skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure why you’re being down-voted; elements of the counter-cultural left has been skeptical of science for decades.

The profit-motive is at odds with the nobler pursuit of science and companies like Monsanto, Exxon, Dow Jones are on the wrong side of history. Unfortunately, distrust of “big pharma” mutates into a suspicion of science in general – and the medical sector in particular. There also isn’t a catchy phrase to describe “big holistic/wellness/organic”.

When people (regardless of political persuasion) give up trying to understand the complexities of reality and instead, look for easy answers that appeal to them on an emotional level, they leave themselves vulnerable to all sorts of wacky ideas (many of which can be traced back to good old-fashioned anti-Semitism like George Soros and a shadowy cabal controlling the world).

George Monbiot recently published an article about this issue from a European perspective: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/22/leftwi...

Article from last year from an Australian perspective: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/wellne...
Being near a populated area is not a factor for these sites, particularly if you are geologically stable.

Look at the map from the US, many sites of varying level are extremely close to major metropolitan areas. They are often deep underground.
Group effort to study the mathematical sciences for “saving the planet.”
they have also build hundred of steam reactors that have a modular heating system - while currently served with a coal system can be exchanged by nuclear heating anytime
Computers, mainframes, client-server, PC revolution.

E-mail, blogs, LiveJournal, MySpace, FaceBook… ?
Has Apple ever factored user feedback into its designs? They seem pretty dictatorial in how they approach UX.. "Apple knows best, user will adjust."

<-- typing this from a Mac, while learning how to use iPad's opaque gestures...
For a recent small project, I tried out deta.sh. It takes out the pain of devops entirely, but it does constrain you on the architecture and database side of things.
Implicit in this argument is that Americans ever did trust their government. Has that actually ever been the case? I mean the whole country is founded on distrust of government as one of the principles.
France is only reducing to 50%. That still means France will be the world leader in nuclear energy. I'm not sure why both pro nuclear and anti-nuclear people see this as the end of nuclear power in France. Far from it. Energy should be well diversified. This is a good move for France and nuclear in general. There are some advantages to solar and wind but they can't support the entire network itself. France's goal is to start by increasing solar and wind and completely eliminate coal first. This move is neither anti-nuclear nor pro-coal.
Nuclear is expensive with a $200 million liability cap for accidents. By comparison, that's roughly 0.2-0.5% of what the total cost of dealing with Fukushima will cost.

If we think it's over-regulated the first regulation that should go should be that $200 million liability cap.

Then perhaps private insurers can decide for themselves what level of safety is required to protect them from a potential $1 trillion cleanup cost they'd be on the hook for.

If the nuclear industry can convince them it's worth it at all, that is.
Is this for Apple's data collaboration with OpenStreetMaps? I don't get it — both countries seem have very good coverage in OSM, but not in Apple Maps.
> The transition from the law being what a monarch speaks (the scribes may use writing but what is written is only the law because of who spoke it) to a state governed not by some monarch's speech but by a written document.

I don't think this is related. There were illiterate communities where law was communal not autocratic and the leaders were elected. In fact autocracy often came to these places bundled with writing system and one flavor of christianity or another.
How many have been affected by emissions because we let perfect be the enemy of good? We don't go out with a bang with coal, no spectacular single point to focus attention. Nonetheless people are dying early right now this minute because it's easier to dismiss the actual long drawn out deaths than the theoretical ones.
Isn't this true for any abstraction, though? If the person who wrote it is inaccessible, you have to understand it by reading the source.
Just because it's been said many times before, doesn't mean it was wrong each of those times. There may be periods where children get worse, and times when children get better. I believe your 'rebuttal' is whig history; a fallacy wherein you assume that history has a linear narrative, trending inexorably only in one direction.

Where is the society of Socrates today? Athenian hegemony peaked during Socrates lifespan. But you assume his observations about the declining society he was witness to are wrong? Why? Because we have such marvelous advanced technologies and social ideas today and you interpolate a straight line between these points? That interpolation is whig history.
No, the Gallup poll says 12% Americans say they trust Congress. People say they do not trust politicians, but the fact is that when politicians speak people listen. Politicians know this and that is why they always give soundbite-oriented remarks and lines of questioning in their various hearings and "debates."
Lazard do not factor in the cost of accommodating the vagaries of wind and solar into these figures.

As just one example - when the wind turbines aren’t running, your lights are still on. That power comes from somewhere and that somewhere has a cost to keep it available.

