skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back then I wondered why Miguel never played a role in that foundation. This explains this a bit. Also it shows the fear in Microsoft about a community switching to a GPL code base (which is ridiculous considering that the .NET community with it's company black matter devs are the opposite of GPL friendly).

It is also ridiculous considering that .NET runtime development would never work with the deep pockets of Microsoft.
There are two problems with this line of argument:

1. The web succeeded but many things whose backers made similar comparisons failed. Knowing that one technology had a big impact doesn’t say that a given unproven technology will be the next one to go big. It’s more likely that you’re looking at the next Groove Networks or something like that.

2. The web was immediately useful for many people and you could get started easily. IPFS has some interesting but far from unique properties and trying to be a network increases the amount of adoption and maturity needed for it to be worth using for most people. This is especially true for peer-to-peer sharing where the most useful participation requires up-front risk and costs which many people aren’t going to want to accept. Without that, it’s basically just harder to use web hosting which may or may not be cheaper.
Miguel and Nat have, ever since the early '00s, been enthusiastic supporters of Microsoft technology and have spent this century doing little other than enabling Microsoft tech to play well with open source.

The takeaways from this are:

1. This is likely a lifelong dream for them. I'm not comfortable with shitting on people's lifelong dreams.

2. I definitely saw it coming. As soon as I saw Microsoft acquired Xamarin and retained both of them, the first thing that popped into my head was "this makes perfect sense". You can draw a straight line from their early work on Mono to their acquihire.

3. They are still spending their lives enabling Microsoft tech to play well with open source; the only difference is that Microsoft is now paying them to do it.
Why? "Markdown" is not a standard, it's a loose collection of formats. CommonMark is a standard, and they are not calling it that. Anything that is Markdown-like can be called Markdown.

It's the same deal with lisps. Lots of languages are "lisps", even the ones that are slightly different than the ones you're used to. Then there is a Common Lisp that is a language that is also a lisp.
Which rules are they breaking? As far as I could tell the article said they were following all the rules for the kind of project they had…
I follow a lot special-interest online communities that are getting inundated with off-topic pro-china posts. "The west is corrupt and china will save the west." "The US can't possibly stand up to china." Maybe it's just a phenomenon that's unique to my own filter bubble. I'm not sure.
What are the legal implications when scraping stepstone and so on for their data? I am honestly curious because we build roughly the same for a university project one year ago.
Usually to protect the random unprotected machines on the local network (and the rest of the world from the poorly administered machines), in my experience.

Some of it often boils down to mindset of the admin - allow everything unless you know it is a problem, or block everything unless you ‘know’ it is good.
If that's the statue the author is referring to with the phrase "a bronze statue of her was recently unveiled in Germany", I hope this didn't make it into the book, because Strasbourg was indeed part of Germany once, but is now French...
Slave to what exactly at this point?
Not true: solar is the clear winner. Thus far, storage hasn't been important, but will become so soon. Very cheap iron-air batteries will roll out in 2023. Wind will remain important, as will long-distance power transmission.

Spending on other methods is not just wasted; it means not spending those dollars on solar.

But replacing Portland cement with one of the numerous carbon-neutral alternatives is urgent, as is building out all-electric ammonia and hydrogen synthesis: hydrogen for steel production, and ammonia to fuel retrofitted container ships.
It was mentioned in one of the discussion threads that the foundation does not offer legal representation to its member projects. It only does so for its own director, officers, and employees. This is explicitly spelled out in Article V of the foundation's bylaws: https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/bylaws

My understanding is that the legal benefit of being a member project is essentially just that they run the CLA bot. If you actually get sued you're still on your own.
"Meanwhile the US and Russian government probably had satellite..."

Silly old Britain relying on a largely subterranean circuit switched network whilst the cool kids might use the latest cool gear to get an important message through. Even today, whilst Facebook danced the grim fandango for an eye watering six hours, boring old standard issue comms carried on functioning.

