skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We decided to reduce the waste and frustration when personal stuff gets left behind, and somebody finds it but doesn't know who owns it. So we have launched pingpenguin - an online service selling fun personalised stickers. They show your name and a picture of your face to get stuff back to you if you're still nearby. Otherwise, scanning the QR code brings up the contact details you want to share. The stickers are durable, waterproof, and come in 2 sizes. No app is needed.
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nuclear has always been more subsidized than wind/solar. It isn't enough. It's just crazy expensive.
I have flirted with the idea of homesteading, but I always felt a hybrid approach would be a better way of doing things. You are on HN, so I assume you have some kind of tech knowledge.

Perhaps it's too late for you, but this is my plan, and maybe this will give you some ideas is

- Continue working my regular job remotely (money stability, not going all in, can use money to deal with problems on the homestead side)

- Plant fruit trees (low maintenance, high yield once they are established | fruit/lemons)

- Have chickens and maybe rabbits (low maintenance, have to feed them and that's mostly it | eggs/meat)

- Bees (low maintenance | honey)

- Plant a garden during spring with things I like

In essence I think that going full time self-sufficient farmer is a cool sounding idea, but that's not what I want to be dedicating my time on. I rather be less dependent on others, but knowing that I won't be mining for iron to make my own tools.

So my suggestion would be, pull back a bit, it's obvious you are not enjoying it. Find a job you like that is remote. Remove high maintenance things, focus on low maintenance or enjoyable homesteading things. Then you can add something "harder" once you are used to the current workload. Or make enough money to hire someone to do the things you hate...
> Why does nuclear have a niche in a green future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464
Evidence directionality in human mutation origination, challenging neo-Darwinism
> No, nuclear plants are regularly taken offline for weather related reasons.

As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where we have 10,000 MW of nuclear (click "Supply"):

* https://ieso.ca/power-data

This does not happen here.
A huge amount of people have him as their 30th-something great grandfather.

Somewhere in the ballpark of (average # children that grow to adult age per family) ^ 31
> There should be a different, just way to be paid for software.

Fantasy land. Open source projects have been looking for such a way for decades now, with no luck. Copyright has so far proven to be the only practical, "just" way to make software development viable as a business.

Copyright does not in and of itself "harm" users, unless you consider having to pay for the goods you use to be "harm". The harms described in the article you linked could be mitigated by freedom 1 alone (combined with the portion of freedom 3 that's already allowed under existing law, as discussed).
Paper:
https://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2022/01/14/gr.276103....

> "For over a century, the leading theory of evolution has been based on random mutations. The results show that the HbS mutation is not generated at random but instead originates preferentially in the gene and in the population where it is of adaptive significance," said Prof. Livnat.
What he was really guilty of was sharing his opinions on a dangerous subject when he really had nothing interesting or original to add. He might as well complain about the speed limit on a particular road being 65 instead of 75. We set standards and conventions to keep order.

And while I completely approve of RMS, that argument works just as well for 10 year olds and has often been made. Listen to screaming Gajdusek about his right (or even duty) to have sex with consenting children at the end of The Genius and the Boys.[0] Maybe when RMS said it, he set an age in his mind of some precocious post-pubescent teenager. Whatever his mental imagery was, it was just as arbitrary as the law.

We set a standard to give kids a bit of runway before they are a legitimate object of the desires and efforts of adult men (and women.) 18 is fine, it gives them a little time. 17 would probably be fine, too. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be 19. But it is what it is.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OxppDxzSww
Fun and popular game + non-trivial/moderately complex to solve, with multiple possible approaches => HN popularity.

Wordle came out recently, so it's not like HN could have been obsessed with it years ago.

It's not just the tech community - non-techies in my family like it.

You may not remember it, but Sudoku became widely popular starting around 2005. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku#Modern_Sudoku .

This lead to an number of tech people to develop solvers, perhaps Novig's being the most famous, and Ron Jeffries TDD-based failed attempt perhaps the most infamous.

You can see traces of that period on HN at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=18&prefix=false&q...
Do patent trolls spend billions of dollars designing CPUs or whatever else they hold patents on?
Exactly. Radix sort isn't really linear. It is O(N * M) where N is the size of the collection and M is the number of possible items in the collection. If the number of possible items is fixed (like fixed-size integers) then it is effectively linear. However you can do this with strings just the same way.
I Fixed the underlying problem and not the symptom. Lack of good sleep caused lots of issues you mention and more as you age. I try and get good 8 hrs of sleep. As everyone has said routine helps. I will check my next day schedule to know I am prepared for next day. I would also consult sleep therapist.
All this assumes that you’re in roughly my spot—software engineer who lives on more land than you know what to do with. (We’re on 100 acres, but most of ours, we just rent out to some guys for pasture and hay.)

