skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An incredible article. The author pulls out all the emotional stops against some environmentally conscious elite he dislikes:
> Heidegger, like much of the conservation movement, would have hated what the Energiewende has become: an excuse for the destruction of natural landscapes and local communities.
> Opposition to renewables comes from the country peoples that Heidegger idolized as more authentic and “grounded” than urbane cosmopolitan elites who fetishize their solar roofs and Teslas as signs of virtue.

And yet, in an entire article written about a country’s investments in clean energy, there’s not a single mention of climate change, carbon emissions, or any of the reasons why I at least thought we were fighting to keep the fossil fuels in the ground.

And the author’s grand data-backed argument, showing why renewables are forever doomed?
> But no amount of marketing could change the poor physics of resource-intensive and land-intensive renewables. Solar farms take 450 times more land than nuclear plants, and wind farms take 700 times more land than natural gas wells, to produce the same amount of energy.

He places us on a playing field of energy per unit area, which could likely win the title of least useful metric of the year.

I think everyone agrees there is a lot to be criticized and learned from with the Energiewende, but the axes on which this article analyzes it make no sense.
Ask HN: X11 on macOS
The "go to" for X11 on MacOS is XQuartz, but honestly unless I am doing simple things, a lot of programs just don't work (especially commercial ones) -- Metashape from Agisoft is an example. A lot of the errors come across in the X11 forwarding.

Homebrew/etc aren't options, they just install the "latest" old version.

What do people use these days?

It seams like the default is accelerated VNC clients instead of X11.

Is there something I am missing?
RAW imagery I have worked with is about 25-50% losslessly compressible on average. Most of your gains in image compression are from quantizing the gamut in clever, (usually) imperceptible ways.

Raw imagery contains a lot of entropy that usually doesn't affect the appearance perceptually, but still has sig figs that frustrate compression.
Also ignoring the features that provide other people a lot of value. I used hugo a bit for my site and it seemed like the perfect balance of power and complexity. I actually found hugo to not be quite powerful enough so I added some external pre processing in to my CI config before hugo runs so I could do stuff like have image magic crop images to create thumbnails for the index.
Show HN: SimpleML 0.9.0 Released – A Batteries-Included ML Persistence Framework
It was TheRickJerk.com I remember reading their book.
Shoot me an email would be happy to help! nick@holler.com

I’ve written thousands of blog posts and happy to point you in the right direction!
Wordpress is pretty great but for me the main reason to go with a static site generator is the simplicity of hosting. Wordpress is a complex beast which requires a server and application that must be updated regularly and backed up.

With a SSG I just have gitlab host it for me which is everything sorted and git does the backups.
If the only information allowed is the one approved by designated "fact checkers" (the ideal most major social networks strive for, and most fact-checking enthusiasts would wholeheartedly approve) - it is the most complete example of tyranny (at least in the information space) possible.

Of course, if fact checking merely exists as a set of opinions - it doesn't become tyrannical by itself. It's just an opinion of somebody on the question of what the facts are. But we all know it's not how it works. At least not how it works on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
Thanks for the advice. I have already 10+ pages. My questions is more about how to make it interesting for the people to read.
I actually like the Mac GUI for GUI specific tools, but to each their own. No big deal. I used to use Macs in the early days and always had a separate unix workstation. When OSX gave me both, I was all set.
Japan's Largest Mobile Payment Company Migrates from Aurora to An HTAP Database
I don't get it... The latest issue I see there is #289797. Even if #789719 was a typo, I'm logged in but still getting a 404 for #289719. Maybe that's a private issue visible to you? Or your point is the sheer number of issues?
Burroughs was not a model gun owner or user. In addition to drunkenly killing his wife he slept with several guns, a fact I gleaned from the excellent, Iggy Pop-narrated This American Life episode on Burroughs [0].

For what it’s worth I think killing Joan was an accident. By most accounts he loved her dearly.

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/546/burroughs-101
Presumably Sony had no reason to design to full spec compliance.
> Sometimes I wish I could just use WordPress as a static site generator off of a docker machine that turns on on login and off at log off.

But you can do exactly that right now. For example:

- use wordpress as your data backend in next.js

- not exactly a static site generator, but you can use w3tc plugin to perform full page caching with very long expiry time, which essentially turns your wordpress site into a static site. You can also do this using cloudflare "cache everything" page rule, but it must be paired with another page rule to skip caching if wp cookie found. Similarly, you can add web app firewall rules on cloudflare to disallow login access except for you.
Tartini Tones: An Introduction for Musicians
I know that the HN crowd were not very receptive of Julian's[1] writing style but I found him inspiring. Recently he tweeted the working style of Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman on how they are the top in their field by doing a whole lot of bad writing to come to a good one - Creativity Faucet. You might want to read that tweet at https://twitter.com/Julian/status/1327765347936522240

1. https://www.julian.com
Reminds me a lot of this talk from the Pinboard guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c

Or this talk from the Bandcamp guy about financial sustainability:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaUkS-lr-ZM
This is really cool - I've subscribed to the Podcast. Thank you!

