skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been working with Nix for years and I still find it to be disappointing. I don’t like Docker and I really love the Nix concept, but the execution seems poor. As an example, I spent half of a Saturday unsuccessfully working with people on the Nix Discord to get VS Code configured with some Rust plugins on MacOS. Similarly, if you need to write your own package, it might be easy or it might be a bottomless rabbit hole tar pit in which you have to package the entire dependency tree including a bunch of obscure C libraries with no build docs. More often than not it seems to be the latter. Further still, nixpkgs is horribly documented and dynamically typed and poorly organized, so every time you’re looking at a definition for a certain package and want to know what “shape” its dependencies have, you have to grep around for another package that uses it, then try to work out what that package is passing in as the dependency; however, if the dependency object is returned from another function defined in some other file you’ll just have to rinse and repeat until you come across the original definition. This is well below the bar for “professional work”. Problems like these arise every single time I try to work with Nix, and it becomes an enormous time sink. Docker is pretty shit, but there’s a pretty clear upper bound to the time I’ll spend struggling with it. Not so with Nix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Controversies
Relevant video by Internet Historian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI
Can anyone explain why the simulation argument isn't just a meme?

- By very definition, we will never be able to prove or disprove the claim.

- Whether or not it is the case, it makes no difference.

Why even bother? Why does this matter?
> we used to feed ourselves for millions of years

Use of fire at all emerged about 1.5 million years ago. Homo Sapiens emerged about 300 thousand years ago. First signd of any sort of agriculture are from about 15 thousand years ago. Stone age ended and we got first bronze tools less than 10 thousand years ago.

The only method we have had "for millions of years" is hunter-gathering with stone tools.
He still seems to be twisting and misrepresenting the NSF guidelines of 7-9 hours to mean the point value of 8 hours.

No, Walker, 63 percent of people don't have unmet sleep needs, as you are still falsely claiming. You're either being dishonest or you are too innumerate to understand what an interval is.
100% of the bad traffic to my servers comes from TOR. Not all IPs are equal, some aren’t playing nice. Cloudflare makes it so I don’t have to worry about it.
At least in Germany, car subsidies (investments in road infrastructure) are significantly larger than any investments in rail infrastructure.
I had a similar experience and documented my steps https://kvz.io/tobuntu.html
Sorry, I'm not following along at all but don't think it matters anymore. I got the impression that you are working on `apt`, and you're using `tmux` in some way when you're are working on `apt`. So when `tmux` releases a new change, you're unable to keep working on `apt` until X.

But, thinking about it, none of this makes sense, and not sure why apt is mentioned at all, seems I misunderstood you?
> I get the impression that the tax is to be levied on the entity that emits CO2 to the atmosphere

Yes that seems to be the case[1].

> It's not a fringe left-wing environmental party.

Indeed, so will be interesting times ahead. Not unsurprisingly Norway has a very oil-oriented industry, which obviously did not think too highly of this proposal. There's lots of talk about transitioning to a "greener economy" but precious few concrete proposals about how to turn those jobs green.

So yeah, interesting times ahead.

[1]: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/okonomi-og-budsjett/skatt...
I think this kind of misses the point that programming (done right) has been automating whatever is practical to automate from the start.

Whenever new capabilities opened up we've just used them to extend our reach.
Try this in your tmux.conf:

bind -T root M-h select-pane -L

(I’m typing this from my phone from memory, so bear with me if there are minor mistakes.)

The -T root does what you want, ie bind a key without a prefix. M-h is Alt-h, so change that to whatever you want of course.

I am a heavy Vim and tmux user, so if you’d like you can use my own config for inspiration:

https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/item/.confi...
It doesn't seem that weird to have a regulation for having the same classes of quality across the union. Not every banana sold has to fall into the "extra" class.
Thats certainly true in my experience in Japan, though there they are usually hyper conscious of doing procedures correctly so I don’t know if it would be better or worse.
The Beauty of Programming by Linus Torvalds
These kind of arguments forget that it would probably take more space and time to simulate a given space and time, simulations are less effective than the thing they simulate. So in order to simulate Earth we'd need much more space than the earth. Then when looking at the stars, those would either have to be copied from a real universe or badly simulated. It's going to be a hard task stimulating the signals seen from all the observable universe with time and space constrained within a planet. Something would be off.
Except you could enable trade without banning curvy bananas.

All they had to do was standardize a rating system for bananas, and then countries could chose to ban whichever ratings they liked.

Its a clear system that allows and enables trade, while letting countries have their own regulation.
"I don't see coal being an environmental hazard"

As long as you do not accidentally set it on fire ...

