skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama killed more people than all three of the names you cite. In fact he killed more than all the world leaders combined during his temure.

In fact he was the first Nobel Peace Prize recipient to kill another recipient.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctors-without-borders-bombi...

He killed american citizens without due process and get it a beatiful Orwellian name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix

He even killed a 16 year old American:

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-o...

Obama created the world’s largest surveillance state. He illegally spied on US citizens and his administration constantly lied to Congress about in testimony under oath.

He put kids in cages.

He deported more people than all American Presidents ever.

He did not fire anyone who tortured people.

He kept Guantanamo bay open.

The worlds largest prison population (aka forced prison labor or concentration camp) increased under his tenure.

He illegally spied on members of Congress and the opposition.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/07/31/336855226...

So is that good leadership to you?
why are you considering the main purpose of education to be dating?
> Texas was an inspired choice - California would have been a knife fight regulatorily.

California is also just on the wrong coast. You almost always want to launch eastward so you get the free rotational velocity from the earth to help you reach orbit, for the same reason you want to be as close to the equator as possible, and you can't (regulatory/safety wise) have a flight path over land. From within mainland US the only reasonable options are Texas and Florida.

The exceptions to this are polar orbits (for which the rotation of earth just doesn't help) and the rare military spy satellite that wants a retrograde orbit for ... reasons. The US/SpaceX does launch out of california for those orbits, but it's a small fraction of launches.
>the wise politicians enabled conditions through neglect of forest care and trimming

It baffles me that this is so often repeated when it is quite clearly inaccurate if you just think about it for a second.

First of all, you don't "trim" a forest the size of many small countries. This isn't a city park. It would take every man, woman, and child's sum efforts to 'landscape' even a fraction of the forests in the PNW. That's like saying that the reason the sea is rising is that nobody is running an ice cube maker to refreeze the ice caps.

But to speak to the real origination of this point - resource extraction for the benefit of those who control the cable news narrative: You don't prevent forest fires by logging. That is an old meme from the resource extraction industry - not only does it not prevent wildfires, it also destroys biodiversity of the ecosystems where old, diverse growth is replaced with pine stands.

Forest fires are required for the natural lifecycle of a forest - there are species that cannot reproduce without a forest fire. Not only small brush type plants that thrive in the absence of overgrowth but also the largest organisms in the forest- the trees themselves! Vast areas of the PNW are dominated by so-called 'serotinous cone' deciduous trees whose cones will lay dormant for years, coated in a thick plastic-like resin layer that only allows the cone to release seeds after the resin is melted away by forest fire (when the chances of successfully growing are highest)

Forests require fires to be healthy. A big part of why wildfires are so bad now is that we haven't let them happen for so long because there are more and more people moving into the areas that previously experienced healthy burns. This lead practices to try to prevent fires from happening. Meanwhile, brush built up year after year after year and eventually the fires that do happen are orders of magnitude worse. Climate change and the resulting temperatures and changes in the 'moisture battery' throughout the year are also massive contributors, but that is a whole other post.
How well are you able to read? It looks like the article is about memorizing characters, which is useful, but I’d imagine that the end goal is reading comprehension.
How is this disrespectful if it's just a demo of the tech progress?

Are painting artists not allowed to train by repainting Picassos until they get good?
> The guy was German for gods sake, we invented the printing press

The printing press was hundreds of years old by the time of Gutenberg.
Also that's now prior disclosure and could be cited against the patent application.
> Expressions can be evaluated at compile-time outside of "constant expression contexts", under the as-if rule.

yes, but that does not make it a constexpr context, which is something explicitely specified by the standard. See my code example: the compiler is obviously able to evaluate foo() at compile time, yet it knows that the evaluation it does at compile time will yield a different result that the one it does in a constexpr context.
Hmm, we'll just have to disagree on that one.

Trio has the better API, so you might as well use that directly rather some other library that attempts to match it, even if it can/does use it under the hood. It reminds me of that xkcd about standards. It's also going to have to settle for the least common denominator to some extent even if it reimplements some parts itself (e.g. if one library implements serial ports but the other didn't, then it surely can't be in anyio). I also dispute that it's "more future proof", because you're still relying on anyio being maintained, and to me it seems to be the more obscure library.
This is possible, but typically this is not done for generic hash tables because it requires keys to be ordered (i.e. there must be a function that can tell whether one key is less than, greater than, or equal to another) while the current implementation only requires testing for equality.
I work in this industry and actually we’ve found from online experimentation customers generally don’t want to tell you they dislike something. The expectation is customers get what they like (relevant) and sometimes they want to express stronger affinity for specific things. The converse hasn’t shown to be true.

