skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I didn't see anything about the Island that seemed to be API-specific to it. Music players will probably get into the Island by just adapting the normal Now Playing APIs that get your media information on the lockscreen, live updates get to the island by adapting the Live Activities API, and so on. Maybe there's some customization that you can do, but I imagine developers don't need to specifically code for it.

And since it's basically baked-in that iPhones will have a front-facing camera, and they don't seem eager to abandon Face ID, I don't see the Island disappearing anytime soon. And even if they get some fancy new tech that allows to hide everything behind the screen without massive compromises, it's still possible for the holepunch design to live on in the non-Pro models and later in the SE models (similar to how Touch ID still exists on the SE).
Other have pointed out what the satellite communicators offer, but one feature that the PLBs exclusively have is a radio beacon which enables you to be found by triangulation. (I carry a PLB, who cares about texting. I just want to get rescued if I break my femur.)
He didn't. He was sentenced to 18 months but never actually served; he was pardoned by Trump before then, and is currently serving as CEO of Pronto, a new autonomous vehicle startup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Levandowski
Every forum/thread comment is so saturated by the F word that I'm not even sure what it means anymore. I would bet that every 10th word on the Internet is the F word.
Or simply pumping water uphill.

The UK is building two of these pump uphill things. Four more and it could sustain a 99% carbon free grid on solar and wind alone.
Me!

I got somewhat blindsided and I needed the service, so I complied. The alternative would be to show up in the cell operator shop and show the employee your ID. I find it even somewhat nice that I was able to register online at all.

It's mandated by Swiss law. Cell service operators must identify their customers by ID. You know, south of Switzerland is Italy and sometimes the honorable crowd is trying to put up bases here or already did. It's also a fight against money laundering.

Re your suggestion to tamper with the video: be careful, it's illegal. You don't know whether the hologram or other features encode the identification number. If you get caught it can get expensive.
Why Adding a New Language to the Stack Was One of My Best Decisions
I think companies don't like these. Businesses prefer when users download their app. They now have some real-estate on the user's phone.

For instant-apps you invest all the effort but they don't remain on the device (and are limited in size to begin with)

Also - it doesn't take long to download apps today (games - now that's a different thing)
Exactly. And, while it's true we're in a different environment than we evolved for, our instincts are obviously still relevant. We still get hungry, crave connection, etc. They're just filtered through different specific objects
Actually, heat conduction is something of a problem here in at least one way.

Some of the energy going to the first wall impinges on the surface of the first wall and becomes heat there (photons from the plasma, direct impact of charged particles from the plasma on the surface). This must be conducted through a vacuum-tight barrier layer before reaching a coolant channel. The ability of this layer to dissipate heat (before stress from differential thermal expansion of the inner hot/outer cold parts cause it to fail) is proportional to its thermal conductivity.

For ITER, the relevant layer of the first wall armor is a CuCrZr alloy. However, this alloy is unsuitable for use in a production DT reactor due to activation. For DEMO, this layer is going to have to be made of RAFM steel, which has an order of magnitude lower thermal conductivity.

This problem MIGHT be solvable with a liquid first wall (flowing liquid lithium), but it's not clear all the penetrations of a fusion reactor can be shielded in that way -- and any that are not will face this issue. And the lithium doesn't solve the neutron wall limit problem unless its very thick.
It's not illogical at all, although I suppose the author could have been more clear in separating the two points they're arguing against:

1) Humans are naturally lazy
2) Human instinct drives us to do things that are bad for us

While connected by an implicit "being lazy is bad" value judgement, these are not the same things.

Stating we are "naturally something" implies that there is an fixed equilibrium point that our behavior naturally converges to.

The second claim about basic instincts is talking about the dynamic processes going on in your body that you are not consciously aware of. It's not saying anything about how those processes work. They can be perfectly valid, important processes that only act in response to contextual information (that is, it is entirely possible for them to not have a "natural, default" behavior).
Anything that depends on converting heat will be more expensive than renewables + storage. So, nukes, howsoever clever, have no place.

Please do not pretend not to have heard of storage. It fools no one, but makes you look foolish.
Came to mention that you don't need a rooted Android to run uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, Enhancer for YouTube, Augmented Steam, Decentraleyes, I Don't Care About Cookies, Violentmonkey, or Darkreader... you just need FF Nightly:

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/10/01/you-can-now-install-any-ad...

Note one thing, if your collection name contains spaces, you need to use the hyphenated version - basically the url segment that is in the collection's url when viewing it in the browser. That's not said in the article and it wasted some time for me.
Ultimately, no method of energy generation is truly renewable, including solar. The Sun will run out of fuel in five billion years, after all, give or take.

