skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting energy storage concept. It promises large capacity (up to 10GWh), with very favorable scaling. It also allows scaling power and capacity independently (unlike most batteries).

Main drawback is that it still needs suitable local geology.

A big obstacle is that you can not build this economically at small scale, so it's probably quite difficult to find investors (=> need to build uneconomical, small pilot plant first).

I wish governments would throw some money at this concept specifically. This could potentially complement battery storage very nicely (with comparably higher capacity at lower power).
> First you should not be depleting modern batteries, its not good for the battery health,

I think most modern devices already turn themselves off before reaching true ZERO.

> Second, if you think about it, its a safety feature in to protect you from data corruption.

No its to make sure that you can not use a perfectly functional compouter without replacing a battery once it has fully died.

> I use only require a 5–10 minute charge

Are you saying apple devices are not good for watching live content?

> You risk data corruption

With autosave (which most app have) data loss would be minimal.

Before I could afford apple products, from afar everything apple looked amazing but after using them I found out, Apple UI is just pretty and only slightly more polished than Windows.
I believe the app “Front and Center” solves this: https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/
Thought-Tinkering – The Korean German Philosopher Byung-Chul Han
Introducing: Raspberry Pi Official Magazine
What's wrong with putting ordinary reactors in ships again? Already tried and tested, yet still extremely under-tapped...

Plus, you know, your startup will have a chance of landing a customer within a human lifetime, so there's that.

On "because regulation", sounds like that's the problem. Maybe you make a ship that's reactor can pop out and float when you approach national waters, pick it up on the way back.
Crossing the uncanny valley of AI conversational voice
No idea, but Tello always worked outside of the U.S - Lithuania in my case.

I guess, provider will always consider your country where the phone number is located. Funny thing, while I'm roaming, my IP address will always be Lithuanian. It does not matter where the world I'm currently staying.
I’d expect them to highlight that, rather than keep it secret. I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it a little bit, but probably not to an extent that is really unique or unusual.
This might be an argument if those engine licenses were more than a rounding error in Valve's profits. I seriously doubt that that's the case.
My comment is targeted to the developers of Waterfox and Librewolf - they're already making a browser, so the hard part is done.

I'm wondering why don't they try to step it up further by selling a paid version alongside their open source product. What is the worst that can happen? Nobody pays for it and they continue making $0 just like they are happily doing now.
I'm surprised even hacker news is getting suckered in by this. This is a tabloid website and no legitmate source is reporting on this. The article also lies significantly. Carlos Slim's company was only a Starlink authorized reseller. There was no significant investment.
Jitsi Meet.

My elderly mother uses it easy with the app on iPhone.

Minimal effort to join a conversations and supports all devices. Secure E2E if you host it yourself and has most features of zoom.
Presentation style and topic make me think "isn't it the author of Byrne's Euclid in SVG?". And yes, it is! https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=79
Longevity benefits are seen at a much lower dose.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dose_makes_the_poison
Every tech drone in every cubicle considers themselves a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.
To me those repos seems an abuse of what GitHub is for. I'm 100% fine with a repo hosting malware if it's there for security researchers and anybody else interested in the topic to study, etc. Even better if there is also documentation. I'm not fine with using GitHub (or any other site) as a distribution platform for malware, hiding the fact that the software is malicious in the first point.
Cool down friend.

There will always be great people building alternatives.
I do miss having Jim Whitehurst around. Jim spent 90 minutes on the Wednesday afternoon of my New Hire Orientation week with my cohort helping to make sure all of us could login to email and chat, answering questions, telling a couple short stories. He literally helped build the Red Hat culture starting at New Hire. Kind of magical when the company is an 11K person global business and doing 5B in revenue.

Cormier and Hicks have their strengths. Hicks in particular seems to care about cultural shifts and also seems adept at identifying key times and places to invest in engineering efforts.

The folks we have imported from IBM are hiring folks that are attempting to make Red Hat more aggressive, efficient, innovative. Some bets are paying off. More are to be decided soon. These kinds of bets and changes haven’t been for everyone.
I solve this (really nonsense) issue with Hammerspoon and this simple script:

local hyper = {"ctrl", "alt", "cmd"}
hs.loadSpoon("MiroWindowsManager")
hs.window.animationDuration = 0.3
spoon.MiroWindowsManager:bindHotkeys({
up = {hyper, "up"},
right = {hyper, "right"},
down = {hyper, "down"},
left = {hyper, "left"},
fullscreen = {hyper, "f"}
})
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The Librarian of (Babel, Alexandria, Pemberley, Infinity)
It's missing containers and overall has less privacy features available than firefox.

