skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok so my github project created 17 days ago with unlicense I recently checked in a change to the file LICENSE and then today I reverted it:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/base9/commit/f920f311b1b0afe8...

but if I CAN go mit now, surely I have to rename my project and make a new repo? If I continue in repo as is, years go by, can't someone argue the change to MIT didn't have the legal authority to remove it from the public domain?
>The people sitting at home obese are not impacted by closing gyms.

That's doubtful & I would need a report to substantiate this /s

Clearly any hurdle you put in front of people wanting to better themselves is going to reduce the number of people that successfully implement that change. It might not be significant (that would be up to statistics), but it's way more grounded in common sense than saying that hurdles don't affect people.
Much like all of the flaws DJB discovered in the late 90's
Why engram Will be Offline First
Exposed Orwell’s Blueprint – Chapter One
We have, in this new collection within the EXPOSED! series, a guide on how to worry less about the man in-front of your house and the guys who follow you home from the supermarket. This EXPOSED! mini-series is more of a mix between the Privacy Cookbook and the EXPOSED! series proper, a totally new approach, complete with illustrations and solutions.
Well, there used to be "cable access" shows where you could apply to broadcast your own program to a local audience. People today may be familiar with the concept as a plot point in the movie "Wayne's World". Of course having a Youtube channel in the modern era is a similar concept which can reach a much larger audience.
Causal: SaaS Metrics
I agree, but plants are nasty too, just in slow motion.

For example some ficus grow over other trees, and later the roots cover the old tree until it dies. They don't eat the other tree, just "reuse" the wood to have an initial high place to get light. I coudn't find a nice link about this, but here are a few photos https://www.flickr.com/photos/rodolfocol/15129590163/in/phot... https://www.alamy.es/brasil-el-pantanal-parasito-higuera-fic...
It's quite decent to wonder why such a talented person, with such a bright future, and so well-known, died prematurely.

The story of how he died could be a valuable cautionary tale for people, as much as his talent and work was inspirational.
Has anyone built a compiler extension and libffi-based runtime that supports compiling otherwise normal native code to WASM (eschewing hard linking for runtime resolution)?

Would be fun to make it so that native apps for any platform can be run from an interpreter
It's hard to learn something about a class of things while only studying one example of that class.
> The demands on them to act perfectly are enormous.
There shouldn't be pressure to act, or take action, the preferred outcome should be to resolve the situation. Newark actually puts more pressure on the police with more detailed reporting, and more training including deescalation, where previously they had none.

It's quite clear a lot of American policing has problems, correct training, being over militarised, too powerful unions, being used for wrong situations, cutting budgets from things that actually reduce crime and increasing police budgets, inappropriate use of civil forfeiture to name just a few.

> law and order of a civilized nation.
Law and order, well theres underlying fault with American policing right there, the law and order approach. Plenty of countries are civilized without the law and order approach eg Peelian.

Why keep posting lots of comments with the same arguments about why its not racism, and instead ask/comment on the article like why the approach used is working.
I have never used the old chalk, but the new ones are plenty good IMO, and certainly significantly better than any standard-issue chalk anywhere. Everyone I know who still has a blackboard has a private stash of Hagoromo in their office.
Ah nice, thanks. I would think these would be as popular as the dark background earth ones, but maybe I just missed them.
Way too easy to get downvoted here
Does anyone else think that the comment voting system makes it too easy to to downvote for disagreement? I know this is a common complaint but I have have found a solution to the tendency of people to down-vote out of disagreement more often than to up-vote for approval/agreeement. Another problem is that for controversial topics, having an unpopular view may mean getting a lot of downvotes. One solution is to weigh downvotes by only 2/3 the value of upvotes. So getting three downvotes on a comment would only result in 2 karma lost instead of 3. That would still be enough to discourage trolls but make for a more hospitable environment for dissent and disagreement.
At this point probably just keep paying your electric bill, as most utilities are expanding their commercial solar as a portion of their generation capacity.
“a healthy mind in a healthy body”

If that were the goal then they would offer daily aerobics or yoga classes and not engage in competitive sports. For most students college sports is a spectator sport and an opportunity to get drunk.
One thing is that the murderers are not punished. They are instead rewarded with paid leaves, pensions etc. The other thing is that police brutality isn't only about murder. There is assault, including sexual assualt. Most are not punished. Even if one gets sentenced, they might get out soon like this fellow.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/202...
I actually talked about this in a previous comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25283461
If your consistency model allows you to use their asynch replication and potentially lose data in surprise switchover - sure. Otherwise you’re looking at similarly worse performance and also worse reliability
> I don't understand rooftop solar as a large scale solution. We don't propose that every household grows its own food or mines its own ore.

