skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
*Felling.

There, fixed it for you.
We have plenty of evidence of fusion consuming money in unbounded quantities -- the people spending it say they could spend a very great deal more -- and no solitary erg of griddable energy out, decade after decade.

The designs they publish for the fateful day they do get anything out are overwhelmingly bigger than a fission plant of similar capacity, overwhelmingly more costly to build, and overwhelmingly more expensive to operate. Leaving aside the plasma physics, no solutions are known for basic engineering questions in construction and operation.

Fission has turned out to be a dead end, for cost reasons: renewables are cheaper, and easier and quicker to field, and cost is still plummeting, making fission less competitive with each passing day. So, anything that costs more obviously has no chance.

All of this is a click away, if you care to know. Nobody is obliged to know, or care. But not bothering says all.
A number of the most wealthiest (Top 15?) people in America inherited their wealth. The rest, well they seem to have exploited various aspects of the country and people.
How is the state being harmed by stuff like people vandalizing shops for having Cyrillic letters on the storefront, I wonder.
Is that a notion page? I couldn't use space to go to the next page (the oldest pagination system in the (computing) world).

So I stopped reading at the end of the page.
Bellingcat identified their real names and the fact that they worked for the GRU... it's not remotely in question whether they were there assassinate Skripal. One of the benefits of a hopelessly corrupt Russian state is that just about every government database is available for sale.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2018/09/26/skr...
Cheers! I really can't emphasize enough that I'm not special, I think anyone could learn to do this sort of thing if they took the time and studied. I just read some books on hypnosis and experimented.

> Were you already ambidextrous?

Nope. I'm right-handed.

Subjectively, I "went in", went through the fingers one-by-one remapping the motions, then opened my eyes, turned over the ukulele, and started playing. It was a little rough compared to the other way for a few moments and then it tightened up and was the same quality. My friend who was watching me was pretty impressed too, but I swear it was easy.

Same thing with martial arts. A friend of mine ran a kung fu studio for many years. I came by to visit one day and participated in an intro class. I could "lay in" the movements he was teaching by imitation and then repeat them perfectly. Again, everyone was impressed and said things like, "I've never seen anyone learn so fast." but it wasn't really learning the way people do it. Just like a computer doesn't need to "learn" a program, it just loads and runs. The real learning already happened back in the day when I learned-to-learn using hypnosis.

It's pretty cool to be able to do this stuff, but as with everything, there are trade-offs: my problems now are boredom and loneliness. I lot of days I feel like a time-traveler from the future. If only people would get a clue and stop running around doing things the hard way...
So if Putin wants to take over all of Europe we should just let him?
pi = i * ln(-1).
> erode property rights in the name of conservation.

I wish we would
erode more property "rights" in the name of conservation, since th actions of landowners affect everyone else, including all future generations.

Every extinct species is another burning of the Library of Alexandria.
Well I'd go a little further and say that it's getting too clever to act like the most important thing to understand how Americans think is the details of a dispute that happened before most of their ancestors came and that they can't even describe in broad strokes.
People think of the people at the very top of the list, who are mostly late-20th-century entrepreneurs, but you're right: the bulk of the American rich are people like the Waltons, Mars's, and other heirs.
Put you on a list. What if Mozilla gets hacked by Russia for instance? They could use that data to profile partisans in Ukraine. Just one teeny tiny example. You can think of many real life risks when other people have your data.
Yeah, but it's not terribly likely that you could stop maintaining the sprawl, because it's already there. Certainly not quickly.
> Making tools and services for public use is always political

Why and how?

If I need a hammer, should I care what opinions the guy making it has, as long as he is making (and striving to) make good hammers?

Trying to politicize every single seems to be part of the problem here. We're almost at the point where you can't buy a hammer. You can either buy a LGBTQ hammer or a anti-LGBTQ hammer, even though all you care about is a piece of metal on a a piece of wood that you can hit nails with.
Kagi is intended to be a paid service when it launches. This is something I actively want. It should make them the opposite of user-hostile. Their users will be the source of their revenue so they will need to provide value or lose them. Login is a necessary part of that. I'm happy to take both that inconvenience and the cost.
I have to wonder, like a mathematician, does the perfect keyboard + layout have to exist at all?

Maybe its just not possible. Lets say in a typical day I spend 2 hours in each of vscode, Word, Excel and bash. Each one of those needs a different keyboard experience that is not very compatible with the others. To take a trivial example, in bash I want the semicolon, ampersand, quote, parens and tab keys to be prominent. imagine them being raised a few mm above the surface of the kbd in that mode. But in Excel i need arrow keys and a numpad plus parens and equals. and in word i just need a to z and basic punctuation. A standard keyboard, even an exotic one, doesnt really help.
Parks, gyms, sports, recreation centers, libraries, theaters, concert venues, etc. are all totally open and have been open for full in person activities for much of that last 12 months in every state of the US.

