skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, th skies have looked progressively more like Bladerunner 2049 up here in Alberta for 4 summers running. We had some crops fail due to heat earlier in the season, and more are failing due to dryness now. So don't look at us.
Most of us knew this was inevitable as soon as Biden became president. What happens when weak leadership takes over is weak results. Tale as old as time.
Yes. On Friday PBS interviewed Ambassador Adela Raz, Afghanistan's Envoy to the United States and asked about this. Her response seemed a bit flimsy and not very convincing. You can see it here at 7:05 mark:

https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/newshour/episodes/august-13-2...
If comparing the same language, maybe. But the amount of boilerplate when comparing a C/C++ to rust to Java, it doesn’t work. Even then, some teams might prefer to use more dependencies and others less.
>I was wondering why this was so specific to locksmiths

Because you're locked out of your house, you usually need to get in ASAP, especially if it's late at night. You're in a vulnerable and low-knowledge position (most people aren't familiar with their local locksmiths). Its also not in a position that anyone expects to ever be in. So you call the "closest" place on Google maps.
This was contained in the publicly released treaty the US signed with the Taliban last year. No surprise. No fuss. Just theatre.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-F...

Pretty much every point in section 2 pre-supposes that the Taliban will control all of Afghanistan, from domestic security to issuing visas.
> host nestflix.fun
Host nestflix.fun not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

Is there supposed to be something in that URL?
The latency in question has to do with routers. IPv6 packets have a simpler header that does not force routers to recompute a checksum for each hop, and IPv6 allows better route aggregation which reduces the CPU overhead of route selection in some cases.
I really think we should go back to calling things that are not pure functions "procedures" or maybe "subroutine".
But that was a DC-10. It’s good share of the 400 Air Crash Investigation episodes. The first reason is that it has had a long life. The second is that it was comically badly engineered. Again, perhaps because AutoCAD didn’t exist in 1970 engineering. But the mistakes are still funny:

- They forgot to include a compas in the cockpit, so they put it in the overhead space and added mirrors to see it. It often resulted in mechanics mounting it backwards (since the mirror showed a reverse view). You have certainly see that in the movie Airplane, thinking the rearview mirrors were part of a joke.

- The MD-11, its successor, was too long, so pilots didn’t feel when they touched down, and they tended to slam the nose because of that, resulting in at least one filmed accident. The FAA shouldn’t have approved the elongation, at least not without adaptation, this was milking too much of the same cow,

- It’s a plane which loses pieces. Its successor the MD-11 lose the famous piece that broke the Concorde. This is in addition to the DC-10 losing doors in flight, due to badly engineered mechanism, and getting FAA approval to not have to replace them immediately, which caused another crash. Two plane crashes for the same cause, does it ring a bell? and FAA approving the defective aircraft again, sounds twice familiar?

In the later days, DCs were only used for postal services and not carrying passengers. Boeing bought MD circa 2003.
> But the core mechanic is swapping between different characters for combos and synergies.

The game gives you a free character of each element to handle the necessary synergies.

There's a difference between "severely hampered" and less effective at end-game content.
Tiers of Password Storage
Did you know, sea stars are dying too?

https://marine.ucsc.edu/data-products/sea-star-wasting/
This whole non-discussion upthread is summed up a whatabout|can't change. :( A serious lack of any self reflection. We are like kids that only want to eat cup cakes and buy crap only to open it and throw it away. Humanity needs to take a deep breath and mature.
https://nestflix.fun/titanic-ii/

This one had me dying with laughter! I read the punchline in Richard Attenborough's voice.
Maybe not their constituents but every policy decision is almost lockstep with the Chinese communist party agenda.
Incompleteness implies indeterminacy. Davies point is sort of pedantic but the math from Nortons paper is nondeterministic BECAUSE of incompleteness.

We know at the singularity newtons laws are incomplete so in that region you are correct. Prior to the particle entering a singularity newtons laws describe it deterministically so you are still correct.

At some unknown time when the particle exits the singularity Newtons laws still apply but are no longer deterministic, because we do not know what happened in the singularity. We do know the possible states of the particle are still bounded and controlled by newtons laws but within this boundary we are unable to fully determine its unique path if one should exist.
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That’s a great point, and a carbon dividend is probably the most politically palatable climate policy in the west right now.

If you look at one proposal, HR.2307 in the US, it says that it will introduce a $20/ton of CO2 price, which will step up by $10 per ton every year. This means that 1 gallon of gas would have an additional tax of $0.18, stepping up by $0.09 every year. Not too terrible, but any rise in the price of gas is met with hostility in the US just because many people are reliant on cars as their only source of transportation.