Generally customers don’t have a clear picture of how their explicit signals impact recommendations. Though some customers have shown desire to want to manage these signals.

Edit: one other consideration is disliking can usually be inferred from other activity. Skipping a song after less then 20 seconds for example can train a model as well as incorporating an explicit dislike button.
Open addressing or 'open bucket' hash tables always seem to be a second consideration in textbooks or blogs. I find them generally faster, and more memory efficient, and easier to implement. Instead we're always taught the closed bucket approach, often using linked list buckets of all things.

In certain scenarios open addressing has worse performance, but with the right optimisations it's generally only contrived situations where it performs worse. In normal usage, open addressing has vastly superior locality, a smaller memory footprint, and less dereferencing overhead.

A lot of writing and textbooks describing open addressing seem to imply that the order of walking through the table when collisions occur is really important (and it is). But the approach with best performance in practice is to just do a dumb increment through the table in-order because of caching... the penalty for that simple approach can be made up for with a good, pseudo-random hash.
This is why it can be fun to work in an office at least so sometimes
You can pronounce written Spanish words without knowing what they mean. However, I imagine that most people actually want to know what they are reading.
VirtualMEC – a free 3D CAD for MECCANO
Thanks for the feedback. I am not overly familiar with ventilation protocols, I just understand that some ventilation strategies are more aggressive than others. I will edit to clarify.

This is a great article that says that ventilators have been studied for pneumonia and found to not help improve survival outcomes: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Ventilators-aren-t-a-pan...
Rust-Based Cloud-Hypervisor 19.0 Released W Improved Live Migration, Faster Boot
Not according to the actual statistics that are available on that page.

And if you look at 2017, 2018, 2019, deaths ranged from 150-180.

2020 and 2021 they've jumped to over 350 (and 2021 isn't over yet).

So it isn't even, as someone who at least clicked the link might suggest, Cardiovascular disease being presented as COVID.
This entire recall election for the governor seemed to stem from press coverage that sparked a limited movement. Considering the result seemed too close for comfort throughout much of the campaign process, I wouldn’t exactly consider the government immune to negative press.
The article shows many tables without ever quoting sources. In the previous article in the series, the author claims:

> ... I’m a “forensic environmental data specialist” (I invented the term just now). I use the troves of free to the public data located in regulatory submittals and permits to extract useful information. ...

Great. If free to the public, where are the links? Clicking on those table images just links to the images themselves.

The article itself is stream-of-consciousness writing with little effort to organize or edit down the useless brain droppings from this author. I bring this up because if the author wants to be taken seriously, style matters, as do bend-over-backwards efforts to document claims. Especially claims against large organizations with deep pockets.

Even for regular HN readers, it helps to be able to verify for oneself claims made of a quantitative nature.
Genode Sculpt has a modern webbrowser and hardware video acceleration.

It also has VirtualBox, so it can be used for day by day computing by running Linux for misc tasks in a VM, and the developers absolutely do dogfood it.

I doubt porting KDE (which isn't at all made for a system centered around the capability model) would be a good use of Genode team's time.
Texas also has/had much more COVID than CA.

And they also probably have different policing styles.
> The EPA is also a national security concern.

I strongly agree, but not for the reason you give. Environmental destruction is likely to start more wars than it prevents...
I attended this conference in person in 2019. It's an excellent conference! There may be no more serious group of practitioners of applied procedural generation in the world.
No, you can't use ML to break SHA256.
Librems 13 were indeed known to have the hinge problem, not so much Librems 15. Another commenter says Librem 14 is great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28887681
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28875463
That's laughable. Software "engineers" pretending that "software engineer" is a protected title in any way or form (including soft and metaphorical community based protection).

We'll get to call software engineers actual engineers when they can lose their (currently not existent) license over malpractice, not a second before that happens.

The tech industry cheapens the term "engineer". The discipline isn't nearly enough mature to be called that
Intel's Alder Lake CPUs May Not Work with Older Games
> admission rate is in the single digits

> expects to receive its millionth application by the end of 2021

> subscription fee of $7.99 per month (now $9.99)

To still turn a profit after paying 40 staff members and all the costs of maintaining and developing an app, this thing would need at least 50% of its registered users to be active. I really doubt this is possible for a dating app. Curious what other revenue streams they might have.
I had to keep deleting my Spotify account because my recommendations kept getting contaminated with music genres I didn't like that were impossible to get rid of. Listening to the wrong song two times could irrevocably ruin my recommendations. I would have very much liked a dislike button, or at least a "forget everything you think you know about me"-button.

Now it ended up with me getting rid of Spotify, because of this and other frustrations.
Storage will be plentiful in most homes in the future, at least those with cars. A 50kWh battery will provide several days worth of electricity, even when powering a heat pump in the winter. And if batteries are cheap enough to be in cars and idle 95%-99% of the time, they are definitely going to be cheap enough for daily usage on the grid.