It sounds a bit daft but there was a massive network of red boxes all over the country with decent connectivity back to a network of exchanges etc etc POTS n that. The AA (Automobile Association) had their own boxes too. To use this network you needed a few pence. To get the message through you use keywords and passwords ie a protocol. The failure modes for a satellite phone in those days doesn't bear thinking of.

When the message is important, keep it as simple as possible but no more.
Much higher “frame rate” is one thing that comes to mind.
Money isn’t the only incentive to do anything, but there are plenty of things for which money is the only incentive, a lot of which are pretty critical for functioning societies.
I don't think china's political/economic system promotes innovation. you can excel at already defined things, but not come up with something new that the party might disagree with.
A bigger subsidy issue is wind/solar being given credits for power produced. So, they keep pumping out and putting power onto the grid even when prices go negative. Only when the negative price is lower than -subsidy do they curtail. This is terrible for existing nuclear plants.

What the grid really needs is transparency at the customer level of real time power costs.
It's one thing to parade something (which may be a mockup), it's quite another to demonstrate capability. The article suggests that the surprise, if it is real, is the demonstrated capability.
Why do you think they're living with the restrictions they put on others? All signs seem to be pointing to them doing the opposite.
Not the OP, but I recently published this which others may find interesting https://github.com/austinvhuang/openmemex
I am not sure if this is what you are asking, but you can create a bootable USB with ventoy on macos using Virtualbox.

Create a VM with no storage, boot from the ventoy ISO, pass through the USB port from the host machine. I used this a couple of days back to create a bootable ventoy drive from my Macbook Pro.
Did an Excel error bring down the London Whale?
You mean you don't sign up for all of Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Paramount+, AppleTV+, HBO Max, Peacock, ESPN+, and Amazon Prime?? You really should, it's so convenient juggling subscriptions and apps for everything individually.

But don't stop there. You want some documentaries? Throw in Curiosity Stream, it's pretty cheap and you'll get Nebula for free! You'll want BBC Select too, though. Oh, you like Anime? Here's Crunchyroll. A horror fan? Don't forget to sign up for Shudder!

Or you could just log into your VPN and go to Pirate Bay. I mean, if you were a dirty awful criminal.
sometimes he lurks by, maybe you (and we)'ll have an answer
Pretty off topic, but this quote is most certainly not from old Buck: https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/find-what-you-love-and-let...
I recently released this which is open source and based on sqlite https://github.com/austinvhuang/openmemex
Economy of scale is hard to combat with a technically decentralized protocol.

Let's assume all goes well and in 2-5-20 years IPFS is the web. A random Joe has an IPFS server in his basement, because it's profitable or at least convenient for him. Most of the traffic never reaches AWS or CouldFlare. What do they do about it? They pretend to be random Joes and mirror the same setup.

Obviously Amazon will manage their servers more efficiently than an army of Joes, so the nothing really changes: we end up with a decentralized protocol where 90% of traffic just happens to end up on AWS servers anyway.
alternatively you could have one or more specific crossings once a day and be done with the whole problem.
As predicted, the "reproducible" segment on that pie chart[0] is now at 90.1% with a few percent of packages still pending or being retried.

[0] https://debian.notset.fr/rebuild/results/bullseye_full.amd64...
> flagged it as “no” because they had too many position changes

This is wrong and misleading in many ways, you should ask people why they left, you should give a chance to those who have good skillset, not based on number of jobs they had. I know a lot of people who worked on contracts, so they had to change employers frequently, and I know a lot of people who were looking for a place, as juniors, to learn from good mentors. It is really hard to find mentors in Startups, and not everybody can make it to big companies. If companies don't invest on their employees, they leave.
A Global Fertility Crisis
the adaptability freedom emacs yields is really addictive, and i'm a super crappy elisp programmer
You asked for one, so one is what you'll get:

The possible liability from a nuclear accident so large that it basically isn't insurable, because insurance agencies won't promise to pay a sum that large. A dam may be located in such a spot that the worst-case liability is insurable, ie. the electricity can be fairly and properly priced in our present model of society.

