skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately there are some exceptions out there. Everyone who has ever tried to create an IPsec tunnel to an OpenBSD machine can probably tell a tale of that.

It’s clear to me from this alone that the author of this article has never had the misfortune of trying to get any two network appliances from any two different vendors to establish an IPsec tunnel. It’s a certifiable nightmare and I have lost entire weeks of my life in the past to trying and often failing.

The IPsec suite has a vast surface area and it is significantly harder for any one person to understand compared to something like Wireguard, which is, above most other things, simple. In an ideal world, IPsec might be easy “if it’s done right” but it’s incredibly difficult to debug what is happening when IPsec goes wrong. There are so many moving parts, competing specifications, buggy implementations and, for every tunable, there’s a whole heap of hidden complexity.

The industry likes to appoint Cisco, Juniper etc as if they are some kind of gold standard for some reason. They are certainly among best in the league tables for the highest number of bugs per config line if nothing else.
Greenhouse gas emissions and climate change has nothing to do with ownership structure. Employee-owned companies make just as selfish decisions as investor-owned companies, and if they didn't, they'd lose to the competition if they tried to do the altruistic thing.

These are separate questions; the solution to greenhouse gas emissions is globally-enforced taxes on emissions with the tax used to reverse the emissions.
> trying to paint Europe as some kind of parochial backwater of medieval fiefdoms

no idea how you got "parochial backwater" from "microstate", it bothers you way more than it should

some of the most impressive, highly developed, secular, constitutional republics are microstates. whatever you associate the word with is not what I associate the word with.
> The failure modes are huge. Most notably, the Cheernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone stands at 1000 square miles 35 years after the fact…

The fossil fuel inclusion zone is 197 million square miles.

Many of the current problems of nuclear come from its small volume (small unit count). Of course, as with fossil fuels, many new problems will emerge if volume comes up (waste storage is already an unsolved problem). But they may be resolvable if there is determination and incentive to do so,
Online restaurants hours often wrong as listing services are scraping each other
What if the mob is wrong about griefing? What if there's just a downvote mob because X is a streamer and they're trolling them through the moderation system?
We don't have a long term storage plan for coal/gas plant waste either (apparently).
To me right now it is the uncertainty of all the things that maybe could go wrong with nuclear power vs the certainty of a global collapse.
Solar's return-on-energy is quite large - on the order of 10x, so you could bootstrap the process of creating all the solar panels you would ever need with a trivially small investment of non solar energy. In practice, it will be higher, but given those economics, every solar panel you manufacture deters 10x the same amount of non-solar electrical consumption.

You need to be precise with how you talk about the shift in energy demand due to EVs. It's not a net energy increase. EVs are far more efficient than gas vehicles. I assume what you mean is increased electricity demand. You can back this out based on typical driving metrics - 250wh/mile is a typical efficiency for electric vehicles. If each driver does 10k miles/year and there are 200M drivers in the US, then this equates to a 13% increase in electrical demand for full adoption[1]. You could probably add on 2% more for efficiency losses in transmission and charging, so call it an additional 15%. That's effectively worst case as it assumes no reduction from the removal of the current infrastructure(ie pumps for gas pipelines, heating for refining, trucking, etc). Those are huge users of energy (though much in forms other than electricity). Oil refinement alone accounts for ~4% of all energy use(not just electricity) in the US.

EVs are so efficient, transitioning to them will probably consume less energy than just the energy we currently spend producing and distributing gasoline. We'll probably need to add to electrical infrastructure, but compared to the savings that is easily justifiable.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=250+wh%2Fmile+*+10000+...
I'd wager 10% of the words in the english language are used as euphemisms or slang for something related to sexuality by some group.

For example read up on urban dictionary for some random word -- say omelette:

"Slang word for a sexual orgy."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=omelette

So that can't be a yardstick -- there has to be some more objective criteria where a word is recognized as truly offensive by a large majority of the population.
So IPFS is basically some kind of automatic behind-the-scene torrenting? I see how that solves the "dead server" problem, but how does that solves the "content longevity" problem?
yeah! Canon thinks it is superior of us to disable our scanner whenever its ink runs out.
In fear of making small area's of land uninhabitable by humans for a short period of time, we are making the entire planet uninhabitable by humans permanently.
Is this legitimate or just a shitcoin scheme? The website looks very sketchy.
Previous discussion on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/99etq/ten_ques... (215 comments)

PS: found with https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.archive.or...
Long-Term Value
> Then I guess we're effed then. After all, if we can't trust non-government entities like Equifax with private records, why even go as far as trusting some other non-government entities to handle nuclear reactors?

