skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically the purpose of CAA is to enable a subscriber (say, the owner of ycombinator.com) to tell trustworthy Certificate Authorities thanks, but no thanks. It is not a message for anybody else. If you're not a CA you don't need to read CAA records.

For example, say you're Facebook, you've got an arrangement with DigiCert where on top of the Ten Blessed Methods of the Baseline Requirements, DigiCert promises to go exclusively through a six man "Certificate management" team at Facebook for all .facebook.com and .fb.com names. Even if Marketing really wants coca-cola-advert.facebook.com they can't get a certificate without an OK from that six man team. Well, (and something similar really happened years ago) the deal you cut with DigiCert doesn't magically apply to every other CA. The Baseline Requirements do, but not your custom deal, so other CAs don't need to know about your rules and may issue coca-cola-advert.facebook.com certificates to the marketing guys who've set up the coca-cola-advert.facebook.com web site just obeying the Ten Blessed Methods.

CAA records are in the Baseline Requirements, and so Facebook can write a CAA which says "Only DigiCert may issue". And if you look with your preferred DNS querying tool, that is exactly what they did. CAA for facebook.com is 0 issue "digicert.com"

If you posit that there are crooks at some other CA issuing bogus certificates, CAA doesn't stop that. The crooks can ignore such a rule, the same way a crook can ignore the "Employees only" sign on a door. But, we can see what the public CAs are doing, so, if any of them are crooked we can notice that and kick them out. For the most part humans, including those running a CA, can be lazy and incompetent but they aren't malevolent.
It's not clear there's ANY window for DT reactors between "too small to ignite" and "too large to have competitive volumetric power density".
It's still complicated, since your tiny train can run over some wino who fell asleep across your tiny track after finding a hole in the fence.
Given a certain proportion of journeys that you want to cover with high-speed rail, I'd say polycentricity still means you need to build more infrastructure than under a monocentric (France) or linear (Italy, Japan) model.
I only have
Human Behavioral Biology (Robert Sapolsky) 25 lectures https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199
The biosphere is not undestroyable by any measure. Prior extinction events haven't manage to permanently damage it, but we shouldn't set the bar that low and rely on life's magical ability to spring forth and prosper under any circumstances.
In Germany it's fairly common to call McDonalds "Mäckes", which sounds very similar to "maccas" when spoken. This is an unofficial designation with a slightly negative touch as well, as it's often preferred to the actual name when referring to McDonalds specifically as a provider of mostly unhealthy food.
Ask HN: What non-English news, blogs, discussion groups, communities you follow?
I'm looking non-English high quality websites worth following.
> More than half of a nuclear plant is essentially the same as any large scale power plant (goal, gas...).

Presumably that's the cheap half of the nuclear plant, because coal/gas plants are pretty cheap to build.
Difference between 10x $50k/year developers and 10x $150k/year developers is $1m/year. How much money would a company need to actually do an effort? Billion? Are lawyers who can fill some papers that expensive?
Going swimming in 40 C° hot water is rather dangerous. That’s the maximum safe temperature for a hot tub that you sit in for 10-15 minutes. It’s above body temperature and will prevent your body from cooling. A comfortable temperature for swimming is around 30 degrees, lower in summer.
That’s not always how DNS is used in practice. There are lots of different configurations where there’s a local portion that represents a non-global name. This isn’t necessarily best practice, mind you, because it can have security implications if the name doesn’t resolve locally but does remotely.

To make this practice work consistently, the .local TLD is specifically reserved for such use cases in mDNS.

Now I should mention, all TLDs should be reserved even if only used locally because of above security implications, but there’s nothing preventing people from abusing DNS in a local setting to resolve names differently than they do remotely.
Outside of high-tech solutions (external wombs, anti-aging) there's one social: a totalitarian country forcing women to have kids. The only country I could see it happening is China.

In the absence of one of the three solutions, technological civilization will peak this century. It's not poverty or culture that leads to not having kids, it's industrialization. Any culture that automates agriculture to a sufficient level will eventually go extinct in the absence of a technological solution. Totalitarianism can work for a while but it's inherently brittle - at best it can give more time for a real technological solution.

Maybe it's the great filter.

>Even if life extension technology does begin to roll out, any model we can conjure for its use based on current economic systems will limit access to the top fraction of a percent of the population, socioeconomically speaking, and thus be irrelevant in combating the above trend.

Completely unsupported assumption. In theory antiaging could even be delivered via a virus that infects almost everyone.
Weird though that it's perfectly fine to host false statements so long as they're on the correct 'side.' Those become honest mistakes or 'the science changed,' etc. This helps no one, as does not allowing opposing opinions/'science' just because, especially if controversial.

