skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Atomic Adventures, James Mahaffey (who I unreservedly recommend) outlines the history, claims and problems with Cold Fusion. He was a member of one of the first teams to try to replicate the results, and points out that (from the point of view of working atomic scientists at the time) it was very clear that whatever this was, it was not fusion, as it lacked features that would have to be present if it were. Notably, the scientists pictured standing next to it weren't dead. It was also first announced in a press release, not a journal and the actual details of the experiment were initially kept secret (and not knowing the details was used as a reason that replication was failing) for commercial reasons. Whatever Pons and Fleischmann were doing, it pretty clearly wasn't science. It had none of the features of scientific enquiry, but nearly all of the features of a grift, and that hasn't changed in the intervening years.
>Because these things happened in "flyover" states, they were only very rarely shown on television on the coasts, and so the meme stuck.

How do you determine from TV that the people lining up for meatpacking jobs were not undocumented immigrants?

Like, it is generally accepted there aren't any in "flyover states" or something?

I never really thought of it until this moment, but you know how within 100 miles of any border, your constitutional rights are somewhat compromised so DHS can operate? That ought to mean a pretty substantial incentive for people who are undocumented to migrate inward. So I would bet they do.
In theory, this is the purpose of tenure. Advancing to tenure status should make your subsequent research into LENR unassailable. In practice, I guess you still have to toe the line, and apply for grants...
Even if the UK was threatening AZ with an export ban, they didn’t force AZ to accept those terms. AZ could have just said no and made the U.K. government look incompetent and unleashed media scrutiny on BoJo.

Yes, having the industrial base is part of the attraction of the UK for pharmaceutical companies. As is having a skilled workforce and a reliable system of laws.

I’m rejecting your original point about the U.S. and U.K. doing the same thing, which they aren’t.
Nobody is lying, the redacted agreements do indeed show that the UK agreement is dated to a day after the EU agreement but that says nothing about when money changed hands or prior deals or commitments. You get a 3 month difference between the UK and the EU because the UK had an agreement with AstraZeneca all the way back on the 17th of May (note: June -> Aug is not 3 months, that's sloppy reporting from your linked website) as can be seen here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/funding-and-manufacturing...

or here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/17/uk-plans-38m...

and this is on top of funding Oxford had received from the UK prior to the Oxford-AZ deal. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-03-24-oxfords-covid-19-resear...

Yet the publicly announced deal with the EU was on the 27th of August: https://www.euractiv.com/section/coronavirus/news/eu-pays-e3...

It should be noted at this point that France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, had jointly negotiated a deal with AZ in June but my understanding is that after an EU27 vote the EC took over negotiations and you get the final (and first for the EU) deal in August.

Why the redacted UK agreement is dated 28th of August is anybodies guess but some things should be made clear, firstly that the UK started funding AZ in May and not late August, secondly that they did this a month before other EU countries had reached an agreement with AZ, and finally that the EC getting involved added a further 2 months to the negotiation.
If the payout is an Apple Store voucher you can better hope they start stocking canned air.
Linux containers with LXD doesn't fit the need?

I use them for everything where I can. Years of docker in production has burnt me out. I've come to loathe its design and anti-patterns. There's also just plain ridiculous stuff like making people signup for an account to download it on windows/mac
I think it was probably a combination of (a) the comment wasn't very substantive, and (b) it might seem dismissive to post that in someone's launch thread.

Edit: oh wait. I thought your comment was just "Similar to linear", but you edited it after the fact. Originally it was an entirely different post trying to promote your own product in this space. That's no doubt why DanBC quoted the guideline about promotion. And yes, that was pretty rude to do in someone else's launch thread.
Hoping it's called EchoChamber.
> - MOST people will not want to pay for articles. Especially in an ever increasing world of subscription payments across tv, music, SaaS, I really don’t see how email newsletters will be high on people’s lists

I've subscribed to three Substack newsletters. A lot of other people have too. A 90% cut of the fee is netting some writers - including some not super-popular writers - a living wage, and for very popular writers, a *LOT* of money. Writing is not generally well paid; at a 90% cut, it doesn't take a lot of $5/month subscriptions to exceed what traditional media can pay.

> - for the quality writers that people do want to pay, they will eventually move off the platform if it makes sense to do so (ie they get their brand recognition and followers and then jump ship to their own website). For the smaller ones, patreon onlyfans or some other direct contribution model would make more sense IMO

Onlyfans has a stigma of being for porn, Patreon has a host of problems, takes a pretty high cut as well, and has a poor UI for this. Substack is objectively much better. You're right that it would probably make sense for the super-stars to jump to a cheaper platform, but there's also wide scope for them to negotiate better deals.

