skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying I don't want it. It just seems as humanity we totally fucked up. We found a revolutionary new energy source and we totally fucked up the deployment of it.

We should live in a nuclear age already, fission powered space craft, trains, ships, power stations, remote electricity. There is no fundamental reason why fission should not be used an all of those.

Yet we almost don't use it at all, and phasing it out at the same time as we face climate change.

At the same time huge money is spent on Fusion that is much less likely to actually help. With the money spent on ITER you could literally run a matcher competitive competition to build 3-4 new fission reactors and likely multible new powerful turbines.

A molten salt reactor with a brayton turbine would likely be far more revolutionary then whatever ITER can ever be.

In general I just feel like fission is disliked and future has this 'wow the future could be magical', and I'm saying, the present could be magical, we don't need to wait for some magical technology. All that is required is some engineering and a general acceptance that fission is good among politicians, regulators and people.

If some start ups want to work on it, I'm not against it. The point is more that even if this magical technology break-threw happens, deploying it in the real world will run against many of the same problems as fission does.
> I attached a 2-stroke motor to a bike once with a cheap muffler and even that didn't sound as loud as most lawnmowers.

I'd guess a combination of inexpensive underpowered engines and a spinning blade. I have an old mower with a big engine that doesn't really seem to work too hard, and it's only a little bit louder than my electric mower.
Some time ago i found about Publii which is a desktop-based static site CMS with a mostly WYSIWYG editor (i write "mostly" because you do not edit the text directly in the site like you'd do in, e.g. iWeb, but you still use a rich text editor). It works as a desktop application (it is actually written in Electron), you do all editing locally and then you upload the files to a server (you can do that either manually or using its automatic uploading functionality which -from what i can see in my installation- supports FTP/FTPS, SFTP, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages, GitLab, netlify and Google Cloud). The sites are stored in folders with an SQLite database for most stuff and media files in their own folders.

Though in terms of customization is rather lite. There is theme support with custom themes so i guess it is possible, it just looks like a baklava of webdev layers to me that i didn't want to bother with. Most themes do seem to provide a tiny bit of customization though.

I made a blog with it and so far the main limitation is that i don't feel there is much i have to write, not the software :-P.

[0] https://getpublii.com/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/devlog/
We should probably tone down the temperature here. I don't think we're getting anywhere productive, and it's not looking like we're going to see eye to eye.

For the record, I don't watch Fox news, and I dislike it quite a bit.
I think OP maybe made a meta point about a (company/team/project) having carte blanche ability to, or perhaps restated to not give you the ability to restrict someone from, modify your initiative towards your existing end users (who may prefer your setup) in a way which threatens your survival.

Extending the analogy to absurdium, should (CompanyX/Twitter) be allowed to have ToS against a (browser extension/etc) which would reduce it's revenue to $0, and theoretically force it to shut down and lay off all the (engineers/employees)? If no, what rights does Twitter have to decide alterations to it's product if any, and where do they begin? If yes, who makes that decision: a government, a regulatory body etc?

What if the ToS said "don't circumvent our API rate limiting" and someone made a browser extension doing just that. Is it okay to have it in the Google chrome store? If it got in, should it stay up?

Note, against my points, the Supreme Court decision on scraping in the LinkedIn case.
I'm not sure fixing it would be good. Genetics is tricky, and we don't know what we would lose by fixing that gene. Loss of intelligence is one trade off I've seen suggested, but I don't know what would really happen.
You can of course believe whatever seems easy to you, but you do realize that I linked to a published study that says miners are using renewables far more than the US does on average, don't you?
However, some old games' gameplay, unlike Pong's, was awful. Sometimes, terrible gameplay was actually a legit "strategy" by the devs to artificially make a game last longer, so people wouldn't feel ripped off. Good gameplay was appreciated, sure, but bad gameplay was often swept under the "challenging/hard-to-beat" rug.
I still wish more games were native, especially multiplayer games where Proton can't really work around anticheat softwares like EAC.
You should emphasize this in future negotiations. Companies will be falling over themselves to hire you and then fire you.
How to organise your Twitter follows into lists
Exactly my feeling: this is the opposite of the hacker-in-the-best-sense appreciation for things done out of passion and personal dedication, even when they're strange or seemingly useless. This tears down without offering anything better.
Just curious, how does this compare to bitwarden?
Another option is to develop server side AI that can detect some non human behavior or behavior patterns that are cheats. It's not full protection but for sure more appropriate than putting rootkits on the client side.
iff monopsony
Guess who is physically harmed the most by using two stroke powered lawn equipment? Those same "poor" operators who run it all day every day. What is the upgrade cost vs asthma, cancer, neuropathy, and permanent hearing damage? Even from a completely selfish perspective electric is a no-brainer.
Today’s xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2432/
The screenshot did not properly show the price "at the time of writing". sloppy, that's all.
> Paypal growth held a 1:1 correlation with online prescription drug scam (or online prescription crime rings, depending who you ask).

