skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unrealistic:

>It shouldn’t be hard for my fridge or hot water heater to buy a kwh of electricity anytime over the next 7 hours to do it’s thing.

Fridges lose a ton of cool air when you open them. You're going to end up with bad food if refrigeration can't kick in for 7 hours.

>Same for dishwashers and clothes dryers: I’m 100% okay with pressing “Clean/dry within 8 hours” setting.

Waiting 8 hours to dry clothes is a great way to end up with dirty clothes again because of the moisture trapped in from the washer.

>Hot water heaters are effectively thermal banks.

Not really. Unless you effectively turn them into boilers, you max out at boiling temperature. Given that's barely twice the normal setting, it's not going to last for any long period of time that way.

>It shouldn’t be hard to convince people to replace their AC with a unit that makes ice overnight if it cuts their electricity bill in half.

Ice is useless for people that need air conditioning. I think you vastly underestimate how much ice it would require to replace a large air conditioner cooling a single family home by 30F or so for 6+ hours.
You're assuming VCRs existed when I was growing up :-) I didn't have a VCR until I was about 30.
Tesla uses a liquid coolant and active thermal management for battery conditioning. Model S and X have a dedicated battery heater, the Model 3 uses the motor and power inverter to warm the battery.
I don't know. We've got a lot of the main writers, and we've got references to some of the books that were lost forever in the fire. I agree that there was some valuable information lost in the fire. But in the main, I think the broad outlines were preserved, or we probably would't even have the concept of circular reasoning.

Obviously there was a period where much of that was irrelevant anyway, after the barbarian hordes overran the weak and degenerate remnants of the Roman empire. When the revival came over half a millenium later, did they get it all right? Probably not, but it was a definite change from what existed in the interim. And some of that culture was preserved through the Roman church, though in a muted way.

More to the point of the original discussion, are you really concerned that anything of lasting value would be lost if the entire internet were deleted? Maybe technical information, sure, but culturally not so much imo.
GPS glitch threatens thousands of scientific instruments
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No idea why you were downvoted. I have been a programmer and a musician for over 35 years, and I totally agree with your summary above. I use music as a recovery tool from programming because it prevents mental burnout for me. Both activities 'exercise' a different part of my brain to keep me balanced.
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If you have a single service and will never want more - sure. Once you have multiple, you actually get benefits if you depend on a lot of native libraries and external binaries. If you're in that situation, not having to upgrade every service at the same time when moving to a new base os release is really convenient.
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One could argue that it’s a sign of the human condition that we’ve been able to compensate for the new technology with an even greater tendency to prognosticate.
Sorry for the paywall, but I was reminded of this article in the Economist about the popularity of the Toyota Prius in Mongolia. One reason is low prices, but another is that they will start in extreme cold when ICE engines can't: https://www.economist.com/asia/2018/12/22/everyone-in-mongol...
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Why does this need to be a standalone tool? I can already do this in Emacs by pasting emacs-lisp code snippets and executing then while editing the file, inserting the output into it. Do other editors not have this feature?
The key difference is: if you don't want to listen to this guy's songs because you don't like him, that's perfectly fine.

But if you start a public campaign to boycott his concerts in order to punish him further, that is akin to bullying.
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France is 50% nuclear. Sweeden is 22%. Both have two of the lowest carbon footprints in Europe.

https://www.worlddata.info/europe/france/energy-consumption....

https://www.worlddata.info/europe/sweden/energy-consumption....
I'm on the edge of my seat :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19562920
The term "intellectual property," while popular, is so vague as to be almost meaningless.

It is important to be precise. Patents, which are exclusive rights to ideas irrespective of origin, are much less defensible than other rights that are lumped into this category of intellectual property.

Trademarks and trade secrets have obvious reasons to remain privately owned. Trademarks prevent fraud and protect reputations. Trade secrets can only be acquired through espionage or breach of confidentiality contracts, both of which are clear types of aggression and invasion of privacy.

Copyrights are the grey area, because a copyright is only on a specific work with a specific origin. If I write a book that is similar to yours, that alone doesn't violate your copyright. With a patent, you could be in violation even if you never heard of the patentholder or their invention, but violating a copyright requires specifically distributing copies of the work of another. Duration is one of the key concerns here. But without copyrights, it is unclear how one could make a living as an author, a publisher, a musician, or a filmmaker.

If you think patents should be abolished, then say so, and you'll be on strong footing. If you think copyrights should be abolished, you better bring some good arguments. If you wish to abolish trademarks and trade secrets, then you are on extremely weak ground and also should not try to conflate these legal concepts with the others.
Capital investment != labor costs
> Your audience needs to trust you. If your audience knows you are shilling for someone, they fundamentally can't trust you.

Some audiences just don't care or even think about that. And that audience are the main targets of those companies.

