skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Roughly diverges from Carter putting solar panels on the White House and Reagan not taking them off.

It's a well-known story, but it's based on spin* . Carter did not place the solar panels due to belief in climate change. What Carter and his staff did believe in was Peak Oil, and that it would occur in the 1980s. Also, Carter wanted to wean the US off Middle Eastern oil following the 1973 oil embargo and the 1979 oil crisis.

Solar panels were a part of Carter's adaptation effort, but a bigger part was oil shale and coal liquefaction, liquefaction being so incredibly polluting (CCS wasn't even considered at the time) we'd probably be looking at 5C had it been commonplace.

The actual priorities of the Carter effort are easily discoverable for anyone looking at the period:

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/17/archives/environmentalist...

* To be clear, the spin does not come from OP, but from the Democratic spin handler that years later told the solar panels story but without the context which changes the story entirely. It's easy for people to fall into the spin if they don't know the period.
Not all crypto is proof of work based. People have and are inventing better systems that reduce energy costs and provide more utility. “crypto” does not deserve a unilateral ban.
Anyone else looked found relatively reasonable instance pricing on cloud, but then calculated the bandwidth would bankrupt the company?
Apple’s move, a decade ago, to control their own silicon seems quite prescient.
I don't see how spelling out their technical definition addresses what I said. Current central bank policy guarantees that most everyone will "want" to be working to keep paying for their dwelling. Sure, technically if they changed the stimulus to basic income that was high enough to make fewer people "want" to work, then "full employment" could be achieved with less human labor. But in practice that's not how the term is used at all, because of the underlying protestant work ethic asserting that work is good for work's sake.
Writing a Nanopass Compiler – Andy Keep [video]
> The deal we have with governments is simple: the government handles justice, and in return, we don't handle it ourselves.

The deal is slightly longer: the government gets the right to handle justice, you forgo your right to pursue your personal justice, and you gain the right to not have other peoples' arbitrary sense of justice enforced upon you. And yes, the government bears responsibility for enforcement of personal justice.

If the government abdicates its role, I agree you have the right to enforce your own personal justice. You have not, however, gotten everyone else to sign away their right to not be the target of your vigilante justice.

Put another way, the subject of the "justice" may not feel that the government has abdicated their role and may be content with the way things are going. They have not agreed that the rules have changed, else I strongly suspect they would react differently. If vigilante justice is permissible, responding to vigilante justice with force is also permissible (as is their right to claim what they perceive as "justice").

I also find it a bit spurious to say that the government has abdicated their permission, but the laws are still in effect. If you and the other person have absolved your relationship with the government, the laws no longer apply, and your justification for forcibly removing someone becomes dramatically weaker. You say it's your property and they should leave, they say that was enabled by an unjust socioeconomic system and that reclaiming it was the more just thing to do, and we end up in a very subjective incarnation of justice.
This isn't new.
I was annoyed enough to write a rant about it on my website back in 2004, 17 years ago.
http://www.stentex.net/~mwandel/rants/hp_scanjet_4600.html
> irrationally motivated

This 100%. Once you've interacted with one of these people, you realize how completely insane they have to be to spend as much time as they do doing what they do. All they want is internet power. In real life, they would be that crazy guy in the neighborhood who never shuts up that people just learn to ignore because they know the man doesn't speak with any rationality. Online, they become gods.

If free speech is to be free, then godly reputation internet people should not be allowed to accumulate power, because the personality required to seek it by itself speaks volumes of how opinionated, undemocratic, authoritarian, and morally challenged they are.
Exactly that. It is amazing that a bunch of isolated developers has the ability to inflict such damage on the web by breaking backwards compatibility.
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’, trying to blame individuals
Standups are a great example of unintended consequences.

They're supposed to make people stop the meeting when their feet get tired.

Instead, they've just made people very good at standing for half an hour or more.
Let’s Not Pretend That the Way We Withdrew from Afghanistan Was the Problem
On one platform team, we had a rule, if 3 or fewer present at a standup, we can each optionally sit.
I saw some replies to the OP where people were implying that the study results have been known for some time and there's some kind of fanatical, pro-vaxx conspiracy which was suppressing this information. This is what motivated my original post.

Other than that, I agree with pretty much everything you just said. One thing to keep in mind when it comes to policy however, is data quality. The vaccine trials were double blind, controlled studies, which are the highest quality of medical study. This is why the short term, vaccine efficacy results were quickly acted on. By necessity, the OP and the studies you linked are retrospective, observational studies which are considerably more difficult to analyze correctly, and usually provide lower confidence results. Which is why the Israel study is so important (they seem to have high data quality) and why we're waiting for so many of these studies to come in before changing public health recommendation.

