skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to know more about DuPont’s dubious history and lawsuits involving Teflon, Wikipedia isn’t the place to go (although some information is in the link above)

DuPont:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_(1802–2017)
> We don't have earthquakes

Nevertheless one should never take this as guaranteed. Nuclear power plants should be carefully designed everything-proof wherever they are built.
The issue with this is less that this is possible and more that a lot of javascript ends up in production without ever getting compiled, linted, type-checked, etc. Stuff like this is designed to bypass what little human oversight there is to prevent bad things from happening. What is actually visible also depends on what fonts you have installed on your system. So, it's less clear cut than you think.

The problem is not so much that humans can't see this but that they are not looking very hard to begin with (otherwise, they'd be using the appropriate tools) and that we should rely less on them actively looking. Blind trust that things will be fine is the root problem here.
Hah, I actually thought of Gallente ships from Eve.
The phone boxes were successfully killed off here in Poland in last 15 years; most likely because mobile networks become more reliable, dense and cheaper. Devices in particular places like hospitals or prisons should be still running and supported, as acc. to wikipedia article it's required by law but since the national telecom was privatized (now mainly owned by Orange) no official service provider was designated for the task.

Last time I had chance to use a phone box I didn't even call - I had to text someone to actually call me on my prepaid phone.
On top of this there have also been big recent developments in fusion reactors. Probably still 50 years out for them to be useful though.
This shows up in standard Vim as a [HF] symbol.
There’s a video of the capture at https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/11/05/darpa-nabs-g...
Yeah I think the big issue is for MS Teams, that big is just a bad app overall.
Hub dynamos produce a couple of watts tops. You're probably much better off buying a small solar cell.
This is inexcusably disgusting. Reminds me of the bullshit Amazon feeds their employees about unions.
Rosetta has performance parity with Intel Macs but uses more power. Nearly every app has native support for Apple Silicon now.
> Um USC is still considered one of the top schools.

This is true only by an extremely expansive definition of top school. It's not even a top 20 school.
Your statistics are of course true, but cats and wind turbines kill different species of birds. It does make sense not to put wind turbines where endangered birds are nesting.
I don't understand this take.

Google Maps is one of the world's greatest modern achievements. It's an incredible resource, and it's free. I have no idea what the actual numbers are but if you told me it collectively saved hundreds of billions of dollars a year i wouldn't be surprised. Not to mention the cultural value of being able to teleport virtually anywhere in the world and see the streets, visit places etc.

Isn't it a good thing that Google, for all their ills, put their money to work on this?

Isn't this one of those capitalism success stories so many people here rave about?
The First Trillion-Dollar Startup
Not parent, but aside from the novelty factor:

For small scale energy production small VAWTs [0] are relatively cheap, they offer more W/m2, and they are much more easily serviceable and installable.

For large scale production it's orders of magnitude less efficient, plus having multiple kites on the same plane brings in the wake effect [1] in full force. That's why regular turbines are generally laid in lines rather than wide surfaces, or with significant separation between them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical-axis_wind_turbine

[1] https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/wake-effect.html
When something goes wrong it can easily go terribly wrong.

Coal-fired power stations release significantly more radioactive material into the atmosphere than any nuclear accident[1]. If your concern is about radioactive material then worry about coal ash first.

[1]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
That is blowing the risks out of proportion. Normal houses won't be earthquake proof, and people will actually be living in them and get squished if there is a bad earthquake. There will be death and destruction.

Whether or not the nuclear plant survives intact is a bit of a minor issue. It just has to fail without being orders of magnitude worse than the earthquake.

Citing Fukushima - Fukushima was bad. Bud the mounds of corpses caused by the natural disaster that also caused Fukushima are a far more important thing to spend resources preventing than Fukushima itself was.
OP here: in 20 years I will be 74 years old. I might be dead by then. Even if I workout and continue to do lots of pull ups every day.

My four kids would be happy though.
The extraordinary story of how 300 volunteers rescued a stranded caver
I'm sorry but I gotta call this out; this is just peak HN arrogance. All we have is an article relating an anecdote and the reaction to it is to second-guess the author's actions/interpretation of events. Surely, the author has more context of what was actually happening, what was actually being asked for?

The actual words used were already vague enough ("ideas for a software project"). The answer to that would always be subjective. Why is there no trust in the author that he has a better read of the room? He definitely has more context of what the students were actually asking for. These are also, students; I'd give the author benefit of the doubt that he gave them a problem that would be most productive use of their time given their skill level. Maybe that's why he didn't consider web browsers or bug trackers.

