skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the utility of this viewpoint.

Adults can teach themselves most things given the right tools and incentive. Your viewpoint essentially means nothing is ever problematic ever. Invasive rhinos released onto SF streets causing property damage? Why didn't SF residents learn to defend themselves and their property damage. The world doesn't care if you learn or not. Climate change leading to drought and the entire world is starving? Should have done a little thinking ahead and stockpiled food.
Edit: Github link at [3], couldn't find it when I originally wrote my comment below

I wonder how this compares to alternatives like [1] and [2] that you can also host yourself.

There was also a Matrix project *that I can't find for the life of me) featuring multi-agent live chat support with multiple agents being able to join and leave a room. I suppose the E2EE support is what sets it apart, though I'm not sure if that's actually a feature you really need.

Half the features advertised seem to be existing EMS features (like talking across chat services). I suppose you can use this to portal a web chat box into Slack but honestly I think there are better solutions.

[1]: https://github.com/osousa/livematrix

[2]: https://github.com/nomadic-labs/safesupport-chatbox

[3]: https://github.com/vector-im/chatterbox
> That toxic wart is precisely _becuase_ of Boris.

What do you mean precisely because of Boris? There were referendums and UK voted to leave. It wasn’t upto him to decide, although he had led campaigns for it. But ultimately it’s the majority of the Brits that wanted out. He got the dwindling state of uncertainty and got it over with. It may not have been a good deal but it’s over and thank goodness for that. Because otherwise it would undermine trust in referendum and voters choices. And you could argue any deal would have been just as bad.

> populism over science

I am not sure what you mean by that. He mostly followed the recommendations from the health department (not for himself of course which is why he got in trouble in public eyes, but for the general public I mean), I never saw him questioning the health departments to the extent like they had over here in US.

> lying

oh come on! You forgot Tony Blair clearly. Just a recent example.

Ultimately it’s a win for parliamentary democracy. In presidential system we have, he would be still the president. There is still faith in democracy.
Maybe there is a bit of justice in the world after all.
Neither could. Critical race theory isn't prescriptive. Black Lives Matter is, but advocates for equal outcomes (primarily in policing). This isn't Marxism, but just regular justice.

The only thing Marxist about them is that the right has tried to tie them in with Marxism as part of the FUD, and some 'leaders' in the movements also advocate for Marxist solutions. Christopher Rufo was explicit in his intent to do so for Critical Race Theory. It's precisely the same red scare tactics used to punish people with different ideology in the 50s as enemies of the state.
No. I just think that their other products and their talk around this was out of touch. They were responding to people who are average cruisers saying it was coming soon. It ended up being a joke.
Depending on the type of sailing you do, probably can get away with using the RV service. If you're sailing within their current maritime coverage map https://api.starlink.com/public-files/maritime-coverage-map.... you're just using the direct CPE-Starlink-Uplink Station connection. Provided you're still in that coverage cell, there is really no difference to the entire system if you're 10 miles from shore inland or at sea.
Here's the comparison: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
> "Sun is a PRC-based employee of an international technology company"

So is he indicted because this company is also located in the US? Or is it typically normal for foreign agents to be indicted if they are not in the US and working on behalf of another government?

EDIT: Asking because it seems weird for someone working for their own government in their own country to be indicted for doing their job by a different country. Isn't that normally a diplomatic problem between countries?
No it doesn't. If you choose to block an intersection, and people die as a result, it doesn't matter what your intent was in blocking that intersection, you are responsible for the deaths.
The problems of nuclear you mention seem fixable and french electricity prices are waaaaaaay cheaper than german ones. I fail to see how france is in a terrible spot when it's germany that's likely to freeze this winter (and has literally no solution for that, other than begging their enemy).

Why do you think solar will get cheaper by another order of magnitude?
I cannot agree with that characterization. How can a business be a suboptimal or undesirable investment because it does not earn enough profit relative to risk, and simultaneously be committing highway robbery (i.e. charging too high a price for its products/services)?