That cost is passed on to electricity consumers but not the source of the problem - wind and solar generators.
i feel like nearly all blockchain systems end up creating a massive mess of completely centralized search & marketplace systems. this marketplace feels like yet another an massive admission that blockchain/crypto tech can't/won't decentralize.

i really miss bittorrent. 20 years ago we were just trying to connect with one another, trying to share information, trying to search through information (via peer exchange & peer exchange search extensions). we weren't obsessed with consensus, with proof-of-x, with scarcity; the digital was becoming vastly connected, with none of these constraints.

i increasingly feel like search/marketplaces/knowing the available info is the primary thing that needs disruption, that it's at the core of most of the hard problems of the internet & connectivity, and i feel like the mainstream world has seen practically no disruption in 20 years.
The most frustrating aspect of articles like these, to me, is the presence of the implication that the author actually understands the issue at hand, hidden away in the final few paragraphs. This article serves as an almost paradigmatic example:

>"How to interpret these insights will ultimately depend on your opinions of Frances Haugen and Facebook. Is Haugen a hypocrite that knew exactly how to fix Facebook’s problems and did little to sway the company during her tenure?"

Well, there's not really too much evidence here toward that conclusion--

>"Or is she a frustrated subject matter expert trying to effect change for the greater good of society? Let us know what you think in the comments."

Ah, I see.
> https://github.com/Flowx08/Celegans-simulation

Does it have microtubules?

>#define RANDF() (double)rand() / RAND_MAX

Looks like they tested indeterminism, but it's not used in the final version.
> The plan is to make it an us vs them issue. Again, it's intentional and cynical.

Why doesn't everyone see things clearly for what they are. If its obviously 'the plan' .
Nuclear isn't dispatchable - most reactors have a design output and are not intended to be ramped up and down. They require a big chunk of actual dispatchable power (natural gas mainly) to provide demand following. LACE is a measure which takes into account the value of the generated electricity as well as the cost of production but nuclear does poorly here also as much of its output occurs when wholesale prices are low.
Could you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for a different kind of site than that, and you've unfortunately been doing a lot of it.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> American perspective, no matter what the government told people to do, there was going to be a contingent of people that would do the exact opposite because we are a stubborn and distrustful people.

Right, but you have to start somewhere. The reason we are distrustful is because past experience with the US government has taught us to be distrustful. The first time the US government applies this idea to trust the people and give truthful information, it probably won't go super well. People will still doubt and mistrust. Trust is built over time, not just by saying "yeah, we've been lying forever now, but trust us, we're going to start telling the truth now".

The answer shouldn't be "well, the people aren't going to trust us anyway, so we shouldn't bother being truthful". That's just self-fulfilling the lack of trust, and perpetuates the problem.

Someone else pointed out that telling the truth can also allow you to use social pressure to get what you want. As you point out, telling people "masks don't work so don't bother hoarding them" didn't work; people still hoarded them and there was a shortage. And people who hoarded early could later put on a smug grin and say, "yeah, I knew what was going on from the start and did the right thing". If the government had instead said "masks can help, but we need to reserve the supply for hospitals and first responders", then you create social stigma around hoarding masks. It won't stop hoarding 100%, but it can help. At least you probably won't be worse off than the shortages we ended up having anyway, and, meanwhile, you've taken a step that increases trust. And you paint the hoarders as anti-social and selfish.
> Whether or not capitalism can be classified as oligarchic or democratic, I would argue that capitalism has pervaded the world and is a stronger force at this point than any political system, ruler, or ideology.

Liberal capitalism is both a political (politico-economic) system and an ideology. It also peaked in its dominance of the developed “West” (an imprecise term by any geographic interpretation, due to exports and alignments and remnants of colonialism putting Western outposts all over the globw, but there's no really good alternative, either) a bit over 100 years ago, the modern politico-economic system that pervades the developed West is a hybrid of socialism and capitalism (“the modern mixed economy”) derived through a process of proletarian reaction against capitalism very similar to the early stages of motion away from feudalism toward capitalism through bourgeois reaction against feudalism (though much faster).

State capitalism is also a significant politico-economic system and ideology, though a different one than liberal capitalism, and arguably still on the upswing (state capitalist regimes, without any exceptions I am aware of, all borrow the rhetoric of class-participatory socialism, but have practical rule by a self-selected cadre that exercises power through, among other key levers, exclusive control of the means of production.)
Heh, try a 2M radio with a mag mount antenna on the roof. Even without repeaters I've been impressed with the range.

The amateur radio tech license is really easy, I'd say about half is common sense along the lines of do no harm, just an evening or two of studying to get enough of the 30 ish multiple choice questions to pass.
Bullshit. Storm in a teacup. One day you'll grow up.
I'd say the opposite. Elizabeth Holmes subverted the rules because she thought she knew better, and never learned the rules, much less mastered them.
Building them in series tends to make per-unit cost come down.
Doesn't "diffusion and buoyancy" technically describe the weather, too?
Admittedly I'm not super familiar with this, but my impression is different. E.g. https://www.faa.gov/nextgen/programs/adsb/faq/

Why is the FAA transitioning away from radar and towards ADS-B technology? ... The improved accuracy, integrity and reliability of satellite signals over radar means controllers will be able to safely reduce the minimum separation distance between aircraft and increase capacity in the nation's skies.
"How can we put a meter on it?"

