skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll never power a starship with coal either.

That dead end technology is one of the few hopes for countering global warming and carbon emissions. And rooftop solar and EV batteries dual-purposing for distributed grid storage are complementary technologies.

"Why can't we bring down the price of nuclear" is a problem with the nuclear industry, and has nothing to do with the REVOLUTIONARY sea change that renewables represent.

And I'm a LFTR fan. Brayton cycle? 100x more available fuel that's breeded? Vastly reduced proliferation risk? "Burn" spent fuel rods? 99% fuel use? Zero meltdown risk with plug and liquid fuel? Scales down to the size of a closet? Very rapid startup/shutdown time? Container degradation was a problem, but whatever. Amazing stuff.

But LFTR and other technologies have zero chance in the open market right now with renewables plummeting in cost to the point that there exist no fossil fuels that are competitive in the marketplace.

Solar/wind is one of the few developments that are counter to our civilization sliding into a polluted, totalitarian, oppressive dystopia. Solar/Wind can enable decentralized power production in the third world, and combined with Starlink and other satellite internet webs will enable so much potential for the third world without the pseudo-oppressive nature of grid and wired communications infrastructure.
It also means that in certain places 24 hours would last several days.
At least TCL and Hisense manufacture TVs with Roku built in, which seems like a big benefit, streaming services don't need to make and maintain another app specifically for your budget brand.
This blog appears to be the work of a career no-coiner who has a book to sell you - I would be a bit skeptical.
But a lot of people don't get that. They hear, "nuclear waste from nuclear plant is highly deadly because it is radioactive. It could kill you in minutes."

Then they hear, "Nuclear waste from nuclear plants will be radioactive for thousands of years."

They then assume, "Nuclear waste from nuclear plants is highly deadly and could kill you within minutes for thousands of years."
There is a level of internal complexity implied within "it just works," and an added layer of frustration when someday down the line, it just doesn't work. Eventually an electronic component wears out, or the manufacturer shuts down their server, or your phone is no longer supported.

I have always loved the idea of a connected house, but I haven't yet seen a feature that would make it worth the trouble of installation, added cost, and yet another app to control my life.
IntelliSense Improvements in Visual Studio 2019
more like "unapologetic" I think? also I think somewhat coopted by right wing folks more recently.
Innovation in India- Challenges and Opportunities
They also want streaming from their service of choice (thus "apps") and casting.

That's kind of it, though. Nobody asked for ads. Of course it makes the manufacturer money, but also severely degrades the UX. I wonder how much higher demand would need to get for them to offer a shit-free experience for a bit more money.
This is excellent! Love the basic HTML look as well.

Love the project, will follow along!
It works, but there are other levels of the stack between low level decoding HDMI and the "smart" parts.

Without updates you might miss out on other improvements like decreased input lag, support for another format, and bugfixes for the existing implementations (i.e. the HDMI decoder strobes when specific configuration X is utilized).

As a concrete example, Sony added HDR to one of their lines a year after it's original production a few years ago[1].

[1]https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00157695
Nothing like the redundancy of all those cloud servers and decentralization. Great job Oracle. lmao, how do you fail across the entire planet? I can't wait for the write ups on this.
Thanks. I didn't know about wiki.tripsit.me. Looks like a great resource.
> Since then about a third of them have been permanently shut down, and only nine have resumed operation.

