skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RIP James Randi.

My short anecdote. As a kid in 1984 in NJ I went to a high school where an english teacher claimed to have psychic abilities. At first I was enthralled but as I leaned toward scientific thought I grew skeptical. In english class with that teacher we ended up having debates as a project. I chose to debate the non-existence of ESP. James Randi lived in NJ at the time and I wrote or called (I don't remember) him to learn more to debunk these abilities. To my surprise, he invited me (and my father) to visit him at his home. He shared with me his thoughts, taught me an illusion (to use in my debate), and even shared that he had a file on my teacher who had claimed psychic abilities publicly and that he had failed Mr. Randi's tests. Thank you James Randi for your time, patience, education, and encouragement to pursue scientific thought.
> the vast majority of people don't have the discipline or skill to implement them effectively.

I'd go so far as saying -- most people who think they have the discipline and skill, don't. Or rather, maybe they have it maybe for a few passwords (email, online banking, work, machine passwords).

But it's almost impossible to do well once you cross ~20 passwords. Remember trying out Goodreads years ago? Well, turns out someone's hacked into your account and is posting reviews critiquing travel books for not buying into Flat Earth Theory. You only notice when searching for your name on Google. Or even nastier scenarios.
Another point that people seem to be overlooking is that even if the software had been released under a more permissive licence like the BSD licence the site still would have been in violation of it because they didn’t provide attribution, and even had the temerity to claim the code was theirs.

In all likelihood the outcome would have been the same regardless of what licence was used.
The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life
Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025'
Yup, we offer about 10% of electricity revenues back to the plant in exchange for the heat.
My use case would be two RAID1 mirrors plus a spare disk. I already have a 5 years old similar config on one Mini ITX Atom board with 4 Gigs RAM and Nas4Free; no problems so far. On ARM I would probably go with OMV (suggestions?) since XigmaNAS doesn't support that architecture (yet?).
> not being an entertainment enthusiast

What does this even mean?
Critical thinking : not critical thinking :: friendly fire : not friendly fire
TikTok is mobile-first, vertical video format that I can still watch on my desktop. Makes sharing it or watching funny ones with SO very easy
As in which program do I use to generate UML diagrams or which design method (object, 3d, etc)?
A gas turbine has about 25-30MW thermal in the exhaust gasses, typical is gas at 480C and 90kg/s. At those temperatures we can convert that to electricity at about 20% efficiency. We lose about a megawatt in parasitic load such as pumps.
That's actually a really bad change. Color indicates the stops a train will be making. If a train will be going down Broadway then it should be colored the Broadway line color. No one actually cares about the label of a given train; what matters is which stops it will be making, which is dictated by which track it's traveling on.
There is so much driver and feature spam in the Linux codebase. I really wish a beautiful, minimal microkernel approach would have won out.

Why can't distros be a package of microkernel + drivers?
Sounds like a great COO, someone who can drive and improve existing operations, but not someone who can come up with a vision or, as you said, finding a market.
What's the extension name?
The whole way that Google handled Windows Mobile was anti competitive imho.

They prevented Windows Phone users from being able to access Google Maps by checking User Agents.

They didn't release a native Youtube app for Windows phone, and when Microsoft wanted to make one themselves they restricted them to HTML5 and non-native access. This penalized battery life on Windows Phone platforms for 2 very large and important services.

Google got success with Android by frankly bullying every other viable competitor out of the market (Amazon Fire, Windows Phone) by again bullying in regards to play store services.
I use the same setup (mullvad + container proxy) and can't praise it enough. I just keep a mullvad connection open on my router and only route the proxy IPs through it.

Great for all kinds of silly GeoIP restrictions, too - in my part of the world, homedepot.com just spits out "access denied", a foodnetwork.com recipe you find in search results just redirects you to the tudiscovery.com homepage, etc.
This doesn’t seem as crazy as it appears on the surface. Quibi was streaming video targeted at people on the bus/train or sitting behind a register with nobody in line. It had no interest in serving people stuck at home.
Almost every TikTok video I see is vertical. They're going gangbusters. The culture hasn't changed. There never was room for something like Quibi. They had a shit business model which (as far as I can tell) was "people who ride the subway or take the bus, who will pay $8 a month for 1/3-sized episodes".

