skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make an interesting point and I am myself absolutely not knowledgeable in that field but there are some obvious points that you elude in your response.

Fission (will?) have the advantage of being able to produce energy whenever we need it. Solar or wind need storage. And as far as I know, there are no viable storage solution as of today.

> It turns out there are myriad elevated basins that would be perfect for pumped hydro storage, another very mature technology. Unlike hydro generation, you don't need a whole watershed and river valley, just hills with a dip.

In some countries, all possible places of hydro generation have already been used. What would be the potential for new hydro solutions in Europe for example, where hydro has been exploited for decades? Again, not an expert, but I don't think that there is an obvious path in countries where population density is pretty high and without large swathe of lands, to build hydro storage to be able to produce enough energy on a sufficient long period of time. Curious to know what you think.

Using any sort of battery, based on a chemical process, will also probably have high impact on the environment. Current battery relies on rare earth material or industrial processes that are very impactful. Creating enough batteries to ensure safe power distribution for billions of people will probably be terrible for the environment.

My point is that there is no silver bullet as of now so putting all you eggs in the same basket does not seem to be a sane strategy. Investigating fusion is worth a shot I think.

And if we worry about money, there's plenty of money to go around. We are talking about the survival of civilization here. 16 billions were poured into the a company providing ways to share pictures of your baby to your high school friends ten years ago (yes Facebook). I am sure we can find the money to finance Fusion AND research on energy storage. It's a question of political will. In the end, we'll get what we deserve...
> Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook’s corporate values now include the bizarre tagline “Meta, metamates, me.”

> wut

> That just seems like self-parody

Maybe it's an analogy? The "metamates" relationship to "checkmate" is the same one as the "own-goal" relationship is to "goal".
Apparently it's the longest running Issue on their Github: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/102

Edit to add:

There is Möbius Sync [0] but I didn't have much success with it. It did work but not quite the way I wanted so eventually I just deleted it.

On Reddit [1] people suggest all sorts of workarounds using other sync tools, like iCloud or NextCloud. Not ideal.

[0] https://www.mobiussync.com/
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Syncthing/comments/ese82l/ios_users...
I could see how to do this for some projects, like Django: get the list of their security updates. For each release, it lists the CVEs it fixes and the patch. The patch gives you the fix diff.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/releases/security/
> The original article makes me sad that people a few years younger than me are so addicted to this screen that 3 days away is as difficult and mind-boggling for them as 3 days without booze is for me.

This is the same argument that has been used for generations. Our parents were addicted to rock music, before that it was something else, and you can go as far back as socrates to say they preferred "chatter" to exercise.

Why is 3 days without any screens such a big deal. Not all screens are the same. 3 days of doomscrolling on instagram is not the same as watching an hour of a movie or a tv series, or using youtube for guitar lessons. Why is not going 3 days without screens an addiction, but not going 3 days without reading a book not an addiction?
Is there a specific height that the catalyst should be released at? Any unintended side effects from increased concentration of the catalyst?
Since I only use M365 for myself, so a single account, that is not a proper solution unfortunately - I might stay with GWorkspace probably.
We just have a guy in the team (he's smart, but very abrasive) who instead of using the word "wrong" uses "antipattern" for everything. And usually those are mostly his unfounded opinions on something but taken as a gospel as it sounds authoritative.
Well, we do actively say that you're not allowed to use it in production, and we have the banner to try and discourage it, but we also actively look for suspicious usage patterns on dev accounts.
You could use this show to teach people never to talk to the police. Someone pays for it in almost every single episode.
What? No, I haven't gained weight, my bacteria is just getting a little heavy
We are actually considering in-line, subtle feedback widgets as a next step. I am with you in that this pop-up style can be less appealing to certain users. Although by asking user for opt in / opt out initially would help, I do like the approach of more subtle, embedded feedback widgets.

Feedback like this is what makes HN great. Thank you!
No, it's written in C++
The fuel for DT fusion is heavy water and lithium. Everyone leaves out the lithium part for some reason. They are considerably more rare than hydrogen. But more common than uranium for sure.
>> If it's a team game, disabling chat or voice chat is really not a great idea.

I literally have no idea how people manage to play a game like Overwatch with chat or worse - voice chat - enabled in games with strangers. It's an enjoyable game but 9/10 people online just straight up suck and I don't play games after work to deal with that kind of negativity. Happy to be on chat when playing with actual friends or work colleagues, but random people online? That chat is staying muted and off I'm afraid.
I share your skepticism, but this is the argument critics were saying about online video back in the day.

Who would want to watch a stamp-size video of horrible quality when we have TVs? This will never catch on.

You have to get started early on these sort of big transitions, otherwise by the time everything to make it successful is in place, you're years too late.

