skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's time Protonmail got rid of free accounts. Or disable free accounts so they can't send more than 10 emails a day.

This isn't rocket science, Protonmail. You make it look hard. I'll take my money elsewhere (open to suggestions here).
... my bad I missed this entirely.
Agile is a way for non-technical managers to exercise arbitrary power over engineers. Your work is turned into a factory-style production line and you're reduced to playing a game of musical chairs over yellow stickys with other engineers at the daily standup. That the rules are "fuzzy" just underlines the fact that the exercise of power is arbitrary.

These fuckers even have a joke about how a bus hits an engineer and no harm is done to the project. How inappropriate is it to make jokes about a bus hitting your colleagues.
Finally, something that outright says that its intent is to be a discord alternative. So many platforms try to sell themselves on some other feature, rather than just being open source and self-hostable. So many things, like Matrix, come close, but lack key components to really competing, such as voice channels rather than calls.

I hope this goes somewhere!
If you compensate the developers' losses in revenue with tax breaks, how does it shrink the supply?
At the risk of replying to an overtly aggressive post on language bashing nonetheless - can you explain why rustups implementation of `curl https://sh.rustup.rs | sh` is worth mentioning? My understanding, from the 1,000 other times these flames start, is it's done properly and no more dangerous than any other way of running 3rd party binaries from a remote source.

Regardless of any other thoughts on Rust folks I'll tip my hat to them for they definitely have made talking about security more common... one way or another apparently :).
Yeah, Electron feels more like a choice that matters.
I think they’re talking about the front-end, not the server. FWIW both Confluence and Jira are abysmally slow on my machine (new MBP) on the cloud version.
Most of that cheap land you are seeing available in the US is not close to what you'd consider farmland.

Consider the location of the 100th meridian as it somewhat bisects the continent. West of that line, you cannot really grow anything without irrigation. East of that line, and to some extent there's enough rainfall that stuff will grow on its own, albeit not optimally.

Most the cheap available land you will find in the US is west of the 100th meridian, and is dry largely inorganic dirt.

As for the cities, you may not be aware of this, but the southwest (and perhaps western) US is in year 21 of a drought that rivals the worst of the last 1200 years, and there is no sign that the situation is likely to improve in the next century or so.
Cool. Thanks for setting the record straight.

That makes perfect sense.
Using resources that belong to the user (CPU time, RAM, disk space, battery) for you own needs without user's consent is very questionable.

On top of that, this p2p tools advertises the user's IP address to other peers without their consent. Furthermore, it allow other users to see what contents are cached and at what time in the day.

"Sure beats the alternatives" is in no way less scammy.
It’s valid in that everything has an effect, but it’s not really a concern.

One reason is that, as other commenters pointed out, the total volume of wind and solar is currently tiny compared to the energy delivered to the Earth’s surface from the sun. So the size of the effect is not large enough to be noticeable, or probably even measurable.

The other reason involves the mechanics of how wind and solar work.

Solar (photovoltaic) converts electromagnetic energy that would otherwise heat the atmosphere, directly into electricity. But, it converts probably less energy than you think (solar panels still get hot in the sun, i.e. they still radiate in the infrared). And, once the electricity is used by people to do work, the energy is converted back into atmospheric heat. No heat is lost; energy can’t be destroyed.

Wind turbines do absorb energy from the wind, but only from the wind they can reach, which is mostly regional. There is a boundary layer close to the Earth’s surface (below a few thousand feet above mean ground level) where air movement is relatively slow and chaotic. That’s what we experience as “wind” and what wind turbines can reach. But most atmospheric heat transport happens via extremely powerful and persistent air currents higher in the atmosphere. You may have heard of the “jet stream” for example. Wind turbines in high enough concentration could conceivably have a regional effect on wind patterns (just like tall buildings do) but it’s basically adding a small amount of local chaos to a part of the atmosphere that is already small and chaotic, like adding a couple new rocks to the bottom of a river. You might create some new little eddies along the bottom, but you’re not meaningfully affecting the main flow.
Maybe no-one technical, but here in the UK where DNS-based blocking is very prevalent, I know most of my non-technical friends don’t know how to access a website that’s been blocked in this way, and wouldn’t think to look for mirrors. I’ve tried to explain the process of piracy via torrents to people and it just goes over their heads.
Singapore doesn’t harshly punish to maintain its level of cleanliness. There is plenty of littering. They just have a massive army of cheap foreign labor to constantly clean.
> half of our devs dont like sql much

I'd suggest you and your team shouldn't rule out SQL-like databases, given a lot of very competent NoSQL databases have SQL-like syntaxes (say Cassandra or ScyllaDB, what Discord went with). And regarding hiding it behind an ORM, if you want or need cream of the crop performance not only do you need to have chosen a database that fits your needs, but you will also need to occasionally work very close to the database to avoid abstraction inversion situations.
I was with you until that last sentence.
The kind of bird is important. Many more songbirds are taken by cats it’s true but their numbers aren’t in danger. Wind turbines impact mainly larger birds such as raptors that don’t reproduce as quickly. The problem is such that a wind farm might be allowed a single kill before fines or being shut down and some places are trying to develop early warning systems to shut down a turbine if a bird is detected. Seems a long way around to go just for a single type of renewable when you could most likely solve most problems with nuclear.
The US government maintains a revenue source to convince bondholders to keep buying its bonds, the majority (edit: large portion) of which are foreign purchasers.

