skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah...I used to live in an old neighborhood with above ground lines and huuuge trees. Every strong windblow would flip the power out for a second. Some days a few times a day, some days never.

EXT4 has never once failed me, and I personally battle tested it by working while losing power probably a total of 200 times. I probably should have bought a UPS come to think of it.
The data told me to reject the claims of the self serving.
Hetzner shuts down Ukrainian State Department website
lol when Iraq's puppet government was asked by the US to ask them to leave you mean
Cronje definitely made money, he was one of the originators of the DeFi space. He contributed a great deal as a developer, and has famously been very annoyed by the politics and drama of the space. There's probably something to be said about the way he left the projects, but it would be very unfair to categorize this as a pump and dump.
That's not it, as far as I can tell. The art in the comic I'm thinking of had something of an MS-Paint quality, and wasn't nearly as developed. But thanks for the guess! I've never heard of this one before.
Hah. I thought I was the only silly person in 2017 purchasing an overpriced and not-so-powerful-at-the-time machine :) I got mine from eBay and it is still my daily driver!

Mind you, just wrote this about a week ago on how I keep it current: https://jmmv.dev/2022/03/windows-10-mac-pro-2013.html
sure, until you look at the completion% of those games.

People are buying things not to play them, but because it's a good deal/easy to do. Many of the games on the sale are acquired and not played.
MercadoLibre leaks source code and data from 300,000 customers
Not sure about cars, but I find the idea of hydrogen as a replacement for natural gas in home heating to be more plausible than heat pumps.

The efficiency of hydrogen electrolysis seems low, but potentially not an issue if the absolute cost of wind/solar continues to drop - and it's a storage solution for smoothing renewable production too.
One hypothesis: While Battery Electric Cars seem to have won out in California, it is still unclear what the longer term trend for Trucks will be. Some postulate that Hydrogen might be useful for quick refueling of trucks, and to lower the mass needed to carry (as the trip goes on, increasing mileage), etc.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNgZ6xL_An4
why is diversity of fueling bad in a gilded age?
Calculus and linear algebra continue to dominate in applied mathematics. "How can I turn this into a problem in linear algebra?" is probably the most fruitful mathematical technique that has ever existed.
Wasn't the point of bitcoin, that you can't be locked out of it?
Pecking accurately at checkboxes while trying to keep your balance on a commuter train is not fun. Slide toggles are much easier to hit accurately. They also are visually easier to understand as an on-off switch. Often people tend to go for design anti-patterns with checkboxes like

[X] Mute notifications

[X] Large fonts

Whereas with slide toggles the on-off semantics are much more obvious and design patterns tend to get forced to a better, simplified pattern:

[o--] Notifications

[--o] Large fonts

(where the toggle is clearly lit up for the "on" state of course)
> Sure, but that's semantics.

I hate it when people say that to dismiss things. Semantics is all about meaning. Without it we can't have a discussion. It's what's important about the words we say.

> You are acquiring a thing which has value to you, and has value to its owner, and which the owner has asked you to pay for.

Right, which means it had enough value for you to copy it, but says nothing about whether or not it was valuable enough to pay money for it. And if it wasn't valuable enough to pay money for it, the author loses nothing in that particular instance of piracy.

Of course, that doesn't mean all piracy falls under this case, but it does seem important to distinguish between these things.
It's not free, it was just paid for by other people. If it has to be nearly free for someone to take it, not sure that really supports these being commercially viable.
If it makes you feel better, it is very unlikely that they contain nuclear weapons. NATO has no interest in bombing anything on Ukrainian soil with nukes. and if the US wants to bomb Russia they would use an ICBM instead of an airplane that is (relatively) easy to shoot down.
Hackles?

http://www.hackles.org/
> It makes some sense. The electric grid will not be able to support everyone going electric, so there will need to be a good stopgap. Hydrogen is one of those stopgaps.

