skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But let's not pretend that Twitter and Facebook hold information monopolies with equivalent power to the government's ability to censor

Agreed, their narrative shaping capabilities far exceed governments'.

> As proof, consider that we are having this conversation right now,

That is a very poor way of judging it for several reasons; a) we are not currently on Twitter or Facebook, we don't have the same reach nor subject to same corporate normativities b) past performance is not always indicative of things to come.

> You can disagree with Twitter's editorial choices,

Except they claim they are not making editorial choices, and can't be held up to that standard, which a great chunk of the problem.
> Is it possible to short mortgage backed securities

Yes, you can buy a credit default swap. They might not be as underpriced as they were ahead of the financial crisis of 2007-2008.
> doesn't pretend the world is a pure function.

At a first approximation, Haskell pretends the world is a piece of state, not a pure function.
Please describe that mechanism for me.
There actually is a concept for fusion rocket in work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Fusion_Drive
Not OP, but I use Parsec to do things remotely on my desktop from my laptop. Latency and frame rate are far, far better than VNC or RDP

https://parsecgaming.com/
The Wayland security model was designed with sandboxed applications in mind. X was not.
I have found it astonishing, from comments in other threads, how many people on HN:

* do not believe depression to be an illness

* indicate mental health isn’t isn’t real medicine

* people shouldn’t consult a medical provider for illnesses of mental health

* people should self medicate
> just Israel's proxy warrior in this fight

That's a charitable way to put it.
I am designing a language based on OCaml/Standard ML, what are some of the problems present in these languages that can be fixed by a new design without being constrained by a spec or backwards compatibility?
Oh definitely. I'd even go farther and say once January 1 comes, if I'd chosen B earlier, I'd be happy I hadn't chosen A—I'd already waited a while, so an extra day would seem like nothing. But if the choice was first given on that day, I would still choose A... even though the situation I'd subsequently end up in would be exactly the same in both cases moving forward.
The desert city as an ancient living example of ecocity (2009)
I get tired of seeing these comments too. In the last few years it has become commonspeak to throw around these terms with no nuance. Strawmanning is a new favorite word for many. I sometimes shudder at the pretentiousness of it all (for some reason "false dichotomy" gets on my nerves, I feel like there are easier ways of saying that there are other possibilities).
> Risk of rockets failing

The thing is, we transport nuclear waste over sea or air all the time, don't we? I believe the spent fuel is put into "casks" which is then loaded onto ships or jumbo jets and flown around the world.

Planes crash and ships sink, but we judge the risk (with proper pre-cautions) to be low enough when transporting radioactive waste. To me this shows that people generally accept transporting nuclear waste when the danger of catastrophe is low enough - importantly this signals that the risk only has to be low enough, it doesn't actually have to be 0.

Presumably as rocket technology advances we will eventually enter a stage similar to that in air travel, where the risk of a crash is measured in 1-per-billions rather than 1-per-hundreds or 1-per-dozens.

At that point, would we accept launching radioactive waste into space?
When you look at it, a key point is the ability to run VS Code locally while all the source code, compilation, and extensions run on a server:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
Remember, a lot of people on this forum hate their own biological heritage and want to "upload their memories" into silicon super-computing chips and seek to escape the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The biological world and interdependence are repugnant to them. They are wannabee versions of Skynet essentially.
> The utopian philosophy of "Linux is about choice" has doomed any idea of a Linux desktop.

If it isn't about "choice" - ie. user control and freedom - then what is the point of using Linux in the first place and not stick with Windows where things are already chosen for you and way more often than not work out of the box because it is by far the most tested against desktop environment?
We are living in an age where people outright deny the existence of a global pandemic because they don't like the inconvenience of their favorite bars being closed or having to wear a mask. There is no document in the universe of any length that will convince them.
In this case you're passing the heat into the fuel. Excess heat you can use for ship or to power your vehicle.
Thank you for your story. About a year ago I had a fall from about 30 feet. Concussion, both ankles shattered, wheelchair bound for a few months.