Did you need to get permission from PG to do this?
Trading creates liquidity, which supports a healthy capital market which companies can access for capital.
Excellent example of the dangers of "fact checking", where highly partisan talking point about "collusion", supported by a highly partisan, highly groupthink-selected source is presented as "fact". And supported by another statement which is a fact, but doesn't equal to the original one. Now it's your choice either to say "here you see fact-checkers confirmed/debunked it!" or spend infinite amount of time on fact-checking the fact-checkers, thus making the whole enterprise net negative.
I suspect its 1000x easier to just wire an arduino to the trigger and have it pulse rapidly than it is to pour over spec sheets and only end up with a "It looks like it should work"
(However, that site is a nightmare of ads, popups and auto-playing video, only legible with uMatrix.)

It's also legible, I'd even call it pleasant, with Firefox plus NoScript. Many sites block or degrade images when JS is disabled, but not the Daily Mail.
Write for your future self. Ask what is most essential for future you to know or remember about the topic once you’ve forgotten what you know now. So when you go to google the problem, you may end up landing back at your own blog.

There are other people probably similar enough to “future you” to also engage with what you write. But if they don’t appreciate it, then forget them, they’re not the primary audience anyway!

(And those that do engage will be the kind you want lasting relationships with. Which is a nice side benefit).

I’ve long learned deep engagement from a handful of people, or just future me, is far more meaningful than shallow engagement from many randos.
We’ve crossed $10k MRR today
Thus The Boring Company and lots of tunnels.
“ Some hardware compatible with Red Book CDs may have difficulty reading CD-Rs and, because of their lower reflectivity, especially CD-RWs.”[0]

Also it was common knowledge in the modder community that playing with a modchip burned the laser diode. The theory was the CD-Rs reflectivity made it overdrive. It could also be the modchip itself caused the laser to burnout. Most chips were soldered directly to the CDROM controller. And may have been inadvertently overdriving the laser.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
Thank you for making this comment. It says most of what I feel, but was unable to express in a done-to-earth uncontroversial manner. I hope to learn a lot from it.
If you had enough rack space, mod_perl+Apache2 could scale to anything you needed. Hundreds of Gbps, hundreds of thousands of RPS. Inefficient, sure, but seriously flexible+performant and really easy to deploy. I miss the old stacks, as Nginx and the other httpds really suck in comparison (feature-wise) and Java is still such a huge PITA. I'd honestly rather use modern PHP than today's Java webapps.
X3 exercise bar - a simple and effective strength training tool. Expensive.
https://www.jaquishbiomedical.com/x3-program/
It should be possible. You can use wget to crawl your Wordpress site and save it all to html files, which you can then copy/ftp to your static site. I've done this with Drupal. Drupal 6 was at EOL and not getting security fixes. The site was fairly large and had been built over a period of years, but was no longer being updated. We wanted to keep it online, but did not want to take on a project to migrate it to the next major release of Drupal and then get on that update treadmill.

I forget the exact set of wget options but you can find blog posts about how to do this.
I like it but it does not seem to compute when a board has become impossible until all moves are exhausted. The point of impossibility can happen long before that.
Of course speed is not the only issue but it is definitely a contributing factor. One need only look at crashmapper.org to see how often ‘unsafe speed’ is a contributing factor in the couple hundred thousand reported crashes that happen annually in NYC alone.

Driver knowledge(and vision, and reaction time) is extremely important, and I completely agree that the USA is too lax in regards to licensing — One need only look at Georgia, where they ‘paused’ the need to pass a road test to be licensed[0].

But again, that’s only one piece to the puzzle. What we need is simply a change in how much a driver should be responsible for, as it’s clear that we can’t expect drivers to react in time to prevent crashes, and the shortest stopping distance in the world still wouldn’t make much of a difference in most serious crashes.

In many cities in the Netherlands and Sweden for example, they’ve mostly addressed the ‘people problem’ by designing roads to minimize conflicts between different modes of transport by default. On the other hand, in places like NYC, The DOT designs bike lanes with ‘mixing zones’ as the defacto standard. It goes completely against the primary idea of ‘Vision Zero’, which is understanding that humans make mistakes, and designing infrastructure to reduce the likelihood that mistake kills or injures someone.

