skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to read the whole thing, just turn off javascript and reload the page. TFA is pretty silly, without much in the way of convincing detail. I laughed out loud when they proposed piping hydrogen directly into homes.

Hydrogen enthusiasts pretend like they're just months away from solving the various threats that hydrogen poses to safety. Those problems will never be solved, but it doesn't matter. The real barrier to hydrogen energy storage and transport is that we don't yet have the capacity to create hydrogen in sufficient quantity from renewable energy. As soon as that capacity issue is solved, serious people will start using hydrogen in its safer, well-understood form: liquid anhydrous ammonia. Pieces like TFA that don't mention that are just fluff.
Sure, the extensions ecosystem is a cesspool, but you know you can use Chrome without extensions?

If you see bad behaviour from an extension, I would flag it on Chrome store.
Because the CEO shares your politics and is only allowing your brand to express themselves at work you want to work there. I mean I understand the feeling but can we stop pretending that this isn’t entirely political?
I have been a ham for a couple of years now. I currently hold a general class license.

I have found it to be full of interesting things to investigate. I’m loving the hobby. At this time I’d have to say that antenna theory is what interests me most.

I ran a WSPR node as an experiment a while back. I think I had my output power set to only five watts. And yet I was able to see that my signal was received pretty much all over the world.

That really changed my thinking quite a bit, as I recognized what I believe is the intimately connected nature of reality.
It’s the same as their influence on the internet; limited and not really effective unless you’re interested in doing everything by the book. China puts a lot of effort into maintaining the Great Firewall, but because of the decentralized nature of the internet, there will always be a way through the restrictions.

I suspect the same will be true of crypto – if you want to be entirely above-board and legit (and want to acquire fiat money), you’ll need to go through a centralized layer with KYC and regulation and consumer protection.

But, like the internet, the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies means you’ll always have the option to circumvent these controls. If you want to acquire fiat, any such circumvention may be legally precarious, but if you don’t depend on the centralized layer then there’s nothing anyone can do to stop you from transacting with a consenting counterparty.

Basically: let them regulate the space. It will be good for consumer confidence, since 99% of people willingly accept regulation in exchange for protection from FDIC, CFPB, etc.

The centralized layer will benefit those people by mitigating the risk of total wallet compromise (your bank can reverse erroneous charges, and many say that any crypto “bank” needs the same ability to compete). If you want to opt-out of that, you can do so, but at your own risk (financial and potentially legal).
Ditto. Issues like Facebook's role in society are nowhere near as simple as reddit and twitter make them out to be. Posts this naive and simplistic being upvoted is kinda ominous for the future of HN.
One could argue that the BLM slogan, being intentionally divisive and exclusive, is designed to provoke from day one rather than bring up constructive change. It's a heavily politicized movement. Since Biden was elected for example, the issue of BLM and police brutality is not mediatized nearly as much as before. It's not that the problem was fixed overnight, it's just that there is no use for it right now by the progressive left agenda.

It's not a honest movement. I refuse to support it even if I support the general idea that our police force and judicial system need reform to infuse them with more humanity and empathy.

And given that the two of us, as reasonable people, can have a rational disagreement on this issue, why should our employer take a side? Why bring this discussion in the office? It's not like the issue is so obvious and simple (i.e. all people have equal rights, women should be able to go to school, ...) that it's okay employers take a side. The simple stuff is usually written in the US constitution. And employers don't take stand opposite of it because... it's unconstitutional.
The art of influencing people.
I took a container cruise in 2019 (with this guy [0], do recommend although it's probably not possible in a post-COVID world), and prices for all trans-Atlantic routes I could find were between 150-250 EUR/night. My ship arrived at the starting port 3 days late and at the destination port 1 day late, but the rate was not adjusted. The sole other passenger with me had his destination port canceled, but the company dropped him at a different port and purchased him fare the remaining way on a bus.

