skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Others have mentioned that molten oxide electrolysis isn't as flexible with electricity consumption as hydrogen based processes. The even bigger problem, IMO, is the incredibly demanding chemical and thermal environment. There are not many combinations of vessel/electrode materials that are stable toward these high temperatures, dissolution by the lava-like electrolyte, and oxidation at the anode.

According to the article their molten bath sounds like it is made of silicates. Electrolyzing molten silicates sounds a lot like NASA's "molten regolith electrolysis" [1] concept for in-situ resource utilization on the moon. The NASA concept valued the oxygen product while the produced metal is much more interesting here on Earth. Although conceptually simple, it has been a tremendous challenge finding materials that endure under these operating conditions. If Boston Metal has really cracked the problem, it bodes well for the future of terrestrial and off-planet resource extraction.

[1] e.g. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20120003037/downloads/20...
I'd write that as: "Don't venture off the path of work-related topics, especially on any divisive subject".

When people complain about it being awkward to express a specific set of opinions at work, to me it comes across as complaining that wasting time on non-work conversations is frowned upon. It's even stranger to me that someone would want to disregard their job duties in favor of discussions on topics that might make half the people you work with angry.
But I still prefer to use Google to search Reddit or Stack overflow.

Reddit especially has horrible search.
Calling complicated countries that are not the US a totalitarian dictatorship, how edgy.
> Using a community chest to reward front-runners for submitting claims is clever. Would the ETH reward still need to be at least as large as the transaction cost to incentivize front-runners? Or is there still a cut of the token being taken, in the hopes the token value will make up the difference?

Yeah, it definitely needs to be at least as large as the gas fee (otherwise front runners will just run the transaction locally and notice that it’s not worth rebroadcasting). Our mechanism doesn’t take a cut of the token, mostly because it is hard to put a value to the token as we mention in the post.

> It seems like there would still be a basic gas problem any time the receiving account wants to use the (ERC-20) token, eg to send the token somewhere else via a wallet or some other standard UI?

That’s certainly true, but if, for instance, your primary use case was as a governance token, most governance happens off-chain(on Snapshot Labs[1], for instance), so that wouldn’t require any funds.

[1]: https://snapshot.org/
After pricing furniture at La-Z-Boy recently, I could see where 90K could be used to furnish a few rooms in a house. I was looking at a new living room set and it was close to 45K by the time we had finished customizing the fabric, seat fill, and adding options to the furniture.

There are other things that seem weird about this, but, the furniture store pricing wasn't one of them.
I understood it to mean any divisive issue where people behaved tribally. So any of the examples you gave might be fall into that category for a given employer. Another important one is company politics.
Haha, yeah. Before we created it (and looked around to see if anything existed) I wouldn't have thought of searching for something like this either!

Edit: btw, it pains me that we don't, and we'll have one soon. :)
The electricity price is set by the most expensive marginal cost.

This made sense when renewables were more expensive on average than fossil fuels (which we want to discourage) but the rules probably need rewritten now that renewables are cheaper and continuing to get cheaper and fossils relegated to peaked roles.

At the moment it just means that renewable providers are getting a lot of extra cash for not doing anything different and then on occasions when we go 100% renewable the price will crash suddenly to near zero.
Have a personal domain name and use it for email. That way you are not dependent on the provider. It's like owning land, if you don't have a domain name and do not own the infra or pay for the services you are just a 'peasant' with no rights.
Reddit userbase is fast deteriorating. The power users who were responsible for much of its highest-quality content have been fleeing the sinking ship for quite some time - once a fully credible alternative springs up (and some are in the works already, with superior tech underlying them) they'll be as toast as Digg unless they radically course-correct.
The bbc article is eye opening her objection to an investigation is very telling, she has those peoples money and she is not giving it back willingly. I think the walrus article could be a paid promotion considering its missing this or any push back.
I think part of this is the inverse of the base rate fallacy. As people's use of search has gone up, the absolute number of bad experience (many ads, or poor results) has gone up regardless of whether the actual quality had gone up or not. Combine that with the elevated expectation and the confirmation bias, some people's perception of search quality will get worse and the number of people with such opinion will increase.
Those Xtians are a fussy lot.
Anyone know the origin of the fresh rule, and the purpose? It makes sense in some niches but in others it is so obviously bad I wonder why Google added it
Wanna know how to create a production-ready infrastructure in 30min?
>>- "Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant" ..."

>This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.

