skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gallium cannot be produced at scale because it does not form concentrated ores in nature. It cannot be usefully mined directly. The only reason it is relatively inexpensive is that there is limited demand for the minuscule quantities that are currently produced.

Gallium is currently supplied by reprocessing the waste from other convenient metal ores to extract the traces of gallium. Even if we maximized gallium extraction from these waste streams, we are talking about a few thousand tons of gallium per year. We produce more gold every year than there is practically available gallium.

Unfortunately this is the story with many proposed solutions to carbon capture. Many things are possible as a prototype which are completely infeasible at the industrial scales required to make a dent in atmospheric carbon because the resources don't exist to run chemistry at that scale.
I guess maybe I'm missing the scandal, but this is why they employ people in "policy" positions, isn't it? It's rather open that they're out to alter the law in their favor.

e: Another article in the front page suggests this is highlighted because it draws attention to Google's supposed pro-privacy position as a sham. I hadn't realized they had one but OK.
There are hundreds of thousands of trusts being run to this day that were set up over 200 years ago, mostly to do with land.
Do you actually work for a small to medium-sized EU business? Because I do and the amount of money we need to throw at compliance, both in direct costs and dev hours, is immense. And we're not doing ads, user targeting, or any other such "nasty" industry practices. Our product is widely thought of by both our customers and investors, as wholesome! But our product does require customer accounts and data storage because wheeling in a server rack to wherever they are is the last thing they want.

I used to be think GDPR was a good thrust for user privacy but years later what I see is an adorned web already suffering under the weight of its own crap super-adorned with these cookie banners that impact my actual, day to day life of the net.

That's not a failure of the companies doing the tracking, that's a failure of regulation. The EU could have legally enforced the existing Do Not Track flag but instead we get a worse web that has literally shaved off hours (days?) of my life clicking through cookie forms. And no number of uBlock scripts that promise to erase them from the web has been enough to stop them.

So, report these privacy invading companies to your local data protection body, you say! Sir, madam or epithet of your choice, have you tried reporting a breach to the Danish Data Protection Agency? They will do everything in their power to invalidate your claim. That was the last straw for me. Our protectors are indolent or powerless and here we proclaim victory!

All I've seen from these rulings is spinning wheels, wasted labor, money set fire and pain.

Our German clients have screamed and hollered (thanks, Schrems II!) to bifurcate our clouds so that one side is AWS and the other is a German cloud that moves with the glacial pace of the 90s and with that decade's service portfolio. Don't even get me started on the service level difference:

AWS: how can we literally give you everything you need to build your successful business? How about these free recruits who just graduated out of our program that specifically re-trains people from disadvantaged backgrounds to be cloud all-stars? How about regular consulting sessions with our teams to identify how you can save money with us?

German cloud: let's make setting up a managed DB the most horrifically onerous process possible that's unreliable and flaky with your data and then charge you thousands of euros for support fees fixing the things that were our fault to begin with.
VSC being marketed as open source is certainly a grey area (there are arguments both in favor and against), but it's not a bad situation as it seems.

IntelliJ IDEA is a competitive "open source based" product, with a significant market share (which qualifies as "viable competitor not under Microsoft's thumb").

VSC's "base open source" product is actually equally or more capable than IDEA - see VSCodium; its existence is proof that in worst-case scenario, a capable open source editor would still exist. Although there are some omissions, I think that given the MIT license, in theory a competitor could also build a series of commercial plugins - if I'm correct, this would actually be an interesting scenario.
Neural network approach to diabetes nets $140m Series C for startup Twin Health
Does anyone know a good Prolog course / introduction that focuses on exercices?

I would be interested in becoming used to identify problems that can be solved with Prolog.
Casey Muratori just last week released a video where he uses it at the end as well, definitely worth a watch but be warned it’s basically part 3 of 3 and the context from the first two videos definitely helps, but that’s over 5 hours of (fascinating) content: https://youtu.be/1tEqsQ55-8I
I was thinking of hackernews.com as Park Place and hn.com as Boardwalk. Those are the primo properties yes? it's been several decades.
> Don't waste time reading a book

I’m guessing you have little experience with books but the general approach is you read something and then practice what you just learned.
That sounds really crazy bad. Europe here so I don't know much about US - but I've had US people use it an report good experience - so dunno.
Well, the increased variability itself may be a part of the climate change.

I’ll give an anecdote. I’m working on a project that tracks the length of the rainy season over time in a certain region. There is no clear trend one way or another, but what does stick out as a super strong and clear trend is that the variability of both extremes occurring is increasing.
Management is full of idiots
Paid $15,000. I have a huge ankle monitor like 4000 others in the city. I'm technically confined to my bedroom at all times now instead of a jail cell, thus I can hang out on HN.
This is very cool (former touring musician turned software engineer here!)