This is exemplified compared to forks like librewolf that enable the majority of them.

Ungoogled Chromium and stock Firefox are pretty similar privacy-wise though.

The main advantage is all baked-in telemetry is stripped out, but it doesn't do much to protect you from privacy-invasive sites other than disabling WebRTC and blocking 3rd party cookies.

I used it for a number of years, but recently switched to Librewolf ~5 months ago and don't expect to switch back unless Firefox and all downstream forks completely implode.
Must they really collect as much data as possible?
Ubuntu had to basically patch every toolkit for it to work. Not maintainable.
> Yes, but at least one avenue of attack is cut off by using a walled-garden phone.

That doesn't really matter, and it may not even be a preferred method if they make the warnings sufficiently scary.

More importantly, the cost is too great to justify such a small and questionable benefit.
Definitely a better article than the other dupe. If only one of the two dupes should reach the front page, this one should be it.
IAP 2025 Building Sound Lecture 10: Learning to Speak – Early Neural TTS. Seq2se [video]
That’ll teach them to use Oxford commas.
People are all over the place. I had to talk someone into SSH over VPN being double encrypted isn’t a waste.
I was excited about Compose Multiplatform Web too, until I realized it also does this : everything in a canvas
Seems like a great job for a biochemist who wants to get into White Labs style brewing.
Did the government kill those?
He wrote about Snowden as late as last year: https://proton.me/blog/us-warrantless-surveillance and corporate role in surveillance state before that https://proton.me/blog/privacy-user-data-requests
You're referring to requests from the same page as the one the user requested, rather than requests by the browser at the behest of the browser developer. Loading it is presumably what the user intended by navigating to the page and if it isn't then at that point it's in the bailiwick of uBlock etc.
While I'm by no means defending Mozilla here, one quick look at the linked twitter user's history shows that generating rage and taking text out of context is their modus operandi and very much intentional.

I'm bummed that out of all the posts on the topic, this is the one that gets to stay on the frontpage.
Legally I'm sure they're covered. We've probably purchased non refundable "credits" that just happen to show in a format that resembles money but absolutely aren't money or exchangeable for money.

It's not their first time at taking our unused money, sorry credits
I wasn't even talking about people who paid for a cert, just people signing up to try and help. They are generally more annoying then helpful to people who can do anything more than install and uninstall programs. Without a doubt every search result I found on that forum from someone having a similar issue never resulted in a useful lead.
This comment made me realise I’m still paying for iTunes Match and probably haven’t needed to for several years.
They could compile Firefox with telemetry disabled however i would not trust those settings since even with that Firefox does plenty of unsolicited phoning home and has a lot of bloat.
This logic applies more to Google than Mozilla. Their mission is (or ought to be) to cover development and hosting costs associated with Firefox, not to milk users for all they are worth on the ad market.
> Nothing worked right.

One thing worked right: the app looked the same and acted the same everywhere where it could run.
Only thing I can suggest is filing feedback. They don't have market share so they still listen, for now
> Not sure why everybody reports the average everywhere.

Because that's the modern definition of life expectancy: the average (mean). Probably because the primary driver behind the production of actuarial tables has always been for insurance, annuities, and similar purposes. For calculating costs and valuations the mean is often a better measure because the distribution of deaths isn't normal. Though in modern actuarial tables you'll often find both.

I would assume popular literature quotes expectancy figures from birth because that's the easiest thing to do when you're just trying to give a single simple figure. But actuarial tables have always been just that--tables. Given a person at age X, what's their life expectancy. The first row will be from birth, but people with money on the line have always understood that number is mostly irrelevant. Here's an actuarial table from the 3rd century which was built for calculating annuities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulpian%27s_life_table Interestingly that table seems to use median life expectancy.

Actuarial science was a significant driver in the development of modern statistics and mathematics, especially as the market for financial products exploded over the past several centuries. The tables and models for life expectancy from 150 years ago were startlingly accurate, even in their forecasts of changing life expectancies. When Social Security was passed in the 1930s the models for how life expectancies would change, both from infancy and across all the age brackets, were spot on with actual changes up to the 1990s.
Tailscale, ssh and emacsclient in terminal mode makes it pretty easy to access and update notes from different machines without syncing by just say leaving your main laptop on and connected to the Internet and using emacs daemon. If you have sshd running on all the machines you can use tramp to move files around or use git or many other tools. The trickier part is using emacs key bindings on say android. Read only sharing with PDFs works fine. Co editing is impossible :).
Eight paragraphs and no details what shake up or innovation to expect, other than a new TV brand among many others. Is "Lumio will partner with Google TV, Dixon Technologies and Amazon India" the innovation?
I think both responses are bizarre and useless. Is there a single person on earth who wouldn't ask questions like "what kind of test?", "why do you think you failed?", "how did you prepare for the test?" before giving advice?
In my opinion, Microsoft’s entire support is at a tragically poor and hopeless level. GitHub is flooded with open issues that remain open for years without any response from Microsoft. The same applies to Azure. The technical support there is also truly terrible, and it’s easy to find horror stories online about people losing access to their accounts and being unable to restore them.
None of those points are accurate. He is not his main partner in 25 countries. He did not lose 7 billion dollars from anything related to this. That is a completely made up story.