-JP Morgan (he/him)
"[crypto] was set up explicitly to get away from companies like this."

I think that's a misleading statement since there are dozens of different currencies out there with different objectives. The original premise of Bitcoin as an alternative decentralized currency has been an abject failure since it has since morphed into an investment asset with no measurable fundamentals. Others exist to make currency transfers easier and they do that pretty well. Some likely exist as money laundering. Doge exists as a joke that got out of hand.
Just to clarify, by "we" I mean "humans", not "violinists". I don't play violin.
Here's some:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/08/offscreen-...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/webgl-off-the-main-thread/
https://medium.com/samsung-internet-dev/offscreencanvas-work...
Here are some irrelevant facts, now please fight among yourselves about emotional judgments
>That’s generally the definition of free, yes. You might have a different definition, but it’s certainly not a common one.

Do you, given the environment of "surveillance capitlism" on the 'net, believe that PII is without value?

I'd posit that if there's an exchange of value (the book for PII), then it's not a "free" transaction.

And you're correct, that's not the "common" definition. However, ISTM that unless we use more precise definitions, we're unlikely to change perceptions around the gathering of PII that would have been far beyond anything the Stasi[0] could have dreamed.

And while my comment appears to have been interpreted as an attack on the author (it wasn't), I still believe it's an important issue to address.

I'd note (as I did in an edit to my original comment) that the author does make all his works available for free (by my use of the word) via github.

I hoped that my comment would spur thought on the part of other HN readers WRT surveillance capitalism.

I suppose you could argue that it's off-topic to reference this, but such activity (by Leanpub and Gumroad, not the author) is becoming so widespread that no one seems to be considering it at all.

That's a mistake in my view. Hence my comment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
I try to use simpler/friendlier tools, so it can be managed with a simple SSH scripts for as long as possible. Use static binaries whenever possible. My typical stack is Go+gRPC+Flutter – so it's really easy to ship it as a single binary (for the web builds). For the DB I also started to use EdgeDB on some projects and it's such a relief in term of migrations.
FairEmail is also a nice open-source, privacy-focused email client available on F-droid.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.email/
> I don't care when the dishwasher runs as long as the dishes are clean by tomorrow, you know?

You can already accomplish 95% of this now with any dishwasher made within the last 20 years that has a delay timer on it. Just load it up and tell it to run in 6 hours and then go to bed.

I don't want some 3rd party company driving a huge team of middlemen sucking up a gigantic pile of data in order to determine when it might be strategically useful for my dishwasher to be on. I don't want my dishwasher on the internet. I barely want it to have any electronics at all, because I want the damn thing to last for 20 years, not the scant 5 years people seem to be getting out of major appliances these days. You wanna talk carbon footprint and recycling, making things reliable would probably save us a million times more energy than would using the internet-of-things to run this stuff at night time.

I _might_ be willing to accept a compromise where my smart power meter uses an open protocol to inform devices in my house of the current energy cost for Time-of-Use billing and then the appliance decides when to start based on a threshold I set, but even that's more implementation than is really necessary here.

Also, there are only a few appliances that can really make use of that kind of thing. As a parent, I need to run laundry all the time, non-stop, because children are filthy monsters. I can't factor energy costs into that, because laundry takes a long time to run and many loads need to be run. It's only a small number of people who can stick their one weekly load into the dryer and tell it to wait for night - and again, a timer would do 90%+ of the work spreading the load around, you don't need a gigantic network of flimsy compute doing the work here.
I would like to think that is something that would be acceptable to a fringe minority. Mandates are one thing; forced detention is like multiple steps further in the wrong direction.
If I hit you with a wrench, saying "the wrench hit you" is clearly awkward and obscuring what matters.
Acoustically linked __furries__.
Pretty neat concept, really.
I think that error appears if you are not providing an API key, or using the "wrong" key (e.g. one copy-pasted from a tutorial)
Isn't damage to the environment the most important consideration? Crash pads are made of polymer foams and doubtlessly degrade over time, polluting the environment. That seems indisputably worse to me that stacking a few rocks.
You can't compare PWR to gas/graphite or heavy water reactor core. PWr is harder to design and to build and need special combustible, but you don't have to wait 100 years to bypass the shield, unlike UK's gaz/graphite reactors. We will see by 2030 the real cost anyway. Also, EDF set aside 23 billions (not France) and aim for 56 billions for the 58 reactors (as they will still produce electricity some more years). I've seen a better estimate of the cost is 90 billion (so EDF will be missing roughly 30 billions). But if the reactors are allowed 20 more years (like US own PWRs), i think everything will be fine. especially considering the ressources.

