skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He referrers to himself as a very old man, so that's their preferred pronoun -

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245134641?searchT...

It's possible they had to do that because of the times. But where is the evidence? Why is this not discussed in an encyclopedia we can look up? Do we need an uncensored Wikipedia now?
> Why everyone in the US is betting that the stock market will always go on average up?

Shouldn't it? I'm not an economist but if you think about it: as we become more advanced we create more resources with less work. Stock market would be just one of many way to distrubute that extra efficiency to the society.

Unless there's a crisis we should never produce less resources with more work.

Of course this is much more complicated than I make it out to be but my point is that it's relatively safe to assume that stock market should go up on average long term.
A transparent, highly scalable and cryptographically verifiable data store
I grew up in a metric using country, I didn't learn imperial until I had to for a job. I came to appreciate the way being broken into 16ths, 8ths, 4trs, and halves really worked well for hands on practical things.

Unfortunately, I had to work in decimal inches a lot and had to convert back and forth between metric and that's where the arbitrariness of the imperial system began to make my brain hurt.

1.181 inches will forever be burned in my mind as the near almost but still not quite exact equivalent of 3cm...and the day the customer took out a measuring tape and lost their mind because we gave them something 3cm, what it was sold as and agreed upon by them as, and not the 1.25 inches they expected. The material we produced with came in 3cm not an inch and a quarter. For some reason, the customer believed they were getting inch and a quarter material despite it never being listed anywhere in any plans or marketing they received from us and despite the material not being manufactured in any thicknesses other than 2cm or 3cm. They literally threw the measuring tape at my coworker over those .069 inches...
Great comment chain. The one thing sticking out to me though is what appears to be an assumption you made in that the speed of natural processes in removing co2 is the best possible baseline.

If we are talking hypotheticals here, if humankind managed to shift all energy production to renewables and effectively reduce their carbon footprint to zero (this is pretty much an impossibility with current technology and culture), all carbon capture schemes would in fact be increasing the rate at which co2 was sequestered (faster than just natural processess alone).

We are talking about technologies like bio-engineered trees that grow incredibly fast and are then harvested and stored safely. And there will likely be a myriad of technologies we can not even fathom right now to directly pull out and sequester greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

Are any of these things likely to happen in the next 20, 50 100 years? Maybe, maybe not.

You did mention that scientists should be freed up to work on aiding humans in adapting to this inevitable future, and these kinds of technologies would likely be researched in parallel to that effort, in order to bring the Earth back into a more hospitable condition for us.

I very much doubt it will take thousands of years to reverse the course we find outselves on, once there is enough political capital available to actually make change.
Gosh, what a childish behavior from jwz. A very opinionated person, but someone who earned the rights to his opinion through serious accomplishments. Yikes.
I really doubt it. Hydrogen is explosive and extremely hard to contain. It also burns too hot and too fast for regular engines. It's basically a bad fuel all around. If it was any good we would be using it for heat instead of natural gas.

If we're producing chemical fuel on a large scale, hydrocarbons are a nearly perfect form.

More likely, some kind of battery breakthrough will replace lithium ion. We only need 3-5x current power density to replace fuel for most uses. Lithium ion was about 3x better than NiCad when it came out. If we can repeat that just once more, there will be a battery revolution
If EVs are that uncompetitive by 2035 then we've got bigger problems.
There is no chain control in most cold+rural areas. But if you are in a place that would benefit from AWD, there are plenty of non-SUV AWD options, including sedans.
Some people like working with new tech; in my experience most do it not because they like it but because of their resume. I like how I can get really good, cheap and experienced devs for ‘non hip’ tech because they do not want to work with new tech, they want to improve their skill on what they know; java/spring, c#/asp, django etc with jquery/bootstrap. Resume driven/recruiting forces them into all the new stuff but they rather take a pay-cut to work with the stuff they know and are good at. I need stability in software and my teams over the years; the continues race for the latest and greatest helps me do nothing for my business (making profit that is), including recruiting. Quite the opposite in fact.
I have $300+ in Apple mouse and trackpads connected to my computer but I still find myself using the $30 dell mouse that I got as a backup.
Hi I wrote you to sw@seanw.org from fattynoparents@gmail.com, could you please help me? Thanks.
OOT, in Indonesia, if you replace x with k, it's a slang for female genitalia. A very strong word you don't want to say out loud at work.
Section 230 has been used to defend a library when a child used it's computers to access pornography.

It's not all chatrooms and social media. Restricting the internet to be run by people able to manage their own websites would hurt. Ebay would have to manually review every account and listing. Good luck finding a user review website like Rotten Tomatoes. No more Straw Polls. No more GitHub.
Nice. Checkout https://odysee.com/$/gaming for more curated gaming content. Odysee is another (more centralized) frontend built on top of the LBRY protocol.

Here is a good link comparing other sites https://lbry.com/faq/different-bitchute
45 hours in an EV vs sub-26 hours for an ICE? That's like:

"Punch It, Chewie!"

Then, the Empire wins.
> engineer huge carbon emitters like container shipping or aircraft to run on hydrogen + solar?

Why hydrogen at all then? The source is solar so let's keep it at that, why the middle state?
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Actually as the cost of electricity goes down the economics for electric vehicles stack. They are already a win from a maintenance perspective with fewer moving parts and fewer assemblies. As battery and regen technology improves wrt to charging, recovering charge from deceleration, and cost per kWH it just gets better still.

LNG is not as efficient as diesel in an ICE, electricity however is more efficient. Lots of discussion here[1]

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f8/deer12_ka...
If your 401k was in the average European stock market since the 2000, today you would have the same money minus the inflation. The GDP of Europe has increased the last 20 years, yet the stock market did not.
I always use the left-hand side bar. Switching between different languages (and being able to see which languages each article is written in) is important for multilinguals. And the “random” button is great.
Two fundamental aspects of learning a language largely missing from the article. Speaking and listening.

Arguably more important the reading and writing is correctly pronouncing words in a language and being able to identify what's being said.
1Password now lets you create virtual cards in the browser
Facebook also does this.
I mean, you began this thread by saying that they've added a new regulation on waste heat and nobody knows how to build a cooling system that satisfies it. Maybe we can begin by repealing that one and go from there...
I've driven over 30k miles this year across 3 vehicles. Mostly on road trips. Almost 5k of that was on unpaved roads in a 4x4 full size lifted diesel truck. I carry between 35 and 100 gal of gas at a time to do those kinds of trips. Seems like fantastic business opportunity for out of state registration via a llc or something.
I feel like this is the problem. The content creators and users don’t matter as they aren’t the customers.
It's a bit extreme sounding but cities do this with homeless people today, some places will give out one way bus tickets to move homeless people to another city. [0]

Even without a Machiavellian "muahaha we'll ship all our sick people to X" good cheap healthcare will attract sick people to a state. It was a problem with the ACA where if enough healthy people weren't paying in [1] insurance companies could go belly up from having to cover sicker people they could previously refuse. That's why there was an individual mandate and a backstop for companies that lost too much money on plans.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

[1] In the case of a single state doing a single payer system it's older or simply sicker people who may make less money because of chronic debilitating illness.
>>It feels like I'm moving a brick around. Was going to return it, but now I'm saving it for a protest.

I thought it was still bumble bee tuna.
> When we needed millions of N95 masks debt can’t simply conjure them from thin air, the same is true of oil or other critical resources.

I understand that, but that's not the context I understood we were discussing, which is "stop funding the military so we can start fixing these other problems like covid or opiates or whatever". In that context, my point was to say that funding for those initiatives is not the limiting factor.

> All debt can do is force the next administration to pay for your spending.

Which is perfectly acceptable and expected in an emergency. I doubt any future administration is going to say "if only Trump didn't spend so much on covid, we're really hurting from that." Going into debt over emergency needs for the country is pretty analogous to floating your house payment or rent on credit for a couple months while you get a new job. You pay for it later, but ultimately it's probably a much better investment than not doing it, as being out on the street has far greater negative consequences (and a negative feedback loop) than the debt usually has. In the same manner, reducing a recession or preventing a depression is generally money well spent.

> A surplus is by far the more economically efficient option.

Sure, but then the whole "reduce this so we can pay for that" doesn't really make sense. I don't think we're really in disagreement, I think we're just slightly contextually misaligned.
Iran sends message of resistance to US at UNGA
Also there was a course earlier this year that teaches an intro to Category Theory but doesn't assume a previous math background with the same author.

http://brendanfong.com/programmingcats.html
Maybe I'm wrong but it feels like Wikipedia's layout has very subtly evolved over the last 20 years. It probably feels the same as it did 10 years ago but there are certain UI elements and layout options that I see today that I'm not sure existed 10 years ago. I don't even remember if that table of contents was a thing 10-15 years ago.
First, disclaimer, this was a while ago so the current data may be different (better or worse) but at the time, if you did the total cost of ownership thing, they were on a par with buying your power from natural gas 'peaker' plant and that was cheaper than a diesel generator. The diesel generator requires more maintenance than the Bloom boxes did. There are also the switchover circuity and battery bank that was required to hold up the data center between grid power loss and diesel startup. You can kill a modern data center by having a second power event before the standby batteries have enough charge to support another switch over. (which is why at least one company's data center stays on diesel until the batteries are recharged even if grid power returns).
No complex numbers and no vla. That's not what many C programmers call C nowadays.
> Rust generally is nicer when you can't [afford GC.]

Since this doesn't include "OS kernel" what is the state of Rust on deeply embedded devices? Rust for PIC12 anytime soon?
Speaking as somebody who has flown one regularly between Australia and the US I'll really miss them when they go. They were a much nicer, quieter, smoother experience than the 747 or 777 - though the 787 is almost as good and I guess that'll be the way forward...

I had hopes for a 787 from Sydney to Seattle and Chicago direct but I imagine that sort of expansion is likely off the cards for the foreseeable futute...
Confused because all of the stuff I've read and the videos from respected physicists say that there's no way the total mass of black holes could even be 5% of the predicted amount of dark matter that would have to be present to explain the motion of matter in the universe.

Of course this is way above my pay grade.
Ask HN: Could software driven direct democracy work for Lebanon?
We have been watching what is happening in Lebanon. There was systematic corruption and abuse of power for a decade. With country's political system completely collapsed after the blasts, could Lebanon try some form of direct democracy that's empowered by the Internet?

What will it take for people to finally manage a country by themselves? It's it even possible?
As long as those other libraries allow you to
Would be interested to hear whether they consider moving some parts to Elixir that is mentioned in the post. It would appear as a very good match for their situation and problems they are facing.
Flash anzan practitioners are mentats: https://youtu.be/j0ihbORhTCw
The "undesirables" can make their own websites, which are totally protected from the government by the First Amendment. The owners of the shadow-banning websites should also have the right to decide what thoughts are exposed on their website.

I get to take down any flyers on my fence, even if I leave up the ones I like. Or I can vandalize the ones I dislike, maybe entirely changing their message. My fence.
The weight is something I love about MX Masters.
That's why some bet on ammoniac.
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It can be hidden from our official apps (but turned off by commenting out a single line in the UI code[0]). That content is still accessible via the LBRY sdk[1], and it is not possible for the company to remove it from the network.

[0]: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-desktop/blob/master/ui/index....

[1]: https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk
> The longest single GC-related pause suffered by NGINX was 115 microseconds;

Wow!

It is funny that we have these capabilities within arms (fingers) reach but it takes someone daring enough to put symbols in a certain order to show that a different world is possible.
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Yeah, it's kind of like the classic "break one law at a time" rule. If you're hauling drugs, don't speed. Getting away with just the one thing is hard enough.

I think Discord is one good example of this sort of trade-off. Single, pretty standard type of app that improves on its predecessors, with some bleeding-edge engineering: https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...

>Discord has never been afraid of embracing new technologies that look promising. For example, we were early adopters of Elixir, React, React Native, and Scylla. If a piece of technology is promising and gives us an advantage, we do not mind dealing with the inherent difficulties and instability of the bleeding edge. This is one of the ways we’ve quickly reached 250+ million users with less than 50 engineers.

>Embracing the new async features in Rust nightly is another example of our willingness to embrace new, promising technology. As an engineering team, we decided it was worth using nightly Rust and we committed to running on nightly until async was fully supported on stable. Together we dealt with any problems that arose and at this point Rust stable supports asynchronous Rust. The bet paid off.

(They also mention how they're careful to replace decoupled components incrementally, and only where it addresses a real need, rather than for the fun of it.)
What % of unemployment in California would be worth it a 0.01% drop in carbon emissions world wide?

Looking forward to [flagged] and downvotes.
You need regulation with teeth, that is reviewed and updated dynamically with the marketplace it is regulating to ensure fair competition AND consumer benefit.

Right now we have regulations that heavily lag current realities and weak regulatory bodies that can be corrupted or lack power to effect change.

The alternative you mentioned of no regulation can't exist, because someone is always regulating the market, if not the .gov, then whoever has the biggest clout within the marketplace gets to play regulator and gatekeeper often to the detriment of the competition and consumers.
I really want something like a Gogoro stateside. Sadly nice electric scooters don't seem to be a thing here.
I think noone in their sane mind will deny that racism does exist. This is a fact and there are scientific ways to check it.

The questions are: how much does racism contributes to poverty among black people? Is it the only reason? Is it the main reason? Are there any other reasons? If these reasons are unpleasant (pick your favorite here) will we still be able to freely discuss them?

If racism is not the reason (let's imagine for a moment), how do we find it out?

If racism is the reason, then which policies are effective in fighting it and which are not? Why white-to-black unemployment ratio in conservative Alabama is the same as in progressive New Jersey? Why both New York and Texas do better?