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/us/georgia-drivers-license-ro...
Ah, let me add some clarification...

In a society where an effort is made that the law will impose on others as little as possible there would inevitably be people who misbehave by imposing on others - physically hurting people or stealing from them for example. People who impose on others in this manner should still be punished, or maybe exiled.

But there are a lot of people in jail who have not hurt anyone else, for crimes like drug possession. In the comment you responded to I gave other examples where a majority imposes on others with dubious justification.

Look at how fickle U.S. politics is, with our federal-tribal-leaders now expressing the will of a new 51% majority that changes every couple of terms, increasingly treating the constitution as something to work around. It seems that there are way too many people/groups who would be happy to force everyone to their way of thinking, worldwide, and that leaves lots of room for abuse and corruption.

I suppose there's not much that can be done if most people think that's ok.
So, I struggled with writing for most of my life (33 now). But around 4 years ago, I took a college 'composition' course...for the fourth time. I failed it three times previously. I had to pass the class this time because I had a mission to get my degree. This class stood in my way. I was fortunate enough to have a great teacher for both level 1 and level 2, I passed both with an A&B respectively. Surprisingly enough, I learned that I already had good habits (journaling, rereading old entries, lack of judgment when writing, comfortable with numerous edits spread overtime). I discovered this through anon blogging and my personal journal after I dropped out of college after my third failing. So, I fell into the good habits but they are practical. They just take time and continuous practice.

So, I said all this, in a rambling way, to say that you can do this without paying others. Just be disciplined about it. Maybe take the 100 day challenge to blogging. Post it anon, if you're worried about criticism.

Good luck. I also second nondeveloper's two book recommends (Elements of Style and On Writing Well), if you need a lot of helpful advice.
Except courts do not determine truth. They determine legal guilt or innocence. They are actually designed this way - everybody can know somebody murdered somebody else, but if the court procedure is not followed and proof is not presented in a certain manner to achieve certain legal outcome - no prosecution. Moreover, there are special rules when known true evidence can be dismissed for not following the rules. OTOH, there are plenty of factually untrue court decisions - people have been incarcerated and even executed for crimes they factually did not commit. Check out Project Innocence, for example. If you want to find truth, courts are not the best place to look for it.
A Quantitative Analysis of Decisive Vote Updates in MI, WI, and GA
There's a difference between obvious they were butchered and seeing them butchered. E.g. while I'm ok eating a chicken, I'm not sure I'd want one murdered and gutted as I watch, then immediately fried.

It's likely different for people who grew up on a farm and know it as normal life.
All taxes are regressive against the poor, but property taxes are a special kind of evil that specifically targets them and tries to prevent them from rising up in the world.

Oh hey you saved up for something nice? Here's a fine for that.
Continuous Bernoulli distribution-simulator and test statistic [cpp]
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Seeking feedback.
Tips and Tricks for Jupyter Notebook for New Data Scientists
Reminds me of these notes: https://github.com/hypotext/notation
Regenerative braking of electric or hybrid cars solve most of this problem.
Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression” indexes search engine bias
Show HN: Astonishing stories – Speculative fiction exploring post-pandemic world
Nah, gatekeeper has been doing the remote check thing for years (just, 2 of them, I think).

It only became noticeable because there was an oversight in the "fail-fast" algorithm. If Apple was available, it was assumed it would be fast, and it wasn't when there was an iCloud outage.
If others' freedoms are a torment to you, it is a really sorry existence.
I believe that all social networks (which are technically services) should be separated out as not simply providing a service. In the same way that the Bell Telephone System was a service, it was also inherently a social network. Owning the Bell System and selling it to people who have no alternative--because for a true alternative to exist, you would have to build a parallel Bell System--is quite a different endeavor than providing another non-social network service nationwide/worldwide. To compete against a nationwide chain of household cleaning operations, you can simply start by outcompeting them in some way in one single market. A customer who is deciding who to pay to clean their house doesn't lose out by choosing a fantastic local competitor. A customer who is deciding what social network to use to keep in touch with family and friends would be losing out if they chose an upstart social network that most of their family and friends aren't on. Even incredibly powerful and wealthy companies struggle to compete with established social media networks because no matter how good their "service" is, you aren't competing merely on how good your service is, you are competing with how many nodes are on your network.

I don't have a workable solution to how to solve this problem of social media natural monopolies, but it is a huge problem. The telephone system and the internet are the most obvious models to focus on replicating in terms of handling the problem of network effects, and to the extent that those succeed or fail in meeting the needs of their users/customers, we should at least be able to match in our solution to the problem of addressing the monopoly issues inherent in the social networks that exist or will exist in the future.

