skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it works.

But when the sample is large enough, it still happens once in a while. In 2004, a CSB investigation showed that an entire chemical plant exploded after the interlock was bypassed by the supervisor password [0][1].

> The explosion occurred when maintenance personnel entered a password to override computer safeguards, allowing premature opening of the sterilizer door. This caused an explosive mixture of ethylene oxide (EO) to be evacuated to the open-flame catalytic oxidizer by the chamber ventilation system. The oxidizer is used to remove EO in compliance with California air quality regulations. When the EO reached the oxidizer it ignited and the flame quickly traveled back through the ducting to the sterilizer where approximately fifty pounds of EO ignited and exploded.

Apparently the supervisor who owned the password didn't receive any training on the nature of the process and the dangers of bypassing the interlock...

[0] https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/20/sterigenics_report.pdf

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2UnKLm2Eag
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It's difficult to tell how they will deal with hydrogen as they don't even try to address all the points you have made.
The articles available just say "hydrogen stored in tank under the wing".
Seems investors in green tech. will be betting on both technologies aka having facilities that can both produce hydrogen and synt. fuels.

https://www.energyglobal.com/special-reports/28082020/haldor...

https://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDes...
Subparagraph (c)1(B) says that the only safe harbor for removing content is (c)(2). (c)(2)(A) restricts the criteria that can be used to remove content to the following: "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, promoting terrorism or violent extremism, harassing, promoting self-harm, or unlawful".

Furthermore, section (c)(1)(C) implies that removing ANY content by a user could make the forum liable for ALL OTHER content posted by that user, unless there is "good faith", but "good faith" is defined in section (g)(5)(A) to require all moderation criteria to be defined with "particularity".

Most open-ended subjective moderation criteria (such as used on Hacker News e.g. "Be kind. Don't be snarky") could be construed to lack "particularity" and is often about things not on the list in (c)(2)(A).
Is it possible to explore this server in Element's explore functionality?

see https://i.imgur.com/9BjbAfE.png
My #1 concern — I don’t trust my ISP. I don’t trust any of the big ISPs in this country, or any other.

The NSA and other government agencies are outsourcing their spying on domestic people to the ISPs, who are willing to do whatever the government agencies want, in return for large sums of money. The NSA gets what they want, which is to continue to dragnet the entire Internet, both domestically and elsewhere around the world, and yet they are not held responsible for scanning or interdicting any of that data domestically because they’ve outsourced that part of the job.

On top of that, the ISPs are doing deep packet inspection and deep packet rewriting to suit their own ends, like serving up the ads of their choice instead of other ads, or serving up the content of their choice (including applying traffic shaping to reduce the quality of that video you watch from a provider that does not have a zero rate agreement with them), or hijacking your DNS packets and sending you to whatever services they want.

I have more trust in certain VPN providers, than I do in any of the large ISPs. So, I’m willing to trust them to become my new virtual public endpoint where my traffic is unwrapped and made visible to the rest of the systems on it’s journey around the world.

So, yes — I use VPNs. I use VPNs all the time. In fact, my next move is going to be setting up equipment to do whole-house VPNs, so that no traffic can escape my systems that would be visible to my ISP regardless of what kind of deep packet inspection equipment they might have.

For me, a VPN is just the next logical step of HTTPS everywhere.
Ah, I would have thought it was more like "feedback loop" going to "feedback loop with DSP" going to "feedback loop with DSP with wireless" or similar.

I think I am thinking more specifically about the flight feedback example compared to what you are describing, but I'm definitely all for using cheap powerful ARM chips in place of obsolete stuff. I'm just hoping that most of that spare computing power was used for something cool and not just spinning the wheels.
Because blocking new power plant construction via environmental regulation is more important to politicians.
I identify so hard with your comment! I’m proficient with a handful of programming languages, very comfortable with most Sys admin tasks on Unix-like OSes, and I’m almost always able to reverse engineer someone else’s similar solution to meet my needs. However, I’ve had any formal computer science education. Now, in my early 30s, I’ve found a successful career in a non-tech field but find it unfulfilling. I still love to program and I’d love to make a change, but my lack of a math and comp sci foundation gnaws at me.

I’ve tried to relearn Calc a handful times, but find myself frustrated when I have to go look up basic trig identities, and order of operations stuff just to get through practice problems. I’d love to relearn math from scratch if anyone has any recommendations.
Renewables don’t help with climate change. Germany has 50% renewables in its electricity mix and they’re one of the dirtiest producers of electricity.

