skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC "The Design of Everyday Things" makes a point that most devices have poorly explained errors (beeps, error codes etc) because nobody chooses what to buy based on how it acts when it's failing, so there's no incentive to spend money on it. For hardware, the cost is quite literal, as having a better display just to show error messages is a lot more expensive than a beeper.

With software, it's probably a matter of prioritization, why invest into explaining errors when you can work on preventing them? Not that this error prevention always works out, but still.
My comment was not as serious as yours. I would say that I don't really know why Alex Jones is still banned from Twitter. It's unclear what the guidelines are. And in my view the "poll" to get Trump back showed there is no policy.

But as you said it's early days with not much evidence. Perhaps it will work itself out.
The odds of it ever being noticeable are indeed quite low.
Isn't this what Apple is kind of doing though?

It's regulating your iPhone so you don't have to?

I really don't want idealists to mess up the iPhone's stability, performance and security so people can use the minecraft app store or whatever.
Censor "Google" out of the submission title and you'll notice an immediate tone change in the HN comments.
And they weren't even wrong! The challenge is addressing the tech-debt, not the choice to incur it.
Exterior foam or rock wool makes it fairly easy. Also see Zip sheathing which laminates polyiso to OSB.

Double stud construction with blown in cellulose has also been around a long time. (You can get R45 with a 12” wall)
very true, but you guys share a common language, a foreign policy and some cultural artifacts like the shame of using some bad words. Fuck comes to mind but I'm honestly more disturb by the N word. Like y'all call it.
At the same time, none of my business.
> Maybe it takes time to prepare.

> Walk. Walk uphill. Lift if you can. Run if you can.

AKA waste half of your life to prolong it by 3%
Not really the problem.
The Helion approach seems plausible to me. Can you point me towards some of the sources that give you vibes?
The US doesn’t have a monopoly on hypocrisy either.
I think you're hand waving too many of the problems away and letting your imagination run way ahead of reality.

> no need for fission plants

Not sure why this is a goal in and of itself. Everything you said is available today with fission and yet still too expensive to remove CO2. Fission has a more real shot at getting to the right price point before fusion even gets off the ground so why not push for more arrows behind something that's likely to help in our lifetime?
It's weird how the app store started out from nothing with even worse terms, and they were enthusiastically accepted by developers and consumers alike. Under these greedy and draconian terms, the app store became broadly embraced by developers, to the point of being called a monopoly. However, with this success Apple's reaction wasn't to abuse its market power by increasing its fees, but instead it reduced fees for long-term subscriptions and for developers with under $1M in revenues.
I'm quietly confident that you could compile sqlite with a rust extension into a single .wasm file.

The first thing I'd try is to use crate-type = ["staticlib"] to compile the sqlite extension to a static .a file (cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown), and compile sqlite to a staticlib separately then link them together into a .wasm file and run wasm-opt & friends on that.

There might be some configuration needed to let the extension know the sqlite functions its calling will be linked together later, but that should all be possible. Maybe with some whack-a-mole of wading through compiler versions and build flags and whatnot.
I think, for me, the best example is actually the ACE (Audio Capture Engine) plugin by Rogue Amoeba, which is used by a lot of 3rd party apps. It's quite popular, and it requires Reduced Security to install. I actually HATE that there is no (good) alternative to this software yet that can run within the bounds of the Full Security model. But I like that it's still possible to run this software. It feels like the warnings are adequate.
Sideloading didn't destroy MacOS, Windows or Android. Unless you have evidence that iOS is somehow different, I'm going to assume that it won't destroy iOS either.
lol, no.

The signatures were made long after Hal's death, and there is ample evidence which demonstrates this.
Is Google doing something more with premium domains than other ones? What's the increase in services you get for buying a premium domain?
What’s the difference between "ignition" and every other “fusion achieved“ news story I’ve seen in the last 40 years?

This has the feel of those “water discovered on Mars for the first time ever” headlines.
It’s completely wrong. Balloon framing was eliminated because the voids extending between floors are fire hazards. Modern homes usually use platform framing… each section of the house is essentially and independently framed box that’s bolted together.

My dad was a firefighter and later a chief who served on a state codes commission. He dealt with hundreds of fires in homes built this way, they were destructive only secondarily to “cock loft” rowhouses with shared attics.

We happen to live in a house built this way - whenever we renovate a section of the house we have modifications done to exterior walls to reduce the risk, which is that a fire, say one originating in an electrical outlet, can travel up to the roof in <7m. Once the roof is involved, the house is toast in as little as 15m.
https://lwn.net/1999/1216/a/esr-rich.html

IIRC the stock price fell quite a bit before he could sell.
Edge’s PDF tools are great, I use it a lot to fill out non-fillable docs.

