skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Potentially. But there's a big if and quite a few drawbacks. If our power is dependent on such long range travel there is a lot more opportunity for failure. Since we're talking about power, this does mean both lives and millions to billions of dollars worth of economic activity. There's various reasons things could go down. A bird. Russia hacking our grid. Joe Schmoe crashes his truck. You name it. The only way to reduce two of these events is to build a large and complex network with many fail-safes, but that makes the second possibility easier. But if it goes down in Texas we're talking about Northern California, Oregon, and Washington potentially losing power.

Having local sources of power is highly reliable and contains disasters to only be local. While I do believe we should have smarter grids there is much wanting in using this as a solution to the regional issues of renewable efficiencies and storage requirements.
Congrats. I love this! Where do you get your content from and how often do you refresh it? How do I request for different categories? I would love to add a few more for politics and covid-19
I haven't seen a program solving the halting problem. Because you know physical constraints exist.
There was never any intent for the mass house-arrests to be temporary.

This was always intended to be a permanent consolidation of power.

That's why they are destroying the food supply -- to create dependency.

If your only choices are obey or starve, you'll obey.

Besides, deprive you of sufficient protein, along with banning exercise, and everybody will weaken.

Frail people are easily controlled.
Your pessimism now is not helpful in the future. I also expect irreversible climate change and I certainly don't welcome it but to paraphrase: I'd rather die on my feet than surrender and die on my knees.

It is possible we need to emerge into a lower power intensity world.
DIY Isopod with Negative Pressure and Air Scrubber
Still, a congressman blamed the Chinese on TV before the start of the Lijian twitter incident.
what are the chances of an initial state of the universe with extremely low entropy?

the low entropy starting initial condition is the same in both cases, the glass is meant to be an analogy of the big bang.
This is so fucking amazing. The “mind control” DJ is definitely a concert I would attend. I wonder how much extendable is the prototype.
> "I don't understand how a small town can borrow against a state's future tax earnings?"

states are the canonical units of governance in the US. towns/cities have no budget or power on their own. that's all delegated from the state, analogous to allowing VP's access to their company's credit line. since it's (literally) a ward of the state, the responsibility for debts also fall on the state in cases of insolvency of the municipality.

note that state and local muni bonds are the same thing--borrowing against a state's future tax earnings (often at great cost).
pulumi for devops.

https://www.pulumi.com/
A chain replicated KV store using Kubernetes, Golang and Redis
> Mount Pleasant WI is not rural

I think you're right. I was responding to someone saying they are "country" people.

> I doubt Mount Pleasant WI is dying.

Milwaukee's metro area (which includes Mount Pleasant and Racine, the places most closely tied to Foxconn's scam) has seen a massive decline in manufacturing:

> "The Great Recession hit Milwaukee’s manufacturing industry especially hard, and the city continues to have discomfiting employment statistics..."[1].

Broad economic numbers aren't great for Racine County as far as I can tell. They're worse than the US overall. Even if they were great, we know from examples across the US that declining blue-collar jobs may be especially painful for the non-urban electorate -- people who influence the local officials who believe the wishful nonsense Foxconn peddles.

> "'This area desperately needs the investment. There's nothing here anymore,' said Tom Johnston, a 54-year-old veteran of [Racine's] once-vaunted manufacturing sector."[2]

1. https://www.badgerinstitute.org/Reports/2013/A-Fresh-Take-on...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-the-economy-teete...
Android does this with ART. They use JIT and profiling to generate AOT binaries dynamically. I believe this also lets Android update the runtime in a way that invalidates the AOT binaries. They are simply be regenerated as needed.

https://source.android.com/devices/tech/dalvik/jit-compiler
Feel the same. It is always doing something, especially with a big project.
It does something completely its own (and horrible/slow) on Windows (possibly one of the 6534 equally awful Java UI packages), so I can't imagine it does anything better with iOS.
The sun is dosing us with so much energy I can feel my skin getting warm and collect the energy to get useful work out of a small solar panel. It'll burn skin in as few as 15 minutes (ie, skin starts to redden and die) in the Australian summer.

I'm unconvinced that is a low dose. Exposure to direct sunlight would be an unacceptable risk in a work environment except we can't figure out how to ban it while still being taken seriously. NTLM is dealing with doses that are far below OH&S limits.
Na, looks like crap to me.
Judging by the author's advices, he's referring to a toy compiler, not a production ready compiler.

Language architecture and writing a compiler are very difficult tasks if the intent is to come up with a production ready compiler.

I suppose that if you want to do a toy compiler for a very small and limited language, there are simpler ways than getting into lexers and parsers. You can str replace with assembly language or C instructions and function and compile to C or assembler.
If you use the built in tools, FreeBSD leans towards telling you to just install ports/pkgs and then start them jailless. Your machine becomes a pet experiment in short order.

