skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We saw another fun anecdote illustrating what happens here on HN recently.
It was an unnamed MS engineer who explained the issue with post-Win7 design at microsoft was, that even though the actual programmer engineers _building_ it knew which way north was,
the design struck out for them was dictated by Designers who themselves would only ever touch Macs (if touch any computer at all, not to smirch their design genius), and not lower themselves to consider how LEGACY WINDOWS (ie windows from 6 months prior) actually worked - which would anyway be IRRELEVANT, as they were responsible for designing the FUTURE, and you don't do that by looking at the PAST.

And this is how we end up with the world's most succesful desktop OS
having "Title menu bars that can no longer be used to drag the window", menu-bars consisting of ALLCAPS to hint it might possibly be a menu, a start-menu that you can no longer browse, where your installed programs never show up or disapppear, and where central OS windows no longer follow basic UI guidelines (goodbye incremental-keyboard-search, and the ability to sort and resize list columns), and hello scrolling lists without scrollbars, and goodbye indicator of how big this scrolling list is, and whether there are further items below to scroll into view.
It is telling that Microsoft has not been able to produce a viable GUI framework/toolkit since 2006.
Interestingly, WPF still sports 'the worst folder picker in the world', even though Forms has offered an excellent and superior folder-picker for around 20-22 years by now.
>> "I still wonder why Apple has not dropped Bluetooth already."

Apple Pencil uses Bluetooth. That's a huge selling point for their bigger devices. Dropping Bluetooth would mean dropping all the third-party styluses people use. Who would ever upgrade what they draw/paint on if they had to buy a $100 device to replace one that already works on what they have?
> It is very simple, nuclear has been a failure in Europe in the last couple of decades. Look at projects in the Finland, France and the UK. The situation would have been much better if there was a nuclear industry that could deliver in time and within budget.

What are the reasons for that failure? Has Europe had the same problem as the US of severe under-investment in infrastructure and withering capabilities? Is risk-aversion becoming pathological, leading to ballooning costs and complexity?
> Typically, the real evaluation is the market (will more students and professors be drawn to MIT?).

Or even better, students with the right attitude towards this issue will flock to MIT, creating the right long term culture for the institution.

They should make applicant write a compulsory essay on the topic of free speech.
I have friends with the same dilutions.
"We just need to build loads of tiny mechanical generators and enough batteries to store a few days worth of our countries electricity consumption"

How someone can say this (and still claim to be green) is beyond me.
I do.

I am working for an agency and am working as a freelancer for smaller local and regional clients mainly from the organic food production sector.
Good that some people are happy about this, but it really is pointless to post a link to "lib: add fetch" followed by code diffs. HN should have a requirement that there be an actual post, rather than a discussion starter for those in a particular community. All you'd have to do is type in a brief text post with an explanation and then link to the code diffs for those interested.
Proton Mail, GitLab, Pivotal Tracker, Dropbox, Square, ecobee, DuckDuckGo. All found ways to make money without selling your personal data.
> I mean, they have EU datacenters

That doesn't matter anymore. According to the relatively recent ECJ ruling mentioned in the article you're not allowed to transfer any PII to companies that are in any way affiliated with a US-based entity (e.g., by virtue of having a US-based parent company), which clearly is the case for Amazon and AWS.

It doesn't stop there. According to some privacy experts, even a third party just having a US-based supplier might be construed as a customer of that third party being in violation of GDPR, at which point we'd basically have to cease all economic activity.
Folks underestimate the community aspect of church. It was also key for us in building a network. Met some wonderful friends there that have helped us and we've helped them. Same with my kid's school friends and various other things like the co-op and even the local bars.
Hey thank you for this discovery.
After every arch-install i think to myself i should probably automate this, and i only go as far as logging all the commands typed (mostly doing '# history > log.sh' and adding a few comments) and said file is is forgotten or i am trying something different for the next install (like desperately trying to make a CB3-131 Chromebook work nicely)

Here are the links for the lazy

[channel] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_WM2O-X96URC5n66G-hvw

[the latest installment of Arch Monthly Install:Jan 2022] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7btEUHjECAo
Surprise eruptions are Earth’s overlooked threat
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've been doing it a lot lately, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just my last encounter with the so called meme, that sex is a social construct: [1]. It was just 12 hours ago.

[1]: https://twitter.com/x_mass/status/1488329923471319043
The same can be said of large houses. They look fantastic and wonderful but many people don't think about the scale of maintenance. A smaller/modest house can have it's roof replaced for $4500...that fancy house down the street: $25000 for the low-ball.
I friend of mine worked in law enforcement. Her specialty was documenting crime scenes. Gruesome stuff. Think architectural as-built drawings with every drop of blood rendered.