One rather radical idea I'll leave you with is -- should all communication networks be treated as one single network? In the same way that "energy" is the unifying concept that encompasses "nuclear power" and "fossil fuels", social networks, the telephone system, and the internet are all within "telecommunication". "Energy" is a lot more basic/fundamental to the laws of physics, but telecommunication is definitely universal to humans on earth now and into the future indefinitely.
There is one for Windows 10 on the Microsoft Store. It is 99% identical to the Instagram web app.
It gives you a new perspective, but for some it can be traumatizing. I think it's a much better treatment than any drug out there, though, so maybe it has a potential to be integrated into our culture.

Environment seems to be the biggest factor in any successful treatment--drugs, psychedelics, or nothing at all--environment reigns supreme.
It's not minimizing someone pain, it's correcting the impression that now is somehow uniquely worse than in the past. I see it all the time "oh, people in the 50's had it so great", "oh, people in the the 70's had it so great".

Go and ask people who grew up then. It wasn't that great.
Hate speech definitely exists. A lot of people, regrettably, hate other people for a variety of reasons, and speak about it. But there's no "right" to be loved, so neither speaking nor hating violates any rights.
On this subject I love this strangeloop talk [1]: the right notation allowed John Conway to solve in an afternoon a knot problem that took another mathematician (Little) 6 years to solve!

Another example is juggling notation, that allowed not only the sharing of patterns but the discovery of new ones [2].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wahc9Ocka1g

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_notation
Wah this is magic.
We're going into the next iteration because the first product was terribly unusable and I want it to be a more efficient process this time. I remember at one point we were arguing about validation in a text field and I came up with bananas explanations and to add to it, I thought I needed to point out every field in the entire application where it needed to be fixed - mortified to say the least, and I learned that the word is "validation" for what I was trying to describe.

Right now, I think I should keep it as a web app because it seems easier (?) but will need to add desktop and then mobile (maybe mobile before desktop for upload and portability reasons, but I haven't decided).

MERN stack:
ReactJS with Redux
Node.js
MongoDB / Atlas
AWS EC2

I just checked out StackOverflow, we're going to be friends :)
A few minutes on instagram should clear things up for you.
I encourage you to read this counterpoint, though:

https://qbix.com/blog/2020/01/02/the-case-for-building-clien...
To me that is just a semantic problem: do we name them "strongest, wisest, winner of battles wolf" or just "alpha wolf"? Doesn't care who "invented" the term, it is a symbol to mean "the one above the others", a symbol of hierarchy, not a symbol of "Alpha wolf is inherently different than other wolves because of his inherent alphaness"
I enjoy doing these too and would prefer if there were no scoring at all. When I start right at release time, it stresses me out. So I try to find reasons to introduce small delays that guarantee I'm not in the top hundred, and the stress goes away.

If you're not using your computer every day, just think of yourself as having been removed from the competition. Then you can just solve fun puzzles that don't have a competitive aspect for you.

You could also make a browser extension to hide the leaderboard if that helps.
Looked at the wikipedia page for that project briefly, seems like just a private file server type thing.

That seems like a different use case from what I am after, which is safely and redundantly storing secrets in plain sight. I don't put random things in my password store, I put passwords and other sensitive or easy to misplace files that I will likely want to find later.

I agree that you'd be better off storing most of your files on a file server. But that's a different thing, in my opinion.
One of my favourites of these are https://opensource.glassanimals.com/

One of my favourite bands of this year, and have really cool websites.
Thanks for sharing! Lots of great pointers, including the stuff I commented too :-)
I totally agree on this matter. There's something
really empowering about writing your blogging stack
from scratch. I did this a couple years ago
(https://github.com/smasher164/akhil.cc), and I might
even do it again to scale it out.

I wanted to extend markdown with latex and graphviz,
and wrote an extensible markdown that grabs output
from code execution (https://github.com/smasher164/mexdown).
You do know there is a version of Windows for ARM64 already, right?

You do know that there's no software available for it, right? Without software, arm64 Windows is not a viable operating system for an arm64 laptop. ARM Windows is as relevant as MIPS Windows or Itanium Windows without the huge ecosystem of software you get on x86.

And who goes bankrupt first to build this platform? Is it the laptops makers who lose millions investing in laptops that almost no one will buy because there's no software for them (actually, they already did that). Or is it the software devs who lose millions porting their software to laptops that no one owns? When Apple says the future is ARM, everyone knows the hardware will be coming and they'd better fire up their IDEs. There's no such confidence in ARM Windows.
Unless you are actively trying to compete, it's pretty unlikely you'd end up on any of the leaderboards. As far as I can tell, it only tracks the top 100.