skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else remember playing Glider? As a young kid, I gladly lost countless hours trying to navigate a paper airplane through a Rube Goldberg mess of obstacles. What a fun, imaginative game.

Would be cool if there was an emulated version somewhere. Or we could borrow the author’s book and transcribe it to a modern language, ha.
The app is from the same creator
It's definitely culturally-dependent.

In the US, no one has ever asked me why I never make it 2 years at a job. I recently got a new job that gave me a senior title and 50% increase in salary.
About time - many schools in Denmark is now offering free Chromebooks to students. Wonder what they'll do with them now.
I am pretty surprised that all the options from https://xkcd.com/1813/ are not there.
“Co” seems to be Google cloud services… is that just a translation issue?
Maybe that presents possibility for Linux on Chromebook migration project.
We've tried everything, except to stop paying people to actively flare methane rather than capture it:

https://www.niskanencenter.org/taxing-flaring-and-the-politi...

> One of the world’s leading oil and gas producers, Norway, has maintained extremely low methane release rates for generations. It combines tough regulatory standards with a hefty carbon tax explicitly applied to methane released at the point of production. The World Bank has championed the Norway model for decades, advising governments around the world to include released methane in severance tax or royalty regimes in order to reduce waste, deter both greenhouse and air-quality emissions, and capture natural resource value for citizens.

> We found that Norway has no rivals in America. Emerging research suggests similar findings for Canada and Mexico, although the Australian state of Queensland includes flared and vented methane in its royalty system. In fact, many American states responded to growing methane waste concerns decades ago not by deterring emissions but by sheltering producing firms from taxation. Surgical amendments to energy tax laws placed methane off-limits from leakage fees. Those historic protections remain largely operational in the shale era, providing either explicit statutory exemption or administrative review processes that empower officials to routinely waive taxes.
Apparently it is a measure to save energy...
Well, we are the largest producer of oil in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
I've been thinking of ditching Gmail for myself and my business, but what true alternatives are there? I already have O365, but am not particular keen on using Exchange. I'm basically only using Gmail and Calendar.

Any e-mail providers based out of the EU, worth mentioning?
Wealth is not zero sum, but Ponzi schemes are. They do not create wealth, but pretend to do so until the scheme collapses.
RadiAnt is OK - it's got a trial license model but when the license expires you can request an extension for free (big WinRAR energy). There's nothing as good as Horos that is similarly free and open source, sadly.

What you may prefer to do is use the excellent pydicom library for Python, which loads dicom files as numpy arrays, allowing you to convert to any other file format you fancy, whether that be image or video.
The same thing happened with AirBnB and Uber and they are still around. Most people disregard the terms and conditions. ToS exist because of (and for) lawyers.
Your approach feels similar to mine, actually! I write lots of exploratory code (and mention it in my comment). I just view it as trying to understand the problem and solution instead of coding, since it's not usually the production code I'm going to commit.
Context for commenters who can’t be bothered the read the article: it’s not a hit piece, it’s actually a glowing praise of Helium:

> Nova Labs’ Internet of Things network is one of crypto’s greatest achievements.
Yeah it sounds difficult to do, so we shouldn't bother.
The article expands:

> Danish schools must stop using Google's email and cloud services

In the first sentence of the first paragraph.
"They’d look silly if they were to admit [shameless people] had found a better way of doing things."

This isn't true. When someone cuts in line no one thinks 'oh, they found a better way - wish I thought of that'.

And better for who? It's not better for anyone, including the cheater, when society ultimately becomes less functional. And it is cheating, just applied against social convention. As more and more people employ shamelessness the returns will diminish. If one football player cheats they score some points for a while and make a name. When all players cheat the game is over and fans stop watching.
- it's more work - there's a nonzero chance nobody even saw your application, let alone carefully review it and think about whether you would be a good/bad candidate and why

- there's no incentive for them to do it - it's a rejection, they don't have a reason to please you

- the less information they give, the less exposed they are to liabilities like being accused of hiring discrimination
This is definitely a big risk to commodity hardware being used for Linux :(

Especially when attestation can be used by websites etc. We'll need to have another computer at the side for accessing them.
Developers Choose Names (2021)
I can discretely copy GBs of email messages and word docs in a reasonable amount of time, but I couldn't discretely take cell phone pictures of every page of every one of those messages and documents if I had years to do it. You don't always have to prevent something 100% of the time in every possible situation to have a devastating effect on people who want to do that thing.
How would you know if a segfault occurred? The simulation crashing would halt your own consciousness as well. It will probably be fine though, they started with a stress test of extreme conditions back at what we call the big bang.
Fastmail, protonmail.
I wrote this a few weeks ago, but the answer is always "what are you optimizing for?"