I'm curious about the networking/UDP side of this. How are you handling retransmits? Do you treat this like a video game would and just keep sending the latest data? Or doing something more advanced like forward error correction?
But that's exactly true. It's a matter of what you are optimizing for - convenience or performance.

There's any number of things WiFi isn't the perfect answer for.

Ultimately, in today's world, if you want to jam with musicians not in your room, some non zero effort will be required. Presumably you have setup you audio interface, music interface, microphones, software, mixer, midi and asio, etc etc etc... Honestly, for me at least, Ethernet is the least inconvenient or nerdy or annoying aspect of home studio :-)
A real whistleblower will draw the wrath of the people they expose. That doesn’t always take the form of being imprisoned and hinted. Sometimes the stakes are much lower.
Remote Work Story of Entrepreneur and Author: Chris Dyer
I don't think that's true. I meet people all the time who love HN and have no particular connection to "this field", if by that you mean startup investing, or even technology. The mandate of the site is to gratify intellectual curiosity, which literally everyone has.
It’s not clear yet what happened, but I believe in movie set parlance, “live” would include blanks.
Doesn't urbit use the generic "pay to join" identities? I don't think it is a scalable solution for general applications.
Here's the issue. Google can use private data in the US to design a model such as say a personal voice assistant. It then deploys this model in the EU and then uses no EU private data either for training or running it live. Google can then use non-private data to adjust the model to the EU market.

A company in the EU has to design the whole model with no private data which means they will have more difficulty competing with Google rather than less.
> Visual Studio Code has also some official extensions that are not open source and the official build contains a few proprietary features by default.

I don't understand how that is remotely ok. VSCode's main binary links statically against Blink (as it uses Electron) which is under LGPL, at the very minimum they should provide a way to relink that binary as per LGPL requirements.
I love my tri-axial text-rotational trick written in only in CSS (and HTML).

JavaScript-free too!

https://egbert.net/blog/index.html
In 2000, I worked at a web company that was a “Platinum Partner” with MS, and we did a lot of consulting work with them for various large clients. Me and another guy were invited to come out to learn about this new platform that MS was building called “Cool”, which was the internal name for c# at the time, and the early forms of .NET.

While we were there, Scott Guthrie (I’m 99% sure it was him) was supposed to lead us in some discussion but wasn’t there, and someone filled in for him. We learned later it was because he had been called into Bill G’s office and got dressed down a bit because Scott had basically created his own version of Apache web server to use within the dot net tools. It was rudimentary and temporary, but the reason he did it was because he had been trying for months to get the IIS team to give him a version of their server for use within the dot net dev tools, and they just kept putting him off. So he went around them and built his own. They found out, went up the chain, and Scott got dragged into the office to be told to cut it out and work with them instead.

Granted, this is 20 years ago, so my memory might not be as crisp, but it stuck with me as a lesson that Microsoft was not a single company, but like 10-15 different little companies, and they competed among themselves as much as they worked together. And as OSS was coming up at the time I thought, “they have no chance to survive what’s coming.”

I’m still not sure if I was wrong or not yet.
Why is there a good chance the organisation will be around in 500?

Most non profit internet orgs will ofte sell out for the right price unless set up properly. What makes this different?
If you are on a aircraft carrier you have nuclear reactors for power.
I've also seen some private/paid RSS feeds just using tokens in query parameters (I think Patreon and Ars Technica do this), eg 'https://www.patreon.com/rss/foo?auth=...'

I'm not entirely sure what the benefit of one over the other is, unless some RSS readers/podcast apps have issues with Basic Auth or maybe it's just easier to fit into existing code server-side.
Yes. They've stayed small and focused but while AFAIK they're still doing OK, the latest numbers I've seen on them listed about 50 employees. And I'm willing to bet most of them aren't unusually well compensated. I'm also not sure when I last heard Craigslist come up in conversation although I expect especially people in urban areas still use them for classified advertising.
Trying to close this community would be a disastrously bad idea. All are welcome, as long as they want to use the site as intended.

Not all newcomers want to use HN as intended, but not all oldtimers do either. Discriminating in favor of the latter would be a grand way to shoot this place in the foot, if not the head. As my son used to say when he was 2: that what we not do.
I don't think you read what I wrote. The tail risk I was speaking of was not a winter death rate increasing by 10%, but the risk of us receding into a deeper ice age over the next several centuries.

The extinction event you're referring to was hypothesized by these researchers to have come from volcanic erruptions:[1]

> During the eruptions, huge amounts of carbon dioxide and molten rock burst through the Earth's crust, burning through coal and limestone, and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. That made oceans and rainwater more acidic, and dissolved more calcium from rocks into the ocean.

So far, so analogous. But does it seem like you might be exaggerating a tad by comparing human fossil fuel usage to this level of carbon release?

