skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Recent experience suggest that the SMR producers could face the same cost overruns and delays that have plagued makers of utility-scale reactors. An even bigger challenge could be convincing industries and utilities to forgo cheap natural gas.

Off-the-grid remote locations is the obvious market for electricity generation currently addressed with diesel fuel. Combined electricity/heat for large campuses and remote communities seems like another popular use case.

This article makes the case for high temperature industrial processes like the manufacture of Portland cement. I'd like to see an economic analysis but I can't see this being a viable option unless carbon emissions regulation penalizes fossil fuels.

Geography not only determines what is and is not available on-grid (electricity and/or natural gas) but the regulatory regime which can significantly impact design decisions.
Vivaldi certainly is a very different experience; the customisation options are very interesting and powerful.

Since I like, and have, to use multiple broswers (mostly Vivaldi, Firefox and Brave) the customisation is a bit overwhelming. Were it my only browser I doubt that would be an issue.

The "zero tracking" aspect aligns with our own values, as a search engine company. We are not a "partner" so this comment is not coloured by that.

Vivaldi allows our search users to set up Mojeek and other search engines/services in fair way using codes; a bit like !bangs; shown here for Vivaldi search partners and Mojeek. https://blog.mojeek.com/2020/11/popping-your-filter-bubble-w...
I agree. Your points about size and speed are valid.

I think what made me defensive was the implication that these CLI libraries can be easily replaced with some small hand-coded solution. This particular library adds color coding, a structured help message based on the configuration, and some building blocks for DI, etc. Getting that stuff right in a hand-coded solution that isn't thousands of lines would take most developers a lot more time and effort.
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Probably doesn't help when large companies were allowed to stay open and smaller companies were shut or had too many expenses with changes to stay open.
A Scoop About the Pentagon Papers, 50 Years Later
Exactly my thoughts, reminded me very much of Into the Wild.
Customer Personas Worth $5B: Lessons from Snooping on TransferWise
Can confirm, this also happened in our org. Big mess.
If something is flagged by YouTube, it must be a really bad idea.

Chlorine isn’t too bad in terms of toxicity, or it wouldn’t be added to drinking water and freely sold for all sorts of purposes.

But there’s absolutely no reason to ingest it (or any other route of administration).

I guess it’s exactly because of it’s ubiquity that those of a conspiratorial mindset like it so much: it fits with the idea that there are obvious and easy answers suppressed by that mighty cabal of Bill Gates/Soros/some other Jews.
What on earth does that have to do with anything here? I probably make more as a software developer than some Americans make in 10 years.
not censored but they block sites?
Programming isn't just about computers. It's even more about people. As a programmer, I regret the several times I've blown it with co-workers. (Gotten angry, yelled at them, etc.)
There are credits in the About menu of about 50% of the programs I use each day.

There are even credits in the loading screen of Adobe Photoshop.
How to Build Better Relationships
At the very least F1 is a very quantified sport since the cars have a ton of more or less high sample rate data channels that you can use to describe the environment of the driver. For the driver they will at least have heart rate, respiration and body temperature throughout the race.

In addition they have vast treasure troves of historical data to compare against.
Glad to hear it!

One of my (mostly unspoken) goals of Supernotes is actually that one day someone will write an entire book using our notecards. Create parent notecards that represent the chapters, child notecards for paragraphs within each chapter, drag cards around to quickly restructure your book, automatically generate a TOC based on that structure, one-click export to dump the whole thing as an epub... I think that would be very cool.
An inexpensive and/or used Android phone paired with an attachable or BT gamepad.
Seems this is just for voice channels — SSTV channels have a bandwidth of 6MHz for example.
...because Tether has been there to ensure that.
Most metrics is subjective.

The metrics most spaniards look are
-General Unemployment rate
-Juvenile unemployment
-Minimun Salaries
-Buy and Rent prices in principal cities

And in most of these Spain is at the bottom
Yup. All I want is a 2014-or-so form factor——forever. Update the tech guts year after year, but keep the old design. It’s perfect and requires no more innovation.

