skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To an extent, yes, but uranium doesn't leak out of your rail car the way that electricity is lost when you try to transport it. The choice is between power lines or converting it (with losses) in order to have a physical thing, like hydrogen, that can be transported.

Long-distance transportation of electricity is feasible; transmission losses are about 3% per 1,000 km for high-voltage lines https://iea-etsap.org/E-TechDS/PDF/E12_el-t&d_KV_Apr2014_GSO.... Morocco and other North African countries are building massive solar farms to export electricity to Europe.

> Statement not found in citation. Also, they're at 8%, you found a source for electricity (not power). From my other comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26405701 "Germany uses ~3.7PWh of energy only 0.6PWh of which is electricity [...] No large-scale storage needed if 92% of your energy can be generated from fossil fuels on demand."

Well, you wrote "due to only replacing a tiny percentage of electricity production with solar and wind, we aren't yet seeing the need for large scale energy storage" so the percentage of the electricity generated by renewables must be relevant. Is your claim that the need for large-scale storage will only arise when renewables stand for a large fraction of a country's total energy production? Currently, most countries have existing large-scale storage and distribution systems for fossil fuel. I imagine that they would need to be replaced with similar systems for electricity if most vehicles switches to electricity.

> > nuclear boondoggles

> I'm not sure why I bothered replying actually, you've already dug in your heels.

All recent nuclear projects in the West have been plagued by massive delays and cost overruns: Flamanville, Hinkley Point, Vogtle, and Olkiluoto. Those who have had to foot the bill for these failures are the taxpayers. At this point, it isn't unfair to ask those who think nuclear power is indispensable to risk their own money, rather than others.
> They are probably used to closed-minded arrogant Westeners whining aloud about not getting their cornflakes.

Cornflakes are one of the easiest things to find in China. They're sold in local grocery stores from some German brand.

http://globalfoods.rs/hahne-3/
Part of that cost is molded plastic is cheap only while you have the molds. Once the fridge goes out of production they make a few for spares and then recycle the molds.

The solution to this is to address how spare parts must be handled. This is not easy, either you figure expected lifetime of the shelves vs rest of the fridge, and then order enough - but if you get it wrong you are still out. Or you keep the molds, which also implies equipment to use the molds - but that wears out over time as well and the new model might not use the old molds.
The Science of a Short Squeeze: What Happened with WallStreetBets and Robinhood
Fun stuff I read since his passing yesterday in the Dutch newspapers.

Although he had indeed humility about his contribution to the cassette tape and the CD, he also was frustrated what Sony did in this department. He wanted the CD to be 11,5 cm instead of 12 cm and was disappointed Sony sold the first CD and invented the concept of a walkman instead of Philips.

His opinion about cassette tapes and vinyl having a revival because of the analog experience?

"I am not a psychologist, but that music experience is of course all nonsense. Nothing can match the sound of the CD. It is absolutely noise and rumble free. That never worked with tape. But who am I to say what's better, I'm over ninety and have old ears. I have made a lot of record players and I know that the distortion with vinyl is much higher. But some people call it "warm audio." I think people mostly hear what they want to hear. But there are always madmen who want to look back to the past. There is always a market for that.”
Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life
> And in those activities we often don't get the true value out of them because we're doing them for the wrong reason.

I've been hearing this sentiment lately and don't understand it. What gives one person insight into the psychology of another without an intimate relationship? How can one know another is doing something for "the wrong reasons"? It feels like a lazy stereotyping heuristic.

Actually, I do think I might understand it. It could be introverts failing to achieve full theory of mind about extroverts. Which itself might be a lazy stereotyping heuristic, but at least it has the virtue of reacting to an expressed state of mind, and not an implied one.
I assume any traffic from an MVNO is lower priority than from an Verizon/ATT/T-Mobile payer, simply because in a congestion situation it makes sense to me that the mobile networks would prioritize whoever they get more money from.

I wonder how true that is.
Did you read the article?

"... indicating that SARS-CoV-2 is more likely to enter the human body in obese people as compared with non-obese people."
Rust started off with user ("green") threads. The problem is interop with other code via FFI --- it gets really painful and potentially expensive. That's not good for a systems language. So they ripped it out.
Just like the real estate agent is incentivised to get you a higher price for your home?

No, the increase they get is marginal, compared to just 'closing the deal'. Especially when the company is a repeat customer their incentives are to get decent candidates quickly into a role without causing any issues.
Fascinating mind if you share some more details? Do you have kids? How about family? Do you consider a city your anchor or you feel totally like a world citizen
For me I wish the language was more standardized between vendors.

