skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IBM and the clones were destined to run them over from the beginning, though. IBM's penetration into the home market as take-home business machines meant it was only a matter of time before multimedia got to the wide deployment of an already-accepted platform with much, much better software.

I loved Amiga. I still wear Amiga shirts to work, and it was massively influential (I owned a modern-day Video Toaster for streaming, even!) - but IBM was gonna win, especially since they split the marketshare with Atari ST and then Macintosh.
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But lack of scrutiny surely implies lack of real consequences. Anyway, I would say that in terms of consequences, even there corporations face more of them, simply because the public gets to know more.
They are almost all simple enough that you can use something like IDA to see quite plainly which APIs they are calling out to.

If you really want to know, this is how you find out.
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City streets and sidewalks are readily publicly viewable, though, while medical facilities go to great lengths to not let people see whether they've screwed up.

I agree it'd be extremely useful, but it's a harder problem to get visibility into.
Passive solar design as a requirement for new construction would help reduce how much energy buildings require. It also makes them more comfortable, not less.

Design cities for pedestrians, bicycles and public transit. This will help reduce heat island effect, thereby reducing the need for AC.

I slept in a tent for nearly six years. I plugged in at the library during the day. I got by on battery power in the evening until I fell asleep.

I'm currently in a hundred year old building with radiant heat and no AC. It has good design that helps keep the building comfortable without a lot of modern amenities we think are required.

I spend a lot of time online. I don't own a TV.

You can have a very modern life on a lot less electricity than many people use.

It's really not a given that we must use high levels of electricity to maintain a high quality of life. The first thing we should do is question such assumptions. The second is start actively challenging them.

This is a problem rooted in culture more than technology.
>Have any disasters at coal plants rendered areas uninhabitable for centuries?

Yes, the very use of fossil fuels at the extent we use them is causing an extinction level event for the entire planet. Does the gravity of that really sink in?
I think this is a good example of building a business and focusing on being an operator inside the system versus focusing on designing the system to run autonomously.
I'm assuming you've never taken a MOOC before? Most of them are no way even close to equivalent to the real class. Most of these universities basically use these as marketing. They'll teach you the first 4 weeks of material from a 16 week course. Most of them completely lack any form of assessment tools so students can't even practice.
It really depends heavily on your driving habits. Mine had a lifetime mpg of 220, because I was able to do all of my commutes on the battery.
Someone should sell a tactile dash overlay kit for people like you. I’m half serious... if done well, some silly people would buy it to overcome the perceived problems you think you see.

Maybe it could also make “vroom, vroom” noises for people who feel that the absence of the feedback of engine noise poses a serious danger. I’ve talked to hundreds and hundreds of ICE car drivers and many of them think this is a serious concern.

Oh and block off the rear view mirrors because they might distract from the road ahead... according to your line of thinking.

And it could move the speedometer display down behind the steering wheel where the driver would have to bob their head to see the readout. But at least it would be centered like an old ICE car.

Your points are ridiculous.
Yes good point. Many people forget that all Apple stuff is really NeXT
Endless intellect seeking, and yet whatever shall it amount to?

Navel gazing? Trophy collecting the smartest asses you can put in your chairs?

Yes you have a smart person in your clutches, and they give over to the psychological domination of the paycheck, and so now, sooner or later, with enough smart people in the same room, like oily rags drying in the hot sun, surely something will catch fire.

Watch it all evaporate and amount to nothing. Never meet the fundamental needs. The ones that matter, and never fail to be surprised at the rest.
Huh, this is really interesting and in my field of research. Most people are using OpenSIM or closed source alternatives like Visual3d to do inverse kinematics/kinetics and there isn't much talk about machine learning in these fields, well, for this purpose, anyway.

Very excited to see the direction this is going.
The funniest thing is you are being downvoted for calling it.

No only should it be allowed, it's a right!

For you to argue writers and organizations that create things in this world should get money is outrageous!

I have no idea how Outline still exists? No newspaper yet wants to seem like the bad guy for suing them? No ones even written up about their flagrant violation of copyright law yet.
This is the definition from Encyclopædia Britannica (1911):

Socialism is that policy or theory which aims at securing by the action of the central democratic authority a better distribution, and in due subordination thereunto a better production, of wealth than now prevails.
How many people died because of Fukushima? How many died when the oil train blew up in the Canadian town? How many coal miners died from silicosis? How many die when a dam fails and wipes out entire towns?

The failure scenario is demonstrably better than everything we’ve tried. More people have died installing solar and wind than have from nuclear.
> KaiOS (which is really Firefox OS)

Thats news to me. I read that KaiOS was built from the ground up & not derived from anything.

