skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you been following the 'new Model F' keyboards? https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/ - it's cool to see how much interest there is in them.
Economics has already given us the solution long ago. Climate is an externality. You solve problems with externalities by pricing them into goods and services. That was clear for climate change back in the 90’s. Everything since then has not been in the realm of economics but of politics. If the climate change problem will be solved, the solution will have to be political.
There's no need to be that aggressive, OP didn't say anything about getting fired or losing his job. What's optimal is subjective, and they seem to find comfort in what they do. Let's not get too used to tooting our own horn that we do it even on unrelated comment chains.
Fair enough. Though to be pedantic, at the time of the test, it was considered reactor grade. The subsequent split of the definition of reactor grade into fuel grade (8-20% Pu240) and reactor grade (>20% Pu-240) occurred in the 1970'ies.

That being said, there seems to be "evidence" (maybe more like conclusions that can be drawn from published articles by people with weapons experience etc.) that Pu with almost any isotopic composition can be used to make a usable (as in, very low probability of pre-detonation, low enough radioactivity to not pose a threat to personnel handling it) weapon.

Now, I don't think that terrorist capturing a nuclear powered cargo ship and then making a Pu bomb is a particularly big worry. Making a Pu bomb from spent fuel (whether with weapons grade Pu or reactor grade) requires reprocessing technology (e.g. PUREX) as well as the engineering to create an implosion device, and is probably out of reach for non-state actors.

The worry AFAICS with reactor grade Pu is that an advanced non-weapon state sitting on a big pile of separated reactor grade Pu (cough Japan cough) could relatively quickly (e.g. weeks/months) create a bomb if they so wanted, compared with building weapons grade Pu producing reactors and running them, which would be a several years long project.
Here is a project with some overlap: https://www.cleardarksky.com/csk/

The sensors collect data on cloud cover, transparency, plus more Earth-bound measurements like temperature and wind speed, and display them in a scrolling grid.

The sensor stations, taken as a pseudo-grid on the ground, can be used to create maps that tell very intricate details about atmospheric motion, etc, and also produce highly accurate weather forecasts. In fact, the data in the forecast half of the grid is calculated by knowing the current conditions at other stations, what stations their predictions were derived from, etc outwardly down the line.

Of course, one of the sensors (and therefore, also output measurements on the grid) is specifically for darkness, which is what made me connect it to this article.

I used to own property near one of the stations that is in a known dark area. There was also a bird sanctuary across the road. Between the two, it felt like a whole other planet compared to the mega city where I live.

The density of stars you see in proper darkness is really stunning. If you went out to the suburbs and looked up, you might think you see them all, but it's not even close.

The only recent time a lot of people got to see this simultaneously was during the Northeast Power Outage of 2003. Only then it was clear to anyone who looked up, just how many satellites pass over every few minutes.
This headline sounds like a Metal Gear mission brief.
>In my experience a surprising number of people are willing to do that.

Of course, a somewhat surprising to me number of people will also subscribe to a service, binge-watch a show, and then cancel.

Nothing wrong with doing that of course and I imagine for most people, subscriptions are pretty sticky. (That assumption is probably bolstered by the observation that Netflix and HBO don't offer annual subscriptions at a discount AFAIK.)

For purchasing films and TV series I just buy a DVD a lot of the time. With Blu-Ray, the quality is probably better and I can lend it, etc.
You either hand some of this over to a ML model to handle, and lose some control / deterministic-ness, or you write a ton of code to handle the combinatorial explosion of potential parses of the sentence.
> Lisp hasn’t been on the hype cycle since SO was launched.

Hype cycle doesn't mean "currently being hyped". Every technology is somewhere on the hype cycle [1]. Lisp is well into the Plateau of Productivity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

> Personally, yet another reason not to focus on less popular technologies.

Because its expert users don't hang out on one particular website?
Yes, we moved to G1 (before it was the default) and then on to Shenandoah in a stream processor doing a lot of in-memory processing, lots of small allocations. As we reached a certain threshold of in-memory objects, Parallel GC would choke up and we’d see GC pauses which could reach 1s every few seconds, totally unacceptable.

No doubt we could have spent time optimising this but moving to G1 brought this down to rarely exceeding 100ms, Shenandoah brought this down further to typically <10ms.
I second this. Sometimes I fire up VS code just because it would take a few minutes longer to test the same code in IntellijIDEA.
Airbnb is hardly cheaper than a hotel when you factor in the obscene service and cleaning fees in addition to the hotel taxes they collect.

