skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I interviewed Arthur Whitney in 2009[0], Roger came up again and again. (He only appears in the transcript once, but Arthur spoke of him several times, always with great fondness.) Roger clearly had an outsized influence on Arthur -- in addition to his particularly close relationship with computer science pioneer Ken Iverson. Condolences to his family -- and to his close friends like Arthur, who I know must be grieving this loss.

[0] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
Would you feel better if they worked for Apple?

Microsoft is a much more open company than Apple, just look at the immense output of Microsoft Research over the years.
I wish any of these projects(obsidian, logseq, Roam) supported WikiWord autolinks alongside [[Mediawiki]] ones. See also: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20100901
...and I quote,

"3DES in combination with MD5 is a common candidate..."

If a security architecture is a priority, then these people will not be customers.

Triple DES is not "boring crypto" by any means.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13383006

Wireguard's crypto is boring. That's the point.
And the Orwellian aspects aren't just trying to change their fucked up little places, they're trying to redefine how the whole internet has to operate, demanding the world's information system caters to them.

Even with projects like GDPR, we're trying to build some pro-citizen rules. But we've still done nothing to defend or enable individuals, to grant them powers & rights to operate independently & freely online. There's no bill of hosting rights, that I'm aware of, anywhere on the planet. I want to see a nation step up & try to enhance & promote speech & data of it's citizen's in an supernational context. Our citizens have a right to have their words online! We are actively building & encouraging hosting solutions to enable that!
I agree with this, I haven't torrented anything in a very long time as most of things I want are streamable somewhere (and I don't care about file ownership), or set up for direct download on some forum somewhere.
1000 square miles is the area of a square 33 miles on a side. Assuming it's in a remote place, it's nothing relative to a aworldwide climate disaster. (If it were in a highly populated area, that would be a tragedy -- but surely nobody is going to put a nuclear plant next to a city.)
Roughly 20 years ago, there was a documentary on British TV about fake ID. They found that the technique used in the 1971 book The Day of the Jackal (find someone dead, get a copy of their birth certificate, bootstrap other ID from that) still worked.

They then demonstrated how you didn’t even need the person you were doing this to to be dead, as they got a provisional driving license in the name of David Blunkett. Who was the Home Secretary at the time. And is blind.

Apparently the UK police still use the Jackal method as of last year, though obviously no system can possibly prevent actions by its own enforcement body: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/dec/07/met-police-l...
Most places you can do that without any permits at all. Or maybe a burn permit from the fire warden, but that is $10 and issued in 10 minutes unless there is fire danger that day.
Considering most of the terorism attacks are done by a few groups of people, people want to know who did it and why. A better question is, how can someone, immersed in calm and relaxed british enviroment and culture (if we ignore their footbal hooligans of course) get so radicalized by looking at stuff online, to go and actually murder someone.

Political correctness aside, it's mostly either local nationalists (which are native, noone "let them in", and there's nowhere to deport them), or first or second generation immigrant islamists (which someone actually let inside the country relatively recently). If it's an immigrant, people of course want to know where they came from... and very few of them come from eg. japan. I know this fuels steretypes, but ignoring statistics is also bad.
Another way of thinking about "baseline" power is that is produces power 24/7. Energy demand fluctuates a lot during the day[1]. Cheap, reliable sources of energy serve as a "baseline", and additional "peaker" plants spin up to serve the spikes in demand during the day.

Solar and wind are unreliable power sources. That is OPs point - you can't compare nuclear and solar kw for kw because they are not the same. Nobody has near enough storage to allow solar to be treated as a 24/7 reliable power source.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=42915
I find this very fascinating.

Do then I understand correctly, that if we have baseline power, from static output nuclear or whatever, then we don't need blackouts, controlled demand, and you can cook anytime because there is enough power?

As you say, baseline is the floor of the demand that holds everything else above (except the weekly instant with minimum demand that it merely matches).
The current law in France states: Il est interdit de se trouver en état d’ivresse manifeste dans les lieux publics, it is forbidden to find oneself in state of manifest drunkenness in public places (CODE DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE : ART. R. 3353-1).

I love the idea of "finding oneself in a state of manifest drunkenness", how on Earth could that have happened?
Ok but what other primates do may not translate to good public policy. For example, we've found evidence of severe bullying among chimpanzees, that does not mean that we should accept bullying in our schools.

Yesterday, there was an article about how more women than men graduate from higher education. The top voted comment was about how this was because the education system was "failing boys". It was not about how women are evolutionary tuned to be better learners than men. Maybe they are? It seem weird to me that when women are on top it's the system's fault, but when the men are on top it is natural and/or biology.
If you don't want someone going to the press and creating some "human interest" story about how they got a loyalty card with a stupid name, then your algorithm should at least question them.
But what's even better than a perpeptuity is a zero coupon perpetuity.