You're ignoring the other 50% to make broad general claims about the first 50% not helping? That's not correct, on many levels. Moreover 'has in the mix' doesn't equal 'produces locally' so for all we know Germany is just importing all of it, and producing locally only using gas and coal. Which it isn't. tldr; you might have a point, but its way more nuanced than what you're presenting here (without evidence)
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I agree with your point that Germany shouldn’t have shut down their nuclear plants, but their emissions problem isn’t the 50% renewables, it’s the ~40% that comes from burning coal.
But are batteries more efficient for long distance planes?

Conversion losses may be lower, but a battery-powered plane doesn’t lose weight during flight. That makes the impact on landing harder, so planes will have to be made stronger and, thus, heavier.

And yes, that should make quite a difference. Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_fraction, 40% of the take-off weight of long-haul flights is fuel. Not all of that will be gone at landing, but if 10% of fuel is reserve, such an airliner still will be a third lighter at landing time.

Also, commercial planes have turnaround times of about an hour, sometimes half of that (https://simpleflying.com/turnaround-time-importance/). I would think pumping in hydrogen would be easier to do in that time than charging batteries. Batteries could be replaceable, but that would add more weight.
PICs and assembly are honestly pretty great, if you know how to use them like that. I've never actually used C on a PIC because they are so resource constrained, but they certainly do have their uses.
There is also https://getmemex.com/ which runs as a chrome extension.

My old personal KMS had a feature to load the local chrome history and display my activity on the daily timeline. I was mostly interested in understanding my day, recalling and to revisit.

Great experiment you have here, thanks for sharing!
MCS - Mathematics for Computer Science - is one. From MIT, free. A google should find it.
That's just a red flag.
I was doing the same for an article reader / archiver I built but it was slow. Did you ever figure out how to speed it up? Cancelling image and media requests helped but it increased the likelihood of being flagged as a bot.
This is great,

With personalization, can I see a preview before making a purchase?
I had the same issue - I think it was dark reader that stopped working.
I think you are mostly right, only that they can distribute the binary since they have the rights to do whatever they want with their own code.

If I fork it I think I could add a new proprietary dependency and release the code for it but once it is built the binary would be unsharable as you say.

What I was trying to say originally is that if I was writing proprietary code I would not be able to add a gpl library and distribute the binary but I could do it the other way around.
I actually started reading the article, which sparked my interest at start, but then faded away.
so I thought: "This is going to be one of these articles where the comments are more interesting than the piece itself" and came here, just to find the excellent: "did any of the commentators even read the article?"
No one has ever built electricity storage in the required capacity.

You are seriously underestimated the required capacity to just store electricity for one day in an industrial country.

There is a reason why Germany is massively build new gas plants and building a second pipeline to Russia (Nordstream 2).
This reminded me of the early days of launching SnapScan. Firstly, it was about the 4th time we had rebuilt and relaunched a payments app. Then, we launched it for online payments which got absolutely zero traction.

Eventually we went and sat at weekend markets and coffee shops and spoke to customers and merchants one-by-one to explain to them everything about it: why we built it, who we were, how the security worked, where they could find us if we lost their money, how to download a mobile app, how to link a bank card to an app. We manually did this with probably over 1000 customers.

And then we gave them R50 to use it, and for the first year gave merchants the product for free.

This set us up for success. We deeply knew how customers perceived our app and using their phone to pay. We had also deeply educated a small army of people. And we had personal relationships with them, they had literally saved my number on their phone and could call me.

This article was a great reminder of the mental strain that took.
> It seems to me that the hub and spoke model would have been a lot more environment friendly.

I would think it's the opposite, with more takeoffs and landings, and more miles traveled.

A380 IIRC has higher fuel consumption per passenger than the latest generation twinjets (B787 & A350), but probably a new generation superjumbo could close that gap if there were a need for such a plane (which currently it doesn't seem like).

> I think governments should tax airlines for their emissions.

Absolutely. We need to drastically reduce flying. Most governments talk about the need to reduce emissions, but guess who received hundreds of billions of COVID handouts? Yup, airlines. A huge opportunity to instead invest in low-carbon infrastructure wasted..
A specific question I had was tracing seems to be all about distributed context (from the way everyone talks/market it) where each distributed call is captured in a span.