We do, OTOH, demand that every housing unit have, say, flush toilets, because the waste problems without them cause a negative externality we don’t want to deal with.

Solar panels can be viewed as the same thing with regard to electricity use.

> Let us build solar panels on the least valuable rural land, and benefit from the economies of scale and the ease of installation and maintenance

Shading rural land with solar panels makes it less valuable for the one thing rural land is most likely to be valued for.

Putting solar panels on rooftops doesn’t compete with other uses of the space.
I think this is a really good split in methodology to identify. I've noticed the same in the way I debug static vs dynamic languages. It seems to reflect the nature of the language; dynamic languages are powerful because they are fuzzy, but that comes at the cost of comprehension, and static languages tend to be the opposite.
I would say SII is pretty capitalistic. Its charging $8/dose in India vs $3-4/dose that AZ is charging in US and EU. And that is before any markups in public hospitals from what I hear. And remember SII got $250M from Bill Gates and didn't have to do vaccine development like Oxford/AZ. The Covaxin vaccine developed in India is even more expensive but they had to do their own development.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/serum-institute-covi...
Something like this would be perfect for Australia. There is so much empty land getting baked by the sun all year round. People in apts may not be able to have their own installed but they could buy x kw worth in the middle of the country.
Small and big are relative descriptions, not absolute. Jiangsu province is small compared to the major Chinese metropolitan areas. Comparing cities to world regions is rarely done.

Also I think many people would say Birmingham, England is small. Why? It isn't London.
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How is one able to buy the factories using dirty money in the first place?
I think aluminum batteries are coming along nicely in that area of battery tech and they have a very large capacity. The problem with aluminum has always been high energy costs to produce. So you can store the energy in the aluminum itself by using it to produce Aluminum for use in batteries.

Aluminum battery stations could replace gas stations.
For me the power of rooftop solar is that I don't need to wait for political consensus that something needs to be done.

I can do it myself. Now.
I like the friction of chalk-on-blackboard; somehow I write better with it than on white boards. For the same reason, I prefer pencil to pen on paper, and both to an Apple Pencil on an iPad (though the latter is what I mainly use these days because it's easier to share with people).
I'm also trying to build a mental model of what wasm is so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

As I understand, the JVM adds a thick layer of abstraction between incoming bytecode and output machine instructions. A wasm "runtime" OTOH adds a much thinner abstraction between incoming wasm and outputted machine code. It's a fairly 1:1 transformation.

However, I think you're correct in that, in order to serve as a host for GC'd and/or web-API-aware scripting languages (DOM, etc), a wasm runtime will need to become more JVM-like. How will wasm remain "web assembly" while doing that? No idea. This is where my mental model breaks down.
Is there an actual link to the source code somewhere in that blog post?
One thought around all this is that irregular power costs could increase the incentive for appliances that consume electricity during the day and give it off at night - refrigerator freezing huge chunks of ice, large hot water tanks, larger batteries for drills or laptops.
Which is what most of the world did and what got us to this point.
The power-companies-are-screwed story is a bit oversold. The cheapest solar power comes from large solar farms, exactly the sort of thing power companies themselves build and operate. Smaller distributed solar units are a big financial winner in the following circumstances:

- If retail electricity prices are moderate/high and excess solar power generation gets a net metering credit. I don't think that this will remain common as solar penetration increases, but some early adopters in different regions will be able to take advantage.

- If the electrical companies invested too much in transmission and distribution infrastructure and are now making up for it with high prices per kilowatt hour. This describes the Australian rooftop solar boom and at least parts of California. Note that this can be a financial winner even without retail-priced net metering; you're just thrifting on how much overpriced electricity you buy from the power company.

- If the location is far from the existing grid and you're expected to pay to build the intervening connection yourself. Solar plus batteries, even with today's relatively high battery prices, can beat the cost of building that connection.

Mostly I expect power companies to survive the rise of solar power just fine. Most solar generation will come from large facilities owned by large companies, not household rooftop units. The over-representation of small rooftop solar units in Germany has contributed to the high cost of their energy transition. I see the German policy decisions favoring small solar units as a carrot used to ensure broad population support for solar power. Maybe it was politically necessary. But the generating costs would be lower had they favored fewer, larger installations.
Congress should pass these kinds of no-database laws more often, and mandatory destruction of records at the end of any mandatory retention periods.
The Internet and WWW may be seen as to be de-evolving from open standards, open access, and user ability to participate, create, and learn.

