skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's selection based on non-linguistic criteria, like who's better at violence and economics. So it affects language, but it is not based in language, and thus GP's insinuation that this linguistic feature is a "bad idea from a natural selection point of view" and this is somehow related to those languages' so-called obscurity does not make sense.
ActivityStreams (the foundation of ActivityPub and other fediverse tech) is pretty much RSS on steroids. I wouldn't call the latter 'obsolete' though.
> dbus is not used on servers?

In my experience dbus has shown up on embedded devices, routers, servers, desktops, etc. Maybe it’s not being used and I don’t know it… Avahi (the mDNS daemon & tool), for example, uses dbus.

I would say containers are more to blame for making env var secrets pretty okay. But people should be aware of what the systemd man page says about env vars because there are scenarios where persisting secrets in a spot easily queryable via procfs and/or dbus is not okay.

And systemd provides a way to correctly pass secrets by allowing you to specify a credential blob that is accessible via the filesystem and properly restricted to the target service. So there’s an easy way to securely pass secrets, people should use that before reaching for env vars.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.exe...
You've forgotten about the effect of investment. Work on a team doing contract early-stage development for funded (that's important) startups and greenfield "experimental" projects for larger corporations and you can work on four projects in one year, zero of which ever see enough ROI to pay back just your personal pay. And then do it again the next year.

The end result is that you feel like a tiny part of some weird, random, extremely expensive process to (rarely) create successful new businesses. Like part of a living pachinko machine that burns cash. But you can get paid plenty for it!
1) Heating pad on my hands while I'm typing?
2) Have you tried typing with fingerless gloves?
3) Not allowed to have space heaters in our office per "the guy who comes around and yells at you for things periodically"
4) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you
5) This does not warm up my hands, I can assure you

One thing that works great for me at home is, compromising on a temperature with my partner such that we're both physically comfortable throughout the day.
> Was it worth it?

> 1 minute to do this

> 1 minute to do that

and 1 minute to introduce RCE vulns into company #589179283672's pipeline due to the "you don't understand the security implications of using fragile UN*X tools" problem which applies to anyone actually learning something from this article DAY OF THE SEAL SOON,
> toAdditive ((toMultiplicative a) <> (toMultiplicative x)) <> toAdditive b
> This is of course an insane way to program

If you have a set with two binary operations, then a monoid isn't the correct abstraction.

How would you propose to define <> so that a<>x<>b means ax+b and not e.g. a+xb. And how would your proposal be materially different from newtype conversions?
ESO Very Large Telescope images planet around most massive star pair to date
> In practice, the price of electricity swings roughly 300% during a given day in California. At 12pm, there's so much solar power that most people's panels are turning off and electricity is damn near free.

If this is true, they sure have strange billing practices… I have solar panels and batteries and live in Southern California… I am billed by time of use, and noon is in “high peak”, where I pay the most for electricity. I have my system set up to use battery power at noon and send all my electricity to the grid because of this.
Even the neediest families ended up getting like $4-5k or something like that. Individuals got less. Literally enough to pay rent and feed families for a couple of months. No one got fat and happy off of stimulus money - some people just got less poor.
Hydrogen is a fuel. I suspect trains in north america will be converted to hydrogen first and later move to battery electric when better batteries and charging at that scale become available. We missed the window of converting our rail to electric overhead. The extreme subsidies for truckers also negatively impacts rail investment.

Planes might be replaced with blimps. Hydrogen blimps with hydrogen storage on board outperforms any boat in terms of cost to move goods. Going from nyc to los angeles would be much longer, similar to driving across, but what if the blimp is like a resort or night train where you're given a room and beds? Have entertainment options.

Though really what the OP is about. Hydrogen isn't an option for cars. The japanese government made some decisions and now Toyota and Honda are pretty far behind. Even where Toyota in the USA with bzx4. We dont technically know yet but it seems like their battery sucks. They likely intended 150kw single motor and then 300kw dual motor. Yet their abysmal 160kw dual motor signifies their battery is trash. It's also tremendously small. They are targeting lower cost, which is fine, but low cost new platforms? They are going to have a bad time.

If toyota and honda are smart, they'll see their hydrogen call value in other transportation fields like blimps.
I know this may come off as cheeky, but I’m being very sincere: if not us, then who? Sure I alone can’t upend Amazon, but we aren’t all alone and we aren’t all working for the juggernaut that is the Bezos machine.

Maybe I sound naive but every bit matters, especially given how many of us probably work at start-ups. You never know when your decisions will have an impact on a multibillion dollar company that simply hasn’t emerged yet.
"Read the paper" isn't exactly the answer I'm looking for, but thanks for trying.

