skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to be careful about your words.

1) Pyrex cookware is NOT "likely to crack and split in microwave cooking".

These incidents are RARE.

2) The Pyrex name (in the US) includes both soda lime and borosilicate glass. Warning about "Pyrex" is wrong - you should be warning either about soda lime glass, which include many brands besides Pyrex.

3) Thermal shock is much more likely to occur when moving glass from the freezer to the oven, or from the oven to a metal surface, NOT when cooking in the microwave.

I went ahead and skimmed the video. Every example was of putting a hot pan into a cold liquid, with warnings about moving a hot pan to a cold metal surface, or using it to cook on a stovetop.

There were no examples of shattering due to the microwave turntable, nor warnings thereof.

4) My microwave uses a glass turntable. Why doesn't it shatter? Where does the thermal shock come from between the glass container and the glass turntable?

If the thermal shock is between those two, then surely your more worried the glass would shatter if you take it out of the microwave oven and put it on a metal countertop, yes?

(I bet my glass turntable is made of soda lime glass.)

5) Glass shatters for other reasons, like dropping it. As I quoted, "the change to soda lime represents a greater net safety benefit", because soda glass is safer than borosilicate when that happens.

Don't forget that borosilicate glass also cracks with thermal shock.

See also the Wikipedia references, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/exploding-pyrex/ and https://gizmodo.com/the-pyrex-glass-controversy-that-just-wo... .
"Math" sounds funny as a brit - it's just what you're used to, although I will admit "math" is probably more technically correct.
Was discussing the same with dad when walking through a nearly abandoned mall in MD a while ago. Think a sort of gated community - anchor stores can become things like WholeFoods. Reclaiming a ribbon of parking around the mall allows for creating a green zone around the mall and possibly even ‘backyard’ gardens. And as noted by others, it is far more trivial to add the necessary infrastructure to support housing. Natural light is another issue which can be addressed with minor alteration to the external facing walls of stores. Basically you can easily stamp out big studios, merge stores for n-bedrooms, and depending on the structure of the mall possibly even punch through floors for duplexes, etc. These will be luxury units. And the ‘food court’ etc. can form the core of the ‘village’.
Yet. Why don’t we yet.
Threads will never be the new Twitter
Sure, we also build most of Fedora on a separate build system (http://fedora.riscv.rocks/koji/) so it's a pretty similar situation.
Lol. Oh sun isn’t what causes pressure? Shit I better go back to my thermo teacher and let him know.
What tech conference was in Kosovo? I feel like most are in all of the normal destinations and would like to add a few that are in more interesting locales.
I heard that if you encounter one of those "Please tell me what you want help with?" voice prompts on a customer service call, you can just keep on repeating profanity and you will eventually get an operator.

I have never tried it, but I sort of want to...
I'm not sure why you're saying Swift is locked in to Apple platforms, it's definitely cross-platform. It's no problem to run Swift on Linux or Windows. Of course, Apple's UI libraries aren't cross-platform. And they're putting a bunch of effort into making it better for servers and such. I wish more people realized how usable it is cross-platform, I think this is a misconception that hampers Swift adoption.

Swift is definitely my favorite programming language from a language standpoint. I really like the way Swift works. It's safe, concise without being terse, and easy to extend.

Sure, some people can argue there's some "bloat", but I think that's inevitable in a language that was designed to immediately be usable within Apple's existing APIs and frameworks. There's going to be complexity with Objective-C interop, C++ interop, etc. But that stuff is necessary for Swift to be usable for big projects. And I think Apple has done quite a good job of evolving Swift to be cleaner, clearer, more ergonomic, etc.

I'm very excited that there's a lot of effort behind an open-source, cross-platform type-safe, compiled language that also prioritizes ergonomic high-level programming.
So let's see what the suggestions are:

- Remove markings (such as crosswalks)
- Remove signals (such as pedestrian crossings)
- Remove curbs (so that cars can, and will, drive on what is supposed to be sidewalk)
- Where there are sidewalks, block them with cafes (so that pedestrians must walk in the road)

As a frequent pedestrian, on the already pedestrian-hostile streets of the U.S., many of which do not have sidewalks, I have zero faith that this would make drivers behave better. Quite the opposite.

