skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth calling out that the introduction of multiple locks can lead to deadlocks etc.

It would actually make for a nice library to have lock acquisition decoupled from lock scope in the caller. Eg every call to lock acquire passes some identifier, and the lock implementation decides what it will do with that identifier eg global lock, scoped lock etc
Only a decent point if you don't care about Amsterdam. I would very much appreciate if Amsterdam wasn't under water in 100 years.
The hype around DeepMind’s new AI model misses what’s cool about it
This was an interesting read. The case is now in limbo until authorities can locate Medjedovic or he decides to appear.

“I did not steal anyone's private keys. I interacted with the smart contract according to its very own publicly available rules. The people who lost internet tokens in this trade were other people seeking to use the smart contract to their own advantage and taking on risky trading positions that they, apparently, did not fully understand.”
I personally enjoy the underground NYC subway system, both in and out of the fare zones. Watch out for the mole people!
> There’s no sport in high school that comes close to pulling everybody together the same way as football.

Wow, that's not my high school experience. Sports divided the student body into the popular athletic kids and the unpopular academic kids. If you celebrate the football team and not the math team, the results are predictable, and they won't be to promote math.
That article literally refers to it as poverty line as well a bit further down. "Poverty line" isn't a thing, thing. It'll always require some math to localize.
> I don't buy it. The web forums that largely replaced Usenet also had significant barriers to entry;

Not really. The fact alone that anyone could create their own web forum is already leaps and bounds ahead of what Usenet users could ever do.

Those interested in setting up their web forum had to endure the technical and financial hurdles of getting it and running just to sidestep the artificial and byzantine barriers to entry required by Usenet's self-described guardians.

Afterwards, services like Reddit and the like further simplified the process of creating a web forum, and thus virtually the whole world jumped onboard.

> "(...) although you could get a PHPBB hosting account pretty easily you would then have to drive traffic to your site*

There is nothing simple about setting up a full blown web server. Let's not fool ourselves.

This is something that some software engineers never done nor have experience in what is required to get it up and running from start to finish. This is certainly not something at the reach of any person with a hobby or even personal interest.
> Not my cup of tea, but that's cool, there's a million tech blogs without sexualized mascot drawings.

There's nothing sexualized on my blog.

If you're assuming it's sexualized just because I'm a furry: https://soatok.blog/2021/04/02/the-furry-sexuality-blog-post...
I imagine what was learned was along the lines of “don’t give 4 billion dollars to a company with vague promises about development but no concrete plans or legal obligations.

Or it should have been, I see little evidence of learning in this space.
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com is new to me, anyone have any thoughts on them?
I recommend getting into keyboard groups on discord and facebook. In Australia I've seen people selling second hand assembled split boards for less than cost of the parts.
I think the biggest thing with start up lag on animations is that it has to be communicated very clearly to the player that it's happening, and have a reason to happen. Otherwise people will blame it on the input device, or their system hardware, or just plain think it's a buggy or poorly designed game.

I think that winds up making it a lot harder to pull off.
Title is a bit misleading, since they're not actually using Zig the language.
The alternative isn't fossil fuels. It's renewables. Compare against reality instead of your made up competition.
Do you see any sense of irony here when looking at some of the crypto-proponents on this page arguing that the entire history of currency is bunk and can be discarded without knock-on effects?

> On a complex topic with an enormous scope, you claim to have an absolute and extreme answer, and present it as factual. That's pretty much impossible on any topic of high complexity.

This, on its own, is a pretty good reason not to trust a community that regularly messes up pegging stablecoins. I do not buy that purposefully making something complex is the same thing as making it robust. If anything, it's the opposite, complex systems are more likely to have fundamental flaws and are more likely to fall down and blow up than simple systems.

But if we are looking at complexity, current fiat currencies are already unbelievably complicated and multi-faceted. The way that inflation works, the way that currencies get issued, how trust in currencies grows, how countries coordinate and handle currency exchanges and debt, you could get multiple doctorates in every one of those areas. So if you're saying that GP is telling on themselves by dismissing cryptocurrencies out of hand because the math being hard means that quick dismissal of the social impact isn't allowed, how do you not immediately get really large red flags when you look at crypto-communities talking about how those economists are all just obviously wrong and crypto prices aren't tied to overall market effects, or that inflationary assets are just bad design, or that everyone's energy criticisms are just overstated, or that digital artists that hate NFTs just don't understand them, or that stock markets are exactly the same as cryptocurrency speculation, and so on and so on?