Video was 60% of downstream internet traffic in 2019. "Go the way of the TV" as a metaphor may be interpreted in may ways. Early idealists saw TV as bringing Shakespeare to the masses. We know how that went.
The NCAA is a similarly corrupt club like the olympics. Preaching “amateurism” while making tons of money for the insiders. I wouldn’t mind if both got closed.
An athlete has a 10 year career vs. an office worker's 40 years. It's more like an unpaid internship that lasts a decade.
Eh, that is a bit dishonest argument. "I want to keep distributing, and I want to keep using this code" are the immutable assumptions of my argument. My point is, with those assumptions in place, there is no way to NOT propagate GPL in the entirety of the work - was my point. That is OK since GPL is intentionally made that way. Take it or leave it deal. No one is entitled to anything, if people want to distribute their work as GPL, that is up to them to decide after all. I am only discussing the virality aspect of it here as a separate fact.

And how does immediately stoping distribution help, legally? If I have already distributed the binary, the recipients are already entitled to the entire sources, no? Or does GPL have a "I have learned my lesson" clause?
I saw those wonderfull gigantic automat giants cross Berlin ten years ago. Magic.

Than decided last year to go to Nantes to see the full monty: The creators, the elephant .
The fish carousel.

It's worth the trip.

If you are like me, still enlighten by creativity, arts, craft and engeneering, go there.
It is a wonderfull place.

France at its best. And Nantes is worth a full WE (château in center, modern beaux arts museum,etc).
The main reason (I've done this at a bank previously) is when you need to ensure you don't overlap with other internal IP (RFC1918 was represented everywhere and routeable internally) and when you're trying to dodge 99% of your engineer's default Docker configs to reduce support request load.

In that case there's never any chance it'll be needed by people using the public internet there, and never any chance it'll be used suddenly by a deployed internal service somewhere else from an outside vendor.
But why would we want to continue life? Whenever I read something like that I feel life a sociopath but I don't really understand it. I'd care about the wellbeing of the people, not the continuation of the human species or, as here, of life itself.
> I don't understand rooftop solar as a large scale solution.

Here's something that might help, then. I have rooftop solar and its lifetime cost (labor + parts) is lower than the price of electricity, meaning it's cheaper to have solar than to not have solar. Secondly, the book Drawdown lists solar farms as the #8 solution and rooftop solar as #10. So rooftop solar is more than financially feasible, and necessary from a climate perspective.
uWeebSockets.js: better performance and api than expressjs, hapi, koa, fastify

React: stable, doesn't break, probably lindy.

Tailwind css: it just works.

Postgresql, elasticsearch, clickhouse, redis.

Namecheap, digitalocean.
> but if I CAN go mit now, surely I have to rename my project and make a new repo?

No.

> If I continue in repo as is, years go by, can't someone argue the change to MIT didn't have the legal authority to remove it from the public domain?

To the extent the Unlicense is valid in the jurisdiction whose law would apply, they would certainly have the right to use any material previously released under that license under its terms. That doesn’t obligate you to continue hosting it with that license, or to use a different project name for a derivative you distribute with a more recent license, or even notify that you ever had some part of it offered under the Unlicense. It may prevent you from distributing exactly the same content with a copyright claim, so its probably best to make the license change with a substantive code change.
Damn, we are all worse off for it.
There's no discussing things with racists or homophobes. Sorry, I'm done with you. "Fag" and the N word are slurs, and there's no escaping that (no matter what your cognitive dissonance says). I hope you grow up someday and learn this.
A lot of these problems solve themselves with proper pricing. For example if power is nearly free during daylight hours and expensive in the evening, businesses will shift some percentage of energy intensive operations to daylight hours. EV charging stations will charge more during evening hours.

Charging EVs during daylight hours while they are parked at work places instead of overnight at employees homes is another way we can shift use. Some of these things might be done via pricing, others perhaps government incentives.
Reminder: everything you say on Discord, DMs included, can be subpoenaed in a civil suit against you for all time.

Discord is not end to end encrypted and you should assume
that they log everything forever: IP address history (rough location/ISP), the list of processes the Discord client app scans from your local computer and uploads, and all chat messages and attachments (even in DM).

Discord is not private.
> If we need multiple steps, we can put some Optional fields in the PartialFoo, to avoid lots of intermediate types.

You juat described the purpose of SQL's NULL.
Check out Wikipedia's entry on AIER before you take this article too seriously. It may well be that the Covid model they discuss was inaccurate, but AIER is known for fringe opinions.
That's probably how the Chinese refer to it?

You can also interpret it as meaning "insignificant". A poor city with the same population as London has a much lower profile.
Emscripten?
destroying fan projects of the most loyal fan base. just another day in the office.
Yes, it is there as an in-text link:

"Then the most complicated part was to prepare executable binaries for different operating systems. Plenty of CPU, RAM, VirtualBox with Windows and macOS virtual machines, and here we go."

https://github.com/dainiusjocas/lucene-grep/releases/tag/v20...
They are preying on the hope of those athletes. But, just like gambling, many must lose for a few to win big. The pros have formed unions to level the playing field, but the college kids have been denied that.
Every time discussions about big systems like this one come up, there's a comment that basically amounts to "just solve the collective action problem!"

