skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why did they send dogs and cats, coundn't pick a dumb animal like a chicken?
How often do you drive over a bridge? Or get a in a building that could collapse on you? Or fly in a plane?

That's not really so different than nuclear energy is except some of us have lost our collective minds and come to the erroneous conclusion that nuclear energy is _scary_.

The climate change potential of nuclear energy goes far behind the direct greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production. With cheap abundant electricity (as could be produced from nuclear energy in a sane world), industrial processes that burn fossil fuels could be switched to electricity and carbon skimmers could be run.

Not to mention your other concerns which I think can be aptly dismissed with a nice tech brain metaphor: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame"

Adapt or die. The water's lapping at your feet and you're looking at the spec sheet for a nuclear first-gen ipod and concluding there's nothing there.

And don't even get me started on your electric vehicle hot take. Battery vehicles are not the answer. We here in the Us practice a particularly perverted form of urbanism. Gimme a fucking train. Gimme more trolleybuses. Gimme walkable neighborhoods and dense design.

I am so sick of all of this bullshit, the answers are obvious
I’m really grateful to Obsidian for getting me into personal wikis. The devs work super quickly and it’s amazing to see what the two of them have been able to accomplish. I wish there were more Obsidian-like communities out there.

Although I mostly use vimwiki these days, I still use Obsidian for viewing backlinks. Does anyone know how to do this in (n)vim?
We are working with very different definitions of "play well with open source;" Mine favors the ideals of free and open source software and doesn't really care much either way what happens to MS.
And there are so many valleys you can flood.
On my laptop, I made it somehow "cheaper" to run Teams by running it in a virtual machine with limited resources. I lost video calling but I just tell them "Teams is unstable on my laptop" and nobody ever questioned this in the last 12 months.
William Gibson's "Burning Chrome".

(Provided the rough skeleton for the movie "Johnny Mnemonic".) Appears in a collection of Gibson stories also titled Burning Chrome.
Yeah well the whatever you think of the current president he did represent change in a country that has seen presidents from the same party for 70, and the president before him too. And the ones from the PAN weren't exactly great. At least that one seemed to be back by a democratic movement/hope. Can't blame them for that when you know the history of the country.
Thank you OP for posting: above average read. The paragraph,

"Instead, they see Wang’s America: deindustrialization, rural decay, over-financialization, out of control asset prices, and the emergence of a self-perpetuating rentier elite; powerful tech monopolies able to crush any upstart competitors operating effectively beyond the scope of government; immense economic inequality, chronic unemployment, addiction, homelessness, and crime; cultural chaos, historical nihilism, family breakdown, and plunging fertility rates; societal despair, spiritual malaise, social isolation, and skyrocketing rates of mental health issues; a loss of national unity and purpose in the face of decadence and barely concealed self-loathing; vast internal divisions, racial tensions, riots, political violence, and a country that increasingly seems close to coming apart."

It's disheartening to read because several aspects are true. Some are off: self-loathing except in a Doonesbury elite-white way seems untrue. The issues that concern me the most are,

- profit: money is not the measure of all things. Money is a tool. When I think of the opioid crisis and the manufacture's owner's ability to shield money, or the deception on the part of tobacco (nicotine addiction), oil (global warming) I become frustrated.

- Worse, the powerful particularly since President Reagan whether as individuals or companies are not held to equal accountability. While societies have said for ages don't do 'X', people do 'X' all the time. But there are penalties criminal, financial, logical, and natural. People or organizations with money or influence don't seem to have that problem.

- Elsewhere the article references governmental institutional incompetence as companies, advantaged by the above issues, aren't pulling their weight. Of our three federal branches, surely the US Congress is by far the worst
Do you remember Microsoft of the 90s?
I'm merely an observer, but it feels, intuitively, that HFT was great when things were fairly predictable -- or more like the major indices and individual names moved a most 2% on any given day -- and now, in the post-covid era, starting with the DPZ spike, and you could argue the TSLA original call buying spree, everything is in shambles. A lot of HFTs I know of suffered serious losses...