The sheer joy and gratitude at being alive after the surety of imminent death was a profound experience. I'm not sure its possible to reach that state of being unless you have been in that circumstance.

As you say, it fades over time. I wish I could channel that feeling every day.
The reporters at the New York Post thought the story was so dubious that they refused to be named in the byline, and the basic premise directly contradicts the historical (and easily verifiable) facts surrounding the Shokin’s removal.
Trump's taxes were illegally obtained (hacked or leaked.) For all we know, the Chinese may have given it to the NYT, as the NYT never bothered to tell us how they got their hands onto them. But Twitter did nothing about them.

If Twitter was honest, every time the figure $750 appeared in a Tweet it should be blocked.

If you feel my statement above is absurd, that just shows how normalized the double standard has become.

ps I think there should be a law that all Presidents disclose tax returns and financial information. If you run for President you deserve a lesser right for privacy. It's not about that though. Twitter shouldn't censor based on its opinions.
Trash is never really trash - you can always do something with those resources, the only problem is that nobody wants to do something with it now.

You can imagine it might actually be pretty profitable to buy landfills when you're, say, a plastics manufacturing / distributing company, because the land is super cheap and you can literally dig plastic from the ground to sell to others.
The early comments on this thread were skeptical of the value of using government dollars to remove murder hornets
Will it be built with Concreate style plastic like the 80s and 90s ?

Or with the new modern plastic that bends in sunlight and breaks if you look at it
In the past several years, I began using my desktop less and less. All my work happens on a MacBook Pro... a 2015 model and now finally the 2019 16”.

I was actually shocked to see on my iPhone that I’m spending several hours a day on the device. I remember five years ago, my main activity when laying in bed was thinking about things going on in my life or sleeping. Now I spend hours in bed reading on my phone — and honestly, it’s not the most productive or uplifting content. It doesn’t necessarily better me in any way.

I agree that newer devices aren’t necessarily improving in the right ways. The MagSafe charger on my 2015 MacBook was a fairly innovative and user friendly design choice. It no longer exists, presumably to make a thinner laptop, but honestly — the weight of my older machine was never a problem. Apple solved a problem I never had, and I carried that MacBook to and from work everyday for the past 5 years.

It basically feels like a rat race where companies, to show value and drive earnings for their shareholders, are making pointless design choices with no real vision. Even the larger track pad on the new machine doesn’t really solve a problem I previously had. If anything, I just needed a more performant machine, preferably with a larger screen. I honestly would have preferred a better front facing camera, but instead, I have a thinner machine, different keyboard, and larger trackpad. We’re in a period of cheap money with cut throat capitalism — in my mind, the federal government have made all this possible and massively inflated asset prices. Apple’s stock continues to go up up and up because of this.

I’m singling out Apple for examples sake. They’re not alone in this.
How China is getting its farmers to kick their antibiotics habit
Around 2015/6 I went full laptop (Razer Blade 15) with an eGPU and multiple monitors after trying the same with a MacBook Pro (poor nvidia integration) and after years of crashes, overheating laptop shells and weird Wi-Fi issues when returning from sleep with the eGPU, I just gave up.

A couple months ago I got full ATX case with the 16 core AMD CPU, the best GPU out there and it runs cool, quiet and I just RPD to it when needed (prob less than twice a year)
I'd bet within a year or maybe two tops that the vast majority of "permanent" remote companies will have reverted to be mostly or entirely on-premise again. One or two might last, but most won't.
Thanks for the sources. I'll be sure to go through them.

I am quite familiar with how Western history tends to misrepresent contributions of the East. It is rather unfortunate, and certainly extends beyond the realm of science.
When I see programmers talk about Go's simplicity, I think about the different things that simplicity can mean. For example:

seqA = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20]
seqB = [2, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20]

You could argue that seqA is simpler because it follows a regular pattern: the range of ints from 0 to 20, inclusive. Or you could argue that seqB is simpler because it contains fewer numbers.

