skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but is iron optimal for such an approach?

I found the question equally intriguing.

This is still an energy storage medium, so think of it like a very energy dense battery rather than a true fuel & today it is produced by burning carbon in coal/coke.

That aside, for a solid powder fuel, pretty much yes.

That 2nd article lists out why it is most likely the best choice, but to collect everything I read together.

2nd most abundant (Al is more),
powder burns into powder oxide which can be separated easily (not corundum glass),
production capacity exists across the world (not exotic material),
the waste product will dissolve in acidic water (for cleaning), but isn't a "heavy heavy" metal (we can excrete iron through our kidneys),
decent flame capacity (magnesium would burn hotter, maybe),
very shelf stable, degrades into the final product (it rusts, but then you dump it the same way),
won't catch fire by itself (not like the alkali metals or sulfur/phosphorus)

Eventually, there's just a few non-carbon elements which even hit a part of those - Al, Si and Fe. And the other two make it one-use only with glassy (literally) oxides.
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Glad to see postmark mentioned, top tier service indeed.
Can I just rant about how atrociously terrible and primitive GitHub's search features are?

It's quite common for me to search for something and get tens of thousands of identical results which GitHub forces me to scroll through one page at a time.

It would be so much better if GitHub just showed me one single result for all those thousand which are exactly the same, and let me expand that result if I wanted to see one of the other identical matches.

Also helpful would be a way to filter out filenames (or, even better patterns.. better still regexes) which I don't want.

That would make their search results actually useful.

As it is, unless you're searching for something exceptionally rare, they're next to useless.
This seems more like metaballs than a lava lamp simulation. The balls interact before they touch.
Yeah I think this is actually pretty important. I wonder whether associativity of unrelated changes generalizes to other git problems?
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Per your 2nd para Google used to have some options to tailor the results more, like allinurl or inurl or title or link (IIRC the word had to be in a link pointing to that page) or whatever.

I expected that to evolve to get more specificity but things went completely the otherway and we can't even specify a term is on a page reliably with Google now.

Similarly, I was all in on xhtml and semantics (like microformats) where you'd be able to search for "address: high street AND item:beer with price:<2" to find a cheap drink.
> They didn’t seem like men you would go to battle with... Maximus, Achilles or Michael Jordan – often associated with a masculine ideal.

Funny how often the “masculine ideal” gets ret-conned in ways that say more about the person making the argument than anything else. Achilles is hardly insensitive——the turning point of the Iliad is his mourning over the body of Patroclus.
What if Dell, HP, Lenovo and Microsoft get together with AMD or someone like Samsung and start knocking out ARM, or even RISC-V SOC based machine that compete with Apple? Apple doing this could go to proving that ARM is viable on the desktop/laptop. Microsoft have not succeeded in the past with an ARM based platform, but this could change that and refocus their effort.
Vampires is not at all like in the movies or books. Sure, I understand. You are young you have the whole world open to you. You can be anything that you choose if you apply yourself and try hard to work toward that goal. But being a Vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a life full of good, and amazing things. We are as human as you are.. It’s not what you are that counts, But how you choose to be. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? kindly contact the vampire kingdom on their email worldofvampir@hotmail.com
Not just that, they seem to suggest Github created Git...

> the quality of the tech that is Git is a testament to GitHub being able to make it this far in the tech space

But in reality, Github makes Git more complex, because now you have to understand the concept of forks. Not only is there your local copy and an origin, there is a 3rd repository in play.
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In what situations would someone not legally be allowed to interface with a cloud? Something like GDPR, or a personal injunction? Just out of curiosity, I've not heard of such a restriction.
It's amazing to me what a skill it truly is to be able to talk to customers/users, and come out of those conversations with valuable/actionable insights.

As an engineer, it's _so_ easy to fall into the traps she mentions ("not really listening to your users and [...] building something you think people want", or becoming "more focused on the excitement of the technical challenge than your users").

Until I actually tried starting a business, I always scoffed at this advice -- "obviously I won't make those mistakes!" But I still find myself goofing up over and over. It's so attractive to think that "this one new feature will make all the difference, so I should probably just focus on coding rather than talking to users."

Has anyone found a particularly effective way to overcome this? Is it just a lack of discipline on my end? (Maybe I need to reread "The Mom Test" a few more times...)
"I want a single source for my DNS."

I don't like applications that do their own DNS resolution. I use a text-only browser that relies on the OS to do DNS resolution.

But imagine your DNS is filtered. Would you still want only a single source, e.g., your ISP? In that case, wouldn't you want multiple sources?