The point is that the drawbacks of Nuclear far out weight it's benefits, and it's simply better all around to invest into energy sources which aren't as reliant on flawless management or execution to avoid catastrophic failure modes.
A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall
It's a bit cheeky but I like to point out that the Sun is nuclear power. It's a maintenance-free fusion reactor so powerful that it can blind you from 150 million km away.

- - - -

Anyway, Robert Bussard believed that he was on to something with his polywell fusion plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhL5VO2NStU

He claimed that it would only take about $200M of engineering development to become viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
> But it is quite hard to beat a pro player even with such a strong handicap.

Don't take this the wrong way, but how good are you, i.e. what is your rating?

imo, any reasonably seasoned player, after handicapping their opponent to be without a queen, should be able to easily win in a relatively straightforward by avoiding blunders and trading off pieces.
Chernobyl was the literal worst case scenario, the thing exploded. I'm big on nuclear but I also worry when humans are involved. There is a town near mine where the groundwater is polluted from a chemical company a long time ago. I've often wondered how long until all ground water everywhere is ruined given enough time. Then I think of nuclear power and it scares me.
Oh interesting – somehow in my mind I've mainly associated this phenomenon with Apple, but of course in a way this make sense and saving storage space that way is a tempting target for that kind of service I guess.

It makes me curious though how the accuracy vs. deduplication efficiency trade-off looks like in practice: How much storage is Apple saving with their current settings, and how much deduplication would they lose if they made their audio fingerprinting more accurate, up to a level where even audio buffs would stop complaining
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> Governments and corporations have not responded to climate change adequately

This is something that's both true and untrue. On the face of it, it's absolutely true. But what are governments, really? They're a reflection of the people they govern. So governments haven't responded because it simply isn't a priority for most people.

I've long held the view that we'll only have a solution to climate change when it becomes economic to do so. The pandemic has only strengthened that view. We have millions of people who won't even mildly inconvenience themselves to help stop others (and themselves) from getting seriously ill or dying.

And you want those same people to do something about climate change?

By "economic" I mean we simply need cheaper sources of energy than fossil fuels. That could be because something else gets cheaper, fossil fuels due to scarcity simply get more expensive or some combination of the two.

The biggest hope for that currently seems to be solar, which has seen its price plummet in the last 20 years.

We already have the technology to make fuel from the air but there's no point burning fossil fuels to do that. If however your energy came from a cheaper source there is a price point where that would make sense. At that point, gas-guzzling vehicles become carbon-neutral.
Doesn't work.

Enter an address. Backspace across the whole field to clear it. It kicks you to a map with "unexpected error has occurred". Can't get back to input fields.

Can't find San Jose, ca, or any permutation I tried. California by itself gets hundred of hits, too many to scroll down to see if it has California, USA. Maybe sort by population?
When downloading content using a magnet link downloads are usually quite slow started, while torrent files usually start directly. It's not a fair comparison since the torrents are from a private tracker with high quality peers, but it's noticeable that the DHT stuff is slower. Not sure how cjdns solves that.

Will the network be faster the more people join it?

Is centralized infra inevitable for fast things because of all assumptions and insight a centralized provider can use? BTC is also slow, I don't know of any cryptocurrency that can provide VISA transaction volumes, even if they use more power than some countries alone.
So, they reinvented torrents? Or old timers, do you remember the peer-to-peer connection from 90's called DC++ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%2B%2B)?

Like this IPFS, you'd connect to a hub (IPFS calls this a node) and get what people were sharing. This IPFS only takes that step a little further with hashing and distributing. Also, if this gets implemented widely, hash collision is going to be wild
> 4. This it he big one for me: I just don't trust governments or corporations to maintain, inspect, manage and operate nuclear power plants at scale.

Genuine question: Don't we already trust governments to do all of the above for nuclear submarines, arsenals, etc? Are power plants so much riskier?
Serious people measure death rates, not "cases". Cases is pretty arbitrary.

If you want, you can do serological studies to estimate the proportion of a population that was infected, but please don't think there is any value to "cases", and serological studies are generally done after a disease is over, because diseases hit different areas in different times. They spread over time, going from place to place, so one area with a low infection rate may simply not have been hit yet. A great example of this is Singapore, which everyone thought had licked the disease, when in reality it was just hit later. Similarly everyone was blaming New York, but even though New York made some mistakes with nursing homes, it's biggest crime was to be one of the places hit first. Similarly, after the disease burned through New York and started growing in Arizona, that didn't mean that suddenly New York had better policies than Arizona. That's why you wait until everything is over and then you do serological studies before jumping to conclusions.

FYI lowest death rates (as of 3 days ago) are Vermont, Maine, Alaska, Hawaii. Hawaii is a bit of an outlier as it is an island that for a while had strict protocols limiting visitors. I suspect Hawaii merely delayed its day of reckoning, similar to Australia or New Zealand, but I could be wrong. Time will tell.

