skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To copy a reply from rgbrenner:

The CA SC didn't address that..

our opinion does not preclude Square from disputing White’s factual allegations. ... Nor do we express any view on whether a defendant violates the Act by discriminating on the basis of occupation or on White’s adequacy as a representative for a class of bankruptcy attorneys excluded from Square’s services. The question of an individual plaintiff’s standing under the Unruh Civil Rights Act is distinct from the question of that plaintiff’s ability to serve as a representative for a class of allegedly aggrieved individuals.[0]

White only won standing to bring his case. He's still prohibited from using Square; and he needs to win his case against Square before that'll change.

0. https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2019/s...
Extraordinarily inefficient. The energy in nuclear fission comes not from when a proton is accelerated, but when a neutron splits a large nuclear fuel atom. To store energy in nuclear reactions, you'd have to fuse the fission products back into uranium. This process can only be done at scale in very large supernovas.

But what we can do is store heat. You can have a nuclear plant storing heat in a thermal storage system (e.g. a huge vat of molten salt). As the sun sets, this tank can fill in the extra energy while the (constant power) nuclear reactor keeps the pace. Effectively, the nuclear plant can now ramp rapidly from 50% to 100% full capacity since the salt tank can be sized to double the reactor capacity.

Lots of reactor companies are talking about doing this thermal energy storage thing to best help out in an increasingly intermittent energy world.

You can also steam bypass the nuclear reactor to make hydrogen, desalinated water, etc.
Because it became a burden to maintain. https://who-t.blogspot.com/2016/04/why-libinput-doesnt-have-...

> In the old synaptics driver, we added options whenever something new came up and we tried to make those options generic. This was a big mistake. The driver now has over 70 configuration options resulting in a test matrix with a googolplex of combinations. In other words, it's completely untestable. To make a device work users often have to find the right combination of options from somewhere, write out a root-owned config file and then hope this works. Why do we still think this is acceptable? Even worse: some options are very specific to hardware but still spread in user forum examples like an STD during spring break.
A Theory..

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-propose-a-mirror-uni...
Same thing happened in Sochi where everything has been abandoned and the cost to the taxpayers has been exorbitant:

A year after the $51 billion Winter Olympics, many of the key facilities built for Vladimir Putin's extravaganza have been barely been used.

While the pistes up the mountains are now often packed with skiers - the collapsing rouble means Russians have switched from the likes of Courchevel to the Caucasus - many of the key sites of the games appear to have little prospect of being filled again.

He complained that the Bolshoy Ice Dome - costing the Russian taxpayer £197 million - requires a budget of £9,900 a day to maintain, 'mainly for taking care of the ice'.

A company which owns some of the key facilities - hardly used since the games - and is close to the regional authorities, is on the very edge of bankruptcy, he reported, citing Russia's leading business newspaper Kommersant.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2941216/Extraordina...
> Germany is about to open a coal plant (partially) to take over from one of the nuclear power plants we're shutting down

When nuclear is shut down, it's often replaced by coal. See also Japan, with a lot of coal plants coming up:

"It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/climate/japan-coal-fukush...

And a lot of people aren't aware nuclear is the safest form of energy per TWh: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
> Firstly

If your shell crashes, same problem. And the shell is a bigger program. This issue seems pretty orthogonal. Again, I was never saying this is a better way to design a shell for everyday use, unless maybe with a lot of complementary design decisions changed to go with it.

> Secondly

Why couldn't you spawn jobs like `& do-the-job` in this style? Admittedly I don't remember much about Unix job handling.
- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun).

- Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around.

- Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.)

- Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)
Lexical analysis using these bespoke methods (writing the finite state machine) is so tedious and error prone. I don't have that much experience but I just went through crafting interpreters and replaced this same module with https://github.com/J-F-Liu/pom, which is a parser combinator library, and it was way easier.
Well said. We also need to remember that all of these are 50 to 100 year problems rather than thousand year problems simply because there is no reason to expect that we won't come up with ways to reprocess that fuel within 50 to 100 years. Just consider how our knowledge of these processes has changed over the last 100 years. Do we have so little confidence in our ability to innovate that we really think we will have to deal with this stuff for a few thousand years? So, this is likely a problem of a few decades for the reasons given above and because we will get better at this stuff.
At one time there was intrinsic cost to the lender in the form of risk. It seems not so anymore, or at least less than it should.
https://github.com/clvv/fasd
https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
You could ask the original artist/author?
"In July 2005, Jared co-founded Etsy, an online marketplace to buy and sell handmade goods"

http://complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/

http://complexification.net/programmer.html
The core Wisconsin Democratic constituencies (blacks, public employees, and college students) are very concentrated geographically. Any reasonably compact districting is going to produce the same results.
s/positively charged/negatively charged/
Maybe not 100hrs, but ~40
Regex Buddy $40. regex tester, debugger and in a lesser extent, regex applier.
This. The 'race to the bottom', committed globally by central banks, to get to 0% interest rates, and keep them there for the sake of keeping the markets 'up', exacerbated by top level politicians' desires/directives.
If there's no cost to borrow, why not keep borrowing? And keep borrowing? And lending? Until things really unwind in a recession/depression that will de-lever everything/everyone.
The moral hazard? I try to maintain my own family finances, keep a budget, save for expensive things. And in the span of 3 weeks the US has spent $7,000 of every individual's future ($2T / 340M people).
> Are there localities in the US where nuclear has beaten the cost-benefit curve?

