skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If US needs allies so desperately that as a claimed leader of democracy is willing to ignore dictatorship regime, cronism within ruling family (I don't mean the guy responsible for this program but all the rest), semi-open support for ISIS in recent past (buying oil, treating wounded, supporting arms), massive human rights violations, atrocities against kurdish population, invasion of sovereign state(s) without any reason and generally huge misalignment of core values and mentality between US and Turkey, then I'd say... US is pretty fucked in near future and in very, very weak position.

Turkey is a major threat to basically all its neighbors, and if their greed will continue to rise (and there is no reason to think otherwise with current leadership), Europe should consider it as a bigger threat than Russia with Putin.

The relatively brief period when Turkey wanted to have peace with Europe is gone. I hope EU countries will realize that military spending needs to be increased and armies put back in good shape. It would be huge waste of money in other times but these days peace seems more and more fragile. Bullies only understand strength talk.
I am a fan, but I don't have a Spotify account.
Yeah, brother is my go to now. Laser b/w for less then $150. I have a color 4040 that I got a great deal on.
> A smart watch and ever increasing apple taxes on the App Store. And incremental improvements to the iPhone.

And Swift, and Apple Silicon, and FaceID, and HomePod (which hasn't been a massive success but is at least an attempt at something new), and a return to the Cheese Grater Pro, and massive improvements to Maps, and the perpetual autonomous driving rumors. What am I forgetting? Oh, Apple actually halved App Store rates for smaller developers, inducing the stores on other platforms to do similar. Maybe some of these were on some sort of roadmap that Jobs left behind, but not all of them could have been.

The "innovation at Apple died along with Jobs" argument is looking more and more ridiculous as more time passes and Apple continues to innovate.
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I have a $100 brother laser printer, and it's not too bad. It took me a while to get it working on arch Linux reliably over wifi, but that was more of an arch issue.
It's pretty fun though. Despite all the problems, I just don't enjoy programming in other languages as much as I enjoy writing C. I've tried C++, Rust, Go, Zig, Javascript, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Lua... I just don't feel as free as I do while writing C.
I’m sure we can do better, but not sure exactly how. Working with longer time periods for incentives is probably of importance. Actively nurturing creative behavior rather than just risk mitigation also. I think this is something organizations need to be aware of because it is not natural.

Also I don’t think we are at a optimization level where only the most radical types like founders are needed. It is probably enough to get out of the way of reasonably smart people. I see this in the public sector all the time.
Static IP your printers, don't supply a gateway. Problem solved.
Seems pretty readable to me if you’re comfortable with Haskell.
Automating UI interactions using deep learning
Protections that have nothing to do with safety. Hmm...
Because both Chromium and Gecko follow the IETF (RFC)/W3C specs about this, what Netlify is doing is plain out-of-spec, so what Chromiun and Gecko are doing are implementation details that is explicitly marked as "okay, if you encounter a stupid server that is somehow explicitly advertising range-request support but does it incorrectly, you can do anything and you're still compliant". Drop the request (like Firefox)? Compliant. Silently trim (like Chrome)? Still compliant. Just give zeroes matching the announced length? Yes, still compliant even if you think that's stupid. If you didn't get this simple fact (that is easily verifiable by opening your favourite browser's devtools or even in Fiddler), I don't know how you're not getting this. Yes, it's using heuristics, but Netlify announces support for range-requests so there's no heuristics here to do, either Netlify must remove the header announcing support or Netlify fixes this problem before we talk about heuristics.
Good ideas, and I agree with you about the market possibilities, and trust advantage of open-source, but the "manual deploy" is not actually how it works regarding paid deployments.

The open-source version is just the browser software, enough for a single person to run a single instance, but the pro "closed source" version includes a bunch of extra control software for running as many instances as will fit on a machine, in a scalable, secure and resource-safe way, as well as souped-up features like co-browsing, better viewport streaming, and built-in secure document viewing.

The open-source version actually comes with a docker image [1], but for the paid deployments I haven't seen the need for k8s. That might be because I don't understand k8s, but I just haven't seen the advantage over the way I'm currently doing it. And no-one has asked for k8s, either.

But I think what you were trying to tell me was a good way to set up a SaaS version of this. And I admit I've struggled with that in the past. I think infrastructure has been a part of this failure, but even when I've had workable SaaS offerings, I think my marketing, pricing, design and the "trust factor" -- of doing your browsing in a 3rd-party in a new category (RBI vs, say, a VPN), and also of doing so with a tiny company -- were the big things.

as to:

> you can then monitor the usage and issue a bill with payment provider like Stripe

> generally, i’d recommend having a limited free tier, but if not possible a free trial

> for paying customers, you could charge per second spent in the browser window, instead of seats

> the reasoning for it, is some customers would cause more traffic than others and traffic is not inexpensive, therefor you should make a pricing model, which is linear with traffic

I really like your very solid sounding ideas for a SaaS setup tho. Thank you very much!

