skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The spending they did do was probably illegal (glad they did it). They took ~$10 billion from other programs. Why didn't Congress allocate $50 billion?

The piece the New York Times did on production of the Pfizer vaccine makes it pretty clear that a lot of the production is not new (bioreactors and the like). I realize it isn't trivial to do that sort of production, and don't really disagree with "Arguments from hindsight aren't particularly convincing.", but I also haven't seen a single piece of information on what fundamental limit was run into. The mixing of the mRNA and lipids got a lot of attention, but there wasn't any clear 'here's why we can't go twice as fast' information published, as far as I saw.
ironically, few links on this 2015 post are dead, and most of them being ipfs releated.

https://ipfs.io/ipns/QmTodvhq9CUS9hH8rirt4YmihxJKZ5tYez8PtDm...
https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.git.sexy/
Probably worth appending 2015 to the title on HN.
Very interesting because of the weird results(albeit few) from random websites. It's a great discovery tool.

Now hoping for search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes paywalls
Because metallurgy use coal. But some processes could be replaced by electricity i think.
As people have observed of popular media, it's a 2-way street. Writers write this way because they think readers want to know, and yet this kind of information nugget is in public consciousness in part because people write this way.

If people stop rewarding this kind of writing, their wellbeing is not threatened in any way. If companies fail to observe the competitive edge which their competitors are utilizing...
No, he explains that the structure of the .NET foundation was based on the structure of the Gnome Foundation, with concessions to Microsoft.

Gnome and the Gnome foundation were not involved. They're just the model he used when planning how the .NET foundation should work.
I know they don't, normally. I really thought that was basically the point of the walrus operator to begin with, that the variable was only in scope for the lifetime of the if statement where it's needed. Huge bummer to find out that's not true.
Capping total energy usage is not realistic. It's never happened in human history. It's not going to happen in the future. No one in any position of power has even proposed it.
You are putting your head in the sand if you think that this is what will happen.

GDP will grow. Energy usage per capita will grow. Technology will increase. Output and consumption will increase. That is what we do, as a species, as we try to improve our condition. Trying to say that "oh, we'll just stop and cap energy use" is not only unrealistic, but it's impossible to achieve, because any nation that does that will just be outcompeted by rival nations that don't. Then people will flee to the sane nation while the insane nation collapses.

I get that some people on the green fringe don't like industrialization, but opposing rising living standards, rising output, all of which require rising energy usage, is always a losing proposition.
You can but that doesn't help if there is no surplus water to store. You can store 82TWh and your yearly consumption is about 500TWh. NO3 and NO5 are pretty much at their lowest points in the last 28 years, it's not a problem at all though because right now that's about 71% and 61% respectively. There are of course up- and downsides to being connected. An important upside would be that when you're connected to other markets you can import electricity when the price is low and pump the water back into the reservoirs to release it when the price is high again.
An increasingly-viable alternative to global transmission interconnectivity is distributed energy resources (behind the meter, on utility-customer sites).

The latter offers better resiliency and lower transmission / distribution losses.

A well-insulated building and its hot-water tank are both (thermal) energy storage systems, that are more durable (and more affordable) than electrochemical batteries. A building can be pre-cooled or pre-heated when on-site solar is plentiful, to the end of the occupant's comfort range. This means a smaller on-site battery bank is needed to achieve year-around grid independence (for a conditioned / comfortable building).

It seems that we're just getting started with on-site flexible-load control, and building energy automation generally. The higher electric rates in some markets make it financially viable for end users today.
Well, it also means that you as an open source dev don't have to constantly worry about someone challenging your copyrights or trademarks. And if they do, you don't have to worry about the legal expenses.
Show HN: Enclave.me – Self-hosted content sharing on Solana
Yes, if there's anything people formulating dark plans hate, it's secrecy and privacy. It's important to force them into more robust and secure venues, their current opsec is terrible.

It'll be another guaranteed win, like FOSTA and SESTA in the US. Thank Congress that child prostitution has moved to places that law enforcement have no access to, and that sex workers require middlemen again in order to work.
>The older I get the more I feel that the point of living is experience, not meaning.

the older I get the more I see the point of living as basically the same as everything in nature - propagate your genes as much possible and give them the best chance of them propagating their genes. Everything else is try and and fun and help humankind
It feels like it only exists to try and emulate the look and feel of a community-driven and community-governed FOSS construction while at the same time being in commercial control of Microsoft since that it what the value is to them. This makes sense, being beholden to shareholders and profit and all that, but not even pretending it's just commercial developer advocacy/evangelism (which would have been fine - lots of companies do this to various degrees of success) is red flags all over.