But I didn't see (perhaps I missed it) about tracing inside a single instance where I want the individual method call to be traced to know which method call was expensive within that instance.
Like everywhere else. There were limits on what could be a private property, but there was stilll a private property. West calls USSR "communist", but according to communist party people were still building communism, not living in it. IIRC the term used right before the collapse was "mature socialism".
Now when I think of it, I do not remember a deadline for that building to finish ever being mentioned.
I disagree - I think the US has plenty available to subsidize the economy - rather than having mortgage payments be frozen why don't you just freeze the DoD budget and redirect that money toward economic subsidies - a hundredth of what the DoD eats in a year would float all the social services for like a decade.

Hiding behind the DoD being "politically untouchable" is cowardice when 200k folks are dead.
Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out, I was wrong. dhcpcd is being imported into base for FreeBSD 13.

One big limitation with dual-dhclient is that dhclient doesn’t support setting the delegated prefix on the interface. You have to parse it out and generate a rtadvd.conf with the prefix.

I ended up switching from dhcp6 to dhcpcd since the latter is actually maintained and seems to work better with my ISP (hopefully …).
Amen. I getting a bit tired of this endless raging on security features. The blog is decent enough and delivers good information. Then it closes off with that final point and I'm disappointed. We're talking about a webbrowser here, which nowadays has to run untrusted code from internet strangers. Yet the blog says that "SIP and sandboxing are terrible and ought to be abolished", because changing a setting didn't work.
PICs have extremely low latency interrupts compared to ARM, as well as the assembly language being really simple. 8-bit MCUs can be really great at some things where ARM isn't just overkill, it can almost be a problem.
At Google we had a separate enterprise account created on the mobile phone if the employee opted for bring-your-own phone (at least for Android...I don't know about iPhones). For laptops this doesn't work, so the company has to provide it.
Why not pick D and use a GC when you can afford it and @nogc otherwise? C interop is also great, productivity is good, probably comparable to Go.
I read somewhere that the universal problem of existence is to survive with dignity, and mathematics being the language of the universe is uniquely poised to address the question.

As someone with ok health and a decent education to provide me work throughout the pandemic, I feel like the minimally good life is just life itself. It is enough to survive, and retain the will that you must choose to live. I've been very fortunate and very lucky, but it all feels so flimsy and discriminatory. I think the only "better" life one can work towards, is one in service of making it better for all of us.
The renewables would have helped, but only if we wouldn't shut down nuclear plants...
Effectively we're replacing nuclear power plants with renewables, which was one of the Green party's original goals (they were born out of the anti-nuclear movement).
Microservices are a thing that many companies implement way too soon, in companies that are way too small. It's a tool for managing complexity when you have hundreds of engineers, yet you'll see teams with a dozen engineers using the design. They'll point out "Uber does it!" forgetting that early on Uber was a typical monolith.
> I essentially have to make 18250 decisions in order to save this money

I don't think so. When I quit smoking, I had to consciously make the decision not to buy cigarettes every time I was at the checkout in a super market. That went away after about two weeks. For a few months that followed, I'd stand there thinking "and buy some cigarettes" and then I'd realize I didn't smoke anymore.

I doubt that getting off of the latte-habit takes longer than getting off of cigarettes.

Another question is whether small sugary treats are a good thing in general. Again the cigarettes as a comparison: cigarettes are the best when you haven't smoked for a day. But that's because you're suffering withdrawal, not because they're that great.
For other the freedom is not thinking about creative solutions how to repair a car. They have all that time free to think about something they care about.
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Also see Matters Computational (the fxtbook): https://www.jjj.de/fxt/
Well you don't typically get hydrogen from H2O, you get it from CH4. So your byproduct isn't oxygen, it is carbon. Unlike electric vehicles, it doesn't get greener as the grid changes to wind/solar/nuclear/hydro. There's just more hydrogens per hydrocarbon than water. Not to mention dealing with oxidation.
I don't think that would be much better than a confirmation dialog that makes you wait 10 seconds before you can click OK. It's often only after clicking around and seeing the resulting changes that it sinks in that a mistake was made, and they reach for Undo. And that would add just as much friction to the happy path.
Changing the language, yes. But translating at a glimpse will get lost this way.
This is a good step forward to improve the consumption of PDFs. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consump...
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That seems somewhat universal. I remember attending the first suggested university course on math and barely recognising what was written on the first page of the material. It turned out that the material was written well before the high school curriculum on math in my country was substantially dumbed down, and was not very accessible for recent high school graduates. Other universities provided more verbose study material, while mine was trying to make the material as concise as possible. For whatever reason, math seems to be the only field in which conciseness usually trumps readability.