When in a DNS-filtered environment, e.g., a hotel, DOH outside the browser can actually be useful. For example, I can retrieve all the DNS data for all the domains on HN in a matter of minutes using HTTP/1.1 pipelining from a variety of DOH providers. The data goes into a custom zone file served from an authoritative nameserver on the local network. Browsing HN is much faster and more reliable when I do not need to do recursive DNS queries to remote servers. The third party resolver cache concept is still really popular, but IME most IP addresses are long-lived/static and "TTL" is irrelevant. I rarely need to update the existing RRs in the zone files I create and the number that need to be updated is very small.

DOH servers are not the only alternative source of DNS data.

Ideally, I prefer to avoid third party DNS altogether. Nor do I even need to run a local cache. I wrote some utilities that gather DNS data "non-recursively", querying only authoritative nameservers and never setting the RD bit. It is very fast. The only true "single source" of DNS data is the zone file for the particular RR at the designated authoritative nameserver(s). Everone else is a middleman.

I am not a fan of applications doing their own DNS resolution, even if they use DOH. But I have found the existance of DOH servers, i.e., third party DNS caches served over HTTP, can be useful.
Snow Crash is coming true.
When I signed up it estimated that I would be paying whatever my co-pay is for each of my prescriptions which is a great deal more than what I pay just going through Walmart. Like more than double more.
It considers a line break to break up a sentence. If you move the whole thing to a single line, it will naturally consider it to be far too long a sentence.
So pocket in no way detracts from your privacy. It's an very useful feature to many people. It's fine if you don't like it, but to use the privacy argument against it is incredibly disingenuous.

Edit: Also, you understand incorrectly about safe browsing. It does its checks locally.
> Where can I read more about AlO2?

Sorry, bad typo for the oxide - Al has many oxides. I meant Al2O3, not Al2O (or AlO2)
Imagine the day we have high-refresh, color e-ink displays to pair with high performance ARM chips.
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Seems interesting, but the colour palette is just awful.
Why? I could understand making tablets thinner since they can be used like a paper notebook, but laptops don't work anything like a paper.
Looks great.

I wish there were transcriptions of the videos though so I could just read the lesson instead of watching.
Yeah - my take away from this election was that 538 modeling was really good and the betting markets were pretty bad.

Polling appeared to be decent, but with a skewed under reporting of trump support for an unknown reason. Lots of speculation about why, but it’s still just speculation.

Betting markets seemed all over the place, poor predictions that swung around, and at times were clearly wrong.

538’s model of potential outcomes was right on target and their analysis was solid. Biden’s chance of winning was high because he could survive a polling error, and he did.
Correct. Discussion is useless, when people can just express their own opinions or "emotional truths" rather than respecting established facts. Therefore the only sensible alternative is to downvote without discussion, which is inherently futile.
There are infinitely many observations. They don't select themselves. Humans do that, and not for neutral reasons [1].

Your comment was obviously trying to strike a blow for one side of a well-known argument that's going on right now. There are a few problems with that. First, blow-striking is not curious conversation; we can't have both, and HN exists for the latter [2]. Second, these arguments are so well known that the threads they lead to get increasingly predictable as they get more intense [3]. I'm sure you can see how that's bad for curious conversation too.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
The fact that I just got downvoted just proves my point. This sort of bigotry is very real.
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> at build-time

That's going to be hard.

You're going to need an operating system, redox might work, not sure if it can run rustc yet.

Once you have the operating system you need the hardware, specifically the hardware not to be using C. I'm not sure how I would even go about testing that but even if I had a magic wand I don't think it would be easy to cobble together a computer... and I can't even use particularly exotic hardware because of the limited OS selection.
That works to a point, but it doesn't necessarily find all the rules of the model. In the post I walked through a model with three training records (yellow, blue, red) which created six prediction boundaries. Half of the rules weren't covered by the training data, which makes them hard to find without an efficient algorithm to search out all possible rules. The risk of undiscovered rules is they may cause unexpected behaviour that leads to bad predictions - and if you haven't described the whole model then it will be impossible to know how many of these potentially bad predictions exist.
I have read this claim many times and yet to see any empirical evidence to back it up. If this license really hit the “sweet spot" between GPL and MIT/BSD then why haven't other projects outside of Mozilla funded projects adopted it. I think the reality is just the opposite. It neither gives the impression to contributors that their contributions are "protected" nor does it give lisensees the comfort that they will not accidentally run afoul of it's terms.
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It's for two reasons:

First we have a system of primary elections, and in many jurisdictions your party registration status determines which primary you can vote in. You have to be registered Democrat to vote Democrat, registered Republican to vote Republican, etc. The local election board is the one who oversees to vote, so they need to know your party registration in order to make sure you get the right ballot and the right ballot information (which is sent by mail beforehand). In many jurisdictions you can also "decline to state" and then in a primary election you have to tell them each time which ballot you want.

