skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair example. It feels different since the implementation was wrapped in more politics, since they deliberately intended a big ecological change (just a good one rather than a bad one). The root there was indeed a scientific mistake, though.
I wonder. You are right, they would probably force accounts become Microsoft accounts at some point.

I think there is also going to be higher public expectations of moderating and monitoring of what is discussed on Discord if Microsoft owns them. That may not be a headache that Microsoft even wants to deal with.
Confused to see so much talk of Fleischmann and Pons. The technique described in the linked article appears to be essentially neutron-catalyzed fusion. This is not too different conceptually from muon-catalyzed fusion, except instead of muons lowering the reaction energy barrier, neutrons provide the activation energy. The cold fusion claims from the '80s used an electrical process, which is not believable for quantum reasons (electron density can't get high enough to pull protons together due to Pauli exclusion).

As to whether it works, who knows? It may have been conclusively disproven five years ago for all I know. Or maybe it works. But if they're generating neutrons through X-ray bremsstrahlung, that's horribly inefficient and unlikely to ever come close to net power.
You are lying. Canada has ordered 7 times the amount of population. From different manufacturers. You’re making things up.

Biggest problem of Canada? There’s no local manufacture. And yes you can blame the liberals for that. Your anti Chinese talking point is not based in facts.
> In US Congress you can only vote down the member from your district.

In the US Congress you can vote for, or against, both your district’s representative in the House and your entire state’s representatives in the Senate.

But, more important, the EP, while it is involved in some legislation, doesn't have the preeminent lawmaking power that you'd expect of a parliament; the European Commission has legislative initiative, and their legislation must be confirmed by the European Council and in some cases the European Parliament.

So, great, the electoral system for the EP is arguably more effectively representative than that for the IS Congress, but that would matter a lot more if the EP had the legislative role of the US Congress or a normal parliament.
In my case the ARMs were Raspberry Pi3, Pi4, and RK3288. Linux was Debian in all cases, and .NET was 2.1 and 2.2. Worked great for my use cases, only crashed when I screwed up with unsafe or unmanaged code.

If your environment is anywhere similar, and you OK with .NET 2.1.18, you can try my package: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/releases/tag/1.0 Sources: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/net-core
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer
Is there a reason beyond it’s owned by Google to not go with Nest?
I'm told that some people derive enjoyment from looking at art, particularly if nobody else can look at it. Not sure how much they'll enjoy staring at their exclusive URL...
> We really do have quite a crisis of non-interoperability

Interoperability in communication software is impossible. I know this will upset a lot of people here but its just what we have seen time and time again.

Interoperable and standard software can not innovate because it is impossible to innovate since you need all vendors to agree and move in the same direction as you. Look at how ircv3 went. They promised the absolute bare minimum change to make irc slightly more modern and they weren't able to pull it off in time.

Discord could not be interoperable with other systems because most of its features did not exist at the time it added them. Interoperability means catering to the lowest common denominator of feature sets.

As discord has shown, siloed platforms are not the end, people will move to a new platform if it is clearly better. Discord was much much better than the rest so everyone moved. If someone else makes something much much better again they will move again.
Oh, you're right. Just tried it again now, and it's clearly not working properly.

I've just emailed their customer support people to find out what's going on.

Hopefully they haven't changed their mind about giving people access to Solidworks for free. A decent alternative to Autodesk's Fusion 360 is kind of needed. ;)
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My company has promised to do some nebulous studies about remote work and productivity and decide the WFH / back to office question based on the data, but it’s exceedingly clear from how they are talking that there will only be one conclusion possible from these “studies”: that everyone will be forced to come back to the office. They could find a 50% productivity increase but it won’t matter. All the top execs are utterly dogmatic about in-person and there can be only one conclusion possible.
What I find most interesting is how people who love working from home can't seem to understand how their own circumstances don't translate for others. This bias seems especially present in a subset of the tech population.

If you think offices are going away, you're betting against decades of history where people work together in meatspace. If you think they do that because they can't get their work done virtually, you've fundamentally misunderstood both humans and also many of their own life circumstances.

Some people _in some industries_ can work from home. For many, that's not feasible. There is no "one way".
How is the process going with reducing Javascript on the frontend? Simple things like reading replies to issues or merge requests should not require Javascript, it also makes Gitlab feel annoyingly sluggish compared to GitHub.
Or conflated with that by people using it as a straw man to debunk more likely scenarios, your pick.
Do you need to pay millions of dollars for the enjoyment of looking at it? You can certainly do that with just a search query or a fake copy.
The whole point of "cold" fusion is that it does not require immense pressures or temperatures; hot fusion hasn't consumed all of the hydrogen in the universe because those pressures and temperatures don't exist in most places.
Consciousness... from a physics perspective. Well that sets off alarms already with the title.

goign through the article, it does get better, but not much. the first step they go through is redefining consciousness. Well, most definitions of consciousness are vague and nearly meaningless, so that would be good news if there's wasn't. But it is... just as vague and meaningless as any other definition, but without the benefit of at least being the same thing other people are talking about.