> So I really don’t get Substack’s model and how it can be successful long term unless it truly becomes the landing page

Taking 10% of a bunch of money for a pretty lightweight tool seems like a good business model to me. Can they keep those margins going? It's not implausible. The 10% Substack takes for, essentially, hosting is really high if you compare it to the $X/month you'd need for a hosted blog or VPS + Cloudflare, but it's very, very low when you compare it to the cut a traditional publisher takes.

As so often, a lot depends on framing and how people compare the deal being offered.

> I’m much more of a fan of the Medium model

I've never paid Medium money, I will never pay Medium money, I don't understand why people pay Medium money, and I don't know anyone who has, is, or likely will pay Medium money. The Medium model, to me, seems to be an attempt to copy the traditional non-working model, without even an attempt to fix it. I can see why people might be fans of the concept, but it seems crystal clear to me that it represents the dead past, currently kept alive as a shambling zombie by VC money.

Substack, maybe, is the future. And contrary to your assertions, does NOT seem to be burning VC money to bring it about. They seem to be coming out ahead on the Substack Pro advances, after all.
I use GitLab at work and sourcehut for personal projects. And as much as I like minimalism, I have to admit how /nice/ GitLab is in comparison. But some complaints since some GitLab employees are watching:

- Syntax highlighting (for Python at least) is wonky.

- Changing profile pictures can take hours or days to propagate. Seems like a silly request, but I like changing my profile pic quickly.

- Metarepos (git repos using lots of submodules) are a mess in git and gitlab doesn't make it easier. It's either monorepo or manyrepo with no support for us inbetweeners.

- Frontend perf is snappier than some competitors, but not snappy /enough/.

- The search UI is bad. The widgets get in my way 90% of the time. And its slow.
It is rightfully unpopular, because it's not based on facts. The earth could easily sustain 8B+ people if certain countries do not over-consume as they are currently. But you are right, people are selfish, especially these over-consumers.
I find this very interesting but I don't see the one thing answered I was looking for... which is how does he get ahold of these? I imagine even old missile guidance tech isn't something the US would want other countries to study in detail?

Related... I typed in "Buy Titan Guidance System" on Google (and now I'm probably on a watch list) and this popped up. A for sale listing for an old Titan silo... https://www.luxerealtyphotography.com/titan-missile-site-for...
I’ve come to terms in understanding China’s actions by this assumption, which is made up by me, but seems true enough and maybe even true for most nation states when pushed against a wall:

They are acting without any concern for the outside world - not for how they are perceived, not for any consequences. They are acting with pure self-determination. This works because they know they can be self sufficient and have a long term plan to get there.

Controlling the information/narrative domestically is the only variable they need to manipulate that matters. So as an outsider, it all seems quite inexplicable, but if you see it as a way to achieve long term political and infrastructure goals while maintaining social harmony locally - most of their actions make sense, even if they may not be morally justifiable to some/many/all people in some/many/all situations :)
Recent versions of Racket are based on Chez Scheme, which emits faster Scheme code than any other currently maintained Scheme compiler. If you want balls-out performance, Racket is the better choice.

I still recommend you evaluate them both, but people's time being limited I can see why you might not.
BugUFO: Where Code Bugs Disappear
It depends on price. If it proves to be more expensive then fusion, no. However if it's much cheaper than wind, we could use it to pull CO2 directly out of the air on a massive scale. One might imagine a sort of lo-fi global thermostat, an interesting and somewhat scary thought.
Docker Desktop for Windows still auto-upgrades without asking you. Not sure about Mac. The fix is supposedly coming in the next release (sometime in April).
I'd say it's more like 1Password cost you $2,023.
el Reg have covered the sad failings in Nominet for years. The article you linked contains a lot of links to prior coverage and are worth reading if you have some spare time.

Nominet has a monopoly over .uk. They are also the org that were tasked with ENUM for the UK. Back in the day there was a web page on Nominet's website describing how it would revolutionise telephony. Then it vanished. For a laugh I called them and was told that ENUM would never be enabled in the UK and no, I can't set it up myself either - they would not allow the delegation.

I doubt ENUM will ever become a thing. I should explain that ENUM allows people to run their own telephone numbers. Yes we can all do VoIP via email addresses (!) but those normal looking phone numbers can be made to work via ENUM without involving a "provider".

If we could use ENUM then I could register my phone number via DNS. The following is slightly adjusted to avoid my PBX exploding. So 01935 476222 becomes 441935476222. My local town is Yeovil and that has the code 01935 within the UK (so does at least one Sherbourne and a few other bits hereabouts.) The country code for the UK is 44 and the rule here is you drop the leading 0 to make a canonical "international" phone number.

Now, reverse the digits and put dots in between then and stick a suffix on the end and pop it into DNS with a pointer to a PBX or even a single handset that talks VoIP.