Carlos Slim is literally a bit player authorized reseller. There are no major investments this guy has made in Starlink.
This is a great point... the fragmentation and the steep learning curves for each stack (and constantly needing to be on top of breaking changes deeper in the stack) all amplify each other and make it much more difficult for amateur designers to build and ship something. Back in flash days, I knew lots of cartoonists and graphic artists who could build interactive experiences on their own that they wanted to put out there. That basically does not happen at all now.

I'm pretty sure Flash (Stage3D) was also the first way to leverage a GPU on the web... for those of us who wanted to go a bit deeper...
There's a decent chance this model was originally called GPT-5, as well.
> I imagine it's because people are worth far more to advertisers than they themselves are willing to pay to browse.

People must be ultimately paying the money somehow. Otherwise advertisers wouldn't bother.
Brave has a couple crypto features in the UI but that's about it. I'm big on crypto but I don't use any of the browser's crypto features. Just a browser that cuts most of the bullshit out.
I've been trying to explain this to people for 8 years. All of our existing languages side step the problem. Developers are writing distributed systems every day but seem oblivious to the fact their tools aren't helping at all.
I've been gradually forming this more general thought that we've massively neglected the value of review and maintenance of almost everything.

A new building or machine is reviewed once just like a scientific publication. A book or article might never get even a superficial review.

People are even offended if their things or things they want are critically examined and more so when others block it. Business Models that depend on monopolies on the right to review are possibly the most hilarious.

Edit: Search engines even rank things by quality without review.
Docker config is already implemented—you can check out the repo now. Adding support for other LLM providers like Ollama is something to consider for future development. Thanks for the suggestion!
Relative to Mozilla: on the advertising front I can't judge whether Apple is worse or about the same. On most other fronts I don't think there's much of a question. Others disagree, the extent to which Apple's actions are user-hostile is an often debated topic I'm not particularly interested in re-threading.

Google and Microsoft aren't really a comparison, both have been openly anti-user on many fronts for many years.
This thread has more dependencies than an npm package with left-pad
WHich was... only windows computers since Flash barely worked on Macs or Linux, and never properly made it to mobile, where it was also a complete battery drain when it did in fact do things... sometimes.
Yes, they were fascinating! I truly miss them.
I write code for a living. My entire profession is on the line, thanks to ourselves. My eyes are wide open on the situation at hand though. Burying my head in the sand and pretending what I wrote above isn't true, isn't going to make it any less true.

I'm not sure what I can do about it, either. My job already doesn't look like it did a year ago, nevermind a decade away.
It may be common but let's not take the average companies lax attitude to source code archival and backup as "legitimate". It's a disgrace for the industry that this happens so often.
Nothing I have seen makes that clear at all. In fact, from what I can see, the ToS makes it very clear that they are giving themselves a license in the way I describe:

> When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Mozilla is clearly planning to do something which requires them to have given themselves this license, and I'd rather not be on Firefox when we figure out what that is.
For sure. Maybe less accidental complexity. Embedded has been doing asynchronous IO since before it was cool. You also have distributed computing if you’re doing something like sensor networks.
Can you submit the article (with the article's title) instead of the question? Then it will be click-able. The question can be the first comment for example.
I kept getting flagged for calling out Firefox/Mozilla, for years

Now you get what you deserve, folks
This just tells me you've never used they only file search dream - Everything search, unfortunately Windows only. Spotlight has never come close to that
Exactly, impossible is what Google, Apple and Microsoft (and Mozilla) want you to believe - and they do everything to make it happen with more and more, ever more irrelevant APIs. And people believed them for a decade now.

Very happy that Ladybird doesn't believe the monopolists propaganda.
Musk wasn't even born to wealth...
How does it compare against IBM's Watson?
I miss Rdio. Always thought it had the better UI and recommendations.
So the only option for ad hoc communication between groups of friends (as opposed to more formalized corporate communication) remains Discord?
I've just tested it and while the ubo extension can be installed, it does not work at all.