Could you explain, indirectly or without identifiers, why now is different than back then?
Look, I think that ketamine has some great potential... but the medical (especially pharmaceutical) industry has shown time and time again that regulation is absolutely necessary.

From what I've gleaned, low-dose ketamine is quite effective at reducing treatment-resistant suicidal ideation, which can be a literal life-saver and has very low risk. The alternatives include doing nothing and hoping for the best, and antipsychotics.

High-dose ketamine (k-hole) is a significantly riskier proposition: people can grow dependent on it, and it does significant long-term damage to the body (and in the short term, apparently, walking out of the clinic tripping balls and getting injured). As an emergency emergency remedy (treatment-resistant depression), paired with talk therapy, the high-dose treatments may be promising.

A real risk is blowback: if the industry is too cavalier, then there will be actually good reason to clamp down on it. If the industry can get their shit together and be careful, then there's no need for strict regulation. If the industry blows its chance with public sentiment now, we won't have a chance to see the positive effects for another few generations.
Moderation, apparently.
Git Absorb, automatically create fixup commits for clean history
Imagine detonating nuclear bombs in the atmosphere on purpose. Oops, we did it already.
The sale of drugs to non-addicts just doesn't scale.

Startups selling psychedelics want repeat customers.

Terence McKenna said he would take magic mushrooms less than once per year.

I don't know what John Hopkins advises, but I would be surprised if they advocated even greater than annual dosing after initial treatment.
> Nassim Nicholas Taleb's dietary practice to "only eat that which our ancestors ate 1000 years ago", aka the antifragile diet.

I’m not sure why anyone (except Taleb and then only as hollow brand marketing) would describe that as “antifragile”, or even merely sensible.

I suppose if you are adopting the diet typical of a particular set of people 1,000+ years ago, along with other aspects of their lifestyle, because you are targeting similar outcomes, then it makes sense (the goal doesn't
but the action does given the goal). Otherwise, its just a silly game with no rational foundation.
> The waste that comes out at the end is less radioactive than the material we started with, albeit much more concentrated.

This is not true. Nuclear fuel not highly radioactive. Their use in nuclear reactors stems from the fact that they emit two neutrons when hit with one, producing a chain reaction. Their byproducts are much more radioactive than the original fuel.
How about paying them properly ? They will instantly return in droves. I think the regular citizen has caught up to the BS of the MBAs
It's the fundamental lie of IPFS. IPFS people will jump in and say that it's not a lie, what they're actually saying is yadda yadda, but then they turn around and say exactly that five minutes later. It's the motte-and-bailey ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy ) of IPFS.

In a world of finite storage, nobody's going to keep up a copy of everything. Nobody will have a copy of most things. Even if IPFS worked acceptably, even if it worked as very narrowly promised, plenty of stuff would fall off the web. At best, we'd see somewhat fewer temporary disruptions of very currently popular content.
Immediate thought I have after reading through some of the comments:

Sheesh! How many of us (myself included) are partnered to librarians. =)
What scientific hypothesis could they possibly be trying to confirm?

I read the story of how Einstein's brain was preserved and couldn't help but thinking this is pseudo science.
True, but utterly irrelevant.

Quantities of radiation released by coal plants under normal operations are not a health concern. Coal has plenty of other health, and environmental, concerns.

Quanities of radiation released by a coal plant are unlikely to vary much at all, no matter how critically mismanaged the plant might be.

Quantities of radiation emitted by a badly-mismanaged, sabotaged, or attacked nuclear power plant, on the other hand, become a health concern for people across continents and beyond, as with Chernobyl and Fukushima.