(Not necessarily. If the dam could flood Paris and the smaller cities further down the Seine, insurance agencies might refuse to insure that one fully, of course.)
It is also very hard to get buy-in for large new hydro plants.
The resevoirs behind the damms cover a lot of area and people don't like their homes being under water.
There are also ecological considerations like trout and salmon migration.
Due to this they are actually demolishing old, low power legacy hydro plants and re-naturalizing the river.
Let me spell it out: more people will die and suffer if we don't support nuclear. There is no way to fix it with renewables. It would just waste the time and amplify the damages.
> IMO the real abomination was already present in the language, which is that if blocks do not introduce new scope.

Definitely. You would think if they're going to undermine decades of their own philosophy, they would instead introduce variable declarations and actually help mitigate some bugs in the process.
It should be noted that most of North America is already connected to one very large grid or another.
I would need to know
- Short-term risks of taking vaccine
- Long-term risks of taking vaccine
- Short-term benefits of taking vaccine
- Long-term benefits of taking vaccine
- Risks and benefits of alternatives

The vaccine doesn't even need to be "safe" for it to be worthwhile. A person with a short enough expected lifespan (elderly or comorbid) may derive a great benefit from a drug with real long-term risks.

For long term risks, nothing can substitute for time.
I'm relatively young. I have an expected lifespan of 40+ more years. Ideally, I would want 40+ years worth of long term data. Realistically, I will settle for 5 years of good data. That should give good enough information to make an informed decision.

The biggest hurdle to overcome is censorship. A large portion of the media and big tech is censoring "misinformation". Its not just social media like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. nor main stream media like CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc. Companies like Google are removing advertisement from pages if it says something they disagree with. With this heavy handed skew, can you really trust the information that comes out?
All Amazon product pages crash for millions of visually impaired customers
I don't know how people were looking at these Java 2.0-esque kludges and still arguing generics were superfluous but I'm glad it's landed: https://github.com/elliotchance/pie
> Seems like this pointlessly duplicates the "Naming things with hashes" ni: and nih: URI schemes

Wow, they have an URI scheme for Not Invented Here. Amazing!
The Millennials of North Korea – The Jangmadang Generation Documentary
If they would’ve used water as a moderator, built a containment building, and not allowed manual override like every other reactor ever, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. It’s absolutely a worst case scenario.
You wrote this comment in response to an article about China demonstrating a capability no other state has shown. You may want to reassess your priors.
>they need to justify their market cap

Why? It's market forces controlling the price, they aren't driving the hands of players.
I’m all up for statistics, but this is isn’t statistics, this is anecdata at best.

Also, make your pick. What was this guy? British? Radical Islamist? Somali? I think these are reasonable labels. But “British but you know, kinda foreign” is unfair. It’s saying, well it’s kind of our fault, we can’t blame any foreigners, but oh look he’s really Somali, so it’s fine. Stiff upper lip prevails, unblemished.
> As we stand today, we built 667 nuclear power reactors and 2 of those went bust with significant damage to the communities close to the reactors. The body count is hard to pinpoint but large communities had their lives uprooted and everything could have went worse if we lacked heroes.

You could very easily make the same argument about climate change. What about the Amazon fires, Australia fires, California fires? The floods in Germany? Countless people had their lives uprooted from climate change (which was caused by many things, including CO2 emitting electricity generation)
Yes, and that's sometimes a good idea. GCC has a pragma and function attribute (unfortunately not for Fortran, at least).
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I know that molten salt reactors have a "salt plug" at the bottom of the tank that will melt if the temperature is too high, dumping the liquid fuel into a boron bath.

I think this kind of reactor is safe in a way that no modern reactor is - operators can remove all power and walk away in this shutdown state. This isn't possible with modern reactors, where 6% of the heat that they produce comes from daughter nuclei, and this decay heat requires cooling power for months after a controlled shutdown.

