skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue this is just pr promo for the 'all electric' lobby. I'm a small nuclear reactor enthusiast but we are decades away from that. In places like California where the electric grid is mostly a 3rd world above ground shambles, and where pge turn off the power if it's windy or they have caused fires in summer this will literally mean turning off all energy in a world where gas and gasoline are outlawed. Not viable.
Why are we romanticizing work at office?

Work from home works. It works far effectively than many people would like to admit. I think people who love work from office are also the ones who were in favor of open office plans. When open offices happened, we the ones who did not like open offices adapted as per your requirements. I guess now it's your turn to adapt?

I want to know what decides which side you are on perhaps introversion and extroversion traits? I am Introvert. Thoughts?
This isn't true. There are many many stories of rural Afghans supporting the Taliban because they, unlike the corrupt US-backed government, actually fight and punish crime and thus make life a bit more bearable for people who have been without a stable government for decades.

When you live in the West your view of oppression is "They make you dress some way. They kill you for adultery, etc." But the vast majority of people have problems like "These are my cattle and he is saying they are his and no one will accept my proof that they are mine" or "People brazenly steal from us because no one will stop them and we can't feed our families". Bodily autonomy is not on the list of things 90% of the world cares about. Only elites who live in big cities care about these things.
Yes and:

I now have separate journals for habits, tasks, time keeping, and praise. I just use cheap notebooks.

None of the apps I've tried have worked for me. Reminds me of the wisdom: don't expect personal finance software to inspire you to balance your checkbook if don't already.

Carrying around notebooks feels more immediate; like a physical reminder that can't be ignored.

Ad hoc dot journaling for habits. A bit like Seinfield's "don't break the chain".

Tasks are a work in progress. Aspire to bullet journaling techniques.

My time tracking sucks. This is where I think an app could be most useful. Especially by stamping my location onto each log entry.

Praise journal is part of the mindfulness stuff. Just write down the good bits of each day.
>The Taliban regime is going to be hostile to women. It'll be a return to violence, executions, and feudalism. Yet I see a lot of liberals that have no problem with a Taliban takeover and would rather see a US withdrawal.

There are hundreds of countries where women are treated like shit, of which Afghanistan is but one.

Perhaps the people who want to see a withdrawal realize that America-as-World-Police isn't sustainable, and serves only to kill scores of American service members, to say nothing of countless Afghan civilians, while lining the pockets of executives at Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, and General Dynamics.

Perhaps a better solution would be curbing domestic racism and xenophobia in the United States and inviting these women to immigrate.
It should go without saying that if you wait for such an event to happen, then you're already too late.
But what if you don’t realize you can do this or you forget to? This should be off by default if you ask me.
Maybe they should try putting up a fight, then.
This is true, briefly thought I was in manila when doing a hotel stop over, only the hotel manager seems to be a native. Horrible country, but I'll do the gov subsided stopover frequently when travelling back and forth.
Yikes. Seems like the biggest group of people making a mockery of the south is the southerners like this guy who insist on acting like cartoonish southern stereotypes.

I should also add that dogs and many other animals really like pleasing people. So one doesn't even have to consciously train for outcomes like this. A famous example is Clever Hans, the horse that supposedly could read, do math, and answer questions like "If the eighth day of the month comes on a Tuesday, what is the date of the following Friday?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Pricing externalities correctly just raises P, which leaves more fossil fuels in the ground.

No need to berate OP for outlining a simplistic model of a market solution. The hard part isn't creating the policy anyway, it's having the political capital to get it approved and put into law.
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I think that this is something that you can get accustomed to pretty quickly. Vectorised operations and broadcasting are very common across languages too, it's not just the python data stack that uses them.

A more weird but still basic example from pandas is the way it handles indexing and the confusion between .loc, .iloc, .ix, .at and plain '[]'. That part of the API should be really basic but for some reason it's a giant mess.
So?

The health of a social system isn’t the state of its fiat currency.

It’s the literal state of its people.

If you’re going to be led around by ephemeral catastrophe hype, why not just join a church?
This. And in particular if there are multiple ways to do it, and you had to choose a particular way for a reason.

Comments should explain the decision process (if one was necessary) that lead to this variant. Because if there's no comment explaining it, the next developer looking at it will say "oh, but it's much simpler if I just do it that way", and will run into trouble because he didn't realize the pitfalls.
> The difference is that previously you had to be targeted and intercepted

This is also true, to some degree. I believe all calls to the USSR were monitored, for instance. But the dragnet is thrown much further these days.
No paywall:

https://www.theportal-center.com/2021/08/us-unleashes-b-52s-...
The Taliban are now armed with American weapons. Entire bases were abandoned overnight, full of supplies and equipment:

https://youtu.be/f37xrmiqmnU?t=132

There are videos of Taliban rolling through cities in American humvees:

https://t.co/cdHsZgjSv8

Its a matter of time before they take Kabul.