We could even make a small, green, square certificate and put a president's head on it.
Dumb question but what even is “apple search”? Is that searches in the App Store or is there more to it?
1. Mixing formatting and content is the point. Maybe it’s not for you, but describing its main feature as a problem doesn’t make sense.

2. There are maybe 5-10 syntax elements to get up and running with Markdown. Your average excel user has probably committed far more keyboard shortcuts to memory.

3. Most markdown users are fine with importing an image from another app if “powerful visual editing tools” (which still haven’t been defined) are needed. Not to mention extra features in this area provided by Markdown editors like Obsidian.

4. Again, I still don’t know what you consider to be an “actual powerful tool” for managing text. Does your definition begin and end at WYSIWYG?
People want to consume their content, nowhere does that dictate that they sign away their rights and actual ownership of their devices that they buy with their own money. The already existing DRM is user hostile, it is about control and nothing else.

Users do NOT want these things, if you took the time to explain what it means, and gave them another option.

The only reason the current set of DRM malware still exists today is by artificial scarcity, and mafia-like bullying through courts. Public opinion was largely in favor of peer to peer sharing content, but that wasn’t good enough for the big boys. They wanted to be able to bring ALL other parties to their knees: cable manufacturers, display makers, computer makers, storage device makers, and of course, users. EVERYONE is now under their control.

The general public is apathetic to the issue of DRM, they certainly don’t want it. But they are not given a choice. You must have a HDCP certified computer, cable and display - otherwise no content for you.
In 1984 I’d say he was more inspired by his time working for the UK government in Burma. Particularly the use of propaganda to control the population.
I often see people in this community being fans of note taking apps. Yet, I never really found why it's useful, maybe someone can enlighten me on that :D

1. For tech articles / knowledge databases -> tech seems to change so fast that research done 3-4 months ago is mostly useless (except for a few more high level areas)

2. For recording / knowledge database purposes -> i never seem to go back to them tho, googling (or duckduckgoing?) seems faster to reach an answer.

3. For current note-taking / todo lists / etc they work well, but so does a simple notepad. A history of those doesn't seem
to help me with anything specifically.

4. Same for book notes / reading notes, i never seem to go back to them, actually.

So, in what domains or where do find those apps actually useful?
Probably orders of magnitude less power use
Honestly I think a lot of people miss this. Similarly people will look at full cycle for nuclear but not for renewables. Nor include batteries or other storage systems. First order approximations aren't good enough to let us even approximate an understanding of what is arguably the most difficult problem in human history.
I'll take the risk of some nuclear reactor accidents compared to the inevitability of world wide calamity and wars that will happen because of climate changes and resource limits. It's going to be some risk vs inevitability because the world is not going to change from fossil fuels until it's too late.I don't live some magic reality where the hippies win and we all will embrace each other and be responsible rather than be the tribal apes that we really all are.
I like IPFS for making Libgen faster (with a little help from Cloudflare). If it also manages to solve hard problems of decentralization and content-addressable storage, that's just a bonus.
Most products are produced by a few corporations, monopolies are on the rise, that kills competition and variety but it allows to accumulate power to further increase control over the markets. That's the reason that antimonopoly legislation exists.
The ASCII code 42 is for the asterisk symbol, and we all know the /*/ regex matches EVERYTHING.

I am sorry I ruined it for you.
Because when a language doesn’t supply common features out of the box, users implement them for themselves, and inevitably a lot of them do a bad job of it :)
Which is now owned by Microsoft.
Diversity.

Long distance (1000 km) transmission, wind AND solar, short term storage, load shedding agreements, and long duration storage.

Iron-air looks economically viable already for timescales of two days to two weeks. Hot rock storage, the same.

It's rare to get cloudy calm periods lasting longer than two weeks over 1000 km distances, but there are readily available seasonal storage choices.

Electrolysed hydrogen, either stored directly or as ammonia. Just need PV prices to fall a bit, which is expected, and the cost of electrolysis to fall, which is happening.

I have only hit the universals here. Depending on geography and mining history, there are a bunch of other storage options available in many places. Mechanical (gravity) storag other than pumped hydro is another possible technology. So is methane synthesised from CO2.

Edit. I'm in favour of nuclear, if the numbers work. The LNT theory should be exposed as the bull** that it is and ALARA abandoned in favour of specified limits. Then let nuclear compete with renewables.
This is a Chesterton's Fence situation. Suddenly the .NET foundation is receiving lots of spotlight on its flaws but one needs to understand the historical progression of the organization. Miguel speaks this clearly:

> The transition from the old model to the new model was a major concession from Microsoft

The current .NET Foundation is an improvement on what existed before. Is it independent? Not completely, but .NET is more independent than it was. Is it frictionless, transparent, trustworthy? Not completely, but .NET is more than it was.