As long as the journalists are ensuring they do enough diligence to not present blatant lies or propaganda, it should not matter which 'side' is presented, journalism is supposedly (?) about presenting honest data and information for the viewer/consumer to form their own opinions on.

If someone somehow forms the opinion that climate change isn't a thing, then present better arguments and information and debate with honesty and integrity. It's not as loud and might not get the internet clicks, but it will shine through better in the end, much as it doesn't seem to in the moment. Don't let the fear/threat of trolls block being challenged by opposing ideas.
I'm not strictly against LLVM. My objections are the license, and how companies use it against GCC/GNU.

I open everything I can, and strictly with GNU/GPLv3+. I want this code can be built and improved upon, even after I abandon it voluntarily or involuntarily. Hence I choose GPL licensed (or close as much as possible) toolchains and tools as much as possible.

For example, I use Eclipse, and include .project files in the repositories, so one can import the project as is, and continue playing, or maintaining the code. I'm improving my Eclipse knowledge to use agnostic paths, so anyone cloning the repo can directly import to Eclipse, and just click build.

I also plan to make my Eclipse and toolchain settings available to make my development environment completely reproducible.

On the case of the Rust, I'm waiting gccrs, which is arriving as an unofficial language in gcc-13. This will both provide an alternative and GPL licensed implementation of the language, and I can be sure that the code I leave behind can be built with the public version of the GCC.

Moreover, I use no compiler specific extensions, because I'm not trying to lock anyone to any toolchain. I'm just trying to make sure that the repo is buildable. I may even add a LLVM (or go-gc) test path to make sure that I don't break anything between implementations.

IOW, I have strong opinions about software freedom, and I apply them to my code, but not force people to obey them (except the license, because I need to underpin it). It's a strong stance, yet there's no insistence. I just set an example, and try to make it a very good one, to show it can be done.
In Texas?? Lol
How to Speak Australian: Abbreviate Everything!

https://youtu.be/yDb_WsAt_Z0
How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?

I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?
I think it's just good to have open discussion on what these demographics changes might mean in the context of different societies. Both Europe and North America will see increasing migration from more overpopulated and poorer parts of the world, and this obviously presents its challenges to societies in the both ends of the flow.

I don't believe in "great replacement theory", what is happening is just a natural consequence of massive differences in standards of living and population growth in different parts of the world. Yet at the same time I can also see that this development isn't always without its troubles, like Sweden suffering from a wave of gun violence due to its failure to integrate many migrants who lack education and language skills, and many developing countries suffering from brain-drain. These are small-scale issues compared to the environmental impact of overpopulation, but they should still be discussed.
The big energy suppliers burning coal all sit in Northrhine-Westfalia, the most populous state in Germany.

Migrating away from (black) coal (used mostly in the steel industry) has caused big issues in the Ruhr area ("Strukturwandel", structural shift, meaning migration of significant parts of the workforce from coal to other sectors) in the past, which also means that the population is very wary of phasing out lignite as well. Pretty much everyone knows somebody who lost their job in a mine. Some cities like Gelsenkirchen are still structurally weak, like a lite version of Detroit. This means that politicians mow give expensive political gifts to the coal industry to provide retraining opportunities or early pensions, just so they can claim that they do not "forget" the workers this time.

While in fact, there is maybe 30k people or so in all of Germany employed by coal and its dependent industries. And nobody cares that the wind and solar industry lost 100k or so workers over the last decade due to avoidable regulatory issues and the resulting low project volume.

Anyways, you should not underestimate the amount of respect the coal workers always had in the Ruhr area. Digging coal in a below-ground mine is still the essential definition of "honest work" and sacrifice here. It's probably somewhat comparable to how military service is treated in the US, including the occasional "thank you for your service" and all. There are shrines dedicated to St. Barbara, the patron saint of mining, sprinkled everywhere, because people regularily prayed for their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and friends to come home safely each day. Children learn the Steigerlied in school and sing it before football games. It's even worse than a lobby, the population mostly supports special treatment for the coal workers, as the mining and steel industry is still part of the cultural DNA.
Those failures didn’t happen until they started shifting to so called “green” energy. And compared to California’s power woes, Texas is a model of efficiency.

With natural gas and nuclear, there would never be a power shortage in Texas. But for some reason people are obsessed with ugly, bird killing windmills and giant solar farms.
Unfortunely not with same tooling level as C# and VB enjoy.
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That’s current price. I suspect they might have been sourced on the cheap. Displays like that tend to appear suddenly in large quantities in surplus lots. I’ve made a fair bit of money meeting digikey half way on pricing :)
Difficulties improving C++ Setting the scene for Carbon Google's C++ successor
I usually vary my note-taking style a lot but my current favourite is to just use handwritten outline style (bullet points) and then later transcribe those to flowchart.fun for the useful visualization.
Ask HN: Would you use a platform to justify and hire faster?
Hi, we want to give a big improvemnt to our human resources platform, from the compliance support for mental health psychosocial risk for employees and employers follow up, to a tool for justifying hiring new employees from a finances perspective and making the hiring process faster for international candidates following a Lean Continuous improvement methodology.
Railway networks have many reasons to not let children run a rail line. I realize there are reasons and arguments for the default position, but well... these are arguments for the default position.