I wonder if you’re seeing it as a rulebook. YouTube shows you 45 different projects, and so your mind says that you have to do all of them, now.

If food security is your concern, start with something manageable and move on once you’re done. If you want chickens, don’t think at all about goats or cattle. Just build the best darn chicken enclosure you can, raise some hens, and enjoy the eggs. Only once you’re satisfied you can keep that routine do you think about taking the next animal on.

Exhibit B: our temptation was to build a gigantic garden, because we could. That flopped because it’s really hard to weed that when you’ve got a toddler and a baby and a day job. This year? Small garden that we can keep up with.

What’s our agenda this year?

- Cover our cave so we can use it

- Find a place to store firewood to dry it

- Cut a bunch of it

Everything else is a nice to have. I highly doubt you’re depending on this, so don’t make yourself feel guilty just because someone on YouTube is in a season of life where they can do more.
Steve Klabnik is an HN regular and I always enjoy his participation on rust posts. I hope that he will continue to enrich the community.
> Ultimately, this is about money.

Well, it's not really, if it was just about money all the research that went into renewables could be invested in other things and we could just keep burning cheap available coal. It's about stopping CO2 emissions and we need every drop of capacity we can get if we are to shutdown fossil fuel plants. Trying to eliminate both fossil fuel usage and nuclear at the same time is insane, and we are going to miss our already lax emission targets because we are taking on a handicap for no reason.
Where did you see in-proc D-Bus? It would be wildly inefficient compared to COM/gobject anyway.
Green energy and nuclear are in different product categories. They are in no way comparable. It's like trying to compare an electric scooter to a work truck. This is because green energy is mostly fine for transient demand, but at this time, is completely unsuitable for base load applications. Nuclear is a base load product (base load pricing is quite expensive) and needs to be far more reliable. Its failure modes are such that we can build a reliable energy grid around it, and have done for decades. You can't say the same for green energy (right now) as evidenced by its multiple failures as of late, which is now responsible for decreasing the security of Europe.
If you’re curious to learn more about how Bluetooth was named, there’s an interview with Jim Kardach on the topic: https://blog.snapeda.com/2019/10/07/how-bluetooth-got-its-na...
> small modular reactors are estimated to produce energy at a cost which rivals natural gas

You'd be foolish to believe those projections from salesmen. NuScale's attempt at new reactors has already doubled in cost.
I think the biggest reason is public opinion (by idiots who don't know what they are talking about and just think nuclear bad because they've been conditioned to think so by decades of misinformation) driving politics in the wrong directions possibly meaning that any plants built may be forced to shut down before they've been operational long enough to offset the construction costs and become profitable.
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There would be no reason to buy the license because you'd lose in court if you weren't using it. Companies could just use it with no fear of you winning a case against them.

You can't even just accept that the originating patent holder should be able to sue while anyone who buys the patent can't. Patent trolls would just hire the person who registered the patent or sue on their behalf.

There is no elegant solution to the patent troll problem. If someone can sue, then trolls can sue.
Kubernetes is complex because you want complex things
You could make an exception for the inventor.
God forbid a university's site mentions interesting research conducted outside their walls.
Best CPU vs. GPU: 879 GB/S Reductions in C++ and CUDA
Nuclear plants use water from a local river, or sea, for cooling. Or some plants use air and have cooling towers. Nuclear plants are also tightly regulated by law. So there is a limit on how warm cooling water the plant is allowed, as per environmental regulations, to release into the river, or to the sea.

If weather gets hot, the temperature of the incoming cooling water gets warmer, too. And having to operate within the limits of the maximum allowed temperature for the outgoing cooling water, the plant may have to regulate its power output, or maybe entirely pause operation.

The temperature limit is mostly a legal one: There is concern about the environmental effects of releasing warmer water to the water bodies. From an engineering point of view, the plant would probably be able to operate, and just release warmer water.
That doesn’t imply that nuclear plants regularly get close to this threshold nor that it’s common for all nuclear plants of this type (consider 2 identical plants positioned on differently-sized rivers: the larger river will be able to absorb more heat than the smaller river, ergo reliability of this sort varies).
Sounds almost too good to be true, but here is hoping for the best.

