skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are incorrect about the availability of uranium. There is a LOT of uranium available for use, and we could run entirely on it for thousands, or tens-of-thousands of years. Many mines are shut down simply because there is far more supply than demand.

This is interesting. I thought without breeder reactors and continued widespread nuclear use we would run out in ~50 years. Maybe you have more current sources.

> Wind is also great, but it wears out fast because of the moving parts and friction, even the friction of the air moving across the blades wears them down. It's not uncommon for lifespans to just last a decade.

Yes and I additionally worry about the fiber material being slowly rubbed off and being spread downstream by the wind (google wind turbine leading edge erosion). Because wind turbines on land are often built on farming land. Thus I put a lot of hope in improved wind "turbine" designs like: https://vortexbladeless.com/technology-design/

> Our grid, in the US, is pretty interconnected. There are improvements that can be made, but it's pretty redundant in general.

I thought the US grid is pretty old and some parts (Texas?) are on their own. Maybe investments in that area could help, in addition to storage (mechanical or hydrogen connected with solar).

> Both wind and solar suffer from risk because manufacturing predominately takes place over seas and trade wars, or real war, could interrupt supply. For solar, that's not as big of a deal for existing infrastructure, but for wind it could cause problems.

Combine this statement (risk of "real war") with this suggestion...

> The ideal solution would be small but safer nuclear reactors, no bigger than an office building, that can supply power to 50k or 100k homes. Place them within 20 miles of urban centers.

...and you get great savings in making that hated opponents main population centers uninhabitable and the irradiated ruins a monument to remember. Even if only by unfortunate "accident". In WW2 cities were burned down using "firestorm" tactics here in Germany. I heard the anniversary bells ring an annoyingly long time a few days back in the rebuilt city of Würzburg... why would humanity change character and suddenly become more civil in the next conflict?

> Smaller and safer plants might be cheaper to build, but there is no savings when it comes to that approval and acceptance process.

I agree that this is probably due to the hard lessons learned from the risks in older experimental and larger commercial designs. But are we willing to learn the hard lessons of 10000s (or more) of handy, small reactors spread in everyones backyard?

Better put some solar panels on some roofs and hydrogen metal hydride storage in a few basements. Maybe not under a school or kindergarden or the likes.

A grid like this could be made incredibly resilient and hard to destroy by any opponent.
And then what happens when the rocket explodes ?

Because that scenario is very common.
Lots of people have looked at the spiped source code; it has been around since 2011 and I've even handed out a few bug bounties.

It's also considerably simpler than wireguard, which reduces the potential for vulnerabilities; and operates on a per-connection basis, which means you can do things like establishing a secure connection to another host but have a socket endpoint which can only be accessed by certain users.
The trend of the status quo is for the US to lose hegemony.

The US REALLY doesn't want to lose hegemony. If you read between the lines of what Pompeo or Blinken this is a great fear of the US.

This is why the status quo is not acceptable for the US. The US will not let go of the very enviable position as global top dog easily.
Looks like you wanted to build an argument but lost steam after one sentence. Here, let me continue for you: "So if she chooses to go to the city, it will be her decision and consequently her responsibility when she inevitably gets hooked again."

Oh but you see, it's her friends that give her the freedom not to go to the city: If they weren't there, she wouldn't have that choice.
Can Quantum Computers Hack Bitcoin??
In Canada, the term to search for is not "draft", but "conscription". You will see that there is resistance to conscription regularly through the nation's history. (And it certainly used to be part of the history that was taught to us in Ontario.)
What this article misses is the presence of bad faith actors who make billions from open source but studiously work to prevent even a small amount of that flowing back to the companies that wrote the software. Kind of like the difference between a restaurant failing because they can't get enough customers vs. failing because people keep robbing them.
> Top CCP brass will be outraged at the insinuation that anything disreputable is going on, will drone on about "how dare Nike try to shame the honorable reputation of the virtuous and hard-working and well-meaning and morally super great Chinese people,"

Tangential, but can any native Mandarin speaker chime in on whether the translations of CCP communications -- which, like the parent comment's hypothetical example, often read with the screechy yet formal outrage of, like, the king's devoted manservant -- are actually accurate? The only other thing I can think of like that is communications from North Korea. I have to imagine it's deliberate on somebody's part.
Makes me think of this scandal in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_(IT_system)
Crimean population is overwhelmingly Russian, and most of them were for joining Russia.
Policeman, fireman, soldiers, all get killed doing what they do. Your average journalist, trolling for outrage porn on Twitter is not fit to be mentioned in the same sentence. The fact that Substack is a threat to "journalism" and the defensiveness of your post is another indicator it indeed is, should give you a clue as to how badly the journalistic class has fallen. Their best people, the ones that have any integrity and independence are leaving in troves to places like substack, despite the lack of resources you correctly point out. All that will be left in a few years are a bunch of middle-aged, navel gazing pseudo-activists, writing for each other, all wallowing on their own special brand of poison.
"Search results for H&M in the Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app for all of China’s major cities yielded no results on Friday."