She absolutely delighted in finding cubby holes, hiding places, stashes. Often missed during initial investigations.
Even bad teachers have to meet the standards, which are usually set by law. A preschool teacher, who often gets paid just over minimum wage, usually requires a 2 year degree (for head start-like programs). A teacher? 4 year degree, with a preference for a masters and in many places, absolutely no pay during the summer months.

It isn't like any other industry hires only "good" people, though, so calling out teaching for that - especially if your area has a shortage - seems a bit unfair.
> One could use green hydrogen.

Ah yes. It's a thing that

- can be cheaply produced at scale

- can be easily transported to large distances

- infrastructure can be easily and quickly converted to using it
This is still not equivalent because we haven't solved storage (peaky energy is not as valuable as constant energy) [and because you've compared build costs to total costs].

Bit in [] is false; apologies.
The extra cost to produce high-quality software is not offset by higher profits from that software. If low-quality software generates 90% of the revenue for 30% of the cost, why bother with that extra work? It makes sense from the management's perspective, however frustrating it is from the user's end.

I face the same thing. I'm locked into using a particular GIS software package for my work, supposedly a central system accessible from any device. However, in practice they have 3 different apps and 2 different web interfaces, none of which have the same feature set. And often I want to use data that's accessible on one of their platforms to do processing that's only available on another of their platforms. And there are backend problems for which I've periodically been sending in support/suggestion tickets for a decade without any fixes. However, their marketing feeds are constantly bragging about new features and integrations. Why? Fixing their broken shit is harder work for less payoff. So they just don't. And they've got the patents, so they don't have to care.
There's no magic bullet for free speech thanks to the Paradox of Tolerance. Allowing all speech, completely unrestricted, is a recipe for creating a completely unworkable environment.
It only takes one Very On Twitter Person to make a thread of the encounter, and OP becomes a laughingstock: Seashell Steve.
Seems surprising that Apple/Google didn't just offer BlackBerry $610M to stop the bullshit.

Maybe the freshly formed company is owned by some former RIM exec(s)...
I was thinking of this generally. I've built hundreds of websites and while many had plenty of similarities, there would still be a plethora of databases and languages to support. And that's just my own history. There are quite a few developers, languages, data formats, services, etc.

And so the system that can run any "boxed" website - as in a working archive - would need to support all of these things, as they are today, in some form or would need to emulate / translate these things.

But instead of normalizing and archiving, my off-the-cuff suggestion is basically to freeze it in time. OS, languages, databases, services, data, code, everything is exactly as it was last built. Ideally, provided the storage medium held all its bits and the power source were compatible, it should boot up in 200 years without issue.

In a sense this is what we've accomplished with VMs and containers. But those still require an underlying system. If the system is part of the medium, you only need power and a console.
This is my favorite answer so far. This sounds like a heavenly way to start the day.
That's scary but we can't deny that it will happen.
> has been responsible for smallest number of deaths of any form of energy generation

So far. The spent fuel will be around for another 10k years to potentially cause further deaths.

If we have a few more Fukushimas, we might ruin the ocean forever.
Encryption is done using normal Wireguard keys so it's not a security problem. Im curious if the DHT routing is done based on the key or on the IPv6 address that represents the key.
I knew about this information from the same video. Great explanation from great channel (and person).

The article is a nice source to read tho
Appreciate you sharing your direct experience. Thank you!
>which is the correct conclusion? As the state can only offer legal protection under its own jurisdiction.

Not sure I follow, US gov can't legally protect non US citizens from itself abusing them? It should be as hard for the spying to happen for an US or non US citizen or company.
HTML autocomplete “one-time-code”
If OP can't meet women, what makes you think he'll have any luck finding a QT French surfer chick?
I don't think it's an age thing, I think it was just bloody obvious. So much so that I suspect that story was embellished a lot of dramatic effect. ie the author figured it out themselves quicker than they claimed to but it wouldn't have been as dramatic read if it was the literal sequence of events. Another oddity was the suggested age: 3 years old is very later to be teaching your kids the different between red and green.

Also worth baring in mind that the story happened roughly 20 years ago and I certainly can't remember every conversation I had with my family 20 years ago.
no that's gen-z leaking into my vocab.

> I in person interviewed with them late 2015ish, was extra cause the "office" was just someone's house. They ghosted me, didnt return calls/emails . I guess I was horribly bad candidate/human to deserve such treatment.

I'll try again.

I interviewed with them in person late 2015-ish, it was quite the over the top experience because their "office" was just a residential apartment (right near twitter).
So, you are admitting that HTTP and HTTPS are both equally insecure (they can be blocked or falsely approved by malicious authorities/service providers). At least, plain HTTP seems harder to censor: you do not need anybody's permission to transfer HTTP.