If you hate work for whatever reason and you want out of the system faster? Yes, stack dollars and exit. That may require sacrifice and "bad gigs" but that could enable the exit.

If you find your work engaging and rewarding? Why would you optimize to exit? (Queue the lawyers/doctors/etc that work into their 80s for the love of it.) Tech has brutal ageism but the point still stands -- figure out what you are optimizing for, and your answer will be clear.

(OP sounds like they have found the secret that money isn't everything, and happiness is rewarding and they are optimizing for that.)
In Europe, Tiger do cheap bullet journals
https://flyingtiger.com/collections/notebooks-bullet-planner...
Nah, this kid will end up leading the resistance
> The frequency dropped even before TPM was deployed on most machines

I interpreted your sentence as two disjoint statements and thought you find UEFI/SB and TPMs all useless. But yes, it indeed started dropping before. TPMs don't deal with that topic unless we're speaking of Trusted Boot, which is a whole separate concept.

> [...] hinder you adding alternative means without TPM being activated. But that is a different story and solely on Microsoft.

No it's not solely on Microsoft. If there isn't a safe place to store keys, it makes sense to dissuade storing them. Fairly obvious, isn't it?

> You can use many different types of authenticators.

It's not a very realistic suggestion for most users and use-cases. Having a built-in module that does the job has a lot of upsides.

> No need to falsely or passive aggressively suggest that a system would be insecure without these specific means.

I didn't say such a system would be insecure, however it can't safely store key material, it would be less secure in a bunch of contexts.
What he said resonates with me. I take the same stance and there is nothing you can exclude me from that will hurt me. If I'd lose a job or the chance to get a job because of this attitude then I'd be happy to not be put into that anxiety-inducing context. Actually, I'd rather die than be a part of this coercive system that manufactures problems so I am a bit on the hardcore side (especially since this has been put to the test and I have in fact almost died for this reason).
Agreed, I didn’t bother reading the rules and just started clicking. I doubt I would read the rules even if they were written perfectly.
> I don't care about people bitching and moaning that the process is too arduous. Actually, I am happy about it because I can efficiently swipe left on them.

And that’s how you know there isn’t really a shortage of developers.

My wife works in a field with a real shortage. When she gets interviewed, they fly her out and spend 2 days showing her around, taking her out, and trying to convince her to work for them.
I'm thinking of kit/owner-built aeroplanes. They can fly like regular (type-certified) aeroplanes, but have to be placarded (e.g. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/passgrwarn.ph...)
https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/airworthiness_certific...
They are way beyond learning. We are just entertainment.

"Let's make an absolute clown a billionaire, give him a rocket company. The rockets actually work, and he will think it is because he is so smart. It will be hilarious!"
Depends on what you consider a true alternative. Self-hosted open source is still and always has been available, but companies like Google have changed what people expect of software and so traditional email software (both clients and servers) is no longer viable unless people are willing to change their expectations to leave the large providers.
Practically speaking, outside Intel and AMD, what CPUs are left to use?
How come Spotify is not a social network?
Translation issue. In German, the expression "... und Co" is a synonym for et cetera.
Your math is way off. A single PV produces between 300-400 watts at peak sun. It takes ~300 watt hours to drive an EV 1 mile. A very good sunny location gets 6-7 peak sun hours equivalent a day.

So that one panel gets you 6-7 miles of EV range a day.

A typical house needs probably 15-20 panels to produces it’s needs (assuming you have storage) before EVs are even in the picture.
Can you say which industry it is? Curious about that correlation too.
Here are some:

1. Introduction to Algorithms: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms...

2. Distributed Systems: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
Migadu or the company that put out this blog post, tutanota, are great if you lack the time to self host.
The gut-brain link was not discovered by bringing in gut experts on TV to opine on questions of public mental health, nor vice versa.

I feel that you're mixing up two meanings of public debate: one is the more general notion of "any debate which is accessible to the public" (like an open-enrollment scientific conference, or publishing in a science journal), and the second one is "debating for the express benefit of the entire public", such as a news television debate.

In the first one, I completely agree with you: anyone willing to put in the work to present a rigorous scientific argument should be allowed in, even if their theory is currently way outside the mainstream, and even if they are potentially biased.

For the second one, I don't think it's in anyone's real best interest to bring in dodgy experts that everyone in their field considers to be proven wrong. Especially not 1:1, suggesting to the general public a priori that what both experts are saying carries equal weight. Particularly so in something like a climate debate, where there are 99 scientists that are convinced the evidence for man-made global warming are overwhelming for every 1 that has even a moderate doubt.

Think of the following scenario: for some bizarre reason, Congress is considering a law to forbid GPS systems to make adjustments to their clocks based on the altitude of the satellites. The public will vote on this issue, so TV stations are presenting scientific views. To be balanced, they are bringing in both a world-renowned researcher in General Relativity (say, Niel deGrasse-Tyson), and a researcher who believes Newton's law of universal attraction is the final word on the effects of gravity (not sure they could find one).

