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I think current desalination methods either use massive amounts of energy or massive amounts of space.

Some suggested nuclear power, but I think there are better forms of energy production, especially since you don't need base load or capacity, so solar and wind are much better here.

Of couse solar space conflicts with desalination itself. You could just use the sun to evaporate the water in the first place.
I remember there was an announcement from new management. From their Wikipedia page:

> After SourceForge was sold to BizX in 2016, DevShare was discontinued. On May 17, 2016, SourceForge announced that they were now scanning all projects for malware, and displaying warnings on projects detected to have malware.
>Is it safe to trust binaries hosted from sourceforge? Didn't they used to host modified binaries / packages with malware?

Once upon a time, yes. It was awful. Was bought many years ago and turned around, however. The guy who owns/runs it has posted here before describing the journey. He mentioned one of the primary reasons for the purchase was due to the many software projects hosted there and at risk of falling off the face of the earth, potentially causing all sorts of mayhem in the process. I respect that.

Anyhow you can go check it out. It's nice. I'm glad it's still around.
tax evasion is illegal; tax avoidance is not. Few in the media seem to grasp this.
There is also aggressive power saving features in both 4g and 5g that make the UE sleep when there is no data (the connection can even sleep during the ping interval period, so its best to use ping -f). if you try to ping in sleep mode, the ue first has to wake up which adds considerable latency.
the README.md is a bit more informative

> A browser controlled by the user, not vice-versa

> Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of Opera 12 and to revive its spirit. We are focused on providing the powerful features power users want while keeping the browser fast and lightweight. We also learned from history and decided to release the browser under the GNU GPL v3.
The "some users" wording comes from the fact that at any point in time only a small proportion of users are trying to use the service.

Anyone not using the service when it is down isn't experiencing a service outage.
Hahaha... for a moment, I thought you were being sarcastic. But in case you are serious, please go and study the decline of manufacturing and the plight of manufacturing workers and how their lives were ruined because of globalization. I certainly don't want that for me. I care for my own comfort first, because no one else is going to.
Have you heard about a requirement to wear a mask outdoors? Same people.
Amen, brother. Well said and I hope we are able to defeat this trend.
Is this not FU money yet? You're the problem, not the regular job.

I think we have very different ideas of what "FU money" means. FU money is literally enough to be able to do what you want. It's being able to stop asking "Can I afford this?" because you definitely can. It's being able to stop making a choice between two sports cars because you can afford both. It's being able to buy the exact house you want because you can approach the current owner and make an offer they'd be stupid to turn down. FU money is literally the ability to say FU and do something anyway when someone says you can't.

Having enough money to retire a bit earlier if you live a relatively simple life and save a lot is not FU money.

$750k off the back of a $180k investment. Is this not FU money yet?

$750k is barely the down payment on a nice Bay Area family house. Of course it isn't FU money. You're not saying "FU" to anyone if you're also saying "I can't afford the house I want so I'll choose a more reasonable one."
The Need for QA
I don't think this is a mechanism to reduce the bus factor, to me it seems like a mechanism to make people realize what the bus factor is for the team. The actual solutions were not described in the article but I guess that is very team specific.
Idk if that's really a big deal, they already compete at other prices with old navy and banana republic. Unless those are struggling brands too, that would be news to me.
> since I highly doubt Google would actually care so much about app sizes in an ecosystem that was already insanely bloated from the beginning. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15442743)

Isn't that logic backwards? Precisely because the ecosystem is bloated they're doing something about it in a place they can?
I like to remind people that these buildings were built in the 80s, when Miami drug lords began laundering the piles of money they were sitting on. I doubt they cared about building code and I doubt the paid-off authorities did, either.
Just as well, in my experience, since it's curve-fitting and not autoregressive.
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I have an issue with my chrome extension. I want to open it automatically when the page is loaded.

For example, if a user opens stackoverflow.com, my chrome extension popup opens automatically.

I am using chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener on contentScript js file but it's running after click on extension icon.

So I want to make it open without clicking the extension icon.

Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
> a goal is defined and good or bad is objectively measured against that goal

This seems like standard rational empiricism? Employing reason and observation to benchmark things against predefined values. The difficulty of course is in determining those values in the first place.
But that time, we were outsourcing whole projects which was doomed to fail because of collaboration hurdles and a lack of context. This time is different - we are hiring one team member at a time, who are equally effective as other team members, except at 1/3 price.