(Note that "concern" need not mean "realised risk", but given that one of the characteristics of nuclear incidents to date has been inaccurate or misleading information on precisely the levels of risk presented, prudence and caution strongly recommends presuming a worst case until otherwise conclusively demonstrated.)
> a meltdown could not happen

Gen III reactors have a core catcher[1] to handle a meltdown, in addition to many features making a meltdown even less likely to happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_catcher
I meant it moreso that the person whom the reply is actually relevant to might not see it otherwise, but whatever, it's fine with me.
> I only wish the up/down arrow buttons were normal size, like on Thinkpads.

Funny, I much prefer a full-size Right-Shift key, which usually requires compact up/down arrow keys. I hate typing on keyboards with tiny, stunted little right-shift keys. I use Right-Shift much more than the arrow keys.
Yes, I know of many. One example is Wes Bos' Full Stack Advanced React and GraphQL [0], where you build your own ecommerce store complete with payments as well.

[0] https://advancedreact.com/
Nope :)

Here’s their pricing page for more info: https://obsidian.md/pricing
ITER is a research project that is costing more just to build, before any research happens, than a full-scale commercial production fission plant. (The scientists are not getting much of that. But somebody is.)

There is much that nobody knows about getting fusion working. What we can be confident about is that if ever made to work, it will cost way more than a fission plant of equal capacity. Fission is itself not competitive today, and gets less so every day.

A>B>C => A>C

Is this logic hard to follow? Cost of fusion is unknown, but already very large. Cost of renewables is known, small, and reliably decreasing.
> I’m a 17 y/o software engineer

Pretty cool! wonder what brought him to lambda calculus.
Just to chime in here, long time "http://zim-wiki.org" guy here. I'm still basically sticking with Zim for most of what I do, but that's probably mostly the equivalent of "personal muscle memory," for structured things.

But I am moving to Obsidian for anything "non-heirarchical" or "unstructured;" which for me is my "bookmarking" system as well as my personal Zettelkasten/brain exploring gardeny thing. The graph and extensibility is just fantastic, and I like knowing that I can export it wherever whenever.
Sure, but that's tons of work and probably a felony. It took me about 10 minutes to come up with shitty low-res picture of a fake ID that facebook accepted. And for now, that doesn't seem like a significant legal risk.
> In practice, it will mean that some things you will know about, but don't necessarily give consent (i.e., someone taking a picture or a video of you)

This would be outright illegal in the EU.

Even someone is taking photos / videos of me this person is not allowed to share those with third parties without my consent.

If this content is going straight to FB this wouldn't be legal in the first place.

Of course FB is fine with that as they just shift the responsibility for the illegal actions onto the person who is uploading things without consent. (Same "trick" as with phone contacts upload).

FB is using a legal loophole here. Nobody will sue his / her friends. And even if someone tried, it's after the fact anyway: FB can't be forced to "unlearn" the gathered information.
Well I did want to say the P4, but I never actually had one so didn’t want to say something that turned out to be wrong.

Certainly on earlier microarchitectures it did help a lot more than it does now, and there were some nice wins on the PIII for it
I don't get whats up with that "deep sleep", like there was S3 suspend for ages - did anything happen to it? Why can't you just suspend it and call it a day?
Yes I believe so. Having said that, if I had a Netflix sub I would seriously have considered canceling over this.
Oh it's one of the "cryptocurrency" solution looking for a problem to solve? Thanks, no, thanks! :)
VPNs are a funny old thing and it's great to see a new tool to add to the toolbox.

IPSEC is quite hard to deal with. For starters you have to understand that IPSEC was designed quite a while back and not only to shuffle TCP/IP (or UDP/IP). Nor is bog standard IPSEC "routing" in the IP sense. Those Phase 2 thingies are "selectors" - they look for attributes in a packet (generally left and right IP subnets) and then take action. Those selectors could be SPX/IPX addresses instead or people's family names if that makes sense for the system.

Now, your P1 is the auth bit. It can accept many (err several) mechanisms but in general its PSK or certs. Then there is the identification thing - you pass your ID (which can be "lol, anyone, I'm pretty!")

