skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abutters on Acorn Street have made a hobby of defrauding people with "photography permits": https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=16827755

Recently they petitioned the city to allow them to deny public access to the street. I anticipate they'll get told to pound sand.
Only 20% of people in the USA have more than 10K in the bank. Savings losing money over time isn't relevant to most people, they are spending what they earn before it matters.

(and, btw, my point is not that people in the USA are spendthrifts. It's that most only make enough to support themselves).
> it goes towards the east bank (consistent with a strong gust of wind blowing it off course)

Apparently the wind was coming from the east, so it was more likely the opposite, a lull.

The ship was oversteering to the left the whole time because of the strong wind. When there was a sudden lull in the wind it got too close to the left side. The bank effect might have then pushed the bow away and pulled the stern in, resulting in the ship getting wedged.

[1] has a good description of the situation and the bank effect.

[1] https://archive.is/pmUEm
I'm sorry to say, but the idea that "we don't need energy" is both false and dangerous.

The earth's carrying capacity before fossil fuels was far, far lower than the 7 billion current population, especially with current living standards.

The only reason we can support that many is because of a complex web of economics that causes the earth to produce far more food than it otherwise could, and then enables distribution of that food to where the people are.

Without fossil fuels, we couldn't even produce the fertilizer needed to support the food. You could argue that there is some alternative set of lifestyles that would enable to eliminate fossil fuels without asking 90% of the population to die, but that would similarly require some sort of top-down totalitarian regime in order to get there and keep us there.

At this point, we do need the energy. The only way to maybe not need it would be to somehow put a global version of Stalin in a position of absolute power.

Failing to understand just how critical energy is to any sort of non-apocalyptic future is one of the biggest dangers in our current political debate about what should come next.
The claim is unusual. My guess is this article (or the alleged events it describes) is part of someone's art project or experiment.
In general, automation that reduces human control - self driving cars and amusement park rides.
Few places need the theoretical density that buses provide and even less need the level that rail provides. Most of the time they're running at 10-20% capacity. Or at least that's what happens in my city.

I'm not talking about taxis. Something shuttle bus or van sized. We don't need to put 200 cars worth of people in trains to solve traffic issues. Putting 200 cars of people into 30 shuttle buses is good enough.
A combination of NIMBY, genuine concerns, poor education and political point scoring.

It does not make any rational sense.
It democratizes manufacturing in a way. I'm midway through a two axis satellite tracker build that involves quite a few parts. The ability for me to go into Fusion 360, create a part, virtually test fit it in an assembly then print it out and put it directly to use is pretty amazing and liberating. If you poke around youtube and look at the hobbyist robotics channels you'll see endless 3d printing...nothing else comes close.

Once products start to pivot to personalized fitment we'll likely see quite a bit more 3d printing in manufacturing. Until then it's mostly going to be what you said, low volume/prototype runs and complex parts that aren't possible with other fabrication approaches.
yeah, I do this myself.
Just for everyone to have a picture, uranium doesn’t take much room because it is quite heavy: 19.1g/cm3, denser than lead (11.3) but slightly less than gold (19.3) and plutonium (19.8).
It was the same story with hydroxychloroquine, which was a promising treatment until trump made the mistake of mentioning it publicly.

These purely ideologically driven non-experts in media and tech have absolutely no business playing gatekeeper with censorship. They're doing far more harm than good.
>she has the power

she is exactly one elected representative facing opposition from countless of people who literally have their political campaigns bankrolled by the very powers she is supposed to stand up against.

Is Warren empress of the United States and can just wish legislation into reality or am I missing something?
For the curious: this emerged as a twitter thread back in Jan https://twitter.com/mattlodder/status/1350192856154198016 . In it, Dr. Lodder posts a comparison between his tattoos and his imposters, as well as a talk his imposter gave based on his work, while dressed as him. Creepy.
I think that yes, I am effectively exposed to random baseless lies, and only a few of the voices crying foul will ever reach my eyes.

For instance I read a headline about future rising petrol prices due to the stuck Evergreen boat, and honestly I have no idea how true it is, don’t care enough to go down the rabbit hole, but still remembered it as an information, and might subconsciously be influenced by it on some decisions.

