skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just checked and my second gmail login downloaded 500 KB before it became usable

Sure, but tomorrow? This afternoon?

500 KB is 1-2 seconds on the connection I'm currently using (not at home right know). It's 4-5 seconds on the train to get there… in the sections were connectivity is available. 500 KB is huge. That's 1% of my previous monthly mobile data plan.

I think we should revisit our idea of what amount of data is fine to do anything on the web today. Data transfer is not free, it needs infrastructure and electricity.

500 KB should be the amount of data to download for getting the full web application with cold caches, tops. Can you imagine the number of instructions you can fit in 500 KB of code, especially high level? I can't.

> Web browser allows for local storage and offline work which could be utilized for those features. You can enable offline mode in Gmail. I just checked, it works.

I guess, but I don't trust this. And as a web developer, I am well aware that local storage is limited in size and there is no way my gigabytes of mails are going to fit.
> it comes with an NFT

Okay. Walk me through that, step by step. Like what happens at the dealership? He give me a USB stick?

Actually ya know what? Walk my Dad through it.
Yet this is literally one of the fairest political systems available to human civilization right now.
Except that on 4chan people adapts and mostly reads threads that already possess replies. The multiplicative effect it creates ensure that only the threads that are the most interesting get most of the views. And because it is an image board a similar effect happens for posts: the presence of an image and the length of a post give a quick proxy to evaluate the effort put in it.
Yes it will never be as effective as a karma / like system but imo it’s well suited to an anonymous imageboard, particularly for boards where threads without replies tends to get replaced quickly.
"How does it spread from humans to deer?"

Deer and humans live in very close proximity. I routinely startle deer just getting the mail and stuff.
Or those who can get the vaccine but it won't help them much.

But, as you say, homo homini lupus.
I am the greatest.
Study finds a difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
Who is developing this product? Under what circumstances is it 30% faster than Parquet?
You're not wrong. But how many GWH of baseload for how much do you think is reasonable for this? Specifying it allows us to run some numbers. I can bet you it's not going to look good for nuclear. Baseload just means having enough GW available for x hours/days/weeks/months. GWH in other words.

The reason the Chinese are investing in nuclear is actually really interesting.

This is just speculation but I believe that the reason is not that it they believe it is cheaper but simply because they want to replace a lot of dirty coal (well over 1000 GW) and are willing to pay the price for that. So far, the plan was to build more coal plants, and then get rid of it as early as they can in a few decades once they have enough renewables. Not a bad plan but coal has become an embarrassing problem for them (smog, lots of finger pointing internationally, etc).

They've been floating 2065 as a deadline for going fully carbon neutral. So, those new coal plants they have been building would only be in operation for less than 50 years. To go fully carbon neutral, they'll need more than just that 1000GW; a couple of thousands minimum; possibly more. It's not just current energy consumption but also transport, heavy industry, etc. that are currently powered by fossil fuels. To power all of that with clean electricity or hydrogen created using clean electricity, they would need a lot of power. Many TW of capacity.

The issue is that renewable capacity is only deploying world wide at a rate of 100-200GW. That is globally and it's happening as fast as we can do and we're getting better at it. And while that is a lot, it's not nearly enough.

Over a few decades it of course adds up to plenty of capacity; especially as production processes improve over time and scale up. But for the Chinese to be able to start shutting down coal plants in the near future they need an alternative. Even if that is more expensive. So, they just announced well over a TW of nuclear power capacity in the form of 150 nuclear plants. Problem solved but it won't be cheap.

To me it looks like their plan is to ramp up nuclear at great cost so they can commit to shutting down coal sooner than the second half of this century; which is increasingly becoming a hard to defend position. A few decades in, they'll have quite a bit of nuclear capacity, much more renewable capacity, and a vanishingly small minority of fossil fuel based production; which they will pull the plug on at some point. Once that is done, they'll shift attention at reducing cost.

A lot of those nuclear plants might not even reach their planned end of life. They'll have served their purpose long before that. Once there is enough renewable capacity producing energy cheaper, they'll start doing to those plants what is happening to many expensive coal plants all over the world right now: shut them down. They'll cut their losses.
> Seriously, can't we just accept reality and get back to normal. Those that want the vaccine should get it and those that don't shouldn't.

No, we can't, because in most places in the world people who have nothing to do with COVID can't get into hospitals or be seen by doctors, when there is an infection wave, which at the moment is fueled by the unvaccinated. Deers won't take up hospital beds, but the unvaccinated will continue to strain health care systems.
>He was also a terrible person who serially abused his wives and girlfriends.

>His site was very influential (in good and bad ways), but that doesn't mean he is someone we should canonize or mourn.

"You know what they say, speak ill of the dead!" - Norm MacDonald.

