skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimistic founders are more likely to launch companies, but they are also less likely to react to vital feedback that contradicts their vision. They are less innovative than less optimistic founders as a result.

>Abstract

>Extant research shows that entrepreneurs are typically overly optimistic about their ventures’ prospects, and that such optimism hampers performance. We analyze how dispositional optimism affects the adjustments to entrepreneurs’ expectations after they receive negative feedback on their task performance. We then explore the relationship between optimism and the effectiveness of innovation. Exploiting unique firm-level data and a laboratory experiment involving 205 entrepreneurs, we find that dispositional optimism is negatively associated with both the likelihood and extent of belief updating in response to negative feedback. Furthermore, dispositional optimism triggers a discrepancy – between innovation inputs and outputs – that reduces a firm’s innovation effectiveness.
> Not sure what people expect.

Transparency as the bare minimum? We are talking about a service that you expect to handle some sensitive information, you expect them to be transparent on what they do. If they block account creation over TOR because of spam issues, then that's should be said clearly on their platform.

OP is not only complaining about free account, they are also mentioning paid account, which has a 1k message per day limit. No spammer is going to pay 5 euros to send 30k message in a month, that just not worth it. So there's no reason to block paid account too.
In many rural areas the police harrassing out of towners is normal
I have two robots in my house that sweep & mop the floor.
This DOE publication is pretty much requeset reading for anyone trying to learn AC theory, volume 4 covers AC motors

https://www.standards.doe.gov/standards-documents/1000/1011-...
Move Fast: How Facebook Builds Software – Software Engineering Daily [audio]
from Google translate:

Today is September 5th - the birthday of the Sci-Hub project and the project is already 10 years old.

In honor of such a round date, two million new articles have been added to the server today, specifically 2,337,229.

What is inside?

Most of all new documents are from Elsevier publishing house - about half a million. Springer is in second place with three hundred thousand articles, Wiley is slightly behind him. In principle, nothing surprising, these are the largest publishers today. But in general, there are more than a hundred different publishing houses.

Elsevier BV 508,566
Springer 305,690
Wiley 201,556
IEEE 169,849
MDPI AG 139,788
American Chemical Society 109,970
Informa UK Limited 103,820
De Gruyter 80.346
University of Chicago Press 71,098
AMPCo 61,394
SAGE Publications 60.359
IOP Publishing 53,736
Association for Computing Machinery 50,173

Which authors have been the most productive? In the top of the authors' surnames, the Chinese with the surnames Wang, Li and Zhang are in the lead:

Wang 33,236
Li 28,550
Zhang 28,127
Liu 21,770
Chen 18,575
Yang 12.407
Wu 9,574
Kim 9.044
Zhao 8.467
Xu 8,833

And what about Russian surnames? The Ivanovs published only 400 articles, with 266 articles being for men and 134 for women. With the Petrovs, the picture is similar: 96 articles were published by men and 68 by women. According to statistics, Smirnov and Popov are among the most common Russian surnames, everything is exactly the same here: with the surname Smirnov 96 publications, with the surname Smirnov 44, with the surname Popov 139 publications, with the surname Popova 54.

Such statistics may indicate discrimination against women in our science. It is not possible to verify whether it exists in foreign science, since foreign surnames do not contain gender characteristics.

What are the research topics? To determine the topic of the article, I used the Scopus database, which lists the topics of each journal. In general, the base is, of course, strange, the principle of classification of sciences is not very clear. But in general, it turns out that medicine is leading in terms of the number of articles:

398,548 Medicine
184,598 Engineering Sciences
171,929 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
161,897 Social sciencies
161,299 Physics and Astronomy
153,263 Materials Science
143,748 Chemistry
107,171 Computer science
105,952 Ecology
91,907 Humanitarian sciences
89,494 Agricultural sciences
87,601 Chemical Technology
65,280 Maths
62.053 Planetology
44,210 Energy
43.036 Immunology and Microbiology
37,173 Pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals
31,487 Psychology
28,642 Neurosciences
23,449 Nursing
21,386 Business, management and accounting
21,142 Economics and finance
17,247 Medical professions
13.406 Veterinary
10.667 Decision theory
7.310 Dentistry

It would also be interesting to check on what topics the articles are mainly published by women authors and on what topics are men. I will do this later.
Just look at the screenshot on the RocketChat page.
"Use on a production system is not recommended at this time"
And looking at how buggy RocketChat is without federation I trust them not to use it.