P1: You say Hi and state your ID and if you get a response with an ID then you try to authenticate. You send your methods and they send theirs. You pick an intersection of your offering and theirs and give it a go. With luck you get it right and you now have a relationship between you and the other end. That relationship is called a Security Association (SA)

P2: This is called the Security Policy (Database). Network packets are inspected by the IPSEC engine looking for certain characteristics. In general it is IP subnet pairs - it doesn't have to be - remember IPSEC had much bigger goals than just IP.

You send data and the other end decrypts it.

I have not really done IPSEC justice here because it is quite beautiful as a standard. It is quite complete and the vendors and implementations have really fucked up. It is understandable in some cases because encryption does have a cost.

In the end IPSEC is still the most employed VPN standard and also the worst understood. Sad really.
"LAMBDA: The ultimate Excel worksheet function"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/lambda-the-ult...
It's not just that. When you build reactors in series, you have economies of scales in term of accumulated expertise, amortising R&D costs, etc. France for instance finished building up its nuclear capacity at the end of the 80s, and every reactor built since has been unique, extremely costly and behind schedule. But the day they will replace their whole estate, the economics will likely be very different.
This is really looking great! You say you left your job... do you have income yet, or is that an item on the todo list? Any clues about the game you're working on?
The is a great study showing the algorithms have improved faster than Moore's law and advances in computing in many cases, if only the abstraction allowed for frontend and end users to experience these gains more often.
I’m not sure about Monster Tain but Slay the Spire is not a roguelite, it’s a proper roguelike. The key distinguishing factor is that the meta-game progression doesn’t make the game easier, it just makes more of the content available. A fully unlocked StS on ascension 20 is much more difficult than the starting game.

The original roguelite was Rogue Legacy which started you with a weak character and allowed you to get stronger through multiple runs and deaths. By the end you had a very powerful character which made it much easier to win. This is the essence of roguelite gameplay: metagame progression that reduces the difficulty and rewards repeated play, helping you to win the game without having to master it.
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So, what you're saying is that Microsoft got an absolute steal.
IPSec/IKEv2 is not breaking anything, maybe it just won't setup a tunnel. Maybe a better analogy: We don't say the same thing about for example a piano: "it should only be able to be used correctly". You have to study and practice a bit before you can play a somewhat decent piece, without study no piano play. The same for IPSec/IKEv2, without study no tunnel. Every VPN protocol needs a bit of study, maybe some protocol a bit more than the other. We have a Dutch saying: "Als een boer niet kan zwemmen ligt het aan zijn zwembroek", which translates to something like: "If a farmer can't swim it's because of his swimming trunks".
If you want out-of-the-box VPN solutions, you go to a VPN provider and download their apps. ;-o
My right shift key on thinkpad is full size and i've got full size up/down arrow buttons too (on a 12.5 inch laptop). So it definitely is doable and there is no need for tradeoffs.
A lot of HN (myself included) is older than ciabatta (1982!)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciabatta
> Notion cannot hold a candle on my Emacs org-mode workflow

More details on this? Anywhere I can read up on this.

I like your principle - not to trust these SaaS tools with your personal data.
I mean I've been called an anti-vaxxer on HN, and I'm the one who submitted it.
> Apparently, KDE Plasma5 does the scaling right. Setting it to 150% gives pleasuring look. Overall, I find KDE’s approach with a taskbar much more reasonable than what Gnome forces on me. It’s the paradigm shift from “tell me what you need” (modern Gnome, also Google) to “show me what you have” (KDE and others application menu, also your file manager).

I like this aside and I noticed the same when I tried to use Gnome a couple of years ago. I asked a coworker what he recommended, he showed me KDE and I've never looked back. The scaling was great too when I needed it for my MBP's retina display.
I saw Deezer, but it looked like they didn't have much mainstream music. Did I read that wrong?
This is called "lateral thinking with withered technology" -- Nintendo's core principle of taking mature, generic technologies and combining them in innovative ways to create something new and interesting.
> Let's be honest what attacks on ride sharing is about.

