skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My estimate was a pessimistic one. I would be SHOCKED if they are available this decade, looking at the fact that not a single one has positive net generation (this is just net thermal heat generation, AKA amount of heat put into the system and amount of heat out of the system). On top of that, current fission plants take over a decade to setup.

I'd also posit that a return on investment in a company like this isn't only going to happen if it achieves its goal. Looking at how research intensive/cutting edge the end goal is, they could stumble across 100 different new innovations in the process that could sprout into their own business ideas.

PS. Am I the only one who thinks this page sucks? https://www.helionenergy.com/our-technology/
That's pretty cool!

[V|E]LF stuff is used for many things. For example, the Navy uses it to communicate with subs.
That would be "random fomites in the environment" not "PCR testing swabs with deliberately maximized chance of virus content"
Very true. Every talk about app 'sideloading' should include the capability to make a device run an alternative push notifications service.

It isn't much to ask, actually, such services are pretty easy to create.
You might enjoy this series of blog posts. I went through them last year and learned a lot!

https://os.phil-opp.com/
Or hoover the seats in a bus.
Ubuntu Multipass support for M1 processor
Yup, the worst aspect of it isn't that it takes a long time to make it work right but the feeling of imposter syndrome and the fear of expectations if one manages to get in.

Like, if you expect me to write 1K lines of code in 2 hours as I read documentation, debug, test it - then god knows what the expectations are at a full day at work.
> I don't see a lot of room for hedge funds to be partisan

They have billions of dollars of bets on where interest rates go. Inflation trends and how they are interpereted are what drives interest rates.

If the fed took on board this particular interpretation at the next meeting Bridgewater would make low double digit billions on those trades.

Doesnt make them right or wrong, but anytime you see a talking head on cnbc or putting out a research note - they are talking up their positions.
Don’t believe everything you read. Astronauts and submariners function in cognitively demanding jobs at an order of magnitude higher CO2 concentration than the Earth’s atmosphere for months on end.
So, it's a backdoor that only the blind can see?
But for some reason they can try to expand to next country... Which really puzzles me... After all they are collection of regional "co-ops". Even if the whole model is quite distanced at this point.
There's also Kitekraft from YC:

- https://medium.com/kitekraft/kitekraft-takes-off-with-y-comb...

- https://www.kitekraft.de/
Don't jump the gun and open up a conversation on how this happened first.

After that mention that the attribution as required by the MIT License is missing
I dunno man. This is indeed scary, but I wouldn't take it literally. I would translate it more as: "when asked by a pollster, 'do you ever think [etc.], 20 percent of Democrats said 'yes'". Whether they ever really think that...

Well now, what does "really think" mean? If they had the chance to painlessly euthanize several millions of the other side, would they do it? Or does "really think" mean "gosh sometimes I get really angry and I - I just wish those scumbags were dead!" By that standard, I "really think" that it would be better if some of the drivers of my home town just died.
DDoS attacks are a more serious threat than ever before
I think it’s important to parse what is being censored. Speech that incites violence against an individual or group should be censored in my opinion. Misinformation should also be closely watched as “a lie will travel half way around the world before the truth can put its shoes on.” I’m someone that considers themself to be against the concept of censorship but the realist in me recognizes that the ideas we had about censorship pre-internet may not apply to an age where it is the main source of information. I am honestly surprised to find that I feel this way but the last decade has shown us how the anonymity of the internet has been weaponized to influence the uninformed masses through propaganda and frankly, dark psychological strategy that hijacks our brains reward system.
Wolt fed me through the pandemic in Hungary. And it's easily one of the best food delivery apps I've used. The app itself is 4/5 stars. Reliable, but the search filters don't give enough control to users. But what really stood out about Wolt was their customer service. They have incredible response times, and always do everything in their power to resolve any issues. That's rare these days, and I hope it doesn't go away now that they've been acquired. I feel like this is a successful acquisition for the people at Wolt. And may be a good success story for a European tech company that paves the way for future success. I'm happy for them. That being said, I'm not as big of a fan of DoorDash, and I worry that this will move talent and value out of Europe, yet again.
Seems obviously a joke based on the project from the article
4096 was a common max GL texture size on low end hardware.
Because it significantly harms the ability of Apple to collectively bargain on behalf of users.

