skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you comment on how Blazor has become capable? It seems like a cool tech, but when I tried the wasm runtime about 6 months back it was still quite slow. I would like to use it for web app development but speed still seems to be holding it back.
Our universe is a busy beaver program. The longest running BB programs are self-modifying. Any program that reserves static areas necessarily loses out on potential runtime.
The fuel going into a reactor has a tiny amount of radioactivity. The technicians handling fresh fuel bundles don't need lead lined protective gear, just some gloves and clean room procedures to keep the technician's greasy grubby paws off the highly refined and expensive fuel bundles.

https://nrcpublicblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/fuelrods.j...

That technician probably works with nuclear fuel every day and he's exposed to far less occupational radioactivity than a flight attendant because at higher altitudes there's less atmosphere to attenuate cosmic radiation. Even orders of magnitude more concentrated doesn't lead to some extreme amount of radiation. If it hasn't gone critical then the radiation hazard is negligible outside your body. In fact, if you were to finely grind up some Uranium and chemically process it into some biologically absorbable form and ingest a lethal amount the heavy metal poisoning would be lethal before the radioactivity.

>Also yes many of the byproducts are more radioactive than the fuel.

That's the understatement of the year. The fission products are extremely radioactive and are responsible for the massive amounts of shielding and care needed around high level nuclear waste.

>The stuff in the dirt tends to be comparatively stable - the unstable stuff decayed long ago.

Also not true, the stuff in the dirt has been constantly decaying and building up to a steady state decay chain in proportion to the half life of each isotope and the production rate of it. Fresh fuel is basically entirely Uranium with almost no decay products whereas all the radon that seeps up in basements all comes from radioactive decay of unstable isotopes underground. "The stuff in the dirt" is responsible for around 21,000 lung cancer deaths every year in the United States.
> a no fly zone.

Uhm... Finland is several countries north of Ukraine. This is about the eastern Baltic region. I guess you are referring to the rejected NATO-maintained no-fly zone over Ukraine? Or do you mean a no-fly zone imposed by Russia for its Baltic region neighbors??

> According to reports, the interference isn't limited to Finland but also affects Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and the broader Baltic region.

Also, a jammed GPS has little impact on flying, especially not on Russian military flying. They have their own system GLONASS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS).
In all honesty, we don't know anything about anything. Did the jamming really happen, did Russia do it, etc?

There are in fact reasons why anti-Russian countries would undertake this themselves, or even just make up the story. The reasons being that it drums up support for their cause, draws lines that people have to be on one side or another, etc.

Ultimately, this is an epistemological question - what do we know? And the only things one can say one knows, is stuff you have personally verified. After that, you are believing and trusting - the news, the footage, your governments, etc.

Is trusting those sources really an acceptable basis for any autonomous individual to proceed?
Yup you've been lucky. Over the past years I've always faced random rejections. And I'm talking about perfectly compliant apps that the reviewer rejected because they haven't followed simple instructions.

And whenever there actually are issues they tell one of them, we fix and resubmit, then they tell another one that goes on and on.
one option - buy an av projector
they have modern hdcp so content will play
but don't even come with speakers, yet alone apps
I’ve been looking at alternatives for a while, here are my notes: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/1password

(In short, I’ve switched to Secrets while keeping an eye on new KeePass apps, because I don’t want to use or run any kind of service)
What part suggests I support the actions of Putin?
China has had many, many outbreaks in the past two years but they've all been contained locally and haven't spread to the national level.
I am aware that there is an upper limit on security provided by longer passwords, but websites should still not set arbitrary upper limits on length from a usability point of view. If I want to use a longer password because that's the default my manager generates, let me.
John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian
> How many times have you helped a friend or colleague with some problem just by googling it even when you don't really understand what they do for a living?

I think sometimes it is also the case of knowingly what to Google for, and being able to pick out the correct answer.

For example, recently I was involved in a cache issue for an android phone. One of the answers on Google was to download some sort of cache cleaning program. Of course, I knew that this was likely to be a security risk, but others would have downloaded it.

People are naturally wary about this thing, so sometimes I don't mind if they'd prefer not to Google and implement a solution themselves.
How do you pay your regular taxis in the UK?
Do we need some kind of -ism for jerks? Or maybe just the term "jerks" is enough.

I fucking hate jerks. But sometimes jerks move in and out being classified as jerks, probably myself included, probably you too, dear reader. But when they're being jerks I fucking hate jerks. But if I haven't met them yet, then I haven't defined them as a jerk because in my life's experience I've met jerks that cross any and all classification boundaries; tall and short, old and young, male and female, American, Chinese, Canadian, Australian, Vietnamese, German, white-skinned, dark-skinned, olive-skinned, blue eyed, hazel-eyed, blonde-haired, ginger-haired, bald, purple-mohawked (that's actually not true, I've never come a cross a purple-mohawked jerk, but I'm sure someone has).