Of course the current discussions show it is now time for the next steps and move on from the tradeoffs that brought the Foundation into existence. There are many ways to improve and their messaging/communication is the must urgent one. But it's also important to recognize that the Foundation's organizational design flaws are not a "plot", not result of incompetence nor malice; it's progress, slow as one would expect from the complexity of its goals.
Nuclear should be subsidized to keep them online for sure. All governments should want a backbone that can work under any circumstances (excerpt flooding I guess )
This is true for pretty much any VPN provider, though. Like, somebody could compromise your company and start forging OpenVPN client certificates.
It still is controlled by the US government. I've spent the last 2 months integrating with a system that performs export checks on software to confirm we're allowed to send certain software from one country to another and we're not allowed to export to Iran, North Korea, etc.
> I think that 42 rang for him due it’s association with WW2.

Huh, what association is that? WWII started in 1939 (or 37 if you consider the second Sino-Japanese war to be part of it) and ended in 45.
These are fine intros, but then you have to actually dive into these topics. Sometimes there is no real interesting way to explain these topics. Fx, iirc the construction of the real numbers is rather tedious. But I agree, that more effort could be done to motivate many of these topics (at least that was my experience studying math)
>> It doesn’t answer your question directly

Then how about you try again and answer it directly this time?
I am not a saudi. India is a diverse nation, 1 out of 5 humans are indian, it is silly to have any strong generalized opinions for or against india as a whole without paying attnetion to the nuances of each indian state and socio-political complexities. I have no vested interest either way personally, you shouldn't assume my intent. People do thay too often these days on HN, last week someone accused me of working for apple when I defended a whistleblower lol.

> I don't see them as academics, but rather propagandists. I am wondering what exactly does this study achieve?

What kind of a propaganda has no goal? For you to claim it is propaganda you must at least show what they have to gain by it. You must dissect the facts fist and only if the evidence leads you to that direction should you make conclusions about people's intent. Unless of course you yourself are acting out of bias.

To me, I don't really care who did the study. India is not special in prefering boys over girls, I don't see any stereotypes being propagated. Any populous country where men have a better chance at becoming bread winners is like this. Things continue to improve for india, if this study is garbage then discard it. If there is merit to it them use this as an opportunity to make the lives of Indians better.

I personally have great hopes for india, I think the nation has a better chance of dominating the 21st century than China does, mostly because it is not a hostile nation to the rest of the world like China or even the US. India is the one nation I am rooting for. But whatever the country is, I dislike it when people are so defensive about it. I get the same sentiment in the US, "if you don't like it, leave." , yeah... I know I can leave, I chose to stay and change things for the better. You criticize what you like and ignore what you despise. It's actually a bigger problem I encounter in many other areas as well, people considering a criticism of a situation as some political move instead of an attempt to correct and fix a problem.
I'm so sick of this. I understand that VsCode is popular, but for Python and Rust, Intellij's management of multi-file projects, and code introspection is much nicer. But It's almost daily PyCharm hard locks up for me, or uses most of my available ram.
You won’t get those kind of jobs without a green card though. H1Bs are paid near slave labor wages in general.
What do you mean? Comments?
That is indeed a lot of political murders / murder attempts. More than I would have guessed if someone asked me. Thanks for the history lesson.
Why wouldn’t someone doing better than average still need advice?
IMO the real abomination was already present in the language, which is that if blocks do not introduce new scope. My IDE protects me from the bugs this could easily introduce when I try to use a variable that may not yet be in scope, but it should be detected before runtime.

I will readily admit that the walrus operator doesn't do what I thought it did and I have no interest in whatever utility it provides as it exists today.
Yeah I also got several Chinese movie recommendations on Youtube, which was a first. Watched two, surprisingly I don't get them any more.

Not that I care, I still wonder why China doesn't have that much good music, especially rock. Folk is fine and all, but like, Japan and Korea seem way ahead in modern stuff.
> is a creepy weirdo

I'm positive we call them "autists" these days, not "creepy weirdos", just like we don't call low-IQ people "idiots" anymore, even though we did at some point.
To be clear:

def thing(): return True

if thing() or w:= "ok": # SyntaxError: cannot use assignment expressions with operator
pass
print(w)

. . .

if thing() or (w := "ok"):
pass
print(w) # NameError: name 'w' is not defined

The first error makes me think your concern (that w is conditionally undefined) was anticipated and supposed to be guarded against with the SyntaxError. I believe the fact you can bypass it with parentheses is a bug and not an intentional design decision.
I think regex matches might be literally the only use case for := that I come across with any kind of nontrivial frequency, and it's only a minor nuisance at that. Certainly nothing to warrant an entirely new yet different syntax for something we already have.