This presentation explains it all: https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof8/Daley-ENUM.pdf (lol!)
The thing with "windows" laptops is that you can install and run Linux seamlessly out of the box, even distros that Mimic the look of OSX, and remap the keys to your hearts content.
I have seen estimates of thousands of wet markets in China and perhaps 10000 in all of Asia. Why the one wet market closest to a lab doing GOF research, and previously questioned on its containment rigor.
Yeah it seems pretty clear that this was a 1Password flaw and didn't really have anything to do with Substack's UI. And yes, the first paragraph notes that no money was spent, so not really sure why multiple people have downvoted your comment.
The font size is mostly way too small. I don't have the same issue with the Discus comments though

https://imgur.com/M8ejyUq.png
> a good way to virtualize Windows that maintains decently high compatibility and performance with the games I want to play

I'd legit rather kill myself than use Windows as my primary OS, so I dual-boot, but I'm frankly interested in that too. Not for games though, but for real-time audio. Does anyone have any experience with running a DAW on a Windows VM? Is it worth the effort?
This. If your form is broken with autofill, your form is broken.
On the flip side, supporting old versions is often very difficult and time-consuming. For an open-source project I maintain, sometimes I feel like I spend more time asking people to upgrade to the latest version (which often fixes the issue someone has) than I do helping people with legitimate issues. (I exaggerate, but it's a not-insignificant drain on my time.)

If these people are paying for Docker Desktop, then, sure, maybe they're entitled to upgrades and support on their terms. But if they're not, I'm completely sympathetic toward developers trying to reduce their (unpaid) support burden.

Yes, this might turn people off and hinder adoption, but that's their choice to make.
Okay so I’ll ask again:

> What do you think would be an appropriate per-inmate budget?
Amazon is the ideal candidate given they missed out on (if they were trying) with Slack. $10B where Slack went for ~$30B, they can keep consumer Discord with some kind of Twitch integration, and charge $7 per user per month for Discord Enterprise with SSO and integrations with AWS (think Alexa chatbot stuff they keep pushing) and other enterprise apps.
I don't know how developers can look at the mess Microsoft causes with forced Windows 10 updates and think it's not only fine but they need to add another layer so that when the OS auto-updates without asking it might kick off a chain reaction of user applications wrecking themselves recursively.

At least we don't have to worry about a Skynet I guess.
here is your screenshot VS what I get when I visit the site: https://i.imgur.com/AHpKfUc.png
The point is that because something seems innocuous under normal use doesn't mean it is under other conditions.

Since you want a specific example, from further down the comments: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html
If cold fusion is possible, how are there still reactants around?
I had running battles with a previous employer's IT department as we wanted to install linux (being developers in a large non-technical company) as we were deploying to linux targets. Unfortunately the powers that be were very slow/disinterested in helping so WSL was pretty much the only route to have something still serviceable. Shadow IT wouldn't have cut it.
Spacecraft in a ‘warp bubble’ could travel faster than light, claims physicist
Just 75%...wow...so low. The UK is doing close to 1m/day. Germany has what, ~1.4m that aren't being used. Amazing that people accept it.
I'm currently trying to implement an ActivityPub-compliant API. It's super hard, and very annoying to get my head around JSON-LD and the various "undocumented" behaviours, especially without mature third-party libraries.

Something like this is exactly what I need! Looks fantastic.
Not for me. Probably `prefers-color-scheme` CSS detecting your OS/browser settings ?
HN is for any stories of intellectual interest. Interesting stories that aren't about tech are on-topic and welcome, so this alone is not a valid reason to flag a submission.
because it would've probably failed with other password managers and probably browers (if there are people who save their card details to a browser)

and it would probably also fail with tab.
My old joke about voice-control of computer equipment goes something like this:

Bill quits his job and, as he is walking out the door, calls back into the cubicle-farm "rm -fr /".

Seriously though, cubicle farms would be a thing of the past, with each computer having to be installed in its own sound-proof room where the next-door programmer's voice can't interfere.
snapd needs this feature too (let me choose when and what to update on MY machine)
>I don't hear much about QEMU discussed by Windows users.

Interesting that you chose QEMU and not, say, WINE, which definitely gets discussed even by Windows users. And, for that matter, is even more relevant since WSL also isn't an emulator.

As you said, a bit disingenuous.
My guess is that 1password filled it with the year because it saw the “/year” part of that input box…
Weird phenomena are a great way to justify a large investment of time and effort for yourself... But what the world wants is BORING phenomena.
Which problem? If you’re concerned about spending maybe that’s the right question to ask (I’m skeptical, a much more foundational question is why there are so many inmates). I’m still unclear on why that should be the focus of “the problem”.
If you take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638, you could make a Show HN out of this.
You're right if you're thinking about American universities, but IIT operates much differently (this may have changed, so IIT students, please correct me if I'm wrong here).

