skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're dead on. Metals are sold by how fine they are, so .999%, .9995% (should end in a 7 numeral not a 5, whole industry is fucking up right there, but at any rate) .9999%, more nines more purity better experimental results. When they talk about 4 nines or 5 nines the actual measurement is of the
f(x)= - log(1 - x). That is the purity. Negative of the log of the complement. And that's why 4.5 nines should be .99997% not fucking .99995%, so stupid (it's almost exactly .99997%). Mining engineers, come on! Such impressive degrees! PhD's all over the place! Professors even! I'm sorry, don't mind me with my math.

Some experiments like with liquid crystals early on required purities that what chemical company was it, Merck I think, around the year 1900, complained like they felt insulted. Told the inventor of liquid crystals because it was an absurd amount of purity required to get them actually working. But look at them go! Right in front of your very eyes!
This place started to think in memes I feel. Every issue comes with the automated arguments, the same ones every time. If the topic is energy someone must write the "they shouldn't have closed those Nuclear power plants, silly environmentalist".

Anyway, France is full blown nuclear state and they are having energy issues too, because as it turns out nuclear power plants require long regular maintenance periods.

Maybe there's no simple answer for energy issues and countries don't simply build or close down power plants over single issue? Maybe it wasn't done just to please some tree huggers?

Maybe someone in Germany could have had crunched the numbers too and see the risks? Maybe some politicians were too close to fossil fuel money? Maybe it was considered as a way to keep the relationship with Russia profitable for Russia and encourage Russia to build good relationships with their primary customer? Maybe EU wanted to have Russia as a reliable petrostate as an alternative to the USA so they can do their thing without USA? Maybe they wanted to reduce their footing in Africa by not relying for them in Uranium production? Maybe it make more economical sense to use the non-nuclear solutions?

Just maybe it wasn't a single issue decision even if it didn't play out as hoped? Europe is acutely aware of its tight energy situation, that's why they have been regulating the efficiency since decades, it's not coincidence that in Europe everything is very energy efficient. They squeezed it to the point where faster water heaters and more powerful vacuums were presented as Brexit benefits.

Oh, I'm so fed up by this culture war.
Used Nvidia Shield TV since the first gen until the ads started getting really bad and taking up most of the screenspace. That was a very quick way to convert me to an AppleTV user. I know you can replace the launcher on the Shield TV/AndroidTV, but the process is non-trivial and I didn't feel like dealing with it. In my experience, when you have to hack things to make it work, it presents problems later on.
Also, it's not quite true. GitHub offers free private repos for individuals now: https://github.com/pricing
I wonder if these social media brands will persist for another decade as they grow up, if they do not fill an essential role in their lives.

Linkedin for work vs. Facebook and all others for recreation.
Online substitutes for real life is hard to justify, Meta is trying.
As a complement to the adjacent comment thread on Shoegaze music, I find a similarly dense, soothing, blanketing effect from some recent noise/drone music genres (especially on good headphones, or out loud with a subwoofer), for example:

The pulsing deep noise of Tim Hecker's Piano Drop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlfwZDR_1Hg

The gradual crescendo to a wall of noise in Abul Mogard's Like Water:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4taaOwvzDMY

Conflicting tension + blanket of sound in Siavash Amini's The Wind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Fut9yEYgQ

NB: All of the above have a significant low frequency component that may be missed on desktop speakers or low quality headphones...
Love the irony that while the product is trying to "Make cron jobs a thing of the past", it probably runs with one polling the scheduled messages every second to send them JIT
Intentional superlative, DTAG is the worst, it doesn't say the others are good. It just says they are less bad.
It looks to me like a bad architected solution...

If you have a background job to update data, there is no need to do any TTL.
If we're speaking about currency exchange, you might prefer to store a transactional history of exchanges, together with the current one, and populate a fast read model too (Redis) with a failover against the oltp version...

Maybe it's just me.
So instead of just removing the root cause of the problem, you'd rather leave the problem in place and then maintain a permanent workaround that has to run someplace else?
That would be more of a Downwash.dev
This also means an attacker can be running around with a compromised token for up to a half hour before they're stopped.
> the deep learning tech which will never quite get there

Never say never, we've come a long way since GPT-2! All this was unthinkable back then
Thanks! I imagine one could use something like ZBrush's dynamesh to create a usable mesh from the output. Shame the library doesn't provide it by default, though.
> If N players use the same strategy then by symmetry each of them must win on average 1 time in N.

The point here is that there's an option of tying, if all players choose the same number. So P_1_win + P_2_win + P_3_win + P_tie = 1, means P_i_win < 1/3.

> Also, if all players use the same strategy then it doesn't matter what the strategy actually is. The only requirement is that it have some probabilistic element, otherwise all players would choose the same number every time.