This is less likely to happen on fields I have decent interest or expertise in, but that only represents a tiny fragment of the information we consume everyday.
To be clear, eBPF programs can have loops -- they're just jumps that have negative offsets (which are signed 16-bit numbers), but for security reasons many verifiers do not allow them so they can ensure that the program halts.
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That’s easy to say, but which other auto plant in the Bay Area should workers go to work at? There aren’t any others.
Anecdotal, but I lived in Taiwan for several years and never met anyone who was even remotely pro-CCP.
There was some early speculation that they might have lost power, but according to most reports they did not.
Very true, also it's a way of sucking people in. I run a few servers at work, hosting non critical services, such as password management, wiki and other things that aren't used by many in the org. The day those get used by more than a few people we will go paid SAAS as I don't have the time or mandate to provide 24/7 support.
Uhm, healthcare?
Nuclear engineer here. I've spent lots of time fighting against persistent myths about thorium. All the things you mention are characteristics of breeder reactors, not just thorium breeders. Uranium-based breeder reactors can do these things as well.

Thorium has only one actual physical advantage, and that is that it can do breeding with slow neutrons rather than fast ones. This is a technicality and has lots of complications.

[1] https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
You can't open and close the box to put new stuff in, so you have to wait till you have enough to fill a big box. The stuff you are collecting waiting to have enough to fill the box needs managing anyhow.

The big boxes still need armed guards and a stable government so that it that they are not dismantled and used as weapons by future generations of extremists.
i wish i could share the link, but i havnt bookmarked it, there was a considerable discussion[s] regarding small scale chip fabrication in a garage just for the "shizenschpiel"

[ADNDM] turns out i can share the link after a brief search here is one of them :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24604093

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fTB3hG5cA

and credit where credit is due:

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/
Well rather than let China get control of the fabs, US and allies might just decide to blow them up.

No one really knows how this is all going to play out..
So you believe the grid can be said to be working well with occasional dips to 0MWh? Or is some base load in fact an obvious necessity?

You may argue that the current value of the base load is artificially high, but there obviously is some fundamental base load given by the kinds of consumers you have.
Others have said bots, I’d lean more towards someone thought it sounded like a clever reply, went to reddit where the same conversation was taking place and posted it in the thread in hopes of scoring some cheap karma.
The elusive pursuit of getting it (all) done
When your country becomes a warzone and your workplace becomes a pile of rubble, other countries start to look a lot more attractive. If China tried to take Taiwan, I could see them losing a lot of the brains that built those fabs.
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Russia took Crimea even though it was recognized as territory of Ukraine.

No large power recognizes Taiwan as sovereign country, not even US. The largest country that recognizes Taiwan is Guatemala.

I don't see how it is out of the question that China just sails to Taiwan and takes it while everybody else stands and watches.
Where, exactly, are people who live in the SF Bay Area going to find a UAW job?
I'm shocked you were joking. I've read the argument you posed made seriously lots of times.

Thanks for the reminder that not everyone has gone nuts.
That's why I still use http://ninite.com/ for most downloads.

They have saved me so much headache not dealing with such bundled adware / malware.
It isn't, the practice stopped in the 19th century or so, its still used for some ailments but its not a cure all as they used to believe 200 years ago.

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/sawbones-bloodletti...

PS: Fun fact, George Washington was killed because of blood letting. they basically bled him to death.
But there is a lot of software on your system. The only thing in your favor is the higher refresh rate.

When the 8bit system gets a key press, it literally writes one byte to memory to put it on screen. A modern system will have to paint a glyph - which is super fast - but then may have to go through a compositor and possibly wait for V-sync. You're luck if the software stack doesnt introduce at least one frame of delay.
Isn't it possible for nearly every fast fighter jet? Fire in a high arc, be unlucky and end up intersecting with the bullet arc when they come down?
We are talking about a compiler here.

If someone interested in a compiler doesn't download it, it's not a excuse, it's a filter. Or a warning sign.
Nuclear powers don't really have kinetic wars. I think the only one that happened was a small skirmish between India and Pakistan in 1999. The Kargil War.

Proxy wars are more likely.

And even more likely than that, would be severe economic sanctions.

Which in this instance would hit home to many more Americans than an actual war.

If the invasion of Taiwan set in motion a series of escalating sanctions and freezes in trade, well that could get much worse than people think.