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/dosyago/browsergapce
and a teacher's isn't about reading :D
> They are so confident in the economics of this tech that they'd rather someone else invest in it. How generous and not at all suspicious.

This is not an entirely uncommon business model, and there are numerous examples of the developers of a technology licensing it for production and distribution. ARM is itself one example of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Ltd.#Business_model

It is entirely valid for a technology inventor to commercialize their invention by partnering with a manufacturer that already has the necessary production capacity, rather than by raising outside money to scale up their company and build new production capacity. The former can often be a lower-risk, higher-reward approach compared to the latter.

The real question is whether the technology actually works. If they can prove it works, the fact that they would license this technology to third parties for manufacturing and distribution is not itself suspicious at all.
I did think of this. The whole punch needs to be big enough to obscure the exact location of the dot but not so big all the information trying pass gets lost. My solution was to repeat whatever message or image multiple times on a single page in different locations. That way if the message gets whole punched it shows up in another location so everything is still readable.
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> While the nerd in me wants to agree with you, aren't all of these just great examples of deeper vertical integration?

Okay. And? You still need innovation to make something like the M1.
It doesnt need refrigeration for storage, CO2 is stored at higher pressure

The refrigeration is needed because the process of compression produced huge amount of heat. And because of that, this method of storing energy is twice less efficient than batteries are
This is common in the electric utility industry where scaled up tech costs 7-9 figures per unit or more.
The links says that 3 pieces of debris attained higher stable orbits (ie: were still around 1-2 years later). There were 400 pieces of debris altogether. So not a large percentage.
I'm not sure that's the case. Things do need to be printed because of arcane situations where paper still reigns supreme. Copy centers are not always accessible and sometimes are more costly in terms of travel and cost than the cost of ownership of a printer. Plus the yellow dots are not as ubiquitously known as I take your post to indicate.

It's hard to really buy with your wallet when you don't even know you have a reason to be cautious. Similarly, it's been suggested that boycotts and "vote with your wallet" are woefully ineffectual nowadays.

It's not that consumers don't care, it's that most don't have a choice or aren't even aware of such a need
switch being underloaded to checkout is the same as checkout being overloaded to switch.

In the checkout model, branches are just named aliases for their current hash. This seems trivial to me. Do we really need to use another vocabulary spot up in our heads for a command that is strictly a more-restricted checkout?
I'm expecting someone to train a ML model soon to interpret and score GUIs.

"This page is confusing"
and
"This page no clear call to action"
And
"This page is ugly"
And
"This button doesn't look like a button."
Exactly so you have to move to SVG, better for everyone! ;)
On the other hand, it doesn't make much sense to keep reinventing the same things that AWS has already packaged into convenient and reusable little Lego blocks. I guess the excitement of inventing new stuff needs to be related to new technologies not yet commoditized.
Though they could store some of this heat for later when they want to extract the CO2 gas again, I suppose.
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unless they are getting their CO2 from capturing it out of the atmopsphere, I see this as a way to dirty up wind and solor even more than they already are from their manufacturing.
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The current Australian Federal Government is a right wing conservative coalition, and the Murdoch media has traditionally been their mouthpiece here.
I'd say it was re-discovered by reddit around 2015-2016
With less investment, you would have less money going into building housing.. Profit-motivated investment is the primary way in which market needs are met. When it's impeded by regulatory restrictions, market needs are met less.

>>I’d expect the opposite, as you see in countries that have rent and ownership controls.

The highest rental rates in the world are in the US city with the most ownership controls to prevents developers and landlords from profiting: San Francisco.

Rent control makes housing less affordable:

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/RentControl.html
I agree in principle. But I think there has to be a difference in punishment between unrepentant perpetrators who get caught, and perpetrators who come forward on their own volition. If I remember the original Reader's Digest article, this person was already held to account many years ago -- he lost all his credentials, qualifications and not to mention respect and credibility. Even the original story was published much later. If we continue to pounce on people like this many years after the fact, we're only discouraging others with a guilty conscience to come forward.
Shame really. The Warcraft universe is something I grew up with and with WoW met many long lasting friends.
A Mathematician's Apology [pdf]
Yea it never bothered me and I never understood why people kept complaining about it online. It seemed very superficial complaint.

The way you use git is by first understanding its model. If you understand the git model, everything makes sense.