[0] http://m.freightertravel.co.nz/home
SS payments are now also paid from treasury reserves, so collected general taxes do in fact pay for (part of) SS.

Also, there is no reason that the cap on SS tax collection shouldn't be lifted.
I haven't tested it yet, but I recently came across boxedwine[0] which is basically wine + an emulation of the linux syscalls + graphical api forwarded to the host. All that wrapped in SDL.

[0] http://www.boxedwine.org/
David Mitchell on Tax Avoidance (2015) [video]
> Cryptography is used all over the internet today yet it it's illegal to encrypt radio transmissions.

One key differentiator: bandwidth is fundamentally limited in radio.
It's still reflective of reality though!

If I know one thing from working for large corporations, it's that whatever is talked about the most will never change.
> It was popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking of DOS-based software on x86-based systems.

Xenix was originally developed by Microsoft. It offered DOS compatibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12661405
> It's a lot of mental overhead having to constantly think about all the different types of errors from different crates that could be returned and how to handle them at the caller.

If you care about handling errors robustly, you have to care about this stuff at some point, and if you don’t, just use something like Anyhow and never worry again.

When I write Rust stuff, I usually start with Anyhow::Result everywhere, then once everything’s built and working and/or we want more finesse over our error handling I progressively swap to ThisError/etc, I find it’s the best mix of utility and ease of writing.

> I've noticed a lot of Rust discussion is on how to write the code or make the compiler happy which is quite telling

I suspect this is because a lot of people come from other languages, and try to bring the prior languages quirks and idioms with them, quickly discover the stricter compiler flat out doesn’t permit some of them (unlike other languages), then they figure out the idiomatic/closer way and write up their thoughts on the process.
> The present-day crusaders are attacking their fellow employees (who disagree with them) as well as customers (trying to get customers who disagree with them dropped). They are most certainly not fighting management.

"Crusaders" already belies where you stand on this, but to be clear: historical labor movements absolutely included hostility against coworkers. The coworker who didn't join you on the picket line was called a scab.

Besides, US labor law places broad restrictions on the ability of labor organizations to call for boycotts (i.e., retaliating against customers). If you take your time to read about this history of workers' rights in the US, you'll find deeper parallels to the current day than you're probably currently inclined to believe.

Edit: Here's a link[1] to a summary of the confusing rat's nest that is NLRA's rules for boycotting.

[1]: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/se...
Multi generation household or live close by has been a thing even in city. At least in Uk I observed. The current Fb being old guy media precisely lived in this space. How many kids solely on fb for their peers.

That image is right.
> and the only good solution (nuclear) has become politically untenable.

Thorium reactors remain an insufficiently explored option here.
An unwarranted and ultimately discriminatory snipe, but ok.
This should be illegal. Or at least violate some level of software design standards.
Babies like to play that game where they'll drop a spoon or something from their highchair as many times as you'll keep handing it to them. I like to call this "gravity testing".
Is that in the RFID tag? I know US passports have those embedded, but I wasn't sure about other nationalities.

I'd be curious to learn more about how they verify those signatures as well; I can imagine it being nontrivial/de facto limited to a collection of trusted partner nations.
One company's lousy engineer is another company's good architect
Same, same, same & same. :D
I haven’t tried this yet, but I’m very excited about this. Virtualizing MacOS is extremely painful, and windows is not fantastic. It would be wonderful to be able to quickly jump in, and build and test a program without a lot of preparation. Thank you!
Geez, why doesn't Mozilla simply ask for donations if it needs money for development. Imagine if all free open source projects operated this way. Advertising on computers is a virus. Just when you think you have it eliminated or under control, someone starts spreading it again.
A fascinating bit of innovative, entrepreneureal, hacking, technological, telephonic, monopolistic, and criminal history.

Independent inventor convicted and gaoled by AT&T for "misdemeanor attachment", the crime of attaching non-AT&T equipment to AT&T's phone network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_L._Shaw

More on this in the first bit of "The Inventor and the Thief" on Snap Judgement:

https://snapjudgment.org/episode/the-inventor-and-the-thief-...