US revenue primarily goes to interest payments on the money/bonds/abstract liquidity it creates.

This business requires demonstrating a continued willingness to raise revenues. The US’ most lucrative business has been revenue by passive tax collection, of which is receives around $1.8tr per year. There is almost zero consensus within the US for governments to be involved in nationalized industry, as the separation is seen as a core value proposition in that culture. So, for revenue of this size it is currently passive taxes that drive the ARR.
Parsing the output of ls is an antipattern
- Collecting physical books
- Trying out new recipes
- Trekking
> As languages get popular, multiple projects get rewritten in them.

Lately I've been thinking, it's kind of funny how the modern development mindset is so all about code reuse what with its giant dependency graphs and reliance on cross-platform frameworks; and yet the favorite sport is still rewriting perfectly good applications in the new hotness.
It could be a turn, just pull up and to the right and add a bit more gas and it'll veer off to the right no? Perhaps your definition of turn is one which preserves the directions of the down force? This solves the problem by definition, but doesn't address my comment.

The article made me think that there was a physical law being obeyed here, when in reality it's more of a natural inclination to remain neutral. A level in an airplane will move around, even without performing such an intense maneuver, as hinted at the end of this article with the pendulums.
> Currently there is seemingly excess solar in California with prices going negative except unlike what’s mentioned people are actually still building solar because it’s cheap enough that even without selling in the middle of sunny days it’s still profitable.

Yeah, and at least solar is really easy to turn off so you don't actually have to pay the negative price, you can take zero.
responding to:

> protons have extremely strong bonds to the nucleus

Protons are chemical shorthand for the H+ atomic ion. They are bound to the fluffy outer electron shells of oxygen atoms in water.

> If so, are there other such substances that conduct electricity with protons?

This is basically how the inside of some fuel cells work (note that there is a counter-flow, which is the "useful electricity" of electrons that travels OUTSIDE the fuel cell, but inside of the fuel cell the electricity flow is via H+)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton-exchange_membrane_fuel_...
You're better of using some service in China that does log ip's if you're not living in China(not being part of the five eyes anglo sphere is the goal) and vice versa if you are living in China. Security via sovereign obscurity.
It's exciting to see a new ambitious project like this. America definitely needs new cities to help with housing abd environmental problems. I have a few concerns though:

Location: We need new cities in there north add climate change ramps up. Desert doesn't sound great. And new cities need to be built in low population states to balance out the Senate. Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, WV would be best. Otherwise the country continues to become more dysfunctional. Up north there's underutilized Amtrak lines too.

Local Transportation: autonomous cars are cool, but are still space inefficient compare to mass transit. A new city is an amazing opportunity to build mass transit more cheaply with cut-and-cover tunnels. You can also plan for commercial transportation with delivery tunnels and below ground docks. These are the kinds of things you can't easily add to an existing city and should be the focus.

Regional Transportation: Where's the airport and how does it connect to the city? Will there be a central train station? How do carless residents reach regional attractions like state/national parks and recreation areas?

Parks: It's nearly impossible to add large parks to a new city, but they immensely improve quality of life. A new city should be designed around large central parks and neighborhood parks. You also need to have a green belt surrounding the city to prevent sprawl.

Density: SF density isn't it. SF is mostly a suburb west of Van Ness. Shoot for Paris.

Industry: People need jobs. Where are the light industrial areas and how do they integrate with the city so they're not blighted pollution centers? Will they be transit connected so people don't need cars?
> It is increasingly common to use this kind of “pipeline-as-YAML”
> configuration to piece together a workflow of pre-built
> components 1. Some real examples of this are TFX components,
> scikit-learn Pipelines, or Airflow DAGs.