A player choose its next move using some probabilities P, ie: it's going to choose randomly number 1 the 45% of times, 2 the 25% of times, etc. So there's a random element in the game, which makes players following the same strategy to not choose the same numbers every time.
It's a very common mistake so there is lots of help for it: You search "disable directory listing" for whatever webserver you use. I mostly use apache:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apache+disable+directory+listing+h...
This headline is awful. There's nothing specific to "mobile networks" in this news at all. They're saying that there's a potential energy crisis and that it might impact phones.

...which is also just plain ridiculous! Phone service is a critical piece of infrastructure and in almost all markets subject to special treatment and provided with redundant power mechanisms.

Lots of things may break this winter. Phones won't be one of them.
That's what I've been planning to do too.

Ironically, I moved back to Europe from Mexico, since the life here is much easier and I had more opportunities here as a Junior Dev (still am a junior).

That being said, I miss the locals & the way of living there very much.
Solving the Dating Problem with the Senpai Protocol [pdf]
Node API will be supported sometime soon https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/13633
The story falls on the category of "it won't happen until it happens". Testing is expensive and even with all the testing in advance we observe emergent behaviors that make us run to the reams of logs to ask the very simple question: "What happened?" My take away: If you have to fail, because you will, fail graciously. Good post.
A university library would be the last place I'd expect to see people reading books.

Try a non-university library, an airport, a beach, a coffee shop, poolside, or any number of other places, but university libraries are for studying and doing homework, not usually reading books.
It certainly highlights the vulnerability of undersea pipelines to sabotage. If Russia had written off a restart of NS(1/2) this move further destabilizes the large EU economies, introduces fear and uncertainty into the political theater and sows discord between allies.

Any of the highly sophisticated players could have rendered the pipeline useless without this explicit show of force. A simple reversing of the cathodic protection undersea would permanently degrade kilometers of pipeline. There are dozens of proposed scenarios that would permanently damage both pipelines while maintaining at least the semblance of reasonable doubt.

So the "critical thinking exercise" is not just who gains from the NS destruction, but who gains from this flashy, public show of force.

At this point the "China Theory" that this forces Russia over the barrel on pricing is as good as any.

(Disclaimer - I think Russia totally did it, but no one here knows).
Looks like the LGBTQ community has a racism problem.

Humans naturally have preferences though, nobody is owed sex.
Dollar for dollar, I'll take the circle.
Hello world performance: Bun (express) vs. Python (fast API)
In addition to what Jose posted above, we also want to encourage users to use the existing functionality as a trigger for setting up recurring handlers.

For example, if you receive an event to your webhook and you want that webhook to fire again at the same time tomorrow, make a new call to Jiter and create a new event when you receive the first event and you can chain them together. Hopefully by end of day today we'll be able to include the original scheduledTime in the webhook body so you can use that as the base for the new event (e.g., createNewEvent(body.scheduledTime + twentyFourHours)

And as Jose said, we definitely plan to make recurring events possible in the immediate future too!

Thanks for the feedback/interest!!!
Fully agree at 100%, this is exactly what we did at Lago, use Material UI as a library, customised the CSS to make Lago-branding friendly. In that case we're not reinventing the wheel, we're using it and it helped us to go faster. I think it's just a matter of definition and our System is way far from ones you can see at Adobe, Shopify etc.

Goal is to go fast and having this base, this language between Front and Design is important to have sooner than later.
Or... comply with the LGPL with regard to dynamic linking and the other LGPL requirements and don't use any GPL'd components.
> 99% of the difficulties of a web design is in supporting all possibile client screen sizes / ratios.

For a web designer.

For a normal person, 99% of the difficulties of web design is that they need to get a PhD in HTML, CSS, & JavaScript, in order to make some text and images show up. PowerPoint/Publisher are usable by anyone. The Web today is basically an employment scheme.

> I'm not aware of any GUI for creating responsive content

If all you want is to show someone some text and pictures, that should be (is, actually) incredibly simple.

If you want to show someone "responsive content", that is a different use case. It's a custom program at that point. So just ship them a custom program. It used to be common, trivial actually, to mock up a program in a visual IDE and send it to someone. The program would be small and fast and networked. We used a thing called Visual Basic, and nearly anyone with the most basic programming skills could use it. Worked great.

Today we do the same thing, only they are called "mobile apps" and are written in Java for a dedicated mobile operating system. Just like years ago, these are proprietary platforms run by quasi-monopolies, so you have to make your program multiple times to send it to everyone. But we could improve on that.
I said it once many years ago and I still say it: "ORMs are for people who don't know SQL"

However, I understand the problem it tries to solve: Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch. I only wish there were other idioms, not the convolution of classes and mappers.
I would tell you a UDP joke but you probably won't get it.
Increasing the money supply causes inflation. Rich people don't just put their money under their mattress. They invest it which means it's being given to other people who use it to buy things.
For now, we offer the persist feature. We allow you to store and load structs that can be serializable with serde.

