skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wrong. It's completely infeasible. Coupling with desalination plants will require you desal the equivalent of small seas every year for you to generate enough lithium. It is simply not happening. Hydrogen actually is inexhaustible without deluding yourself into fantasies.

> Certainly not. Fuel cells could certainly become practical for transportation, but HYDROGEN is not, with or without use in a fuel cell, and that's true for the several reasons I've already very clearly outlined.

That's completely gibberish, and you are utterly contradicting yourself. If you believe "batteries" are future because of efficiency, then you are also admitting that hydrogen fuel cells are just as efficient.

Honestly, given the obvious lie that you swallowed (lithium can be extracted from seawater), it's time reassess your "knowledge." You clearly do not understand the problem(s) at all.
I see it as a list of helpful reminders. It's hard to do everything on this list perfectly, for example I'd give myself a B average.
I have been using FIrefox as my main browser on Mac for a couple of months now (again) and it really does feel like they've done a lot of performance enhancing under the hood.

It's really the only browser left that let's you do deep customization. With the right settings (not that many) you can basically strip it of all bloat. And of course it will be the last (big) browser with full Ubo support when Google introduces Manifest 3 (Ubo was also the reason I switched from Safari to Firefox).
For me, it is more about just the low-effort "ports" like this (e.g. where they just render it there).

However, I enjoy seeing more creative and actually novel ways of "DOOM running on xyz". One such example would be DOOM actually implemented in Excel. Back when it came out, it was genuinely cool and novel. This is the type of stuff that I would not mind seeing more of at all.
Yup. That's not right.

BTW, the reacting to just the title: it sounds tautological. Whatever they mean by "mind set", it almost has to be part of the brain, isn't it? It's like "how this gear reacts depends on its cogs". Duh.
You can remove NOx via catalytic converters.
Maybe for a base station that's just sitting on the ground. But to actually be useful, wouldn't it need an antenna mast that's taller than the surrounding trees?
I live in Wa state. While we don't have specifically rent control, there are all kinds of other regulatory interferences with landlords. For example, one is that the tenant is not responsible for damage to the rental from domestic violence, the landlord is. Seattle will provide free lawyers to tenants who want to sue their landlords. Seattle made a lot of extensions to the rent moratoriums. There are requirements that someone building a new apt building must also build some "affordable housing" units.

All these things do is force rents higher.

https://www.seattle.gov/housing/renters/know-the-law#renters...
https://newatlas.com/energy/us-navy-beams-1-6-kw-power-kilom... ;)
You are already powerful enough! Some of our most active developers today didn't even know C++ when they started. If you're interested, look for something small that annoys you, and then see if you can't figure out enough of the code to fix it. :^)
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

What most people want isn't the most important piece of information for innovators and leaders. You have to know it so that you don't get so far away from what they want that they don't gang up and destroy you, but the reality is, most people don't have very big thoughts about the present or the future.

Most people don't value decentralization because they live small lives focused on their individual problems. Nothing wrong with that, but somebody has to think about the larger problems of civilization resiliency and improvement. It's these people who think big who pull all of us forward towards a hopefully better future.
How do you know my ancestors weren't forced into slavery? How do you know they weren't crammed in 2 families to a room in a cellar with sewage flowing through it? How do you know they werent sent up chimneys when they were kids?

If you want to have a discussion based on discrimination in the here and now that's one thing, dredging up century plus old things to complain about doesn't get anyone anywhere. In fact it weakens your argument because it suggests that the only discrimination is past discrimination, and we now live in an enlightened world where there is no discrimination.

Further. You're veering very far from the question posed, and inserting a lot of assumptions you have no basis for making.
I agree, but developers aren't Apple's customers. They are Apple's business partners, and Apple has a long history of screwing over their business partners.
The tricky thing about calling something a Tower of Babel is that it’s one thing to build the first one, it’s quite something else to build a second knowing about the first. This linear city idea is worse than the planned city they built in, Brazil? That was more 2 dimensional at least.

So this one goes up instead of out, but you’ll notice for instance the gap for the stadium. Stadiums are a bottleneck in regular cities. All traffic in the whole city has to drive past the stadium if they want to get somewhere on the other side, and with the gaps it’s a double choke point.

The Architect’s Sketch, Monty Python:

“Are you proposing to slaughter our tenants?” “… does that not fit in with your plan?” “[…] no it’s just that we wanted a block of flats, and not an abattoir” “Yes, well of course, that’s just the sort of blinkered, philistine pig-ignorance I’ve come to expect from you lot of non-creative garbage.”

The other candidate’s scale model breaks twice, and catches fire and then explodes. They decide that thin, sedentary tenants should avoid those problems.
For a few years, DevEdition had multiple content processes enabled (codename "electrolysis", aka e10s), while it was still off in release builds. That made a huge, huge difference to responsiveness and resilience.
Why shouldn't you take advantage of the system?