Most of their features is just PR.
For example they do advertise E2E while it has the same amount of warnings and not even a doc page
https://docs.rocket.chat/guides/administration/administratio...
Crashes on safari on mobile. But still a cool project!
Fastmail with a custom domain. I was using Lavabit before that.
A related article: A survey of gamedevs answering "What is a thing in video games that seems simple but is actually extremely hard for game developers to make?"

https://www.ign.com/articles/turns-out-hardest-part-making-g...
It's not even a problem of a bar being too high. It's a problem of using the wrong bar. The intellectual laziness of using metrics like leetcode-like performance for hiring instead of evaluating applicable technical and soft skills blows my mind.
+1 to this. Name and shame.

The onus is on the companies to fire their management, not on engineers to navigate whatever bureaucracy they put in place.
Another thing I heard about wind energy recently was that the friction of the blades significantly warms the air, so if deployed at scale, the total effect on atmospheric warming would not be as beneficial as hoped.

Not sure how valid it is, but I thought it was interesting and hadn't heard it before.
I'm not sure what difficulty you mean aside from way cooler, please check out smithay/anvil if you want to see decent progress on a rust wayland implementation: https://github.com/Smithay/smithay

Wlroots is a bit of an extreme case as the API is mostly idiomatic to low-level C and not easy to wrap in safe rust, I believe the developers are also not keen on supporting C++ either. This is intentional design choice on their part, as "language-binding-friendly" C APIs usually tend to expose some kind of reference counting or smart pointers that make it easy to adapt to a higher level language.
Well, the problem is that you can't actually have a "realistic" work problem in the space of an interview. Given that constraint I think it's a reasonable approximation.
This is not true.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...
Sure, but if you deprecated TLS 1.2 today, you'd have to make sure that all devices that are less than 7 years old will get the update.
Yep, when we defer to the public instead of experts to make decisions, we get Brexit. The devastation of a country. I don't think your example is bolstering what you think it's bolstering.
what do you want to say by that? you prefer to live with an asshole than be lonely?
What do you expect exactly, that they shutdown non-tor access and force you to go through tor?
It seems to be built on an Ethereum L2, so transaction fees shouldn't be a problem.
No Transcendent Meaning
What you're saying starting with Leica, and then "Nikon came along" is at the root of my comments about this article. There are more than 40 years of innovation between the ur-Leica in 1914 and the Nikon F. For a famous example, have a look at the movie "Rear Window" (1954), specifically the still shots of Jimmy Stewart's character using an Exakta with a very long telephoto lens. The SLR made long lenses practical in a compact camera. But Nikon wasn't there first.

The Nikon SLRs picked up a reputation after being used by professional photographers to cover the Vietnam war years after the release of the first Nikon F. Were they professional cameras before professionals started using them?

I have failed to mention the Asahi-Pentax, released in 1957, which had everything the Nikon had two years later. Why is the Nikon F the first professional 35mm camera? What made it special enough to obscure years of camera development?
Windows doesn't have that issue on Arm, you can just boot the newest Windows on Arm release on a random SoC from the past that (if it's the same arch of course, 32 bit or 64 bit have different drivers) as long as the work was initially done first.

For ACPI, the vendors themselves tend to avoid changing bindings between generations for Windows there. Compounded with a stable driver ABI, things continued to work stably within all of Windows Phone (NT based, 8.0 to 10)'s lifetime, which had security update support until December 2019.

