skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider it an economic problem. War costs money, therefore war will be conducted when its benefits exceed its costs. What makes war profitable? For that you need to know the benefits of war. The most obvious benefit is the changing of borders and conquering of new land. Now you might say that it always makes sense for a country to try to conquer the enire world, because having the land grants you access to its riches for free, but then you have to consider the costs of war too.

The cost of conquering land and managing it yourself must be cheaper than letting the other country manage the land and production process and then importing the goods you want.

The cost of conquering the land can be split into two parts. First, the initial offensive representing capex and the ongoing defense costs against attackers represent opex. If it turns out that the foreign country is both fleecing you on imports and is spending less in defense per acre than you would, if you managed the land, it would be profitable for you to conquer the land and install a defense force that spends more to protect the same plot of land. Since your spending budget is higher per acre, the original country would lose if they tried to recover the territory.

Now consider the opposite scenario. The original country does not fleece you on imports and has a lean army. Then it would not be profitable for you to conquer the land, since you have higher opex and the benefit is insignificant.

Of course none of this stops crazy dictators from attempting world domination, but it can tell you that on average, people should be uninterested in war.
I don't get why Tesla keeps touting that they're going to have FSD taxis... in a few years. And their stock goes up when they (usually it's Musk, let's be clear) tout this. Waymo already has this (in limited areas). Why wouldn't Musk just partner with Waymo on this? Isn't this a situation where the more people using the tech will make it better faster than trying to have a dozen different companies chasing it essentially duplicating effort and training? Self driving seems like an area where it would be beneficial to share training data as much as possible.
and those Taus are still selling for that much due to the retro gaming craze and scalpers.
Should display "City: Home (:"
Whatever it is, this would be a fitting thing for an altruistic hacker to clandestinely install remotely on every Firestick about now.

Don't they activate their botnets all at once after laying in wait until the time is right?
Wine Consumption, Diet and Microbiome Modulation in Alzheimer's Disease (2020)
Knights like to sit fairly forward, reinforced by our pawns, on squares their pawns can't attack.

Bishops like long diagonals, and to complement the pawns' attacking squares (Ps & Bs tend to cover only one color). Also good for "countering" a knight 3 squares away (Nf6 & Bf3, for example, though it seems to prefer Bg2).

Rooks like open files, doubling up, 7th rank plays, and (in this case) the rare opportunity to line it up w/ their king (Rg3).

Queens like not being trapped or sidelined (by either side's pieces), good diagonals, good files, or both (like some natural mix of rook & bishop wants).
Show HN: Create your HTML/ZIP/PNG polyglot file in JavaScript
IV infusion enables editing of the cystic fibrosis gene in lung stem cells
I'm a bit late to the game, but I managed to squeeze out about 1 GH/s on an i7-13700K.
Interesting, hasn't ECDSA been around way too long for possible patents to still be a concern (due to either being expired or prior art long predating their filing date)?
Package managers are aware of config files and handle user changes during updates

Only system config files. I know of no package manager that scans config files in users' home dirs.
Despite the upbeat title, we need to remember that we are well past time to stop emitting large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. And yet, solar, wind, storage discharge, other renewables( and possibly SMR nuclear temporarily) are not even _close_ to replacing fossil fuel energy sources. The charts do not suggest reaching anywhere near zero emissions from electricity generation by 2030, and that's when we ignore the contribution of the production of solar panels and related systems.

So, while the trend is positive - this is still disappointing and worrying news.
I was replying to a specific argument: That producing solar panels is energy-intensive, and thus bad (this part was implied). My counterargument is that energy-intensive is irrelevant when you've got basically-free, clean energy.

If your energy is dirty, fix your energy. Don't make downstream consumers feel bad instead.
> Web apps are no better than X11

I'm not just talking about a Perl script running on Apache like it's 1999. I'm talking about globally distributed cloud apps. It might be theoretically possible with X11 but it doesn't actually exist. Maybe we could envision a world where x11s://docs.google.com transparently opens an SSH connection, sets up X forwarding back to my local X11 server, and allows me to work with "Google Docs" the X11 client app just like how a browser tab works today. But nobody's written that, and they haven't written any of the myriad pieces of infrastructure to allow it to scale to a global user base either. That's not even getting into the security and interoperability concerns between apps running on different hosts which the browser has (not always in the best way) already addressed.

> how is Wayland's architecture much different from X11's again?

