skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right! The idea is that kerosene is a more convenient form of energy storage than many alternatives, despite the lower efficiency and higher capital costs for recharging it. Compared to, say, Li-ion, kerosene has numerous order-of-magnitude advantages; for example:

- safety: lithium-ion batteries explode if you look at them funny, and are full of poisons, while kerosene can put out a lit match and can be safely imbibed;

- materials availability: carbon is about ten times as abundant in earth's crust as lithium, and there are readily available ways to concentrate carbon from the air such as planting forests, while concentrating lithium from seawater is somewhat trickier;

- specific energy: Li-ion batteries can store 0.5 MJ/kg, and kerosene is 43 MJ/kg, which is a huge advantage for things like trucking and aviation;

- energy density: Li-ion batteries store 1 MJ/liter, kerosene is 35 MJ/liter, which is also important for things like aviation; and

- capital cost of storage facilities: you can store 200 liters of kerosene in a US$10 barrel, while 200 liters of lithium-ion batteries would be about 12,000 18650s, which costs on the order of US$50,000.

Gasoline does indeed share most of these advantages and can also be used in cheaper engines that can rev faster. Other fuels that might be reasonable to synthesize in the same way include hydrogen itself, methane, LP gas (propane/butane), and ammonia (!!).
More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight over Energy’s Future
That comment was obvious hyperbole on an internet message board, not production code, and even then it's a terrible analogy because I actually typed it, I didn't use some inscrutable emoji that you then had to cut and paste. Also the idea that "people in the know" write code like this is absurd - I've worked with mathematicians for more than a decade in languages that support unicode names, and it would never occur to any of them to do idiotic stuff like this. This is terrible practice and always will be.
> Many Israelis identify as being Jewish or Muslim, but for many of them it's a cultural identity or tradition far more than a religion.

Which is funny because a "cultural identity" is what being 'religious' meant in the past. Religion as a set of practices and beliefs that are 'separate' from everyday life would be quite alien to people in the ancient world, and for most of human history. Having religious and secular/public spheres of life is actually a quite Christian, and especially Protestant, way of view the world.

Tom Holland had a good talk on this:

> Books that take for granted the existence of Greek or Roman religion are everywhere. But did ‘religion’ as we understand the word today actually exist in the ancient world, or is it a word so freighted with Christian - and specifically Protestant - assumptions that to apply it to antiquity is to risk anachronism?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeCTC_r4vMI

The separation of Church and State makes little sense in the eyes of most worldviews through history. There's a reason why the word "church" is used and not temple or mosque.
Counterpoint: Security admins are overwhelmed with process and tasks to keep the trains running, and perceive they don't have time to go back and clean up bad configs. If something isn't done right the first go-round, it will never be right.

Compliance is the bludgeon that says "go make this right". Then security admins bitch about not having the time, and we say we don't have enough people in the industry.

Automate the boring stuff. We do have a shortage - a shortage of people who are creative enough and talented enough to script their toil away.
Blaming the device would have been better, if you ask me!
"he's not optimizing for the one single quality you chose (absolutely minimized suffering)"

God doesn't have to choose any quality over any other.

An omnipotent god could make a universe perfect in every way... but the universe is not perfect in every way. Why not?
I'm not sure I completely got your explanation of the dividend effect on stock price. A company's cash in hand is not a part of its stock price. It contributes to sentiment on the stock, but is not part of the stock price itself. I could be wrong. The dividend payout does not come from stock price, it comes from revenue and profit, no? And isn't a dividend a testimony to profitability of company?
Not to mention that an AC installation is much cheaper than tearing a building down and building to back up.
>educating Women

Too hard within context of current Indian institutional capabilities, and more importantly requires generations to pay off / take too long. Necessary long term goal, but doesn't avert 400M+ projected Indian births in an already overpopulated country that needs to maintain above 8% growth just to keep up with employment. Which they're not meeting. For reference height of PRC / China export manufacturing only supported ~400M jobs. Automation + geopolitics means India completely missed out prospect of concentrating global manufacturing. There's not much on the horizon but continuing with massive subsistent agriculture with massive idle / under / unemployment. High TFR + poverty + inadequate growth = generating more net unemployment and instability every year, which cause more governance problems = overpopulation spiral.

Family planning is a viable stop gab that's relatively enforceable, immediately. It's a band aid solution paid in later demographic bomb that may or may not be averted / mitigated with development or technology. Status quo is geometric poverty population growth that's going to hit carrying capacity of geography. 100s of millions of excessed impoverished people that will drag development. For context PRC one child policy averted 300M+ births, even now 600M of country is barely middle income. There are just too many people. Sure a demographic bomb coming but it's better to manage a demographic bomb with high wealth per capita. World needs heterodox policies to address end of population driven social and economic structures. India needs to prevent 100s millions more births ASAP and hope some of these policies work.
“Left” and “right” is horribly reductive. I don’t know a single person who agrees with everything thrown into those simplistic buckets.