Technically, pretty much everywhere. The health detriment from fossil air pollution (which is not in the markets at all) and the value of low-carbon energy (also not in the markets) means nuclear plants are providing great benefits pretty much everywhere! :)

But that's not what you're asking. Coal vs. nuclear have traded off through the years. They both got a lot more regulations and more expensive in the 1970s. Komanoff's book really treats this extremely well.

The US plants were not standardized. Places that standardize the plants have a much better time economically. South Korea. France. Russia.

Still, I would argue that while nuclear is indeed more expensive than fossil, the fact that it is nearly carbon free and air-pollution free while being 24/7 make it a good deal. All 100% decarbonized sources have extra fees.

http://komanoff.net/nuclear_power/
They started calling it the Chinese virus after that, Wuhan virus was earlier (if you are referring to the NYT timeline article from yesterday).
Google [Against DNSSEC].
> So what I'm poking at is that while bash isn't a great tool for interfacing with the service manager, or registry, or policy frameworks and the like (SQL, definitely), powershell is not a general purpose command processor and text manipulator. And on UNIX, whether you like that philosophy or not, that's all you need. I would never want to use a powershell script to move and rename file structures with some rules and variables.

I can manipulate text fine with Powershell without having to use other small programs that may or may not exist on the system. I can also interface with parts of the operating system sensibly. I was reading and writing text files a lot easier with Powershell than I ever did with Bash.

> Look, typed OO pipelines sound like a good idea, but the negative side is this. For example, to deal with the registry, you have to have purpose built library like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.... that someone needs to write and then everyone has to know. This has to be done for every kind of interface in windows. This is just as complex as Pythons standard libraries or writing C or C++ Win32 code.

You seem to think that this is somehow a negative. I think you should be able to rely on an abstractions. I would rather rely on a well defined and understood interface than writing my own script to manipulate a file. The former is obviously less error prone than the other. Any claim to the contrary is a nonsense.

> But back to the article. It's not valid to just presumptively state like a fact that one is better than the other as the argument. And it's really not valid to compare such different tools head-to-head when it's the whole underlying philosophies of their associated ecosystems that are so different.

Yes one is sane and the other one isn't. I've heard most of these (bogus) arguments before. I hate to sound rude, but I honestly fed up of hearing it.
At the risk of sounding harsh, this is an incredibly silly way of looking at things. Of course you can be successful. And I'm not speaking from a toxic social-Darwinist mindset; there really are people out there for whom the cards of life are stacked against them and no amount of bootstrap-pulling is likely to change that. But an engineer who graduated from an accredited college (assuming there aren't additional circumstances) is not one of those people.

I would guess that your definition of "successful" is set unrealistically high, and/or you've burned-out when it comes to moving above what you consider to be "mediocre". The former can also lead to the latter.

I recommend re-evaluating what will actually make you happy. Take a critical eye to the expectations you place on yourself and make sure you're only hanging on to the ones that will make you yourself happy, not the ones that society, or your parents, or anyone else has given you. Alternately, for some people, having expectations at all is problematic. Some people (like me) thrive in the absence of pressure and get paralyzed by it when it is present. It could be that you just need to give yourself a break and ask yourself what you want from life, instead of what you think you're supposed to want. Everyone's different.

Best of luck working through all this.
Just do something anything instead of pre-emptively performing the analysis (whether it'll be worth it or not) you're trying to perform.
Really? Here I thought FreeBSD puts security before everything. This comment is surprising to me.
I think you need to reconsider who the idiot is
FWIW, I was raised American and have always done the same. It isn’t just a German thing.
Sorry, in my skimming I missed that it was the same article.

I usually hesitate to cross-link, but in this case you might want to read the discussion starting here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/10/coronalinks-4-10-secon...

