skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely sure your analysis passes muster. While it is true pigs like chrome and slack are the norm, computers still have many orders of magnitude more memory than 20 years ago and even if a large GUI app keeps state on disk most of it should be hot in some kind of cache whether an explicit cache or just the OS page cache.

There are other forces at work.

For instance on my primary workstation after a period of time from cold boot, pretty much everything is sitting comfortably in 32 GB of memory. A lot of time is more due to the

1) sheer volume of crap that has to be shuttled in memory, because memory accesses still aren’t free
2) there’s a surprising amount of repetitive CPU intensive tasks just to get a program started up on merely bookkeeping tasks like linking, conversion, parsing.

In addition to all the built in latencies already mentioned.

To prove this you can setup a system using a RAM disk and notice that responsiveness is often still subpar.
If you have some unsubstantiated armchair opinions about something, the right thing to do isn't to publish them and wait for someone to correct you, it's to remain silent until you find a reason for you opinion, or change your opinion. Otherwise, we would drown in a sea of well-written articles that say "X is true" and "X is false" with equal frequency, and no matter how many we read we would never learn anything.
Some people earn $0, others earn $1000000 a year. That doesn't mean mean an aggregate like mean income isn't useful
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I think it could maybe be worded a little more politely, but your comment seems far worse in that regard. At least the parent offers some advice about what to do instead.
haha you're totally right! if it's just a matter of renaming the binary and dropping it in a particular directory to get git to know about it, I can leave this part up to the user. I'll definitely have to make a note in the README.

gitqlite is a little clunky for a name, but I wanted to make sure to convey that it's sqlite doing a lot of the heavy lifting here!
> It's almost always cheaper to overbuild renewables than to use seasonal storage.

I disagree, especially at high latitudes. Try that in the UK, for example, at https://model.energy/
The United States is the world's third most populous country, and home to a number of technology businesses–one of the main draws of the site. I don't know if anyone has officially disclosed Hacker News's traffic data, but a lot of people have done analysis of what kind of traffic they get from being on the front page and it's invariably dominated by the United States: https://nicklafferty.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-re-on-th...
I think you missed the point: even for diurnal storage the scale required amounts to a decade's worth of global battery production just to create capacity equal to 1/4th of just the US's daily electricity usage.
> Although his conclusion may have been wrong, it sounds like he was ahead of his time in predicting some consequences of sexisim that many feminists point out exist today.

ISTM that he's predicting some very real social frictions, but that calling them "consequences of sexism" may be a bit silly-- unless you posit that literally any institutional dynamic that might disadvantage women in some way is per se structural/institutional sexism, which is really just a matter of semantics. They're consequences of forcing people presenting with very different gender roles (male vs. female) to interact in a newly diverse environment. This will always involve some compromising of values.
Can you explain what you mean by "folkish"? I googled and got very little except this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement but it seems to be only based on a literal translation from German.
It appears you are conflating criticism of the project with a personal attack on the user. There is a certain irony in your attempt to do so when you call the commenter an ass!
Maybe he was asked to quit, perhaps rather forcefully. But he is going out in a classy way by saying his prior position was wrong.

The people on this thread calling this "cancel culture" could learn something from the frankness of the statement.

Keep in mind his company has military contracts. If the PR guy is on record opposing women in the military, even a long time ago... Not good.
Ask on https://academia.stackexchange.com/. To me, it sounds like you don't have enough passion for a phd.
whatshisface wasn't trying to prove the opposite. It was a simple statement about somebody not showing evidence while making pronouncements about how half the human race behaves. You probably wouldn't have a problem with this in most other contexts; if somebody made a sweeping technical claim with no explanation or particular qualification, you'd laugh.
Sounds like you should make the authorities aware of your concerns, if you haven't already.
Notice, though, that you just put white people in charge of it.
> The right should not have been so blindly faithful in HCQ, and the left should not have been so pessimistic about it.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but as far as I can tell, the right did not politicize it. It came out that Trump had been taking it prophylactically under the supervision of his doctor. He was asked about it at a press conference and was open about the fact that he was using it. The media took this as an opportunity to attack him.
Actually, I'm not sure if my car would run in space or not! However, it's about as "on the grid" as it gets ;)
The paper didn’t dispute anything. It made the point that emissions from battery production depend on the local mix of energy sources. At the time of publication, Germany got 1/3 of its energy mix from coal, hence batteries produced there have a higher emissions profile.