If anything, it seems like the customers should feel lucky the investors are risking their money on this product/service, and it is being offered at all.
Right. I'm going to get a go I guess for passage making. Oh well!
I imagine most of the longevity research is actually being done for the stationary battery market.

The fact it carries over to vehicles is just a bonus.

Besides the salvage value of a battery pack would be huge, so I suspect a battery would be about the last piece of a car to end up on the scrap heap.
She absolutely blamed him and has tried to use him as the evil mastermind.
OK. I don't have any issues with that as I don't use Windows 11.
there's also justpy, uses vue and is closer to liveview in that it generates all the frontend code for you. https://justpy.io/
Manually selecting peers doesn't prevent sybil attacks, it just moves the problem one layer up (to the social level).

Either you have some trust in all participating parties or you don't. Classical consensus algorithms assumes the former. Achieving consensus when a percentage of parties cannot be trusted and may even be bad actors is a seperate problem.
So he's still the flag bearer of half of FOSS; the first and last letters are for Free Software.
I disagree because his abstraction matches the domain. You will literally see menus designed around the assumption that a not-folded thin (or thick, for some venues I guess) pizza with cheese and tomato sauce is the default, that some pizzas deviate from.
Why is it misery? Some people like the pain. Others like the challenge and are indiferent to the pain. No need to moralize or push your view onto people. It was a consensual act, it's OK.
A scapegoat takes the blame, letting the higher ups go free. Holmes faced a trial and was convicted of some counts.

Now, there is some credible discussion about why she was not convicted on those counts, but I don't think it could be called scapegoating.
> based on current coverage map

Well that's the least important analysis compared to looking at what should be available in a year.
Because there is an immense of amount of money to be made by people with access to cheap money at the expense of people without that sort of access.
Yes, this is very reasonable for some kinds of software. For other kinds of software, the users may consist of a small team - say the teachers at a school or a specific research group or a family - where some are using Mac and others are using Windows

Sometimes, developing a simple tools should be simple (without all the overhead of shared business logic, etc.), but in my experience, there is too many obstacles to make simple GUI tools that just works. It's a shame, I believe that many teams would have increased their efficiency if there were easier ways for individuals to make simple tools adapted to their specific needs. Now, they are typically stuck with Excel...
Seeing things like this make me extremely glad to be moving to an area where any attempt at this would (literally) be shot down. I'm already subject to intense surveillance, at least have the decency to be subtle about it.
Astronaut: Wait, it's all "if" statements?

Astronaut with gun: Always has been
I bought it from a re-seller. On ThinkPad Germany it is also sold out.
Customize, click on West Virginia preset and graph uses 560 gCO2/kWh to EPA's 860 for WV for Electricity (charging). Select Idaho and graph uses 310 gCo2/kWh compared to EPA's 96.

https://www.epa.gov/egrid/data-explorer

Carboncounter seem to be using the eGRID subregions, but I'm not sure how much green power actually flows from southern Wisconsin all the way to western Virginia. Maybe there's a power expert here that can comment on whether state or eGRID subregion numbers are more appropriate.

That the graph origin is not 0,0 by default and includes tax credits doesn't inspire much confidence in their impartiality.
This is awesome! Go, Josh and team :D
Intelsat’s numbers look horrible, and Wikipedia says they recently filed for bankruptcy:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTEQ/intelsat-sa/...

SES SA is doing well, but only a couple years of data:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SGBAF/ses-sa/profi...
Even with only that, they could have a “last place seen” feature.
I've been dabbling with a desktop toy application. I have it finally "done" and am in the process of working out packaging it so folks can use it.

It's written in Java with JavaFX. Short term I'm reasonably comfortable with folks downloading a "fat jar" and then grabbing the JDK on their own, and, perhaps, firing off a .sh or .bat file to run it. Mostly because I don't have a Windows box to try the whole jlink or jpackage process.