This is simply not true. The DOE produced a report several years ago demonstrating that 70% of light vehicles could be electrified immediately and existing electrical generation capacity would be sufficient. As that scenario is impossible, the growth of EVs in lockstep with the rapid uptake in renewables (and natural gas/batteries to a lesser degree) ensures that there will be no generation shortfall. A more recent citation is provided below.

https://www.virta.global/blog/myth-buster-electric-vehicles-...
I'm worried Azure is getting too large to handle. It's like outlook, where 3 clicks and lead you into the old UI from the 90s. Microsoft seems addicted to breadth of features instead of quality of implementation.
Another good one. Thanks!
I've had the inverse happen to me. Would just give vague "yeah, working on that, expected to be done in XYZ <units of time>" and got a 'talking to' about not going high resolution. I've found a happy medium where I can gloss over implementation details and keep it short.
That's a decent attempt at a back-justification, but to my knowledge the hydrogen program is running purely on momentum from many years ago when the economic superiority of battery-electric cars was not yet perfectly clear.
While looking for the OS/2 site that would have hosted User Friendly, I found OS/2 e-Zine! whose first issue is still online, with the exact same HTML as in 1995:

http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n1/

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Show HN: I built an extension to solve my addiction to refreshing webpages
Power grids are designed to have lots of redundancy and tend to have more capacity than is actually needed. It is perfectly normal for large generators to be offline. It might increase prices, but the grid should be designed to cope.
NBA results real time with no ads or any bullshit
Hey guys, I just created an app that shows the NBA results in real time and past games also, no ads, no modals, subscribes or anything, a site that loads fucking fast and show the results that you want to know =)

Check out and give some feedback! It's opensource and made with Remix.run!

https://nba.willianjusten.com.br/
> If anything should be dropped from a highschool level its all of the insane memorization you have to do for some of the lower level math classes - I found that totally useless. You then learn some basic calculus and realize "I just wasted so much of my life" and never need to memorize those things again.

What sort of memorizations do you have in mind that you no longer need to memorize once you know calculus?
There's a bunch of weirdness. Lack of USB2 to USB3 translation is one of them, but there's also a lack of USB3 and USB2 concurrency.

E.g., if I put a USB 2 device on a bus with a USB 3 flash drive I would find constant stalling due to the USB2 bus activity. It even went so far that the output of `lsusb -t` would show the speed downgraded to 480Mbps at the bus level and not just the port. This has since been changed, but I notice stalling and bad performance. This is supposed to be fixed in USB3.1 and 3.2 but I am not sure we're going to see it in practice. The original spec does not say they are supposed to happen at the same time but the spec authors have made themselves clear that they were supposed to operate concurrently.
Database technology evolves to combine machine learning and data storage
Most Invisible Hand models sketch that if each consumer is allowed to choose freely what to buy and each producer is allowed to choose freely what to sell and how to produce it, the market will settle on a product distribution and prices that are beneficial to all the individual members of a community, and hence to the community as a whole.

In Russian-style cronyism, the freedom of producers in particular was corrupted by the need to pay heed to everyone with political muscle. No sensible producer who valued personal safety would compete with the mining company of an oligarch in a development, for example.
So sounds like we should be replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats.

Further googling gives:

Polyunsaturated fats are found in high concentrations in
Sunflower, corn, soybean, flaxseed oils, Walnuts, Fish.

Canola oil – though higher in monounsaturated fat, it’s also a good source of polyunsaturated fat.
Is it just me, or did you just ghost-edit your previous comment, adding everything after the Nazi citation? I don't mind grammatical or even minor wording fixes, but changing the entire tone of a comment typically requires an 'edit' flag so that readers aren't misled/confused.
Man, there is a huge swath of programming that doesn't require exceptional talent. Maybe direction from such talent, but how much is needed for maintenance programming, simple web-page creation, me-too clones of existing applications, iOS/Android apps, ...

