skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was in school, google.com got blocked once. They reversed that decision pretty quickly, but never did explain why they blocked it in the first place.
Yes, both. It depends on what you're doing. Tractors don't need to be aerodynamic.
This guy apparently turned $20,000 into $10,000,000 by using the stock market...

Well, nothing new there, there are other people who have done exactly that...

But, what's interesting to me, in the above case, is the HOW...

The HOW, in the above case, can be summarized as:

"Spot trends using social media -- before they are trends -- that is, before Wall Street generally acknowledges that they are trends..."

Of course, there's much more to it than that -- but that's the high-level summary...
>It is a nitpick. The fact is that even counting your way, it's around 10% from fossil fuels.

Come on now. The 90% value was dishonest and required clarification when presented (which you didn't do) and a cynical perspective could argue you meant it to be misleading.

The original argument I made is that solar and wind can't do it. You argued it can by pointing that Scotland is using 90% renewables. But we established that there is some nuance to this because Scotland wasn't consuming 90% renewable energy, and also it's a red-herring because even though I argued against wind/solar specifically, you talked about renewables which include things like hydro. I never claimed hydro cannot replace fossil fuels. I know it can.

>There's no need for more horrifically expensive nuclear.

I 100% agree!! If your geography allows for hydro and geothermal (even if paired with Wind and Solar) - sure! Go nuts! No nuclear is needed! Iceland will never need Nuclear power, for example. My province of Ontario could probably replace Nuclear with Hydro from Quebec as well.

So hydro and geothermal do work very well. They can also complement wind/solar by providing base-load and satisfy 'peaker' requirements (i.e. scaled down when lots of wind and solar, and scaled up when not).

But notice, the critical bit that makes wind/solar work is AVAILABILITY of hydro and geothermal because hydro/geothermal provides very stable and predictable output and can ramp up or down based on availability of wind/solar. And if your region is blessed with an abundance of either, you may not even need to bother with wind or solar at all.

The problem for wind and solar is that hydro is not a scalable solution because it is geography dependent and relatively few places could scale out hydro infrastructure. So if you don't already have access to hydro or geothermal (which is the case for most places on earth) what the heck are you supposed to do?????? Well ... I'll tell what you do, you invest in natural gas and coal, like Germany is doing and every other region that does not have access to hydro and has a large wind/solar investment.

>If you're not, get your own house in order before criticizing others.

Ontario has some of the lowest emissions in the world. Lower than Scotland. So ... when it comes to energy generation, my house is in order. [1]

[1] https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/CA-ON
I can only see the introduction, but it already shows some confused thinking.

Whether something exists, and whether you call it X only because there are humans who call it X, those are two different things. On a planet without humans, stones exists, but no one is there to call them "stones". So they don't really exist, is that what the article is trying to tell me?

Also, the stones do not exist, because only atoms exist, mwa-ha-ha-ha! Or maybe just someone equivocates "exists" and "is not made of smaller components".

The example with red color, again confuses "this object reflects red light" with "there is an eye that perceives the reflected red light". Also, good point that things can't reflect red light if they are in complete darkness.

Does anything of the above have anything in common with quantum physics?

Would adding quantum physics to this confused thinking make it any more meaningful?
In the UK, iodine is added to cattle feed instead of salt, so it's contained in dairy products. No idea whether this can be a problem for vegans.

"Kosher salt" isn't a thing this side of the pond (at least in Germany). Even regular coarse salt is not something you can expect to find in an average kitchen.
I thought your first two sentences were independent of each other and that you were talking about all TLDs. Sorry, probably a language barrier thing.

.com is very clearly commercial so what I had to say isn't applicable to it (which is why I mentioned I use a relatively obscure TLD like .site or .xyz).
What's New in Nx (Numerical Elixir) – March/2021
Doesn't France make lots of money selling nuclear baseload power to UK, Germany, etc?
A Guide to the Firefly Semantics Slice Object Store
Also on brand for GNU, (edit)supporters who downvote but don't want to contribute to the conversation. For example, if a traffic light has no free software, how is the end user supposed to care? Am I somehow harmed by stopping at a red light? I see this similar to background scripts, who's license has no direct effect on the end user.