If the bill does attract enough support and goes to the floor, it will attract media attention. And since most media attention focuses on the most tangible immediate implications for most adults, most reporting will center on the rise of gasoline prices. This will trigger strong political opposition, in unison from huge diverse ranges of the population, regardless of how much money they would get from a redistribution of the money.
This is fantastic! It would be even better if they included relevant clips (might be hard to source).

Also, missed opportunity for "Metaflix"
Neither is fully correct.

We had working age relatives visiting us from the East in the West in the 1980s. But visa were not easily granted, not at all for people in many positions. And only for one person of a family at a time. I'm sure the Stasi checked in advance that the risk of not returning to their family was low.

Traveling from the West to the East was not free either. Officially it was only allowed to visit relatives and for cultural exchange. Individual tourist journeys were not allowed, only day visits to East-Berlin. But nobody checked very carefully whether the "relatives" were real. I had a friend of mine visit distant relatives of myself in the 1980s. They just filled in that the relationship would be cousin or something like that and nobody asked or checked. The East was interested in the money from the West. For every visiting day there was a mandatory exchange. From a Western point burning money because you could not buy anything of equivalent value for money in the East. I bought a big series of math books translated from Russian once. I fear I still haven't read them all. Maybe when I retire...
It’s not nonsense though. The implementation of NAT literally implies a stateful firewall.

I want ipv4 dead as well but to bury your head in the sand and pretend NAT doesn’t offer the protections it does only hurts your argument.

> Besides Internet was always supposed to work the way IPv6 would allow.

Yep, but the real world - where all of the unpatched IoT devices are running - has NAT at basically every home protecting devices from unsolicited connections.
The article has now been updated to correctly indicate that other than Sawyer, these events are specifically regarding TPF and not the community as a whole. Thanks to the author for clarifying things.
HN is one of my most beloved sites. It also infuriates me; and this is not a bad thing. I do not mind the down-vote if the reason is apolitical and explained. [aside note: Gackle and Bell are interesting - they are worth 15 or 20 min looking at DDG links.] And 'Dang' responses seem to be sincere at their attempts to keep HN a viable and reasonable site for techies. While I think that a few of their responses border on hilariously ridiculous, they seem to be earnest.

My answer to your question is, other than HN, probably nothing else is reasonable.

While HN is mostly by and for coding peoples, it oft provides interesting discussions of engineering, science, and society. My remaining favorite discussion forums are densely technical and increasingly narrow in scope, so would not meet your requirements.
It was definitely the late '90s, everyone was trying to copy the IE3 flat toolbar look. There was even an article in the August 1997 issue of Microsoft Systems Journal about it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060910223400/http://www.micros...
Oh yeah, the prices to buy premium currency are absolutely outrageous and I won’t even try to disagree with that. However, that really only matters if you want to collect every single character and/or get multiple copies of characters for their constellation buffs. The game is pretty generous with premium currency with most patches (the game releases updates on a 6 week schedule) giving enough currency for around 45-50 pulls. You can also pay $5 for the monthly subscription that gives you enough currency for 18.75 more pulls over 30 days. This is really the only way of buying extra premium currency that isn’t outrageously overpriced. My main point was that you don’t have to buy extra premium currency to have fun with the game or beat it.
I keep an eye on the RSS feed of new notes in my neighborhood. Responding to these is fun and satisfying.
I wonder if somebody became a police officer with the sole intent of cracking down on this type of crime, would be even be allowed to work on it?
Optimizing some SQL queries for https://histre.com/ Just managed to reduce the time taken by one query (run by a cron job for this feature: https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/) from 43s to less than 0.1s
Old aircraft do get turned into drones, for training and R&D purposes though, not for combat.
There is no world government to levy a global carbon tax.
It's almost like performance art. Every now and then some lawmakers dutifully "raise concerns" about surveillance capitalism and the outsize rewards (and subsequent influence) it's combination with the extreme scalability of tech brings about - but it's really meaningless. Even if, every now and then, there is enough outrage to meaningfully delay something it always dries up and the lawmakers feel zero pressure to resist the issue the next time it surfaces in another guise.

Thankfully palm print recognition for in person payments isn't that bad in the scale of everything else going on.

What does intrigue me though is how happy governments seem to be with ceding so much information & control to the corporations. I know the Chinese govt. is cracking down on this suddenly but western govts. don't seem that interested in doing so. Maybe we really are destined for some sort of Snow Crash future where companies can replace governments...
Facebook already has way too much power over the data of way too many citizens, and they continue to buy up data lakes left and right. This is what is upsetting European regulators and anti-trust agencies.

The article quotes the CMA:

> Alternatively, it could change the terms of this access – for example, Facebook could require Giphy customers, such as TikTok, Twitter and Snapchat, to provide more user data in order to access Giphy GIFs. Such actions could increase Facebook’s market power, which is already significant.

