skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I met him once in the late 1990s, when his travels took him to Zurich and he asked me whether I could book a talk for him at ETH Zurich, where I was a grad student.

I did not quite share his confidence in my abilities in that area, but to my relief, Jürg Gutknecht agreed to sponsor the talk, and I got to spend lunch with Brad Cox, Niklaus Wirth, and Jürg Gutknecht. Given their highly divergent aesthetics in language syntax, I expected some fireworks, but the conversation was quite pleasant, even when they were discussing Perl.

I was at the time the maintainer of the Mac port of Perl, and had taken some classes with Wirth, but the idea of discussing Perl with him struck me as akin to discussing masturbation with the Pope. However, Wirth conceded that in the area of text processing, general purpose languages tended to be somewhat clumsy, and there had always been a successful niche for languages like Snobol and now Perl.

Brad Cox was a splendid conversationalist in many other areas as well. His talk focused on Superdistribution as the next evolution of the Software IC concept, and he very skillfully pitched this to a Swiss audience that a banking nation should be a natural superpower to take the lead in a micropayment world. He was very good at painting visions like this, but I'm not sure how much of it ultimately came to pass:

a) I don't think we're any closer to plug and play "Software ICs" than we were in the mid-1980s when he introduced the term. In the Objective C ecosystem, the closest there was to that was maybe Interface Builder with its Outlets and Actions, but I think that part did NOT originate with Cox (I may be mistaken, though).

b) Likewise, I don't see any move to distributed micropayments. If anything, more and more of the software revenue seems to come from centrally billed cloud services, e.g. comparing the Microsoft Office revenue model 20 years ago and now.
Good point. Maybe ARM chips are different and M1 will change things.
You don't need a stable orbit, just one that will keep it in our neighborhood and away from the atmosphere and congested orbits.

Put it in a high orbit, and point a telescope at it every now and then to update our record of it's orbit. By the time we are ready to visit it, even if its orbit changed, its new orbit would not be any more inconvenient then where we left it.
Yeah, I think the regular overlfow is actually an advantage.

A.) you pracice having overflows regularly, so the issue is resolved now and not left to some pooor schmuck world war XXVII Survivor in the year 35.000.

B.) It uses every bit, just like a fully random ID, as the key space is filled more densely with each overflow.
> I could also try to deconstruct some of the common complex-to-refute arguments, but I'm afraid the message would get lost in the following controversy.

That would be quite interesting to read nonetheless, if you’re willing to do so.
We can certainly debate on the intent, but ultimately, the result is the same - no one says Merry Christmas anymore, and Christians are sometimes sad about this.

I think it feeds into the feeling of victimhood. It seems all-encompassing. Which makes these people sternly-pro-Merry-Christmas.
Objective-C was adopted by NeXT Computer in the late 1980s for their app development framework.

The modern version of Objective-C, the one that's still in use today, was developed by NeXT and Sun and was called OpenStep. The first OpenStep specification was published in 1994.

OpenStep API implementations were created for NeXTSTEP OS, Solaris, and Windows NT, running on Motorola 68040, Intel, PA-RISC, and SPARC (and later PPC) platforms.

Sun would switch gears to Java, Apple would buy NeXT, and OpenStep would become Cocoa.
Way to be dismissive. I bet you would have said the same thing to people a decade ago who thought the government was using the Internet to spy on them.
of course. thanks!
This just confirms what I said above, if you drive them all electric it's great, they're an EV with a small battery. But if you can't and just charge occasionally the fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are nowhere close to the official numbers, as evidenced by the studies I linked above. I see this struck a nerve with some people but the reality is that those are only best case and the people who meet them are the long tail of the numbers.

And that's the crux of the matter, most people buy hybrids because they can't charge at home. Those cars end up driving a lot on gas. If you can't conveniently charge at home or at work, waiting for 1.5-2h to charge for 40-50Km is far less appealing than 3 minutes for 500Km worth of gas. Place more chargers and make gas more expensive than electricity and the situation would probably change.

One specific German manufacturer featured in the studies I linked above sees most of the kilometers driven in their hybrids using the ICE, with a lot of that time the ICE inefficiently charging the battery, and almost cancelling out the fuel efficiency brought by the electrification. The number of people who see anything close to the officially estimated fuel consumption or CO2 emissions is vanishingly low. And the manufacturer knows it but they aren't ready with EVs, they have to meet new fleet regulations, and they wanted to benefit from the incentives the German government offers to manufacturers for any EV or PHEV.