Yeah, if you're going to replace Linux next year, you better have some talent. If you're going to really do self-driving vehicles you better have talent and way more process than what I see used for every website and application I use. But nobody will pay that much money for talent that gets bored.'

And I go back to an earlier comment I keep echoing: Why would exceptional talent spent all that time and effort in harvesting data and selling ads?
No, not standard at all. Even if a customer directly pays for my time on a hourly basis we do not do reporting on anywhere close to that level, never mind internal work.
I like the solar version better. :shrug:
Three metrics you pointed out:
1. Linter
2. Cyclomatic/halstead complexity
3. identifier naming convention testing

Are those really things that candidates can get a negative ding for? Those are things that can/should be handled automatically by libraries or your CI/CD (ex: Rubocop)

More importantly, how do you get more details/nuance over things like naming or cyclomatic complexity.
Let's multiply the geographic spread of nuclear waste, multiply and spread thinly the amount of security needed to protect these sites, and fall into a government story after the disaster of Brexit.

A tip for international readers, the UK is currently captured by the worst government in a generation and it is inherently untrustworthy.

Spraying $546m at a "profile-lifting" project is nothing to a government that will waste billions at the behest of Tory donors without a second thought.

I'll classify this under "R&D puff piece that will likely amount to nothing, or a loss", like nearly everything else the current UK government has done.
Maybe one should put a QR code on the NFC card as a backup.
What is your experience with SOPHOS or other hardware firewall products? Are they effective at blocking novel malware?
My bad, got commenters mixed up.
> "How can I turn this into a problem in linear algebra?" is probably the most fruitful mathematical technique that has ever existed.

And, from that perspective (with which I agree), calculus itself is just another instance of trying to turn a non-linear problem into a problem in linear algebra!
I'd think they'd not rely on one mean of delivery and instead would have as many as possible ready. It's DEFCON 2 here after all.
This still assumes, however, the perspective that a spinning tub is ideal. It's convenient when you're starting with rotational motion, like with a motor. But if we're looking for the most efficient way a human could power it, I'd suspect moving the clothes across a washboard with a static tub is way more efficient. It also has zero moving parts, outside of the human itself.
Hidden amongst some trees or tree-related objects. And then leaf them all alone
Pavel Durov had a post on Telegram that he has some Ukrainian ties on his mother's side, he does not live in Russia anymore, does not employ any people in Russia, and cares now more than ever about privacy, yet, he blocked content, which means that Telegram is just another WhatsApp and Messenger. I'm not sure if he gets this - even Facebook did it better by only putting a big warning about the content, but not completely blocking it. Also, it would have been nice to cite the exact laws being violated, which, in this case, don't even exist! Taking sides on a platform, which only exists, because it claims to be neutral and censorship-free, is a recipe for disaster. I understand, he's probably trying not to get removed by the app stores.
I think Tivo did a similar thing too, back in the day. (I wasn’t a Tivo customer but I had friends who were.)

Sadly, these things never seem to end well.
I really don't.

For many, many years I thought I did. I'd have a brief surge of interest for a few weeks, and then get completely bored of it. I'm not someone who finds it inherently easy, so boredom + difficulty = failure.

When I was foolish enough to do this in university, it meant doing great in the first few assignments, and then abysmally in the exam.

So my policy now is to never study maths for its own sake. Only when there's equations in a computer science paper I don't understand.
Makes sense to me.

Tweeting is about the lowest-effort type of engagement you can get. It represents maybe 10 seconds of someone's time, and should be valued accordingly. It is unverifiable, and appeals to whiners, attention-seekers, scammers, astro-turfers and other people you'd rather not have around. Why give it any credibility by responding?
> Also, when you offer nuclear as an option, you need to remember that nuclear can't do the job without storage either - unless you're willing to pay out of your nose for something that sits idle most of the time.

The disparity between peak electricity consumption and minimum electricity consumption is not so great as most people make it out to be [1], and base load still accounts for the majority of electricity demand.

