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No personal attacks please, regardless of how wrong another comment is or you feel it is. We ban accounts that post like this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28116532.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> renewables + grid scale batteries are already cheaper than new nuclear

I wish this were true, but it’s not. There aren’t competitive grid scale batteries.
> a development k-hole

Two terms I didn't think I'd ever see used together
This is an oversimplification. Unix trains people to think in terms of requiring deep directory hierarchies because the Unix implementation cannot exist without them (I'd argue some of this is due to historical cruft becoming enshrined over the decades). The OS X Finder never managed to bridge the gap between the elegance of the old Finder and the raw utility of the NeXT browser interface.

Something else, anecdotally: NeXT people never used the workspace to actually do anything. They always went to the command line to copy/move files and do other file management things. My takeaway was that the workspace was mainly a proof of concept.
I 100% support youse guys in this. Good on ya.

I think that compromised dependency chains are a nightmare, and we're just getting started.

I write Apple apps, and dread the whole provisioning thing (which they seem to change, regularly), so this is not heavy-duty at all.
Before is speculation. After is too late. When are people allowed to object?
Very self selective. You can't complain that your age is being used against you and then use other people ages who happen to be yours against them by gatekeeping.. if you haven't done x or raise y before my age that's a strong signal...

In the same manner your age is being used against you.. don't use it against others.
Slight tangent but I thought this guide to Rolex labels and features was pretty interesting - even for a non-watch-head:
https://www.gearpatrol.com/watches/a539980/the-complete-role...
If the government requires or otherwise coerces someone to perform the search, then the searching party is acting as an agent of the government and is equally subject to the fourth amendment. Similarly, the government can't create a privileged entity like NCMEC and allow it to search without a warrant and pretend it's not the government doing.

What is permitted is that if a private entity of their own free will and self interest searches and then finds something, the government can require them to make a report when they found something. Just as you say.

But the government cannot require them to search in the first place, not without extending the fourth amendment protection against search.

Apple can decide that the commercial value of reducing the risk that they're accused of helping perverts is greater to them than the commercial value of respecting the customers privacy. Indeed. But lets call that what it is, and not make excuses that they're forced to search: They're not. They are choosing to search.
There are still independent developers who contribute to passion projects in their spare time, of course, but if you've been using open source software because you believe corporations aren't substantial contributors I think you should update your priors.
I suffer from similar circumstances, and am not a developer but in the tech/software field.

I'm mostly eager to hear others input as well, but I suppose I have a little input to share.

Have you tried radical transparency with new potential employers? Applying to and approaching application processes while being as upfront as you can be about your circumstances?

I ask both suspecting it may bring different results, but also curious if others have tried. I have had poor results with it, but my introduction during screening / 1st-4th round calls tends to be vague when referencing disability, but at least trying to mention it.
I read just some days ago that Turkey couldn't even take off their canadair because they didn't maintained them, and has leased planes from Poland and other countries.
> If equal amounts of over 35 and under 35 applicants, and consistently YoY you're taking 90% under 35 ...

Could this scenario happen because of anything else besides discrimination from YC?
You didn't actually present this take so I take responsibility for how I interpreted it, but...

Why does it seem like this is presented as a bad take? What's wrong with ecological changes and corrections taking centuries, or longer?

Too often I see environmental advocates wringing their hands over changes which absent humanity would be just a chance for other subsystems to adapt or related ecology to evolve while the initial system rebuilds itself.

Just because humanity "depends" upon the later results or effects of these processes (or just because humanity caused them) doesn't mean any anything, really.

Consider from the environment's perspective:

This, too, shall pass.
I read "checking to see if it satisfies" as "proving", but I could be wrong.
Oh yeah. My friends really appreciated it when I upgraded to two 10ft cables snaking out from behind the couch. Finally they could charge while lounging anywhere.
You really should not be sneaky about it - some of the populist-or-worse parties here in Europe are already full into "eco-fashist EU is taking away your cars!" together with their usual drivel.
Notice in Case of a Nuclear Attack (vintage poster)
bpftrace requires about 318 MB to install

strace requires less than 2 MB

Bigger is better :)
Thank you, those are very valuable anecdotes to keep in mind for the future!
There is no scanning by Apple taking place, they are not reaching in to your phone, your phone is checking whether the binary data of your photos matches the data in a database of known bad images.
This is much more secure than Apple having access to scan your files or messages in the cloud.
If you use cloud storage services you are trusting your provider with a lot more data than you are giving up by allowing your phone to check MD5 hashes of images don't match offending hashes.
Windows added Smart Screen, this checks your apps against known bad apps to protect you from malware and virus, this is very similar and not unusual at all.
Well the internet loves to be outraged so crack on I guess... sigh
There are plants (including tree's) that depend upon fire to propagate. Pyrophytic plants and some examples covered here: https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...
That's how it's supposed to work in Canada. Most of the land is crown land managed by the government who should carefully manage it but in practice lease it to anyone as long as it brings in money.
Coding Interviews Be Like
> "bunch of energy storage" is 100% unfeasible to provide power from renewables without blackouts

