skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mass resignations by police protesting vaccine mandates might provide some interesting data on what effects fewer police can have, both good and bad.
That his advantage. He doesn't want to, rather write everything anew from scratch.

Also signals. With a microkernel you won't need signals
Sex work is in the shadows because those who do it feel the need to hide because of social stigma.

In theory you could completely sidestep the legalization/decriminalization debate and straight up give social status to sex workers.

How many pornstars have been elected to hold public office?

None. If one were to check I am sure the most frequent profession for somebody who has been elected to hold public office is either lawyer or physician.
If everybody in the room agrees on the benefits, why not spend most of the discussion debating the drawbacks and the contentious points? That’s a very common situation in my professional life.
Don’t go through that much trouble! There’s an easier solution.

You can download free radiology viewers RadiAnt (windows compatible) or Osirix (Mac compatible). Your imaging is in DICOM format probably and you can use Radiant to export all of your slices into .jpg if you want. You can also do 3D reconstructions of soft tissue, bone, lung, etc.
I made one major error there. Since the article is based on actual performance rather than an intimate knowledge of France's grid capabilities, it is wrong to presume that their historical 100MW/min ramp up was the best they could do, rather than all that was required and basically just an algorithmic artifact. I got that in the comparison to wind, but somehow missed it in comparison to their total fast switch requirements.
I assume you’re referring to mocking like that provided by Jest? If so… I’ll add a two big caveats:

1. The mechanism used (clearing or overriding the cache) isn’t available for ESM, where mocking is significantly more challenging.

2. That mechanism is also responsible for a lot of memory leaks when any modules are stateful.
>why in the heck is he going for POSIX compatibility

Because existing desktop applications can be ported to ToaruOS

>why not a safer microkernel, keeping everything in userspace?

This is a design choice, microkernels aren't necessarily better than hybrid, they're slower, harder to debug and process management can be complicated
> This is what ultimately killed Second Life. In the early days it was being used by businesses, for meetings etc. Then all the people with kinks moved in and now no one takes it seriously.

You got your order of events reversed.

In the early days of SL (2003-2007) it was mostly chaos: kinky content, ponzi-schemes, gambling and scams.

It is in this chaos that SL boomed, but sometime close to its peak (2006-2007) the management realized this isn't sustainable (for both legal and business reasons). So, they started to moderate user-content in order to make it more attractive to mainstream-consumers as well as businesses.

And we've seen how that went. Very few are interested.
No inbuilt documentation system called Index?
Bookmarking this so we can have this delightful conversation 6 months down the road when chances are the boosters prove to be just as effective as the original shots.

Early indicators from Israel, which is ahead of the booster curve:

> Israel Is Preparing for Possible Fourth Covid Vaccine Dose

> “We don’t know when it will happen; I hope very much that it won’t be within six months, like this time, and that the third dose will last for longer,” Health Ministry Director General Nachman Ash said in an interview with Radio 103FM.

> Israel, which has mainly used the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccine, has so far inoculated about 2.8 million people with a third dose after beginning a drive to administer booster shots in August. Health officials have said the effects of the initial Covid-19 shots weaken five months after inoculation, making boosters necessary.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-12/israel-pr...
This is what I do since, I don't know, King's Quest series? After the death of adventure games I don't care about stories anymore. The graphics and the gameplay carry all the weight now. The Assassin's Creed series-what is this Animus crap? Just make the character be that assassin guy instead of switching to some pandering story about a time computer. Seeing what they did to ancient settings and bringing these cities to life is cool but have no time for little stories.
People absolutely beat the market over time. The investment world when they say no one beats the market, are referring to investment managers moving billions of dollars. As a regular guy, you can. It’s sad to see this terrible advice repeated ad nauseam
Structuring law enforcement activities on the premise that people must and will not engage in one of the most reliable and instinctive responses to the situation, is probably going to end badly. Yet people don't get shot by the police doing so in every country at the same rate.

Like, things would go very badly for me if I sped away during a traffic stop here in Canada. Prison eventually, tire blow strips on the highway, and quite a rough arrest. But I honestly would not expect to be shot in that situation, unless I gave them reason to think I was armed and homicidal (though I still wouldn't roll the dice on it). Of course with that said, a significant proportion of the police shootings here are also in traffic stops. I admit it's a naturally tense situation.
>but come on, "Live"??? no wonder everyone calls it "Ableton"

I did say it was a nitpick. Besides, before it was a DAW it was aimed squarely at live performance, hence the name.
there are many DICOM viewers available, ranging from the fairly horrible plugins for imageJ to very sophisticated things with maya or COMSOL or whatnot.