> Opus audio decoder (enabled)

Considering the track record of codec support, I bet it only works when packaged as CAF, singed by QuickTime, and played during the daytime to a limited audience... I joke, but the amount of gotchas I encounter while working with WebAudio API is mindboggling and reminiscent of good ol' days of IE6. Would you guess that despite all three browsers declaring support for audio recording (MediaSource API) and all three supporting opus on paper, there is no way to produce the same opus file in all three? Safari only supports playing opus in <audio> tag, no recording; Chrome doesn't support ogg, and while both Chrome and FF allow you to record opus in webm container, the resulting file is not seekable... There are of course third-party solutions, but it's just sad to watch in the century of the fruitbat.
Does your 10% include false positive tests from people who recovered? I didn't quite realize this but PCR tests often test positive (repeated) for weeks post-infection.

Also where are you that's 99% vaccinated?
The problem we have is that in the past decade fossil fuel was way to cheap. This has now changed, but ramping up production of solar and wind takes a while.

Fossil fuels are still way too cheap compared to storage of electricity. So there are lots of ways we could store electricity. But if you can't compete with a gas powered plant next door, it is not going to be built.

At the same time, if you look at power consumption of data centers, it is amazing that so much of that can be ad supported.
I think in general we should just halve the time of patent protection, including the lead-up time where it hasn’t been finalized yet but still protected.
>> I wonder how much of the green movement of that era was supported by the Soviets, who had obvious motives for undermining nuclear research in the West. I could be that even long after the USSR has been wiped away that its influence remains.

> Don't think so. Taking Germany as an example, many people joined these movements after the country was in large parts affected (to this day actually) by the nuclear fallout of the disaster in Chernobyl.

I don't think those things are mutually exclusive. It's quite conceivable the Soviets supported a seed, which sprouted once Chernobyl created the right conditions for it to take off. It looks like the German Green party opposed nuclear power before Chernobyl and it was also infiltrated to a degree by the East German Stasi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens#1980s:_...:

> In 1982 ... Those who remained in the Green party were more strongly pacifist and ... tended to identify more closely with a culture of protest and civil disobedience, frequently clashing with police at demonstrations against nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the construction of a new runway (Startbahn West) at Frankfurt Airport...

> Among the important political issues at the time was the deployment of Pershing II IRBMs and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles by the U.S. and NATO on West German soil, generating strong opposition in the general population that found an outlet in mass demonstrations. The newly formed party was able to draw on this popular movement to recruit support. Partly due to the impact of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and to growing awareness of the threat of air pollution and acid rain to German forests (Waldsterben), the Greens increased their share of the vote to 8.3% in the 1987 federal election....

> The Greens were the target of attempts by the East German secret police to enlist the cooperation of members who were willing to align the party with the agenda of the German Democratic Republic. The party ranks included several politicians who were later discovered to have been Stasi agents, including Bundestag representative Dirk Schneider, European Parliament representative Brigitte Heinrich, and Red Army Faction defense lawyer Klaus Croissant. Greens politician and Bundestag representative Gert Bastian was also a founding member of Generals for Peace [de], a pacifist group created and funded by the Stasi, the revelation of which may have contributed to the murder-suicide in which he killed his partner and Greens founder Petra Kelly.[11] A study commissioned by the Greens determined that 15 to 20 members intimately cooperated with the Stasi and another 450 to 500 had been informants.[12][13]
Yes, but cultural understanding still trumps this, at least according to some experts, case in point, François Desset has recently deciphered a 4,400 year old Iranian writing system (Linear Elamite) and this is his take on it:

> FD: This was the jackpot – the same Elamite or Hatamtite text written on one artefact in cuneiform, and on the other in Linear Elamite. This is a classic knowledge-driven decipherment based on our capability to make connections between Cuneiform and Linear Elamite scripts inscriptions recording the same Hatamtite (or Elamite) language text.

> RK: An excellent point, especially in this day and age when many seek to replace knowledge with technology.

> FD: Certainly. I wish in this regard to emphasise that I have been asked a lot about computers, statistical data, etc. All hogwash! Knowledge, especially cultural knowledge and of the languages used at the time, some luck, and most important perseverance were essential.

https://www.thepostil.com/francois-desset-on-the-deciphermen...
>keeping them running becomes more and more costly

That's very unsourced meme. Surry Nuclear Power Plant will be running till 2050s - for 80 years without significant costs.
That sounds good, predictability is what you want when designing a power grid.
Monetize your Qt apps with advertising
These are well established legal boundaries to free speech.
As a Norwegian speaking guy, I used to say "blåtann" instead of "bluetooth" as a joke when I was a teenager. Because I found the direct translation funny. Didn't know at the time that I was actually somewhat "correct".
What you mentioned seems to be the point of www.polywork.com. They want to make meeting people who want to collaborate easier.
Because the person he was responding to was using anti-nuclear bad arguments as a reason for using nuclear. Sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander.