I dont think this is true. As far as I know they are all shut down still.
Any suggestions for a good cook book?
Not worldwide
No, I mean the cause and it’s rationale. The “disparity thus discrimination” logic with no mind for other factors. The absolute refusal of anyone to look at any of the equally heinous murders of white Americans by police. I don’t want to delegitimize BLM; I don’t know for fact that the BLM folks are wrong and I remain open minded, but I’m disgusted by so much of how it played out—the dodgy rhetoric, the agitators, the divisiveness, the racial dogma, the violence, and much more. There are some good things that have come out of it—90% of Americans favor police reforms; it raised awareness for that, although we’ll see if it manifests in (substantial, non-symbolic) policy. Anyway, I hope the bad is all in the past and we can move forward.
Pinhole whole home ad blocking!!!
Sometimes you have to do things you aren't proud of. $20 is $20.
Very interesting. Does anyone have any idea how the C compiler was bootstrapped. Was it first written in B, or was it written in PDP-11 assembler?
Samsung is using bluetooth for their new remotes. Desolder the antenna and you cannot use the TV anymore.
Renewables have such a poor energy density that I am not sure anyone can take your last sentence seriously.
> Nope, people got recipes from books and magazines, which were considered reliable gatekeepers.

You're making my point - they were gatekeepers because they were discoverable and promoted. That's what gave them credibility. Just as showing in search results does now.

People didn't pick cookbooks because they had the most aimless stories that hid the actual recipe.
for zig it's 1.8 kB on x86_64-linux with minimal fiddling. i386-windows comes out to 2.5kB.

$ cat hello.zig
const std = @import("std");
pub fn main() void {
std.io.getStdOut().writeAll("Hello, World!\n") catch {};
}
$ zig build-exe hello.zig --strip -OReleaseSmall
$ zig build-exe hello.zig --strip -OReleaseSmall -target i386-windows
$ ldd hello
not a dynamic executable
$ strip hello
$ ./hello
Hello, World!
$ wine hello.exe
Hello, World!
$ ls -hl hello hello.exe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andy users 1.8K Mar 10 21:15 hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 andy users 2.5K Mar 10 21:15 hello.exe

No min-sized-zig github repository needed.
Also, there will be hundreds of millions of EVs in about 10 years. With not-so-small batteries, charged by distributed rooftop solar. Many / most of the EVs will have batteries that are overprovisioned for daily driving in order to enable distance driving.
The owner of this website is a reactionary with a relatively popular YouTube channel in which he openly espouses and trades in racist talking points[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA
Can anyone tell me(or point to a good blog post) why IPv6 is more than simply IPv4 with 128 bits for an address vs 32?
I think the reason why we haven’t seen more of this vector being used isn’t because it is technologically unfeasible, but rather that there are easier ways to get a device connected.

This is true, but it's also something that right now consumers can at least do something about if they are well-informed, as noted by many commenters here referring to not allowing "smart" devices access to home WiFi networks and the like. I think the danger with 5G, and I'm including the surrounding culture and marketing under that umbrella here, is that the channel for remote communication becomes independent and so potentially impossible for consumers to detect, monitor or prevent, even if they are otherwise relatively well-informed about the technology.
Lou Ottens, Inventor of the Cassette Tape, Has Died
The odd thing is that my credit card had a successful $1 charge on each sign up attempt. I might give it another shot in the future though.
The TouchUI plugin gets the web interface very usable on mobile.
Even better, these autogenerated summaries should give most weight to paragraphs at the end of the article.

I often find that New York Times and other media put important details that sometimes contradict the headline or challenge the main idea of the article somewhere close to the end of the article.

This lets them still claim objectivity while preserving a highly polarizing message.
All you care about is the offset, regardless of whether time zones exist or not. Knowing the east coast is 3 hours ahead of us, I know calling at 8PM is probably a bad idea. You don’t need that intermediate step of figuring out what number is associated with that on the east coast.

You don’t care that Bob is in EST, you just need to know that he’s 3 hours ahead of you.
ConsoleMe: A Central Control Plane for AWS Permissions and Access
Buy shares in a forestry company.
You can't reason with iHome people, trust me, I've tried.
I don't think OP talkes about polished SEO blogs or celebrities, but about experience and knowing the basics. If you e.g. quote Escoffier or Harold McGee etc, I trust you did your research.[0] Also, OP mentions techniques, which I agree are interesting and worth to share.

