skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Batteries have had a lot of problems meeting capacity as a storage solution. Pumped Hydro is pretty good but highly location dependent, Gravity and compressed air I believe show a lot of promise. I don't know enough about Hydrogen or thermal storage to comment. But we are no where near actually solving the energy storage needs to use solar and wind exclusively. Unless we demonstrate real breakthroughs in production ready storage we'll always need a backup. Nuclear whether fission or fusion would have been a better route to clean energy but we basically stopped innovating there decades ago and now we are too far behind.
Most crime is committed by men too
Pay cash for a field of shit land in the sticks, start purchasing hundreds of totaled cars (also with cash), remove or ruin engine/tires/seats/things of value, place the cars in the field, place the money inside the cars, and throw up a fence with no trespassing signs on it.
I hoped that by "disrupted higher education" the author meant something at least as radical as what this decades-old essay proposes.

https://citejournal.org/volume-2/issue-3-02/seminal-articles...

Alas, I came away disappointed. Instead of aiming for a quantum leap, the author only intends to automate the existing processes.
As long as the "No, I will not tell you how I did it" bullshit is there, that page is pointless.
If you could specify, model, design, build, document, promote, test and verify a solution—-whether that was in software or any other field—-then you were an “engineer” in the sense that the title was used in the 20th century.

In the 21st century, the term “engineer” has lost that meaning and it is now used mostly to identify programming professionals of various skill levels.
J++ without the legal mess
You sound interesting and likely good company for a nice meal somewhere exclusive. In SF by chance?
But DOJ would have needed someone who had the receipts (who could also explain it all) to be able to act this quickly. So, in this case, I think it's a reasonable theory (but not the only viable one).

Maybe part of the urgency was also the planned congressional testimony.
JSON in Postgres–10 Years In
Feel sorry for you. I have been locked out of my gmail account for a few weeks. I can receive verification code with my registered mobile, but it is not enough for Google to confirm my identity. It happened twice when I switched to a new phone, I have planned to move away from Google but I didn't. It is painful. Everyday I would realize there is a service I cannot access because I don't have access to my gmail account any more.

I am moving to iCloud, the setup is better than gmail in my opinion. I am not sure if I can get my digital game library back, and many other accounts. I will try to recover my gmail account once a week, and hopefully something can happen. But as far as what I read from internet, people have been locked out their email account for years, and no one cares.
That sounds awesome! What's the name of the nonprofit?
It’s not just the United Kingdom that has had issues with APR-1400.

United Arab Emirates has had massive issues. Unit 1 began construction in 2012 and was “completed” in 2018, but didn’t enter commercial operation until 2021 due to literally hundreds of issues. “In December 2018, it was reported that voids were found in the concrete containment buildings for units 2 & 3. Grease was found to have leaked through the unit 3 containment, which may have been due to a crack in the concrete.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barakah_nuclear_power_plant

South Korea also ran into multiple delays, “Shin Kori-3 was initially scheduled to commence operation by the end of 2013, but the schedules for both Units 3 & 4 were delayed by approximately one year to replace safety-related control cabling, which had failed some tests.”

Poland isn’t a failure at this point, but they don’t have a power plant yet and their cost projections before delays aren’t very rosy.

Objectivity it’s reasonable to blame bad management for issues within a single project or even country, but when several different projects in different countries run into issues that suggest more fundamental problems.
but big tech discriminates against anything that's not a personal computing device.

To be precise, anything that's not a "personal" computing device running the latest spyware-filled locked-down software and a browser that can be anything as long as it's the three that Google implicitly "approve".

government, banking, etc..

Banking is private-sector, but I believe the government should always be accessible even if you live like the Amish...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#Canada

...and I wonder how they get along there since they're apparently present in Canada too.
I didn't say anywhere that loss of a hardware token should mean "permanent loss of account access with no recourse"?
It will be! No doubt.
Mobile Performance of Next.js Sites
Out of 110 sites:

27 are Passing with all green CWV.
80 are failing with one or more CWV scores.
3 Had insufficient data and were not included in CrUX
How many well-formed passwords can and will you remember? How often are you willing to change them afterwards? How secure is your 2FA app? How secure is your device against keylogging? How sure are you no one will watch what you've typed in or when you reveal it to fix a typing error? And so on. It isn't as if there are no issues with the classic way.

That's why you maintain the knowledge-possession separation at the access to your password manager (file) with a combination of a password and either a key file or hardware key.