And then, as if to show that the author hasn't understood a tiny bit of the issue at hand, he writes:

> Putting aside the logic that someone would switch to using Facebook because of GIFs (I love GIFs as much as the next person, but come on), the CMA argues that Giphy was in the process of building up an ads business that would have competed with Facebook.

It's not "building an ads business", the issue the CMA has is that everyone and their dog, including people not on Facebook, uses Giphy - which means that if Facebook were to buy Giphy they could scoop up an awful lot of data.
They would not have stayed surrendered.
I started work on a (webpacker-like) esbuild integration for Rails: https://github.com/bouk/esbuilder

It works, but needs UX work, documentation and more extensive testing to be appropriate for general use
It takes massive amounts of energy to generate the hydrogen if you split it from water. If you break it out of methane, it also take a lot of energy and secondary product is a lot of CO2. Then it takes more energy to compress the H2. for all that, it’s not clear that there are other significant benefits over batteries for most applications.
TLDR: They don't know, nobody knows.

But never-mind, its a Sunday, which means its Sunday Slow News day articles from BBC Online News.

UK Taxpayers money going into clickbait garbage articles like this.

> "Until every bully racist and scammer is off this app, we're going nowhere," he says in one video.

Translation: Extreme. An impossible mission to sweep every person I disagree with off of the app, and they will never stop until they do. Basically forever.

It isn't their job to moderate users. Given that they signed up as a user and agreed with the T&Cs. Thus, they must follow the TikTok guidelines and ironically these guys are breaking them. So what is the point?

Not only it is an impossible commitment, but at some point they are going to get bored and just leave. They are only doing this for the followers, media attention and more importantly for the moment.

Why does the BBC bother to give coverage to nonsense like this?
Https prevents ad injection.
The Personal Sustainability Quiz
> I think the main difficulty is getting along with recursion

meh, recursion is easy. Recursion is mainstream. It _began_ as a way to fake a loop without mutation, but I struggle now to remember a mainstream language without it.

The hardest part is all the new patterns you have to grok, it's like learning programming again from a blank slate, because it kinda is. It doesn't get any easier when Haskell decides it needs 7 new syntaxes and someone rushes to compose them all in one line.
I'm a long term optimist. Humanity always gets better, eventually.

The problem is we have short lifespans so small setbacks in humanity's history are significant to those of us alive at that point in time.

I don't think things will be too bad though. Governments are becoming authoritarian but there's already enough resistance and protest, at least in some places.

The future is looking bright. We'll figure out the global warming thing (probably with technology), there's no appetite for large scale war, in many ways the world is becoming closer (thanks to technology). The main obstacle now is inequality, the tyranny of oligarchs and government corruption.
As I’ve said multiple times in this thread, looking at nationwide data for the US is misleading. The US is really a collection of small countries (states) each with its own distinct public health policies and cultures. Vaccination rates in adults vary widely between states. You need to look at states like Mississippi which is currently in the grip of an epidemic and has low vaccination rates.
https://archive.is/BsVFh
Was this due to storing them as something other than strings?
First you ignored the direct evidence that being a dying industry is why capacity factors have been increasing. Total installed capacity of nuclear reactors in 2018: 402.04 GW total installed capacity worldwide in 2020: 397.78 GW that’s the opposite of growth. https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/WorldTrendNuclear...

Next your comparing a single year process with a multi year construction process. Even China takes over 5 years on average to construct a reactor. So your 12% is under 2.4% per year and in practice looking at when things are coming online it’s below 2%.

Personally I don’t have an issue with Nuclear. I was looking to go into the industry so I started trying to predict the market, and things look bleak outside of China.
Won't load? Slashdot-ed or trade mark violation take down of the domain?
Moreover, it is not just the weight budget of storage

>>The Plasma Kinetics founder said that his company’s solution weighs only one-third of batteries for the same amount of energy.

To compare to battery storage, one needs to compare both the storage and electrical conversion solution, so in this case, is the [weight of the storage cassette] + [weight of fuel cell making electricity] less than [weight of batteries yielding same KWh of electricity]?

If they can make that work, they are on to something. I hope they are, but we really need to know the full picture.
Also interesting to note that a two-engine craft ordinarily has 200% the power it needs to operate, whereas a three-holer might only have 150%.
I read an article somewhere about how it's possible the idea of the "overview effect" might actually just be putting a positive spin on the earlier "breakaway effect" or "break-off phenomenon". I thought it was this [0] article by Gwern, but on rereading, while it discusses both effects, it doesn't seem to actually make that claim. Hm. Wonder what I was thinking of.

[0] https://www.gwern.net/Scanners
A tale of two armies: why Afghan forces proved no match for the Taliban
According to the second rule, Genie couldn't bring people back from the dead.
In a capitalist economy everyone is working on increasing economic inequality. It seems for simplicity sake the question of what sorts of industry generate value should be separated from a question of whether corporations should be contributing to inequality.
The reasons, for those interested but not going to read it, the final one seems a slam dunk too:

Advertisements are generally not considered offers in contract law: “Ads for the sale of goods (TV, radio, newspaper, newsletter)… are merely the requests to offer or negotiate” and an advertiser must accept an offer from a customer for it to be legally formed.