Sure, let's.

Ride sharing is only profitable if Uber and Lyft don't pay the drivers as much as taxi drivers. The fares are cheaper than taxi fares, so they can't be making as much income as Taxi companies do. So they have to take more of a cut of the fare, and pay the driver less, or the business just doesn't work. Their revenue is going to the overhead of an app, a swarm of lawyers, and some remote workers who set new drivers up. They don't even pay for fleet maintenance. All of this is backed up by the fact that they've never made a profit.

It is an unsustainable public service funded by VC dollars and supported by underpaid drivers. So the attacks are mainly about the exploitation of drivers - both the Uber/Lyft drivers, and the Taxi drivers nobody cares about. (Granted, there are plenty more things to attack them over, like increased traffic congestion and pollution, and reduced public transit)
Dense neighborhoods kinda suck everywhere Ive seen it tho? I like having a backyard and not sharing walls with my neighbors, and having some quiet, and low crime, and not having to hunt for seats on buses and trains, etc.
Do Chinese planners expect to destroy a carrier group (~7000 soldiers) and not trigger a nuclear war?
It is like people just can’t not to vendorlock even with git.
While Roam has become something of a dumpster fire with its unprompted Reddit megaban, losing its whole dev team, etc, they do deserve partial credit for awakening the world to the possibility that there is much out there worth exploring beyond Evernote and Notion. There are now so many promising tools (most based on backlinking, as Roam popularized) that we have a site https://noteapps.info dedicated to chronicling the differences in some 30 viable note apps that now exist. At least half of these note apps were created in the past three years alone.

That said, Obsidian is in rareified air among the third gen note apps. The pace of evolution is right up there alongside Craft and Amplenote, where almost every week there is some interesting new wrinkle being added. I can’t wait to see how productive we will become in the next 10 years as these tools let us leverage our brains far beyond what has been historically possible.
We, poor Europeans, can only dream about such salaries. Communism has won and now there is little motivation to do anything at all. Your tiny salary == social payments without doing any work.
Yeah I can see where you're coming from what that.

I'm glad you took it in jest as was my intention.
It was half a year after the launch of Google docs, pretty sure many had similar views at the time. Feels like the browser side peaked at the time and we are still about there, at least among the stuff I use there isn't anything more complicated than google docs still today 15 years later.
Discussed at the time:

Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10187555 - Sept 2015 (235 comments)
And their support is fantastic, even if you are just evaluating the product.
Yeah, I've never heard of China hiding what's going on within its borders, totally out of character and impossible.
What you earn isn’t really relevant, your outgoings are more important. I earn £60k but I live in Scotland and everything is cheap as chips. If I lived in Londump I’d earn double and live like a pauper in a shithole
> Downing Street has asked officials to consider the option of sending asylum seekers to Moldova, Morocco or Papua New Guinea and is the driving force behind proposals to hold refugees in offshore detention centres

How is a detention Center the same as concentration camp?

My take on these hot button issues such as immigration is media (right or left) always tries to make this a polarizing issue to play the narrative for the side they are in.

I remember post 2016 during Trump presidency, detention camps for people from southern borders in US were a large issue even though they existed with the same level or lower humanitarian conditions for decades. media (on the left) would make huge deal when CBP would separate parents and hold people in detention camps even though same things happened in previous adminiStratton. This would lead media outlets calling Trump border enforcement secretary all sorts of names comparing him to Gestapo in some of those show congressional hearings. Now the exact same conditions exist, CBP has the exact same level of enforcement of border laws. But you don’t hear the same outlets coming out with their outrage machine. Except Fox and some other channels leaning right.

Neither right or left has any intention to solve the immigration crisis(at least in the US). Both sides use this issue to rile up their base, that’s all.