It feels like they want to 'buy' and 'construct' community, which is generally not how those come to be. It's much more like the VB and COM days where they just try to convince developers that in the land of closed systems they haver the best development experience to reach business goals. But in the land of open systems, that push doesn't work.

They would have been better off either copying the Apache Foundation or the CNCF, or just incubating their stuff in to one of them. But the first option would not have come with a community, and the second one would be risky since they would have to soft-compete with what's already there and they aren't all that convincing in their value proposition when you make that comparison.

The foundation isn't inherently evil or bad, it just isn't what the larger FOSS or OSS communities expect and thus it's not getting the same traction and benefits, making the whole exercise feel dead in the water and not useful to anyone.
They still talk about Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in quite a bit of detail in the sequence labelling chapter, but you are quite right, Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) and especially neural network based CRFs are in the top rankings when it comes to named entity recognition (NER) and part-of-speech tagging (POS), e.g. see https://github.com/jiesutd/NCRFpp.
I'm working on this direction, with an very specific seaweed that solve this problem now and doesn't need freshwater or fertilizers. If anyone is interested reach me on my profile.
I tried to search, but was thwarted by the UI. I wasn't able to get more out of it than the logo and the cookie notice.
I have a feeling this will hit the same wall that US law enforcement found as school shootings started taking off here.

This will generate tons of noise for law enforcement that they cannot effectively find the true signals of those intending to commit violence as opposed to those that are just angry and like to vent online. There are just too many people posting angry stuff on social media these days to find the actually violent people. Whenever horrific school shootings happen, the media immediately looks at the attacker's social media and wonders why law enforcement didn't catch them ahead of time; this is why.

And since a crime hasn't yet been committed, there isn't much law enforcement can do to obtain a warrant (at least up until now). And even if they find someone that they suspect might commit a crime, they can't just hold that person indefinitely. They either need to have enough evidence to prosecute or let the target go.

Suggestions like this don't actually solve the problem, they just shift the blame elsewhere.
But maybe if the trades were priority queued it would negate that.

If the trades are priority queued, then you have just recreated the speed "arms race" that this idea hopes to eliminate.
Thank you! Hans Rosling's work is an important source of inspiration for us. With Vizzu we hope to empower people to build engaging, animated data stories, just like Mr. Rosling did.
Plenty of trailer parks around san jose area.
> (Again, rich text doesn’t need a binary file format but you ignored that)

I'm not arguing against rich text. I think it's a great idea. (My earlier comment suggests using it, actually.)

> Word’s Track Changes literally does this - you can compare/merge/etc.

Nice, but it doesn't support cherry-picking, creating and applying patch files, or any distributed VCS features. I'd also venture that it likely doesn't have anything like the 4-pane merge UI that tools like kdiff3 have.

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If Word covers your needs, great! I'm not sure why you're arguing against markdown in favor of it, though. The two solve different problems.

I'm not arguing against word, just pointing out the practical differences between binary and plaintext files. Use what suits your particular needs!
Looked up "javascript" and it found a total of like 4 results in my entire country. I think this thing needs some time to get meaningful data before it becomes useful. It's like a search engine without anything indexed yet.
It can be built, but I don't think there are any frameworks that make it easy. A JSON file can be an API, but authentication and encryption using static publicly available files is more challenging, especially for a large number of users. That is where blockchain solutions come into place.
Yeah - Tailscale came up a few weeks ago on here. I took 20 minutes to set up my entire home network (ok, maybe 30) - but got my pihole, windows server, phones, and everything else online in minutes.

And then it has been reliable and stayed online. I can now easily RDP into my Windows Machine from my iPad from anywhere.

I had set up OpenVPN and wireguard for home network use, but Tailscale blows it away. And it's free for limited use.

Honestly I thought the last post about Tailscale was filled with people astroturfing there were so many positive comments. But yeah - it's good. Really good. And it "just works".

And the custom DNS is also awesome for RDP'ing and ssh'ing to devices by name on the network (e.g. ssh user@MacBook) can just work from an iPad.
I searched for 'ColdFusion language' and all the entries concerned PHP and Perl, nice job. Guess I should have searched for PHP and Perl and then I might have gotten ColdFusion ;<).
Three comments.

First, this is still baseline power, it’s just coming from batteries. The imperative to always keep the power on remains, but there are several ways to do it from an engineering perspective.

Second, we’re not there yet. Until we have enough batteries to cover that, baseline will need to be provided by some other form of power generation. Currently this is natural gas (America) and coal (almost everywhere else). On the balance I think it would be best for us all if it was nuclear until we have enough grid level storage to make this discussion moot.