That being said, I don't think this is going to be a winning strategy for Facebook either.
I've never done it but it sounds horrific to me, and also incredibly wasteful to have 5 people all just working on one bit of code. It's like you've single-threaded your team. Surely they don't do this all the time?
Interesting topic. I recently got my first own car (have been driving for almost two decades, though) and started to learn about how it works in some detail. Regarding gasoline - I just found out that my car (as most cars since the 2000s) works just fine with E10 (up to 10% bio ethanol). In Germany, though, this is still a heated subject due to intentional misinformation around 2010 by oil lobby and associates (ADAC first and foremost).

Here's what I learned about E10:

It's likely about as energetic as regular fuel (the chemical energy reasoning falls short due to side effects).

Its Octane Number is higher than regular fuel due to ethanol's Octane Number.

It burns cleaner (less coking) and also has a cleaning effect - again due to the higher ethanol content.

It's hydrophile qualities are actually an advantage as that means it binds water which is entering the system.

Some gas stations sell regular as E10 (and then cheaper) because it isn't economic or possible for them to have yet another type of fuel in reserve.

The reason why oil industry hates E10 is because it is more expensive for them while by law (in EU) they are forced to sell it cheaper.

---

There's only one catch which I still didn't wrap my head around.

My Mazda brings 160k kms to the table and features a "maintenance free" in-tank fuel filter which is somewhat difficult to replace. Now I'm a bit worried that using E10 will release built up residue attached to the tank and clog the fuel filter. And I don't know how fast this would take place.
It seems American scammers are learning from Chinese ones. Fake payment QR codes are everywhere in China.

Somebody take his QR, changes it to look visually similar to victims one, puts it on a sticker, and slaps it on top of store's QR code the moment the cashier turns his back.

Rental bikes also often come with fake QR codes on them.
Very interesting! Does this work with Expo RN projects?
Thanks for reporting this! Yeah we'll fix them, poor navigation...
The best prof I had at Caltech was Professor Ricardo Gomez. He had a long ponytail, wore leathers, and rode his chopper to work.

Without him, I would have likely flunked out.
Really? I'm looking out my window right now and it's perfectly calm, with some gray clouds, but there's storm warnings out for later in the day.
I don't know anything about you except what I can gather from glancing at your HN profile. But... from your 31k karma points gathered in ten years and your HN posting frequency, it seems that you haven't healed your addiction. You are just as addicted as the rest of us, communicating on a message board with strangers who doesn't know you personally.
You repeat the word "overpaid" in your another (dead) comment. Envy?

How would you determine who is "overpaid" and who is not? Have you ever been overpaid in your own opinion? Why?
Surprisingly easy for religious Jews. Sunset today? It's Friday so that's around candle lighting time. Full moon? We are just over halfway through the Adar I lunar month. North? Easy if you pray towards the east.

I also live in a city (London) whose y and z coordinates are both approximately 0, which keeps things simple, although it's quite possible that the answer to 'where does your waste go' is the Thames.
Apparently anything that doesn't support Trump is left.
It happens to me when I have to study something new. I wasted so much time trying to find the perfect note-taking method, the perfect memorization method, debating digital vs paper notes, spaced repetition, blah blah blah. I find myself thinking that doing a slovenly job at learning would have been more productive that spending so much time "learning how to learn" to use the buzzwords du jour.
Don’t Cede the Space Race to China and the Billionaires
Because others do. Or maybe they make themselves feel like they trust because of the convenience of password managers. After all, we have to draw a line somewhere or just quit using Internet.

IMO if we're talking about security you should ask other questions. How much can you trust a device after Jonathan Brossard's Rakshasa paper? What about evidence-based trust and bunnie's Precursor? Would having a password manager app on Precursor be actually more secure taking into account that your stuff is going to be decrypted on a less protected device?
> If we were to have standardized font that had distinct characters

In addition you'll need checksums to detect folds or scratches on the print. E.g. when the "m" in pets.com is scratched. QR codes have that. You'll want fallbacks for such wear and tear. QR codes can have that (depending on settings when creating, it will repeat the pattern multiple times). You'll need unicode support for all languages in the world (QR is just bits). You'll need to handle (bi)direction (Again: QR is just bits and bytes).

And when you have all that, the solution suffers from the exact same problems as what QR "suffers" from. I, human, cannot read an arab unicode URL that is repeated for redundancy (and one of the three is malicious) or understand the checksums.
All Oracle needs to do is release CDDL 2.0 that says "At your option, you may choose to relicense CDDL 1.0 licensed code under any of the MPLv2, LGPLv2+, GPLv2+, AGPLv3+ licenses" and then anyone can relicense any CDDL 1.0 code from any copyright holder under those licenses, since CDDL 1.0 contains a license upgrade clause. That would solve the situation for OpenZFS contributor's code too and also Oracles code and also dtrace/Solaris/etc code in general.
> It's like putting a sanction on a burner phone or throwaway account, don't you think?

