skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the civil tone, and I'm sorry for phrasing certain things so strongly previously.

> Specifically demanding that I provide proof that the events I'm concerned about have in fact happened is a great example of sealioning.

Ok, I get your point about sealioning now, but I wasn't trying to say you need to prove this or else your opinion is invalid. I know it's impossible to prove right now, and it doesn't invalidate your opinion. I'm only saying you need to prove this or else it's not a justification for enacting real world consequences for people. Because that's very different from an opinion, and it also works that way in a sane legal system.

> Eich's side fights dirty, so is it surprising that the other side thinks it has to as well?

I think here is the core of our disagreement. I think the other side is fighting even more dirty because they're circumventing the legal system. No one can shut them down, or even keep them in check. You don't know what minor things people are going to get lynched for if this trend continues. And the whole fight is pointless in the first place, because so far our legal system isn't corrupt enough to not reject something like Proposition 8. Now if Prop 8 went through, you could make a case for cancel culture. But as a preemptive strike? Pointless, insane, and sure to worsen the situation.

Not to mention people lose their careers. They're still people after all, and if you had grown up in a different environment you might even think like them.

> Being "open-minded" enough to tolerate this point of view appears to be suicidal, because any sort of atrocity can be justified the same way.

As soon as you start saying "we're so morally superior and the other side is so hateful that they cannot ever be talked to and extreme measures are appropriate" you can also justify any sort of atrocity.

When you try to have a dialogue, you at least have a chance for everyone to find and agree on the truth. It's fucked up that we are no longer having that. Seeing my fellow college students walking into panel discussions with megaphones and just chanting everyone and everything down makes my stomach turn, and cancel culture rests on similar principles. I don't know how to fix politics, and I hate to sound like some hippie, but more hate towards each other is obviously not the answer.
> Give people the choice and most choose to do things preventing children until they have existential crisis.

Do you have some data to back that?
I dont understand how this could be a viable strategy -- unless your job is entirely useless, the business must replace your position during your absence in order to continue normal operation; even thirty days absence should disrupt things, if an alternative isn't found..

So then what exactly do you return to? It can't be your old position exactly -- you were replaced. So its more like a vague promise that the business will rehire you into some arbitrary position? Or even worse, make up a new position of equivalent power upon your return?
I appreciate analogies when I start learning something. Although it's not a perfect representation of what's being taught, it makes it easier for me to start thinking about the topic I'm learning. I can fill in the details later. I think it's useful for certain types of learners such as myself. Although I'm not deeply familiar with the characteristics of construction materials, I was more familiar with them compared to types when I was learning about them. So it would've been a helpful analogy for someone like me.
It worked for me just now, with Chrome. If you're on Linux, have you tried `mkdir /tmp/t234 && HOME=/tmp/t234 firefox` or creating a new local user and logging on as that user? It would be interesting to know why your private tab isn't working.
Nope, haven't noticed that at all. I have yet to meet the first European in real life that's neutral, let alone in favor of, nuclear. I live in a border region between Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. They always bring up the (false) safety argument and when they discover that's an airplane vs cars kind of fear, they start about costs, which is not more than the off-shore wind we're already building. (And someone really ought to tell France.) Somehow they aren't convinced by logic in the end and most would rather shut down nuclear plants in their back yard before the coal plant that causes much greater damages.
For those who use the terminal, the built-in tool `uuidgen` generates a v4 uuid.

I would definitely appreciate apps for the other usecases.
The best thing is that, once you waited for the time, it fails:

> This page transmits information using https protocol. Some vendors cannot receive opt-out requests via https protocols so the processing of your opt-out request is incomplete. To complete the opt-out process, please click here to resubmit your preferences.

Here sends you to the same loading popup
“ The cosmetic industry claims that the UV filter acts as an "artificial melanin". But those artificial substances used in sunscreens do not efficiently dissipate the energy of the UV photon as heat. Instead these substances have a very long excited state lifetime.[15] In fact, the substances used in sunscreens are often used as photosensitizers in chemical reactions. (see Benzophenone).”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoprotection
France has both paternity leave and parental leave, which are different things.

France has 1 year parental leaves, which may be extended up to a total of 3 years (and more in case of twins, etc). But they are unpaid though the employee may then qualify for various benefits.

There is also a 'birth leave' of 3 days. So when you have a baby you can have a 3 day leave at birth, then the now 28 day paternity leave within the next 4 months, and an unpaid 1-3 year parental leave.

Iirc, the first leave is on full pay by the employer, the second on capped pay by a special state benefit (but employers can top up), and the third is unpaid though, as mentioned, other benefits exist subject to conditions.

The idea being that one leave is for attending the actual birth (in France mothers are usually kept in hospital for a few days after birth in order to recover and to be taught how to look after a baby, fathers are welcome during the day), one leave is for bonding with the new born baby, and the third leave is, if needed, to look after the baby until (s)he reaches free nursery school age.

French admin is always as simple as can be, not ;)

In my case, at the time I worked for a company that offered a lot of annual leaves (I had about 8 weeks a year) so took normal annual leaves instead of the paternity leave after the initial 3 day "birth leave" in order not to lose money as the paternity leave cap was quite lower than most engineers earn.
Imaging. E.g., large convolutions.
> The next global conflict will likely be one between the east and the west

Orientalism and westernism
Python: PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros
> 3. Traditionally the dot is the zero-level or extra-top level domain, a bit like / for root in the Unix file system. Indeed if you use dig you may be familiar that it writes domains like “www.google.com.” My web browser only partly seems to accept this format.

The browser actually handles it just fine, but some webservers refuse to handle it, despite it being a spec. Most famously Traefik and Caddy as webservers refuse to support these, just because their devs don’t understand the spec and think they know better (what a surprise, both are written in go after all)

This actually causes quite a bit of trouble when you have internal systems resolving pretty much everything as local domain first, and some external webservers don’t support the spec. Most famously, caddyserver.com. itself is broken
Isn't QAnon huge on TikTok?
BP Outlook 2020: “peak oil” has already happened
> Nuclear is only so relatively expensive because it’s the only fuel source that’s forced to pay up for all the externalities up front

Can you state in which country nuclear has to pay all the externalities up front? And if that country has any nuclear to begin with? (I know from Germany that the opposite was always a major point of criticism - the insurance nuclear plant operators need is limited, lots of the responsibility and costs of nuclear waste handling has been transferred to the state.)
Can you back these figures up? No, you can't. Long-running nuclear plants like France's are much cheaper to operate and maintain than wind/solar. Wind turbines get decommissioned after 10-15 years around here (typically because government funding expires and they can't compete on the energy market), solar is better but still needs expensive storage capacity to make it competitive in availability.

Unless you assume France's nuclear plants are still benefiting from taxpayers' funding decades after they were built, the market has proven that nuclear power is far cheaper than wind and solar.
Don't Make Yourself Redundant
What work, and what resources do you have in each respective situation?
The Big and the Small – Wait but Why
US oil consumption increased by almost 100x from 1900-1970. In 1850 it was just a few thousand barrels annually! That orders of magnitude more batteries are needed is not in itself an issue, as long as the solution itself is sound.

NMC chemistry (as used in Hornsdale) is good for 3000-4000 cycles, although it's about 50% more expensive than LFP, at least if you buy them from CATL.

This isn't going to be cheap. But it is feasible, and if you care about carbon I'm not sure how else you do it.
The best way to fight disinformation is to challenge it with true information. Censorship erodes trust in the establishment and communication commons.

Censorship is the lazy and dangerously elitist alternative to doing the hard work of engaging those spreading falsehoods and debunking their arguments in the public forum.

And yes, Gavet here is advocating censorship, no matter much she tries to couch it in excuses and euphemisms.
The US could tailor laws that would have the same effect, but would that actually change the situation?

As an example, they could make it illegal for all video hosting companies operating in the US to censor videos on Taiwan, Tienanmen and Tibet.
Also these days types are important for good IDE completion support, on-the-fly error checking and refactoring.
> A lot of C code out there targets platforms like that. It is much harder to maintain than Java code.

Like a lot of Java code targeting Android is harder to maintain than C++, after just 6 months or depending on the brand of phone it runs on...

> You can run Java them (and desktop apps) the same way: https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpj.html

Cool
But only adequate for a very narrow use-case so far, _not_ as a daily driver.

Here in South Australia where I live the Hornsdale installation (the Tesla one) is capable of storing 150MW. Its purpose is not to drive the entire grid every day, but to help deal with minor fluctuations in supply and demand, and mitigate brown/blackouts during emergencies. In-between those times it stores electricity while prices are cheap, and sells when the prices are high to turn a profit

The overwhelming source of electricity across Australia is supplied by fossil fuels (despite our abundance of clean nuclear fuel).

The entire reason the installation was built in the first place was because of a series of brownouts and blackouts caused by interruptions in the supply of electricity from interstate one day (we don't generate enough by ourselves sadly). It caused a fairly large political situation to develop, and resulted in the construction of the Hornsdale installation.

Contractually Hornsdale is obliged to be able to supply 70MW for 10 minutes, or 30MW for 3 hours on demand during emergencies. For some perspective, the current load on the grid as at the time I started writing this is 2150MW(6pm local time).

Australian battery installations are simply not operating at the scale you want them to be here. Hornsdale has a niche it is filling quite admirably, but be careful when you use it as an example of grid-scale viability. It's simply not.
If you say, a politician should only judged by ones public affairs and policies, and the press should not dig into private matters, I would generally agree.

But that is a major change, and to my knowledge never been the case in the US. Public figures, and once in a public office especially, have been in the news due to private information, usually more of the sexual kind, which resulted in the defenestration of said politician.

But to reiterate, the president chose to run for a public office on claims about his private finances. Those are challenged by information obtained by the press. And the press did not release the private, confidential information, but reported about information within it, pertaining to his claims.
That is bona fide, what the press is supposed to do. The person who gave the information to the press, on the other hand, likely has broken the law.
For some value of "defense". Back when the US DOD was called Department of War, it had (at various times) flagged boots on the ground in china[1], north korea, and russia[2].

Iran, on the other hand, was a brit show up until Ajax (1953) or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_Kingdom_relations#... The US would not formally take the baton before ending Suez (1957).

[1] In the lost opportunities department, General Wedemeyer on "who lost china?" (emphasis mine):

> "If Uncle Sugar, Russia, and Britain united strongly in their endeavor to bring about a coalition of these two political parties [the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party] in China by coercing both sides to make realistic concessions, serious post-war disturbance may be averted and timely effective military employment of all Chinese may be obtained against the Japanese. I use the term coercion advisedly because it is my conviction that continued appeals to both sides couched in polite diplomatic terms will not accomplish unification."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Coady_Wedemeyer#China-B...

[2] thanks to burnaway's excellent search fu: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24490540 I learned US propaganda in 1914-1918 had not only been officially going to russia, but also the then-white entities (where American Expeditionary Forces were operating) archangel and siberia.
A negative score due to a gap is the same as a positive score due to an extra years employment, and that's a harder mindset to overcome. Only the most toxic of workplaces would say "hey, they took a year out to raise a child, no way" but many workplaces would say " these two candidates appear equal except this one has an extra year's experience in $foo"
A similar thing happens in the Philippines, but with gun ammunition instead of drugs. Yes, having a single loose ammo in your luggage at the airport can land you in jail. It got so bad that passengers would wrap their entire luggage with duct tape or cellophane to make sure the guards at the airport won't sneak one in. In fact, airports actually have cellophane dispensers so passengers can wrap them at the airport in case they forget to do it at home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Ninoy_Aquino_Internationa...
I just read the news in the energy market. I think California just ordered a few MwH of battery from Tesla. They seem to be doing a brisk business of selling batteries to grid providers in a market that is entirely supply limited. There are loads of companies working on alternate storage technologies.

You are right that there is very little right now. But I'd counter that that is growing rapidly and that that is inspired by those investments paying off for their early adopters.

Short term stabilization is actually the key problem that needs solving with energy peaks (which are inherently short term). The sun comes out quite reliably every day to provide a predictable minimum of power levels. Basically solar and wind combined are quite OK. Things like seasonal variation are actually more predictable and something you can plan for. Extended freak periods of clouds with no wind across an entire continent is not a really thing. Such effects tend to be local and temporary. So we can fix a lot by simply moving power around (with cables, another proven technology).

The unspoken presumption with storage critics is that we'll need unspecified days/weeks/months of storage for such apocalyptic conditions. As far as I can see this is simply wrong and not something that energy companies are putting a lot of serious money on the table for.

I've actually seen zero credible evidence for this; not even a ballpark number of how many TWH of storage that would be needed. So, I'll bounce that question right back at you: how much TWH/PTW do you think is needed/economically justifiable and why? That will allow us to put a price tag on it.

The reality is that interconnected grids means the sun is always shining somewhere and wind turbines out on the water or wherever are always providing some power somewhere. If you look at the market, grid connectivity and storage are exactly two things where investments are happening. Long term storage seems much less of a concern for grid providers. Mostly 2-4 hours seems to be the sweet spot of what grid providers seem to be spending on.
Just to clarify the accusation, contrary to what the article says the computer hasn’t been invented by the Nazis. Being a German does not make you a Nazi. I hope it’s just an editorial mistake from the Verge.
There are a lot of Chinese companies that do business in the USA, why is Tik Tok special?
Yes. We do many worse things to ourselves, and they have all the potential and realized risks that nuclear promised. The only difference? We’ve been inundated with ads from the coal industry.