Only upon reading the paper do you discover that a "school-age cutoff", much like the famous hockey player study cited by Gladwell in Outliers, is one of the ways for controlling the selection effect I mention.
Well even when Zones in Open Source existed almost nobody used them. That said they were only available in few places and Solaris Open Source never fully took off.

I think the reason is that they thought of them as an operational tool. Its basically a cheap VM. However, led to crazy docker adoption was its use as a dev-tool and in development making it really easy to run simply stuff.

Only then people started thinking about using this seriously deploy application on mass scale with docker. And then they realized that containers on Linux were just patchwork and the security story was a mess.

Zones were developed to serve as VM replacements, so for them security and resource management was very important.
According to historian André Castelo, on one particular occasion, [Napoleon's] cuisiniers roasted no fewer than 23 chickens in close succession (Napoleon couldn’t possibly dine on reheated food) until the emperor finally deigned to put his quill down and spare a few minutes for his meal.
> That's their choice.

This is a hacker news post, not a lawsuit.

Nobody is arguing that they don't have a choice or the legal right to do this, calm down man.

We are arguing they are a fucking asshole for doing so.

You can have a legal right to do something, and still be a fucking asshole for doing it.
I would; one of the main reasons I don't want to go in person is that I'm immunocompromised and an open-plan office just means 'hey, Mezzie, you get to be sick all the time!' An office would help that.
There's a great, and almost impossible to translate, scene in the movie "Your name", where, after the female protagonist character finds herself in the body of the protagonist male characters, almost gets in trouble for using the wrong "I".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iowh6UxahKs
Vivaldi Mail is a webmail service - it's typically marketed through the Mail feature of the Vivaldi browser https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/

It's not anything explicitly business-related.
> (a) more efficient because you don't need to execute JS to evaluate each request

This is true, but I think overly performance-focused. It doesn't feel like that much time, so I think there's a valid complaint that it doesn't make sense to kneecap flexibility for speed.

> more private because an ad/content blocker doesn't need to be given such broad permissions

Sure, but this doesn't seem like the only possible solution for the people that own the browser. Why not only allow a restricted subset of JS that lacks any form of IO? Or if that's impossible/risky, why not something like Starlark or Lua?

I think this is based on a fundamental misreading of the problem. The privacy concern is that your data will leak, not merely that it's accessible to a third party. The cat binary can read my data, and I'm not at all concerned about that. So can my shell, and likewise on the concern.

Privacy doesn't necessitate this solution. It is one of the possible solutions, but I think is hard to sell as the best solution to the problem. It is likely the easiest.
Bitcoin !== Cryptocurrency

But yes, I agree with you about BTC.
Because they are amoral pieces of shit who'll sell to dictatorships and use state export regulations as a fig leaf. Because they fight back, lobbying in an attempt at regulatory capture. Because of how many innocent people's phones their software has provably ended up on. Because it's so closely connected with state funded and trained hackers from Unit 8200. Because they lie, simultaneously denying involvement, yet, disabling the relevant accounts. Just a theory.

Follow the industry long enough and you'll know how Hacking Team (Italy), Finfisher (Germany), Gamma International (UK), smaller and larger firms have rightfully attracted their fair share of condemnation. Journalists pile on when a story gains momentum, this round was started by the published list of targets and Citizen Lab. We can't call this anti-semitism yet.

Defending it just because it's Israeli would be as unjustifiable as attacking it just because it's Israeli.
Yeah I would agree even though it seems like an unpopular opinion.
There is no such thing as a test that is not an IQ test. That is why the term "g" is used -- it stands for "general". The thing people discovered was that performing well on an "IQ test" predicted that you will perform well on any general test. Whatever an IQ test measures generalizes to other domains.
I mean what else are they going to say? To say that there are no false reports is provably incorrect, to say either that there are many false reports or they don't know how common false reports are is to admit guilt. This is just the corporate version of the narcissist's creed.
Remix.run as the Tailwind.css of JavaScript Development
At a previous job, I used a pair of usb-powered fingerless gloves. They worked quite well, if a bit bulky in the palm area.
Well done getting smoked by the fossil fuel industry and their attempt to sell their dirty hydrogen as a transition fuel.

> clean-burning fuel [...] as long as you make the hydrogen from a clean source

that's one hell of a footnote you've got here, because currently 95% of hydrogen production is not that.
Proper tail calls are ALREADY part of the spec.

Google and Mozilla simply chose to ignore the spec.
> The former isn't really an equivalent. It requires being always online to receive updates which me/ans that you need to use a service or run your own.

ActivityPub is the "push" counterpart to the more foundational ActivityStreams, which works no different than RSS.
Snapchat and Other Apps Were Used to Plan Flash-Mob Thefts, Police Say
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>This is when you regret not having invested in the socials.

