skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit." It's interesting how the same crowd that once chanted this in favor of action on global warming etc. is the crowd that wanted everyone locked down or restricted until grandma's (or more recently immuocompromised or even kids) at 0% risk regardless of the second-order consequences.
I'm not even remotely surprised, and that doesn't really change my point.
Am I mistaken that those 200 amps are distributed among billions of transistors? Is there any point where there is a single conductor carrying 200A?

I would have thought that the actual power distribution is done some other way. How does this 200A actually work in practice? Do they start with higher voltage and step down? This poor analogy means I don’t understand the problem that’s been solved.

I would really have liked to learn this from the article, but instead all I can think of is the one noisy compressor in my 20yo fridge sucking down 6A (probably 3A where I live) over cables almost as thick as a CPU is wide.
Same way I can expect my phone operator to not change meaning of my texts between me and my wife but allow me to block messages from strangers I don't want to be bothered by.
According to the internets the best quality of life is somewhere in australia https://citymeme.com/?search=&o=quality_of_life
Downvotes scale much better, both temporally and spatially. Boos take more energy, presence and surprisingly even investment.
It’s moving, it’s just going to take a long time to get to where it needs to be. Personally I would be focused entirely on performance if I were to start making improvements.
Having worked professionally in lisp, I have no idea why people say this.
I live in a house with a decent garden and opposite a park. Both of which are absolutely rammed with wildlife. Which is nice.

However I completely agree with you:

"We are still thinking of nature and animals as being self-sustaining, the way they have been in the past, but more and more it's becoming apparent that we have to not only reduce harm, but also step in and help, to become true caretakers of the biome."

We humans now dominate the biome. Completely. We can no longer rely on it to function on its own. I personally gave up on the notion of "natural", with regards a British environment a long time ago. For example I have a huge number of non native plant species growing here in my garden. What does non-native or native actually mean anyway? Are apples native? - not really (Roman introduced but work well - only about 2000 years local.) Oak? probably been here for quite a few years but check your subspecies out.

We used to have a whopper of a walnut tree here. It died two years back and we had it cut down. It was over 50' tall and when I found myself spending more time at home instead of at work recently, I noticed that wood peckers and pigeons and others used it. I saw a series of circuits. The ravens would start from next door and whizz off clockwise and the pigeons would randomly fly everywhere. The woodpeckers would simply appear and start whizzing around. It's quite hard to describe but I'd be happy to formally log stuff for a study.
Agreed. The paragraph above it explains that Meta is probably the alt key.

The terminology itself is kind of a relic from the past (it's gotta be Alt on 99.9% of emacs users' systems), but it's explained very clearly.
if fix is supposed to keep the paper from discoloring over time, which is not immediately aparent, how do you know when your fix needs to be replaced?
> there were fellow travelers with various camps behind the scenes and money flowed in deniable ways.

The ones that stick in my mind were a guy called Florian Mueller who seemed unreasonably determined that Linux was ‘stolen’ and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution which put out papers claiming that Linux could not have been written by Linus as operating systems are just too complex, and must have been borrowed from Minix.

Both appear to have had significant Microsoft backing.
Twitter suspends Alex Berenson
I thought about buying one when you could still get one for half-nothing, but then the new film came out and the price zoomed.
> Honesty of participants for sensitive topics like sexual behavior and drug use that could have serious consequences for them.

One way to help get around that is to ask the respondents to flip a coin—heads they answer truthfully, tails they answer falsely. This gives the respondents plausible deniability and the true underlying rates can still be estimated statistically from the raw results.
You can't blame colonialism for China's pre-colonial-period problems, but you sure as hell have to give it the lion's share of credit for it's colonial problems.

Colonialism in China ended in 1945, a generation after the Qing dynasty. That time period was not a great time to live there, between the Japanese occupation, the civil war, and the country being split amongst a gaggle of warlords.

Whether or not the country would have developed without all of that is an open question. But if we were to ask whether not all those things were preventing development, the answer is 'Obviously, yes.'
Disabling javascript (via the dev console) and reloading the page did the trick for me.
I think I missed it too. I didn't even downvote.
Back in 2001, when I saw it for the first time on my Honeymoon, I would have had likely picked San Francisco. My understanding is that things have gone way down hill in the 17 years since my last visit, which makes me sad.

Right now, I think I'd like to live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, up on the bluff that overlooks lake Michigan... but I can't possibly afford it.