While you’re at it, Apple, just keep High Sierra forever and just do bug fixes and security patches. No new features!

One can only dream.......,
Kibo Code Quantum Review and Bonus; Is Program Worth It?
The only dream feature missing is a smaller trackpad. Doesn’t have to be as small as the 2015 one, but it should have more bezel so I don’t bump it accidentally like now. Unless you have huge hands, the current size is unwarrented.
The unsettling truth was that he was apparently an abusive malcontent who decided to run away from the problems he created once again.
Laura Poitras,Co-Founder of the Intercept Says She Was Fired for Airing Concerns
I'd suggest checking out /r/SBCGaming/ (Single Board Computer Gaming) on Reddit to do some research:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming/
Jony Ive is gone. That’s why they brought back a functional keyboard anyway.
What Happens When You Get a Covid-19 Vaccine That Uses mRNA
Show HN: Pglet – Web UI framework for backend developers
The desktop experience, at least for me, has been amazing. Very fast and clean.

The download times for messages / etc have been MUCH slower recently. I’m thinking it’s because of the load they are experiencing. As more people donate and as they scale for the load I imagine (and hope) it might even be faster than it was before.
I believe there are still something on the order of 150,000 BTC waiting to be dumped on the market as the Mt. Gox bankruptcy (I guess it's "civil rehabilitation" now) slowly grinds along to resolution. Not all of them will be sold of course, but a decent fraction of those people are probably crossing into retirement age by the time they will, and they will likely need the cash money more than the cryptopunk ideology by then.
Hi, I'm the author.

> Money isn't created primarily because governments print it; whenever a bank creates a loan money is created, and when they call in loans money disappears.

Yes this is right, and I am in fact aware of this mechanism. As I say in the post: "[...] anticipated high levels of lending and consumer spending post-pandemic, seemed likely to fuel substantial USD inflation in real terms through the end of 2021."

Velocity-of-money and the M2 money supply weren't that relevant to the main story I wanted to tell, so I went into no more than superficial detail here.
Smartwatches can help detect Covid-19 days before symptoms appear
Yeah, I don't know. They've only been active for ~1/2 of the vaccination period and have delivered almost 1/7 of the doses administered in Michigan. If the storage isn't problematic, I don't have an issue with them having some lead time.

(giving a dose to a vulnerable person in a few days is pretty clearly more beneficial than giving it to a low risk person today; if the administration wasn't performing well vs the rest of the state or the interval were longer it'd be a more difficult consideration)
>Making software should not be about making the life of the developer as easy as possible, it should be about making things easy, small, and FAST for the user.

Seems a bit presumptive to decide the requirements for every console app ever made. Shouldn't it be determined on a case-by-case basis whether a 20mb difference in app size matters?

Also, why exactly does a 20mb app size mean an app is too slow? I'm not really following that line of logic.

The title of the post is "My preferred .NET console stack", not "this is how every console app should be written."
Just grow some sprouts in it?

(Not an endorsement of the idea)
Ah man, you are describing my ideal laptop as well.

I don't have a solution for you, but I have had good experiences with System76 in the past and am hoping that upcoming laptop refreshes should start to hit those points or me as well.

Ideally this gets a better screen:

https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin

Or this gets a Ryzen APU and a 16:10 aspect ratio:

https://system76.com/laptops/lemur

But those are dreams at this point...
Damn - I was the one who fought for dropbox vs onedrive which comes with our Office 365 subscription at work.

What a terrible sign!

I'll try out onedrive again, and if its good enough will start the (slow) migration.
I think the answer is to look at things that can't be done by executing code from a library. In other words, think about something you can compile that isn't executable code.

