skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me when the US federal government and its bombing and drone assassination program runners are placed on the blacklist.
The original question was wrong, airships have never used this mixture.

You will get a ~8% reduction of cost, but you get other large costs like dealing with hydrogen onsite and dealing with contaminated helium. How does that re-compress? How do you make sure your mixture stays at the right percentage.

What is the purpose here?

Venting helium is expensive, but venting hydrogen is not. You can't do this with a mix but you could vent hydrogen if it's in separate internal bags. That's a possible use, but again you'd need to look at total costs.

Read up properly here for this mixing idea, but there seems little purpose -

Flammability limits of hydrogen-diluent mixtures in air https://prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/handle/11023/164/ucalgar... (2012)

"Hydrogen-helium mixtures fail to propagate a flame at 92% helium in the fuel mixture under atmospheric pressure (Calgary, 89k Pa) and ambient temperature. Therefore, only a small percentage of the helium in dirigibles can be safely offset with hydrogen. This is in agreement with previously reported data.

The lean flammability limits of hydrogen binary mixtures with argon, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen diluents in air for upward flame propagation appear to be very close to the limits predicted using the adiabatic flame temperature concept"
The effort to improve is welcome and appreciated.

Casting multi-use graphical computing aside is unwelcome.

Most of the toxicity centers on HOW that discussion has played out.

To be fair, many users coming up on single user graphical computing have no idea what the problem is, do not have use cases and we all know the rest.

The users who do understand all that are pissed. They are being told none of it really matters or is necessary, and so on...

Of course all that is definitely not appreciated however spiffy watching videos about it all may be.

And, those users totally get the need to see the embedded use case improvements get done, and still are being asked to just forget multi user graphical computing was ever a thing because reasons...

So yeah, here we are.

People will care about Weyland exactly as much as the Weyland team cares about them.

Multi user graphical computing aware users are not cared about at all despite their repeated explanations on how they depend on that capability. Depend, as in, not having it becomes very expensive for them. Expensive enough to wash away all the value they are being told matters more to everyone else.

Non multi user graphical computing aware people basically just want it settled so they can have few overall worries. They feel some care aimed their way.

The embedded people are super happy and are cared about a lot.

All adds up to a very toxic state of affairs.

Factoring it all down:

Did we absolutely have to trade multi user graphical computing away?

Should the answer be no, this whole ugly mess will go away.

Continuing with a yes means a very painful and drawn out mess for years to come.

And it will be that way because there are plenty of people who really do get a lot of value out of multi user graphical computing.

Who knew?

I bet the former X devs did. And they just do not care.

Why exactly should they get any back in return?
True, but not at all in line with how Scrum was sold back in the days. I even believe there was a rule saying if you do not follow all the rules of Scrum it is not Scrum.
The nice thing about OLE was that it was a relatively clean standard. You could use ActiveX in the browser and had multiple ways of creating them, but all those ways were focused on the programming language, rather than on frameworks.

Nowadays you have Webpack and React and Node and all that stuff where you rarely get to be coding but most of the time you're spending at managing all those tools.
Which nuance do you think is missing for example from them FDA press release about the EUA for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine for children? https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-auth...
Sorry to have to keep disagreeing, but we are nowhere near any geological limits in Vancouver. As I pointed out above, most of the city is still composed of single-family homes. It's not just that it's not all massive towers. It's not even duplexes or quad-plexes or small apt complexes. It's low-rise bungalows on single-family-only lots.

There's tons of space in the Vancouver metro to add density. The issue is that it's illegal.
What you must also mention is that electricity is a finite resource. Consuming electrical energy - even at a hydro power station - means the energy you used isn't delivered to somewhere else.
> And so today, I am excited to announce that effective November 15th, Thomas Dohmke (@ashtom), GitHub’s Chief Product Officer, will become CEO and I [Nat Friedman] will become Chairman Emeritus.
I feel like I've encountered less of that style of service lately. But I don't know though if it's that the types of restaurants I go to have changed, or there's a cultural difference having moved recently to NYC.
This is the definition of "invest in the future".
Lmao the butt hurt manager making a throwaway to blame employees in reply to a comment about how managers/companies blame employees without introspection. You really showed me
These stats are only useful if we know how many people get dementia in the first place.

What are the chances of a random control group of 14 over 85 year olds also not getting dementia?

If it's very common, and you would usually expect 7 of them to develop dementia, then 0 cases in the test group is potentially impressive. If it's quite rare and you would usually expect only one of the control group to get dementia, then it's not that impressive that the test group had 0, and easily down to chance
What would you do for batteries?
I was expecting a very basic raycaster, no textures etc. This is seriously impressive!
What's to stop the hackers from running the halt and catch fire instruction?
The Breeds
The US recognizes seven breed groupings (comprising over 150 breeds), but the UK and Canada recognize just six (the American system divides the Working group into two groups: Working dogs and Herding dogs).
I don't disagree with you about the American system and that the insurers and private investors have messed up the incentives.

