skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how it's the same. Message boards are all silos that don't mingle with each other in any way. You're saying the only part where Mastodon diverges is this thing that makes it markedly unlike message boards. I don't see the connection at all, not even to Proboards/Ezboard which had one global account across many boards.

I'd summarize Mastodon as a confusing version of Twitter that most technical people don't even understand. Drawing such a bad analogy like "it's basically like 2000s message boards" just drives this home even further.

It's like nobody can explain what it is. Though I suspect it's like monads where people need to drop the belabored metaphors and use simple language. Though then you just end up with something like "it's Twitter but the same UI shows people registered elsewhere."
I wonder:

1) what determines who succumbs to the hermit syndrome

2) how to identify it early

3) how easy it is to escape from that route after embarking on it
All the nuclear waste in the world can fit in one are the size of a soccer field. The only real issue are catastrophic failures - and those are usually prevented by improvements in technology and safety protocols.
True, but solar doesn't have demand responsiveness either, it has sunlight responsiveness, which is not the same thing.
My guess is someone wrote "Solar is now the cheapest marginal source of new power", and someone else that doesn't understand calculus and (non-)fungibility fucked it up.
This has a ffmpeg command generator feature where it’ll tell you what it would run. I could find that useful in trying to fix anything broken with it.
> that there are always administrative departments responsible for updating and publishing the statutes based on the bills that have been passed

I don't think that's the case in Italy. A bill often takes the takes the form of sequences such as "in the bill n. 1234/05 at the subparagraph 2, the word X is replaced with the word Y." There isn't, to my knowledge, a notion of "document" which the patch is applied to. You can, of course, derive the documents from the successive patches, and laws on new matters contain an entire document as a "first commit". But in software engineering it's the documents/ files you care about, patches and commits only exist as a support for change management.
What a great perspective, thanks for sharing. Going to give it some thought before replying further.
Just about $100
Interesting. I've been interested in anti-inflammation unrelated to the sleep stuff. Sad if there's not much to it, since it seemed like a hopeful no-drugs way of improving health.
You also have to be in favor of breeder reactors, as the uranium runs out otherwise.
I'm waiting for the new Macbook Pros. Rumors suggest return to magsafe, sdcard reader, no touchbar, old keyboard and of course the new Apple silicon.
Doesn't seem out of the realm of reasonableness. A top office chair will be $1400 or so new. (My Aeron broke fairly near the beginning of all this; took me a few months to be able to get a replacement.) It wouldn't be hard to spend the same on a desk.
> There are a lot of people on the internet with infinite free time

This is what we have to fix. We need to find employment for these people. When you're busy working on something, you don't have time for shitposting.
> The reality is that its real worth is more or less unquantifiable

That’s a dumb statement
> It’s open source, you can fund some program to keep supporting python 2.

No, actually, you can't - last time I checked, they were specifically threatening[0][1][others] to sue anyone who tried to continue developing Python for trademark infringement (despite that they are ones falsely using the trademark for something other what it got it's reputation from).

0: https://lwn.net/Articles/711092/

1: https://github.com/naftaliharris/placeholder/issues/47
> No amount of stop-the-rat-race mentality gets me a house for $30,000

30 year old 1 room apartments in small town Hokkaido. Just saying.
Indirect descendant uses just whitespace because it’s the most common and most useful relation. Making it two characters would have annoyed everyone using the language every time they used it.
I mean, you sort of prove the point: Right now you're trying to find a suburban home in SoCal. There are suburbs everywhere, and most of those places are far cheaper than SoCal. Likely with better schools, no bidding wars, and possibly even better "suburban" amenities. So why are you looking in SoCal and not those other places?

The urban core the suburb is tethered to matters more to buyers than they're willing to admit directly.
> “oh, our users are already trained on WP, so it’s a good CMS” but I don’t buy that at all. I’ve had users praise my homegrown CMSes before. There’s not much difficulty in pairing a WYSIWYG text editor and some form fields with modern web stacks these days.