Take even the Supreme Court. Multiple “right” judges voted to uphold the ACA and abortion restrictions; things that would certainly be top on the list of “left vs. right”.

Pay attention to the specific issues.
Bonus: This model also works on all kinds of non-financial debt!

* Things you haven't dealt with.

* Things you shouldn't have dealt with that way.

Try looking at your "emotional debt" (what you go to a talk therapist to talk about) with under this frame, it's pretty handy.
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Dunno, we're probably fucked up anyway. Our education system is destroyed, splintered into many small pieces, low quality, that is the worst thing for the future. There are simply too many layers of government, half of the country considers itself part of Serbia, the other part is busy crying wolf (while stuffing money into pockets). Teritorial rearangements wont make people more educated, happier, wealthier...

Even welcoming Bosnia into EU wouldn't help, that would be just a free pass to relocate for work, and a shot of a decent life (that is not easy to achieve in a foreign country, working jobs locals would not take)
I find that in tech or general corporate America, your opinion is requested but only when it falls within certain bounds. Your view is desired when it is appropriately positive and sunny; when you see clouds on the horizon that’s to be kept to yourself. The extent to which this dynamic is present differs of course.

What you’re construing as a squeamish non-answer may be more politically shrewd than you care to admit, or it may be that the person has previously spoken their mind and gotten their hand slapped. Once bitten twice shy.

Especially in the context of this piece which attempts to get people to see each other a bit more fully, instead of jumping to conclusions, I think it’s worth bearing in mind that there can be more than meets the eye.
Apple threatens UK market exit over court ruling to pay patent fees
That is only a very small part of it. The only reason laws like this exist is because they are perceived as being defensive measures against a huge “Western” cultural / media project.

As the other commenter said, most of these movements have nothing to do with Eastern and Central European history, so they aren’t received well. E.g. Poland and Hungary had no colonies so anti-colonialism ideology doesn’t make much sense to be there...yet it is being pushed.
That sounds like a horrible place to work. I hope the author learned a lot from the experience and is cautious around future employers. I chalk up this post to a young dev not knowing what options they really had available to them.

It sounds like a case where very junior developers were pushed way beyond their abilities and since they were junior, did not not know they could push back or say no to things. If you're getting paid peanuts and being pushed hard, you have a lot of leverage to walk.

Also, if a job is so bad, you need to make time to attend those interviews at other companies (even feigning sickness). Don't prioritize your current horrible job over a potential opportunity to jump ship.
Jeff Bezos congratulates Branson on his space flight
Jeff Bezos congratulated Sir. Richard Branson on his successful flight.

He's due to go up on July 20th

Bezos was beaten by Branson by 9 days , his flight will go higher and will last slightly longer.
Water Memory (2014 Documentary about Nobel Prize Laureate Luc Montagnier)
Yes, look into retroarch netplay. They have a rollback netplay implementation that works great from my experience.
As you see below somewhere I say nice about you but I must also say there are some things I'd really want to see fixed soon:

- make inclusion of photos, including from snap.as kind of usable (yes, I'm a paying customer)

- fix statistics

On the bright side I can now see who follows me, instead of just a number like it was for a long time.
Any more travel tales similar to this?
Medicare isn’t allowed to negotiate drug prices because it mostly doesn’t cover or pay for drugs. Drugs are covered under Medicare Part D plans through private insurers. It’s their job to negotiate drug prices.
These Are the Personality Traits That Interfere with Good Design
My apologies - I accidentally added a negative somewhere (I didn't get enough sleep). Yes, I think we agree. Cheers.
> But every niche forum that's gotten popular has been ruined.

Really? I'm not sure I agree with this. I feel like if the topic itself is niche or requires some baseline level of competency to contribute, then it actually resists this "crapification" because your average troll just doesn't have enough content/info to work with. It's the broader, general interest topics, usually that have some intersection with politics, that always go to shit.

I mean, I see this on HN itself, where the broad-topic posts often end up in a shit show (though thanks to dang the shit-level is kept under control), while the posts about specific technologies are usually pretty on point.
Right, and billionaires have been able to hitch rides to space on Soyuzes for decades, now. This is the first time an American middle class person could save up the price of a median house and buy a ticket to space. (And some Virgin Galactic ticket holders did just that.)