If it got a reasonable implementation of e-signing… wow.
> Fusion is the path to post scarcity. If/when we get scalable commercial fusion, it’ll be like the transition to oil - society will radically change, in ways we can’t predict.

Except this is also true for fission. So if fission has failed to transform society, why do you think fusion will?
Why is my system down?
Why not just do alcohol then? It's much stronger than pot, legal and cheap.
That's flat out false, there are no such demands. You should actually look these things up instead of listening to reductive memes. The joint venture system was an anti-colonial idea that was proposed first by the US. It only ever applied to specific strategic industries like banking and autos. Tech companies like Microsoft, apple, etc wholly own their subsidiaries in China.
If a matter goes to court, it is easier to prove that the defendant's capitalization is over €75 billion than to prove that it is in the top XXX companies because the latter involves determining the capitalization of all companies that might have a cap in the top XXX.
Does anyone happen to know if gTLD operators are allowed to make price hikes targeted at a specific premium domain name? For example if the operator noticed that the product/brand/company/site associated with some domain had suddenly become extremely popular, thus posing a potentially much higher reward than the initial annual renewal fee.
There's a large range of stellar lifetimes, from a few million years up to trillions of years.
It's kind of a distinction without a difference. Does applying a "bad" value judgement to the old code accomplish anything here?

All software has bugs. Mistakes are made. Do release notes need to self-flagellate? I don't see the value.
I'm not sure if I'd weigh latency as "far more" important than throughput (instead a more intelligent tradeoff), but I do think an exploration of low latency systems for day-to-day use would be very interesting. I've thought about trying this myself, starting simple with something like RT Linux and try to present a low latency UX for viewing books, media, and certain webpages. Almost every step of the computation pipeline has optimized throughput over latency so it would take some "radical" rework, but I think it would be a very fun and informative experiment.

I've spent a lot of time archiving and scraping my own content and optimizing my home network (and ingress points, routing, etc.) to access all of these things with minimal (< 3 ms) retrieval latency and the effects are joyful. The UX is bad as it's something I've written for low latency use and my UX skills aren't very good, but it makes me feel like I have "instant" access to content, which feels like a superpower. I'd love to explore topics like this for a broader audience for more than just nerdy media I consume.
Pretty much the same as our goto for projects at work: Hetzner + Docker (Swarm) with some Ansible to orchestrate things

We have built some automation around cluster management over at https://github.com/neuroforgede/swarmsible.

I used to do everything in ansible, but Docker Stacks are just so much nicer to use.

In any case automation is king. I don't have to remember stuff if I can just look at some IaC Code :).
A Flawed Visa System Is Undermining America's Tech Industry
There are a lot of security fixes here.

It seems reasonable to assume that next month there will be a similar set.

Many of the vulnerabilities are remote exploitable, sometimes even on a locked device.

Only one such exploit is needed for someone to be able to steal your data from a locked lost phone - either by knowing an exploit before Apple does, or by keeping your phone in a metal box for a month before exploiting it.
> Spacex vehicle has never left the Earth-moon system.

https://www.whereisroadster.com/
You are right about supernova hampering life evolution, but it's unclear how long the fireworks lasted. In my comment I argued that it is possible to have the conditions of life emerge much earlier than 13.5 billion years. Not that it necessarily happened.

Regarding the second point have a look at https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GW170817Kilonova/in... . That isn't my field of specialization, so I am not sure about recent publications. At the time though this was a big deal as kilonovas seem to be the primary source of heavy nuclei in the universe. That particular event crested between 1/100th to 1/1000th solar masses worth of heavy ( heavier than iron) nuclei. This is a greater rate than supernovas estimations.
Paying 1400$ for a phone is more than enough to recoup R&D, UI Design and API costs
I read the whole thing and didn’t really see what the next iteration of wall materials (for general household use) would look like. I saw a discussion of mostly plastic alternatives, and some kind of robot drywall finisher.
They don't have something like the passivhaus?
This is great info, thank you! I agree that it’s strange that Finney wouldn’t have posted this message to the blockchain. Unfortunately I think most people superficially familiar with bitcoin don’t understand cryptography deeply enough to realize that the most likely explanation for all of this this is that Shkreli or an associate is in possession of Finney’s private key.
If there’s a glut of cheap electrical energy, there would be a rapid push to electrify things like iron and steel production (8% of emissions), heating (10% of emissions) and transportation (10%)… and so on.
Sorry about that! Completely missed the point. I agree with you fwiw.
Same as Factorio, which also never goes on sale.

When I know a game discounts 50+% it just makes me put off buying it.
By "bank" I mean the credit card issuer, which is a fairly competitive industry and isn't necessarily your main bank. I think people are pretty aware of what fees their cards have. (IME businesses that take cash are mostly doing it for tax evasion, not to save you the transaction fee on cards.)

