skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of understand online services or games being a subscription, because you have to keep paying for infrastructure and devs etc etc, but apps that don't have online functionality (looking at fitbit right now...) or had its functionality forcefully replaced by an online one is just a joke.
"concepts of race and genetic ability were rejected primarily on moral grounds, rather than a scientific ones."

Ironically, this rejection comes, because they were once introduced on "moral" or rather cultural grounds, disguised as science. Socialdarwinism and co. The Nazis for example did lots of "research" on race, but their concept of research was to proof the obvious truth, that white people and especially the aryans are superior. And then working out all the practical details of heritage and ancestors - for example to decide who is competent for a given job and who goes on the train to the death camps.
I think that the shift towards open protocols is just inevitable at some point. The ads-funded and surveillance-based business model is getting backlash both from users and regulators.

The EU's DMA is forcing giants to open up their platforms and APIs, which means opening up the walled gardens, which means that Twitter and Meta will no longer hold a monopoly on how their information is presented (i.e. there will be a blossoming of apps that deliver the content without all the spyware, which kicks surveillance capitalism directly in its bollocks).

Users are also becoming more sensitive about who stores their data and how it's used. As platforms become more aggressive about defending their profit margins, and start shovelling more ads down people's throats, more sponsored results and deploy more trackers, people are actually starting to quit those platforms and move somewhere else - a reversal of the network effects that made these platforms' popularity about 10-15 years ago.

I really believe that within 5-10 years the idea of using a closed, proprietary and surveillance-based piece of software to stay in contact with your friends will sound as dumb as using proprietary and paid protocols for computer networking instead of TCP/IP, or some proprietary implementation of messaging instead of emails.
This delay also often happens when I switch between linux virtual consoles (Control+Alt+F7/F8), despite both of them using exactly the same X display settings.

Not always, though. The switch sometimes happens instantly. (At least, it has been this way since I replaced my Nvidia card with an AMD. I don't recall whether the Nvidia ever switched instantly.)

I wish I knew what conditions make it instant, so I could try to make it happen consistently.
Academia can mean a lot of things, some of which have obvious parallels to industry. He may deserve a pedestal in some respects, and I'd listen to him too, but it should be tempered.
Find your twitter follows on mastodon:

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

https://twitodon.com/
> Most famously, it included a paper in which an anthropologist kept a masturbation diary about his self-pleasure while viewing Japanese anime-pornography

It's even worse than it sounds if you click through the link in the article. This guy wrote an entire paper on how he felt while whacking himself off to child porn. Disgusting.

At least the paper was retracted, though I'm amazed the editors let it through in the first place - and with such glowing praise.
They basically have no real achievements yet - the energy harvesting system isn't working, they are just fusing D+He3 - even though the concept sounds impressive. The video was cool but not cool enough to break through healthy fusion vaporware skepticism.
I agree with the sentiment in this thread that there's not enough purchase choice when it comes to online services.

So this thread inspired me to offer more purchase choice of my online free SaaS once I've set up collAnon.app as a self-hosting software too.

In a couple of weeks you'll see :)
time to migrate to self hosted bitwarden...
As a human I had a hard time understanding that audio
I mean yeah it doesn't really change much in terms of usability, but it is the point from where onwards you can actually say you're doing fusion and not just heating stuff to high temps.
> Unfortunately, the world is almost certainly becoming less free because many of those in power like it that way.

An odd conclusion for an article which up until this point was arguing that the world is becoming less free "because many of those who follow strongmen like it that way".
Researcher teases out secrets from surprisingly ‘intelligent’ viruses (1998)
Until you have to screw around trying to follow someone who signed up via another server and have to do nonsensicle crap like copying and pasting links to profiles instead of clicking the obvious 'follow' button because it intentionally does not work.

It's got a long, long way to become anything close to Twitter.
I think at least some of them but to say "most" one would have to do the work.

How many calls before the sales department would take legal action against me? Would they talk with support first?
> no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission

Passat 2.0 TDI SCR 7-speed is a diesel automatic transmission that is offered as standard. What are you talking about?
I don't really know but guess more powerful electric motors don't cost that much more than less powerful. With ICE cars going from reasonable 200hp to say 600hp requires lots of stuff - large displacement at high RPM or turbos, better cooling and gearbox. It seems that with electric cars this kind of power is essentially free.
> It wasn't a 1-1 port because I improved things

Hmm, I think we found the reason....
I don’t know anyone under the age of 30 with a dedicated machine to play the discs. Maybe some of the game consoles can do this. But seeing shelves of movies and shows on a rack feels super outdated to me. A lot of these things feel like stuff that people watched once or never and they were just gifts.
This isn't a system that can ever do a sustained reaction.
Having to develop with circa 360ms pings was a contributing factor to me deciding to leave Gitpod. https://ghuntley.com/tea
StretchSite: Play YouTube Videos in the Correct Aspect Ratio
I disagree.