But then I started packaging it up for delivery.

JavaFX has platform dependent shared libraries, all of which would need to be bundled in the fat jar.

After building it, the result came out to 48MB... .. .

This "app" is a pane with about 20 controls on it and a GO button. It's less then 2000 lines of code. And the deliverable is 48MB.

I know, I know, that fancy animated GIF icon on that forum for someone's Avatar is probably 48MB.

But that doesn't mean it doesn't chafe me to do so. That's not even including the JDK.

I shouldn't care, but it was soul crushing.

On total whimsy, I tried Flutter. I downloaded it, and built "Hello World" for macOS. Not only did it take an eternity to compile (on my modern, SSD enabled, eleventy gigablip iMac), the result was 108MB. And that was just for the Mac version, I'd need 2 others for Linux and Windows. The compile time was glacial (I know, its got hot reloading to speed things up).

I'm sure the Electron vesion artifact is similar.

I should just shut up and take it, but it rubs me the wrong way. I'm currently exploring the possibility of doing it as a PWA targeting Chrome, dunno how well that will work, but apparently with Chrome you can save and load local files (which is something I want to do). But I can't see my large vision being done as a PWA.

I should put my head down, blinders on, and push on through.

But for the moment, I'm irked.
> But if it's easier to change jobs than to be honest - is the option to be honest one that will be taken by any rational person?

Yes. But I don't think this is a good forum for arguing differences in values.
This is part of a hosted package. In theory, this means that the folks over at Element.io can't see the chats between you and your customers/business partners because of the E2EE. That does depend on them not hosting the software, of course, because E2EE becomes useless if the software used to encrypt data can be changed at a whim.

With the private keys on the recipient end and the browser end, it does make it easier to follow certain data privacy regulations. Whether the rather leaky Matrix protocol is considered foolproof is still an unanswered question, though; the average encrypted chat session sends a LOT of unique identifiers that shouldn't cause any trouble, but I haven't seen a recent audit of the protocol.
>Part of my change in heart comes from rewatching the series, it seems to me that they had this as the intended ending all along.

Correct. Almost every single episode of the show from the first one in September 2005 in some way foreshadows the ending. It's, overall, the most coherent and consistent continuity in television history.

(For those who don't want to rewatch the show, I've heard that watching the first two episodes and the last two episodes together makes for a very satisfactory rom-com.)
Kazuki Takahashi: Yu-Gi-Oh manga comic creator found dead in sea at 60
Yes, but the buck still stops at Google, especially if the forum is the only point of contact, and the community moderators act like they speak in behalf of the company.

Even Reddit, which is notoriously bad with its moderator policies, at least has a process how to raise disputes with moderator behaviour, and escalate them to actual company employees. Google does not even care.
Ask HN: I want a minimalist phone experience
I like my Pixel 5a but I don't want to see all the colored icons of the apps I have. I only want to see their names.

I'm now using the minimalist phone app [0]. It lets me favorite 3 apps (have 3 apps on my home screen), but there is a lot of wasted space. After the 3 apps are chosen, all others have to be searched for in the alphabetical list. But I want fast access to around 7 apps.

Is there a better solution than this? For someone looking for an optimized and minimalist smartphone experience

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qqlabs.minimalistlauncher
Have been using Wayland as my daily driver for about a year now, on my main PC, which I use for WFH. Big improvement for me.
Lasers require a lot of power. I doubt this is going to work.
it's not great, but it's not that much worse that google

and has none of the user-hostile bullshit
Are these people obese? I don’t judge. It’s sad really, the way corporate interests have so profoundly shaped the fabric of North American cities towards car dependence, and hijacked our proclivity for calorific foods to the point of widespread overconsumption.
Only monsters say legos. The plural of Lego is Lego.
As a counterpoint, my kid was playing a game on Roblox that taught them basics of avoiding fraud before allowing them to play. It was a game about trading animals. It is not all bad.
Celsius sued by crypto asset manager KeyFi
> Students hear about software grads getting tremendous starting salaries. Why should they choose hardware engineering?