Same - zero posts. I definitely couldn't create enough noise on twitter to move the needle on anything. Don't think my mom has any sway over google & friends...
Burn baby burn
TypeScript is great and everything, but Microsoft owns the standard and the single functioning checker, and haven't published a specification or even a grammar.
Forbes is basically a blog site now, like HuffPo for non lefties.
Don't wear a suit or you'll be the target of the poors. Put a little dirt on your face before you go in public so they think you're one of them.
I'm part of the team behind Apilytics. We are building an analytics service that is trivial to setup and that is not tied to any single backend framework. Apilytics offers easy to visualize route-specific usage metrics for your API and allows you to see at a glance which of your endpoints get called the most. It can help you throttle specific endpoints or automatically IP-ban bots that are abusing it. We want to be a privacy-first solution from day one, so you'll have full access to all of you raw analytics data at all times, and our middleware client will be completely open-source.

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A build issue could totally be it. I feel like that's really common in the frontend / NPM world if you're not careful: if two of your dependencies rely on a third sub-dependency, but those dependencies have specific and incompatible version requirements for that sub-dependency, then you'll end up with two different copies of that dependency in order to satisfy those version requirements.
Sustainable implies “don’t need to print money forever”.
Don't know the answer but thanks for the information. I have also user in youtube where I have uploaded some random recorded videos with my brother and other memories that I have no local copy of. Will make that ASAP!
> Well done getting smoked by the fossil fuel industry and their attempt to sell their dirty hydrogen as a transition fuel.

Well done getting smoked by the electric car industry, and their attempt to sell their dirty Li-ion as a green source.

Come on, we both know this argument style isn't helpful. Or at least, I hope you understand that this style of discussion doesn't help anyone.

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EDIT: A more serious counterpoint: Japan doesn't have a fossil fuel industry, yet they are the ones pushing Hydrogen the most. I think your read on politics of this whole thing is a bit weird (albeit many people try to bring up your point, but it doesn't hit home for me)
TS design goals and non-goals [1]

It's very much designed to be a layer of abstraction over JS.

I am as much a fan of TS, however, it's not likely ever going to be the thing that it's really close to being.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/TypeScript-Desi...
> something more rigorous than tends to happen in this area.

This is a great example of an ad-hominem attack, but against a whole profession, that tends to pop up fairly regularly on HN. I saw somebody else call it "hackers are better X" or something like that.

So yes, there is this whole profession, that do nothing else but debate the subtleties of said profession. That's what they do, they go to great length, setting up experiments, writing papers, and trying to outshine their opponents at conferences. They have been doing this for decades.

But they couldn't think if a simple counter-argument? How likely is that?
Are you talking about black kids? Because I can assure you that no one gives a single fuck about their feelings or any uncomfortable differences.
The passé composé of "je suis fatigué(e)" [I am tired] would actually be "j'ai été fatigué(e)" [I was tired]. Translated word for word to Portuguese, this would be "Eu tive sido/estado cansado(cansada)".
I disagree. If users can comment/contribute, and it's not just a private direct line to support, then people will start to hang out and talk and learn about each other, and that's a community, no matter the subject.
Ok, so if every company has that then so what? Non of that proves that they automatically are save from bankruptcy.

And also that doesn't explain why so many initially small companies end up being successful.
Have at it:
http://x3270.bgp.nu/x026.html
> Wind and Solar production are literally free though

.. but the capex of your electrolysis plant isn't, and a giant pile of platinum electrodes that only get used once a day isn't a great deal.

Fundamentally batteries and electrolysis are the same category of reaction - electrically driven redox. So you have three options:

- ions plate out as a solid on one of the electrodes ("battery"), or possibly a hot liquid (aluminium, molten salt batteries)

- change the ionization state of some liquid (flow batteries, e.g. vanadium chemistry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery )

- ions come off as a gas (hydrogen, but also e.g. chlorine if you electrolize salt water)

From there you have all sorts of detailed issues like "does this destroy the electrodes" and "is this annoying and/or dangerous to handle". I do wonder if someone should do a John D Clarke and just try all the most common ionic liquids.
I don't disagree with you I disagree with the follow-up comment from the previous poster about it being 'meh'.

Nothin is pre-ordainer for sure, that said there certainly seem to be fairly clear directions in technology. I think what was missing from my understanding is that this is a much more efficient use of resources for a better engine. Sounds like a leap forward in graphics engine (now developers will be captured on the Unreal Engine - great business model for the company).