It should do both. And it used to do both.
Advertising is not 'market manipulation': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_manipulation. This dialect of 'Substackspeak' is starting to feel like SEO for HN readers.
In the mornings I often watch a twitch streamer who goes to places in cities in Thailand and I'm always struck by all the old white men with young Thai women that she passes on the street.
This kind of complete lack of reading comprehension seems to be a job requirement for Reddit mods.
The biggest issue I have with Google is that every search is performed in the "now" context. This makes looking back, especially on political issues, basically impossible; There's no way to explore how topics have evolved or progressed over time. I don't mind google search for resolving technical issues as it works pretty well in this context, but the second you start to get curious and look for anything older everything breaks down.
Because health care became more expensive.

You couldn't have an MRI in 1970 because your hospital didn't have it. The technology of health care is now a lot more advanced and can add years to your health expectancy.

Now, there are government programs that help you pay premiums or give you free care. I was on Medicaid several years ago, so the poorest people don't have the issue of not being able to pay.

But that's a whole another topic. The point is you can't just compare what you can afford, because you're not comparing the same things. Houses are bigger these days as well.
The adversity of your words is against hacker news rules. This isn't reddit.

>>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
It means losing a lot of stuff, yes. It sometimes helps because some things slow down as state is accumulated. So resetting can speed things up, at the cost of losing all of your state.

But the comparison point is switching browsers, which also loses lots of state.

(In both cases, you can import a subset of your state into your new profile, and you'd probably get most of the performance advantages.)

I believe all browsers have been improving in their resistance to the accumulated state problem, but I also believe that all browsers are still susceptible to it.
I think it will in some cases and others it won't. I feel like I would have a hard time making good progress in software if Thursday was a wasted day like Friday often is, but I imagine some people will be able to knock out good progress in 3 days and get back into it the next week
There are also a lot of dumb sayings. There is a large amount of scientific evidence demonstrating large and lasting impacts of things like nutrition and parental involvement in education (both early education and ordinary primary education). Hard times might create some hard men. They also just kill a lot of people.

I've anecdotally seen people from impoverished backgrounds struggle to work in a healthy manner for long term success because of trauma dealing with short term needs on a consistent basis.
It's easy to spot the badly astroturfed accounts. How would establish your baseline truth?

I'm not claiming it's impossible, but it's very easy to fool yourself in this territory. A good mark is the one who thinks they know the game.
>when do I accept that the writing is on the wall..

The giants will not stop if the bad behavior still makes profit, Apple will add one more exception for the narrow case in each country they lose, and when they lose again will add a new super narrow exception.

This will continue until US force them to allow real choice for the users and be transparent about things(force them to replace "Buy" with "Rent", allow users to be informed about better alternatives, allow users to disable censorship )
You talk to a professional if you want to retain wealth for the long term. Would you roll your own auth? Rich -pepper have better access to talented professionals.

There’s obviously a balance between wealth and stress that is useful for happiness/success. But I believe it’s very easy to accidentally traumatize with unbridled stress on a developing person. For example I’m still healing a year from a shoulder overuse injury. Would have been wiser to focus on backing away from the stressors at that point. From what I have seen, rich environments have plenty of bridled stressors, and these rich kids are developing plenty thick skin, just with adequate supervision.

Maybe this generation is different from past ones due to our access to the internet and it’s human refining nature.
The science of when to post on social media
It's interesting, and quite concerning, that Reddit has cemented its position as a key repository of useful information on just about everything just as its drive towards monetisation really kicks into gear. It's concerning because, as part of that monetisation strategy, Reddit is becoming increasingly walled off and anti-user. I am sure I am only one of many long-time Redditors who have vowed to stop using the site completely once old.reddit.com goes, and it's only a matter of time.

It's probable that a huge amount of useful information will soon become much more difficult to access, and/or diluted by stealth advertising, as Reddit looks to aggressively monetise its position. I'm interested to see if a credible alternative emerges and if there is any effort to move some of the existing useful data off the platform.
Except, it isn't used in ICBMs.

Expensive parts of STS are not used in anything except maybe X37, which by all indications is useless, spending years parked in orbit just so it doesn't look totally disused.
Yes. And for many other reasons.

Some luxury brands intentionally limit production of popular items and only sell them to their best customers. Since everyone wants the limited things, they buy lots of the lower tier, unlimited stuff to become a VIP customer and get offered a slot to buy a limited item. Ferrari is famous for limiting sales of their highest end cars to certain clients. High end hand bag producers limit sales of their most popular models to approved clients only. High end watches are similar as well.

If you can't afford all the extra stuff you had to buy along the way, you can try to resell it and get some of the cash back. If you need more cash, you can resell the limited availability items as well, often for a significant profit over the MSRP, even after the middleman's cut.

Fashionphile, The Real Real, Ann's Fabulous Finds, Yugi's Closet are all active companies in this space.
True, it steps on Bing is what I think people said.