Go out and live life, there are near zero restrictions on you seeing other people in person. Almost nowhere requires masks right now either.
When the law for well funded companies is basically “shoot first and ask questions later” - and it is - then semantic arguments don’t matter. If it seems similar, it is similar.
I've been keeping my eye on You.com, tracking a few SERPs over time compared to other Bing- and Google-based engines. So far, the results don't seem independent.

Try comparing results with a Bing-based engine (e.g. DuckDuckGo) or a Google-based one (e.g. StartPage, GMX) to see if they differ. (Don't use Google or Bing directly, since results will be personalized based on factors like location, device, your fingerprint, etc.).
I'm glad your parents were in an economic situation where you could live walking distance from school in a neighborhood safe enough to do so. Only 9% of students in the US live within a reasonable walking distance.
I never understood why people needed keys like home and end until I had to switch from MacOS to Windows for work. Turns out, MacOS has some (IMO) more sensible key bindings for those operations involving either the Cmd or Opt key + the array keys.
These links only make sense if the submission has had some discussion
The Forbes 400 Self-Made Score 2021: From Silver Spooners to Bootstrappers
No it is far far far less useful than it was a few years ago, I routinely now have to use a couple different search engines to find solutions to technical problems because google tends to weight sources it thinks I should be using for and not the sources I would like.

For example one software platform I use all the time has community forum that is almost useless because every post to the forum is simply met with "open a ticket with support" with no actual resolution, these post flood the google search results, however other search engines bubble up blogs, other forums, reddit, or other sources not just the set of sites over and over again.
Land is a finite resource but housing units are not. Once America gets over it’s love affair with single family homes, we could undercut most speculators by just building up.
Free healthcare and rebooted education for all. That'll never happen sadly.
There certainly are, but the later part of my comment tries to address this by illustrating how nothing is really "out of thin air" (still, the creative jumps from data/knowledge/premises/broken-models to a new hypothesis/better-models are invaluable, and almost always there's a prerequisite of years/decades of hard work to familiarize oneself with the data/old-models on such a level that the insight required for the jump basically comes intuitively "duh just try this, or that, or this helps to fit the data better" - which of course is intuitive to no one else, who did not put in those years).
Only on HN. Virtually none of the "problems" described on HN at the intersection of tech and society are seen as problems out in the real world.
>Cynically, I know it's easier to switch jobs if both are WFH...

Somehow I had not considered this, but it seems like the dominant factor.
I was unaware of a “rabid push” to inflate perceptions of Texas’s population, the number of atheists, or how many people make $1M, which are all similarly off.
The US ironically enough.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/russian-money-f...
How many people will the metaverse be ruled by?
The rest sounded plausible but this bit doesn't. I think it's just Abramovich's hobby. He's clearly really into it and I don't think Putin gives a damn.
My understanding is that you can have non-exhaustive matches which the compiler won't always catch statically and will throw a Match_failure at runtime if no case matches.
It still has to carry around enough information to detect non-exhaustive matches and throw at runtime, no?
That's not the threat model (and it can't be a threat model, it's impossible to defend against), the threat model is people accidentally replaying an exact boot (which is more likely than accidentally replaying everything and also failing to seed the VM.)
Byobu vs. GNU Screen vs. Tmux
The book Flash Boys deals with this. It's a long time since I read it, but IIRC brokers need to split large orders and route them to different exchanges to get the best price (which is required under 'best-effort execution'). These orders will hit the exchanges at different times giving enough time for HFT to observe them at one exchange and front-run them at the other.
I disagree. They speak from experience. Removing JS from the user experience simplifies the developer's toolset to a subset which is usually also accessible.

There is still room for beloved JS, such as serving ads, tracking user behavior, mining crypto on unsuspecting users' computers, centering a div, and all the other arcane utilities for which one disables JS in the browser for.
On contract, yes.
> They would just first form a corporation and then donate it from there.

Corporations can't donate money to campaigns, either. (They can spend money on them, or donate funds to non-campaign groups that spend money independently of campaigns, but not donate to politicians.)
Yeah, the fact that all the estimations are between 20% and 76% indicate that there are probably some serious polling issues here. People are probably biased away from choosing extreme outcomes, but.. I just don't believe that there are many people who would say take a 5:1 bet that a randomly-selected member of the US population is trans.
Mysterious Heartland virus shows up in Georgia ticks
I have worked with enough "data scientists" and see enough telemetry to believe it is all smoke and mirrors and bullshit.