Second, it's used in state redistricting. Having this information be public allows auditors to check if redistricting is resulting in gerrymandering.
I pray database columns aren't my essential purpose.
Yup, just posted about this myself before reading further down. The whole line is a bizarre illiteracy that is, I think, unfortunately common.
Thanks for replying. I really need to start using smth like buku to manage all my tabs/bookmarks.

Hope you and your familly all the best.
I think it's implied in "two day battery life".

If that's not what you actually want then just call it 'heavy use all day battery life' or something.
Right, but the problem you're describing is not the failure of React to compose components, but the fact that in-browser elements are not React components.

If you had a library of React components, and it had a BaseRadioButton, if properly designed you could use it to compose other components (radio buttons, forms, etc).
As the article states, Soros has donated billions personally. For example, he created Open Society Foundations: https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/. The number I’ve seen a few times is $32 billion in philanthropy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros). Complaining about what the fund did with $175 million seems ridiculous.
I tried to build something like this in 2007, together with a small band of nerds and geeks and Linux enthusiasts. It was called Beeseek. [0]

I knew close to nothing about building a company or a project, or how a proper business model would have helped it. I was the leader (SABDFL) of the group, and unfortunately I didn't lead it well enough to succeed. We had some good ideas, but ultimately we failed at building more than the initial prototype.

The idea behind it was simple: WorkerBee nodes (users' computers) would crawl the web, and provide the computational power to run Beeseek. Users could upvote pages (using "trackers" that anonymously "spy" the user in order to find new pages - repeat: anonymously). The entire DB would be hosted across multiple nodes. Auth and other functionalities would be provided by "higher level" nodes (QueenBee nodes).
Everything was going to be open source.

Well, it didn't work.

Thankfully, because of Beeseek, I met a few very smart people that I am in touch with to this day.

Life is strange and beautiful in its own way.

Weird, though, that today I still believe that Beeseek could have been the right thing to build. Who knows?

[0]: https://launchpad.net/beeseek
I use both code generation, and backward automated modeling from code, which is possible only on EA to my knowledge. Overall usability was worse, maybe because of old Java SWT interface (last time I used VP in 2011)
The way to improve writing is to learn to write, not to lean on the crutch of an 'app'.

The 'app for everything' mentality is turning people braindead.
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I bI don't own a TV and blocked pretty much all online advertising in my life.(thanks to nextdns) However am an adamant podcast listener, most days it is probably the only advertisements that reach me.
I think they meant to draw attention to the implementation of `yes` to showcase crustiness the C stdlib imposes on even a trivial program.

But of course GNU is kind of notorious in this regard. Compare their `yes` to OpenBSD's. It's night and day.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/usr.bin/yes/yes.c
Apple laptops have finally regained a hardware edge.

About a decade ago I overcame my Apple skepticism and moved from Windows to Mac because the MacBook Air simply had better hardware that I couldn’t find for the same price in the Windows world. Apple laptops lost their hardware edge many years ago and are only now winning it back with Apple Silicon.
Great—thanks!
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Pretty cool project, didn't feel super snappy on sites which had animation however. Think I'm going to stick with Firefox.
Isn't Microsofts solution, starting with .NET 5, essentially the same as Java's jlink/javapackager – i.e. minify and bundle the whole runtime with the app?
This reminds me of RX Limited, and Paul Le Roux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
> why build a search engine at all in this case?

On a public scale, you could make an argument for tighter integration/better privacy with the lists. For example:

Browser -----Request-to-SE-----> Search Engine
^ |
| Unfiltered Results (In YAML/JSON)
| |
| V
|--Desired Results------ Local Filtering/Rendering

On a private scale, if you are only crawling sites on the allow list than you have the possibility of being able to better maintain a local database of sites to show up on the search.

Edit: Possibly this could be easier to use to set up distributed search as well, as each node could index a given list, and then distribute that list similarly to DNS. Don't really know how well that would work though, just an idea.
Correct.

And yet more and more people talk like robots.
This is a fascinating history. This New Yorker article goes deep, but in another sense it barely scratches the surface.