It's not like you're scamming the system...
Because I don't want my judgement to be tainted by fancy graphics and design.
I have the VPN problem too. For me, it's a proxy thing. My company puts an HTTP proxy in-place inside of their VPN, and Firefox picks up the settings from MacOS.

When I disconnect from VPN, Firefox still has the VPN's proxy settings. I have to restart it to refresh Firefox's cached proxy settings. So that means I effectively have to restart Firefox any time I change between VPN and non-VPN.

If that's your problem too, then I don't have a fix for it. I'd love to hear if anybody else does though.
Good call. Germany is really stubborn in its intent to shut down its nuclear power stations by the end of this year. This would be a great loss of baseload power, which would not just affect Germany but also its neighbours. Sign the petition and share it! I did already. Here is a complete walk-through: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gTWT7RY1tTjgBI2in5bG4cdRTme...
It has been possible since WWII, only not from tens of miles:

"During the early months of the Battle of the Atlantic in World War II, British ships using the radar set Model 271 were able to detect the periscope of a submerged submarine at a distance of 800 m (0.50 mi) during tests in 1940."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_snorkel
Sounds like you should be working in this field?
> 1. The crypto mantra "not your keys, not your coins" rings true.

The alternative being you hold your keys.

This is another area where I swear it's almost as though the entire crypto space is run by aliens or a poorly trained AI.

Interview 100 people and ask them two questions:

1) Have you ever had to reverse or dispute an electronic (credit card) transaction?

2) Have you ever forgotten a password?

The answer for 100 or 100 million people to both of these questions is "YES". 100% of them. Yet the main foundational principles of crypto operate directly against both of these universal human truths.

It's utterly bizarre.
maybe e-residents join the e-military
Thanks, this is super helpful. I do have to agree with the spamminess of the Pocket-sponsored ads on new tabs. Last time I used FF I didn't mind the Pocket stories section, but when I opened up today it was half-full of credit card offers and other undeniable spam (unlike sponsored news stories that I remember from before).

I get that they're trying to free themselves from utter dependence on Google search revenue, but boy is this a spammy alternative... I used to leave the Pocket stories on, but now I will definitely be disabling them.
>Pointing out discrimination is not discrimination

Was I being discriminitory? Or are you referring to someone else?
No disagreement here. Last time I was house shopping, realtors holding open houses wouldn’t include school ranking information in written material but would proactively announce it to everyone who walked through the door. (Black and multiracial couples attending the same open houses were given the same spiel, or at least they were when I was still in earshot.) I asked a realtor friend about it and was told it was due to a fear of FHA complaints, even though the info was not selectively communicated.
My favorite story from "Empire of the Summer Moon" involved a trick the Apache played, when they moved near to a Spanish mission and said they wanted to become Christians under the Spanish monarchy. The Spanish military was suspicious, but the priests were excited, having had little success in missionary work up to that point. They built a settlement for the Apache, gave them gifts, and preached the Holy Word. Imagine their surprise when they woke up to find the Apache all gone.

...because they knew, as the Spanish didn't, that the new settlement was on Comanche land. By moving in, the Apache knew they were brewing a conflict between the Spanish and the Comanche. It turned out that the Comanche slaughtered all the Spanish, but if it had turned out the other way, since the Apache were frequently at war with the Comanche, that would have been a win for them also.

Which is a lesson in two things:
1) borders are important
2) borders change a lot

For example, around the time of the War of 1812 the Kickapoo were in southern Illinois, near where I grew up. This map shows them in Oklahoma, where they no doubt were/are at different times. The map should have a slider bar, for the year.

Actually, every map of Europe should have a slider bar for the year, also.
What innovation do you have to make a moderator's job easier?

I ask because I believe this is the hardest part of a forum software; The one thing that make or break a community is whether there is timely and fair moderation so contents are fresh and relevant.
Valve is earning some kudos with the glorious Steamdeck, Google just announced the EOL of it's streaming service. So Microsoft just did the math, I guess?
I've noticed an interesting paradox...

If you get up early, before you are well rested, your body will shake it off and make it's way through the day. And that evening you will sleep harder.

(I'm not saying get three hours sleep and be unproductive all day)

Meanwhile if you sleep until you feel seriously well rested, you might not sleep as well that night, and the next day might not be as good.

A perfect amount of tired is what you need to balance.
>Yet Ukrainian military surely took it time to escalate the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk in February, as seen from OSCE reports.

Obviously russians did it to create false sense of urgency in russian media.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
> In theory, electric vehicles could help stabilize the California grid, if we could charge them at times of peak solar production

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

I read it as "EV's are storage that can feed energy back to the grid". The problem with this is that it assumes you charge your car and use it as a battery, rather than drive it. I don't think that's realistic at all. In addition to that, they still have to be charged. Which means we need additional power, over and above current demands, in order to do so. The energy has to come from somewhere, and we don't currently have it.

