skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe some promising new storage technology will prevail, but solutions that are 5-10 years of development away from being viable have a habit of taking a lot more than 5-10 years to become viable. Until then nuclear presents the only proven way of decarbonizing an energy sector to a great extent that works in any environment.

It's true that nuclear doesn't make economic sense relative to running a gas plant and using solar when you can. You can get a greater immediate carbon reduction by spending the cost if a nuclear plant on supplementing fossil fuels with nuclear. But that'll only go so far. Once you outstrip demand during peak generation hours, you're effectively getting less energy for the same capacity. It doesn't provide a path to decarbonization without storing large amounts if energy - much larger than what we'll be able to store for decades at least.
Careful, vice... glass houses and all that.

The last few years have been rough to watch, as their staff social justice warriors push them so far to the extremes while injecting opinion into the narrative, it's hard to tell which side they represent.
It's very easy for niches to be overrun with folks once people get wind of it.
I get both! Mostly clusters, but on occasion I'll have a looooong headache that I can't shake, and after a while I start feeling the nausea and realize it's a migraine.
I'm not sure if that says more about the workers or your requirements. By 'work hard' you can only mean 'performing hours of tedious unthinking labour' if you're saying 'flipping burgers' is relevant and necessary to 'working hard'. The qualities just don't seem to match up for a job that requires real, rigorous, logical thinking, except for selecting out anyone incapable of the bare minimum effort to sort of just survive in the workplace. That's fair, but doesn't really map to what I commonly see which is a lot of wasted potential being consumed by menial labour because 'just doing it' is seen as more important than developing genuinely useful new approaches.
Try looking at Node-Red.
Can someone explain how utility companies aren't part of the gov in the US of A? How is it in other countries? Are they private enterprises?

It terrifies me that some private corporation is in charge of public infrastructure that cannot be controlled in capitalistic marketplace. For e.g., water utility company has no interest in the safety of water as far as there aren't any laws preventing them from saving money, and there isn't much of a competition for the public to choose from.

With government handling public utilities, it comes with other challenges such as inefficiencies and quality of service but lot of US gov departments do well - US National Park Service, US National Labs, why can't Dept of Energy run utility companies?
PHP 8.0 feature focus: Just-in-Time compilation
> Please save your insults for someone who has asked for them.

frankly, you did - other than links, your post consists of a unprompted, charged, polemic insisting that you refuse to read the article being discussed. This is especially uncouth given you effectively stepped into a room that says on the door "Group Assembled To Comment on Article"
Graphics cards got powerful enough and cheap enough to run decades old algorithms in a reasonable amount of time.
Sounds like a good time to repair airports
A language designed for easy dictating/listening rather than writing/reading, for people with muscle/movement dysfunctions or vision problems.

Another vague idea that came to my mind recently was a language in which everything is a function (similar to Ruby were everything is an object). No idea what for or what sort of implications it would have.

[edit] another idea
puberty blockers and other endocrine drugs have profound effects on a developing body. puberty isn't an even that the body likes to postpone, the biological clock continues to mark time even if you go to great effort to keep a different schedule.
But I thought REST was a "protocol neutral architectural style", so why are we stuck with 200, 201, 202, 204, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx which "are usually fine alone".
Wing Commander 3 and 4 were much better engines than the first two games. Even with some fondness in my heart for Privateer those early WC engines were awful. And modern patches and tweaks the controls still leave them feeling jerky and imprecise.

There have been fan efforts to port them to newer engines, though all look janky IMO. Here's hoping for a proper remaster.
> the cost of coal needs to come up ... Stripe is trying to reduce that $775.

Non-sequitur. And no, I believe that's a marginal rate.

> Assuming all energy comes from coal

all=>any, coal=>hydrocarbons

> All plants die and decay, returning carbon to the carbon cycle.

How do you think the fossil fuels got underground in the first place?

Okay, yeah, it's complicated, but the planet has sequestered carbon from volcanic eruptions over billions of years before anyone tried pumping it down a mine shaft. Really it's mostly done by clouds, which absorb CO2 into H2CO3 and then plankton build their shells out of it, and deposit it as lime at the bottom of the ocean. Land-based carbon also washes away as acid or gets buried or turned into ash by oxygen-poor heat from fires.

Now the whole problem we're concerned about is not exactly carbon, but global warming, which is caused firstly by low albedo, and secondly by greenhouse gas absorption of surface heat remissions.

The most significant source of albedo is clouds, as is the most significant source of carbon capture. So it's really too bad that we've been waging a global war on clouds. We seed clouds for aviation, for farming, for ski resorts, tourism, whatever; we hate clouds. Everybody does it.

