skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not actually the key figure of merit, the problem isn't how long stored sources can be used but peak output.

That is exactly the problem. Yes, output matter, too, but capacity is the main figure people are interested in. If storage system A can output 1.5 GW but only for 1 hour, and system B can output 1.5 GW but for 10 hours then these are very different systems.

> All of it for longer than that

And how long is it? Basically we're trying to find the area of rectangle. You're providing the height, but staying conspicuously mum about the width.

> The concern is the depth of the trough that storage can handle, you need breadth too, so a substantial level of that comes inherently with depth, and the main concern is short-term variation.

No, the concern is both depth and breadth. It's easy to build a battery system that puts out a lot of energy for a short period of time. It's hard to build a battery system that puts out a lot of energy for 12 hours.
The article title is accurate, the one in HN right now is not.

The point was that they did YC and seed round but didn’t raise funding after that. Traditionally startups raise every 18mo and have raised A,B,C,D etc in ~10 years and before hitting $5B valuation.

Even with the latest round, it was a secondary sale, so not dilutive raise. Some investors sold shares to other investors but no new shares where created.

Avoiding that “vc hamster wheel” is that you avoid the conversations, meetings, fundraise roadshows and dilution every 18mo or so. So I think Zapier is an interesting example of a startup choosing a different path. Not purely bootstrapped or traditional vc backed company.
Yes, as is Pop Shell implemented on top of Gnome (mentioned in another comment).

You can tell they've made some questionable decisions when you try to use Gnome on very weak hardware.

On an old dual-core Celeron w/ 2GB memory I found it unusable. KDE—which, when I first started using Linux desktops on machines less than 1/4 that powerful, was noticeably heavier than Gnome—was a little slow but basically fine.

To my eyes gnome also drops frames like crazy (like, even for Linux, which is a pretty jittery environment to begin with) even on excellent hardware—not sure, but I think it's a reasonable guess that's also a symptom of sprinkling a scripting language all over the system without incredible levels of discipline to make sure it's never in the way of anything important.

Webtech strikes again.
So My Google Ad Account Got Banned
One thing that comes up every time this is discussed is that it has different impacts on people depending on their latitude. A solution that does not come up all that often is adding latitude-based time zones, and I'd be interested to read some thoughts on it from the HN community.

Edit: as this was ambiguous to at least one commenter, I'm not proposing replacing the current longitude-based time zones, but splitting them or shifting their boundaries based on latitude.
If you're the employer, you'd know that you put the non-sensical item in the job posting. If someone calls you out on it, then you know they at least are not bullshitting you. If you're the applicant and you feel strongly about it being bullshit, then the question is do you get bonus points for knowing that.

The how would know it doesn't exist is what separates the chaff from the wheat.
I can dislike overuse of white space and scroll bars at the same time. Also I like my phones to be as small as possible, not the size of a baking tray.

I’m not an Apple user on desktop, but even there I have scroll bars disabled everywhere including the IDE. Why use the space for something I never use.

And btw, I’m not saying it should be like this for everyone. From my perspective this should be configurable. Same as I wish apps and sites would offer a dense mode toggle to reduce white space.
You joke but this is a great idea.
Copying my comment from elsewhere in the thread:

I think they're basing that calculation on this post (https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/03/17/power-one-tree-ve...), which points here (https://www.arborday.org/trees/treefacts/#climate), which links to the European Environmental Agency saying an average mature tree sequesters 22kg of carbon every year (https://www.eea.europa.eu/articles/forests-health-and-climat...).

So, one tree is 22kg/year. So they're claiming their device will collect 6200*22=136,400kg of carbon per year from a truck.
This would be great. Could we go so far as to have the entire whole world operate on UTC, so we could have an Earth Time?
How about this:

A device's component is a Leaf Component if it:

1. Is available on the open market (without special contracts or minimum order quantities)

2. Can be replaced without specialist equipment or knowledge

3. Contains components that are not themselves Leaf Components

A device's Cost To Repair is the List Price (price on the open market, before any discounts) of the most expensive Leaf Component.