Do really think, that the sneaker community really cares about trusting a reviewer, if all the company needs to say to raise the prices, is that they produce that colour in a limited run?
I don't think anyone is suggesting that Greek mythology is absent any kind of moral impetus.

But the Greek Gods seem fairly petty, jealous, vain etc..

Their description in the Ilyad puts them as 'superhumans' more than anything, there is definitely no overarching metaphysical appeal to either morality, or towards stoic search for meaning of life etc.. It's like they're just the superhuman overlords humans have to deal with.
We should invest the R&D effort into as many places as we can. I just have a hunch that "electrifying everything" isn't going to win out over, say, "use electricity to synthesize energy-dense liquid fuels", which can even be generalized to the sequestration strategy of "use electricity to synthesize liquid fuels and then store them in underground salt caverns like the Strategic Petroleum Reserve".

Though I have no idea if we can make enough salt caverns, at least it would be a fixed amount of salt caverns, since you could establish a closed-loop supply of liquid fuel this way that was long-run carbon-neutral.
Boeing documents possibilities, not what actually happened.
>He's missing on old stuff like Calvin & Hobbes, to name just one example.

But Calvin and Hobbes is even more accessible now than it was when I was a teenager in the mid to late 80s. Back then I had no concept that some day it would be available online (on what?) or in books, so each day I would cut each comic out and tape it into a notebook I kept. Now I have the softbound book for my kids to read and the hardbound books on acid free paper for myself. But I still look at C&H online.
You have a spare and revoke the ability to use the one you lost.
I've stuck with Thunderbird forever. The only things I do with Gmail are set up filters there (so I never see the filtered emails). It works pretty well.
"Facebook would prefer that someone else decide what constitutes such content and should thus be taken down. But it’s hard to see how this would benefit anyone but Facebook."

I can actually get behind this. As I said before, I'm wary of Fb and Google becoming judge and jury of what is or isn't acceptable speech.

It's against their will now, but they may well grow to like it.
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Conspiracy Theory: Mozilla wanted to acquire the service from the beginning, but before doing so they would integrate it beforehand to stir up some drama, devalue it a little bit and buy it for less.
I split the difference.
My name namrog84
Looks like a pseudonym and number from previous era.

However it's my last name backwards. Gorman. And I was born in 84 so it's not just a random throw away. Also namrog without number is often taken.

So i still use it professionally because it's still closely related to my identity. Yet majority of people would never know if they didn't know my name.
Major tech trends. What is missing in this and what will emerge when they merge?
My cardiologist is saying that it's not a big deal for me to be in afib 4% of the time with the longest lasting 3 hours 10 mins over a 2 week period. I haven't had a stroke or transient ischemic attack previously, don't have diabetes, hypertension or congestive heart failure. I'm male and 51 years old. Thus, my CHADS₂ and CHA₂DS₂-VASc scores are zero.
>>I have grown to despise my fellow human beings in groups larger than about 7, so I've built a home theater where I can watch a movie without having to deal with the bullshit that is the general public

To each their own of course. A lot of us go to the theater to enjoy a film with a large crowd.
>> Russia gets about 20% of its power from nuclear, and is currently scaling back expansion plans due to cost.

> Citation needed on scaling back.

[0] says 11% btw

[0] https://www.worlddata.info/europe/russia/energy-
Society's purchasing power worries me. How environmentally sustainable is it to replace all the billions of cars with electric? And then decades later, perhaps even under a decade given how fast some technologies develop, how sustainable is it to replace these electric vehicles with newer models? If people have the money, that's what they're going to do.

And specifically in regards to Norway, the country exports its oil to other countries and owns its wealth to oil, being one of the largest exporters. So while headlines on electric car adoption are nice, they really miss the big picture.
Wow I kind of assumed art museums in France were free like the ones here.
The best few (spanning multiple decades) have been those that didn't feel like modern "interviews" at all.

That is, no: grilling, brain-teasers, "culture fit" tests; no pre-loaded, condescending "lemme see how dumb/smart this guy is -- because I can tell" vibe -- or other head games of any sort. And for that matter, no "script".

But rather, simply: "Let's look at / talk about your work. How can you help us with our work? BTW, I'm liking the way this conversation is going -- when might you be available?"

To keep things simple: roles/projects opening with discussions following the above model are pretty much the only ones I am interested in pursuing, these days.
> If people are not allowed to offend, being offended becomes a weapon.

Well said. That just went in my permanent quotes file.
You are confusing associativity with commutativity. The IEEE floating point standard guarantees commutativity for addition.
Get HTTP status code meaning right in your terminal
I retract my comment. This is absolutely fascinating.

Thanks!
Boeing is the very definition of "too big to fail." They'll be fine.
Indeed, only max 8 and 9 are grounded afaik
The DOJ would almost certainly lose any lawsuit they filed on this.