This is actually fairly close to Aachen, no?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennender_Berg
VPS providers are not free, and so is traffic produced by VPS. On the other hand, 100k req/day is a generous limit, easily expandable with additional accounts.
The Super App Playbook: Grab's Rise to Power
It means the ecosystem for Docker is more robust than for a Nix, which is patently true (see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26689378). I want to like Nix (and indeed I use it for some things), but it’s wildly immature, and maturity is a fine reason to choose one tool over another.

Also “imagine thinking...” is just vapid snark. If you must snark, at least make it substantial.
There is nothing authoritarian about dispelling myths. These were not about opinions, they concerned literally false claims about EU directives and regulations.
> Mass violence can absolutely be enacted by fascist groups without ever crossing 1st amendment protections.

But there are many other laws that prevent people from "enacting mass violence". Speech is not violence. Violence is violence.

Plus, the same laws that would lock-up fascists for inciting violence could be used against BLM and other left-wing groups. The 1st amendment ensures everyone can say what they like. Speech limiting laws can be abused to suit the preferences of whoever is in power.
not only Tor, but other network resources that are legit, but can be abused because of their no-cost nature like Hurricane Electrics ipv6-in-ipv4 tunnel broker. Not sure how I feel about cloudflares role as arbiter. I think instead of relying on a service, a good nginx module that has ratelimiting abilities easily surfaced with some grasp of ASN origin could satisfy the need of most sites out there.
I don't think they were ever 'banned' in any sensible meaning of that word though - you could always sell them as a different class of banana.

(But I don't understand what anyone in industry or government has got against the curative of fruit in the first place - what a pointless thing to classify by.)
This is equivalent to the “victor” of a conflict writing history.

Ideally, this stuff should show the original statement, their sources and a critique, then potentially a rebuttal.

So often, political coverage contains outright lies or mischaracterized truths from both sides.

Take in recent news the “hunter biden laptop”. A senate subcommittee documented it appeared legitimate (a quick search finds this https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Rep...), yet the news almost everywhere claimed it’s “fake news”. Even Wikipedia claims it a “conspiracy theory”, which based on the senate report - it is a conspiracy, but not a theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspi...

The wiki even contains stuff that has since been retracted.

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/31/983159102/hunter-bidens-memoi...

> A previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story. U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect.

I think it’s fine to criticize stuff, but you have to present both sides. Not just say “fake news” and move on.
What is listed in the post you link are exerpts of the email conversation,
selected by Yngve Hoiseth. The link I mention is broken should lead to the
entire, unredacted, unexcerpted email conversation, but fails to do so. This
makes it impossible to determine to what extent Yngve Hoiseth edited the email
exchange to force his interpretation of the exchange on a reader.

Your post and Yngve Hoiseth's post claim that the email exchange presented in
Yngve Hoiseth's post is an "official response" from UC Berkeley. To determine
the veracity of this claim it is necessary to know who was contacted, in UC Berkeley.

The name of the person (as in first name and family name/s) is not necessary
for this, but it is necessary to name their office. For example "dean of
such-and-such" or "director of so-and-so". That this information is not provided
makes the claim of an "official response" impossible to verify. For example,
nobody can contact the person Yngve Hoiseth claims they have contacted, or the
person currently holding the same office, and ask them to verify that they or
their office have, indeed, been contacted by Yngve Hoiseth.

That, together with the absence of the entire conversation makes it impossible
to know whether Yngve Hoiseth really did have this email exchange, to what
extent they presented it fairly and to what extent what was said by the other
person was edited.

The person Yngve Hoiseth claims to have contacted allegedly said the following:

My understanding is that my university email communication is a matter of
public record, and I try always to communicate with that standard in mind.
There is no prohibition that I know of against publication of my emails with
you, in other words. I would just ask that you contextualize my communications
in a transparent and accurate way.

This is absolutely not what was done in Yngve Hoiseth's post and your linking to
it claiming it is an "official response" to your post.

Assuming the exchange was real, it seems that the person at the other end
didn't ask for their identity to be withheld for any reason. It sounds as if
they fully expected for their identity to be made public instead. There seems to
be no reason why Yngve Hoiseth's post ommits this detail.

Given all the above your post and Yngve Hoiseth's post are misleading and suggest an
effort to misrepresent at the very least UC Berkeley's position.
This specific problem happens all the time. That’s the ISPs problem, not cloudflare. The ISP has a user negatively impacting other users, best course of action would be remove that user and notify cloudflare after.
This is assume there isn't some sort of "lossy compression" going on with the simulation. I don't know how that would work, but none of us know how a simulation would happen anyway.
Also, since I have you here, can I please enquire as to what you mean when you say that you are a "researcher" in your about page?
The trick is to make sure there are a few leaks in each containment pond so the waste slowly leaks into the water table.

Then when it rains the volume of waste doesn't increase.
An interesting counterpoint would be the Hashlife algorithm [1] for the game of life which is able to simulate the game of life at a scale and size well beyond any reasonable physical limits.