Will the public be able to judge the merits of the GR non-linear equations to understand the merits of their arguments? Or would the public be better informed by only just bringing in Neil and letting them know that he represents overwhelming scientific consensus?
Make a compiler that supports a modern language for an obscure chip that is used in industrial machines that is also compatible with the dialect that the vendor's compiler speaks.
Russia to quit International Space Station 'after 2024': Roscosmos official
At the risk of being that guy, is the _entire purpose_ of the interview process not to exclude engineers , or conduct a purity test?

Surely the most bias free way to hire would be to say yes to the first applicant. Of course this excludes engineers who are busy and were not able to apply first... so perhaps the randomth applicant gets sent a "youre hired".

I mean. Hey maybe its a better process. We have yet to see some metrics on this.
> It's worth reading https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html again just to see how prescient Stallman was.

I think it’s also worth asking why he didn’t have more impact despite pretty clearly seeing this problem. Part of the answer has to be resource disparities but I don’t think it’s just that - Linux didn’t really capitalize at all on Microsoft’s lost decade, and much of the innovation in security has happened on other platforms. I think there’s also some kind of blind spot in the open source community where a lot of people see this as something other people need, not them personally.
I'm a paying customer of the Intel Compiler Suite. And I have been for many years. And I'm well aware that Intel is f-ing over AMD with vendor flags. But there simply is no alternative to MKL.

So if you release something competitive to TBB+MKL for AMD, then you're in business ;) But be warned, it's like millions LOC and 500MB of pure compiled binaries to get to that level of functionality.
Do you currently drive an EV? The infrastructure is already there. I don’t ever think about range or charging, even on long trips, there’s always charging somewhere within range.
I'd have to disagree here. Teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help them for the majority of office jobs out there.
> Ew. Why are all the chip manufacturers going along with this stupid plan?

Because if they don't add whatever garbage Microsoft orders them to include in their chips then Microsoft can simply require that shit for the next version of their OS to boot. They could even force an update on existing PCs to check for it. Nobody is going to buy a chip if having it means they can't run the OS that 99% of computers on the plant are using. If Intel dared to say no, MS could pretty much run them out of business.
Thanks for the clarification, but I think my underlying point still stands: ignore leap seconds - invent a time standard without them, which in practice would probably be Unix-time-sans-leap-things, and calibrate off against that.

It's plain weird to rewrite the world which doesn't actually care about leap seconds for use-cases which don't work in normal human reaction or processing times. 1000ms is a value only relevant to high precision applications, which are perfectly fine not being tied to a precise date or solar rotation or anything.

This feels like a programmers without science training issue: all models are models and you choose the one useful for your purpose. It's particularly galling coming from Meta who are large enough to just do this, write the code, and submit a standard for consideration by the tech-industry.
I'm impressed, all these comments yet so little substance.

It must take quite a lot of skill to use so many words while saying nothing at all
'That could represent 1cm of water on the wall, that's physically impossible. There's a maximum amount of moisture that can condensate per unit of surface, it cannot be infinite. '

'
I do not understand why isolating 3 walls out of 4 would generate additional moisture on the remaining wall.'

you gey problems with mold way before you are anywhere near 'the physical limir of condensarion'. You dont want to be near it.

The question is not whether the amount of consensation will double or quadruple. It is weather you will have mould problems. If your wal starts getting wet, you will have mould peoblems.
> There is no substitute for "I can retire at 60 instead of 70".

Would you choose 30 bad work years over 40 good work years?
I don't think it will ever arrive in the US, but the Citroen AMI is a nice little thing that is having some success in some EU countries:

https://www.citroen.co.uk/models/future-models/ami.html

Though personally (if it will ever be produced in mass) I like this "re-make" of the old Isetta, the microlino:

https://microlino-car.com/en/microlino
EU reaches deal to ration gas
Fastmail is good but more if you don't use it in bigger team (my opinion). Why don't you want to use exchange? Shouldn't be too bad as long as it's configured by MSFT?
The perfect solution is well known. Abandon leap seconds. Done.
Having until August 3 to entirely complete the transition seems incredibly rough? How can that possibly be a reasonable situation?

I'm absolutely all for privacy, but I also wonder if the EU alternatives (e.g. Tutanota as per article) will be able to withstand e.g. state sponsored attacks as well as Google.
Plenty of open source options that will teach them 90% of what most people will need to know. Taxpayer money should not be going to these corporations.
On the other hand, a golf-cart sized vehicles can fit into tiny garages with room to spare, and could eliminate need for several bicycles.