It's a thread that discusses your proposal and variolation more generally. It's mostly negative, suggesting that waiting for a proper vaccine is the much better approach. I don't think you'd necessarily benefit from replying there yourself, but it does show how people are reacting to what they think you are proposing. It's possible that looking at their reactions might help you clarify your message. Or feel free to reply if you think it would be helpful.
The court did not rule on whether civil rights were violated, only that they have standing to bring their case:

our opinion does not preclude Square from disputing White’s factual allegations. ... Nor do we express any view on whether a defendant violates the Act by discriminating on the basis of occupation or on White’s adequacy as a representative for a class of bankruptcy attorneys excluded from Square’s services. The question of an individual plaintiff’s standing under the Unruh Civil Rights Act is distinct from the question of that plaintiff’s ability to serve as a representative for a class of allegedly aggrieved individuals.[0]

0. https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/2019/s...
There is no such thing. You can always build cheaper meters. The cash must flow!
Another important question is why is it so hard to use the old ones.
My point here was that it's really easy to complain about the touchpad driver but it takes a lot more effort to actually go and write the code. There was some effort last year: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wbharding/libinput/-/commits/...

I also don't see bus factor the same way you do. People can be smart enough to understand the code, but unless someone actually goes and actively takes up code maintenance the project will slowly fade and disappear (for example the synaptics driver that libinput replaced https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-input-synaptics/com...).
Nice! This could elevate virtual museum tours, which are currently lacking in interactivity.
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I read the article to the end and was half expecting the answer to be "Alex Jones". Hopefully he doesn't reappear so easily after being banned from so many platforms!
Also note that the libinput maintainer was also the last synaptics maintainer. https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-input-synaptics/com...
Yeah I don’t think one or the other is inherently better but Linux definitely gets more users and is more “tested” so things like drivers and software will have better support.
Are nuclear secrets lies?
Been a FreeBSD user for very long time besides Linux Slackware distributions since kernel 1.0. Started with Walnut Creek CD distributions. In early years it was much better than Linux with its fast networking stack and filesystem. Also it gives a sense of conceptual integrity as distribution is not just kernel but all the utilities, they work together in unison. But than it also hamper innovation due to design by committee vs the best tool for the job.

Now with time and various flavours of Linux from NixOS, GuixSD, Gentoo, LFS, Slackware, arch, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, OracleOS etc., it is in many case a better choice than FreeBSD.

In most benchmarks and hardware support it has surpassed FreeBSD. I still hope FreeBSD continue to grow and innovate, but it’s not a viable choice in many areas of modern computing. Hopefully it can catch up. It still is a very viable choice in building network devices, but there also with modern hardware support Linux is giving it a tough competition.

I still use FreeBSD, but my majority production workload now is Linux with some firewall and networking related stuff in FreeBSD and openBSD.

I did try portable FreeBSD based version like dragonfly and pcbsd. But now I don’t use them that often.
I'm an amateur, but I like to think about this:

If spacetime is quantized, then the speed of light would be 1 planck length / 1 planck time. Assuming spacetime is actually quantized to that metric, we can then ask: How does something move at 2/3c? Or two discrete planck lenghts in 3 discrete planck times?

In one instance it could be:

t=0,x=0, t=1,x=0, t=2,x=1, t=3,x=2

It could also do:

t=0,x=0, t=1,x=1, t=2,x=1, t=3,x=2.

It implies a hidden variable, or at the very least a hidden phase of some sort. All sorts of oddness abounds when you consider all velocities are then quantized fractional values of c.
Why not use ZFS on Linux?
Granted, I am total noob in that topic, but how your example of cream and coffee mixing and reaching equilibrium different from a cell receiving an electrical spike pushing it to do its thing until it is done and settling at some equilibrium? Is cell is not alive?
Brendan Carr's tweet referred to a nypost article[1] which referred to a 60 minutes Australia tweet[2] claiming Dr. Ai Fen is missing. I've read news from other sources that eventually linked to [2] but no other supporting facts. Is there any substantial evidence anywhere that Ai Fen is actually missing? Or is there no reporter on the ground who can confirm if that's the case?

Let's look at her weibo:
https://www.weibo.com/u/2662574464?is_all=1

The cryptic message on March 29th was accompanied with a picture of Wuhan, and the message itself described the geographic features of this city. Any Mandarin speaker won't find it that cryptic.

On April 10th she posted a picture of her and a retired teacher coming to Wuhan for volunteering.

So.. is it so easy to report fake news about China because people love to hate China and most official Chinese statements/sources are in Mandarin so not many English speakers can verify?

1. https://nypost.com/2020/04/01/whistleblowing-coronavirus-doc...

2. https://twitter.com/60Mins/status/1244211674439016449
I try not to write off topic rebuttals. If you perceive something I write about DNSSEC to be off topic --- for instance, if someone posts that, I don't know, netqmail suddenly supports DANE, and I materialize saying "DANE is dumb", I will accept and concede the criticism that that's unproductive.