Retelling this story would make an amazing HBO series.
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You could use machine learning instead of a hard-coded heuristic.
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I think that a mattress is a bit simpler than an application with hundreds of thousands of possible interactions. There are not so many different ways you can use a mattress.
With solar's rapidly declining price, its not hard to imagine a near-future where daytime energy is abundant. In such a scenario, materials that come out of the ground with energy and materials that you need to charge-up like this are practically equivalent. Therefore the days of oil's value are numbered as long as we continue to develop fuel-like renewable energy stores like this.
Calling me obtuse doesn't add anything of value to the discussion. I was pointing out the multithreaded benchmark in response to the claim that there were none. Read kllrnohj's response that is the sibling to your comment to see how to make a point effectively.
You can't compare the google culture when it started, which was a tiny group of people engaged in intensely bonding activities (in more ways than one!) to an online community of millions of people who have basically no relationship with each other. Fight and provocation strengthen community in the former case, and destroy community in the latter.

I've posted about this many times. A partly-related comment from today is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130956. An earlier one is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24620683 and there are links to a bunch more explanations. If you read those, and still have a question that isn't answered by them, I'd be curious to know what it is.
Which isn't going to happen here, despite your fervent prayers.
It takes a lot of ignorance to state something this confidently.
>Hardware build quality has traditionally been stellar, on par with the golden age of Thinkpads (which is one reason the keyboard thing was so jarring).

Really? You think the same Macs that maintain silence by overheating have "stellar" build quality?
Seriously, go watch Louis Rossmann's channel. You'll soon see how terrible the build quality in Macbooks is. Just because it's encased in aluminium doesn't mean it's well made.
Most of the admittedly very early analysis I've read is basically it's low trust voters.

Low trust voters are hard to poll because they don't trust pollsters, they don't pick up their phone for strangers.

6 years ago this didn't matter because they were as likely to be Republican as Democratic. But that changed with Trump who appeals to these types of voters.

Then this election democrats suddenly increased their civic engagement which lead to them being much more likely to talk to pollsters. Skewing the results.
Sorry if this question is off base (I haven't been on Twitter in a couple of years now), but I thought Twitter had gotten rid of the reverse chronological timeline and instead were surfacing tweets their algorithm thought you'd like. Is that not the case?
>"What is IsoTruss?

IsoTruss is a lightweight and efficient alternative to traditional wood, steel, aluminum and composite structures. The highly symmetric and redundant nature of IsoTruss structures provides an attractive, efficient, and damage tolerant design.

The three-dimensional, yet relatively simple geometry of the IsoTruss grid structure provides substantial resistance to local and global column buckling, while lending itself to cost effective fabrication using automated continuous manufacturing."

Related video on YouTube:

"How Strong is Super Material Isotruss? Hydraulic Press Test!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlE_lNUKQl0
> The search results suck

Do they really though, for normal people that is?. Some of my searches today below, can't remember the exact terms I used. Mix of DDG and Google.

1) Walt Whitman, I wanted a basic overview of his work to satisfy some idle curiosity. DDG gave me his wikipedia page. Bingo

2) EAN-13 check digit. First result wikipedia telling me how to calculate it. I see it is simple and I have a long list in Excel to check. I can't be bothered to think so...

3) EAN-13 Excel. First result has an example that I copied and pasted.

4) Timezone [niche cloud system]. Said system didn't do what we expected, seems to be timezone issue. First article is discussing this niche issue and offers solutions

5) Does Shopify support x payments. Yes it does

6) Coronavirus test. Got straight to government site.

7) MacOS version numbers. First hit...

8) How come my Microsoft x platform is showing as being at y level of service when my Buddies is not. Straight in

Am I just a perfect search customer? I don't seem to be getting the problems Drew is?
Its still pretty new and I'm working on it in my spare time, but my side-project https://searchmysite.net/ seems pretty close to what the author is after:

- "100% of the software would be free software, and third parties would be encouraged to set up their own installations" - I'm planning on open sourcing it under AGPL soon, once I've got documentation, testing etc. ready. Plus it's easy to set up your own installation (git clone; mkdirs for data; docker-compose up -d).

- "I would not have it crawling the entire web from the outset" - That's one of the key features of my approach, only crawling submitted domains. I'm focussing on personal websites and independent websites at the moment, primarily because I don't currently have the money for infra to crawl big but useful sites like wikipedia, but there's nothing to stop people setting up their own instances for other types of site.

- "who’s going to pay for it? Advertisements or paid results are not going to fly" - A tough anti-advert stance is another key differentiating feature to try to keep out spam, e.g. I detect adverts on indexed pages and make sure those pages are heavily downranked. Planning to pay running costs via a listing fee, which gives access to additional features like greater control over indexing (e.g. being able to trigger reindexing on demand).