$2.2trillion gifted to the Military Industrial Complex.
There are also several sites that repackage the NOAA smoke forecast data in friendlier (and/or faster loading) visualizations.

E.g., https://www.sfchronicle.com/air-quality superimposes wind, and also toggles between smoke forecast and real time PM2.5 measurements from the PurpleAir sensor network.
If we use servers in China and Russia it’s essentially legal, right?
Related:

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...
Batteries aren't the only way to store energy. Here's another. [video]
Interesting. I'm curious what the eventual outcome of this will be but it is always very hard to keep track of such stories further down the line, especially if the result is non-spectacular.
You don't know China then.
As evidenced by this bug :)
I don't care about models either exactly because there IS variance and because the climate is a dynamic system.

We also know that to be true historically.

Climate itself varies over time. So to the extent that permafrost is time specific speculation it's not really useful for anything.

The only thing I worry about is to which extent the current hysteria ends up pushing catastrophic political decisions which will kill millions of people not in 80 years but today. Trying to push for alternatives to oil, gas and coal when there is no real contender besides nuclear is going to make everything much more expensive.

When everything becomes more expensive it means people can afford less. This will especially hit the poorest. So when faced with that kind of choice I choose.

Combustion was done in the way it was because it solved a problem which was much bigger than the ones it created. The problem of how to make combustion engines cleaner is a much better problem to have than coming up with a reliable, clean and plentiful energy resource.

You most certainly wouldn't be around and the internet certainly wouldn't if it wasn't for combustion engine freeing up time for humans to focus on other things than just surviving.

So again. I am unconvinced by the revisionist historical logic at display here. The world is like it is for a reason the combusting engine have saved many many many many more lives than it's taken.
Take a look at the territory controlled by the Taliban vs time while we were at this level. They were not contained. We just were keeping them out of a few urban areas.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57933979
That's what I do when the language server fails me, but it's always good to have an offline reference to search in.
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My very first choice, which is typically missed by "modern" [0] languages and approaches, would be to put the stuff in a buffer, and have the client read it out when it is ready.

Callbacks are usually inferior:

• The client must create lots of small functions that need to conform to some strange interface that needs some context parameter type (void * in C or complicated type hackery in other languages).

• Each of those callback functions is harder and more boilerplatey to implement because it's completely broken out of the client's control flow - there is no context around.

All this applies to inheritances / "interface" mechanisms in some languages just as well. I don't know why we still haven't abandonded this crap, it adds nothing but new words and types to achieve the same things.

What do we gain from using simple buffers?

• Better decoupling of client vs library/framework/whatever implementation: temporal decoupling. Client can decide when is the right time to take some action.

• Client can setup the necessary boilerplate in a single function (stack frame) once, and then process all messages, of all types, instead of having redundant boilerplate for each callback.

• No inconvenient context type (void * or whatever) or other conformance to any interface needed.

What can the library do when the buffer is full?

• Simple - it should back out and return to user code. The user needs to process the existing messages in the buffer first. The user should then call into the library and have it reattempt what it did last.

When do simple buffers not work?

• Only when the library needs some immediate reaction to the "event". In other words, if it is inconvenient to implement the library in an event-driven fashion and is better implemented in a completely synchronous fashion and needs feedback from the user. For example, the library might request some memory from the user that must be satisfied immediately because the implementation can't back out of the current function.

I think libraries that requires the user to make callbacks should be a rare exception, and not the norm.

[0] When I read "modern" and I am in a cynical mood, I tend to think "ignorant of the old, simple, and proven ways".
He’s saying that every option is not an ideal option. So there’s nothing to “switch” to.
Lynx is more lightweight, has a slightly different keyboard shortcut setup, and is much more explicit about displaying various HTTP messages in a way the user can see them. It also has confirmations for cookies by default.
Fairly early on in my career I was on a team writing a GUI programming environment (think old school flow charts) that generated ASP (classic) or Java backends. We allowed simple expressions in assignments with the basic arithmetic operators and functions. We parsed them into a tiny AST and output Java or ASP code for them with lots of explicit parens and casts. After fiddling with minor differences in precedence, associativity and implicit casts we still had some cases that did not match. Pairing with a more senior dev we wrote a C program to generate and compare a large number (tens of millions) of random expressions trying to explore the important variables (small and large floats. Floats that cause funny rounding. Long sequences of almost the same precedence etc).