I see like three trends that all seem to be dead, so I have no idea what people in the world are actually talking about. All I see is that about 500 people talked about the FIFA World Cup final game during the past 48 hours, since that's taking two out of three top trends.

"Tweets" are much longer, so it no longer feels like microblogging. Sensitive content feels even dumber, I don't want to click "Read more" in order to view a tweet like it was some kind of a ad-bait blog post.

If someone sends me their profile link that's not on my instance, I can't actually reply to it. Instead, I need to go to my Mastodon instance and then search for that link in order to actually have an interactable version of that "tweet".

Everything also feels slower, possibly because it's having to juggle between so many different instances.

And I have no idea if I chose the right Mastodon instance with the right hall admins that won't read my private messages and ban me for having the wrong opinion.

I'd much, much rather stay on Twitter. It's just that no one has any idea if it's going to be a viable platform in the future and who are going to stick around there.
The pygmy pyromaniac in pyjamas drove the python from the pyramid with pyrotechnics.
I like EVs but isn't mining for Lithium still destroying the environment ?
At first I thought this article was going to be a parody. But as I kept reading I cannot believe that this article is actually serious!

I am very doubtful if the said properties of "jugaad" in this article are correct. I don't see any references that establish the meaning of "jugaad" for us! Right now we just have to take the author's word for it.

Maybe someone from India here can correct me but if I see Wikipedia "jugaad" seems to be the Indian version of "hack". A hack can sometimes be good but I know for sure a whole working product real people rely on should not be made out of hacks (no matter how much frugality it brings to innovation).

I am getting really worried now that in another 5 years we are going to have "jugaad consultants" and "jugaad certifications" telling us how to develop software. Sounds far-fetched? Think again! 20 years back I would have never imagined in my wildest dreams that there would be such creatures as "agile consultants" telling us to play "planning poker" and assign fibonacci numbers to our "stories"!
More like "I tried to talk about going to another restaurant with my friends at the bar. The restaurant wouldn't let me."
If HN is a productivity block it should be promoted when using this, not blocked. The point of this extension is to block everything making you productive, so that you can procrastinate and slack off more.
> no one will trim VW with diesel and automatic transmission

Majority of diesel cars in Germany, AFAIK, are sold with automatic transmission.
I suspect it's more about not being deficient in nutrients that milk (and especially the reinforced variety sold in many countries) happen to be rich in.
The word on the street is that the boss (who says he's the law) currently isn't interested in other's opinions on his decisions.

If I was still at Twitter (by my own decision, ie not visa, etc), I would just enjoy the ride and see where it goes instead of trying to save the product and oppose Elon.
Seeing as how the entire legal dept. is gone, it’s apparently run on whatever Elons whimsy dictates.’
Ngrok is great and has been in development for many years so it's definitely not better than ngrok at this point.

Tunll has got less functionality overall, but it's got most of the basics covered in this preview version.

It's different in that the single binary includes both the agent and the server and can be run as either. Some people may want that.

Tunll is new and can be molded into anything from this point based on feedback. Both with regards to functionality and future subscription models. I'm all ears for anything.

Even potential open sourcing is not out of the question, but not likely for the time being.
I use Adobe Audition for podcast editing and they have a pretty nice feature built in for that already - not sure how this differs. I am also not a big fan of edit-by-transcription, since I do like to remove occasional long silences, weird sounds, etc. That being said the mic check looks pretty useful.
Depends - if someday they manage to make the fusion generators compact enough (think of the coffee-machine-sized "Mr. Fusion" that Dr. Brown brought back from 2015 in Back to the Future where you could throw in any kind of junk and it would use it to provide energy, or even the shipping container-sized units that Lockheed Martin is envisaging), it might be interesting for military purposes. But it's very optimistic to believe that the NIF will seriously work on sustained fusion and extracting the generated energy in a usable way - after all they are called National Ignition Facility, so now they achieved that, mission accomplished. They can now run further ignition experiments with various pellets, laser configurations etc. and study the results, but they will probably say that a new facility (and more money) is needed for further studying sustained fusion.
AFAIK WebExtensions APIs are mostly compatible but the developer still has to do some setup to make them work on both
Would you mind posting your mastodon link here? Twitter have replaced the 'my site' link in your tweet.
I really like the visuals. Really drives home the point that the experts have no idea what to expect anymore.
> No-one abused it.

Honest question: how can you be 100% sure?
Totally fine. I’m sure they enjoy pressing the ‘go’ button.
I do know SOME do not want Citizens to travel https://voxeu.org/article/trade-and-travel-time-epidemics in general dreaming to pushing people to a scenario like the recent french movie Virtual Revolution. Personally I do not want to travel with public means AT ALL.