The Academy Awards is an industry group. It has no monopoly on movie awards. Their are no fewer than 6 major movie awards during the awards seasons, and dozens of less prestigious awards. The Academy has only a monopoly on its own awards, and any interference in that would almost certainly violate the First Amendment.

The Academy is within its rights to control the eligibility requirements for its awards. If Netflix doesn't like that, they can fudge off and create the Streamies, recognizing excellence in movies made for streaming services.
You say "clearly", but intent doesn't translate clearly online. Often it doesn't come across at all.

I believe you that your joke wasn't coming from any mean place. But I do wonder how it would land with HN readers in (or from) Kazakhstan, running across a comment like that on this site. Probably some wouldn't mind, but it's easy to see how some might, especially if they already feel a little bit like outsiders here. And the whole Borat thing did have a demeaning edge to it.
That account is quite different from what actually happened. See my comment on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9044805.

In particular, the claim that he was "open sourcing software he developed in a personal side project" turned out to be a self-serving fabrication. From the Second Circuit's opinion:

> Aleynikov’s last day at Goldman was June 5, 2009. At approximately 5:20 p.m., just before his going-away party, Aleynikov encrypted and uploaded to a server in Germany more than 500,000 lines of source code for Goldman’s HFT system, including code for a substantial part of the infrastructure, and some of the algorithms and market data connectivity programs.

> Aleynikov also transferred some open source software licensed for use by the public that was mixed in with Goldman's proprietary code. However, a substantially greater number of the uploaded files contained proprietary code than had open source software.

It's the high-tech version of a man accused of murdering his wife giving the excuse "I swear, I thought I was shooting at a burglar that had broken into our bedroom!"

Note also that while Aleynikov's conviction was vacated by the Second Circuit, it was because of a loophole. The Second Circuit decided that stolen source code did not count as a "stolen good" under the Economic Espionage Act. (Congress corrected that loophole the same year.)
Last time CO2 levels were this high, there were trees at the South Pole
Ah, makes sense.

I bet most people only buy 1 though
I also love music as recovery. I haven't picked up my clarinet in a while, but guitar has worked out very conveniently for me.
Not in many non-USA countries. Just damage and negligence is enough in many other English speaking countries [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
Two PCIe add-in cards is normal for a 1U server. 2U servers can accommodate quite a bit more; mine has room for 6 full-height and two half-height, for a total of 8. And for 2.5" drives, a full front-loading 2U is usually 24 drives.
This is vacuous punditry at its worst. Why did the NYT hire this guy?
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Consider the 1800s, where much of our understanding of the attitudes of the day comes from newspapers and archived letters. Then consider how many more were discarded once they had served their purpose.

Don't you think the world would be a somewhat better place if we had more records, and therefore more understanding, of what people thought in these times?

Also consider the class implications here. Letter-writing (and archiving) was something more often practiced by folks who were "elite" in terms of wealth and/or education. The thoughts and opinions of these classes have disproportionate representation in our understanding, and those of people in lower classes are underrepresented or erased entirely.
Yeah, it's a problematic model if we were to look at it as a solution to open source funding. It requires you to already be contributing heavily to a significant enough project that you'd be able to get these grants in the first place. Being able to get there without being paid along the way is a position of extreme privilege that not many have.

I spent a lot of time wrestling with the decision to even try this at all ("is it fair for me to do this when so many others can't?" and "will folks just think I'm abusing my position" are both things I had to come to terms with).

That said, if we do a better job of breaking down barriers to getting into that position in the first place, it's not a terrible model to start with. Getting a enough large grants to fully cover a salary from various companies a year is much more feasible than getting enough tens of thousands of individuals to contribute.

Working with these shorter sponsorships vs a full time employer also just feels more like the kind of open source work that got me wanting to do it full time. It lets me be much more flexible on when/what I work on (within reason, there are expectations on what "full time on crates.io/Rust" means). It's also helps to avoid situations where the employer is upset because you're spending time on a feature/bug/whatever that is important to the ecosystem but not directly useful to the company (e.g. working on a PG specific feature in Rails while employed by a company that uses MySQL)
Some points of note:

Parrot was intended as a more universal VM, and was started before the Perl6 design solidified. So in the end it didn't actually fit that well with Perl6.

NQP is a small subset of Perl6 that is used for bootstrapping Perl6, and provides an isolation layer from the vagaries of the various VMs it targets. It used to target Parrot, and now targets MoarVM, the JVM, and JavaScript. (NQP is an acronym for Not Quite Perl6.)

MoarVM (Metamodel On A Runtime) was built specifically for Perl6, but its design is minimal. Most of the Perl6 specific features are built using Perl6 and NQP.

For example, MoarVM only provides only enough of an object/type system to bootstrap the full object system. That is MoarVM gets taught how Perl6 objects work every time it loads the Perl6 runtime.