Managers, product owners enjoy making pretty looking graphs out of them and with enough creative accounting they can make any data to fit their narrative.

If a product is in trouble and they think the telemetry will help, then it is time to looking for a new job
Just going off this table [1] there is pretty wide disagreement of what constitutes open source between different groups, so to claim without qualification that you alone get to define and arbitrate that seems pretty crazy to me. Like either you are stuck in an echo chamber or you've lost sight of the difference between yourself and the community e.g. if you aren't with us you are against open source. Either way, it does not make me want to use the OSI my north star. Not sure who elected them kings of open source. One could argue that the list of licenses on Wikipedia is more reflective community consensus since, in theory at least, it is the product of a lot of debate and consensus from many contributors.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_free_and_op...
I've always wondered but never really investigated... do screen readers handle css-only drop downs well? We've always avoided it and instead used javascript to toggle aria attributes which seems very backwards.
The touristy areas of the world are de facto international property now. Because of rising income across the globe anyone that wants to can “travel”; all that jump in traffic the touristy areas were just not designed to handle.
Isn't it funny how just a few years ago the eternal HN discussion regarding remote working always took place in the same way: about half of commenters for, and half against.

The typical arguments of social interaction, in person brainstorming and so on, vs free time, no commute, can work from anywhere, "zoom is just as good" always went round in circles.

Now I see those in the mainstream and HN seems to have cross over almost completely to the WFH side.

I wonder how "converted" HN-ers got where they are. If you're here and changed your mind regarding remote work since the pandemic started, I'd like to hear why; what, other than the obvious pathogen, has caused your change of heart?
Kagi's "noncommercial" lens, search.marginalia.nu, and engines that don't parse JS (e.g. Mojeek) can add some variety. Another thing I like doing is adding phrases like "creative commons" to already-long queries to filter out some corporate results, or adding `-gdpr -ccpa -"sell my info"` to limit results to sites made by small orgs and individuals who don't collect enough data or make enough money to warrant compliance measures.
> I also know the maintenance responsibilities aren't inherently and legally mine

Yes, that's right, they are legally the landlord's. And if they stopped maintaining it, they are breaking the law, and you can sue them. If, instead, you choose to live with it, or deal with it yourself and pay for everything, then that's a horrible mistake.

It's fine for that comment to make you see red, but it should be the slumlord you are angry at, not the guy who pointed out that you're being a doormat.

Landlords are one option for people who cannot afford to buy a home. Some of them are bad, some are good. They offer a service for a price, and if the price is too high or the service is too poor, then they are taking advantage. Plenty of them aren't like that. Your anger seems a little irrational.
Wunderlist or Todoist -> Zapier -> Twilio might be a quick solution. Might be worth a try
Sure, you can see a lot of shallow similarities between these two groups but it would miss a pretty important structural difference.

Oligarchs don't have power outside the authoritarian apparatus of the state. Oligarchs exist entirely at the pleasure of the leader and have no true autonomy. If an Oligarch tries to 'branch out', they end up in jail or dead.
Wars cause people to do really drastic things that would be out of the question in peacetime. Programmers are people and some of them have relatives who have been blown to smithereens by Russian strikes. These are the peanuts, saboteurs have been known to destroy physical things with high collateral damage. While crimes like deleting files should be prosecuted, the best way to end such things is to end the war.
Users? Possibly. Customers? Probably not.
Ah, I see. I misinterpreted your comment. You meant the 2% base vs the 5% with Prime. And were making a conservative calculation based on the 3% difference, even though it's not likely you could get 2% back with a different card.

$139 / .03 = $4,633

I mean, this is exactly the type of math you should do to evaluate options like this. No controversy here. If you're spending more than that anyway, it makes sense to get the Prime card. Anything you spend beyond that amount is earning you more than the non-Prime card, and that's even just flat out valuing Prime at $0 and treating it as a fee.
I like the option of working from home but from a social perspective I also definitely prefer in many ways going into a physical office. In a world where most people want to exclusively WFH I wonder if that will artificially limit my career growth.
>Maybe it's someone writing their own small business website for the first time and it's not so easy for them.

Ok, well some points though:

1. maybe someone shouldn't write their own small business website in the same way they shouldn't build their own entrance to the store.

2. someone first starting out should probably just make a simple html form. If so they are probably more likely to be accessible than many solutions made by big companies.

3. someone first starting out will even more probably choose some WordPress solution and that will probably be accessible enough to also meet the needs of their small site.