One concern I do have about the Israeli data is that the paper on waning vaccine efficacy is using de-anonymized data, which means that for privacy and national security reasons, it's more difficult for the scientific community to double check their results.
Ok, all I know is, that the site in question, Canistilluse.com, has as the main information, that in the next version of chrome 95, "alert" can not be considered, as working as expected by the standard.

For me, that comes a bit out of the blue - and seems to be a "making facts" attitude by chrome, not discussing things.
Isn't that exactly how you become that?
Coming up on a year since product launch and people camping out at Best Buys around the country literally last night. It's unreal.
Then you go to the standards body.
I didn't say it's for lack of space, I said it's for a lack of money. In fact, more than 10% of the homes in Spain are vacant.

I think you may be talking about your experience in a different country or about a very concrete personal experience, and not in general.
There's a very good reason Consumer Reports buys from normal retail channels.

No Consumer Reports like publication would survive for this stuff. They'd be so far behind the other reviewers, even if they had better quality data.
This sounds really cool. When you say 'around you', what kind of radius are we talking?
Many BNPLs emphasise that they don't require a credit check. This is fascinating.(1) It highlights how big of a problem credit bureaus are (i.e. there's a significant-enough group of people that want to bypass credit checks to get a loan) and (2) it shows how you can totally build a lending business that doesn't need "traditional credit data".
I don't know if I believe that. It sounds too similar to: "Building a decent search engine requires index data. Altavista has a bigger index, so Altavista is better. Simple."
People who say "they can just build their own search engine" should try Apple Maps.

Yeah, it's not bad, but from my 18 months in Google Maps, I know there's a very long tail you have to get through. They have huge teams working on problems so small you wouldn't even realize they were problems.

The first 90% of maps (or search) is easy. It's the 2nd and 3rd and 10th 90% that sucks up all the time.
I think the goal is to divide the earth into grids. Then report which grid you're in.
As parent indicated, they are machines that make chips.
May I recommend ublock origin?
1993? Not so sure about "simply because color monitors were becoming more popular around this time."

Having lived through the 80s with computers and owning a Commodore 1084 I'd say most had color much earlier.

I remember using the ViolaWww browser on a color XTerminal in 1992.
Et voilà. Conflict of interests all the way...
Keep digging!
Perhaps I'm being unfair, but that's what a journalist would do, not a UI designer writing what is essentially a piece of content marketing.
You're blaming rent control for SF not building housing even though SF rent control doesn't apply to new buildings built (and hasn't for 40 years)?
Forgive the naive question but why doesn't the US government fund several foundries in the US immediately? $20B over 3 years is a drop in the bucket compared to a lot of military spending and these chip shortages surely have downstream impact on the defense industry, no?

At this point I'd be much happier subsidizing chip manufacturing than most of the other ways this country spends money overseas.
I seem to remember (Sun workstations) that Mosaic was white while Netscape was gray.
Yep, it was back in the early 1990s.
Don't expect useful specs to be available for consumer drives. The datasheets have slowly been turned into marketing materials over the past 10 years. Only the devices targeted for business use have useful specs and even then, key details such as MTBF or similar can be missing.
“Does induced demand apply to bike lanes?” and other questions
I suggest Colombia, you can find greatest rentals for less than 300 USD, and cheap cost of life and amazing food as well. Thinking in cities like Bucaramanga, Santa Marta, etc.
People need a video to believe it
What's the best way to find ideas for niche paying side projects?
Looking back, it was really easy to build something like a domain name recommender 15 years ago or online calculators and such 10 years ago and mailing list tools 5 years ago. I had the skills for doing all of these at the time. Now is the next best time. Although I work in tech, I struggle to find small niche ideas that require very little marketing (SEO driven) and take 3 weeks to build, ship and launch. It doesn't seem so hard. Am I looking for Unicorns?
Let's hope someone comes up with a coin staked on the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere!
The VTs I've used on VMS were amber.
Does anyone know how he was eavesdropping? Was he listening to their radio talk?
the most incredible thing to me about Italian cruisine is the fact that the tomato is not even native to Italy.
What I’m Up to Now
I'm comparing how awful T-Mobile's security is to how awful his life in prison will be for leaking the private data of millions of people.

Not an apt comparison, just a very bad joke :D
Is this number correct? SSD with cache full can drop to speeds slower than spinning disk drives?
I'm not sure what the relevance of this is?
Org Mode clocking commands (Emacs), Rescuetime, Wakatime, and ActivityWatch. There is an intentional overlap between them.
Home Renovation Ideas That Everyone Should Ponder
These days, interior renovation in Cambridge can simply change the whole ambience of the house regardless of the size and this is a reason that people pay attention to the renovation projects. People believe that a large amount is required for renovating a house
The only good quality of Bitcoin is that it is completely decoupled from the economy. A bursting Bitcoin bubble doesn't take the rest of the economy with it. However, that only holds if countries don't use it as legal tender.
They were most certainly not dual booting Linux in 1993.
> If you can’t sell software you have to monetize in other ways.