However, for all practical intents and purposes, solar energy is renewable. The same holds true for nuclear fusion for at least a couple of hundred years, even considering growing energy consumption.
If that's true than, then your body is mostly solar with a bit of food chain, therefore making your comment above... Also... Solar.....

I need to go hug my wife and children
As someone who tries to avoid Google products more and more, I'm glad they improve Apple Maps. I have zero Google app installed on my iPhone today, but Google Maps is the one I'm the most tempted to use occasionally. I use it in the browser instead but the experience sucks.

On my side I'm kinda excited about live notifications, it looks cool for food deliveries.
That can be how it works, but far from always. Consider Comcast as an example of an inefficient private business that has stuck around for a long time and looks set to continue to do so for some time yet. Conversely, publicly run businesses can be setup to run like private businesses that shutdown if they're not competing. This is especially the case if the public business co-exists with private businesses rather than replacing them.
We have the same situation here in Australia, except the old e-Tax app was Windows-only and was the only reason Linux and Mac users kept a Windows XP VM around to be booted up once a year to file a tax return.

Yet another basic service that the "greatest country in the world" is missing that the rest of civilisation has had longer than iPhones.
When you say everyday non-emergency purposes, do you mean phone calls and full internet access?
Ten years ago, Solaris was still a certified "UNIX" system.
That is a very good take, wow. This piece emphasized what I've been missing from the usual discussion of advertisements: that it's ultimately unethical to influence people is such a way. Especially considering the techniques that marketing employs.

"There is no paid version of Facebook."

There's only paid versions of cable television, and yet it's jam-packed with advertisements, to the absolute detriment of the programming itself. There's never a guarantee to avoid advertisement, since it's working so well in influencing people, and influence is power and money. Advertising is also a race for attention - entities risk their status or even existence, if they are not advertising, because if they voluntarily don't advertise, their competition surely will.

Regulation could help here, but I'm not holding my breath. So what remains is user side blocking, as much as we can.
The self-fulfilling prophecy of React
This might be better application since phone will doing this with help from some hardware sensors.

By the way, if anyone know any video stabilizing software, please let me know. Tracking feature on video editors seem complicated to me.
This is an incredibly naive bordering on "probably just dishonesty masquerading as ignorance" thing to say.

Of course cost goes up fairly linearly with size. More rebar, more pipes, more materials, more diesel in the bulldozer, more man hours, more welding rods, more welds to inspect, more money.

But there are also a ton of one per instance overhead paper pushing costs, especially with something as onerously regulated as nuclear that are a large fraction of overall costs and will be roughly the same whether you're building a 1kw facility or a 1gw facility. All of that has to be amortized over your reactor. So if you build a small reactor each dollar of reactor might have $10 of overhead it needs to amortize. If you build a big one each dollar of reactor might only have another $1 it needs to amortize.

Of course there's a sweet spot before the reactor is so massive the part count grows so high that the MBTF starts getting you. That sweet spot also has a low end below which the fixed regulatory and palm greasing costs are so high that your tiny reactor can never hope to pay them back in it's lifetime.
If I'm interviewing for a job and they ask me to do one of these tests I just say "no thanks". Any company that puts this sort of HR astrology above technical ability is not for me.
Then I'll rephrase my statement: how did he end up convicted in a state with supposedly lax enforcement of trade secret laws?
Basic instincts is an other way of saying that we are "naturally" inclined to do certain things in certain situations.

I understand that reading natural as a "fixed equilibrim" might mean that to you, but for me, and also others it doesn't mean that. So would be good to better explain that in the article.
No, fastmail. How could this be affected by the mail provider?
So where's the problem?
"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace
Building a backbone for a full-stack web app with a single config file
> Especially in Europe, where we no longer have the luxury of plugging the holes left by renewables with gas.

We don't have the luxury to wait on nuclear either. A large part of the current French electricity crisis is "thanks" to the cost and time budget overruns of Flamanville - they had gambled on Flamanville being ready in time to replace the old unreliable clunkers that, surprising nobody, now have massive corrosion issues.