Making the effort to explain and defend your pitch seems like just common sense if you're trying to convert the unbelievers, no?
You don't need any buffering if you pick your encryption mode correctly. That is, use a stream cipher.
not listed, and presumably to encourage them to stop blocking sites like Repl.it
>convenience and support

Also initial access, and updates. Extensions are not mentioned on the free download page ...

https://www.open3a.de/page-Download

... rather, pay-per-download:

>If someone wants advanced features, I have a shop!
In my shop the users can buy many of the extensions I have developed over the years. The prices are reasonable and start at 20€ (~$24) up to around 80€ (~$96) or so. The price contains updates for this extension for one year which means the next two versions.

https://www.open3a.de/page-Plugins

Apparently German businesses aren’t much interested in running bootleg copies of modestly-priced a la carte extensions.
I Migrated to Sourcehut and Why You Should, Too
Exactly, I think people misunderstand what open source means.

Open source doesn't mean that you need to provide hours of free support to someone who couldn't even bother to write a proper issue description. For a matter of fact, you don't even need to provide free support to anyone, no matter how nice they are and no matter how well they written the issue You can help them, but you don't have to.

You also don't need to accept pull requests: if you think that the feature doesn't make sense or the code quality is terrible, or it's just not important to you, you don't need to accept pull requests.

You also don't need to bend over backwards to maintain a stabile API.

It makes your life easier if you communicate this in the README of the package, tell people that it's the early days of the product, you develop in the open, but you aren't going to abide by other people's unrealistic expectations about your open source work.
Right, I agree with you, but as I said

> It sounds like having the code open sourced took too much of his time away since it allowed people to make requests for things. But I don't see why that means he necessarily has to take time to fulfill the requests.

The existence of the interactions doesn't necessitate engaging with them. If engaging with interactions is taking too much time away, one could simply, not engage with them.
Even with the exact amounts, often the taste is very subjective to each. Often I need to adjust many of the main ingredients like salt sugar by more than halves.

Baking would be one that need to be more exact.
Sounds a lot like Nagarjuna's theory of dependent origination.
My employer switched to Zoom long before COVID. We formerly used Webex. From a quality-of-life perspective, the contrast is stark. Things I used to struggle with in Webex:

- Multiple versions of the Webex client

- UI so slow I couldn't start/stop sharing quickly in many meetings

- Extremely high CPU/RAM consumption (Zoom suffers from this, too, but generally doesn't completely lock up my computer)

- Email client plugins that only occasionally work

I'm a remote product manager (even before COVID), and spend most of my days on virtual meetings. The reduction of daily/hourly friction by moving to Zoom cannot be overstated (in my case, anyway).

I'm unhappy with Zoom for philosophical reasons, but would choose Zoom over Webex 10 times out of 10 from a UX/quality of life perspective.
New development on the mainframe started tapering off in the mid 1990's. So here's my take on IBM's list:

- 45 of the top 50 banks

- 8 of the top 10 insurers

- 8 of the top 10 telcos

- 7 of the top 10 retailers

- 4 of the top 5 airlines

All had significant operations prior to the mid 1990's and so have extensive mainframe investments that are very difficult and costly to migrate from. I know. I work for one of the top electrical utilities in the United States and at the heart of our customer operations lies an IBM mainframe. We're in the midst of launching a multi-year, billion dollar program to replace that mainframe. We've been talking about doing this for years and are just now pulling the trigger on it. There's still time to tell whether we actually go through with it or not, or get $100 million into the project and realize we're looking at a $1.5 billion - $2 billion effort and abandon the project.