> Payne calculated that the eruptions, which lasted upward of a million years, released 13,000 to 43,000 gigatons (1 gigaton equals 1 billion tons) of carbon in the atmosphere. By comparison, scientists estimate we would release an estimated 5,000 gigatons of carbon if we used up all the fossil fuels in the Earth.

AFAIK, we aren't even at 50% usage over the past 150 years. We can also check this theory against long-term carbon PPM charts, which show at various points in earth's history significantly more carbon concentration then either now or even 250 million years ago.[2]

In any event, the researcher admits himself that the tail risk is not directly comparable to the Permian/Triassic mass extinction (though it's still an important consideration):

> Payne said humans may not ultimately release as much carbon dioxide as the Siberian Traps, but we may be doing it at a faster rate. "We won't necessarily end up with a world that looks as bad as it did after the end-Permian extinction, but that event highlights the fact that things can go very, very wrong," Payne said.

In any event, I think you have a point (in fact I think you've made the best point of all of the responses), but you've exaggerated it to make it as if it's the dominant risk factor in the net calculation as to whether global warming is long-term harmful or beneficial. I don't think this is so clear.

Acting as if our current levels of fossil fuel usage is going to lead to a mass extinction comparable to the end of the Permian/Triassic era comes off as alarmist and motivated.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/april/prehistoric-mass-e...

[2] The way to extend this conversation productively would be to estimate the rate at which these volcanic eruptions were dumping CO2 in the air and compare it to the rate at which we are.
Fuel consumption and carbon emissions - that very much depends. Small cars of 30-40 year ago are often very good, even better than today's models in some cases.

https://www.mpgomatic.com/2007/11/04/toyota-corolla-gas-mile...

Reasons for this are probably creeping sizes and weights and larger engines, larger tires and softer rides.
I’d agree with that. We own Teslas but have no home assistants, use Facebook as little as possible, and buy Apple products because of their privacy stance. Nuance is important. I trust Tesla and Apple with my data, but not Facebook, Google, or Amazon.

Contributing in small part to the electrification of transportation is more important to us than any benefit I’d enjoy from Tesla collecting less or no data from our vehicles.
Good advice, I guess I still got to find an activity where I can be really social (the 1 club I'm in is more academic).

Cool idea on halloween, do you think just go on campus and hand it out? Sounds kinda fun lol.
Agreed. I'm a senior dev and I think they're a nightmare to follow, even once you understand how they work. The combinatorial complexity of all the different implicit rules is astounding, and there's an entire armory of foot-guns. The lint rules help, but are intrinsically limited by working at a syntax level, not a value level; it's very easy for things to slip past them.

Recently at my job we had a senior engineer (me), a lead engineer, and a junior engineer (all of us familiar with how hooks work), looking at a 10-line hook in the codebase, and we couldn't collectively figure out whether or not it actually did anything without running it to see how it behaved.

If that's not an indictment of hooks, I don't know what is.

I'm no advocate of OOP, but React components are one of the few places where I've had a very good experience using classes
I’m a libertarian type, but I think any company that is large enough to sway government policy is a danger to society and should be broken up until their influence is indistinguishable from noise. No idea how to effectively execute that idea, though.
I get how you could use this to take solar energy and pull CO2 out of the air, but the article mentions using it in cars, which makes no sense. You’re going to use more energy than you get from burning gas to then capture the carbon?
If you live somewhere where this price is too expensive (south America or some SEA country for example) Josh offers to send him an email and he will give discount, if he agrees that it is fair.

Edit: adding source for my claim.
Go to the website of the course that was already posted here and search for “Purchasing Power Parity”
> Tesla has been promising a car for $35k

That was their target price before the product launch, must be the first time in history a company didn't hit is project price. For a while they did have a version at that price, that version was supposed to have no Autopilot and few other things were missing. They discontinued that option.

> The solar roofs exist

Oh now they do exist. Don't hurt yourself running down field with those goalposts.

> bail out Elon's cousins

Lol, what nonsense. If it was about that they would have just continued with normal solar panels.

> lower than 20% of Tesla's projections and are declining rapidly

Wrong they are actually increasing, 46% growth in solar YoY this Quarter. And I'm sure that its the first time in the history of capitalism that a company didn't reach the production volume they had planned.

This is a huge growth market and continuing to play in it makes simple sense even if its not a huge part of current revenue.

> They have made not even a single working prototype.

There is literally footage from a prototype on a testing area from like a week ago. And the initial prototype has been driving around all over the place.

> They are bad roofs because they are more expensive to manufacture, far more expensive to install,

They are supposed to be for people who would then put solar on their roof after, of course its more expensive to install. What you should compare it to is building a normal roof and then add solar installation on top of that.

> and far less durable than ordinary roofs.

There are literally videos out-there where in a massive hale-storm you see many people with damaged roofs and the solar roof is perfectly fine.