What am I ‘doing’ exactly, pointing out a fact that there is no ‘free lunch’ when reducing emissions?
Wow you're head is so far in the sand it's insane. You literally have no idea how far USD can go in third world countries.
That's on my list to checkout. Will have to get to that soon.
It's the app's fault they were scammed, I think this is more a case of pointing out that there are ways of mitigating this through the app store. Whether that's enough though is another question entirely.
Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building. It sounds like you're engaging in a "no true scotsman" argument if you're claiming that nobody associated with the political right uses violence against the state.
Late 1996 or early 1997, based on the PDF's reference to Hugs 1.3.

The Hugs 1.3 manual is dated August 1996. Hugs 1.4 is from 1997. And then came Hugs98.
> The cost of storing waste is miniscule.

Then how come that not a single country has yet developed a method for storing their nuclear waste safely and permanently?

From your first link:

> The fuel is either enclosed in steel-lined concrete pools of water or in steel and concrete containers, known as dry storage casks.

> For the foreseeable future, the fuel can safely stay at these facilities until a permanent disposal solution is determined by the federal government.

But from Wikipedia's page on dry cask storage, linked from your second link:

> In the 1990s, the NRC had to “take repeated actions to address defective welds on dry casks that led to cracks and quality assurance problems; helium had leaked into some casks, increasing temperatures and causing accelerated fuel corrosion”.

> With the zeroing of the budget for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, more nuclear waste is being loaded into sealed metal casks filled with inert gas. Many of these casks will be stored in coastal or lakeside regions where a salt air environment exists, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is studying how such dry casks perform in salt environments. Some hope that the casks can be used for 100 years, but cracking related to corrosion could occur in 30 years or less.

In other words the "safe" temporary storage is not really safe.

From your second link:

> In September 2007, it was discovered that the Bow Ridge fault line ran underneath the facility, hundreds of feet east of where it was originally thought to be located, beneath a storage pad where spent radioactive fuel canisters would be cooled before being sealed in a maze of tunnels. The discovery required several structures to be moved several hundred feet further to the east, and drew criticism from Robert R. Loux, then head of the Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects, who argues that Yucca administrators should have known about the fault line's location years prior, and called the movement of the structures "just-in-time engineering."[80][81] In June 2008, a major nuclear equipment supplier, Holtec International, criticized the Department of Energy's safety plan for handling containers of radioactive waste before they are buried at the proposed Yucca Mountain dump. The concern is that, in an earthquake, the unanchored casks of nuclear waste material awaiting burial at Yucca Mountain could be sent into a "chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernauts".[82]

How sure can we be there are no other fault lines waiting to be found? How sure can we be earthquakes won't cause problems in 100 years, or 500 or 5000 years? The Yucca Mountain repository is supposed to last 10000 years. How do we know it will?

Storing nuclear waste is a huge unsolved problem. What's going to happen is that we're going to put it somewhere out of sight and let future generations deal with it. As other posters said: the nuclear industry externalizes all its difficulties to government, society and even future generations.
I'd suggest https://covid19-projections.com/ which includes projections for asymptomatic and unconfirmed mild cases.

It currently estimates that so far, 6.2% of the US population has cumulatively been infected, and 0.82% are actively infected/infectious today.

But it does vary widely geographically (and likely socioeconomically).
You're pretty much correct. Even in this thread there are people saying "oh the Gemini browser can decide whether to render inline images", which is exactly what Mosaic did.

The main advantage this has is that it will not get popular enough to experience the scope creep that the web did so will probably remain relatively pure.
Legends like Godel and people who won the Turing did not doing so all by themselves. The media made us see them as genius who think on another level, but in reality, they also built upon countless unknown researches before them.

The world is actually built by nameless people like us. The legends are simply symbols representing the work of people before them, not goals for ourselves.

Your work has value. Don't ever let anyone (read: employers and yourself) belittle them. Employers devalue your work so they can pay you less. You devalue your work because you compare it with the accumulated work of thousands of people across generations, which is downright silly, don't you think?
I found it concise, well-explained, informative and helpful. Hopefully many other people learned something useful from it. The author of the original site certainly got value from it given their reply. You don't always have to sugar coat code review feedback with a meaningless "This is awesome but..." - it's usually disingenuous at best. Surely as hackers we should all appreciate good, useful feedback like this?
I think the reasoning behind advice for accidents (in the US) is completely separate because after the accident, there are big implications of who is at fault. As the lawyers and insurance on both sides would often battle on technicalities and sometimes appearances, the advice is to let the professionals do it and not give the opponents' side extra ammunition.