Highest death rates are Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Louisiana, Alabama.

Massachusetts has a higher death rate than Florida. Does that mean it has worse policies? No you can't conclude that, it just means there are a lot of confounding variables and you can't conclude efficacy of policies like that. California has a higher death rate than Utah, does that mean it has worse policies? No, you can't conclude that either. That's not how you do science.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...

We'll need to wait until it's all over to get the final tally. Then we can also do serological studies to determine extent of infection.
A coal plant costs about $ 2 billion, and there are 241 of them in the US. So that's $481 billion. They provide 23% of US generation capacity. So if we assume a similar cost, that's $2.1 trillion for the total US generating capacity. But you say solar can do it for $800 billion. So now you have to explain why, if solar is really that cheap, the power companies like to throw away trillions of dollars on more expensive tech.
How to rip music from vinyl or tape (2004)
It's too late to fight emissions. It's time to build flood defenses and irrigation systems and move cities north...
Um. I'm not so sure that's accurate. Chernobyl and Fukushima are uninhabitable, and will be as such for many years to come. As we increase fission reactors, risk will increase as well. Ironically, perhaps due to climate change.

The question is: if we commit to fission, are we simply trading one problem disaster for another? Put another way, given our collective (lack of) response to CC, should our track record on decision making be trusted?
In which case I would have to take a step back and think about the world for a bit. Is there a possibility when it gets warmer / more carbon rich, the carbon-hungry microbes go to town, reducing temperatures (*eventually, maybe not over time periods important to humans?)

If the world's microbiome is geared to maintaining (rather than merely existing in / responding to) temperatures and atmospheric gas ratios within a fine margin that would be noteworthy.

I've probably drunk too much and it's too late at night for this conversation to be honest. I probably shouldn't have even pressed "reply".
You could always download the IPFS Desktop client and "pin" content that you find valuable to provide to the community, (say, a partial copy of Wikipedia in your language [0]. No crypto-based incentives associated with that though, at least yet.

[0] https://github.com/ipfs/distributed-wikipedia-mirror#cohost-...
I think a more accurate comparison would be number of deaths per unit of electricity generated. Yes, in absolute numbers, there have been more deaths due to fossil fuel burning, but we've also generated a hell of a lot more electricity by burning fossil fuels then we have anything else.

I suspect nuclear will still come out as being safer, but I think we should be a bit more rigorous with how we do comparisons.
Does Obsidian have a web interface so I can use it from other computers (not mine)?

Edit: https://obsidian.md/publish ($16/mo, appears to be read-only)
While I agree in general, no one is stopping Mozilla from creating a viable alternative to Electron that's based on open standards exclusively.
Thank you, and sadly the eco-hippie vibe seems to hinder a lot of otherwise good ideas from spreading.
That may be so, but it would only make 45deg ambiguous - i.e 90deg can still reliably be identified as not-nazi.
> they only let you skip a number of songs in a short time and often played things I didn't care for.

If you aren't in the US, then it won't work, but I create multiple stations and can switch station if the music isn't good. I can't remember it ever not being good though. I use the like button to train it.

> Lots of slightly obscure songs weren't available.

If I'm looking for a specific song, I usually go to YouTube. Most of what I listen to is pretty obscure, but it might depend on the genres.
Term limits for all positions, ranked choice voting and more direct democracy.
Just going to be the guy that says that not only is human caused climate change a massive threat to humanity's economic future, but also that even if it were not, it would be far cheaper to switch to carbon-free tech than continue on our current path. Carbon free electricity is cheaper than fossil fuel, and as we electrify things like home heating and transport, we typically see efficiency increases of 200%-600%, meaning we need far less primary power to begin with.

Any objection to the scientific basis of anthropogenic climate change is based on political ideology and false propaganda. We need to stop having allegiances to politicians and bad news sources, and maintain allegiance to truth and the unbiased pursuit of it. Far too many in our country are tools of fossil fuel interests. So while I agree that some environmentalists are tools of weird political ideologies, they are staying closer to the truth than those who oppose climate change. Unless most of your wealth is tied up directly in fossil fuel assets that you can't sell, you are also shortchanging your own economic future by not embracing newer and better technology.
> Episodic memory: What happened when (e.g., “Where did I leave my keys?”)?

> Forecasting: What am I likely to do next (e.g., “Wait, you’ve already added salt to this recipe”)?

> Hand and object manipulation: What am I doing (e.g., “Teach me how to play the drums”)?

> Audio-visual diarization: Who said what when (e.g., “What was the main topic during class?”)?