Again, all this talk about freedom but you’re the one insisting that two consenting parties change what they do because that’s what you want. You’re going to need a better argument than that. Why are you bothering Apple and I from a consensual and peaceful transaction? How are we harming you? What “freedom” is being taken away? I guess you believe you alone have the freedom to “buy an iPhone from Apple that allows 3rd party app stores”. But I don’t have the freedom to buy an iPhone from apple that doesn’t allow this? Or that Apple doesn’t have the freedom to sell the device they want to sell?
Using Nodered since 2019 in smartfactory projects, mainly to unify very different datasources to something compareable. Swiss army knife for factory telemetry..
Fair enough, it sounded a bit like you learned python specifically for this project.
Mixed instruction set schedulers? Intel 12th gen issues
I've been looking a bit at the news recently about the intel 12th gen CPUs, and how they disable the AVX-512 instruction set if the efficiency cores are enabled. which seemed like a weird and poor implementation that bottlenecks some workloads and leaves quite a bit on the table in terms of performance. Why isn't this handled in the scheduler ? all the major operating systems already support the big/small core design. Why isn't the instruction set requirements simply passed to the scheduler via program headers to dynamically schedule tasks in the most efficient/fastest manner?

I read a bit up on the topics and there is already research into the topics. so I wonder why the approach intel used is even there. http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~tjn/papers/pact2018-hybrid-sched.pdf

Why isn't a better solution used? and why just disable the functionally as it seems like low hanging performance gains from intels side? And isn't this a approach to also look into more as modern hardware utilize ASIC style or dedicated hardware for more operations and will so going forward?
The peer widgets seem to have many differing properties. Compare the two AlertDialog widgets. You'll see they are very similar, but not at all the same:

https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/AlertDialog-class.h...

https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/cupertino/CupertinoAlertDial...

My guess is there were enough widgets with enough differences in behavior or features that they abandoned a theming approach.
I remember watching an old episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, where an insurance executive was talking to one of his employees, and said:

"The job of an insurance company is to take in as much money as possible, then refuse to pay it back."
The interesting bit in the article for me was that if the account was required, and the lame-content posters were gone, the good-content posters also posted less (seemingly, because someone else wasn't wrong on the internet.)
While this is an interesting hack, the larger issue in the example is allowing any query parameter to write into a subprocess. exec() immediately throws flags for me, especially when it isn’t necessary like in the case of making an http call. Even when it isn’t passing arbitrary inputs from the web to the command line, it’s susceptible to DoS that could crash the whole kernel instead of just the web server. I get that this is just a contrived example to show the risk of hidden characters, but please don’t use process.exec() unless you have no other options.
Ask HN: Did Apple silently remove the option to stay on iOS 14?
I noticed that the Software Updates page has changed recently (probably within the last week or so).

Previously, it would say iOS 14.8.1 is the latest and there are no updates available, with a banner near the bottom to upgrade to iOS 15.

As of now, all that is gone. It has been replaced with a page to update to iOS 15.1 as if it was a regular update.

So my question is, is Apple planning to remove the option to stay on iOS 14 or are they simply trying to drive up the adoption rate of iOS 15?
Tom Scott did a video on what some are being used for:

> Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, help save lives: but they need to be in an obvious, easy-to-access, public place that's protected from the elements. Conveniently, it turns out there's a disused red telephone box sitting in the middle of a lot of British villages...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecVHYg4_vZw
"It silently does something unexpected rather than failing" succinctly summarizes all the reasons you shouldn't be using MySQL.
> US and Guatemala

What an odd choice of launch countries! Maybe they're trying to test the use case of "sending money to family abroad"?
Wolt is the first food delivery app I used years ago. It has been convenient, but I definitely started taking it for granted.

I was shocked when I traveled to Germany and used their popular app Lieferando. That app didn't even have a dynamic GPS based map, instead it showed a static map with a constant "ETA 30min". They might as well have just sent me a text with "ETA 30min" as there was no functional difference. Best part was that the courrier never arrived and the app kept showing me "ETA 30min" even two days later. Of course there was no in-app support contact. Only way to contact them was via e-mail and it took them multiple days to respond. The response was very hostile and they claimed that because the courrier couldn't find the address (a giant hotel building) they just didn't make the delivery and that's how it is. Ended up having to do a chargeback.

Contrasting this to Wolt, where I've never had any issues with delivery (and there's a real time map of the courrier's location). When I've had wrong items delivered, the in-app customer support chat has been reasonable and they've just given me credit for a new order.

I'm not sure where DoorDash falls on this spectrum. I've certainly read horror stories about DoorDash here on HN, but hopefully they've improved. Would be a real shame to lose Wolt's premium experience.
You think you should get to vote against other people's local policies? Just you, or do we each get a vote? Where do I get my list of your policies in case I need to vote against some of them?
One of the big issues with nuclear plants is that they aren't very flexible in terms of their energy production. Their production is super steady, so what happens when there's a huge peak in electricity demand at 6 pm when everyone gets home? Fossil fuels are great for their relatively short start up time. Maybe renewables + batteries could somehow fill this niche?
In an emergency where the cell networks are down, you can go to your nearest BT phone box and discover someone smashed the plastic handset five years ago, and nobody noticed because zero calls in five years is the norm.