We got all three languages to agree to full precision for almost every case but in each run there were stubbornly alway a few dozen we couldn’t get to match for non obvious and seeming random reasons.

This was a prototype that never saw real production use and we spent a couple of weeks on it… it always bothered me that we never understood that last 0.00001%
i prefer to let it download and just use a dedicated viewer, cuts down on the sluggishness as well.
Then perhaps you could explain it? I also don't understand why server-side versus client-side CSAM inspection makes a big difference.
Tbh the math is changing - largely due to the cost and complexity of nuclear projects.

If your spinning up a new GW of generating capacity, it’s easier to find spare room that no one fights over with solar/wind than it is to find a spot for nuclear.

Could we have faster permitting of nuclear plants and apartment buildings? Sure, will we? Almost certainly not.
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> To me, these numbers are significant.

What would be insignificant? 1 child? 100? There are 73,000,000 children (under 18) in the US alone. 10,000 is .0001% of that population.

> Why don’t we let apple contribute where it thinks it can.

Apple is the most profitable company in the world. It's a company that prides itself on its imagination and innovation, I wouldn't discount their ability to come up with something.

> Maybe with apple that number goes down from 10,000 to 2,000. Wouldn’t that be a celebrated outcome?

No, it's not. We make trade-offs all the time. The possible harm to Apple's user base is not worth the possibility that this reduces child abuse. There's a possibility these people move on to another platform and this does nothing.

To get that number down Apple creates an entry point for violating the privacy of half a billion users worldwide. Many of them are in China, where pressure from the government has already moved Apple in directions that are harmful to its customers[1].

1 - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
Here's what I'm failing to understand.

According to most major studies coming out (including this one: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/227713/coronavirus-infection...), with the advent of delta variant, the vaccinated have about a 50% less chance of getting infected than unvaccinated people.

If we assume the vaccine offers no additional protection against hospitalization/death given that one is already infected (which is what the author seems to be arguing), then what we should be seeing is 67% of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated, yet we're seeing the rate closer to 97%. So there's obviously something going on here, and the most likely culprit would be that the vaccine does offer protection against hospitalization/death, contrary to the author's argument.
Hydro already provides more than both of those, and they often come with their own reservoirs so they are able to easily handle changing load requirements. Not that we have many hydro opportunities left, unfortunately.
Who should?
Nuclear isn't renewable. (it's clean but it's a mined fuel)
The other versions all have use cases other than avoiding collisions.

If your access patterns are such that you often access ids generated around the same time together v6-8 will probably be faster due to locality. If you access data generated on the same node together, than same for v1-2.

If you want a reproducible id based on some other identifier, then only v3 and v5 will work.
Peace and allies through collateral damage.
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Its probably more realistic to put a few satellites in orbit of the moon and beam power from them. This keeps the distances down so the transmitter and receivers can be more reasonably sized.

If you also switch to laser power beaming, they can illuminate the existing solar farm so a separate receiver is not needed.
https://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty/2021?engine...

Not sure about that
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If you're expecting a numerical library's operations/semantics to be intuitive to a reader not familiar with the library, you'll be disappointed by most such libraries.

What you've shown here is pandas 101. If it is confusing, it's a sign you need to understand the underlying basics of NumPy and pandas.
> Mark Gyetvay, the deputy chief executive officer of Russian LNG exporter Novatek PJSC, warns that the green movement could disrupt the delivery of adequate and affordable supply to consumers.

Russian natural gas executive says promoting alternatives to his product hurts consumers. Ok.
I wouldn't. Russia has enough of a problem with Islamists. Afghanistan isn't far away. They have many migrant workers from the central Asian countries. If more refugees flood into the nearby countries it could become even more serious.

The only reason I can see for Russia to support the Taliban is pure spite or profit from selling arms. But the new-Taliban is mainly equipped with captured or bought ANA weaponry.
Also “hate-boner” is hilarious. I’m going to bookmark that for later.
Ah, The Asia Foundation, a very reliable source of authentic Afghan opinions.

"The Asia Foundation (TAF), a Central Intelligence Agency proprietary, was established in 1954 to undertake cultural and educational activities on behalf of the United States Government in ways not open to official U.S. agencies."[17]

The Asia Foundation is an outgrowth of the Committee for a Free Asia, which was founded by the U.S. government in 1951.[18] CIA funding and support of the Committee for a Free Asia and the Asia Foundation were assigned the CIA code name "Project DTPILLAR".[19]

In 1954, the Committee for a Free Asia was renamed the Asia Foundation (TAF) and incorporated in California[20] as a private, nominally non-governmental organization devoted to promoting democracy, rule of law, and market-based development in post-war Asia.