I don't think even the admin UI is well organised or consistent though. Most users just know how to create and edit posts. Once you start installing a few required plugins too, the UI becomes even more a mess of controls that users are scared to touch.
Are you also expecting your bonds to be worth literally zero after around 15 to 20 years?
Code Parade on Youtube has some nice tech demo for non-euclidean 3D game engine.

"Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB11PQ9Eo8

"Spherical Geometry Is Stranger Than Hyperbolic" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9GAyJtuJ0
I think they are referring to shaving beards, which is known to cause issues for black people.
I’ve had critiques about the fediverse for a long time. I’ve also had critiques about urbit for a long time.

It seems to me that Zot improves pleroma/mastodon to solve their problems (server extinction, account migration). It also seems to me that Urbit improves Zot to solve their problems (user experience, global naming).
The question is if the panels last longer than 10 years without major degradation.
If HN ends up moving to the CS runtime I'd love to hear a high level summary of what work it required and how the new runtime performs.
Andrew Yang’s Ideas on Universal Basic Income Earned Him Fans. But Can He Win?
Yup. Everyone keeps saying "people ignore the cost of batteries!" but what the thing everyone in all these threads ignores is that fossil fuels have absolutely amazing economics and will for much longer than it will take to inflict catastrophic ecological damage on the world. Waiting for them to become more expensive than renewables just means that by the time you finally panic and start building storage and nuclear infrastructure, fossil fuels will be so expensive that the last thing people are interested in is big public works projects.
> It takes another level of self loathing to wish sterility on other people.

I’m pretty sure loathing those other people would do the trick as well...
Basically the numbers come down to a few things. How much energy does your home use in a day (kw/h). How much energy does your installed solar generate; this is genarally kw of solar times average hours of peak sun for your latitude. So if you want to entirely power your home with solar, and you average 1,000 kw/h a month that's about 33 kw/h a day, and your latitude averages 5 hours of direct sun a day, you need about 7 kw of panels to generate that 33 kw/h.

Then you need to store the excess power to use throughout the rest of the day. If you're off grid, this means a lot of battery. If you're on grid (grid tie) you can generally put your excess power on the grid, then draw it back out throughout the day and your utility company will "net meter" periodically so you only pay for the difference you used, or they pay you for the excess you didn't use.

What utility companies pay for excess residential has evolved and is evolving. A few years ago you could get the full domestic rate (~ $.12 per kw/h) and that is a fantastic rate. Now utilities are pushing for a lower rate to take into account for delivery costs solar does not require [1].

[1] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11062019/rooftop-solar-ne...
With Chardonnay you have to get into technical details like whether they used malolactic fermentation. The wine was probably manipulated with specific strains of bacteria that don't play well with oxygen.

With white wines, I'm one of those people who migrated towards Rieslings, especially the German Rheinhessen ones, and found that to be a pleasant experience. Sweeter wines tend to keep better, but a well-crafted Riesling will still have some dryness to it (although I'm probably not using that work in the strict sense).
I googled the italicized part, but no, it seems you just conjured this up yourself. Nice work.
Can you elaborate further? As someone who had admittedly never visited Dallas/Fort Worth, I have this image in my head as the whole area being one giant suburban sprawl with some tall buildings in a "downtown".
Yeah, I might have misunderstood things.
People that shoot potato guns treat people that eat sushi and live in LA like a different species too. Humans are tribal and focus on what divides. There is a big divide between the culture of the Salton Sea and LA but your point is well intended.

I say all this as someone that grew up with family in both potato gun and sushi cultures.
Not at all, it's just like a prepaid phone card, or a prepaid 10-coffees card. The challenges are not legal or technical.
That kind of speculation is really dangerous right now, since there is really no basis in data, and it is going to be hard enough to get enough people to vaccinate as is.