It seems to me that I see less of them today than decades ago, but I don't know. (Okay, I just checked, and yes, this is true)

> we need to put carbon back

Sorry, but no, no, no. _We_ do not need to do anything. _We_ are not helping. Do you have any idea how much carbon emission it takes to build a sequestration plant? We need to do less of everything. Less driving, less building, less industry, and less buying junk you don't need, even if 1% is going to some feel-good slush fund to pump up revenues for someone's misguided eco-startup investments.
I feel side projects is something you do for fun or on a whim. You just start building immediately on your off-time with not much expectations. Maybe to try out a new technology. It's more of a solo engineering activity. You build it first, and maybe down the line, something comes of it and you do a Show HN in six months.

A business is more broad and deliberate. From the get-go, you need to constantly be talking to many people, have a process for validating the problem, track metrics, plan your time, think about opportunity costs of pursuing different paths, have sales funnels, marketing, scope things out, etc.
Yeah, request IDs that are used to invoke deferred callback functions
We only use Python but we let Envoy to do the transcoding between gRPC and JSON. No issues.
In reality, almost all of the people killing cops are committing crimes.

In fact, the statistic for felonious killings of LEO doesn't even require specifying the exact perp -- it's just the race of the perp. One category is "unknown race."
They are no longer just ideas. They would be sharing executions and proof of market demand.
Wing Commander made you look up ship schematics to answer trivia. I was maybe 10 years old and got a copy from the son of a family friend but he only gave me photocopies of a few of the pages, so it sometimes took a while before I could get in!
Personally I don’t see shortcuts having “everything we want” until they merge iOS and macOS automation. I do think it will eventually happen, but I think it will indeed be slow and steady, and will take a lot of engineers pushing for automation, which isn’t always a flashy selling point, strangely enough...
The ROMs on Archive.org are largely pulled from eXo's collection anyway. The main value that eXo's collection adds is the custom DosBox tuning for each individual title. The Archive.org JS-based runner doesn't come close, most titles there barely run at all, let alone with hand-tuned configurations and metadata.
for ray tracing you should start with https://pbrt.org/

I'm not familiar with fluid simulation.

graphics is a broad field. there are many sub fields.
Going 3D (and HD) also consumes far more budget for art and level design, so companies are less willing to take risks in other areas.
> Edit: I don't really think the parent comment needed to be flagged ...

You can vouch:

- click on the timestamp

- click vouch

- IIRC dang will taking vouching privileges if he spots someone abusing it
Half-Life came out just about when I started gaming, and was when I first really picked up on Sierra’s existence.

Then right after, they were just gone. No more new games with the Sierra logo (that I saw anyway)
I don't know. One thing that is interesting is that the people who depend most on the UI to make huge monetary decisions (traders) seem to absolutely minimize white space. Look for example for screenshots of trading software, and you find an attempt to maximize the amount of information that is on the screen.
4 Arrested in $6M Heist at JFK Airport
PG&E is kind of public. We just structure it in a way that it’s technically private. This has a lot of clever tricks like the fact that if it loses a ton of money it can go bankrupt without the state of California going bankrupt or having to cover all the losses.

Also, PG&E cannot just set whatever prices they want etc. the state has quite a bit of say over it.
Because RPC is brittle. It requires both server and client to agree on the definition. It requires a shared IDL. If used as more than just the protobuf serialization format, it hides the remote part of RPC and programmers forget about network failures. It requires a different naming service from the standard internet naming service (DNS) which is brittle across network boundaries.

If you want to avoid bikeshedding for REST APIs, adopt a standard like JSON API [1].

Adopt a specification standard like OpenAPI [2] and JSON Schema [3]. There is tooling to give you the client/server stubs like gRPC.

Implement using HTTP/2 with fallback to HTTP and you get compression and multiple channels per connection.

gRPC is a repeat of CORBA is a repeat of ONC-RPC is a repeat of... there's common reasons why RPC as a concept is brittle and tightly couples implementations of clients and servers.

[1] https://jsonapi.org/
[2] https://swagger.io/specification/
[3] https://json-schema.org/
Fair warning about the Daedalic games, they can be misogynistic. I've played a few and found the female characters too stereotypical.
> Construction projects are inherently unpredictable

And yet, renewable projects typically come in within 10% of the contracted price.
I have - I've driven across it on the highways and in the Phoenix metro area. One thing that I noticed was that when I was in Phoenix, there were lots of people...most of the people in Arizona, actually. My hope in matching up those statistics was that they did most of the driving too, so it wasn't too apples-to-oranges, but of course I did bring up this factor that made my comparison suck. I would have loved to find the right statistic to compare to--did you have any luck finding it?
It is a compromise for how Xorg and Wayland can have a shared graphics backend that improves both sides and the part that the Xorg maintainer wants gone can go away.

Arcan has had its own fork of Xorg for many years, as well as a Wayland implementation. Nothing here will change that trajectory.