Looking at a family member in this situation (the one who provided me with the statistics from the manufacturer), they drove ~2000Km in a brand new PHEV with ~11 liters + 9KWh per 100Km. The manufacturer suggests ~2 liters per 100Km. That's where most efficiency numbers revolve for that particular PHEV. It doesn't help that where they live in Germany charging the battery at a public charger even when assuming the full ~40Km range is 30% more expensive per Km than filling the tank but this is a local issue that's not generally applicable.
I have this mouse and didn't realize that's how it worked. I bet that technology could by applied to laptop keyboards to give them extra travel when the lid is open and tuck them down when the lid is closed.
In a laptop, the camera is a much less important feature. Nobody takes pictures of their daughter's recital using a laptop.
Yes I'm referring to the deplatforming that's been going on for several years now. Things really ramped up in 2018 or so.
It happened to me few times:

- We got a "400 bad request" because we received a UUID for something that wasn't even supposed to be a UUID. I had to fish around for what this UUID was actually referring to, to track down the bug. It was an integration with a partner, and some faulty branching logic.
- We ask our customer support team to add IDs to engineering support request (customer ID, order ID, etc etc) so that we don't lose time. Sometimes they make a mistake (or it's not always clear what they're supposed to do) and we get a user ID that doesn't refer to any user. Bit of fishing around then again
- Wild logs: "could not find entity f5fac1d0-5d0f-11eb-9ab7-3e22fb071270".

I'm sure I could find more example but you get the gist of it
For me, the only thing keeping me from going to 100% electric for my household is that nobody seems to offer an EV with 200 miles of range with AWD and clearance for a rough forest road with potholes. Until then, we're sticking to a short range EV for the city and a crossover for the mountains.
Ibuprofen is used to control inflammation. Often when a rheumatologist sees frequent use they can prescribe a sustained release NSAID that doesn't present as much risk to the stomach, etc., compared to frequent dosing of OTC pills. Since this medication is just attempting to control inflammation, it is taken in response to a mild or severe flare up to try and make the pain stop, but isn't always the most effective. The best solution for people in these cycles is to journal their behaviors, habits, sleep, food intake, and try to find patterns in what causes the flare-up and then avoid those in the future.

Diagnosing an autoimmune disease on your own isn't advised, you should really see a specialist, not a GP. Specifically, get a referral to a rheumatologist. Blood work, sometimes xrays are required to properly diagnose. There are some 200+ known autoimmune disorders if I recall correctly, many people end up with a two-for-one deal. Sjögren's and Raynaud's seem to be not uncommon companions of other disorders, for instance.
Waymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
Well wouldn't the controller also be used to distribute the inverted power to the poles of the stator in sync with the rotation of the hub? I am pretty sure the controller could be there whether or not it was specifically modulating the torque to be lower.
Hubble’s optics were designed around contemporary manufacturing infrastructure for spy satellites, presumably the KH-11 design developed by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
It's real.

What's worse: There are some people who celebrate Christmas but who choose not to wish others a "Merry Christmas" out of fear of offending them. Peak woke.
I don't think this is something that you can organize or direct. I think it's precisely the people that think they can grow geniuses like corn that will potentially squash the genius that would arise naturally.

It's a repeated scenario over and over again. The centralizers and their hubris, thinking they have the keys to unlock utopia - and others must obey them to realize it.

For instance the Wright Brothers achieved what US scientists funded by the government couldn't. They were taunted as mere garage mechanics.
A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata: aligning resources on coronaviruses
Probably similar to paying for parking parking spots in the first place.
rot13 because it's a bit of a spoiler (IMO half the fun of reading hard sci-fi is seeing the science and engineering being presented):

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Takes literally 3 minutes on my car at -10C. If you have issues with cold climates maybe buy a car built in and for cold climates. Like Swedish cars.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210122155540/https://dd.meddle...
Is this going to make migrating from NextCloud worthwhile for security or speed reasons?
Wouldn’t Parler just be able to setup reverse proxies to conceal the true location of their hosting? All they would need is about 15 proxies throughout the world and then they could reverse proxy their network obviously latency would suffer. I find the witch hunt a little ridiculous and kind of disturbing since Google/aws/fb are basically choosing to destroy a company in front of the world.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25867264 (and several other submissions)
> Angular would have been a better choice in this case because of similar design patterns.

Well sure maybe superficially. There’s classes and then… that’s it. I don’t really see any other part of Angular that would help a (somewhat) experienced (pure) .NET developer in any way. There’s no batteries-included state management either.

Technology switches are hard. I don’t think the problem is with .NET specifically but with developers that stopped longing. Longing for new technologies, new algorithms, …
Solar, wind and geothermal are definitively enough. Also, remember that the goal is not to eliminate ICE cars in 2030, just not produce any new ones.
You're right, so a corporate/police state.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hydroxychloroquine-given-early-...

Not a doctor or well read on the subject but I have seen some studies claiming it does.

