skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need massive construction of a few standard nuclear reactors. We need to federalize their fuel supply and recycling. The power company would operate the reactor, sell the power, and our tax dollars would take care of the fuel cycle outside of the plant.

We need to go quite hard on regenerative farming. It wouldn't surprise me if this switch alone could pull the surplus of carbon out of the air, and put it back into the topsoil of farms, where it belongs. Industrial farming is about as close as you can get to hydroponics these days, except it's done outside with 1" of topsoil.

Wind and solar are great, but storage is a huge issue, both in terms of stress to the grid, and uneven availability. There are some project plants that show 50% round trip efficiency for storage... which is better than throwing out a surplus.

We also could encourage energy hungry industries to be more interactive loads... for example... aluminum smelting can be scaled up or down quite a bit (though not to zero, to match adjustable electricity pricing)

We could electrify the freight rail system in the US. It almost happened 100+ years ago. Improvements in trans-shipping could also reduce the need for liquid fuels in transport by reducing long haul trucking.

We should get rid of plastic bottles, and go back to reusable glass containers. Single use plastics should be considered "unsuitable for new designs". (as they say with electronics components)

Heat pumps are just fancy air conditioners... and they are far more efficient at both heating and cooling if they are coupled to an in-ground coolant loop We should subsidize them.

Does that fit in what you're looking for?
> They started collecting and storing user data in the cloud

> they're now storing exactly the same data that they've bragged about not being able to turn over

Can you provide me a source on this? This is the first time I've heard of this.
Better haul out into the woods then, Ted

Unfortunately the entire existence of society since humans were apes living in trees relies on this whole "trust" thing
I read one of his early books and my takeaway was that the author has lived a very privileged and sheltered life, compared to almost anyone, and so his observations and advice should be taken with a grain of salt.
Similar thing with newspapers.
I'm not sure if "proper" DICOM files are different (DRM?) but during my undergrad I had a medical imaging class working with anonymized DICOM files and we used Pydicom (With Jupyter Notebook) to display the images and annotations: https://pydicom.github.io/pydicom/stable/index.html
Great, now give me the options to fully open it up.
The S&P is up 1000%+ since I was born. I hope the $100,000 I put in an index fund for my daughter when she was born recently has the same performance.
My AP history textbooks did this, yet somehow was still searchable with ctrl-f.

I wonder what the compromise was.
Directly followed by

> And you still have a long way to go.

> Who knows what else will happen in your lifetime?

I feel slightly threatened ;)
> Sure. Aside from the Google phones upload contacts to cloud issue

You can add contacts through Signal that aren't synced with Google. I've just understood this process as a way to initiate the social graph. You can just not give Signal access and start from scratch, but I don't think that accomplishes much.

Also, as far as I'm aware, Signal doesn't actually know your phone number.
Or, they just got bought up by Walmart (jet.com) and Amazon (woot) for example. It's not that mysterious. They had a good model. They just sold out/bought out.
The banality of evil.
The opposite of XWayland (a Wayland server that outputs to X11 windows) will be much easier to implement than XWayland itself and won't require integration in window manager, so that won't even be as disruptive as it sounds.
You do realise it's absurd right? Why would you be an 'impostor' because you don't write blogs? Less than 1% of (programmers|mathematicians|physicists|etc) write blogs. Less 1% of people do public speaking, even less do it well. Less than 1% of people in any given field do noteworthy things that are recognised.

I don't mean to pick on you or anything. I think you've written down what a lot of people feel, but it's kind of crazy to expect that of yourself.

It's OK to just be OK.
Maliciously reductive, basically a Reddit-tier comment. Thumbs down.
We were tight on money when I was a kid. My favorite times were when my mom would come home with a box of coverless books from the bookstore next to the diner where she worked, bought for like $1 each. I wonder how many other kids had that experience.
Docker performance isn't great compared to what I'm used to on windows, but it's usable. Experimental docker features that are billed as potentially increasing performance by huge margins completely break my bind mounts. My stack fits very comfortably in the base 8 gigs of RAM. Some of my dependencies have bugs in the ARM builds that make me use docker overrides to x86 containers instead of aarch64.

I also had to troubleshoot some errors where dotenv operates a bit different between macOS and linux.

Overall, feels slower than what I'm used to. Community has a few rough edges to work out in an Apple silicon world, but half my growing pains are just moving to macOS in general. https://captionsearch.io is my "try new tech" project so it's part of the experience.
It's called the Uniform Commercial Code and it exists to protect consumers and to get us to spend more. I agree that it can get pretty ridiculous with generous return policies. I've worked for 3 retailers, and I've seen some shit. Who returns milk two months later??
I had a colleague that liked to hear Christmas songs while programming, ANY type of music as long as it was Christmas-y. Very odd, but the dude was amazing at programming, so...
At least your problem is not following. It is pure torment, especially townhall meetings for me.