> Firefox OS hadn't thrown in the towel so early

That was a rather quite event and I was surprised to see no much discussion around it. An OS by Mozilla can be more trusted than an OS by Google. Why did Mozilla kill the project?
I loved this and think the next Mass market IDE could be like VB6
The history of life on this planet is a story of immense and intense suffering.

Are you sure you want life to be such a common phenomenon in the universe?

Do you think the sense of wonder attached to zipping about in spaceships firing weapons at each other somehow redeems all that suffering?
In a similar vein, on the quest of understanding yet another abstraction layer deeper, I've been trying to get to grips with how linking/loading works by writing some ELFs by hand.

Dynamic linking is giving me some problems though---I can't seem to get ld.so to do relocs for me. This is almost certainly due to some fundamental misunderstanding of mine, but I don't have the debugging tools to easily correct this.

So far I've just been using readelf and LD_DEBUG to perform basic sanity checking, but now my only idea is to walk through ld.so using gdb.

I'd be much obliged for any suggestions. Cheers!
What could have been good feedback is ruined by tone. This is someone who has in good faith decided to show the HN community. The fact that he's 13 doesn't even really enter into it.

Here is someone who has created something new and has come to share and the first thing you say is:

> I would like to see a version for those of us that structure our documents.
> What is this structure you speak of?

Let's try:

---

I love what you've done. I know that this is still new but I would really love to see some additional support for more structured documents.

<Insert more details about what you mean about structure>

I will try, if time allows, to create a pull request for these features.

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> Q: What about people who might try to game the ignition interlock or tamper with it?

> A: Part of our research is also looking at how we would know for certain that the alcohol measurement that we’re making is coming from the driver and not anyone else in the vehicle.

That's a non-sequitur, mentions an issue and skips over how this is going to work. I already heard about existing systems failing if you have too many drunk people in the car. I don't see how that can be avoided with an ambient air sensor. Especially in the extreme "I'm getting drunk by breathing the air you exhale" situations.
Steam engine as well
Errmm, and STATOil rings the bell?
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/log_scale_2x.png

One should add wind and solar, both at around 0.5MJ/h per m2.
You make good points. I'll back off a bit on my claim that "crystal meth" is just meth, especially because you've pointed out how in crystal form, it's more likely to be purer. And you're absolutely correct that Desoxyn is pure D-meth rather than the racemic mixture.

I think, however, that when mainstream news is discussing meth, they're generally referring to the more generic problem of meth abuse, in any form. I may have jumped the gun on dismissing crystal as "just meth", vs messier street variants, but I don't think that, as a street drug, the problem is particularly with variants (purer crystal vs perhaps less-pure powder forms). I admit I probably overstated that "meth is just meth".

Everything you say is accurate and clarifying, so thank you for that. And I regret my use of the word "trigger", considering the weight that word unfortunately carries now.
Do you mean a radio receiver for Arduino? can you provide link for the same, I would like to check whether it works for RPi.
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We haven't even come close to seeing the downside of nuclear waste. All we've seen is countries fumbling trying to find solutions for nuclear waste.

It's already hard to find a safe solution for waste that'll survive for millennia. Simply because predicting what might happen over those time scales is hard.

Now factor in that it'll be paid for by humans with a lifespan left of 50 years, and usually a decision horizon of 4 years (i.e. politicians).

The chances off getting it wrong technically are non zero. The chances of getting it wrong for budgetary reasons are even bigger. Incentives do not line up.
Don't build this trillion dollar proven technology, build this unproven trillion dollar technology instead!
Anyone have a screenshot or before/after?
Proponents of renewables fail to take into account the need for baseload. It’s nowhere near being cheaper when you take into account the over provisioning and storage costs required to actually compete with the reliability of nuclear (and coal/gas).
Very nice article. Implementing something commonly known yourself with instructions tends to be enlightening. The instructions save you maybe 80% of your time, but you still have the chance to learn how everything works if you focus. It also gives you confidence.

Some of the best resources I've seen in that regard are nand2tetris and make-a-lisp.

The SDR community seems to mainly consist of people interested in using existing software and focusing on the received signals. There's still a lot to be discovered if more people start writing software to decode the signals.
I thought this was a joke. Seems to be real though.
Remember the great 2001 anthrax scare? Emergency rooms got flooded with people thinking they had anthrax (they didn't) and it caused serious problems because it used up resources needed to help people with real problems.
There was a decades long discussion about nuclear energy in Germany. You can bet that the public was much better informed about nuclear, than the politicians and the nuclear industry liked.