The iterator protocol is way more general than what you have; it's not remotely comparable.
The pizza guy and the startup founder does have some things in common though: they live outside the comfy Swedish 9-to-5 mainstream, and could both be seen as “meat robots” I guess, if you are so inclined.
It sounds like the residents should move out.
2006 was the hey day of flash games, so the moving to browser part was already pretty clear, but that it would be web based APIs less so. canvas was still new/didn't work very well back then iirc.
I’ve seen the content reported here in two other places, both which emphasize a “surprised” aspect.

However, the link article includes this statement which (to me) indicates that the surprise, if one truly existed, was the test, not the existence of the missile platform:

“At a 2019 parade, China showcased advancing weaponry including its hypersonic missile, known as the DF-17.”
As a slave any new privilege is better than having less than before.
It is simple. Emacs is an editor made by programmers for programmers. If you are the type that likes to tinker with things, Emacs is going to be the editor for you to tinker with and automate whatever you want.
> Yes, it could still exist on your private node that your running from your laptop, but this is the equivalent of saying that all published content is available forever because it's on your hard drive.

No, the difference is that IPFS will use the same address to fetch content from anyone who's seeding it.

If Hacker News shuts down, it will no longer be accessible at 'news.ycombinator.com'; all existing links to that address will die, or worse will start showing some unrelated content (probably domain-squatter spam). That cannot be prevented by making a copy on my hard drive (or even the Wayback Machine).

On the other hand, an IPFS version will continue to exist at the same address for as long as anyone is seeding it. All links will remain working; anyone can join in the hosting if they like; even if it eventually stops getting seeded, it may still re-appear if someone re-inserts it, e.g. if they insert the contents an old hard drive they found in an attic (as long as the same hash algorithm is used, then the address will stay the same).
I don’t think Python is any worse than say JS, which is what most bootcamps push.
And to add: there is another huge negative to nuclear. The hidden and forgotten costs of uranium mining and waste are almost always glossed over and forgotten.
The only solution for secure disposal of mines, and mining waste, is flooding. So now you have massive (50-5000 acres) ponds or lakes, to manage in perpetuity. We often hear of regular mining tailings ponds failing. Now imagine acidic, toxic and radioactive, water and sludge flooding down stream.
Example:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-min...
You seem to have completely glossed over the part where they promised to be a viable business with actual profits.
Technically they don't need to justify their market cap, the market assigns their value for them by trading their stock.

There's no need to "argue" a companies value, you speak best by shorting/longing.
Since you specifically ask: I would probably respect them more if they had joined Apple. I think it's obvious that the bar is noticably higher there.

Of course, this is all based on whether they actually thought about it strategically before deciding to go with C#. Perhaps they were thinking they'd get larger roles at Microsoft, perhaps they didn't think about it all and Microsoft was the most direct option due the the C# language choice.
One veto is enough to kill a resolution, so it’s not quite the same as one-fifth
I suspect my demake, while theoretically possible, wouldn't have been doable within the ROM limits of the time (at least when also needing to use that ROM space for gameplay, etc)

As an NES game it's tiny, but 24kiB would be unfathomable for a Channel F game.
Using with with easy2boot is better.
Oh I see, you're looking at it from that angle. But no, it's intentional. Check out PEP 572 [1]:

> The motivation for this special case is twofold. First, it allows us to conveniently capture a "witness" for an any() expression, or a counterexample for all(), for example:

if any((comment := line).startswith('#') for line in lines):
print("First comment:", comment)
else:
print("There are no comments")

I have a hard time believing even the authors (let alone you) could tell me with a straight face that that's easy to read. If they really believe that, I... have questions about their experiences.

The beauty of Python...

[1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/
The US would've been the only nation to have the resources and attitude to want to do something like that, but currently it seems to be taking an Orwellian path of its own too.
A simple solution would be to introduce two new types: ConcurrentThread and ParallelThread. Alias the old Thread to the ConcurrentThread and keep the behaviour. No breaking changes, easy to explain the differrence. People who need it can use the new truly parallel version.
I would encourage you to re-read this with the first reply.
I agree it looks like it's an effort to placate and build a favourable image, but I think the intentions are to build something more substance beyond this.
There is that, but we KNOW what is going to happen with climate change. People are not going to change their ways before it's too late. We LOVE energy, and upcoming countries are only going to use more fossil fuel and it's going to get worse. Unless there is a 10x increase in our capabilities in renewables in the next 10 years we're done.
Tall screen, 16:9 is a scourge. 16:10 is merely acceptable, but I prefer even taller.

Linux support required.

Less important, but I wish they still had some ports on the back. Don't want the more permanent cables all over the desk.
I have now heard specific concerns with := that make sense to me, but what about match expressions? What about them do you not like?