skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, one example of a "good" poem is Robert Frost's Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening:

Whose woods these are I think I know / His house is in the village though / He will not see me stopping here / To watch his woods fill up with snow.

I'm of the opinion that poetry's a legitimate art form only when there's strong rhyme and meter. Frost had to work to solve a complicated constraint satisfaction problem: Low-level constraints of syllable counts, stresses, and the sounds at the end of the lines -- combined with higher-level semantic constraints -- the words form grammatically correct sentences that tell an interesting story.

All the examples he gives -- Shakespeare, Pope, Milton, William Carlos Williams, and some poet from the 1980's I never heard of (Ashbery).

(I'll admit Shakespeare has rhythm, but his poems don't rhyme very well. I can't even begin to analyze all the things wrong with Shakespeare and Pope and such, because their language is so old-timey that I can barely understand them.)

Calling such works "poetry" is pretentious BS, in my opinion. To me, the label of poetry needs to be earned. The poet has to pose and solve a constraint satisfaction problem.

As a reader, if you're reading poetry, it means you're getting that primal satisfying linguistic sensation when one part of your brain admires the constraint satisfaction problem and its solution, while another part of your brain appreciates the story it's telling.

Often if a bad writer writes prose, people feel free to call them out on it. If a bad writer writes poetry, people hesitate to offer harsh criticism, because they feel like criticizing poetry just makes them an uncultured Philistine.

So essentially, with good poetry, the author does a bunch of constraint satisfaction problems, and the reader's brain gets tickled in a unique way.

With bad poetry, the author just writes prose, insists the line breaks go in specific places, and says "Yeah this is poetry" because they're an arrogant jerk, and their audience just sort of goes along with it.

TLDR: "How is this poetry? It doesn't even rhyme. It's prose, and it sucks" is a perfectly sensible criticism of a huge amount of poetry. But this is regarded as a hopelessly uncultured and anti-intellectual sentiment in pretentious literary circles, which leads to its further proliferation.
The Hall–Héroult process for electrolytic aluminum refining is pretty impactful. Many polymer synthesis processes are also very impactful day to day, starting with Bakelite (less relevant now).
I'm curious if it's a legitimate abuse flag or if it's more like a rate limit with some unfortunate phrasing for the humanized message. Like am I just getting blocked at the edge for a bit or would there be a flag on my account somewhere now?
They aren't doing the particle sim in WebGL. That's the WASM part.

As an aside: there are new standards in the works for getting even the CanvasContext2D rendering off of the main thread. On an HTMLCanvasElement, you can call transferControlToOffscreen(), which will retrun an OffscreenCanvas object. That object can then be transfered to a Worker. From there, you can create the 2D rendering context (make sure you don't create any 2D contexts on that canvas in the main thread) and draw to the canvas in the worker (you can do this for WebGL contexts, as well).

All the drawing ops performed on the OffscreenCanvas will appear in the HTMLCanvasElement immediately, without having to perform a callback message from the Worker back to the main thread.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OffscreenCa...

Unfortunately, OffscreenCanvas is still in development in Firefox, only accessible behind a flag. In my testing with the feature enabled, it also seems that Mozilla hasn't implemented 2D contexts in Workers, only having the WebGL context available, which is quite annoying.

I don't know the status in Safari, but Apple has historically been very slow about implementing new features.
> has been a total disaster for Germany.

What do you define as 'a total disaster'? Coal fuel consumption is down enormously, supplanted by renewables and a tiny bit of gas generation growth.
I'm not aware of how the French laws treat such matters. In my country, for each unduly charged cent, a company must reimburse two if the customer demands so. Such prank would've automatically costed them a good amount.
Elon Musk wants to create his own city
You are not wrong. Yes, scientific studies speak of some subset of patients experiencing symptoms weeks or months (but not necessarily longer) after COVID. However, the actual studies emphasize that severity of long-term symptoms strongly correlates with severity of illness. That means that young people are at very low risk (not zero, of course, but as low as with many other common illnesses). When the media has taken these research findings up, however, they typically leave out all the nuance, because that way it sounds like more dramatic, attention-catching news.

Also, last year some newspapers irresponsibly allowed some people to share their claims that they were dealing with tough long-term COVID symptoms even when they had never even tested positive for the disease in the first place. It was no different than giving a megaphone to the people who, before COVID, experienced some distress and, without any actual medical verification, were sure they were cases of "chronic Lyme disease".

Health officials in several countries have plainly fudged the truth or left out details when speaking to the public, for what they see as the greater good of maintaining restrictions for long enough to reach their public-health goals. One naturally suspects that they found the panic about long COVID useful for this.
I'm open to accepting it as authentic, even with those reasons. VHS to Digital Converters are some a common household item, and when I bought one for old family videos, they still can act up. The distortion can come from age and improper storage, not just overuse. Secondly, some of our old family photos from before digital cameras were made digital simply through scanning 4 of them together.