Windows RT 8.1 still gets security updates today, and will continue to do so until January 2023.

Linux not managing to standardize on a proper driver ABI _or_ stable bindings with the drivers in the kernel tree is just a Linux problem, and doesn't even affect other kernels on the platform, which mandate ACPI or something else.

> There is completely unlike how x86 works where everything really is standardized and you don't need specific drivers operate every peripheral on the board

Nope, on x86, the meaty bits like the GPU and such do not have a stable register interface or anything remotely near that between generations. :)

On Arm systems, the interrupt controller (GICv2/3/4), timer (arch timer, since Cortex-A7/A15), IOMMUs (SMMU) and other standard devices were standardised since ages now (Apple is their own bubble and doesn't apply to this discussion). One of the remaining issues so far is PCIe hardware quirks/erratums, but that's getting solved.

But Qualcomm isn't interested in making their Linux drivers work with their ACPI definitions, they are stable between generations on Windows though, and not changed needlessly over there. (which allowed us to work to bring AArch64 Windows on the Lumia 950/950 XL using drivers from other SoCs too)
I believe it can. The protocol seems pretty thoroughly documented https://developers.revolt.chat/
I've heard that too. But I am using gmail and had no trouble registering.
Practice over Theory
Mostly correct. But the problem is that these are literally the points of Green proponents/Anti-climate-change people. They have a religious, purist, orthodox attitude - ZERO fossil fuels ASAP!

Only a portfolio of all sources can enable a transition and time required to debug all the problems with the new technology. But Green Absolutism has no room for that. The fact is: We Will be using fossil fuels in the next 50-100 years still. It may become smaller or more limited but it will NOT be zero. If you try to force the issue to absolutely, we will end up with NOTHING - either from Green or from Fossil because the system will break. Just like supply chains have broken recently, fossil fuels are just as deeply intertwined into the supply chain network FOR EVERYTHING that is post-1800 technology. It's like a jenga pile or pick-up-stix situation.
* Knitting hats for newborn babies.

* Photography. I used to shoot escorts, for their websites, but these days I just shoot random volunteers for fun.

* Collecting watches.

* Going to pottery-classes. I'm terrible, but it doesn't matter.

* Baking bread.
You're committing fallacy number 2 here. Wind power and hydro is a thing.

Also, the duck curve problem isn't the need for gas peakers after the sun goes down, it's the speed at which you need to ramp them up from being switched off.

If they can't ramp as fast as the solar drops, then you need to start them earlier and end up producing extra electricity (and carbon) that you don't want.

The problem you are talking about is called "nightime" and I'll refer you to the footnote in the article that covers this.
How to find those stupid and annoying public AWS S3 Buckets
Element keeps getting notably better :D

Keep polishing it and silence the haters
It's not decentralized and they don't plan to decentralize it.
You know how woke people say that being silent about racism you see is being complicit in it? Well it goes both ways. My woke-tending friends refuse to express any opinion condemning any of the woke bullshit, never happened even once. I wonder if that's because they agree with all of that bullshit, or if they're afraid of speaking their mind for dear of being labelled a racist by their own peers. End result is the same though.
Did you go to the police?
a lot of left wing ideas are now represented more by right wing, if anything just because left wing today is more of a antiworkers, elitist, classist bunch of neoliberals
Is anyone talking about deprecating TLS 1.2 before 2025? (TLS 1.3 being specified in 2018 )
They are either happy with society by extension the government or they are selfish for not thinking about others.

I don't think happy with the government is a concept. The question becomes are you happy with society
What does the word "activist" mean in this case? What form did the activism take, that a criminal case was opened?
I'm guessing this was probably PPC, given the rarity of the other options?

Sounds like a fun experiment to run down. Maybe I'll go look when I'm done the current nightmare I'm tinkering with.
DolDoc.net: TempleOS' DolDoc renderer written in C#
GitHub – duc-NT/RCE-0-day-for-GhostScript-9.50: RCE 0-day for GhostScript 9.50
The problem with green hydrogen, is that producing hydrogen from electricity and then putting the hydrogen in a gas turbine to produce electricity is extremely inefficient.