Some examples: hardware description languages (VHDL, Chisel), human readable graphics languages (shaders, SVG), languages for describing music or instruments (super collider, SOUL, Max/MSP, Pure Data), other creative coding, generative art, etc. Essentially think about all the things that programs arent, and think of how a DSL can represent them - be it abstract information like art, physical things, or other things not readily represent able as digital data.

But to the first part of your question: it's not hard to make a DSL. It's hard to make one that people will use. The hardest problem in developing one is dogfooding it, you need users from Day 1 to give feedback on what works and what doesn't make sense. Another way to think of it is that the technical problems of DSL development are straightforward, the social problem of making one that's useful isn't.
Oh, there's plenty of us out there holding on to the last sensible MacBook that Apple has made.

I really want this rumor to be true. It would mean that Apple finally got through its phase of trying to appeal to non-professionals -- or professionals with looser ergonomic requirements.
A touch screen serves a different role than a trackpad. They could replace the trackpad by a touch screen, like asus’s screenpad, but that comes at the expense of battery life.
So essentially it's wasted as heat instead of being used to replace carbon sourced sources
The system selects one of a set of competing miners to produce the next block via a VRF whose state is recorded to Bitcoin OP_RETURNs. There is at most one Stacks block per Bitcoin block, and the probability of winning is proportional to the relative amount of BTC burnt or transferred.

The system's design is well-documented via the SIP process. See https://github.com/stacksgov/sips (you'll want to read SIP-001 and SIP-007 in particular).
> News Corp practically wrote the legislation for the Australian Government

That makes sense. It fits in with News Corps long war on news aggregating tech firms (Google, largely) and their several failed attempts to lead alternative services controlled by the traditional publishing industry (with themselves in the steering seat.)

So, having failed to compete, they’ve just decided to lobby government to put its finger on the scale to impose a plan as nonviable as their own prior commercial ventures: if they can’t succeed in the news aggregating portal business, they’ll make news aggregation and search a business in which success is brutally punished with terms that make the business completely nonviable.
> ... the unspoken part of which is "that Twitter may be found liable for".

That seems probable to my cynical side, but it doesn't have to be that. Dorsey could be sincerely troubled by what happened on January 6, and could want nothing to do with enabling Act II. (Or, more likely, it could be both.)
What a spit in the face to anyone who contributed to Elastic's codebase. This is an Oracle-grade move.
I've been using Signal for years. Normally things are good. I'm not surprised by the hiccups since their userbase went up by >5x in the past week. I imagine it is very difficult to deal with that kind of scaling in such a short period of time.
The new people who joined were dangerous, so it got shut down?
Be My Eyes
Bloomberg is matching the rumors.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/apple-mac...
Federation is enough to avoid single point of failure.
TL;DR: This is about a hiker who went by the name Mostly Harmless who was found dead in his tent. No one knows how he died. That's it. But for the unusual name, it seems safe to say that this would not be on the front page of HN.
I've never really had any issues with it over the last year or so, but the last week has been a bit spotty - but then my contact list has tripled in length since the whatsapp privacy update and news coverage - so I think its likely that it is demand.

I've setup a matrix homeserver yesterday, and in the process of setting up bridges to Signal/IRC etc so I get a single app with all the chats.

I'm not sure what you need from a web/desktop experience, for me it is a chat app, that I can send an image or txt , I don't really need anything else. YMMV

I would suggest to let it settle down for a few days, then see how it is. I would think that all whatsapp replacements are going to be peaking in use for the next week or so as people try out different things.
Well sure, journalism has always been this way. Remember Woodward and Bernstein?
A week before, Elon Musk:

> Use Signal[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1347165127036977153
A web-app that converts all your read-it-later blogs (from Pocket, Instapaper, URLs) into daily podcasts. You can listen them in different voices (thanks to the growth in text-to-speech technologies). Additionally, every automatically curated podcast will have some highlights from your already read blogs (to help you remember and retain past knowledge).