My point being, this could be one of those instances where a prank happened before April Fools became a corporate marketing tool. It wasn't hidden away out of fear, but just sort of "because" that was how the internet worked back then. Not everything was digitized and made available for eternity then.
I see nuclear as insurance.

Solar and wind are much cheaper, but cannot be scaled in proportion to demand. Given sufficient advances in storage and transmission they may be able to eventually, but maybe not.

Building nuclear that we may not end up needing if the required advances happen means that our worst case is a vastly cleaner energy system, a much better worse case than a continuing dependence on coal and gas.
See the first two words in the post: "No, really."

It was just used to catch attention.

But with a CDN in front it might likely work out.
The old colonial treaty split the waters 85-15 between Egypt and Sudan ignoring all the other African countries. This is completely unsustainable, the poor uptream countries must have their share.

Egypt just needs to use desalinization and water saving methods like other ME states.
CLI to verify DKIM signatures of an email
I haven't ordered from Amazon in 2 years. It is a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, though I understand it might not be easy for everyone.
TL;DR

pip install dkimpy

dkimverify < email_file.eml
Soviet-built nuclear power plants did fine... with one notable exception.
Most jobs are like this (for the umpteenth time, altogether now, "that's why they call it work!"). I wouldn't sweat it.
Because they employ so many people, in so many jurisdictions .. they obviously hold a huge amount of power.

How should we respond to that power?

I think Amazon is in danger of legitimising arguably exploitative working practices, if they aren't challenged when people aren't considered as much as profit.
That would be dumb. Generating hate for your brand.
The US is looking into this too: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/space-force-will-test-solar-po...

But I'm always pretty skeptical of space-based solar power proposals. First, the receiving array has to be really large or the energy density of the beam will be dangerous to birds / planes, etc. Second, utility is limited because we already have a huge fusion reactor in the sky beaming energy to us which we simply need to build receivers for.
So an unenforced convention that does the same thing as a sigil, but worse. It can't be relied upon because it's not enforced. I've lost count of how many times I've seen streams without their trailing $ in codebases where people were theoretically using them.

If you can't rely on the symbol or its absence meaning anything, it's just more punctuation.
Someone very much like you caused one of my first run-ins with the law! One day when I was in high school, the police asked me to come down to the police station for a chat. The police chief asked me if I was the one who "copyrighted them there CDs".

(For the record, I wasn't. I wasn't going to be doing much for-profit piracy on a dial-up connection.)
Thanks! Please open an issue on github if have an account there. System information would be particularly helpful.
You are correct, didn't recall correctly.
If your goal is a login, I would say yes. You will have fewer headaches using another IDP like google or something to deal with user auth.
The majority of the article was a personal defence of Catholicism.

Fine, I don’t agree, but he’s entitled to his opinion.

But he entirely failed to make the case that religion has any connection to a decline of democracy.

Also, a pet peeve of mine is religious people calling other religions “fake”. You may not like the Prosperity Gospel (from what I know of it, it sounds terrible), but it’s no less made up than any other religion.
To be fair, to a certain degree that's part of the deal in academia. Tenure is like an reverse insurance, everyone gets a salary, even if only few will be able to make significant contributions. And that's okay, because a lot of luck is involved in individual success in academia.
No, because English is my first language. German on the other hand is what I've learned as an adult and that's exactly what I'd do.
That's exactly what I meant. Running a nuclear fission reactor (along with the high power beams to Earth) in vacuum might prove... problematic.
Easier said than done unfortunately.

For example: it's hard to get through summer without a fan or air conditioner in your bedroom by me. A surprising number of those come with always on lights and it's not always clear until you plug them in.

Beyond that there's just "not everyone has the luxury of a single purpose room." Especially now, lots of people need to setup their home office in their bedroom. I have a vacuum with an always on indicator light, and the only good place to put it is a bedroom. Some people have studios and their entire apartment is their "bedroom."