After that I feel like this gets into my complaints about most philosophy I've read. Complicated ideas based on vague ideas that just sorta ask you to go along and accept it on feel. IMO, I find the whole thing needs some major simplification and/or far more solid premises.
Linus on GPLv3: https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU

He really doesn't like it.
Lifestyle Businesses FAQ
I tried WSL2 once, but IPv6 doesn't work. Guess I'll check back in a few years.
> I would expect the people who wrote the AI would impose on it constraints to avoid this

The devil is in the details.

What if the AI decides that the course of action that leads to the desired outcome of winning the conflict is to kill civilians but it is also aware that outright killing civilians is against the law or will be ignored by the decision making human so it instead decides to recommend a series of strikes that indirectly lead to a large famine which results in the death of the civilians and winning the conflict?

Who is to blame there? Is this outcome desirable?
International law is only worth the guns behind it.
Ths is an appeal to authority. It is a shortcoming of the product's design for it to autofill a hidden field.
50 times? those are rookie numbers in this racket
That's not a cultural thing, it's a universal human/organizational thing.
It is cool to have options. I do actually like Go, but Julia is my favorite. Still a bit surprised that Julia is almost never mentioned in Crystal discussions.

If you love Ruby, and want something with higher performance, then Julia is a pretty natural next step. Sure it does not have the same syntax.

Maybe I am just getting old but when Ruby came out, that was cutting edge. It was a fresh new way of writing code. I had all the cool stuff. I you want that same kind of feeling today, where you got super awesome modern features, meta-programming galore, functional programming, you name it, then Julia is it.

Julia is the new Ruby. Sure Ruby is a very object-oriented language and Julia is more functional, but that is where the industry has been heading these last years. And Julia is a pragmatic version of functional programming which I think most people can easily become accustomed to.
Ask HN: As a software engineer on a new team, how can you standout?
In my previous job I was a senior software engineer. I recently switched jobs where there are more experienced engineers than me. What can I do to make myself standout apart from finishing the tasks assigned to me?
Thanks for the update and quick reply. I'll be sure to keep an eye on this thread. Looking for the same issue. Bumped into your thread. Thanks for creating it. Looking forward for solution.
https://www.tellpizzahut.one/
Believe me, you'll love using Caps Lock instead of ESC very soon. I switched the two using Karabiner (for mac) and I wonder how I used computers all those years before that. If you use vim (or vimium on Firefox), you'll absolutely like this change.
Solresol – The Constructed Musical Language
The big challenge to remote work is that the types who become managers and make decisions are social types.
I don’t know how I feel about this. Personally, I would rather Discord to stay independent… but it is hard to pass up that kind of money.
> Many people don't prefer remote work, and they have good reasons for it.

It’s almost as if some people prefer one way and others prefer the other way! Which is why WFH advocates just want the option. They aren’t asking for everyone to have to WFH, just for the choice.

The back-to-office advocates however want to go back to office and force everyone else to go back to office. This is the difference in approaches. They don’t want people to have a choice—they want it their way for everyone.
Step 1 - provide evidence.
Skype and Discord are quite different. My mother uses Skype, she won't use Discord.
So am I! I did it as an April Fool’s joke (see the date and the author, Ben Dover). But I also think it would be legitimately useful and have long wished for a standard protocol for expressing that you’re “tolerating” a standards violation while still pointing it out.
Update: I have created a post on this with some examples on my problem validation platform[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/207-search-engine-wall-of-shame...
You’re repeating this claim as if it’s well established - do you have a citation?

There are some indications that it might have been spreading possibly as early as September but the coverage I’ve seen was preliminary and researchers were cautious about concluding anything without more comprehensive tests to rule out things like cross-reactivity with other coronaviruses. The generally accepted patient 0 for the outbreak must have been infected in November to be symptomatic in early December but I haven’t seen any credible claims that anyone in China had identified this as a new disease until late December.
You didn’t miss anything. I had the same troubles but managed to do it after a few hoops.
July 2019 - USAMRIID Fort Detrick shuts down due to a virus leak.

August 2019 - "Vape flu" appears in the US.

October 2019 - World Military Games in Wuhan, 300 US military men and women attend.

November 2019 - SAR-COV2 appears in Wuhan.