A device is taxed based on the square of the device's Cost To Repair.
The same could be achieved by having different work hours in different seasons, no need to change the underlying metric of time to achieve this.

It's as if we redefined the density of water in winter so when you measure a frozen container of it the different volume yields the same weight.

It might have made sense when there was a single clock in a whole village!

But now with the planet probably containing 10x as many clocks as humans this is just complete lunacy.
Ask HN: Do you read articles on HN before reading/writing comments?
I've heard a couple of times of people who, when they see a interesting submission here open the comments first, then if it seems interesting, reads the article after. And recently, I started thinking that if some people do that, is it not also possible that people are commenting without opening the article, just based on the HN title?

How do you usually interact with the submissions here on HN?
DST drives me nuts. Just as spring morning light finally brightens the start of my day, it gets plunged back into darkness. Light persists into evening when dusk should be persuading all to bed.

And coding embedded systems to handle DST edge cases just gets obnoxious when unnecessary.

You want to shift your hours? Adjust your own schedule, don’t demand imposing a change that disrupts mine.
On a similar note, I get annoyed with how Excel won't show the highlighted row or cell when moving focus to another window. Sometimes I want to look at that specific row while using another program, and it's hard to find the data that was just highlighted when that disappears. I don't for the life of me understand what problem that behavior is supposed to help with.
Rocket Lab CEO eats his hat (literally) for about-face on launcher size
It is highly dependent on the user's hardware and software combination.

For example, getting Wayland to work with Plasma on Nvidia graphics cards is still a nightmare, despite it being officially supported. Out of the box, starting a Wayland session just knocks the user into a frozen TTY. Once you get it to work, you quickly learn that hardware acceleration for X11 apps is nonexistent, rendering most video games unplayable.
>math for me is a tool and if it is not used somehow in reality, I start wondering what it is for, [...] some branches seem so esoteric I am at a loss.

i'm of a kind opposite opinion when it comes to math - myself a math PhD dropout i welcome more and more complex and esoteric constructions in math without any regard for any relation or lack of any such to physical reality. When it comes to physics though i think an opposite rule should be applied - any math constructions brought in should be checked against the physical reality.
That way noon has the sun at zenith, which makes sense.
I am using Zapier because their service was very easy to implement a webhook for what I needed at the time. However, the price is high enough that they're on my short list of vendors to move on from when I have the time to spend building my own integration (not replacing everything Zapier does, just for my use-case).

I suspect I am not their intended customer as I don't get a lot of value out of the dozens (hundreds?) of API implementations they offer. But I wonder how much of that revenue represents customers with similar plans.
Just imagine the average code quality once everyone is coding. The people who are mediocre coders now will be the all-stars of tomorrow.
> PS I hate sunshine

Likewise. The only good weather is whatever obscures the giant, glowy, migraine-inducing, cancer ball in the sky.
@dang HN's title is misleading as the actual title doesn't say Zapier avoided VC funding.
> Our European visitors are important to us. This site is currently unavailable to visitors from Europe ...

Does anybody have an alt mirror for this please?
Genuinely interested, but can't view the news update from Europe.
I was taught using the Suzuki book, but not the method. My teacher never told me listen to the record it came with. Of course, it wouldn't have done me any good since I didn't have a record player.

One piece my teacher wanted me to learn was Autumn by Vivaldi. I remember listening to my CD of Vivaldi's Four Seasons constantly to hear how a certain part should sound. Now only if I had a video, then I can see how they would've played it. :)
It could also be due to how awful the new user experience is on Reddit. A journalist would be instantly turned off to using it as a source.