So? That’s … normal?

I suggest you read up on how sanctions work outside of cryptocurrency, all of these concerns are already addressed.

Sanctioning Monero funds is useful, the people in control of the funds will need to answer questions about their origin in order to cash out. They will have to defraud banks and exchanges in order to sell their Moneroj.

Monero might allow you to conceal your transactions, but that isn’t necessarily going to help too much when the people in control of the funds are known to the government.
Awesome, thanks for the share. Figma rules!
I've never personally used Expo to create apps, so I'm not 100% sure, but we do have RN SDK support! So I think it should work since Expo is a tool for using RN.
Computing image filters with wgpu-rs
Hello (Many Quantum) World(s)
> We usually see many downfalls when companies redesign.

Exactly! I'm still salty about "new reddit."

We care about your redesign because we don't want to have to get used to a whole new less functional UX.
Thank you! I was trying to remember his name a few days ago to find his essays and it was driving me crazy - couldn't remember enough keywords to get past the 10000 content marketing articles on search engines.
CBOI: Continuous Build, Occasional Integration
The name of the article is "What is a build system and what is CI?" but my main take away is really the realisation that most/many companies aren't really doing CI, they're doing instead CBOI: Continuous Build, Occasional Integration.

Also, wow, there are very efficient build systems that all devs should really know about, like Bazel.
This comment reminded me of the time when I was in school, and I thought I'd learn HTML to build the school's first website.

As I was trying to figure out how to do it, it dawned on me that 2D HTML was old fashioned and that the future was VRML, because of course you'd want everything to be 3D, it's obvious, right?

Luckily I was not smart enough to build the school website in 3D.
Nitpicking: whenever I see some US personality labeled as "leftist" I must remember that we still live in a post-truth society where ideology is stronger than wikipedia. Translation: 90% of what is labeled "left" in the US would be by definition centre-right. Notice I left out 10% where "leftists" probably deserve their label, but hey let's not murk our clean-cut ideologies (and their scare-words) with too much exactitude...
Right, real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
I partially disagree, VB pre-NET and .NET tooling are only outperformed by Delphi, C++ Builder and Java.

Anything else doesn't really match being convenient to do some real work.

The UNIXy competition, with exception of Java, doesn't really get the "Developers" mantra.
Also I remember reading an article by a guy who went to teach computer science in North Korea - so yeah, he had to be an academic without internet access. His main point was that it just makes you remember that books still exist.
> Now some software companies don’t even have a QA organization, we are inventing new organizational and technical structures to ensure that the developers are perpetually on call to resolve issues, and there is definitely a school of thought that says delivery of a complete product is an anti-pattern because after all every feature is just an experiment that you are testing on your users.

That's bad management again imho, not tied to agile. I hope you're not working like that!
We are a small startup and have a ratio of 2 QA per 7 developers. And QA is kind of outside the scrum process (with more QA resources I could have some integrated and working on new features directly, that would be nice, but you know, money and stuff). We actually run automated end-to-end tests via selenium via CI on every new docker image release on a production-like environment. Plus manual QA.

My point wasn't that "agile" wasn't done right, but that management is shit and it wouldn't even make a difference if you used waterfall or agile in this situation.

Also,
> to ensure that the developers are perpetually on call to resolve issues

That's a good way to get rid of your developers lol.

You're points about "always on" business are interesting, but I don't experience it like that. Maybe depends on the country/sector?
Radar Interference Tracker: New Tool to Locate Active Military Radar Systems
Proving the Correctness of GNAT Light Runtime
> but instead hire everybody on regular open-ended contracts

Ah, the eternal post-doc. That surely will shake things up for the better.
This sounds like you have thought about it a lot. Assuming I live in a moderate climate, is there a version of your list for someone who prizes having the windows open as much as possible? Eg I'd like a house where the kitchen opens onto outdoor living space, and we keep those doors open almost all the time. In that context, I've always thought leaky old windows were a good thing, because they allow for fresh air. What am I missing? Are these sealed houses nice to live in or do they feel stale?
This is kind of amazing, actually. Thanks for sharing!

Link to paper for anyone else interested: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
> I think it is most often wrong to use the word 'wrong'

agree, that's why the word "wrong" in in quotes in my post.

I usually say "I see a potential problem here" and explain why I think it could be.
What do you parents want in a computer and what's your/their budget?
People everywhere mix those 2 regularly and nobody is confused. You don't say you go out for a run to burn some kilo calories and so on. Sometimes places like HN are needlessly pedantic
I get the impression that it's basically that he has never known defeat in his adult life and now he is eager tho find his limits. Supported by the old midlife-crisis mechanism, is this all there is? Now or never! And VR is likely a bit of a childhood dream thing: to people who grew up in the home computer era virtual reality is just as much "how the future was supposed to be" as space rockets and flying cars are to those born twenty years earlier.
We built a secret apartment in the mall (2007)
> That being said I honestly feel for Mozilla in some way. Making a browser as your primary product is just not profitable without monetizing your userbase in some form or fashion and it takes a shit ton of work to keep it modern and secure.