What you misunderstand on my comment is that there is value in adding some level of negligible cost to each transaction. A quick internal spot check if they really need to see a specialist/doctor etc.

Don't equate my comment as proof that the American system works. And just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
What worked for our team:

1. strictly time-boxed (1 min per person)

2. we stick to stating 3 things and then move on:

- I accomplished X yesterday

- I am working on Y today

- I am blocking Z or blocked by Z

(edit: I suck at editing markdown on HN)
> I manage this with a disability that limits me to 40 hours or less each week.

Where I live, everyone has this disability :D it's called the law.
Here is basically the core of the communications.

https://imgur.com/a/y1dMhd2
Employee Equity: Understanding “qualifying disposition” is a must
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34519318/c-address-of-fu... suggests it's guaranteed by the standard to be OK.

In the standard at https://web.archive.org/web/20181230041359if_/http://www.ope...

6.5.3.2 Address and indirection operators
Constraints
1 The operand of the unary & operator shall be either a
function designator, the result of a [] or unary
\* operator, or an lvalue that designates an object that
is not a bit-field and is not declared with the
register storage-class specifier.

So as the parameter is an lvalue it is guaranteed to work with the & operator.
What TOTP app do you use, and what format do you print the secrets in?

I currently use "OTP Auth" for iOS, which supports backup and encrypted cloud sync, but I'm not sure if that supports something like "export to a text file".
It's a well known problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
Uh, doesn't this accept U2F?

I'm a Googler, but haven't really looked into this yet.
People are encouraged to get vaccinations to reduce the transmission of diseases
There's space between "stops the spread" and "doesn't affect the spread" .

Current vaccination levels are inadequate to stop the spread, but they do significantly reduce it.
If toolkits can "abstract that away" they can do the same on X11 and there is even less reason for Wayland to exist. There is no reason for you to even care about X11/Wayland if you only work with toolkits. So stop participating in a discussion that doesn't concern you.
Convenience and notation variance are more confusing than useful. If it had just been 8 numbers, with no ommissions or replacements, I would have better been able to keep track.
Then you are agreeing that they will not access or use your data without agreement. Where is the confusion lol.
We should all be operating under the assumption that everything we type or say to an internet connected computer will one day be public and indexed to our name and face.
Canada now has over 1.3M vacant homes: report
Michi Ramen if you like things a bit non-traditional.
The parameter is copied into a stack variable so that you can take its address in such cases.
Latest news about Ukrainian startups
> It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery...

Huh? Didn't DES use NSA-provided unexplained magic numbers that many people were highly skeptical of, but actually made it more secure against an attack that was not publicly known?
Great now if I lose my phone, or if it breaks, I'm in grave danger of losing my google account.
> and it works great

It works okay, except that it makes all tooling much much more complicated because you have to deal with multi-language files, and the template is HTML so you get frequent type errors (TSX catches those at compile time).
Thanks so much for making this. I used this back in the day to download (legally) mp3s from friends' pages.
Things Nat Friedman could have done, but didn't,
while CEO of GitHub: stop the use of GitHub Enterprise in organizations that operate concentration camps.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/m7jpgy/open-source-commu...
No, never.
Bitcoin will be PoW forever. PoS is and will never have the same security properties of PoW. Its bad for decentralization, its bad for censorship resistance, and its bad for the free world.
This would require people spend like... an hour... figuring out how the ticketing system works, and then checking it, or at least paying attention to the emails that it kicks out when somebody changes something on a ticket.

So it's basically impossible.
> Usually the "yesterday I worked on X, today I will also work on X" for me are a sign that I need to grab a second team member to get a second set of eyes on something.

While I admittedly do not entirely understand why it requires writing that down to come to the realization that you need help, if that is what works for you, more power to you. But is external communication necessary? Writing that down in notepad.exe seems like it would trigger the same in you? Why bother your team with noise?

Once you have realized, letting the problem be known to your team makes sense, sure, but that does not seem like something that happens on any kind of regular schedule. Pre-scheduling your chance to let your team know that you have a problem seems unnecessary at best. I've certainly never met a teammate who is unwilling to help with a problem without being given advanced scheduled notice, and I'm not sure a person with that kind of attitude should be on the team in the first place.
something seems broken. spinning circles in two places of the page, nothing loading or clickable - where is the thing?
at the risk of sounding overly simplistic .. science is science and history is history

it's ok to rewrite science

it's not ok to rewrite history
Is Texas next? Given that several mining companies have set up or about to set up shop on Rockdale and Pyote. And this is a state that endured a major grid crisis early this year.
While I'm a big fan of haproxy, Apache, and nginx, I will say I also very much like trafficserver as a cache. Compared to squid, which I've always wanted to like but never really have, it is much easier to set up, and it's proven to be very reliable in our use.