Of course WiFi admin is different from rail transport from farm management, etc. That doesn't negate the fact that they're also similar in some respects, and affected in similar ways by prevailing culture and attitudes.
>they should all quit their jobs and learn to code

Please no. Can you imagine what they would write if they apply the same standards of quality to code that they do to journalism.
In what concerns Java, using AOT or JIT caches is also an option, however all these kind of benchmarks tend to reveal lack of knowledge of the Java ecosystem.

Same applies to .NET by the way.
> I wonder if this initiative will come at the cost of increased crime in some areas.

You can still have street lighting, but the design of is such that light is directed down towards the ground where it is useful:

* https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=683

If you take directly below the lamp to be 0˚ (nadir), then there should be absolutely no light going above the horizontal (90˚), and the lamp should keep the majority of the light at 45˚, with any spill being container to <65˚ (cutoff angle).

* https://www.landscapeforms.com/enlighten/pages/2-1/BUG-Ratin...
The solution lies in denying authorship rights (ie., natural rights of authorship) to programs. This will prevent claiming copyrights on AI-generated content.

A fundamental issue with granting authorship rights on AI/program generated content to the AI/programs is that what happens when two people use the same AI and generate two different works using similar prompts that also look similar? Are they each infringing on each other? This issue is unsettled.

The case law on this is evolving in various jurisdictions.

Case law from India:

Aug 2021: India recognises AI as co-author of copyrighted artwork
https://www.managingip.com/article/2a5czmpwixyj23wyqct1c/exc...

Dec 2021: Indian Copyright Office issues withdrawal notice to AI co-author
https://www.managingip.com/article/2a5d0jj2zjo7fajsjwwlc/exc...
Yes it is way better! If flat Earth is so outlandish (which it is), it should be easily dismantled in debate and journalistic investigation. Not wanting to allow it full stop for fear of internet trolls grouping up is no solution at all.
Screenshot history:

1988 - Emacs 18.52

1992 - Emacs 18.59

1994 - Emacs 19.7

1996 - Emacs 19.7

1998 - Vim ????

2002 - Emacs 21.1

2006 - Emacs 21.1

2012 - Emacs 24.1

2018 - Emacs 26.1

2022 - Emacs 28.1
Which is fair play.

I fully expect authorities from any countries to try to get evidences from physical access to electronic devices in the case of criminal investigation. Just like they can go into ones house and open safes with a torch if a judge allows it.

The problem is mass surveillance, not getting data about someone under arrest.

Of course, I unfortunatly also fully expect them to abuse that and use it outside of criminal investigations, without the knowledge of said person.
He is also the person behind the JEdit editor (or at least one of the main guys).
Out of curiosity, why do you want to move away from Unity?
Addendum Quote "The economic systems of virtually all developed countries are predicated on an assumption of constant growth"—I'm with you that shrinking societies will be facing a wholly new set of societal problems. However an economic system that is predicated on constant growth will necessarily fail at some point in the future because physics. We as a species have to find ways to prevent that from happening. To keep adding people is not an option. If we can live with 10 billion people or maybe with 20 billion people (shudder, but who knows) then at some point–100 billion? 200 billion?–there must come a point at which it is with absolute certainty not going to work.
> why we got the nuclear reactors we have today, the ones that can make nuclear weapon material

No, we got ones designed to work in nuclear submarines [1]. Civil reactors don’t make weapons-grade anything.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0301421584...
> source of migrants and drug problems

Wow. Sounds like someone is on an agenda.
"Sometimes, to make the harder things simple, you first need to make the simple things harder"
> We just need

This "just" hasn't happened for several years, so what makes you think anyone will do anything about it?
We've just started looking into that, but the amount of existing raw JS+express we have means adopting something like NestJS is going to be a huge undertaking. What slightly baffles me is that at no point did anyone seem to stop and think if there shouldn't be a better way...
My intuition would be that this can't be that rare: surely photographers are a lucrative market?
In the present tense, maybe not, but in the past this was a real thing (or, at least, people were pretending it was).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
I guess it all depends on how interested someone is in the specific problem. The war on drugs makes a mule an accomplice. The war on piracy makes a hosting platform an accomplice. Particularly when they are aware of the issue and don't act.

Since Amazon would clearly act if their own products or brands were impacted it stands to reason that not only are they complicit in committing that crime and providing assistance but also that they abuse their position to selectively enforce rules.