Furthermore, nuclear plants can module their electrical output by more aggressively cooling the reactor. Your claim that nuclear requires storage is demonstrably false: France operates a grid over 70% nuclear (over 80% at its peak) without energy storage.

> biomass, biogas, thermal-electric storage, thermal storage

What do you mean by biomass and biogas? Burning wood and capturing methane from landfills has been done, but not on a relevant scale.

Thermal and thermal electric storage remain in the prototyping stage. If they prove to be cheap and scalable then great. But that's still in the world of hypotheticals, it may or may not pan out.

1. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
It appears this is from 2017. It also doesn't seem to tell us what we didn't already know, right?
Australia’s National Gallery unveils 20% non-binary target
I've been debugging a sporadic high IO wait time very recently, and we ended up tuning vm.dirty_ratio and vm.dirty_background_ratio. I wonder whether those were already tuned from the very high % of ram default, or whether it could have any impact here.
You’re talking about the G3 iBooks, not the G4 ones, just FYI.
"I've made a technical decision you disagree with. I know what I'm doing, and you're confused. I won't be doing it your way."
You have cash, you have IOUs, private contracts, all kinds of ways to pay which are difficult to track. I wouldn't worry too much if that's your concern.
The Payne study on USS Roosevelt has a very small sample size compared to the number of confounding variables (the paper reports that they allowed the ~300 respondents to select multiple responses, including adherence to social distancing, interacting with people later known to have Covid, etc, etc. It also covered one outbreak over 4 days). Wang's study, as well has having a very small sample number, concludes that other things like "taking a taxi one or more less times per week", "having a pet", and "not going to a farmer's market" are about as effective in reducing risk to the person as wearing a mask. The Doung-Ngern study is a little better, but still I am not sure how they can conclude that one risk can be narrowly identified with a relatively small sample size and relatively many confounding factors (ie, mask wearers are probably less likely to go out, go indoors in public spaces, etc).

>or a negative one ('wearing a mask does not protect the wearer' or 'a mask probably won't protect you').

No, you need to make a positive, proven statement in the first place (ie, "wear this mask to protect yourself"), otherwise you fall victim to the "Lucky Underpants" effect. I wear my lucky underpants to every sports game, and my team always win. If you tell me "no, they don't, that's ridiculous", then are you saying that you will also need to prove that to me?

>offering significant (although not irreproachable) evidence

None of those studies you linked are significant evidence. They are weak-sauce.
I honestly don't think it's purposeful dishonesty, just complete disconnection between groups and/or employees and management. I've always said it feels like Google is a company where the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing. So the Stadia team probably has zero indication their product is dead until the day of.
I heard this was coming a couple weeks ago. I don't know why you'd shut the entire website down, rather than just put it into hibernation?

I mean I don't know what is hosting situation is, but I can't imagine there's a ton of traffic on a comic that hasn't had a new post in years. Seems like it would be worth keeping it up just for old time sake.

It would be reasonable enough to host the entire thing for probably a couple bucks a year on s3.
I need a few downvotes, here’s the best book on which oils are healthy vs not:

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional...
If you just want to learn math for purely practical reasons, Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org) is great. It might have added more lessons, but when I went through it, it went up through 1st year college calculus.

The thing that makes it VASTLY better than most self study math programs or books is that there are hundreds of exercises that you can do, and see if you got the right answer. If you didn't, it will in most cases explain how to do the problem so you can try again with a completely different problem, so you're not just memorizing the answers.

Another thing that makes it great is you can do a little bit a day, start and stop, and come back to it and it will remember your progress and where you left off.

Khan is also a gifted teacher. Unlike a lot of math teachers, he has great pronunciation and handwriting and you can watch his lessons as many times as needed.
I could drive myself crazy paying too much attention to this stuff. Eat a balanced diet, lots of plants, not too much added sugar, not too much saturated fat. Don't eat more than you need. Get some exercise.
In terms of vinyl is better than cd, yes.