OSIRX is often very good, though not free.
They pay the capital gain at some point, but the most wealthy tend to never sell. They tend to take loans against their assets and hold in perpetuity.

I agree that raising the value of the share leads to a deferred taxable event, just a question of whether that deferral is permanent or not.

Presumably it would be realized at some point.

There is also a compounding effect to deferring gains, which leads to higher wealth concentration. e.g. you make gains on the portion of your investment that would be taxed, because dont owe the tax until you sell.
Will do. Nuclear energy is 10x less deadly than rooftop solar per Twh and 4x less deadly than wind.

Solar kills! Maybe we need to mount a campaign to shut down this deadly and dangerous form of energy generation. I will start working on the posters and clickbait web site, you gather the activists to organize a protest.
> On top of those fees, 20k isn't that much.

If we are comparing apples to apples, the actual court filing fees and such in the US are pretty small ($350 to sue in Federal court + $400 to file documentation), and if you cannot afford these fees the court has the power to waive them. For a small business with a clear case,this means your $20K is possibly enough to pay the lawyer and see the case though. Just recently, on this site, we had an article about SparkFun rebuffing a patent troll in US Federal Court for less than (or close to, as I recall) the EU filing fee.

> On top of those fees, 20k isn't that much.

Yes, the issue is when the fees are charged. A filing fee prevents discovery from ever happening. It is basically saying, you are too small, too poor to dispute a patent. That is not justice.
Here is a recent article rather than the linked statement by a lobby group:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/nuclear-power-s-awkward-role-in-...

This provides a lot more information and context about what is actually happening as well as what the "green zone" is (as opposed to the "blue zone")... as well as maybe a bit of unnecessary editorializing too!

(I would add that the HN link name is misleading here, what applications for what that were rejected is not clear and it is misleading to imply that there is no representation for nuclear energy at COP26.)
People who beat the market are lucky.
Ask HN: Network Topology visualization UI libraries for Web?
Ask:
Is anyone familiar with any network topology visualizer libraries for the web?

About: I am software engineer looking for a UI library to help visualize network topologies / company infrastructure?

This seems like a very niche space understandably, so looking to hear more from the community.

What I've found so far (Open Source)

- Skydive: https://skydive.network (best I've seen)

- Netjson: https://netjson.org/

a long list of other open source but old & unmaintained: https://elise-deux.medium.com/the-list-of-graph-visualization-libraries-7a7b89aab6a6

What I've found so far (Paid, but quite expensive)

- Cisco NeXtUi https://developer.cisco.com/site/neXt/ (no longer maintained, old, poor docs)

- regraph: https://cambridge-intelligence.com/regraph/

- Auvik: https://www.auvik.com/lp/network-mapping-software/

- Yfiles: https://www.yworks.com/products/yfiles

- Linkurious: https://linkurio.us/solution/neo4j/
No, I understand it completely. But I also know moving that much crypto at once gets you noticed by a lot of people, not just the government.
So, a preliminary problem for many OS-from-scratch projects intending to create "New Different Great OS" will be to have a language implementation which does not expect posix.

It depends on the goal. If you want to compile pre-existing software for it, or if you want to really "start anew".
Electrification of our world. Instead of gas/oil, electricity will be the primary method for us to heat, cook, drive and play.
This is anti-science fear mongering for a variety of reasons.

Most importantly, we need to consider the risks of NOT investing in nuclear, which are that we continue to burn fossil fuels while we pray for a solution for the renewable storage problem. This is a civilization-ending risk by which the worst nuclear disaster pales in comparison.

> we havent even figured out how to deal with plastics in the ocean and in our bodies let alone responsibly harness the atom.

Plastics are a problem because billions of people throw their trash haphazardly into the environment. As long as we don’t do that with nuclear waste, we’re fine.

Yes, nuclear waste takes a long time to decay, but the risk is inversely correlated with the time it takes to decay. Something with a long half-life by definition emits low rates of radiation. Moreover, nuclear waste is very dense, so we can easily manage a lot of it (and we already have to manage some of it anyway). Lastly, we already have the answer for managing nuclear waste—deep geologic storage.
There's a long interview with Rick Beato and Pat Metheny. My opinion is that among "younger" jazz musicians, Metheny has a rare gift for writing catchy melodies. He can write melodies that sound like folk songs, or like the most advanced deep jazz tunes, or both at the same time, pretty much on demand.

He said nobody teaches how to do this. You can study composition and arrangement, but they won't teach you how to create a melody. I don't know if he was implying that it can't be taught. But it's certainly valuable.

I know someone who wrote tunes on speculation, and one of his melodies was chosen as the year's jingle for a major brand. It made him enough money to pay cash for a house. Of course this was many years ago.
> You can kill the bad jerk, but then his chest opens up and a God flies out and the God is the new bad jerk and you beat it up too. (Also known as the JRPG option.)