I do agree, we have to build these safely, with every conceivable scenario, such that walking away is possible.

Converting to thorium fuel would also be far better, as there is only one stable isotope in nature, so no refing is necessary (beyond high-purity smelting), and no centrifuges.
yes but this is not feasible on obsidian mobile app, right?
I can turn off Apple’s ad tracking in a way that’s nontrivial for every other ad platform.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/introducing-the-df-17-chinas...

This article is from 2017, including mentions of testing.
While the walrus operator gives a way to see this sort of non-C++ behavior, it's more showing that Python isn't C++ than something special about the operator.

Here's another way to trigger the same NameError, via "global":

import random
def foo():
return random.randrange(2)
def bar():
global w
w = return random.randrange(20)
return w

while foo() or (bar() < 10):
print(w)

For even more Python-is-not-C++-fun:

import re
def parse_str(s):
def m(pattern): # I <3 Perl!
nonlocal _
_ = re.match(pattern, s)
return _ is not None

if m("Name: (.*)$"):
return ("name", _[1])
if m("State: (..) City: (.*)$"):
return ("city", (_[2], _[1]))
if m(r"ZIP: (\d{5})(-(\d{4}))?$"):
return ("zip", _[1] + (_[2] if _[2] else ""))

return ("Unknown", s)
del _ # Remove this line and the function isn't valid Python(!)

for line in (
"Name: Ernest Hemingway",
"State: FL City: Key West",
"ZIP: 33040",
):
print(parse_str(line))
you can do this in obsidian mobile app?
Assuming that you must have an organisation†, the organisation should have a clear purpose, ideally just one or very few of them so as to avoid conflicts. It must be clear to all involved that, if this purpose ceases to be valuable, the organisation likewise ceases to be valuable and must be wound up. It's amazing how often this is overlooked.

It is obviously not great news if the purpose of the .NET Foundation is to control this ecosystem on behalf of Microsoft. But, establishing that is better than "Let's continue to be vague and hope nobody notices that in practice that's what it's for".

† One of the things to like about the IETF is that it isn't an organisation. The Internet Society is an organisation, several related entities (e.g. the IETF Trust) are organisations, but the IETF isn't, it's just an activity - like dancing. Anybody can do it, if they want. If the people doing it start doing it differently, that can't be wrong, because that's just how they're doing it now.
I use it for two purposes:

1. Useful practical information or checklists on disease topics (I'm a physician). Sometimes they are reminders, or useful knowledge that is generally gleaned from experience / colleagues. Things that can be hard to google.

2. Notes on general business stuff - i.e. "called such and such agency and Wendy said I need to speak to other person next Monday on tel xxxx". Or dates my car needs servicing, or who I'm insured with.

At the moment I use vimwiki, and it works well.
Did you mean the P4? An extremely long pipeline meant loop unrolling helps it far more than it does x86 processors before or after. PIII is more similar to Core/2/i in performance characteristics.

...and then there's Atom, which is also an odd one - I believe it's more like a classic Pentium (P54).
> So we anonymize all the content collected in public. I don't have the stats for the face blurring algorithm […]

I see some contradiction here.

You don't know "the stats for the face blurring algorithm" but you're saying you "anonymize all the content collected"?

If the stats don't say it's 100% (which is impossible afaik if done by machines) you obviously don't anonymize upfront all the content collected.
This was not sarcastic; I've explained in more detail in my blog post: https://hirrolot.github.io/posts/macros-on-steroids-or-how-c....

The linked code uses other macros too, that's right, since it's written in a metalanguage atop of the standard preprocessor.
and recently, a crypocurrency subsystem
That's just one of few reasons why nuclear power plants shouldn't be owned by private corporations. They should be owned and ran by national operators, so then you don't have the issue of insurable events or worry about private operators not paying for decommissioning the plants at the end of their livespan. Power generation is a matter of national security, so nations should be paying for those plants from the national budget.
https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/blob/master/DOC/BuildVentoy...

