skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear provides guaranteed minimum power production, which is what you actually want. You also want a more diversified system than just eg solar and wind.

It's not acceptable to depend on renewables like solar and wind to try to fill that minimum guaranteed role. They are low on the guaranteed scale, whereas nuclear is high on the guaranteed scale. Grid scale batteries do not fill that role either, not under any scenario short of magic batteries that self-fill perpetually.

Paying the added cost for nuclear at 20-30% of total national energy production, is a reasonable price to pay for higher diversification and higher guaranteed minimum energy production.

We should also boost the grid and build nuclear in low-risk weather locations and distribute from there to everywhere else. Climate change is going to hammer the coasts, right? Perhaps a super hurricane knocks out solar and wind across multiple states around Florida. We bring the lines back up and immediately have nuclear power flowing in from weather-safe foreign states to re-start everything with (those out of state nuclear plants are already handling 20-30% of Florida's power in this concept; if rebalanced properly, they could handle 50-60%+ of all the now-lower power demands in the early re-start phase after such an emergency).

You can get high-concentration of power output capability in a weather-safe area with nuclear, in this model, which solar and wind can't even remotely come close to competing with.
I fully agree with this assessment, but I don’t see how this puts Python’s story on par with Go’s. While GOPATH was certainly idiosyncratic, it generally just worked for me. While go modules aren’t perfect and the history was frustrating, they generally work fine for me. Python feels like an uphill battle by comparison.
I recommend using both approaches together.

With an updating prompt, you can see when a command ran without having to type 'history'.

And adding a date/time stamp to history is very useful when you need to go back further - hours, days or months.
I switched over to zsh a few months back and picked up something like this method: https://gist.github.com/zulhfreelancer/9c410cad5efa9c5f7c74c.... This is nice to see for bash and I definitely agree on the usefulness notes, it’s been a nice improvement / helped me not get confused a few times
The article draws from https://sci-hub.tw/10.1145/1464291.1464336 (1966) which is worth a read in its own right.
> who is left to build?

The people who are now unemployed
https://my.fsf.org/donate/

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

https://opensource.org/donate

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/donate/
I used to work with the guy who designed the hardware, Dave Sherman. Man, he had a lot of insider stories about the glory days of Atari!

Anyway, there was no depth buffer. As I recall, the geometry was all pre-split in a way such that occlusion could be handled by sorting at the polygon level instead of the pixel level.

I also seem to recall the native screen resolution was 256x240, but they used one extra bit per pixel that could be used to stretch a given pixel by 1/2 a pixel resolution, effectively giving 512x240. There were situations where the trick didn't work, but 98% of the time it worked well.
I'm not sure about how to moderate the reported DMSMR behaviors reported in this thread.

But I wonder if folks are better off buying host managed or host aware drives instead, and pairing it with either dm-zoned and their preferred file system; or a file system that supports ZBC and ZAC natively (Btrfs does, I'm not sure about others).

Note that dm-zoned has significant changes starting with kernel 5.5.

https://zonedstorage.io/linux/dm/#
!cmd = repeat last usage of that command

!!enter which is 3 buttons where as up-arrow enter is the same thing.
No paywall version, in case you have no free articles left: http://archive.is/1Zgqz
I'd say the problem is one of competition. "We" cannot choose better legislators unless better legislators come forward for selection, but the incumbents - and by that I mean parties elected or not - have so much money and machinery behind them that to turf them out would be nigh on impossible.
> If you don't, your competitor would, and likely put you out of business.

I think you're looking farther along the curve than I am. Before businesses considered the possibilities of the Javascript-ified web, they had to be shown the possibilities by non-commercial hackers, who aren't worried about their competitors putting them out of business, but are driven only by the desire to play with cool toys.

The browser provided an easy-to-program source of cool toys. If it had been harder to program, then the hobbyists who drive later trends might have looked elsewhere, and we wouldn't have the do-everything-through-rich-Web-interfaces world in which we live today, but would find the default interface … somewhere else; who knows? (That is, I don't think anyone would ever say "I won't use the programmatic web because of Lisp; I'll hold out for Javascript", but I can imagine someone, if Javascript didn't exist, saying "it's too hard to innovate quickly in Lisp; let's find another platform where it's easier.")

None of this is a prediction, just a reminder that where we are now isn't inevitably, but the end result of many many small nudges, some of which we recognise and some of which we don't.
> some utility might save hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars over the course of its usage

Yes, "might":

> you can't know the value users will actually get out of your product

So the problem you have is that you think (but don't know) that your product is much more valuable to your users than they think it is (since they're only willing to pay $20 for it).

You're not going to fix that problem by hacking how your pricing is presented on a web page. Which is why people view trying to fix it by hacking how your pricing is presented on a web page as "tricking the user".