If you store your secrets in encrypted files rather than specialized server solutions, it's also easier to separate and store them in different locations.
I'd argue that the most logical long term solution is that Google figures something out with the government. E.g. go to the DMV to recover your account. The government is the fundamental root of trust and authority on who is who, so it just makes sense that your "official" online life should tie in with that like say your google account and online banking (for more casual stuff like say a reddit account, the drawbacks outweigh the benefits).
Depending on the phone, try a different mechanism to charge it. I used a charging pad when a family members iPhone wouldn’t charge (ie charging mechanism broke; not the battery).
Gaming is the reddest of the red oceans. People only have so many hours in a day so if they are playing X they are not playing Y. Huge first mover and network effects to be the popular game.
I'd go further and say most major modern day problems, of which ludicrous education expenses are one of the best examples, are problems that come from perverse monetization incentives and increasing disconnect between needs, effort and reward stemming from societal complexity and abstraction, and that technology is likely to make a number of those problems worse.

We've figured out how to increase physical goods and enable efficient use of scarce resources that can't be infinitely replicated incredibly well, despite a huge range of different emotions, motivations, and conflicts about how those physical resources should be allocated. I'd argue that's mostly because signals related to physical goods are relatively clear, direct, and measurable.

Things like "knowledge" and "skill training" aren't as clear, direct, and measurable, and when you walk up the hierarchy of abstraction, it's a lot more fuzzy and difficult to measure what you're actually getting as a consumer, what you're delivering as a producer, and what the source of problems are, especially if there's a major time delay and variability for payoff. That's the case with modern education, and also applies to "investment payoff in quality and effectiveness of health care", "investment payoff in quality and effectiveness of living space", "investment payoff in quality and effectiveness of public outreach", etc. It makes proper negotiation very difficult and leaves a lot of room for confusion and abuse.

One possible solution to this, which seems impossible/idk how this would work in the modern era, is to try to return to a system where a whole town would work more like a single unit so as to try to reduce some of the sprawl and complexity. Earlier in America there'd be a town known for making shoes, a town known for making lightbulbs, a town known for making steel, etc. There'd be a rallying, measurable "physical thing" the town could help use to calibrate whether it's healthy/allocating resources correctly. If the town isn't working as a cohesive unit, the central "thing", like lightbulbs, would get measurably worse. High school education is bad? Fewer competent lightbulb workers, fewer lightbulbs produced, clear signal. Healthcare isn't working? More sick days, lower moral, fewer lightbulbs produced, clear signal. Everyone in the town would have a better map of the intricacies of what's working and not working in that smaller system than they could possibly have in a global/gargantuan system, and they'd have a relatively objective measuring stick to determine whether they're working effectively as a unit.
>you don't get that nominal value unless you hit concurrent viewer count, and everything is calibrated such that it's basically impossible to get the advertised bag of money

This may be a bit of an overstatement on your part, especially the "They can make one tenth that if they're lucky" part.
Bounties cap out at 10,000 viewers and are prorated as a % of average viewers, for a streamer with 4,000 average views hitting 10,000 is perfectly reasonable. As for "shilling for some crappy mobile game", the majority of games with bounties are fairly large ones, Fortnite and Genshin Impact were the two provided from the leaked bounty board and are by no means "crappy mobile games". The majority of games on bounty boards are from large game studios (2019 leak - League of Legends, Core, Sekiro:Shadows Die Twice; 2020 leak - Rocket Arena, Core)

I wouldn't say I'm offering any "grand theories", I'm only providing information on a live-streaming platform with 76% market share in America(this is what I mean by dominant)
While we were all watching CCP implement their social credit system, big tech gave us one while our gaze was elsewhere. These algorithmic systems can pretty quickly make you an unperson in our society.
I help seniors with their technology issues at my local senior center.
See? Arrested already. Next time don't parrot nonsense.
I recently switched my laptop and my phone together, even though I have the same number, I cannot recover my account. SMS is better because even if you lose your phone, you can get a replacement sim card. Only if SMS is enough. In the case of Google accounts, no, it is not enough.
Some of their points are valid. I wouldn't recommend this book to someone who's already deep into the world of algorithms, but it gave me an enjoyable way to dip my toes in when I first started learning about the topics it covers. I'm not sure what the page number issue on Amazon was about, my copy is 238 pages.
I think you grossly underestimate the amount of regulation Caroline is subject to.

At the very least she will be deemed unfit or proper, which means she will be barred from any financial activity for the years to come.

On top of that, as a MOO & RO she will be professionally and personally liable to millions in fines, and most likely jail time.

Negligence _is_ a crime, a lack of means _is_ a crime, a lack of knowledge or control are crimes as well, for any regulated person, especially at the MOO/RO level, a lack of chinese wall between investment and retail is a crime, accepting money from an unverified source is akin to money laundering for an investment firm.

Edit:
MOO, ROs (responsible officers) and MICs (managers in charge) are regulated activities that should be assigned to individuals performing specific duties in an investment fund. Each regulator will have different names and variations on their duties and structure, but overall it's pretty much aligned.