It would be nice if I could run my mssql statements against sqllite for quick testing.

You don’t have to go deep before incompatibilities with ansi sql... top/limit statements.
You cant imagine it yet big chunk of the independent internet runs on small vps servers. There isnt much difference between DO and OVH, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode... not sure why DO would be better. I mean its US company doing marketing right. Thats the difference. Plus ovh/hetzner have only EU locations.

I think small bussinesses like smaller simple providers instead of bigclouds. Its different philosophy if you are afraid of extreme centralisation of internet it makes sense.
I hope we all appreciate the "hackability" of cassette tapes. Even as a young kid I was able to use the family Hi-Fi to record my own cassettes where I could mix together sounds from a microphone, vinyl, CDs, the radio, etc. Literally any signal I could send through the stereo jack. I often think of one of my first programming books detailing how to save your BASIC programs to a cassette tape - though our family computer had no such attachment.

I don't have quite the same memories from my later days of MP3s and ripping / burning CDs.

edit: I've noticed hexagonal pencils seem to be less common than circular ones now, and I can't help but feel it's because they just aren't as useful anymore.
The Rust community regards the JS community with contempt? Where does that opinion come from?
protip: ET is already here.
I quit my job writing/debugging code for a SMS/WAP gateway at a generic telecoms company in Ireland back in 2001. My plan was to head towards Asia, and come back via Eastern Europe.

I had a friend in NYC who said "well, naturally if you are doing that you should come to NYC first" which made zero sense, but I did it anyway. I arrived the week after 9/11.

I have been here twenty years and I'd argue I'm still getting to know NYC.

IMHO I'd recommend 20 years per city/country to get a good taste for it.
> only eating Western food, reading Harry Potter, and watching Netflix while abroad.

I specifically wrote only in my comment.
Indeed you are right, Ubuntu touch is not a full Ubuntu. I don't know how I got that impression.

First time I've heard of Mobian, looks really interesting. Will keep an eye on it
Consider:

> ... [F]inance is fundamentally about moving money and risk through a network. [1]

Your employer has taken on many, many risks as part of their enterprise. If every risk is addressed the company likely can’t operate profitably. In this context, your business needs to identify every risk, weigh the likelihood and the potential impact, decide whether to address or accept the risk, and finally, if they decide to address the risk, whether to address it in-house our outsource it.

You’ve identified a risk that is currently being “accepted” by your employer, one that you’d like to address in-house. Perhaps they’ve taken on the risk unintentionally, out of ignorance.

As a professional the best I can do is to make sure that the business isn’t ignorant about the risk they’ve taken on. If the risk is too great I might even leave. Beyond that I accept that life is full of risks.

[1] Gary Gensler, “Blockchain and money”, Introduction https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-s1...
And how's SBG1 doing?
Exactly this. As someone on the hiring side, most Resumes that come my way are identical layout for every candidate a recruiter sends.

As soon as I'm talking to a candidate 1-on-1 (without the recruiter proxying) I ask them to provided me an original copy of their Resume, because the recruiter may have left out important details (thinking them irrelevant, as recruiters typically aren't tech-savvy) when copy+pasting into their template.
I would think producing spares after end of production would be expensive even if you kept the molds around.
An interview with him from 2013 : https://www.theregister.com/2013/09/02/compact_cassette_supr...
I think I'm a pretty adept emacs user, and I've relied at least ten times more on crappy informal documentation in blogs, StackOverflow etc. than on the real stuff.
Unless they use two factor, which I sure hope they do.
Maybe in the future post-COVID it will be more strict, but my experience has been that it isn’t.
Why Open Source? Paragraph 1 "in the face of* the battlefield"

Definitely on the side of open source when it comes to security. But not because it lends itself to cheaper solutions but because it allows you to be sure your not being siphoned for corporate profit.
I have no doubt, that in the over 30 years after Chernobly hundreds of thousands of children were born with birth defects in Poland and Ukraine, many of them severe. Which is tragic. And has nothing to do with Chernobyl. Because roughly 6% of all babies born around the world have birth defects (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/birth-defects-caus...). As a parent, I can understand the impulse to attribute such a senseless act of nature to some outside, "evil" force. But the statistics just don't show any meaningful connection.
Another way of reading your statement: That's also why there is SO MUCH shit software out there.

If small companies weren't able to use inexperienced developers to spin up half-assed MVPs, we'd be at the mercy of whatever large companies are interested in developing, and time has shown that as companies get bigger, they lose interest in niches in favor of products that will be massive successes.