I passed the course (Analysis I) with the minimum score by memorising previous exams and their answers, without understanding any of it, or ever needing the skills on my professional career.

Logic and algebra classes were a lot more approachable, enjoyable and eventually useful. I am looking forward to learn something from this material, too.
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Did not read all the comments, but it seems like many think California is first. This is not a symbolic act or something radical. This is joining in with the other countries and territories who have similar plans [0].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
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When I worked at IBM, we hardware engineers were organised into 3 groups. We mainframe engineers went on the cool overseas courses, spent our days in chilled computer rooms and looked after the really important machines. The mid range guys slummed it with AS400s, System 38s and the like typically kept in someone's back office, and went on local training courses only. But the guys that fixed the Selectric typewriters - they were the ones with the real skills IMO. Those things are complex.
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Wait that's not true is it? On iOS, Safari supports content blocker since like iOS 9, and on Android, not only you can get browser ad blocks, you can get OS-wide ad blocks through local VPN blockers.
I find it interesting that spent nuclear fuel contains a fair amount of weapons grade Pu, but it also contains other isotopes of Pu which you wouldn't want and would be difficult to separate.

It could definitely be used for a dirty bomb, which could, if nothing else, cause significant economic damage from the fear of radiation.
Well, i dare say, that would be an example of an editorial judgement. Agreeable or not.
Wow! Will definitely try this out. I currently manually do my website design and content through HTML/CSS on a Github Repo through the online editor, that is set up as Github Pages.

Yes of course, I could a proper setup with my own IDE and then github desktop or something similar, but honestly I got so many things going on in my life, I have no interest in setting up everything perfectly - theres a mental cost associated with that.

Also when I am switching between my Mac, my vmware Linux and my work Windows PC, I don’t have to worry about setup - just login and get typing!

I would guess I’m not the only one!

EDIT: Looks like it wont be free after the beta. That reduces the value proposition a fair bit. Because even though I wrote above that I prefer avoiding doing Github Desktop setup for every new repo, I’m not going to pay for that service given it doesn’t take that long to do and is relatively straightforward. Unless it was a very nominal charge. However GitHub is a great service, so I would support them just for the sake of supporting, but that’s separate to the value proposition of this.
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For this particular site, it has no JavaScript and all CSS is inline. Each page load is three requests: one for the HTML, one for a simple behavioural analytics tracker:

<style>
body:hover {
background: url("/hit/12345");
}
</style>

And one more because the author was careless with the URLs, and /hit/12345 does a 301 → /hit/12345/ which is the actual thing.

I was taking this into account in my figures.
> Let plants deal with the CO2, since they're good at it,

This is never going to happen at the necessary scale. Where do you want to put all those plants? The planet's land area that is suitable for agriculture is already being used for food production. Well, apart from a few areas with natural reserves but you really don't want to touch those if you care about the environment. And if you don't then the whole clean energy topic is not for you anyway.

Sure some areas can be made a bit more efficient, but that's never going to be enough.
I never addressed the lifespan of containers, that's not same as hydrogen leakage.
Never. But meters to kilometres all the time.
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Yes, that's what you'd think from the description. Take a closer look.
If this new primordial black hole theory works out, then doesn't that mean that MACHOs beat WIMPs once again?
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Thanks for that, but the referenced article is nearly 10 years old, the legal landscape has changed several times since, specifically in regard to Youtube automated content ID practices - in my experience if I upload a song over a video, ad revenue will usually just get diverted to the song author/label, rather than it getting taken down. It is in this context that his channel and videos have been up and 'fine' on Youtube for years with no problem, then suddenly...
(I wonder if this has to do with Google moving music from Google Play Music to "Youtube Music" which is a new separate app and interface from the normal Youtube, see https://music.youtube.com/ )
This is impressively well put. Section 230 protections should not apply if you censor people for saying things that you were censoring them for saying opposite of 2 month back.
Note that Rust also traps on integer overflow, and it is trivial to „hack“ the compiler to disable this, and many have done so.

While on this microbenchmark you see a 3x slowdown with the LLVM backend, on large Rust projects like servo, Firefox, the rust compiler, etc. the slowdown is not even measurable.

Also, Rust provides you with unsafe intrinsics to opt-out of trapping in the particular line of code in which it causes an issue.
I wish Douglas would focus more on solidifying a map of where we might go from here and ideas on sensible responses wherever we wind up. That'd be far less frantic-prophet-of-doom, and potentially more healthy and useful. Whatever happens we'll need some reasonable agreement on our best options. There's no 'answer' until we get there.
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