And they were both caused by an increase in.... people using the internet.
If Clojure offered a direct compile-to-native option for any platform (desktop/mobile/WASM) with no JVM in between, I suspect it would explode in popularity.
I run at 3840x1080 using the closed source nVidia drivers and it generally works fine. I don't have any scaling going on though, and I can definitely see where that could be an issue.

I can't say that I recommend the nouveau drivers for gaming.
SerenityOS Kernel Hacking Adventures: Memory corruption to root privileges
This is the least persuasive argument against regulation I hear. Businesses eat the cost of replacing equipment on a regular basis and know it's not in their own interest to punish their customers. If a business owner is so indifferent to externalities or so tight fisted that they can't or won't move to a cleaner options, they will be replaced, and good riddance.
Curiosity requires a degree of comfort in being wrong and confidence in yourself. Unfortunately many people think if they are “wrong” or don’t know something they are stupid and so asking questions makes them feel that they are wrong and thus stupid. Once you empathize with them it’s easier to navigate just as you discovered.
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> Chinese-born or American-born? My guess is that American-born Chinese would be more likely to be offended

Born in Europe actually, so I don't know where I fall on that spectrum, haha. But probably closer to the US than to China.
That's definitely a relevant point to this discussion for sure, but I guess as much as I hate technocratic solutions, I would still prefer some dumbass Neo-liberal subsidies ("cash for clunkers?") for upgrading than allowing continued use.

You're especially right to be wary as these policies tend to ultimately penalize lower income workers, and I would prefer a larger discussion about solving housing access & other necessities that could make these structural changes way more equitable.

This trap we're in is pretty depressing
Idiots deserve to be relieved of their money
This is a false horizon.

Your eyes are seeing the reflection of the sky on the distant water or fog, making it appear the horizon is closer than it really is.

So it is an optical illusion, as your brain is what is perceiving a horizon where it is not.
ITER is aiming for Q>1 in 2035 IIUC, so 3x.
When I see things like this, I imagine how people would have reacted before we had explanations... it isn't difficult to imagine where some myths and religious stories originate.
- there is waste, it's just shorter lived than fission waste and lower in quantity. The expectation is that fusion reactors will have to be regulated in almost exactly the same way as fission reactors because they are nuclear sites, with nuclear waste, and proliferation concerns.

- there is lot's of pre processing of the fuel to breed the Tritium in a molten salt blanket that surrounds the reactor and separating from the salt and then feeding it into the chamber

- there is plenty of fission and fusion fuel. Yes, there is more hydrogen around.

- tritium is used in nuclear weapons as a booster, to dramatically lower the amount of necessary fissile material
- each fusion reactor is a fast neutron source, which means it can be used to make weapons grade materials. Conveniently, it has a breeding blanket for tritium, in which other fertile fuels can be place to make weapons material: proliferation concerns are a real problem for fusion
Server side doesn't violate user's system with rootkits. How to detect things with good level of correctness using server side AI is a good question. But it's a much better problem to solve than how to add even more privacy invasive malware on the user's system.

> How can you tell if someone is running an aimbot or just has good aim?

That's the point. I don't care. As long as the game is enjoyable. And I'm sure AI can be gradually trained to detect cheating in more sophisticated manner do differentiate non human from human patterns. Not a trivial issue, but something they should invest money in as above, instead of rootkits.
> It doesn’t help when every company you have an account with sells your information

That may or may not be the case.
It's enough to have a friend of yours who (unknowingly) posts a picture on FB with "Me with X. He/She changed his/her name and move to ...". The chances are you'll never discover where the "leak" comes from.
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Er, no. If you generate the same volume of waste per year, but for a fusion reactor the waste stops being a problem within a century and for a fission reactor it takes 10,000 years, at any point in time after the first 100 years, waste from a given fusion reactor will be less prevalent than waste from a given fission reactor.

It also doesn't matter that no specific nuclear reactor will have a lifetime of 10,000 years. The problem is that per megawatt of energy generated, fission theoretically creates (much) longer-lived waste than fusion. Over a longer-than-one-hundred-year timeframe, equivalent amounts of energy generation result in vastly different waste carrying costs. Fusion's waste carrying costs are much lower.

And obviously that number is even more in favor of fusion if it only takes 10 years. (ITER claims 100 years though: https://www.iter.org/sci/Fusion)
"The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence" by Betty Edwars.

She taught drawing classes and discovered that one reason why people is bad at drawing is that they symbolize what they see before drawing it. For example, when we see a face, we tend to focus about the eyes and mouth and ignore other features like the front. That contributes to a distorted representation that is reflected in the drawing.