What is happening? What is this bullshit they're talking about? I don't care about any if this, am I supposed to pretend? What does that entail? Smile and nod? If I look bored or not paying attention I will get in trouble but what the hell is this diversity strategy inclusion about Joe being promoted as vice chair or human resource value extraction planning and the corporate strategy of revenue growth blah blah. I work in IT, I mean I do pay attention to business deals being made and other changes because I work in infosec and that is strategic intel ("now China may attack us because we are competing against a state owned company in their sphere of influence" type of stuff) but I dread those meetings. It reminds me a lot of highschool and teachers talking about random shit and trying to be your friend and relate and tell you about politics and their personal stories and philosophy -- jusr like then I was stressed by trying to act as if I am ok with it when infact I just want the education about the subject and go home now I feel like it is mostly corporate indoctrination.

You want to know my theory? A lot of people actually like this and care about this. Like they feel like an actual family and included and they matter and for HR this sort of bs is needed to retain a lot if people. Also, managers want to feel important and show value before each other and HR and everyone else has to endure it for their sake.

"Transformation strategy" Haha, My brain goes into a specific distressed mode when I hear that phrase. Part of me is in flames desparate to tell the speaker what the hell are you talking about and why have you held me hostage for over an hour to listen to this?
I would imagine it was essentially nil, if not an occasional speedup.

For one thing, the heuristics it replaces are not always super-cheap to compute.
We need you to follow the rules regardless of how badly other people are behaving, or you feel they are.

It always feels like the other side started it and did worse, so this is the only way to avoid a downward spiral. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...
What are the limits to this right?

Let's say you have a right to travel down a road with a bridge on it. Then 1000 people decide to travel across it at once and it collapses. Obviously each individual doing their own thing isn't a problem, but when a lot of people do that thing it becomes a problem.

We all love the idea of freedom, but it always requires responsibility. When individuals do not take this responsibility then issues like the tragedy of the commons manifest.
That only talks about being able to travel from one country to another within the EU. Not that any country can't restrict movement within one area in it's borders.

I'm sure you can't freely wander onto a military base in any EU country and claim it's your right of free movement to go anywhere you want.
In the music world it's called "guitar center free rental."
> Abortion has majority support in many states with anti-abortion laws

Abortion up to a certain point might have broad support, but polling shows that majority support starts falling off after the first trimester and I believe late to full term abortion availability (which the democrats set as their baseline) only has very minimal support in the general US population. I believe the support for full term abortion is like around 10% in some polling I have seen. Abortion support is definitely not black and white. Lot of gray in there.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx

Using your acid test though, assuming a majority support abortion access in a state—but if the state has anti-abortion laws, and candidates continue to run and win as republicans with anti-abortion as a core value of the party, then abortion is simply not a hot button issue among many of those voters who might identify as pro-choice on the issue. I know for me, I’m pro-choice, but short of extreme opinion on abortion on both sides, a candidate’s opinion on the subject will not deter me from voting for them. My neighbors are pro-life, but that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy a cold beer and hot dog together on Independence Day. It’s also damned likely we have voted the same candidates despite our terrible and insurmountable differences. Insurmountable differences, according to some maybe.
Depends on what humans we're talking about. 200k years, if we talk Homo Sapiens.
I think their point was less to assign blame, but whether or not it was war related.
The true nature of dark matter is an additional variable parameter used to fit observations that otherwise don’t agree with current theory.
Your own comment seems highly constructive and informative with a well reasoned argument
That i9 was quite the little heater
So your hypothetical adversary is getting physical access to satellites in orbit to remotely disassemble them and then put them back together after swapping hardware.

How exactly do you think this is remotely cost effective? Really the best defense is to spend less than 1/10th as much and launch a new satellite.
The article trots out the usual falsehoods about solar and wind encroaching on "vast swaths of territory", and bulk utility storage in batteries.

Solar will not take over land people want for anything else. (Although, desert solar farms are a very bad idea, but thus far easy to sell to ignorant investors.) Solar coexists synergetically with existing uses, most especially reservoirs and canals, but also pasture and crop land, and industrial rooftops. Likewise, wind coexists nicely with pasture and boat traffic.

Utility storage will mostly not be in batteries, but in media much, much cheaper.
If we were to run with this design to completely power civilization, is there enough helium supply? If not, could it be adapted to either argon or some other inert gas?

Could the fuel get recycled at end of life if regulatory approval were given?
Comments like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
It’s actually quite easy for a satellite to defend itself. It just needs delta v or a lot of energy for a directed energy weapon.