[0] (Of course you don't have to read and quote books, and a lot of good chefs didn't as well, but that is just one factor for me to decide how much experience you have/how trustworthy you are. Just showing some recipes don't tell me that much.)
Ah! I misunderstood you, sorry. I thought you were saying that linear types would be easy to implement. I wasn't trying to say anything about the stuff you'd do with them if you had them.
This is very nice. Nice that PR's + credit to the Author's are included in the template. I've been using a similar site for a while: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Recipes
This website actually proves why everyone's favourite punching bag, the picture heavy SEO laden, anecdote about my mother's neighbors rabbi style cooking blogs exist.

These recipes would be totally un-followable unless you've made them before, especially without pictures. Some of them are terrible recipes, particularly the "curry". And maybe there are good reasons for them being very basic (e.g. they're traditional or they're meant to be simple or for beginners), but because there's very little in the way of explanation in them, who knows.

Hard pass. This website is just a pure html version of the first google link when you search for a recipe. Much like that first google link, these recipes will also be boring and flavorless.
Link is broken, try this one instead:
https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2021/03/10/samsungs...
Hah. I don't love luke, but hope this project of his yields fruit.
> This is why most people's cooking sucks.

I'd argue that recipes themselves are why a lot of people's cooking sucks. The recipes tell you what how much and how long but fail to account for the basics of seasoning, preparation and tool selection.

If people apply a formal or acquired training to recipes they'd usually vary a lot from person to person much less the original recipe
"Based" is a positive adjective in 4chan-ese. It's roughly analogous to "redpilled," and is used primarily (but not exclusively) by reactionaries and people in that general sphere.

The owner of this website is one such person; the use of "based" is meant to be a (not so) subtle nod to his knowing audience.
Roblox is like the AOL of a generation - I was 13 when I first got into programming thanks to AOL and it wasn't because AOL had created a programmable platform and API. AOL incentivized busting into chat rooms, punting other users, exploring hidden areas, and generally doing all sorts of stuff that could only be done programmatically by manipulating the client with whatever IPC APIs your OS made available. This is basically how Mark Zuckerberg got going too, so very possibly the world's next Zuckerberg is hacking on Roblox today.
> So I did strike out on my own. A subject called random matrix theory was hot in physics at the time, applied to condensed matter phenomena and to the quantum behavior of classically chaotic systems. The relevant math was familiar to me from engineering. I figured I’d just dive in, learn the subject, and come out the other end with a publishable discovery.

Did he find something interesting on random matrices? Years ago I was researching random cycles and found a phenomenon of emergent order, that seems related to the universality of random matrices. But I'm just a programmer playing around with numbers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130610074258/https://www.simon...
>> "Looking back at some of the gelatin casseroles of the 60s, of course, casts doubt on some of that reliability."

The most convincing theory I heard was that the gelatin obsession was about status since it required refrigeration. Hosting a party where you served the latest, most elaborate gelatin dish said something about you.
> Stocks are an actual claim on underlying businesses, their cash flows, IP, and their assets.

This is not true.

If you buy a share of GOOG, you have zero claim on any of Alphabet's cash flows or assets.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and doesn't expect to pay a dividend in the future. So there's no income potential.

There is no scenario under which you can convert your share into any of the company's intellectual property or physical assets.

Your share doesn't even give you the right to vote on anything.

There is only one thing you can do with your share, and that's sell it to someone else.

So the only conceivable purpose in buying GOOG stock is the hope you can sell it to someone else for more than you paid.
Wings are certainly not complex. They are passive, and ailerions/flapse/spoilers are hydraulically operated.
What device are you running it on that you are seeing slow startup and load times?

Even on a Pi 2 with a plugin heavy instance (TouchUI with custom theme, octolapse, etc) the web interface loaded acceptably fast enough.