If you haven't seen it in a while, using a new browser or incognito mode, view reddit without logging in. It is an absolutely awful experience. The content you see as a new user is basically all memes and you are blasted with trending content on top of the card based feed.
Actually it’s not getting to warm. Somebody on YouTube tested the Air running next to a heater and it didn’t got significantly hotter and didn’t additionally throttle (except of the normal throttle of 10% compared to the Pro)
That's my preference too, but making DST permanent is better than continuing to change twice a year.

When confronted with three choices and none of the three have majority support, society usually chooses the "status quo" option. Even when a proper ranked choice vote would end up with one of the other two options.

So I guess I need to keep quiet to ensure that we end up with our second choice rather than our third choice.
Or you could just spray RAID or something similar and kill all the mosquitoes there for pennies. No laser, no bluetooth, no microphones.

And if you want to actually solve the mosquito issue, don't have standing water around. Or make sure fish and frogs can live in it. They love eating mosquito larvae.

Not this boondoggle. Remember, engineering is also about realizing that the fact that you are able to do something doesn't always mean you should.
Chemistry sets suck nowadays.

Some years ago I wanted to buy one for my nieces and nephews. The only one I could find had on it, in bold letters, "No glass! No flames! No hazardous chemicals!"

Yeah...no fun, either.
Many mass media corporations were doing everything they could to encourage the war in Iraq, including cancelling popular talk show hosts who dared to ask questions:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Donahue#MSNBC_program
That's only good for early birds, because you end up with it being light for hours before most people are awake (during the summer). If you keep DST in place permanently, sundown happens later, and you eliminate the need for an extra hour of lighting every evening, which presumably saves electricity.
rather silly i feel, why not spend money on researching slowing the earths rotation! or maybe just wake up later all year round. Or - abandon GMT and pick a spot like Paris, maybe you can call it the new "Euro time" - that way Britain can happily ignore it and stay with GMT.
Dark modes don't need to be implemented horribly.
> I'm just concerned whether I'm hurting my future earnings, were I to return the the US in the future

I don't understand how your current earnings can affect your future earnings, especially in two different countries? You have no obligation to tell the new company (if/when you move to another one in the future) what you earned before, and you also have no obligation to tell them truth about what you used to earn.
Thats interesting and definitely worth keeping an eye on. However a tech culture doesn't develop over night, so while companies may be relocating it doesn't mean they may be as desirable as those in the uk (appetite for using new tech, high pay and bonuses, perks and generally speaking that feeling of moving fast and breaking things). Continental europe, to me, appears more rigid and less open to change - killer traits for a healthy tech scene.
I think the political side of it "screwing hedge funds" is a bunch of BS. It's about as real as Bitcoin being for "enabling worldwide payments free from censorship". It's a nice story but the big price swings are driven by people trying to get rich quick. And hey, more power to them, nothing wrong with trying to get rich quick.

Diamond hands might force short sellers to pay high prices to cover. But they pay those high prices to the people who sell, not to the people holding. Those sellers are the real winners -- well, them and anybody who shorts it again at the peak. Are they other hedge funds? Retail investors with "paper hands"? Who knows. All that's obvious to me is that if you're the last to sell, the only person you succeeded in screwing over is yourself.
Full nodes are around 500GB, so they do fill up faster than bitcoin does. Archive nodes are bigger, but you can get everything in an archive node from a full node as it contains all the proofs. There are other data pruning techniques, and lots of work being done on light clients for eth2 (so you could connect via a light client running inside an app on your phone, rather than the app connecting to infura/alchemy).

Though contrary to what people think about this being a weakness for ethereum, there are still ~10000 nodes running, so pretty close to the amount bitcoin has.

Its an area under active research though.
This just happened to me on Firefox (OSX), first time I've ever noticed it.