There were a bunch of failed nuclear projects like the pebble bed reactor, the fast breeder or the storage sites. Watching them made the decision to get out of that type of industry much easier. Germany had the same level of corrupt nuclear industry, which is known from Japan and which has been exposed there.
The right price is optimization problem that depends on income distribution in the whole region (same price for the whole region increases purchasing power for low income population in high income countries as well).

example:

If there are five potential customers and the maximum sums they are willing to pay are: 60€, 50€, 30€, 30€, 25€, what is the single price that maximizes revenue and profit for games?

price revenue
60€ 60€
50€ 100€
30€ 120€
25€ 125€ <-
Such a list is almost worthless without some kind of quality assessment. I skimmed through a few courses and they vary extremely in quality. Some are made by often rather young lecturers who could have prepared better so that they don't have to read their own name from a card. Others are presented by well established researchers who also are excellent teachers. Some courses cover only the basics with the result that in some fields there are a lot courses with about the same content. Other courses go surprisingly deep. A simple list doesn't help you to distinguish between good and bad courses.
Inheritance isn’t an anti-pattern in academia. I do part time work as an examiners for CS students, and I see their car/animal examples everywhere in introductionary courses.

When we have interns, they’ll sometimes build things with inheritance. So it’s certainly still a thing.

I’ve yet to see a real world use of it, where you wouldn’t have been better of not using it though. My real world is the relatively boring world of enterprise public sector software, however, and maybe I’m simply oblivious to where inheritance might be worthwhile.
Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (1994)
Even if the culture changes for that were to happen, cities roads anb buildings already exist. You can't replace all buildings and roads in 10 years.
Mulch isn't typically paper grade wood though. It's either bark, or all the small branchy bits chopped up. So wood for paper and wood for mulch shouldn't be substitutable.

Where it does get marginal is with all the extra transportation and packaging.

"I then avoid the additional spend in energy, time, dollars, and effort on wood mulch.
"

Agreed, that's as good a reason as any. Plus if we get to the point where our biggest problem is recycling or mulching cardboard I'll be happy.
I always find it odd how the people talking about climate change being an extinction level event aren't even prepared to execute a few dozen CEOs of large fossil fuel companies.

If the fate of the world is in question then Ted Kaczynski is a rational individual who reacted with restraint.
This looks really nice, clean & functional. I'm integrating this into my personal website at this moment. Thanks!
>I think OPs point is essentially that, even if nuclear would have helped in the 70s, it is now too late.

I get that. But it's worth going through the exercise how bad well-intentioned policies can be. It's worth to consider that anti-nuke activism is much worse than Conservative denialism.

And if nuclear is too late now, then there's nothing we can do to replace carbon-based power.

>I think there's a lot to gain from long distance transportation combined with reliable output like hydro, existing nuclear, and perhaps later tidal.

Oh come on. Hydro is great if you can get it. Places that can get hydro, already get hydro. Most places can't get hydro. Ditto for geothermal.

So what's the solution to replacing carbon emitting power sources? I want someone to explain that to me. Because all I hear is how solar and wind one day will be cheap and prices are falling every day - even though price is not the problem with solar and wind. Variability is. We need power when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining, and power requirements keep growing. People want electric cars and trains, those need huge amount of energy. I hear how batteries will save the day, except that we are not anywhere close to having battery technology capable of storing city-sized power requirements for a few minutes, much less hours or days. It may not even be physically possible to create a battery like that. So what's left? Coal and Gas - and this is exactly what EVERY nation is doing if they are not investing in (or divesting from) nuclear.
Doesn’t work unless you live in a place that has no weather (e.g. the Bay Area). People in Minneapolis aren’t going to turn off their heater at night when it’s 30 below 0 because the wind stopped and their battery went dead.
To be fair, we don't vaccinate against smallpox anymore because the risks of the vaccine outweigh the benefits.

It's not prima facie irrational to believe that the risks of other vaccines outweigh the benefits. I've never heard of anyone being persuaded by being insulted, so perhaps we should instead approach the anti-vaxxers with hard data showing how yes, their concerns are in fact grounded in fact, but there are also other facts that make vaccination the right decision in most, but not all, cases.
While it would certainly be welcome to get our electricity from something more modern than steam engines, it is also important to note that fundamental material science breakthroughs are required to actually build these things.

Molten salt reactors are interesting but more in the context of funding research than how we should put together the energy mix of a country. Especially considering how much funding fusion power have gotten, which is still in the basic physics stage and things like materials breakdown and heat transport is largely not even a known problem yet.
You're being very incoherent.

> The means of production, be it machinery or brains, are privately owned.