I also find it weird that each jail has its own copy of all of userland. It's a lot easier to use macOS sandboxing, certainly it saves more disk space. And I feel like I'll forget to update them.
When software grows I notice there can be a lot of dev done on features I don't end up using. I don't use CarPlay, watch, Smart Speed, Voice Boost, or playlists.

Last year it looks it launched a sharing interface with what looks like a non-trivial backend to it. In January, a rewrite of Voice Boost and support for Air Play 2 was released. So it's pretty actively developed.

What kind of features do you think is lacking? I feel like I have very simple needs. The only time I've wanted for something is occasionally wishing to use it on my desktop and the web interface is okay-ish for those brief periods.
Nuclear power has a horrible image for very good reason. There are devastating consequences when something goes wrong (nobody will insure your plant), horrible economics relying on large subsidies, storage requirements that exceed the lifetimes of any previous civilisation, operators having a history of shady practices like not reporting incidents, requirement for strong centralised (large corporations) control (that's why authoritarian states like it so much).

People always point that this is all not inherent and could be fixed by enough research (and new regulations), but why would you? Renewables have none of these issues and are much cheaper. If baseload is an issue, we know how to fix this, modernize your electricity grid to be smarter (there is always wind/sun somewhere) and invest in research into storage (that would also be needed for nuclear.

I don't get the obsession with nuclear, it does not make sense on an economical, political and environmental level.
For some domains, But certainly not all, Windows was arguably a better choice, but even then it was more Windows NT vs Novell than Unix.

I don’t recall Microsoft ever getting much traction in the racks of ISPs or in “big iron” installations, not until the late 90s... and even then it was tenuous.

Microsoft was a terrible choice for IP networking, for example. Changing the IP address of a server would require a reboot.

The majority of the work I did in the 90s was on HPUX and DGUX, but also a bunch of others. There was a lot more OS diversity back in the day.
I don’t think it’s so much the space but it’s a tough proposition to go into business with possibly shady characters who are willing to do unethical things.

For the right $$$, I’d be willing to build anything but I gotta make sure I get paid.
This isn't food "waste"

Have you noticed that the foods being intentionally destroyed are the very same ones that you can't buy, because they're all gone?

This is not an accident. This is an intentional process, part of the consolidation of power that just happened.

Instead of letting people buy the food they need, we are forcing food production facilities to close (nearly 20% of American meat production has already been permanently shuttered)

This is not about "waste"

This is the intentional starvation of America. Farmers ordered to dump milk rather than deliver it to markets (despite massive shortages), processing facilities closed permanently for dismantlement.

In a month or two, our markets, which already look much like the USSR's did, will be utterly barren, at which point people's only source of nutrition will be from the government.

Meanwhile, it is impossible to get a freezer anymore -- and no more are being produced or imported any longer -- which conveniently stops people from being able to stock up and preserve meat, dairy, and fresh foods now, while they're still available, which will make the starvation more serious and more sudden when they finish turning off the food supply.

The national guard has already been called up in many states to "facilitate food delivery"

That's the final piece of the consolidation -- when people welcome the military coming into every street in America, to enforce the house-arrests, yes, but also to deliver the now-unavailable and critical foodstuffs to the good, cooperative citizens who snitch on their neighbors -- you do want that extra 100g of beef rations, don't you?

Well, if you don't rat out someone by the time I'm back in three days, I might not have any meat for you.

Oh, and if you'd like to have this little certificate that lets you leave your house every day, well, you could go work at the government farms. You do the back-breaking work in the fields, and we'll pay you by letting you keep a little of the food. Besides, otherwise, you can never leave your house again.
Too put it even more simply, if most most of the world is prepared to do contact tracing on an average person for having been anywhere near the virus, then the lab should not be above due diligence.

The prevailing theory is more or less ‘someone touched a bat’. Like who? Staff at a lab messing with bats?
I was thinking, I'd consider hacking off an arm if I could control a machine with the stub, and then I realized, one likely does not need to remove any appendages to interact with such a mind body interface. The future is coming.
Ask HN: Effective treatments for anxiety caused by social isolation?
I feel more anxious and less happy now, and I believe it's mostly because I've gone from many hours per week of in person high quality social time to very few.

What solutions exist?

Zoom hangs don't seem to have the same effect for me.
There's another post on Show HN right now with this same link.
Ah yes, Asimov. It's been decades since I read his work. What would you recommend?
There's another post on Show HN right now with this same link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22850657
I think that renewable energy has a much larger chance of effecting change: It requires a much lower up front investment and has almost immediate benefits. A couple of solar cells and batteries can be financed by every middle class person. And additionally the construction doesn't take 10+ years, a small renewable installation delivers power basically immediately. In contrast nuclear power plants take years just for planning and have mind boggling up front costs.