This has nothing to do with human emotions or reducing pain for the other side, this is just the nature of the (gov't regulated insurance) beast. My 2c.
The escalator one depends on how busy it is. During rush hour or when the line at the "entrance" begins to grow longer the free side gets a lot more traffic, though usually people will still try to walk on that side in order to not block the "fast lane".
Every try pulling on a garden hose that's stuck on a table leg, stump, or something else along those lines?
The absolute last debate I want to get in to is what the definition of sexism is, so I'll just say that I meant it as "anything that's bad, psychological or sociological in nature, and related to gender."
Countries can make language learning a requirement for immigration when they’re already attracting a large number of immigrants; it’s not uncommon to see work permits in rich European countries list fluency in the official language as a requirement. This naturally reduces the level of immigration, but that might be an acceptable trade off if you’re already an attractive country.

But is Scotland really attracting enough immigrants to make that a requirement? If a country isn’t already an attractive spot for immigration, such requirements would effectively bring immigration to a complete and utter stop.
I haven't used tinyc - but that does sound like an improvement over wireguard.
Reference please, I'd love to read!
"Gender roles" seems obviously institutional. Who exactly assigns them, and why would it be silly to say that the portions that aren't clearly biological are likely sexist?
This is a reminder that the USA still held black folks as slaves in 1776.

This was woven into American society from the very start.

Recall that the Native Americans were referred to in the Declaration as "merciless Indian Savages", and have been systematically attacked and abused, also since the very start.

If you're celebrating Independence Day today, this is what you are actually celebrating.

It should be a day of sad contrition and sorrow for the racism and other evils wrought upon many generations, not a celebration.

Consider this if you're enjoying Independence Day today.
There are exceptions to pretty much everything. I doubt their intent is to punish the blind and I'm sure if they ever put any teeth behind the law there would be a carve out. No different then the countless "no pets allowed" laws that still allow seeing eye dogs.
Somehow police involvement seems to turn "peaceful protests" into "violent riots" when most if not all of the violence we see in any situation is committed by the police. I don't think "beget" means what you think it does.
Can you tell us over what time frames do the IPs match in your stats?
Exactly. From what I have seen an apology only makes things worse.
Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons
Oh thanks, I wasn't aware of that change in Tinc 1.1, I'll try it out. I'm indeed using the distro version, I compliled 1.1 once to have that network view (where you see which nodes are connected) but it wasn't that useful so I didn't bother with it. Didn't realise they simplified the joining also.

Though I never thought the joining and revocation was all that difficult anyway. I just have 2 central servers which carry every key, and the others just need to have the server keys. Everything else gets distributed automatically. So keys for clients you can keep on your servers only. You don't have to delete it from all of your clients!

I know tinc doesn't really have a client/server concept but I consider clients those devices that aren't publicly reachable (behind NAT) and not used in a ConnectTo statement.

And yeah the centralised VL1 "Planet" server in ZeroTier also bothers me. I know it plays no part in the actual access rights to the network and it can't see the traffic content, but still. I just want to run it myself.
It's hard to show evidence either way, because the way you read this will entirely depend on what you take the words "ritual comradeship" to mean. There are some forms of comradeship that are pretty strongly male-coded, and few people would deny that. At the same time, few people would say that women never bond socially with one another.
Apparently Gaelic has been dying for quite some time. David Mitchell has a rant on the topic from 10 years ago https://youtu.be/OvlQXPNwrqo
HotWired changed my life. Was so inspired by their style, and the way their aesthetic grew from the limitations of the medium:

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/hotwired-1996
Man I had so many custom skins for Winamp. It really was a different time back then.
There's no viable solution at this point other than leaving all social media behind. The internet should've never intertwined with our real life identities. In fact, what we have now is the vast majority of people living most of their lives exclusively online, unfailingly to the detriment of their immediate environment.

Do not try to de-escalate, but to remove once and for all.
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Rocket Lab vehicle lost during second stage burn on 13th mission
"Hard to show evidence" isn't a hall pass for everyone's unmotivated guesses. Could you imagine how slowly science would progress if every time a question was discovered to be hard, the journals filled with everyone's preconceived notions? If in the deluge of opinion someone tried to publish a shred of relatively inconsequential evidence, nobody would notice it amidst the grand narratives, and the shreds would never have a chance to be assembled in to the real truth.
Well, it can work fine (if less easily) on people who are unwilling, but not sufficiently principled to martyr themselves, using techniques like described at (https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_beli...).

But, yes, social justice goes hand in hand with facism as the two main pillars of naziism.
This is cool. I really like the wooden box.

As it happens I am currently working on a 3d-printable keyboard switch design and just tonight put together a "macro keypad" of sorts using 3d printed switches for the first time.

The 3d-printable switches use nothing but 3d printed PETG parts (no exotic flexibles etc. required) and copper wire. Here's a slow-mo video showing how they work, in case anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXFqVMugO4

The tricky part was getting the switch to activate at ~50% of the stroke without using flexible contacts, because you need the contact points to stay still while the rest of the moving part keeps moving down. Originally I was using copper tape on a thin piece of plastic so that it could flex, but I found that the copper tape was splitting apart after a few thousand presses. Using a "leaf spring" with a copper wire through it seems to work much better.