They are not. The government literally owns the bulk of the wealth. Not only in the oil sector but in a wide variety of industries, both directly and through the fund.
That was one of the main reasons here in Germany to quit that type of industry. There were people from the industry which had exposed this.
It's not even about knowledge. When you include active human attackers that have nothing to loose or state actors in times of war in the equation it's simply impossible to secure.
Yes. The RTL just captures RF signals and feeds them to the computer over USB. All of the processing after that is done in software.
If the allegations are founded, Netflix needs to be punished harshly for this. As a FANG company, their practices set the tone for the rest of the industry. There are far reaching implications for a company like Netflix getting away with shit like this. Massive punitive damages are in order.
Actually, it wasn't generated by hand. I/Class Central generated it for OpenCulture. Here is a more comprehensive list, with filtering: https://www.classcentral.com/starting-this-month
...but originating from Reddit? There's, ah, voat...
An ironic twist that the company that bought the Segway brand makes nearly every one of those scooters. I guess it sort of worked out after all?
If I'm going to do more than scan the introduction, I always print a paper. My comprehensive is significantly higher than reading on a screen.
You're right. They're called communicable diseases for a reason after all.

Fortunately for us, antibiotic resistance is maladaptive when antibiotics are not present. Using them intelligently will cause resistant strains to be out-competed.
The boss sounds like he was acting with the mentality of a jealous schoolboy.
Do you recommend a particular tutorial, or video to get an intro to the game and the physics ? I found that starting the game without it is quite hard
That's actually quite related to the problem at hand actually, which is the problem of externalities (as stated a bit above in the thread).

The problem of externalities, ie of costs that are unaccounted for, is a side product of an economic system that fragment economic interest into many small actors, and where, as a consequence, the larger picture is only partially taken into account, leaving void areas (unsolvable, unfulfilled needs) and cracks (externalities).

It can be argued that another economic system would do better, but claiming it has nothing to do with it just reveals how taboo it is to challenge the dominant view, even in our times when that dominant view is really not threatened at all in principle nor in practice. Interesting.
Probably. The stereo separation is encoded in the signal, and I think mainstream SDR software has it working out of the box (but I don't listen to WBFM). Not decoding in stereo was probably just a simplification for the article.

Then again, an SDR is overkill if all you'll ever want is FM radio. A dedicated FM receiver will use less power, take less space and hopefully have better usability.
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Opus is great. I wish all contemporary streams shipped with Opus + AV1
Also, fungi are the world champions of biological warfare. They're where we got the idea of antibiotics from in the first place. Mycotoxins are nasty business too. This is not a battle we're going to win by brute force.
The swivel-LCD iMac was terrible, it was almost impossible to service or adjust and didn't hold up for very long. I had to wedge the arm to keep mine upright.
>You can have a very modern life on a lot less electricity than many people use.

Let me get this straight, The only way to curb emissions is to severely reduce our energy use?

>This is a problem rooted in culture more than technology.

No. This is a problem of people not wanting a subsistence-based lifestyle. Your suggested policies are insane. They are not reasonable, at all. You're talking about replacing all roads and buildings (and cities)? Use non-existent battery technology to power a modern economy?

Internalize the fact that power requirements will keep growing and that expecting people to live in tents is not a reasonable policy.
I don't think there is any doubt about the. The problem is they seem unable to step back from it.
Android touchscreen phones with physical slide-out qwerty (though I would have preferred Colemak ;)) keyboards like the Sony Xperia Mini Pro. So much quicker and more comfortable to touch-type on (ironic, no? :)), I barely ever made any typos.
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Friend of mine has a high school friend that a maintenance engineer. He has contracts to maintain diesel back up generators for hospitals. And sometimes they don't start. It's very disconcerting when that happens.

The other design flaw is diesel or no they require cooling water during shutdown. What bothers me for instance is during the 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes the Mississippi ran backwards for a while. During other earthquakes you see significant uplift. If the intakes run dry because the local hydrology suddenly changes you're just fucked.
You can find reviews for these courses here: https://www.classcentral.com/starting-this-month

It's the same list, but more comprehensive.
Are you unaware that more nuclear waste enters the environment from burning coal than from all nuclear plant incidents combined?
Yep, you can capture everything about the FM station that way. The only things not available are the "HD Radio" digital signals because there's no open way to decrypt them.

Edited to add: Since this is a digitally controlled tuner, you can also change the station remotely if you'/re using the right setup. The websdr project, http://www.websdr.org/ , is a really nice way to do this and there are plenty of other setups.
Yes, but what about having to evacuate the area for decades / more to come? And the radioactive waste problem?
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