A steady buildup of renewables is much more likely to be sustainable politically than a crash program of building nuclear that costs a fortune today and only shows its benefits in more than a decade.
Ah. We were supposed to get some of those in the UK for a proposed Moorside Nuclear Power Station

>From December 2017 to July 2018 Kepco was named as preferred bidder.[4][5] Kepco were thought to prefer their own APR-1400 reactor

but the deal all seems to have fallen apart

>National Grid expects the £2.8 billion North West Coast Connections project for new power-lines to be abandoned

Not sure exactly what went wrong. Sounds like the economics didn't work.
> The first thing I would do in a desperate situation in a position of power in a dying region is be radically open to feedback and transparent with my own ideas.

I'm glad that people like you exist, but it is extremely rare that they are elected or stay in office.

It's common for intellectual humility to be perceived as incompetence or weak leadership. "I don't know what to do, but I'm open to hearing your ideas!" is not confidence-inspiring. Admitting to mistakes can be the same.

> You involve the community, and you try to listen to everyone

Similar to the above, this can be seen as weakness. Look at the criticism of Jack Dorsey and Twitter. People mock him for this behavior instead of making unilateral decisions with incomplete evidence.

> if an opportunity presents itself that is above your paygrade

Again, not something a normal human in a leadership position often thinks. You don't think to yourself, "Wow, I'm just not smart enough to understand a large company promising something." Especially in the US, where people trust the legal system to force the other party to make good on its promises.

> he just saw an opportunity to enrich and embiggen himself

I agree that he did this. He wasn't the only person who saw this opportunity. It's also how democracy is supposed to work: someone wins a popularity contest and then wants to win it again.

The incentives this creates are sometimes perverse. You do stupid things that sound good just because they sound good. Can you imagine being an official brave enough to say they don't think Foxconn would follow through? No one would want to vote for you.

We've seen this repeatedly with Trump: he promises impossible things like the return of the coal industry and manufacturing jobs. Some of his rivals in the Republican Party did not promise this, and they were nowhere near as popular as him.
Waymo has more competition with Cruise, Aurora, and Argo than what Uber/Lyft is trying.

I've heard that Uber ATG is barely staying afloat and Lyft is just pumping money just as a desperate attempt (their platform is much more powerful, which is what they're betting on).
> Nuclear will forever be shunned, not because it's inherently unsafe, but rather because WE are unsafe.

This position is self contradictory. If it weren't inherently unsafe, our treatment of it, incompetent or otherwise, could not lead to global catastrophe. The problem is simultaneously that Nuclear is inherently unsafe and people cannot be trusted.
Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft
Node.js -- Can easily build a ton of server side and CLI tools with ease. Saved me a ton of time!
I have no problem with that opinion.

It's possible to express one's opinions thoughtfully and substantively, and as part of a wider pattern of using the site (i.e. not being on HN primarily for political battle). In other words, it's possible to follow the site guidelines. Plenty of users do that, on all sides of these issues. They don't run into problems with moderation.
There is the pidp-11. I believe it does use a modified version of simh behind the scenes though.

https://hackaday.io/project/8069-pidp-11
I prefer BSD because I find managing kernel modules and system startup much more straightforward.

I also like that the placement of different kinds of files is much more standardized, which makes them easier to find and it also makes it a lot easier to manager a cluster of developer machines where each dev has different needs, because you can still be reasonably sure that all of their customizations will be in /usr/local.

The other thing I'll throw out here is that Netflix chose BSD for their base system on OpenConnect because they were unable to get Linux to match the networking performance of BSD when delivering large files.
HN should allow changing of color of top bar via a get parameter. It would be awesome.
why would you deliberately release a bioweapon in a densely populated part of your own country? doesn't make sense.

Why would you starve tens of millions of people just to test some crackpot theories of agriculture? Doesn’t make sense
Yes, I assumed that if the virus is not from the WIV, then all areas of China (weighted by population) would be equiprobable candidates for the outbreak location. Of course this is an imperfect model, but I think it's a reasonable one.

This alternate conspiracy seems way more farfetched to me (why would US intelligence need such any such event to get an agent into China?), but if someone believed that it should be given a non-negligible prior, then they should revise my assumption that

> P(outbreak in 14km radius | virus not from WIV) = 1/3,000

I.e. their revised value should be at least as large as their prior for the alternate conspiracy.