Ironically, this is far more accessible than space has ever been. Hopefully it’s just a start. We want orbital flight and eventually flight to (and from) other celestial bodies to come down to this price (this is the goal for SpaceX’s Starship).
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Songbirds Is a Story of Sugar
> You have to admire the billionaires who act as guinea pigs in these endeavors

Or they could, you know, stop exploiting the working class to build their massive amounts of wealth and instead pay their workers properly, prevent wealth inequality, do something about climate change etc. etc.

I honestly find it so egregious that anyone could support this crap because "ooooh space!"
Disagree. Wanting to automate and learning functions within functions pushed me to learn how to program in python and R
Legal guilt was never demonstrated, but it feels very odd for me to see the obituary continue on with such a celebratory tone after mentioning that he was arrested on child pornography charges.
But, at that same rate, all of humanity would be in space by the 2060s.
> Mainly because if an application were coded in a way where it's crashing chances are it's never going to get itself back into a working state.

"Let it crash" is not about syntax errors, it's about unexpected (ie, exceptional) errors, often as the result of a user taking a completely unexpected path in a large system that was never thought of by programmers (it's probably about more than that but I'm a BEAM n00b). It's happened plenty in web dev for me where a production worker crashes and it simply requires a restart or to be reset back to a known state because the user did something unexpected.

As for tuple return in Elixir, that is simply doing it wrong if it is being used for defensive programming (and the antithesis of "let it crash"). It's meant for handling known errors and makes for a concise way of dealing with with it in the functional world—it's similar to Go's multiple returns.

e.g. compared to OO (they are both pretty clean by me)

# rails
foo.update(params)
if foo.save
do_something
else
handle_error(foo)
end

# elixir
case Repo.update(foo, foo_args) do
{:ok, updated_foo} -> do_something(updated_foo)
{:error, error} -> handle_error(error)
end

It's otherwise very common for an elixir function to return a bare value if it's expected to always work (and "let it crash" if it doesn't).
Do your concerns extend to regular tourism as well? Is tourism between the US and Europe or Asia responsible?
You're talking about this stuff: https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html#dirty-assembly-t...

Personally, I disagree with the author of that article's conclusion here, that the [only] "solution is to embed an interpreter runtime in the generated binary." You can statically recompile this code!

You "just" need to run a concolic interpreter over the code, generating out new static instruction streams for each possible phi-node (branch) state, and then coalescing them back together where you find you've generated the same instruction stream. You can early-terminate these spec-exec paths when you find yourself back at an instruction postdominated by entirely static code [within the body of the unrolled runtime coroutine sequence].

Might sound like an unbounded exponential check, but in practice 1. merging back together will usually happen within, at most, five instructions, because these are almost always last-minute bit-packing-hacks to get code to fit within a given constrained ROM image size; and 2. there are always only two concolically-discoverable valid interpretations of a given instruction stream (if doing mid-instruction jumps), and only one concolically-discoverable valid interpretation of data-as-code / RAM-as-code. (NES games don't assemble and JIT arbitrary code streams. They don't have the work RAM for it. They're at most unpacking existing, non-arbitrary code streams; or taking something that is primarily a code stream, and then reusing it as data elsewhere, maybe a PRNG seed, or a 1-bit noise texture.)

A large part of my job lately is decompiling and "reconstructing meaning" for object code compiled for lousy underspecified abstract-machine architectures. There are a lot of modern compiler-theoretic tools and tricks that can make short work of "statically" recompiling any but the hardest of hard cases. They're sadly virtually unknown outside of academia, though (probably because they're based on various graphical transformations of the code proposed after the Dragon Book was published, which is the point in history where most people in industry's knowledge of compilers seems to stop.)
What I think really happened is that they originally planned on it being backwards compatible, but then realized how many games depended on undocumented opcodes and bugs that had been 'fixed' in the 6502 mode of the 65816. At that point, go back to your bread boards and go nuts removing anything that was there for NES compat but was holding back the SNES in some way. A few iterations of that and you have a pretty much what an SNES was on launch.