The idea of cryptocurrency proponents saying, "wait a second, this system is complex, we can't just dismiss it out of hand" just seems like it's missing a tiny bit of self awareness. Cryptocurrency by and large is a dismissal of complex systems and was primarily made and popularized by people who looked at economic/currency theory and thought, "yeah, I can do that, how hard could it possibly be?"
The human-created images had something interesting to say, whereas the computer-generated images did not. I do find this to be an interesting variation of the Turing Test.
What’d he do that was illegal? Seems like he didn’t cheat and insider trading laws don’t seem to apply. Oops crypto is a unregulated market.
Interesting. I have all of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal and Telegram (+ SMS and email, but I'm guessing these aren't the issue) installed on my phone with notifications enabled, and I only get notified when I receive a message. I'd be interested to know which services are spamming you.
You versus a World of Stupidity – Advice for Angry Engineers
If you're still interested in that sort of thing, Benson Leung is another Google engineer who's done a lot of work similar to Nathan K. He's u/LaughingMan11 on Reddit [1], and engages in a lot of technical discussions on r/UsbCHardware [2].

[1]: https://old.reddit.com/user/LaughingMan11/

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/
Only 2 out of 5 reactors are Russian built, so only 1 out of 2 plants. There were plans for another Russian reactor but those plans are likely shelved now.
One evening as the sun went down

And the basalt fire was burning

Down the track came a mermaid swimming

and he say "Boys I'm not turning"

I'm headed for a pond that's far away

beside the seagrass fountains

so come with me and we'll go and see

The big rock candy mountains.
If you're writing an application, you'd better off with a library even higher on the abstraction layer. The one the abstracts away the choice of specific cryptographic primitives. Without being a domain expert your choices might end up subpar, your use of primitives might end up subpar, your attention to detail might end up subpar, etc.

Also, it would be nice to talk to experts in security, since choosing a library and choosing a curve is a very small part of it. You'd have way more ways to fuck up, say, key management, or miss a glaring hole in some other place of your system.
That would be my intuitive recommendation, but canvassing experts I haven't found a clear recommendation across all languages. Some have recommended Tink, others have recommended (ugh) OpenSSL. Javascript is particularly fraught: is it better to use libsodium compiled via emscripten, or something native? It's depressing that we don't have agreement here.
SiriusXM acquires Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco podcast company for $150M
Horses definitely got much bigger but they've been big enough to ride since they were domesticated. The small Mongolian pony is still 5-600 pounds. Plenty big enough to carry ~200 pounds of people + arms.
Flutter is not an official Android SDK, and are under other team's steawdership.

> Android apps can be written using Kotlin, Java, and C++ languages.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals

JetPack Compose introduction was clearly a reaction to Flutter's existence.

That alone should tell the answer about Flutter's future regarding Android.

Note that at IO, Flutter usually has its own track.
Have you explored Aptible? https://www.aptible.com/heroku-alternative/
Is there a corresponding graph for solar electricity production, out of interest?
> I think it will be a huge blow to Russia.

Nuclear or not, they'd still need to have electrified heating and industrial processes dependent on Russian gas.
They are in a situation they now cannot realistically change and that they are 'supposed' to enjoy. There is a lot of pressure to convince themselves they are now happier 'overall', even if actually each of their days is now less happy.

The fact is, you will encounter plenty of misery in life regardless. You should not choose based on what makes you happy, but arguably based on what kinds of misery you are more suited to - the misery of having children or the misery of not having children.
>> "on the right track"

Pun intended??
> dispatchable power.

Using hydrocarbons. The very thing nuclear power avoids.
A university setting often has a cafeteria or other method of feeding the students, and one of the employment benefits is getting to eat there "for free" - but then for tax reasons they list it out separately on the income statement.
It was an employment issue. She was upset she wasn’t being used for flights as much.
I'm not familiar with Ghost, is this static site generators like Hugo that provides its own hosting? (So, like Netlify)
> or that employers in the future will note that they graduated later in life and thus pass them over for a different candidate?

How would a potential employer know they were graduating college at 24 vs 22, and without knowing the reason for the difference why would they care. "I'm afraid we can't hire you at FAANG, it seems you had to repeat the first grade 15 years ago."
> For me, MacBook Air M1 is just a "dumb terminal"

A $1000 dumb terminal? Wouldn't a cheaper laptop be perfectly sufficient then? Or, if the performance is not that important, something like an asus laptop with an oled, pro-motion, higher res, ... screen (same price)?
>> GPS is an adjunct to navaids and charting

Maybe 15 years ago. Today, GPS is the primary and charting comes slower/later to confirm positions. GPS isn't done intermittently. It is just on 24/7. Then occasionally (on the order of minutes to hours) a ship's position is confirmed by other means if possible. Near land the crew will sight landmarks to confirm the GPS track is accurate. But go onboard a ship in bad weather at night. You won't see the captain out there with a sextant trying to track stars. The GPS is basically it until there is good reason to second guess or confirm its accuracy. If the GPS fails, the ship's insurer might just tell the ship to hold position until it gets fixed. Ships are not planes. They can actually stay away from land/danger for days/weeks while repairs happen.
The average male height in Spain grew from 163cm to 177cm between 1910 and now, with most of the growth happening after Franco's fall. For reference the average male height in the US is 175cm.