It is mandatory for a regulated firm to have a specific amount and hierarchy of these regulated activities, and each one of them comes with a set of duties.

These activities are the main vector by which regulators enforce and control individual managers.

MOO is often assigned to the CEO. ROs are often the key investment officers, and MICs are often the key tech & operation officers.

Edit2: Hedge funds are no less regulated than any other investment firm. You are mixing "prop shops"/"family offices" and hedge funds.

Alameda was definitely an asset manager as it received external funds and was selling (debt) securities.
I would also suggest increasing the spacing around the comma and [ characters (and probably others that aren't shown in that screenshot). I find that non-monospaced fonts make it hard to see where the cursor is in those situations, because there's so little space for it to fit.
Lots of folks in the third world and in the US are very principled. They just aren’t holding the levers of power in government.

The evidence of widespread corruption in the US government is everywhere if you open your eyes: legislators become vastly more wealthy after getting elected via insider trading, regulators invest in the very companies they oversee, prosecutors selectively prosecute crimes, sweetheart book deals and speaking gigs, positions on boards of think tanks and companies after their “public service” has ended, I could go on.

It’s not about transparency, it’s about integrity. All the things I mentioned above are open secrets. The US is a third world country with cell phones.
When do cars need to go faster than 80mph?
Tell HN: Banking security in Indian banks is a joke
Public mentions of Sim Swapping attacks[1][2][3] on indian retail banking customers is not very new news in India(indeed there is a whole netflix series on it). Now I don't know about you, but these specific attacks don't seem so pedestrian in say the US as compared to India[3]?(although there are scams of identity all the time in the US). Regardless of what's going on I wanted to put out there what I think is the root of the problem. Consider this a PSA.

What is really odd is that Establishing Identity(of Device, and the Person), is really at the core of the problem and no one seems to get it in the indian banking industry but it is not so complex a problem to solve[6]. The irony is that Cell phone lines in india now requires you link to a National Identification number(aka aadhar)[4] if not you have to provide extensive documentation. Opening/Doing changes to your bank accounts is also backed up by extensive KYC norms[5](check out the mentions of V-CIP in [5]). But there is no guidance on the very real problem, which are these attacks after you establish the identity the first time. Banks I have worked with like ICICI, Kotak, Yebank have poor identity practices in general leading to such attacks becoming common place.

Sadly there is nothing on the horizon of establishing identity using modern methods(Zero Trust tech like Duo[6] etc, which I assumed is industrial standard now in many major US banks). You don't necessarily need an expensive Yubikey, most smart phones can do the job. Here is the idiocy of identity establishment process for a typical indian bank:

Anytime I have to open an account, add a joint account holder, change my address or, less commonly, my cell number there is a request to send clear text sensitive documents over email to establish identity and(if you are an indian overseas) an expensive physical document pick up from your location as well to establish identity. This would be fine for the first time you open an account, but makes no sense for later operations. Meanwhile the remaining, sensitive, day to day operations like bank transfers are wide open to aforementioned attacks.

To me, Zero Trust tech like Duo[6] would solve a lot of your identity issues and these attacks for a vast majority of the indian population(india has the youngest population in the world which makes it more tech savvy). Meanwhile grow eyes at the back of your head if you have a bank account in india, cause indian banking system does not seem to have any robust solution to this problem or maybe even care.

[1] https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techn...

[2]https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/telecom-fi...

[3] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/cybercrooks-p... by the Times of India and The Deccan Herald)

[4]https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/heres-how-an-ind...

[5]https://www.rbi.org.in/CommonPerson/english/scripts/notifica...

[6] https://duo.com/product
It's also weird to watch people debate passionately but without the passion to actually gain expertise in the thing they are debating. I find it weird that we do this. I'm not immune, we all do it. We should at least be cognizant and try to reduce how heated we get over things we know so little about. It is just weird.
I'm amazed you can be smart enough to steal 10 billion, but dumb enough to ignore your lawyer
Yes, in this scenario the prisoners assume the Feds are going to bring a case in eventually. This, I believe, tracks the real-world situation, because this case is already notable enough that the government is determined to see it through, however long it takes to prepare.

But even if not, then have the prisoners multiply that 95% by whatever they believe is the chance Feds will eventually prosecute. Is it 50/50? That just gives them 52% chance of avoiding spending rest of their lives in prison, which is still not a good bet.

(Note that prisoners won't be unbiased here - the Feds will be trying to make them believe this chance is much higher than it really is.)

