skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who gives a shit about “rational basis”? It’s just basic courtesy to address people according to their preference.

Complaining about this increasingly makes you look like one of those assholes who refuse to remember someone’s name because “nobody in my family and friends has a weird name like that.”
From my perspective as a huge Python fan, efficient multithreading is simply the only major thing missing from the language. I would still use C/C++/assembly for bleeding edge performance needs, but efficient multithreading in Python would have me reaching for alternatives far less often.

Basically I love peanut butter ice cream (Python) I’d just like it even more with sprinkles.
I think you mean workflowy.
So you essentially devalued the article as clickbait because more women are nurses and Healthcare professionals?

Not demonstrating a lot of critical thinking here are we? Consider that those fields fall into the "caring for others" stereotype that the article already mentioned was present in 7-8yr old girls. You glossed over all of STEM on a website catering to developers and engineers...

I don't know why I expect more from hacker news, but often I see these low effort posters who fancy themselves intellectuals. Further, when called out mods and an army of sympathizers protect them from the essential "social rectification" they need to prevent future posts.
The UK government and press have been aggressively pushing for this for a while, so it seems safe to suggest that this is just pretext.
The grid could use intermittent sources + storage and the lights never need to go off. And it can be cheaper than coal (w. associated environmental costs) or nuclear, especially with projected cost declines.
Human life could be defined as a search for depth and meaning which truncates at some point.
> According to the EPA [1], electricity accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions.

I feel this is a misleading statistic, as cheap green (perhaps subsidised) electricity would offset more that that. The report states:

Transportation 29%: With cheap electricity I can easily imagine a huge shift to EVs within a decade.

Industry 23%: "Greenhouse gas emissions from industry primarily come from burning fossil fuels for energy".

Not sure what they mean, but energy could just as easily be created with electricity in an industrial setting.

Commercial and Residential 13%: "Greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and homes arise primarily from fossil fuels burned for heat".

Same. Heat could easily made from electricity.

So it seems to me that dirt cheap clean electricity could fix a huge chunk of our problem.
So if you don't like it or want it, don't use it then? Why does it have to be missing altogether for you to be happy?
> for a decade

The beard tax was cool, I also liked the sober pubs as described in the Licensing Act 1872 section 12: “Every person found drunk in any highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on any licensed premises, shall be liable to a penalty”
I'm just saying that from experience, I highly doubt there is an infosec job where you have less free time than the average coder. If you have time for deep thinking about problems, you have the kind of time I'm talking about that is super rare _on average_ in the industry.
Plenty of places going totally bonkers.

I wonder if the world always seems like this in real time. When I first learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was described as a bit of a mild thriller with a happy end, much ado about nothing. But it must have seemed like apocalypse about to happen.
Markdown mixes formatting and content (in a lossy way - did the author mean that asterisk as a format character or as part of their text? Who knows). It doesn’t support spans or ranges for mixing languages. It has hard-to-remember syntax, especially around links - Gruber makes mistakes with it all the time. And it doesn’t easily support the sort of powerful visual editing tools like you might have seen on a 1980s Mac. And worst of all, developers think it’s “good enough” and ship it to non-developer users instead of making them actually powerful tools for managing text.
See https://dotnetfoundation.org/about.
There’s a pricing page, have you seen that?
It seems a bit peculiar to respond to the question "how can we avoid climate change without nuclear energy?" by advocating renewables and then following that with "we can no longer avoid climate change." Maybe we can avoid climate change with nuclear energy even though we can't without it. And even if we can't avoid it under any circumstances, maybe we can mitigate the net negative consequences more effectively with nuclear than without.
> Comparing with coal burning plants is nonsense, compare to wind/hydro/solar on a long enough timescale rather than to compare with the most polluting fossil fuel.