FWIW, I think the article makes a good point but is poorly illustrated, especially for this audience. I've no doubt your average HN commenter has projects/scripts under their belt more complicated than a clipboard logger, maybe even on far tighter time constraints. But c'mon, these are students! If you work in the industry there will definitely be different causes for project under-estimation.
What makes these examples nuclear power problems, rather than bad organization problems? Large projects are known to have issues like cost overruns. Airports, carriers, etc are all things that tend to cost more than the sticker price.

Look at cars. People used to get run over all the time, they'd hurt themselves in crashes, etc. But so much effort has been spent investing in them that things like seat belts became a thing, we made laws about driving, and so on.

You also have to look at the tradeoffs. Putting carbon in the air is basically a bad idea, and we need to reduce it. Here's a replacement for doing that, we should put some of our chips on that. Perfectly fine to have windmills as well, not saying there aren't other bets.
A later submission is being discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29170954 (153 points, 23 comments).
I love the aspect of rolling out more nuclear as a solution, but the centralization issue is a good point. While I love the idea of rolling out more Nuclear, I still don't see it as a forever and always solution. Nuclear at the very least, should be a viable option until other green energy sources get further along in their development where needed. I would love to see a day when people could generate most of all their energy needs themselves.
> Signal has a policy around not talking about future features

aka only we invent things here. open source in name only
I find the line break to be semantical important!

So it is different if there is or if there is not a line break.

How do you manage it? Double line break?
Forcing single IME state globally and attempting to remove even the possibility of using per-window/application state in IBus. Mind you, this was removing the option, those who preferred single global state already could do so.

The argument was that it would lower cognitive load, without any evidence backing it up, and obviously with no input from people who regularly have to mix different input systems - where the ability for IME state to match context of the window they are in, especially as sometimes the different tasks in different windows would have incompatible needs on current IME state.
With a USC degree? Why would anyone brag about that?

Snobbery is fractal. People who went to elite schools look down on places that are very good, like USC.
The problem with linux is not the desktop itself, but almost the whole of the userspace.

First of all, security, or the lack of it. The age-old xkcd is still true, where an attacker can’t install a video card driver on my laptop, but can encrypt, read, send, record basically everything I actually care about on a desktop, and it doesn’t even have to try (seriously, just hide a bash script wherever you want or append to bashrc). Running everything as the same user when no finer grade authorization is available is simply a no go.

Yeah, there is flatpak but I feel it tries to be two things at once, and not being the best in either of them (package management and sandbox). I think we should not imitate what docker or other OSs do, when we have nix, which is imo a superior solution to the problem and we should embrace it. As for the security, we do have SELinux which works very well for courser authorization (fedora does a decent job at it!), but it should be combined with a supportive capability-based security system a la Android, where new processes run as different user from the actual one, and all IPC should happen through some controlled manner.

My second gripe: why do linux people insist on using C for goddamn everything? And no, I’m not advocating for “rewrite everything in X”, but come on, should gnome’s welcome screen be a C executable, really? Especially knowing that bash scripting (which is even worse than C from a correctness POV in my opinion) is the often used alternative —- meaning that performance is nowhere near an issue as goddamn scratch is faster than bash. So other than pipewire, there really are not many places where such low level control/performance is needed, meaning that Java, C# or the other litany of GCd languages could work perfectly fine, and they would likely even increase productivity/maintainability.
What the hell did I just watch? Feature length that may be, but that's more of a fever dream than a movie.
> Nuclear is just cleaner when it's done right.

The question is whether “doing it wrong” (Fukushima) outweighs the benefits of “doing it right”.
Yes, there was data to decide that, you should ask them nicely on the proper channel if you want more info. Please avoid dismissing things as "bullshit", that's rude and it doesn't help the discussion. If you have any additional data to the contrary, then now would be the time to present it. AFAIK extensions are considered as a data point but are not the only one, any time there is a design change there tends to be an extension that reverts it so it's not much of a reliable thing.
Check out https://grid.is
What a domain.
nothing is worse than people who follow orders in the name of science but only within an prescribed authority group. completely agree
An unoffical M1 version already exists, thanks to https://github.com/dennisameling.

But the Signal devs don't merge it. That makes it especially strange, what more could the community do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29139120
Nice domain. !!!
You mean like https://grid.is/ ?
Peter Jackson Sells Weta Digital to Unity Software for $1.63bn
Audio Hacking on the ESP8266 (2019)
Novi (FB Stablecoin USDP) Launched in US and Guatemala
Just received a notification from Novi, but there's no news item on the site yet.

> Hello, there. It's been a while, and we have some updates to
share with you about Novi.

