skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing about conspiracy theories is that they’re good instruction manuals for readers whether the first one can ever be proved or not.

Life imitates art.
> Busses and delivery trucks are the most noisy and polluting

Once private cars are off the road, busses and trucks would spend less time in traffic. That increases their economic yield, which in turn, makes a gradual electrification mandate economically feasible.
Or SGI or Apollo or DEC or any of those old workstation makers. It really was a golden age, companies making their own CPUs, their own OS, everything from desktop workstations to massive servers. Today’s world where everything is just a PC (even in a rackmount case) is dull and grey in comparison.
> ...except for going crosstown past the 100's...

You mean past 60th.

Also, the outer buroughs have plenty of subway inaccessible places. And other than Harlem, that's where working class New Yorkers live.
Of course there is no reason to leave things as they are. But any city older than 120 years - and that's the bulk of them near where I live - will have had horses and carriages as the bulk carriers of their time. Except for those parts where boats were used, but that requires some pretty rare conditions (Venice, Amsterdam, Bruges).

Getting rid of cars is a good thing, let's hope we get rid of them in inner cities before electrics take over and rob us of that chance. The pollution caused by cars is one of the main drivers of getting rid of them, if that reason is dealt with then it will be much harder to marshal the forces required to see this through.
This, but also:

4. Entire world is so addicted to oil that just shutting it off at this point is out of the question.

We can blame oil companies and governments for not getting serious about transitioning away from oil, and yes, plenty of this is about money, but the reason such ridiculous amounts of money are involved is precisely because interruptions in supply are an existential threat to every country on the planet.
The insight is the insanity of the movie business. Even if he is torched earth in Hollywood, with the worst career choices of the decade, with critical bombs after critical bombs, he still managed to be successful outside of the business "somehow". It's one of those tales, never underestimate the desperate ex-star, even if he is the worst of the worst. You can outplay the system somehow.
Thanks for the submission! I think I have bigger problems than the title ^_^ According to HN policy there's really not much you could do besides use the title I have.

Could you point me at the tilde blog where you saw it? I'm on the tildeverse as well (https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists...)
Apologies - that link may be behind a paywall. This is the guaranteed free one: https://medium.com/@thomastberry/the-well-intentioned-propag...
Yes, but it's most of the good 1/5 of it, with just a little bit of the atrocious 1/3, and the rest taken from the "who cares" 7/15.
I wish I knew Mandarin. Just watched the episode, and although it's not needed to appreciate it, the Mandarin probably is another layer of humor.

I got that impression because I watched "Mexican Joker" after that, and when the immigrant kids arrive at the detention center, and the welcome is being translated for them, the mangled Spanish, while brief, was brilliant in its mangling. I appreciate that care to detail.
The temporary really sucks. We shouldn't have lots and lots of waste sitting in spent fuel pools random places and should move to something more permanent and reliable.
Hi HN!

Let me add few words about an app. Eatrel is a mobile app that helps people find nearby places where to eat with discount. Open an app and discover special offers nearby places have: simple percent discounts, sets with special prices, happy hours and so on. See menu, see what's included in the offer, see restaurant info, see restaurant rating, get directions.

We've launched the first version of our app for Android with Happy Hour offers only and still working on content quality. Will happy to see your feedback and thoughts. Currently we work in New York only.
iOS app is coming soon.

You can also read a few words how i got inspired to work on this on Product Hunt(link is below).

Our landing page: https://eatrel.com

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eatrel

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/eatrel
It’s definitely a Cocoa app. The latest version uses a web view for the actual canvas, though.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191012054046/https://www.bloom...
As someone who lives in cities and has never owned a car, doing just fine here with walking my groceries back weekly and taking luggage around when I travel thanks very much. Doesn't work for everyone but that's why we have suburbs and plenty of car first/primary cities like Houston or Portland.
reading the reviews I really want that book, but I don’t know why, I have never tried to actually make bread.

That should be the first thing one should learn to cook. To make some bread.
https://readwrite.blog – An honest, inexpensive blog host that powers my own blog https://alexmingoia.com

This week I'll be polishing the basics and adding some new features.
The paradox of high expectations: The more you demand, the less you get
I'm in the same boat. I know I would do the job well, but I'm not a good test-taker. And even when I manage to perform really well on the tech screen, I still get rejected.

Stay strong, OP.
> Isn't this why we won't get nuclear power? It's always been my impression than nuclear is more financial challenging than technical, it takes forever to recoup the initial cost of the reactor and by the time it does, we will want to move onto 'cleaner/safer' renewables.

Does anyone see the contradiction with the leaders on the left calling for "unprecedented action" like the Green New Deal, but then they object to nuclear with the argument that it requires too much government oversight and financing?
> Not enough to set them apart from other communities in this space

That sounds interesting to me. Was looking different, a goal in itself? (if I interpret you correctly?)