This is in private beta testing right now; and will have a public beta launch by end of January.
Agree, I don't know where the people who replied this thread reads about Spain. Most of them suggest it's an average Country by the metrics
And for rough napkin math on costs, electricity to heat via a heat pump generates 3x as much heat as electricity used to move the heat. Whereas the nuclear plant goes from 50% efficiency to 100% efficiently, only a 2x gain for using the nuclear reactor for heat rather than for electricity.

So excluding the extra cost of the heat pump, and the cost savings of nuclear not needing a turbine and waste heat rejection system, renewables are starting out ahead. We would really need to see some real world systems to fully evaluate costs.
Bumble S-1
I guess they had fun doing it! Some libraries are for fun to improve command & self confidence. Usually they are beginnings of a new delightful product. So I feel it is all for good.
My telegram feed has been abuzz the last couple of days with 'your friend has joined Telegram!'. Great to see and it's a nice chance to reconnect with friends I haven't talked with in a while.
The article is not entirely clear and requires some context. It is not just Google News, but also Google Search. People will often type in breaking news stories into Google Search to get information.

It does not apply to products like Google Mail and Google Maps since they aren't platforms to get eyeballs onto content written for Rupert Murdoch.

The suggested alternative is that instead of serving up Google Search in Australia (i.e. the thing produced by crawling websites), they might serve up an entirely opt-in service. Think of sites like the old dmoz.org. It will suck about as much as it sounds like it will suck. If they do that, I would expect Australian web search traffic to go mostly to the new Google Services Directory and spread gradually to Bing and Duck Duck Go and Yahoo. Microsoft and Yahoo will probably actively strive to avoid becoming the universal default, because as long as they aren't big enough they won't attract the burdens of this law.
System Separation in the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 8 January 2021
But it only attempts to protect you from companies. If the government believes a domain to be an illegal resource, it has all the necessary legal tools available to force them to censor it.

Edit: Also, since it is hosted in Germany, or at least offered as a German product, it should be required to contain an Imprint (Impressum), which this site doesn't have. I agree with this being a pretty sketchy service.
Good observation. Tcl's

{a b}

also represents something not possible in JSON:

{["a"]: ["b"]}

The string

a

can be treated as

"a", ["a"], [["a"]], [[["a"]]], ...

by list operations.
> Reflections off of the sidewalls, ceilings and floor can still cause issues with lower midrange and midbass response, but these issues can be fixed with EQ to a large extent.

I don't really believe this. Ever put speakers in an empty, stone-walled, wood-floored room? No EQ in the world is going to fix that. You need acoustic treatment in some shape or form, unless your walls are made out of cotton.
This is everything I dream about. Don't tease me.
They do care, they've just gotten used to bloated software and therefore don't have high expectations. I submit that this is indicative of our failings as an industry.
Its not just billionaires though. All my friends( couple of year out of college) in the bay area have become multi millionaires over last year from stock growth.

Bunch of them bought second houses in LCOL areas, beach houses, ski condos from liquidating some of their stocks.

This article has it all wrong. Elon Musk added to his net worth due to stock growth which was caused by govt indiscriminately pumping money via stimulus, interest rates ect. Govt actions eg: giving money to ppl who experienced no loss in income has caused this. Investing in stocks was the top use of stimulus money across all income classes per cnbc.
So this was caused by govt actions not by amazon exploiting their employees more, they have been doing that forever, that hasn't changed.

I think guardian here is advocating for billionares to "trickle down" their wealth to employees. So giving money directly to ppl also causes "trickle down" ?
I don’t hate it, I just ignore it. Most of the time my laptop is closed and attached to my monitor, so it’s unavailable. On the rare occasions I use it as a laptop, I might use the Touch Bar to adjust the volume, but not much else, if anything.
Companies imposing unilateral contract changing with fire and rehire is certainly nothing new.

A dialogue is basically a prerequisite and bare minimum to make it not appear like a unilateral contract variation. So I’d hope they are doing that.