Specifically, I install it, point it at a large raw disk partition, and drop in my config files (largely consisting of routing rules for where to get the origin based on the request), and trafficserver just goes to town. It's a perfect use case for the ephemeral storage on virtual instances.
Standup for me is about a daily ritual—to show each other you respect each other well enough to show up and honour your working agreements. I believe that so long as you are intentional about it, you can do standup however you want. But I'll reiterate that it's really important to be intentional about it, and that's exact what you seem to be doing, so that's great!

We've stripped out standup completely bare. We're fully remote and use JamBoard. There's no going taking turns to give long-winded updates that causes people to tune-out. If you have an update, you must put it on a sticky, otherwise there's no need to talk. At the end of standup, the devs will discuss what we're going to work on for the day. We only talk about what we're working on with the full team if things aren't on track and we need help from product or design.
This is how JADE/PUG handled it. And, for anyone that's used css, querySelector or jQuery, it seems quite natural.

I also wonder why the author didn't pick up these standard methodologies and continue from there.
The programmers who i've read about getting hit with penalties as a consequence of working with companies such as NSO or with governments such as the UAE seem to be exposing a significant gap in the US' treatment of their most prized minds.

The NSA and other government agencies seem to not be attractive from the point of view of a great place to work and the money to be made in the private sector in the US alone is thin. . . economic forces dictate that supply will meet demand especially when the demand is rich middle eastern wealth.

There is no obvious "red team" or similar career for these people in the US to help defend the nations systems for a fee. All government contracts for cybersecurity go out in tenders that prioritize entities that can navigate the complex logistics of filing a response with the Government and working their way.

That's the biggest concern for me seeing this pattern emerge. On the specific entity here, the NSO group being blacklisted, that will change little. There is a systemic risk of us continuing to lose great talent to more attractive ventures.
Which OS and browser are you using?
Why the Metaverse Matters
It's not micromanagement when the manager is trying to understand what is happening on the team. That's part of their job. If they were asking for updates from you every 5 minutes, that would be micromanagement.

How long do you think your manager should go without knowing what you're doing?
Who specifically said that and when? What I heard was medical professionals saying we could have those things when people got vaccinated. When political posturing caused large numbers of people to refuse vaccinations, masks, and other public health precautions, those ambitions weren't met but I don't blame the people who said it was possible as much as I blame the Republican leaders who personally got vaccinated but told millions of their followers not to.

It's like saying that flossing and tooth brushing were a lie because you had cavities after only doing either half of the month.
What about if you don’t use your middle name? Or make a typo?

Seems like a silly argument to say because the contract could be unenforceable you should expect them to delete your data.

The more likely scenario is a script or employee thought it was a fraud account, and deleted the vms.
Oh dear.

I don't remember who said that crypto is Lululemon, Amway, multi-level marketing for tech guys, but it's amazing the similarities.

In a discussion on Proof of work does not scale, cannot scale, will choke out production in the economy going forward because of its design, a person responds with say "you're right, that product is bad. Don't buy that one instead buy this one".

Does this other one solve any of those problems? Nope, but the person hawking it has purchased a lot of product and gets a cut if you buy into it.

It's amazing how disingenuous crypto conflict of interest has made any and all discussion about crypto.
Had a job where that's exactly what happened- the manager took 30-40 min and went through the board, stopping at each devs name and their task.

"How is this task going"

Putting devs on the spot and demanding updates like you'd expect from a child doing their homework or completing their chores doesn't feel like team building...it feels like babysitting.
China's Tallest Building: Shanghai Tower
Controversial statement but this reminds me of Jews as moneylenders. Government lets them do an unpopular thing the benefits it, and if anyone throws a stink they throw them out and wash their hands and act like they were shocked. This seems like the government outsourcing controversial activities to Israel.
Great article. My favorite part is that the author advises against overly complicated setups and has some very realistic recommendations instead:

> The strange video you see at the top of this post was filmed with this setup. One that I actively recommended against to any fellow remoter. Particularly folks who aren’t into photography or videography. It’s cumbersome, complex, and requires constant fidgeting to keep the camera on, obtain a consistent color temperature, or prevent automatic focus hunting due to shallow depth of field.