Already, in the US, the majority of new solar projects include storage attached to the same inverters as the solar panels. Batteries are on an exponential learning curve for cost. It's not hard to see where the future will be.

Additionally, a mixture of both offshore wind solar will be close enough to provide all of the UK's needs.

If you go and redo David MacKay's energy scenarios for the UK from Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, and use modern costs, the all renewable scenarios look pretty great. If nuclear can chip in and reduce some storage needs during a week long wind lull, that would be great too. But at this point in time we can't depend upon new nuclear to contribute anything to our immediate needs for climate solutions. Game day is here, now, and we have to play with the team of players we have currently.
I thought this was a good example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28746293
I'll never use Spotify again. My account was hacked by a latino and now my recommendations is 100% latin music. They told me there is nothing they can do to fix this. My recommendations are broken and my only option is to create another account, cancel my subscription, buy it again... Not gonna happen.
Well said.

Personally I imperfectly strive to think this way, and I imagine at least hundreds of millions of others do as well.
They just bundled the timezone database in with the language. It's not particularly groundbreaking...
Sure, and I have a bridge to sell you.

The technology already exists. Fundamentally (damn laws of thermodynamics) it is also a energy negative process, and hence expensive. It is far cheaper to just frack and burn fossil fuels (where that energy expense was paid however many millions of years ago by someone else), than it is to expend the energy to reverse the process - even if they were getting nearly free energy.
There's been over a decade of research into machine learning cryptanalysis. It's not a new idea.
Is this being sarcastic?
Biden administration plans for offshore wind everywhere
Ok but this guy is a wizard and extremely young for a wizard at that.
You'll also find many investigative stories in the Daily Mail, which was considered yellow press 20 years ago.

For example, it was the first to feature the story about Prof. Abbot's lecture cancellation at MIT. The woke press simply no longer covers these stories.
Two movies worth adding to the list are:

1. Perks of being a wallflower

Written and Directed by the Stephen Chbosky. It's originally a book written by Stephen. I think the movie is great because it's well directed and overall good coming of age film.

2. Primer

Cult famous mindfcuk movie. Checkout this xkcd comic (https://xkcd.com/657/) to see how complicated this movie is. The film was written, directed, produced, edited and scored by Shane Carruth.

Coincidentally, I also created Primer (https://primerlabs.io).
Adobe has made a proposal for a new CSS attribute, but no browser has implemented it. This is discussed in the article.
CityEl Electric Car from 1992
Sounds like similar reasons why I enjoy Scala.

It feels like Python, but with a proper type system :-)
This lists a bunch of related tools: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages
Sorry to see you acting out when science doesn't support your personal opinions.
The link works fine for me.
I don't think that's the best way to use Optional in java. In particular the use of isPresent & get kind of defeats the purpose. Should be something along the lines :

...
sum = 0
opt = getOptional(n)
sum = sum + opt.orElse(0);
...

Also maybe use something like OptionalInt (but for long).
Also a longtime Linux user here, and I have the same question: why do people keep using Windows? Everything I hear about it sounds superb frustrating, while for me, Debian stable has been rock-solid for me for years.
Ok so I read Zerrahn's paper, and I have to admit I didn't expect to be that shocked by the methodology. Of course I'm a bit biased because my own work is really close to Sinn's which is criticized in this paper, but this paper really makes me think the author didn't even try to understand what Sinn studied in their paper: Zerrahn seems to believe that Sinn's scenario stores all the energy because they don't want to waste electricity, but it doesn't occur to them that Sinn's stores all that electricity because at some point the grid will needs it!. In fact, I think the culprit is just using RLDCs (residual load duration curves) instead of time series, because this way you just erase the temporal dimension of the problem, which is − unfortunately − the most important one.

For instance, in my own data (France, year 2017, for the record the scenario was 100% RE) from the first of January 12am, to the 3rd at 3pm the wind capacity factor barely exceed 10%, three days in a row. For this period only you'd need 3TWh of storage[1]! No reasonable level[2] of curtailment is gonna help here.

[1]: of course it doesn't have to be storage, you just need 50GW of controllable power and any fossil fuel would work (and that's what the Danish do for instance) but this is outside of the scope of this discussion, which is about how storage allows you to avoid pairing RE with fossil sources.

[2]: I assume that nobody would consider something above 90% curtailment to be reasonable.
I've always bought HP business laser printers.

They've always worked for me.

I also don't let it connect to the internet as it has a fixed IP and no gateway.