Third, if you interpreted my comment as anti-renewables then you misread me. Renewables are great, I have them on my house, but it’s important to acknowledge that always keeping the power on is a political reality. We need to engineer around that requirement for now, and hopefully one day that’ll be trivial for renewables.
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Hello HN,
What advice would give in order to build dedicated on twitter and what could be the benefits
Unfortunately, the world is not full of Platonic ideals and closed-form solutions.
HVDC lines are immune to solar storms. The problem for the grid is DC currents induced in AC lines, causing failure of transformers. But on DC lines, it just perturbs the voltage slightly.
That's slower than just doing it single threaded for many use cases.
Well they could word it in a more sympathetic way.
So what happens when there are too many "authorities" in their space: how do you decide which one to show first and which one to show next?

Ralistically, is anyone really going to go past page 2 of results or grow frustrated and go back to Google/DDG?
I mean, what do you expect. This is public forum, he comes honestly unanonymously in front of huge crowd already in very negative mood towards this. You can't be a VP of such a thing in one of the richest companies globally ever, and not know how to play politics and lawyering safely.

pesenti - I have respect that you come forward like this and attempting to push mankind's boundaries. Unfortunately, FB is probably the second worst company ever (first could be Palantir) to take on this. I don't trust them a attometer, and never will. Any attempt to change this attitude always ends badly, see ie Carmack.

Very mixed feelings is probably the best description I can give.
Ask HN: Low-level C++ for Quant/HFT
Hey HN!

I am in my final year of undergrad. Just started a quant software dev job, working on trading systems in Python. Its super interesting and I want to dip my toes into some C++. I was wondering if you guys could point me towards any resources to learn more about C++ compilers/optimization.

I can write C++ pretty well (DS/Algos/STL library) but my systems exposure is limited to Arduino/C and trying to write a hobby OS in Rust. Is there anything in particular you guys think I should focus on when it comes to the rest of the stack, besides just C++?
Fantastic book, this and Manning's Information Retrieval book (https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/) are some of the best resources on natural language processing, and they are both free. I can just echo what's been already said - thank you for making these high quality resources available to everyone.
The report says the total biomass is 1300 tonnes. (1.3x10^3). I think the algae might be less important than the authors are letting on.
On the other hand: it's not like a foundation has infinite resources either, and as an open source dev I don't really worry about copyright or trademark challenges (neither constantly nor intermittently). I'm not entirely sure how big of an issue this is anyway, your comment here is the first time I've actually had to do some thinking about it.

Maybe this also depends on how litigious your current context of development/living/residence is.

Looking at some individuals that apparently did get into some legal stuff: it has almost always turned out fine, and when needed the EFF and FSF have been helping plenty.

If legal issues are really a thing, then a foundation isn't what we need, but just more money and people for the EFF.
China surprises U.S. with hypersonic missile test
In present-day Oxford the city centre by-laws ban “remaining in the public toilets without a valid excuse”.

Some of my favourite legalese euphemisms.
SQLite has full-text search built-in (including tokenization of english words with similar roots). It takes just a few statements to enable, and it can even do spelling corrections with an optional extension.

https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html
To be fair to the software itself, the system was never pegged for CPU usage or anything, and it wasn't a fast VPS to begin with.

From what I could tell the performance issue was mostly located in the networking itself, getting the client to resolve the content on the right server. That's something that could be improved through all kinds of algorithms without breaking compatibility or functionality, so there's hope.

I agree that pinning comes with some interesting ways to monetize hosting without the need for targeted advertising that the web seems to have these days. Small projects like blogs, webcomics and animations could be entirely hosted and supported by the communities around a work, while right now giant data brokers need to step in and host everything for "free".
WOW! That is so awesome! Thanks!
Orwell was inspired by - directly referencing, really - the Soviet Union. It's set in the UK for ironic contrast.
We know nuclear provides baseline power, but we don’t know how renewables can do so. Therefore, it makes sense to go with what is already known than to hope investments in renewable will work for baseline power.
The question was about opting out of our "utopia", I wouldn't call that a "straightforward question". If you do have a straightforward question, especially about this or another specific project, I can try to provide a straightforward answer.
Fuck yeah, IKEA reactors for the win!
It's scary to think that these people are even remotely close to any position of power over ordinary citizens.
The same package that first has to be paid for by a budget that comes from the taxes of people like the middle class, in order to tax those billionaires? I say, just raise the taxes on the billionaires and enact regulation to make them pay their share now rather than later.
- Bjarne Stroustrup.

I agree with him.
His book "The Design and Evolution of C++" was a fascinating read. His site has an overview of it.
> Should have hear run out, the PM could call the operator and request reverse charge connection (with UK strategic command or sth presumably).

"Will you accept this collect call from: LAUNCH-THE-MISSILES-DO-IT-NOW?"
This was useless - the results were trash. Sorry.
From https://about.facebook.com/realitylabs/projectaria/

"Participants will only record in either Facebook offices (once they reopen), wearers’ private homes (with consent from all members of the household), or public spaces, and won’t record in private venues without written consent from such places. Before any information gathered in a public place is made available to our researchers, it will be automatically scrubbed to blur faces and vehicle license plates."