Let's not discount this sequence of events as well.
Yeah, I like everything on your list except the first one. Maybe Crystal will be compelling enough to get me comfortable with ruby-style language syntax & semantics.
They're "sipping coffee in Paris" as in they've beaten NATO and occupied Continental Europe. They're asking "who won the air war?", with the implication that they don't really care because they won the part that mattered.
These companies can't live off VC cash forever. Getting acquired by Google / Microsoft is usually part of the business plan.
Haskell's concurrency has those features! The Async library contains high level combinators for concurrency that are particularly nice to use.

(page1, page2) <- concurrently (getURL url1) (getURL url2)

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/async-2.2.3/docs/Control...
WFH advocates will quickly say they're disadvantaged in career development in a hybrid approach, so no, they want everyone to have to WFH.
That depends on whether the air-defense laser research everyone's hyped up about produces something useful in the next few decades.
One thing that Microsoft always messes up (especially with its acquisitions) is the Login. Microsoft apps have the worst login flows I've seen - not only is it inconsistent across sites, it is also slow often requiring many redirects.

It may be just me, but the Login experience is an essential one for me.
I have had to move from Slack to Teams. Despite what everyone says about Slack, Teams is much, much worse because of the complex and incomprehensible integrations with Active Directory.

I have had invitations to meetings that I can click on and that don't trigger the Teams app. The "Join meeting" button doesn't show up in Firefox, and even in Chrome, I get sucked into a redirect hell.

I even have meetings created without the meeting invitation link - despite the meeting having been created within Teams itself. I have resorted to inviting people to Google meets just to get stuff clarified.

But it's still better than Azure DevOps.
It's F-35, sadly
In Eastern Europe, Viber is pretty popular. Also, many telecoms in Bulgaria, for example, don't account Viber data usage towards your quota, so, even people on the lowest tiers get unlimited free video and audio calls. But some offer this for WhatsApp traffic and many mix and match it with Facebook. So, Microsoft really doesn't pay much attention to Skype - it was the most popular service in Bulgaria, but now almost nobody uses it due to these promos.
The NYT take on Trump not condemning white supremacy only improves my view of the paper. Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth in that scenario (and so many others) as a way to lay an evergreen trap for critics. I want my paper to take a broader view and then make a decision on best possible info; Trump never convincingly condemned white supremacy.
just a year ago on HN, we cannot openly speculate or discuss the viruses origins without first getting a barrage of downvotes, today it seems the tides are changing, it's not just WHO integrity or credibility is at stake, our entire future is

imagine another lab-virus just as contagious but one with higher infant mortality, we'd be extinct!!
"Security dilemma"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_dilemma
Regular people do not get 1:10 leverage in a margin account. Furthermore if you lever yourself up to 10x with options or exotic ETFs or whatever, and the market goes down by 10%, you don't have any money left. If you put 10% down on a house and the value goes down by 10%, you still have a house to live in even if you don't have any equity. You can choose to just sit and wait for the market to recover. There's no recovery from getting margin-called on your 10x leveraged account.
might as well just launch missiles at that point.
It just doesn't work? I've tried multiple times on various projects, but "using" Teams on Linux or Mac is a sure way to loose contact with your team. Skype works much better (or at all I guess for me).
> I am curious, at what point will the features stop?

Zawinski's Law:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
It’s certainly widespread but the cultural component is important to how strong the reaction is. China certainly isn’t alone in having it but the political stakes are a powerful amplifier.
Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9m
It is putting lipstick on a pig, but the problem is that we've gotten used to the human convenience that text-based formats offer (HTTP, HTML, XML, JSON, etc), and we don't want to give them up despite the energy wastefulness of parsing them.

That's why I'm building Concise Encoding [1], which is a twin text/binary format that can be 1:1 converted back and forth. You do everything in binary, and only convert to/from text in the few places where a human needs to be involved (like debugging or configuration).

[1] https://concise-encoding.org
Matches my experience. Linux runtime worked great for me, SDK has not. To use it to full extent, I think you have to develop on a Windows PC with Visual Studio. However this way you can only debug on Windows i.e. if you want debugger, the project has to be runnable on Windows too.
Arik Kershenbaum on Why Alien Life May Be Like Life on Earth
Since we are stretching to find analog analogies, the Facebook case is more like:

You are communicating with your friend, but instead of talking directly, you write a note, hand it to Mr. Facebook, who opens it, reads it, then closes it and hands it to your friend, who in turn writes back, handing it to Mr. Facebook first. That’s more how communication happens on FB. FB acts as the mediator of the communication, a middle man whom both of you interact with to have the conversation. They are not spying from afar—you are directly giving them your communications.
I found this one amusing too:

NFTs, explained

https://foundation.app/0xc8f8e2f59dd95ff67c3d39109eca2e2a017...
No. I actually don't know a real thing about gender dysphoria. I just presumed that if you look square and feel round, you are more likely to recognize and embrace your roundness if your other traits make society less consistent in squeezing you into square holes.
Also doesn't necessarily have to be that, maybe the guy who went in the cave to collect samples got sick on the way home. Or maybe some guy harvesting guano for his farm got sick on the way home. The only thing we know for sure is we'll probably never know, and also that the CCP is sketchy
As an investor managing my own money, saying no is the most important thing. As a person working in a team, that's not the way to go:

It totally depends on who do you say no to (cross-team, teammate or manager).

If it's your boss/manager, and the task is not that small, it's important to ask the priority compared to other goals, as it probably makes other goals unachiavable. Also the boss has better context on how important it is, so I would never just say no instead of asking for context.

If it's from a cross-team and big thing, communicate with your boss and ask if it's important enough to change priorities.

If what somebody asks makes sense, do it.
One of the sources for that part is: "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence" [0]

The other source is a nature news article [1] which has by now following disclaimer:

> Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.

It also states at the end:

> Without the experiments, says Baric, the SHC014 virus would still be seen as not a threat. Previously, scientists had believed, on the basis of molecular modelling and other studies, that it should not be able to infect human cells. The latest work shows that the virus has already overcome critical barriers, such as being able to latch onto human receptors and efficiently infect human airway cells, he says. “I don't think you can ignore that.” He plans to do further studies with the virus in non-human primates, which may yield data more relevant to humans.

So it might just as well be that these experiments warned us about that potential, and now that it actually happened, some people interpret the original warning as the cause.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...
Why is Bernie's estimate so high then? ($12k per man, woman, and child)
This was not known in march 2020, so no.

How can one even quantity that information?
I strongly agree with your comment about network effects and something being deeply wrong with the state of things. It's one of the topics that gets me righteously angry these days...
I also have big hopes for Matrix, and run my own homeserver with a bridge or two. Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for everybody!
> XeTeX helps, but in my last team, I was stuck with Latex

Yep, I agree that font-related things are painful if you can only use LaTeX.

> For tables there are many many different implementations that all work in only some use cases [2]. A few years ago, I got stuck trying to find a multicolumn table that can reflow onto new pages [3].

If you need complicated reflowing tables, then yes, LaTeX may not be the best option. But most of the time, you don’t need that complexity: I find that just `booktabs` is sufficient for most of my use-cases, along with `array`, `multirow`, `tabularx` and `siunitx` when needed.

> Add to that the clunky syntax

This is a criticism I can agree with, but I find that a good editor compensates for it. (I use AUCTeX[0]; I find the combination of LaTeX+AUCTeX+Emacs+Evil gives a far better experience than, say, Microsoft Word.)

> the cryptic error messages

Valid point. However, as with all error messages, I find that they get easier to interpret with experience — I don’t really have any problems with them now. (Also, most compilers tend to give somewhat cryptic errors, so LaTeX is average rather than being especially bad.)

> the poor defaults

I’m not sure what you mean by this; could you please elaborate?

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
> Skype is still great.

In 2015 my Skype install used >3GB of RAM within minutes of launch. Searching for an uncommon term in chatlogs took hours. I've not been able to open it at all for years because it just hangs on boot.

I'm sure that for the average user none of those are concerns because they're talking with a few dozen users at most, but it had incomprehensibly terrible resource management, which is why all the power users jumped ship the second a viable alternative text chat became available.
The way I generally imagine interoperability with larger and more complex applications is that providers can implement their own extensions and optional features, but that the most basic data elements are generally isomorphic. Would I expect Discord server permissions to be a shared protocol with ease, perhaps not. But every chat app we use has the same basic fields for a message such as 'id', 'timestamp', and 'text'.

Our entire ecosystem under the chat application is based upon interoperability, from Ethernet to IP to TCP to HTTP to even HTML (note how you use a single web browser to use all of your favorite websites!), so I don't want to be too quick to rule out that it's impossible just because it is difficult.

I would, however, agree that the incentives for it rarely exist. But with proper incentives, I'd say we could achieve some pretty amazing protocols for a lot of modern use cases.
The geological record is quite clear that the climate has never changed like this without extinction events that kill 75% of all life on earth. Personally, I don't like those odds, especially since we have an alternative (keep the climate from changing). Furthermore, the climate has never changed anywhere near this quickly before. Natural warming and cooling happens over 100s of thousands of years, not a lifetime. This is unprecedented and preventable.