This is the land where the very concept of walking somewhere, or riding a bike, is utterly foreign and incomprehensible to most people. It's the land of selfishness, where anyone else on the road is an inconvenience 'in your way'.

We need more controls, not less. And, ideally, solid barriers to separate the death-machines from the living people. They should have to go around the places where there are people, instead of barreling carelessly through them.
$800k is not getting you anything spectacular in the nicer neighborhoods in Chicago unless you're looking at 1 and maybe 2 bedroom condos.

The median condo is not particularly great - and it goes for ~$660k in most of the nicer neighborhoods.

The median house is well over $800k in the nicer neighborhoods.

And, again, Chicago is one of the most affordable cities in the US.
Looking at the scale of NordVPN they either already have a liason with aurhorities inside, or are hacked by authorities.

The (law enforcement) agencies can just go to the few biggest VPN suppliers. Just like they go to FAANG.
> There aren’t enough calories in breastmilk to sustain life for an adult male.

It's just a question of how much, right? It's more than one woman can make, but I reckon it's less than one cow can.
> Instead we get one where you can’t even be anonymous without rubbing elbows with child predators.

There have been secretive child predators ever since statutory rape was invented. The reason that you didn't have to "rub elbows" with them is because our governments hadn't begun systematically closing off all avenues for anonymity other than the one that they built and maintain for their own spying. If there's only one way to be anonymous, you get to "rub elbows" with everyone who needs to be anonymous for any reason.

It has nothing to do with child porn or crypto. Neither were responsible for the size of the distributed files kept on each of us to grow in orders of magnitude.

Speaking of "maps at our fingertips," good luck finding one that doesn't result in a record of the lookup and any GPS data submitted with it being inserted into a half-dozen databases, all freely accessible by the government, or by anybody buying in bulk.
There's an approximately fixed number of jobs in time periods meaningful to humans. My rent is not going to wait for new fields to blossom in the wake of "progress".
It'd be helpful to know the minimal energy requirement to desalinate a gallon of water. With perfect technology, how expensive (in terms of energy) would it be? What's our current level of efficiency?
> Please provide a quote of the claim you say I’m making without data.

As requested, the quote:

> Companies tend not to have data on the sexual orientation of their employees. Such studies are not possible to do.

The studies are absolutely possible to do. Throwing up our hands because companies "tend not to have data on sexual orientation" reads like a cop-out when the comment you responded to was attempting to get at some data around this very issue.

> The McKinsey stuff and other stuff is generally publically available data.

Is it? I found a report [1], which isn't the one which I previously remember seeing but it'll have to do since that older one evades me now.

Look at the footnotes. Several pages say their source is the "McKinsey Diversity Database". I searched for it on Google and DuckDuckGo and it didn't show up for me. Do you have a link to the underlying data for this database? I tried and failed to find one.

Lastly, review the authors at the end of the doc. If you put the authors' bios at the top of the report, the conclusion would be surprising to exactly zero people. That doesn't mean their conclusion is invalid, but given that much of their data is tied up in a "diversity database" that I can't find is VERY suspect.

[1]: https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functio...
It is trivial in the US if you're able to use Tesla's supercharger network.
SICP is not about scheme or lisp, but its concepts are best understood in scheme in lisp. Just like the best way to understand what Saturn looks like is to look at it though a telescope.

Sure you can use a spectrum scan or the output of a radio telescope, but it's really not the same as looking at in a telescope.

Same thing here -- SICP just isn't the same if it's not in scheme or lisp.
NATS is not a queue. It's distributed pub/sub message broker for communicating between applications.