The solution is to massively over-build on renewables - wind and solar most obviously as well as trans-continental ultra-high-voltage links, but also biogas plants that convert the millions of tons of cow dung and other bio waste into gas that can then be used during low availability of renewable electricity. On the other side we also desperately need actually smart grids and consumers that can dynamically act based on the power available in the grid.
And DT fusion neutrons are even worse than fission neutrons, since they are much more energetic (and because only 3% of the energy in a fission reactor is released in neutrons.) The 14 MeV DT neutrons are above the threshold for (n,p) and (n,alpha) reactions, which cause gas to accumulate in reactor materials. The helium produced by (n,alpha) reactions accumulates in tiny bubbles that would reach extreme pressures and rip materials apart.
You can't outcompete the government, but you could outcompete a publicly run business if it was setup as a competitive business with its own separate budget. In that case, the government acts quite like a private businesses investors/shareholders rather than running the business directly. Which seems like a best of both worlds in many cases.
I have a problem where Voice Isolation partially cancels out my voice, especially when background noise is pronounced, and actually makes calling a worse experience for both parties. Whenever I'm on a call outside, with my AirPod Pro's, the person on the other end complains that Voice Isolation cancels out every other word. When I experiment between keeping Voice Isolation on or off, almost everyone I've tried this with prefers it off. It turns out filling in missing words takes more energy than understanding my voice with background noise.

I wish Voice Isolation could be pre-trained on our voices, similar to how Face ID pre-trains on your face. That way, the phone's software can know to recognize your voice and not cancel those out.
UK Border Force also uses a Tekever AR5 UAS over the English Channel to look for people crossing. It could be pretty useful in a SAR-situation though; 20 hour endurance carrying 50KG.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-border-agency-tasked-dron...
Can I get a source on this please? In particular I would be curious about what is the breakdown in the % of female engineers and female management in Meta.
It’s interesting how we get attached to brands. They are just fitting their purpose (generate profit) and we still care about them
A tiny particle can travel through concrete. It could save many lives
The whole "naked while the host came in" comment seemed to be more important than the writer realized
A couple of minutes is expected. Even R and Python packages have to run the build processes for the associated C and Fortran codes, and those take similar time (or more for many packages). However, if a Julia package is precompiling for more than half an hour, that's not expected and I'd like to see a reproducer for this so we can fix it.
It was a website that soon became popular by running Flash games.
The Line was a necessary component of a defense. It just needed more, that was not done.

Without Czech armor, the invasion might have failed. Predicting the Germans would have the full resources of Czechoslovakia would require more prescience than we should demand.
What I don't understand: it seems iOS just passed the mark of 50% market share in the US in the last year, and it's now at 50-something.

Which means that Apple users prefer to have a crippled experience when talking to approx. 50% of their contacts rather than switching to an equivalent app that doesn't signal their belonging to the Apple tribe.

Or, in alternative, this means that those 50% of people almost never talk to the the other 50% of people. Not sure which is worse.
The community has been fantastic for translating Outline too, we've dealt with some small bits of abuse and misunderstandings but the result is currently 21 languages supported, most with over 80% of the application covered. It's taken about 2 years to get this far…

https://github.com/outline/outline/tree/main/shared/i18n/loc...
"Release Early, Release Often"

-- Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 1997

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral...

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_early,_release_often
I encourage readers to skip that interview. It's like you're saying we should learn about how the immune system works from an interview with an anti-vaxxer.

Ammous is (to put it mildly) an ultra-contrarian on a variety of subjects -- central banking, money, and even climate change -- that he has no actual scientific training in.

He claims Bitcoin should replace central banking and that Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation. He doesn't bother to counter the argument that these are opposing goals: a useful currency can't be deflationary.

He was also proven wrong about the whole "Bitcoin is a hedge against inflation" thing when it crashed along with every other speculative asset in the last few months.
Aren't we all, to an extent?

Otherwise you and I wouldn't be posting our thoughts/opinions here for all to read.
Huge congratulations, Troy.
No, it’s not trivial and it does require thinking about your grammar before you decide to lock down your language design. A lot of languages have some pretty obvious synchronization points though, like semicolons and curly braces. If all else fails you can always read up to the next semicolon or curly brace and dump whatever you get into a syntax error node, then keep going. This is especially true if you are implementing an LSP server and so you expect to regularly see incomplete lines simply because the user hasn’t finished typing them in yet.

Ultimately what you really want is many different kinds of specialized error (and warning) nodes for different mistakes users might make. For example, in C++ the statement `auto x = 1,000,000;` is technically correct but probably not in the way the user wanted. So you put a warning node there to record that they might want to use `1'000'000` instead. If you see something like `auto x = 42\n if (y) {…`, then you might guess that there is a missing semicolon before the newline. If a speculative parse of the next line succeeds, then you put a MissingSemicolon node into the AST (instead of one saying that the “if” was unexpected), followed by whatever the speculative parse found.

Now repeat that process for five years as you polish your compiler into a sparking user–friendly gem.
Introducing Svelte, and Comparing Svelte with React and Vue (2021)
Its worse, especially on Android.
So let’s say I fly out of a busy airport - I do I fly out of Atlanta the worlds busiest airport - you are really going to say that it’s more convenient to find your flight among all the ones that are landing than just looking at your phone?