If enough people do it... but they won't. They need to be sold on the idea, en masse, and that doesn't just happen.

Fortunately, we have a tool for collective action: government! Government regulation is how we can push institutions toward aligning with our values. Of course, entrenched interests don't want to be pushed, which is why there's been a massive campaign over the past few decades to scapegoat governments and paint them in a negative light. But they're the right tool for the job.
> What happened to the author is meh.

So ignore it. Any time you find one part of an argument or its presentation lacking, just look past it. You'll find that it often doesn't affect the validity of the whole, and when that's the case picking on the non-essential part just shows bad faith.
"I thought I had grabbed the mancatcher, not the shotgun! It was an accident!"
That's why I don't use password managers. That's giving one entity too much power over everything I own.
>> Of that $15k, $4.3k was for the panels themselves, $2k for the inverter, $1k for mounting hardware, and $8k for installation.

What about on-site battery?

In any case, $15k is still a bit too steep for me, not because I can't afford it but because I want something that'll pay for itself in less than 5 years. My electricity bill is about $150/mo. so a solar roof doesn't make sense financially, even if I'm able to sell the excess to the grid.
I also have uBlock Origin (probably 5 other extensions also)... and it doesn't happen all the time... the other day was the first time that I had to refresh twice for it to load the correct page. But I use mostly a desktop computer.
Sorry, that was just the first competitive scene to come to mind. It certainly isn't inherent to competitive Smash or even the fighting game community at large to be full of sex pests, it just so happens that a lot of them have found such places to be an unfortunately comfortable niche to hide in.
> not much they can do?

If you had read the article you would have seen that the researchers implemented the same feature without leaking any data using "Private Set Intersections".
> Are there any good FOSS password managers that can do remote sync and team permissions?

Depending on what remote sync and team permissions looks like at your end, you could perhaps get there with KeePassXC [0] (password manager) and a separate sync tool (that did your sync and, effectively, your permissions management) such as Keybase KBFS [1] or SyncThing [2].

[0] https://keepassxc.org/

[1] https://book.keybase.io/docs/files

[2] https://syncthing.net/
It really doesn't help support their position of being "highly educated", does it?
ok, makes sense, but there does seem to be some gray area with how substantial the code change has to be. And when I start a new repo, I'm going to stop using unlicense. I feel like I was tricked.
Do you simply remember hundreds of random passwords?
> Reminder: everything you say on Discord, DMs included, can be subpoenaed in a civil suit against you for all time.

Also remember that’s true of every record about you, and every observation any person makes of you (because subpoena power extends to testimony, not just records), ever, outside of narrow sets of specific legal privilege.
Absolutely, useful just to illustrate the scale we're talking about for a given amount of energy stored as a real-world analog easy to recall.

Assuming you used cast iron as weights that has a density of ~7800kg/m³ at regular temperatures, so you're looking at about 10 cubic meters for that 1kWh of potential energy storage using an abundantly available, non-toxic material that will endure.
Did the knight's guy win the (implied) battle?
Could you use your standard TV to take a part of a broadcast, edit at will and re-send it? Key is, even for cable TV, you had to apply. Add the need to have special, extra gear. The internet silos today, removing access at whim and limiting what users can do on their platforms, are essentially taking on that role of a broadcaster while avoiding responsibilities imposed on publishers, a clever trick.

I hope this is succinct to show the fundamental difference between the ideas behind the Internet and TV.
That's awesome, thanks for the link
Web page that crashes the Chrome renderer
| but in the meantime?

Chaos
> If China or Russia would suddenly reroute a ton of traffic from outside their countries, to their respective government agencies

It is their IP space. It is entirely on your incompetent network staff if you are stealing IPs that are 1) not yours, 2) in use, 3) not in your country for internal use and on top of that, not rejecting external routes to it.

It is not "rerouting a ton of traffic", the traffic was destined toward them in the first place.
Also a lot of the time you're not trying to achieve (and can't anyway) an uninterruptible uptime - you just need a rapid recovery from infrequent outages.
My area has a payoff roughly in line with the lifetime of the panels themselves, or half that if you believe the local companies absurd projections of future energy prices.
yes, if only we came to that conclusion before!

This virus kills 0.01% of one group of people and 8% of another. We should really learn to use statistic to direct our limited efforts efficiently.
My power provider has a scheme (I forget the name) where basically your entire electricity bill goes to "green" electricity producers. The logic is that you can't control where your electricity comes from, but you can easily control where your money goes.

That way, no matter where you get your power from, all your money goes to green sources.
So you want to ban it without even knowing how much impact it has?

My guess is not much, as usual.