The state is using their control of the economic system to inflict damage on specific importers, this is the kind of stuff that violates every concept of free/fair trade - which is fine, China can chose to play by those rules - but they have to be kicked out of the WTO etc., and there can't be any reasonable hope for trade parity, i.e. tariffs should rise and stay until they want to agree to roughly symmetrical rules.

First and foremost, all Western importers should spend a few days not buying from some specific Chinese company. That would require coordination however.
Be that as it may, it will do you very little good when you get pulled over for something routine and then you get arrested or worse for something you don’t even have the faintest idea about.

Which is why bad software can hurt people a lot.
Many of these features should be part of the upcoming GO 2
When they were breaking up Bell Canada's monopoly on long distance services, the newer long distance providers would use call centers to get people to sign up. Sometimes a shadier phone worker wanting to make their quota would sign people up even if they said they weren't interested.

There was a term for it. I think it was "slamming" but if that's the wrong word, it was something like that.

Because of it, the alt providers had to hire outside verifiers, who literally have no stake in whether the sale goes through or not, to come on the line immediately after any customer signs on, to verify their information and that they really do want the service and were not tricked or coerced into it.

Everyone who worked as a verifier that I knew said the same thing: they had to cancel a LOT of new accounts because of this "slamming." The most affected were the elderly, and people with thick accents.

At this time, ONLY Ma Bell could provide local service. Thankfully all that is well behind us now, and whatever company provides your local service also provides your LD (unless you use a discount card, of course). Of course there is an all out war between the major providers buying out the smaller "discount" providers, but it is still infinitely better than what we had before then. And with cell phones, it's a completely moot point.
> Can Amazon do more? Yes. Should Amazon be a corporate leader? Yes. But this a larger problem than Amazon. This happens across industries with line workers and last mile delivery jobs.

Amazon is becoming one of the only employers for less skilled workers ... because of Amazon's ruthless pricing, co-mingling, white-labeling, outsourced externalities, and other strategies. This is why we have anti-trust.

Whether others are also abusive or incentivize dehumanizing behavior is irrelevant.
The previous comment is thinly veiled sarcasm.
Business Section and MD&A are the only parts worth reading.

Business section will go over the history of the company, the product, high level strategy etc. MD&A will include all of the financials and provide some commentary
That doesn't go more than 24 hours back without login
I have a 4k thinkpad x1 carbon 7gen.
very frank title
Brazil’s mismanagement of Covid-19 threatens the world
Kludge kingdom
> If so, that... hasn't worked.

Yeah, I think the "pretend you're on their side" strategy might work once or twice before they're onto you, so if you can't get them permanently out of the way by then, you're finished.

> I'm not convinced the west actually has any leverage on China.

Unfortunately, I think I agree. I'm not convinced the debt thing matters very much, but as things stand, we are hosed without China's manufacturing base, and double plus hosed if TSMC is captured or destroyed as a result of a Taiwan attack.
The developer's actions are 'best effort'. Didn't the company run extensive tests to cover all possible scenarios?

If you build a system that orders coffee capsules, you want to make sure you don't order x100. But when you report 'thieves' to the authorities you open yourself up for plenty of lawsuits.. imagine the poor people being harassed by the authorities for some crime they didn't do, and will take plenty of time/money/effort to clean-up, all because company XYZ does not have a thorough UAT..
Devops are mostly developers originally, who migrated to programming ops ( in my bubble)

That's why there's infrastructure as code i think. Some programmers in big departements started focusing on deployment.

( At least it happened in a couple of big companies I encountered)
It is not realistic to power current developed societies using only solar and wind power. For simple reason - we can't store energy well.