Also, according the engineers at The Shift Project, based on Rystad data, future of petroleum imports look bleak[0], and while their study was done before Covid, they perfectly predicted the situation we are in this winter. Fear not, it is only the beginning of a trend, so next year might be better actually.

[0] https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/%C3%8... (in french)
This is reasonable for validating an untrusted object, sure, but I don't recall that constraint being expressed as part of what the original post was addressing.
Or "water discovered on Mars"
Nusret Gökçe Throws Salt in Our Faces
To be fair, there is more than one way to skin a cat, though it wouldn’t have worked for Southwest.

They could’ve made a small sized aircraft that had commonality with the 787 rather than the 737.
> We can build, and we need, nuclear plants now, to be able to generate cheap/plentiful electric power. And if we don't we're basically going to have to push the brakes on EV deployment. Or light up more NG/Oil plants to provide the power for those.

The real power generation tech here will be wind and solar, not nuclear. We can build lots and lots and lots of it, easily and cheaply. And using it to charge vehicle batteries doesn't even require intermediate storage.

Even construction powerhouses like China are deploying more than an order of magnitude more renewables than nuclear, because renewables will be the backbone of any future grid. Nuclear isn't getting any cheaper, yet wind solar and batteries are on exponentially decreasing cost curves.

People on HN are far better able to understand exponential technology advancement than people in the energy industries. And hopefully we can all see how renewables plus batteries is going to make nuclear obsolete.
Is the combination of sum types and product types... sufficient in some way that product types alone are not? I have the sense it is but I'm not putting my finger on how.
There are companies that will drive your "smart" thermostat and purport to save you money by strategically controlling it, but in the end if you want to save money on your house's climate control, you're going to end up being warmer/colder than you would like.
I hear this a lot, but there's no reason why this has to be the case. The government has a lot to say in how much the people trust it. If they make the first move (and probably the second, and third, and fourth) in being trustworthy and trusting people with information, they can change this perception.

It would take decades at minimum, probably longer than our lifetimes, but this doesn't need to be a foregone conclusion.
This is definitely more of a do-it-while-you-can model.
It's not really "the same" photon though.
What are you talking about? I've never seen republicans talk against nuclear, except maybe from those that are angry about the effects of previous environmental damage where exotic particles were found in food, soil, ended up in humans,etc. Not necessarily from nuclear sources though.

In europe the vast majority of anti-nuclear rhetoric is coming from the left, especially in Germany.I would also bet this is the case in US, but never seen a good dataset made available on this topic.It's not really an anti-science position, because that would assume people are informed even in a non-scientific way,whereas the reality is that the vast majority of anti-nuclear folks are people who fear the "armageddon" from past tragic events, coinciding with the "end is near" climate doomsayers.You don't need a scientific understanding to assume those positions, sadly.

Whatever the position one has,I think people should agree this is a shitshow and sadly it has turned into a political mess.Nuclear is the most green energy there is: it is efficient and the (unavoidable) waste is very localized,unlike solar/wind energy, where the downside effects are very hard to quantify, and only recently the scientific community was made aware that those are not without drawbacks.
But ads tracking users are totally fine.
If you've been in a protected nature area, then you know what I mean by nature.
As a Rust fanboy, Rust's advantage is that I wouldn't be afraid of dropping to its level, while I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable with C++ or C. Once the program is written, it's the usual cycle of optimizations: benchmark, flamegraph, cachegrind, etc.
The Case for Strong Longtermism
Ansible can do this (you tell it the user to initially log in, and that you need to "become" another user for a task)
Regulating private businesses like this feels anti-Texas. Governing by executive fiat also feels anti-Texas. I'm not sure what's going on in Texas, but I miss the small government, freedom-loving Texas.
It doesn't need to be inherently wasteful. A reverse-biased diode provides a completely unpredictable source of noise while also taking extremely little power.

Or cranking up the sensitivity of a sensor.

Or reading the low bit of an ADC.

All of these provide good entropy sources without being wasteful.
Don't think Anki has a fully baked implementation of incremental reading.

Polar [0] is an interesting implementation of a similar concept: read and annotate and turn your highlights into Anki flashcards automatically.

[0]: https://getpolarized.io
SUSE Harvester: Deploying virtual machines with Kubernetes
>This type of speech is already highly regulated,

Commercial speech (e.g., advertising) about drugs is highly regulated, but speech of ordinary citizens (who don't have a financial interest in the drugs being discussed) isn't regulated by the government since it is protected by the First Amendment.