There is a third factor here, whether the prisoners can disappear before Feds go after them - I assumed they effectively can't, and/or it comes with sacrifices so big that it's not much different than prison.
the written element was the weirdest for me. i get that as discussion points, they’re a great gauge of a candidates knowledge of systems in general and how to problem solve with limited info, but something was making me feel put off. thanks for your reply!!
I'd try and get your old phone that doesn't charge fixed at a phone repair place. Tell them you are poor and your circumstances.
A) Banks seem to be getting out of the business of hosting deposit boxes. I’d guess it’s not worth the hassle and liability.

B) I don’t know about all of them, but the ones I’ve used have explicit rules against storing cash.
Sounds like strategic seat-ordering and sabotage is the name of the game. Five minutes before the end of your slot, destroy everything, unleash the kracken, etc.
I think you can't separate the scale of Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc from their product. As has been demonstrated by the wave of "twitter replacements". But if you could separate scale, I agree. And I think that's the direction we're going: small, semi-private networks which can be moderated economically.

Only a crazy person would start a true Twitter replacement these days. The moderation costs and agony don't make the juice worth the squeeze.
Colloquially speaking, which your conversation here is, nuke has always meant bombs not reactors. He's not pearl clutching, he's reacting to what sounds like unnecessarily negative terminology.
just a quote from wikipedia as a whole paragraph, you can verify it, did not think that much, no need to over react, everyone is so sensitive these days.
Right but if it's remote server you're fucked and you can't login on it to even assess what happened
Since Trump refuses to come back to Twitter Musk has decided to impersonate him. And since SpaceX depends very heavily on the government it seems very foolish for Musk to be getting to political.
Really want some of these. Gwynn’s Shotwell really knows how to run a company.
It’s probably another case of Hanlon’s razor, “don’t attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”.
"there's a very stupid tweet for everything" guy
Proudest is probably my first and not particularly clever, but I am very fond of it.

Early 90s, a friend let me borrow a copy of a game he had, which included a physical codewheel you use to prove that you own the shareware. I thought about copying the codewheel so I could return the floppy to him and still play, but I'd read that computers have no way to make random numbers and usually seed the random number generator with the current time. I made a batch file that set the time to a specific value and then launched the game, and memorized the code I'd get if I sped through the main menu as fast as possible.
I treat my media creation as a business. Hours in and ROI are important, especially since I have a family and also try to keep their lives out of my online presence.

I looked at adding occasional Twitch livestreams to my output but quickly realized to make it return any kind of sustainable income, you have to practically "become a streamer".

There's no slow on-ramp like with YouTube, where you could start earning income after a few weeks/months of producing content and promoting it, growing an audience.

And then if you want to pause YouTube for a month or two, you don't lose the metrics that allow you to have an income.

It seems like Twitch is a grind, a lot more so than YouTube (where there's enough pressure, thank you very much!), and unless you're fully devoted to it, or are single and/or young with a lot of time to burn (and very mature about how you burn it), it's going to be very hard to maintain any kind of work life balance.
It's also just a parrot trick. There's no reason behind why it is 30 years away or even why 30 instead of 15 instead of 20. It is just a line. These numbers are meaningless but touted as a way to add validity to the argument without providing actual evidence for why fusion is such a tough nut to crack. We should dispose of hype, but let's do it from a place of understanding. I hope we're a bit smarter than parrots.
My son plays the clarinet. Last year he lost a pad. (He has a nice instrument that he plays often). I went to a reputable shop and they said one should always replace all the pads at once, some were loose, and a complete revision was in order. The cost was €350.

I told them I would think about it, went home, ordered a set of pads online for €7 and replaced the missing pad myself with the help of a couple of youtube videos.

The clarinet has been working perfectly since. Two months after my repair my son had an exam at the conservatory. I was a little worried because it was a formal affair with a jury of five professionals and should the instrument have an audible whistle of some kind I was sure they would noticed it.

He passed with flying colors. I was proud of him, but also of my repair.
That program is not available in every State iirc
John Michell: Country Parson Described Black Holes in 1783 (2000)
Black holes were first proposed by John Michell in 1783.
I'm running RAID6 for data and RAID1 for metadata. Wanted the metadata replicated. So far I've had no HW failure situations and I have suffered a few power outages while I was away from home even though I have a backup battery.

Although these drives have surpassed 50,000 hours of running time, I am fairly certain the day of reckoning is coming, but I have backups and a plan to recover.

I may recover to something not BTRFS. Not sure just yet.
Managers have become obsessed with being "agile" and "data driven" and yet never seem to notice how much useful engineering time and attention is being lost to all of those finely detailed breakdowns and regular meetings and tracking and monitoring processes. A common failure mode now seems to be that managers focus on metrics that don't really represent any useful reality to begin with but persist in trying to optimise those metrics even when their engineering team is telling them plainly that they're looking at garbage in and garbage out. The one metric no-one in management ever seems to consider is how much all of the management overheads themselves cost.
Parts and service very widely available too. I think they also get used as drilling motors.