Telsa’s prototype in Australia was able to prove you can stabilise a grid at scale, profitably and with simple enough technology. In addition to Li-ion (that provides good response) you can have gravity-based capacity (essentially a crane), heat-storage (rocks kept at 4000ºC feeding a thermal power plant) and liquid-metal batteries. Two of those are mostly century-old tech redesigned for a word with cheap intermittent energy; the third seems like the best, most reliable, simplest, most scalable idea out of MIT from the last decade.

I have the impression that these represent enough options, with enough evidence that it will be profitable within a short lifespan, so I’m not even sure you want government support. But if they can facilitate permits, access to the grid, etc. why not get the help? All those will stabilise the grid no matter what source of power we have, so why not implement what we can at scale, see how it helps, and double it six months later if it works? After five years, we should have enough to tell how much wind and sun it can cover but I can’t see why it wouldn’t handle 100% of demand. All of those ideas can be any size, from a hand to a large city; all have many alternative elements to adapt to circumstances, price point; there are complementary and work well together.
This is probably a good direction, but it seems like it's still contributing to JS dependency management becoming even hotter of a mess. There really shouldn't be two standard package managers for JS.

This also reminds me how much we keep reinventing the wheel on this. I know it's likely infeasible for various reasons but it seems like it would be great to have a language-agnostic package manager that worked more or less like Bundler and can solve these problems once.

(The most obvious downside of that is that – well – what language is it written in, and does it cause you to have to install multiple toolchains. Maybe the solution is some kind of standard spec for how package management should work, and the manifest formats, etc, and then each language ecosystem implements that standard. Or something. IDK.)

Edit: A cool feature of such a system could be installing dependencies from multiple language ecosystems via one manifest file.
the academic environmentalists have been advocating for the controlled burns for half a century now - the folks you wanna be pissed off at are the homeowners
Mathematics is the study of patterns, any kind of pattern, in anything. "Difficulty" of maths problems is a kind of measure of how well you know the patterns involved (which is related to how good our notation, terminology, and visualisations for them are). That means research developing brand new maths or applying it to new problems is often difficult, because no one knows the patterns yet, or has good ways of describing them.
I do wonder how different skylines would be if the Citigroup Center flaw had not been discovered in 1978. The Wikipedia article makes the claim that the chain reaction from a collapse could have killed as many as 200,000 people. But even 10% as many dead still likely would have been enough to cast a doubt over the safety and viability of skyscrapers from that point on.
There's a whole separate universe of biotech VCs. But it doesn't get discussed on HN much.
A Security Loophole to Intercept Dynamic DNS Traffic
"Plant in Pacific Northwest newly discovered to be carnivorous" if you wanted to be accurate, but I think the original title is fine.
From reading other comments here, we need it because it inspires some people to become (better) programmers. :-)
> What’s important to recognize is that these same attributes apply across all levels of math.

Functional/Relational programming models are just a trivial layer on top of math. Everything is pattern recognition at the end of the day.

Domain modeling is the logical extension of building standardized "patterns" that can be leveraged for rapidly building & replicating similar ideas.

Using good modeling techniques is the most important thing for managing complex systems. If you aren't sure, you can always start modeling at 6th normal form, then walk it back to 3NF as the various pieces start to make sense together. If you have your domain in 6NF and are using purely functional/relational programming, there are mountains of mathematical guarantees you can make about the correctness of your software. For instance, 6NF gets rid of null. It forces you to deal with the notion of optional facts using 0..1-1 relations and applicable query constraints.
Chaotic systems like mercury orbiting the sun have zone of stability where all the potential orbits lay. The energy from a space probe doing a flyby won't impart enough energy to pop it out of that zone. I'm not going to do the math but probably other planets have a larger effect on Mercuries orbit than a space probe does.
if climate change is code, red it's time for ww3 so those with a plan for code red can murder everyone who won't submit to it.

code red!
team ramrod?
I dunno I didn't really like it. Kind of felt like watching a computer game. Especially the "runway" type view just screamed "we're on a green screen set!" in the same way that the Star Wars prequels did.

Watch us walk slowly along the safe area.

Not sure what would have been better though.
Yes, they were already doing facial recognition of my photos, which I didn’t ask for and can’t turn off.
> You've got YC one-itis. There are a zillion other places to raise money. Any one funding source says no 98% of the time, it has nothing to do with you.