Well Germany is replacimg part of nuclear energy with natural gas plants so it is a really important debate indeed.
Would this include banning retweets (or equivalent)? Because that’s a huge driver of virality.
I think their skill lies in being able to filter the entire library's contents down to a handful of best guesses. If you ask them "give me all the books whose main topic is compilers", you might have too large of a result set, and maybe they would prompt you for a more specialized keyword that they can use to further narrow down the results.

I suppose it is better than brute-forcing an entire shelf of books :)
Batteries are for diurnal leveling. You don't need 24 hour storage for diurnal leveling.

For long term or rare event storage, something like hydrogen will likely be cheaper. Efficiency is lower, but that's a good tradeoff to get lower per-kWh-capacity cost.
> Someday, WireGuard will need to be upgraded to support a second cipher suite. When this happens, users will be able to configure it peer-by-peer to allow one cipher suite or the other, or both, exactly as they would with any other VPN.

Is that accurate? I thought they explicitly said that this is not the case, that instead a V2 would still have just the one protocol?

In any case it's a non-problem, as you simply migrate by setting up V2 on a different port, and migrate client by client.
Yes, god forbid we would enact realistic policies. No, instead, let's stick our heads in the sand and kick the bucket down the road a generation. That's worked so well so far.

Elections are great, right up to the point where you are going to have to make very harsh decisions affecting the majority. I predict our democratic institutions will be a casualty of climate change long before we will allow ourselves to become overwhelmed by climate change itself.
No that’s just not true. Carbon does persist in soil. For how long is a very different question.

Once Soil Organic Carbon is converted to Microbial Organic Matter it is much more robust.

But the threats that climate change bring also threaten the stability of land ecosystems (drought, increased forest fires, etc) which will release the carbon stored in the soil.

So we shouldn’t rely on soil alone to sequester carbon(nor should it make up the bulk of our sequestration portfolio), but to claim it doesn’t persist in soil is a false statement.
Trying to study a very abstract concept without any examples is almost useless. There is, perhaps, some philosophical sense in which we could only be writing down mathematics for god to read, but humans searching the proposition space necessarily move heuristically. Formal generalization is fine (and even great) for working with objects, but pretty terrible for recognizing them. For example, (and also meta-example), most people do not need to spend a lot of time convincing themselves that the pigeonhole principle is true, at least in the finite case, but show most people a problem that it solves, and they will be unable to do so.
If you follow the link to Miguel de Icaza comment, you'll see the original comment that shows that no one knows what it actually does.
Telling that nuclear is a bad technology (compared to wind and solar that are not even competing with nuclear) then suggesting to use a WAY worse technology (reverse dams). Is there any advantage of having a reversible dam compare to a nuclear plant ? I'm not asking of being better, but only ONE advantage, I don't see any.

That's actually the positive thing about covid, is that we had a preview of how the climate crisis is going to be handled. That's going to be a mess, everyone will think they are an expert
Humour is what drew me to it the first time I read it. A friend pointed out that there are some hidden jokes that only make sense when you already know how it will end, so I read it again, and again... And kept discovering new layers. With years (I take it in my hands from time to time) these discoveries became a rare occurance, but I'm quite sure I still missed some of the gems. And it took some growing up to understand some of the messages.

Adams really was a master of observation. Especially if you consider that many things we take for granted today either didn't exist or were in very early stages (like Internet). Predicting basically "wikipedia on a phone" that far back is mindblowing. And of course, the exaggerared (but still believable) characters are a work of genius.

Maybe give it a second chance if you have spare time?

That said, I only read the last book twice because it makes me depressed. Ymmv of course.
The question is unanswerable. Python started as a scripting and prototyping language and that hasn't and won't completely change. It's fantastic at what it does from that perspective, late additions of complexity notwithstanding.
Unable to find any image results for cats.
> Edwin’s actions, he charged, had been “malicious and deliberate” and caused “imminent danger to life”.

