skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are these geniuses that can do something they never did before and create something truly amazing. But realistically even they don't manage to deliver on that the majority of the time.

Even the steam engine people had to rely on known standard parts like screws and bolts and known planing or manufacturing procedures that they didn't invent. Only because they knew which forces a bolt would withstand and learned from (at times catastrophic) failure they were able to even have a bleeding edge.
Society uses absolutely mind-gobbling amounts of energy, mostly from fossil fuels. There's just not enough land available to produce even a significant fraction of that from biofuels. Never mind the ecological devastation that would be caused by converting the little wilderness left to intensive biofuel cultivation.

That is not to say biofuel don't have a role to play. Agriculture and forestry wastes, municipal biowaste, etc. can all be used for energy. And yeah, it makes sense to use the available biofuel for sectors that are otherwise very hard to decarbonise, such as aviation.

Algae, well, that has been researched for decades with very little to show for it. It has great potential, but it seems very difficult to make it actually work.
Sub 26 hours in an ICE averaging over 110 MPH and a top speed of 175 mph. That’s not just lose your license but head straight to jail territory.

But sure as I said, if that’s what your going for ICE engines currently have a significant advantage using current technology and infrastructure. However, in terms of capacity to do a real world road trip the difference is already minimal.

PS: Don’t forget electric trains do 375 mph and can maintain that indefinitely. Assuming EV is always just going to be a battery technology is far from proven at this point.
I love the weight too. However, the battery life sucked -- last time I had one, kept dying after a week needing a recharge. I then bought a Logitech Marathon mouse and I'm already going 2+ years wireless on a single set of AA batteries. That makes me happy. I like products I don't have to think about charging all the time.

I wish they covered the mice in solar panels like the solar-powered wireless keyboard, or harvested kinetic energy though -- that keyboard is another great Logitech hit if your workspace is near a window -- you never have to charge it.
> Packwerk enforces boundaries between packages through a check that can be run both locally and on the CI pipeline. To perform a check, simply run the line packwerk check. We also included this in Shopify’s CI pipeline to prevent any new violations from being merged into the main branch of the codebase.

that seems cool - in our project's gitlab ci pipelines we could implement them with ease.
> i dont think anyone really knows what to do about the editor decline.

How was this problem presented and discussed inside of WMF?

As an editor, I had an opportunity to discuss it with Sue Gardner at a meet up with other editors. The feedback from other editors was so strong, I'm baffled that WMF couldn't address it.

Although, I understood from Sue that WMF's role was only as a software company that made tools. She said quite clearly that the editor community ran itself.

But if dwindling editor participation is an existential threat, surely that's a core WMF problem? I'm curious what this looked like from inside WMF.
Nuclear isn’t obsolete technology. China, Russia, India etc are building all new plants.

One NPP replaces millions of solar panels with a 90% capacity factor while solar has a 10-20% capacity factor.

How is that “obsolete”?
Interesting points regarding the internal mental model!

I agree, for effective information retrieval we (as humans) need to remember the context/ mindset where/when we consumed the knowledge.

I haven't really thought about this problem. It is definitely something to ponder on.
But wha tid your remote be those artificial gov overhead costs designed to fail it out. Fro. What I understand the raw material is leased from the gov at high rates.
Indeed.

Most of the times, these dynamic things on web pages and elsewhere mispredict what I actually want.

No Google, I did not want to zoom in on the map that you automatically did for me. Rather I unzoomed back and you automatically zoomed back in.

No scroll bars, I don't want you to disappear or even thin down automatically.

I personally don't like infinite scrolling as a solution either as it messes up scroll bar operation.

And I want strictly none of the above if when clicking 'back', you don't take me to the exact same view I was on before, without the elements of page jumping for a few seconds.

No my laptop and phone, I do not want you to wake up when I disconnect power, and especially so when I had just put you to sleep!

Glad that Wikipedia is planning to show and hide the side panel on user instruction/click. Please keep it that way.
Right but is it only for deaf people? If it is, it’s a small effect. If it isn’t, then actually it will just be housing for poor people and “deaf people” becomes a political Trojan horse. Seems like a weird or non solution when perhaps the land should just be zoned for industrial use. Unless I’m not getting something...
It's not just the terminal, it's the python interpreter, ipython notebooks, debugger, e.t.c.

The terminal was what came to mind. Besides, when working in a remote dev project, the terminal automatically SSH's into the remote, and if local, it opens the working folder. It's practical to use the internal one sometimes.
In tech you look bad if you've worked under a year at a company. It's common for employees to leave at exactly 12 months. Likewise, it looks bad if you take more than a year off between jobs.
I think that meant something like don't interact with our "ordinary matter" in a way that we know.
Haha! Talk about learning something new every day!
You are allowed to change the width of the browser window.
Ok, rant time. I used Google Drive to back up photos for several years, but after moving to somewhere with a different currency I naturally wanted to avoid those extortionate fines banks charge for multiplying two numbers together.