And yeah I too am not hyped for it but it still does serve a real need -- to be less ad-oriented than Google. But I guess it's time to start looking around.
Why sell cheap fast food when you can charge michelin star prices?
Amazon reviews with a picture inside a dirty living room with, like, a toddler only in their diaper in the background or something have been pretty reliable.
they're all a decade old. it's absurd that we havent found any architectural wins.

i have no idea whether there'a just scant dew wins to be had, or whether this complete lack of innovation is a company asleep at the wheel.

do you also love the cortex-a53 for application processing? because it too is another dinosaur relic that we seemingly cant eacape from. a55 seems to have made a like 12% difference.
That's the Civil War argument: "we know that slavery is wrong, but we can't just end it because livelihood of millions of good upstanding citizens depends on slavery." And just like slavery, the corn syrup industry exists solely because of a law protecting it.
Yeah its actually hardest for foreigners to retire in Florida since the US is one of the few countries that doesn't offer retiree visas. Canadians have it relatively easy, usually splitting time between the two countries since they can spend 180 days at a time in the US on a B-2 tourist waiver.
Securely delegating trust with digital signatures and secret storage systems
> People use Google to search Reddit because Reddit has terrible search.

Hey why don't you prove your assertion.

> Your other assertions would need to be proved more rigorously. Not just for Google, but for any search engine.

These are not my assertions. It's a claim the fine article is making. And they're not the only one making that claim. Anecdotally a lot of people are saying they do this to get useful results because Google results are trash.

For example:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/google-search-is-just-trash...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27429722

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27379228

Heck there's even a website for this: https://sirchester.app/

> Because Google results have been spammy and useless lately. Adding "reddit" or "hacker news" often yields better results.
Back in ~2000, zipcode databases cost money, radius search was moderately difficult, and in the US Northeast, you can cross most states their edge-most "relatively major cities" in ~4-5 hours, putting an average distance of anywhere-to-anywhere in the state as ~2 hours. In the extreme Northeast (eg: NY, CT, MA, NH, VT, PA, NJ, DE, etc.) the whole state is ~1-2 hours "big", and likely concentrated in a single (or few) city centers.

Contrast to FL, TX, CA, and we had to immediately support zip-code-ish search (a non-trivial technical and operational burden, as zip-codes are rough-approximates for GEO's, and change pretty frequently) b/c "Couch for Sale in TX" means something completely different from "Couch for Sale in MA".

Contrast to the midwest (eg: kansas, montana), and this random-population-density-map I found: http://ecpmlangues.u-strasbg.fr/civilization/geography/US-ce...

...you can see that "just tell me what state it's in" hits within ~1hr of a single city center up until you hit TX or FL. So in 2000 it was a reasonable shorthand for "east-coasters" to say: "MA == Boston of course", and "CO == Denver" b/c where else was the internet going to be? ...either relatively close-by, or at your states major population center.

This is totally non-scientific and anecdotal, but I worked for a P2P sales startup out of college, implemented the zip-code search, radius, and update code, and distinctly remember noticing that some competitors (and dating sites!) definitely didn't support zip + radius searching, and they were usually ones that were funded from NY. CA was probably a bit more technically advanced, geo-aware, and wouldn't usually launch w/o zip + radius capabilities... again b/c "Couch in NV/CA", or "Singles in NV/CA" is a completely different scale from "Couch in NY/NJ, or Singles in NY/NJ"

(edit: in the 2000-era!! barely dial-up, and computers in general were decidedly non-rural devices, no cellular networking, and a motorola "two-way" was peak connectivity).
> [...] write good code.

When people say this, I don't know what they mean.

What makes code "good"? Everyone's answer is different, other than that perhaps most of us agree on things like YAGNI, DRY, and KISS... more or less.

I'm not even sure that any version of "good" code is all that influential on one's career. It should probably be #4 on your list rather than #1. Most people would rather with work with a charismatic team player who's easy to work with whose code is adequate over a 10x developer who's a jerk.

This isn't to say that good code (in the abstract sense) isn't important or that writing good code isn't a part of one's success; if your code is really bad then you're way more likely to be let go from your job. But for a likeable person, is it really so important that they write good code rather than adequate code? Maybe. I kind of think not, but mileages may vary.
The first review site I go to, to find if the product should be trusted or not is reddit only in the hope that not every comment is a paid ad.
Funds are SAFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEHXpE
I have not found that to be true, at all. Quite the contrary, I've seen that when there is no forced team building, people only get to know each other to a minimal level. They do not build trust, they do not learn each others strengths and thereby put a heavier weigh on people's weaknesses. A small mistake by a coworker can become "That guy sucks, can't wait 'til he gets fired or leaves", and small cliques and camps end up developing across teams. It can become quite dysfunctional, quite fast.