Go seems like seqB to me. It is simple in that it provides a limited set of features, but to me it ends up feeling fractured.
Microsoft is a member of the RIAA, so that would be an odd lawsuit: https://www.riaa.com/about-riaa/riaa-members/
Tab for a cause: Raise money for charity every time you open a new browser tab
Your comment is reading as pretty condescending and judgemental. Not everyone who owns an Android is cheap.
Manhattan’s iconic Strand Bookstore at risk of closing, revenues plummet 70%
Indeed. I wasn't aware of that specific git option, but a build pipeline with a checkout step taking FORTY MINUTES is unacceptable. Plenty of ways to solve that problem, but it's a problem that never should have made it into a critical workflow.

I don't care for casting stones. It's clearly a big win, and you don't get numbers like that every day. But I feel like someone should've twigged to this much sooner.
For the record an RTG was recovered from the seabed after a launch failure intact - and then relaunched!
https://rps.nasa.gov/about-rps/safety-and-reliability/

I'm sure the same can be done for nuclear reactor fuel. Even better actually, as reactor fuel is basically just a very expensive and pure heavy metal & only slightly radioactive. Only once the reactor is first started all sorts of unstable radiation releasing elements are formed in the fuel.

So if you only start the reactor once it is in space & pack the fuel securely for launch, all should be good to go! :-)
I can't tell you for sure if this story is misinformation or not. That's part of the problem with misinformation. Well constructed misinformation is not easily proven false.

What I can tell you is that it is absurd to believe it is true given what we know about the details surrounding the "discovery" of the information.
They physically destroy the laptop's CPU?

I doubt that.
It seems that suppression is the only choice in this prisoner’s dilemma of right vs left media right now.

Now I don’t like censorship.

Chinese media censored the COVID-19 outbreak in the beginning, which cost lives.

Right wing media in the west censored ‘liberal bias’ which cost lives.

The left’s censorship here is a recognition that the other side doesn’t play “fair” and they’ll take their chances on this morally grey choice because lives are immediately at stake.

It’s hard to even consider this a scandal. It’s hard to defend censorship here knowing that one might have a better chance of survival in a draconian Orwellian state that is modern China over the bastion of freedoms that is supposedly the United States.

It’s disappointing.
> There are extensions to Wayland that add missing functionality, but those are compositor-specific.
Meaning effectively that each compositor has its own incompatible variant of the Wayland protocol.

Well no — this is where I disagree. The extensions are standard and hosted within the repository [1]. A repository
may support their own proprietary protocol, after all it’s an XML file, but practically speaking without distributing
it through the repository means that you won’t get any clients to actually use it. It is wrong to suggest that there is
a huge proliferation of interfaces.

It is true that the core Wayland protocols support less functionality than X11. It’s also true that developers implementing
windowing managers need to do more work — however, again I point you towards wl_roots, libinput etc. as examples
to show that you don’t need to implement anything from scratch unless you want to.

I don’t believe this particular design doesn’t have trade-offs, but to pretend that it has no benefits is also incorrect. The
fact that there are less core protocols means that you can implement a simpler compositor if you should so wish. There
are comments in this thread pointing to the usage of Wayland in different devices as an application of this.

[1] https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols
Around here commercial leases on office buildings are typically seven years.
The City of Seattle Foundation would like to explore your ideas.
> Laptops are for shallow work, not much else

For you. I get all my work done a laptop and have been for a decade.
Why not be mad at the theocratic government that refuses to conform to international expectations, and allows its citizens to suffer for those actions?
I expected this to be some micro-optimization of moving a thing from taking 10 seconds to 100ms.

> Cloning our largest repo, Pinboard went from 40 minutes to 30 seconds.