I tried to use their web site. No option to change currency. Then I tried contacting support. What a shitshow that was:

- They claimed it was trivial, but the web site just wouldn't cooperate. "You can't change your country because one or more Google services you're using does not allow you to change your country." Google Support were never able to tell me which service that was.

- They suggested and I tried the usual restart, reboot, reinstall, clean cookies, try different browsers, login from an incognito window, etc. etc.

- Then they asked me to delete all registered payment options and finally to cancel my Drive subscription, after which point of course I lost access to my files and I was no longer able to pay to reinstate access.

After several months of support assuring me that they had "our specialist team working on this" not a single thing happened.

Thankfully I had a big enough hard drive to store all the photos, so I just found another service (which has been rock solid ever since) and made a mental note to move off of Google ASAP.
The real problem is that if these things don't fly before 2035, civilization is likely to collapse first.
it's baffling that at least even after a decade, no major adoption of Node.js ecosystem happened in enterprise. At least we expected new projects to migrate to Node.js but it did not happen yet. I believe the Node.js is yet to have large backing that Java had in it's early days which made things like JDBC and JMS and associated drivers from almost all vendors. Node.js feels like a not so solid, light-weight, scripting language in comparison.
Wikipedia is heavily moderated, but primarily by volunteers. Do you think that would be sufficient if the Wikimedia Foundation was liable for anything bad that users might post? That’s putting a lot of trust in your community, and the consequences of volunteer moderators slipping up or missing something are pretty big.
I think a 'made-in-china reactor' will be too hard to sell to the general public in US/EU
I don't think that is really true. Most start-ups fail, whether they build a bleeding edge product or try to compete on an existing market with smaller enhancements. After they fail if it's easy to pick the reason.

Very few start-ups succeed whatever they do. Skype was pretty bleeding edge at the time, the internet speeds wheren't really there at the time. Spotify or Tesla didn't enter a market with real competitors. Before they succeed, it's difficult to say whether they took the correct risk.

Someone has to be the first, chances are just not very good it will be your company.
The Assimp library can load FBX. Considering how well Frictional's code is architectured this should be pretty easy to fix.
Because the conversion rate was higher from no sign-up to paid. So we were probably selecting more serious trailers, but they were then more likely to pay as well. If it was just the conversion rate from sign-up to paid then you would be right, but we looked at the conversion across the entire funnel.
When I worked for a municipality we used software made by this company fairly heavily. They have large headways in several sectors of public administration. I believe in the municipality I worked in the entirety of our municipal court records was backed by their software, as well as our entire water billing system and payroll/HR system as well. Quite a high percentage of municipalities use this company’s software in some aspect, probably more than the average HN reader might expect given that Tyler isn’t necessarily a household name.

My impression of the company after working with their software is about what you might expect: they’ve had a sizable moat for many years which means that they never were really forced to innovate or invest in decent technological infrastructure, meaning that they are pretty susceptible to this sort of attack.

One of my more frustrating moments dealing with their infrastructure was when I needed some water billing data and went to pull it from their system only to discover the entire thing was running in some ancient version of COBOL and that I would have to parse their proprietary flat file database to pull it out.

The worst part of all of the above is that they are actually one of the better public sector vendors in terms of software quality. Which should just demonstrate how bad the quality of public sector software really is.
I believe it when I see it. It’s a project that exists on paper, not in reality.
According to LTT (one of the WAN shows), they’re compensated better than people who watch ads
JDBI.
Ask and you shall receive:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/
Not OP but main gripe is that it fails to integrate with native environments and for efficiency-orentied note taking app losing that efficiency edge native environments provide is just counter-productive.
I submit that most people don’t know when they are wronged by their ISP. The advertisement they should have been shown got replaced by something else, they got silently downgraded in video quality for that movie they watched, they got their DNS query hijacked and sent to a different site where it could be monetized, etc....

When you are sufficiently ignorant of what is being done to you on a regular basis, it’s easy to commit all sorts of crimes against you.
Those cave storage devices don’t exist yet.
In electrical engineering, the saying is "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."