Airflow DAGs are Python objects, defined in Python code.
Looks like the user may have done more on their part…

> However, we understand this is concerning for individuals with certain threat models, which is why since 2017, we also provide an onion site for anonymous access (we are one of the only email providers that supports this).
Alex Jones Appears to Take Ivermectin on Air During Covid-19 Rant
As the article says the need for storage is for storage that can store maybe 1-3 hours worth of grid capacity energy in the afternoon and discharge it late at night. That doesn't seem like a "strong" need for storage. I would say we have a "strong" need for storage if we need the majority of the grid to be operating on storage for at least half the day - "strong need for storage" is not a now problem. If you go out and build that you are likely to lose money. (But if you really think we need that kind of storage, go invest in it and prove me wrong!)
> Is this a bad joke? Distrust of media is largely brought about because it is (mostly) in the private sector

You think the 82% of Republicans who distrust the media is due to being in the private sector? And that they would trust it more if it was government run?
Your average person breaks devices before than and you expect people to have access to a load of money at once?
This is also considered in Keith Houston's entertaining book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks.

It traces the history of some other common symbols such as the at sign and asterisk.
Inventive Minds – Marvin Minsky on Education
So it begins. Cloudflare, Google DNS and others to follow.

IMHO they went after quad9 because they advertise that they already block some domains, based on some lists. They'll probably argue that it's simple to add to their system.
There's also podman-compose, which does exactly what docker-compose does, but with podman.
The Italian Man Living as a Hobbit
Recently applied for two jobs - a startup as employee #11 and a growing startup (ChainLink). The startup moved fast with an initial chat, tech test, and follow-up tech interview taking four days in total. ChainLink, who offered more money, was on interview stage 3/8 by the time I had an offer from the startup. I just didn't have time to complete three more 1-hour tech interviews, a project management interview, and then an HR interview. Ended up stopping the process even even though they said they were keen.
> seems to indeed be slipping away to Southeast Asia

Do you mean east Asia? Southeast Asia still doesn’t have much fab capacity, and most of what it has isn’t very sophisticated, unless I’m missing something?
1984 becomes closer to reality every day.
This is the ninth time we've seen this posted within the last four days. Enough already!
There's still plenty of water in the SW for residential purposes. At least 70% of the water use is for commercial agriculture, an idea hatched in the early 20th century after two of the wettest decades in the last 1200 years. People living in this part of the world is not so much of an issue; growing lots of crops (especially high-water-use ones like alfalfa, rice, almonds) is.
Also a group of people are trying to help SciHub (unofficially) by setting up IPFS and Torrents of 40GB packets each in case SciHub is blocked in some country.
They may not be going to China, but China is coming over.
That's odd honestly because there are excellent rust-based bindings for electron
Proton's first and last blog post about Tor was from 2017 [1]

As a paying customer, I expect better.

[1] https://protonmail.com/blog/tor-encrypted-email/
Also, the way he was dressed called for it. Besides, the body has a way to shut down police abuse if you don't want to.
I'm not advocating ignoring pollution, etc, but is this a joke? I don't know if anyone has been down to the Texas Gulf Coast in the last few decades but it is not pristine by any measure. The oil and gas industry along with every kind of chemical plant you can imagine and add to that all the different oil spills and rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico and ship traffic, should make anything SpaceX does using Liquid Oxygen and RP1 (a cleaner kerosene if there is such a thing) the least of everyone's worries.
Collision Course – the sensational downfall of Carlos Ghosn
Solar can be switched off at a moments notice. Power from windturbines can also be controlled.

So an excess amount of renewables is not a big issue for the grid. Owners of renewable sources may be less happy to switch them off.

(In the EU) storage can take the place of fossil when fossil becomes expensive enough. No need to give more subsidies to storage than renewables would get.

Excess amounts of renewable can also be used for other purposes, such as producing green hydrogen.
This might be a dumb question but curious what the issues are with discord? Im a little concerned since I just finally got convinced to start using it.
> why not issues/tickets as a code also?

This means that to let, e.g., testers add information to a ticket they have to do a code commit? I doubt they want to deal with that, and I don't particularly want to extend commit access to my repo to everyone who might need to interact with an issue.
So is it fully decentralized? Nowhere is this talked about so I assume not. If not, how are they going to pay for servers?
> I'll take my money elsewhere.

Feel free to report where. Something tells me it ain't that easy to find a decent alternative.
Non-expert here.

What are the best alternatives to ProtonMail?
Ok - I like this for some use cases. To restate my understanding so you can tell me I'm wrong if I am:

I think that it's still the user's job to make sure that they are skeptical of the provenance of any photos that claim to be from, say, the NY Times, that are not viewed in the NYT's viewer (if they were using your system). And then, they should still trust the image only as far as they trust the NYT. But if they're viewing the image the "right" way they can generally believe it's what the NYT intended to put out.

And perhaps, over time, user behavior would adapt to fit that method of media usage, and it would be commonplace.

I am skeptical that that "over time" will come to pass. And I think that users will not be apply appropriate skepticism or verification to images that fit their presuppositions. And I think malicious players (like some mentioned in the article) will attempt to build and propagate user behavior that goes around this system (sharing media on platforms that don't use the client, for instance).