> This is why anchoring is beneficial, it gives you the opportunity to tilt that expectation a little bit.

If your program is actually worth thousands of dollars to the user, but they're only willing to pay $20 given their current knowledge, you don't want to tilt their expectations by "a little bit". You want to tilt their expectations by a couple of orders of magnitude. Which, as noted above, is not doable by hacking how your pricing is presented on a web page.
Agreed, they have significantly changed over even just the last few years. It makes me a little sad, because we have plenty of progressive advocacy groups, and I appreciated the ACLU trying to be more focused.
Because the generalization changes the question. There is a world between "can drive 90 % of the time on 90% of roads" and "can drive 100% of the time on 100% of roads." The former is still extraordinarily valuable, the latter effectively impossible. When you conflate the two there really isn't even a point in having a discussion.

In the given example "driving in a parking lot +rain" it's completely reasonable to pass the buck to the human driver. In your example "driving +rain" you can't because that situation occurs well more frequently.
It’s time to go deeper?

When faced with an existential crisis, we tend to jump into fix it mode. But fix what? The symptoms or ourselves?

Let’s start with ourselves: we have failed miserably at being stewards to this earth. We have failed (not completely but in some very dramatic ways) at building a better future for our children and their children.

We should fix us, first, before we move on to fixing the symptoms of our flawed way of being in the world.

Don’t you think?
Consider instead:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=andreessen

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=andreessen&type=comment

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=pmarca
I respectfully disagree about what it takes to be approved as a health insurance COMPANY (as opposed to a broker). In fact I am quite happy that regulators require you to show that 1) you know what you are doing 2) you have a massive balance sheet to protect your customers if they need it. The point 2 is super important in the context of VC-backed companies. There is simply no way to build a massive insurance company that way, the return on equity is too low. Unlike airbnb you just don’t go out and raised $2B in debt because you are running out of money and you can’t pay claims. Regulators would step in way before, and they have done that multiple times.

Witness what is happening today: I have not heard from any health insurance company requesting a bailout (unlike most companies). State regulators are a pain in the neck, are conservative but - in your interest - they control how the insurance company uses their capital (you grow too fast = you must add more equity, a bit like working capital), and how you invest your money (they restrict the amount of equity you invest in). All in the interest of the consumers.

Think for a second: if the balance sheet of your health insurance company looked like the balance sheet of Softbank’s vision fund? Would you like to hear “we are sorry, we’ll have to stop your cancer treatment, we are out of money”.

Health insurance companies are regulated at both the State and Federal level. The goal is to make sure that they are fair and will pay the claims when you need that down the road. Like everything in financial services (your savings, your retirement fund, your health for you and your family) this is not the place for fly by night startups. While it is visually appealing to see a better UI, you hear startups "disrupting this dinosaur industry" but very few of them succeeded. And maybe it would be nice, but smart investors (after say series B or C) realize that the returns are not that great and the company requires a massive amount of equity, in fact locked in low risk investments/stable bonds.

Sure, you can target a very young workforce and ignore the sick, the old, the crippled, those overweight or whatever else there is. And you can make money within the startup ecosystem, when everybody works out, eats well, and is super healthy.

But it is simply illegal and my advice for you is to buy insurance from an old, stodgy company. Maybe a mutual company? I don't care if wework is out of money, I can always find space somewhere else. When you have cancer, or when you child is disabled, you don’t want to deal with insurance regulators who have seized the assets of your shiny new health insurance company startup.

There is no room for mistakes when it comes to your health and your savings.

Disclaimer: I have Kaiser, I never use them, but I am sure they will be there when needed.
When I saw this I thought "I wonder why someone would make a JS-hosted Lisp when ClojureScript exists and is used widely." I then found that the author has had significant involvement in the Clojure community, which piqued my curiosity even more. Alan, if you're reading this, I'd be interested to hear about why you're pursuing this project!
I think you're missing the narrative that the self-driving industry is pushing here. They "solved the problem" and their fleets driving around "autonomously" is being done in order to demonstrate this to the public. A golf cart is obviously unsuitable for that purpose.

I think this narrative has run out of steam at this point, by the way. Waymo's valuation has gone from $175B to $105B to $30B since 2018. Zoox specifically is now laying off engineers.
Discussion of the original source yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899546
Most of these companies run closed-circuit tests (aka nerf-golf-carts) and 1000's of hours of simulation. In the end, the only test that matters is the real-test. Real speed (sensor/computation latency et al.), real sensor feeds (lighting et al.) and real car size (momentum et al.). Source: Am Controls engineer.

