skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the person started their comment with:

> I've come around to this view, too.

I don't think they were disagreeing with you.
"Jeff Verkoeyen, staff engineering lead for Google Design on Apple platforms, on Twitter now:

This year my team shifted the open source Material components libraries for iOS into maintenance mode…

The time we’re saving not building custom code is now invested in the long tail of UX details that really make products feel great on Apple platforms. To paraphrase Lucas Pope, we’re “swimming in a sea of minor things”, and I couldn’t be more excited about this new direction."
It can all be done client-side: the client can try (un)capitalizing the letters after the original password fails
The only thing they (east and west coast hospital, last 5 years) asked is if we have a car seat. And for the mom to do a depression screening.
The /s is because: while it is engagement with the platform, the act of muting someone is me expressing my intent to not want to engage with that account or similar ones.
What is it used for?
I assume you’re talking about driving. To me Google Maps has worked well when walking around Tokyo, particularly when finding small, hole in the wall ramen shops off the beaten path. I haven’t used it in the city for driving but it’s worked well when going to rural onsen locations. And I prefer it to the rental car’s built in navigation system (which is almost always a Nissan Note).

There is one time it really screwed up. I like walking along those micro streets, lots of interesting stuff to see in neighborhoods. My wife and I were pushing out baby in a stroller and Google maps route sent us along a path that included a giant steep flight of stairs! It wasn’t a big deal by there was no mention that the rout would be in accessible to people who couldn’t climb stairs.
This is why two successive Deliveroo drivers went to the wrong street this week. The first 'tried to deliver' and gave up, and I had to run after the replacement one.

Despite the address and postcode being both correct and unambiguous the driver followed a pin to a badly geocoded coordinate, and didn't even look at the street name.

I'd encourage anyone (especially Deliveroo) to make more effort to model addresses in the correct locale (UK in my case) rather than taking these shortcuts.
> selfish elderly

No one wants to say it, but this is a huge problem on the US too. They used to talk about the Soviet Union being run by a gerontocracy, but Biden makes Brezhnev look like a young upstart.
Not to mention the amazing software we could build in a distributed P2P way now that we have a massive amount if research into things like CRDTs and consensus algorithms.

We could have a leaderless IRC server, leaderless peer discovery and routing, IP/DNS controlled by consensus.
Yeah, it is interesting how the bar is so high for nuclear, yet for renewables everyone counts on magical energy storage that makes their intermittency practical just appearing out of nowhere.
There's a slight variation of what the GP is proposing, called methane pyrolysis [1]. In that, you separate the hydrogen and the carbon from methane, and then you can burn the hydrogen to get energy, and store the carbon in a landfill. Burning hydrogen creates more energy than it takes to split the methane, so overall the process is exothermic.
Right now that process is not economical yet (you need some catalysts, and the carbon doesn't just come out, it sticks to something, you need to wash it with some acids, then retrieve the acids, etc). But active research is ongoing, so there's a chance this will become viable in the next few years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis#Methane_pyrolysis_fo...
I default to choosing either SQLite or PostgreSQL until there's sufficient reason to think about using something else. I think it's pretty rare to build an application where you know you will have scalability issues with a relational model, but I can tell you with confidence that if you ever do need to make changes to how your data is stored, you will be happy if the source is a datastore that has enforced integrity guarantees. It's much easier to migrate data from one system to another when you don't first have to check that it's all valid in the first place.
To be fair, the line between "Cito does not frees temporary values" and "the programmer screwed up by using wrong kind of references" is a little blurry. Most of my code in the issue above can be attributed to me writing dangerous code and getting shot in the foot, not Cito's issues.

However, I don't think a project may simultaneously have dangling references and claim to follow "Principle of least astonishment". Dangling references are unsurprising if you've been using C++ a lot, but I expect them to be very surprising to people coming from basically any garbage-collected language: Java/C#/Kotlin/JavaScript.
You would just hash the incoming password with however many mutations you need.
> why a state might want to limit or prohibit rainwater collection

It seems nuts to me - a bit like regulating the breathing of air, or restricting the right to look at the sky.

I can only suppose that these regulations protect the revenue of water companies. I can't think of any socially-useful reason for restricting rainwater harvesting, when the rain is falling on private property.

Harvesting all the rain that falls on a floodplain is another matter; that would amount to appropriating an entire river, which in some parts of the world would cause an "international incident".
>It's rather have honesty that the sickly sweet fake nice you get in the US.