And of course the responsibility for committing credit card fraud is on the criminal, not the bank.
> spreadable salmon-flavoured cheese

Sounds like cheese to me.
Framers use a variety of temporary braces and download to make the building work before the sheathing. (In stick framed buildings pre plywood, those diagonals are permanent, and let into the studs.) It's one of the things newbies can miss, and makes a big difference.
ICANN's standard registry agreement for gTLDs does not allow this, as explained in the article:

> This means that Google is only allowed to increase a domain's renewal price if it also increases the renewal price of all other domains. If Google wants to charge more to renew a "premium" domain, the higher price must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed to the registrant at time of initial registration. This prevents Google from holding domains hostage: they can't set a low price and later increase it after your domain becomes popular.
Base components are a pattern really only used by designers building UIs in Figma.

The idea is you create a "base" component (let's say a button), then create more components that wrap the base component and apply overrides on top (like a different background color).
If you want to adjust the size of all your buttons, you edit the base component and your changes propagate to all the other components. [1]

This of course leads to a tangled mess of dependencies when you start building complex UIs in Figma, but it is the only way to make mass changes without having plug-ins automate it, or doing the tedious task of manually updating a bunch of components one by one.

[1] https://youtu.be/vVPSYSziRFY
This is a trade dispute. The US no longer feels that China will ever open their domestic market to outside competition, so why should we keep our domestic market open to Chinese companies?
> This is a thin wrapper around ffmpeg, which does all of the real work here and is a much more powerful and versatile tool. Why does this ship an entire web browser? Why does this even exist? The world may never know.

You answered "Why does this even exist?" yourself, it's a thin wrapper around ffmpeg. It provides a reasonably usable and friendly GUI to perform the kind of basic cuts a lot of people want to do with their video.

When I have two hours of GoPro footage I want to chop up in to a quick and dirty highlight reel, which one do you think I'm going to choose?

1. Fire up my favorite video player, scrub through every file noting the start and end times of every segment, turn each of those segment times in to a ffmpeg command line, and throw all those in a script.

2. Fire up LosslessCut, scrub through every video clicking "start segment" and "end segment" as appropriate, click "Export"

It ships a whole web browser because unfortunately that's the easiest way to make a cross platform GUI app these days, and they get video playback support "for free" (though this does result in some limitations with codecs other than H.264). Yes it's heavier than it could be, but I'm editing video here, I don't really care about megabytes of hard disk space or RAM.

There's nothing else like it as far as I'm aware. AviDemux only does one cut at a time, VirtualDub doesn't even run on non-Windows platforms.
If people support liberty for the wrong reasons, does it matter? Sounds like you would rather punish pariahs rather than strike back against mass government surveillance.
Hal Finney lived a few blocks from a man named "Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto."

From https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/25/satosh...

"I received an email from an old cryptography community acquaintance of Finney's who has asked to remain anonymous. The email was titled "What are the odds?" It pointed out that Hal Finney had lived for almost a decade in Temple City, the same 36,000 person town where Newsweek found Dorian Nakamoto. Finney's address was only a few blocks away from the Nakamoto's family home."
Overall? Maybe?

Will I book that executive class hotel within walking distance of my venues instead of La Quinta? Yes. Will I book that better plane ticket instead of cattle class? Yup. etc. Those are probably in the range of about a factor fo 4x-5x.

This also holds a little better if I talk about lab equipment. I have wasted a lot of time trying to do measurements with $100-ish pieces of equipment when I should have bought the $10K piece of lab-grade equipment that I then use for other projects as well. Now I try to optimize that better.
You make your trade offs or you get another vendor to copy the features you like and not the ones you don’t. Forcing everything to be homogenous is something you’re meant to grow out of when you’re eight, once you see that ruining things for other people because you’re jealous is a bad personality trait.
Oh, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. I didn't read the entire article. Thank you for locating it for me.
Google is part of the same duopoly that leverages their dominance in the mobile OS and hardware markets in order to dominate the mobile app distribution and mobile app payments markets.

The majority of the mobile OS market in the US is iOS, the rest is Android. Apple is responsible for 2x mobile app revenue than Google, but Apple and Google both make up more than 99% of all mobile app sales.

When talking about monopolies, the working definition from the FTC are firms that have significant and durable market power such that they can set prices and exclude competitors[1]. That describes the Apple and Google duopoly accurately. Such firms and their anticompetitive tactics are outlawed by antitrust legislation in the US.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
> Only send writes from a single process

depending on your use case, using multiple writer processes can be fine, e.g. multiple writer processes storing periodic metrics (once per minute) into a single sqlite database. the occasional "database is locked" error (it does happen a few times a day) is handled by simply returning and trying again at the next interval. that's fine for this particular use case - the metrics for the last interval are just delayed a bit.
Fusion plants should be able to save a lot of money though simpler permitting processes, not needing the same level of containment structures, needing less security, and less regulator scrutiny. The equipment itself might be more expensive at the start but if we build these plants at scale those costs should reduce over time.
Congrats for the launch!