This is both very impressive as well as very disheartening. If a process in my CI was taking 40 minutes I would be investigating sooner than a 40-minute delay.

I don't mean to throw shade on the pintrest engineering team, but, it speaks to an institutional complacency with things like this.

I'm sure everyone was happy when the clone took 1 second.

I doubt anyone noticed when the clone took 1 minute.

Someone probably started to notice when the clone took 5 minutes but didn't look.

Someone probably tried to fix it when the clone was taking 10 minutes and failed.

I wonder what 'institutional complacencies' we have. Problems we assume are unsolvable but are actually very trivial to solve.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. With UEFI, you don't even need grub anymore for multiboot, although sometimes it's easier to set up like that.
No. They just close the stores.
The reality is, unless you're really in the sticks, there are probably some reasonable, if not pretty good restaurants around. Case in point: Amherst MA, college town, tons of great restaurants that probably equal Cambridge or Somerville (not in quantity, but maybe quality). Also some pretty interesting places in both Holyoke and Northhampton MA.

In fact some of the best food & drink I've had was in parts of Nebraska & Missouri and Wisconsin. You absolutely don't need to be in the city to get good food & entertainment.
Forex Challenge – Turn $1k to $10k
Yes, having lighter exhaust also helps you raise your ISP. Scott Manley has a few videos on this topic, where he explains the science behind this much better than I ever could.
Propping up assets isn’t in their mandate though.
Hacker news: we need decentralisation, we need open source apps.
Also hacker news: I hate when people dont use youtube!
Zoom got where it is in large part through an aggressive native advertising campaign. For example, I don't watch Conan, but during the lockdown, even just walking past a room in my house where it was being watched, I would hear unnecessary mention after mention of Zoom:

> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=conan+zoom

Lest anyone thinks I'm being paranoid, he's been caught doing native ads before:

> https://www.vox.com/2014/1/24/11622660/some-game-companies-p...

And his wasn't the only show doing this; other late night hosts would also make it a point to mention Zoom by name.

In general, you should assume any conspicuous, unnecessary product references are native ads.
If the open options had the same level of marketing behind them that the closed ones do, you might have an argument that users prefer the closed options.
How would such a rocket slow down?

I'm assuming that it wouldn't be able to eject the exhaust in the reverse direction because the exhaust material is still fissioning!
First sentence:

>> Web multimedia-content Swiss army knife youtube-dl

Come on, you've already shown your bias and I need to be on guard from that point on. I love youtube-dl and built an app that used it heavily for exactly what it says in the name: downloading media from YouTube. To pretend that's not it's primary and major purpose is incredibly disingenuous.
A developer copies an open source app, adds advertisements, and publishes it to the play store as a closed source app. He promotes his app over the original app by paying Google.
If you work for money, you're poor and you'll always be poor. Real money doesn't come from work, it comes from money. So you can keep fantasizing about a meritocracy. I'll be over here brokering mortgages and managing properties making six figures in a 20 hour workweek using nothing but a laptop and a mobile phone. Out here in the real world, money is just a dream. Nothing more.
https://youtu.be/jjs94JNEXaw
Huawei Location Kit Cordova Startup Project
Depending on your latitude, in the winter on a cloudy day a small DIY system might be near useless. The panels might have a voltage when short circuited, but getting enough power through the DC-to-DC converter with enough leftover to overcome the internal resistance in the battery would be a tough. At best, it might trickle charge the battery and keep it from losing charge from self-discharge.

The advantage to the bike is that it not only covers the days where the solar is falling a little short (and where an extra panel would also work), but also on the days where the solar is failing to produce anything of significance (at which point you would either need a ton of extra panels, but even then you still might not be covered).
> in 2013, China consumed nearly half the world’s antibiotics — 162,000 tonnes, 52% of which was administered to animals1. Such widespread use of antibiotics is a cause for concern.