I have seen both, 2000's outsourcing and what is happening now. It is a very different game now and far more dangerous to US techies.
The fast fashion industry is the landfill industry.
The tagging is even harder than the storage. There might well be high quality footage of live music from not much less than 100 years ago sitting on film reels in a shed somewhere - my university's library had a whole basement of pre-1850 books that they just hadn't had time to catalogue yet.
It was spotted by someone claiming statistical irregularities in the movement of vote tallies between rounds and demanding an investigation, which this time, they got.

Last year there were also lots of claims of statistical irregularities in the movement of vote tallies, and demands for investigations, which they mostly didn't get. Or in which they got a fake investigation at least - I remember seeing one video someone had secretly filmed inside a counting centre where some volunteers doing a recount were trying to report that a large run of ballots had identical signatures, and the overseer was telling them to ignore it, that it wasn't their job to report fraudulent ballots!

You're also making the rather generous assumption that this was an actual error. As other commenters observe, "test ballots" for which you need >100k of them, which contain real candidates names and which are posted to the production database do not sound like any defensible testing strategy. If it's genuine incompetence it's of the form that in the civil engineering world would send people to prison.
If we e.g. double the minimum wage, then you at most double the labor cost (at most because the higher wage may make some forms of automation more financially reasonable, and not all labor costs are subject to minimum wage).

The cost of labor is not always a large fraction of the per-unit cost of an item.

Low-wage labor-intensive industries (e.g. low-skill services) will see the most effects. I would expect that machine-harvested bulk foods will see very little price increases, while fast-food and fast-casual dining will go up, to the extent that they aren't already priced in.
Very ambitious and looks like quite an accomplishment! I've been working recently on several DSP projects, including for web and embedded applications, and I definitely appreciate writing performant code without having to write C++ by hand.

I couldn't tell from your post and linked material how the runtime works — I see that the high-level graph is handed over to the runtime, but is it interpreted? Compiled? Does it require platform-specific binaries?

For my current projects I settled on Faust [1], which has the advantage of compiling to C++ source files (which can then be used with any platform/framework that supports C++), but that has the disadvantage that swapping components in and out (as you describe in the linked article) is not so easy.

[1] https://faust.grame.fr/
Bit of a stretch to claim MIMD/vector processing covers that particular product [0]; maybe they're going after that because it's got a Mali 400 GPU (in which case I'd just refer them to ARM's lawyers).

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20160909142123/https://www.sparkf...
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I totally see your point here - it's frustrating that how I presented it undermined the impact of the core point, which is that siloed ownership of quality is an anti-pattern, and an anti-pattern which is often a response to the limitations and design principles of quality tooling.

We are to my knowledge the only product built for this kind of cross-functional ownership, that's why I don't recommend other products.

While I agree the post is too marketing-y - to be honest I didn't expect it to appeal so much to the HN audience - it was written in good faith. We built the product because after 7 years of building a product for one of those silos, we became convinced that the only long-term durable solution was to empower everyone to own quality. Clearly I need to figure out how to strike the balance that you outline in your last sentence, which was the goal!
Neither Old Navy nor Banana Republic really exist as brands in the UK.
Lockheed's Skunk Works is still plugging away on fusion, on their own money.[1] They don't talk about it much. But they're hiring for that project, so it continues.

[1] https://lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion.htm...
Blitz games from the last decade, robot vs very strong players:

Alexander Grischuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgDGSN8GTKc

Ex-world champion Kramnik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51b10w3nTS4

Daniil Dubov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tClnz1d4yww
We, as the founders, aren't questioning the integrity and legitimacy of Turing. The whole context about our position on Turing is in the full article. Turing was abandoned by his home country for over 50 years and was just lately recognized as a hero (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25495315). So from the public perspective, his persona has some controversy (which is unfortunate as he should be recognized earlier).
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I'm not questioning the idea of temporary monopoly to allow recouping investment. The idea is prima facie good. But patents aren't just legally enforced dibs; the protection is granted in exchange for giving the invention to the public. This is where the patent system doesn't live up to its obligations in practice.

There's a bunch of problems that, together, make the whole greater (i.e. worse) than the sum of its parts:

- In many industries, but especially in everything involving computers, patent protection is too long - so long that the invention is likely to become useless before the patent expires. Technologies develop in lock step, riff of each other. If you lock down a crucial invention, you're also locking out a whole branch of R&D that may forever remain not explored[0].