And if it still comes out cheaper it’s for a reason e.g. no security, no housekeeping, no amenities, no one to help you.
> Yet most (western) countries immigration policy is set on the opposite assumption - that personality traits (of which IQ is only one) are not heritable.

This is something often said by white people who never had to deal with the many issues around migrating to Western countries, even though we have the entire history of eugenics and "scientific" racism proving the opposite.

> The caution and "well it's complicated" shouldn't run in only one direction.

That would assume that there are two equally valid opposing views here, and yet there is nothing here to back that up. Science doesn't run on "both sides"-isms.
dang, you're right, my bad. I apologize for my comment.
Check out the "Dactyl-ManuForm": https://github.com/tshort/dactyl-keyboard

> a parameterized, split-hand, concave, columnar, ergonomic keyboard.
I am not sure this is possible without extensive training. I once had a an assignment to meet with someone I had come to despise. But my face cringed just at the thought of sitting across from this person. So before the meeting I put a fake brace on my left arm and explained that if I look mad or frustrated it was because I am in physical pain. I was able to get through the interview and get information he might have withheld had he sensed I was hostile towards him.
You can have perpetual license after paying for 12 months.
Eh. To me the whole VC e-scooter industry is a “stupid game, stupid prize” sector that won’t be around in a few years anyway.

I hardly ever see anyone riding scooters in SF. The scooter companies keep raising their prices in lock step because they have to, but it’s now gone from $.15/min to $.32-.33/min, which is more than $20/hr with tax. It’s cheaper to just use an Uber.

Have no idea who they are targeting with those prices. Kids can’t afford that. Adults would rather take an Uber at those prices.
The system we work within affects the way our society behaves, because free-market capitalism has failed us.
Are Belgian developers immune to insert-evil-country-of-choice bribing, extortion or just being plain evil?

Are we still doing this "Oh, they are nationality so they are spies!" thing?
One day I'll likely be faced with making my own keyboard layout or losing the wonderful Home/End/PgUp/PgDn/Delete layout I've been used to for years now on a long discontinued keyboard model (I seriously have a box of spares under the bed that I bought when they stopped being made).

I've found myself adaptable to the action of many keyboards, but there's some layout features I'm very particular about.
The only JetBrains IDE I've used is Rider, but AFAIK they are all based on IntelliJ - in 2-3 years of use, I don't recall ever experiencing lag when typing. I actually think it's one of the most performant and responsive IDEs I've ever used.

For reference, I primarily use it on Windows, with 64GB of RAM, but also use it on MacOS with 32GB of RAM and on another Windows machine with only 16GB of RAM.
Yes. Specifically, I believe the following to be incorrect

> We have unfortunately blown our time window for a moderate response.

Because I believe our best option is to work for a moderate response sooner, for the reasons I've already said
Do you still want the F1-F12 keys?

If you don't, choose a keyboard with an appropriate physical arrangement (I happen to have [1], which would work for this), and program it accordingly -- any mechanical keyboard lets you move the key mapping around. Optionally swap the plastic key caps around. (You could also achieve this OS-side on any cheap keyboard.)

If you want an additional row, you'll probably need to make the keyboard yourself. The fashion seems to be to reduce the number of available keys rather than increase it.

Depending what you want it for, an alternative is to add an extra modifier key and use that modifier to get your extra characters, "FN+1" etc.

Programming the keyboard to send arbitrary characters depends on the OS and the keyboard firmware. See [2].

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33006060286.html

[2] https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/features/feature_unicode
There are Eclipse shops? In 2019? Why? I mean, even IntelliJ Community (which, despite the implications of the name, can be used for everything) is a fair bit better.
I don't think people choose brand and feature-based value ; they choose reliable mail provider. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577413
Unless you can make the case that the average person in the US is entitled to put more CO2 into the globally shared atmosphere than the average person in China, per capita is the only way to fairly access whether a country is contributing more or less than its fair share.

Yes, it would be bad if Chinese per capita use rose to match US per capita use, because US per capita use is already way over what is sustainable globally.
Dual esc/ctrl is the way to go. I still get phantom esc presses when I decide half-way that I don't need to ctrl+anything, but it's worth it.
I mainly use vim and occasionally use Jetbrains. My setup in vim is super complex. I can tell you exactly how I feel about it:

Vim is a better text editor than anything else. By far. Unfortunately, vim is terrible at basically everything else.

The problem is, once you learn to use vim's text editing capabilities, then editing code using anything else feels like a pain. I'm not talking about variable lookups / etc. I'm talking the pure "move the cursor to a certain place and enter some text" aspect of it. If you don't know vim, then it's hard to understand how slow editing text feels without it - it's kind of like going from not knowing how to type properly to being a solid touch typer. (not that extreme, but that's what it feels like).