Honestly, I don't know that Wayland is really that much better. Though I think abandoning network transparency was the right move, I can't say I feel the same about any other decision (mostly due to ignorance). It seems to have stabilized enough after 15+ years that the major desktop environments and distributions have (mostly) adopted it, but honestly I've never seen any tangible benefit as an end user. I too have asked "why not X12?" but I don't know that it was any more feasible. The competitors (Windows, macOS/iOS, Android) were all able to deliver more coherent experiences (and in a lot less time) because one entity owns the whole window system stack. Wayland set out to maintain a lot of the same agnosticism X11 had about particular details; while perhaps inevitable given the goals, the end result is nowhere near as simple and cohesive as the competition.
So what were “big screen TVs” (which my family never owned) that appeared in movies and tv? I feel like they looked more lightweight than this so I’m assuming they were like Plasma screens? Or maybe that technology was after the pop culture I’m referring to
> USSR/Russia’s safety record is actually far superior here.

It's not; the US has launched more people into space; most of them using far more complex vehicles (reusable shuttles); some of them into far more dangerous missions - beyond the low earth orbit, to the Moon and back.

The US has had no fatal in-flight accidents involving simple rockets and space capsules comparable to Soyuz despite going much further and flying to the Moon. Their accidents happened with an experimental space plane (X-15 in 1967) and space shuttles (Challenger in 1986, Columbia in 2003). Russians spent over 20 years on their space shuttle, but it only flew a single unmanned test flight. The US space shuttle flew 133 successful manned missions out of 135 launches. Likewise, the US flew 199 missions with X-15 space plane, whereas its Soviet counterpart MiG-105 flew only 8.

In other words, Russians never got to flying at scale the kind of missions that killed US astronauts. You need to take that into account when comparing safety records.
AFAIK it's not at all clear that solar and wind are really cheaper when making up a substantial part of a large-scale power grid that meets our current expectations of 100% consistent and reliable power everywhere, no matter what.

The unreliability of solar and wind requires either hot (constantly running and spinning) non-renewable backups or grid-scale power storage (has never been done so ? on cost to build and upkeep) to guarantee reliable voltage and AC frequency. The cost of that should be factored into determine the true cost of these power sources.

The stability of the grid is dependent on the collective physical inertia of the many tens of thousands of huge and heavy spinning turbine-generator sets that make up the majority of the current generating capacity. Most current solar power sources rely on grid-following inverters, which are not stable without a grid stabilized by a preponderance of large spinning turbines. There has been some work on grid-forming inverters that are less impacted by this, but AFAIK there aren't currently any that can replicate the grid stability provided by that physical inertia.

I'm less certain about wind turbines, but I think they have this problem too. I don't think they're controllable enough to be mechanically synced to the grid frequency.

I'd love to be wrong about this, please prove me so if you can! But I don't often hear these points addressed, and we're not helping anything by ignoring the complexity of the real world.
The research has not stalled at all, the incentive to make consumer devices has because of the capture by tech giants. If someone wanted to implement an interesting idea like this, they would be harshly judged for not being able to compete with pixels and iphones for the rest of the stack. See Rabbit for example.

What you are describing is the bread and butter of modern systems research and all the large cloud providers internally implement this kind of thing.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, an important feature for me is being able to read/write/search notes on mobile.
I think a lot of recent Forths (at least outside of the embedded space) have been written in C or C++ rather than assembly now that the processors are incredibly complicated. Of course, you can write forth on anything including the JVM or in Python...etc.
Unnecessarily emotional and unprofessional, but what do I know
The old saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely clearly has parallels in all other fields: Absolute money corrupts vision and focus.

Tesla: "We did it. We have become profitable and created a real product people want. Now we can laser focus on making it better and more reliable and cheaper for everyone!" "haha nope! lets put it all into crypto and humanoid robots and impregnating as many CEOs as possible, let that bet ride bayyybeeee!!!!"
If you aren't physically strong enough to defend yourself then you shouldn't be able to defend yourself?
Rear projection
SSI will always be Server Side Includes to me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
Why not hydrogen?
Slightly off-topic, I remember working with an apache library years ago, and I loved the idea of memory pools.

Basically, create a memory pool.

Then all memory operations such as malloc and free are associated with that memory pool.

When you were done, you could release the memory pool and everything, every allocation, would magically be cleaned up.

It probably makes more sense in the context of a web server request... the request gets a memory pool, all memory allocations/deallocations belong to it, and if there is some sort of error, everything is easily cleaned up.
>but on real world maps, there are enclaves - little islands that belong to a country that they have not connection to. And if those shall have the same color as their parent country, then 4 colors is not enough...

Can you give an example of one that can't be colored with 4 colors?
True, good point. Makes sense! Thanks for the improvement!
I have been riding Waymo around LA for over a year with no issues. To me, it's just an Uber with an invisible driver, and more predictable experience.

Riding it is now a mundane experience, and that's a marvel in itself. Every time I'm forced to get an Uber in another city (or do airport rides as Waymo doesn't do pickups/dropoffs in LAX yet), I feel like I went 5 years back in time.