A chain reaction of unseen consequences.
Reminds me of something I experienced on HN and Reddit, though my case was a far less significant level.
I posted a comment on HN in response to some article about Emacs. Later that day I saw someone had copied my comment word for word in reply to the same article on Reddit.
I still have no idea why someone would do that. I thought at first it was some kind of karma farming operation but the post history of the Reddit user didn't really fit that profile. Plus,it seems like r/emacs would be a really poor choice for that.
I've always been curious to know why someone would do something like this. It's interesting to read about it happening on a way larger scale.
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We are talking about time frames that are many times longer than the existence of modern humans as a species. We have absolute zero clue what most humans did 200k years ago, we have only little knowledge what humans did 4000 years ago. How can you expect us to communicate with a world in eight hundred thousand years, or 1.6 million years? We don't even manage to get any of the nuclear waste out of our oceans we put there 40 years ago.
Crazy cookie dialog, unusable without JS, insta close
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Ohm’s key selling point for me is the visual editor environment, which shows how the parser is executing on various sample inputs as you modify the grammar. It makes writing parsers fun rather than tedious. One of the best applications of “live programming” I’ve seen.

https://ohmlang.github.io/editor/
a CRM for this do sound like an interesting product
You might want to check your profile, it doesn't look like there is an email address there
How does this initiative compare to other foundations that have similar responsibilities (judging from the website and pinned github repos), like say, OWASP [1] or the CSA [2]?

Will this foundation focus on reducing patch times and offering services like integrated bugtrackers and direct contacts and open policies about what happens to submitted critical bugs and exploit PoCs?

I'm asking because when thinking of "enterprise open-source", the WebKit bugtracker comes to mind ... where literally nobody knows what's going on. All bugs are private once submitted and not any external contributor can see what's going on until literally years later somebody starts to actually read it; and yes that's also the case for critical remote exploit bug reports.

Personal Opinion:

I personally cannot vouch for Microsoft's policies, as they cease-and-desisted me and threatened to sue me in the past for disclosing a RCE/priv escalation report that was NT related. They also caused an illegal police raid (in a legal case where they didn't even charged me with anything and therefore my lawyer couldn't find out anything except about the illegal police raid reports). Well, and I still haven't gotten back my hardware after waiting more than 5 years.

So yeah, I guess every company that's part of this initiative should look on their own shitty policies and previous legal actions before claiming they actually want to get contributions. Almost always reverse engineers get threatened by lawyers once they report critical remote exploit-level bugs. Quite literally, I'm not making this up, and it's known around the netsec/infosec scenes.

As long as "hackers" are painted as the bad guys for reverse engineering and trying to submit patches and fixes, and even have to be anxious about not getting sued by the company they're trying to help - nothing will change.

[1] https://owasp.org/

[2] https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/
Right. Chickens would address fresh protein (through both layers and fryers), though they require feed.
But gas-fired power plants will?

We won’t stop climate change, we’re decades late. What we need is everything we ca have, which includes solar and wind where appropriate, but also nuclear. The fact that people pretending to care about climate change are pushing for gas is absurd.
As an early stage investor do you outright reject "open source" projects or would you consider one that's already making some money? I've never considered putting it this way but I guess you could say the project I maintain is an `"open source" alternative to a specific Twillio product` and MRR is showing steady/strong growth. But being a solo maintainer is seeming to be a strike against me (ahem yc).

What are early stage investors' criteria for open source, in your opinion?
Well, the person telling a story is a real person and it's been printed in not only the Guardian but the BBC and I assume elsewhere. These are news organizations that do at least a modicum of fact-checking.
It is unfortunate you included the last paragraph in your comment as the rest of the comment seemed legitimate, but the issue in Texas had nothing to do with renewables, they were not scheduled to meet much of the system demand and the cause of the outage was numerous other plants not able to run due to the cold.

Including the last paragraph brings all the other points in to doubt, even though I otherwise agree with those points
I agree it’s not very prosaic. I guess it has marketing value being a notorious story. Hopefully I can wrap it up and do a more modern novel. Any suggestions?
There's recognizing and "recognizing". Everyone knows Taiwan is a separate country. But for political reasons (helping China save face, keep making money from China) they don't openly acknowledge it. It's totally different from Crimea situation.
I feel it’s less a “code must be reviewed” and more a “you need two keys to arm the nuclear warhead” type of thought.
Unfortunately, I do not doubt that China will try to take Taiwan, the bigger question is how is the West going to react?

I just hope we are not going to do the detrimental appeasement policy like with letting Hitler take the Sudets.

I do wonder if there is a politician in the west with the stomach to confront CCP.

I just cannot help but congratulate the CCP on their well played long game of chess. China has transformed immensely in the last 40 years, and we got no one to blame but ourselves.

We literally check-mated ourselves. I guess this will go on the long list of Nixon's failure.

The day the west started bowing down to China without setting up rules is the day we lost.