Also none of this cartridge subscription business and I've always been able to buy the cheap unbranded cartridges on Amazon or Ebay for a fraction of the HP ones that must be made from solid Platinum or something...
A further alternative to heat pumps is hydrogen fired boilers. Heat pumps work well in well insulated houses, with large radiators, which aren't attributes of much existing UK housing.

Boiler manufacturers are already designing hydrogen boilers. The question is, how much existing infrastructure can be used to transport hydrogen.

I think we should be able to get to 20% hydrogen at least sooner rather than later, which is being supported by modern boilers.

https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/hydrogen
Without specifics I cannot guess as to your specific case but in general customer's just do not use dislike buttons. So exposing them isn't a value add and usually a UI clutter that most customer's have no use for and won't use.

In general, you had to be doing something to be getting recommendations so there is some action that when most customer's do demonstrates a high probability that you will like some genre and it just so happens you don't.
Another thought to add here - he also gets paid very well in a very concrete way to LOOK like he is doing those things, and if he never gets in a spaceship but still enjoys the billions? Hard life.
Yes, the functional difference between those items is staggering.

The difference in capacity alone between the HP all-in-one and the Xerox copier is literally the same in magnitude (60-80x) as the difference in capacity between a semi truck and a passenger vehicle.

These are different tools that literally do different things. You can't print 250 handouts with that HP all-in-one, and you can't transport 25,000 lbs of freight in a Camry.

A routine use-case for one of those large copiers is something like a person needing to give a 25 page document to 10 people on short notice. Not only is it not practical, it's not even possible with a consumer inkjet. A high end workgroup copier will spit them out in a short moment, already stapled (or bound!) and ready to go. Do you realize how silly it would be to make 10 people with 6-figure salaries stand around waiting for a consumer inkjet, even just one time? You'd be wasting thousands of dollars to save pennies.... and that's assuming you don't consequentially impact your ability to generate revenue. I certainly wouldn't want to be responsible for a b2b sales team relying on a consumer inkjet to submit proposals on time.

> And the HW cost is justified, the SW cost is NOT

These aren't separate itemized costs when you buy a printer. You either get the Xerox printer with the Xerox software, or you get the HP Deskjet with the Deskjet software. You don't get to choose to use the DeskJet Printer with the Kerberos integration from the Xerox software. The teenager working at Best Buy is not going to be able to help you find a copier with software that is HIPAA compliant.

> I also take offense with he fact that the 3rd example does not even have a listed price - that is a BIG red flag for the habit of making the customer pay as much as possible.

It's an example of a ~$10000 copier. The price isn't listed because customers don't buy this type of machine directly through Xerox anyway. These types of purchases are done through formal proposals through Xerox vendors.

Large businesses don't buy things the way you do. They submit RFP/RFQs to vendors.
The trick is to find a company that has to take security seriously, and then that company will have some meaningful blue-team work even though there is an ocean of tool running, compliance paperwork.

So for example, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, they all have good product security teams that do meaningful stuff, where "meaningful stuff" is defined as:

- design and development of security features and defense mechanisms

- design reviews, code reviews

- innovative tool development (as opposed to just running)

- development and improvement of Big data/statistical analysis

You just have to find a team actually doing that, and not a team doing compliance stuff. But there are such teams.
It's not about the people they see in the room, it's about the people they don't see in the room.
Have we not learned to assume the worse from these institutions/corporations yet? Again and again it's proven they will go as far as they're able to.

Unless there is proof they DON'T do this, like some law that is clearly enforced, or some piece of code that mathematically prevents it from doing so... I think it is more than safe to assume they can and they have violated privacy concerns.
VirtualMEC site also is some sort of gallery/repository of users created models, where every logged user could add on model.[0]

Also there are Meccano Kinematics[1] and Meccano Gilde Nederland[2] sites with a set of various mechanisms created using VirtualMEC app.

N.B. In 2009 VirtualMEC review by Douglas Carson published in Meccano Society of Scotland Newsletter #79.[pdf]

[0] http://www.virtualmec.com/content/models.aspx

[1] https://meccanokinematics.net/meccano/models/

[2] https://www.meccanogilde.nl/vm/demos.html

[pdf] https://www.meccanoscotland.org.uk/downloads/mag079_April_20...
China is not wealthy it is simply large
> Cryptographic hash functions are a special family of hash functions. For security considerations, they exhibit an extra set of properties. The functions used in hash table implementations are significantly less pretentious.
Nah I don’t think you can take linguistic shortcuts on this. As much as I’m a proponent of nuclear power, I’m a bigger proponent of repealing bad laws rather than accommodating them with poorly thought out extensions and calling nuclear something it’s not doesn’t sit well with me when it stands fine on its own merits.

I think we’re agreeing directionally at least.