If the script kiddie breaking in was being charged with such serious crimes, what about the people who allowed this to happen

> Scanning the rest of the network from the KPN machine he’d accessed, Edwin saw the obsolete software being used in hundreds of places. Almost every computer server in the telecom provider’s vast network had a window open. The kid from Barendrecht strolled around unimpeded, and what he saw astonished him. He could control 514 computer servers. He could even access the core router, the backbone of KPN’s entire network. He could see the data of 2.1 million KPN customers

Their seriously negligent actions. This isn't someone exploiting a bug a couple of days after it came out, this is gross negligence of a system that, if hacked, can cause imminent danger to life.
Wouldn't you need root/admin access for that ?
Absolutely. The only IPsec software I’ve seen that will not make you run away gibbering in terror as if you’ve seen Chtulu is OpenBSD’s OpenIKEd, and while you can use it to make an IPsec VPN server for Apple iDevices without having to install third-party software, it doesn’t play nice with other IPsec software because of the lack of mandated ciphers.
> it's not about the information, but the skills required to find it

Absolutely, and I'll add that it's about finding high-quality information. Anyone can find stuff of unknown provenance and accuracy in a moment, but finding accurate, valuable (expert) knowledge often is impossible or exceptionally time-consuming, and often I lack the expertise to evaluate what I'm reading.

I'll just throw an idea out here: I'd love a search engine built by librarians, only of credible, valuable sources. I don't mean recreating a curated listing of links, like old Yahoo, but a curated search index built of only credible sites: For example, Nature, Science, the NY Times Science section, and the like (other journals, etc.), not influencers blogging and YouTubing their opinions (that includes excluding Hacker News), or even casual blogs of experts. Yes, you'd miss some things, but I usually don't need to see everything, just something - imagine doing a search and knowing everything you find will be credible, expert information. (It could also be a big help with the disinformation curse.)

Is it feasible? I think yes: The curators would only have to make decisions site-by-site, not article-by-article, and only once for each site. Most high-credibility sites in any field are well-known, at least to practitioners, and there aren't that many of them.
Interesting concept, but man the results are bad. Definitely not a “new standard.”
The Rich Found Another Way to Pay Less Taxes
So the CCP thinks it can have the fruits of high-growth capitalist markets without producing a deterritorializing desiring subject and its vissicitudes? CCP won't see the 22nd century with that attitude, at least, not without a soldier on every street corner if not a secret police informing on dissidents. For sure, America's GINI coefficient will worsen, but it'll always make concessions to progressivism that make it palatable, e.g. eventual Federal legalization of marijuana and prostitution (which lip service to Federalism will delegate to individual states as with marijuana already), perhaps a more approximate version of universal healthcare, etc. That power in America appears decentralized, attributable to no one in particular, is a feature, not a bug. The CCP will have no such luxury since they're actively campaigning to divest themselves of such. They also, owing to ideological committments, can't use immigration to buoy their declining birth rates like the West, not to mention the message they're sending with, you know, all the ethnic cleansing going on.
What irks me personally about it is the reporting that it was done by a “British citizen of Somali origin”.

He was probably born in the UK, went through schools there, maybe his parents did too. But let’s just make it clear, he’s not British in the same way that someone white is. Or, you know, Pakistani, but from an upper-middle-class family of doctors.

No one reports that Wayne Rooney is British, of English origin.
My point in linking to the settlement wasn't about the fine, it was about the guarantees, oversight, and accountability that came with it. Read the FTC news release, and you'll see that these are pretty extensive.

