list down by half, and saved a lot of wasted showings.
I started this project after doing some research about how DNS works and learning about the CZDS, where any interested individual can request access to DNS zone files. I realized that I could turn this into a website, especially since I couldn't find anything similar on the internet. I used their Python API to download all the zone files, then wrote a Python script to scrape them into one file with only the domain names. I then stored these in a MySQL database on my web server, and used AJAX + PHP to retrieve and redirect to the domain. One thing I think is cool about this is that it gives you a sense of the websites that constitute most of the internet, not just the most popular ones. And unless you've clicked the button over 200 million times, you are almost certainly going to get a website you've never seen before.
Actual headline: "The Spanish family wrongly accused of child pornography due to a mistake reading a date"

"An alert from a US organization followed American month-day-year usage, but this was misread by investigators in Spain. As a result, four people went through a nightmare situation"
Cool cool, looks promising ! What would be the pricing ?
Ok now... I've been a healthy weight and also 40lbs overweight. While I of course prefer being a healthy weight, it wasn't so bad I would give up nearly everything to get thin.
I have a bold opinion. I believe it is to the benefit of a State that their software be kept secret or proprietary. Of the many reasons i have to believe this, I will say one is as a matter of national security.

I hope my public opinion opens a fruitful dialogue.
> EU is the worlds biggest single market

The US is the world's biggest single market, by a considerable margin over the EU now. It was larger than the EU before Brexit, now it's that much bigger.

US GDP for 2019 was around $21.5 trillion.

EU GDP for 2019 minus the UK is $16 trillion ($18.7 trillion with the UK).

That giant $5.5 trillion gap is big enough to fit the world's #3 economy (Japan) into. It's larger than France + Italy ($4.7t), or Germany + Spain ($5.2t).

Given the major economies of the EU haven't seen any net economic growth since 2006-2007, it's unlikely the EU will match up to the US economically in the coming decades. Over the coming 10-20 years it will persistently fall away, an increasing distant third behind the two superpowers of the US and China. And that's the good scenario and assuming there are no more exits from the EU. The US will become more aggressive about its trade imbalance with the EU, with the EU heavily dependent on exports and in a position of weakness with the US accordingly; and China will seek to compete with and replace the high value manufacturing they import from the EU (with most of the focus in both cases on Germany, their future is stagnation if they don't figure out how to move to a modern tech economy and fast). Germany will go through a very painful deindustrialization that they've largely been able to avoid thus far, as China goes after their high-end manufacturing and then exports those competing goods to the rest of the world far cheaper than Germany can.

France GDP: 2008, $2.9 trillion | 2019, $2.7 trillion

Germany GDP: 2008, $3.8 trillion | 2019, $3.8 trillion

Italy GDP: 2008, $2.4 trillion | 2019, $2 trillion

Spain GDP: 2008, $1.6 trillion | 2019, $1.4 trillion

Netherlands GDP: 2008, $948 billion | 2019, $902 billion

And that's of course pre-pandemic. Those are the five largest economies of the EU, accounting for 73% of the EU economy. They're going to see a likely net zero (or negative) economic growth for 20 years or more (inflation adjusted it's going to be brutal).
Very exciting news, if by exciting you mean horrifying. It would be near confirmation of the Great Filter.
Vinyl record sales surpass CDs for the first time since the 1980s
Hard to beat the last line of "Nobody Writes to the Colonel."
Apple's avarice knows no bounds. They have alerted the world +dog and they will inexorably get regulated. Parallels to Apple via Android have emerged and matured. The time is coming when these streaming platforms will shake Apple off their boots - with a little help from their friends.
Is it possible a previous space probe seeded the atmosphere though? For example, did the Soviets sterilize all the Venera probes perfectly?
I wrote “email addresses […] you want this to happen for”. That list can be as open or restricted as you want it to be.
While I agree with you about some of those, `isprintable` only makes sense in a byte object, it doesn't make sense on text which is printable by definition. Perhaps it should be called isasciipritnable, but yeah.

> In hindsight, I think the proper decision would have been to ensure every string has an accompanying encoding attribute

This wouldn't have made things any more source compatible. Adding more types doesnt address the issue that python2 string was multiple things masquerading as one.
Yep, so much decline with 80% of the mobile phones, even if it is based on Android Java, on top of which do you think all Android tools run on?