What do you mean, can't sell software? Lately you can't BUY software. Everything is either free or subscription based. And they sell your data even if you pay for a subscription.
Blue links turn purple because they get red.
Absolutely; the power generation was almost a side effect of producing plutonium. This also cross funded the projects. Many of the countries with reactors have the bomb (notable exceptions: Canada, Japan, Germany)
LTE, GSM... Does it means it is now easier to build an entirely free device that can be used as a cellphone?
This article is so strange, even though it is hosted by Mozilla. Here is straight from the horse’s mouth, I remember Tim Berners-Lee reminiscing about green links originally

A: There is no reason why one should use color, or blue, to signify links: it is just a default. I think the first WWW client (WorldWideWeb I wrote for the NeXT) used just underline to represent link, as it was a spare emphasis form which isn't used much in real documents. Blue came in as browsers went color - I don't remember which was the first to use blue. You can change the defaults in most browsers, and certainly in HTML documents, and of course with CSS style sheets. There are many examples of style sheets which use different colors.

My guess is that blue is the darkest color and so threatens the legibility least. I used green whenever I could in the early WWW design, for nature and because it is supposed to be relaxing. Robert Cailliau made the WWW icon in many colors but chose green as he had always seen W in his head as green.

One of the nicest link renditions was Dave Raggett's "Arena" browser which had a textured parchment background and embossed out the words of the link with a square apparently raised area.

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html
Well, i do use contacts and dialer and the broken settings interfaces. Yep, it us all just one grand experiment. I rdcdntly had to ask where in qml land to hack my event screen. Well, that was hackable. I dint buy marketing bull from anyone. I wasnt and am not interested in the privacy angle as long as google and apple are the norm.
So `dlmopen`?
AI spots misrepresentations in legal writing: Clearbrief raises $3.5M
Not post-paid.

If you want privacy, you need to be more serious than that. Mint mobile prepaid (no personal info) on a device you bought outright in cash. Obviously, no one should know that phone number; you should do all interactions through your publicly known VOIP number that's forwarded. That phone shouldn't be turned on any time you're near home; that should be done with a separate home iPad or the like. And no traffic should ever happen outside of a VPN...
I thought I didn't know what it was when I heard of them, then realized that it's not a lock at all, it's just a row version column, with the basic rule don't overwrite without having seen what you're about to overwrite.

Same goes for `git push --force`, always use `git push --force-with-lease` instead.
LinusTechTips had mentioned that he did an A/B test with "no YouTube face" and "with YouTube face" finding it had a significant impact on the number of viewers.

I suppose we're hard wired to look for shocked expressions.
Does this imply that there’s another search engine company willing to pay Apple $14B? Who’s that? (Microsoft, I guess?)
> Of course you can always use pthread_attr_setstacksize.

No you can't, not with std::thread, which makes std::thread nearly unusable with musl.
I also found noting the Linux kernel's color schemes as rather odd.
https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic/pull/1568
If I'm reading this issue right the benchmarks in the pydantic docs are misleading

Also

> The author of this article (https://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2020/05/29/attrs-dataclasses...) poits out that replacing dateutil.parser.parse function with datetime.isoformat increases performance of attrs in 7 times.
Why should I use either? I hope that’s not an obtuse question.
Hard to answer that it depends on so much; the quality of the rx you're using, the antenna and your local environment (open field? wooded area? valley? top of a hill?).
Actually, Mozilla had a great CEO but he was "cancelled" for not being woke enough. They then hired another CEO at four times his salary who drove the company to what it is today.
The smartphone era gave the internet as a whole its Eternal September.

User growth outpaced culture absorption so the tech leaders got to direct the new culture, at least wrt to expectations on companies in the internet.
Similarly you can map out lightning strikes with similar tools/methods.
The fact that Netflix can adaptively adjust their clickbait to suit each user is pretty stunning though. That's definitely a step beyond "one thumbnail to rule them all".
I'm always happy to see dynamic programming's cooler nephew MDP show up at parties. After a few drinks, he pulls out the POMDP dance and goes home with everyone's spouse / funding.
I'm sure it's both. As in, much of what they did spend likely went to snake oil salesmen. I've met lots of security consultants who did not have backgrounds in math or compsci.
> After some trial and error, Kate realizes that Bumble doesn’t round its distances like most people were taught at school. When most people think of “rounding”, they think of a process where the cutoff is .5. 3.4999 rounds down to 3; 3.5000 rounds up to 4. However, Bumble floors distances, which means that everything is always rounded down. 3.0001, 3.4999, and 3.9999 all round down to 3; 4.0001 rounds down to 4.