- Patents are supposed to contain enough details in them that experts in a relevant field should be able to recreate the invention from the patent text. This is not what happens, we (the public) are being cheated here. The interesting patents are more like invention hashes - they contain just enough data to identify when someone is in the vicinity of invention, but not enough data to reproduce the invention itself.

- Patents are routinely awarded for things that do not have an inventive step (i.e. they aren't non-obvious). I'm willing to give some benefit of the doubt here, because ideas tend to look more obvious in hindsight, but I think we've all seen or heard examples of ridiculously obvious patents.

- Patents take too long to grant. The process between inventing something and getting it patented can take 2+ years - in that time, the patented invention may be well on its way to becoming obsolete (see point 1). This encourages shotgun patenting.

- Patents do not come with an obligation to actually productize an invention. Companies can, and do, patent inventions they have no interest in productizing, with the sole purpose of preventing competitors from exploring some technology or product space. This is as pure slowdown of progress as you can get.

I could go on. The point is, the ideas behind a patent system aren't bad - but the implementation decayed to the point of being just another rent seeking system parasitizing society.

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[0] - It's something plainly visible in software, but perhaps software is a special case, due to existence of FLOSS. Maybe, if all software was proprietary, patents would only slow down progress. With FLOSS, nobody is waiting for patents to expire - eventually, someone will find a patent unencumbered alternative, release it for free, and the world ends up adopting that. And then ends up stuck with it, due to sheer momentum. So if that patent locked out the optimal solution to a problem, it's possible we'll never use it, because too much stuff uses the suboptimal, FLOSS version.
I'm all for unmonopolising the web browser but Otter seems to have major stability issues. I'm on macOS 10.15.7. Doing a DDG search consistently crashes Otter. Would liked to have given it a go but I'll stick with Firefox.
You conveniently missed my argument. If things are going to stop at a 10% cut, I won't be sounding alarm. But a majority of our new hires are going to come from non-US countries. There is barely any new hires joining within the US. That is the big red warning sign that our job opportunities might dwindle because others can do the same job as us for much cheaper.

This is manufacturing story all over again.
> Changing your own beliefs is quite easy. At any moment you can simply choose to believe something else.

Can you though?

Can you easily change your current belief that it is easy to change your belief? Once you changed that could you easily change it back? If you strongly believe that Elon Musk is a genius/fraud, could you simply flip your belief on a whim?

No. You really can't. In fact, someone with such a weak belief structure would probably have little sense of self.

We all like to image ourselves as rational beings in charge of our own minds while others are adrift on a sea of emotion, but research shows that beliefs change very slowly.
What about their partnership with Yeezy? I thought that's going to save them.
I don't think that GH code is easily accessible, with rate limiting and TOS forbidding it. GPT is an open model (for the most part), but its training cost is in the order of tens of millions of $

I can think of no one but a handful of companies being able to compete there. And they won't be ok with extending a Microsoft IDE, nor breaking GitHub TOS.

When you start competing on R&D costs the game changes.

There's always the chance that training costs will significantly decrease. But even at an order of magnitude less (ie. tens of Ks) it's still beyond reach for open projects and indie devs
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that all the UAP/UFO incidents were just advanced US craft, powered by some form of fusion.

Triangular aircraft zipping around U.S. Navy vessels may have been things like this.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPGDAZyQ44k
> as a way to keep hot-neutron physicists and contractors employed between weapons projects.

This far more true of ICF than MCF (i.e. tokamak) approaches.

With the excellent results from MAST, it seems the spherical tokamak approach could allow for a much smaller tokamak to built than previously thought - given the size of the tokamak is strongly related to the capital costs (which are the biggest economic hurdle by far) this is great news for economic fusion power.

With the plans for STEP (UK), the US Pilot Plant (in design, seems it will follow similar route to STEP) and the CFETR (China) and the planned experiments at ITER - I suspect economic fusion will be outright proven by 2040 and perhaps even delivering commercial power to the grid by 2050.

Fusion doesn't have the same fundamental physical limits that solar and wind do. That said, I think this sort of zero-sum approach to science is what is going to lead us to imminent worldwide disaster.

In the Manhattan Project they pursued both the Fat Man and Little Boy designs simultaneously despite the cost - this needs to be our approach with the energy crisis, we can't afford to try and pick winners, the cost of failing to do so is far higher than the cost of funding multiple avenues.
This feels completely anachronistic. For early humans to evolve genes that prevent them from getting drunk, you’d assume that a large proportion of people would have to die or become infertile from alcoholism.