So we anonymize all the content collected in public. I don't have the stats for the face blurring algorithm, and while you can ask for your data to be removed, we don't provide locations/times. These are good suggestions though.
Back to torrents then.
Slightly off topic but does anyone work with server generated charts at all? Or is there not much demand for pdf reports?

Last I checked, converting Javascript charts to PNG is still a hacky/convoluted process.
It’s not always that straight forward. In the hft space you’re essentially always responding to 1 event, a trade, an order, a cancellation etc. Events are generally spread far enough apart that you can consider them independently (obviously not always, but often) So it doesn’t matter how complicated your model is, if you can pose the question “what would you do if X happened” to your model then you can prepare your fpga with “if X happens do Y”. As long as your universe of possibilities is tractable (which it often is) then an arbitrary model can have all latency sensitive events offloaded to fpga.
Understood, and I reread the article just in case. My point is/was that it must come as a natural impulse to be privacy sensitive. Privacy hopefully becomes part of the culture / dna of Facebook, not just because the FCC and the privacy board are looking over your shoulders, so to say :)

How do we prevent becoming “walkable surveillance machines”? How can we control the scope and and the issue of consent? These are more rhetorical questions, but hopefully it is part of the dialogue internally at FB.
I think this is a highly uncharitable read of his step-parents:

1. Adopting children and raising them as your own is already an act of extraordinary personal sacrifice and blind love.

2. His parents were supportive of his hobby and interest in computers, but were also concerned about his social and behavioral development. They weren't the only ones -- folks at his school were similarly concerned. He had trouble sleeping and had no friends. Neither of those is normal and both indicate Edwin was in serious pain.

3. His parents likely weren't wrong that he was using video games and hacking as crutches instead of addressing the root causes of his depression and anxiety. They likely weren't wrong that these crutches were beginning to form a vicious cycle. There's nothing inherently bad about video games, but IMO his parents were probably correct to be concerned in his case.

4. Forming all of your closest relationships around involvement in destructive and unproductive activity that's criminal and driven by ego is a bad sign! Hacking websites is a crime; almost never violent, but also not victimless! Would you say the same thing about a child whose only friends are folks who he breaks into buildings with?

5. Turning away even a grown child is beyond sad, but at that point he was 22 and cooking up drugs in their house. And they had younger children.
Oops

> Connection failed: User 'u126801970_ortingo' has exceeded the 'max_user_connections' resource (current value: 15)
End-user experience with "enterprise" VPNs (GlobalProtect currently) leaves me much more trusting of WireGuard and OpenSSH, despite the Enterprise thinking SSH is too insecure to use without the VPN.

Early on, I looked at the GlobalProtect client we were supposed to use on GNU/Linux (x86 only, amongst other things). I found it linked a well-obsolete openssl (I don't recall the CVE count), and was even unlawful because it violated the openssl licence conditions. Then I see the CVEs on these things. People who use them find the proprietary clients keep breaking with no notice for no apparent reason. Openconnect has just worked through all that when I've had to use GP rather than WireGuard. (Openconnect also allowed me to use Cisco's corporate VPN to test the Linux-based stuff they tried to sell us and insisted I had to use an MS Windows machine to connect. Thank you OC maintainers!)
Viktor Frankl on the Human Search for Meaning
It is always easy to say that unbuilt designs lack problems.

What we can be certain of is that, by the time construction of such a plant is completed, wind+solar+storage will be overwhelmingly cheaper. Building out solar is right now the best use of every climate-disaster prevention dollar. In the near future, storage will compete, as iron-air batteries come online, and long-distance transmission. Each dollar spent elsewhere, whether on building or patching nuke plants, or patching or fueling coal plants, brings climate disaster nearer.
Did anybody ever get even a single result for any query?
This is a poor argument, you're comparing nuclear to literally the worst alternative you can think of.

The alternative to building new nuclear plants is not building new coal plants, or keeping existing coal plants in use for longer. It's to take the same money that you could have spent on new nuclear power plants, and to spend them on new power plants of other types. If it's a fossil fuel form in the modern era, that probably means gas (16% of new power generation in the US), not coal (0% of new capacity I believe, rather quickly being retired/converted to natural gas). More likely it means solar (39%) or wind (31%).

(Source for numbers: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416)

But yes, I trust our society to handle coal (and other fossil fuels) more than I trust it to handle nuclear plants, because you can't hide the effects of fossil fuels, but you can hide (and deny) the negative effects of a unsafe nuclear plant until it fails catastrophically.
Hydro has close to 100% availability, especially if you aren't talking dams.