Then do you think the likes of SAP, Adobe, Amazon, Azure, Ricoh, Gemalto, PTC, Azul,.... are going to port their golden eggs to Go now?
Really cool idea, love it
> Nobody mourns the loss of a plastic fork.

That is both true and terrifying given I foresee a future where we are all, in this analogy, plastic forks.
I only said that "I do not mind using libraries typically installed by the Linux distribution's package manager", which was in respect to C.

As far as Rust goes, yes, I do not like that crates are full of one-liners, and so forth. It shares the same problems that npm has. I ran cargo build on many Rust projects before. No way.
Take your pick: climate change, nuclear holocaust, Kessler syndrome, we’re headed for a bunch of great filters with nobody hitting the brakes.
It is easy for those who are comfortable with computers to read an error message then determine whether we can solve the problem on our own or request support.

For people who are not comfortable with computers, they just see an error message and expect it to be something that they cannot handle.
Signs of Life Found on Venus
It will be great to have more players in the smart phone OS domain so I hope this makes it big. On the other hand, the downside of taking the security and privacy of your phone into your own hands, is that ... you’ve taken the security and privacy of the phone into your own hands.

I’m happy to pay Apple to do it for me because my phone is nowhere near my main or most important computing device and I also quite like that they poke google and Facebook in the eye from time to time. Sure, Apple is just a profit driven enterprise like the rest but their business model is directly related to keeping users happy at least for some value of users and happy.

The only downside for me is that I can’t write an app for my device because I haven’t bought into the Apple computer ecosystem.
There are a few other real-world aspects to the development and use of open source in government that make it more complex in my experience.

First, priorities and roadmaps for collaborative software development tend to be captured by the biggest and best funded government organization involved. A famous version of this is that the US government effectively drives the roadmap of international software development collaborations by virtue of readily spending money that their partner governments can't or won't match. The effects of resource disparities in development collaboration often lead to the practical effect that smaller organizations are not having their needs met and what little resources they do have are consumed by the overhead created by the resource scale of the big partners.

Second, quite a lot of proprietary software development within government has strict dependencies on closed source software for which there are neither open source equivalents nor likely to be open source equivalents for the foreseeable future. In these cases, open sourcing the government code generates relatively little value for other contributors while incurring the significant operational overhead that is inherent in open sourcing software.

Third, even in cases where the government software is open sourced, the projects are frequently unusable by other orgs because the software is effectively unsupported. Under government rules, you generally aren't allowed to spend a couple hours helping any random dev that emails you on what is essentially a support issue -- you are expressly not being paid to work on unrelated projects. A lot of government code that is open sourced is de facto abandonware, including much of the software I worked on, because there is no framework to provide support for the user base either formally or informally. Unlike with non-government open source, which tends to be responsive to random questions from the ether, emailing devs on government open source projects often goes to /dev/null.

I agree that the big consulting primes do a terrible job at software delivery but government doesn't have a good track record of effective open source software development either, for other structural reasons.
Java is going away from JVM as much as UNIX is loosing C.

1. Politics due to how Google screwed Sun with Android Java

2. Scala is a tiny dot on JVM world and it remains to be seen how Scala 3.0 will be taken up, specially if Python like syntax is actually adopted
Are not they already years independent of ARM? I thought they had one of these universal licenses allowing them to design their own processors which they seem to do very successfully?
>My house was blurred [...] It almost draws more attention [...], which is probably contrary to privacy interests.

You're commenting on privacy when you're addressing covertness.

Privacy/Secrecy qualities addresses observability.

Secrecy: information desired to never be known (eg Location of your savings)

Privacy: information desired to be selectively known (eg a medical issue)

Covertness: information desired to be unsurprising (eg the thickness of your wallet being a side channel to your wealth)

Covertness is context dependent and in some contexts, a highly covert entity can actually be less private than a highly private entity. Walking around town in a ScrambleSuit will make you more private but less covert. Getting the same haircut, clothes, gate of people in your town will make you more covert but less private.
Which problem is harder? Texting photos and converting them to physical delivery, or texting them and just picking the delivery address?

If they have already solved the harder problem, a future potential pivot to digital delivery hardly feels like a roadblock to me.
Indeed. All else being equal, I'd expect evolution to progress faster in hotter environments with more solar radiation. I wouldn't be surprised if Venusian microorganisms were more advanced, adaptable and capable of surviving an interplanetary journey than Earth ones two billion years ago.