Redis is a highly sought feature which we'll be aiming to implement in the near future! :)
Yes, exactly, imagine how much harder it'd be to see all that awesome stuff in one place otherwise.
ts-node is great. Proper ESM support landed over the summer. All my new projects at work are module type now.

I use ts-node with the optional SWC compiler which works great with pretty darn fast startup times. SWC can handle TypeScript experimental decorators including emitting metadata, so not losing out on anything with it ATM.
Hate to sound hypercritical, but this article reads like disrespectful clickbait. Don't get me wrong, it has some very insightful thoughts, but poorly and deceptively framed.

It starts by telling me that (non-fiction) books are something that I never thought they were in the first place -- a means to linearly and completely copy information from its author, to the page, to my brain, in one pass. (Does anybody actually think this of books? I think not, myself.)

It then proceeds to tell me why it's bad at doing that, then gives examples for how lectures are also bad at it, but how lectures combined with textbooks, office hours and better structure can be turned into something much better (all suggesting we're leading towards "how to fix books") only to conclude that books are just fine as long as we don't think of them the way that I never thought of them to begin with.

Books are not one thing. Even non-fiction are not one thing. Some books on, say, mathematics or software engineering or even a specific programming language, are written to imbue the author's personality or inject humor, others are intended as a reference, and some freely mix a range of voices throughout.

This is how books are, have been, and SHOULD continue to be. Few people pick up a reference book with the expectation that they will read it front-to-back and become an expert in one pass - that isn't its purpose. Similarly, few will pick up a "beginner's guide" book and leave as an expert, but they WILL likely pick up the "beginner's guide" and "reference" books together and be able to use them in conjunction, over time, to learn a topic. Books are searchable and readable non-linearly, and repeatedly, in accordance with the learner's own needs, pacing, and supplementary methods (as the author describes).

This is how books work, and they DO work. That a learner needs to find a set of habits across multiple mediums to learn is how learning works, and is not a repudiation against books anymore than it is a repudiation against pencils or pens or paper.

Hidden within this article are really great, thought-provoking ideas around learning and how best to do it, but needlessly sacrifices books to do it. This IS a great "how to make learning better" article, that should have been approached as such by its author.
Building Auth As A Service and The end of Terraform as a golden hammer [audio]
Yes, nuclear is always going to be more expensive than systems that (as of now) exist only in the imagination of their proponents.

Unless another has come online since the last time I looked, there is only one (1) grid-scale solar installation in the entire world, and it was built with massive government funding.
NASAMS is a "disruptive technology" compared to other anti-air systems such as Patriot and the S-300/S-400.

Patriot and S-300 both use "track with missile" guidance that requires close integration between the missile seeker and the radar system. This is ideal for ballistic missile defense where the target is high in the air, but less effective for cruise missile defense where the interception happens close to the ground which interferes with radar and communication signals.

NASAMS, on the other hand, puts the entire tracking mechanism on the missile. The launcher feeds GPS coordinates to the missile to get it close enough to the target that the missile can guide itself there. Instead of requiring a constant target lock that makes the missile's radar system vulnerable, NASAMS can observe the target sporadically and feed coordinates occasionally, which makes NASAMS hard to observe and destroy. Since the missile can find the target autonomously, the radar and launcher could be moved away while the intercept is still in progress.

The S-300/400 missile system has much larger, faster, and longer-ranged missiles, which makes it better against high performance aircraft and ballistic missiles but its high cost magnifies its vulnerability to attack. S-300/400 is so expensive that you can be bankrupted by your enemy destroying them.

Although NASAMS performs less well on paper, in practice putting both the radar transmitter and receiver on the missile makes it highly accurate and able to shoot down targets while expending fewer missiles... Which in turn makes it more cost-effective and competitive against alternatives.
A simpler alternative: Don't worry about the colors. Just provide text and links, and let the user's preferences handle color and style. If the user did not configure their own preferences, browser defaults tend to be readable and accessible.
Some of my favourite recent bits in Clojure:

https://www.hyperfiddle.net/

https://pathom3.wsscode.com/

https://github.com/HealthSamurai/matcho

Just got my second job in Clojure nearly getting on for double my before Clojure salary
It's like C. The language is fine, it just allows you to do bad things too easily. The same is true with JWTs. The idea is fine, but allows you to do bad things too easily.

The no signature bit was a huge flaw in almost all JWT libraries across languages a few years ago.