She devised a series of exercises to avoid that problem. For example, try to draw a picture upside down, or try to draw an object shape using negative space (you focus on the shapes outside the object).

PS: I found that book in The Last Psychiatrist blog: https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/10/how_to_draw_not_abou...
I die a little bit when I realize about this kind of out of reach frontiers
Not long ago I worked at Okta, and I know their engineering process pretty well. If I were to speculate on the purchase on Auth0, it would be to get more engineers improving the Okta platform. There are some really hard scaling problems and some really hard security problems, and absorbing Auth0's talent is a way to acquire specialty talent in a narrow space.

Finding the right engineer who can program securely, scale, and make the developer empathy painless is a key challenge. This is what Okta did with Stormpath before the IPO.

(Disclosure: long OKTA)
Leaf blowers also blow a ton of dust into houses. I always had a thick layer of dust on my windowsill if I left the windows open on a landscaping day.
This looks really neat. The first thing I look for now after using several different static generators is how they handle images (and other static media, but images are most important since they need optimizing). I'm going to give this project a try!

Next.js is wonderful, but I've had a crazy amount of pain because `<Image>` can't be used if you want to export to purely static (which I strongly prefer), and other options seem to have died (if anybody has one they use or maintain, please let me know!!). I've ended up rolling my own solution in bash that uses Squoosh to crank out set sizes and the like, but it's gross and not useful for others that aren't me, which is a problem when I have to collaborate.

Anyway, thanks for the project!
Please don't take HN threads into religious flamewar. Last thing we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As someone who already knows how to program, I've really liked https://r4ds.had.co.nz/index.html.

It jumps right into visualization from the very beginning, which is great as a feedback mechanism, and also highlights R's strengths (ggplot2).
Everything about your comment is just wrong, so wrong.

The Law of the Topmost Comment says nothing about the relatedness to the OP's article[1]. I would suggest you research the topic further before making any more ill-informed comments on it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
The danger is not the same between fusion and fission.

Firstly, 10 years worth of energy is inside a fission reactor and is capable of releasing most of that energy in an instant if not properly controlled. This cannot happen in a fusion reactor. A year's worth of fuel is in a gas tank on the wall and needs absurd conditions to ignite. It cannot happen spontaneously.

Secondly, the exhaust is helium-4: a stable isotape of a valuable element.

Thirdly, the neutron bombardment in a fusion reactor activate the materials they hit. If they hit lithium then they make tritium: a much needed isotape for fuel in first generation fusion reactors. The other materials they hit are chosen to have half-lives of less than 100 years. So you have a nuclear site that no one's allowed to touch for a while then you can recycle the materials. It's nothing like the transuranium nuclear waste from fission plants.
Hey - thanks for making Hugo. We run our blog on it and I love it. Spitting out an AMP version and maintaing it side-by-side with our non-AMP version was a piece of cake.

Edit: noticed you make Cobra too! Damn - I owe you like 1000 man hours of saved work.
Anything can be used against you later. Courts of law have standards. If you run for political office you can bet your opponent doesn't when looking for dirt to take our of context. You don't know where life will take you, what do you care about your next boss finding out?
It looks like it will probably work.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=age%20of%20empires%20III
With all due respect (and with apologies for going off topic) but the meaning of "lynching" is not restricted to the US. This colonialist attitude towards the English language from US speakers is quite distasteful when it's used to bludgeon the country's racial problems into any discussion. Please stop.
1. We know if the virus is widespread and killing people, regardless of whether we test them, because mortality rates go up way above the baseline, and hospitals fill up with people unable to breathe.

2. Mortality rates were not above the baseline prior to March.

3. We know that the virus spreads like wildfire when no quarantine measures are taken. No quarantine measures were taken at any point prior to March.

4. The growth in known cases and above-baseline mortality closely matches, starting in March.

It's impossible for there to have been a significant presence of the virus in the United States at the start of 2020, as claimed by seroprevalence data, because within a matter of weeks it would have infected a large enough percentage of the population to be clearly visible in the above-baseline mortality rates, and hospitalization rates. A large percentage of people who catch COVID end up going to the hospital, or the morgue when they are unable to breathe. In a pre-quarantine/lockdown world, they also tend to get everyone around them, as well as a whole bundle of unrelated people sick in the process.

Either the seroprevalence data is wrong, or the virus was somehow uncontagious or unlethal, until March, when all across the country, all at once, somehow, it turned into something that was quite contagious, and quite lethal.

When your measurements claim an invisible, inaudible, imperceptible phenomena that has no physical influence on any other object, the prudent scientific conclusion is that your measurements are broken.
If you had a half life of 5 minutes you'd only need to store the waste for a couple hours before burying it somewhere and there's a certain (smallish) amount of high-grade waste at any given moment, no matter how long you run the reactor.