Python 3 support was in Beta/RC for a very long time intentionally so plugin authors could update.
I'm just sour that they didn't hire me after I worked my ass off on a take-home project. Luckily I found a higher paying gig, but maybe not in the end if the stock is really worth that much heh. Good for them.
Amethyst
When Win10 was initially released (IIRC 1507, 1509), it won't support title bar coloring. That's horrible to detect which window is foreground. At future version, they added an option to coloring title bar. I suspect that what is foreground windows is not important for touch oriented device, but it's problem for keyboard operation.
I don't know about the newest models but up until the XH series wifi was actually faster than ethernet. The SoC only supported 100MBit/s ethernet which isn't enough for high quality UHD content.
Flint knives and bear skins.
And here's another copy to bypass the pay wall:
https://outline.com/rfBWzn
I think it depends on the Subject. For things that you know a lot, most articles doesn't go deep enough into any issues that you wont already know. For others that caught your attention and you have little to no knowledge on it. I read the article first and then read comments to see if it has answer to question I have.

And most of the time, comments on HN is the interesting part. You have people sharing stories on related subject and history 10-20 years ago on how it all started. Why was something being done , and add a lot more context.
Looking at that page, the total downtime was around 27 minutes. Having been through multiple AWS outages lasting many hours, this is not even a blip on the radar. Except for the usual disparaging of all Oracle products, it is a non story .
No, don’t live near Greenwich but I’ve never quite understood why 12:00 is lunch time, it’s just an arbitrary number.

My lunch time is 20:00 Zulu. It’s just as relevant a number as 12:00 PST.
Ask HN: Will robots/AI ever be able to figure out touch?
Human skin is pretty incredible.

Guide the tip over your finger over a variety of different surfaces. Your shirt, your desk, your keyboard, your hair.

Just a square centimeter of skin can immediately determine (roughly) what it is in contact with by detecting its texture, moisture level, temperature, etc. And this impressive material surrounds nearly 100% of your body.

Computer vision is making some impressive strides, but is anyone even trying to work on computer touch? Is there any hope that we could come close to matching the impressive capabilities of skin?
This is my plan when I eventually don't have a choice and need to replace my TV. But I am also worried: we've gotten to a point where manufacturers ship products with a known backlog of bugs and plan to fix them with software updates.
> The first thing human beings did after discovering nuclear energy was use it for mass murder

this is nothing but FUD designed to evoke a connection to death. technology isn't responsible for what its used for, and any negative past uses in no way preclude future beneficial uses.

even if you don't like nuclear you should be ashamed of saying things like this.

> I don't know how anybody can believe the resistance to nuclear is purely out of ignorance

because antinuclear arguments look like yours.
I don't own a smart TV and I, too, am skeptical that your grandparent is correct that TV makers are surreptitiously using other devices as network bridges with HDMI, etc.

BUT ... since we're talking about it ... are the network lines on HDMI reserved for that purpose such that you could create an "HDMI condom" ? I have USB condoms that I use to charge phones with, etc., and wonder if the same concept works with HDMI ...
It works well on a raspberry pi but there are multiple ways to host it (docker, etc) so even if you have old spare hardware you're in luck.
This is the same person Till Kottmann who started Lawnchair Launcher, a very popular Android launcher? https://github.com/deletescape

The same person who leaked 20GB of Intel data? https://securityboulevard.com/2020/08/intel-leak-20gb-of-sec...

He isn't even trying to hide and does everything in the open. Like this IG https://instagram.com/deletescape

He lives in Switzerland. Does Switzerland not care about shady internet things like this?
plainoldrecipe.com

Recipe website de-cruft-ifier
Load is lower at night

Only in warm climates.
Phones are too dirty to be allowed in bed. This was my thinking pre Covid 69 too. In my opinion it's like wearing shoes in bed.
Do they have a homepage in your country that you could start the process on? Stuff like you're saying happens to me all the time because I usually have my VPN going 24/7 and financial transaction companies (some) do NOT like VPNs. Pretty often I have to turn it off for a few minutes to use a credit card. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
I'm on your side. I need the author of a recipe to explain why their recipe is interesting, different, or better than others. And I need that to match with my own culinary reasoning and knowledge. Otherwise it's likely to be bland, boring, both, or worse.