I didn't. They shouldn't either. It's a harder job, with less perks, for less money. The real question is why do the existing hardware engineers keep doing what they are doing when they could be making double just by picking up the phone and talking to a recruiter?
Neat dashboard, but for my purposes only one datapoint matters: can I use it. And the answer to that is still no.
It lends itself to despotic elite rule a lot less effectively than oil though, as you need so much less of it and the economic cost of it is so much less.

Consider if you compare the cost of keeping a petroleum-burning 5 MW plant going for 40 years vs. a nuclear one. How many tankers full of $100 per barrel oil would that be? Just the fuel used by the tankers themselves would dwarf the uranium ore needed for the nuclear plant.

That's not even taking into account newer designs that could be powered from the existing waste of older plants.

As for despotic elite rule, that's what we have faced for decades with oil. Uranium ore is found on all continents, with the largest supplies in Australia and Canada. Oil is run by the Saudis, Putin, Maduro...
Hmm, I'd say it depends.

Imagine you're contacting a doctor and are communicating about sensitive stuff. I'd still expect this to been treated relatively confidential, i.e. not spreading it within the company, or potentially leaking it.

Plus, the matrix server of the person on the other side might not be in your hands, e.g. hosted by Element
Why do people just make up things like this? Did you hear it somewhere and never research it?
Yes, they can do it - my parents have Hughes satellite internet. I've been able to do multi-person video calls from their house. It's pretty low bandwidth though 40Mbps or so claimed I think and something like 50Gb/Month data cap.

It was faster and cheaper to tether to my cell phone while working from their house.
Wow, great read. The author, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, is someone to pay attention to.

https://www.lindarodriguezmcrobbie.com/aboutlinda
Modern "free-to-play" games are so dangerously designed working not on just the core dopamine reward ratio (already known by Las Vegas for slot machine payouts), but incorporating false peer group pressure, "planned bullying" to get players to pay out rather than play for free, sunk cost fallacy, and probably a half dozen others.

Parents are absolutely not equipped for this.
Lisp boffins who had been building AI this exact way for decades: noncommittal silence
I never said I wasn’t sympathetic. It’s bullshit that they’re getting laid off. But this isn’t the 1950s. We’re on our own.
Several years ago I ensured that nothing in my 401k and other retirement savings plans has any exposure to geostationary owner stock.
Yea, it can be done: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/ipc
Ask HN: Best OBS Screen Capture Settings
Hello, can anyone recommend the best OBS settings for:
- 25-30 FPS and 1080p
- I don't mind waiting for encoding if it means I can achieve better visual quality
- I don't care about file size
- I am looking for smoothness (I don't mind compromising on FPS), I am also looking for very good quality and text readability

(I have an i3-8130U with a UHD 620 I-GPU, 8 GB of ram), I am aware these specs are very hard to work with for my use case, I am asking for the best possible settings for my specifications

My use case is about 60% 2D Plain GUI's, 30% text on screen, the rest is simple CSS animations and maybe some captures of video.

Thanks (:

FYI:
My file format options:
https://anonfiles.com/p4m5L9vfy4/img-2022-07-07-23-55-15_png
My encoders:
https://anonfiles.com/Jcm8L9v5y7/img-2022-07-07-23-55-45_png
My rate control options for "x264":
https://anonfiles.com/d4n0L4v4y0/img-2022-07-07-23-56-13_png
My rate control options for "quick-sync":
https://anonfiles.com/p4ncL0v2y9/img-2022-07-07-23-56-42_png
You should still have a lifetime license for the version you most recently paid for. Is that not the case?