I use brave browser and nextdns to block ads on ios now.
When I use porkbun in Firefox, it hangs and has to be kill -9'ed.
I truly can't understand. We live in world where you can potentially make business in so many ways, even if Mozilla asked me for some money to continue as a good faith browser I don't mind to pay for it. But for god's sake, can't a single human being come up with a business model that *IS NOT* related to our fucking private data?
Interesting in hearing some thoughts about using roaring bitmaps stored in a bytea postgres column to represent adjacency matrixes.

I was thinking that given RDS has support for plrust and PostgreSQL's SPI I could use the fact they support croaring-rs there as a crate and build upon that.

I figure I can use that to represent many graph's with say 100s to ~100m nodes and many relations between these things. But each graph would be tenanted to a tenant (company/b2b saas use case).

I was thinking that by using plrust storing the roaring bitmap on the DB server in a bytea and using SPI, I can benefit from the minimal network overhead to mutate and query against the bitmap with croaring. Using SPI locally in the DB server I eliminate network overhead shipping that back to my application code.

PostgreSQL also gives me transaction safety to updates etc. And a bunch of support for other column base data such as my tenant ID column, some JSONB for relationship metadata to query on etc.

Basically something like https://jazco.dev/2024/04/20/roaring-bitmaps/ but on postgres. Given I need to support many tenanted graphs & we're already using citus this seems like something that is feasible at a larger scale too.

I was wondering though if I am going to need to create some operator classes to allow me to index relations a bit better (probably seems likely I think).

I am aware of https://github.com/ChenHuajun/pg_roaringbitmap but would prefer to use int64s and maybe start out on RDS instead of having to add another workload to our self hosted citus cluster/s.

Happy to be told I am fool and any insights would be nice. I am potentially going to try this out on some of our data sets we have because our product team is basically laying out a vision where they want us to have a graph powering a bunch of things.

I don't like the idea of neo4j when we're already deep into PostgreSQL for a bunch of workloads (~20+ TB table workloads etc so we have some reasonable inhouse PG experience).

Also huge thanks to the author of the blog post. I had been looking at pgRouting and wondering with a tilted head.. hmm seems like we can just use this as a graph DB. So that is also on my list to test out.
Turning the web into what we had with flash except for the many security issues seems to be the way things are headed. Not that I'm happy about it, but more and more web applications are going that route.

The design behind WASM helps keep this iteration of Macromedia/Flash/Java/ActiveX stay quite secure, at least until people start adding the extra APIs that a certain subset of WASM enthusiasts trying to turn WASM into another JVM are going for.
Damn. Thanks for that. Oof.

Sorry for the tangent, but I've always wondered: does Tencent's partial ownership of Reddit give them any access to Reddit's internal data? Is that how that generally works, or am I making uninformed assumptions?
Yes, it is on arm and has been for decades in some form, but it's still nowhere near its M1 moment.
Literally every messaging platform Microsoft has ever created has always been terrible, and that remains true to this day. The only exception was Skype, which used to be good, but after Microsoft acquired it, it also became terrible.
The Dino, the Llama, and the Whale (Deno and Jupyter for Local AI Experiments)
Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and TSB are all subsidiaries of the same organization, so will likely share infrastructure. But First Direct (which I believe are part of HSBC), Barclays, and Nationwide are not, and I believe are all unrelated to one another.
awesome tips. Thanks for posting.

For screenshots:- does anyone know of a way to take scrolling screenshots? I often need to take screenshots of webpages that are long.
Yeah I forgot the exact context of the quote too, no worries :). EDIT: it probably had something to do with aliasing and alignment (because when aren't people sighing about C/C++ when it comes to that topic?)

Thank for the general update! I might not write any Rust code myself, but I do enjoy quite a few programs written in it, so I was hoping to hear there was more progress for the sake of the developers behind those programs. But I can also imagine that these kind of things take time to figure out properly, to avoid repeating mistakes of previous languages (and that's before we even get to the task of implementing anything).

Wish the people working on these issues all the best, and looking forward (from the sidelines) to what eventually comes out of it!
I know it's a rant, but it makes no sense. The web is complex, but for 90% of the web I can still manipulate the DOM - even in apps which use frameworks like React. The ability to manipulate the DOM makes the internet so much more pleasant than otherwise - a world without ad blockers would be quite bad.

Rendering on to a surface would be bad for everyone. Tbh, I think the web is doing great. I am among those (perhaps a minority) who think that web apps should occupy space which is currently held by native apps; even at the cost of complexity and new APIs.
> Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder.

Note that you can also bind a hotkey to this! And in general in macOS, you can a bind to a hotkey to any menu item in any application.

Search "keyboard shortcuts" in settings, then under Services -> Files and Folders.