That said, we are in the minority. Most people just Google the recipe they want to make and use the first result. This very very very rarely produces a good result. Most people don't care. And yet they wonder why their food sucks.

There's definitely some skill to cooking, but 80% of why I'm considering a good cook among my friends is because I only use recipes from people I trust, and I try to follow them as closely as possible.
Yeah, his name was Montgomery Scott, next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relics_(Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_...
Ha! You can see they localise it too https://www.ovh.com/world/support/terms-and-conditions/

Like kimsufi equivalent brand "isgenug"
I’ve historical owned Samsung TVs and became so fed up with the bugs, the ads, and the uninstallable pre-installed apps. The most recent TV I purchased was a Sony X650H and I love it. It’s android based, the UI isn’t clunky, and I’ve never seen an Ad. I have no idea if they are tracking me behind the scenes. At this point I assume everyone is. But at least they aren’t ruining my viewing experience.
I feel like the article is describing an anti-social (please don’t confuse this with introvert, or shy) developer. Pathologically, their behavior is dysfunctional (I’m avoiding the overuse of the word toxic since it has major pejorative implications on ones character). Dysfunction can be rehabbed, and often a symptom of ongoing bad habits and insecurity.

The one implied aspect of the 10x engineer that the article doesn’t address explicitly is productivity. I sincerely believe most 10x engineers arise from a situation where they wrote all of the initial code. This is an advantage that can make it difficult for any other engineer to appear within reach of the ‘10x’ engineer, especially if the initial architecture was convoluted.

These ‘10x’ engineers usually compensate by being highly available and protective of the architecture. How the latter manifests (guardianship of the codebase) can be related to where they are on the anti-social spectrum. Hiring juniors that can’t assess the true nature of the codebase is common.

To the article’s point, some of the symptoms the ‘10x’ engineers exhibit are negative. The question is, why? The root cause of it simply can’t be ‘secret genius that has character flaws, like all other secret geniuses’ - that’s a caricature. I would hammer home that the symptoms are by-products of a process that allowed such a situation to occur.

Word to the wise, don’t create a ‘10x’ engineer in your company by propping them up and giving full ownership, and consequently, the subsequent task of maintaining the defense of the shoddy situation. It’s unhealthy for everyone involved.
> Battery technology has seen large investments over the past decade and performance is better than ever.

Battery technology still has a bit to go before it can perform this task though. Even if we don't account for freak weather events (which are becoming more common).

> When demand is high, inexpensive natural gas can be turned on quickly.

Is this a good option though?

I think the only good argument against nuclear is cost, so I agree with that. But if we consider the cost of emissions, storage (these aren't counted in solar and wind and don't make for fair comparisons to base loads like coal, gas, or nuclear), or other factors that fall under "tragedy of the commons" (i.e. putting sources on even playing fields) the prices become more comparable (depending how you weigh factors). But it really does come down to how much you value the cost of climate and human lives (since nuclear is about 50x safer than natural gas).

Cost is a good argument, but we have to define our priors because "cost" means different things to different people. I for one would rather pay more for electricity and save human lives and reduce emissions. Just at $50/ton tax (low) would make it competitive[0], assuming that we couldn't regain economies of scale.

[0] https://www.axios.com/nuclear-energy-could-be-competitive-bu...
Thanks for the reminder about that. I totally forgot about it, but I'll definitely be using it more now.
Often people are deeply frustrated because they're getting pages and pages of irrelevant SEO-bait and then the recipe. It's rarely meaningful, substantive, informative, educational, or helpful. I don't care how much someone's son/partner/dog loves this gluten-free/low-carb/vegan recipe, and most people seem to also not care.
also a long-time rust user, and I buy this. one of the things it took me longest to realize when writing rust is to reach for traits carefully/reluctantly. they can be amazing (e.g. serde), but I've wasted tons of time trying to make some elegant trait system work when I could have solved the problem much more quickly otherwise.