And I guess making that broad set of problems harder or impossible is really what I'd like to solve. I can see how your startup makes good behavior possible, and I guess that's a good first step and good business case.
I also liked that they reached out to him first. I think he was a dick the way he answered.
The cognitive dissonance in their descriptions of how things will work and how things will be is amazing. Everything is “inclusive” and “equitisim” and the community has a direct voice in every decision (that will scale to 5 million people!). But yet all this is being dictated by what I assume is the authority over everything in this make-believe place. Everything on their website states as a matter of fact how “things will be”. This isn’t how things work and it’s written like it was created from the most upvoted posts on Reddit. Teachers will “be paid well” - what does that mean? Who decides what “paid well” means? What if they unionize, for example?

What if the people that move there decide they don’t want any of these things? What if the first settlers decide to vote for individual property ownership?

This place sounds more like a utopian commune than a realistic place.
Management is typically easier to change than developers. Dev needs a mental map of everything; mgt, not so much.
Call me crazy but I always focus more on the individual and asking them personal questions more than delving into silly leetcode they learned for the sake of gaming a system and will soon forget.

My company works with a bunch of not so mainstream APIs so if I just waited for experts in everything we work on, I’d wait forever. I’d rather hire good, smart, people and then fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Smart, hardworking dedicated employees are much harder to find than leetcoders. And they learn really quickly with a lot less attitude and grandiose opinions of themselves.
Cynicism aside, from what I’ve seen it’s been the former. See regex and rg by burntsushi as an example.
I understand the points about having to comply with laws. But what is is unjustifiable is my view is that their marketing does not match the reality. They probably did some A/B testing and saw that keeping vague promises about not tracking users increases conversion rate. You, as an HN reader, being in the top 0.1% of the population in terms of tech-savviness, may be able to read through the nonsense and understand how little it means when they say "by default, we do not keep any IP logs". But the other 99.9% of the population won't understand it, and that's why their marketing strategy works: they are selling a level of privacy that does not exist to customers who do not know better without technically lying.

Their threat model and all threat scenarios should be front and centre on their front page and sign up page. That is if they care about user privacy not just the bottom line. They have a choice between better-informed customers or more money, and so far, they have chosen the latter.

What this and the new Apple debacle have proven to me is that privacy is not a product that can be purchased. If you want real privacy, you have spend a lot of time learning how to preserve your privacy. No matter what Apple and ProtonMail and similar companies tell you, you cannot buy privacy off-the-shelf.
Any chance you could incorporate capability based security? The concept isn't widely known, but a system based on it would offer bulletproof sandboxing, as the default permissions to do anything are none.

The use of capabilities offers a way to handle authentication without a lot of grief for accessing remote resources... the capability IS permission, so there's no need for usernames/passwords, etc.

Imagine you give a task a list of URLs (to make it simple) at startup.. that list is the ONLY set of resources it is allowed to access. No matter how confused or rogue the task gets, it can't corrupt anything else, or store trojans anywhere.
Yup. Avoiding the overhead of heavy project management practices is also great.

Of course, it becomes less great when you start getting dependencies between teams and 2 week sprint delays mean that it takes months to get something cycled through different teams.
Both happened. The spearfishing John Podestra gmail hack was separate.

The Hilary personal email server used for government business that contained classified information that was illegal was hacked by Russian agents the fbi alledged.
Even if you fit the skin color type, AND the car type AND the speeding profile, you'd probably STILL have to make multiple trips driving up and down states where your license plate doesn't match to bring the likelihood up above "aberrant"... You would be driving so much you wouldn't have time to read and comment hn. (I just drove across four states and there was no time for hn, and I'm an addict).
Edited to say I'm open to suggestions here. Given that Protonmail dropped the ball for $60/year, apparently that's not enough to keep them focused. I'm prepared to pay $100/year for email now.
> I'll just use Gmail it's free.

So that is your alternative... Not sure what your threat model was.
I'm trying to get start with fossil collecting. Still in pretty early stage as I don't recognize most of the rocks out there. But at least it's good for health.
Personally, managing a QT application across multiple OSes is itself harder as I’ve spent a lot of time doing platform-specific UI work (eg. fonts on macOS and DPI scaling problems on Windows) compared to Electron. The only similarity was in doing platform-specific tooling for deployments/code signing which is par for the course.
> No, is HOW Rust use type signatures.

No, I don't really agree. The example was "def read(path)", which is intentionally vague and any typed language would clarify.

Your points can be/are valid, but they don't really change the fact that the above example was a cherry pick, and Rust's (over)use of symbols and special characters make it, again, about as hard to read as one could imagine. Just because you _can_ derive meaning from it doesn't change that.
If I recall, Toyota was really the company that prototyped a lot of techniques that have informed Agile, and other Lean/JIT processes.