Directly-connected modems were an obvious threat to AT&T as this would enable high-bandwidth packet-based distribution over AT&T's network, including ultimately what we know as VOIP. AT&T fought packet-switched networks from the start:

Paul Baran: The one hurdle packet switching faced was AT&T. They fought it tooth and nail at the beginning. They tried all sorts of things to stop it. They pretty much had a monopoly in all communications. And somebody from outside saying that there’s a better way to do it of course doesn’t make sense.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/07/internet200807
+1. Also known in a somewhat disparaging tone as “have a life”. Friends that you can hang out with, discover things with. Best friends later in life are the ones you explored new stuff with earlier. Learn an instrument, take cooking classes. Do stuff that isn’t work, watching TV or scrolling Hacker News, after you exercise.
Right but we’re having this conversation using CoinBase as a symbol of all the companies that may follow.
This is the 14th century Byzantine Empire we're talking about here. They kept records in languages we can read, as did their neighbors and eventual conquerors. There's nothing about this discovery that is inconsistent with our prior knowledge of their medical technology, and no reason whatsoever to speculate that they were using some kind of secret lost medicine.
Not identical, but very related, this is an article on algebraic effects that’s really straightforward and well-written:
https://overreacted.io/algebraic-effects-for-the-rest-of-us/
Aren't you privileged?! :) I used to be 95% apolitical but now that the recent events have re-energized my old hard-libertarian stance, with a new addition of a big dose of anti-wokeness, I cannot have the same luxury as you do. If I were to shun woke companies, I'd have nowhere left to work :P
On Spotify. Piero Umiliani is my favorite so far.
Such self-selection is good, and serves the intended purpose (much like the Netflix culture deck). The folks that work at Coinbase wouldn’t want colleagues like you, and you wouldn’t want colleagues like them - so this is a clear win-win.
Correct, and it has more room to grow than FAANG. By that I don’t mean it’s undervalued - but rather that the implied call option you get from a 4-year grant is more valuable.
Here's a recent thread that seemed worthwhile, something you're not likely to read about in the news:
https://twitter.com/gluboco/status/1446134032027176965

Glenn Greenwald on "whistleblowers":
https://mobile.twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/144573245699742...

An expert endorsing a worthwhile video I didn't know about:
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1445484631470477318

Overall I basically despise Twitter. But I don't think you have the right concept about what it's for. If you want to read incredibly insightful stuff, look elsewhere, in books.

But if you want to help reassure people of their sanity in cultural fights, Twitter is where a lot of the fighting happens. But even there, take note, the fighting is not to persuade people. That's basically impossible, unless people are really on the fence. It's all about reassurance of sanity among people who are already your allies.
Because many/most of the people working on the ships are basically slaves.
That's true - but I'm not sure one can always 100% assure the environment is the same - or even should!

Ideally one should make the software as robust as possible so that it runs with high probability even in unforeseen environments - and if it fails, it should do that noticeably so that the developers will learn about it and can fix it.

It pretty much works like this in Fedora - lot of the various API breakages and regressions show up when the bits and pieces first land in the rolling distro called Rawhide, but thats fine as hardly anyone runs Rawhide as a daily driver. By the time the next Fedora release is branched from Rawhide and goes via Beta and RC all these issues are ironed out and the end result is pretty stable yet very up to date.

It's usually all the proprietary or heavy bundling software that have the biggest problems with dependency updates as they don't go with the flow or avoid updating the dependency for so long to end up with an insane jump to do.
Rob Sanders on the Interstate Highway System
> I mean an alternative that is what Firefox purports to be?

To privacy and functionality thow shalt count. Not to infunctionality, nor tracking.

Google is Right Out.
In NYC Asians have the second-highest rate of poverty behind Hispanics.