A person need not be wholesome or kind to warrant mourning their death.

Even if you despise the person, their death has caused real human suffering and pain among those around and associated to them.

fwiw I think it's incredibly tacky to go into a what is in essence a memorial thread to post a list of grievances against a dead person that has no means of explanation or defense.

I don't know about Lowtax's personal life -- this isn't a comment on that; it's a comment about those that feel the compulsion to post vitriol on memorials.

If you feel the need to shine light on the despicable , make a thread and let's discuss it there -- that way we at least stand the chance of sparing the bereaved.
It isn't merely being hacked.. if for some reason data gets exposed, it is easy to redefine the exposure point as a third party issue. For example, lets say an app allows you to install a plugin. However, the plugin API lets a third party run anything they want. I've seen firsthand how auditors will determine that it isn't the fault of the company they are auditing, irregardless that that the company provides a plugin API that allows for easy exploits because their software isn't technically the one exploiting the user.
Yep, have a look at dislikes of anything on the white house channel!
I think there's an interesting nugget of sociology in that. Perhaps segmenting populations (not necessarily through ML, just a star rating or a ladder ranking or Likert scale could be enough) when rating something offers better visibility to people in that cohort about their shared attitudes in the matter.
Sometimes I see potential for growth in situations derived from a mathematical model. Think big O applied to a business opportunity or team dynamics O(x) means linear growth. O(x^2) means exponential growth. You can use the model to analyze your current situation and describe what the next level looks like.

I don't know what the potential of chu spaces is either. But I look at this concept like I do at articles about categorization and graph theory. It may not make sense now, but we may encounter a situation where these models that make sense mathematically help guide us in certain situations.
Honestly, there could be a malicious actor deliberately creating division among the populace. As with so many other topics, vaccination and COVID has been politicised to fanaticism.

Then again, the more probable explanation is that what we're seeing is the result of social media changing the dynamics of the society.
USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018
The song is called "Dès que le vent soufflera" ;)
Clearly you can’t universally say that. Many preventative regulations have solved or drastically improved all kinds of situations. Car in particular have seen them in terms of minimum crash test results, seatbelts, airbags, etc.

Yes reasonable is a subjective term, which is exactly why I used it. Feasible is less subjective. Society always has to make trade offs over time in cost, freedom, etc. Which is to say taking an extreme position will lead to an extreme society. That’s not what we currently live in, nor would it be what most people want.
It's a compiled, statically-typed alternative to Ruby. If you like Ruby, but you want more performance, and you want your code compiled with static checks, then Crystal is a good alternative. The tradeoff is losing some of the more dynamic, metaprogramming capabilities.
A lot of comments here already point out that YouTube’s own videos are regularly downvoted to oblivion. Also that in this very sensitive political climate across the western world gouvernements and big corporations don’t want to appear rejected by the opinion. I tend to think it was an important argument for this decision
> O(x) means linear growth. O(x^2) means __exponential__ growth.

That's not a great start for a conceptual framework, is it?
Ah yes, it reminds of the form of government I created - "goodocracy". We're against bad things but for good things.

It doesn't make much sense to say things like "we demand there are adaquate reasons for the existence of power structures" because there's nobody on the opposite side asking for unreasonable power structures. Everyone wants good/reasonable things and doesn't want the unreasonable. Problem is, people disagree about what is what.

A group definition is meaningless if it doesn't specify a group. As is, every major political ideology would be anarchist by this definition.
Aren't you misattributing the quote?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536961-the-reasonable-man-a...
Ask HN: Is supply chain chaos leading to shipments being lost?
My brother wants me to send a box via shipping.

I’m concerned it’ll be lost.
Just make it very profitable. Buffalo were wiped out pretty quickly.
It doesn't help that those so called "experts" can't even read of understand the language.
And a anti china bias is a sure way to get promoted.
The system makes sure the story write themselves and then westerners are surprised it didn't went the way they expected it would.
That is pretty much my conclusion from watching think tank china watchers for over 8 years,
I got so annoyed I decided to learn the language myself this year, should be a interesting journey the next 5 years or so.
From the lead paragraph and worth noting, Germany is not alone: "But a number of major automaking countries — including China, the US and Germany — are not on board."
Sigh, another Covid-nutjob throwaway...
I never once thought that I was clicking on this post to behold a tale of True Genius.
Nor did I expect that OP believed that.

I think the title reflects that semantic sentiment.
Erm why do you think those can NOT get vaccinated?