> There has been no news since

There was 'no news' about a refresh of Model S/X for a long time, they even said its not gone happen. And then it happened. Crazy how companies don't feel the need to update you every second on what they are doing. I guess as soon as company doesn't update you, every project should be considered dead.

There was actually a bunch of news but I guess you decided its a fake product so following it isn't relevant.

And again, they are literally building a gigantic factory, they are LITERALLY ordering tools from suppliers for that factory. IRDA for example has publicly stated they are building an 8000 ton press for the rear under-body of the Cybertruck. There has been some leaked info about Tesla ordering the stainless steal, its actually their own material so they need have somebody make it for them in gigantic quantities.

Literally every indication is that there is a very active program at bringing the vehicle to market, no matter if you like it or not.

> The Semi is an asinine idea and cannot ever work.

Now you are just embracing yourself.

> well under half the capacity

What nonsense.
You think an open standard TCP congestion control algorithm is part of a big conspiracy? Listen to yourself.
That seems uncomfortably close to claiming every Turing-complete device is artificial intelligence.
Hooks. Brilliant new idea. It was a blast working with them in MediaWiki in 2005.
JS community is adorable. They are like a little infant rushing to you with a snow on his hands "look pa, it's wet!".
I'm excited to see what they are going to rediscover next.
“keeps competitors weak by being the best”

What
Speaking only for myself, no! It’s just borrowing and playing with ideas, which artists do all the time. (I have an education in fine arts, for whatever it’s worth [0])

[0]: nothing, both literally and figuratively
Sure, but this NYT times piece that says Google specifically tried to 'slow down' European privacy rules disproves Thompson's argument that they want privacy to impede competition. It's pretty binary- if they wanted privacy regulations they wouldn't have slowed them down, if they slowed them down then clearly they don't want privacy regulations. I don't see what other conclusion could be drawn
Thank you for compiling this, excited to see how CFM iterates to make this process smoother!
Let's say that the day you update your dependencies is after this malware was injected but before it was noticed.

Now you have malware in your local repo :(

Having a local repo does not prevent malware. Your exposure to risk is less because you update your dependencies less frequently, but the risk still exists and needs to be managed. There's no silver bullet.
Hacker News loves to fling stones from glass houses. It's nothing new to see the frontpage dominated by opinionated topics and designated thought-guards surgically filtering through comments.
They have human Klimt experts helping too.
does the semiconductor industry not use large quantities of GaAs? Has the industry replaced its use with something else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
How come? Also they already have a dominant position, producer licensing can go a long way. Nobody is gonna make Android suddenly irrelevant in the next 10 years.
It has always like that, that is why we lost Managed DirectX, XNA, .NET Native, C++/CX, the Longhorn failure, MAUI vs Forms vs WPF vs WinUI vs UWP vs Blazor.

I am not affected by this as licensed VS user, but I also don't like how this story has been playing, and join my voice to those complaining how this was handled.
Lots of "commercial open source" products use limited features in the open source tool to sell the "pro version". Maybe what we're seeing is not MS being awful, but executing a pretty normal open/premium type strategy (hi there ElasticCo).

As a developer I'd love to be able to use .NET like I do Python, Go, JavaScript and Nim (ok, and Java, too). I love being able to write software that can run anywhere, using the editors and tooling that I like. VS Code is amazing in that it fits into my world. VS on the other hand, forces me to run a specific OS, and use a prescribed tool chain. FWIW, sometimes the prescribed way might be better, but it's not the way I want to do it.
you can repair only as long as parts are avilable.
Until you consider groups like Sinclair Broadcast Group[1] who control enough region's media to start playing games.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
I don't find the correct class component implementation to be any simpler. You have to worry about the exact same issues (clearing on unmount, potentially canceling + calling again if a prop dependency changes), except now the implementation is spread across multiple lifecycle methods.

I've seen people reimplement it wrong in my codebase more than once, whereas no one gets useInterval incorrect because.. we can actually share that functionality across components now.
Ion: Non Posix Shell in Rust
> I'd like to be able to open my reader just once a day and have it check all feeds and catch the full days activities but, the way they work now, it'll only get what happens to be there at that point in time.

the un-user-configurable and un-opt-out-able straightjacketed sorting algorithms in these walled gardens are all about getting users 'hooked' and creating FOMO
If you feel like it, maybe open a thread on internals.rust-lang.org? This issue can still be debated..

Also, it was closed in 2015; it was a different time back then. I don't think that RFCs from 2015 should be kept open just because. Arguably, Rust shouldn't have 88 RFCs open (as of now), either.
I didn't read that as, "Our focus is changing from A to B," so much as, "We originally hoped to ship A + B, but A ended up being more work than we expected. B is achievable and impacts more developers, so we're focusing on that first".