skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a very scientifically minded person, but also hang out in some circles that have an anti-science crowd.

My attitude after getting to sort of see things from the outside is pretty similar to yours. I believe in the power of repeatable observations. I’ll pass most science allegiance tests you throw my way. But I’m also pretty damn disappointed in the world of science today. Academic incentives are whack. Journalistic incentives are worse. Then throw some social media on top and it’s just a mess.
Except Germany is doing all sorts of accounting maneuvers to hide the high cost of renewables. They say they have a low wholesale price and the final price is high just because of taxes, but in the end you pay so many taxes that end up in the renewable subsidies in different forms.
250KB: https://cloud.netlifyusercontent.com/assets/344dbf88-fdf9-42...

249KB: https://res.cloudinary.com/indysigner/image/fetch/f_auto,q_a...

180KB: https://res.cloudinary.com/indysigner/image/fetch/f_auto,q_a...
Oh, that’s nothing. My company took over a contract from another company that had two DBA writing a schema to store approximately one hundred items in a database! We converted it to a JSON file.
Curious to hear your take on the Democratic Party's recent reversal on their stance regarding nuclear[1].

It seems to me that if a group of people who were once so vehemently against nuclear for decades (few people were more vocal in opposition to it) finally realized that their fight against climate change simply isn't practical without nuclear, then why are some people still so against it?

You couldn't ask for a more powerful endorsement than the one from nuclear's (former) greatest critic.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2020/08/23/after-48...
You're spreading misinformation, either intentional or not. The reservoir that the Clinton Power Station uses for cooling was created explicitly to cool the plant, the recreational opportunities it brought were just a bonus.

I can't find any references to cases of amebic encephalitis from that lake either, only a study stating that the amoeba was found in the lake both before and after the plant became operational. Their own website touts its swimming opportunities. Can you cite sources for any of your claims?

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/Parks/Activity/Pages/ClintonLa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Lake_(Illinois)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Power_Station

https://www2.illinois.gov/dnr/Parks/About/Pages/ClintonLake....
Exactly. For example, like many companies, Google had smart pointer implementations in its C++ codebase almost from its inception, but they didn't appear in the C++ standard until C++11.
Yes, it is the inconsistency and lack of attention to detail that is the giveaway, rather than the use any particular convention. Unless they don't vertically align their braces, then they are clearly some sort of monster. ;0)
Having both shot potato guns and eaten sushi in LA, I don't quite understand your choices for defining lines of division.

Most the assclowns shooting things in the desert near me are LA residents treating the desert as their personal wasteland on weekends.
> How many examples would I need to provide?

I'm a liberal, living in a very liberal city. I don't need you to tell me what the left thinks. Believe me, I've heard plenty of politically correct stuff from my side that I think is silly (and presumably you would agree). This just isn't one. You can go to a collectivist bookstore with BLM posters in the window, where the History section is labeled "Herstory," and still be wished a Merry Christmas by the person running the register.

You're welcome to disagree of course but this might be a good time to step back and remember where the goalposts started. You didn't set out thinking this was something you would have to prove with evidence. You said, "I don't think it's controversial that..." and then a bunch of people said it was.

In any event, I don't think it's super important; this seems like it is clearly an example of a 'weak man', because however strongly the left does or doesn't think it's rude to say Merry Christmas, it seems incontrovertible to say that Fox News presented us as believing it somewhat more than we do, and for the reasons discussed in the article.
While all the facts in this post appear correct, they do not seem to me to amount to an argument either for the proposition that an implementation at the utf-8 level is uniquely harmful, or that a bytes-level approach avoids these problems.

For example, working with the utf-8 view does not somehow foreclose on knowing how much memory a (sub)string occupies, and it certainly does not follow that, because this involves regarding the string as a sequence of bytes, this is the only way to regard it.

For another, let's consider a point from the linked article: "One false assumption that’s often made is that code points are a single column wide. They’re not. They sometimes bunch up to form characters that fit in single “columns”. This is often dependent on the font, and if your application relies on this, you should be querying the font." How does taking a bytes view make this any less of a potential problem?

Is a team of eurocentric developers likely to do any better working with bytes? Their misconceptions would seem to be at a higher level of abstraction than either bytes or utf-8.

You are claiming that taking a utf-8 view is an additional layer of complexity, but how does it simplify things to do all your operations at the byte level? Using utf-8 is more complex than using ascii, but that is beside the point: we have left ascii behind and replaced it with other, more capable abstractions, and it is a universal principle of software engineering that we should make use of abstractions, because they simplify things. It is also quite widely acknowledged that the use of types reduces the scope for error (every high-level language uses them.)
"It also assumes that society will be sufficiently organized to provide the security and maintenance for the entire half life of the waste."