Why? Why? Why?
Low end cortex-m cores are pretty cheap these days. More modern designs and processes use silicon more efficiently, so you get more capability for the same raw material cost. Also, you can do a surprising amount with an 8-bit MCU. Lots of very capable 3D printers still run on AVR based controllers. Often times, you're limited by peripherals or memory size more than raw CPU speed.

As a baseline, it's relatively easy to make an autonomous aircraft that follows GPS waypoints using an atmega328 and have CPU cycles to spare, even using software floating point math everywhere. All the open source drone firmwares recently dropped support for orders of magnitude more powerful cortex-m3 flight controllers, though, and are encouraging folk to migrate to cortex-m7 based controllers. That's crazy! Software tends to expand to fill up any available volume over time...
You need some perspective on this. A solid half of the world has so little money that these people routinely die from easily preventable conditions.
The car could act as a house battery.
> Of course my point was that they shouldn't be used in isolation - re-read my original comment, which states: "Furnish evidence or a solid argument for why he is wrong."

Those responses are evidence for why it may be wrong. But in isolation they are needlessly terse. Lack of evidence is not the problem, lack of accompanying explanation of why they are evidence, and how they apply, is.

> Though had I known you'd nitpick, I would have said: "Furnish evidence or a solid argument for why he is wrong in addition to it."

And then it would be much clearer, not because I'm nitpicking, but because it's ambiguous otherwise, and open to the interpretation I came to. Since that's not what you intended, it's better to eliminate that misinterpretation.

The bottom line is that clarity is not a matter of intent, but of interpretation by others. At least one person (me) thought you were unclear, and I suspect others did as well. You can complain that they are nitpicking, or accept that you were misinterpreted, and expressing yourself differently might have avoided the problem. Only you can control that, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to blame other people if they aren't being purposefully obtuse (and I promise I'm not).
The original results were replicated.... they couldn't reliably, or easily be replicated...turns out cramming deuterium into a palladium lattice isn't an easy peasy way to get fusion without a lot of experimentation.

There was way too much money invested in hot fusion to let even the possibility of an alternative progress.
As for the etymology of woke I'm no linguist but it seems to flow pretty clearly from the idea of being awake to a problem. The particular slang is just from AAVE, not sure it's possible to trace where the different conjugation started from.

> "I been sleeping all my life. And now that Mr. Garvey done woke me up, I'm gon' stay woke. And I'm gon help him wake up other black folk."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke
Not to mention hydrogen fires being invisible to unaided eye in daylight.
Also only had random $5-$10 microsoft basic mice since like the early 2000s, changed to gaming mice and didn't like any of them, and my last trial the mouse broke after a few weeks (logitech g pro).
Yet the vast majority of 787s and A350s fly... Hub and spoke or hub to minihub. Because that's what makes money.

The A380 was a missed opportunity to move air travel on by a seismic shift. The initial Airbus concepts for a blended-wing-body would have had unassailably better economics than any tube-with-wings. Instead they took a lower-risk option and its efficiency margin was quickly closed by newer twinjet designs.

It died the death it deserved given its conservative design. Yes it was an engineering marvel, but it could have been so much more.

What an era we could have been in right now with a BWB A380 and the Boeing Sonic Cruiser; mass-transit efficiency or get-me-home speed. But the airlines and the manufacturers shied away. And the punters keep buying tickets anyway
But didn't you just explain why our kernels should be in QBASIC? Or any other safe language? I feel like this is the next version of Christmas not being true. That unsafe languages were a dumb scam.
Hypervisors are the microkernels that are socially acceptable.
> Cold didn't refer to the temperature at the point of fusion, but rather the ambient temperature.

Perhaps that was true then, but nowadays it seems like a rather ill-defined and not particularly useful distinction. Sure, the ambient temperature might be relatively cold, but why should that matter if the fusion itself is still taking place at high temperatures/energies? Should fusion in a tokamak be considered "cold fusion" because the apparatus itself is sitting in a room with a relatively cold ambient temperature? What about if someone develops a significantly miniaturized tokamak; say, a hand-sized one? Should fusion in that case be considered "cold"? This can be continued to smaller and smaller scales; in other words, at what point/scale does "high-temperature/energy fusion surrounded by low-temperature matter" move from "hot" fusion to "cold"?

I think it'd be fair to say that "cold fusion" (heavily) implies new physics these days; otherwise, it's "just" a miniaturized fusion reactor.
Ah, I had the good fortune to at least run through Atmels with C compilers first ;-)

I definitely never expect to use a PIC or Atmel chip though, wow those were terrible. I guess small quantities really hurt.
Looking at their homepage it's very hard to understand what they actually provide.
it probably has to do with solarpunk.
I love my Mx master