Edit: Thinking about it more, that all would also make sense given their strategy past the SNES for back compat. On the GBA they literally just have a complete GameBoy SoC on the die. It's not accessible to GBA software, is probably clock gated in GBA mode, but is there with as few changes as possible from GB hardware to run GB software. Then for the Wii, the companion ARM processor (Starlet as it's known by the Wii hackers) will go so far as to patch problematic GameCube games on load even though it's very nearly identical hardware with a few extensions. It seems like they either drop down gate for gate compat, leave a back door for themselves to get really dirty with patching, or these days just keep an emulator around that they've re-QAed each game on that they'll allow. They're very intentional with back compat in a way that feels like an ancient learned lesson internalized by the company.
Or teddit[0] “ alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy” [1]. (It’s also much better on mobile than old.Reddit)

[0] https://teddit.net/

[1] https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
> you have to go back in time to see the future

Just wait until you discover Lisp!
Somehow I have a different App Store account than my iCloud account than my Apple ID account. And I have some music from my older App Store account that I don’t want to spend hours and possibly corrupt my newer App Store account with. It’s a big mess and honestly I can’t remember ever making a decision to use different accounts. It just kind of happened.
There was certainly a great amount of pressure against German during and following WWI. As an example of the sort of public sentiment at that time, the artist Grant Wood (famous for American Gothic) even had a spat with the Daughters of the American Revolution a decade after the war:

> In 1927, Wood was commissioned to create a stained glass window in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Unhappy with the quality of domestic glass sources, he used glass made in Germany. The local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) complained about the use of a German source for a World War I memorial, as Germany had been an enemy of the US in that war. They expressed a lingering anti-German sentiment in society, and other people in Cedar Rapids also protested the German source. As a result, the window was not dedicated until 1955.[2]

> Wood was said to have described the DAR as "those Tory gals" and "people who are trying to set up an aristocracy of birth in a Republic."[3] Five years later Wood painted Daughters of Revolution, which he described as his only satire. He emphasized the contrast of three aged women in faded dresses framed against the heroic painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, which, ironically, was painted in Germany by the German-American artist Emanuel Leutze.[1] Wood depicted his mother's clothing on the models, including a lace collar and amber pin he bought for her in Germany.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_Revolution

German names became anglicised, German newspapers disappeared, and German stopped being taught in schools.

Whether German would have survived without this sort of persecution is not really knowable, but it did happen.
I suspect statistically, the HN for X is HN.

A topic silo encourages people to behave in ways that might help them reach the top of the silo. Getting to the top is expedited by pushing other people down. Even worse, it is expedited by driving out expertise.

The dynamics of HN prevent that. Topics so broad that being way outside your domain is the normal state of encountering an HN topic for everyone. Nobody has a well informed opinion about most of the items on the front page...most people don't even care about more than a handful of them even when there is a single story dominating it.

Secondly, there is no way to get to the top of HN. While karma adds up, HN is a constellation not a heap. The center is YC itself with rings of founders in the closest orbit around its mass.

Karma itself only puts you in the Oort cloud.
Two options to record canvas to video file:

1. MediaRecorder (requires browser support) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaStream...

2. ffmpeg.wasm https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm/
To be fair, I think it's both. They're over pricing pay per view content, which drives people to subscription services. The problem is that subscription services are filled with low quality content. They need to stop being tricky and just sell this stuff for what it's actually worth. Paying $4 to watch a single movie one time is absurd when you pay $10 to watch unlimited content in a month. Pricing is very out of proportion too.
You're ignoring the current price of fuel. For context, in 2019 the cost of coke was $143 per ton of steel produced. Also it takes about 1.6 tons of iron ore per ton of steel, so that's currently about $320 in iron ore costs. Combined, that means 3.5 kwh/kg is roughly 12% more expensive raw material-wise than the current process. So it's an increase, but a drop in the bucket compared to the 200% increase in cost that happened over the past year; in fact its smaller than any YOY price change since 2015. Assuming it is phased in over the course of a few years, we likely wouldn't even notice the price increase.
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Those points are all excellent.
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."
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Both.

The people in power have power over the government through lobbying and over the public through press and media.

So both were fooled indeed
Putting effort into being obscure is often misplaced and adds a recurring cost in cognitive overhead. Furthermore, it creates a false sense of security when people think that something is unlikely to be exploited simply because an attacker doesn't know how to exploit it. So I agree with your sentiment in many ways.

However, I read your comment to imply that the author lost credibility with their take on security through obscurity. This seems like the exact kind of harmful binary thinking the article addresses. The author presents a more nuanced take on a mantra, and for daring to do so, you dismiss them.
I have been following a simple pattern of learning a new tech stack every five years. It's not easy, but that's what pays the bills and keeps me in the game.
Because a million dollars isn't that much money compared to the cost of interesting things.

Multibillionaires are a different story.
There have been various analayses of starlink, indicating it’s transatlantic latency would be lower than terrestrial connectivity when the network is in certain conditions (I believe there is some routing algorithm decisions to be made on the optical link between satellites, and this depends on where each one is).

The arbitrage opportunity alone is massive, and HFT companies have put a ton of money into it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wall-st...