Or maybe people are genuinely nice in the US and there's just an subconscious anxiety and depression in Austria?

>At least where I live, people like to complain a lot. Idle grousing is sort of a pass time. Honestly I'm not sure why.

Perhaps a subconscious anxiety and depression? Seems like Austria is a failing society to be honest.
It’s a generational change - much easier to make a career by discarding what came before rather than competing with it. You will see this in a lot of areas of society.
And money laundering, right? Transferring $1M by buying a painting
Concurring with a disagreeing view is disagreeing, isn't it?
Sun and wind aren't the only renewable energy sources. There is also geothermal and hydroelectric power for example. Countries like Iceland and Norway already do or are close to meeting all their energy needs with 100% renewable energy sources.

Studies like [1] seem to suggest that the problem of grid stability can be solved through decentralizing and interconnecting power grids and energy storage. I'm not saying such a transition isn't a challenge, but I have yet to find a source claiming a stable grid would be impossible without nuclear energy of fossil fuels.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601...
There's a lot of anecdotal and subjective content here, but I have no idea why you're being downvoted. It's a legitimate opinion.

It's interesting to see a counterpoint.
Bitwarden is great. You can even self-host the server if you want to.
> Maintaining waste for hundreds of years is feasible, and on a whole different scale than a 30,000 year storage plan.

Maintining nuclear waste for 500 years is not feasible. I agree that it's on a different level than 30.000 year, but we cannot predict what happens in the next 50 years, let alone the next 500 or 1000 years. The thought experiment is real simple. Look back 500 years - there is no comparison. I'm still afraid that there will be some kind of destruction of society, and who is going to take care of this stuff?
Most certainly not. Those systems normally work by A) you providing the old password for verification or B) storing hashes of password substrings.
The costs are high because noone is building. It's because of all the building that solar is low. If you started building npps the costs would go down a lot.
There's definitely a lot of need for innovation in CAD, so nice work building and putting something out there.

I don't see any details in the readme. It's kind of hard to evaluate what you've built without them. Care to flush it out or describe more here?
They wouldn't have to store 3 hashes, would they? They could just get the hash of each of those transformations, e.g., reverse case, get hash. If the transformation make the incorrect password into the correct one, it will match the original hash.
> Sun isn't shining at night and it's not always windy,

The sun is always shining somewhere and the wind is always blowing somewhere.

We should be investing in better transmission systems and grid interconnects. Doing this will enable places that momentarily have more solar and wind than they need to sell that energy to their neighbours. Add vehicle to grid and a lot of the intermittency problems are eminently soluble.
Also take courage and pick a good time of day.
> that water is already owned

Yup. If you allow people to "own" rainwater that hasn't even fallen yet, you are going to need some batshit regulations. So don't do that then.
Are (were) you a fighterpilot for real? (I think then one needs to do cognitive intelligence tests?)
Also ask the countless dead from the hydrocarbon burning pollution if they think this alternative is so much safer.
That’s what I’m doing. Previously worked at a stable mid size company and I wanted to try a startup. The comp and other benefits were already pretty far above my stable company, so if I get anything from the equity it’s a bonus.

I feel a little dumb for not digging harder but the offer was already a big improvement.
cost of carbon which is there as much/little with renewables as it is with nuclear
What's the price/MWh ratio at night?
Many people with money like this flip; preserving capital and reducing risk becomes the destination, not the journey.

It’s the way humans are wired, and there’s a whole industry of lawyers, accountants and others to support it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...

And left beautiful clean coal the far and away leading source of energy in germany with a nice uptrend in gas, presumably replacing the removed nuclear and diminishing coal capacity.

Why are france not building any more? Why would they need to? 70% comes from nuclear they dont need to get that to 100%, especially as you point out, renewables are really coming of age. They did the hard work, didnt just lean into setting stuff on fire for their energy needs and are rightly yielding the rewards from this.
In your third paragraph you say Germans don't like foreigners, but then in your fifth paragraph you say they're very welcoming to foreigners.

What's the context here?
The cost is high due to ancient regulatory requirements and political opposition to storage facilities.

If political will existed, reactors could be build at one tenth the current cost.

