skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how battery replacement is a failure? They got some money to do it, decided it was not worth doing, so they didn't. I mean that's not really a technological failure, but simple a good business choice.

Laser links exist.
I'm genuinely curious why you think they chose to have it run javascript.

I just spent a few minutes looking into their actual usage of it and, ime, it has all the indications of being a reasonable decision.

Here's a bit more info from [0]:

> It is my opinion that NASA settled on the Nombas engine, after extensive research of their own into all the options available at the time, not so much because of the JavaScript language itself (although the familiarity of the language was a bonus), but because of the solid and robust nature of the ScriptEase engine and the tools that went with it.

[0]: http://brent-noorda.com/nombas/us/index.htm
if the query isn't in the url then it isn't in the access log either
Quick save, restore and auto reorder window layouts of stacking window managers
With smart layout reordering. Tested on openbox. The main script is here:

https://github.com/QiangF/erofi/blob/master/eyebrowse.py
So... seeing images of food fires certain neurons.

Do the same neurons fire when viewing actual food irl? Or do the neurons know what an image is? What about imagining food, will that fire the same neurons? How about imagining images of food?
Yep. Perfect example of this being the Lego Mindstorms platform. We had a "robotics club" at my private school which used the Mindstorms visual programming tools; there were 10 year olds learning about loops and variables in a way that was legitimately _fun_.
So many things! The country that had generated the most nuclear power IS the United States and it's also the one with the highest capacity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country

The depiction of it as a "failure" is the industry whining like the defense industry whines about not having 50,000 more airplanes

Despite being at scale and having 70 years to bring down costs, it's still prohibitively expensive in the full lifecycle analysis of the LCOE and it gets heavily subsidized to keep plants open.

People's energy prices have gone up because governments are Interfering With The Market in favor of nuclear: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/17/the-us-is-spending-billions-...

Also it's not green. The mining of the fuel isn't, nor is its transportation, vitrification, fabrication, refinement or enrichment. The concrete and cooling of the plant isn't nor is the waste stream side of the equation. It's the classic hyperfocus on a small part of the chain and writing off everything else as externalities.

Now on to the last point. Yes! The back end is a trivial cost because it Has Not Been Dealt With.

Yucca Mountain 35 years in still has not been built and the only US site that currently exists is only for 10,000 years (1% of what's required), only does nuclear weapons, cost $19,000,000,000, took 29 years to build, and had a sealing schedule of 75 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Isolation_Pilot_Plant

Currently the only US option is dry casks which have a shelf life between 30 and 100 years assuming no natural disasters, terrorist attacks, wars, or shoddy craftsmanship. We're leaving this problem for future generations.

In the same way people used to hunt animals to extinction so they could sell them as culinary delicacies, future civilizations will look back on us and curse us for being so stupid when we had far more reasonable options readily available that didn't require literally centuries of management.

Onkalo is going to get breached in the next ice age btw so let's just hope we figure out how to secure it against that in the next few generations

I don't care what your sci-fi shows say, it's a shit technology. And I haven't even touched upon the insane corruption behind plants such as Diablo canyon.

But hey call me an uninformed moron, I'm down
Why would they care? They get their name as the chair of the conference on their CV. No one remembers who chaired a specific year or how a given year went. If they did, there's enough noise in the process it wouldn't be attributed to the review process in particular. Some years, weaker papers come in, and others, stronger ones do.
There isn't very much lock-in other than the domain names - Fandom wikis are all built on MediaWiki, and they have all of the MediaWiki export infrastructure (which exports everything about a page, including history) still intact last I checked.
> I'm not sure how Discord could make it pay off.

I dunno, enterprise sales sound like a fairly straightforward payoff to me. But I kinda don’t want them to lose focus, and that would inevitably happen.
China's Baidu Unveils 10-Qubit Quantum Computer
>Did you ask for it? Pay for it.

I'm trying to reconcile that with someone else asking for a $10k federal loan, and then me (or somebody who never asked to go to college at all) being the one to pay it for them (through inflation or taxes).
I hate the state of chat right now. IRC is the kind of open standard and FOSS technology we need, but terribly outdated, Slack and Co. are shiny but inflexible and locked in.
>endless rounds of "hi guys, new here, <novice question>" "check the pins".

This was still a thing back during the days of forums.

No, reading comprehension in humanity hasn't improved over the last 20~30 years.
> carbon taxes, when they have been enacted they have not been effective

You're arguing that fuel use is inelastic. This is obviously false, and there's plenty of evidence of that. When gas is cheap, people buy gas guzzlers. When gas is expensive, they buy gas sippers. The latest evidence is the news stories about people cutting back when gas prices spiked a couple months ago.