Quite the opposite. They need more boosters as the vaccines don't generate enough immune response.
What are you suggesting exactly? Culling the white tail dear population across the USA?
Seems the rubella vaccines have greater efficacy and gives much longer protection (life-long) than the current COVID vaccines though.
A total shift to electric vehicles in less than 20 years sounds quite optimistic if I'm being honest. Not signing something you know you can't meet sounds like a fair choice.
Right, I tend to forget that most devices come with malware preinstalled these days.
No I do get it. People are trying to optimize the cost of healthcare system at the system level, and they absolutely cut it down as much as they can and people go without treatment for it.

You have vaccines to protect yourself, and if you're an anti vaxer or are still irrationally terrified of the virus you always have the option to shut yourself in your home.
Yes, Smallpox and Polio would be other examples of successful eradication programs (the later hasn’t been entirely eliminated in the wild, but it does seem like it’s within reach)

But those are very different viruses to SARS-CoV-2. Even if we could achieve 100% vaccination coverage, it’s likely that the virus would still circulate because our immunity is not 100% effective at preventing infection and shedding.
I suggested rr at one point but I think we already blew our time budget (the customer pays us by the hour). I'll read up on the chaos mode, never heard of it. Thanks!
Increases LDL cholesterol. I would not totally avoid it, as it's an important source of vitamin A, D and E intake but rather limit butter abuse to about one pack (200..250g) per month per person.
The context here is desktop systems, not mainframes.

Though the interesting takeaway from your comparison is the fact that desktops these days run server kernels, which is a testament to the build quality of servers.

Which segues nicely into a recap of my point: 90s desktop systems didn't have memory protection et al so one buggy application would cause the system to crash. Everything was carefully layered like a house of cards. The switch to NT and UNIX largely fixed most of those issues but later builds of macOS seem as buggy to me as Win 9x and MacOS 8 and 9 were.
I think you severely underestimate how big the US is, how many deer there are, and how long this would take. Is it possible: yes. Will it take decades: likely.
> Perhaps for people who don't have a "hack the world!" mindset, it does appear as genius I suppose.

I think this is it. I've realized that as an engineer, I look at the local environment around me as a construct. If I don't like something or think it can be improved, I can redesign it better. Hell, I once got the traffic markings on an entire street changed by sending a single email to the right person pointing out something that annoyed me whenever I drove through that area.

I've realized that not everyone has this mindset though. So many people write things off as "just the way it is" without considering that they can be changed. Sure, YMMV. As an average Joe, I really don't have much power to change the tax code. But I do have a lot of control over my local environment.

I'm reminded of When I was teaching, I would occasionally hear students grumbling about the way their homework was being graded. But with enough time, you'll hear students grumbling about nearly everything, so I never paid it too much attention. I'd just check that the grader had followed the rubric, and then either make a grade correction if needed, or just tell the student that it had been graded accurately. After several years, I got a long-winded email from a student expressing their dissatisfaction with the way their assignments were being graded. But instead of solely complaining, this student explained _why_ they were upset and politely requested that I consider changing my rubric. After some discussion, I did just that. I didn't concede all their "demands", but I did make changes that made the students happy.

This was a student that understood that the class policies were a construct, and that a sincere discussion can be sufficient to incite change.
VGH
> Seriously, can't we just accept reality and get back to normal.

Some countries have, some haven't been able to yet. I'm not going to start ideological arguments just want to bring you a new perspective.

The main criteria is your healthcare capacity.

In the Netherlands facemasks are only mandatory in public transit at this point. But you need a vaccine or test certificate to go to a restaurant/bar. The number of infections went up with everybody going back to the offices, but the hospitalizations and deaths are still on the low numbers.

In Germany you have regions like Saxony with extremely low numbers of vaccinated people, infection numbers also went up, but the hospitalizations are equally high, and the healthcare system is now strained with beds being repurposed for covid wards and surgeries cancelled.

My point is that _if_ we have unlimited healthcare resources and capacity then yes, theoretically, everything could go back to normal. But irrespective of where you sit ideologically our resources are finite, so our decisions have consequences.
This is not a memorial thread. And the fact that he shot himself a day after being judged a domestic abuser adds a lot of relevant context that readers on this forum deserve to know.
The alternative would be a 3rd party browser extension, that store the dislikes on a 3rd party server...

In the 90's there was an add-on that allowed anyone to comment on any webpage: http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~orit/utok.html

Although imagine having such a tool nowadays and opening cnn.com, it'd be like walking into a MAGA rally.
See also https://github.com/hzeller/timg
I think that act in this way is a normal behaviour of a smart guy who is asking itself "Yes, but who fact check the fact checkers?"
From their GitHub:
Crystal is a programming language with the following goals:

Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal)
Statically type-checked but without having to specify the type of variables or method arguments.
Be able to call C code by writing bindings to it in Crystal.
Have compile-time evaluation and generation of code, to avoid boilerplate code.
Compile to efficient native code.
> Surely we can do better than this? A tool being powerful should be no excuse for it having footguns!