MoarVM also has a pluggable optimizer where you write the plugins in a higher level language. It could be any language that compiles down to MoarVM bytecode. The Perl6 ones are written in NQP.

I think this dynamism makes MoarVM an interesting target for other languages.
These incentives won’t be permanent though. Once a desired target for electric vehicles hit all the incentives will be taken away. Like they did in Denmark. Which dropped Tesla sales dramatically! https://nordic.businessinsider.com/teslas-sales-fell-a-jaw-d...
Security, complexity and Huawei; protecting UK's telco networks – NCSC
I feel this is much more applicable to SRE and Ops Engineers where performing, rehearsing and practicing is much more applicable.

Where I work, SRE work on their own tooling that is synonymous to releasing. They rehearse in the form of conducting weekly drills like failovers. The rest is similar to what is written in OP.
"They trust me — dumb fucks" ~ Mark Zuckerberg
That is how the law is phrased. However, as I understand it, people have successfully managed to argue that simply receiving a copy of the work as part of the infringement is sufficient "trade" on its own to qualify the infringement as a criminal offense. Under that interpretation there is no effective distinction between civil and criminal infringement.
Yup. Here's a mirror for anyone else looking: http://archive.is/ATJXq
If I read you right, you are saying that if you compute a+b, you'll get a different result than if you compute b+a, if a is tiny and b is huge.

I believe this is incorrect. Feel free to show me a counterexample.
On a more basic level than that, creating a physical book costs money and in turn physical books are much more resilient to time. You don't need to pay for storage, the book will continue to exist unless someone makes an effort to destroy it.
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Thanks for the answers. A higher-power PULSTAR derivative still needs NRC design approval, right? Or will the reactors be built somewhere that has a simpler approval process for new designs? I've seen people say that Canada is more favorable to novel reactors though I haven't looked into the details.

The NorthStar chemistry advantage looks (IMO) to be the absence of fission products, which are diverse in chemical behavior and radiotoxicity. I have no idea if that can sufficiently offset the complications that come from lower specific activity in the product.

Good luck with your endeavor! I love to see startups that deliver physical products and not just software, especially a product as important as this one.
Huawei laptop 'backdoor' flaw concerns
How do you feel about the Groovy/Kotlin style that would translate (roughly speaking):

[1,2,3].map{|n| n * 2}

to:

[1,2,3].map{it * 2}

?

It's not generalizable to multi-argument lambdas, but multi-argument lambdas are the ones that are more important to name. (e.g. with reduce, {|memo, it| memo += it})
Standard object detection can't work here?
Thanks for this! I used to listen to this regularly but fell out of the habit a couple years ago.
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For clojurists here, Nathan is the creator of the Specter[1] library. Which is a brilliant idea and technical masterpiece, IMO.

Nathan, kudos and good luck!

[1] https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter
You're right, I wasn't careful enough in typing what I intended to say, edited, thanks.
This article makes no sense and the author is rather clueless about btc. Look in the comments. This guy says that BTC has no value, yet there is proof it does. Its a scam? Maybe this guy was scammed?
In the UK, electric heating also got a reputation for not really having working temperature control. Because it was expensive to heat using day-rate electricity, most UK homes with electric heating have some kind of heat-storage system that charges at night at the "Economy 7" rate. The apartment I lived in (built 1984) heated up something like 100 lbs (60 kg) of ceramic blocks, for example. You could sort-of regulate how fast this heat dissipated during the day by opening and closing a vent, but in practice the biggest usable knob was choosing how much to charge overnight. That meant you had to predict before going to bed how much heat you'd want the next day! One strategy is to go very warm and then open your windows to cool back down if you overshot. Another strategy is to somewhat under-heat and then have a portable electric space heater to add extra heat in your immediate vicinity (though this is a common source of fires).
The difference is that LightTable gives you inline previews of individual expressions, not just the final result. This is really nice to have for debugging why the final result isn't what you expected.
> the alternative is not yelling at Facebook from the outside, it's building a better world...elsewhere.

And how many of the critics are doing that? How many are making a positive moral difference at their own companies, however good or bad those companies already are? I posit that moving forward at a "bad" company is more valuable than standing still at a "good" one. In my group at Red Hat, generally regarded as a "good" company, our project plans were influenced by demands from some pretty shady customers - big banks, government agencies, even a Russian propaganda agency. At Facebook, my work supports data scientists who are detecting and eliminating that same kind of propaganda. But I'm supposed to feel worse about myself now?

You talk trash about freshman ethics, but that's exactly the kind you yourself are engaging in. I was in fact a philosophy major long ago (though more logic and metaphysics than ethics) so I should know. ;) It has been over thirty years since I found such simplistic arguments even slightly amusing.
https://utteranc.es is a nice solution for this
Should have called it CheckMate!