We need to re-open the Nevada storage facility and pass a law banning excessive court cases against plant building.
Look at the beauty and care that many of the buildings show:

http://www.co-buildings.com/ny/516/nassau_z5_hempstead.jpg

The "Telephone Company" in its day took its job seriously. Nothing was slap-dash, not even the spaces where its equipment resided, and its telephone operators worked.
Hashing one or two 10 char strings takes basically no time on even old mobile hardware.
I agree. As of very recently, a VERY large proportion of my comments have been downvoted, and some of them even went greyed out. I used to often post against the grain of broad consensus of the site (think: the "Tenth Man" style rule, whether it's fictional or not) to inject a perspective of someone from a very different background. Nobody had a problem with that. It's as if people are far more irritable these days and just won't engage with the comment beyond hitting the downvote button.

For the anti-tech and pro-regulation sentiment, I admit I've been a part of that. I cannot disagree that hundreds of posts saying the same thing are monotonous, but I cannot bring myself to criticise it because then I'd be silencing a PoV that is mine.
I see. Estate tax is a right wing radio conspiracy theory…
Title says whiteboard. Can't draw on it. Hmmm.

This is more like a free-form Trello board.
Last I checked Doc James remains very active on WP. There was some flap in the Board of Trustees around 2015, but he was reelected there as well in 2017.
It doesn’t have any enforcement power, but this is an agreement that Ireland have had to sign up to out of political necessity. It’s not the OECD forcing Ireland, it’s the other OECD members.
As always, you cannot judge a movement or idea based upon its most radical proponents.
The original post had a reference to the Port of Beirut which had a ammonium nitrate explosion. That type of explosion don't require oxygen to my knowledge - denotation is caused by shockwave and in fact ammonium nitrate is itself a strong oxidizer, from what I read;

"While ammonium nitrate is stable at ambient temperature and pressure under many conditions, it may detonate from a strong initiation charge. It should not be stored near high explosives or blasting agents."

"Pure ammonium nitrate does not burn, but as a strong oxidizer, it supports and accelerates the combustion of organic (and some inorganic) material."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate#Safety,_handl...

Hydrogen would behave more like gasoline. It's only when there is a fuel-oxygen mixture do they start explosively burning - i.e. it should not go off all at once unless you pump the tank with oxygen and mix them/give the oxygen time to diffuse through the tank.
How does this compare to TronScript?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md#use
Every language edition of Wikipedia has their own rules and processes. The Portuguese version appears to have a place to discuss the sources for specific articles, but no blanket list of deprecated sources: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Fontes_confi%C3...
I live in village so small the streets don't have names, but today I talked to an Ethiopian guy living around here and said Servus to a couple of kids adopted from Tanzania walking down the street. The chances of them getting shot by a police officer rounds off to 0%. Austria has racism, but the US has Racism.
Water is fungible. It doesn't make sense to give water for almost free to farmers to grow grass for cows, then turn around and burn energy to desalinate drinking water.

Instead, we should take the desalination plant money, buy out the farms, shut them down and take their water for drinking. Far more environmentally friendly and a lot cheaper too.
> It’s much harder to find threads with deep, nuanced conversations today than it was even a few years ago.

My impression has been similar. The original discourse, logical reasoning and critical thinking is seriously lacking now in discussions.

I see higher frequency of "citation needed" type of low effort comments that assume no one posting can have original thinking without it being thought by someone else and published already somewhere else online. In similar vain, responses seems to be very severe and personal when someone finds something online contrary to what someone posted. More and more HN participants seem to assume if it is published and available online, specially in research paper format or discoursed by a "popular" personality, it has more credibility irrespective of quality.

On the positive side, I see lot more variety of topics discussed on HN, previously topics used to be mostly tech and startup related and very infrequently finance related. Now, I can find discussions even related to energy, material science, medical sciences etc though lacking in depth.

IMO, overall HN reflects rest of the internet, availability of more and more information easily accessible has reduced the ability to critically analyze and logically reason through problems and present arguments.
I pitched this to some coworkers. Remote Work Cabins I believe was what I called them. I think the idea was that they were in the woods and you got a little cabin with a fiber optic internet connection and a communal common area where lunch was served (dutch oven type cooking). Trails would run around the property for runners or hikers to enjoy a stroll. That was the pitch anyway- I think getting woods close to any sort of urban or suburban centers is harder.
This argument is so odd given that the alternatives of green energy require often and even greater shift in political will and consumer behavior.
>Nuclear bombs are bad halo product for a technology

So are Biological/Chemical Weapons to Medicine..but no one makes that connection
Edited title is a bit sensationalized. Key elements of Material will still be important parts of the design system on iOS; it’s about acknowledging when the platform solution is sufficient for the intended purpose. I’m sure that there will still be gaps that need to be filled, but many don’t need custom solutions anymore :)
The Fastest Trains
I have 11 flat acres outside of Asheville I'm going to put up for sale next year.
Here's one article from Grammarly about why you should use "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" https://www.grammarly.com/blog/happy-holidays-or-merry-chris....

