skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although this probably doesn't work for me (see entire post) I really like this idea.

I still got my Starred playlist from back when you couldn't like. Been using dual like and Starred ever since they added like list. Since Starred playlist still contains dates, I could retroactively do what you did. However there would be some months with a lot and some with (almost) none and I have a tendency to hyperfocus on certain genres/artists for a while which might split but not on exact start of month.
We already have something 10000000X worse: Nuclear Weapons, that cat is out of the bag. So either we dismantle all nuclear arsenals in the world or we stop giving the "potential socio-political inestability"as a reason to not building more nuclear plants.

You are stopping the butcher to use big knives for fear he may go insane in the future and kill some customers with them, when millions of weapons are highly available.
This is a classic Motte and Bailey[0]. Do you think most of the radicals within Iran that agree with the slogan are giving it the nuanced “we don’t really mean...” The leadership knows what tensions they’re stoking and then hide behind a poor excuse when they know the nuance reaches nobody. The nuance is a geopolitical cover. Will you also be ok with thousands in America chanting “death to Iran”, as long as the POTUS says “we really mean death to Iran’s policies, we wish them well, we just want them to change.”?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_castle
well, in my neck of the woods there is a fight going on between bicycles and pedestrians. The wave of commuter bikes are taking over paths that used to be reserved for people on foot. It is the same debate: two wildly dissimilar vehicles trying to share the same narrow bit of pavement. If bikes win out over cars for the right of way on roads, what then will the bikes say to pedestrians? Pre-car, pedestrians owned the roads. So too did horses. So why should i not walk my dog in the bike lane?
83k lines of YAML. Wow.
On Lacework: watching an entire machine-learning dataset
I don't know what I'm talking about, yet I build slick UIs for a living. Ok.

You are advocating for every action to take a server round trip to render, a client UI that consists of some hobbled-together mess of client JS, endpoint-rendered HTML, and worst-of-all extra server infra in order to facilitate it, when your client presents you with a perfect execution environment for a single application to transform data into semantic UIs.

I doubly enjoy that you didn't answer my earlier interpretation of your proposal, nor name any specifics of how you work, instead opting to swing back by once other people had sufficiently derailed the conversation.
Even Cisco's web-based firewall management interface uses Google Analytics.
Granted, it will work just as bad regardless of reachability, so there's that.
Doesn't that validate the applicability of the benchmark then? GP said:

> A typical user will rarely ever use the built in CSV library in Python

as a criticism of the benchmark, but if a typical user does use stdlib’s csv after all, then it seems like your disagreement is perhaps with GP and not with Stefan.
It is cleverly hidden that the majority of search results still comes out of Google or Bing. Of course with their blessing.

It is so damn overdue to have a truly independent search engine which ranks results not based on marketing companies and paid results.
> These are likely different humans and different companies than people doing urban gardening projects and rooftop solar.

Humans can decide to enter different fields; more can choose to enter one field and fewer can choose to enter another. New companies can be started and old ones can go out of business. Resources are fungible; there isn't a fixed pool of resources that are suitable for nuclear but not for renewables, or the reverse.

What determines where those resources get allocated are economic incentives. If the government puts its thumb on the scale and gives lots of incentives for renewables and lots of disincentives for nuclear--which is exactly what the US government has been doing for decades, and what the Green New Deal would mean doing even more of--then resources will be available for renewables but not for nuclear.
> “ Interestingly, CSV.jl can do all of those.“

That sounds like a poorly designed library to me. Instead of doing one thing well, it forces users to consume something meant as a jack of all trades, which may not meet their use case.

I wish such a thing wasn’t forced in a standard package - rather split into different ones. Then I can easily compose them according to my needs, instead of having the stdlib force feed me some set of tradeoffs I might not want.

I’m sure these extra third party libraries exist or will exist in Julia just as they do in Python and users will have lots of good options - but what a shame for people to take a needlessly myopic view that core libraries need to be obsessed either with performance or with breadth of use case coverage coupled into one library, which seems to purely be for macho bragging rights or something?
The fact that the notion of contact-tracing wasn't immediately met with howls of laughter and/or outrage is perhaps the most depressing aspect of 2020, a year with some extremely stiff competition in the "well, now, that's depressing" category.
What if you want to see all posts from “github.com” overall?

You can still modify the HN url to see that by removing the path.