Anyway, whether you want it or not, it’s the future.
M1 Max MacBook Pro Long-Term Report
Ask HN: How can I best utilize $20k towards a startup idea?
I sold some shares and now I have ~20k USD extra. I'm in my 30s and I have been programming for about 5 years, and I'm kind of bored of the daily grind. I can't imagine spending another 5 years crushing Jira tickets or doing code reviews.

I have been working on building mobile apps to tackle problems I'm passionate about solving, and teaching myself as much as possible, and I feel comfortable now with building web/mobile apps, backend services, and I understand a bit about cloud providers and navigating AWS/GCP. I also been reading books through the pandemic on design and product management, and also learned to use various tools like Figma and notion to organize.

How can I best utilize my 20k and do something meaningful with that amount this year? I don't know any 1st hand connections/friends who own their own software business, so I want to ask here.

Should I use that amount to register a business, so that I can release apps under that entity?

Should I use that amount to hire a professional designer to build landing/product page so I can focus on building the app/service and talking to potential users?

Should I move to the bay area or another big city center? Unfortunately I don't have any software engineer friends in my area as I work remote..

Please help me out, I need some inspiration and advice. Thank you.
Lots of cool functionality in Chalk. I love it.

The main thing I use Google search calculator for is natural-language unit conversions like "2 gigabytes / 128 kibibits per second in days" which is not in scope for Chalk, but there's a nice desktop calculator called Soulver that is good at that kind of thing.
Quite possibly a result of moving very quickly for MVP and not being too careful with it. We'll push an update removing jQuery soon enough.

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How the Ukraine conflict became a turning point for cryptocurrency
What GCC is written in only matters if you intent to write your own compiler to compile it - which as you have no compiler yet would likely have to be written in assembly.

Otherwise you need to download a prebuilt compiler anyway, and whether that is C11 or C++11 is rather unimportant.
Has anyone used the mentioned associated projects to boot Windows off of a BTRFS disk?

Main usecase is storage spaces w/o server or workstation.
After this period, costs to build nuclear power plants skyrocketed. When the reasons behind these escalating costs were studied in depth, it was found to be due to the fact that plants lack standardization across the board, leading to ballooning engineering and labor costs as designs are reworked in site-specific ways:

> Overall, a common theme emerging from this analysis is the lack of anticipation in engineering models of the cost-increasing contributions of soft technology external to standard reactor hardware, in response to changing regulations and other factors such as variable project-specific conditions. Prospective modeling shows the potentially transformative effect of rethinking engineering design to adapt to these factors, for example through reduced commodity usage and the automation of some construction processes.

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X?_r...
I think "my wife is a hospice worker who has provided care to over 5000 patients and hasn't heard these regrets" is a pretty decent argument. I'm not saying Hanson is right, but I wouldn't dismiss his wife's experience.
Steve Job's letter on flash is 12 years old now.

https://www.statista.com/chart/3796/websites-using-flash/

Flash lost half of its marketshare down to 15% by 2014. I'd wager that most of the remaining sites were more niche or legacy and probably not seen by a 7 year old kid under general circumstances.
60 miles is pretty good, considering most trucks aren’t usually towing a trailer. Obviously, if you are towing long distances, an electric truck does not make sense … yet. Diesel is the way to go.

Again, most trucks aren’t towing long distances so towing range is not critical to electric trucks making sense for most uses.
Electric is clearly the future of consumer cars but there's definitely a future for hydrogen in industries like shipping. Whether it's container ships or 18 wheelers, hydrogen has many benefits including the ability to fuel up faster. We already have a dual system for two kinds of fuels, gasoline/diesel, I can see a future where the two main types become electric/hydrogen.
You make it sound like people who pirate software are trying to hurt creators.

They're not. The means to acquire the software are just too great. If you give people a way to express their gratitude in other ways--they might (they also might not. heck they probably won't. but I'd also expect it to be non-zero).
Could you please detail some of these phenomenon?