E.g. if you bought the 2019 version, then, if you never pay another cent, in 2031, you still have a license for the 2019 version.
If we continue on the current path there will be no society at all. This argument is seriously f'ed up for so many reasons
6 months and 12 hours later (or earlier) would be my rough guess.
That's assuming you can time the market based on what people are saying... which may work to predict short-term outlook but will have no bearing on what happens in the world next week (or month).
Oh sweet, I just have replace most of my applications and DE and everything will just work! /s
Unencrypted obviously.
PureVPN’s ‘non-existent’ logs given to authorities, to arrest alleged stalker

https://thenextweb.com/news/purevpns-non-existent-logs-used-...

These guys just actually logged certain data when they said they didnt
What is your blocker?I'm curious because I recently switched to swaywm to fix some screen tearing, and I'm still figuring out how ready it is for primetime. It mostly works fine, but I'm getting occasional bugs with critical software like Chrome/Brave. It's giving me a very uncomfortable Ubuntu-in-2007 feeling.

It's a testament to desktop Linux's improvement that I haven't felt that way in a decade, and have a much higher stability bar than I do for Windows or my limited Mac usage. But having my browser processes freeze once a week is well below the standards I've come to enjoy, and I'm wondering if I should just switch back to X and deal with the minor graphics hiccups.
> fast reactors yield waste products that principally live only a couple of hundred years.

Hundreds of years is not acceptable. Humanity is not able to handle projects spanning hundreds of years time. Look at the Zaporizhia atomic energy site for an extreme example of what I mean.

The problem is not just the time scale either. There are other areas humanity fails at time and again.

P.S. Thank you nevertheless for pointing out several advantages of fast breeder reactors.
You can host chatterbox yourself too - it’s apache licensed FOSS (https://github.com/vector-im/chatterbox).
Live facial recognition in Moscow subway have been used to arrest people video recorded at protests.
Imo it feels like the start of a trade war. Until Russia and China stepped in, EU US relations have been progressively declining. If both of our adversaries were more patient, relations would have eventually weakened NATO.
not enough near Traitor's gate
There are 10,625,322,952,242,003,625 launcher programs, many of which are minimalist. Personally, I like this one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetl...
Oh much nicer than what I guessed. Haha
But how many of those contruction/mining workers need to drive a truck?

My brother works in road construction - he drives a 15,000 lb maintenance truck owned by his company. But he doesn't drive it home, it stays on the job site (which varies between 15 and 150 miles from home). He owns a truck, but like many suburban trucks, it's in pristine condition and he mostly only uses it to pull a trailer, he drives a Honda Civic to get to the job site.
You’re reading it the wrong way around I think. Think in terms of cross platform applications that try to fit in on their host application, except they aren’t using the native widgets, similar to what Qt did historically.

Then you have something that looks as if it should behave like a certain widgets you’re used to, except they behave in subtly different ways. That’s where that idea comes from.

Now if you go all 90s WinAmp and create all your own widgets, then that mostly
goes out the window, until you enter a text box…
The former doesn't have encryption, but good question
> A lot of the anti-nuclear opinion is passionately opposed to scientific analysis.

It's easy to disparage people who disagree with you (and if they disagree, they must be unscientific! They couldn't be difficult issues and serious concerns). It only poisons attempts to move forward and learn anything.

Much of anti-nuclear energy opinion has been led by scientists and most of the more scientifically sophisticated people I know are very skeptical about nuclear power (including me).

The disparagement makes it look like reactionary politics, not scientific interest - that is their modus operendi - and of course, the reactionary attempt to discredit anything progressive is currently focused on nuclear energy policy.
> Working with a team on industrial projects…

What process was used to manage Smalltalk source code?
Sounds like a variant of the prisoner's dilemma: the best outcome is if no civilians are carrying guns, but needing and gun and not having one is a worse outcome than needing and having one?
So is publishing technically correct but severely misleading information.
Very slippery slope, especially around the definition of “criminal”