Young male Spaniards apparently have an average height of about 179cm but Spain has a super high life expectancy so the older generations are around for a really long time (ergo lower average) :-)

In the past there were a ton of jokes about Southern Europeans being short. Guess what, they were just malnourished, it seems.

I've seen the same thing in Romania. After the fall of communism in 1989, the average height went up (I don't know the exact numbers) and at least in developed parts of the country the average male height seems to be going towards 180cm or even taller... (rural areas tend to have shorter people, still, again, because of nutrition issues).
> The study reported that the giant piles of excess sugar were not being consumed by the bacteria due to phenolic compounds released by the seagrass, which cannot be digested by many microorganisms. This was a key finding for the researchers, as it confirms that the carbon in the sugar stays in these underwater ecosystems and out of the atmosphere.

Interesting, sugar is so energy dense, isn't it just a matter of time until some organism figures out how to take advantage of it despite the phenols?
I mean am I wrong? I'm assuming you are from the US, Canada or Europe when you say central banks have a net positive impact on society so I can presume you are clearly speaking form a point of privilege. You've never suffered through strict capital controls and hyperinflation. You can participate in any investment scheme without the need to supply spurious amounts of impossible documentation. You are not sanctioned. You may even have born in the right place. Am I wrong? Doesn't that sound like privilege to you?
> you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about

Huh? Why the personal attack?

I have no idea about me applying to Ghost and being Ghosted ?

> Ghost provides guarantees that no individual developer (including you) can

Where did I say that I was doing this ? If you mean that they provide an SLA and uptime guarantees and such yip and there are many and I mean many alternatives to this that give the same guarantees and always have done for the full course of the 9 years.

> they dedicated over 9 years to work on Ghost and built a company around hosting instances to fund the development

Yes and good on them ! My OP was how much of a miracle this is in software.
Maybe I'll write about that next ;)

For JavaScript: emscripten/wasm/etc. don't currently provide constant-time guarantees, so you're better off using the native crypto module.
Where I’m from, we’d just say “There’s a big ass hole in the road”
It's fascinating to get a feel for the structure and layout of the larger stations in the London Underground. I'd love to pick one and spend a week making a decent model of the passages and platforms.
I'm surprised they didn't try std::atomic_long or a compare-and-swap.
> The story for storage looks better than it ever has but it is still orders of magnitude more expensive more expensive than it needs to be to be practical.

Storage is already cheaper than peaker plants and that's all it needs to be for now.

Meanwhile HVDC lines appear to also be a viable solution:

https://www.power-technology.com/projects/morocco-uk-power-p...

Not mentioned in this article is the projected cost of this system, which is $22bln.

That's actually less than the yet to be finished Hinkley Point C.
Currency manipulation is not fraudulent. It is a well accepted and studied sovereign tool in monetary policy. Geopolitical dynamics may deem it unsavory, but it is a tool that is grounded in supply and demand dynamics. A failed manipulation strategy leads to a country’s default.
> This suggestion (logging) doesn't help if it's e.g. other code you don't have control over,

Most of the time, other code uses the logging module so you do have control over that output. I haven't seen code not controlled by me that uses print() without me wanting it to.
China handles this problem by moving batteries from EV use to storage use. Many batteries can still function well at low rates of charge and discharge which is common in solar and grid storage. See Yinlong LTO cells, they are apparently re-wrapped EV bus cells. LiFePO4 cells are also great for storage, although they may not be quite as good used.

See guys like www.batteryhookup.com who are recovering batteries in the US
I've been a supporter of mycroft since the early days, even did some early work on integrations, but like most hardware kickstarters they ran into /a lot/ of delays (I think it was 2 years post projected date that I actually got my dev kit - but they did come through) and since then progress has been s l o w and it seems they've lost some of the value of an excited community.

I'd still love for an open source voice assistant to exist - especially since Sonos bought Snips a few years ago and doesn't seem to have done much with it, but not as excited about this project I was a few years ago
That's 5$/meal which is very low for Berkeley, even for groceries (unless you eat ramen).
https://www.uber.com/global/en/cities

Any kind of business operating at these many places, having to deal with local laws, tax and payment processing in each one of them would require a huge and constant engineering effort.
It was a generic statement for anyone reading, didn't intend it to be an under-handed slight questioning the competence of the author of the comment I was replying to.