By the way, if you like making stuff, I would highly recommend buying a 3d printer instead of getting parts made by Shapeways. You can get a Creality Ender 3 on eBay "refurbished" for under £200 and a brand new one is not much over £200, and they're not that hard to learn how to use. The big benefit is not just the cost saving compared to getting stuff printed by Shapeways, but that the "edit-compile-test" cycle becomes so much shorter. You can easily go through multiple iterations of a (small) part in a single evening. Having a 3d printer on your desk is life-changing.
I live in a "third world" country, I have lived all my life in third world countries (6 of them), in how many have you lived?
Especially when you see so many people who count as a success who are actually still sick, who knows for how much longer. We still have no idea what the long term implications are for people who "recover" from Covid-19.
Why's it either one or the other? You could have one browser application for no-nonsense textual or informational pages and one for wacky personal geocities/myspace style pages. Feel free to enjoy both, either separately, or if you want more integration you're free to use the underlying OS shell to switch between them, read them side-by-side, link between them, etc.
Define “zombie”. I think there are endless examples of propaganda being completely effective in halting the critical thought of the target.
If you want an hydrogen-powered car, buy a Toyota Mirai. They've been on sale in California since 2016. There are a few hydrogen stations where you can fill it. 5 minute refuel, about 300 mile range. (400 miles in the 2021 model.) The first three years of hydrogen are included with the vehicle purchase. Vehicle price about US$60K. (Expected to be higher for the 2021 model.)

Total US sales in 2019: 1502.

It's just not selling.
Webcast: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZcZoDFYjXc&feature=youtu.be
> It certainly is. Most of the reason modern computers don't feel instantaneous is actually a trade-off: old computers were less adaptive to change.

To the point that old Macs had most of the system routines in ROM[0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Toolbox
>This is possibly one of the first things they've done

Well, unless it was orchestrated by the movement itself or one of its "leaders", one could make the age-old argument that it was just a couple of nutjobs who happened to subscribe or meet on the same Facebook group or wherever.

In any "movement" there will always be a number of complete nutjobs, as we well know.
A couple thoughts:

a) The history of mathematics is littered with examples of assumed "obvious" results that turned out to have drastic implications. This is especially true of combinatorics, which was blissfully ignorant to the axiom of choice for so long and now must wrestle with it forever. Strict adherence to some formalism may be justifiably understood, and it's a little shocking to find EWD of all people arguing otherwise for such a pragmatic reason as pedagogical clarity.

b) Comparing 0) and 1) as EWD suggests, the first thing I notice is the sudden appearance of the word "finite" which never appears again in the article (nor in negation; also the inelegant but mostly harmless introduction of "nonempty"). The generalization of the principle to support reals costs it its trivial generalization over infinite bags, which is also often valuable (a classic example being Siegel's lemma).
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Yes! But even for 1500 USD/month you need 500k on your portfolio. And another thing , just because you live in a developing nation does not mean you dont aspire to nice things. You still need a laptop, a modern car, a cell phone, etc etc.
He was canceled by Boeing. If they thought he was worth keeping, it would have been very easy to defend him against this ancient article, especially since his classy exit shows him to be willing to contritely say the right things now.

If you're saying that Boeing is out of control, I agree, although firing some exec for being passionately sexist at one time in his life doesn't rank on the list of their sins imo.
> Google has to do everything on the server. Most Android devices have slow outdated hardware so you can’t do too much on the device.

The other side of the coin is that you can bring features to more people. People that do not have the money to buy the expensive iPhones, etc.
The other question would be, would that really change anything? There are only few speakers of Gaelic among the natives, you may hear it on the hebrides, but the rest only speaks English or Scots. Teaching immigrants Gaelic that they will immediately be unable to use is pointless.
Interesting idea of selling the language. Paying people to learn a language in their own time might be a brilliant initiative – it would generate a lot of intrigue, for one, and it may well be useful as an aid for those who are poor.
There are a few hydrogen stations where you can fill it.

...and that's the problem. Gasoline, diesel, and electricity are all far easier to find than hydrogen.

(Electrolysis is also extremely inefficient, for those who might be wondering.)
Fluency in Gaelic would be a pointless requirement thought, since the point is that very few locals speak Gaelic.

Gaelic is only really spoken on the west coast, and even then very sparsely and mainly by older people. I don't like the idea of a language dieing out, but realistically I don't see Gaelic going any other way; any opportunity for a Gaelic renaissance has long since past.

Disclaimer: I'm Scottish