(Interesting that going back to the "old style" forums, is the way to look different, nowadays :- ))
Amazon's counterfeit book problem is still making it money
even for a consumer, file synchronization is very painful without a filesystem. I usually use Resilio Sync between my devices, but I couldn't get it to work properly on an iPad without manually copying files between apps every time I wanted to update a file.

most iPhone consumers I know of are constantly complaining about their phone running out of memory from photos and whatnot, and they don't understand how to transfer between devices.
They still do. Trader Joes does too. I love both stores, and do most of my shopping between the two. It's nice to know that 99% of the retail people I interact with are being treated well by their employers.
I think this is generally true, but poor storage and processing at a couple of early sites (I’m thinking Hanford in particular) have had negative effects on the communities.
Nuclear power plants are not safe, never have been, and never will be. That's because no matter how great your technology and redundant safety systems are, it's all still run by humans who are fallible, often stupid, and very often greedy.

If you can make a buck by cutting corners and shirking security regulations, someone will.

Air travel is nowadays pretty safe, but this has been achieved over decades of trial and error, with each major error costing dozens if not hundreds of lives - not something we can affords with nuclear technology. And as the 737 MAX and its insights into Boeing company culture and the FDA shows, people can and will piss away already gained safety improvements.
I'm a good few miles from Sellafield, but well within the "you're screwed" radius in the event of major leak.

On waste it depends what you call "still a problem". Sellafield still has pools storing the spent Magnox fuel resulting from running Britain's nuclear stock flat out through the 1973 miners strike. Those are decaying "nicely". Risk of fuel fires has been mentioned more than once. Sellafield is a reprocessing plant, that hasn't yet touched the 45 year old waste.

Yes I'd say nuclear waste is still a problem. I'm far enough outside London that politicians probably think it's perfectly fine.

Photos: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/29/sellafie...
https://web.archive.org/web/20191012011551/https://www.bloom...
The only way to fly....
I kind of got inspired by the original article ... and your post (which was in the top spot when I first looked at the entry). I set out to build my own digital version of the Zettelkasten system.

But the more I think about it ... there is not a lot that there is to implement that basic command line tools don't handle.

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Basically every editor (camp vim here) has support for markdown syntax highlighting, giving you a simple way to compose notes.

Fulltext search is handled by grep (ripgrep for me), fuzzy file search (fzf) probably comes in handy too.

If you need pretty printed notes you can use pandoc to convert multiple zettel files into one document of basically any format.

Graphs can be created with graphviz/dot.

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There is little there is to improve on. From my (zettelkasten) notes:

* Something that assembles multiple notes into one temporary, editable document. Changes are commited into their respective zettel files once you close the editor.

* Some scripts that provide easy to access reports. E.g. based on recent activity, topic or based of a single zettel and it's neighbors.

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All of the above are more or less trivial to implement. So ... any one up to propose something more challenging that is actually useful?
@m_b the discussions are publicly visible here: https://webwide.io/

(Took a while before I found them :- ))
People who think they know about Bloom filters should consider what attack vectors a false positive with such would allow.

(The end result of the thought experiment will be basically what Google does now.)
My hairdresser, who knew I was into computers, once asked me “when I delete a picture on my mobile phone, where does it go?”.

I first thought he was asking if there was some kind of Recycle Bin on Android, but then he said: “when we die, our body is burier or burned, that is it becomes bones or ashes, but what happens with the picture on the mobile phone, what does it become?”
Nope, why?
Federally there are laws against profiting off of organ trade, which is possibly why the company listed is registered as a nonprofit. You as an individual are operating for profit and would not qualify for an exemption.

It goes deeper, too, with bodily tissue not being recognized as property for some reason. This makes it hard to sue doctors and hospitals for misusing your medical waste, etc.
Is apple the data controller here since it's all happening on the users' device? And does "legitimate interests" extend beyond the data controller's interests? I.e. if it's only about fraud against apple then safe browsing (which is supposed to protect the user from fraud) would not necessarily be a legitimate interest of apple. It might have to be opt-in at least.
Love the writeup! Not sure if it's just me, but showing how your entire infra works is just amazing (I wrote something similar on how I did my infra: https://sdan.xyz/sd2).

How much do you spend per month on this?

Also why do you need a GPU? Last time I played around with GPT, you didn't need a GPU to run with inference (you already have the weight files).

Also are you running 774 or just 335?
What a completely useless article. Anyone who gets solar installed learns that the power is piped back into the grid and used as a credit towards your bill.

"...many are learning the hard way" Are they? The article doesn't quote or link to anyone discovering this for the first time.