10 years isn't 5 minutes, but it means you just need to keep it secure for a few decades before burying and forgetting it rather than many human lifetimes.

Any leaks will be (to some extent) self-cleaning, insofar as they'll decay substantially within a human lifetime, so if you stop the leak you can wait a couple decades and it will have cleaned itself up. That's much better than the long-life stuff fission produces.
I don’t think anyone does, but in America one is innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around.
If I got into a FTL spaceship, I could go out in space, turn around, come back, and interact with my previous self. I could even tell my past-self that I didn't find anything of value -- and that there's no reason to go at all. Maybe the original me decides not to go, and now there's two copies of myself on Earth.

These are the sort of contradictions that break our understand of causality once you introduce FTL.
I am not incredulous because "it seems obvious that 1 death is a relatively superior outcome to 5 deaths." I am incredulous because it seems obvious that 1 death and no responsibility is a relatively superior outcome to 5 deaths and the responsibility.

You ask if I have "considered the possibility that doing nothing means the actor (...) is then not actively responsible for any death."

You've gotten this all backwards. The way the trolley experiments are run by default already tests the friction involved with taking active moral responsibility. You are presented with either the option of taking moral responsibility and saving four lives, or not taking moral responsibility and not saving four lives.

If you change the default to be a choice between either taking moral responsibility and not saving four lives or not taking moral responsibility and saving four lives, not only is everyone going to choose the second option, you haven't successfully distinguished whether this is because they don't want the moral responsibility or because they wanted to save four lives.

Changing the default in this case actually does the opposite of what you want, it emphatically changes the experiment from one that would "test the friction involved with taking active moral responsibility" (friction that acts against the instinct to save four lives) to one that does not! In this new case the "friction involved" works to act against what? People's predisposed instinct to switch the train from the track with one person to the track with five? I don't quite see much friction here, and it turns what was once a task where the 'relatively superior' outcome required a difficult choice into a task where the 'relatively superior' outcome requires no choice at all. You don't actually end up testing anything! (except I suppose, whether the test taker is a psychopath)
This is epitomized for me by the one guy in Santa Clara who I saw blow a single leaf an entire block rather than pick it up. I was already annoyed by their incredibly loud and inefficient landscaping and that just took the cake.
Would love to know as well. Considering a switch from Cognito here.
You can't parse fully-general HTML with regex, but unless you're writing a web browser of something, that's not what you're trying to do; you're trying to parse the particular subset of HTML that happens to be emitted by this particular website that you got the HTML to be parsed from. And, much like the halting problem or integer factorization, despite the general case being difficult or impossible, the overwhelming majority of specific cases are easy.
The higher end electric stuff isn't priced exorbitantly compared to the higher end ICE stuff that businesses tend to use.

The problem preventing commercial adoption is that if you want commercial user amounts of uninterrupted run time you wind up spending a fortune on batteries.
Worth noting, though it's not in the article, that they're aiming for a commerical version (ARC) in 2030.
It might inspire some residents to give up their lawns. Which would also be a plus. So far they've externalized the true cost of their lawn maintenance on everyone else.
Does this replace the winapi crate? I’ve been using that crate for things like IAudioClient3, but it seems to have fallen out of regular maintenance https://github.com/retep998/winapi-rs
If you live in a suburban area like I do, practically every day one of the neighbors has these running. And half the time it's just blowing it to the street to later land on someone else's property.
Bleach my eyes
Musk pumped Dogecoin as a joke to prime media radar for Tesla's bitcoin purchase disclosure.

It was in effect a bitcoin pump with dogecoin as a media lure, which given Musk's ability to command attention was nearly as effective e (for TSLA) as pumping bitcoin directly, but without breaking any SEC rules.
Or if it's got a hydrofoil. Those are also flying, just in water
There's probably an obscure and wonderful web page about that which has never been submitted to HN before.
FYI if you remove the mailbox from your residence, the USPS will silently return every attempted delivery to the sender.

You can then get a PO BOX, setup your important things like property taxes/dmv/utilities/banks with it as the mailing address, and carry on supplying your residence as your physical address to whoever appropriately asks without even lying.

Most places are just assuming your physical address receives mail and send unsolicited spam to it. Critical services must support a mailing address distinct from a residence address, as it's common for those living at the end of a dirt road without mail service; a perfectly legal way to live.

I currently do this, and my PO BOX receives practically zero mail, and I must say it's a glorious signal:noise ratio.

There are some frustrations though, some places do refuse to send to a PO BOX, and some shippers which claim to use FedEx or UPS will then go on to use USPS and your purchase doesn't arrive. Non-USPS deliveries will still arrive at the physical address without a mailbox, but USPS deliveries will not - those must go to the PO BOX. YMMV