And I agree completely on the public conversation, this is why we released this dataset and why we are doing project Aria.
Its usually no(users)/month or just a flat rate / month.
I would not recommend no(api_calls)/month. Its hard to forecast app cost in that case.
We can't avoid it. We will be able to mitigate, and nuclear will help with mitigation, but it's a means to an end, and not 'our best bet', just one of many bets, and hopefully one that will pay off in time. But weighing the alternatives of investing every $ into renewables rather than into nuclear for a much more immediate pay-off is a difficult matter, hence the all-out push of the nuclear lobby. And as for the 'solar and wind' lobby, it exists, but is far less powerful.
Likelihood refers to probability not possibility.
> I already have native git client and text writing application on my desktop

You can't just tell us you have a non-electron app and not tell us what it is, don't leave us hanging!
I presumed Orwell was inspired by the UK and not the other way around
> things like graffiti cleaning, litter picking, cleaning other outdoor areas (e.g. derelict land), assisting in a care home or home for disabled people.

These are all things that normal people volunteer to do, even spend hundreds of dollars of their own money to do (graffiti removal is not just time consuming but also expensive, particularly cleaning up trees/rocks in nature).

This is exactly the type of work that community service programs should target. We're not talking about for-profit chicken farms in the US or something.

> Some of these could be more social than Edwin would have wanted, and could also have been (relatively) physicially demanding.

Honestly? Good. He was clearly depressed and mentally unhealthy long before his run-in with the law. Forcing some socialization and physical exercise might've saved Edwin's life. And it's pretty clear to me that he was headed nowhere good even prior to his legal troubles.
That's if things go well. If they don't...
Roam Research, most likely
I don't trust a lot of this reporting, it's quite clearly written from an anti-computer anti-nerd slant, with no empathy for the kid involved
Ask HN: US city for max savings rate at FAANG?
For a senior software engineer, pay, tax and cost of living varies from city to city. To maximize "savings rate" (amount of money left over each month after all expenses) one would balance the pay adjustment between cities, with the cost of living difference.
> Who gives a shit about “rational basis”?

Well, for starters those who show respect towards others and don't feel entitled to force their own arbitrary whims onto everyone around them and act as some kind of etiquette police .

If you have the gall to try to frame this issue as one of respect, the very least that's expected of you is that you show it towards others.
What-- because it uses hardware you can find in other things, it's not unique?

* It's packaged dramatically differently from its primary Sony and Microsoft competitors. It aims squarely between handheld gaming and the console space and finds success there rather than being a watered down version of btoh.

* It supports a wide variety of use cases-- single player portable, multiple players around the small screen, TV.

* The controllers support a greater degree of motion tracking and are reconfigurable (snap on the sides, use sideways, etc.

* It chooses a different microarchitecture from everyone else in the console gaming space. (No, the Shield and Google Pixel don't count).
I've noticed that, since the term "troll" was popularized, in the UK media it's always been used to refer to people who angrily disagree with some authority figure or famous person on twitter; kind of the equivalent to the person who writes an angry letter to the editor. In the US, it's generally meant as someone who deliberately causes discord online to amuse themselves, not to make any sort of an earnest point. In the UK, people referred to as "trolls" are almost always people who clearly honestly disagree with the person that they're "trolling."

So with magical authoritarian thinking: 1) a troll is someone who rudely disagrees with a public person; 2) assassins and terrorists are people who very rudely disagree with public people; Conclusion: people who rudely disagree online are proto-terrorists.
lol Uber stock at $48, still well above the IPO. Journalists have been calling for the demise of Uber forever. They need to find a new hobby. Forecasting is not for them.
"42" being the "Answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, the universe, and everything" was the basis for selecting it as the racing number for this car in Ferrari's XX Racing Programme:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTpvlbMvhMm/
The default controllers, hardware problems aside, certainly represent a departure from the usual controllers of the PS/Xbox family. The Shield is actually a perfect example - it failed in the market as a weird gimmicky "normal console" controller with a screen glued to the top of it. On the flip side, with the Switch:

* One handed motion controls are viable and used frequently.

* Two-stick FPS games are possible but don't need to be the default, encouraging more innovative/interesting UIs.

* IR camera enables Labo/Cardboard which is a very cool gimmick.

* Easy docking, undocking, storage, and portability of the controllers.