No student enters IIT declaring a CS major like an American university - they have to first excel at test-taking within IIT across a range of subjects (chemistry, physics, etc), so they can be part of the top cohort within IIT that is allowed to enroll in CS classes. Based on a couple Youtube video lectures I watched, these courses tend to be lecture-based and tested based on printing the correct output (not on software architecture or code quality).

Some of our younger IIT developers say the system is modernizing to be more like other higher education programs, so I might be totally wrong here.
That doesn't even make sense in neoclassical economics. One person's effects on the market are necessarily tiny, but if buying more of Brand X has any effect it will be to drive up the price of Brand X. You're actually harming "those really in need", and you should feel bad about it.
This is exactly why I don't trust autofill. How many times has it passed along information you didn't intend, but without any obvious errors? Nobody knows.
They screwed the address bar so you cannot edit it easily
> This broke production environments.

This broke development environments. I really hope no one is using Docker Desktop running on Mac in production.

Not to trivialize the issue; lost productivity due to a a bug in a software update sucks. But people are not getting irate customer phone calls or losing revenue because of product downtime due to this.
I did. But I also have Windows machines, in which I use WSL2. Granted, I don't use GUI applications on them (or see much need to).

It's actually quite nice to have a "real" linux instance available on virtually any Windows machine. I believe Microsoft is targeting the "developer who uses a Mac" market share with WSL2 and I expect more and more to jump ship, as the experience is significantly better.
It specifically says that the ex was on-board with the idea. And given that they were together for 20 years and early retirement is a goal that takes 10+ years to reach, at a minimum, I'd say the OP did their due diligience.

The read I got was that the reality of retirement didn't suit the ex's personality. The lead-up was fine, being frugal, aiming for a long term goal, but the reality of it had unintended effects that the ex couldn't handle as well as OP.
In the next few months will only be 12-15. Younger ages will follow (next is 6-11), but not that fast.
Here is a suggestion: US is stockpiling tens of millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses. If they send them to countries which have not finished vaccinating their elderly, they will save many lives. They are not doing any good in storage. Just send them. Not a measly 4 million doses. Send 30 million doses and save lives. The US is on track to vaccinate all Americans using Pfizer and Moderna alone before AstraZeneca is expected to be approved for use in US. Why not save some lives with it?

> This is a silly hypothetical and it paints people with reasonable beliefs in a bad light.

We disagree on what is and isn't reasonable. Maybe it was unfair. It's more like "if any of those politicians dares to save 7900 foreigners instead of 1 of my fellow countrymen, I will vote them out of the office." The final outcome is the same. It's just done through an extra layer of indirection, so everyone can continue feeling good about themselves.

> The E.U. is going to be in hot water over this. The failure of the E.U. and subsequent blaming of the U.K. and U.S. for taking care of its citizens looks really bad.

Oh, the EU will be in hot water, but not because the failure of EU. It's because it is shouldering a burden alone, a burden that should have been shared. Right now, US supplies US, UK supplies UK, and EU supplies the entire world with mRNA vaccines.

What could have EU done to be in a better position that would not have screwed over almost the entire rest of the world? As a Canadian, should I hope for an EU that would nationalize vaccines the next pandemic, like US and UK did this pandemic? If all three were exporting vaccines, the world would have been a better place and fewer people would have been dead. But here we are now, blaming the only one who is keeping Canadians (and other non-superpower nations) alive.
> we don't rationally share the vaccine,

By the end of 2021, do you really think that'll still be a problem?

Vaccine shortage is a problem right now. But the end of 2021 we'll have vaccines by the billions.

As for the next mutation, we'll likely have the productions capacity. The question becomes if a vaccine can be developed fast?
ChromeOS's Linux support is even more streamlined than Windows's approach. You enable it, the container is automatically created (though, it is possible to install other distros -- but you void official ChromeOS support), and then graphical apps just work. All window management works across Linux, Android, and ChromeOS apps seamlessly, and even the open with dialog in the ChromeOS file manager shows apps across Linux, Android, and ChromeOS. The app launcher also includes Linux apps.

One unique "feature" I like about the setup is how easy it is to just delete the container and start-over if I'm so inclined. I have an elaborate set of scripts to bootstrap a newly created Linux container on ChromeOS -- if anything goes wrong, I can just delete the container and re-run the bootstrap scripts.

I'm a big fan of where ChromeOS has headed and I like the containerized approach to the problem a lot. It's extremely close to getting to the point where I'd consider ChromeOS over MacOS for a work laptop, especially since they added Desk/workspaces support. I use ChromeOS exclusively at home and for personal dev now.
Lets say some_size is the length or size of something. So that a negative number does not make sense, as there will only ever be a positive length or size (Is that actually the case for arrays and such?). Then how would you express that fact? What is your proposal for such a type?
The testing burden is already enormous for things people want sites tested for.