Everyone should rally against jerks, but there's no way to recognise one quickly and easily without going through the unpleasant interaction that tars them with the jerk brush.

And that's why we should dislike them, because they disguise themselves so well, and that's a learned skill of the jerk, because it'd be too difficult to go around being a jerk if there was an easy way to tell them all apart from the majority of nice people that make the world worthwhile enough to put up with jerk-kind.
Sure. Not yet. But this is the direction it's going in because there is nothing stopping it. One or two weeks from now that will be clear.
In my experience the biggest problem with C#/.NET tooling is the lack of too many open source 3rd party alternatives.

In the .Net world, if MS released a certain library, that would become the de facto choice for nearly everyone in the ecosystem. Competing with the MS options was almost impossible.

So even if the MS choice had a lot of flaws, it would remain predominant.

Which meant that as long as the MS option was good enough, you wouldn’t see too many alternatives unless they were an order of magnitude better.

And a large reason for this was the closed source nature of .NET.

In the open source world, even if the primary vendor option is great, but it has only a single minor issue, someone will invariably fork it and fix the minor issue. Which puts competitive pressure on the primary vendor to incorporate that fox, or if they’re unable to, see a lot of people migrate to the competing, slightly better offering, which is easy to do since it’s basically the same product with that 1 slightly better fix.

In practice the original vendor almost certainly incorporates the Fox, especially since it’s so easy to do as someone else has already written the code for it.

So IMO the problem with the .NET/C# ecosystem used to be it’s closed source nature, which led to very little competitive pressure for improving tools and libraries, unlike all the primarily open source alternatives you mention.
Taishan 1 has been shut down last summer due to what seems to be a design fault and may not be restarted.

It is feared that all other current EPR suffer the same design mistake, but there are currently no plan to stop them.
My recollection is slightly different. The west did not consider lockdowns a viable strategy until the news started to come out of Italy of the scale of the dead. China might have used lockdowns first but it was Italy that changed minds on their acceptability for western countries.
I think there's an element of truth to what you say but I don't know if it would work. Russia will presumably still want to export its' raw materials and grains, even if not directly to the West. Because trade is very much global, countries will re export Russian imports to the rest of the world. This is actually how Russia's economy worked during the Soviet era with a surprising amount of indirect trade going on between the USSR and the west. While the sanctions are likely to be punishing for both sides with China especially willing to act as a middle man I suspect the actual effect of sanctions on Russia / west End to end trade will be less than expected and will help further strengthen China's position. And from a purely international realist position, western governments have never given a damn about people in the third or developing world starving and I can't see that changing now.
I use a VPN. I do not really trust it but I do not really believe they would care what I write about there policies on HN.
I think learning has changed as well. It’s no longer a (traditional canonical) reference that’s most useful (though Microsoft surely has one on each version of excel) but rather “how do I formulate a search to help myself here?”

Programmers have been doing GDD* for a while. Other knowledge workers will catch up or be left behind their peers.

I use Excel weekly, but not daily. The last thing I remember googling in it was last week and it was (for the fiftieth time) “excel format as millions”.

* Google Driven Development
Obviously there are time asymmetries between discovering a problem, developing a fix and deploying the fix.

Depending on the details it may require significant hardware upgrades.

In the real world outside of software everything is not solvable through a simple patch.

Last if you believe NATO is prepared for a real conflict I suggest you compare with how much of the world including institutions meant to keep us safe responded to Covid: denial, lies, misinformation, and hysteria.
I'm afraid there is nothing public we can trust in today's world. We see how big companies are just throwing away their users and data. So, watch to pass (CLI password manager) or KeePassXC as they sync nothing but store local, which means they can't beat you.
Teaching Grammar is Useful, if Not in The Way you Think
It would be annoying but far from chaos for a few reasons

- Its pretty easy to detect. Similar problems come up occasionally, often due to drivers jamming their companies’ remote monitoring.

- The time services in any well operated network will operate well within tolerance for very extended periods without this signal (some bigger ones don’t use GPS time at all for reasons like this) Time labs offer their own signals.
I mean the desktop UI, I haven't tried the mobile.

By keyboard navigation I mean basic stuff like using arrow keys, shortcut keys for menus, etc... It all felt very much mouse-centric.