But even then, you first need to know whether your bag is at Terminal South or Terminal North first.
My interpretation of "fixed equilibrium" comes from the context of the "naturally lazy" claim, which is alleged to be touted as a universal truth by the gurus. A claim of an external, universal truth is that applies to all instincts. So then I take "not naturally anything" to mean "humans are extremely variable and contextual".

I have to admit that my interpretation is biased by reading some post-phenomenological philosophy as part of my design master - I remember one paper that claimed that there is no "natural" endpoint because humans are always reacting to a dynamic context, one that is then changing in response to human interaction, meaning we're more like a chaotic pendulum swinging back and forth over ever-changing equilibrium points.

And yeah, I do agree that the article is a bit ambiguous here and could be clearer.
Sure, as long as you skip storage. Batteries are really expensive if you're using enough to get through windless nights instead of just compensate the duck curve. Long-distance transmission is expensive too, and to get through winter you need either huge storage or lots of overcapacity. It all adds up.

At this point someone usually says "we don't need batteries for long-term storage, we can just make hydrogen and burn it later" but then oops, you're back to using a turbine.
Ok I didn't realize it worked that badly sometimes :( For me it has always sent them within a couple of minutes.

I had a GEO satphone myself (Thuraya which is really cheap for airtime in Europe) before but as I hike through the mountains it's very hard to get a line of sight. So I didn't deem it useful enough for emergency.

Maybe I'll get a PLB too then, I'll think about it.
Maybe don't use it for huge chunks > 10 lines? The point of copilot to me is avg typing speed is 40wpm and read is 250wpm. A 5.25x speedup considering even after I type code I still read it over. There will be errors in copilots code sometimes so even if you said its only 50% accurate thats still a 2.5x speedup on the boilerplate it's used for.
I'm probably very progressive by American standards. I think the state should exist to protect citizens from the worst of the slings and arrows. That's the purpose of the state.

Society should provide a basic level of health insurance, including disability allowance. (America's example suggests that this cannot be done privately, because insurers can bully citizens with size asymmetry.)

I don't think that disability allowance should cover the property tax for a massive ranch, but it should allow a moderate lifestyle. If you pile all your wealth into lots of real estate and become disabled, you may then have a hard choice: rent out some property, or downsize. But I don't think that's too bad. I'm not arguing for guaranteed luxury.

An average middle-class worker owning an average house who becomes disabled should not have to downsize; the allowance should cover property tax and running costs.

And yes, I'd fund this benefit from wealth taxes such as property tax.

Stepping back to address your main point, porqué no los dos?

Tax property, but cover it for poor citizens with negative income tax.

Professional landlords should profit from the value of maintenance they perform but, let's be real, what they mainly do is arbitrage rent against their credit rating on secured assets. That margin ought to be narrow; fuck 'em.

It's an undesired effect to subsidise scroungers, but the lesser of the evils compared to rent-seeking. On one hand, scroungers are poor, on the other, they're wealthy.
Best Practices of Civil-Military Relations
If you click through to the detailed reviews you can see both parts. But on some screens they show just the positive part.
Center on Extremism - ADL https://www.adl.org/research-centers/center-on-extremism

Oath Keepers - Distributed Denial of Secrets https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Oath_Keepers
Their point is that even if the debt went away you can technically prescribe a very small amount of value to the actual object that has been produced to represent that debt (what we call the "paper" note). Although that intrinsic value would arguably be lower than the cost to produce it in the case of the debt actually ceasing to be valid, but for that to happen society would have bigger problems than worrying about the material value of old bank notes.
Could you recommend a PLB model? Like the other poster I didn't realize InReach can take hours sometimes. When I've tested it, it was always fast (not immediate but a couple minutes max)
I am glad that I am not the only one thinking about the long term for links.

As someone who grew up with the early 2000s internet link rot, and the dead internet definitely scare me.
I remember sharing cool blogs and sites with friends that are now almost all gone.
The wayback machine is cool, but not the same.
No, as I explained in the post, this only happens when I try to TTS entire text pages. If I split sentence by sentence it is OK, but then the speech doesn't flow as well.
By the way, I always wondered why not just take a lisp, put every single thing (even an operator) on a separate line and indent every level of parentheses with a space or two (4 spaces is too much - deep nesting would go too much to the right). So there would be no need for the parentheses in most cases.
I wonder when Troy will start caring about being carbon neutral, especially when he's in a financial position to be so.
Sustained p-11B fusion might not be possible: the gamma photons carry away too much energy, and nothing can reflect them back.

But if it could be made to work, it would be a better prospect than D-T.
My life got quite a lot better when I went back to an old school Nokia