> Novi is now available with a waitlist in Guatemala and the United States for sending and receiving money using USDP (Pax Dollar). With Novi, you can move money instantly with no fees
I may be wrong since i'm not american, but it seems like unions are generally a controversial topic in the US.
Deep Dive into MongoDB Aggregation Framework
Complex usage of the MongoDB aggregation framework to retrieve documents from multiple collections using an aggregation pipeline query that will perform much faster than the existing functional Map-reduce models.

https://deeptiman.medium.com/deep-dive-into-mongodb-aggregation-framework-25978d3319f9
This looks interesting for off grid areas. Even a small prototype can run water pumps etc. They look like should be easy to transport and install.
OP here: I am 54 years old now. I might extend my plan to 10 years, if thing works out.
Adopting an Experimental Mindset
The last time I phoned the police in the UK I was told that I shouldn't be using the emergency 999 number unless it was a life or death situation. I was being threatened with violence at the time?

Having the means to make an emergency call doesn't necessarily result in getting help, it would seem.

*There is a non-emergency number but this also seems to be just a way of frustrating you into giving up.
I’ve warn a dressing gown it’s pretty much the same thing when you think about it
Yuck and.

> So Ofcom is proposing clearer, stronger rules to safeguard a phone box against removal, if any of four criteria applies:

>its location is not already covered by all four mobile networks; or it is located at an accident or suicide hotspot; or
>more than 52 calls have been made from it over the past 12 months; or
> exceptional circumstances mean there is a need for a public call box.

Seems to be reasonable criteria if accepted.
Excuse my ignorance, but on what basis it is an actual ownership of a digital asset and what is actually the asset? From what I understand NFT is a blockchain record that contains a URL. This URL may point to different resources at different times, no?
I don't think your last statement is correct. According to the linked page, the James H. Miller Jr. plant produces around 19 million metric tons of CO2 per year, while passenger cars produce around 760 million metric tons per year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1235091/us-passenger-car...
Looks like the issue is that the submitted link is a search for “you.com”, which appears to be a special search result that includes prominent promotion of the Chrome extension, regardless of which browser you’re using. It would probably have been a better idea to submit a link to the landing page or a normal search result.
Oh god it's the xkcd but real.
OP here. Good point. What do you consider a low fee fund these days? 0.1% fee?
I consider netbooting like drawers in the kitchen, where I grab tools according to task. Be it preparing meals, or actually eating.

In a reversal of what you call business function, I'd consider it as my business to do what I want in my space when I want, how and where.

That shrinkwrapped pre-installed OS/Appstore is just another business sector, which the masses have been conditioned into accepting.

Convenient. But sometimes not, rather the opposite.
Alternative headline: 75% of UK phone boxes to be removed (now=21k, future= 5k)
But a project manager would allocate 2 hours just for the initial project discussion meeting, so 2 hours and 4 hours are obviously not project manager estimates.
> without being orders of magnitude worse than the earthquake

You're overlooking the exaggerated panic-and-horror reaction of the public to literally any kind of nuclear incident. If you design merely for statistically acceptable results it's basically guaranteeing political blowback at some point.
Hi,

In Emacs, it is possible by using "follow-mode":

Open a "large" file.

M-x follow-mode

C-x 3 ;; to split vertically

And adjust splits width as many times needed.

I usually use 3 splits with "visual-line-mode" enabled.
The fact that a phone-box qualifies for saving if "more than 52 calls have been made from it over the past 12 months" kind of says everything that needs to be said about how rarely the things are now used.
The top comment in HN or the blog post? If HN, what you ask for already exists.
Note: although there is an after-tax 401k, there is also a roth 401k. so along with pretax 401k that makes a total of 3 kinds

For whatever reason, the online personal finance space has rallied behind the ira and roth ira products

but I cant find any benefit of the ira over the 401k. whats important to me is how the 401k has multi-year low interest borrowing possible, as well as 10x higher contribution limits than an IRA.

To me it seems more like the SEO ambiguity makes the roth 401k more obscure than it is, it is hard to google because of the after tax, roth, and redirection to roth ira discussions pollute the search results

In addition, it seems like people just figured out how to create their own iras but havent figured out they can do the same with 401ks? One can roll from other plans and other employers 401ks into your own self directed 401k including roth 401k
I think nintendo consoles, by virtue of being the most popular of the era, and therefore the most nostalgia, have probably the best debugging/tools of the lot. Personally I'm not a fan of the 6502 as a general-purpose CPU, but it's just fine for single-tasking games and global variables (there's almost no stack space).

I'm starting out on z80 since I have an MSX and I hope to move to Sega Megadrive/Genesis later since I hear nothing but good things about the motorola 68k. The z80 seems pretty easy to understand (though it's not always consistent).