4. It is unlikely anyone is getting sued if they have made an effort to make things accessible, in your imagined scenario the novice making their own website for their cupcake business or whatever (and who does this, it's not 2002 anymore, it's 2022) don't know enough to think hmm, I better run this bit here through a screen reader just to see it works as i think, which is why my point 1 stands, the internet is now such a busy place that they should no longer build the entrance to their store wild west style even if they have the ability, but at least hire someone to do it who should be able to think of I better run this bit through a screen reader for them.
Why should someone be obliged solely due to where they were born? I'm sure there are many incredibly competent de-throners in Europe, surely they should also get out of their chairs and help?
A joke that bad can't be ruined any further.
But the “convenience” is important, and its very existence is not accidental.
> Wondering if wheelchair users were hated back in the days when the law about wheelchair ramps was passed.

Not as far as I know, nobody I knew was hating on any disabled people, but laziness, procrastination, and the cost of accomodations was enough to prevent quite a few businesses from accomodating the disabled ( with ramps and such ) until they were legally forced to do it under penalty of law... And even today only businesses considered "public accommodations" are required to comply... that's it really not hate, just laziness.
In wars between industrialized nations, most civilian infrastructure is dual-use. A factory makes widgets for a factory that makes widgets for the army. A highway is used to ship military supplies. A port unloads military supplies. An oil refinery makes gasoline for civilian cars... and diesel for tanks.
Remove 'emboldenee' from the title. There was a time when journalists actually did news, and not report whatever slant they wanted to appeal with.
For outsiders, it's visible as an unintentional reverse-judgement by a jurisdiction upon itself.

Each legal realm is free to interpret their own language in their own terms, and they do so on an ongoing basis.
Who gives a fuck if you don’t own it, amiright?
Javascript coders acting like children again...
> If they just took a fundraising approach like how public radio and Wikipedia do, I would gladly contribute a few times per year when a big banner shows up asking for donations

There's nothing stopping you donating to mozilla [0] right now, however I suspect many people here will reply that that's donating to mozilla, and not to FF/MDN/whatever, but that's no different to donating to wikimedia [1] or the linux foundation [2].

[0] https://donate.mozilla.org/en-GB/
[1] https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give
[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/donate/
From the introduction:

> Indeed, since the book was published, a whole academic field has
grown up around the idea of "design methods"-and I have been hailed
as one of the leading exponents of these so-called design methods. I am
very sorry that this has happened, and want to state, publicly, that I
reject the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since I
think it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of
design. In fact, people who study design methods without also practicing
design are almost always frustrated designers who have no sap in them,
who have lost, or never had, the urge to shape things. Such a person will
never be able to say anything sensible about "how" to shape things
either.
Poincare once said: "Sociologists discuss sociological methods; physi-
cists discuss physics." I love this statement. Study of method by itself is
always barren.
That 'market' is already being served by existing vehicles. If we are interested in reducing pollution read the link I posted.
Americans have superpower bias. They think that every country can ally and antagonize any other country they want. When you're a buffer state, you don't have that privilege. If Mexico started talking about a military alliance with Russia, they would have some American freedom missiles delivered very shortly. Ukraine is Russia's Mexico.
My honest take is that these dumb "but what if I paint myself into a corner" scenarios are why it takes so fucking long for anything to get better.
GSuite is poor compared with alternatives. Corporations make choices based on more criteria than just UI and functionality.
How on earth do you wind up at 20% of the population being transgender, 30% being gay/lesbian, and 30% being bisexual? Even if you combine all those into one group, it just doesn't make any sense on the face of it. The medians are a bit better, at 12, 24, and 24, but either this poll is ridiculously, incredibly badly done, or I've absolutely no idea how to think about my fellow person anymore.
You’re not wrong, but honestly until I had somebody on my team who was color blind I had no clue how to build with it in mind.
There's a lot of blame to go around here that doesn't only belong in the New Age alternative medicine cult. (Crystals and such are clearly fraudulent)

Last I checked colloidal silver was being sold by a christian evangelist named Jim Bakker. Then there's chiropractors. Then there was the anti-vaxxers. Then the "vitamins will cure anything under the sun." Then there was things like "all-herbal fen phen" and other herbal products. Then there's that famous goop company led by a has been actress which has some questionable products, but sold to housewives. Oh and the entire premise of homeopathic medicine is a fraud.

And then FDA approved drugs like fen phen (Wyeth) which should not have made it to market some how did, and caused heart valve problems.

Hell, when you think about it, what the fuck exactly is holy water which is used by the Catholic church?

If you can dupe people into the premise that "Magical Things are Real", then it becomes easy to take their money away from them. And right now, it doesn't seem too hard to do these days.
you.com does not even load in Firefox with beacon.enabled set to false in about:config.