With that said, do you agree with the combination of APFSDS and heaviest armor defining an MBT today?
This is precisely what I recommend in my "how to learn cryptography as a programmer" post.

https://soatok.blog/2020/06/10/how-to-learn-cryptography-as-...

Start with the highest-level, hard-to-get-wrong abstraction. If you stop learning there, you're safe!

Then drill down as you be come more of an expert. Libsodium is step 2 from something fit-for-purpose.
I don’t think the title is necessarily accurate?

> These people would like to and will stay anonymous.

The Twitter thread itself is calling out specific people with a taunting “I know what you did” tone that seems unnecessarily risky considering the whistleblowers aren’t actually ‘coming forth.’ Why wouldn’t you phrase these as allegations or at the very least attributions made by your sources?
Income can have a huge effect on observed "conscientiousness". If a student is having to spend effort on looking after their siblings, or their parents, or worrying about how they're going to eat then it's going to be much harder for them to focus on school.
DARPA wants to combine traditional sealift and airlift
Which begs the question… why don’t we do it? Summer break is fun and all, but far to long for most students.
I'm from Germany, here sport is integrated into the timetable like every other subject. Sport is not that important here so I might underestimate the amount/impact of sports in US high schools.

I'd say that more sport is generally a good thing. What matters most to me about high school learning is that IQ does not decline. Grades are just a bad IQ test and most things you learn in high school don't matter. Sport is healthier than sitting in a dim classroom all day.

I am the kind of person that likes to learn by myself so all learning in school is time spent ineffeciently (from a pure learning perspective; reading a book instead is better). But I think that for most people many things that are taught in high school are useless while more important things (understanding how social media affects you, how to declare taxes, how credit cards work) are not covered (at least here in Germany, I suspect its no different in the US).
Following a convention already established in the local ecosystem, presumably.

Though in this case I think previous posters are mistaken. My GNU implementation of head supports -c and not -b.

Perhaps it's the fact that the longopt is --bytes that caused the confusion.
Yeah, but how many dev's are utilizing anything beyond Java 8?
Where do you think the fuel for the reactors will come from?
You think as soon as it's safer than the average person they're going to stop improving it?
Nice! I actually attended there as an undergraduate many years ago. Prof Bui still remembered my name, even after my military -> industry -> academic -> industry journey. As in most institutions I've been in, if they're already familiar with your work then there's little process for getting an adjunct position because of the demand (as explained in the article). Just don't expect interesting courses right off the bat.

I do have to warn you, if you're not already aware... all those articles about lack of student engagement due to pandemic are horrifyingly correct. I started adjuncting as the pandemic hit and it seemed like each semester was worse than the previous one. I just finished up my last course and it was such a slog. People barely show up, are completely silent when they do. A root canal was more fun.

That said, it's a great feeling when you really make a connection and I hope to return to teaching sometime in the future.

I will put my psu address in my profile, if you want to connect.
Where do you get the water for pumped storage and where do you put it?

I have a hill that goes up about 300 feet on my farm. I've done the math on the volume of a reservoir for a pumped storage system and it is pretty shocking.

The US has domestic production of natural gas, the EU has some domestic production and imports from Russia. Japan imports a lot of LNG.

There are many countries that don't use natural gas but they don't use pumped storage, instead they use some combination of: oil, very high prices, rolling blackouts.

The military connection is bogus. The size of the domestic nuclear industry is much much larger than plutonium production or uranium enrichment for weapons. Fuel is irradiated for such a long time in commercial reactors that the resulting product contains like amounts of Pu240 which contaminates the desired Pu239 and makes it undesirable for weapons.
Why would anyone leave money in a Paypal account? They've made it pretty clear they can't be trusted.
> They fought tooth and nail for the ban of genertical modified food, but now are in favor of a mandatory mRNA vaccination even for young people.

This is a consistent position. mRNA vaccination is not genetic modification. On the other hand, adenoviral-vector vaccines are genetically modified organisms.
Nope. For that there are daymarks. [1]

Clover Island Light (2010) is the first lighthouse to be built in the United States since 1962. [2]

If they are not obsolescence why they have built only one lighthouse in last 50 years in USA?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daymark

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_Island_Light
a few in Canada due to the weather. Toronto has PATH, Montreal RESO and Halifax has its Link. Don't know if you could do an entire vacation underground there though (not that i'd want to - lots of other stuff to do in those towns)

Other than that the only one coming to mind is Coober Pedy - but thats caves - man made though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coober_Pedy
Ads got me out of the habit of watching television and listening to radio. If not for uBlock Origin it probably would have gotten me out of the habit of reading on the Web, too.
Dear HN god, gib archive link pls
I'd guess that's correct. It reminds me of the Carboniferous era when there weren't any organisms around that could eat lignin, so dead trees just piled up until they were so thick, they turned into coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous