skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all you need an interalized conviction, based maybe on long and painful experience, that good docs are worth the trouble that it takes to write them. Second, your management has to back you up on this, when normally they are obsessed with slamming today's feature out the door and letting the underlying confusion keep piling up. And third, you have to put in the work of actually writing the docs. It's not the world's most challenging or demanding work, but it takes understanding of the topic you are writing about, and sustained effort to keep the words flowing into your keyboard.

There is not a stimulating code-test-debug cycle in writing like there is in programming. It's just work work work. There is no framework or tech stack that can change this. So you have to like writing, and think that it is worth it. You have to deal with that first. Worry about subtleties later.
Cryptomator – Free Cloud Encryption for Dropbox and Co
I know there are options like pumped water, compressed air, spinning disc. No idea how feasible they are at scale, but I can imagine a world where physical storage like that could be lower maintenance & cost in the long-term compared to chemical batteries.

Even if less efficient, you can get enormous potential storage from pumped water with relatively simple machines compared to massive battery farms.
You either accept a moral responsibility to protect sovereign nations from elimination, and elimination at this point was stated by Russian officials and media as a goal numerous times, or you accept the Russian position of "lands and peoples belong to the strong men" and we're back to the age of conquest, but now with nukes. Not only the former position is morally right, but it also prevents or at least postpones the nuclear proliferation.

This is not only about Ukraine, this is about the whole Eastern Europe, and literally about post WW2 order that you seem to be enjoying the fruits of, if only by hanging out on Hacker News.
What problem did that solve?
Surprisingly enough, the AEGIS Anti Ballistic Missile variant is in fact designed to intercept the name on the tin. That a handful of lazy journalists write "carriers are dead" articles with some regularity doesn't mean the actual Pentagon is clueless and asleep at the wheel vs it being a superficial take of a much more complex topic.

A couple years back the Navy asked congress for funding to demonstrate taking down an inbound saturation attack of 500+ missiles, probably as a deterrent to China. Congress declined.
> When a site initiates a transaction, you can see the address you're interacting with. You should then look up the address on etherscan to see if it has public code and a lot of transactions. Then you should search that address in google and see if the main site links to it. A lot of projects have a list of addresses in their github. You can also inspect the function code. Once you're comfortable, you should add it to your saved addresses on your wallet and next time you'll see the name of the address

Oh, that’s it? So simple.
My next billion dollar app will be a service that unlocks anyone's doors and gives you directions to their valuables (with augmented reality ofc). That way, you can directly steal from people without the complexity and carbon footprint of traditional cryptocurrency and NFT projects.
Calculating the “fingerprints” of molecules with artificial intelligence
completely missed that. thanks for sharing.
Everytime I see dietary studies conducted with Mice I wonder how people end up so lazy they can't convince other humans to eat their diet.
I admit I experienced some schadenfreude when Insteon went down a short while back. Local-only support or bust.
I did some consulting for a large employer in the UK and found that all of their programmers were contract employees. I asked one guy about it (an American) and he said that he makes so much he can spend 6 months traveling each year. At the time full-time jobs were pretty low-paid in the UK relative to US standards. I wondered if the flexibility the large employer got was worth the approximately 200-300% premium it was paying to hire contractors, although perhaps talented devs wouldn't work for the lower stable wage.
There is a common misconception that the host would be polling the keyboard state every time. It is actually polling to ask the device if it has a new packet to send. If the keyboard's state hasn't changed then there is no new packet and there isn't any input processing done by the CPU.

The host polls because it is in control of scheduling all activity on the bus. It must be scheduled because there can be multiple devices (and multiple interfaces per device) with different characteristics on the same bus, and they must be kept from interfering with one-another.
Gold looks ok, I don't know about guitars but watches are plummeting just like the stockmarket.
What a weird coincidence, I was just searching this last night. There's a particular tolkien painting I'd love to buy a print of [0], but it doesn't seem to be sold anywhere.

The official tolkien shop only has 3 or so of his hobbit illustrations and a bunch done by other artists.

Feel like they're missing out on a lot of money.

[0] https://1konag4dcg12gdvjc12ot2wu-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
Qualcomm effectively has a near-monopoly on the concept of a cellular radio, especially on the high end, so they really don't have to bend for anyone, even a little.
I think that explanation was just a little too jargony.

If you have the Metamask browser extension (or another compatible web3 extension) and press its browser button to enable it while on a webpage, then the webpage can see your wallet address and suggest transactions for you to make. When that happens, the browser extension then shows a window under its own control explaining the transaction and allows you to choose to sign or reject the transaction.

The webpage never sees anything about your wallet if you don't activate the extension on the page specifically, it never sees your private keys, and it can never silently sign a transaction from you.
Thanks for sharing. I never knew that. The post says savings accounts were moved into M1 because they're pretty liquid now. But what was the real rationale or implications? Odd time to do that move (April 24, 2020)
"The simple answer is the same reason we have an ongoing climate crisis and a student loan crisis that Republicans refuse to let Congress address..."

That tells you all you need to know about Commondreams' partisanship: all committees of both houses and all roll calls are under full control of the Democrats. There is no mechanism for Republicans to limit Congress from "addressing" anything. Filibuster is limited to calling for votes only. The House can literally push through legislation all the way from drafting to passage without allowing Republicans to even see the bill, as was done with ObamaCare.
> And yet, I can hardly believe that the dance where the main point is "how to make a girl grind on your crotch in a way that is acceptable in public?" can be seen as just a dance and nothing else.

Well I can speak of Salsa more than bachata, but you can like the dance without liking the partner. Like I would love to dance a Waltz in my wedding, and would have to practice first, doesn't mean I wanna marry the lady in the class. Some women might want to have their boyfriends crotch but in the class they just have to put up with whoever is there.

And again, if you go to a dancing class cause you are interested in dancing. And in a break talk to the people in the class. And one guy likes movies and one girl likes rock climbing and youre like "oh I love rock climbing too" and you talk about that and the next class you talk some more and then you ask her out for a coffee. Thats normal. But if you go to a bachata class, rub yourself like a monkey on people and before knowing their name ask a girl out, then you wont get turned down because you are not a top 5% man.

> If you rely only on apps you will miss out on a huge part of your dating pool. Who wants that?

I wanted that when I used them. Mostly because it had the advantage that I knew they were looking for dates, and could unmatch if they werent feeling it. I never felt I was imposing on any girl by talking to them on a dating app, so even if it has drawbacks, their ability to leave anytime made it much easier to be forward and honest than if you talk to someone in a cafe.
Yeah, if one can afford the upfront costs of the infrastructure for that to where it needs to be used, and the line can be protected end to end 24/7.

Australia is gonna run a line to Singapore, but I'm holding my breath on that build out for once thats completed and the total costs…
Happy to see that HN is enjoying my recommendation :D

I actually just discovered the same comic also has a voice-over: https://youtu.be/8rygV_MeudA
Yes, of course. Unless you absolutely have known working pristine code free of side-channels for SHA3, ChaCha20-Poly1305, etc. don't even think about it.

The same goes for parsing and other complicated operations containing pitfalls.

Honestly, I hope most crypto, parsing, numerics libs, and OS kernels and drivetd were rewritten in Rust and given C, C++, etc. interfaces.
They're drinking the water while choking the river.

If you have to have ever-increasing profits, you have to ALSO have purchasers with ever-increasing purchasing power.

You can slide by for a while by wedging yourself into a currently existing system and tapping some of its resources, but eventually if that drain isn't backfilled with more then it will run dry.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-parliament-langua... does not mention banning Russian-language schools nor, in fact, mentions banning teaching it in addition to Ukrainian in the same school.

There's an education law that says that starting in 2023, all state schools must be taught primarily in Ukranian at and above the fifth grade. While imperfect, it does allow teaching in several minority languages, especially in primary school. Russian is not allowed at state schools above primary school as a teaching language for other subjects, but it can be taught as an elective subject and other organizations are free to teach it. The ECHR implications of this are mentioned specifically by the Venice Commission.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-language/criticis...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190516190140/https://www.presi...

https://www.venice.coe.int/webforms/documents/default.aspx?p...

From section 5 of the Venice document.:

"69. Thus, it appears that members of the Bulgarian, Greek, German, Polish, Romanian and
Hungarian minorities, in addition to being able to study their language as a subject, may also
study one or more other subjects through the medium of their language at the secondary
education level. However, members of national minorities who do not speak an official EU
language — Byelorussians, Gagauzes, Jews, and, significantly, Russians — will only be able to
study at the secondary school level their language as a subject. Thus, a hierarchy is created at
the secondary school level, with indigenous peoples potentially treated more favourably than
national minorities which speak an official language of the EU, and national minorities which
speak an official language of the EU treated more favourably than other national minorities."

There is a high quota for state-language content on radio but other languages are allowed a percentage. From section 7 of the Venice document.:

"95. With regard to the use of languages in broadcasting, Article 24 refers to the Law on
Television and Radio Broadcasting. At the same time, a transitional provision of the Law (Section
IX, point 7.24) amends Article 10 of the latter Law, tightening the language quota requirements,
by increasing the proportion of the Ukrainian language content for national and regional
broadcasters from 75 to 90 per cent and, for the local broadcasters, from 60 to 80 per cent. This
amendment will come into force five years after the Law’s entry into force (i.e. on 16 July 2024)."