Also, in computer folklore, there are numerous stories of how non-technical users purposefully destroy foolproof mechanisms by brute-force, e.g. cut the slot on a DDR3 socket to insert a DDR2 RAM module and fry everything... And I wonder whether "don't use brute-force, if you have difficulty getting it in, it means you are doing it wrong" should be taught as the first rule when working with hardware. Unfortunately, to add the confusion, we also have connectors that can be surprisingly hard to connect and disconnect even under normal circumstances...
Shopify says ‘rogue’ employees stole data from merchants
If you didn't buy that used, you probably should've complained to logitech. My master 2 runs ~1 month on a single charge, and when I see the third light blinking I usually just plug it into my laptop overnight. I've not had to deal with a dead battery in this mouse, ever.
Not much of their budget is going toward hosting though -- in FY 18-19 it was ~$2.3M of their ~$91.4M expenses [1].

If we look back to 2005, Wikipedia was already one of the most popular websites on the internet, but their expenses were only $716k [2]. They were frugal back then!

I agree with the parent that the extra expenses are mostly superfluous. They have a ton of staff [3] and quite a few of their roles seem to be about promoting their brand or maximizing donations.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/3/31/Wikim...
[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/28/Wikim...
[3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/
It is a great fucking mouse, but it's not for everybody.
Russia and India, too.
Thanks!! Appreciate it. :) Let me know if you've got a ko-fi or whatnot?
> the idea is appealing because it doesn’t invoke new particles or new physics theories. It just repurposes old elements.

Hope was that, dark matter puzzle may bring new physics . Primordial black holes will be interesting to watch.
How do you do this exactly? Would be helpful to know
You could embed images using data: URLs. There are size limits in some browsers, particularly older ones, but you can manage some pretty high-resolution images under the limits in a modern browser.
At the "wrong time" meaning you're at end of life, yah? By that time you're collecting SSI and have medicare. When you're really old you have less of a reason to spend, so even with a nice house that is paid off it becomes easy to not dip into retirement funds if needed.

Btw, 5% is not a safe withdrawal percent unless you're really old. Most do 4% and aim to not diminish but increase their savings in the long run while retired.
Discord Notification Using CloudWatch Alarms, SNS and AWS Lambda
Thanks for this! As fresh IT Dev student, this will help me out!
> AFAIK, there’s no standard way to bundle a webpage containing images into a single file.

There’s mhtml, though I can’t speak to how well supported it is.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2557
There isn't a fair use defense to playing cover songs. Moving to an alternative site isn't going to help. This person still needs licenses to distribute even if he is doing covers for free.
Renewables don’t help with climate change.

France: 50 Grams CO2 per kWh

Germany: 400 Grams CO2 per kWh

Germany invested 500 billion Euros for its renewable program the past 20 years.
It's good to know, how many sites supports?
I think a big appeal is having a second vendor to keep the market leader honest.

Google selling their own hardware and trying to stiffen requirements on Android devices are probably making most vendors feel a little nervous. Not necessarily that they'll be driven out of the market, but more that it will be ever harder to differentiate via software. App developers are clearly champing at the 30% tax bit.

So I'd expect the push to come from manufacturers and devs first, dragging consumers along. They might pick niches like low-cost devices where it's "this or a flip phone", like when the cheap Lumias outsold the entire rest of the Windows Phone market.

Comparable would be Samsung's tail-chasing with Tizen and Huwaei's forced embrace of its own OS.
> I could not believe a plane that large could fly and be reliably controlled in adverse situations.

I suppose somebody outside the aviation industry could think that, but in general, the larger the airplane, the smoother the ride and control are. In fact, airliners have specific certification requirements to "be smooth" for IFR handling:

FAA SFARS 14 CFR § 25.171 General (Stability)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.171

There's other FARS that list more specific requirements for airliners.

The only transport category class that I've seen which looks surprising in flight is the C-5 on takeoff. It's huge (about the size of a 747) and climbs out so slowly that it looks like it will fall out of the sky:

C-5 Takeoff at Abbotsford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCC6ZbZvG8I

The US lost a cargo 747 in 2013 in the Middle East due to the load shifting - armored vehicles rolled backwards, moving the CG aft and damaging hydraulic lines. Notice how slow (and vertical) it gets:

US Military 747 Takeoff and Crash at Bagram (caution: actual crash footage with flames)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01RmcKsm2k
> If your business model does rely on new technology (examples: airlines in the early 20th century, railroads in the early days of the steam engine, e-commerce in the early 2000s) then you have to work out a way to deliver on bleeding-edge technology.

Also, if your business model does rely on new bleeding edge tech, avoid all other bleeding edge tech. Pick one thing that nobody else can do, and do that. Don't try and create everything at once unless you have ridiculously deep pockets.
> they are within their rights to stop buying the product without having to explain why.

This might be right if they were a mom and pop store with 5 others within a couple of blocks. There is no viable alternative to Youtube so they don't get to make these calls.
The list is meant to change according to your usage, not the average user. Of course, you have to log in.
It’s not a fundamental problem with nuclear power as both China and Russia build new reactors safe and economically.