If the carbon tax had no effect, then the tax wasn't large enough. There is most definitely a tax level where you are going to reduce your driving, a tax level where you will buy a more efficient car, and a tax level where you will get an EV.

> can come ... who knows what will be developed

Refuting today's reality with "who knows what will be developed" is not a compelling argument.

Let's take hydro:

1. no more hydro dams will be built because they ruin the rivers

2. there aren't many good sites for hydro dams anyway

3. current hydro dams are always being targeted for destruction by environmentalists. In Washington State, a hydro dam was demolished recently for that reason.

4. droughts are drying up the hydro power in the American west and even in Norway.

The cost of nuclear is the cost of endless lawsuits. Government can clear that away with the legislative wand.

> Attach 12 hours of storage to a solar array

I encourage you to do that for your house. Let us know how it works out.
While lacking in some features, Bitwarden is a great project!
not just that, they're also incredibly hostile to users trying to retain privacy.

they're requiring phone number validation just after registration or you run the risk that they suddenly lock your account, demanding a phone number for "abuse prevention". depending on ip reputation and possibly other factors it may be impossible to use it in the first place without providing a phone number.
Surprised you can buy it on steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1603300/Timothy_Learys_Mi...
Here we go again. No, not every single decision (short-term or strategic) in a company is optimized only for $$$ at the expense of anything else. Nor should it, nor does that need to go against the interests of shareholders, nor is there any law mandating so.

Just like there exist companies who sell clothes not made in slave-like conditions even if they could legally get away with it and make more money by doing so.
> not a giant scrolling doomswheel

Discourse's scrolling timeline is the absolute best UI feature I've ever used in a forum platform. Nothing else comes even close.
No, they didn't, they just ignored the errors and most of the time they got away with it.

That's what the Hello, World! error illustrates. The canonical "Hello, World!" in these languages actually ignores errors, and nobody cares. But it speaks to the general mindset behind C and C++ programmers.

"Eh, it's fine". Until it isn't.
Bitwarden should fit these requirements. It‘s also an all around much better product, in my experience.
Good. Are you willing to renounce to your current lifestyle? Because renewable energy alone can't, even considering the most optimistic prediction, and even ignoring costs and production scale problem, substitute fossil fuels. That means that we need to reduce the amount of energy that we use, if we don't want to substitute fossil fuel with nuclear, so are you willing to do so?

I think that nuclear is the best compromise, the argument that it costs a lot of money, it doesn't make sense, I live in Europe and we are losing billions of euros each day, most of energy intensive companies have shut down, they are not producing, because energy cost is 10 times higher than usual, there are companies that got millions euros energy bill, they go bankrupt. Now how many nuclear reactors would you have built with this amount of money that is lost every day?

Now let's talk about renewable energy, the same renewable energy that in 50 years that we talk about didn't do mostly anything to reduce the dependency from Russian gas. To the point that the inevitable happened, the thing that everyone knew will someday happen but didn't want to admit that there was that possibility...
I found a single practitioner that did muscle injections instead of an IV so no nurses or anesthesiologists are present. I'm in a cozy room with nice, low lighting, my music, and he leaves the room during the treatment. It feels like going into someone's home. He has a camera to monitor and has come in when I've gotten restless.

Being in a home-like setting isn't for everyone though, so when I guide people to Ketemine treatments I ask them if they are more comfortable in a hospital environment and If so, I recommend the IV clinics.
The US govt will have its fingers in all internet constellations
Office Open XML (docx), to be fair, is a non-proprietary standard. Microsoft has been forced into that by the EU; and they keep messing with it, but it is actually technically "open".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
Housing is super expensive in SFBA because it's all individual. In SF any housing project needs to make it through design meetings where all your neighbors make arbitrary aesthetic complaints about how it looks and how it casts shadows on things.

To get housing back to the rates it was built (and the price you could buy it at) in the 60s it needs to be a hundred times faster and more factory manufactured, not less.

Luckily, if you wait a hundred years people will like anything. That's the only reason people like mass-produced Eichlers, SF Victorians, and NYC brownstones.
Lighthouse keeper wanted for north-westerly corner of Britain
My experience is that for elite schools -- Stanford and MIT -- the remaining factor is how much one is willing to cheat. There is a random component, a merit-based component, but most (and I have large n here) successful affiliated faculty candidates did so by cheating in some way.

That can be data baking, credit theft, or a whole slew of other techniques, but at least in my department, most new faculty at least at these two schools are in some way crooked.

Also, for nuance on random:

http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html
I think about it a lot. A portion of my job has been either optimizing big systems or building very minimally invasive software that has to process a lot of data.

It’s akin to tuning a sports car. You can slap a big engine in a car, but the difference of a few seconds off of a lap is thousands of man-hours in optimization and tuning.
Desert tortoise has entered the chat
DIGG blew its userbase by fucking up the UX.