And Auto-type is KeepassXC' global shortcut key to invoke auto-type in any application, even terminal windows. AFAIK most password managers don't even think of supporting this.
The pandemic response globally has been a case study in what not to do. A perfect storm of misinformation and fear, plus a healthy dose of opportunism. Now the CDC is straight up withholding data in case we “misinterpret” it. [1]

[1] https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220222/report-cdc-not-publ...
- Higher latency

- Less efficient use of bandwidth, as the git protocol is optimised for bulk transfers

- Not resilient against unreliable connectivity

- No support for repositories not hosted on GitHub

Yes, I can think of some.
> But that doesn't fit the agenda the Times is pushing with multiple induction stove articles lately

the NYT has always been agenda driven. even for the iraq war they were spreading the WMD bullshit to lead the US into war.
They tend to harmonize their policies by coordinating through ASEAN though. I don't know abut COVID specifically, however.
Bad political decisions from the west do not excuse bloodshed, warmongering, or genocidal intent.

This is Putin's war. Ukrainian and Russian deaths are his responsibility.
Compilation is still surprisingly slow, the new CLI tools are not a joy to use.

Just look at his example and how slow dotnet run is, even for a program just outputting hello world.
Is wireguard a viable solution to go through DPI?
What I'm saying is that mainland is nothing like hk when it comes to attitude and vaccination rates.
Should I judge all individuals by the country they come from? Within your own country, have you met people who are great and others who are not? Even within your own school or workplace?

Although governments that run countries would have you believe there is such a thing as a country - this is merely a fiction that is commonly believed. There are no countries, just beliefs. There are no collectives either - that too is a belief.

There really are individuals though.
> would love to see an induction stove with a usable UI.

I bought an AEG stove last year (similar to [1], but an older model I think). Physical knobs for temperature control, no auto off on spills. Touch interface only for a few convenience features and the extra power mode, which is fine by me. I'm very happy with this stove and like cooking with it just as much as I liked gas when I had it a few years ago.

[1] https://www.aeg.com/kitchen/cooking/cookers/electric-cooker/...
> Of course, you have to be sure that master password is not leaked, but the same is true for any stateful password manager.

I don’t think this comparison is accurate. With a vault-based password manager, an attacker would need the master password AND the vault. The vault is usually protected separately, either because it’s a file that’s non-public (e.g. Keepass), or because it’s a web service that’s rate-limited or otherwise monitored (e.g. 1Password Cloud).
Yes and it is better that google and cloudflare do that collecting under the guise of protection...

People really are gulible aren't they...

DoH is a not or a privacy feature. It simply changes who is collecting your data and makes it harder for responsibile network operators to protect their users under the guise that the big tech companies are really protecting the users from the network operators and "big bad ISPs".

Ironic given the billions big tech is making from that data.
Myth 9: .NET development is dominated by Microsoft, not a community

Myth 10: if Microsoft decides to kill .NET or go in a new direction, you are screwed (at least more than with the mentioned community-developed open source alternatives).

I'd be happy to see these myths dispelled.
Maybe you should ask people in Poland, Latvia or maybe even in Ukraine.
And Moscow is the richest part of Russia. The rest of the country will be even more miserable.
> Before anyone reads this and decides, "oh ya the NYT is lying to me and gas is fine", it's not. Gas in your home is objectively bad for your health,

there is no such thing as "objectively bad". Risk is always measured in relative amounts vs something else.
> How someone so unable to speak plainly could forge a career as a professional journalist I have no idea....

The professional journalist's job is not to spread information. The professional journalist's job is to influence public opinion.
1. Create a new web project (it is actually a console app)

2. In program.cs add the following lines at the top:

Console.Write("Port number:");
var port = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

3. Change the bottom line App.Run()` to

app.Run($"https://localhost:{port}");

You now have an application which asks for a port and launches your empty website on that port.

A `Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web` project is still a console app. The "web" variant has some other default packages and (crucially) it has some other defaults for how to compile files such as cshtml.
Well, there's some merit to measuring one's shopping in terms of "experience".

Well-laid out spacious store, with good lighting and non-obtrusive background music is quantifiably better than a dirty, cramped corner store with a sus-looking shopkeeper and ethnic music blaring out of tin speakers.

But, clearly, being exposed to #more# ads is not something that adds to said experience positively.
So thoughtful of omicron to wait until after the Olympics!
Absolutely disagree - taxis in the UK used to be awful, none of them had apps before Uber. Black cabs in London were generally good due to the high entry requirements but you could only get them by flagging them down somewhere fairly central.

Uber introduced competition which has massively improved all other taxi services. These days there's nothing special about Uber except its ubiquity so I don't care if it fails now. Ofc this doesn't excuse their illegal practices.
How is it problem if you want to be protected from someone who has already rolled tanks in your country before?
If Hong Kong is any indicator of what's coming in China, the scale of that wave will have serious consequences on the country if they continue to insist on enforcing their stringent (and heartless) zero-covid policy.

Be ready for even more supply-chain disruption.
> If at some point it will be possible to disable the garbage collector and manually manage memory, .NET could be used for everything.