Also saw other strange behaviours. While writing a comment, taps on the spacebar were not detected, but typing some letters also triggered the browser's Back functionality (I did not hit Backspace).
This is especially a problem for me, since I use an extension to make my websites dark. To fix this, I recently downloaded the Rescroller Chrome extension. Not only are my scroll bars now visible, they are a fun lime green (users pick color)!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rescroller/ddehdnn...
in C# (using Rider) I do all my queries in .sql files, fully connected to a real database with full auto complete (including auto writing your join), there's a section to define all the variables the query is expecting, and then, then I have a wee open source lib for embedding all your queries into your program and an easy way to get them out then use things like Dapper or RepoDB to ruin the queries with parameters. No string based sql at all. works well. https://github.com/keithn/katoa.queries
Adding more buss drivers is relatively cheap. Bussing is ~3% of the total cost of primary school.
I really don't understand it - they refuse to implement a touch screen on their laptops but continue to design for touch interactions.
I’ve often made mistakes from not seeing extra data, because the data required you to scroll down to see it.

It’s a really infuriating situation. And quite a terrible UI design.

And by hiding the side scroll bars, it removes your ability to quickly page jump down to the bottom of the page, or to anywhere else on the page, from clicking on the white space of the scroll bars.
Like they've done (or Congress has done) every year for the past decade or so, only for it to die in-situ.
I’d vote for anything named mystical-quagmire-cheesepuff.
The other two concerns in GP are no screen tearing, and better hidpi / multi-monitor support. Is it truly less work and less disruptive to address these to concerns within X11 than it is to throw X11 out (and also leave all nvidia users high and dry)? Also, keep in mind that throwing X11 out and replacing it will take more than just technical legwork -- it will also take ecosystem buy-in and standardization, and if we're being honest with ourselves, this is the harder problem. Recall that the X11 ecosystem has a 30-year head start on this, and there's a crap-ton of 3rd party software that assumes an X11 environment that Wayland is going to need to emulate. If X11 does indeed go the way of the dodo, I think we can reasonably expect another 30 years of bug reports in the form of "Fuck Wayland! I upgraded to Wayland and my $IMPORTANT_THING broke!". I very much doubt that at the end of the day the switch to Wayland is going to be overall easier than just fixing X11, but would love to be convinced otherwise.
I immediately thought of Marc Merlin's old raid45 test for would-be sysadmins:

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/raid45.html
> Now that is why if I ever have to send my CV to someone it will only be a PDF version.

Although it depends how you generate it how easy it will be, Word has built in support for editing PDFs. So does LibreOffice (in Draw I believe). It's pretty accessible to non-technical people without expensive software to edit PDFs nowadays.
Russia uses *t.?co* DPI regex in an attempt to punish Twitter
This still looks like a scam though. A predatory lender which never accepts paying down the capital, but assumes risks where some of their clients might not turn a profit and therefor is a net loss, will simply raise the interest (or—in the case of an investor—the share of the profits) from the profitable clients to counter the loss. This is exactly the behavior of shareholders, and to my eyes it still very much looks like a scam.
> Other schools in the area bussed children at different hours.

Do you mean other schools in your school district or schools in other districts?
U.S. vs. Thomas Caldwell (references Signal chats)
Just quoting Dr. House
Sorry, I'm confused, you want me to tell you what you're thinking, based on 4 words you typed?
The game doesn't let you rebind keys until after the tutorial? That's insane. So anyone who needs some unconventional control setup cannot play the game. Not to mention the tutorial is supposed to be the part that lets you test out the settings and familiarise yourself with the basics.

Those scrollwheels you described are definitely part of the problem too, though. I had the pleasure of using one like that and a few minutes were enough to generate the urge to throw it in the bin. It's already hard enough to find a decent mouse without worrying about the scrollwheel.
> You have to drag them in the opposite direction to the way the way you want things to move

In my mind I'm just moving the viewport down. I'm scrolling down the page, not moving the page up.
Still you might reasonably expect to need 6x as much oversight for 40x as many people.

Instead it sounds like they have about 200x as much.