There WILL be bugs and un-modellable sources of error. The real hedging in these situations is the safety driver. The death of Elaine Herzberg is very regrettable, but the fault ultimately lies with the safety driver and the training that was offered to her. She was on her phone, like 1000's of drivers are now.
It was close to happening, too[1]:

> Eich originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser",[10] but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language’s syntax resemble that of Java. The result was a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_Java...
> enjoyment does not mean pleasure or happiness

this is me scratching my Dark Souls itch
I want to start a real estate development company to buy distressed land (as opposed to raw wilderness) and develop "living neighborhoods"[1] (like Village Homes[2] in Davis, CA) combining Pattern Language and applied ecology (Permaculture et. al.) and sell them. I think demand would be enormous and it would be a net ecological benefit.

Imagine the "City Country Fingers"[3] pattern:

> Keep interlocking fingers of farmland and urban land, even at the center of the metropolis. The urban fingers should never be more than one mile wide, while the farmland fingers should never be less than one mile wide.

Let the farmland be food forest[4] that also grows starch/sugar crops for local alcohol fuel production and bamboo for construction. The buildings can be designed with hyperinsulation and passive solar architecture to have really low energy requirements.

Who's in?

[1] https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm Christopher Alexander's site.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes

[3] http://iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl003.htm

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening A great example in action: https://www.youtube.com/user/plantabundance
It's cmd-shift-E on my version of iTerm2. Not sure if they changed it at some point.
Is Haskell really the language of geniuses and academia?
The first official case was in March. The actual first case was at the beginning of January.
The shelter in place order means the city failed to anticipate and acted when it was too late. Like the rest of the Western world.
> “It tells you, you don’t know who’s at risk. You don’t know what you need to do to contain the virus if you don’t actually have the details or facts,” said Marty Martinez, Boston’s chief of Health and Human Services.

Plans to reopen states are conditioned on testing, but how long --and will we ever-- have enough testing data (among the general population, not just those showing symptoms) to make the informed decision?

If we can't get the cotton swabs, the reagents, with the ability to test nationwide at scale, health policy experts will not be positioned to green light re-opening.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion from either my comment or contact with the real world. I chose my words pretty precisely to avoid my point getting buried by a tangential conversation about the other direction of dependency: "dense cities in their current form" depend on rural areas. It's pretty easy to imagine an almost-fully urbanized society that grows food without having to sustain a significant amount of population spread sparsely.

On top of that, the idea that rural areas' standard of living without urban subsidization would amount to losing "some luxuries" is so out of touch with reality that I don't even know where to start (though the sibling comments do a good job).
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TIL that I'd been using items in this list for reference without realizing that I had been working with Josh (OP) at my day-job the whole time!
I have uncovered early mid-20th century imported machines in China in the past, in fact I had an exchange with an HN user who plans on visiting one I found in a mining museum in Gejiu, Yunnan recently. I have seen many interesting domestic products using cheap processors. There were certainly entire Chinese domestic TV entertainment platforms based upon cheap chips (ca. late ~1980s/early 1990s), unsure if they were locally produced but suspect so. Personnel at the current foundries would be a good source of oral history, it would be a great project (but be careful not to conduct it in any way that could be conceived as national security related research). I believe a lot of the chip producers are currently using last-generation gear purchased from Taiwan (who allegedly have a policy of offloading last gen stuff to the mainland but keeping bleeding edge 'at home' on the island).

Also interestingly, Asia is rife with great history with respect to pre-Unicode input systems, romanization systems, glyph and font development, sorting, and so forth. Premodern international script efforts such as Phagspa are awesome, the use of Farsi as a lingua franca, Tamil innovations in keeping giant-keychain style records in lieu of inscribed palm leaves, abugidas, the development of the Korean script, non-Chinese pictographic scripts such as Nushu, Naxi and Yi, etc.

For early calculating devices and automata in China, especially hydraulic and astronomic, look no further than Needham's amazing Science and Civilisation in China, which is ultra expensive to get hold of in print but thanks for great glory of Kazakhstan many volumes of which are now available on libgen for your home learning pleasure.
Are parents' incentives really that strong? We need all sorts of laws to prevent parents from exploiting or maltreating their children. It seems that parental instincts are not very reliable.
We will be quarantining whole supermarkets
"Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building?"

I am doing what he asked at the bottom of the essay. :)

On a more serious note, I don't disagree with the essay. I don't view his point as wrong. It just applies a lot more relevantly to him than most other people who might read it.
What's bothered me most is how if you collapse Gmail's sidebar, the "no Hangouts contacts" section in the bottom half doesn't resize or adapt.

It probably doesn't hurt usability directly, but it seems very unprofessional
Archive.is links do not work with some DNS providers including cloudflare (according to cloudflare CEO this is because archive.is returns bad DNS records).