NATS's only responsibility is to route messages in near-real-time from publishers to consumers. Messages are ephemeral and dropped immediately after delivery; if nobody is listening, the messages vanish. Messages are only queued temporarily in RAM if the consumer is busy, and they can get dropped if a consumer doesn't handle them fast enough. In short, NATS is very lightweight and fast, and designed for things that are lightweight and fast. It's like a kind of distributed socket mechanism, and works best as a communication primitive you build stuff on top of (like TCP or UDP) rather than a fully fledged system.

So it's very different from Kafka and other types of queues that are durable and database-like. Kafka is good for "fat pipes" that centralize data from producers into a log which is then consumed by massively parallel sets of consumers, and you don't constantly change this topology. NATS is good for networks of fast-changing producers and consumers that send small messages to each other, often one-on-one, although any fan-out topology works. It's great for firehose-type routing. For example, imagine you want your app to produce lots of different kinds of telemetry. Your app just sends messages to a topic "telemetry" or maybe a dotted topic like "telemetry.iostats" or "telemetry.errors". Then a client can "tap" into that topic by listening to it. If no client is listening, the firehose goes nowhere. But then a client can tap into "telemetry.errors" and get just the stream of error messages. Topics are just strings, so you can create unique topics for temporary things; an app can send a message to another app like "hey, do some work and then send the result to my temporary topic foobar726373".

NATS is particularly notable for its "just works" design. The clustering, for example, ties together brokers with no effort. Clients typically don't need any configuration at all, other than the name of a NATS server.

NATS can be used as a low-level component to build stateful stuff. NATS Jetstream is a Kafka-like solution that stores durable logs, and uses NATS as its communication protocol. Liftbridge is another one.
AI has been participating in that war on both sides. All the big providers use some form of AI to identify spam [1]. And on the other side several startups (some advertised here!) are offering AI-driven mass mail marketing (They use AI to customize mails and to identify targets) [2].

1. https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/an-o... "Gmail employs a number of AI-driven filters that determine what gets marked as spam."
But it's proprietary, and built by a company which loves tracking.
This is just total bullshit.

You seem to believe that innovation, and perhaps even production, requires a system in which the investment of capital in a limited liability enterprise is disproportionately the beneficiary of profit compared to the investment of labor or IP (that's all the capitalism consists of).

The things you list above are the product of science, art, curiosity, imagination, ambition, empathy, and hope. All of which can exist (and flourish) without or without capitalism.

Perhaps you make the mistake of thinking that capitalism somehow means "free markets" or "entrepeneurial culture". It does not. Those ideas are orthogonal to it, and can exist with it or without it. They can exist with or without worked-owned co-operatives. They can exist with or without state owned enterprises. They can exist with or without publicly traded shared-based ownership.
Significant differences between Bosch 'blue' and Bosch 'green'. Makita is universally top quality, I don't know what they sell in the USA though, but what I can get here in Europe is very well engineered and reliable. Fun story: we went through one jigsaw after another of 'A' brands back in the day when Makita was still not well established in Europe. Cutting fiberglass (which is kind of nasty stuff on mechanisms). Then we decided that if they're going to fail anyway let's get something cheap so that we won't cry when we have to toss it. Enter the first Makita tool in the shop. And it just lasted and lasted... for half the price that was a pretty good deal :)
Good point.

I brought up the oil aspect in my comments below, but because this was a battery tech related convo I decided to bring up the (relatively minor) lithium portion. Though the battery tech issue did play a role in Toyota's decision to develop the Prius and the Mirai

Japan's hydrogen strategy is definetly a reaction to oil shocks a la 2008 and 1973
Durham had years and his only goal was to discredit the investigation. All he came up with was bullshit. That's more than evidence of absense. It's not absolute proof that everything was above board, but it's very suggestive.
Don't fine them, just take ownership of the illegal portion of the construction.

The city can sublet it, the developer derives zero revenue.
Yes, we have needed an ESTA for a long time now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_System_for_Travel...