[1]: https://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/an-algorithm-for-compressing-spa...
AFAIK, it also overheats under CHAdeMO charging in very cold temperatures. I don't think it was the climate, just saving $$.
Tmux is easily one of my all time favorite and most used tools, behind (maybe) only Vim/Neovim.

I use every feature it offers: scroll back, copy buffers, window splitting/management, different sessions for different projects, etc. I do a lot of work on different servers (it’s not uncommon for me to be connected to 4 different servers at once) and having tmux on all of them means I can always pick up right where I left off. If I’m starting a long build on a Friday afternoon, no problem: start it in the remote tmux session and simply detach from tmux and log off. When I come back on Monday morning, I just SSH back in, reattach to the tmux server, and it’s like I never left.

Tmux has a steep learning curve for sure, but if you are a terminal user at all I cannot recommend it highly enough. It’s a game changer.
Most of the times for developing stories, I like getting the full picture after consulting multiple local sources rather than getting my worldview from the vantage point of international correspondents.
People here in Egypt think it is funny. That's why the media likes to publish these fake stories. They are not anti-women or something like that, they just think it is a good joke. But it is not funny at all.
It's hard to say. It doesn't really seem to have any connection to the original Space Jam, other than the Looney Tunes. In the original, MJ joined with the Tunes to play against aliens, hence the "Space" in Space Jam. Space Jam: A New Legacy takes place in a virtual world. In the original, the Looney Tunes actually existed on Earth, but in this new one, it seems that they exist in the virtual world.

I'd say we have to see if there's any other connection to the original film other than the name and Looney Tunes.
Well, anyone can decide to run potential future capture plants, cleaning up after others (that includes the previous generations), while everyone would have to agree to reduce emissions.

What looks inefficient as far as pure physics goes, might be very efficient politically. Build some solar power plants in the Sahara, use the energy to sequester carbon, pay poor countries like Niger some money for that, reduce the current migration stream to Europe by creating local green jobs - that does not sound too bad.
Though I don't agree with the generalization of lumping together any/all publishers, how does one regain trust in a publisher after losing it for a legitimate reason?
Lot of “if”s there. There’s plenty more where those came from. Do you see where I’m going with this?
British tabloids Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Express, The Telegraph, FT etc. a cocktail of toxic trash
env doesn't show secret/masked variables ;) you have to pass through echo and a file
Lol. EU doesn't have NGO can do this? The government has to be the one to run the Truth department?
List things you consult.
Running+Nginx+and+Nginx+Plus+on+Photon+OS
Just depends where you live. Plenty of gigabit connections in London.
Some transcription services will slice your transcription and distribute it... it's just horizontal scaling!
Glad it has been archived. It might be futile to keep debunking, but it's important to remember where this anti-EU sentiment came from.
> not for the sake of other people

By that measure there should be no objection to eliminating inheritance altogether.
This story itself seems to be perpetuating a small false hood by captioning the leading photo as, “Egypt’s first female ship’s captain”.

If you read the article it then says she was the first female to be accepted to Egypt’s merchant navy school and in the second to last sentence says she is currently the rank of fist mate though will be a Captain soon if she passes her exam. She is also clearly wearing the rank of fist mate in the photo billing her as Egypt’s first captain.

This is why people have lost faith in the news. They can’t even get a basic fact right and manage to contradict themselves in the same story no less.
They have markets on whether Biden, Cuomo, and Gaetz will still be in office as of various dates. You could pretty cheaply buy shares that pay off $1M+ if Biden were to die. But I'd expect the cost of assassination to be well over that amount by orders of magnitude plus you'd need to run forever.
We ran into this as well. The I/O would cripple the system. It seems like if you have a compiled language in which the sources are compiled into a single binary that runs on your Docker VM, things are not so bad, but in an interpreted language with the sources on the host’s disk and the interpreter running on the guest, the VM needs to reach across that host/guest VM boundary all the time. We also tried all the tricks to speed it up, but we ultimately gave up and just used native MacOS processes.
The issue with presenting both sides is that one of the sides, much like whoever wrote these “myths”, is not actually engaging in honestly presenting a possibly valid representation of reality.
The Telegraph and the Financial Times are not tabloids.
After 57 years, I'm all too familiar with phosphate mining, but these ponds are not sterile. A lot of stuff is growing there.
It's not too late. The pandemic will likely go on in some form for at least another year, if not indefinitely. The lasting effects will go on for years or decades (people will work from home, order food and grocery delivery, etc at higher rates than before the pandemic).
Just some thoughts on why an ash might be useful today, although perhaps not as an everyday shell:

1. ash is usually smaller than these, and so works well in distributions aiming for a smaller size.