Self-signed HTTPS would be even better, but it seems to be frowned-upon by browsers these days.
The only reason I recommneded archive.org is that webcite is no longer taking submissions, and their HTTPS cert has expired. Other than that, I agree with you.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I'm glad to hear education prioritized and the dangers of censorship discussed; on the other hand, I don't like the sound of "monitoring and mitigating evolving sources of scientific misinformation online". It comes off as, "we need to crack down on the smaller platforms because people can think and say what they want there." And the final non-committal comment from Vint Cerf, representing google here, reads simply as, "what we've been doing is fine and we should keep doing it." I would have expected something more like, "we need to encourage productive conversation around controversial topics instead of silencing minority voices by pretending we can find the truth with an algorithm." Purposefully preventing someone's voice from being being found, or taking away their opportunity to make a living through sharing, is still censorship.
Livestorm.co - Paris

Wonder.me - Berlin

whereby.com - Oslo (technically not EU, but close enough)

That site is just lacking.
I've had a reverse situation an interviewee where emails were written very enthusiastically and apparently technically competent, and then when the time for the interview call came, whoever picked up the phone was definitely not the same person. They would just shut up after any technical questions - after a while we simply asked if he was nervous and he said yeah that's it. When asked for any previous experience he'd just copy and paste links to websites which didn't work and couldn't elaborate on what those websites even were. At one point he just read the description written on one of them. We asked him for his GitHub account or anything similar and he said 'oh I know that one' (he sent a 404 link) and we just had to end the call right there as it was getting surrealistically hilarious.

The next day we got an email from the apparently competent one, claiming that this time the email was being written by a 'friend' of the candidate we talked to (same address every time), and that if we gave them a chance he'd be the 'perfect candidate with 100% qulaity' (sic).

We politely refused.
From what I understand, it has to do with the volume of the water that is displaced. With a tsunami caused by a fault it can be massive. For example, the 2014 Indian Ocean ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_a... )

> An estimated 1,600 km (1,000 mi) of fault surface slipped (or ruptured) about 15 m (50 ft) along the subduction zone where the Indian Plate slides (or subducts) under the overriding Burma Plate. The slip did not happen instantaneously but took place in two phases over several minutes: Seismographic and acoustic data indicate that the first phase involved a rupture about 400 km (250 mi) long and 100 km (60 mi) wide, 30 km (19 mi) beneath the sea bed—the largest rupture ever known to have been caused by an earthquake.

For the Tonga eruption - https://www.npr.org/2022/01/18/1073800454/nasa-scientists-es... - that's 1.5x smaller. Furthermore, that energy released wasn't all in the ocean, some of it went into the atmosphere.

Another example for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsu...

> An upthrust of 6 to 8 metres (20 to 26 ft) along a 180 kilometres (110 mi) wide seabed at 60 kilometres (37 mi) offshore from the east coast of Tōhoku resulted in a major tsunami that brought destruction along the Pacific coastline of Japan's northern islands.

From an energy released perspective, the 2004 earthquake:

> The energy released on the Earth's surface (ME, which is the seismic potential for damage) by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was estimated at 1.1×1017 joules (110 PJ; 26 Mt). This energy is equivalent to over 1,500 times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, but less than that of Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.

Another measure is that that was a 9.1-9.3 magnitude quake. The 2011 quake and tsunami was a 9.0-9.1 magnitude quake. Tonga was estimated to have a surface-wave magnitude of 5.8.
Slightly side question -- does this bi-directional interoperability improve Swift adoption to multiple platforms. Swift when it was released had much fanfare and definitely looked like a balanced language but as time passed has been limited to Apple eco-system.
The comparison is flawed, because Javascript is a subset of Typescript, but C is not a subset of C++. A better analogy would be that C++ is to C what Dart is to Javascript.
per ofgem, wholesale prices have been greater than Hinkley's £92/MWh since October.

And that's before we add heating to the winter electric load. Conservatively, and I am really trying here, you're doubling grid load. If we go by my household, you're adding a zero.

I can find multiple >12 hr periods in this fairly mild winter where wind has essentially failed on demand (<5% satisfaction). I'm sorry but if someone says "storage" when talking about even that sort of shortfall they're lying.
> When I wake up, my brain is immediately on

Isn’t that biological ? I’m not a morning person and I do generally have a hard time to get up… except if it’s my 4yo calling from its bedroom. When it happens, I feel like i’m waked by an instant shoot of adrenaline.
>That type of problem is found throughout chemistry but usually an accepted nomenclature applies (when it doesn't is when we get into troubles).

It is not. Nobody who is into chemistry is confused by it, and those who are usually learn something new when they first stumble upon it.

>So why did Wiki make the change when I pointed the matter out if it is incorrect?

Possibly because most Wikipedians aren't chemists and assume good faith.

>I'd now suggest you get it corrected.

That level of entitlement...