Of course, in a way this means I agree with you - if you are not someone who wants to be on a team that spends time and energy on the warm and fuzzy team building tasks... quitting probably is the right move. There will be other teams that work better for you.
Yes, "works properly when ignoring CSS" could just be used as a convenient objective standard for "lite", that obviates the need for an incompatible spec altogether.
Trudeau is the spitting image of his biological father both in appearance and approach to government. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
These tools are great, and a little amusing sometimes. Description from a generated dungeon:

> Long after the Blind Lady's fall the den remained deserted. Currently it is overrun with eagles, which don't care about the history of the place. Rumors say that a legendary looking glass Torthos-Tyroth is hidden here.

Darn eagles.
I think the point is that one wants to write code that is similar to regular non-performance sensitive python code, with classes and everything, and still have it be fast.
I've heard way too many anecdotes such as this to ever consider working for AWS. Even their doubling the salary caps isn't enough because ultimately the old adage "time is money" simply isn't true: time is life and life > money.
Sources for this article: Paul Graham, Michael Seibel, Daniel Gross and Hacker News.
A few months ago I found myself in need to install Telegram on a new PC and a quick google search (I still had not configured another search engine nor an adblocker) gave 4 ads for scammy websites.

I am sure that they try a lot, I am not convinced that their strategy is optimal.
Harmless hacks that will require you to spend extra time in the airport security. It's not like you can "just" do this and expect no hassle. You will be called aside for additional screening, etc.
digital juries are particularly a noteable example where one is not self-selecting their moderation/governance.

what do you believe in?
How do payments happen in China on iGadgets? Through 3rd party payment providers?
People are not using Reddit's search, they are using Google to search Reddit.
Interesting article, but I couldn't help but feel that much of it wasn't really 'dropping out' but more of relying on others. These passages in particular struck me as basically taking something from the system without paying into it:

> If you're charming, you can find a partner or spouse who will "support" you by permitting you to sleep and cook someplace without asking for money.

I couldn't tell how tongue-in-cheek this was, but clearly you're relying on your partner not to 'drop out' in this case.

> I stopped buying music and books (exceptions in exceptional cases) and got in the habit of using the library.

Who pays for these music and books if you don't contribute almost anything in taxes?
>> Is there any place on the web with authentic reviews?

This is where a good social network is useful. I'd trust my friends more than any random web site. Unfortunately I don't have a huge network to call on, so it would be nice to trust my friends friends and so on, but the trust quickly drops. We need a way to improve a simple network with some user-controlled measure of authenticity and trust.
Point taken, I shared what I had because I was on mobile and didn't have the time and patience to get the alternative link.
Reddit has always leaned heavily left. Just look at the front page and the cesspool that is /r/politics.
It's a valid assumption because it's rare for a woman to make more than the man, and it's especially common for women in those countries to seek foreign sugar daddies, I don't understand why you think it's mysterious. It would be mysterious if nobody assumed that.

>The odd thing to me is I don't see our relationship as any more or less valid, who the fuck cares that we married for a different reason than someone else?

It's only odd to you because you're not affected by it. Men in local populations have a MUCH HARDER time finding wives that are local. When a foreigner jumps in and snatches up one while barely speaking the language it's a little "wtf."

Let's put things into reality. The fact of the matter is women marry up. They are attracted to men with higher status. Globally, white men occupy this status. Not officially mind you, no white man or person of any race would say this, but subconsciously that's the hierarchy. That's why white men, if they date women of other races often have a much easier time. Women everywhere tend to just put white men on that pedestal. In terms of status, a white man can get better results if they date another woman of a different class and race then they would if they dated some women of the same race and status. That's reality. The statistics on dating sites verify this racial phenomenon.

So of course if the tables were turned and rich asian and black men came stateside and started taking away white women the resentment would exist in the other direction. And such resentment does sort of exist (not in the dating scene) in terms of employment and jobs.

It's normal there's nothing wrong or right about the situation, but it is what it is.
Google promotes advertisers. Reddit promotes shills. Popular platforms will be bought.

The problem is trust vs the appeal of corruption—that is, some people will always want to deceive the masses for profit.

At scale, reliable human trust only exists in democratically-policed communities, where authentic users control corruptible owners—something few platforms want.
No … Instagram is a .com domain so you don’t need to head-shoe (at least, not in the US …)
I'm not a big fan of RockBox, it's always been too buggy for me.

Regarding the iFlash, the best way to avoid file corruption is to transfer files to the iPod while using the Apple Firmware (don't sync with iTunes, just copy the files directly). There is some issue with Rockbox that corrupts the files if the device can't sync the files fast enough. Stock iPod Firmware doesn't seem to have this issue.