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/opportunity/poverty-in-nyc/data-to...
https://github.com/scijs/ndarray and https://stdlib.io/docs/api/latest/@stdlib/ndarray are good libraries for ndarrays in JavaScript.
Isn't it trivial to turn water into hydrogen via electrolysis?

Why not just store excess renewable electricity that way, local to wherever that power is being generated in underground pressure vessels or something, venting the oxygen produced to the atmosphere? Then when the wind isn't blowing, or sun isn't shining, burn the hydrogen to run something resembling a conventional natural gas generator... Don't bother transporting this stuff anywhere, produce it onsite, burn it onsite. Couldn't you also capture the exhaust of the hydrogen combustion to recharge the input electrolysis water?
Also see: https://haxe.org/
An easier comparison: cryptocurrency uses nearly 10x the amount of power Google does!
Don't make more of your job than it is. Give your effort, but not your heart. Show up, do the job, and get paid. Don't get any more involved than you have to be. The job won't love you back, aandyou are not your job.
No, if he’s* a poor culture fit he’d likely be. If he’s doing activism during his personal time, he would probably be a value add.
* or she or they
You probably want to include the context for the graphic.

"Average Wage in Germany by County

Notes: Average daily wages obtained from a 50% random sample of establishments via the Establishment History Panel (BHP) of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Real wages are expressed in 2007 euros valued in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, using county-specific prices. East–West border is drawn for clarification; there is no border today."
Fuchsia I'm guessing is much worst, privacy-wise, then Android without having had a "chance" to try it... is that correct? (It would be hard to achieve but probably possible)
You should be able to cite the relevant passage in the accession treaty that Poland signed to support that assertion.

You can read the treaty here:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement_new/treaty/defaul...

Take all the time you need. You'll find lots of specific agreements on wheat subsidies, travel restrictions, etc. But a general claim that EU courts can override Polish courts or EU law to supercede Polish law? It's not there.

If you think it is, please go ahead and cite the passage in the treaty. Otherwise please withdraw the claim.
RPC's can be abstracted so that you don't know. E.g Microsoft COM: same call to call an in-process COM object versus DCOM. Within the process, it could be "apartment threaded": the other domain has its own thread, which receives the argument material as a request, does it, and replies. (Kind of thing). Or it could be direct: your thread calls the function.
The German reunification should be a lesson for people who believe it's easy to change a country and its economy.

I remember when the reunification started I firmly believed that the East would quickly get up to speed once the Western system was applied there. It should be easy and the Easterners would be happy. Turns out that progress was slow despite enormous investments and the Easterners didn't really appreciate that the West completely ignored things that Easterners actually liked (their "achievements" = "Errungenschaften" was a big word).

When you consider how difficult the process was/is despite East and West Germany being very close culturally it becomes clear that things like "fixing" and "democratizing" countries like Afghanistan and Iraq are pretty hopeless endeavors. I don't think as Westerner you can even remotely understand the culture and the fact that maybe the people there don't want Western culture.
Proof-of-stake has much more ability to enact censorship resistance (https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/06/the-problem-of-censorsh...) than proof-of-work. PoW imposes huge entry barriers by restricting mining to those who can build and then operate expensive mining rigs, which are resources not equally available even to people with the same amount of money and may be monopolized (how many competitive mining rig manufacturers are there, and how many countries do they operate in?); PoS makes participating a much more level playing field by removing dependence on physical and monopolizable resources.

PoW does have sheer simplicity and a proven record of working on its side, but the idea that whatever upsides to PoW over PoS that exist are and will stay worth more than 0.5% of global electricity production seems extremely biased.
Housing supply restrictions are driving the U.S. rent spike
Big Established Banks cannot survive everyone bailing out and turning to crypto with lesser or no fees - - - what do they do ? Turn to the politicians and Police to hunt down and "bring to justice" the crypto-perps.