* The console includes two players by default. Most Switch games have a thought out, fun two-or-more players, in-person mode. Many have co-op. Split-screen games are an afterthought and don't even run correctly on most other modern consoles.
Nobody on either side of a transaction ever has access to full information. Each side has some information the other doesn’t, and markets usually work pretty well despite that fact.
Do you find it useful? The content seems quite thin
https://archive.is/G1HeE
Ha, I suspected this would be Hirrolot.

Take a look at their GH; it's fully of handy, and not-so-handy, C preprocessor hacks.
So I tried my first search: "proof of correctness".

Results:

Promoted post: Losing 29 GB of Data:

You don't have to go through what I went through, unless you already did,
and if you did, I hope... by Daniel Dahdal (Founder of Ortingo)

Post not listed as an ad:

Everything I Know To Be True About Getting $5,000+ Website Clients — My Billie Designs

Second search: "Trump".

Results: 5 different sites with the same text:

Login

https://asp.schoolmessenger.com/nwsd203/loginpicture.img.php

President Donald Trump has vowed to bring more manufacturing jobs
to America, so here are 50 manufac...

(Plus the same promoted post as above.)

So, total fail on a moderately obscure subject, and total fail on a popular keyword.

Is this a joke site?
I believe you are making a logical mistake. The chart only shows what has happened, which has no relation to what might happen.

To make a simple analogy - No matter how many times you walk blindly into a busy street without getting hit by a car it is still dangerous to do so.
Here's a paper on a study of a 100% renewable grid for North America. The interesting conclusion is that increased transmission is not needed or even particularly valuable.

https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/3/658
The animations are repulsive. Every back button press results in vertigo. Ortingo storage, ortingo web design agency, ortingo search? Some bootcamp graduate has some major Messiah complexes. This thing is built like an air mattress.. pins included.

The results..well the other comments speak enough about how empty the entire site is. What'd you do, scrape a megabyte of the internet and call it a day?
Foam doesn't run on my phone. Because VS Code doesn't run on my phone. So I use Obsidian to edit a synced folder on my phone, just because it is functionally similar to Foam but runs on iOS.
To be fair, Facebook has very deep incentives to do this (ie. to prevent adblocking)

I'm not sure what such incentive is here for Netflix
My experience with MSVC and ICC is similar - O3 is often worse than O2, and a lot of the time Os is actually the fastest (and smallest).
I recently set up my NAS, phone, and 2 machines with Tailscale and am delighted with the results. I'm no networking guru, but have been doing web-related things for a living since 1998, and Tailscale is hands-down the most straightforward way I've ever encountered to connect my devices securely. Intuitive UX, WireGuard under the hood, highly recommended.
To me, the fatal weakness of obsidian, after trying it for 5 min to realize it, is sync functionality. It only supports icloud sync and its paid sync.

This is turn down 100%.
The main selling point imho is the ability to build multi-node-mesh-networks super easily with something like tailscale on top of wireguard.

I also think this is a total different use-case than the one you’d most likely find in the wild today: people looking to use a VPN for „privacy issues“
I think streaming is killing torrents and the fact that you need a VPN in many countries to avoid getting fined
Looks like they’re scraping job ads. The careers page has a job requirement for a scraping position
The claims are too strong, but it is strictly more available than today: if the original host stays it is guaranteed to stay, same as today. If they disappear, it may stay, which is stronger than today (ignoring internet archive).
Results arent good unfortunately but for those liking the idea but interested in something similar, check out metaphor.so - results are better than Google in my view.
You underestimate the amount of traps a strong player could have by making the position complex. Hikaru could beat >2000 rated player in queen odds[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo8GOAm1E6c
> The answer—off course—is the same in either case. We build the infrastructure.

No. The answer isn't the same. Renewables have one inescapable design flaw: they can't provide baseline power, and we can't store energy effectively.

You got no wind, no sun? Your power grid is dead with renewables. Nuclear (and cola, and gas) will keep going.