My Tesla has FSD and that has gotten progressively better the last few updates, however Waymo still feels ahead. I can truly "relax" in a Waymo, where FSD still makes me uneasy at times, like I'm supervising a teenage driver.
This is horrible. Such things should never happen. Heads should roll. Yadda yadda yadda.

But in crude capitalist terms - why should anyone in MS management actually give a sh*t?
For signatures? That would defeat the entire point, unless you also sign the new key using your old key and attach that signature (and then you're back to square one).

Or do you mean you'd pre-exchange all these public keys? That would work, but be practically pretty tedious. I wonder if there's a way to do better using hierarchical public keys? I think there's a way to derive child public keys without having the corresponding private key.
> They’re commercially available. Anyone can download the app and hail one

Alas, not if you're from Europe it seems. I'd love to try one when I'm in the Bay area
They were projection TV's. Both front, or rear projection.
The analogy is apt. Many, many, many fusion reactors have achieved first plasma. This is comparable to a rocket achieving orbit.

This company's ultimate goal is commercial fusion power, which has never been done. SpaceX's goal is landing people on Mars, which has never been done. The milestones being discussed are just stepping stones.
That's the trick. On one of the longest days of the year, OP got ~$5 worth of electricity where I live.

The payoff can be long, and people often forget to account for the added cost to home insurance to cover the panels in that.

OTOH, if where you live electricity is more expensive or labor is cheaper, it can be a really nice addition without too long a wait to make it back. The company I talked to said I get too much shade to be worth installing (150 foot tall trees near my house) so I'll be waiting awhile before I get mine even if electricity prices go up, sadly.
Given the impact the world has already seen because we let two companies tie up LiFePO4, after we let a few companies tie up other battery patents for hybrids before that...

TBH I would judge the world if they just went ahead and 'stole' it vs RAND licensing...

At the same time, I can see it being one hell of a hypothetical 'carrot' for lots of things, and of the current major powers, China is the only one with enough overall (political+humanpower+etc) will (at this time, anyway) to possibly make Fusion happen sooner than ITER can.

Strategically speaking, it would 'make sense' for them to pursue... Would the European union force NL's hand, to make ASML sell machines for whatever comes after EUV, in exchange for Fusion tech? Or all sorts of other fun things for the right Q factor?

Things become murkier.
* Use Firefox as browser

* install UblockOrigin

* Use tor for a lot of things

* Use cookie cleaners

* Do not use Google for anything

I never see ads following me.
My hack is to live in a country that forces Facebook to give me an opt-out, and then I click "no" when Facebook asks.
And people are slowly testing the limits of the nuke deterrent. Turns out everyone is really hesitant to use them especially when the aggressor has nukes too.
Except it doesn’t.

You can still verify the message was signed by the generated (and attached) key, and no other. Aka verify integrity.

If the goal is to be anonymous, then being able to verify it was signed by a given individual is of course fundamentally undesirable no?

You fundamentally can’t be able to both verify a given individual signed something AND have who signed something be actually anonymous. At best you can obfuscate or attempt to hide who signed it, but if you have a candidate you can check. Which means they aren’t really anonymous.

Just not immediately identifiable. If you have a suspect, you can still nail them.

If you generate a new pub/private key pair per post, if desired the poster could retain the private key and still prove they wrote it later - while not being otherwise identifiable if they wanted to remain anonymous.
Google is also revoking the unlimited storage they granted to universities in the US. Many of my colleagues have terabytes (and 1-2 PB for some) of research data or lab backups on Drive that IT is having a hard time relocating.
Musk's ego is just too big at this point for partnering with anyone on anything. He'd rather just "show them how it's done".
Even before the appearance of life, the things group in sets spontaneously, due to the interplay between attractive and repulsive forces and the positive feedbacks that appear in certain conditions.

The world is not made of a homogeneous substance, but there are various kinds of groupings at various levels, nucleons and electrons group in atoms, atoms group in molecules, molecules group in pebbles, stars group in galaxies and so on.
1945 gave us a way out of this equilibrium.

Not the nukes. The Bretton Woods principles. It was not a kumbayah exchange of platitudes. It was an agreement to let things be settled in the free market.

Want more oil from Nigeria? Offer them more money than the other buyers.
Want to fish the waters around Tuvalu? Radio them and offer more money.
Want Congolese cobalt? Same idea.

This was the brainchild of John Maynard Keynes, not Ayn Rand. It was not a matter of market fetishism. It was based on the sensible idea that the market place is a better way to settle these things than the battlefield, something even a Marxist should be willing to admit.

That could have brought us to a world wide peace in 1945, but only the First World went along with this idea. The Second World rallied around endless revolution and war until we get a worker's paradise. And the Third World tried to stay out altogether. (Reminder: by the original definition, Switzerland was in the Third World).

We had another chance in 1989. And we blew it.

Now we can try again.
> How is it not visual?