It is indeed. Curious what the US usage/percentage is.
I have a lot of respect for Aaron swartz, but:

> They have no constitution to answer to.

Do we seriously believe any government follows it's constitution? What is the mechanism for redress should it fail to do so?

> They’re not elected.

Neither are most operators in the government. And even for those operators that are elected, the role of government has expanded to the point where any given elected official has authority over so many concerns that the one you care about is going to be diluted to the point where you may not even want to vote for the thing you care about the most.
I won't be buying any Adobe products any more. From their extremely high prices, to forced subscriptions/cloud only products to their terrible security track record.

Thankfully there are now many cheaper and better alternatives to buy from.
That the numbers don't seem to add up probably means you are misinterpreting them.

Apple has half the phone business by revenue, not by number of phones, never mind by value delivered. But to advertisers, that is the number that matters.

Apple customers are extra-valuable to pitch to, because they have already demonstrated that (1) price doesn't matter to them (or they would have a different phone), (2) they are easily satisfied (or they would have a different phone), (3) they are readily manipulated (or they...), and (4) they are especially status-conscious (...).

All those qualities make them what business schools like to call "cash cows" (yes, really) that can be milked indefinitely. Apple is renting them out to Google at a high rate. Google knows that practically all iphone users would never change the search engine on their own initiative, because iphone users have been very carefully trained, over the years, to take exactly what Apple dishes out and learn to like it.

Apple knows that renting out their customers doesn't cost Apple direct income, because they have already spent on everything Apple has.

Knowing that somebody is an Apple user, you can offer them top-drawer prices and they will pay, provided a high-status logo is attached, and feel smug about having paid it. They are buying "price-signaling" mojo, so they don't demand commensurate value, and are cheap to cater to.
I guess one could still build single burn/single use reactors. The thing would be a bit lighter than one that can survive multiple burns & it should not pose a Hazzard as long as you plan the resulting orbit of the discarded reactor accordingly.
> You are correct that Ocaml has a ref type (though I believe it is actually a special case of a mutable record with one field).
> There is a small difference between an immutable record of which one property is a reference to changing data and a mutable record where the record itself changes. I prefer the first though I realize this is mostly preference.

In OCaml ref is defined as

type nonrec 'a ref = 'a ref = { mutable contents : 'a }

so it is an immutable record which contains one item which is mutable.

> In any case, the idea of outright changing a formerly mutable structure to an immutable one would be unthinkable in most languages due to all the breakages it is likely to cause.

I agree with you. I started using OCaml in 2018 but I believe many linux distributions stayed on OCaml 4.05 (the release before safe-string was default) for a while because of breakages.
The most recent OTM had a segment about the way conservative groups have been following the Russian playbook, creating fake local news sites, taking advantage of underemployed journalists to seed real content as cover for disinformation articles etc.
Except exec does pay taxes on salary ...

You originally accused me of thinking “it's a clever word for "lucky folks who don't pay taxes."”

I don’t understand either of your responses.
You are right, GPS has a margin of error that gets exaggerated in concrete canyons. It may take longer than you want to wait to resolve, etc. An error introduced by GPS can get the ticket thrown out if someone contests it, but misspelling a street name is not. Why bother?

Chicago addressing is on the grid system. Anyone familiar with it can identify the location of something just with the street name and block number. No need to reference a map or GPS or anything. 1166 N State St is about half a block south of Division, on the west side of the street. Any city worker will instantly make that connection. You have a really high bar to climb over to make improvements worth implementing.
I've seen one of the offices where I work while it had the ceiling removed for renovations. There were probably 4 feet of space between the ceiling and the floor above. I've also seen the same thing in my apartment and there was about 1 foot of space. I don't think noise will be an insurmountable problem.
> To pretend that's not it's primary and major purpose is incredibly disingenuous.

I'm fairly confident some people use youtube-dl more on pornhub URLs than youtube URLs, what you say speaks more to youtube-dl's origins than its current state.