I would not call this state of affairs thriving. Is the mainframe alive? Yes. Is it thriving? No. Most CIOs are looking for a means for retiring those assets.
I can think of two ways a thought could be unthinkable:

1. It could be uncomputable, since it seems likely to me that we can't think uncomputable thoughts. (Not a rigorous scientific hypothesis, but it seems more likely than not to me.)

2. It could be uncomputable in a human lifetime. I think these already exist today: can anyone really be said to thoroughly understand a proof generated by an exhaustive computational search?

One can play around with the semantics of what we mean by "unthinkable" and "thought," but I think "computable" at least provides one interesting start to an exploration of this concept.
Thanks for pointing that out, would have never noticed!
Also, the monitor on pre-][+ machines with integer BASIC also had a mini-assembler, so short assembly programs could be typed in as such instead of keying in the bytes. Both versions of the monitor had a mini-disassembler.

On the other hand, I still remember at least a few 6502 hex opcodes, not that I have any use for that information anymore. The instruction set is small enough that it doesn't surprise me that Woz would have it memorized.
Also my impression just as I reached the end of the free bit.

I’ve not been particularly impressed with New Scientist ever since they put the EM Drive on the front cover.
And what were the fees you incurred to sell that?

Most NFT marketplaces won't let you list anything for less than about $100 USD equivalent last time I checked (a few days ago).
That's 100% true, exhibit "ant man". But felt like he was leading to the actual math before paywall. Comes down to a probabilistic existence, and exhibiting characteristics based on other particles being present or not present. All of which makes no sense to human life.

Checkout "hawking radiation" for a real concrete example
When I was a home brewer I learned about iodophors for no-rinse sanitizing. Do any commercial brewers use it? If so, bottoms up, mate!
I'm very excited for this! I remember seeing a presentation a few years ago that mentioned that OCaml could use effect handlers to implement preemption in fibers. I can't seem to find that presentation, but I believe it mentioned being able to interrupt a fiber with an effect. Is that something that is in the plans or was that just an early idea?
Go back to 1999, and diaper delivery via fedex was as useless as a digital token.
The "catch" is that they take a 6% rake off the annual amount.

This means you get 94% of the annual contract value. So for a $1,000 agreement, you would keep $940. Still a pretty good deal if you ask me.

Its also pretty nice because they calculate it off of the extrapolated monthly term, which is already priced higher (usually) than the annual term. What i mean by this is how often have you seen a SaaS service that sells a product for $99 per month, OR $999 per year? Pretty common, right? Well in this case the SaaS is already offering the customer a 20% discount for paying annually upfront.

But in the case of Pipe, they take the $99/mo customer, extrapolate the total they will pay for the year out to $1,188. That is what they pay you out on, so they take a 6% rake from that, which means the company gets $1,116.72. That's higher than the $999 they ask for annual agreements with customer's directly. So it's a pretty good deal for the company.
I guess it's a good thing that cooking is nothing like this painful thought experiment! :D

Failure is ok.
We should look for signs that we're optimized for efficient computation. Like maybe a minimum temperature or a maximum speed or a rule that position and momentum are only knowable to certain tolerances.

(joke stolen from SMBC comics)
I agree with you but I don't think that entirely refutes the original point. Baking does require more precision on average than cooking, but bread recipes don't give you the information you would need to be precise. Adjusting for things like local temperature and humidity or the way your oven bakes are important to the outcome but they're never mentioned in recipes. What you're describing as "intuition" sounds to me like knowledge of those factors, some sense of measuring their impact (even if just by feel) and how to adjust a recipe as needed to account for them. I think we'd do a service to the world by pushing for recipes that are less "follow these directions exactly" and more "here are the techniques this dish uses and how to work with them".
Researchers Unveil New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese Hackers
Some muds support a "brief" mode, which will limit the room description to one line.
I was thinking if it could not be made to work with certificates. Like the artist signs a message handing over the ownership using his private key, which can be verified by his certificate from a trusted certificate authority, then commits that message to the blockchain.
Amazon Launches Ethereum for Managed Blockchain
Theres way better ways to launder money...I think you might be thinking of tax evasion.
Back when I was in school I was reading Practical Common Lisp online during study hall until they blocked it (I can't remember the category-might have been education.) Over the next few days they kept tweaking the filter settings and all kinds of sites (NYT, etc) where blocked. It was amusing but they did categorically block proxies so it was difficult to circumvent. Got me interested enough to read our acceptable use policy which banned the downloading of anything at all (presumably including HTML.)