If you come to it expecting it to be a tool that magically does what you want, I guess you will be very disappointed.
Well you would need the whole punch big enough that the exact location of a dot would be obscured. Like, every hole would be not perfectly centred over a dot. If it was centred you could essentially establish what the dot location was prior to cutting and give away what you are trying to not do. So what you suggest would show an approximate location of a dot but not reveal the details.
Particularly interesting, as Skeet is, if anything, more physically challenging.
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Strange behavior. To me at least. I very rarely buy and its only if I feel I want manually skip through the pages and draw inspiration. Otherwise it's always an audiobook.

The physical act itself of hunkering down with my head pointed downwards is just so unappealing doing more than enough of that with programming. Being able to take a walk and enjoy the outsides while listening (or in general filling the empty slots when i have to take a bus, go to the store etc) is just so liberating it has become an integral part of my life.
Taking repeated screenshots of a GUI and making sure they don't change across commits is a useful thing to have in CI a lot of the time to make sure if you did change something somebody's eyeballed it for correctness.

However I'm not at all claiming that removes the 'eyeballed it' step, just that it makes it harder to miss said step :)
Reminds me of reading Feersum Endjinn by Iain Banks.

The "phonetically" spelled sections from the one character's point of view were a killer to get through.
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I just saw a news piece about the growing number of orphans due to COVID. It is a crisis on multiple levels. Children could be trafficked, sold, physically and sexsually abused, illegally adopted etc. What is their future? What is a solution to this crisis that not many are aware of or not talking about?
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> I think you're approaching git and software dev from a bottom up perspective. You learn the tools, understand why they exist, and then use the tools to solve higher level problems

Actually, I'm trying to look at it more from a "shallow sea" perspective - you have a problem and are given a tool to solve it.
But do you not dive in just a bit to see "hey what is this tool" after you solve the problem?

Or after using it for a while?

UI is also something you have to learn how to use.

Sourcetree UI is as complicated as terminal for someone who never used it.

>I have to deliver products and deliverables, when and what do I focus on wrt gaps in my knowledge? Git? Unix commands? OWASP Security principles? Cache busting? global state management? ORM integrations with popular DBs? Kubernetes configs?

With that mentality, what do you ever learn?

Do you just keep on chugging year after year with "duct-tape the tools"?

Where is the joy in that?
Where is the growth?

Are you always in a rush to deliver software without a moment to think?

You learn about the level you're using - like, are you using git daily?
Just reading a tutorial or two and spending 5 mins a day with it in the terminal is going to do wonders for understanding it long-term.

>Barely understanding many fundamental tools is common these days for devs

It's common for someone starting to develop or starting to use a tool - hell, 8 years ago I have been as confused as "wtf is this git" as anyone.

Gradle was magic to me. Terminal was a dark and scary place.

That doesn't mean that it is okay to stay at that level.

If we accept "not trying to understand" as the new common, then we accept failure and ignorance as the new common.

We accept the world of broken software because people don't understand what they're doing
- and we're telling them "you don't need to understand so don't even bother".

And hell, maybe that's gatekeeping, but fuck it, I'll rather be St. Peter at the gates than accept a world where learning and understanding is something "we don't have time for".
>Or would the state come down hard on any such manufacturer?

Remember what happened to the Quest CEO when he refused to allow his company to spy for NSA?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...

Just one major telecommunications company refused to participate in a legally dubious NSA surveillance program in 2001. A few years later, its CEO was indicted by federal prosecutors. He was convicted, served four and a half years of his sentence and was released this month.
It is ironic that Linus hates C++ so much, and then proceeds to create what is for all practical purposes, the C++ of source control systems.
> They are so confident in the economics of this tech that they'd rather someone else invest in it. How generous and not at all suspicious.

I mean, I think this is pretty standard in highly capital intensive industries?
The bluetooth/location permission setup in Android may be changing in the next major Android release if I recall. It's a poor setup IMO.
Waymo is doing better, I believe.

> plot the improvements in AI and the usage of computational power for AI on the same chart.

Would that be meaningful? I mean, I use an infinity times the computational power for writing a letter than people did 100 years ago, still producing more or less the same results.
I remember debating this when async/await support was first coming out. My opinion was (and still is) that it would have been better to make "await" the default behavior and have a separate "noawait" keyword for those rare cases when you actually really want the promise instead of the value.
I wish that dedicated Ops people still existed. From what I can tell, DevOps has just meant less butter scraped over more pieces of toast.

I used to be able to say to customers, "Our product needs a VM with xyz specs, and access to a database, and incoming HTTP connections," and their Ops team would take that recommendation and go spin it up. Now I'm dragged into the weeds of every little detail, because I'm really dealing with a PM who used to be a support person and doesn't have basic competency doing Ops work. Part of this is that Azure and AWS have made spinning up resources so easy that people can do it without knowing what they are doing.
> We can argue about semantics all day, but ultimately it's a change away from a race-agnostic admissions process.