I do want to being able to move with MY means because public (private) transports have lowered their quality and reliability below the acceptability threshold. I'm tired of airlines shrinking seats, trains more and more designed to be human meat carriers and so on. I'm tired of crappy crapware platforms designed to left even vector employees powerless seeing a crappy screen and so on.

I do favor punishing the management of such companies hard enough their ancestors do not even dream imitating their choices.
> It seems strange that they're so sure it's from the seventh century given the Roman coins on it. Maybe they're what help date it?

I would guess the coins are much older than the necklace -- the alternative would be that they're from the Byzantine empire -- and the necklace is being dated based on the grave in which it was found.
You cannot trust Twitter again until someone else buys it. One policy means nothing since they can change it overnight… as they have done now.
I caught that too!
Yeah, it's easy to add and remove policy pages, but I imagine there's more work involved in blocking and unblocking Mastodon links.

It's in Twitter's interest to say those links are now allowed, while still actually blocking them for at least another 24 hours to stem the outflow.

When they introduced the no-links-in-bio policy I imagine they had not actually written the code to scan 1 billion Twitter accounts for bios and tweets in violation of that policy.
Yes, all EVs with regenerative braking. You can also charge it by rolling it down a hill.

Tow charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaGVoB4Zn-Y

Another tow charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gxi4sn3KXg

Gravity charge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k5wAaDZw1o
My twitter feed is mostly people who “left” twitter
“Murder map” of medieval London (2019)
That's because this breakthrough is being sold - from a dull business and product oriented perspective - as an incredible etc etc which makes a new kind of product more likely.

No one is shitting on the research itself. But the PR around this story has carpet bombed sci-comm as a potential practical energy source. Not as basic research.

So it's perfectly reasonable to ask if there's a there from a commercial POV. And to note out that currently there really isn't.

If they really had announced a viable commercial product everyone here would be cheering.
Uh, so your solution is to kill them?
we can, but the average user not!

if you are tech savvy, like to keep up to date on security and are ok with the hassle of setting up a NAS, sync stuff and know how to keep it secure, perhaps. If you had to pay me to do it for you, a few dollars service fee might be much cheaper...
Worst offender as in making you the most productive? I'm pretty sure that's not the case. I'm not even sure it qualifies to be on the list. If anything it's a distraction making you less productive.
Yeah, pretty much

Backtracking is just the cherry on top. Nowhere is such an impactful decision (I mean, crappy decision) is done on such a whim

The Emperor's birthday suit is revealing itself day by day
Yes. For all the reasons. I want to own stuff, I want my stuff to be mine, forever, to do with as I please.

I want physical things to mess about with, I want to be able to experience things as I did when I first got them.

We're in a cultural dark-age.. The hoops you have to jump to experience "new" artefacts are something else...

How bad WAS the initial version of the new sim city game? How do I even run that?

What about that TV-Show that said something that upset people.. That episode is offline again.
First I heard of it, my friend’s mother got a prescription and found herself waking up with bags of flour and empty jars of mayonnaise in bed with her. More recently I had a colleague who grew extremely habituated/addicted to it, which did not end well.
Free as in "free beer", I assume.
You don't need a monorepo to have integration tests. You can very well have a CI that clones a bunch of stuff and builds and tests them all together.

The issue that monorepo is solving is regarding write operations: FOO depends on BAR, which depends on BAZ. If you need to change BAZ to develop what you want on FOO and they're all on multiple repos, you'd have to pull request your way from the bottom to the top of the dependency graph. This is what causes the friction that monorepos avoid, and this is the hard part of such workflow to automate with multiple repos.
> This is a ban on advertising an online presence outside of Twitter, which makes the platform way less attractive to anyone who uses it as a secondary platform

Reading the page it was a ban on empty accounts, ie a block on accounts that are "Follow me as @mike on instagram" or whatever.

Nevermind though, the policy is now reversed and Elon has apologised.
easy to say when you have no skin in the game
I fear for Ukraine if they will eventually lose the war. If that happens they'll most likely come under the Russian sphere of influence and the West will pull back leaving them to fend for themselves whilst their entire country lies in ruins. They'll be ruined both militarily and financially.

The Russians will do nothing to aid them, probably accusing them of resisting and killing many of their countrymen and in reprisal taking large swaths of land and destroying their culture. I foresee many millions of Ukrainians leaving for Western Europe if that scenario becomes reality, which could destabilize Western European nations.

War isn't about destroying tanks and airplanes but occupying the land of your opponent. Russia certainly has a leg up in that regards since they're sacrificing hundreds of thousands of young men to stop the Ukrainians from advancing and could even take Kiev next year.

If Ukraine loses it will mean yet another huge blow to the West. And all this started because we prodded them to become NATO member. They even put their desire for NATO membership in their Constitution! I believe this was the straw that broke the camel's back and inspired Putin to invade.
How Was the Universe Created?
> Even if you take his 4 week buffer to 48 hours.