Could you please provide a concrete example of a problem of security or maintenance on such facility and with such scenario, what makes you think that it is more likely to happen than any other threats with similar impact our societies face?
Flexbox shall not exist. At least in the way it is defined.

1. It breaks CSS box model that postulates that "width" defines element width. With flexbox that is not so as width can be overridden by flexbox in non-trivial manner.

2. flexibility shall be defined by flex/fraction units like in Grid module. So we may have:

width: 10fr;
margin-left: 2fr;
border-spacing: 1fr;

3. CSS and HTML shall have unified flex units. Flexibility in HTML uses ** units like

<frameset rows="200,1*,200">
<frameset rows="200,2*,1*">
<td width="2*">

and so CSS might use that as

width: 10*;
margin-left: 2*;

4. Flexibility as an entity shall be expressed uniformly among different CSS modules. Instead of bunch of separate flex-** properties and separate FR units it should be just flex units width:2*; and flex functions if that is needed.

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"box-sizing" shall have also padding-box value.

When defined padding shall go into scrollable content : https://terrainformatica.com/2019/10/17/css-overflow-padding...

In general box-sizing is broken (or under specified) in regard of paddings of the element.

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"outline" shortcut property shall include outline-offset value too.

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"visibility" shall have "none" value.

visibility:none;

shall be treated as display:none and display shall not have none value. So for hiding/showing a table for example we can use

.some {
visibility:none;
visibility:visible;
}

But not

.some {
display:none;
display:block;
}

which is obviously wrong.

In short: visibility and display model shall be orthogonal.

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Syntax:

Modules shall use functional notation rather introducing bunch of conflicting prefixed properties, so use this

display: grid(
column: 2 / 4,
row: 1 / 3
);

instead of

grid-column: 2 / 4;
grid-row: 1 / 3;

Different modules in future may also want to have
grid-columns, etc.

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// - line ending comments please
Ah, sorry. I expected Apache. Nice numbers.
Largest lake in California likely goes to the now dried up lake that encompassed most of the San Joaquin Valley.
Yes, and technology will be able to do a lot more good in the world once we have the labor shortages to justify further automation.

Increasingly over the last 40 years in the developed world, in a general labor and supply glut, the only reason to automate is to fuck over your precarious workforce more than your competitor. That sucks for the regular workers and automaters alike, and I can't wait for it to change.
> Many people read the headlines of a post and then guess what is written in the remaining article

This isn't just endemic to the Fediverse, it's endemic everywhere.

Bites tongue.
I'm not spinning anything, and the scenario I'm responding to (62k satellites in one launch) has not occurred. I've been a fan of SpaceX for years, but apparently even a whiff of anything short of pure adoration is enough to send some fanboys into a tizzy. It's tiresome.
Having a larger number of viable parties doesn’t seem like it would help that much when your district is huge and gets one representative elected with FPTP.
Having reliable electricity during a dangerous heat wave and heavy wildfire smoke that forces you indoors: Priceless.
$75,000USD a year is barely enough to buy a small condo in regions of Canada where 1/3 of the population lives. I don’t know how anyone could possibly believe happiness ends at $75k.
hard for me to be interested since it's closed source
Can't speak about internet, but water and power are available. But probably not with the same cost, reliability, quality, or quantity you'd like.

Groceries are also an issue. You'll have to drive up to a big box store in Indio to shop. All of the local options are little more than low-end convenience stores.

There have been a number of these articles and videos about the Salton Sea on the internet in the last few years. I can only think that most are based on what other people have posted on the internet without actually going there.

The reason I say this is because almost none mention the SMELL of the region. It's terrible, and I once lived in a small valley with a paper mill.

It's like living 24/7 with a kiddie pool full of dead fish in your yard. Because that's quite literally what it is. When you go to a "beach," it's not sand. It's billions and billions of not very ground up fish bones you're walking on. Just squat down and take a look.
Etcher is extra bad on Macos. Populating the file chooser dialog took minutes. I have no idea how it could be this wrong.
Two-thirds of academic year lost on average globally due to Covid-19: UNESCO
This ignores the other benefits of solar. The fact that I'll stay powered up when everyone else is black is important in rural areas even on-grid. The fact that you know your power is green.

It also ignores the possibility that energy costs will go up over those 10 years. Essentially you are fixing your energy costs indefinitely.

Of course I'm not-quite normal kind of guy regardless. I paid too much for a very efficient house. I own my house. I own my cars. To me, the idea of turning unknown future costs into known present costs is fantastic. Not a lot of people agree with that concept.
What would the water treatment for rainwater look like?
> In fairness the original governmental nuclear program withheld from the public that the designs behind power generation were actually being driven by weapons needs

I have to challenge you on this statement. Certainly the 1940s Hanford reactor designs were for weapons production, and yes dual use (weapons & commercial power) was briefly considered in the early 1950s, but as early as 1953 it was rejected as an option by the US government, who had enough weapons material production coming from Hanford and projections from Savannah River that there was no justification for more.