I don't think you read my post. Or, if you did, you didn't understand it. What you are saying has nothing to do with what I said, what I think of YC or anything in my post.

Congrats on raising capital. I never have. It seems you have in the past. Which explains why it might have been easier for you. I have, however closed five million dollar sales with single international customers for the startup I mentioned I self-funded and launched from my garage.

Different paths in life. If it hadn't been for 2008 I would be telling a very different story today. That's just the way things go sometimes.
Apple stores user iCloud backups and their encryption keys on Chinese government-controlled servers in China, and gives the Chinese government full access to those servers. And routinely grants the US government warrantless access to those same backups in the US.

So what actions are you referring to that show they won't do any of those scary things?
I would not argue that the conspiracy is impossible, but if it exists then it makes Apple's actions less excusable instead of more excusable.

If the conspiracy exists Apple is an active participant in secretly and illegally undermining the constitutional rights of well over a hundred million Americans. If the conspiracy does not exist, then they're simply lawfully invading people's privacy in order to improve their profits.
It's behind them. They don't have to look at it.
Awesome! How long do you plan to live that way? Do you work out of your van as well?
Have you tried to find a cofounder?

What feedback have you received from any such attempts?
Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data
> Steps to use visualvm to profile memory for a standalone JBoss application:

> Allow visualvm to use 1024 Mb of RAM - in etc/visualvm.conf update -Xmx parameter to -J-Xmx1024m

And this is why I avoid all Java apps I can -- there is always a need for some memory tuning. C++, Lisp, Perl, Go, Python, even Javascript can all use all the memory in my computer have without any action on my part, only Java keeps having the problems with it.
> I have discussed in this article three reasons that proves Machine Learning and Data-Driven approaches are not even relevant to NLU

This is a pretty hard-line position to take, and given the authors credentials I'm inclined to believe this is somehow poorly worded and not reflective of the thesis he intended with this article.

> Languages are the external artifacts that we use to encode the infinite number of thoughts that we might have.

> in building larger and larger language models, Machine Learning and Data-Driven approaches are trying to chase infinity in futile attempt at trying to find something that is not even ‘there’ in the data

> Ordinary spoken language, we must realize, is not just linguistic data

I would be curious to know what the author thinks of multimodal representation learning - which is conceptually promising in that it opens the door for machine learning models to learn relationships that span text, images, video, etc. For example OpenAI's CLIP [1], and other models like it.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020
> What does D&D feel like for me? For me, it feels more like Conan than Tolkien, for example.

It seems like this is very much this author’s spin on his version of Appendix N, rather than primarily an exploration of the actual Appendix N. More like what he’d like Appendix N to be rather than what it actually was.

AD&D particularly is at least 50% Middle Earth the roleplaying game, and the other 50% split among all the other influences. Halflings, elves (even specific types of elves ripped directly), dwarves, rangers, orcs, dragons, wights, wraiths, walking trees, goblins riding wolves, magic swords, magic rings, mithril, magic cloaks and boots, giant spiders, giant eagles, were-bears, it’s hard to think of anything in Tolkien at all that isn’t directly cut-and-pasted. Meanwhile yes specific elements were taken from other settings, such as the magic and a few other things from Vance, and the barbarian class from Howard, maybe thieves and thieves guilds from Lieber. The Cleric is an interesting one, it was added specifically for a vampire hunting adventure in the Blackmoor campaign. Middle Earth provides the base layer the whole thing is built on though.
If that's true, then democracy has to go.
If only we didn't have widespread climte change denial and minimizing caused by their broken incentives caused by failure to caputre externalities, yes, we'd be a hell of a lot further along.

The cartels were used to outcompete all alternatives and bend governments to their will. See 1979 for how just a 4% shock caused pandemonium.
Not sure why the downvotes - the more automation like this we have, the more one can make another's life a hell, fighting the false positives, and then the resulting checkered history of it.
I agree it's related to maturity, but on the other hand Pipewire was working just fine for me on Fedora without further setup.

I understand they're different distros with different philosophies, but in the end I do need my screen sharing to work no questions asked.
There is certainly a gradient.
This was a great video. But the one titled "Math Has a Fatal Flaw"[1] was even more interesting: the meta-mathematics, thus mathematics of entire mathematics (Gödel).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
Spring drive's are cool. I'll try my best fast explanation: it has an ordinary rotor and spring barrel, but replaces the escapement with a flywheel, an electromagnetic break (like you have on an ebike) and a quartz controller. The rotor winds the spring barrel, the spring barrel powers the flywheel, and the break generates electricity for the controller, which keeps track of the time and then in turn tells the break how fast to allow the flywheel to spin.