I'm just outside Chicago right now, it hasn't imploded into Detroit or Gary levels of decay yet, but I'm worried. They deliberately let the riots go for days last year, and there have been more than 150 expressway shootings this year... it's rapidly becoming a no-go zone.
Would the exploit have been possible without this, though? Possibly but it would have been that much harder to accomplish. I think it's a fair if overdone observation that C is a bad language to use if you want to minimize the incidence of RCEs.
It's important for reviewers to keep their eye on what people are saying about a product. I after they review something, user reviews don't line up, they should purchase a unit themselves and redo their testing. If the testing shows a change, then they should both shame the company and stop accepting review units from that division of the company so they can be sure they're not getting hand-picked samples.
Magit performance issues are definitely disappointing and I definitely wish it had a better out of the box experience. However there are plenty of resources on how to improve its performance. It's really only on big monorepos where it's frustratingly slow after mitigations. But again I agree it should have a better out of the box experience and I'm sure the maintainers agree.
Every one of us has the spore of an inner crank, or more than one, only waiting for air and moisture to burst forth.
I am surprised your legal team would not help you develop a better communication strategy. I can understand why you are upset, but like I said both your post and the website copy are difficult to read. I think you should consider talking to a communications specialist, because what seems obvious to you is somewhat mysterious to a passing stranger.
Do you think HN would be a better place if it didn't have moderation (or, as you put it, "censorship")?
The same law is having an effect on personals ads hosted in the USA, too. See Craigslist shutting its personals section. Many other personal ad sites now prohibit explicit sexual solicitation. Not because that doesn't suit the tastes of the operator or the users (you could always find places that prohibited that of course); but now because of the human trafficking and pornography laws. If an enslaved person were to have a profile created for them by their enslaver, which solicited explicit sexual information and/or had nude photos, the site operator could be liable for that regarding prostitution/human trafficking, even if it looks like a normal profile. The result is either subscription services with aggressive moderation, or more often simply prohibiting that altogether.
I have many times submitted jobs related to helping solve protein folding from within Emacs (shell buffers). It helps a lot to have the editor operating on the shell inputs and outputs.
Wow, people on HN are really downvoting posts that take a position against censorship on this thread.
Cook County judge strips mother of parental rights over vaccination status
I used 98se for a long time, well into the Vista era --- and indeed the lack of protection affects stability, but that also means the stability is directly related to what software you run; and indeed if you regularly used the mass quantities of sub-par "shovelware" that was prevalent in those days, it would definitely make it seem like the OS was crashing constantly, when it was actually the software you added on top that caused it.

On the other hand, I didn't have much of a problem maintaining multi-week uptimes simply due to the fact that I kept the system relatively "clean" and wasn't trying out new apps every day.
Interesting. Haven't heard actually heard of many games that only run on Linux. Are there more examples of this? I know this game is very old, so there might not be many examples these days.
You can use my python script [1] to get a list of urls. For example

get_urls.py "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28232165&p=2"

[1] - https://github.com/KamarajuKusumanchi/rutils/blob/master/pyt...
I'm not sure if I agree or disagree with you -you definitely have a point,though.

From my point of view it's less commercial vs non-commercial (though I think most of the problems either stem from, or are aggravated by commercial factors) as much as it is diversity versus consolidation.

Ten, fifteen years ago there was a greater number of varied forums and social gathering places with a greater number variety of viewpoints. Now while there's the odd vb bulliten board here and there you have fewer and fewer populated forums -everything seems to have coalescened (socially speaking) into twitter and facebook.

Basically, from my point of view, Social Media has consumed the rest of the social internet (meaning forums). I think there's more than one cause for that but that's what I see as the main thing making the past superior to the present -the ability to not just have your own place, but to have a chance at it reaching out to more people than just you and your friends.
This is the 1st Waymo user review I've read. Thx for the post. Did you notice if the company has install road signs/hardware that help the cars complete their trips? I would think that would be possible since they have a small service area.
It felt like actual tool or big box filled information you could dug through and find stuff you needed. It wasn't restricted by corporate greed or policed by variety of groups who were trying to impose opinions, policies or "culture" on other people claiming at the same time it's for everyone's sake. It wasn't of course a perfect place but it wasn't commercialized as it is today - and that's what happen: the years of simplicity we're done and it was necessary to make the Internet appealing and accessible to average people, by a certain price.