Looks like they covered FF7.
I empathize with your concern, so it may help to understand how modern science works: scientists like these tools and a key (and required) part or their job is to work with them.

Bibliometrics spans multiple scientific fields of research , eg, philosophy of science, and an important practical area that emerged are tools like Google scholar that are one of the key tools to how scientists work today.

A scientist might skim 50+ papers for the background needed into every 1 paper they the write (and many more abstracts), so STEM researchers spend a LOT of time in tools like Google Scholar. Likewise, part of the job of a scientist is to disseminate their results to other scientists, so part of the writing process is to carefully adhere to bibliography conventions explicitly so tools like these can help make your work more accessible.
Shallow dismissal of other people's work.
Could this technology be used to communicate with teenagers?
Also, and probably more important in the current context, no politically motivated 'studies' shall be promoted or financed. This includes just about all the *-studies fields.
The French do reprocess their fuel, but iirc it was made illegal in the US, so we just bury it all.
And Justine, if you want to join our ever continuing argument about bootstrapping processes and trust in programming language toolchains, Kartik is the right person to talk to :p
Is “They did a CT scan on a pumpkin” the next evolution of “They did surgery on a grape”[0]?

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-did-surgery-on-a-grape
> ...it's getting increasingly hard to find them through the commercial smog thrown up by Google.

I agree with this statement 100%. I miss the old internet too, not because of the simpler interaction specifically, but because the current state of availability of information is massively broken due to commercialization. The internet has been turned into a 5 store strip mall, everything has a rent seeker, a middleman or a gate keeper. It is increasingly difficult to find any information online that has not been created for the sake of commercialization and delivered to you for a price.
I love that society has reached “I dislike you because you are teaching children to do dangerous things” is “elitist” point in its development.

Civ didn’t prepare me for this.
Yeah, OneDrive for Mac is where OneDrive for Windows was up until two or so years ago when they finally made it stable. They are apparently working on it, but when they haven't even been able to recompile for M1 I don't know when that work will appear.
People can reject nuclear without empty virtue signalling.

They may believe that non-nuclear alternatives are perfectly viable. "The sun provides enough energy to power the world's needs 30,000 times over"...and all that.

You might be mistaking disingenuousness with ignorance, or naiveté.
True, and as another commenter hinted at, you're free to do your own hobby project however you please, there's not a wrong way to do so if you find it fulfilling.

But at the same time, it does make me sad that most hobby OSes end up seeking POSIX compatibility, because that means being destined to essentially either be another unix-variant or develop a unix-variant inside some subsystem of your OS.

Yes, being unix-like means you gain access to a trove of software and libraries that makes porting applications much easier, but it also limits the potential be truly different and experiment, as your end result will look like "yet another unix" with misc. improvements.

Since I think the enjoyment of building something like this comes from the satisfaction of building an OS from the ground up, I don't think it matters, but it would be cool to see more hobby OSes try more exotic ideas and runtimes.
How do we know what the environment wants? When we are saving it, it’s from our perspective. We are saving our environment. There are plenty of pests that don’t like what we’re up to.

We are important. :)
> The initiative is not a non profit at all.

Since his wife is involved it still seems like corrupt self-dealing. What kind of public corporation owns a "Wife-Founder Initiative"? Are these monarchies?
if and only if there is a level of access. given how much computing happens in a far off corporate cloud system, less and less computing can be understood.
A Query Language Is Also a Data Constraint Language
I wonder if you could make building bricks out of this. Cinder blocks, basically. That would be a way to have profitable sequestration.
I agree those are profitable. Because they are actually selling something. That's a normal company. Talking more about companies which are mostly relying on increasing user count. I get that they may eventually turn a profit. But nobody talk about the profit.
Through your journey, try to find meaning in these quotes.

When I first heard them, they sounded reasonable, but I didn’t know if they were just folksy wisdom or hard truths. I tried to resolve which is what. They are all hard truths.

1. You can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is and he’s doing these things and he’s getting rich

2. The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent

3. I recommend the S&P 500 index fund (from a money manager)

4. The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect

5. I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches—representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you couldn’t make any more investments at all.

6. If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, the question becomes: When?
Miniature nuclear reactors for long deep space missions.
I suppose the body is an economy in some sense. It's all about allocation of finite resources.
Horos is the FOSS version of Osirix and based on the same original codebase, which lives on Github – c.f. https://horosproject.org/download-horos/
Half-life opening tram ride and test chamber were revolutionary. Nobody else had done something quite like that.
Other games gave you the backstory in the manual and dropped you straight into the action.
At that time the repo probably looked like this:

https://github.com/klange/toaruos/tree/9f34619078f92bd7d9815...
Long term risk? The fall of Western world?