Why does it need to be profitable? Firefox is owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, the corp is only there to help develop it. If the corp can't work without making the browser work then the foundation should reconsider if the corp is a good idea. Unfortunately, the leadership of the foundation and the corp are not separate enough so they cannot effectively push for the interests of the foundation.
If CSPRNGs are impossible, then you will have no CSPRNGs so both /dev/random and /dev/urandom will be insecure and will provide no guarantees solely due to impossibility of CSPRNGs.
That is vastly more important. It is mandatory to wash your hands before visiting production as well as changing clothes. Regardless of how clean they look, they will contain foreign matter. The cafeteria is pretty much declared a hazard zone, not only because of that one colleague who has a weird cheese experiment going on in the fridge.

Downside for management is that we are only allowed to drink water in our offices and are not allowed to eat outside the cafeteria. With time I have grown to like it that way, even if I am a coffee junkie. But it never smells bad in the office in exchange.

There is still some strange association with cleanliness and neat shirts.
since the web is supposed to be hyperlinked media essentially the way you find urls you trust is by visiting them, if you do not visit a url you will not have urls to visit and thus no urls you trust.
Although !x mean "not x" pretty universally.
* I wrote about CO2.

* The boiler's flame is visible (through a slit).

* The system doesn't have a separate supply stream -- it takes oxygen from the flat.

An CO sensor seems obligatory to me:
after the chemney sweeper (obligatory in Germany) measured 10,000ppm CO in the exhaust stream (defect, not normal operation), I didn't want to depend on a 25y+ boiler's electronics alone.

CO kills relatively fast.
Even if rare, I don't want to die caused by a rare event that could have been avoided by spending ~50€ (here)
What is interesting is that they portray as if entire Netflix uses this in the home page.

From what I know two people at Netflix tried to pitch and even implemented it in their projects. The rest of the company still uses other things and they have their own similar tool. Seems like false marketing to me.
> even at places like google/amazon/facebook/etc

Even? Those places are probably the worst in that regard. The amount of support programmers for the core is enormous.

Facebook has what, 20 000 developers?
I had the same. Disabling shake to locate didn't help, but after I read this comment on Reddit [0] I unticked `Show screensaver after ...` and it hasn't happened again. It's been about a week now.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qtfc2e/comment/hrd7ztn...
Can you create mind in a computer?
Are you sure they blocked you because of the handshake?

Always thought it was the myriad of cookies and expiry time of said cookies that tend to make non-browser clients more obvious to CF.
> It's extraordinary to imagine that someone published books and papers in major journals without noticing the framework in which they did so.

When I was doing my PhD I found departments varied wildly, even within the same university.

One of my colleagues, a PhD student in the biological sciences, was expected to come in 7 days a week, including christmas day, and regularly worked 10+ hours a day. His professor did have papers in science and nature though.

Another colleague, a PhD student in the math department, estimated he got about 3 hours of useful math done in a day, spent the rest of his time in recreation, and completed his PhD a year ahead of schedule.

An academic who took the norms of one department and tried to apply them in the other might find themselves unpopular in their new department, no matter which direction they went.
I am a 1-year flomo user. I jot down with it almost every week.
simple and neat, and burdenless. You don't have any pressure to note your reflection, cache quotes, and flash ideas.
- the interface is smooth, easy to type on a smartphone
- the tagging system functions more than " Tag Adding", it also categorize my ideas automatically
- the " Random Walk “ feature is my favorite, it reminds me that my mind has been so activated some the other day
> your home institution will be pressured to grant you tenure as well

Well, let me tell you that the day I got a somewhat prestigious fellowship, one which comes with years of extra funding on the condition that the department gives you tenure, the secretary of the faculty came over and said "congratulations, but there won't be tenure for you". Next year, someone down the hall got the same fellowship, and they did promise her tenure immediately. It's terribly political, at least over here, and I've heard the same from other countries.
I see. A fair answer, but informative rather than persuasive.

To me that answer makes you look like the kind of person who protests against using a condom on a one-night stand because you don't know whether it'll protect against an unwanted pregnancy next week, and anyway the risks of an unwanted pregnancy are uneven.
Exactly, Firefox development should not be run like a for-profit corporation. Besides individual donations, they should try to get funding from pro-privacy governments.
this is actually funny because now I remember an essay from about the time when QR codes came out that asserted - nobody would ever use QR codes, QR codes were a stupid solution to a problem that only techies thought really existed, techies don't understand peoples real use cases and thus they always produce unneeded solutions, and thus in conclusion and again nobody will ever use QR codes hah hah!