Anyone who thinks public phone boxes will play a role in a national emergency is fooling themselves.
The worst part of Apple Maps is bizarre Yelp integration. I have to install an app and register just to see photos and read reviews?

Other than that it works pretty well for me.
I’m not sure the Graun is a tabloid beyond the current dimensions of its print edition- it’s certainly left leaning but generally regarded as a well respected newspaper. In terms of a call to action, that would better be on the opinion pages, or as a wider discussion here and elsewhere.
I have zero advice for the parent, sorry, I very much struggle with these things too, and I think it's probably the fundamental challenge of execution in anything really.

You, and anyone who was initially attracted to this question because they feel they might have ADHD or struggle with the same things, might find the below question I previously asked useful. It got some traction and had some helpful anecdotes.

With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716306
That is pretty great! But GP is right in the sense that to really extract a lot of energy you want to go higher into the air too, so why not make use of those no-fly zones for scaling this up?
When did the Guardian become a tabloid? Or is a tabloid any newspaper that publish news you don't like?
Well, that's sad news. Wolt used to be the only food delivery company that had actually functional customer service. They replied swiftly, sometimes automatically even granted some promo codes when the delivery was really late. I suppose that will be gone soon.

Other companies I used ranged from "Your order never arrived? Ok, we'll refund you after some time if you jump through enough hoops" (Glovo) to non-existent: "Your order never arrived? Not our problem, talk to the restaurant. Restaurant ignores your email and calls? Well, still not our problem." (pyszne.pl, polish-only).
After they freed the taxi market even that is somewhere on level of gig-work. Still, there is good amount better paid untrained work around.
As Europe's dependence on polluting coal and Russian gas increases, France is making the right move. I hope other major European countries will follow suit.
I maintain a constantly evolving tree-based hierarchy of files. Everything I receive that's digital I store there. When things are tree-based, I scan and save in the same directory, or take a picture on my phone, and upload into the same directory structure on my Google Drive. My printer also scans, and stores in this structure - adding files to an incoming folder, I then filter.

On my desktop(s) I run insync, and allow everything to sync all over the place. A cronjob then runs that does a pdf2txt for any file, storing the contents in <directory>/.txt/<filename>.txt, blowing away all directories first. insync ensures these are up-to-date everywhere, within a ~30 minute time period.

I use ripgrep to search for content in files, when I can't remember things.

Then, because I'm a special level of worried, I maintain a backup of my Google Drive cache with SpiderOak. After all, one never knows.
Where I am Telstra has also made these telephone boxes available for use - completely for free.
Though I've never seen anyone using them, probably because nowadays everyone and their dog has mobile phones.
Are these fixed in Europe? What about night/day meters?
I make a pdf of every important e-mail and save them in a folder structure on my iCloud account.
I know how it works, what are you arguing for or against?
Part of the problem is the very slow release cadence of Safari. Features are tied to annual OS releases, bug fixes seem to often not meet the bar for incremental updates, which have no discernable schedule.
Who in your imagination is making 350K in SV?
In Dublin:
Workday P4 180K EURO e.g. 207K USD
Stripe L2 200K Euro e.g. 230K USD
My mate just accepted Workday offer that had 200K signup bonus
As the Finnish say, it's not the fool who sells, but the one who buys. If a buyer is willingly offering 7 billion EUR, it's not greedy to accept it.
Getting to documents into my AWS S3 folder is not a problem: I use a scanner or the Adobe scan app on on my phone to drop the application into my folder which syncs to AWS S3.

My biggest issue is finding those documents like "oh its tax season -- where is the receipt for the stuff that I bought from Staples " or "where is the reciept for the medicine I bought so that I could file it for the insurance reimburesment" .

I am hacking away using AWS ML APIs but so far I am not happy with my results.
You mean the last trailing comma? Or not destructions into multiple variables?
We had a week in the summer of 2020 where the only 3 deaths in the county were a person who shot two people and then himself. Made a big splash in the news, only murder in years.

That week, the county health dept. reported 3 COVID deaths.
TS + Intellij

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Being from India where during kite festival hundreds of birds die due to colliding with threads that kites are flying from. I am a little concerned with this solution. But I guess that can be added to the design somehow.

Also it just generates 1.5KW which I think its pretty low. Maybe I did not understand this completely.
Thanks for taking the time to write this out! Politics is so intricate that there's always more nuance than one can get from international news. And yet, despite all the variations, most people seem to accept that their country's version of democracy is the only possible option. To me, it seems natural to be fascinated by its different shapes in different places. E.g. Fraktionszwang, which is an entirely different approach than the US-style whipping (i.e. encouraging allegiance, but at most only threatening to support a primary challenger from the same party, and typically accomplished more through favor-trading).