In the 1950s, the Asia Foundation “clandestinely supported anti-Communist motion picture industry personnel, ranging from producers, directors, and technicians to critics, writers, and general intellectuals in many parts of Asia.”[21]

Among the original founding officers of the board, there were several presidents/chairmen of large companies including T.S. Peterson, CEO of Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), Brayton Wilbur, president of Wilbur-Ellis Co., and J.D. Zellerbach, chairman of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation; four university presidents including Grayson Kirk from Columbia, J.E. Wallace Sterling of Stanford, and Raymond Allen from UCLA; prominent attorneys including Turner McBaine and A. Crawford Greene; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer James Michener; Paul Hoffman, the first administrator of the Marshall Plan in Europe; and several major figures in foreign affairs.

In 1966, Ramparts revealed that the CIA was covertly funding a number of organizations, including the Asia Foundation.[17] A commission authorized by President Johnson and led by Secretary of State Rusk determined that the Asia Foundation should be preserved and overtly funded by the US government. Following this change, The Asia Foundation was classified as a private, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization under the section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.[22] The Foundation began to restructure its programming, shifting away from its earlier goals of "building democratic institutions and encouraging the development of democratic leadership" toward an emphasis on Asian development as a whole (CRS 1983).”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Asia_Foundation
True (for fission), but right now we don't need to find a fuel source that doesn't run out, we need to find one that doesn't pump CO2 out into the atmosphere.
Note the word 'typically'.

The purpose of strict liability in possession is to prevent the defense that someone does not know the legal status of an item in their possession. It does NOT prevent the defense that someone does not _know_ something to be in their possession.

For example, it is not a defense to have drugs and claim "but I didn't know they were illegal". It is a defense to claim "I did not know they were there."

In drug cases with actual possession, it is difficult to support a defense of "I didn't know they were there", which is why charges typically result in criminal liability. They drugs were physically on you, and unless you have evidence that someone planted them, it is unlikely you could establish reasonable doubt.

But in cases of electronic material for networked devices, there is most certainly an affirmative defense to counter actual possession and constructive possession. Computer devices are hacked all the time, and network & device logs exist. For example, if a prosecutor agrees to the fact that a defendant had no knowledge of the material, a judge would toss the case and a jury would not convict you. The law is not meant to pedantically convict you of non-crimes.
America got crushed by a handful of 70 IQ inbred religious nutters after spending over $2 trillion. The alternative to withdrawal is permanent occupation, but the US might be the most incompetent colonial master of all time, so it doesn't really make any sense.
One of you is performing some mildly interesting speculation out of confessed limited knowledge. One of you is being rude, insulting, claiming to be the expert, but offering no new information.

One of you is contributing to the thread, at least. It's not you.
The fundamental reason that fossil fuel is pumped out is because people buy it, and the price is a reflection of where supply curve meets the demand curve.

People will choose to buy less if alternatives are cheaper and accomplish the same needs, but with something like fossil fuels where all the infrastructure is already setup and fossil fuels are convenient, the end user price going down almost certainly means demand going up.

The only way less fossil fuel is consumed is if people cannot afford it (equivalent to prices rising) or if people prefer something else. Or if there are less people overall period.
The Afghan people who by and large do not want Taliban rule.
I am truly sorry for your loss in that your brain is implemented using regex.

I meant "white collar big boys", but I did not bother to edit as I'm writing.

The guy above is claiming everyone who is against apple's yet-another-bogus-TPM-style-snakeoil is a little geek who does not understand anything outside their little tunnel.

Also now that I re-read his comment:

> Edit: After digging in, HN commentary is missing the most relevant details about this particular implementation. iCloud image checking compares to known CSAM image hashes - this means effectively zero false positive rate.

False: it's a perceptual hash. Ignoring the fact that if for some reason you choose to let people host stuff in your icloud account (perhaps as a neat hack), which may be out of terms of service, but certainly not worth 20 years of jail: perceptual hashes have false positives, and can confuse images that appear harmless but were crafted to look like $badimg. But you don't have to be technical to understand that having your devices police you is bad, you just have to not be blinded by politics and boogeyman your state has sold you.
So, nuclear then.
Depends on how much compiler extensions across multiple compilers one wants to be knowledgeable on.
Too bad we couldn't at least have done some sabotage of equipment left behind. Hell, just slashing tires on the humvees for starters, would make a pretty big dent in their immediate usefulness. But there are probably other low-effort ways to make them difficult to repair.
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