It's worth checking the limitations of the video and sound hardware to see what you like as well. I'm partial to FM synthesis so Sega consoles make sense to me. 8-bit stuff is going to land you with really tough colour restrictions (often about 3 per 8x8 square, tops). You may want to start with the "16-bit" era, which generally used 4-bit colours (16 for the whole screen, easier to create assets for).
Agreed, it's not a perfect resource. The other tool I know of is https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/minnesota, but its resolution is only state level, can't dig in at county or hospital level. Between 30% covid ICU at state level and red hospitals concentrated in Minneapolis, I'm making a guess that it's probably a covid wave hitting Minneapolis.
It's not a bad choice at all.
We need to end these platform monopolies now.

When the electric companies own the grid and take a cut of the toaster because you're using 'their electricity' it's bad.

Separation of concerns is good for everyone in the long run.
>There's a good chance that this will solve 95% of all needs. Most of the features suggested in the article beyond the original premise are unnecessary.

The teacher is the client. The client is the one who will better estimate what is necessary or not.

If you own a company and someone wants to contract you for work, you start explaining how what the client says it needs is not necessary and how he can manage with less than he demands?
"The comeback of nuclear energy" At last, I would say. We have magic energy source in our hands but, no, better spend milliards on wind turbines and solar panels, although we know they sometimes work and sometimes don't, so they can't provide predictable input for a grid without batteries that we don't have and will not have in foreseeable future.

I am wondering what Germany is going to do. They have bet heavily on wind & solar (apparently they haven't check how many sunny days Germany has...) with the backup from Russian gas from Nord Stream 1/2 (for some reason this gas is "clean" although burning it produces CO2). If everyone around will switch to nuclear, what I hope will happen, they can end up with the very expensive setup that is still producing a lot of CO2.

I am afraid that Germany will try to enforce ban on nuclear by European Union (what they can do, since Brexit Germany is in fact ruling UE), as the wrong investment might hurt their economy. I hope France will oppose.
Cave Link
Going for a walk in your neighborhood and adding all the POIs to OpenStreetMap is fun btw.
Nice idea! I wouldn’t feel confident to wear a skirt as a guy but I hope it catches on.
How to write a candidate portrait for a developer
Of which some have not be used for 2 years.
There is a balance in providing the public regulated service and providing something that nobody uses day to day. The criteria appears sensible.
Sorry, your price link is contradicting you. Meanwhile you've left out that aside from energy-taxation, Germans already are having the highest income-tax and social-security costs of the developed world as well. France must have some very elaborate scheme hiding this great price-equalizer.
I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, I still see an option for "Allow different input sources for each window" in the keyboard settings panel.
They are all (15,000 payphones) now free in Australia

https://exchange.telstra.com.au/why-were-making-payphones-fr...

Are these free? The cost of collecting money certainly not worth it, electronic systems to collect money probably not worth it, but there is the risk of going over the 52 calls / year if it's free.
I didn't read that as sour, rather amused.
Indeed. It looks like they went from ZFS 0.8.x (lz4) to 2.x (zstandard) in one go. That would be too yolo for my taste, but the guys were under time pressure due to the rather sudden performance degradation. Nodes replacement would probably buy some time, to allow the upgrade to be done in 2 phases.
Blue Origin legal tactics partly to blame for NASA moon landing delay
I remember when I was kid hearing fusion reactors are impossible. What breakthroughs finally made them potentially possible?
The point is to slowly move your funds to less volatile methods. You don't have to be 100% stocks for 5 years and then go 100% bonds after 5 years.
A fair number of HN takes are snark and critique I think these days, it's a bit more reddit now?

I think folks underestimate just HOW MUCH data google maps has and how many users it has, and the integration / scale is impressive particularly as some parts of the system are real time. They seem to update both street view and satellite data pretty frequently, and you can go back in time in sat vie as well, so we have a geo and time dimension now.

When I do routing I can route by walking, transit, driving etc. It seems to know every train / bus route and stop and even schedule. It seems to have most businesses. With street view I can zoom from space to a street and see a storefront.

This is stuff the CIA spends $20 billion on and gets a crappy product only 3 users at a time can use in a room.
They're still in use in Dublin, mostly by junkies.
> I'm left with the impression that distros are not considered a "customer" by these GNOME contributors

I think that impression is correct - System76 is not considered a customer but a co-developer.
Amazing! Such a good listen
I wonder how coherent the base of either party is values-wise or ideologically. There's certainly some intellectuals that have a clear ideological side, but for the people I talk to offline there often seems to be a kind of sports-team dynamic, even if they don't fit neatly into ideological boxes. For example, I know Republicans that don't generally support their party's economic policies, and Democrats that don't support many of their party's social policies, but neither of those facts seem to interfere with them being solid partisans. Often they end up in a media bubble for their "team" which probably contributes.
I was on my way to an important meeting and Google Maps had an outage. I panicked, and it took me a good 5 minutes to realize there were other map products that I could use to get directions.