Stop throwing up and shooting down strawmen. Nuclear energy was never going to replace all energy sources. Only the worst ones, like coal and gas power plants.
Why should I care? I click sign in button, which takes me to https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in and I see the message. Who cares where it comes from.
How about: 1: create a THICK cushion that wraps around the entire ship using tires or some other items in bulk, wrapped in enough "netting bags” to maintain consistency of distribution. 2: Create a stable and thick “wall” (potentially using barges placed end to end horizontally with thick steel plates welded together to form a smooth surface, then park the barges next to the ship on both sides. 3: line up tugs properly distributed to maintain stress limits/stability of load, 4: Based on calculating required MTOW, stress and tensile factors, etc., determine the quantity of available military heavy weight helicopters, like the largest (Russian MIL MI-26) which has an MTOW of about 124,000lb, or, less capable but more likely available the American CH-53E Super Stallion, with MTOW of 36,000lb, with several likely aboard nearby US Navy ship. 5: based on number of helicopters distribution of stresses, safety, maximum length, etc, secure or engineer on-site the most suitable wound steel cables to use as tow lines will will be attached to each Heli. 6: Determine optimal distribution/placement of Helis based on all factors and attach them where they will be most suitable, whether evenly distributed on one side, fore or aft, etc. 7: Determine optimal “push points” on ship and create a very large floating inverted “V”, that is sufficiently wide and tall enough to enclose X number of tugs, using baffles to keep tugs astride within the V, so that their combined force will be directed specifically at those points, with cushion/baffles and barge “walls” serving to optimally spread the load without stress. Possibly use two sets, one on either side, fore and aft to counter or offset the rotation/stress of each other. 8: Calculate precise coordination of move, using Heli’s to assist in two ways; “lifting” the ship as much and with as little stress as possible and slowly towing the ship in whichever direction is optimal as tugs push the ship in desired direction, applying offsetting pressure on both sides. 9: reopen Suez Canal, justify costs by comparing to last revenue and finally, 10: drink heavily in nearest port bar. Just a thought.
Of course it's appropriate to be discussing and signal boosting these projects. I've made two websites centered around that theme; https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio#Linux (and related header link articles) and https://libreav.org

I know, which is why I said "mod-host, what the MOD and Zynthian devices use" ;)

The guitarix-foot-remote project is awesome, it's only part of the package and not really got the same scale of use with the customer/developer feedback loop that the first poster (and I) wanted to focus upon. Development seems to be stalled, so I'd rather direct folk to more active projects.

The Zynthian has co-ordinated a stack with UI etc, and artists use it, and they give feedback, and MOD/falktx wrote part of that stack and I think MOD has a larger market share, so IMHO I think it's a better example about that kind of customer/developer relationship.

And a shout out to https://github.com/brummer10
I had four 8" drives. Two (DSDD) were connected to my IMSAI (modified with CompuPro S-100 boards). The other two (SSDD) were connected to my Ferguson Big Board. I never tried using the 8" drives on systems that would normally interface to 5-1/4" drives, but I always assumed it would be a simple matter of adapting the 50-pin edge connector used for the 8" drives to the 34-pin edge connecter used for the 5-1/4" drives.

At one time I had a calibration disk and an "exerciser board" for 8" drives that could be used (along with an oscilloscope) to adjust the track positions and gain settings on the drive.

I gave away all of those old goodies after I purchased at 25MHz 386 PC clone that could emulate CP/M faster than the native Z-80 hardware.

It was fun tinkering with computer hardware in that era, but it was also frustrating because of the limitations of the technology. It's hard to believe that processors of today run three orders of magnitude faster, and have six+ orders of magnitude more RAM, with six orders of magnitude more disk storage with about five orders of magnitude faster disk I/O.

I don't miss the old days so much.
Also, I should add that NextSTEP / OpenSTEP were the probably the most exciting (but prohibitively expensive to many people) tools of their day.
Because the WHO is the only source of truth...
Optimism: Enduring Resource or Miscalibrated Perception?
Psychiatry is a field where you can get away it. Zholia Alemi successfully masqueraded as a qualified psychiatrist for 23 years
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/17230748.doctor-faked-wil...
> I don't see the point in a javascript-based compiler

My CC is Javascript based (well it was initially, then TypeScript, now a lot of it is written in itself).

99% of the time I use the actual languages I make in it server side (nodejs), but I am able to develop the languages in my browser using https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/. It's super easy and fun (at least for me, UX sucks for most people at the moment). There's something somewhat magical about being able to tweak a language from my iPhone and then send the new lang to someone via text. (Warning: Designer is still hard to use and a big refresh is overdue).
It is like everyone arguing about C++ for AAA studios, as if everyone was doing Crysis and Fortnight clones, while forgetting the legions of people making money selling A games.

Or forgetting the days when games written in C were actually full of inline Assembly.

It is still CUDA, regardless if it goes through PTX or CUDA C++ as implementation detail for the high level code.
That doesn't sound right, where are you seeing that
Lately I've been focusing more and more on writing code which is easy to read, and it seems to require good language skills more than anything else. Things like descriptive naming, keeping the same level of abstraction in a function, writing good commit messages or documentation all seem to require language skills rather than technical skills.