$20, but you have to apply regularly. They do "something" and you may or may not be approved, and everyone including children need their own one.
Osmotic Pump: Principle of extracting fresh water using ocean pressure (1974)
site disappears, not sure what is going on.
I don't think the AKIA/ASIA prefix for AWS access keys is formalized, which may be a good example of this:
https://github.com/localstack/localstack/blob/6f846a8278e439...
They've been doing it randomly for a while.
There are two cases where such a tool could be useful:

1. You have no clue about what "boilerplate" is required or why.

2. You know what's required but you need to generate the boilerplate often.

In the first case, just stop. Using a tool might give you some kind of result, but the quality of what you do is already subpar from the beginning. Learn your effing tools.

In the second case, stop, too. Work with a higher abstraction layer, instead.

> I know for a fact that at least one FANG has a couple of internal tools to create projects and CICD infrastructure from scratch using project templates.

Imagine what that means for the ICs in that FANG: They don't know why the boilerplate is what it is or what part they could or should replace with something more modern .
While its true there is still a relationship back to ICANN for ccTLDs, politically it would be a shitstorm of epic proportions if the US/ICANN interfered in the administration of ccTLDs - most countries (understandably!) see their ccTLD as an increasingly sovereign thing that is naturally owned by the State, not the registrars or domain name registration system.

While it might be technically possible for ICANN to make certain adjustments to the ccTLD system or the registration requirements, politically its much much harder and gets harder still with time. Imagine the response from most soverign states etc if their own ccTLD was meddled with in a manner they didn't appreciate.

ICANN has slowly tried to move more and more of the ccTLD stuff to international working groups ("Governmental Advisory Committee") to put clean air between the US and ccTLDs, but the link is still there:

https://gac.icann.org/

https://gac.icann.org/principles-and-guidelines/public/princ...
MAUs going up without a corresponding increase in revenue (rather, they've experienced a substantial decrease in revenue) is not good business.

Threads is not yet a flop.
Not all of them will be super complex.

Everyone talks about how they don't know what new entry level jobs will open up when the AI automates everything.

When the delivery drones come, someone is going to have to go and retrieve them when they break down, or get stuck in trees, or shot at by someone...
> My rent is not going to wait for new fields to blossom in the wake of "progress".

Don’t worry, you wouldn’t even be qualified for the new jobs anyway, unless ofc they’re low skilled in which case you might barely scrape by on rent.
An example from personal experience:

When I was really young, I wanted to figure out web programming. I knew C#, so when I came across a book on making websites in C# with ASP.NET, it was a no-brainer.

I the slogged through 2000+ pages on how to handle connection state, WYSIWYG web forms generation with drag and drop component, etc. The experience was horrible, and turned me off to web programming.

A brief aside, for those unfamiliar: ASP.NET presents the programmer with a (leaky) abstraction over HTTP and HTML, pretending that the protocols involved are stateful, whereas the reality is that HTTP is stateless. This creates all sorts of new ASP.NET specific problems, which are then addressed by jumping through hoops to ensure control state is (de)serialized just right, etc. Thus the 2000+ page count.

Later on I discovered ASP.NET MVC, which did away the the “let’s pretend HTTP is stateful”, and takes an approach much like just about any other web framework out there. You’re expected to know HTML, CSS and HTTP. I was like “oh, is this it? I just learn some HTML, register some request handlers, and generate some HTML?”. Until then, my focus was on getting something working, and I trusted that what they covered would get me up and running. That line of reasoning failed me with ASP.NET, as the book set me up to ignore the underlying (and ironically, much simpler) machinery of the web.

I’m positive ASP.NET isn’t the only framework guilty of distracting developers from learning the fundamentals. And think about it: when’s the last time you’ve seen HTTP or HTML listed as required proficiencies in a job description? I can’t remember. What I do see is an expectation to know all the intricacies of React, Babel, Grunt, Redux, whatever. If you’re trying to land your first job, or working on climbing the ladder, it’s easy to fall into the trap of investing all your time in finding your way around the accidental complexity of the frameworks you intend to make your living from using, and underestimate the value of understanding what’s going on in the layers beneath the abstractions.
You realize that Ada and Objective C predate Object Pascal, and Erlang came out in the same year as it, right?