So a windfarm backed up by hydrogen may need a significant fraction of the farm to produce hydrogen.

In the end, a nuclear power plant might be cheaper. Might be, because we just don't know. Nuclear power plants are insanely expensive at the moment.
How to Bridge Discord and Matrix
What you suggest would work if you just want to order writes. However, it won't support an ACID transaction model, which a lot of applications expect, or even simpler models where you can read values before you write.

For instance: consider an application that looks at the current value of a counter and adds 1 if the counter is less than 100. You can execute this on the primary (resource bottleneck because you need to see current state and only the primary has the full picture) or do the operation on a local node and try to submit it to the primary for ordering (coordination required over the network, e.g., to ensure data are current).

There are other approaches but they generally result in the same kind of conflicts and consequent slow-downs. Or they limit the operations you can handle, for example by only allowing conflict-free operations. That's what CRDTs do. [1]

[1] https://hal.inria.fr/hal-00932836/file/CRDTs_SSS-2011.pdf
There's "free" as in beer, "free" as in free speech, and "free" as in Freedom Fries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
> Use PGP and Tor if you want true privacy.

Don't use email for starters, really.
Rust people tend to love Electron, since (as with most niche programming languages), Electron is arguably its best GUI story
It's a ballpark figure. And it's an argument renewables handily pass, btw. It's not an argument that fossil fuels are essential.

Of course the renewables are cheaper, but in addition to that argument the pro-nuclear argument is deceptive when it tries to portray existing nuclear technology as sufficient.
> use anti-terrorists law against environmental activist

I have seen this commented a lot by people, that specifically anti-terrorist laws were used? But from what I have found, they used regular laws. Any chance you can point me in the right direction?
Rust is about as fast as C++, so I'd call that normal speed.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov: Platforms like TikTok destroying human creativity
> 1.6MW is the power that two sports cars can generate

If by "sports cars" you mean Bugatti Veyrons, then sure. For more "normal" sports cars, you'd need a bit more than 2.
The whole "matrix doesn't have voice channels" thing is a bit frustrating, because... in Element, you can hit the voice or video call button in any channel (not just voice channels!) and it will spin up a voice/video conference in that channel. If you then switch channel, you'll stay in the original conference, unless you drop and rejoin the new one.

I think that's basically precisely the same capability as you get in Discord - except in Discord you can switch between the 'voice rooms' by clicking on them in the room list, rather than 'opting in' to the one in your current room. Also, you can do toggle mute via hotkey (which we have a draft for at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/2280), but this is surely a bonus feature.

So, am I right in saying that Element effectively has voice/video rooms today - it's just that the UI is very subtly different to Discord? Or am I completely misunderstanding something fundamental about Discord's voice rooms?
They want reliable returns.
So wrong!

Non-silicon is 10x-100x more expensive and 10x-100x less fit for most applications.

Non-silicon (aka compound semiconductors) are only 1% of all semiconductor revenue and volume. Switching from majority semiconductor to tiny minority semiconductor is NOT going to solve any supply problems!!

SiC and GaN are STILL made on silicon and most of the circuitry is still silicon. Only the power transistors are using non-silicon.

Mostly a nonsense article.
I'm by no means an expert here, but wouldn't the energy that is expressed as heat in that friction just be the energy that's already in the air? Wouldn't it just be expressed as heat and friction anyway as air moves past other objects and other air? It doesn't make sense that turbines would be putting more energy into the system than they're taking out.
The law only works if it makes sense. Aggressive and borderline punitive laws where IP is forced open will not be followed.
CyberTulipMania vs. Trojan Horse
The userinfo endpoint is not designed for APIs
Thank you :) and yup, this is our masterplan :D
And I've witnessed first hand the truly garbage nothing changes after adopting Jira and Confluence - a wasteland of process management through bad automation and forgotten wiki articles with Write Once Read Never behavior.