Misinformation isn't suppressing nuclear investment, the all too real cost of nuclear is.
>What's the problem with that? Radiation goes away, eventually.

A property that makes it a lot less toxic than all sorts of nasty industrial byproducts that humanity generates in similar quantity.

Imagine you poised a watershed with radiator. 100yr later it's probably mostly fine depending on how much you poisoned it in the first place. Now try that with a heavy metal laced chemical...
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I really hope the WebXR API stuff will come with support for VR headsets in Safari on desktop, and that whatever Apple's rumored VR headset end up being will also support it.

WebXR has been great for my app at work, but we're basically locked into the Quest 2 right now because Mozilla dropped the ball on WebXR support. Oculus is the only one doing significant VR work with WebXR in their Oculus Browser, which is a Chromium build that they keep proprietary.
I find vaccine mandates to be a solution to a problem that will never exist. in most countries, 80% was willing to get vaccinated before any kind of restrictions happened. This shows the trust and faith most people have in the benefit of the vaccine to their daily lives. If no one trusted the vaccine, then using political force would be the most destructive influence you can have on a democratic society where the majority is supposed to agree with the rules set forth.

Trying to force the last diverse 20% to take something they chose not to is also a clear violation of the Nuremberg code. There's two rules in the code which I believe is relevant for denying participation in vaccinations and their imposed restrictions.

"The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion"

"The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the experiment."

The second point is mostly related to vaccinating younger people "for the benefit of the populace" If you claim something benefits the group, you still have the responsibility of proving that it benefits the group. which for very young people, natural infection might similarly benefit the group just as much as taking the vaccination.

Whether or not the Nuremberg code has any standing in todays courts is debatable but as this experiment has no defined solution it is clear that someone should be able to deny participation.
I've just read the book:

https://www.ynharari.com/book/sapiens-2/

Which describes the journey of humankind through the ages. The author has an interesting take on farming in general, in that farming led to centuries of misery for most people...and that the time before farming when we were hunter/gatherers was a far better time for individuals. When hunting/gathering, people suffered less from disease (smaller communities = less chance of catching something bad), worked fewer hours in the day, and were not at the mercy so much of climate change - starvation wasn't a thing as your small band of people travelled to places of good resources. Knowledge was key here, knowing which foods you could and couldn't eat, skills in hunting, working as a team.

I'm not sure if it's possible to be a hunter/gatherer in a modern western country? Certainly not in the UK where I live as all land is owned by someone - I suppose you could try and "live off the land" by hunting wild game, fishing, in the US?
The contradiction of the capitalist mode of production is not that it tries to cover its costs. That is necessary in any system of trade/production.

The problem is using social services to generate capital. A public good for private interests is wrought with contradictions. And, as you can see, covering costs =/= generating capital.

Not even mentioning that the mode continuously works to undermine itself in making production more efficient by developing technology and driving down prices but profits as a whole too.
> The team tried to use stock electron but the performance was not good.

Can you provide references of this fork? It you actually look at the VSC manifest, you'll find that the vanilla "electron" is a dependency.

> And they're probably going to move to because electron is still slow and terrible.

I take you haven't used Visual Studio Code. As I wrote, it's certainly not the fastest editor, but it's fast enough for professional usage. It's actually faster (or comparable at least) to other "famous editors".

> https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/118308

This doesn't have any actual technical content; it's essentially a variation of Rewrite It In Rust.
You can't say all of that and not link your personal website :P
François Desset: On the Decipherment of Linear Elamite Writing
Browsers will happily accept `.mjs` files they don't actually care about file extensions only about `Content-Type` and type=module on the script tag :]
That seems to be a good exit plan, rent it out to people who wants to try homestead and find out if the hard work will fit their lifestyle or it's for people who wants to experience it and go back to the convenient life of the city.
To your why men working in early childhood education isn't popular, it is probably because people have a natural fear of males and the young, because of the years of data of the animal kingdom where males often kill the young and are naturally separated.

To the question of women in programming, I have no idea why the interest isn't there, but I have known several women programmers who were an asset to the teams they joined, I have known a few that were not, and several men who were not, but percentage wise in my experience I didn't see one group as overwhelming better than the other. You always get some defective programmers.
In reality, the big corporations have huge “defensive patent” war chests which your innovation probably infringes on in some way if you were to try to bring it to market. The deck is stacked against the individual inventor more so now than in the past.
Imagine two friends, Alice and Bob. Alice thinks that wearing seat belts in airplanes is not necessary...