A better title is, "A reporter outside of California learns how solar works and writes a click-bait, information free article about it."
Between a coal plant and a nuclear one I would choose nuclear any time.
I have no idea what you base this statement on. You are absolutely likely to go to zero by continuously making market trades as a retail investor. Every trade has two sides and the side you're trading against is for the most part significantly better informed than you. That's why Robinhood makes its money by selling their 100% retail order volume.
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Like Yucca Mountain?
Try just getting a traditional "Kopi C" with some Kaya toast, that's probably your sugar needs for a day. Then add in the sugar-water soaked fruity, plus the added sugar in most hawker food and you're not exactly on a stunning diet.

I lived there for 5 years and my word it was tough to cook for yourself. Lucky I lived near a wet market, but otherwise your choices aren't greay
I think the problem is that the left has always been against nuclear. So starting with nuclear would leave you without support from the left or right.
If region is set to China, not just language. Locale has two components, like in en_US.
Sorry I don't recall. I was in a random webring rabbit hole and don't feel like going through a hundred entries in my history :D. It was just a link though, with no note next to it.
Let's be real. Under no circumstance should you be ingesting anything you buy on Amazon. It's going to take a baby formula scandal like what happened in China before the general public wakes up the problem.
>selling bulk items a way to keep "riff-raff" out?

It depends, but in many areas with extreme poverty and drug use there are businesses that break apart packages and sell single items, even when it is a violation of the law, such as single cigarettes
Technology to Clean My Glasses
Is nuclear waste even still a problem?

That problem was solved long ago, just reprocess it through breeder reactors and get even more energy!

The problem with the anti-nuclear lobby is that they block progress, then point at 50-year-old problems - that they have blocked implementing the solutions for - as current and unsolvable. They don’t actually want clean power. They want a reversion to a pre-industrial society, with themselves in charge.
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If they qualify, they ought to get the Costco credit card (there are lower credit limits available). I typically make a $250+ profit each year, even after paying $120 for the executive membership.

I usually split some purchases with friends, like the Kirkland microwave popcorn. It will go bad before I can eat it all, but split it 3 or 4 ways, and it's not wasted.
Large grids (with DC interconnects) make the storage problem less (because the covariance falls between different generation sources and demand sinks), as do a diversity of approaches (e.g. solar, wind, hydro; only tapping hydro when there's a shortfall).

People will point to power->gas->power as a technology for this, and I do think that's something we should be pursuing... It is probably viable for some fraction of fill-in power.

I still think some nuclear in the mix makes things much easier, though as some people point out the economics of nuclear get even worse when there's a lot of renewables on the grid (because nuclear needs to run 24/7 to amortize extensive construction costs, and a lot of that time power is basically free).
In other words, fuck it, future generations can clean up our mess.

How about instead, we use only what we can produce without waste.
Have you ever researched the outcome of malpractice suits? People almost never win nowadays, usually because doctors must testify against other doctors. It is impossible to hold them accountable and now there are usually caps on damages.
The best way to ensure access to the newest arXiv version is not to link to a specific version at all (and also link to the abstract): https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6946 . EDIT: But, for no comprehensible reason, Spivak has things set up so that the latest arXiv version is older (although I don't understand why a file updated February 2013 is dated April 2018 …); so just ignore me. Sorry!
If we reprocess-- the government should really do it because of proliferation concerns.
> They have excessively hard crusts and large holes, both of which I consider defects.

I can't disagree with this enough. Gimme that hard, crispy crust with a good ear. And lots of good holes.

Although, my crumb always ends up even and fairly dense. No clue what to change to open it up. (Even with 70%+ hydration).
> I still don't see what's functional about this. Functional is about higher-order functions, currying, and so on. I'm not positive most business logic profits from that. What you describe can be achieved by swapping out a number (or more generally, data).

And a discussion about composing functions is a discussion about higher-order functions. Why is that not FP?
Yeah, they should be moved within a few years from pools to sarcophagus style containers. Those containers can later be moved to end storage or wherever without nearly as much hassle as abandoned rods in pools.
Yup. Yucca Mountain wasn't a perfect plan, but it was pretty damn good and definitely much better than the alternative of doing nothing.
I don't think I've heard "indifferent baguettes" used as a descriptor of bread in France before. What makes them indifferent in your opinion? In my very brief experience the baguette were fresh, fantastic texture, cheap, and widely available.

You're not going to get the loaves you might want, but you have to assess things as they are, not how they compare to what you want. As an example, I lived in Japan for several years. I like crunchy crusts, flavourful sourdough, etc. But the bread scene in Japan is mostly incredibly airy white, buttery crust, focus on pastries etc. I try not to criticize the bread as being boring airy whites, but rather compliment the pastries on their strengths.
> And no, trying to run appliances off the power in a Tesla Inc. electric car won’t work, at least without special equipment.