So is the situation perfect for everyone? No. Is the EU (and Hungary and some others) pushing Ukraine to compromise? Yes. Have they promised to work on compromises? Also yes.

There's no need to go beyond the actual, documented issues and spread falsehoods and propaganda.

TL;DR: I invite you to read up on the issue.
It is black and white, this is a great example of it.

Norway is white.
Sure thing! I've got your alternate path that is superior right here: see, first I give the semiconductor industry a big fat middle finger, and then I go work for somebody who fucking pays me.

This code is working great!
Welcome to the world of rare (or at least not common) chronic diseases. Private companies work by firing their least profitable customers. If you have a less common disease, the insurance company can simply claim that your preferred treatment is insufficiently backed by data.

With a small patient population, there is no incentive for for-profit companies to fund a study. And because few can afford the treatment, you can't get real world data to use in place of a study.
Yes, fair. That makes complete sense.
Startup CEOs, how do you currently get insights from your company accounts?
I'm reaching out to startup CEOs to test a product proposition and I was wondering if I could help here on hackernews. Would anyone be able to help me with a short interview to understand your needs as a CEO, your relationship to the company accounts and any insights you might be interested in.
There will be more than enough demand at lower prices to prevent it from going to $0.
Humanities aren't science but still important in making rational decisions. "History repeats itself" at least partially, and history/politics/religion help explain human psychology, if you look into the motives behind them.
Thanks for the reply, lovely stuff.

I've only recently really started to bring my hardware back home and only have a few TB. I don't mind purchase price for hardware, but it's the power consumption that's an issue. Especially as our electricity has gone up 60% a few months ago, and likely going up again October.

My day job is scooping up film data, and if my last 15 years here has shown me anything were always going to need more disk. Staying at 4k the be lovely.
"Don't use OpenSSL unless you absolutely have to. Preferably, disable every other feature you don't need. And keep all of your vendored dependencies up-to-date."
I also don't think that Europe will and can go 100% renewable within a decade, though the current development of breeder reactors seem promising. When the technology will be ready, it can scale (relatively) fast and help get us off coal and gas way faster than wind and energy could.

https://you.com/search?q=Thorium%20breeder%20reactors
Quote Investigator does a pretty decent job of tracking down this quote (and it's pretty clearly not Hemingway, but it sounds like you already guessed at that.)

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/14/writing-bleed/
This gets discussed almost every day. You'll find lots of opinions[]

I personally think the mistake most people make is to go heads down and assume they know how to prepare.

I spent X*10^3 on preparation, between 3 or 4 different services, and added 10^6 to my TC in one job hop.

So I see it as an opportunity rather than an obstacle.

[] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=leetcode
Maybe this is what people want but maybe it isn't. I'm not paying a subscription because I find the news I want to read for free anyway. There are a zillion sites reporting exactly the same things.
You are right, I double checked.

275 10^10 Wh are needed as per my comment above and there is 160g of Lithium in a battery per kWh of capacity [1]
275 10^10 Wh = 275 10^7 kWh => 275 10^7 kW * 160 g / kWh = 45375 10^7 g = 453 750 tons

This is far less than half the resources of the planet, but it's still a non negligible 1/40. To power half the American, for half a day, assuming that we willing to mine all the Lithium on earth, and assuming we don't need Lithium anywhere else the supply chain (hello solar panels !), and disregarding that the rest of the batteries are also using some valuable metals / rare earth (We will still need those 20 millions tons of batteries, that part is correct, they just won't be made of Lithium alone !)

As you can see, Lithium-Ion batteries are not remotely sustainable if they aim to help replace the baseline production that is currently provided by fossil/nuclear with intermittent renewable. They can only be considered at the top of the curve to help renewable manage the peak power, where their ability shine and where the total needs are far, far lower.

Other battery type do exist, I am willing to admit that, but grand parent projects all involve Lithium Ion batteries....because the other types are even less economically practical (more loss, less energy density, ...).

Rechargeable batteries (Lithium Ion or otherwise) are perfectly fin to store intermittent energy. They just aren't remotely practical to run an entire country off their output, which is why we leverage "natural batteries" aka: fuel (plutonium, oil, coal or otherwise).

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-lithium-li-ion-vehic...
Anti-School-Shooting Taser Drone Announced, Then Canceled After Uproar
People get paid for engaging in them- i.e. doing them. Studying the arts will not, however, make you an artist.

It will make you, at best, a keen observer. Some people can make a living writing books about their observations and assertions formed from them. Most, however, will not.

How much extra value does one more person writing about Locke or Rawles really give society? It depends entirely on how many we already have.
LV2 has uhh a lot of warts. This talks about some: https://drobilla.net/2019/11/11/lv2-the-good-bad-and-ugly.ht...