If you do partial paths on other domains it doesn’t seem to work.
This establishes that USA will use their control of .com to further their interests and that if you are at odds with those interests you should prefer a ccTLD.
Going by your premise, the following countries are never allowed to build nuclear:

China, Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, India, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and probably a dozen others.

Russia was throwing doctors off of buildings to murder them to keep them quiet about Covid.

The US still hasn't caught up to Britain's extreme Covid mortality rate, despite doing everything possible wrong. The US is just barely ahead of Italy and is still trailing Spain and Belgium.

The present outbreak in the Netherlands is about 40%-50% worse than it ever got in the US. The present outbreak in Belgium is well over twice as bad as it ever got in the US.

Not only did France have a horrific and hyper deadly outbreak previously, now they're displaying remarkable incompetence in allowing a record-shattering outbreak that is so bad the US would need about 140,000 daily cases to match it (and their outbreak is still getting worse). That's just under twice as bad as the situation in the US ever got.

So France is never allowed to go near nuclear again, right? I forget how this virtue signaling America-bad thing works.
The Pentagon Wants Elon Musk to Yeet Cargo Around the Planet in an Hour
Good observation. I was curious, and it looks like the parser code to retrieve the data is open source; so here's the relevant module for Australia:

https://github.com/tmrowco/electricitymap-contrib/blob/24ea2...

The production mix (energy generation by source) source URL is listed on L326.

Opening the dataset in LibreOffice Calc, filtering by Region = QLD1, filtering for Current Output > 0, and sorting by Current Output descending does seem to show that the vast bulk of production reported has fuel source descriptor 'Black Coal'.

If that's a bug in the reported data or source, hopefully the ElectricityMap team can jump in to take a look. The data initially seems legit, from searching for some of the power stations listed.

Edit / addendum: worth searching for Australia in the project's GitHub issues too; there's some existing (although not directly related) investigation & validation work ongoing for that module
Well, in their defense, I generally haven't run into any issues with their driver and it's also pretty easy to package/install as an enduser.
I don't understand it. Their conclusion says "we challenge the assertion that safety cannot be protected without compromise," which the way I read it means something along the lines of "we believe it is possible to protect public safety without compromising privacy." But the rest of the letter seems to imply they want to find a way to in fact compromise that privacy.
Zooming In: Visualizing the Relative Size of Particles Like Coronavirus
Linux just lets you do whatever.

Not sure what you mean by this. That Linux offers command line tools that generate textual output vs. putting the functionality in libraries?

My understanding is that Microsoft recognized in the 1990s that shell scripting blows. (See for example “Bash Error Handling”[0] - a web comic with 273 points and 97 comments - which was on the front page in the past day.)

MS expected that people would use proper programming languages to do complex tasks that are frequently (and arguably unfortunately) performed via shell scripts on *nix and batch files on Windows. This is why Windows Scripting Host[1] exists. Functionality in DLLs is easily accessible without resorting to hacks like rundll32.exe.

(I don’t know the
0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24727495

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Script_Host
That just means we need small nuclear reactors.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-u-s-small-n...

Solar and wind are much more demanding regarding space and greenhouse effects related to manufacturing and installation.
What percentage of the Linux kernel is actually still there after you run it through the preprocessor on a modern system?
Sure.

Something important happens. Whoever reacts the fastest has an edge. I don't really know whether we're measuring "reacts the fastest" in terms of microseconds yet these days, but fastest is fastest no matter how much you win by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGZa-yf8vMU
Ridiculous!

It would take longer to get to the moon and back if you walked there. There is no place on Earth that you couldn't get to quicker if your budget was the same
This is the only thing I've heard of lately where it was caught from an object: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/427446/rubbish-bin-the-l...

The idea is hypothetical but they seem to believe it. There does seem to be a pathetic lack of interest in the virus itself, with so much focus on 2nd and 3rd order effects.
'Switching' in ebooks involves dumping them into drm-removed epubs or getting an equivalent from libgen. I'm not very aware of a 'spotify for books' that hasn't gone out of business. I think that's because books are far bigger investments than music or even TV.
> https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

For some reason, the largest hydropower accident [1], 100 000 – 200 000 deaths, is always left out when calculating safety statistics for hydro. It would make hydro 100–200 more dangerous, by number of deaths.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
For cryptography one should just be able to rely on their OS' library, and depending on a full browser with high amounts of code churn, no compatibility for implementation code and a large dependency graph of its own is not really seen as a good thing in this context at all.
Depends what the purpose of the lockdown is surely?