You're not wrong, but I also don't think the world you are describing is a problem.
I am Brazillian and we had that reaction too.

The World Cup was more popular, but still wasn't widely accepted as some people think it would be.

The Olympics was outright hated, so many stupid shenanigans happened there (like demolishing a NEW stadium, to build another identical one, just because the seatings positions were slightly bad).

So no, you don't need to be first world to recognize how stupid hosting the Olympics is.
Is it just me or does this not work on Firefox? Works okay for me on Chromium, but I do have a lot of Firefox addons. This happens a lot...
I appreciate some of the rationale for the cost, however the fridge itself is less than five years old.

The solution here would be standardised fridge door shelf types, or better yet - sturdier designs that don't gradually crack when the door is shut 'a little jovially', billiarding glass jars around... .
Yeah, that's a really good point and I would actually love for my old stuff to be reused by /anyone/.
Most people don't care about their data. They don't even understand what companies do and do not collect. They want convenience.

Nonetheless, there are apps that don't collect data or allow you to sync to your own backend (usually to WebDAV).

Some links to get you started:

- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26365835
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I got rid of everything I owned and spent 1.5 years biking around the US.
I lived at a whitewater rafting company for 3 weeks, was hosted at music festivals, taken in by hundreds of people and lived in yellowstone for a month in their hiker/biker campsites for $2/day.
I was working part time the whole time for a small mobile hardware startup.

It was amazing!! The toughest part was being alone the whole time, though in solitude I relived my life from the earliest moments, going through each grade in school, unwrapping memories and figuring out the rough bits as I pedaled.
Ada Blackjack
Show HN: Rvault – secure store using envelope encryption and OTP authentication
T-Mobile will sell your web-usage data to advertisers unless you opt out
You are awesome. Thank you for clarifying these things.
One thing I’d really like to see less of on this board, is argumentation by labeling an idea with some obscure field-dependent term, with no other logical support presented. Admittedly we allow this in mathematically rigorous fields, and there is, perhaps, some discussion to be had about what is rigorously proven as an inviolable natural law in the social sciences. It seems to me that such terms are admissible in the natural sciences only when based on clear parameters of disproof, and evidence, broadly sought, has never been shown to refute it. But in progressive social sciences, and nearly all denominations of politics and religion, these terms are used to deny the admissibility of any evidence against an assertion. This is a fundamental disagreement of the mechanisms of reasoning and communication, and I’m not sure how the two can exist together, but for some reason they always have. For academics, the required canon has simply shifted from Catholicism to social justice. I wonder if there would be some fatal flaw within any gathering of the purely rational such that they must be balanced by the irrational. Or perhaps it is a mutual exchange of the long-term respect and value creation due to risk and rigor, for the short-term financial support of those that would rather pay tuition to pretend.
>I've been to plenty of interviews where my CV hasn't been given more than a glance.

I have a fake programming language on my resume, has been there for years. To top it off, I used a well known video game cheat code.

I've been hired several times with that on my resume, so far no one has ever mentioned it.
> Whether it’s some sort of evolved protection from a similar virus in the past or similar viruses being common in the present, there’s definitely a reason.

The virus you are looking fo is SARS - but I would guess it is more the government response rather than the individual immune response that has learned for it.
Yes, recruiters have accounts with companies, but in my experience the recruitment fee is a percentage of salary, and the individual recruiter compensation is on a commission model. In short, I personally have no problems in believing that the higher the salary, the higher the payment to both the recruitment company and individual recruiter.

However, I think we all know that closing the deal is far more important to the recruiter than negotiating small changes to the salary, so your point stands.
Every problem I've had with my Airpods
The Infinite IKEA http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3008
Related:

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth. In manly hours, we feel that duty is our place. The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things. In Thebes, in Palmyra, his will and mind have become old and dilapidated as they. He carries ruins to ruins.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
"Considerable suspicion" is over-selling it in my opinion. The arguments I've heard go along the lines of 'the virus is surprisingly well adapted to humans'. This reasoning, however, is text-book survivor bias:

Given we observe a pandemic, the probability for the virus to be well adapted is very high.

What we do know is:

* There is a highest safety level virus lab in Wuhan.

* Lab escapes do and did happen.

As far as I know we simply do not have evidence if or if not gain of function research played a role.