Have also seen many studies saying there is no benefit too.

Seeing such wild contradiction from respectable medical sources makes me wonder if anyone really knows what does what.
The tipping point might be for new car sales, but I'd be more interested in second hand market which is the vast majority of car sale transactions.

I personally would not buy a new car with my current finanical situation, even though i'm well paid, because i'd never have the sort of cash on hand to buy one and I try to avoid debt.

And so like many I'll be still buying used cars for the foreseeable, which will likely remain ICE cars.
At-home, 15-minute COVID test available for sale
> They're not endangered, they are aggressive predators, and Scotland's ecology isn't obviously in need of them

Three falses in a row. First, Eurasian Lynx is so endangered in UK that is in fact locally extinct. You can't be more endangered than that. Moreover, Spanish lynx is still one of the most critically endangered mammals in the planet

Aggressive is relative. IMHO, a pack of wild dogs pursuing a zebra for a couple of miles (before to eat it in chunks while alive) is aggressive. Lynx are ambush predators that avoid humans.

UK ecology has several problems. One of this is the fever of introducing exotic game species and specially deer. Apart of roe and red are: fallow deer, chinese water deer, asian muntjac and japanese deer. All introduced by hunters. Their populations are increasing and trying to pack as many plant eaters as possible in absence of predators is a very bad idea. To add pressure to the unfortunate trees of Scotland there are also rabbits and zillions of cattle. This is blocking the regeneration of forests, keeping many areas deforested and eroded and severely reducing the populations of many bird species.

Must be also noted that deer can be also dangerous for humans and can (and will) stab dogs but, for some reason, pet safety was not seen as a problem in that case.

> This is just for tourism

Great then, a powerful reason to do it and a win-win for the local people.

If hunters were allowed for decades the right to release as many alien species that they liked, it seems a little hypocritical to criticize hotel owners or wildlife photographers for wanting to release native animals that they like also. Either everybody can do it or nobody should do it. All citizens having the same rights and duties is in the basis of a modern society

Diversification of economy is always the safest and smartest move. Not everybody must be a farmer.
You have to know that you're looking for `systemd.service` in the first place.

If you search for `man service` you get linked to SysV init scripts [0] and are led astray if you don't know that sysv init scripts aren't systemd.

If you search for `man systemd` you get linked to a huge man page [1] which isn't approachable to a novice. There isn't an `EXAMPLE` section like there are on other man pages and searching for `example` doesn't reveal any commands to run. It doesn't describe where you can find an example service (unless you magically know that a "system unit" is a service and there's even a gotcha to that: it doesn't have a `files` section to describe where files are at (contrast with `man ssh_config` or `man nginx`) and it is absolutely not clear that the directory is hidden behind an obscure `pkg-config` invokation. Good luck discovering other services you can learn from by reading their service files!

If you managed to do `man systemctl` [2] you reach equally poor documentation. Again, no `files` section and this time not even a mention of `pkg-config`. There's a ton of mentions of environment variables (why does the _system_ need environment variables???). It describes how to "list" units but doesn't describe that it _won't_ list your user units (or, won't list the system units if you do --user). It doesn't describe how to _create_ a unit. It doesn't clearly walk you through the steps (again, there are no examples) so it's up to you to figure it out and hope you don't fuck up your system.

If you search for "just" `systemd`, you arrive at systemd.io [3]. Again, this site is not approachable to a novice! There's just lots and lots of reading. A _lot_ of reading. There's a few "examples" scattered everywhere in the form of an example command to run and a description of what it does. But _nowhere_ is there a single example with everything tied together into a single Hello World style solution.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/8/service

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemd.1.html

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemctl.1.html

[3] https://systemd.io/
My problem is renting apartments. If you ask the strata or the building managers about charging points in the carpark, they look at you like you're speaking Klingon.

This is true of even very recently completed buildings in well-off areas of relatively wealthy western countries. Heck, I just walked past three Teslas in my building's car park, one of which is new and wasn't there last week!

Do people... not plan ahead? Do architects not read the news? Are they from another planet where electricity delivery is not a problem that architects have to deal with in building design?

Mind you, I got the exact same dumbfounded stare from people when talking to cafe managers and gym owners about the impending COVID lockdowns back in February 2020: "Lock...down...? You think so? Really? Here?" (Don't think IT is spared from this, I get the same vacant expression when I talk to network engineers about IPv4 exhaustion and the need for IPv6.)