Maybe the moral of the story here is don’t try to solve social problems for early teens until you’ve solved it everywhere else.
There is a nice old post by patio11 https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347006 439 points | March 23, 2016 | 84 comments)
I much prefer sleeping when it gets dark, and this fits in much better with our body's circadian rhythm. If doing things in the dark is such an issue, why not change business/school hours to work around that? Who decided that 9-5 is the optimal time to do business? Why should we disrupt our body's natural attunement to daylight just because our bosses won't let us leave until it's already dark? Why not look at "summer business hours" instead of "daylight time"?
No need to assume that everyone who disagrees with you hasn't done their own research. I've read plenty on Bitcoin, thanks.

Instead of sending a dozen articles and expecting someone to read it and figure out what point you are trying to refute, could you perhaps just state a position and defend it?

What I see when I see your post: A bunch of people saying that bitcoin is good for the environment because... "Bitcoin can't be printed with a stroke of a keyboard"? It's a bunch of non-sense.

Please actually read what you post, and give the best argument, don't expect me to make your argument for you.
I doubt that we will always live in a hybrid world. IPv4 address space exhaustion is a growing problem and NAT is at best a partial solution. As more ISPs resort to things like NAT64 and 464XLAT the shortcomings of NAT (of whatever form) will become a larger problem and developers will start writing IPv6-only applications. After enough time IPv4 service will become optional, and shortly thereafter irrelevant.
Eeh, I did play NS2 some time ago without a black screen. Some games seem to have a focus issue when launched trough proton, though.

I do have lockups on Risk of Rain 2, Deep Rock Galactic and a few others: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/864

I thought of using another installation, with and without flatpak, but hadn't thought of launching outside of sway, since the crash issue after a while. I'll try lxqt, which I'm currently falling back to for VR (waiting for https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m... ).

Symptoms are: a black screen, and nothing responds. No SysRq, no network. Nothings gets written to the logs. I tried leveraging pstore without success. My GPU is an AMD R9 Fury, which I thought was defective (bought refurbished).
So the morning people may win yet another round, after having so many advantages already.

Of course they cannot go to work at 7 instead of 8. No, everyone has to jump and tamper with the natural time.
> Opponents of the bill say DST makes it hard on school children and parents who have to wait at the bus stop in dark hours of the morning.

Probably easier to just give them all flashlights, than to have everyone shift their clocks to accommodate this use case.
What do you mean by "part time" if you're doing 50% fo the week that would be $110k equivalent and an improvement for example.

> I'm just concerned whether I'm hurting my future earnings

Your previous salary does not matter in future negotiations. If you're told otherwise by the recruiter, push back with expected future salary.
But if the company is using money as "100% gasoline" then they've got it figured out and don't need intros from the investors.
You have no idea the places where we see scrollbars
That's now how I remember it. Before the ribbon you had a huge amount of tiny icons on toolbars, then came the ribbon and replaced with a small number of big icons. Many tools are hidden, because they are in different ribbon-tabs from the one you currently have open.
do you think making jewelry is good business in covid_19 era?
The mistake Apple made was that they should have made them candy coated.
> fuzzing code written in memory safe languages, such as JVM-based languages, is useful for finding bugs where code behaves incorrectly or crashes. Incorrect behavior can be just as dangerous as memory corruption. For example, Jazzer was used to find CVE-2021-23899 in json-sanitizer which could be exploited for cross-site scripting (XSS). Bugs causing crashes or incorrect exceptions can sometimes be used for denial of service.

So the prime examples are denial of service and cross-site scripting. Definitely dangerous and good to apply fuzzing, but I do want to emphasize that this is a different class than all the memory corruption vulnerabilities we're seeing in C(-like) languages. Executing arbitrary code on systems in many cases is definitely worse than executing code in a browser with the privileges of the currently logged-in user. As someone working in security, it seems to me like moving away from memory-unsafe languages is long overdue by 2020---scratch that, 2021.