The West just forgot how to build large projects.
One major mistake Airbus made, or perhaps tradeoff, is that they put the cockpit on the first level, you'll note the 747's is on the second level. This made it dead in the water for cargo, the ability to include an opening nose cargo door massively improves the cargo options of an airline freighter.

As others have pointed out, the A380 brought volume more than tonnage to the game, and to utilize volume you need a way to get large objects into the plane, a nose door is the only way to do this on a passenger turned cargo jet, no backdoors.

The Airbus Beluga is an example of getting around this limitation, but this isn't a scalable option for normal freighters.
Maybe for the sake of argument the D politicians are cynically doing it purely for the sake of holding power so we don't even have to ask what the end goal is. Then why do voters want it? There are plenty of democratic voters like me who aren't direct beneficiaries of public assistance. Why do I and others like me support expanding social safety nets?

Personally it's for me it's that I think the economy is pretty brutal and random and to make the best economic choice means treating your whole life as fungible in the service of not winding up on the streets. You're supposed to just pick up and move uprooting the whole family if your local region goes into downturn probably leaving wealth behind if you did buy a house or find time to learn a new trade while also working to not starve. Personally I'm in a fairly secure position as a knowledge worker but even those jobs are subject to the whims of the larger economy. I'd like there to be an alternative to that for myself so I want to extend that grace to people who've had a worse time of it than me.

At the core it's a lot of believing that whole you can steer yourself we live in a big economy that only cares about people as much as we force it to. I think people deserve better than to just be cogs in a machine that funnels money towards people that already have it.
What people typically do is if they retire and then a recession hits, they go back to work for 1 to 3 years, then retire. If you look at the numbers there is a surge of retirees a couple of years after the bottom of a recession.
Here and elsewhere in this thread, you're exaggerating the power of the DMCA over YouTube. The only consequence to YouTube if they fail to follow along with the DMCA takedown notice/counter-notice procedure is that they lose safe harbor protection against being held liable for their users copyright infringement. In a case where YouTube is overzealously removing content that is not actually infringing, they really aren't at much risk of that somehow leading to them being sued for infringement. And you can bet that their Terms of Service adequately indemnify them against any torts their users might come after them for related to such behavior.
I use a Logitech G502 and it's great. This is the second one I've had (spilled drink on the first one, RIP) and I'll buy the same again when this one dies if they're still around.
In my opinion, the only type of mathematics that is useful to ALL programmers is discrete math. This is applied math that barely resembles the kind of math that you learned in high school, but it’s easy to see how these thoughts lead to the creation of computers.

Other types of math are relevant depending on what you’re interested in, but I think students should learn discrete math before diving into writing any serious code.
Two EPRs have been running in China since 2018 in Taishan.

It’s not a design problem, it’s a bureaucratic problem.
> The accepting false DMCA claims is something that the DMCA system sort of requires them to do.

No, the DMCA allows for counter claiming and it not being an issue. Google's policies go beyond what's required for the DMCA, and stem from the early several billion dollar copyright lawsuit they settled out of court with the major labels fairly early on. It's an extralegal system negotiated between Google and the labels.

> However they have in the past sued people who have issued false DMCA claims.

Can you give an example of someone they've sued for making false claims?
I have done a fair bit of reverse engineering to date including malware analysis. Havent read all the comments but of course a safe environment is important. Virtual environments can even be broken out of if you dont know how to debug simple samples that check for disassemblers or debugger presence. I recommend if you want to get some hands on experience checkout https://nostarch.com/malware (Practical Malware analysis) it will prepare you for messing with real life samples. Techniques are still relevant but technology might be different. Eg: IDA is great but Ghirda is the new hotness on the street.

Anyways have fun, good luck and be safe. Most of all happy hacking :)
>Better odds of surviving a crash vs a car.

Top gear did a report on this years ago. They were four times as likely to roll in a crash as a saloon car. The stopping distance was quite a bit longer as well.

There is also the issue of what happens when you run into a pedestrian.
Seems that when any popular project has lacking documentation this creates an opportunity for users to swoop in and own part of that story.

I did this with traefik and consequently many of my blog posts about it are my top visited pages.

And to be fair it the Traefik team invests in developer success and advocacy. They even send you swag for making contributions like popular posts.

I agree to parent posts though the docs lack concrete examples to take the ambiguity out. And debugging logs is painful sometimes.
This also blew on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/iyddro/youtube_term...
Yeah it was new. Weird. Did you have to install any drivers to get it to power save efficiently? Because I run Linux and don't have any Logitech proprietary drivers installed.
Again, it’s not a technological problem. It’s the West of being unable to finish large projects on time.

China and Russia are building new reactors faster and faster because in these countries nuclear never had a strong political opposition.