It takes a big rocket and lots of time to hit something in geosynchronous orbit. If the satellite has been refueled, it’s delta v capability would dwarf any potential impactors. Otherwise it’s going to be 30+ minutes for a potential impactor to reach the satellite, why not shoot a laser at it for that time period?
But if you tried to charge for or otherwise deny access into a city in the US you would be in extremely shaky ground legally.
I've worked in a medical image processing field and there's a few out there, Orthanc is the most featureful one I know of.
I listened more on youtube, but its not a spotify issue I've just moved onto other hobbies.
There are costs for tourist visas in some countries. There are costs/permits for particular areas (national parks, public buildings, etc). Maybe it feels odd just because there's not much precedent for this particular tier.

The price and details seem pretty reasonable to me. Fundraising to improve the place and reduce burdens on residents dealing with but not profiting from tourism seems smart.

I visited Venice almost 20 years ago, and it was fairly miserable while the daytrippers were there tromping over bridges, but improved dramatically in the evenings and early mornings. I was a backpacker on the road for a year with a constrained budget, but would've been fine with paying $10 had we not stayed overnight.

Flat-out limiting numbers would be a greater restraint, I think. There are a number of places (many in the USA) where visitation is via limited permit - things like climbing Half Dome or visiting The Wave, now climbing Angel's Landing. Even driving through the main roads of Glacier NP or Yosemite NP.
Can I have a few to reverse engineer? I’ll pay shipping (contact info in profile)
I really dislike podcasts on Spotify. Admittedly, it’s somewhat irrational. It’s like I don’t want my peas (music) and carrots (podcasts) to touch. It clutters the UI and mixes the signals in my brain when I go to reach for certain types of content. Now I find myself moving over to Apple Music altogether. I doubt podcasts on Spotify are the biggest cause for that, but it has certainly been a contributing factor. Apple is barely winnning here, but I guess that’s all it takes.
Yes, conversion rate optimization matters
The fees would have to be very high to noticably reduce the number of tourists. I think it would work better if there were a quota system and a lottery.
It usually makes more sense to think in terms of cores rather than servers, because server density has always been increasing :)
Successful merchandisers should establish a price point, customer demographic, and margin that maximizes their potential “good”(non-abusing) customers and controls/minimizes nefarious types.

Walmart’s fraud dept looks much different than Nordstrom’s I would suspect, but both know their respective landscapes and successfully navigate them.
Bureaucracy has a chain of command, and ultimately the people at the top of the pyramid only have the ability to focus on so much. That focus is partially driven by personal and organizational self interest.

It’s unlikely that the guy who runs the CIA will have the same priorities as the head of the Navy. Likewise, the Navy guy doesn’t care about tanks.
Some good stuff on here at first glance. I often go to movie soundtracks when coding, and I see some nice selections from Uncut Gems artist Daniel Lopatin.
> It could be possible that everything Joel is saying is true, and yet, his presentation style comes from a place that feels like the opposite of good faith. His attitude is not one that seems to involve seeking truth/understanding, and he comes across as snarky, bitter, and with an undercurrent of some underlying agenda.

Yeah, just looking at the titles of his other videos it's pretty clear that's almost certainly what he's doing. It looks like he frequently makes stuff in the genre of "let's hate that otherside thing you hate, and together feel superior for hating it."
This could be the final defeat of quality control. I remember that quality control was originally fueled by consumerism: Toyota and Honda wanted to sell more cars. People bought more gadgets because they were confident that they'd work.

Now the consumer is the quality control department. There's no reason to make quality goods if you can cut costs to the point where you can afford to give refunds and eat the loss.

For myself, a free refund doesn't really solve the problem, since I value my time and often need something right away. I don't think it would work for industrial suppliers like McMaster-Carr and Digi-Key. I really can't afford to wait for a second or third try when I need a part and a project is being held up.
Cruise ship arrivals were only 7% of Venice visitors in 2018. They have already been diverted to a nearby industrial port since reopening after the pandemic
I swear it amazes me sometimes how advanced dental care technology continues to push in the US.
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon (Book)
Because it's hard to scam poor people - they are guarding their money like offspring.

To them, that pocket change gift probably seems like more of a loan, they are expected to pay back with loyalty to the platform.
It's not.
National parks, museums and lots and lots of places requires tickets to enter, are they also against freedom of movement?
No one forbids you to go there, no one forbids you to stay and live there.
Treat this city as a one, big, crowdy museum.
Borg nanoprobes, anyone?
What exactly does risk-taking have to do with drawing shapes a map and refusing to allow Black families to own homes outside those shapes? That's why Chicago has the crime it does; it has nothing to do with entrepreneurialism.
I did a podcast on my journey: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1nkUICGSMlknQ28NGxdIzw?si=0...