Deaths from nuclear power, including all the heritable effects from all nuclear accidents, are less than all power sources except hydro.
Sure, but newer designs were shut down too. I used to live basically next to one. It was in construction for years, very close to completion when Fukushima happened. It was definitely not a rational reaction to cancel that thing.
Advertising was the primary business model for newsprint (also cable news, etc). When the internet came along, the news organisations continued this model. It worked at first, but then (as TFA says) the duopoloy has effectively strangled the advertising model. And some organisations (looking at you Buzzfeed) gamed the system to produce clickbait.

Advertising isn't intrinsic to journalism. You can happily employ journalists and publish stories without advertising, provided someone provides the money.
I am not saying Europeans don't need money. There is no strong reason for them to have shit ton of money like in Silicon Valley. A German who makes 60k euroes in Berlin has so much better quality of life than someone who makes 120k dollar in San Francisco. Rent is affordable, public transport is great, health care is taken care of and you don't have to save much for children's education. What else someone need money for? Or am I missing something.
I recall the hex address being D22 (so 3362) although it's been 30-cough-something years so I could be misremembering.

I built a full-on remote hacking utility that got to the point where it would download the remote victim's RAM, upload the infamous laugh sound, play it, then restore the RAM so the victim was - usually - back to before they got freaked out.

A small group of us built a multi-screen text scrolling and image display sequencing tool for the various school open days. I still recall the nervous look on the teacher's face as we deconstructed the computer lab to get all the Microvitec Cub's lined up! Those were fun times.
Here's the follow-up to our email efforts: https://justine.storage.googleapis.com/forth.mp4 It works!
The bsd/Solaris man pages were always significantly more useful because they incorporated practical examples due to the philosophy of putting more stuff in info on gnu systems. I found this pretty tedious as anything arcane can be hard to derive from invocation specifications without examples.
I've written a small toolbox of "sysadmin stuff", for myself, which I find very useful.

It includes a subcommand for YAML, JSON, and XML validation:

https://github.com/skx/sysbox

I've not considered a pretty-printer, but it isn't a bad idea to add such a thing.
I have no hate for PHP, it’s been a tool in my toolbox for over a decade, I think it has a lot of good qualities, and it has made me a lot of money.

That said, after ten years of use, I still see something like:

function_returning_false_or_int() > -1

And sometimes have the wrong intuition about what it does.

Now, nobody should write that shit in the first place, but turns out it’s equivalent to ‘!== false’.

‘(int)false’ is zero, but ‘false > -1’... is not true.
DoH client won’t stop SNI blocking, of which this report found a lot.

ESNI, of the new trick of using ESNI plus a fake plaintext SNI, is definitely a more robust approach.
> I personally think it's the #1 reason Linux never stole any sizable market share from Mac OS X/Windows.

I assume you speak about desktop. MacOS never had any huge market share in this space. Its iPhone (and its predecessor, iPod) which allowed Apple to become as big as they currently are.

> Does this fragmentation help or hurt the ecosystem over the long-term?

Over the long-term it allows for abstraction layers, such as Ansible or Nix, to become status quo.
Also using car batteries seem an odd choice, as the mismatch between renewable production and electrical consumption (duck curve) happens in the early morning and in the evening, just when people are about to drive (so they don't want to have their batteries emptied by the grid), are driving (so their batteries aren't connected to the grid) or have finished their drive so the batteries aren't full
Are you sure that would work for every Chrome user? Chrome tests many different variations on different users and they are constantly messing with Chrome and ChromeOS via automatic updates. On a Chromebook I have in developer mode, using the Crouton chroot script, for many months, through several "updates", cookies could no longer be blocked from the address bar, only through Settings and only on a per site basis; it became impossible to globally disable cookies, the setting would automatically revert back to enabled! After the latest update, I can now finally gloablly disable cookies again and disable from the address bar (though this requires more clicks than it once did). Sometimes they release "updates" and the stuff is still broken. By the next update they have fixed it. In the interim we have to settle for unfinished software. In my opinion, Chrome is not one program, it is constantly changing unfinished work and not every user gets the same "features".

I block cookies using a local proxy. I cannot rely on Chrome "features" for anything privacy-related. They just keep changing.
It’s hard to argue that an eye-for-an-eye response is unjustified, sure.
But it’s easy to see that, in a conflict, direct, equivalent retaliation is often the least strategic response. It signals desperation (which reveals weakness), and also legitimizes your opponent’s actions. It hurts your political capital (allies lose confidence in you), which is a vital tool (e.g. coordinated international show of political/trade force). Given the current US leadership, though, it’s not surprising they’d press any button they can reach.
I probably would have been but after a 6 month long binge on Elite I one day woke up, realized there is a lot more to life than playing computer games and deleted my copy by cutting up the distribution disks.

Elite was pretty addictive, and I have a weak spot for that kind of mechanism that apparently has only one way to resolve it.