Are they not aware Tesla sells a separate solution for this very problem, and it isn't a car? Or are they just spewing anti-solar misinformation?
Same. I had to do this in first-year CS, and got pretty surprised to find out I'd be working with senior backend engineers who've never heard of sockets. Concerns at this layer don't come up much, but when they do, the set of people available to help gets a lot smaller.
This. When a platform refuses to solve a problem, that problem doesn't go away. The users are forced to roll their own solutions, none of which have the same test coverage and optimization opportunities.
I encourage you to!

I used to not really know how to cook, but my fiancée has been encouraging me to. Its like any skill. At first you just feel overwhelmed, but you gradually learn more and more how to cook and make better food. It's also really exciting to take something and make it from scratch.

My only disappointment now when I cook is it makes eating out much more difficult. I get really disappointed when I go eat something that I know I could have made better.
Quite often, I find a couple of thick slices, spread with a generous swathe of butter, a satisfying lunch.

Who are these people? I would be hungry again within ten minutes. (BMI of ~19)
Ok, we've changed to that from http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/CT4S.pdf. Thanks!
Maybe not, but we can bound the number of people they kill at much lower than other forms of power generation.
A thread from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9651828
I dismissed this initially out of a felt need to max out the use of my hardware. But actually it does solve some problems. I prefer native resolution + 200% scaling when using laptop (also a 15") on its own. But given the laptop screen is further away when I'm plugged in at the desk, 1080p is more than adequate. It also means I can go back to Xorg, which obviates some Wayland bugginess.

So thanks for the idea - it truly had never occurred to me (oddly).
Last time I was in Oslo it looked like the network of motorways in the city were well developed relative to London. It would be a shame if they banned cars in a city that is so well-equipped to handle them.
What benefits did you get from it?
Curious about how this is different from https://www.designernews.co and dev.to? :- )

B.t.w. I'd suggest including a link to https://webwide.io, otherwise people (incl I) might believe everything is behind a login wall.

This:

> Get writing \n Start sharing writing without the pressure of a blog.

Is there a place for "blog posts" over at Webwide? Like posting to Medium? But for web things? Or how does / will it work?
I'm scared of the planes emission. Hope we'll soon tax jet fuel usage appropriately.
Tesla tells you about this when you order the system (battery option), and must configure the inverter to only charge the battery from solar for the battery storage system to be eligible for the 30% federal tax credit. You might see the value now if you’re in California in PG&E territory.

To answer your question, didn’t Bloomberg run their “The Big Hack” story without proof and no retraction when questioned about the veracity of the information? Inflammatory articles get more clicks, simple as that.
HN's software rewrites arxiv.org URLs to the base page for that reason. But in this case, replacing a 2013 pdf with a 2018 pdf requires the more specific document link.
Nuclear waste is really non-issue, especially compared to what it could help replace - for instance, sludge that comes from oil sands extraction processes, which is equivalently toxic, but there's orders of magnitude more of it, and it's in liquid form, making it much more difficult to handle.

(Sure, to be fair, uranium mining isn't particularly eco-friendly either, but AFAIK even if you count that in, nuclear still comes on top.)
"can't" is such bs. Make it so that the kernel and OS can be fully updated independent of device drivers and bypass manufacturers for distribution. Why does nobody remember that Windows updates come directly from Microsoft and that third party webcams just keep trucking along?
A classic example of beauty erroneously being choosen over readability.
If it cost $60 to vote, it would rightly be called voter suppression.
There are companies working exactly at nuclear waste. Deep Isolation is probably the most interesting of them.

https://www.deepisolation.com/technology/
Then why are people complaining so much about fracking caused earthquakes?
I work in an office environment with relatively young people and it is absolutely shocking how little people know about computers or some underlying technologies,despite using them all day,every day.Very few if any, go beyond of the basics of how to open up a website or create a word document. The willingness to learn something new is close to zero and always downplayed with "I'm not good with computers". I've got a feeling that to most office workers pivot table in Excel is the highest possible level of technical knowledge.
I wouldn’t overindex on this. I think this article is talking about biorepositories, which have a fair bit of work to do in storing organs in good condition and matching the donor data to clinical trials. More critical organs like hearts or kidneys are probably being sent to patients without much of a middleman
Oops you’re right - Amex, cash, or debit.
As a chess player, "60 minute blitz" sounds very wrong.
By accepting that you will spend two years studying it.
That doesn't mean that the user is in China. It means that the user wants their interface in Chinese as it is written in mainland China. In other words, the CN means simplified Chinese instead of traditional Chinese, which is what the TW region code corresponds to.
It’s a reference to a previous LWN article, “Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?”:

https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
A little of both, maybe. In defense of your position, though, I agree that zip files are an odd choice. Why not bundle everything into a single document, a Word file or a PDF?