I agree. In fact I’d even say they exist but yet they didn’t win.

I have often wondered why a tool that sits atop of git doesn’t exist. One that exposes some basic opinionated operations.
One person's decent is another's rubbish.

I have fairly low standards. If the author can (or can hire an editor to) put together decent sentences, paragraphs, and chapters, these days, I'll settle for that.

However, I cannot abide fiction that is "only you can save the universe" or anything that childish.

I also can't abide worldbuilding with hereditary elites (political, magical, whatever) or slavery in it -- the idea that some people are better than others because of who their parents were is anathema.

For MilSF, try Linda Nagata's The Red: First Light--although the main character is a man. For light ent, try M.C. A. Hogarth, or Julia Huni, or Becky Chambers.

For lots more suggestions, sift James Davis Nicoll's review site.[1]

1. https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
zerofree requires a filesystem, the example we talk about above is below the filesystem. Clonezilla is great, however we wanted to implement more "logic" into the provisioning process.
The difference is that the nazis were killing people based on who they were; the communists purged people based based on their belief that they had committed crimes against the state or were working against it.

One can dispute this belief, and no doubt they were both brutal, but there is a difference between a genocidal policy with the aim of extermination, and the state exerting its power to punish those it thinks are working against its interests.

Put another way, you could, in theory, avoid punishment in the Soviet Union by avoiding certain actions (although I know this is stretching things quite a bit), whereas those who were targeted by the nazis had no hope of escape.
Wait until the winter ends and we talk. But it seems the vaccines don't work, all around the world, no matter the % of people vaccinated.
This is partially untrue.

Numbers are back up in the Netherlands, hospitals intensive care units are largely at capacity, and facemasks were reintroduced in public spaces such as all shops, doctors offices, etc last week.
In support of your observations:

When I was in my 20's I knew everything and had a strong opinion about all things technical.
Now with decades of experience and a PhD in SE, there is so much that I still don't know. My common response to any request for opinion is "It depends! -- define 'better'".

Programming languages, operating systems, frameworks, etc are changing all the time. What was hot a decade ago is now virtually untouchable. It has been the solid foundations gained in those hated classes that have kept me productive in my ever narrowing field of specialization.
> In your example, each picture on your phone (that you are trying to upload to iCloud) would be hashed, and the hash would be sent to Apple. This is exactly the opposite of what they are promising with NeuralHash.

No. You are wrong. They do hash each image and they do upload the hash derived safety voucher always. Here is the Apple technical paper: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/CSAM_Detection_Techni...

There is a fairly complicated cryptographic algorithm which, according to apple, lets them open the safety voucher only if there is a match with the database.

The user devices only have a cryptographicaly blinded version of the hash database which they can’t turn back to real hashes without apple’s private key. This means that the plain neuralhashes are not available to the end users.
I think I finally get it. The contemporary expression of "gender" is like an arrow that only ever points fully to the left or fully to the right.

What an unhelpful oversimplification and bias.

It's like a conveyor belt that can only reason about what's been dropped on it after the things move off the left side or the right side.

How can we stop the conveyor belt and take notice of where everything just is?
A Git Cheat Sheet
Maybe the way to fix these issues would be to try to reduce the package bloat in the npm ecosystem? Otherwise I'm afraid a faster bundler will only result in even more packages being bundled. But I guess it's hard to get that genie back into the bottle...
There's a difference between elimination and eradication. Elimination means getting cases close to 0 as possible, and then - any outbreaks that do occur, tracking them and stamping them out before they can spread.

A good analogy is that of TB in most of Europe. When I moved from South Africa to the Netherlands, I had to have a chest X-ray every 6 months for 2 years to make sure I'm not infectious with TB. The disease has not been eradicated, but there are measures in place to make sure people don't die of consumption like it's the 1800s. We can do the same with covid, there is just a supreme lack of will to do so.
Is there evidence of other respiratory viruses transmitting from humans to deer?
It doesn't need to cull all the deer. Wolves would remove the disease for free with surgical precision. Targeting the ill and weak, is what they do all the time.

Or we could vaccinate the deer and let the natural selection act over the Qmamon crew, of course. Even the big birds are vaccinated (and Colbert is a genius).
I don't have an issue with it and spend zero time worrying about it. Why do you think it is reasonable?
Tangent: as a Money Stuff fan, one minor gripe I have is that Matt often links back to previous newsletters (as in the first link here), but to find what he's referring to you have to trawl through the entire day's items. One simple fix would be adding ids to the heading (<h2>) tags and linking to those. Not sure how much work it would be to tweak this in their CMS but it would add a lot of value.