The library mentioned is about ~2kloc, decoupled from the rest of the project (100+kloc) and the relevant subset has not changed significantly for several years.
I enjoyed it for Ultima VII, where the manual was written as a holy book / biography of the main religious figure (antagonist) of the setting. You needed to answer questions from the book to be allowed out of the starting town.
It would, but it wouldn't be able to push 100gbs. It's not lying
If I were to invent a language it would be radically simple: No functions, one data type, global scope, no modules, and no standard library.

- No package manager, code can be included with URLs, and signed via protocols that support signatures (ex: Git). No “modules” or package metadata, just source code files that are concatenated.

- Global scope, aided by the ability to namespace includes.

- A single data structure, like LISP. Probably records/dicts but could be anything.

- Only two types: Integers and UTF-8 strings. I’m serious.

- No functions. Data transformation occurs though pattern matching / destructuring.

- Automatic compile-time static memory allocation.

- Streaming I/O, with incremental computation, to allow for static memory allocation.

- No standard library, only semantics for destructuring the single data type, integers, and strings.

I think the closest languages to this would be variants of datalog.
NASA Is Using Its Astronauts to Help Promote a Cosmetics Company
Hmm, interesting. A cheap touchscreen on the back of the phone could really improve one handed usability. The larger phones really make you reach for things. Would love to be able to claw a few gestures on the back of the phone like unselecting an autocorrect (which always has me hovering over the autocorrect bubble, but I’d love to just swipe with my index or middle finger on the back to ignore autocorrect for the word).

Two finger swipe on the back could shuffle browser tabs. This feels like a no brainer, what’s stopping this from being implemented?
its codes of conduct all the way down.
The massive popularity of many of those games proves you wrong by example.
It sounds like it's not similar to humans in Arizona according to the Arizona DOT, although I find it surprising if the average Arizonan only gets in one accident about every 50 years.

I wonder if a huge amount of the driving are things like OTR trucking and have a low accident rate compared to the average civilian commuter.
I see this criticism a lot for serverless but I don’t see it in reality. Serverless is still just running code, the only part that wouldn’t be portable is the entrypoint data structure which is amounts to practically nothing.
I wouldn't say most doctors are incompetent, but I would say that most are automatons working to a checklist which probably hasn't been updated since they left school. Patient reports symptoms A, B, C? Order tests X, Y, Z, prescribe drugs 1, 2 and 3.

Now that's probably appropriate for (say) 70% of patients. But what about the other 30% of patients whose symptoms or conditions don't fit squarely in the checklist? That's when some kind of analytical/critical diagnostic skills are needed, and in my experience, very few doctors possess these skills.

Once you're in uncharted waters, they're not helpful. In fact, they're often actively unhelpful because they refuse to acknowledge that some things might be outside their expertise and they either need to actually hit the books, or do the work to find a specialist who can help you.
Here's ABC news from June of last year: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1322376502403604480?...
I should add, the biggest hole in your comment is this notion that they're not only convicting the wrong guy, they're getting the wrong race and that's throwing off the numbers (by a factor of 3? Or 8, depending on crime?) As if the victim's getting attacked by a white guy and she's saying a black guy did it, to the point of a 3x crime rate. And the security cameras got the color wrong, too.

It's like you're imagining this great holocaust of white assault victims suffering from having the wrong guy prosecuted for attacking them, with half the perps getting replaced by some random black guy.
Hear, hear! Well put. That goes for small things like colds, too, which despite science everyone seems to have a cure for.
Also, this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM
It's missing "Pickle Wars"!
Oh, I'm the last one to start a call like that, because I know how bad it is to get stopped in your tracks and diverted when you're on a roll. Not that calls and conversations can't be useful, I just... don't like it when people think that's the only way to communicate.
What is holding Wayland back? Was the core protocol just not created with many basic features in mind?
I set up SSH signed host keys (as outlined in this article) a couple years ago and it was a game changer. I have around 100-150 hosts I manage, and almost half of them wipe themselves out and rebuild every night. I originally had automation that would pick up all these host keys and publish them, so I wouldn't get host key warnings. It was a finicky process and often would fail.

Signed SSH host keys has been a game changer. Don't leave home without it.
That's only if you assume that getting to that level is nothing but a matter of natural ability, talent, and hard work. Instead, much of it is about access to training opportunities, coaches, having parents who can afford to send you to various camps, drive you to weekend tournaments, and buy you the equipment necessary.

Tech exacerbates this problem even further. How can you get anywhere as a kid if your parents don't have a computer, and neither does your school? And that's just one example.
The author of this article is in far more pain than I have ever experienced. I will, however, try to pitch in because I have had chronic intestinal issues and I've found a few hacks to make it feel better.

For me it helps to consider how many people have had it worse. It's cynical, I know, but knowing that diarrhea killed more people than guns in the USA civil war is comforting. The Union soldier who died squatting over a pit while cannons boom and flies descend makes me remember how comfortable my climate-controlled bathroom is.