All in: you're right, it's best to keep your electronics out of the bedroom, but that's not always practical and way to many things have unnecessary status lights.
What is Urbit? as answered by a discussion thread with the devs
I post this not to promote urbit, but because it does a good job of explaining the answer to a frequently-recurring question on hn. (Throwaway due to urbit's ex-founder being an early #cancellee)
No need to intervene in the ear of 5th gen wars, especially when Ethiopia effectively has a civil war going on.
if I understand you correctly, then Rosetta Stone digital courses might be similar. No grammar or words are explicitly defined/translated, everything is taught through context with images and audio
Reminds me of how the National Firearms Act registry and tax stamps only apply to law-abiding citizens. People with a criminal record cannot legally own firearms of any sort (let alone NFA items), and forcing them to register them would violate their 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States
CRUD is basic to low-code / no-code solutions. It is almost the point of their existence. Because for more complex / custom stuff, coded solutions anyway exist and are more powerful and flexible, though at cost of more time and money.
The use of “religion” is when archaeologists don’t know why.
A Chip Shortage Snarled Everything from Phones to Cars
Israel will not intervene because it has a peace treaty with Egypt which is much more important than starting some stupid war on the behalf of foreign countries. Since the war with Egypt in 1956 Israel only had wars with entities which directly attacked Israel and even in 1956 there were some excuses due to attacks by the Fedayun that came from Egyptian area and to the fact that the Egyptian blockaded the entranc to the Israeli port on the red sea.

If anything they will just dig a canal or create some route from Eilat port to Ashdod port and make some profit out of the whole situation.
Interesting. Is that if they were charged or if they were sent an invoice? Like, if I sent you an invoice and mistyped the , and . you get to hit me with some double extraction even if I didn't actually get any money from you?
I saw two other “jokes” yesterday that were either poor taste or just plainly unfunny.

I struggle to think why everyone in the age of fake bullshit posted on social media all feel like they must “play the game”.

If you don’t have something clever or funny, not doing anything at all is a perfectly acceptable option.

I think they real story here is some implicit requirement to “be cute” or “be heard”.
Your point may well be an important aspect of this. But to the extent that's true, we shouldn't be throwing money at a system (in the larger sense, not just NWS) that's broken. Unless of funding, let's find the badly-designed regulation and fix that.

But it's more than just NWS Chat:

In December, because of an escalating bandwidth shortage, the Weather Service proposed limiting users to 60 connections per minute on a large number of its websites.

Constituents complained about the quota and, earlier this month, the Weather Service announced it would instead impose a data limit of 120 requests per minute and only on servers hosting model data, beginning April 20.

This is, or should be, bread and butter stuff. The rest of the world has figured out how to do this cheaply and with high availability. And their overseers even recognize this:

Neil Jacobs, former acting head of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the Weather Service, said many of the agency’s Internet infrastructure problems are tied to the fact they run on internal hardware rather than through cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud.

“I’ve demanded in writing that NWS transition these applications … to our Cloud partners. It’s part of an internal strategy I’ve laid out,” Jacobs, a Trump administration appointee, told the Capital Weather Gang in an email before he left office.

So why are they not making that architectural change?
Honestly, who thinks they can get away with moronically obvious insider trading like this? "Oh, I know, I'll take large positions right before this reporter publishes MNPI, and I'll do it five times". Obviously you are going to get caught!
The new types of reactors can run on the "standard" nuclear waste: https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Russia-proposes-new-...

In Russia, they are slowly getting adoption. Not only that allows to use the same fuel twice (so, cheaper energy), the end result is significantly less radioactive and does not contain isotopes with ~10k years life, which are short enough to be dangerous and long enough to be a hassle to store.

A hundred fold increase in the reactors will mean that the new closed-fuel-cycle economy will have even more sense, since the second stage reactors will also benefit economies of scale.

(not objecting your comment, just adding one improvement)
I have a drawer full of black electrical tape and small round dot stickers almost entirely due to blue leds. Though it's convenient on everything. The electrical tape blocks it out entirely, for the most part. The round stickers let through some light so is great for dimming it down a bit or just use multiple to block it completely.

I think they're so widespread now largely because they were so expensive when they first started becoming common that they were used in expensive equipment, and became a way of making things look higher end.
They have an app that lists restaurants and plenty of different foods and drinks. The potential to do something funny is huge just by creating fake menus and fake new restaurants. Funny, no harm done.

This makes it even more difficult to imagine how they could have thought that faking potential fraud and financial loss would be a good idea (can it ever be a good idea, anyway ?)
Read the book!

Edit: super short summary, it’s possible before ~800 BC many people experienced hallucinations due to not having a theory of mind, oftentimes in the form of gods speaking to them quite literally. Which if you consider how embedded our theory of mind is now vs how prevalent and seriously belief in gods were previously, combined with how common hallucinations in children (Tulpas) and many mental “disorders” are, seems plausible. At some tipping point, trade, large scale civilization and theory of mind coalesced to suddenly remove this as a common mode of thought.