While I haven't seen anyone disable the GC completely, plenty of people avoid using it in the Unity/gamedev world. You simply avoid allocating memory (outside of loading) and the GC isn't a problem when it has no work to do. Making sure none of your code allocates at runtime is only difficult if you "don't optimize prematurely" (write shit code without any understanding or regard for performance).
> and reality is vastly higher than what is being reported because the system now relies on self reporting from RAT tests

Uh, that's not obvious. The RAT tests have massive false positive rates compared with PCR tests. Do they follow up a rapid antigen test with PCR?

The chinese vaccine is garbage too. Even the official numbers are not great, but some countries which bought the Chinese vaccine tried to return it because many batches that they got failed QA tests.
“Taxis have never been an issue in the UK” is a statement that does not match my experience.

Living briefly in London taught me that you cannot reasonably expect a hailed taxi to take you from A to B no matter how hard it is raining or how obviously pregnant the person you’re with is, if the taxi driver doesn’t fancy going to B, even if B is still within 20m of A.

Living for far longer in Edinburgh taught me that the credit card machine is manufactured by the same company that sells McFlurry boxes to MickeyD’s. This was still true when I visited Edinburgh again 3 months ago.

Uber seems to me to be abusive to their drivers. And occasionally to their passengers. But there’s a good reason they were so successful early on. They made my life, as a customer, better, easier, simpler, less encumbered with bullshit.
Wrt. mRNA boosters, I know it is a common talking point that China is in trouble because it doesn't have mRNA-vaccines but I believe the vaccines that China have is of the type as the AstraZeneca vaccine, that is commonly used in the UK which now is free of COVID-restrictions. In other words; if is China is willing, it can go down the same path of vax-and-let-it-rip.
One of the most interesting insights to me about this dynamic of profitless, innovation lacking platforms came from reading a Varoufakis piece.

To him the reason platforms exist as they do right now is because they constitute a fundamental shift away from market capitalism to what he calls techo-feudalism.

Instead of thinking of companies like Uber as selling software and paying wage labour to generate profit, it makes much more sense to think of it as a fiefdom that extract rents directly from its users outside of markets, maintains unpaid or barely paid labour, essentially a techno-peasant class, and is funded by barons in the form of VC capital directly and the state indirectly.

Through that lens for the first time to me it made perfect sense why it isn't so absurd to have gigantic companies that barely make any profits, have no differentiated products or much of a workforce. The point of these new businesses isn't to dominate markets and sell things at great margins, it's to claim territory, extract value and then use that control to directly command users on your behalf.

https://metacpc.org/en/crypto-blockchain/
It's because you are not old and you are educated. Unfortunately, some Russians (older and less educated) do support Putin. But for sure, even amongst them, almost nobody supports the war.
In some places with expensive unreliable public transport, the quickest & cheapest way (a group) into town was by taxi. Minicab to precise. The five minutes away for 45 minutes variety. The cancel without any notice. The sorry I don't take card mate. How about the ones who got hopelessly lost to charge you more?

The old way was awful and Uber got a hell of a first mover advantage.
> Keepass just stores everything in one encrypted .kdbx file

I've always wondered if this might be a potential vulnerability. If a file leaks some day and attacker gains an access to the file, he has infinite time to try to break a password and you cannot do anything about it. Using online password storage in theory could limit amount of login trials. Also, changing password in kdbx file has no effect as attacker still have physical access to previous file with previous password.
> And all the problems we have left are things like education,
homelessness, lack of meaning, healthcare, etc. All problems so
entrenched I’m willing to say at this point they can’t scale, and
therefore won’t be solved. Maybe the next technological revolution
will be a social dynamic. Who knows.

Hoorah to that!

We need a "cultural revolution" that let's us catch up with our
technological advances. New forms of digital literacy will change
the idea that any technological advance is good for its own sake
to seriously asking "what for?" of any technology.

Mere "efficiency" and "inevitability" will be seen as dumb reason and
forms of technological ignorance.

Intelligence amplification (IA) will usurp "artificial intelligence"
(AI), putting human agency ahead of laziness and "convenience".

For now I think we have to go through this runaway period of
technology, to get it out of our system. Let's hope it doesn't kill
us.
Toilets have been tried. Generally you can't pee high enough to desecrate the eye-level advertisements at a urinal. Toilet advertisements are much more easily desecrated.
Mimalloc:a compact general purpose allocator with excellent performance
> but in many other cases, they can do things that taxis can't.

Like what?
I use gopass and Gopass Bridge for password filling in firefox. It works great, and for the keys I'm using yubikeys gpg mode, so my passwords are actually locked with a hardware key.
Another link that needs to log in to read an article. Terrible.
The answer that I've always heard is "no". But that would have also been the answer to "do tailpipe emissions affect the atmosphere" in March 1922, so I'd say that we just don't yet know.