Because all other viewing scenarios still exist even with the pandemic.
This is literally what pass(1) does. Although it's rather fun to write a bunch of shell scripts that provide equivalent functionality.
Having recently acquired a model 3, I get where the previous poster is going.

It’s the cumulative effect of lots of small details: no key, no unlocking the car, no turning it or starting an engine, no gears... then the smoothest quietest experience of any car I’ve owned (admittedly I’ve never been in a Rolls or similar) thanks to the drivetrain, all in a very calm, comfortable, minimal space.

I think I’d describe it as having just the lowest cognitive burden of any car just about ever. It’s peaceful, I guess, when most cars aren’t.
If it becomes illegal to pay to set a search engine as default then they wouldn't be able to make those deals. Mozilla would lose all their money and the browser would die.
Also along those lines: what keyboard layout? I've never seen a (QWERTY) layout where underscore isn't a shift-level key.
Quibi was DOA. I honestly don't know why people thought it would survive. You can scroll 15 minutes on Tiktok and be more entertained.
I'm not convinced, but wish you good luck nonetheless.
Great, so they're finally shipping. Can you give us some details about the software used, configuration etc? Thanks!
hope that socialist malignancy dies in a fire
Full disclosure: I’m co-founder and CEO of Internal. The biggest difference between Internal and Retool is that Internal is designed for everyone (engineers and non-engineers) whereas Retool is designed for engineers. Both are legitimate approaches - just depends on what you’re looking for.

My co-founder and I have led several product and engineering teams at tech companies - and have experienced first hand the struggles of building and maintaining internal tools. We believe that empowering product teams, operations teams, IT teams, etc. to build and update some of their own tools would speed the business up, and free engineers to focus on bigger things.

Set up is lighting fast and you can customize and update your tools whenever you want.

We also provide developer tools as well. You can read/write via API, manipulate data with javascript, and more. We’re making some big investments in this area.
Does anyone know how car sales are doing in general during the pandemic? Are people still actually buying cars now?
Wait what? The GP said they were not mobile-first, they were mobile-only and that’s true.

And No, what you say is not how any of the video services work. Pandemic or not, the largest selection of videos are 16:9.

Quibi bet the house on a mobile-only portrait videos In 10 minute chapters. You claim there was a market for that - but give no evidence.

There isn’t a broad market for that niche offering!
You're totally right. As long as you have a different, secure password for every site and service, and you keep a careful list of all of them, and make sure to keep this list backed up, and encrypted, and sync this list across your devices so you have access to it when and where needed, then you totally don't need a password manager.

...oh wait, that's literally a password manager. Sometimes opinions are unpopular for good reasons.
Thanks! It works for me now in Edge (Chromium).
It's not that "forests are made to harbor violence" but rather it offers hiding places that predators can adapt to their own needs that a farm intentionally does not. For that reason we should avoid the forest and stick to the farms.
I remember the huge article a few years ago on why train counters/timers were not possible in the NYC subway because of the lack of ATC/PTC, and the entire system was still pretty much mechanical relay switched and zoned occupancy. [1]

Has something changed? Do trains now have transponders or something?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...
"and" that's the difference between Youtube and Quibi. Youtube was built as a free ad-supported platform for users to create content and present it to each other. Quibi was built as a paid streaming service where users watch professionally produced content for a fee. The track from non-user to paid user for Youtube is completely different than the one for Quibi. Youtube Premium targeted an audience that was already there. Quibi tried to get non-users to pay for the creation of the audience. It didn't work, and it will never work. Every successful paid-only streaming service has to target an already-existing audience. Netflix used licensing to target the fanbase of a broad swath of TV and movie viewership, fans who already existed. Disney did it by owning outright a broad swath of TV and movie material.

It generally doesn't even work in other media. CD sales were built on the back of free radio broadcasts. Pay cable and satellite subscriptions targeted an audience already exposed to television through free TV broadcasts. You have to offer a fundamentally better experience, on the order of "this new thing is the only way to experience non-live music" for people to pay for it sight-unseen.
7MW is pretty small. Any generation gear may trip off the grid at any moment; provided it doesn't do so too frequently or in sync with other failure, this is not normally a problem.

That's roughly the load of an electric train. Eurostar are 16MW.

It's also the sort of problem that batteries providing grid stability services help a lot with.
The engineering miracle of the electrical grid is exactly this sort of coordination. Think of this as being like solar energy - except it's generating 95% of the time rather than 25% of the time. That's considered baseload electrical, and although it's not awesome if a 10MW plant drops off the grid, the system is capable of handling it.
I think there will be a strong push for upgrading all outlets in garages to support charging an EV. Like you point out it is dangerous to charge without the proper equipment.
Your defense of Quibi makes them sound hapless, to borrow a pg word. That's not a strong defense.

"Don't be hapless" is good advice, and at least one thing that Quibi did wrong is not follow that.

http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
For the ignorant, what was that?
If you can drive in Boston, you can drive almost anywhere -- e.g. I didn't find driving round the Arc de Triomphe in Paris particularly difficult. Who needs lines? :-)

But I'd probably take the commuter train instead if they ran more often -- if we ever go back to offices.
It never meets economic hurdle rates for industrials on their own, which is why we're building them as independent power plants. We prefer to sell the electricity back to the host facility, but we often sell into the grid.
First of all, debt in emerging markets is not the same as debt in the West. A company cannot endlessly take debt, even if it continues making losses, simply because in such a situation, the government often intervenes - with a heavy hand.

Look at guys on the run such as Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi, former tycoons who ended up mired in debt, and who are currently wanted by the government. Another tycoon, Anil Ambani, is only able to stay back in India and fight out a case in court, after being bailed out by his ultra-rich brother's wealth and ties to the government.
> If it becomes illegal to pay to set a search engine as default

Just as the Microsoft antitrust case was never about whether it was legal to bundle a browser with an OS, but whether Microsoft's particular act of doing so was illegally leveraging a monopoly in the desktop OS market into other markets, the Google case isn't about whether its legal to pay to set a search engine as a default but whether by doing so Google was illegally protecting an existing search monopoly.

You can't just ignore the relevance of the market power premise of antitrust cases to which it is central and pretend they are about the actions without regard to market power.
I wrote a whole blog post [0] about this that just completely slipped my mind. I think my comment does a good job of getting the same points across but I can’t believe I spent 20-some minutes regurgitating this information haha.

[0] https://joshstrange.com/securing-your-self-hosted-apps-with-...
Amtrak has never turned a profit. Ever. They have never even broken even.
This is really, really interesting -- I've often wondered about how the accessibility space is meeting the needs of disabled programmers, especially after I briefly lost my vision due to an eye injury.

The eye-tracking setup in particular looks really nice. Even if I stuck to a regular keyboard flow I feel like that would be incredibly useful in reducing strain.
I still don't see how to parse it.
Exactly so coming back to my original question: my cannot US invest in high speed train from 4th and King to Napa valley?
What is holding it back?
Your argument in these last two posts only works if one believes technical innovation can continue happening at a roughly constant rate. I'm not sure that's the case, and I'd certainly not like to rely on it.

If, on the contrary, you view the rise of Computers and Internet as a once in 500 years event, then the Kodak of the world were very unlucky to have achieved power at the wrong time.

Looking at technologies today, I see plenty of inefficiencies, but not too many potentials for a large scale market turnover. IMO Facebooks is weakest since social media is subject to changes fashion. The rest are deep seated with pretty foundational roles.

I see the political climate or larger economy more suited for rapid change than the tech giants being unseated in the current political economy.
Stream instructions to a cheap processor.
TikTok is in the same niche (short form, mobile-first video content) and hasn't been hurt by the pandemic.
Hyperloop but it's 1859 :)
Bandwidth != latency
I see where you are coming from and I strongly suggest to try the conventional route to eliminate any serious physical problems before ending up here. My point is that RSI problems are not just physical but tightly coupled up with your mind. I wish someone can do a better job of explaining neuromuscular connection such that this won’t be pseudoscience anymore.
CartaX: Vertically integrated private equity market
Cryptocurrency was designed to be resistant to law enforcement and allow money to be transferred irrevocably to opaque pseudonyms, and to prevent blacklisting by any central agency. Once fraud happens, you've irrevocably lost the money.
> are just €20

Well, they are for some tickets. Ryanair (like any airline, and indeed train line) is heavily dependent on people booking late and paying much, much more.
No

> Wouldn't the equilibrium temperature be both a function of energy in and radiation rate (which is also a function of temperature?)

Exactly, and since we're not changing the energy in (that energy is going to reach us whether we pump it up or not), and thus the equilibrium does not change.

Where else can all that generated energy go other than up?
Social media is pretty different.
> The idea that a severance of Google’s alleged monopoly would cause a collapse of the competition actually undermines Mozilla’s point and strengthen’s the US’s point, ironically enough.

It might strengthen the US's case that there is an antitrust problem, but if the remedies don't actually fix the problem but instead make things worse, it certainly undercuts their case for the remedy.
They launched in a kind of weird way. One would think that if they raised 2B they would start really small and test their hypothesis with a few marquee shows, and then iterate to find a product that meets the tastes and demands of the consumer. Instead it feels like they just made a lot of assumptions and built a sophisticated expensive end product ... and consumers didn't show up.

That's a lot of money up in smoke.
Is this the metric we should be grading everything on? My kid hasn’t either but I love her nonetheless.
Sounds amazing, and I personally would enjoy all that even with the high cost of living and taxes (which you failed to mention) that naturally goes with that.

A significant portion of American's would find this too close to socialism and with too much government involvement for their tastes, even though they would be far better off with these perks. It's depressing how much worse off they would rather be than to have these regulations and government controlled benefits.
Yes, companies purposely don't include all desired features in the free tier as an incentive to induce users to upgrade to the paid tier. And features are liable to move between tiers as they fine-tune their monetization strategy.
In some locations there have been concerns about geothermal and induced earthquakes. http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/things-to-know/geothe...
Wow, what an amazing story.
Portrait on TikTok makes sense because the videos shown in algorithm driven order and are usually around 1 minute long at most. People are also swiping to skip to the next video, and you can't swipe comfortably in landscape.

A 10 minute Quibi episode is already half the length of a standard sitcom with ads (20 mins). It's not meant to be skippable. There really wasn't a need to make it portrait mode.
Either that or publicly funded. Giving customers the choice to opt into ads is another option – if those ads on provide value, as advertisers like to claim.
> But, says the former Facebook employee, there was a hitch: Everyone knew that most of the untrustworthy “junk” on Facebook, when it came to politics, originated with “conservative/conspiratorial” sites.

"Everyone knows <thing I want you to believe>" is my very favorite form of Weasel Words.
>but when you do the math the fuel savings is insubstantial

What does this mean? I drive ~900 miles a week on a car that cost $6500 used, and makes ~48MPG.

Personally I'm sick of being branded as a left-coast-virtue-signaler for owning a vehicle that makes sense for my use.
Such a time and click saver, legend!
Nothing at all. I'm not making a value judgment on Youtube Premium. I'm saying it's not the same class of service as Quibi and thus not a counter-example for how Quibi could/should have succeeded. They're fundamentally different things with completely different non-user to paying customer paths. Quibi wasn't Youtube. Quibi is 2013 Netflix if it didn't have any non-original content. Except 2013 Netflix wasn't dumb enough to charge you money and still show you ads.
I wish they didn’t do that. Or preferably, I wish they had native “containers” for work and personal repos.

Explore is one of my favorite features and now it’s crowded with work related suggestions. It makes it harder to separate the personal/professional persona and interests. This problem also manifests in notifications. I want a clear separation so I can focus on my personal life after work.

I’ve thought many times about creating a separate account.
I've seen some similar stuff with that too, yeah! Stuff like https://github.com/WAVM/WAVM is really cool, though I imagine this may be lighter (no LLVM dep)? You could also do something like a full system VM using a chip simulation like this, too.
Not everyone living along a coast has an appropriate coast to establish a harbor sufficient for shipping. If you live in big sur you still get your crap from china delivered inland from the port of Los Angeles.
I genuinely cannot see how anyone can even consider that anything less than 90% of new vehicle sales will be electric in 10 years. The economics are so overwhelming .. it's not a prediction anymore, it's just reality. There are >160 giga-factory-scale projects in the works. Everything about batteries get cheaper and better, while ICEs get more expensive and complicated as we grapple with the reality that they're killing us. Not to mention future petroleum costs.

Even without any cell technology innovation, scale alone is getting us to initial cost parity (and obviously lower TCoO). But the cell technology is coming. Roadrunner alone demonstrates that. The real question is about electric aircraft that would depend on solid state, lithium-air, etc.
I don't buy this at all. California is only slightly less dense than France (and contains significant basically-empty bits that wouldn't need to be considered; if you're just looking at habitable area it's probably MORE dense than France). Compare their railway systems.
Because a monolith is easier to get working on a quick timeline and it will generally outperform code that makes compromises for the sake of its' developers sanity. At least as long as you can keep the insane developers from eating each others eyes.
Some years back, Google had two experimental pieces of work to try to speed up HTTP named QUIC and SPDY (as in "Quick" and "Speedy").

The output from the experiments was new standardization efforts at the IETF. Google's SPDY, which was a binary HTTP protocol over TLS, eventually resulted in HTTP/2 which there's a fair chance you use today.

The other idea, QUIC, is a much bigger lift. It replaces not just the HTTP protocol and TLS but the whole stack, even TCP. At the IETF this work was split into two pieces, the IETF's QUIC is just the TCP replacement, an encrypted connection-oriented reliable protocol. So the HTTP part of the problem is being standardised as HTTP/3

Google's QUIC "gQUiC" will be obsolete once the standardized protocol is finished. Right now a Chrome talking to e.g. GMail uses gQUIC, once the standards work is firmed up it'll speak HTTP/3 and then maybe a year later Google's sites will discontinue gQUIC because it's just maintenance effort with no residual value.
IMHO the arguments in your link aren't particularly convincing. The three main points seem to be verbosity (defined in terms of total number of characters for a given file, which is not nearly as important to me as readability), not having indentation be significant (which might be downside to a Python programmer but feels like a win to me), and having explicit syntax to distinguish between types (e.g. strings being quoted, which is preferable to me, since it makes them stand out as values compared to the keys). If these are the strongest arguments against TOML, I find myself fairly convinced that TOML is probably the format I'd like to use most even though I was I different towards it before clicking the link.
The audio was very crackly for me, anyone else? Also the dull sine wave was fairly difficult to differentiate at small intervals, I wonder if the researchers considered the effect of different timbres
Well it was $2Bn not $100MM so don’t know how ppl will feel. Probably call it “Silicon Valley style” and disregard it.

The Hollywood model spends most of that money on ppl and marketing, little on tech. K has no tech experience and W only a smidgeon despite her exec jobs (eBay & HP). So I would be shocked if they spent more than $25MM on their stack which is mostly conventional. I’m sure the rest was blown on marketing, high salaries, consultants, offices, and deals with actors.
I use it on my Roku.