We all know what would happen to those who don’t agree. Less work, worse conditions etc basically slow constructive dismissal.

Hopefully this was just a PR stunt
Based on what? Some ex’s word?
I didn't say that. The GP specifically asked about Apple and Netflix phrased in such a way that Google was already assumed to be 'evil'. I was just giving my 2 cents about how even benign seeming services have their own considerations.
I very much prefer using Vim, but the debugging experience is much better in VSCode. The language server experience in VSCode is also better (though vim is getting there!), and there are many other small trade-offs that one may prefer.

Emacs I haven't tried nearly as much, but it has a poor Windows OS experience, and is also historically a "bloated" software ("Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping").

Of course there is no reason Vim couldn't be modified to do everything VSCode does but better, but until that happens VSCode will still have a place in my toolbox.
I don't have (and don't want) a cellphone. Is there a way for me to use signal? Maybe something that relays SMS?
I've been building https://tileflip.xyz/, where you can make interesting visualizations with some code. I got the idea to make it like an expanded version of tixy.land.
For people who have put significant effort into setting up a room with good acoustics and speakers; is the sound quality significantly better than good headphones?

I can understand the other reasons speakers are nice; being able to hear other things besides the audio playback, sharing the sound with other people at the same time, etc.
Author here. I really appreciate your kind words about the post - thank you!

I'm also broadly in agreement with your conclusions as to what this means for a crypto trader or holder. I've zeroed my net exposure to this ecosystem myself, both in anticipation for such an event, and out of recognition that I frankly understand it far less well than I originally thought.
Her family has provided more than enough.

It's insane that modern society prefers to have living inherited hood ornaments.

Constitutional monarchy can be a peaceful way to democracy, but there is no reason to make it permanent.
If Iran becomes true democracy, maybe they keep Ayatollah as tourist attraction? North Korea could keep Kim-family as well. 200-yers form now Kim-family wold be insignificant royals sitting next to British royals.
No, it doesn’t. In fact it’s exactly what you’d expect if Tether is fraudulent. Stablecoins are a great way to transact in dollars that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to, for instance the proceeds of illegal activity. The author notes the exact mechanism: print USDT, buy BTC on sham exchanges, send BTC to Coinbase, sell for USDC.

You would expect them to increase in lock step if this is happening. If it were legitimate flows, you would actually expect USDC to far outpace USDT given the much greater ease of conversion and trust in the sponsors.
Donated. Perhaps that helps a tiny bit.
https://signal.org/donate/
Large companies paid for the right to stay open, so they got what they paid for. If you don’t want a free market, don’t ask for it.
The only problem I see with your concept:

A single iPhone MagSafe charger pushes 15w on a great day. A MBP is going to draw about four times that.
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I use Signal every day for 1:1 messages and a 1:2 group. There's basically no noticeable lag normally, i have very few complaints about the raw message functionality of Signal.

My complaints (if you can call them that) would be the general app quality on various platforms, and how much better Telegram feels. I'm a user that also enjoys all the stupid features that non-encrypted platforms have easier times adding. Gifs, stickers, drawing, reactions, /shrug - nothing necessary, but still.

So yea, functionally Signal works for me and my small group without much issue. It just doesn't have many Bells/Whistles.
Did you read the article? This is its basic conclusion.
They could put all the USB C logic required for power negotiation in the molded connector of a USB C cable and expose 5 contacts on the magnetic side of the connector. [gnd-pwr-data-pwr-gnd] that lets you plug it in either way.

You would then have a cable that was USB C PD on one end and MagSafe on the other. You could carry your USB-MagSafe cable and still use any USB C power source, or bring one with if you like.

It isn't a full USB C with it's score of hair thin wires, but it lets you have some beefy power and ground contacts and enough I/O to chat about voltages, currents, and what color an LED might want to be.
Oh really? Which laws/legal tools/precedences are you referring to?