It still isn't a eureka moment that the other poster was really hoping for. Its very impressive but I am not going to swoon over the achievements. That doesn't make me "dead inside" because I can't get fully amped up for this post and I think that the poster missed how people might view look at this development which is why I added my own comments.
This is important information:

> “It appears most were sheltering in the place they were told to shelter,” the governor, Andy Beshear, said. “I hope that area was as safe as it could be, but this thing got hit directly by the strongest tornado we could have possibly imagined.”

You can only take so many precautions when tornadoes are in the neighborhood, because although the devastation where a large one touches down can be severe, the area is limited and the path is unpredictable.

Also:

> A company spokesperson said Sunday that eight of the 110 workers on the overnight shift Friday are confirmed dead and another eight are missing. For most of Sunday, the authorities had feared that more than 70 of those shift workers were missing [...]

RIP for those who have passed; it's good to hear that they are fewer that we thought.
The hashtag #AirpodsAintDead hasn't ever been used, though. One must conclude that they, sadly, are.
Yeah, popular usage seems to have shifted over recent years. I'm sure my experience is biased by my close work with discrete manufacturing.

Searching Google incognito does seem to validate your assertion.
g is as close to a measurable thing in psychology as there is and anti-IQ articles are almost always driven by political or moral concerns. Sure, IQ is flawed. Most measures are. There's really not much more to say.
If you prefer walls of text to a short answer that conveys everything I just said, then good for you, but I'm not sure it's something to tut tut your superiority about. After all, isn't that the problem with IQ?
The case for LNT is weak but there's also a weak case that LNT is wrong.

Part of it is that we've been so careful with radiation that, other than the nuclear attacks against Japan in WWII, we don't have statistically significant samples of people who've been exposed to artificial radiation. The results from Japan are just barely statistically significant and contradictory between Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

When we look at natural radiation there is no connection between health and background radiation. Places in India and Iran which are rich in Thorium have background levels close to the limit of what rad workers are allowed to experience but people in those places don't seem to have any ill effects.
"Exam technique" is definitely a thing, though. For example on a timed test, not wasting excessive time on a question you don't know the answer to.
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> From there you have all sorts of detailed issues like "does this destroy the electrodes" and "is this annoying and/or dangerous to handle". I do wonder if someone should do a John D Clarke and just try all the most common ionic liquids.

Or we can build a bunch of different options and then see what works out 10 years from now?

Like, we all know that Li-ion electrolyte is incredibly flammable, and that electricity serves as an incredibly good and efficient spark source. But we're building them out anyway to see how it works out in practice.

https://www.technowize.com/fire-at-tesla-battery-site-in-aus...

Well, for one way or the other, it looks like we've accepted the fire risk. So "X might catch on fire" isn't exactly a strong argument to me anymore.
Because the operators are cruel, stupid or both.

There's no rational business reason to keep a factory operating during extreme weather. All those candles they manufactured? Destroyed by the storm. And now an entire shift of your workforce is wiped out.
I don't think I suggested unions are for blue-collar jobs. Amazon workers -- including SWEs -- absolutely should unionize. Amazon pays SWEs well, but doesn't treat them well. Conversely, there are plenty of blue collar places which do treat employees well, even without unions.

Size, likewise, isn't it. Historically, IBM, HP, and other big companies in the sixties treated employees well. Similar companies still exist today.

It's all about the relationship between employer and employee. The guideline here shouldn't be size, income, or much of anything else except for having a "track record of not treating employees well." If employees would be treated better with a union, they should unionize. If not, they shouldn't.
>Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken of his regret at the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, revealing that he had to work as a taxi driver to supplement his income

Nice propaganda. In reality in 1991 Putin was taking bribes in exchange for business permits in Saint Petersburg. Managed to be so prolific investigation was started in less than 12 months, but even confirming suspicions didnt get him fired. Money talks.
Wouldn't that be a lamp factory as opposed to a candle maker?
Correct me if I misunderstand but they're not threatening to brick your browser, they are threatening to brick your email.
This is pointing out you can simplify the drill+pliers+plunger+screwdriver contraption to just screwdriver.
Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were his legal guardians not adoptive parents.
When I learned about early education a long time ago, the argument was not about boosting short term cognitive abilities, as in this study about IQ tests, but long term socioeconomic improvement (i.e. we heard about changes in graduation, employment and crime).

https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/playf...
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Because managers placed profits and money over human lives....
> do browsers really still need http support?

There are some legitimate resources I use that are http only (eg the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup wiki). I turned Firefox over to auto-error/alert on http, and it bugs me every time I go there
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I don't know what industries you've been working in but in any sensitive business third-party javascripts are under the same tight controls as any other code, and changes in javascripts are going through the same change management controls as any other code before entering production.

Even Google have had issues with malware being distributed via adsense:
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-has-shut-down-a-malic...

Not to speak of the Megacart hacks:
https://www.riskiq.com/blog/external-threat-management/magec...