Unfortunately, because vim sucks at everything else, my setup has to be complex to actually get it to do the other things a good IDE does out of the box. If I could do it the other way around, I would - I'd love to be able to use vim-like editing inside of an IDE, but every vim-mode I've tried so far just doesn't work properly (except one - evil mode in Emacs - which is why I recently switched to Spacemacs, but that's another story).
A decade behind would mean their software security is at Windows 7 level at least. It's far from that. More like Windows XP first edition at best.
How come a sensational post like this finds its way to HN front page?
As a MechE this is really cool to see. Is there similar tooling available online that I can read about?
Care to offer up any reasoning alongside your one-word reply?
There will never be international agreement. No one will agree to put themselves at a disadvantage compared to everyone else. So greener technology will have to become the cheapest option or you'll have to commit mass murder to force other nations to submit against their will.
My 8 year old has his own workbench, and all the kids in the neighborhood garden. Thanks for mentioning that.

Regarding travelling, to each their own. Remember though, seeing new things and meeting new people is what broadens horizons. No need to even take a plane if you don't want. Simple driving trips to start are a great way to begin.
Unlikely; emotional expressions seem to be innate and hard-wired into the brain, hence the fundamental similarity between emotional expressions of groups separated for tens of thousands of years.
Many keyboards have built-in shortcut keys (whether system or not) so yes. Not sure whether they leverage mostly unused codes from the Keyboard Page of USB HID, use non-keyboard pages, or use something else entirely.

I'd expect many if not most "gaming" keyboards to provide "macro key" though their layout may not be what you want. Productivity keyboards also provide such keys sometimes e.g. Microsoft's Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 has a number of programmable shortcut keys sitting above the function keys.
We've replaced the title with what the Github page says.

Submitted title was "Rustysd – systemd replacement written in Rust"
There is one for PyCharm. Maybe for others too? I didn‘t find a table though
>> People don't like being taken for a ride, thus they resist what makes their life more difficult.

> I doubt it.

Are you willing to consider it as a possibility though?

No doubt the remainder of what you say is true, to an unknown degree (ignore this at your own peril), but if you had god-like omniscience to simultaneously see into the minds (including the subconscious) of all people on the planet, the true reality of their beliefs and what sort of compromises they would be willing to make under certain conditions - might the material aspects play less of a role in the impasse than you and others think?

Draw upon the knowledge (personal, and observations of third parties) you have about human relationships, particularly conflict. Have you noticed that sometimes people don't behave completely rationally, sometimes going so far as to even lie to themselves about why they do the things they do? Are there sometimes situations where a minor disagreement finds a way to grow into a full on battle where the original objective disagreement has faded into the background, the fight itself takes on a life of its own, and people revert to their irrational, tribal, caveman roots, seeking no particular goal other than revenge?

Might there be some aspect that creeps into the political realm? If it did, what might it look like? Might it look something like irrational, dishonest & disingenuous, hate-filled discussions in social media, as opposed to good faith fact-based discussions where both parties are seeking to achieve a state of mutually beneficial compromise? Do we see any evidence of these two conversation types taking place in social media today?

Jonathan Haidt is the only academic I know of that seems to have noticed this aspect of the situation (as related to political polarization, not climate change) and set his mind to studying it. Does anyone know of others?
> with only 4 days of training data

You misread it. It's around 300 hours of training data. It's 4 days to absorb those 300 hours.

I bet a human child who has never even seen a computer could learn to do this in far less than 300 hours. I suspect even 1 hour would be enough.
An AI can act in any way you want without having 'knowledge' of human concepts.
AlphaStar can play in a variety of style, from defensive to very agressive, and yet has no understanding of concepts or values.
Rust was created to replace C, not build anything radically new or different.
I've been fascinated with mechanical keyboards for a while. Have been thinking of setting up a Slack channel to build a little community of enthusiast to share their builds / questions / stuff that's for sale etc. Anyone interested in joining such channel? Would love to set it up and connect with MK builders. Send me an email if interested.
> This reminds me how everyone says they're an "introvert".

That's your circle. I know many extraverts. They're certainly not afraid to admit it!

Regardless of what you think of the MBTI's value as a tool, you didn't really think that half of the MBTI types were completely imaginary, did you?
Life decisions and outcomes go through a big calculation engine. Every life scenario has pros and cons, associated probabilities and timeframes.

So, financial independence: obvious pros. Cons: low probability event in short time frame.

Kids: pros: they're awesome. They make you very happy on balance. (I would assign a high probability to that). Obviously a subjective point of view. They are also way lower maintenance (cost) than you think. Cons: they take up a lot of your time.