Seeing the monopoly of Google in browser sector, the whole predatory ads sphere, manipulative social media and the attitude corporations and politicians have towards ordinary people regarding the technology, I don't think I want to see what will be the next big thing in the evolution of the Internet and related tech.
Programming is full of things where what works for one person isn't at all what works for another.
TL;DR - I only ever used LISP and nowadays I spend my time writing LISP dialects literally no one cares about but me.
What will happen to the $699/CPU (minus discounts) licensing fee SCO demanded to companies using Linux back then? Apparently, a certain number of them paid to avoid litigation. Does it mean they can call back for a refund?
Probably the flavor that leads to burning black churches and attempting to overthrow US democracy?
> socialism is as economically illiterate as anti-vaccine opinions are medically illiterate to you

Edgy comment, but unfortunately, even with all the sophisticated jargon and advanced mathematics, economics isn't a real science with objective truths, but medicine is. Don't get me wrong, I too believe that capitalism is the only form of economic system that works, but to equate socialists (however misguided you think they are) with anti-vaxxers is a bit much.
At this point I don't believe real change will happen until the majority of voters are somehow personally affected by this epidemic of overdoses. Canadian society has a very strong puritanical undercurrent to it that is rarely acknowledged. I've heard in casual conversation people say that addicts overdosing is a "problem that solves itself". Until these peoples' views are changed, the suffering will continue.
Tesla on part-automated drive system slams into police car
> the unaliased

I think you mean 'aliased', or 'un-antialiased'. 'Unalised' would be good.
Andddddddd I want to rip my fucking hair out by the root!

Going to try again tomorrow :S
You Suddenly Need to Delete Google Chrome
> we should now actually try to catch it to develop a natural immunity to the virus.

We should catch it to get immunity so we don’t catch it ?

I don’t get your thinking here
NSFW warning: First image in the article shows (slightly obscured) anal penetration in a photo that is a cover of a magazine.

Doesn't bother me, but may not be a safe click for some of you.
But those comments from dead useres can be "vouched" for if they appear to be in good faith, and one or more of those seems to take people out of dead status, I think. I'm not sure what points threshold grants that ability, or how long it has existed, but I do it every few month or so when I see a comment that seems to be perfectly fine but the comment is dead.

I think that might be a pretty good mechanism, all said and done. Someone acts in a way the community doesn't accept enough times they go dead, and then if they act acceptably they start getting people responding and participating to them as they come out of dead status. They only get attention, and positive attention, from acting responsibly.
That's beside the point I was making, as I said;

>You can argue whether or not moderation is necessary or not but it most definitely is censorship.

Moderation is censorship, and censorship is evil. It may be a necessary evil (because liability if nothing else) but it needs to be seen and treated as evil. Meaning to be used as sparingly as possible.
I don't think we have imagined that in any sci-fi anticipation books or movies. At least Crypto Kitties required design skills.
About this case in particular, one problem I have is that they seem to censor the entire domain. Most of the content on that site is bad and definitely violates Facebook's rules. A lot of it is straight up lies made up by the site owner for political purposes.

However, some articles on the site are just political opinions about the CCP. Because Facebook blocks those, I think the merits of this censorship at a coarse grain are worth discussing.
Re 1), virtual cards are useful if you can get them (banks that I use stubbornly refuse to provide them; same story with subaccounts). But it feels like doubling-down on the bad mental model.

Cards make sense in meatspace, not on-line. Virtual cards are stretching the analogy already. Short-lived virtual cards are pushing it to the limits. What users need is the ability to generate single-use payment authorization tokens. Talking about "cards" carries too much irrelevant meatspace baggage; we've already worked out different, better-fitting abstractions for digital use.
That’s really nothing new.
Well, as the Italians say, "yes, and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bicycle."
Yes, I agree censoring info on a well-known, FDA-approved drug is "dumb and stupid."
Nobody understands...it's incessant distractions to keep everyone off balance...including Afghanistan...the major black Swan that is coming will make you forget all your nit picky squabbles...and Sars

Food and water will be weaponized, and you won't be able to get any at any price...you've ignored the food shortage headlines so far...and you haven't prepared, so it's your fault...possible war in the far East too...

Sep 5 Tyson foods is jacking up the price of chicken...
What do the engineers who code stuff like this think? Do they not feel bad or is it masked by the salary they get paid?
Weird. I guess it's different for non citizens.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...
It's not immediately obvious that the excess deaths are lockdown related deaths. There's also a growing overdose epidemic among that age group, for example.
Unfortunately, I don’t think we have any definitive answer as to what those measures really did to prevent covid deaths, nor do i think will we ever (eg: the recent debate on sweden handling of covid)
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With the world's cheapest website to match...
Britain invaded during a period of political instability, civil war, and factionalism immediately following the collapse of the Mughal empire. It then carried out divide-and conquer tactics, fighting India peacemeal.

During colonization, GDP, productive output, life expectancy, and quality of life in India plummeted.
>What do the engineers who code stuff like this think?

"Another day, another dollar"
>potential healthcare collapse

Hate to break the news to you but the Canadian healthcare system collapsed a long time before Corona. Just ask anyone who has been to a hospital in Toronto before Corona.
Powell won't reduce the Fed's balance sheet until every last person in PE is a billionaire (on paper).