Check the "Binaries" section. This was addressed in an issue:

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/132

Not sure how comprehensive that list is though.
WHO and partners call for urgent action on meningitis
Haven't Miguel and Nat both based much of their careers around supporting Microsoft tech? They started Ximian - a support company for an implementation of Microsoft's .NET.
Say your webapp talks to a database or a cache. It'd be really nice if you could use a single connection to that database instead of 64 connections. Or if you wanted to cache some things on the web server, it would be nice if you could have 1 copy easily accessible vs needing 64 copies and needing to fill those caches 64x as much.
Well we have no solution for the byproducts of fossil fuels except to spew them into the atmosphere. So I'd say that nuclear fuel is superior.

We're not going to solve climate change while maintaining the same level of energy consumption without making some tradeoffs.

I feel like the environmentalist movement's sentimentalism is what helped to get us here. We change Earth - it's what humans do. We at least need it to be habitable.

Nuclear energy's risks are known and have solutions that exist today.
Libraries that don't do point-release security updates for major versions should not be trusted, or used in production.

Libraries that do release security updates, but introduce new language features like generics in those point-releases also shouldn't be trusted, and have no place in production. Why should I upgrade my language version to get a security fix?
Yeah, tbh I'd with that Java was more independent then there maybe they're wouldn't have been so much of that mitigation over android...

I think there is still the fear of something like this happening with .net if anyone ships with a modified version or reimplements a piece to meet their own needs, at least from chatting with my developer friends over coffee.
I don't find that particularly hard to believe, but do you have a reference for this?
As Silicon Valley said, the product is not the app, and not thr Box, it's the company.
A "Never recommend Joe Rogan again as long as I live" button would come in handy.
How do HFTs add valuable liquidity to the market? Does the 500ns faster transaction time for a block of AMZN matter to literally anyone? Other than the two sides of the trade who lost some money to the HFT who MITM'd them.
What? You realize that the energy density of fissile material is such that stockpiling is much easier?
«team»?! «disgusting»?!

The job of politics is contextually assigning weights to the interests of different social components: that some temporarily lose something as their interest is valued as minor in a big picture is part of the game. The phenomenon of «corrupt and inept» is completely different.

Anything can be the target of the hate of morons: that is noise by definition. Move above the noise, and reasons arise why some collect targeted ire more than others. That is not frequency related exposure («too often»). It is, correctly, exposure as «corrupt and inept», and something very frequent in some big tribes (surely 'cultures' would be improper) must be added: bestiality. The ways of the worse populists (speaking not from the head to the heads, but from the nasty bits to the nasty bits) are common, in some areas, to many paupers-in-spirit attempting to be culturemakers owing to the drives of ignorance. Rare in the UK (apparently), extremely frequent elsewhere.
"A second brain,
for you, forever.

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of
a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
"

I have no idea what that means and a quick perusal of the site doesn't really tell me what this is,

If you want more people to download this please do a better job of explaining what it is. Is this a tool for Markdown writers? A a journaling tool? Does it cache my browsing experiences?

Why can't people write marketing copy in user-centric terms?

I'm going to try in only because everyone here seems to love it, but wouldn't bother if that wasn't the case.

Please step back and think about how to introduce new products to new visitors, thanks.
Converting classic cars to electric vehicles is booming in popularity
> Brazilian Army colonel Manuel dos Santos Lage planned to launch a cat named Flamengo aboard the Félix I rocket on 1 January 1959, but the flight was cancelled over ethical concerns regarding the use of a cat

Appropriate naming.

EDIT: Actually, this was probably deliberate mission naming, not the name of the actual rocket. Given the timing, it would presumably have been one of these or some relative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonda_(rocket)
> but we would expect brand new plants to have fewer issues than 30 year old plants.

That's a strange expectation to have. Ever heard of the bathtub curve ?
I was being sarcastic. I mean ffs, the risk averseness has reached ridiculous levels.