I'm in the middle of Dark on Netflix, and even as a single perspective it's felt enlightening in how it poses the German everyman in relation to the nuclear energy industry. In a way that feels very different to even US perspectives (my country).

In your opinion, would it be fair to say that Chernobyl and then the Cold War drumbeat of nuclear weapons use were the main historical anti-nuclear motivators? And then Fukushima stirred up that present-but-latent thinking in the modern zeitgeist?

I guess the nuance I'm most interested but confused about is how Fukushima triggered such an apparent breakdown in nuclear support in the center-right, and so quickly? Was there pre-existing anti-nuclear sentiment there too? Or was it more about pro-coal sentiment? Or something else entirely?
From what I gather, these mostly just lead us towards an even more dystopian future.
As someone that once considered themself a hardliner as well, I have found that the last ten years have had the very effect you’re addressing. The truth is there’s a lot of nuance in this topic and it’s beginning to look like a hardline stance resulted in destroying people counter to what Aaron wanted.
It’s getting closer, and quite a few bits of the supporting work have already been merged into the JDK.
No, theyve been struggling with it ever since Apple switched from OpenGL to Metal.
Yes but "you can charge it while you sleep" is a pretty popular selling point of electric cars. You're arguing that we should purposely make electric cars less attractive.

People talk about "demand management" as if it's free. Not much power available, just shut down some factories. But if you're running your factories only half the time, you need to build twice as many factories to make the same stuff. You're making renewables look artificially cheap by externalizing costs to their customers.
How would one go about benchmarking file systems for a new server with no extra machines at hand?

I've ordered one for our research lab and it's not mission critical in any way and we have our sweet time to set it up. Is there anything more advanced than: default bare metal install with FS of choice, run benchmark, reinstall with different FS, rinse repeat? Or do you test with VMs?
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Then kids from poor parents won't be able to go to the top programs because the top programs won't reduce their rates because they will still be able to get their high fees from rich parents and they won't want to make their school worse at least perceptibly so if they have to cut a bunch of costs.
> I mean... not to be flippant, but you're essentially saying "As long as we solve these vaguely-defined problems, and also these follow-up problems I just thought of, then I don't see where the problem is".

Oh yes, I have an answer for that as well :)

My particular approach (or dream) is to define good and evil formally. From there it's a matter of bridging the abstract specifications to reality. By no means failure-proof, but it should be equally or more reliable than human ethics itself. If humans have a biological (carbon-based) hardware and experience that encodes our ethical system, naturally machines (silicon-based hardware) could have them as well.

My definition of good and evil begins with a definition for the meaning of life. From there we can formalize ethics.

To give a short brief: Meaning for creatures is defined by the character of their experience, i.e. by the content of their minds and brains. So as a basic system I've divided Meaning of Life in 4 parts:

(1) Character of experience: the richness, depth, structure, content of all minds.

(2) Beauty: I've been theorizing about this for a long time, and I think some wildcard 'beauty' axiom needs to be defined, you could say as a part of what humans already enjoy, in a self-referential way. Otherwise it seems very difficult to rule out absurd situations as meaningful.

(3) Motivation: A being needs to not only process data, but to have a functional motivation system that makes him want and feel something. Our emotions largely act within our motivational system, making us want more or less things, be more or less joyful (linked to motivational rewards), etc.. I conjecture life can't be quite meaningful without a functional motivational system.

(4) Sustainability (or self-propagation): Simply the maintenance and strategy to keep those beautiful/rich/deep/interesting/motivated mental states, pragmatic things like eating, working and of course simply continuing intelligence throughout the cosmos.

(Other pieces I haven't quite found a way to fit into this picture are principles like Robustness and Generalization... over-specialized cognition

Of course, I don't expect this quest to be exhausted any time soon -- there are probably missing pieces (or incompleteness) in this line of Foundation for a formal ethics. I hope a field will spring out of this, and intense collaboration/progress to be made.

> it seems unlikely that much progress will be done before dangerously powerful AIs are developed

That's exactly what I would like we avoided (although I think the danger is quite nuanced, and in a way already here).
The NFT of a photo of the original Apple 1 computer will probably sell for $4million /face-palm
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This is does not appear to be true:

"Antibodies elicited by mRNA-1273 vaccination bind more broadly to the receptor binding domain than do those from SARS-CoV-2 infection"

* https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abi9915

> These findings suggest that among persons with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, full vaccination provides additional protection against reinfection. Among previously infected Kentucky residents, those who were not vaccinated were more than twice as likely to be reinfected compared with those with full vaccination. All eligible persons should be offered vaccination, including those with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, to reduce their risk for future infection.

* https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
EEG-based reproducible measurement of emotions