Perhaps it is. But then you should be able to answer: where is that visualization on disk? And I don't mean the encoding thereof, I mean the actual 2D picture you could glance at and immediately recognize. Not rendered with some image viewing program, but literally looking at the disk/SSD (perhaps under a microscope, if necessary) -- that should be doable, because you're claiming that schemas are inherently visual, and certainly that schema exists on disk somewhere, which in turn implies that those boxes and arrows should be visible on the storage medium.

> Boxes with arrows are clearly visual.

You've changed the topic -- no one is saying that boxes and arrows are not clearly visual. Where are those boxes and arrows sketched into an SSD or in memory? Or, would you assert that a database is schema-less until someone draws up a diagram?

The boxes and arrows image representation of a schema is not the schema itself. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
The docker version[1] worked better for me to test out. The free website version does not have all the features (like Chromium) enabled which is why some of the report data is missing or incorrect.

Looks like a super promising project! Thanks for building and sharing.

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/lissy93/web-check
the person in the video and the person tweeting it… are the same person

patio11 who often posts here in HN
The story here is that Google used to have unlimited storage, and now they don't (for the obvious reason that it was a bad idea), and are enforcing 5TB/user limits on enterprise accounts. This was announced well in advance with plenty of warning.
Thats just over 88 hours.
Here's the last gasp of thinner, bigger CRTs, in 2005.[1]

"Today, CRT markets are being threatened by flat-panel displays (FPDs) even though the screen quality of the CRT is one of the best of existing display devices. The depth of CRTs is one of its most important design factors to maintain its dominant position in the display market. Thus, a 32-in.-wide deflection-angle 125° CRT (tube length of 360 mm) has been developed, and mass production began in January 2005."

That was the Samsung Vixlim.[2] Apparently worked OK, but obsolete at launch.

Goes down in history as another last and greatest achievement of the wrong technology, along with the Doble steam car, the SS United States, 3-projector Cinerama, quadrophonic phonograph records, and the Olivetti Divisumma 24 mechanical four-function calculator.

[1] https://sid.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1889/1.216683...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/xgtmdw/does_anyo...
Weird, I have never encountered a single case of aversion to Booth's multiplcation algorithm, quicksort, binary search, DFS, BFS, Miller–Rabin primality test, or Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm, .

Is there something special about the algorithms people are averse to? Maybe not actually working?
The ROI calculation can be a little tricky because solar can be a low risk leveraged investment with tax free returns. Remember money you don’t need to spend isn’t taxable.

So for most home owners it’s easily worth it. While from a worker safety, economic, and even environmental standpoint rooftop solar is terrible compared to grid solar as an individual homeowner you can often get subsidies.
> Would martial arts really have even more variety here?

It depends, but yes. Martial arts is not just boxing. Take the following choreography from one style of Pencak silat:

https://youtu.be/8H0x1AKlpM4?si=QJLNffTUozn9kCf9
Why do we have to make solar panel infrastructure (grilles, consoles etc.) from steel? I'm sure more common materials can be used.
Yes, you can get away with a lot with just the basic elements and leave javascript out. You're still going to need CSS if you want to go beyond what the browser provides you.
Summer solstice*

*In the northern hemisphere
I agree their customers certainly are being sacrificed now.

Windows Phone was very costly, but did not have much negative impact on existing products - Windows/Office etc?
It's very limited geographically at this point. It's pretty clear it's going to be a long time before it's something near-universal and something you can just do with your own car--at a similar price point--today.
I generally prefer a rebase-free workflow (mostly due to my upbringing. Long story...) But other than rebasing shared branches, which (with notable exceptions) is a Wrong Thing, it's mostly up to teams to decide on a workflow that gets things done for them. As long as there's a consensus on how to do things, go with god.
You can take that logic and apply it to any traffic law. Blowing red lights? Fine as long as you can tell there's no cross traffic, right?

Laws were put in place because people are not in fact qualified to make these assessments.

The only nuance here is that you are not required to go the speed limit at all, you can and should go only as fast as the conditions allow.
>The inequality will continue indefinitely

Uh, only if you don't vote for politicians who believe in reducing inequality??? Kinda silly to act like inequality is an innate force and not something we control with governments...
The EU is undergoing something of a regime change right now so it is possible this won’t just be one bad decade for Apple (and Google, Facebook, ByteDance, etc.), but odds are low.
https://www.gensler.com/blog/how-communities-can-benefit-fro...
I don't disagree, just taking the conversation a slightly different direction as I think you'll agree that the "it takes energy to make renewables" argument is generally made in bad faith.

I think there is irresponsible consumption of solar panels, particularly when it's done more as a performative action rather than actually producing power to be used.
I just see some great market politics from Chinese leadrs
I guess fundamental difference is that Waymo uses a lot of sensors while Tesla FSD is relying on AI and computer vision.
You need to account for cooling that 10kW coming off the server.