On a more practical note, I have business idea that might interest the YC News crowd: The main problem raised by building managers I spoke to was that it was "too hard" to solve charge-back and the like. Wiring is "easy", that's just a matter of calling out contractor, but organising the billing of the tenant and then splitting the revenue between the various parties involved is more work for them than it is worth, because it is complex to set up but initially there may be only a couple of electric cars generating very little revenue. An "electric charging billing" cloud service that manages everything with low overheads might sell well...
It’s a simple question about stats. How often does Amazon kick off services because of weak moderation and not because of illegal content? It’s not like these posts were not called out by government officials as illegal needing takedown that Parler refused to comply with.

Your analogy is shitty because there was no violent revolution conducted by Parler against Amazon.

The correct Analogy is the airline pilot kicking off any Parler employees traveling for business. That’s it.
I still don't see how that works when you're talking EVERYONE charging. Here's a quick example from New England in 2010:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=830

During "peak" hours they're using roughly 17Gw total, and during off-peak, it's at 15Gw so we've only got 2Gw total to buffer electric cars charging.

Feel free to tell me how my math is wrong, but let's assume worst case scenario: a tesla charger lists 11.5kW max draw. There are roughly 14m people in New England, if we assume even half of them were charging overnight, that's 86Gw of power draw. Even if you back that off to 25% of the population and half the power draw from the charger, you're at 21.5Gw of power, which is 10x what is available, and more than the total power usage during peak hours.

If someone else has some different math I'm all ears but I don't know how we're going to more than double the total power capacity in 10 years - even if you assume we can get there with renewables, the backend infrastructure can't handle it.
> What percentage of the world's car owning population lives in a place with a restriction like that?

Interior USA?
In those documents I use control-f and search for what I want instead.
Why should .NET developers be interested in Jamstack?
You could try N2D (Which is AMD): https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-th... .

The benefit of N2D is that it's still x86, so your existing binaries should work.

Disclosure: I work at Google.
Hasn't gitlab had this since they started?
if they were wise, they'd see the lynx-kill as a guaranteed income (albiet possibly below full market rate) and thus, a hedge: I believe most successful re-wildings of predators include compensation, so really, when you think about it, its not a huge loss overall.

Not a very romantic view I agree, if you're staring at a field of dead lambs and mothers, but farmers need to be philosophical these days. A lot of Australian farmers leave the land shortly after having to shoot stock in drought. Is this really worse?
People Are Getting 'Cyberpunk 2077' Refunds and Getting to Keep the Game
This is an interesting experiment because if the model is running on the same hard drive it is detecting, then it is looking at itself dying in the mirror
Thank you for this reference. I’m a free will skeptic. Now looking forward to watching Conway’s series.

I have a paper by Anthony Cashmore that I will cite here later.
Wow. That truly is an amazingly cool radiator design idea. I'm going to put the book on my list!
Second and third parts:
https://yurichev.com/news/20210121_Knuth_Morris_Pratt_2/
https://yurichev.com/news/20210121_Knuth_Morris_Pratt_3/
I’ve wanted a dome home since I first stumbled upon one in high school; my friend’s uncle lives in one. His is a wooden geodesic, which you can get kits to build starting at $30k or so for a smallish one. They can be erected in a week by two people with power tools. They can also be multi-story.

$11k is a significant amount of savings, though I’m wondering about the logistics of running plumbing and electricity. (That might be covered in the video, I’ve seen it before so didn’t watch through again.)

I’m in no position to undertake such a project anytime soon—missing the land, time, and funds—but it’s always cool to see it pop up.

If you like alternative house styles, and especially this kind of some, you should check out earthships too. Even higher efficiencies/lower carbon footprints, but friends who stayed in one say they haven’t really worked out the bugs yet.

In any case, stick frame square housing is a “good enough” idea that we have been treating as “solved” when we really shouldn’t. In a lot of places, even building a wood-frame dome home requires all kinds of extra paperwork and time investment with codes enforcement because it’s unfamiliar to them. Not sure how to change that situation.
> You're just paying for a service that needs to know your address in order to function. Nobody will even check your id.

I don't remember for my current place but I know that when I first moved to the US I needed a credit check to get internet access in my home.
Facebook is so large that their moderator to user ratio is the same approximation as the moderator to user ratio of Parler. Parler was just more honest about not being able to realistically moderate people.
I won't be surprised if he's a puppet of Putin buying credibility with putting him in jail, failing to kill him, etc. I can expect anything from Putin.
It's frustrating when chargers don't work, I was using them frequently for a while when I was taking a child to and from doctors appointments multiple times a week and encountered a few.

That being said, I never got stranded and there was always a charger I could use. This was in metro Atlanta in 2017, the situation only got better since then.
FWIW, our experience was different: I benchmarked our Node apps on C6g, C5n, and M5zn and found Graviton to be 10-25% slower in our CPU-bound NodeJS code than the same code on x86. Graviton give you better relative performance per dollar, but for absolute single-thread performance M5zn is still the best choice for us.