Only problem is the clever crypto bosses are already in jurisdictions which do not have extradiction treaties with the US - - - or, in countries hostile to Western nations law dawgs such as Russia.

Crypto bosses are already aware of US State sponsored kidnapping also known as "extraordinary rendition" so they have 20+ man security teams heavily armed, basically the only way to attempt to nab a crypto kingpin is to pay a million dollar bribe to the local police of the distant nation - - - which may backfire.
I guess those treaties only pertain to corporations, because the US double-taxes individuals just fine.
This criticism seems really unwarranted

The full title and subtitle is

“ Mathematicians Prove Melting Ice Stays Smooth:

After decades of effort, mathematicians now have a complete understanding of the complicated equations that model the motion of free boundaries, like the one between ice and water.”

Hard to think of a more concise and accurate way to describe the problem. The article does a nice job describing the problem, and like all quanta articles links the arxiv paper in the first few paragraphs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13379

The title is to catch your interest, the subtitle provides an accurate summary, if you have a more advanced understanding of math the arxiv link is included at the beginning, otherwise the article is a nice summary…
It's almost as if bad policy has consequences?
Shocking...
It's silly to pretend that the Biden administrations policies aren't directly responsible for a large portion of increased gas prices. All of the sophistry in the world doesn't change objective reality.
Totally a coincidence that gas prices began soaring within a month of Biden taking office, rising as much as 25 cents in the first 30 days.
I'm sure the inflation — which was very much predicted given his economic plan — was somehow not his fault, too.
At least polls show that 80% of Americans don't buy it.
You missed my point.

As for schools:

13 Baltimore City High Schools, Zero Students Proficient in Math

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7bvreb/13_baltimore_c...

https://archive.ph/VfciU

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-21/news/bs-md-ci-ce...

https://archive.ph/cqIZd

Just so everyone is aware Baltimore is 2nd in per pupil spending. This is not because the schools dont get enough money. In fact its just about as far away from that as you can get.

If despite getting the 2nd more funded, your students still can't do high school math, then the problem isn't about money, it's probably about corruption, gangs, fatherlessness, teacher unions and lack of school choice.

This is also not exclusive to Baltimore. Money just disappears from these places.

Everyone I know who works in the government themselves tell me how inefficient the government is and how much waste of money there is. For example, they have built the regulations in such a way that a hammer you may be able to purchase for $10 will cost $50 for the government or military.

Forever feeding it more and more money while they keep spending it without any benefit to people does nothing.

Look at what the US just did. 2 trillion dollars wasted in Afghanistan and then left 83 billion dollars worth of tax payer funded military gear for the Taliban. You want to give them more money?

How exactly is paying more taxes ensuring "companies selling medicine aren't killing people" or "companies don't dump toxic waste into rivers and lakes"?
I'm a ham radio operator.

The problem with amateur radio is that when it came into being, it was a way for amateurs to interact with something highly technical and innovative.

Now, due to the laws about what you can actually transmit, it seems like a way of being nostalgic about the past.

A 21st century version of ham radio is an unlicensed, amateur, long range "IOT" devices, but that's illegal. Basically a 21st century version of ham radio is LoRa.
I mean various cultures have performed various kinds of cosmetic surgical procedures for centuries; the Romans weren’t even the first to do so
Not a tweet.. but a Reddit comment..

Was looking for ways to make beer money in college. Read a comment explaining how mobile apps could generate some passive side income.

~8 years later. Majored in CS. Work full time as a Sr iOS engineer. And here I am posting on hacker news.
There is no single piece of software I use more than Firefox. At $20.00/month it would be a bargain. Assuming it wasn’t a dumpster fire.
Wows thats a pretty cool track. Foregone Destruction at 1h 30m.

Thank you for the excellent link!
The cost doesn't come from energy requirements. It comes from materials. Hydrogen corrodes or escapes most things.
Problem: failing shipping companies are leaving their crews stuck on vessels abandoned in ports.

Solution: make more of these companies fail?