Sometimes I do wonder what would have happened had MacArthur executed his plan...
People who decided to use directly grid electricity for heating but are not willing or able to pay for it during cold spells will find they have a summer house. Consumers can of course have electricity contracts that have fixed monthly prices as a derivative bought from electricity market actors. As the transition doesn't happen overnight, people and the social safety net will have time to cope and adapt.

In cold climates people have increasingly well insulated houses that are relatively affordable to heat, and mostly use non grid electric heating. And can also shift power usage around the day because it takes a day or so for the house to cool uncomfortably.
This is a very good point. Good testing, good programming practices, good logs are necessary. And it's not only about C. It's not so hard to do better than in Java. xD
La Hague dumps radioactive waste liquids into the North Sea. Reactors currently cannot run 100% on MOX. Separation of Plutonium in the recycling process has proliferation concerns. Other countries have found building similar recycling plants challenging due to cost, with DoE estimating $50+ billion. La Hague was initially designed to extract Plutonium for weapons use, which likely justified its costs at the time.

The Marcoule site where MOX fuel is manufactured had an explosion in 2011, which did result in a fatality.
Now is the most favorable time for China to strike. With everyone reeling from the pandemic, a centralized government can temporarily move faster than everyone else and consolidate faster than everyone else. A chance like this won't come again, so I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't make their move this year.
It can be authenticated as coming from a trusted party but cannot be authenticated against a user password because the system has no way of knowing any secrets provided by the user.
Finland's long term storage is expected to be operational in a couple of years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
Thinking some more on this ...

... the notion of a market in which quality tiers are served based on bids based on perceived benefit and costs of provisioning might be one approach. Details naturally remain to be worked out.

But in the "clickbait" tier, if a GPT-3 ML/AI would be sufficient to supply a steady stream of memes, with sufficiently low negative social externalities, the profit motive for entering into the niche would remain quite low.

In-depth investigative journalism would be bid within a distinct an separate marketplace, sufficient to cover costs of production and maintenance.

In broadcast, SLAs can be achieved based on the portion of both spectrum (bandwidth) and time (a day still has only 24 hours, plus or minus the odd leap/skip second(s)), such that targets of specific levels of service could be required.

In print it's column-inches that are determinate, as well as circulation.

Online media shares some attributes of both, with measurements possible in both personal media time budgets (time/day or time/month spent on given sites or types of media), and in terms of article counts, word counts, above-the-fold visibility, SERP rankings, and ultimately of what Facebook apparently calls "prevalence" (items * views or presentations within the stream).

https://nitter.cc/guyro/status/1337493574246535168

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105372688403486098
>"That makes it seem like you want China to take Taiwan uncontested."

I, like any sane person, would like to avoid WWIII.

It's easy to play armchair general with no skin in the game. But the reality is that there would be no support in the US for sending American soldiers to die for Taiwan. Let alone the nuclear ramifications. If Beijing decides to take it, we will sit here and watch. The same way we do currently as they commit massive genocide in their own country.
The stopping distance is known, so presumably the pilots space the ships deliberately so that they can stop safely.
> So you believe the grid can be said to be working well with occasional dips to 0MWh?

With distributed generation and storage, yes, it's plausible to have periods of 0MW grid demand.

> there obviously is some fundamental base load given by the kinds of consumers you have.

The kinds of consumers you have are not a fixed quantity; particularly their on-site use, generation, and storage patterns all vary over time.
As a kid I'd compete against classmates over who could start-stop a stopwatch the quickest. I don't think anyone who didn't use that technique (which was just instinct really) had any chance.
Got locked out of Amazon account weeks ago, requires a phone call to fix. That tiny bit of friction has gotten me off my last few Amazon purchases and I’m grateful for it.
It's not really comparable. The default side-by-side view most of FTP graphical client use is ciritial and almost essential for any semi-serious use with FTP that is beyond just copying a few files.

I do agree that most of people only use FTP for that, so I guess it's sufficient for average user. Protocol support would still be an issue though.
Very different situation. Just analyze them from a realpolitik perspective and not the “international law” one:

- Crimeans are predominately Russian speakers and so the annexation was somewhat popular. Very little bloodshed or ongoing resistance. An invasion of Taiwan would not be popular among the Taiwanese.

- Crimea and Ukraine are geopolitically not very useful. Taiwan is extremely useful, especially if it allows defense access to e.g. American warships.

- Crimea is mostly a resort economy. Taiwan is the center of chip production.
> Primarily it would be a bloody conflict with significant loss of life.

or after initial action, US will refuse actively engage, and Taiwanese government surrender to safe own people lives.
Apparently actual CEOs can't either judging by the number of them that get golden parachutes for running a business into the ground.