This is a common theme among people with overly complicated setups: Looks and sounds great when it works, but they're fighting with their setup in every other meeting: Focus issues, automatic power off problems, photographic cameras overheating because they weren't designed for long streams, audio issues as they work to select the microphone they want instead of something else, and so on.

This page recommends two excellent webcam-style USB cameras that won't deliver the professional-looking blurred background images, but they will just work when you plug them in and they won't be full of surprises. That's more valuable than a blurred background or crisp 4K video through expensive lenses when you're just a small H.265 compressed square on someone's screen.
Kicking Bitcoin miners off the grid seems like a great alternative to price controls.
Which genius decided that "Candiru" was a good official name? I mean, it's one thing to have something that silly/repulsive as a nickname, but officially? Seems unwise.
I assume they were referring to emergence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
> Gandalf isn't a wizard.

Yes he is.

> He is a "Maiar"

Yes, he is. Just like the other four wizards.
I haven’t worked for a cruise line but prior to the pandemic I enjoyed cruising.

Princess Cruises and other lines are implementing a fleet wide mobile-app driven experience that uses Bluetooth Low Energy beacons in concert with a mobile app to enable all of the commerce that takes place on their cruises. Everything from unlocking your cabin door, to ordering room service, scheduling spa services or shore excursions and paying for a beer at one of their bars - it’s all driven by the app.

I was on basically the maiden voyage when they rolled all this stuff out, and it was pretty rough. The app, in particular had the vibe of being slapped together by offshore contractors. That said, it worked well enough but I would not be at all surprised that cruise lines want to continue investing in this infrastructure, especially given that it enables social distancing by default.

I can’t imagine it would be fun to work for a company that doesn’t understand tech outside the context of high priced contractors though, just from a culture perspective. Hospitality companies in general are very old-school in their approach to workers.
There's plenty of available heat outside, even when its somewhat cold outside. This breaks down when it gets really cold, like arctic kind of cold, but most places where lots of people live don't get that cold for very long. Its the same principle as how even when its hot outside your AC unit can still manage to dump some heat out there. Its because of the latent heat of the refrigerant and the phase change induced by the changes in pressure from the compressor. Its kind of hacking the physics of phase changes to move energy from one place to another.
>This spells the end of privacy on the pop(ular) internet.

FTFY. Though, I'd argue privacy has been dead there for years already.
What app is it?
this is a bizarre narrative that i'm seeing multiple times ITT

science and history are two distinct things

it's ok to rewrite science

it's not ok to rewrite history
Because Xorg is a huge beast with plenty of legacy, and it's also not a very fun project to hack on because it's largely maintenance of stuff people only care about when it breaks.

E.g. support for a bunch of backends of which most are not worth supporting if you want to implement a server from scratch, but which Xorg has been saddled with, as well as support for a bunch of legacy X functionality that nobody would bother implementing if implementing a server from scratch because most clients never use it.

E.g. a major source of complexity is supporting various X visuals that are irrelevant today when you can decide to only support truecolor natively. Another is support for a bunch of drawing primitives that you might as well just ditch all but the very simplest of, and support for legacy clients via a proxy like Xephyr. That said, most of those drawing primitives are also supported by any 2d canvas style library like Cairo or Skia that does client side 2d rendering, so if you want to implement them for an X server, just picking up one of those libraries would be time far better spent than implementing it yourself.

It'd certainly be a lot of work, and a lot more work to write an X server from scratch that is a complete replacement for e.g. Xorg - you'd need to support a number of X protocol extensions, but most clients backends will fall back on core functionality if extensions are not available (you'd definitely want to support some of them, like Xrender and SHM though, or your server would be largely unusable with modern clients).

At the same time, if someone wants to write a new X server, it'd be silly to do the work of writing their own backends when the could just grab wlroots and build an X server on top of that. "Modern X11" can be reduced to a relatively narrow superset of Wayland functionality if you defer most of the weirder legacy functionality that is rarely but very occasionally used to a proxy like XWayland, Xephyr or XPRA (all of which do, that said, rely on Xorg code) and make people use those for clients that need it.

Honestly, I think this is the most likely/viable future for X on Linux. It'd drastically reduce the amount of code to maintain and share that burden with other projects, and would make it far more viable to keep maintaining X support for those of us who wants (part of) it.
> If you’re weary of a future without standups, you need to Shape Up

People need to know the difference between "weary" and "wary".

* weary: tired

* wary: watchful, cautious
Does she take calcineurin inhibitors?
Jobs post must be posted post in the official monthly thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29067493 It was posted yesterday, so it's still active.

More details in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I mean, you laugh, but during winter in my office at home whenever I get cold I just start running Folding@Home on my pc, it helps cure cancer and keeps me nice and warm. As far as I can tell it's cheaper than turning the heating on in the whole house too.