I would worry less about new ways of doing the same thing and more about client generation/retention. Plenty of companies are willing to pay top dollar for boring technology.
Medium sites are garbage anyway, partial account wall.
People swearing they'd fight to the death for people like Tate are pretty say people. It's not washing that you're not allied with him.
I read this same article in 1995...
Not relevant here.
I go to foreign gov sites just as frequently as US ones because I travel internationally.
They'll do that if you criticize the Barbie movie, or fail to.
It is hard (or maybe it was hard) to average more than 60mph on US interstates, including gas/pee/food stops. 1300 miles @ 60mph is 21hrs. Unless you plan to not drive the next day, that's a LOT of driving, and definitely not easy.
Full title (too long): The Osmotic Pump: In principle, but probably not in practice, fresh water can be extracted from our oceans for no expenditure of energy.

Emphasise is mine. Still an interesting concept that is not widely discussed, and not a perpetual engine fallacy.
Question: does the ability to absorb energy necessarily means that any deformation will be permanent, or do metal foams that absorb energy get back to a preferable shape, like a memory foam mattress?
I migrated to Alpine for my laptop this year after an extended attempt of NixOS.
For development, I’ve found I’m more productive in that I don’t go down the rabbit hole of finding the “Nix way” of using a language/tool.
The speed of apk is refreshing for my older machine, and APKBUILDs are intuitive after my past experience with Arch PKGBUILD.

Drew DeVault has a decent write up on Alpine that’s worth a read.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/05/06/Praise-for-Alpine-Linux.h...
I've tried to go through the JS version, and I have to disagree. I know enough Scheme to see why the book is structured the way it is, but it doesn't work well in JS. The patterns that seem so natural in Scheme are contrived to the point of being distracting in JavaScript.
Didn't they retaliate against Wirecutter staff when they tried to go union, too?

Half a billion dollars for a startup by two techbros, but the Times can't afford the cost of their employees unionizing?

I guess I'm not in the least bit surprised then that every time I happen to click on an article from The Athletic out of boredom, it feels like something a freshman journalism major might write and then later be embarrassed about...and that every article I've read has been attributed to "The Athletic Staff."

Sidenote: it always amazes me that in the US, you supposedly need permission from a complicated, slow federal bureaucracy to be "recognized" and thus protected from retaliation for actions.
Same in Australia - you've got a very wealthy population, living on the coastal outskirts of a wind/solar/coal heavy desert. Basically the perfect combo for desalination.
On the contrary, the article says it would only take 39.2 grams to kill every human on the planet. Wild.
And remember that unlike Amazon does with AWS, Google doesn't use GCP/Kubernetes to run it's infrastructure.

Google's software runs on Borg, which is _not_ written in GoLang.

Google's three OS projects all eschew GoLang as well.
Salt falling though gravity? It won't work after the upper layers of the ocean are depleted of their salt.
And then there is Spain...
It might be more expensive to get a GPU instance but at a guess I'd say it's more cost-effective considering that the CPU computation will be less efficient and take much longer. I bet someone's done this out with real numbers, I just haven't seen it.
You can just look at Redfin to see that this isn't true. You can get a 4bdr in the Loop for ~$800k. I've spent most of my life here, including the last 19 years, and I just bought a new house here; I think you're going to have a hard time talking me down from my own lived experience.

The standard message board tactic for wriggling out of this position is to define "the nice neighborhoods" in Chicago ludicrously narrowly, like the only nice places to live here are Lincoln Park and... well that's it. But even Lincoln Park is doable at $800k.
"...but the Times can't afford the cost of their employees unionizing?"

It's not cost, it's control...
.nyc is also a government TLD.