Further, the Atomic Energy Commission actually worried that if nuclear power plants became very popular, they didn't want to be stuck with a fixed price contract requirement to buy any excess plutonium.

The Power Demonstration Reactor Program of 1958-1965 was run to find the best reactor for making economical power. It was very open and public. By 1965, light water reactors were offered at cost parity with coal plants and the fleets of today were kicked off.

So, brief mention of dual use was ended in the early 1950s, whereas the designs of today were commercialized in the 1960s.
post points out that there is variation among what constitutes open source companies / potential for profitability, and yet self-contradictorily concludes a simplified blanket rule on open source being a 'better strategy' and uses this simplified rule to conclude a similarly simplified blanket rule for investing in them..

seems a bit off.
> I’m telling you that black people in America have a culture that is descended from a lot of sources, and you cannot just simplify it as Anglo-Saxon, again because such a wide swath comes from the African diaspora that ignoring that means ignoring its most noticeable aspects. Gospel, jazz, blues, and rap are not descended from any Anglo-Saxon musical tradition, nor are our dances, or many of our foods.

I looked up the origin of Gospel on Wikipedia; it seems to stem from Gaelic sources and the first composers thereof were white.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music#History

As for Jazz: “Jazz originated in the late-19th to early-20th century as interpretations of American and European classical music entwined with African and slave folk songs and the influences of West African culture.[32] Its composition and style have changed many times throughout the years with each performer's personal interpretation and improvisation, which is also one of the greatest appeals of the genre.”

Perhaps there are some West-African elements to it, but I find the music to sound very European in terms of structure, also using mostly European instruments.

Jazz at the end of the day is played with the piano, the European drum kit characterized by the cymbal, the guitar, the cello, and the tuba. — whatever West-African elements it has seem to be played up, again for racial reasons.
The orbits have a 5 year life span and the satellites can deorbit. The satellites actually use propulsion to stay in their orbit!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink
Who owes the most in student loans: Data from the Fed
m1 mac pro, then when new ones come out later this year upgrade.. I'm not even a apple person until this m1 mac, love this thing, best laptop purchase i've made in a long time
> It should load in an instant.

FWIW, it does load in an instant for me. (Lighthouse Performance = 99, Speed Index = 0.4s.)
Covid shows us that overcrowding in housing is bad, not that density is bad. There is no relationship between density and covid problems. The most-infected jurisdiction in America is Crowley County, Colorado, where fewer than 6000 people live in an area of 800 square miles, and where there are no cities.
Another possible answer is that it's just cheaper to fill snacks with sugar than anything else while keeping them tasting good. Plus sometimes in snacks sugar plays a big role in forming the structure and it's hard to find a proper replacement for it.
It is likely that politicians know pretty well the difference between what they say to the public and the actually effect their policy have on the market. It is also very important for the public to call them out when reality and truth does not match the promises given in political speech.

When the Swedish government shut down a nuclear reaction the political promise were a greener power grid that polluted less. What we instead got was a oil power plant in the southern part of Sweden that previous only operated as a backup in case of harsh cold winters. Now it is operating all year because it suddenly became commercial viable to do so.

For long I have advocated that the solution to this disconnect between what is being said and what actually happens is laws. No new fossil fueled power plants, and no extended capacity by fossil fueled power plants. One do not need to be pro-nuclear, nor pro-solar or pro-wind. All that is needed is an expanding energy demand, a aging nuclear power plants, and a law that forbid people to use the easy but environmentally damaging alternative. Smart people in the energy industry can figure out what is the cheapest alternative that does not warm up the planet, and politician can stop trying to sell an untruth.
Mathematics is not embodied by any of the entities of physics and to that extent it is not real.
Part of the things that you mentioned in your experience, "us v them" ideology, reverse burden of proof are all a defining characteristic of any forum that thrives. And, arguably, its not a bug it's a feature.

Typically, a forum has a lot of registered users, but very few who are active daily. (Reddit reported 52M MAU in Oct 2020, an increase by 44% post pandemic. Their MAUs in Dec 19 were 430M. So, about 7-10% users are very active, others are lurkers). The most frequent users (power users) gain kind of an influence which is suited to their experience the most (not talking about HN per se, not as frequent here) and they come to define the rules of the forum. It's not specific to mastodon, and forum moderators allow it because they are the users (and many a times mods themselves) and it does not really break a rule. The us v them mentality in particular is key for the forums since it invokes an emotional response in using that forum. Many lurkers stick to the forum if they cant find a better alternate to stay in touch with the topic, and they leave when they do.