Besides, I've never understood the Malthusian crowd. In practice, developed countries are shrinking, and there is no reason to believe that in the long run most countries won't follow. And even in the absolute worst case there will be homeostasis: more people lead to less favorable conditions for procreating lead to less people. It's not like we will ever reach solyent green levels of overpopulation where we have to push our way through crowds with excavators :-D

On the other hand, if reading this article gave you the creeps, maybe it is an additional reason to adopt a #ZeroCovid strategy...
I'm upset that they're painting these social issues as Mastodon-specific ones, and that they're painting the Fediverse as just Mastodon, but they do have a point about RSS.
I think you just made my point: crypto people never have anything to show for that most regular people can relate to.

It always has to do with some third-world country in the shit.

Also funny: they often try to obfuscate and sling irrelevant jargon around.
Not fantastic: https://www.websitecarbon.com/website/smashingmagazine-com-2...
I've always been interested by the Platonist-vs-anti-Platonist debate. I generally disagree with finitist mathematicians, but I really do find their position interesting, and as a computer scientist I'm not unsympathetic to their perspective.

At the end of the day, though, I always go back to an old joke my undergrad philsophy professor told me:

Analytic Philosopher A: "Hey, do you believe in baptism?"

Analytic Philsopopher B: "Believe in it? Hell, I've been to one."
Limited by strength of materials.
I'd argue that it is often difficult to impossible, but that doesn't stop companies from making AI/ML products for law enforcement. I'm someone who regularly trips up my bank's weird behavior detection system, and have my debit card frozen more often than it should be because of my purchasing patterns and travel.
They weren’t even capable to FEED and clothe their people. The queues and lack of everything was legendary.

Source: another anecdotal evidence, my youth lived under the horror of communism.
I think it's fair to characterize the antinuclear movement as cynical and disingenuous in general,they are a political movement that has never argued in good faith scientifically. In fairness the original governmental nuclear program withheld from the public that the designs behind power generation were actually being driven by weapons needs and the long term storage issues largely result from that dual use design.
> That’s not even the same structure as ‘all men are evil.’

Indeed it is not. I merely separately disagreed with that the statement “All men are evil.” would also by necessity be interpreted as such. Either can be, depending on context, but this is not such a context.

> Instead what you wrote is gendered and thus completely inaccurate.*

You seem to be of the minority that has interpreted it as such. I would not quickly use votes for an argument except when they pertain to popular opinion, and this is a matter of which interpretation is more common.

I certainly didn't mean any gendered statement, and I also believe that most readers did not read any gender into it.

> So again, you could have used ‘people’ to be respectful and inclusive but you’re choosing to stick with ‘man’ because that’s what you know.

I could, and you could also change your language to avoid any and all possible ambiguities that would not be a problem in practice due to the power of contextual inference.

You seem to ask that this specific word be given special treatment above all others.

> That’s unkind. You know that this is an issue within our community but you are fully choosing to go against the norms because of ‘your language’?

Such as here, the word “our community” is quite vague. You used the word “our” which is ambiguous in English as it's unclear whether it includes the listener or not, and on top of that also what it includes.

I can however perfectly well infer from context that this is an “our” that includes the listener, and can make a reasonable guess to the extent of the “community” you refer to.

Finally, do not know that it is “an issue” and I certainly do not know that there are “norms” about this. It very much seems that the majority sides with me on this issue given the votes, at least here. I do not believe I am going against any norms, not that I would consider an argumentum ad populum a strong one, but you were the one that raised it here.

> I’m sorry but I thought we could have a conversation. This many replies in and I realize that you don’t actually have much sympathy, understanding or even basic caring.

Well, frankness be, it seems from your language as though your default expectation is that your arbitrary wims, at least on this particular issue should be accommodated, and that everyone who disagrees with you is unkind or lacks sympathy.

You call it a conversation, but it seems as though you started it from the assumption that you are right, and everyone who disagrees is wrong.