Is it to protect the health services? What do the hospital admissions look like at the moment?
My new theory is the Nvidia driver can't be GPL and in the Linux kernel, because then they couldn't ban datacenter usage of their GeForce cards by not licensing the driver for datacenter use. The upcharge on the Tesla series of cards is huge compared to GeForce for mostly the same chips. (For those not aware, see if you can find and GTX 2080 or 3080 from a cloud provider. It's not a thing. This is actually a huge deal for the machine learning industry, massively increasing costs. I doubt Google would have made the TPU if not for this.)

Also, their driver is very complex, and they are constantly improving their hardware. They don't want to be dependent on getting new features and performance improvements upstreamed.
I would like to see if I can parse large number of PDF in one or at max two API calls and something that's very cheap. I don't want to pay you tens of dollars since our demand is dynamic.
Yep, they are gonna use "child porn" as their trojan horse excuse to pass legislation to put back doors in all encryption or face arrest. You can bet the trusted apps will move offshore, doubt Telegram who is already offshore will ever concede to this. Also, an attempt to gain access to cryptos as well.
How do they envision this working and yet protecting communication in oppressive regimes? Facebook can't very well offer the US the ability to pierce the encryption veil then beg innocence to the Kremlin when it wants access.

Of course, decentralized open source solutions in this space will always dominate. The oppressive governments can attack big tech economically. The Kremlin can shut facebook down in Russia if they won't give a back door. Whereas volunteer devs with no expectation of profit are immune to that kind of attack. Even better if there is no defined server to block.

I say this as someone who is not generally super enthusiastic about open source, not decentralized tech, nor is anti- big tech. This just seems like an area where big tech cos cannot compete efficiently.

Maybe they just think that Facebook should not be operating in countries with lots of corruption or oppression? And maybe they have a point. Maybe it is not possible to run an ethical communication business in a place that criminalizes what we value as protected speech.

Anyway, I doubt they will be able to accomplish this goal by asking nicely. They will need to pass a law and then there will need to be a fight about whether the law is constitutional.
Huh, I didn't expect for Australia to be anti-record holder. Why is that the case?
Storage can be measured in watts as well as watt-hours. Doesn't help to have a 1TWh of storage if the output is limited to 1W. You need both. Not sure what the parent post was actually referring to though.

But watts IS actually important for balancing renewables. The storage is not so much about storing energy across days, as it is about frequency regulation. An interesting thing is - you'd think hydropower would be perfect for balancing renewables, but it's actually not on its own. You really don't want to ramp power up and down every second. It wears out the hydro power plant faster. Faster changes in pressure results in more wear and tear. So counter-intuitively, you're seeing some considering putting battery-storage in hydro power plants.

> Less than a gigawatt is in battery storage

It's funny how often numbers like this are presented with the intention of making renewables/storage look bad, when they're often incredibly impressive when you consider the context. The fact that battery storage has come this far, and most of it in only the last few years, is very impressive to me. The growth is exponential, so the fact that it's almost the same order of magnitude is promising.

> This works out to a few minutes of storage - and a matter of seconds of battery storage.

I don't think the whole country needs more than a day of total short-term storage. Especially if you combine it with more HVDC power lines. So doesn't seem that bad to me. Still a looong way from reaching the goal, but no solution is going to be complete in less then two decades.

For long term storage there needs to be other solutions. For those rare days/weeks where there's somehow significantly less solar and wind for a longer period over a larger area.. it might be a good idea to just keep some gas power plants around. If you only use them a few times a year, I think we can make enough CO2-neutral fuels for them.

For winter months in colder climates, you can also look to countries like Sweden. Make trash burning power plants that use its heat to heat nearby homes. Very efficient, and you can "store" power by storing trash. Southern areas can "transfer" power to the north by sending its trash there. Modern plants are incredibly clean burning. In Oslo they also have a demonstration that combines it with CO2 capture and storage.
No. The fact that we didn't enforce proper privacy controls with harsh penalties is the scandal.