Also, the idea of charging at peak solar is a fallacy. This is what solar production looks like during an ideal and non-ideal day (source: My own 13 kW array):

https://i.imgur.com/aNnbmDp.png

https://i.imgur.com/pB1WgQ0.png

The peak lasts minutes, if not seconds. Peak solar, in this context, is pretty much useless. What you need is steady power delivery over a period of many hours (for slow to mid charge rates).

What a lot of people tend to ignore is that the current grid and power generation capacity is pretty much built to supply current needs. A large EV installed base expansion requires an equally large expansion of power systems at all levels. Solar isn't the solution. It's part of it, of course, just not the solution. The same is the case for wind. We need nuclear. Lots of it.
Can anyone recommend a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor?
Is your name IRL Reese?
I built a career working as a sole programmer in a small operation. Such jobs do require a lot more domain knowledge (as opposed to programming knowledge) as the article pointed out. I'm retired now, but would like to get back into it some. How in the world do you find such jobs though?
And here I was, thinking they just replaced the U2 album with the works of Antonin Dvorak.
I think one thing that's being skirted past by the author with regards to allowing freecam movement is that freecam is the #1 way to cause motion sickness in VR. The purpose of the realism isn't _just_ to keep the user engaged/sell units/have a good experience, it's also because alignment between "what you see" and "what you're doing" is a critical part of the inner-ear feedback loop. There's a reason that so much effort goes into comfort reticles, motor controls, etc: That if you do it wrong your users puke.
Love the HN-like design. How do you handle big threads and many nested replies?
Unlimited PTO is never unlimited... It's always tracked and limited.

As for sick days, a sane company should have insurance for those cases (to cover for people being sick).
I wonder if it's because there's a wealth of tech savvy engineering talent remote in Ukraine and perhaps hiring them to a ukrainian e-org is easier than remotely crossing national borders and taxes?
> Funnily enough

This is not the gotcha you think it is.
You aren't covering losses, you're failing to tax gains that didn't materialize. If I fail to get a job, you don't tax me for the income from a job I might have had. This is true even if my reason for not getting the job is really stupid.
Is Privacy Badger still needed in 2022? My impression was that uBlock Origin updates filters often enough, and so Badger's heuristics don't give it an advantage anymore.
> what they do and why they are necessary should be explained to the user.

i.e. you need to add a popup or a banner
To keep the analogy fair, people would need to regularly get botulism from eating their bunker rations (or some other consequence on par with getting permanently locked out of a crypto wallet).
Or you can link sitting down and starting work with drinking coffee. This is pretty common.

Still not 100% sold though.
This is great, I popped in a song title from a band I like and found a playlist with some tracks that sound really good!
Everyone reached the conclusion that higher growth potential exist in transaction fees than technologies and controlled accesses.
Doesn't this apply to any profession? Do we really need to say things like "Software engineers shall be fair"?
Now do CBDCs.
Enjoying humming the tune to make it hit haha
Neither. I think he’s looking for someone with a spare room in NYC where they can both come and go as they please.

So on any given day there are four possibilities both in NYC, both in SF, OP in NYC && roommate in SF, and roommate in SF && OP in NYC

It’s a pretty interesting concept, not one I’ve considered before, but one I imagine there would be interest in.
> Do you remember what software you were running?

Not at all! I was the PC tech and I remember feeding a lot of diskettes into Windows 3.1 machines to load Word Perfect and other office tools of the time.
Thank you for Meilisearch. I've been using it for https://www.comparedial.com/ (phone contract comparison website) for over a year with great results. Well done on the funding.
I have been reading HN for 15 years. Only site that's worth reading every day.
One anecdote: After being very anti-Apple, I bought my first mac late last year because of the M1 chip. (But only because Asahi Linux exists.)
I thought that this was more recent than 1999, and it turns out it is.

Was updated in 2016 [1], even though they preserved the copyright from 1999.

[1] https://www.computer.org/press-room/2016-news/code-of-ethics
Actually not yet, Reflets are willing to execute their right to appeal of the decision.
you surely were not dumb and are quite the opposite now
Storms and steep utility bills drive US rooftop solar boom
Above reads "pg did write somewhere"; the links provided are somewhere.
Your device does it. These days it's hidden with clever animations so you don't literally see a blank screen, but the UI is being completely killed on each rotation.

Android will kill the user-facing portion of the process ("Activity") and recreate it* if you rotate the screen.

Devices have gotten fast enough to hide it with an animation, but it's still "kill UI, draw new UI". (specifically it's usually "render the UI to an image, squish it and rotate it, then show the new UI underneath".