Stil 4x as long as any serious proposal and still assumes all low grade heat and all energy that will eventually drive an electrolyser will be stored in a battery for no reason. Any report that suggests an electrolyser needs guaranteed 100% uptime backed by chemical storage has the same amount of credibility as a report that suggests all PV will be polysilicon or thin film.

> That is an absolutely cursed comparison. What forms of these elements are you talking about? Why are you comparing energy storage to energy generation?

Because you are trying to say that storage is a constraint to using renewable generation. And the form to compare doesn't matter. It's the elemental material you need to extract used in technology that is currently commercially viable.

> It doesn't matter. We have enough U and Th to power humanity for millennia. We only use 0.7% of the U we mine for fucks sake. We're not even trying.

Fertile material isn't fissile material. Even in a closed fuel cycle (which is not a thing that exists in reality) you still need startup fuel material, and none of the proposed over unity breeder scenarios have a fast enough doubling time to be useful. That's a very nice double standard where the technology that actually exists and has a tens of GWh/yr supply chain already 90% built has to have already solved the problem to be feasible, but vague hand waving at reactor designs and fuel cycles that don't even exist as a prototype get a pass.

> Pumped hydro is great, there's not enough suited geography for it

There are thousands of TWh of sites with suitable geography. Only a fraction of a percent need to pass environmental feasibility to cover the plurality of storage.

> The report was constrained to tech that was commercially available in volume.

Then why did he repeatedly say thing like sodium ion has yet to show industrial scale feasibility mere weeks after CATL announced that they were building out an industrial scale pipeline having already finished proving feasibility? Why not include Zinc Bromide that was developed in the university whose logo he put on the report?
> “This woman probably belonged to the first generation of English Christians in this part of England,” Francis Young, a historian of religion who was not involved in the excavation, told The Post. “This is people wanting to show off their newly acquired identity as Christians.”

Artifact interpretation is always so tendentious. Lots of people wear necklaces with a cross pendant today. They are mostly not trying to show off their newly acquired identity as Christians.
- 18 minute 10-80% charge time in ideal conditions (which is very good)

Having to wait almost 20 minutes on a 60 minutes commute is far from ideal.

That time is very good when one recharges at home or during a long trip or at destination (office / mall / etc) while doing other things. But in the last case it takes away a charging spot until the owner comes back. How is that managed now?
> "too perfect", as was discovered quickly once computers came into the picture.

As has been elucidated by AutoTune with its robotic ooze. Alas, the point is driven home harshly this time of year thanks to the overplay of Michael Buble's Christmas albums.
Not out for a long while yet, but https://linuxmemory.org/ :)
> I just disagree with this view, lots of people use it to code.

I agree. It wasn't obvious to me, at first, that Emacs is not a code editor, rather just a Lisp program for editing lots of text. And I didn't even know what Lisp was at the time, so it wouldn't have helped either way. But ...

> It should be easy to setup a coding environment with it.

It kinda is. I started using Emacs with just a Spacemacs install. And I didn't need to learn anything about Emacs for a long time after that. It was only when Spacemacs stopped being maintained, and I started facing issues due to that, that I looked deeper. It helped that I had learned what Lisp is (Common Lisp, though, not Emacs Lisp) for it to finally click, so I got lucky that way.

Now, even when I know Emacs (and Emacs Lisp) rather well, I still stick to Doom Emacs to "setup a coding environment with it".
(article author here)

> That third subset means the third frontend only has a subset of three backends, even though you want it to have four.

This explanation is correct, thanks.
Alas, word limits demand brevity.

> implicit assumption about the requirement that the final algorithm require no dynamic/runtime coordination

An earlier iteration of this article included coordination as one of the properties, but this unfortunately had to be cut. AFAICS, the only other two kinds of coordination are “frontend tasks talk to each other” or “frontend tasks ask a subsetting service for their subset”. Within Google, both of these options are unacceptable: we either introduce the risk that a rogue frontend task brings down all the frontends, or introduce new unappealing failure modes (what do you do if the subsetting service is unavailable?). There is potential for other subsetting algorithms in this space, and while I’d be excited to see them, I’m mildly sceptical about their practicality at scale.
In capitalism, the market can decide to want software purchase options beyond just subscriptions. Plenty of people in this thread have been offering examples of great alternatives like how JetBrains does it. But I do agree that there should be a bigger pushback against making things a SaaS that don’t need to be a SaaS.
It’s practical proof that in a single pulse we can get more energy out than we put in. We do spend a shit ton of energy setting up the pulse, and we haven’t figure out how to get that energy out and make electrons move, but it’s been proven possible.

The “breakthrough” is the proof that it’s possible. Everything else is now optimisation and engineering, and needs mostly time, sweat and money.