The new policy at TJ is race agnostic. Nowhere does the race of an applicant have any effect on the score of a student's application. This is, again, why I bring up other forms of status than just race.

I think it is fine that my worldview is not universal. That's normal. What I find frustrating is that the same arguments persist through new data.
With animal intelligence all involved parts are optimized. Remove the thumb and catching a tennisball becomes many fold as complex. A self driving car is an attempt to make carts work without rails while behaving just like railed vehicles. its an unintelligent idea. Perhaps if roads grew naturally it would make some sense?

Some CAI guy made a facinating remark. Self driving cars are the ultimate weapon.

Currently the goal is to avoid all kinds of harm, when we have that it is easy to allow something specific. There could even be plausible deniability.

Where is the intelligence?
Most academics are completely useless and wouldn't stand a chance if they weren't hired by other useless academics.
Didn't exactly expect a dead company to have a spine.
It was closer to $6B, still more than twice than SpaceX though.
Anyone know why you would need to store CO2 and not just regular air in this case?
Patents I guess
I imagine it's a closed system, so the question of where the CO2 comes from is kind of irrelevant.
That’s why the end-user should maintain separate firewalled subnet (DMZ) networks for their unique grouping of IoT, cable settops, PC/Mac, mobile devices and in-house servers.

Only problem i’ve had with this setup is during the configuration of IoT where mobile device must be on same subnet as IoT devices, that is all.
Can someone tell me why they decided to have the new branch argument be `-c` in switch when it's `-b` in checkout?
Submitter here.

I had to edit down the title of the article to comply with HN's 80-character limit.

Here's the original title:

* Rates of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and vaccination impact the fate of vaccine-resistant strains
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With Gartner, you literally just pay them and they put you on their Magic Quadrant
The article is very light on details. I would have liked to have more information than just learning a new word.

That being said, I think it is valuable to be aware of why I don't read my books.

Currently, I am sometimes reading Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation". Despite being a good book that has definitely helped me understand a novel viewpoint on postmodern society, it is written so dense that I can read no more than one of its essays per week.

Then there is "The five invitations". This book is about death and dying and how we can live so we do not regret anything at our deathbed. Reading it sometimes makes me uncomfortable. I do not want to be confronted with death. But then again, I am not the one to decide when I have to face death. Again, this leads to putting the book back in the shelf and reading it only sporadically.

And then there are a bunch of books which i stopped reading when I thought I got the gist of it or which were just not relevant to me anymore.
In the article:

"Spadacini explains that Energy Dome uses CO2 because it can be converted into liquid under pressure at 30°C, compared to minus 150°C for air. Highview Power’s liquid-air battery therefore has to use cryogenic technology to liquefy air, but the Energy Dome system requires far less power, resulting in cheaper costs and a higher round-trip efficiency, the company says."
The script is interpreted by SCI, an interpreter for Clojure and ClojureScript. The goal of nbb is to expose useful scripting tools from both the NodeJs ecosystem and the CLJS ecosystem from within a single tool, so you can avoid ceremony if you want to write scripts using CLJS on NodeJS.
Isn't this always true? If you were born three hundred years ago you could have just listed off some recent technological development and concluded everyone was spoiled babies.
The trouble is that Turkey is a NATO member and there’re some rules on the weapons, turkey has already bought from Russia the S400 missile system and then they have been obliged from US (and NATO) to put them “offline”, so what’s the point in announcing a new drone to fight the F35 from NATO? Just the usual defiance from Erdogan?
These make a lot of sense. I have gotten used to the checkout behavior, so it isn't something I'm really pining for, but these are good.
A bit misleading: He didn't actually build the lasers, but ripped them out of other 2nd-hand equipment. Damn, I was hoping for actual plans for building an actual laser, not just cobbling 4 of them together with a power supply and some hardware.
In the article:

Spadacini adds: “The system is totally closed. We don’t consume any CO2, it’s just the working fluid that goes back and forth… for the life of the system, over 25 years. So we have no emissions in the atmosphere.”

So yes, it's a closed system
Excellent news! Now every Australian that visits youtube isn't recommended and suggested hateful rhetoric that contributes to right wing extremism.
How efficient is the system? Liquifying is nowt without losses and neither is turning pressure into electricity.

Edit: They claim 75-80%. Is that realistic?

Edit: Does this include the assumption that the compression heat can be used? „The heat is then extracted and stored in “bricks” made of steel shot and quartzite for later use, cooling down the CO2 to an ambient temperature.“
That's interesting but more like having the ballistics than directly getting a serial number to ask the supply chain about.