What part of the argument are you disputing exactly? Are you claiming that applying Bayes' theorem in this way is somehow invalid, or are you just taking issue with the assumption quoted above?
The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19 – Kevin Systrom
PR team has to work around the clock on how to spin this. People really blow up anything related to self driving, even when others are at fault most of the time.
In science, NAMD, one of the most popular molecular dynamics simulation packages, and VMD, a molecular visualization tool are scripted in TCL.
Fortunately the license Sun applied means any lawsuit would need to attack something much more fundamental, like the very idea of interoperability, as they don't have option to "claw back" any portion of the OpenZFS codebase.
Xilinx are not just writing software, they also must use R&D to develop the FPGA hardware, dev kits, IP, etc, so it's a very different scale to JetBrains' focus. Also in terms of Sofware, the really challenging aspects are under the hood, the place and route algorithms, the static timing engine, the system verilog simulator (which is itself a huge undertaking), the hardware debug cores, the HLS SW that compiles C to accelerated HW, then SDK for embedded processors, oh.. And of course... Finally the GUI/IDE. With all that's going on underneath, Vivado does a decent job of presenting it all in a logical way. I'm blown away that I can see a timing failure on any of a million nets and in a click cros probe it to a line of verilog.

As for open source, SystemVerilog is an open standard, yet can you show me an open source simulator that competes with the free one that comes with Vivado?
“Has the same name as”, however, is a transitive relation.

So, if no two indistinguishable colors have distinct names, and for every pair of colors have a path between them of colors such that adjacent colors in the path are indistinguishable, then all colors would have the same name.
> Every nuclear disaster so far has exposed incompetence, negligence, corruption, or unsafe practices at some level, and has usually been accompanied by delays, denials, and attempts to bury the evidence.

Humans are lazy and greedy and stupid. But that applies to everything, and nuclear is responsible for fewer deaths per TWh of power generated than anything you're proposing as a "dirty" alternative.

> When dealing with potentially "forever" contaminants, this is simply unacceptable.

This is factually not what we are dealing with. The radioactivity of a substance is inversely proportional to its half life. In other words, the more radioactive something is, the faster it disappears.

The most problematic nuclear contaminants are therefore the ones with medium half lives (i.e. decades), because they're radioactive enough to be harmful but long-lived enough to still be there a week later.

This is nasty stuff, but not in any way "forever" and not particularly any nastier than a lot of the chemical substances industries deal with on a large scale all over the place, which are chemically rather than radiologically hazardous and therefore don't even have a half life, i.e. they really are there forever. How is a nuclear reactor worse than a chemical plant?

> Ans since human nature and psychology is not going to magically evolve over the next couple of centuries, and since there's no such thing as a foolproof design, reducing nuclear power is a pragmatic approach, even if it causes a temporary increase in dirtier energy production (up to a point, of course).

Considering that coal is responsible for more radioactive emissions than nuclear per TWh produced including Chernobyl and Fukushima, that is a totally irresponsible and dangerous course of action.
Mikado is the webs fastest template library for building user interfaces
Estimating Covid-19's Rt in Real-Time
You can change it in your profile settings (though that’s not exactly what you’re asking for). I think there’s a karma threshold, though.
Pacifism
Larry Ellison can't relicense ZoL - they'd have to start from scratch porting the code from Solaris
I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc:

blue #aabbdd
green #aaddbb
purple #bbaadd
pink #ddaabb
orange #ddbbaa

(I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)
It's perfectly stable, but I didn't see it do anything that Amethyst can't do, and yabai requires you to run with SIP disabled
So is p2p really bad when dealing with lots of users? Because now instead of you sending your video to a central server, you are now having to send your video to every single person while still receiving the video of everyone. So your upload usage must go through the roof.
I tried it out with my friend and not gonna lie the video quality was really good. And screen sharing is a nice feature. +1 for open source
Hm, you're making sense otherwise but I just don't see where I assumed P(Global Epidemic starts in Wuhan) = 1 -- could you elaborate on that?
Remembering Freeman Dyson
I added Draymond Green

https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=draymond+green

Because, why not.
Ah! This is fantastic!

For those curious, I created a script that sorts their data by votes! https://notryan.com/colors
You're accusing a specific person of involvement in a major pandemic with evidence you admit is flimsy at best, with little to no hope of ever confirming.
Do you have an example of a commit where they did this? Just curious as to how (no need to explain why, I get it)
Unless I misunderstand what your conception of a simulation is, I don't see why a virtual world is limited by the constraints of the parent world, any more than video games are limited by the constraints of our world?

I would think this would apply to the individual molecule tracking requirement above as well.
I honestly doubt, considering https://colornames.org/color/31df4e is called "Tyrannosaurus Ur Ex"
Came here to say something like this. One big problem in the field is detection. They are detected only indirectly using current methods. And there are other particles that could trigger a detection. Majorana particles have interesting properties in theory, but these properties have yet to be validated. The most interesting, and useful for quantum computing, is the ability for a pair of Majorana Fermions to "record", in the form of a qubit, how many times they have been wrapped around each other. But this requires having two, and being able to move them at will. Every new material we find them in is a chance for success.