The ad was obviously a joke: An “ordinary, reasonable person” would conclude that a soft drink company would not give away a fighter plane as part of a promotion.

An enforceable contract requires both parties’ signatures: Under existing law, any contract for the sale of goods worth $500+ must be evidenced by writing; Pepsi did not sign anything.
15-150 (during my time), but it wasn’t the intro to programming - the course is titled “introduction to functional programming”. The intro to programming is Python (unless it changed).

The trajectory for students is Python to C to SML (15-110 to 15-122 to 15-150). Some people take the C and SML courses in the same semester.

I was really happy to have been introduced to many different paradigms over the course of a few years. But to both your points, once we moved on to Java I had a really bad time.
Ex-military planes exist and can be flown. The fuel problem is easily solved by setting up a business around it and selling rides. This was done with several other jets.

Recently the FAA has been making this hard, by not allowing passengers on planes that don't have a full certificate of airworthyness.
Spite and/or sending a message/being seen to send a message to Facebook seem like likely factors.
> However, allowing a user to intentionally let a piece of software listen for outside connections is in no way insecure.

Unless you care about security of course. “A user” in your sentence can quite frequently be vulnerable or malicious software.
It's the same world, yours just has a shorter planning horizon.
> the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this "pale blue dot" becomes both obvious and imperative

Change of perspective doesn't change objective reality of human nature as the latter is immutable and outside control of observer, while the prior is very mutable and anyone can warp it as much as tech allows them.
Ah, forgotten about that. Yes, you're right. Corrected, thanks!
America Failed Afghanistan
Beyond that, the people they send out are low paid and only trained to drill the lock and install a new one (for ~$300+) where if you got a reputable locksmith they would just be able to pick it for much cheaper. The scam companies will quote $25 over the phone ("if we can pick it") and the caller assumes that's the normal condition.
In one corner, we have technologically behind the curve government bureaucrats and mediocre lawyers, in the other, we have bottomless pockets and the best lawyers money can buy...

Fight!!!
Lol, this is me, a 100x dev, screwed over by big co employer. Decide to go solo and slowly build a company to compete with them. Started part time 12 years ago. I think I could easily hit $1B valuation within 10 years. It is already super profitable and still growing. Eventually I’ll cost the competitors so much business that it’ll be much cheaper for them to buy me out for $Bs. If not it’ll still throw off $Ms in cash per year.
Is there good data on which languages are actually used? I have noticed amongst students that Rust seems to be really popular amongst people in a meme-like fashion.

Don't get me wrong, I do like Rust, but I think these surveys are pretty dull to me.
The measure becomes the target [1] and now the entire product is just a story. But not in an accidental way, if you can sell the snake oil to your customers and your funders in an obvious way, you don't have to do the rest.

Our tech bubble is overfitting. Selecting for characteristics that don't affect the outcome we claim we want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I think it would constitute fake advertising if they accepted his money but failed to uphold their end of the bargain by giving him a functional jet. It's not fake advertising if Ford advertises a truck for $25k but then fails to sell one to you because, for example, they ran out of chips and couldn't make enough trucks.
The (IMHO wonderful) film Real Genius riffed on the real-world examples of people trying to exploit corporate sweepstakes:

"When Lazlo Hollyfeld (Jon Gries) sends in a large number of entries to the Frito-Lay contest, he is mirroring the actions of Caltech students Steve Klein, Dave Novikoff and Barry Megdal, who, in 1974, used a similar strategy to win a McDonald's sweepstakes. Their entries came to roughly 1/5th of the total entries and won them a station wagon, $3,000 cash and $1,500 in food gift certificates."

"It said enter as often as you like, so I did."
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It'd be a pretty exciting day for anyone within 100km or so of the impact site.

https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?d...

For a water impact, probably a high surf day for an even larger region.
Stronger and more flexible.
So this is a actually a victory?
Nobel Disease
he didn't even need the investors' money given that he knew the check would never be cashed.
the asia countries love their weird pizza toppings. i saw a pizza being advertised with real spiders on it, but they had other toppings which were about equally as weird. at the time almost any pizza was 40-50 USD.
I often say that high dev salaries are both a blessing and a curse for entrepreneur-minded devs. The opportunity cost and bar for success can be insanely high
Revising the 25th instalment (and the last one, finally!) of my booklet series, made of specialised literature reviews summaries for the general public. This one is about Fashion.
Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
If you have an open source project and you really need it, don't pay for support (by default at least) - pay someone to work on it, for you.