There are better schemes out there.
It’s worse than you think. Germany blocked or was against a large number of alternative pipelines and was preparing to actively block nuclear at an eu level.
Inc Magazine website temporarily shut down by Fast Company Breach
Depending on the goals of the page I would say its not up to the developer either. Developer/designer/pm whoever should ask the user: is this part of the page/content meaningful to you to load first?

Unless you have something specific you want to communicate and then its up to you to decide whatever you find meaningful to show first.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to search for art?
I'm trying to find a piece of art to hang on the wall and I imagine there is quite a lot of art out there that fits the query. Specifically, I'm looking for a painting or design in modern style that has a lot of white with some yellow accents and includes a feminine figure, something like this [0]. But it has been tremendously difficult to find anything coming close to this description. What do you use to search for art?

[0] https://www.etsy.com/listing/1281456175/woman-in-yellow-hat-canvas-wall-art
Microsoft will end support for its SwiftKey iOS keyboard on October 5th
This is for oems to embed in their infotainment/ tcu so that they can expose their vehicle data to end users?
This tech will definitely revolutionize stock footage. Generating a post-modern cyber-ghost glitchcore horse drinking water is definitely way more exciting than just using some boring old video of some stupid real horse drinking water
Fascinatingly, I had thought the same as you, but it seems at least some submarine cables can be upgraded after installation, e.g. EIG [1] and AJC [2]. No idea what they do with the repeaters though, the distances involved in these cables are definitely higher than the 100km spacing repeaters have [3]. Maybe someone can chime in with direct experience?

[1] https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/asia-europe-afr...

[2] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3485615/capacity-upgra...

[3] https://www.networkworld.com/article/2235353/the-incredible-...
FHE only reveals information to the person who has the keys for it, not to arbitrary people in the middle. So if you had access to the keys for the input data, then you have access to the keys for the output data.
Margaret Thatcher would probably say nobody is owed anything.
Hey, we're trying to make them a thing of the past for *YOU* XD

Hopefully you won't ever have to write them again because we're falling on the sword for you.
This is another great exemple of the YT algorithm making the experience of watching videos inferior in the name of profit and attention grabbing by the way.

The reason YT doesn’t want show to wind down is because it provides people with a nice and natural place to stop watching which is nice. The race towards shorter, easier, more catchy and relentless content is a race to the bottom making everyone dumber.

Watching TikTok for an hour is probably the most depressing experience I ever had when it comes to my general opinion of humanity. Yet I’m here commenting and I’m not convinced that it is a better use of my time than TikTok. Sometimes I wonder if what the internet has actually done to us was worth it.
I honestly thank you for the kind advice, but if I wrote in a simpler manner I would not be expressing the original idea - and the purpose was to express "that idea (those ideas)". I surely take uttermost clarity in high regard, but limited to specific cases: when you have to give indications, and be as sure as possible that the other parts do not misunderstand it. There will be little "philosophy" in "sniper on the tower right there". But that does not cover communication such as the one relevant here, which can involve large amounts of interpretation.

I may be not using "English in use" (that is honestly really very far from my aim), but the effort is towards a """certain""" English. I am sorry if you may find it unclear. (Also, it can happen that sometimes I "cut corners" on the time required for proper expression.)

> translator [...] You seem articulate in whatever your native language is

No. I absolutely am not expressing myself according to any native language. Even in my native language it happened quite normally that, for example, professors at school said "ok, let me concentrate intensely now" before starting discussions and exams. I can tell you that I was said to have the highest talent for writing - but unfortunately for this public, here we exchange information and ideas instead of "poetry". :) This is not a translation of anything, just the transposition of elaborated thoughts (of thoughts as they are developed).

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Edit: I also believe that "Now drop and give me twenty" will return us fitter personnel than "Please, be fed from a straw" - about the Newspeak I mentioned. That is not to be over-used and certainly not abused - just used proportionally to the intended message.
Unless this was a tiny school that only has one or two people in the front office, there is zero excuse to leave the phones unmanned.
Deveondi - Top Hip Hop Music
Why are evtols safer than helicopters for bystanders? They both have the spinny blady things.

Re noise, most of the sound comes from the rotors rather than the engine. It's not obvious to me that an evtol craft could significantly improve this.

There seems to be an assumption that evtol == multiple ducted fans. This isn't necessarily the case. And electric helicopter would be evtol. Any specific design is going to have different tradeoffs. Eg more motors to fail.
I see it diferently, when I want to enjoy the work of Qt devs as free beer, my work is also free beer.

When I want to get paid for stuff I develop with the work of Qt devs, then like in other profession, I pay the creators of tools I get money to put bread on the table.

They also need to buy bread, so it is only fair we share the same conditions.
What's with hacker news and having negative reactions to 100% of everything Meta does?

I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.