Nothing Atlassian does is that much better than past tooling, it all comes down to how you want to run your org, what discipline you apply, and where you apply it.
In the US tax deductions can be made only for donating to legal entities of a specific type, i.e. a nonprofit org. These aren’t arbitrary things you can say to receive donations but have to register as a certain kind of business.

That either exists or it doesn’t.

I would assume something similar is true in Germany.
These "absolutists" are people looking for:

- a service which would blindly accept money/crypto-money,

- in exchange of a worldwide legal shield which would take all of the heat resulting from the user's anonymous actions.

This service is not going to exist for $100/year. It would not even be safe to offer such a service for a million dollars per year, because the responsibility could be huge (terrorist attacks, human trafficking, etc.). Nobody in their right mind would be ready to bear this kind of legal responsibility without trusting (and thus knowing) their customers.
> As if the world needs yet another slack-like.

You mean another IRC-like? :)
The very weird thing is that civil forfeiture is a conflict between the law and order wing of conservatism vs its libertarian wing.
The Single-Page-App Morality Play
But you can also send encrypted E-mail using GMail with Thunderbird...
The XMPP Newsletter August 2021
You don't need mirrors, you just need a DNS server that doesn't implement this policy.

Historically the government reaction to that was to censor the DNS protocol itself. Trouble is, by the time they got around to legislating for such things, DNS is already optionally encrypted. In Firefox for example General -> Networking Settings -> Enable DNS over HTTPS
I’ve always seen “written in Rust” as relevant for a specific sort of software. Because CVEs are inevitable in C/C++ software and dealing with CVEs has become part of the user interface to that software. Knowing something is “written in Rust” means its attack surface is much smaller. Working in tech, the “drop everything and migrate to a version that isn’t vulnerable” instances are far too common and disruptive.

But as soon as you get into consumer software with auto-update mechanisms and an expectation that end users won’t be computer professionals who know how to read a CVE and evaluate its urgency, the “written in Rust” distinction becomes a mostly irrelevant implementation detail. Or, worse, it’s an indication that the GUI will feel wrong in some way because the Rust community seems averse to writing GUIs with GTK, UI Kit and whatever the hell Microsoft recommends using for Windows these days.
Well I'm not sure what you mean by good. It's always been some level of crazy, but there used to be, late 80s/early 90s a trade-off between crazy and cheap rent. No idea what the attraction is now.
This is a great video.

Next I’d love to see, “Why online checkout forms are so hard to get right.”

Software is hard.
Has Neovim ever considered to a rolling release model?

Where I work, it’s considerably less of a headache to install Homebrew bottles instead of source/HEAD packages. There was a bug in Neovim 0.4 that I ran into every day for years—it was fixed in master but unreleased for a long time. I just had the same thing happen in 0.5.0: there’s a bug, it’s already fixed in master, but I can’t upgrade to HEAD.

The 0.5.0 release was obviously a historic release (tree sitter integration, LSP built-in, lua config engine) but the release was delayed for a long time. I’d love to know the team’s thoughts for or against having some sort of rolling release schedule (or other strategy) to release earlier and/or more frequently.
Isn't a new city an example of priority reconsideration? I don't follow your argument.
Hatred for misleading headlines outranks hatred of Electron.
And an even rarer phenomenon, a good-looking female physicist, is working on the project (see article for pic).

--old physicist
Do specific bird species have preferences for tree species?
> '' aka (U+F8FF)

In passing: Many HN readers on non-Apple platforms probably don't see the glyph you intended in this comment. The Apple logo does not exist as a character in the Unicode standard. U+F8FF is a Private Use Area codepoint, which has no standardised, interoperable meaning.

Yes, Apple uses this codepoint for the logo in their fonts, but that's purely a private matter, largely restricted to their platforms. (I wouldn't be surprised if non-Apple fonts that include it are actually violating a trademark, or something like that.)