My problem isn't with the literal animation, it's what that mess of rebuilding the entire user facing UI because they rotated their screen represents.

(* apps can opt out of this, but that's reserved for games and apps that render their own custom UI directly to a raw surface)
> but your claim that third-party software worked fine without issues is factually incorrect.

That's a misunderstanding of what I was trying to convey. To clarify - I was specifically talking about existing application firewalls and VM applications for macOS that use / used kernel extensions and already have a large userbase on macOS. Their popularity, and relative stability of the kernel extensions these applications used, is proof that Apple's black and white approach of "all non-Apple kernel extensions are bad" is rubbish. Especially when we consider how such a move is also anti-competitive and anti-consumer, and thus helps Apple's business.

Forcing developers to make an expensive migration from their own tried-and-tested and stable codebase over which they have full control, to use Apple's OS API's is a developer hostile move. Even more so when you consider that a developer will now have to rely on Apple to fix bugs or add new features - which Apple may have no inclination to do so so if it feels it isn't aligned to their own business interest (thus anti-competitive).

I personally have been using some of these applications that install custom kernel extension, and my macOS (3 versions of macOS over a period of a few years) has never crashed or become unstable because of them, so far. If an application that used a kernel extension made my system unstable or crashed it, I obviously wouldn't use it and will uninstall it. But completely taking away my choice as user to customise my OS with kernel extensions, and reducing my choices (as a customer) by taking away the ability of developers to offer a non-Apple custom software solution that is better is also obviously anti-consumer.
Here's what you get for free:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue...

As you can see, it takes flags and compiler from the environment.
Indeed, it's difficult to easily imagine a platform that requires enough complexity to facilitate a relatively free market ecosystem where third-parties voluntarily integrate in reciprocal relationship; it's not straight-forward, not obvious, perhaps will be obvious in hindsight once the working model is clearly defined.

Re: "FB wasn't first-to-market"

What platform then first connected close peer groups via requiring a university/college email address for login, for the platform to then quickly associated those users with each other relevancy wise - leading to the network effects that quickly launched Facebook?

(Zuckerberg knowing that there only needed to be one such platform, why he lied to/misled the ConnectU twins who were actively paying him to develop ConnectU - to which he launched TheFacebook first to get an advantage)
You don't have to care about that. You just look at the metrics for goodness I'm using, and the assumptions underlying that, and see if you agree with them. Some of them are pretty common, such as human life having value in itself. I guess I see the point of the article now, if EA people are saying their way of measuring goodness is the only way. That does deserve skepticism and requests for proof.
I copied that stat from the link I posted in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33153494
definitely are
(athlete's foot, ringworm, candida, ...)
I am skeptical of effective altruism as anything useful or worthwhile but this article doesn't address the real issues with the movement. There is a fundamental flaw with utilitarianism and it's the fact that "good" can not be defined in terms of utility functions. It's not possible to reduce morality to mathematics and dollar expenditure but that seems to be what effective altruists are proposing. Reduced to its core propositions it is essentially an economic religion with utility maximization as its only commandment.
In a way, crypto is a sophisticated way to enforce (self)regulation. Rules are set to enforce certain behavior (no token can be spent twice, tokens can only be minted in specific circumstances and amounts, etc.) and give everyone easy ways to validate that the rules are enforced.

Some think that all rules you ever need can be encoded in the network, removing the need for "external" regulation. Of course that's not entirely realistic.
sin(x)/x
Disagree. I've been almost an exclusive Dvorak user for 15+ years, and the muscle memory absolutely carries over.
So I've seen a couple of different kinds:

1. The one they're working on results in a "grocery store" when done - it's coop run and handles working with distributors, etc. It often ends up "feeling" like a Whole Foods or similar, as the "non-direct" farm products end up sourced from similar distributors.

2. The "farmer's market" type - where you end up with basically a continual farmer's market - this one can grow into being more of a "grocery store" but is often quite limited on the products available; think almost entirely local farm produce and nothing much else.

3. The "community supported agriculture" type - where you pay a flat fee and get a box every week/month/whatever, but don't really have much choice what's in the box. These can be the "closest to the farm" as you're literally getting boxes of whatever they're harvesting. However, they're often only active during harvest periods and you don't control what's in them.

The third one is the only one I've seen be consistently higher quality (and if I had to rank them it would go 3,2, 1) because the farmers pick the super ripe stuff for the CSA because they know it will be delivered and eaten in a day, not packed into a truck for travel across the country. You can also end up with strange fruits you've never heard of before, but still exist.
Seems predictable enough for a bank that is serving politics instead of customers and investors.
Figures on that site are wrong, for example-- a user with a balance like "5.8e-6 BTC" is represented as 5.8 BTC.