Reddit is on path to do same. If reddit ever kills old.reddit, exodus will happen.

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But seriously, a designer should be thinking about the consumption/participation model as opposed to just the eyeballs/adwords-please-kill-me-now model...

The consumption and participation of a site is direct to the UX - and when DIGG basically made it a 100% consumption push, while also making participation weird/hard/less-desirable, that shit was dead.

Reddit is becoming a weird corporate bot colony and they are actively killing their UX.
Almost everyone who wants to fundamentally reinvent programming seems to come up with visual dataflow programming, which is strange to me because aren't those just function calls?
If teams works great for you I don’t think I want to work there.

Some idiot higher up thought it was a great idea to switch from Slack to Teams, presumably because they have a vendetta against it, and our communication experience and effectiveness (especially cross-border) absolutely crumpled.

My biggest problem with Teams is the same as Jira. It gives you so much rope to hang yourself with.

Everybody and their mother wants to create a whole Team for their pet project, and then invites the whole organisation, because there is no way to discover existing teams.
READING NEWS in the morning, not "waking up"
Mis-leading Clickbait headline
This is FUD. No it doesn't speak volumes _at all_. The telemtry is opt-in, with various levels of settings, and doesn't collect _anything personal_. Even it's most invasive setting collects very very basic information. And again, is opt-in.

Also, it's open source. You can see the code and what it does. Which is close to 0.
> for PDF you need highly specialized software packages to do this.

Not really, or at least not all that specialized. You need:

a: a pdf-to-raster-image converter (ie any working PDF viewer, plus maybe the X server it talks to)

b: a reasonably decent OCR system capable of scanning tables (definitely nontrivial, but hardly "highly specialized" since things other than PDFs display data in tables).
World‘s most popular password manager? That‘s kind of disheartening, given both their user experience and track record security-wise…

Then again, I‘d been using them for many years myself until quite recently, mostly due to not knowing that much better free alternatives exist by now:

For all around functionality/quality, I‘d still go with 1password; for a free (as in beer and speech) option and/or if you value self hosting, I can recommend Bitwarden.
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A struct won't be recognized by the language in order to automatically insert array bounds checks.

> Thankfully, many exist, so this is a non issue

Many string libraries that are incompatible with each other. This is a huge issue. (I myself made many C string libraries. It's not so easy. Try it.)

The language extension I proposed for C is the same one D uses. D has had it for 20+ years, and it has proven very, very satisfactory.
Geothermal power always sounds like a great idea. And it used to be one.

But nowadays, anything that needs a steam turbine is going to be more costly to operate than wind or solar + cheap storage, because steam turbines need expensive periodic maintenance.

(Geothermal heating, or for extra credit heating and cooling, remains viable.)

If you want to rescue geothermal power generation, you need to put in the engineering work to make a viable alternative to the steam turbine, one that needs a lot less, or anyway a lot cheaper, maintenance. Presumably it is still a turbine, but designed for a different working fluid. Some have suggested supercritical CO2 for this role.
This will catch a lot of small teams unprepared, but to be honest they should've considered chat as ephemeral, and if something was worth keeping they should've persisted that elsewhere. Also that reminds me of the old days of IRC and how simple it was to keep logs of conversations.
Microsoft Clipchamp
Slack only lost because of Microsoft using their near-monopoly in one space to take over another. Almost like this is a pattern of behavior for them.

Especially given how god-awful of a product Teams is. It could never survive in the marketplace on its own merits.
‘Hotel California’ saga: Missing lyrics, rare book dealer, relentless Don Henley
Except that it made most of them slower for mobile users because it blocked page display until over a megabyte of JavaScript had finished executing, at which point media files were unblocked. My local newspaper loaded noticeably faster without it but more importantly it was reliable: I could click on a link and read it while I was on the subway, but AMP pages frequently just burned my data plan for a blank page.

They also broke scrolling for years and since the desktop experience was poor you had to deal with a hokey non-standard sharing widget.
NvFuser, a deep learning compiler for PyTorch
Remember Steve Ballmer?

Developers are incredibly important for an ecosystem and having them a bit more optimistic about a platform can be quite beneficial (for a very low price, even).
All the best chord progressions are known, all the best formulas for movie scripts are rehashed again and again, it does feel like we are now on borrowed time whenever I hear a bad song or see a bad movie and this is extending to video games now, when most things appear bad these days compared to what came before and they like they should not have been created it means we should not be around doing it. We're done. We did our bit. Its time for our civilization to wind down.
I can self-host Zulip, so I don't care what they do, as long as they're alive.
I think your story is off topic, but really touching nonetheless (plenty of people are working on hospital software, even if it's largely pretty bad)

Glad that the worst that happened to your mom is that a nurse was confused about her food, rather than amputating the wrong leg or something (I wonder if faulty software has ever been the cause of this)

I wonder if the situation with hospital software will ever improve
Replacing slack with IRC really doesn’t feel like a sincere proposal. Slack has persistent history for everyone, push notifications, image and other file uploads, audio calls, video calls, and screen sharing. And all of that works with no configuration or research.