Of course there's no incentive to do anything to change this particularly in lobby driven parts of the world where the benefit of the company is paramount. After all the company is the one filling the pockets of legislators and judges.
Small nitpick, they weren’t from lack of capacity it was reported as a planning problem.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-10-06/califor...
Define 'some amount of credentials' and I'll bet I can find you scientists with them that support the thing you say is loony.
Stability, the editor just gets slower and slower, price (especially as the team grows and you have to pay per person per month), corporate direction they’ve been going in lately.
You might like City Beautiful https://youtube.com/c/CityBeautiful

The titles can be a bit clickbaity but the videos are pretty good
> you will always need at least a small fission reactor to breed some tritium

The idea for future designs is to breed Tritium in the blanket surrounding the vessel. This obviates the need for external sources.

> everything close to the reactor becomes brittle in 2-4 years

I'm no expert on solid state physics, but that seems a little short? JET is more than ten times as old, and as we speak it's in its second run of D-T experiments.

> These are all intrinsic limitations of fusion that fission reactors just don't have

To be clear these are limitations of a specific kinds of fusion reaction and/or reactor design, primarily that of Deuterium-Tritium in a solid-walled tokamak. This may be a nitpick as it's currently far and away the most promising for energy production, and the alternatives are much further from any sort of workable prototype, but I have heard of them undergoing active research: tri-alpha (aneutronic reaction, meaning no activation or embrittlement of reactor components), liquid metal for the walls and divertor (in effect, continuously replacing neutron-bombarded material), etc.
There were grass roots activists already talking about these issues, several years before these people got together. The GCC was professional lobbyists and advocates jumping on a market they just discovered existed.
> So if something is complex we shouldn't or can't build it?

We were discussing why fusion plants are necessarily more expensive than fission plants - not whether they can (or even should) in principle be built.

> Energy is needed to perform electrolysis to create hydrogen. What about the energy needed to mine uranium? I think it might require quite a lot of effort, particularly once supplies get harder to reach and extract.

I listed many other energy costs - including some uranium to breed tritium.

> The radioactivity is much more short term than fission.

Sure, but that still means decades for tritium and centuries for the neutron-bombarded materials - more than enough to make it as big of a problem in our lifetimes per kg, just with many more kg of waste from fusion.
> So I made the jump two weeks ago. I now self host my code. I pay for the resources I use so no more strange free lunch.

I also chose this exact approach.

Previously, I ran GitLab, GitLab Registry and GitLab CI and while I think that it's a nice ecosystem to work within (especially at work, where it still is an excellent option, as long as someone else manages the instance), it was also a bit heavy on the resources and updating across major releases... just didn't work. I wrote about that previously, "GitLab updates are broken": https://blog.kronis.dev/everything%20is%20broken/gitlab-upda...

So, eventually I switched over to Gitea, Drone CI and Nexus, all of which now comfortably live on a single VPS with 4 GB of RAM. The performance is good, the resource usage is acceptable and when things break it just takes the individual component down instead of the whole platform (which is also nice for more granular updates).

I actually did a writeup about the switch in more detail "Goodbye GitLab; Hello Gitea, Nexus and Drone": https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-...

Of course, actually applying those updates is still somewhat of a problem and will definitely be so until the end of time or until I get enough spare income to make someone else worry about all of that for me (including moving back to cloud platforms and paying for private Docker image storage, CI etc.).

But honestly my current setup is good enough for me, at about 6 euros per month for the hosting (my time is more or less worthless so not counting that).
1 kg is the amount of fissile material, but it needs quite a lot of high explosive around it. The file you linked says 16kg, and 28 cm by 30 cm.

I suspect the soda-can sized charges you recall were conventional explosives for the small, non-nuke prototype they tried out.
But then the question must be asked who then gives them an opinion?
I think we are already using paas (DO Apps) for a few services, but some requirements are incompatible with it and other paas’es. I’d like to rather have a thin layer over vps, what I do with ssh, but better UX.
I agree deadlines are a necessary evil to ensure we hold ourselves accountable to both customers and internal non-eng stakeholders who need to know when things will ship in order to make plans around them and collaborate with us effectively.

One approach to develop a healthy culture around deadlines I've been thinking about lately:

Plan the deadline around the minimal lovable product, while spec'ing out the minimal shippable product, and ensure there's enough of a delta between the two so we can have a large degree of freedom w.r.t. scope.

Without this freedom to vary scope, _when_ (not if) our estimates invariably fail, our only options would be to extend the deadline (defeating the purpose of setting deadlines in the first place if we resort to this often enough), or to burn ourselves out with overtime work in an attempt to meet those deadlines (obviously results in an unhealthy/unsustainable environment, and not even guaranteed to succeed).