Given the number of things people would die of, the slow speed of progression of alcohol-related diseases, and the difficulty of producing enough beer for it to become a evolution-wise health problem, the conclusion really sounds like a stretch.
> What if a new more deadly, more infectious or vaccine-resistant variant appears that could have been prevented from a quick mass vaccination?

The vaccine rollout could only ever proceed so quickly and we already have a 'vaccine-resistant' variants. So I agree the benefits look incredibly dubious.

Remember the so called vaccines don't even claim to stop people spreading or catching the virus. They only reduce rates of hospitalization. Vaccine is a misnomer. They should just be called therapeutics. They're doing almost nothing to stop the spread.
Wherever I worked so far as a software developer we had the QA department very close. In the same room or next door. They were there from the beginning until the end, tested our software continuously.

If we developed something, that was hard for them to test or to understand, they gave us a hard time. So we tried to make software testable. Do meaningful logging. Make things repeatable. Develop tools to export state/parts of the database, that can be restored. So you can actually test one feature and don't have to do 100 steps every time you need to test Feature X.

All that also greatly helped the developers, because a lot of companies develop software, that the developers can't even try out, because it only runs in a QA system they don't have access to. That's horrible.
Die or reproduce faster.
We get a post like this every couple of weeks, it seems. Given the audience here, I understand the impulse - it's very fun to see the structure, and it really helps you understand the framework upon which a lot of western music is built. But beware that this is not a way to actually understand what is interesting or compelling about "music", because you'll notice that the first step in all these articles is to reduce "music" to something you can analyze like it's computer code. This was tried in the early 20th century, with Schönberg etc. You get things like "12 tone music". It was tried in the mid 20th century onwards, when you had all kinds of flexibility to use crazy mathematical constructions with electronics and computers - you get things like Karlheinz Stockhausen. That is, things which don't sound any more interesting that any other arbitrary way of generating material with which to compose. These articles are fun, but don't think that they're about "music" any more than an article about the chemistry of a common pigment is an article about "painting".
For anyone interested in the current state of the art of plasma physics and fusion technology I strongly recommend the book "The Future of Fusion Energy" by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball.[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Future-Fusion-Energy-Jason-Parisi/dp/...
Very interesting! Thank you very much for your reply. I will try this approach. It would work very well with FZF for searching.

Which key are you using as Compose key?
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The article ends up being a very roundabout way of saying “curing alcoholism is hard even with Antabuse”.
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I've been in a room with a wet bulb temp of 115 F. You walk in, water condenses on you and your clothes.

The max time you can be in that environment is one to two hours.
But that's just bad management. It's most of the time better to drop/delay some features, than compromising stability. If the manager doesn't get that, he/she is the problem. And not the software developer.
Take a picture of a tree, have it identified & published with location in / on OpenTrees.
I really don't think I'm catastrophizing.

Case in point, this is what I said:

> Imagine what droughts, famine and loss of land due to flooding will bring.

This is what is happening right now:

- droughts -> see Canada and whole North America / Europe right now. Large chunks of Australia and California 'burnt' down last year. Crops will be devastated, people will die.

- Famine -> the droughts above are going to cause massive issues with crop yields. Desertification is already happening in most of the world also...

- Loss of land (due to flooding). We are already losing arable land to desertification. Localized flooding happens in a lot of places now due to erratic weather. (massive rainfalls where not expected -> dykes fail -> flood with loss of life and crops).

Sure, Generalized flooding like what you say with Antartica won't be here for 20-30 years... but I hope I will still be alive by then as my children...

Now. Take all those, and imagine them happening to China/US/Russia. Will they sit idly or invade/take neighboring states resources?
I can’t change my beliefs. I can seek better information that might cause my beliefs to change. I can apply a filter, like optimism or pessimism, that has the effect of filtering by selective attention more granular beliefs that are nevertheless fixed. I can temporarily try on a perspective to try to understand someone else, but that almost never convinces me of anything except how they see things (a fact about them, not the world).
Doesn't that still put them within the western bubble of comfort in a sense though? It isn't much of a defense of an alternate way of life if that way of life required westerners to work hard in a different (i.e., consumer-product-based, highly-skilled, high-stress) way of life as a prerequisite.
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