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
In this case, the linked article contains a lie. It's not an opinion. The article claims that a study had a result that it did not have (higher viral load amongst the vaccinated). The authors of the study have already published a condemnation explaining the misunderstanding.
On the other hand the accurate comparison should be QALYs not deaths. Even leaving aside quality impacts, a 40 year old dying from lockdown-induced alcohol overdose loses far more life years than a 70 year old dying from no-lockdown COVID.
This doesn't answer my question, which I will restate:

Why is FB Messenger 'private' while Reddit DMs are 'not private'?
I wonder if that is related to dodgy subscription schemes on porn websites as well. I looked into it a few times and every portal had ridiculous hidden subscriptions. Every access pass automatically converted into a hugely expensive monthly subscription. And I presume it is similarly hidden or difficult to get out of it again.

I'm really happy to pay for content, but shit like that makes me nope right out of there and look for alternatives or not bother.
it’s very possible that she was abused and is also a bad person, that’s often how abuse perpetuates
Isn't that equivalent to an ad hominem fallacy? The truth of a fact or the validity of an argument is independent of the characteristics of the person saying it or the forum in which it was posted.
I used to read groklaw on rotation with slashdot, freshmeat and a few other sites. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot about law from it.

But speaking as an outsider, something changed and it became a bit of a torches and pitchforks site. When there was a post that was basically saying “you’re either with us or you’re against us”, I had to quit.

I thought PJ did a huge service to the community in the earlier days of Groklaw, it is certainly a part of the lore of Linux and the internet as a whole. Sad that it took such a toll on her.
> Averages like that, including for the US population, are meaningless. Your chances if you live in Englewood (South Side Chicago) are dramatically higher, while if you're in rural Utah, somewhat less. Same for prisons.

If you say so. That's not a compelling response. Any data other than "I say it's meaningless"?

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-jail...

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/06/23/jail_mortality/

etc
That's partially what the article is about. Trump pardoning Milken during his last days in the office - such a symbol of an era.
> What do you think "disprove" means in this context though?

What it means for every scientific hypothesis: it takes infinite amount of evidence to positively prove it, but it takes one counterexample to kill it. +/- the usual uncertainty caveats.

> That would mean that developing further language is impossible or even that developing the first languages would be impossible

Not necessarily. It would mean that you can't think about some concepts without first extending the language to support them. Languages still could be extended piece by piece.
The majority of software engineers simply do not care. They're in it for a comfortable career with a fat paycheck.
I am always proud to have TekSavvy as my ISP. It can be a pain getting a ticket requiring a tech to be sent out since they lease Roger's lines in my area, but it's a small price to pay for being the customer of someone that stands up for its users and the internet as a whole.
The sooner the general public learns about steganography, the better. Unfortunately, the sentiment of anti-intellectualism and blissful ignorance propagated by corporate entities who realise knowledgeable users are more difficult to control and monetise will be a big hurdle against that happening.

Edit: steganography, not stenography.
Likewise you just can't send any links with duckdns.org domain. BUT you will get (or would have gotten) a warning about that.
That depends on whether the backups are automatic and ongoing, or if they're the "scan this QR code to transfer to a new device" type. The former will be fine if the original device is lost, the latter will not be.
Maybe from John Hopkins[1]? According to them, U.S. had fatality rate of 1.6%, albeit they use confirmed infections of 38.7 million vs. CDC estimates of 120 million.

Edit: It seems like CDC is inflating their infection rates compared to almost every other source. According to this[1] they also are more in-line with John Hopkins infection rates.

To note, mortality is rather similar in all sources I can find, but only CDC says 120 million were infected.

[0] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA
yup, youtube and twitter alow blatant crypto scam videos and tweets, but ban people for questioning covid narrative. Do not ever use twitter for talking about covid or vaccines unless it is approved by cdc+who. Otherwise, you will probably be banned. maybe not immediately but eventually if you do it enough times. Not worth having your account nuked.
I certainly meant no attack on Bitcoin. I don't even have an opinion on Bitcoin.

I do have a mild beef with many of the other uses of blockchain technologies, but bad uses don't invalidate a technology.
Fair. Luckily there is an edit button :)
This seems like it shouldn't have been published until well after the operation ended and everyone was out of Afghanistan.
Have you encountered common usage that calls git a blockchain, as opposed to a DVCS or Merkle tree?
It is difficult to gauge whether a discussion or explanation will be useful, especially when it involves a complete stranger. If one is determined not to be convinced by an explanation, they always have the option to declare your explanation insufficient.
Unrelated, but I wonder if inductive charging will eventually make it's way into chips. The chip could be powered by an antenna on the board below.