> If you say “Merry Christmas” to someone who celebrates Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or nothing at all, you could make them feel marginalized: like their own beliefs aren’t valued or respected by society. And that’s not a good way to feel around the holidays.

I'm not sure if that fits "examples of people complaining about it" however, as it's more "people trying to protect the feeling of marginalized groups", which isn't the same.

> On the other hand, people don't greet me with "happy pride" during June, but they do greet me with "merry Christmas" during December, so perhaps there's a false equivalency there too.

That's fair. Pride month is not a thing where I live, so it's hard to know exactly how people experience it. I was under the impression that it was really important and lots of people talked about it, but maybe it depends on where you live, or maybe it was a warped vision of reality.

Though to go back to the original subject, if people don't greet you with "happy Pride" during June, then wishing it would be definitely not neutral.
We make nuclear expensive in the west by shutting down storage facilities and mounting endless legal challenges to every construction project.

Other nations build nuclear plants for one-tenth the cost.
> Szilard proposed the possibility of a self-sustaining fission reaction in 1933. In a hypothetical universe where WWII never occurred and the Manhattan Project never existed […]

For a good history on this see The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

It doesn't just look at the MP, but the first third (?) is about how nuclear physics developed in the early 1900s (Rutherford, the Curies, Fermi, etc) as well.

Szilard was actually 'inspired' by H. G. Wells' (sci-fi?) novel The World Set Free:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Set_Free

See also his:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come
A trend I've noticed in my area (north Austin) is taking old houses and converting them into small co-working spaces. I've seen a few of them but I feel like for the cost, you could quickly build a shed.
Ask HN: What are good question asking open-source apps for Android?
I am looking for a free, open-source, offline, no-ad app, that is simple where you can add questions and have those asked throughout the day, or according to some schedule.

It should also store this data locally for evaluating trends.

Are you aware of any apps like that?
>So they went to the effort of writing special case code to notice and handle this ... by giving instructions to the person, instead of the computer.

Personally, I pretty passionate about NOT changing data that my tools receive. It takes a specific, documented situation for me to say "you give me X, and I make it Y". I am more comfortable with "your address, X, has been standardized to Y. Do you accept?".
So you're required to have a car?
>catching the infection is also very unlikely now

It isn't. In the US, the daily infection rate is currently 3 people per 10,000 per day. That's 1% per month - higher than the June 2020 peak.
No one can guarantee a successful exit, but if it does happen a cofounder typically makes out very well, while engineers with options usually end up with a token amount.
In my case, I actually do know that; there's even a legal definition of what an address is and there's a national registry of all addresses. The problem is that I can't solve this for every country myself since I only have national knowledge (which is sufficient for my needs, fortunately).
Happened to me, too (Safari 14.1.1, macOS 11.4).

Once I went to a board, I could back to the board selection screen, but no further, including back to HN. It just doesn't go - no errors in the console, but never goes back further. Are you doing something with the browser's history?
I've never had that problem, to be honest. If I recall correctly, Google's next/previous predates the ±10 seconds buttons that have become popular these days.

Youtube has the double tap gesture which I actually miss in all other video apps that only have special buttons for it.
One huge risk is people higher up change more often in startups in my experience, especially early ones, what usually follows is a domino restructuring and basically a different company.
This happens a lot when a VC in a big round decides things are going too well, better put one of his own in charge to make sure its under his complete control going forward.
Not sure if it was in my head or not as I look back, but seemed like more technical articles (not that there aren't plenty still). I remember the thing that drew me into HN was when a coworker showed me, and there was in depth conversations about compiler design that I had never experienced before. I was such a cool way to discover new ideas that I hadn't even heard of. It still is for sure, but I'm going to chalk my personal case up to rose colored glasses.
Whatever they go with, the guaranteed outcome (due to being Google) is that they will do something else within a few years.
$40/MWh. That price includes batteries. Without the batteries, the price has dipped below $10.
I dislike the way this site is organised. I just want to see some pics, not drill down several layers trying to guess with path will bring me something interesting
That's not even the full picture, as Germany burns lots of lignite, which is even worse.