> Social interaction: Who is interacting with whom (e.g., “Help me better hear the person talking to me at this noisy restaurant”)?

Now consider the fact that Facebook is actively suppressing some subjects from popping up in their users' feed.
If users becomes reliant on this AI to initiate, guide and execute most day to day tasks then Facebook will literally have the power to make certain aspects of their users' life disappear.

For example, you have a contact who criticizes Facebook or their business partners too much? Don't remind them of their birthday.
Regarding reserves, the article makes the usual mistake of taking currently known and cheap sources as definite. But consider how Mad Max came out in the late 1970s, when the fear of completely running out of oil was evident to everyone. And yet, we have now found so much more oil that we have to force ourselves to stop using it.

We haven't been looking for more uranium simply because there is no need for it. The known _cheap_ reserves are barely tapped. And there are many known sites that are simply not tapped yet because the aforementioned ones are just so cheap. If there was a need for more, prospecting would be profitable and would be done.

(As an aside, taking uranium out of sea water is almost certainly never going to be worth it.)

And the same applies to thorium or fast breeder reactors. They're just not worth the effort at this time. But again, if the demand was there, it would take just 10 years to build them.
History of accidents, design flaws, shortcuts taken during construction show that we are not ready for Nuclear Power.
> The failure modes of hydrocarbon based power are huge. Most notably cooking the entire planet, which stands at 197,000,000 square miles.

It's a good thing then that hydrocarbon-based power is being phased out as well. For example, the EU just announced their target to eliminate emissions by 2050.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/eu-unveils-plan...
This is an interesting idea. There are a few bugs mentioned in the comments here but I think the current version is more than merely MVP quality.
That's not really true. More so than just covering for night you have weather, and seasons which have significant swings in solar productivity. It not a baseload.
The Chernobyl exclusion zone as terrible as it is, is very far from a worst case. It's what you get from a moderately bad meltdown with heroic mitigation efforts as a follow up. The risks are far greater than that. Holding it up and saying "this isn't bad" is missing that that's the point, this is what happens in a "good" meltdown.

An article describing some of it... https://www.thetrumpet.com/14007-three-men-who-saved-million...
Using quantum Parrondo's random walks for encryption
Time will tell I suppose. It depends on your definition of "messy". Life is messy, right? Through that mess we've managed to capture some real beauty too. One user shared the emotion of her college graduation, as it was happening. It wasn't staged, it was what she was doing at that random moment. The top platforms are so... perfect. Everything is choreographed. It's the highlight reel. There is certainly an audience for that and I don't disparage them at all. I believe there is an audience for a more genuine platform too. One where the posts are spontaneous and unfiltered. No one is perfect on Snacktime, and I think that reduces the friction and intimidation I see other social platforms. But if it only gets used to share moments between friends, I'll take that a win. Appreciate your comment, thanks.
The obvious answer is no, because we likely cannot stop climate change. We’re exiting an ice age (the natural state of the world is no massive ice sheets), we don’t know the actual causes of climate change, and even if we believe we know what causes climate change (say, carbon), most of the green house gas emissions aren’t from energy production.

That said, nuclear is likely better for the environment. I’m very bullish on nuclear.
> Fukushima are uninhabitable

What area are we taking about here, and is it truly inhabitable or is it just the same flawed logic that caused the Japanese government to evacuate the area when there was no sense in doing so?
One might even say that we have no long term waste storage solution for fossil fuels or other greenhouse gas emitting sources.

I'd also say that the climate zone is much larger and deadlier than the Chernobyl zone.
On its face this sounds so trite, but after initially scrolling past I did a double take and thought deeply about it. Kudos.
We analyzed 80M ransomware samples
Oh look, someone who makes more than 10 times what I make. All the talk about 10x developers turns out to be true after all.
Just default everyone’s pronouns to “they/them” unless they explicitly change the setting. Doesn’t seem like a big deal.

It sounds like your problem is with being asked to respect someone else’s preferences in your communications. Is that such an insupportable burden?
I think filecoin is legit but it’s not working super well in its current state
I've been following Filecoin for a while and although I'm not invested in it, some of their YouTube videos do have technical substance to them, and they seem to have some brand-name investors like the Winklevoss' org.
The fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Pascal and the P-Machine (2012)
If you're a Vim fan you're probably going to like Obsidian. Great app for Zettelkasten fans
Texas also had the problem that the grid was isolated. Energy consumption spiked in neighboring states as well, with some problems, but nothing as severe as Texas.

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/business/columns/steve-lackm...

I suppose there can be a difference between interconnection and interdependence. Unnecessary interdependence creates the possibility of failure cascades, but interconnections can provide resilience without necessarily increasing the likelihood of problems.
WW3 might be against Facebook.