It also never got enough support from big guys. Clap looks like it fixes a lot od LV2 stuff as well, and it can replace VST, which is good because VST is a crap technology.
Lobbying itself doesn't involve an exchange of money (its illegal to directly compensate a politician in exchange for services). If you write a letter to a politician its lobbying. Donations, many of which are legitimate, are regulated in many ways (e.g. https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate... ) The author is disingenuous by implying that all donations are bribes towards a single issue. If the goal is to fight the corruption, its best to be honest.
Here you go:

https://download.lineageos.org/taimen

That device is officially supported by Lineage and as such gets weekly OTA updates. You'll get a clean Android experience not unlike that of the original Pixel, you can - but don't have to - install Google apps and can even if so required get one of the 'PixelExperience' distributions:

https://download.pixelexperience.org/taimen

Personally I'd stay away from those since they are (by design) heavily tied into the Google world while I do my best to stay free but if you're a heavy Google user this might be the way to go.
You're overpaid as well when you are asked to take a pay-cut, quit instead, and cannot find employment again at the previous rate.
Well part of it is fields not meant to have post docs use them as a way to avoid hiring tenure track folks. Post-docs are meant for the physical sciences, where you can need a few years to learn the physical mechanics of research in a field like biology, chemistry, physics, or other "hard" sciences.

But as a side effect of decisions folks were coerced into making during the last recession, many fields like CS which require very little physical labor now also use post-docs.

Often a post doc is just something given to a sub par PhD student who coasted on the work of others graduates from a "prestigous" program until they can author a few papers ACTUALLY on their own.

On my end, I deeply regret not backpacking around SE Asia doing English lessons the past ten years -- I'd probably be happier, healthier, and have a bigger bank account than the path I took instead. (Aborted PhD -> terrible NGO -> terrible nonprofit -> piecemeal consulting paired with a Bellingcat certification)

If I were going to attempt a PhD a second time, I'd probaby do it in the EU where they clearly define success criteria from the outset, and I'd probably do it after obtaining an EU passport.

(I should not have to consider getting a second passport to find work with my skillset, but people sometimes are stupid enough to interview me, refuse to take my advice, then get butthurt when the Russians skullfuck their servers or their bank goes out of business because they decided to be cute and treat an interview as a free consulting session, but not actually listen to anything I said.)
Putin himself tells everyone that his goal is conquering territories, Eastern Europeans tell everyone that Russian goal is conquering territories, yet people on the internet are still parroting "NATO's fault". I wish everyone read the book Bloodlands first before supporting Russians in their cruel conquests.
Looks like it uses PW1000G which in its most efficient version is 12:1 bypass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_PW1000G#Ultr...

The Trent 1000 on 787 is 10:1.
I'm not sure cartoony is the right word, but it's definitely fantastical.

One thing that's been lost with high fidelity video games - everything looks pseudo realistic, which kind of ruins any 'fantasy' element.
> Shipping power 2000 miles is absolutely super-practical.

DC interconnect makes it more practical, and it's better than storage, but losses and costs accumulate.

> China has a project to send it 8000 miles from solar farms they are building in Chile

Chile has proposed a project to do just that. It is in exceptionally early conceptual planning stages-- but look at you acting like it's a fait accompli!
It takes money (UHNWI earners) in this world (the US) to have joys, or enjoy perpetual, miserable wage slavery. Make $10-20M and mostly retire or work for fun. I can't see thriving on less than $225k. It takes $500k-$1M to get there.

MAANG+M management is good place to be.
This reminded me of Robert Wilson's congressional testimony on Fermilab. [0]

From the link:

Despite the key role physicists played in ending World War II, some members of Congress were skeptical of paying a hefty price tag for a machine that did not seem to directly benefit the U.S. national interest.

During Wilson’s testimony, then-senator John Pastore bluntly asked, "Is there anything connected with the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?"

"No, sir, I don’t believe so," Wilson replied.

"It has no value in that respect?"

"It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of man, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending."

[0] https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201804/history.cfm
I have worked with a few people with GIS degrees and 99% of them know ArcGIS and ArcGIS only. This situation reminds of how dominant SAS and Stata used to be before R and Python exploded.

Is there a FLOSS GIS solution that could rival ArcGIS?
It’s worse than the browser threat model. In a browser, security-maximalist users can choose to only visit trusted sites, which reduces the attack surface somewhat, though far from completely (there’s still exploits hidden in ads and watering hole attacks to worry about). With CloudFlare, you’re keeping out… people without credit cards? What kind of even remotely serious attacker can’t obtain a stolen credit card, or else sign up for a credit card with false identification? At most the credit card restriction prevents attackers from creating large numbers of accounts, reducing the chance they’ll be co-located with you, but even that can probably be circumvented by sufficiently sophisticated attackers.