Another thing I've learned is to not feel guilty when I've abandoned whatever I was up to before the pain started. I'm lucky to have a partner who is very forgiving when we are traveling or doing leisure activities and I have to rush to the nearest bathroom. It's not your fault that you're not doing what you were supposed to be doing. Don't hesitate to curse your maladies for interrupting your life. It feels good to stick it to the man, even when the man is your own digestive system.
Oh man, this was the case for my (former) sleep disorder. I appreciate the suggestions, but trust me, if you'd heard of it, it's something I'd tried a few years ago.
I was rereading The Lord of the Rings a while back and one of the things that struck me was how seriously the characters take the giving of advice. In retrospect I think this is one of the biggest blind spots of American culture in general. We act like advice is cheap or even free, both in the giving and in receiving. It's not. Even when solicited. I think we'd all be healthier if we were slower to give advice, even outside of such extreme circumstances.
Evolution of Ski Shape
In 1988: "Franko’s calculation was straightforward: “Choose the radius of the turn — 10 meters, for example. Choose the speed you want to ski — 5 meters per second for example. Calculate the centrifugal force and the lean angle, as for a bicycle. This is the angulation of the ski. Imagine a ski of constant width bent to the radius of the turn and penetrating through the snow. ‘Cut’ the ski with the snow surface, and there you are!”"
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will ‘make its own laws on Mars’
I want to say our tiny startup was quoted about $30k? Then they dropped it recently to $199, and now it's free.

I'm guessing "hope Google calls asking for a new integration and charge them a million dollars" was the business model, and they're hoping to transition into a model where they charge users.
Configurable Endpoint Watcher
> In the case of intellectual property, it often means a "right to exclude". The right to exclude others from doing something is a property right.

in the case of tangible goods, it makes sense because often one person's use precludes another person's use, and each use has a physical effect on the object in question. One person's use of a software doesn't exclude another person from using the same software, so the 'right to exclude' actually means the right to punish someone for using a software or idea. Exclusive use of physical goods makes sense because they are rivalrous. Exclusive use of an idea relies on a complex of relations including a regulatory state with a coercive apparatus. If someone wants to use my house they deprive me of my use of that house to the extent that they use it, and its natural that I would use force to prevent it. In this view, the use of the state coercive apparatus is on my behalf as a person who needs a house but lives in a society that doesn't want houses to belong to anyone strong enough to take them from the (former) owner. If someone wants to use a design that I have created and patented they aren't preventing me from using the design, they are just refusing to pay a license fee for my patent.

Essentially treating physical goods like properties that can be owned allows people to use them and predict their availability and incentivizes the creation of more physical goods, allowing intangible goods to be treated like property incentivizes rent-seeking behavior and allows people to collect rents on goods that could be duplicated for little to no cost.

It may be more useful to consider how copyright has been shaped by powerful interests to reflect their desires rather than how property rights in physical goods arise naturally from the existence and use of rivalrous/scarce goods.
Neat endpoint watcher for automating your life at work.
When I was a kid I absolutely preferred Sierra's adventure games, especially the King's Quest series. They were so much more sincere and aesthetic, while the Lucasarts ones were more cartoony and full of corny jokes that broke the 4th wall. (To be fair Space Quests did this a lot too, and those were great.) I was always offended by the point-and-click interface which felt dumbed down compared to the bare text input. Even if the latter was of course severely limited and frustrated a lot of gamers, it always felt more open-ended and limitless to me. You never knew when some longshot idea you typed out would actually work, like yeah you really are on the same wavelength as the designers. I used to dream about making games like that with far more advanced parsers and dictionaries (but like so many, I tended to get sucked into the rabbit hole of building the engine and development tools rather than the actual games).
The idea is built on very basic physics. There is nothing super complicated here.

It's an inverted cyclotron built in a penning trap. Instead of all ions orbiting a single point, they all pass through that point.

The scatterplot is from a penning trap simulator showing the motion of individual particles. What you are seeing is periodic implosions similar to the IEC fusion machines. Instead of compressing a pellet with lasers and getting one pulse, this design gives you many implosions for free once the motion is created.

I HOPE it will work, but without ANY experimental data, nobody can say for sure. If it does work the payoff would be huge, and if it doesn't, the cost of trying it is relatively small.

It seems like a fantastic bet to me, and that's why I'm trying my best to fund the initial experiment myself. That's the biggest hurdle, and also the most risky. Once that threshold is passed, if it works as intended, I should have no problem getting as much funding as I want while giving up a miniscule amount of equity.

At the end of the day, results are all that matter. If it's not solid, then there's no point.
So popularity = good design? That's a weird assertion.

Like I said, they were technological marvels, and I think people bought them because of that. I do wonder how many people who purchased them actually finished them.