But it might just be my personal bias for what is considered good code that gives that impression.
A common use of the term nowadays, because it's a luring idea not to need ops, but was explicitly not the intention when the term was coined. (similary, "DevOps" as a job title/role label doesn't make sense according the original idea, but that's also a fight long lost)
your comparing a legal obligation to extradite someone who has committed fraud to our ally to stand trial to genocide?
My experience doing both in practice is that the type system helps you with things that aren't really a problem anyway (a compiler doesn't really have complex data structures and you don't often get these basic things wrong) and all but the most sophisticated type systems don't even begin to help you with things you really need help with - maintaining invariants.
I seriously got into computing in 1979, working for the Microbiology Department at Queen Elizabeth College, University of London, using Research Machines 380Zs, equipped with both 8 and 5.25 inch floppy drives. Here are a few of my observations on the beasts:

- They required quite a lot of strength to open and particularly to close - some of our students were scared they were going to break them (and the cost a lot back then) because of the force needed.

- One student did the classic "remove disk from envelope" thing where they took the actual mylar disc out of the floppy container. He may have been taking the piss, but if so he lost out, as we made students pay for the disks.

- Somewhat unrelated - when I was working in the Netherlands in the 90s, I noticed that supermarkets in Utrecht, a big university town, had floppy disk dispensers in supermarkets - students put in a guilder or whatever, and got a 3.5 inch floppy they could submit their coursework on.

- They were incredibly noisy - the servos were banging away like mad, particularly if you were doing anything database-like, which I mostly was.

- They were horribly unreliable - we used to have to keep sending ours back to RML in Oxford to get them recalibrated or replaced every few months.

Still, all in all they were a million times better than my own personal computer at the time - a Dragon32 with a cassette deck for storage!
Why not you? You seem to know about "filing criminal charges" and the specific law he violated.

I had believed that only a government prosecutor in the United States could "file criminal charges." Do you know how this works?
Ambergris is a different product that does not involve the killing of the animal necessarily. Needs to mature for several years in the sea after being defecated by the whale.
https://www.figmacrashcourse.com/ helped me get started, though there's currently only content under the Auto Layout section.
"It depends".

In a bank you are not allowed to have devs running ops (or ops doing coding). You need clear segregation of duties. Ops don't code, they just install and run. Devs don't install and run, they just code.

You may have flexibility on minor, not SOX-scoped systems, non-material systems, etc. But have a coder with privileged access to your PROD and see the auditors having a party!!

Edit: yes you can have dev with prod access for emergencies. The access should be disabled 24/7/365 and be enabled for the absolutely necessary small number of minutes, where all actions are logged/traced/etc and then reviewed and signed-off. Still an auditor will challenge you for hours.
Erdos was a permanent visiting Professor at my alma mater, the Technion. Here's the math department's memorial page for him:

https://history.math.technion.ac.il/sites/inmemoriam/Paul-Er...

my own Ph.D. research was very much inspired by his work on discrete and probabilistic combinatorics, expanded among others by my academic "grandfather" Noga Alon, another prolific mathematician.
Smith College called on to apologize for false racism charges
In Dutch, we always talked about 'diskettes', when talking about the rigid 3.5" disks. The large 5.25" were called floppies. Diskettes were called floppies too sometimes, but never the other way around.

I'm from the time frame in which I never saw 8 inch floppies.

The 5.25" were on the way out, many PCs had both 1.44 and 1.2 MB drives for a while.

/rambling
Works with "BOI Mobile", the Bank of Ireland mobile app, which I downloaded from the Aurora store. I get a notification on starting the app indicating that the phone is "rooted" (it isn't) but I'm not prevented from using the app.
Rethinking Common Carriers
That doesn't work if you're using types for anything beyond correctness-checking. Type-driven dispatch, for example, which tends to be used heavily in big compiler and interpreter projects. And tagged unions (or algebraic datatypes), a natural fit for representing ASTs, become more unwieldy without type-directed features like pattern matching.
> For one common naive case: Storing the energy in Li-Ion batteries in e.g. a Tesla Powerwall: $437/kWh.

How did you come up with that number? Total cost of the battery divided by its capacity?

Since you do not dispose of the battery upon first discharge, the true cost should be amortized across the thousands of cycles it would go through during its lifetime.

Batteries are still far from economical in many situations, but there are many situations where they now make sense. They are also getting cheaper all the time, and as they do, so will the range of applications increase.
The war was pitched in Canada as "a duty to defend England, the throne and the motherland". This did not sit well with French Canadians, who inhabited the country since the 1500's and were heavily discriminated against by the British[0][1].

Still that didn't stop heroes like Léo Major[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Parliament_Buil....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians#:~:t....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Major
A Year of Reading Women
This often works the other way around, too; remote file managers like WinSCP can usually do local things just fine.
Could be she was too heavy, or the blanket was in the way. Either way, apparently the search party got underway pretty quickly.
Yes, when someone doesn't join your cause, you are generally going to be weaker. That's kinda how it works. Doesn't make it a tragedy of the commons though.
_everyone_ involved has vested interest, and china isn't exactly allowing anyone to go take a look?