I mean try to imagine living in a small tribe with no written language, no idea that you have a brain, a strong belief in the reality of god(s), no concept of science or logic, and many nights spent in the dark sharing ghost stories, and yea, it seems not that far fetched that you’d have a vastly different experience of reality including experiencing many things as not even being from “yourself” as opposed to manifestations of your own brain talking to itself in the form of your beliefs (gods).
as if their abysmal IPO wasn't enough drama. Let's throw something morally reprehensible into the mix.
I simply don't understand those people who claim to want to fix the problem but insist on only getting 1/10th the electricity for their invested dollar, and at a schedule 10x slower than renewables. It's like they are being deliberately obtuse.
> address issues of anti-Asian hate by exposing shortcomings like this

This isn't doing anything to address anything that could be properly understood as "hate." That word has some very specific meanings that are very necessary and become easier to ignore when the word is too-frequently misused with some over-general meaning (that's already covered by other words).
well Egypt is the downstream country in this case..
Visited a chiropractor two times and it did wonders
Got two full body massages
Started using a vertical mouse
> People with a criminal record cannot legally own firearms of any sort

That's not true at all... It depends on the crime, it depends on the state, and it depends on the firearm.
"any publicity is good publicity"
The follow-on question is why aren't these plants retrofitted to be secure? I'd somewhat naively expect that its simpler to upgrade an existing plant than permit a new plant in.a separate location.
I really appreciate your comments in this thread, Diederich. They have helped me distill my own similar feelings of uncertainty and uncertainty in my understanding of uncertainty. Thank you.
Your opponents of course seem ignorant if you turn them into straw-men.

There are legitimate concerns against nuclear:

Lack of a proper handling of nuclear waste, which is pretty much impossible given the timeframe.

Weakness to improper handling. Human error is very common and should not be able to lead to catastrophic events.

Weakness to unknown unknowns. Chernobyl and Fukushima haven’t been predicted, we’re not able to see all failure modes.

Usefulness of civilian technology in the spread of nuclear weapons. Just think of why the US keeps Iran from building up a civilian nuclear industry.

Expensiveness. Cost is mostly bound by construction costs, which rose faster than inflation.
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Sure, but if you're going to build a nuclear power plant on an island that's prone to be hit by earthquakes and tsunamis, it probably makes sense to harden it against really bad cases of both of those things.
Indeed. With so many credit card frauds over there, that would be the first thing occurring to me.
Woke is a derogatory term because we don't believe it's honest. People in this thread can't even seem to decide if it's racist to find other races attractive, or racist not to.

> address issues of anti-Asian hate [...] Seems weird to me to make fun of people who are trying to do that.

So demonstrate some harm and present a coherent argument about how to reduce it.
Hahahah it's like 3500 euro's in Europe. cries in socialism
| there are plenty of earnest people in the space

Of course there are. Scams wouldn't work if everyone involved was in on it.
Sounds like a good exploratory step towards reaching the tech capabilities we need to build Dyson spheres (or similar megastructures harvesting energy in space) someday in the far future. I doubt the tech we have now is enough to make anything particularly useful or efficient, but we've gotta start learning somewhere!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Agreed. What would be the best way when using something like Heroku?
we need to think how to warn our successors that this place they are entering is deadly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warnin...
or google: Nuclear semiotics
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>>And maybe most importantly, acknowledge that nuclear energy is far more expensive than other green energy options

It is not really though when you factor in ALL of the costs of the main renewables (wind and solar), one of the big problems with both is the fact their output curves normally do not match demand curves every well, meaning when wind and solar are producing power, the demand for that power is at its lowest.

Thus wind and solar can only be a viable replacement for Fossil fuel and nuclear if you add in methods of energy storage, so electricity can be stored when it being produced and then consumed when it is needed.

Once you factor in this storage / demand problem the costs of wind and solar go through the roof
Also anywhere in the Netherlands
>By default, PostgreSQL listens on a TCP port 5432.

This post seems to outright state that by default postgres is listening to everyone via TCP for connection.

This is not true.

Unless you edit pg_ident.conf, your postgres install will not listen for connections outside of on localhost. So, while it's correct to say that it listens to TCP port 5432, there is a very narrow limit to whom it's listening for. Namely, the same machine.

Postgres is pretty secure by default. It doesn't allow external connections. It also requires a username and password to connect with permissions on the database you're connecting to.

Compare that to something like redis. They at least used to listen for connections external by default and not even have a password to connect. I can imagine it's still very easy to find all kinds of interesting stuff snooping around on port 6379.
> 3. Keep you codebase clean and well factored. Don't let cruft and hacks build up.

I feel obliged to mention that this very often goes against "do the stupidest thing that will work".

Most of the time in my career a clean codebase has naturally led to an intelligent solution which is definitely not the stupidest thing that will work.

Finally, it's also often the case that stupid code requires exorbitant amounts of comments or documentation, undermining the notion of it being simple to extend (which many conflate with the original premise). A little bit more intelligent code is usually self-describing.
I remember, when a page had many-many-many images, we used to call it "56k killer" back in the old days, as it would take a long time to load that page on a 33k or a 56k modem.