That wasn't the worst use of tech though. We also used a service called Turnitin which purported to find the plagiarism percentage of submitted papers. Of course it couldn't understand the difference between stealing and quoting and would flag very small sentence fragments including idioms. The fix was that we had to submit papers that where "no more than 3% plagiarized"
Kid Asks Neil Tyson “Can a Black Hole Suck in Another Black Hole?”
If anything, it’s useful that language can sometimes slow you down. It’s one of the things language is able to do. Not everything benefits from sliding in as slickly as possible, letting you use your “mental models” to quickly grasp an idea you don’t already have.

I’m not fond of Foucault, but from time to time I explain to my pragmatic wife what Deleuze or Zizek are all about in $book, and as best as I try to explain them in plain words, much of what I got doesn’t come across. Tradutore traditore.
> has a half-dozen data centers in the US

Wow, that's a hell of a change! When I left in 2009, there were exactly two datacenters: NDC and EDC. Not surprising really.

From where I was sitting, the best era was definitely 1997-2004 or so. ISD really went down hill, pretty quickly, in my last five years there, for many different reasons.
Seeing that privacy is a big concern with Clubhouse (not just taking contact data, but also recording convos and who knows what they do with them), is Soapbox implemented in a more privacy preserving manner?

I'm not sure what can be done regarding e2e encryption when we're talking about WebRTC and TURN, but I would love to hear your take on this.
YSK people dealing with depression can find it hard to maintain contact
You're not the first to comment on this! Consumer SaaS is still growing. We'd like to fall into the category of apps like Superhuman, Vimcal, and Fantastical.
Haha this is the guy who writes like an SAT exam question. It is very flat and boring, unmemorable. Of course the guy is a bazillionaire, I may never be like him, but the style of writing is stale like sparkling water gone flat. But I have read probably every one of his articles and taken away his ideas as the canonical guide for startup wisdom and success.
Come to HN for the news, stay for the short fiction. Well done.
Improved Technology for Deepfakes Highlights a Supply Chain Problem
How does it work? Say I have $1 million dollars I need to launder. How does me buying or selling some artwork at an inflated value clean the money?
I wasn't allowed to take the programming class at my high school because they were afraid to let me use the AT&T 3b2 they used.
Quantum mechanics might be a bad model, but over the last century it’s become less controversial and more accepted in the scientific community. The last century has produced more scientists and mathematicians than any other century. I can see a few possible situations.

1. Quantum Mechanics is a fairly accurate representation of the world, or at least about as good as we can come up with given our current state of technology.

2. Quantum Mechanics is a fairly inaccurate representation of the world.

2a. Incorrect theories dominating for centuries is a natural consequence of the scientific method and trying to determine the nature of the universe.

2b. Incorrect theories dominating for centuries is a result of an imperfect implementation of the scientific method in our modern society.

2c. The scientific method is incapable of providing humans with a true and accurate understanding of the world.
In fairness we used a similar service in high school to bypass all other filtering. I wrote a script to setup a remote desktop server on the VM they gave you and then run a web remote desktop client. Unfiltered internet unlocked!
I didn't realize until you said it, but yes, I do this for technical discussions too. Sometimes I've volunteered to write up a description of an issue on which I'm knowledgeable but not an expert, and when it comes to write it up, I realize there are subtleties about the situation that I didn't understand. So I just make my best guess as to what I think the situation might be, and post it to people who are the experts, knowing they'll correct any mistakes. It is indeed a much more effective way of getting someone to explain something than going back and forth with questions.
I've been thinking for a while about building something similar for Teams. Now i'm inspired!
"Many" is a subjective term. It doesn't tell you anything quantifiable, merely what the describer thinks is a larger than usual number.