The only way it’s going to fly is if your organization is entirely hacker types.
> Commercial software is optimized with respect to a set of business goals

I'm not sure that's entirely true. It ostensibly is, but the way it is written is not optimized for long-term business goals. Because the way software tools work and the way software is written is that it is all completely optimized for short-term business goals and results.

I'm trying to pen an article that addresses this, because software is often if not solely viewed as just doing something, when that's only a component of what it does. If we additionally view it as a way to communicate amongst humans and a way to think about and encode a domain, then we begin to see the failings of software in today's world. In this holistic viewpoint, software is best viewed as stored and interactive knowledge. If software is simply viewed as a way to do something, then the stored knowledge becomes highly implicit and incomplete, and a communication breakdown happens. Viewing things with this lens, it is no surprise why today's software is primarily towers of shit. There is no handling of variety, that is complexity, because the way to handle it is to properly communicate within the medium of software systems and encode the domain. Otherwise, software just doing something often creates more complexity than it reduces.
Same reason we drop customers in SaaS , sometimes the custom ops effort is not worth the distraction and changing the software a) takes time and b) can be quite expensive and create new bugs.

If the software does not support Anti-Affinity basically it is going to be someone's job to make sure it doesn't get routed to this route and manually override when it does and avoid an Aviation regulatory incident imagine the headache if Ghana refused entry or refused that plane to board passengers if by mistake it land in Accura, and the PR circus around it.

The ROI on the route may not be not simply worth it. On the other hand Delta probably also do not want negative PR around scrapping the route immediately even if they wanted to. Routes rarely get scrapped overnight there are existing commercial agreements, government requirements, regulatory notices, operational change in ground support and so on to be planned and executed, even if they want to do that, it will take sometime to actually do it.
I was hoping to see some replies to this comment, lol. Sadly it just makes me think of companies like Cambridge Analytica and ultimately big tech in general, no doubt using software with similarities to this but not available to, or necessarily used for the personal benefit of, those whose minds are being mirrored.
In Spanish when a 5 or 6 yr old learns to read, they can read virtually any word correctly, no crazy phonetics, vowels are very distinct, the language has somewhat complex but strict rules. Compared to it, English looks like spaghetti thrown to the wall.
Italy lacks coal and Rome had already deforested the peninsula. Iron takes phenomenal amounts of fuel.

The smelting could have occurred elsewhere --- the coal fields of norther Spain, France, or possibly Germany (I believe the Ruhr region corresponds to Roman conquest regions), or of course, Brittania. But then you'd need to have a far-removed high-tech industry and long-haul shipping of finished goods back to Rome or for trade elsewhere.

Common elements of industrial revolutions seem to be:

- A weak nobility and religious sector, relative to merchants and artisans.

- Extensive commerce, preferably by water.

- A stable political scene. It's interesting that island states adjacent to large continental regions feature in the rise of England / UK and Japan. Arguably the US was an "island state" relative to Europe. Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and New Zealand would be exceptions, though these lacked a well-developed neighbouring region at the appropriate time, and NZ is a long haul from the corresponding continent. Indonesia too, I suppose.

- Indigenous resource, especially of industrial inputs: coal and iron. Japan is betrayed by its volcanic geography here. Lots of mountains, relatively few minerals. (Though neighbouring China and Korea had extensive resources, generating strong interest and tumultuous history.)

Another factor for Rome was that it didn't need steel to defeat any of its enemies. Low-quality iron and bronze sufficed, along with logistics and empirical organisation, for the most part. (Until of course it didn't.)

Japan figured out steel, but was so iron-poor that its construction and carpentry are almost wholly based on wood-on-wood joinery to minimise the need for nails or screws. (Not that the latter were standardised until the 19th and 20th centuries.)
Discourse also offers free hosting for OSS projects.
Google AMP Can Go to Hell
I think that one of the problem of the modern web is that it's seen as an application framework, and we forgot the origin that is the browser as a document viewer, basically.

Most of the problems wouldn't be even present if we reason in terms of documents, and in terms of operations that you can do on these documents (GET, PUT, DELETE, POST). You find out that for most website you don't need JS!

One could argue that JS is an optimization because you don't load up again the whole page each time you navigate to a different URL. That is false: if you cache the assets that doesn't change between pages such as stylesheets and images correctly, downloading just the HTML of the page is something trivial. Look at the number of requests that a webpage that uses JS does: is that more efficient?
>ended up diverting to ABQ

Bugs Bunny?