The fact that they sidestep the need for a battery (the spring barrel pretty much is the battery) is the clever part here. It's more efficient than using a rotor to charge a battery and run a stepper motor, and more accurate than a purely mechanical escapement. But it's still fundamentally a quartz watch, which turns some purists off.
> I'm not buying it. If you can recognize what it is, enough to be able to be sure, you're exposed to it. If not, you're just guessing

That’s a misunderstanding of what is happening. The reviewer doesn’t have to see whether the visual derivative looks like child porn. They only have to see whether it matches the visual derivative of the child porn image that the hash matched.
heck no. but hopefully before the sun extinguishes
For some people, me included, melatonin can cause an uptick in very real feeling and (depending on mental state) very weird dreams. Do be mindful of that. On the other hand if you're practiced at lucid dreaming this can be a real trip.
Almost all of the relevant land is federal.
APIs for the Rest of Us
The truth is 'it's complicated' and that cuts both ways. If you have the time, assessing what is and isn't worth doing based on your location is a better approach than just blanket recycling=bad or recycling=good.

For example, at-home recycling of organic waste by composting? Excellent. Municipal glass and metal recycling? Generally a net positive. Plastics recycling in the boonies? More of an energy waste than useful, in many cases the 'least worst' place for that material is landfill.

The other end of the consumption pipeline is where we should be focused IMO. If we nail that, the tail-end stuff becomes a much smaller issue as a matter of course.
Ask HN: How to go about building a kitchen appliance prototype by a third party?
I have an idea of an efficient kitchen electric appliance. What would be the best way to get the prototype ? Should I think about patenting before talking to the manufacturers for an early prototype ?
To get to the other side.

(great answer though, thanks, I'll use it later)
I'm not particularly into math, but I've lost about five nights of sleep on this...
Two academic surveys about code reviews
I’ve looked into this and the only recommended tools were a hand puller and hand press, otherwise it’s pretty straightforward to replace the movement with another stock one, or switch it out to 4R36/NH36 to add hacking and hand winding. I plan to swap the movement for one of the hacking/handwinding ones when the movement when my SKX009 dies.
> In an era with so many people screaming, "Defund the police!"

This is a very vocal, very small minority. The most ardent police reformers I know believe that law enforcement is necessary. Defunding has devastating consequences on those who are most vulnerable.
Scientists Found a New and ‘Unique’ Flesh-Eating Plant on the West Coast
Eye masks are far cheaper than new black-out curtains.
Sure, agreed. Not an antitrust issue.
I wouldn't call a disease with a mortality rate < 1% and that is really only a threat to old people "dire stress"
> Also, one wonders if EU states would have been better at closing their borders at the start of the pandemic (like Australia or New Zealand did) if it wasn't for the EU.

It's a fair question. OTOH, here in the UK, we were extremely slow to close our borders (in fact we've never closed our borders fully in the way that say Australia or NZ did, nor anything close), with the justification being that the UK is an international hub.

The real reason, of course, is that our government is too spineless and inept to take such decisive action, and has the collective intellect of a colony of woodlice.

I don't know enough about the EU decision making process around closing borders to know if their bureaucracy was a problem. I know Italy introduced restrictions fairly early on (back in February, or maybe early March 2020), but I do remember being surprised that people were still allowed to cross the border between Switzerland and Italy for work purposes even whilst the pandemic was raging in Italy. (Switzerland isn't in the EU, obviously.) I also remember being surprised that ski resorts such as Aprica, in Italy, were still open as late as the beginning of the second week of March in 2020.

The UK is very densely populated, particularly in south east England, compared to many countries, so risk of accelerated transmission is and always has been considerably higher. We also have an ageing population with a history (at a population level) of making poor lifestyle choices who have accrued a significant burden of pre-existing medical conditions (not unlike the USA), with the distribution across the whole of the country not entirely mirroring population density. Again, this increases the severity of COVID for those who fall into affected demographics.

With that being said, I have no doubt that more decisive measures earlier in the pandemic, more consistently applied throughout the pandemic, would have led to a significant reduction in both the human and economic costs of the pandemic in our country.

I would like to see Boris Johnson and his cadre of fawning, useless imbeciles stripped of their citizenships and banished to a frozen wasteland to endure an existence of hard labour for the rest of their natural lives. Their abject failure to step up and lead in the face of the greatest challenge we have faced since WWII - to discharge their most basic responsibilities to the people of this country - absolutely disgusts me.

I accept that I am likely to be disappointed.
> An armchair effort

Given the authors credentials and publication history [1] it's a bit disingenuous to call this an 'armchair effort'.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i5sEc1YAAAAJ&hl=en...