If, on the other hand, you post "Microsoft has announced it will stop actively impeding people from using DANE for email, this is a momentous step forward for the deployment of DNSSEC", I will probably explain why I strongly believe that not to be the case, and not feel too bad about it.

I respect that you disagree and, while I do sometimes resort to overt snark, hope not to personally offend you or anyone else, or, for that matter, to crud up threads so that it's impossible to discuss things without an airing of my own issue agenda.

So, while I'm not sure I can honestly offer a "truce", I will try to be more mindful about not disrupting DNSSEC discussions too much.
> there's no p-hacking, there's no fraudulent data, there's no piles of studies retracted, and there's no crisis of replication.

I fundamentally disagree. What else is throwing away data that disagrees with your argument?
Capitalism Is Dead. Long Live Capitalism
My key takeaway from the article: Ooooh. That looks like a great chair!
I would be totally on board with using FreeBSD as my primary server OS .. if it had a container engine. There was a port of Docker to FreeBSD, but it's ancient and unmaintained (before Docker did their big modular refactor).

In theory, you could implement a lot of the Docker Engine API for FreeBSD and on the backend use jails instead of namespaces/cgroups and ZFS if you wanted implement the same layering. Some of the security and cgroup limits may not be implementable on FreeBSD, but with the Linux binary emulation layer, you should still be able to run a lot of containers without modification (unless they need certain filecaps or privileges).

I had OpenBSD on a laptop once, but without 802.11ac support, you'll either have to downgrade the Wi-Fi card in newer laptops or use a USB adapter.
I Got Excited About SQL Again
Plasminogen improves lung lesions and hypoxemia in patients with Covid-19
My favorite take on life an entropy is that life is the most efficient way to burn energy, to increase entropy. Life is inevitable in the universe simply as a method of increasing overall entropy efficiently. A bunch of chemicals may eventually decompose into photons and electrons, but it's a lot faster if something eats them.
> through the first five days of April, 31 percent of tenants had so far failed to pay their rent, compared with 18 percent in the same period a year ago.

If the headline had said 18%, the situation would have sounded bad to me, but apparently that's normal?
TclSqueak – IDE for Tcl
Disturbing Car Breakdown Horror Stories (Vol.272)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00705-010-0729-6
Slackware lines up more with the original philosophy this article talks about. I like taking Slackware in either stable or -current and running it in this article instead of Debian ... If you wanna run Linux with a distro that hasnt changed its overall philosophy, structure, or hell even core software you should be looking at Slackware again. 15 will likely be out this year.
Not sure what to tell you. I did not dismiss any tips that I can recall. I recall how to create folders and drag apps to it from onboarding. Mostly, I have to ask someone or search Google to find out how to do the most basic of things.
Overcast says its Smart Speed feature has saved me 30 hours (over the last ~5 months), so I expect it to save me 100 hours within a year. It is especially useful for podcasts and language learning material with a lot of pauses, but I have become used to it, and so I now keep it enabled for most audiobooks that I load into Overcast just to get the dynamic playback speed.
No, nothing as far as I can see, the Gmail accounts don't even specify the reason they are locked and the Ads account just say "suspicious behavior".
1918 influenza pandemic survivor interview: Mrs. Edna Boone, interviewed 2008
It will never be in-tree, short of an act by Larry Ellison.

Depending on an out-of-tree module can get pretty crappy on Linux. The upstream kernel will break you a lot. If your distro is on top of keeping your out-of-tree feature working then great. It gets messy whenever that is not the case and/or suddenly you want a driver or feature only available in a newer kernel.
Haven't we learned that VMs aren't worth it? The amount of engineering resources it takes to design a half-way decent one is just absolutely staggering. We all know that theoretically they can be faster than native code, but how many people have actually experienced that? The costs are too high: the warm-up costs, the engineering costs, the complexity costs. If every single language just generated LLVM IR and compiled it, we'd be in a lot better place and we'd probably have better, or at least more predictable, performance.

Like more resources have probably been put into the JVM than any other VM or compiler on earth and what has it given us, exactly? Performance is still worse than C and with homogenized operating systems, as well as the move towards the web, the portability guarantees don't feel very important. If I'm missing something, please tell me!
FYI: I'm getting "Version not found: latest" when I try the download link.
Me either. Thanks.

To your point tho', Uline, Amazon, et.al. know the entire geographic location hits a major distribution sweet spot. There are many built-in advantages other than those offered by state and local government.

Plus, many residents living between Milwaukee and the Illinois state line remember the huge impact American Motors had on family, friends, and neighbors. AMC, then Chrysler, workers had stand-on-your-feet jobs with good pay, good benefits, and good retirement.

It was not an insignificant event when that plant closed 32 years ago.

Every city council from Kenosha to Milwaukee knows the meaning of 13,000 manufacturing jobs firsthand.
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