The other problems you highlighted may not be a platform problem but a human problem which will happen on almost every other platform. I don't think there is a solution to this except finding other smart people who are more self aware, though that is easier said than done.
I also hate the fact that cars with “smart” technology start feeling dated after just a handful of years, just like my smartphone. And I’m not planning to commit to a similar upgrade cycle.
Creating a buffer for the unexpected allows for pleasant surprise - or possibly magic.
Going to guess it starts something like this:
Step 1: Have lots of healthy debates
Interesting -- as a UK native, I don't recognise that. Maybe it's limited to certain regions/subcultures/???
Lets worry about Corona and protect the >70year old childless boomers.

https://twitter.com/bleppyman/status/1351286077823324160
I'm using it for 1-on-1 chats in my family and the application makes you forget that it's smtp/imap/pgp underneath. It feels like a WA clone. Will it disclose past message contents on private key leak? yes.

If you fetch mails via pop3 be aware, you'll move them away before DeltaChat can move them into its own folder via IMAP to build its message threads. If you're doing IMAP only you'll see the messages with your mailclient unless moved. Maybe consider using a dedicated email-alias or account. If the receiving SMTP on submission doesn't strip your connecting IP Address in the Received headers this is quiet a lot on the wire that DC can't do anything about and where you would rely on transport encryption.

It made a point what a thoughtful chat-view, pgp-using email client can do, so I still recommend to give it a try.
I have created some bots (mainly for Spanish speakers, Delta Chat ia used a lot in Cuba), bots to bridge with Mastodon so you can chat in private with users there or toot etc., bots to play games with friends etc. even to get xkcd comics etc

https://writefreely.public.cat/delta-news/bots-publicos
what are some good resources/books to learn the thoughts/debates/ideas that forced us to create/discover say for example concepts like complex numbers or logarithms or calculus etc.,
I don't share your thoughts on automated cars, but assuming I'm wrong, lawns/greenspace seems like a good idea. They would absorb a lot of rainwater that would otherwise need to be managed, would reduce the "heat island" effect in the summertime.
I think the outcome should be that Arm should have less control over who has a full license with the ability to add instructions etc.

It is somewhat ironic to me that, it is the software layer made available by gcc and clang that actually makes these billion dollar cpu vendors viable.
Hard disagree. I’ve been making websites since 1997, and the default box model is garbage and unusable.
Optical Flow from Scratch
You have no idea how state, county, and city governments work in the US do you? None of those entities can print money. Those parts of government raise money through taxes.

Only the Federal Reserve can print money. The way the rest of the federal government besides the Fed gets money is through taxes and by selling treasury bills and bonds where they promise to pay back the money with interest. Other parts of government can also sell bonds.

If entities believe that a government is running the printing presses there is a currency run and inflation. Ever wonder why assets inflated tremendously the last 8 months relative to the dollar? Ever wonder why the dollar has lost 10% versus other currencies? Things that are fixed in price just got cheaper (like fixed rate mortgages). Things that aren’t, have gone up in price (restaurants, produce, lumber).

Also the running of the presses may add money to the Federal government but may hurt some local governments in the same manner. For example, a city in California dependent on property taxes may have trouble paying its bills when there is a lot of inflation. That is because Prop 13 mandates no more than a 2% increase in property taxes per year. Those private companies that it gets services from will bid at higher prices.
That's a real bummer, but keep in mind by American standards plain old "apartments" are radical enough.
writefreely has a better UI for reading long form posts and is quite popular among the academic communities on the fediverse.

personally I host a gitea server and link to my longer documentation on my federated account.
that gives me a bit more freedom to edit the content and easier to reference.
matrix servers are also great for hosting federated long form content.
I guess problem lies in this part mainly.

Choosing host is more important than it should be. Mainly because hosts are trying to do 2 things at the same time: being identity provider and being some kind of content host in federated environment (moderation etc).

Because of this when you choosing a host, you are investing too much. Their future policy changes etc will effect you, you cannot afaik move to another host. (like moving your email)

When you give people choice, things are much harder. On other platforms we have few choices depending on what you will publish (media type mainly), but here more like topic based separation, which is making things tricky, as we are humans with many different sides.
Thanks, I didn’t realize this. I appreciate the sources
The Real Guns of Star Wars: A New Hope [video]
I'm hoping to eventually see a well-reasoned rebuttal to this post, not just knee-jerk insults by people who are personally offended on behalf of a city. But so far no luck.
I can imagine that if Tesla is really moving to Texas, there are enough people who'd like to stay closer to Bay Area, and Cupertino is an option.
> A mistake that affected our country so negatively cannot be forgotten or forgiven.

Sounds like 20-20 hindsight to me. Predicting the future is hard; making important societal policy choices based on those predictions, likewise.