For example, someone who has never owned pets might think that someone who owns 2 cats and a dog has "many" pets, while someone who does own pets might only consider that to be a "normal" number of pets.
> Yes, this looks crazy because we have never seen it.

They look crazy because they are, some people got too wealthy and completely lost touch with reality/real world issues. I doubt flying big macs and overpriced virtual art will do much for our future if you take into account things like climate change, there are so many things we could work on instead of these new shiny gadgets...
At least crypto has critics, art has been abused by the rich for centuries, yet few people gives a fuck...

(Just to be clear, I don’t disagree with you)
Every single time the RPi comes up in an HN thread, someone mentions the reliability of SD cards. The truth is:

1) Regular SD cards were never designed to be OS volumes, of course they're going to fail when used for that. Buy better SD cards, like ones with high write endurance.

2) RPi 4 does not need to boot off SD card. It can boot from any USB drive of your choosing, or over Ethernet.
This reminds me of the early 80's in the UK. I think for 50p/minute or something you could dial a telephone number that was essentially a group chat. Some kids at my school did it from the school library which didn't make them very popular with the authorities.
I'm certain that's part of it. Having a comment section and a way for users to "like" recipes certainly contributes to the ad serving model.
Many people find just searching the big index [1] to be enough. Besides the Forum and the IRC (often more immediate), there is also a Wiki [2] where you can maybe contribute documentation for "what you would have liked to have seen" and numerous other documentation things off of [3].

It's true the "just web search it" approach may be weaker than other programming languages. That's a late stage network effect (as is lower latency of Forum/IRC responses).

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/theindex.html

[2] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki

[3] https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html
Wow, how is this is a YC company?
Isn't this more of a weekend project?
Is it impossible? Or is it because our poor millitary couldn't spare $2Bil to execute on these ideas? Or the global military budget by all countries couldn't spare $20bil to execute?

I think it's very important to distinguish which things are technically not possible, vs we simply chose that our murder machines are more useful in the short term.
This is a new level of crazy. Money is not real, it's a plaything for rich people.
I would not be surprised. A lot of my fellow schools insist on blocking the command prompt and powershell. I've tried explaining that there is nothing they can do with those tools which can't be done without them.

There is a real fear amongst some schools that cmd/psh and programming tools can be used for hacking.
The Cosmos-SDK is a framework for building blockchain applications in Golang
You can have great engineers in maintenance, I didn't say all great engineers are on greenfield work.

The ones working on greenfield projects have been the ones used as the bar to measure other engineers by, in my experience. This works both to glorify the greenfield engineers and hold back the engineers stuck in maintenance.

Motivation is very personal. Some people are motivated in everything they do. A lot of engineers are motivated by working on high quality code or new technologies. Others are motivated by perceived fairness in how work and rewards are assigned.

For those latter two sets of people, being stuck in maintenance and having greenfield engineers used as examples of how to be better can be demotivating.
If only there was something that could crawl the web...
This feels more like a marketing campaign for Replit than an actual widespread problem.

The Tweet is from Paul Graham, an investor in Repl.it

The HN submission is from the founder of Repl.it

The only evidence I could find that this was happening at all is some Tweets, which I initially read to be tongue-in-cheek rather than serious problems.

Is this the case of a single IT admin blocking a website somewhere being blown up into a viral marketing campaign? This narrative that incompetent school admins are preventing brilliant students from learning how to code feels like it was written to trigger the HN crowd. How many people are now researching Repl.it because they read some Tweets that claimed it was being blocked by schools?