We seen it first hand in these last 2 years how hard it was for the government to control the lowermost layers of society, even when we talk about a life, and death matter, just because they can't get a hamburger, and toilet paper.

Now, imagine talking about rationing electricity, or fuel for F150s
No, the fact is: there is too little objective data to know about either side in the retail sense.

And the objective data that is there says that 1% of day traders out perform the market in the shanghai stock exchange (I could misremember).

The point is we have too little data to know almost anything.

I am on my phone no time for source finding.
The perception that big tech's power is above everyone and the law only helps to make their position more authoritarian
The protests by this lobby group are targeted at the greenzone, yes, but the entirety of COP26 ignores Nuclear as a viable option. You may review the stated agendas of the leading participants or the goals they have published.

The global minimum alternative tax is a higher priority this week than anything climate.
> and aren't restrained by any code of ethics

give ... me ... a break.
are you seriously implying US (aka blue team) are good guys and have some higher standards?
> it can't help much for other species

Many of the solutions for reversing monarch also have positive side effects for other species.

All life is connected. One species can alert you to the deterioration of an entire ecosystem.
I'm more worried about NASA's goals than I am their costing strategy.

SLS and Orion are taking up much of NASA's budget, and I don't see the payoff. What science are we going to add with another manned moon mission? Going to the moon and returning with stuff like the Genesis Rock was important, but that's been done. Likewise I'm really not sure what science we've gotten from the Space Shuttle and the ISS, outside of biology on long-term human space flight.

Whereas stuff like Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Juno, Hubble have had _clear_ science gains, and cost much less than manned missions. Now we the Webb Telescope and Lucy, we should be doing much more stuff like that.
For *nix maybe, but there are many other non-POSIX operating systems in use today.
I wish there was something like the teenage engineering op-1 but aimed at children (100-200 dollar range). I really feel like my kids would love this stuff but I know nothing about them. I though maybe iPad apps but they lack the physical knob and button feedback that something like an op-1 has.
Bash functions are better than I thought
It must be so because the Guardian is such a trustworthy source of climate news.

https://www.newsweek.com/elites-are-using-climate-hysteria-i...
You’re comparing traditional vaccines to mRNA vaccines here. An mRNA “vaccine” is closer to a biologic than to a traditional vaccine. We’re told they’re not “gene therapy”, instead the Moderna CEO has called them “information therapy”.

Anyway, I’m rambling. In a nutshell, they shouldn’t be thought of as the same technology because well, they’re not.
Solar isn't without its flaws. The solar deployed today will be EOL 25-30 years from now. That's 6M metric tons of waste yearly estimated by 2050 and almost 80m metric tons total [1]. Coupled with the increased demand for materials in PVs and supporting battery infrastructure, more mining and mines have real environmental and social consequences.

That's a lot of lead and other toxic elements that if not properly disposed of will lead to massive ecological consequences. The current strategy of dumping in north africa is not a solution, and we're setting ourselves up with a PV waste problem for future generations.

1 - https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die...
IMO the clearest advantage is that you can have multiple parallel instances of the same application but different services with no crosstalk. Basically the same as the disadvantages of using global variables to store state.
So weird, hopefully the community has a fresh branch to push somewhere. https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit/
They are high, I don't argue that. I don't think they are ridiculous, given the quality of the product and size of the market (it's not word processing...), the fact that they are independent, and they way they run their company (which, from what I've heard, is a very nice place to work). It is extremely stable with very very few bugs, and running an independent software company that way requires high margins. (I'm a software mergers and acquisitions consultant, so I get to talk to buyers about this all the time.) Personally, I'm happy to pay a premium to support the way the company is run, I don't think for a second they would be as hacker friendly if they got bought by one of the big PE fund owned media conglomerates.

But you're not wrong, they are pricy. If people are on a tight budget (and I spent many years being that musician 20 years ago) I would tell them to buy Reaper and either standalone Max ($8/mnth, cheaper for students) or use Pure Data (open source).
> See, that's the problem. Writing a Forth interpreter, to be blunt, is not writing in Forth. You should be writing applications in Forth, not interpreters. It's great to marvel at the simplicity of a Forth interpreter, until you have to use it in anger for an actual application.

I get the impression Chuck Moore would argue "writing in Forth" means designing a custom language and custom hardware in tandem.
Required vaccines for school children are for diseases that affect school children. Not to protect old people or people with co-morbidities from a diseases that has little to no impact on young healthy people. Asking children to be a shield is immoral.