I started programming on graphing calculators, eventually worked up to freelancing, and from there into a "real" development career

No degree, just a lot of time spent on programming things that I thought were interesting (mostly games when I was younger)
Same for 1983. And 1982.
When an unelected person is as powerful as Musk, almost anything he does is newsworthy. It may be nothing, or it may be a warning about the way he will conduct himself when wielding his influence.

In this case, it mostly tells us that he doesn't abide by commonly-held moral and professional standards.
Many teams may be pseudo-anonymous as well.

So you may not find much about the founder or team beyond their public handles.
>The only real question is how much of our arm is still inside the blast door when the next major Asian conflict slams it shut on us.

I hope CEOs are watching what's going on in Russia and have an exit plan in place if it the same happens in China. Airline lessors have already lost billions and the Russian government is drafting laws to seize all foreign assets.
What goes around comes around I suppose.

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

Perhaps we should have agreed that the IRS shouldn't be weaponized the first time on this merry-go-round. Oh well.
Any river or inland water in a large city will have these issues.
Oh well! It feels like the partnership / relationship is very one sided.
procastinate too much to the point that it hurts so much. focus comes naturally at that point, along with deterioration.
I guess I am one of the last Windows Phone holdouts. I will be retiring mine in a few weeks, maybe less, since Verizon's 3G service will be obsoleted I think in December.

It has been a good run for a reliable phone with great call quality and the ability to sync with all my Microsoft services. Great battery life, high quality build, simple and efficient interface. Just all-around an excellent product that saw no major apps developed to take advantage of all the goodness.

It is inconvenient to use now though since the browser is IE and most sites do not render well or at all on mobile with IE so I use it strictly for calls, photos, Office-related files, and texts.

I will move to an Apple iPhone. I am not nearly as familiar with that device as I am with Windows devices. I have not owned an Apple product since grad school in 1990 when I bought both an Epson PC (OS2 and MS-DOS) and a Mac SE/30. The SE/30 was a step up from my first PC, a 128k Mac which I still have. I returned the SE/30 for credit during the 6-week(?) time window you were given on Apple Credit to evaluate it (I think it was a $3600 purchase back then by the time I had all the peripherals). I simply couldn't afford to keep it. The PC had cost less than half of the cost of the Mac and the software ecosystem for geoscience on a Mac was still very small. The OS though was so much more polished, intuitive, and coherent on the Mac.

I am the last in my family to still use a Windows Phone. I steered everyone else to iPhones several years ago without ever seriously considering Android since it has tight ties to Google, which I have avoided as much as possible for years.

This video was a step back in time for me and a wake-up call that I should borrow the wife's device more often so that I can become familiar with it before I get my own.

It just feels wrong to abandon such a well-designed device simply because of a radio but it is what it is.
> The 8 year civil war in the Donbass Region is a direct result of the US backed coup and color revolution known as the Maidan Revolution, that ousted the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installed an ultra-nationalist, anti-Russian, Nazi government.

Huh? What's their definition of "nazi" government?

Is this the kind of propaganda being fed to ruskies?

Give me any link, I'll click it. I just want to learn what is real and what is not.

After reading this article I feel confused and sad. Fucking Internet information seems full of nonsense.

Going back to the basics, it's hard to believe Putin is any kind of good or loving person. If he was (or is), he should publish a personal blog exposé about his true beliefs, hopes, and passions. From where I'm sitting, his actions and messaging suggest a self-interested, unstable megalomaniac.
I run a studio and as much as I want to consider Godot it’s off the table for exactly this reason (among a few others).

Games as a business are brutal, and not having a fast path to console releases is throwing potentially huge amounts of money away. Unity has its problems, but we had the first playable Switch and PS5 builds up and running in a matter of days.

Additionally, open source is great but it also means that for the most part everyone working on it is a volunteer. Partnering with Unity as an enterprise customer, I have a huge set of resources at my disposal to fix and address the 40000 things that can go wrong on 10 platforms and endless permutations of customer hardware. Godot just isn’t in the same league.
I'm not a huge fan of Christmas music in general, but A Charlie Brown Christmas by Vince Guaraldi is one of the only albums I will put on repeat while coding.
>There are costs for tourist visas in some countries

Only in third world countries, or for third world visitors. Freedom of movement between countries and cities is a cornerstone of modern civilization
>It’s the reason why America is cutting its energy output.

In addition, there's the rapid decline curves of wells producing "tight oil". [1]

[1] - https://energycentral.com/c/og/visualizing-us-oil-gas-produc...
Pretty interesting.

Somaliland and Liberland are interesting stories as well. Kind of the opposite of what you’re looking for.