2. ash has fewer features, but most of those features are the features present in almost all sh variants, so it's a good shell for testing scripts. That is, if the script runs on ash, it will probably run on modern Bash (Linux), old Bash (macOS), and the shells that the ${X}BSD OSes use.

3. I don't really know if this is true, but I assume that as a smaller shell it still works well as a tool for learning about how shells work in general?
> My experience on a 2009 carbon capture plant design was that approx $100 per tonne of CO2 was the lowest carbon price that would really make carbon sequestration highly attractive and widespread.

Is there a market for captured carbon? I understand there is a small market for industrial process and carbonated water, but are there people buying long-term capture in large enough quantities to make an impact?

Anyway, I don't think the price matters on that scale. Once we decarbonize electricity, I think it will be governments and non-profits that will do most of the carbon capture (unless there exists a large market for my previous question), and for those a lower price only means a higher rate of growth, not the difference between viable or non-viable.
Then you’ve not eliminated
2I/Borisov, the First Interstellar Comet to Have Visited Our Solar System
In general, I find it useful to watch biased news, when you know who they're biased towards and why. It gives you interesting signals as to what various groups want you to think.
> In London I was limited to 80mbps copper cable, but since moving to a European city I now have gigabit fibre for around the same price (and 10 gigabit is available too for a small extra.)

That's probably not because it's a "European city", but because it's a city in some specific European country. The UK has similar average broadband speeds compared to e.g. Germany.
Not really - there's a difference between stipulating that one class of banana be "free from deformation or abnormal curvature[1]" (if it weren't said banana would be Class II and still legal) and declaring the EU is banning curved bananas. It's just as dishonest as when someone like Andy Ngo sees "Alcohol Restricted Zone" signs in an area of the UK that had a substantial muslim minority population, then reporting that the UK has areas governed by sharia law.

Both are examples of extremely deliberately dishonest retelling of something that originated in something true (that there exist both quality control regulations for fruit, and signs reminding you that street drinking is not permitted) which were blown up into something ridiculous for attention and to stoke mistrust and hatred of something each journalist disliked personally.

[1] - Also as an aside I am sure that while "abnormally curved" is a term that seems vague to us, those who actually deal with importing and selling bananas will have a good understanding what would fall under this.
And here you are "guessing" that they don't have a reason. Sounds like you are just making blanking statements without a reason as well.
Helicopter Is Now on Mars [video]
Millions of years? Agriculture is less than 120,000 years old by most accounts. Are you suggesting the bulk of humanity returns to hunting and gathering? Even then accounts of early human history have us emerging less than a million years ago. I think permaculture practices have their benefits but that kind of hyperbole doesn't help the cause.
I remember a Ted talk saying that China grew much faster than India not because of any infrastructure advantage they had. But because of stronger role women play in the work force.

https://www.ted.com/talks/yasheng_huang_does_democracy_stifl...
americans literally killed millions of bison for no reason, that was one example of a food source that would have been near infinite if managed correctly
Thanks for clarifying your point.
Are “almost naked” women (almost naked girls would be problematic and possibly illegal) playing video games not gamers? It seems to me they are. And since twitch is a platform “built for and made popular by gamers” it seems to me twitch was built for and made popular by people just like them.
I don't understand the point of this.

It's trying to play it straight to be able to legitimately claim it's a 'Space Jam Recipe #2' website, but the videos and copy are full of little snide commentary about how the website is perfect for someone's movie business, which makes it seem pretty clear that they're knowingly taking a WB trademark for their site name...

ICANN's Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy [1] states that one of the qualifiers for an applicable domain dispute is if the domain is being used in bad faith, and this clearly is.

[1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en
Wouldn’t even need to do that. The entire treasury debt system is voluntary. Nothing keeps congress from winding it down altogether. Or a compromise like ordering the Fed to set interest rates to 0 and “borrowing” forever at that rate. And then there’s platinum coin shenanigans. Point being this system is a creature of the US Government and given the political will it can set the rules however it likes, even while nominally honoring all present obligations.
Modern nuclear reactors are designed and built with the expectation that when they melt down, the results aren't catastrophic (at least for the outside world).
https://usds.gov
Results of a leak that happened in 1997:

"amid heavy rains, a dam broke atop one of two gypsum stacks at the Mulberry Phosphates plant on State Road 60, unleashing a 56-million gallon spill of the acidic wastewater into the Alafia River. The pollution killed everything in its path for 42 miles, eventually rolling into Hillsborough Bay. The death toll included more than 1 million baitfish and shellfish and 72,900 gamefish near the river’s mouth, 377 acres of damaged trees and other vegetation along the riverbank, and an unknown number of alligators. When state officials hit the company with a multimillion-dollar fine for the damage done, it declared bankruptcy and shut down."

https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2017/04/f...