Also there are interaction effects. Getting kids will reduce your available time needed to work to get financial independence.

So you need to weigh these things out. Point is, money (or lack of it) shouldn't be too much of a deciding factor in the kids decision. IMHO
This is the wheel of progress.
Holds for systemd replacements as well as for comments judging them!
I'm not convinced technology is going to help us. We have had amazing efficiency gains for aircraft but increased air travel has eaten all the gains and a lot more. We have built more efficient cars but wasted that by building bigger cars and driving them further. Insulation standards in homes have increased but we build bigger homes further from the centres. The list goes on and on.

The only thing that has made a real difference is switching from coal to gas in places like the UK. But even then gas heating in our homes is emitting more CO2 than any other sector.

Wind and solar are too intermittent to replace base load, there isn't enough cobalt in the world to build enough storage, there probably isn't enough uranium to switch everyone to nuclear.

I can't see people accepting a shift from an energy system based on stocks to one based on flow and the intermittency that comes with that. My neighbours go a bit bananas when the power is off for thirty minutes.

We really are fucked.
Breaking up Google could easily fix the large amount of ads.

The market would become competitive again, so if Google 1 started showing less ads than Google 2, people would switch. Right now I'm not switching to Duck for reasons that originate from the fact that Google is a monopoly.
Yes, that's why all dis-allowing it is a terrible idea
Protecting your Intel CPU from Plundervolt can ruin your overclock, maybe
From the README:

> For now that is just out of interest how far I could come with this and what would be needed to get a somewhat working system. It is very much a proof of concept.

It sounds to me like this was more of a project that was just for fun and not really meant to be a genuine attempt at producing an alternative to systemd.
https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto-rust
wherever we put it will overflow.

The scarcity of landfill space is a myth sparked by the infamous "garbage barge", which nobody accepted because it came from the NY mafia and was getting too much attention, not because there was no room for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobro_4000

This Planet Money episode is a good listen: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-b...
But it can be an inverse pyramid scheme: just one kid for two parents, leading to an exponential decline. Better than your average pyramid scheme :-)
It's surprising that e-scooters get more attention than the multi-billion dollar cannabis industry on Hacker News. State regulators are playing the same games with cannabis entrepreneurs all over the United States. They do it because they can.
35. Our energy levels are fine for raising the kids, although there are always moments of doubt... :)
Note: as long as you are well represented in the dataset your representation in tech won’t matter.
>As strange as it may sound, the entire scientific community is not in fact conspiring to hide inconvenient right-wing truths from the common people, and if they do happen to overwhelmingly lean left that does not entail the existence of such a shadowy cabal.

A one sided, self reinforcing status quo does not require a conspiracy. All it takes is a majority of well meaning researchers to create a self-reinforcing situation wherin research along certain perfectly legitimate avenues is strongly discouraged through emergent social pressure. After spending a decade pursuing a PHD, it's hard to justify sticking your neck out when the consequences are potentially career ending, and the result is that in Western society we effectively shun any discussion of the influence of nature in favor exclusively of nurture.

>When evoluyionary biologists express skepticism towards claims made by behavioral "geneticists" or "evolutionary" psychologists, they are in fact pointing out the shoddy assumptions and flawed methodology, independently of whether the conclusions are morally abhorrent or not (they often are, but it's orthogonal to the point).

You don't think it strange to have an unquestionable default position where any study showing innate differences among populations is immediately dismissed as having poor methodology when the results are inconvenient? Is this not indicative of a strong institutional bias? Particularly when all of these same puzzle pieces are taken as legitimate when viewed individually in "safe" contexts? For example, no one argues against the existence of the warrior gene, that cat is out of the bag; but any whispers of different effects on genetic subpopulations and people bend over backwards trying to minimize the influence of such a factor on individual behavior [1] while totally ignoring the measurable consequences for distribution statistics.

Here's a legitimate potential consequence of ignoring such questions: if it turns out, hypothetically, that a particular subpopulation is more or less likely to be aggressive in tense situations, wouldn't that necessitate an adjustment in policing practices to ensure fairness in the justice system? What about optimization of treatment for psychological conditions like depression?

The assumption that human behavior is purely a product of nurture is not supported by a multitude of individual scientific facts, but institutional social bias is such that no reputable institution is willing to unify these factors, even when doing so is likely to produce more optimal outcomes for all of society. While well meaning, this is ultimately bad science potentially underpinning bad social policy.
Yes, but you need to be an expert in NLP to write that NLP library. People in their free time write software that sits at the intersection of interesting and able.