\edit: formatting. Can somebody please explain the downvotes?
I moved around quite a bit. Depends on where you draw the line between traveling and living abroad, I suppose.
This in part is why I don’t mind travelling alone. Everything happens on my terms
the paper defines nicely what they are trying to achieve:

The problem comprises two intriguing challenges of how to construct a visual scene representation from only a sparse set of images and how to render such a representation from unseen perspectives.
The whole point of async is entirely ergonomics. Anything you can do in async you can do in continuation-passing style.

I believe the point the author is making is that they added a feature for ergonomics' sake that ended up not being ergonomic; async-style programming usually coincides with first-class functions and closures, and those are painful in Rust.
You can't make everyone happy and you shouldn't try to. If people enjoy OCaml or Lisp or Haskell, they really ought to continue using them.
If legal reads it you're at least gonna get an email to the tune of "hey WTF is this? did someone sneak a joke into the draft?" which is sufficient for proving they read it.
A Biography of the Woman Who Will Re-Engineer Humans
Why is this a FB group? For software developers. Don't support Zuck and his shit companies.
https://fusionauth.io/ also looks good
works for me on FF mobile
and FF desktop
Why rvault? If you are using a simple file/directory/disk encryption with a passphrase, then the data is compromised if: 1) the computer or the disk is compromised i.e. the encrypted data becomes accessible; and 2) the passphrase is compromised. The attack surface in such case is quite significant. The computer/disk can be stolen, lost, breached; it may be left temporarily unattended giving an attacker enough time to tamper with the hardware; the system might have a malware which could steal the encrypted data and/or the passphrase (e.g. using they keylogger); passphrase might also be leaked accidentally, e.g. by being typed or copy-pasted into a wrong place; there are other threats, e.g. HD cameras which may capture typing of the passphrase. These are just a few examples.

rvault attempts to reduce the attack surface significantly by making (1) and (2) generally insufficient, yet keeping the data storage local.
It is very high time for a successor on sql that solves sql problems. Verbosity, local functions, reversed order table/field select, reusability and other big problems should be solved by sql itself. A newer better version, perhaps compiling to backward compatible sql.
I had an opportunity in 2019 to get lost in the Franklin Institute after hours with a couple of friends. Most of the lights were off, not a soul to be found, and some of the normal passageways were locked. The only signs of life was near the event nestled in a small corner at the back of the building, which we had arrived late to and decided not to disturb, choosing to explore instead. Cool experience.

Another take on this idea can be found in the extremely good anime "The Tatami Galaxy".
Spare parts will be the biggest problem (especially pricing).
Good point, but my DB is tiny, so for now, I can afford the mysqldump. But I'll keep this in mind.
I do have the same memories from digital times. Got the same pleasure on my computer. Reason, soundforge, dance ejay etc

Love the cassette though. Still use it to apply warmth to audio to mix back in with my digital productions.
left my home country to go backpacking in Asia and Australia in the early 90ies.

Had a plan to stay at least 1 year (that's how long I hoped my savings would last before I had to either earn a living or go back home). And I'm still abroad (not Asia) until this day. Another goal I set for myself is try to economically sustain myself in the host country without relying on a pay-check from a foreign company. (this is really hard and I often fail in this)

After a decade in APAC, and having gotten married to a Japanese flight-attendant working for Singapore airlines, a child on our way, we returned to Europe. We kept this life style as a young family and lived in various countries over here (which was as much excitement for my wife as Asia was to me).

We found that most countries are a great adventure for us except our very own home countries. We agreed to never return back to our own country as a couple because it took away the adventure for one of us and made things hard during the early phases when going through "reverse culture shock". We eventually split up after 20 years of traveling together and having raised 2 kids. Both of us still feel at home anywhere and neither would ever return to their home country. My kids are at university now, speak 3 languages on a native level + 3 foreign languages they had picked up along the way. Best thing I ever did was pack that rucksack.

with countries opening up again I hope to go either back to Asia (by myself) or continue my exploration of South Eastern Europe. A challenge I had set for myself after the break-up because my wife would never go to there (it's a lot harder to survive there using the above "rules/philosophy")
The irony is that is a capitalist institution attended by relatively wealthy people.

It’s like Communists going to indoctrination camp not wanting to be labeled communists themselves. Or lgbt being ashamed of being lgbt. Hence my Cuba reference. If they are ashamed of our economic system does that mean they want a socialist economy like VZ? Note Denmark is capitalist and not socialist.

Also although what mr McCarthy did was akin to today’s cancel culture (mere accusation can lead to job loss) he wasn’t completely wrong in that quite a few of his subjects were communists who wanted sovietism in the USA.
Xilinx Opens Up Vitis HLS Tool for FPGAs