As I’ve anticipated, clickbench will become the defacto analytics benchmark, which is great.

Something to improve IMHO it’s documentation regarding Cloud and Open Source. Is somehow mixed (the same happen in ClickHouse docs)

As a Postgres user I would like to see: how can I install this extension in my current Database? How to migrate to new tables.

Timescale makes a really great job in this case.

Anyway, as I’ve said. Congrats and good luck!
That makes no sense. Device refers to the physical machine. The software running on it is a completely separate matter. Just look at Apple's M1 laptops and Asahi Linux.

I don't want to buy a Nokia. Apple's hardware is really good and I want to buy their devices. I just don't want to become a serf in their digital fiefdom.
I'm so happy for these guys. Selling 300,000 copies @ $30 each is life-changing money. Over the years they've accepted donations but from what I've seen it's tended to a few thousand dollars a month. Decent but not a lot for 2 people.

I still find DF really inaccessible but this Steam release will prompt me to give it another go. Whatever the case, I'm happy for their success.
Imagine any other manufacturer or OS charging you for allowing you to write software for their systems. This is simply a post hoc rationalization.

The 30% is simply a money making endeavor, it's not at all related to their R&D, hardware design etc.
Nobody cares about iMessage in Europe, everybody uses WhatsApp or Signal.
A Apple-only messenger doesn't fly in a market where apple has <20% market share
Way more than that. This would shift the entire geopolitical structure of the world. Humanity would never be the same.
Yes, I see your point. There are simply different definitions of "globalization" going on here. I believe there is a meaningful distinction between "USD-d(en)ominated global finance" and economic globalization. The latter isn't going anywhere.
Americans that frequently need to transfer money (especially overseas) may find stablecoins a good way to effect that without bank fees and delays.

Other countries may not even be allowed to transfer from their bank overseas (I think China in most cases). Some countries have local currency that is devaluating, and banks that are less reliable than a mattress. Some countries have restrictions on the way that money can be stored or retrieved that basically mean that money deposited in the bank can not practically be withdrawn.

For some, the stablecoin is simply a more convenient bank that the one in the city, and in many cases they anyways don't have reportable income.

Other reasons exists for a stablecoin besides criminal activity, especially for people that live in poorer states - and these people are harder hit by losing their cash than would be someone who is in crypto for the ride. It is disingenuous to think its all crypto kiddies.
> Alcohol has zero benefits for your health

I would disagree. Multiple studies have shown that moderate alcohol consumption lowers HDL cholesterol and reduces strokes. Also, if you use alcohol in a social setting, then you are getting added benefits from human-to-human social interactions where you are likely to have more conversations, talk more, smile more. Obviously those benefits are not directly connected to alcohol - but they pair well together.
Scrolls for me in Firefox.
Epic could also, in that case, offer subscriptions that can only be canceled at a storefront in Peoria between 1am and 4am on alternate Tuesdays.
Notch took orders of magnitude less time for orders of magnitude more money. I think they're safe.

Put on your https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishe_Postone hat and the time portion is especially key here.
Since the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water was signed in 1963, all nuclear weapons tests must be performed underground. This is typically done by digging a deep shaft or tunnel in the earth and detonating the weapon at the bottom of the shaft or tunnel. The explosion is monitored by a variety of equipment, such as seismographs, radiation detectors, and air samplers. The data gathered from these tests helps to understand the weapon's performance and its potential impact.

In addition, computer simulations are often used to test the effects of a nuclear weapon, such as the predicted fallout and atmospheric effects. These simulations are based on data collected from previous nuclear tests as well as theoretical models.
eval exists :)
I rarely get comments on anything I post to YT, despite getting views, especially because I don't really comment on my posts myself.

I rarely like to comment on anything because of all of the useless notifications that come from making comments.

Paty of me thinks that most comments are just friends in post circles boosting each others posts and bot activity. The participation/engagement driven model of social media totally encourages fake comments that ruins any relevance and value they once had.

Looking through reddit posts is also becoming a process of weeding through excessive amounts of spam comments and joke comments just to get context as well. I'm pretty sure all this activity will eventually begin to corrupt vital resources over time too.
I only looked into nutrisense. They rejected my application because ... I have diabetes. I supposed made necessary by regulations. That's a difficult business model for a company selling blood sugar control. Hopefully they've found their way around it.

I worked around it by just getting a prescription, which was easy and cheap, and comes with a consult from a live doctor.
Premium domains are just domains which contain a common single word. Basically just the ones likely to be squat. You were never going to get tech.dev for $12 anyway. Would you rather pay a squatter $20,000 for it or have it sit unsold until someone actually wants to use it and then it costs ~$800.

Premium domains save real users money and make squatting unviable.