>Very true, but aspartame is not known to the world by its IUPAC name

Please think about this statement. Thoroughly.
Yeah. We need a better transmission grid before we can go to 100% renewables (balancing out Scottish wind with Spanish solar). But a better transmission grid is miles cheaper than nuclear, so it's still a no brainer.
There's a lot of houses that were built around the 50s
docker-machine, which predated Docker Desktop, used VirtualBox; you may be thinking of that. I don't think Docker Desktop ever used VirtualBox.
I think some of it is because Node doesn’t have very many ways to let people know about potentially breaking changes. A compiler (like Elixir) has an opportunity to communicate potential breaking changes to the user before the program actually runs, and a static type system (like Rust) makes it easy to detect such broken code and reject it outright instead of silently changing behavior. It’s harder for Node: where would the diagnostic even go? The console? Some apps use Curses, so this will break them, and many of them send their own logs through something other than the console, so nobody’s actually watching it.

Node also isn’t actually a language, so there’s a lot of stuff that Node developers get in new version, but it’s actually being done in the V8 project.
That would mean only large companies would own patents. It would be the death of the independent inventor. No capital to make what you invented? Oh well…
No, that wouldn't work either because that EU subsidiary would still be controlled by its US-based parent company.
> Then more stuff will resume full operation. Clubs, live theater, gyms, martial arts, universities.

Nope. Many people remain unvaccinated, and the next variant will keep the status quo. Rinse and repeat into the summer, fall, winter.
They all sound to me like reasonable caveats except the last one; which is vague and subjective enough to cover just about anything they don't like.
I can’t for the life of me remember the name but there’s a site that’s kind of a Couch Surfing/Airbnb/Craigslist mashup where people can post a room or a property available in exchange for a certain amount of work each day/week/month. Some people will post a typical home for a week on the condition the occupant feeds and walks the dog while they’re away but a lot of the listings were for rooms on a farm in exchange for a few hours of work each day. I used it once in Spain with a friend and it was a ton of fun. It was really hard work even though I suspect it was “easy” work by farming standards.

Perhaps someone here knows the site and will chime in with the name because if you have a spare room or two and enjoy meeting new people it might be an affordable way to get a bit of help.
> There are no blackouts in Europe. There's no energy shortage.

... yet (and that's only for large-area outages. In 2019, large parts of Berlin were without power for over 30 hours [1]). Wherever I look, civil protection agencies are scurrying to set up contingency plans for a multinational, month-long blackout. In Switzerland, the public broadcaster has started communicating that risk to their population three years ago, clearly stating that this will lead to a massive loss of lives. We are running into a catastrophe, and we're too ideologically blinded to accept it.

Better stock up on those conserves and gas cartouches for cooking.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-blackout-raises-questions-over-...
Part of the problem with Nuclear is tax payer exhaustion. Every time they build a plant it take 10-20 years longer and cost over runs are in the billions. And then you have costly refurbishment that runs into the billions and takes half a decade longer than anticipated. It's a shit show from day one until they finally shut it down 20 billion $$$ later...
The surprising thing is that with a rare exceptions (like in Finland) people who have money to invest don't believe that investing in nuclear power will actually make them a profit.

We know the price of CO2 will just go up and up. We know how hard it is to create a base load with wind/solar and storage.

Yet nobody with money believes it is worth investing in nuclear.

Of course, looking at Hinkley Point C, Olkiluoto, Flamanville makes it very clear why nobody wants to invest in nuclear power.
Right you have to give intermediates a cut and yes they require social security numbers so hard to clone accounts but in age of discord proxy betters are readily available
With trademark, it's use it or lose it, as it should be with patents.

EDIT: I accidentally included copyright in this. It is not.
Swift has always directly interacted with C, so I doubt limited support for C++ would make a huge difference in that kind of adoption.
Agreed. Sandstorm in particular was and is a great example of simplifying system administration, and holds the most promise of anything in that realm IMO. I'm not sure if it's in a position to host federated services at the moment, but I know it's been talked about - if that can be made to work, it'd be the simplest solution I can think of.
I think that our society is sleeping on the effects advertising has on people and we should take a really hard look at how we permit corporations to attempt to change people's behaviors, in particular for products that are known to contribute seriously to massive society-wide problems like obesity.
The following repository implements radix sorting algorithms “from the ground up” and includes some benchmarks:

https://github.com/eloj/radix-sorting#cpp-benchmark
Would you mind stating which institution you work for, so I can recommend that my kids avoid it like the plague?

I want teachers who can answer questions about Fourier transforms, not teachers who can "manage a diverse classroom". Really, "manage"?
Why is this being down voted? This comment seems to be making a reasonable case.

In case you disagree, you may want to reply why instead of down voting.
You’re conflating a more general problem of foundations with democracy. How can a form of governance even be started? On what grounds? How has the mandate to put forth the ground rules? Has nothing to do with democracy per se.