Unless you're arguing we are innately incapable of doing that? That feels like defeatism.
IMHO a fairer comparison would be the amd drivers vs the nvidia drivers, but we don't have the nvidia sources (of course).
When chip-enabled cards and ATMs first started making their way to the general public in the U.S. I had a friend who forgot his card 4 times in a single month, the last 3 times just hours after receiving a replacement in the mail. Each time he admitted that once he had the cash, he completely forgot about the card. I'm not sure if the machines beeped back then or not, but for his sake I'm glad this particular UX was adjusted.
OK, that's a fair point. The majority of the value was probably locked up in a small number of hands. I think some probably was spent on materials and services local to the project. Maybe some of the revenue went into expansion for some of the companies working on the contract? But besides being a one-off boondoggle, was there a net negative negative to the tunnel? Had the tunnel not been built then would that money would have stayed locked up in a single place? The money being spent on services and construction generated more economic activity than it sitting in a bank.
> The GND proponents could finally understand marketing and branding and successfully reposition their project to our collective appetites as a collection of small bite-sized community projects but nuclear cannot do this.

The GND proponents aren't even talking about specifically how individual GND projects would be executed; they aren't talking about whether it would be a collection of small bite-sized projects or a few large ones.

What they're talking about is the government putting its thumb on the scale even more in favor of renewables. And that means even more incentive to do those projects, and less incentive to do others. That's where the conflict is.
So do you mean to say that bicycles do not collide with each other and therefore there is no need for them to have rules to share the road/bike lane or whatever? So, for example If I am being passed by another cyclist, can I just turn left without looking behind? I think you may wish that there was no need for skills, but that's just not reality. You need to know how to keep riding on a straight line for example, because other drivers of bicycles, cars, or whatever, expect that you won't suddenly cross their trajectory without warning. Since you also need to change your lateral position, regardless if you are riding on a bike lane or a normal road you need to be able to ride a straight line while looking behind, for yielding or lane negotiation. Also you need to do the same things when on a curve trajectory. Of course you need to be able to calculate the speed of other vehicles. For example, when entering a roadway, bike path, or whatever, you need again to be able to yield properly. I mean, we are talking about vehicles, I am not talking about fooling around in the park. In fact, it turns out that bike paths require additional skills. It requires additional skills because you need to figure out when its design contradicts the rules of the road. For example, when you have a right turning lane, that is exterior to a bike lane that just goes straight. That's a very dangerous situation where cyclists and motorists have to outsmart the engineer to avoid the right hook type of accident. Again, the bike lane discourse that bike lanes are easier to use is just false.
People that won't pay for music licencing probably won't be paying for music licencing in the first place..
> Though as reported previously, much of the AMDGPU driver code base is so large because of auto-generated header files for GPU registers, etc. In fact, 1.79 million lines as of Linux 5.9 for AMDGPU is simply header files that are predominantly auto-generated. It's 366k lines of the 2.71 million lines of code that is actual C code.
They can be choosy, but I'd say they're definitionally considered less choosy than contractors. You'll probably never see Northrop Grumman building missiles on contract for Assad, but you may very well see NSO Group writing surveillance software for him, for example.
It turns out that it's generated source code. So the actual source code may be substantially smaller.
I wonder what would happen if he searched those keywords in incognito mode.

Google probably could link the incognito session with the real user session. But would it turn up in a search warrant ?

In this case, they used the IP address, so I guess incognito wouldn't help.
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but using the moon as an example is a bit far-fetched, as well as the metric being time. I thinkl it would be fair to say: Using the same amount of resources, how hard is it to reach a given point?

There is always someone who will fly a helicopter into the remote outback...

> is very possible to be trapped by weather for days, weeks, even months. That is more remote than any island.

Except those islands that you can't reach due to weather for days, weeks or, even months...
A big problem I have with things like "the green new deal" is that they are buzzwords onto which many different policies can be mapped. I think to lots of people it implies no nuclear, and to some others it doesn't. Both are "right" because the buzzword has no implicit meaning.
So what is good that is not spotify and not apple music and would have homepod integration soon once audioOS 14 is officially released on the homepod?
Maybe they can't open-source it because they don't own all the IP? That's very likely the case for Windows as well, for example, Microsoft just didn't licence all the code they used for releasing the source, and now you can't go back to 1000 different IP owners and negotiate anything reasonable.
Show HN: Collecting song metadata from Jango Radio
In the early 1980s, truncated floating point calculations caused the Vancouver Stock Exchange index value to drift down for about 23 months, until it was shown as less than half the correct value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Stock_Exchange#Round...
Censorship is alive and well, even here.
Interestingly enough the LG CX 48 inch TV has been pretty much targeted at gamers and has received some really good reviews. This was targeted at Nvidia setups. Granted at this size they don't work well on desktops

One Review
https://youtu.be/IR6RnZI2uoY
“ more how you perform on this strange, incoherent esoteric exercise.”