> Be better. It’s easy.

It is your opinion that this is better that this is better indeed. Not everyone has to agree with you on that matter, and not everyone does.
don’t forget people who drive loud cars. their sizes are substantial probably
Functional architecture – The pits of success – Mark Seemann
Wealthy people have less free time. Most time is spent acquiring the wealth, right?
Intel or Oracle would be two.
> The supposed hypocrisy is that Amazon, a company, has a different view on mail-in voting than Jeff Bezos, a person.

Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon and controls the majority of its voting shares, so they're entangled enough that the actions of one can show the hypocrisy of the other.

> There's no story here, just like there's no story that many companies donate to Republicans despite having liberal founders/CEOs. Elon Musk famously donates to both parties, although one assumes he personally has a preference for one (or neither) of them.

You might as well just say that since the Civil War is so well known and understood, there's no point teaching about it in school. Not everyone actually knows the things you think are so basic to warrant no mention, and there is value in reporting the specific instances that back up a generalization.
That's an odd bit if logic to get to your conclusion. You haven't demonstrated that renewables aren't clean, you've demonstrated that the non-renewable portion for Germany generates more C02 than the non-renewable (nuclear) portion for France.

It's also strange to talk about energy cleanliness in the context of nuclear energy yet only bring in C02 when the environmental factors with nuclear extend much beyond C02
You’re probably right. But we’re also at the point where software is so tightly controlled by the hardware manufacturers that the devices simply don’t do what you expect them to do.

If I can flip a switch to disable wifi instead of tap three times, that’s a UX improvement to me.
Could you explain how "Python was intended for education originally."?

As I recall, Python was designed for the Amoeba operating system, and drew on experience from implementing ABC; ABC was definitely designed for education.

But ABC != Python. Checking now, the first Usenet post for Python 0.9 says:

> Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large systems, you name it.

See https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sgi/c/7r8kVgQ84j0 .

It doesn't specifically mention using Python for education.
George Carruthers, Whose Telescopes Explored Space, Dies at 81
The author of the linked piece has the following background:

“He holds a PhD in biochemistry from Bristol University and previously studied chemistry at Oxford University.”

From the Carbon Brief “about” page. (Click his byline on the linked article and you’ll see he works for Carbon Brief.) https://www.carbonbrief.org/about-us

So he’s a scientist.

Given that you disagree strongly with a well credentialed chemist, are you sure the profession of journalism or the credentials of its practitioners are the issue here?

Also, it’s interesting you linked an article that leans heavily on the authority of Michael Crichton, himself a noted climate change denialist — and a former physician.

It would seem to me poor information and sloppy work crosses many fields. I think anyone who has, say, used very much software in their life would probably agree.
Spot-on with the 1920s Progressive "we can improve society by sterilizing them" tone.
I also don't like that Signal relies on phone numbers or a QR code from a phone to log in. Phone numbers are traceable to identities. They really should have used usernames or e-mail addresses.

Also, Signal's desktop app shouldn't require a stupid phone app to enable it. I have a big powerful setup on my desk and you're asking me to go around my house looking for a silly 6" device to give it permission to log in? That's backwards. It should be the other way around if anything.
For standalone software like databases or CLI tools AGPL isn't an issue, if legal departments would object against using such software those companies couldn't run Linux/GNU tools either. For libraries it's a different story of course. The other points are mostly true, I think if open-source is just a marketing strategy to you it's not worth it.
I've gone through a similar process. The gist of it is that it takes about 6-7 years to recoup the investment, disregarding compound return and opportunity cost. You can think of it as buying a bond that pays back in 6-7 years and then getting 23-24 more years of free return (discounting the teardown cost eventually).

Here's a more detail approach.