How exactly would you figure that out? Of course once you have a full working solution it's easy, but how do you distinguish this when you're just tinkering with it?
Government run? The EU is about to _require_ the sort of CSAM scanning that Apple is running on devices and the rest are running on the cloud. Also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-g...

Governments have a very long ugly history.
It's not so much the convenience as the problems other carriers bring. T-Mobile has no security, and lousy coverage, and is technically incompetent, but they're fairly honest and customer-friendly.

I could tell a horror story from Verizon about a multi-thousand-dollar roaming bill from someone I knew, from Google about being completely locked out of a phone number forever from another person, and lots of others.

Pick your liability.

On the whole, I found the risk of data theft from T-Mobile to be the lesser of the evils.
The "private companies can choose to allow whatever content they want on their own platforms" people sure did a quick 180.
I hope he enjoys his free flight back to the US. The FBI has an office in Ankara.
BTW thank you for reminding what a pain mutable data are, and doubly so, mutable data that can be put into invalid by merely calling legitimate methods.
Yep. Active duty service in Canada get a shit load as well, all the stuff they already should have got as kids and at least Yellow Fever, Typhoid and, I think, Hep A.
I think I know why Netflix keeps showing movies that we have already seen. There is just not enough high quality movies that we haven't already seen (speaking for avid movie watchers). So if they skip all the good ones that we have probably already seen, it'll be a sea of mediocre ones with an occasional unwatched gem. Then we will say Netflix has mostly B-grade junk. And they can't have that truth out in plain sight.
> it should be clear that London was geographically exhausted long ago

It's clear that there are over 30,000 empty homes in London, while most flats built are way out of the range of ordinary families.

Many people are locked out of the system now, we have "affordable housing" that you need to earning about £80k to buy, the current system is utterly failing.
Yes, but what if you want to generate a new secret key? You can encrypt it and send through a channel. But, in theory, an eavesdropper can capture it and decrypt at some point in future. In QKD an eavesdropper is absolutely helpless, he can't capture traffic at all (it will be ruined otherwise).
I thought that was a nice little touch of humor.
Yellow, world!
Well said.

I will never understand why people protect oil companies. You know how in comic books there's always a villain going trying to DESTROY THE WORLD and it seems unrealistic and over the top?

Oil companies are this villain in the real world. They are doing their best to kill off humanity, for short term profit.
One could set the preferences in their browser once for ever site and maybe add exceptions like in the camera permissions dialog. Make it a simple three choice option, like only necessary (login, shopping basket) cookies, analytics and all, defaulting to necessary only.
> but the reality is that it's primarily hydro power because that's the cheapest. Thing is, in regions with cheap hydro power, the miners can use so much power they end up making power more expensive for everyone.

Err that depends.

The thing with dams is that the water can never rise above a certain level, else the structural stability of the dam is compromised. So often they have to run the dam with turbines disconnected to lower the water level since there's nobody on the receiving end.

That's also why some blocks of hydro power are very cheap (and time sensitive).
My hot take about this is that banning this stuff before it spread would have tamped down on all the stupidity going around, but once people know about it doesn't really make a difference to ban it.
Huh, I didn't except to agree with you nearly 100% on this, but I do!

These are all very legitimate concerns. But at the heart of all this is still the supply problem, the lack of housing.

I also agree that blaming this on rent control is wrong. But the real problem is enacting rent control, then saying "that's enough, problem solved." Because at the core there is still the shortage problem, which makes al the other problems worse.

Has rent control "worked"? Both yea and no. It has worked at what it is meant to do, which is great. But it hasn't solved housing, as too many proponents say it will. Similarly, more housing alone won't solve everything, but it makes all these other problems much easier.
I don't know about UIUC, but I was at university in the UK in 1993.

We had "labs" with about 30 Windows/DOS PCs in them that were for general use (meaning word-processing). Probably 1 in 100 students had their own computer (and if so it was more likely to be an Amiga or Atari ST).

My course wasn't computer-related, but I took a few computer-based modules (graphics, vision, AI, intro to programming). All of these apart from intro to programming where done on university SunOS/Solaris or Irix machines (and Intro to Programming was in Turbo Pascal for DOS on those Windows machines).

The SGI Irix machines (made famous in the original Jurassic Park) were really nice.
It really depends on the environment around you. I live deep in valley, so my range is pretty limited to line of sight.
Google search sucks nowadays anyway comapared to 20 years ago.
Around that time I brought a magazine to the web as a paid job and had endless discussions about the fact that the colors were "not accurate" and "not following CI".
You've put into words something I've been thinking about and somewhat remorseful about: when FreeBSD just exists as a different kernel to run the same Linux stuff, what's the project really? Legacy?

I find that I tend to prefer the FreeBSD take on things as well, so the Linux angle just feels weird the past few years.
Supply isn't an issue, there are plenty of empty flats already - that's market failure.