Here is an alternative link: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/12005
Run windows in a VM with USB pass through?
Immaterial. I don't want self driving cars driving like Bostonians or worse, New yorkers. Self driving cars need to follow the law, drive defensively, and be conservative. If that means that they take 10 additional minutes to get to their destination so what? The alternative is that the car kills someone because of impatience, that is to say an improperly weighted time value function, which I would think no one wants.
reticulum variation:

f:{
x.z+:((frame + x.x*sin 0.03* frame + x.y*cos 0.2 * frame)*.03); a:x.z^0.94
x.xy*:mat[cos a;sin a;-sin a;cos a]
.02-#(cos x.xy)+sin x.yz
}
p: 70{x+f[x]*0.5-(pos.xy;340)%size.x}/(0;0;0)
col:((3;5;1)%#p),1

Can anyone give a bit of intuition behind the following construction in reticulum?

p:32{x+f[x]*.5-(pos.xy;1)%size.x}/0 0 0

It appears to be some kind of fixed-point iterative approximation: we initialise an accumulator with the zero vec3 (0;0;0) then transform it 32 times by iteratively mapping it by lambda : vec3 -> vec3 where lambda(x) := x+f[x]*.5-(pos.xy;1)%size.x

So if we crank up the number of iterations from 32 to 64 or 1000 or whatever we get a better approximation of the limit, but it looks better -- due to the fuzzier edges -- after a modest number of iterations. (it also takes a lot less effort to compute the fewer iterations we do).
Yeah, that is interesting. I donate to the ACLU monthly and I haven't gotten anything related to the pandemic, just regular board of directors voting.

...are they working on the EARN IT act by any chance?
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Thank you and that's amazing! It's great that you're really embracing the attitude of thinking about this other person and trying to empathize.
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The parent comment is asking for tractable ways for a person to help improve things. Starting a company is not tractable for almost anyone. If you have kids, are poor, etc, you need some form of income. If you don't fit the right mold, you're unlikely to get VCs to invest in you.

Starting a company is not a feasible option for most people, and the average company fails and ends up causing nothing but harm for all involved (in the form of lost years of their life they could be doing something that didn't fail so).

Your answer amounts to "you can't do anything. It's impossible unless you're so privileged or already independently wealthy that you can start a company".

Your answer sounds like "Well, Bill Gates made the Bill Gates foundation, just make your own research institution".
Unfortunately a lot of VPNs are blocked. I have tried to make several innocuous edits (grammar/spelling, adding references) since moving to China but it's almost impossible since we can't get to Wiki without a VPN and VPN users can't edit.
That's obviously not what he's saying. Would you please review the HN guidelines? They include: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It seems you’re right and it’s a shame that in this time when a few governments are taking advantage of the situation they don’t have their ears perked and tuned to ensure governments (local, state, fed) aren’t going overboard, impinging rights, or looking to erode them. I mean this affects the whole US constituency.
Why bother writing shared-memory parallel code if it makes your life so hard? Most of the time you're i/o bound, or network bound, or storage bound. Being compute bound is exceptionally rare these days.
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Agreed. The Swedish doctor was throwing around speculative numbers (e.g., 50% of UK and Sweden have already been infected) with absolutely no data or references to back it up. I find it hard to believe that he can be taken seriously by anyone.
Thanks!

That's an interesting idea - It has crossed my mind, but I haven't yet fully explored the idea of playing with strangers likely due to my own bias playing with closer groups of friends (often with inside jokes).

Maybe even a speed round or trial round that you can play by yourself before you ask your group to play together.

Are there any features of Fishbowl you might see for work friends or in a professional setting? (and thanks for the tip on team.video)
This is the first time I tried to make somthing with Golang, In fact I was never tried to learn Golang, so this is an exercise to learn the basics of Golang. Maybe is a very bad implementation, but feedback is welcome.
Flu has a vaccine reducing the r0 number. We didn’t shut down the nation for last years flu and we didn’t have to build field hospitals to deal with sick peoples. Hospitals didn’t cancel elective surgeries because they had space and resources. Fatality rate would be higher if we had to ration care but used social distancing and shutdowns to flatten the curve.
I think the URL is https://www.sfwem.net/ .

(Also, cool stuff!)
I was going to say the same. Lawmakers are elected officials. They're incentivized to do what gets them votes. And voters are concerned with the complexity of laws. Perhaps what we need is better education to create more informed voters. But if lawmakers are in charge of that, too, I'm not super hopeful.
They are not long term unprofitable for the VCs. Those companies have been through rounds and rounds of growth which has brought in other investors (i.e. who VCs can sell to if they desire).

What about the company that would need to labour for 5 years before they get the MVP out the door?