1. Compute your electricity usage. Look at 12 months of electric bill. E.g 800kWh per month (9600kWh per year).

2. Get quotes from the solar vendors. They usually quote in term of 5kW system, 6kW system, or 10kW system. The kW number is the instantaneous electricity the panels generated. Multiply that by hours to get the kWh number. The number of panels doesn't matter because some panels generate more some less. You want the total system output number in kW.

3. Figure out how many hours of useful sunlight a day your house can have. Google Sunroof and other calculators on the web would do it for you. E.g. 5 hours of useful sunlight per day.

4. E.g. with a 6kW system, 6kW x 5 hours/day = 30kWh per day = 900kWh per month = 10800kWh per year. Remember you need 9600kWh/year from 1? This just about covers it, accounting for some loss of efficiency.

5. A 6kW system costs about $14,460–$19,260 in CA. See [1]. Let's say it costs $18,000. Let's say your electric bill is $250/month or $3000/year. $18,000/$3,000 = 6 years to recoup (very simplistic view).

Battery is an additional cost, $6000~$10000.

[1] https://news.energysage.com/6kw-solar-system-compare-prices-...
it depends if the receiver has an autocrypt-capable email client like k9mail, etc. it doesn't have anything to do with IMAP on the receiving end, but Delta Chat currently only supports IMAP so the sender does need a server with IMAP support to use Delta Chat, but the receivers don't even need to have Delta Chat
History will probably show that poorly implemented lockdowns and incompetent, corrupt government making lockdowns drag out to be the real culprit.
I would like to see this but for notifications. One cannot trust websites to have actual notifications anymore instead of stupid re-engagement pushes, and logging in to the various apps is a chore designed to be addictive. We need a no-nonsense platform for aggregating those.
The numbers I gave did include factors like showering.

Edit: I do think that you use more than 1/250 salt vs water in cooking though (whether by mass or volume). By mass that's around 1tsp of salt per 6.3 cups of water, and soup recipes for example will often call for that much extra salt on top of whatever is already in the other ingredients you're using.

Edit: Individual recipes are probably the wrong way to look at that. It's recommended to eat under 1tsp of salt (actual usage is higher in the USA) and drink over 10 cups of water each day, so whatever combination of food/beverages you're taking in you still wouldn't quite hit that crude 1/250 threshold.
"This source supports the claim that "something like 80%" of newly formed households will consist of only one or two persons, at least for the period 2018 through 2028."

It kinda makes sense that newly formed households will consist of one or two people. Does it mention how long they are expected to stay that way?
The vast vast majority of people who leave SF or NYC move to either the suburbs or other (cheaper) cities. Neither option is rural by any stretch of the imagination. Humans are social animals and most enjoy spending time with other humans that share interests with them which is much easier in urban environments.
Well, that's the secret sauce ;)
If you watch the multitude of videos on YouTube about Slab City, some by reputable media outlets, you might get the impression that its an artists colony with complete freedom of expression. "The Last Free Place On Earth" says the sign at the entry. It's actually where the dregs of society congregate because they've been run out of town everywhere else.
>I don't think its fair to draw a line in the sand and declare that those costs are for future generations and don't need to be considered now.

I agree, but we should balance those costs with the costs of our current actions and the costs of other possible options. Future generations will have to live with the costs of our action or inaction, whichever forms they take.
At this point I would wait for the new Apple M1s slated to come out in a few months. Apparently the current M1s have impressed many all around and probably worth the wait to at least see final specs and not have buyers remorse
"Modern" web development is apparently a game of Jenga.
>Alder found the locals to be rude, lacking in integrity and terrible drivers.

I'd probably be rude too if people like the author kept moving to your city, driving up housing costs, increasing traffic, and changing the culture. Also, there are no drivers worse than California transplants, so this guy is hitting new levels of having no self-awareness.
That apartment building is terrifically ugly, and I'm not sure who anyone young in Florida would move anywhere but outside of Florida.
Version 1.0.0 was released just yesterday: https://github.com/lenticularis39/axpbox/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Code Contributions, bug reports and testing are very welcome