I bet you could fit 2 small NEV into same space needed for 1 minivan or full size pickup/SUV.
you only need to look at the effect this is having on politics to see that it can drag us towards a miserable equilibrium where cheating happens because it gives an advantage even though the outcome is worse for everyone.
Very old school socialist punishment for dissenters. Usually followed by assigning dirty, dangerous jobs to the oppossition.
Self-reply: my edit is actually wrong - in practice Unix time is implemented with leap seconds on leap-second days and doesn't drift from UTC.
It's the other way around, teaching kids how to use Word and Excel will help Microsoft for the majority of office jobs out there, that's why everything MS is free for kids.
Minable?
Also the Trade Union Congress in the UK, of which some of the people involved in the standard may have been members at the time.
you can play several versions at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/software?query=glider&and[]=subj...
Universe (YC W18) Is Hiring a Staff Front End Web Engineer
For developers who already have Docker running on their machine. I can strongly recommend running it locally with e.g. Docker Compose.

Safes effort with maintaining an installation and keeping the background process running. Plus, it also works when network connectivity drops.

https://github.com/Erikvl87/docker-languagetool/blob/master/...
Israeli here - large cash transactions have already been banned for a few years mostly successfully - this just lowers the limit from ±$5000 to ±$2000
I have been journaling for 2 years on and off. In the beginning it had extremely positive effects on my development as a person.

After a while the sense of effectiveness that came from writing constantly started to fizzle out and I'd feel like going in circles in my writing.For a while, I wouldn't write and I'd feel guilt and would attribute negative aspects of my life to my lack of writing, which led me back to daily writing. This was a recurring thing in my life.

After a while I just concluded that the valuable thing journaling teaches you is the importance of exploring your ideas and thoughts. Doing it religiously or with harsh constraints is no good. There must be time to explore and to just do things for a bit - that until some sort of critical mass is reached or some idea shows up that you want to discuss.

I think what confuses a lot of people is what one means with "journaling". If it's just writing about your day, I don't see that much utility in it. Effective journaling ends up being an alternative name for writing and reflecting without objective in my experience.
The worry with secure boot would be manufacturers taking away the ability to manage/disable it on consumer devices. This rule doesn't seem to get any closer to that scenario, it's a change in the default configuration of "secured core" systems marketed for enterprise use. Secure boot can still be managed or disabled, and the change only impacts big Linux distros that got MS to sign their bootloaders. For the general case of being able to run any OS it's been necessary to go into BIOS settings since computers started shipping with secure boot by default around the time of Windows 10 release.
There are already a few that touch on grief, but at the end of the day they're still little cartoons, which naturally make them more lighthearted.
There is a shortage of actual developers. But there is no shortage of people who don't care about what they are doing or whether they can do it at all.

When you are looking through piles of thousands of people, you are looking for ways to pare it down so that you are left at every step with higher concentration of the first group. Because spending same amount of effort on everybody is not a viable strategy.
Unless Denmark or the EU want to setup an actual competitor, there is no private alternative out there.
Oddly, Linux is hard, if not impossible, to run on many Chromebooks as root. A lot of Chromebooks only support “linux beta” (aka Crostini) as a subsystem of ChromeOS and the hardware doesn’t support running Linux as root from boot; frequently the low end models.
So, putting it all together, someone should choose and restrict which OS can be installed on your PC, so that you can feel safe in the thought that everyone has the same restriction?

At least that's how I managed to understand your comment to the best of my abilities, so hopefully I'm missing something. Though if there is such a something, the point did not get across successfully.
This is basically European protectionism under the guise of privacy.

My guess is that within a few years (or even sooner), you will be reading about a massive breach of student data from whatever alternative they choose to go with.
Fully agree. I know a completely non-famous #1 bestselling author for courses on how to develop iOS apps. 99% of the revenue is coming from the books and courses. 1% of the revenue is cheap app re-skins + good marketing. In the early days, they actually used course revenue to subsidize their app operation to keep it afloat.

So yes, they teach you how to build iOS apps. But those apps have a negative ROI.
Fertilizers aren't made from hydrocarbons, they extract hydrogen from hydrocarbons, venting the carbon as carbon dioxide, then use that hydrogen to make fertilizer.

If your big thing is fertilizers, then you'd want a really cheap way of making fertilizers, which some people do actually want and they think that Green Hydrogen is already cheaper for this when you include externalities.

And even if you're the kind of person that really can't cope with the idea that externalities are a thing and just want to pretend they don't, then they'll be so much cheaper when we scale them up, that they'll still be cheaper even if you ignore all the misery and death that those externalities cause.

https://www.yara.com/crop-nutrition/products-and-solutions/g...

Weirdly, you seem to already know this, since you added in that bit about "Do they produce it now?". Maybe you're not accidentally killing people because you're misinformed after all.