skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have bad RSI using emacs, so I enabled evil (vim) mode, got a split keyboard, started lifting weights, and found a job where I could pair program all the time. Sounds extreme, but it eventually healed.

I only have issues now when writing books, since I often set myself a daily word target and that extra load seems to just add to overall strain.
I remember a time when my Serbian neighbours were bombed by the US.

As a Romanian, I fear the US and the EU far more than Russia.
> The theory is that if we make passenger rail better, then consumers will be more willing to choose it

I think there are other (unacknowledged by public transport advocates) concerns people have with passenger rail. Namely that every light rail car in every major city smells like piss already and feels much more unsafe than your own car. Until that reality is addressed and mentally ill people are not permitted to share the same space as normal, functioning members of society, people will continue to choose their own private transportation whenever possible.

If you don't think this is a reality then you should take a look at some of the shit that happens on BART and NYC subways. My chance of getting pushed off the platform or being the victim of a racially motivated hate crime is 0 in my own car.
I'm not 100% sold on these [0] values as I have seen different elsewhere. But according to this, the US is third behind China and Russia on rail ton-miles. I think those are reasonable numbers given a) the compactness of the US compared to Russia and b) that unlike China, the US has major ports on both coasts and doesn't need to traverse the entire country.

The reason I'm skeptical of the numbers is that UP/US DoT reported 2.7T ton-KMs for 2018 [1]. Given that there are good reasons for 2020 in particular to be low, I wouldn't hold 2020 out as representative.

[0] https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russian-rail-freight-vo...
[1] https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr120120-freight-r...
I am a paying customer and thats exactly what I have done too.
Gemini client in 979 SLOC
Zuckerberg plans to turn Instagram into NFT marketplace
Ok, to me what you've proposed just means that nobody in my neighborhood will throw block parties anymore because they don't want to get stuck with the bill when drunk guy breaks a window and urinates on the upholstery.

Edit just to respond to something:

>Because, as you noted, equating block party group rights with your personal rights ultimately leads to "just form a group."

I don't know how you got that, this seems to be very backwards. The group was formed before the rights were even considered.
> Yes, pain = experienced disutility = harm.

Exercising is painful, yet it is not harm. There is “good pain” (ie, muscles being stretched out and hurting after a good workout) and “bad pain” (ie, popping a joint out of socket causing an injury).

Not all pain is harmful.

Emotionally, grief is painful, but it’s sometimes necessary and helpful to grieve over a loss.
It’s almost as trivial with this format too, at least to guess what address is used for other services, though it has a strong advantage over using ‘+’ in GMail in that nothing will try this automatically. It’s hard to believe anyone would intentionally try to guess a different service’s email to spam to it, but even so in my setup I prefer to eliminate this possibility completely by adding a random number to the service name: experian12322@example.com, and so on, with no catchall for invalid addresses.

So far the most spam I’ve gotten has been to the address I used for Amazon (probably leaked by a third‐party seller there).
I still get sites from time to time that reject custom domains and want an address on yahoo.com, gmail.com etc, which is infuriating.

The worst thing is that so many sites have stupid email validation rules. Even cameo.com, which is a mid-size ecommerce site, doesn't accept a lot of TLDs created in the last 8 years, including mine.
I bought an OnlyKey and am happy with it.

Am I missing something when people sound disparaging about them?

All the benefits of 2fa with added OSS, surely?
Fantastic essay, as is par for the course.
If you're simply beyond help - here are some nuclear options:

- Download what you want to read and go somewhere without internet.

- Deactivate your twitter/reddit/youtube when you start reading, reactivate it when you're done.

- Get a separate device (maybe some old crappy laptop) where you are not logged into anything, leave your other laptop at home and go somewhere to read. Don't install anything on that laptop, it helps if its so slow and old that nothing works on it.

I think this could be an interesting use case for VR, a merciless immersive reader without any menu option to leave (you can only power down the system to get out)
Doesn't support e2ee, so why would I use it over fractal?
> I'm not disputing anything said, but just a heads up since I also heard about the Fulan Gong organ harvesting thing years before I heard any thing else about what Fulan Gong even is: read up on it. It has its own weird nest of conspiracy around it.

Honestly, who cares? IMHO, Fulan Gong is only notable as an example of the kind of insane persecution the Chinese government can conduct against a group. They probably weren't the most sensible to begin with (which is no excuse for their persecution), and the level of persecution they've received it probably enough to make anyone an nut (e.g. going all in for Trump). Focusing too much on that mainly has the effect of distracting from the persecution.

And I do believe they're persecuted. Besides all the documented stuff, the (Chinese) mother of one of my friends can't travel outside her hometown because she was (mistakenly) put on some list of Fulan Gong people.
Why Tech will quit writing history for the next few years
Not everyone will remember the 70’s Energy Crisis when the real price of oil trebled - yes, trebled! - in less than three years. For Europeans, memories will include rostered blackouts, greatly reduced travel and clunky Tech that needed back-up power.. For North Americans, the abiding memory will be the 55 mph speed limit.

Fast forward half a decade and we’re there again, but this time in slightly better shape. The US is virtually self sufficient in oil and Europe has a more integrated and cleaner energy supply using LNG. That’s Russian LNG and as one trader suggested: “There’s nothing else like it out there.” Hence the current crisis.

The other big difference between the two crises is the growth of Tech to become global, social and held in the palm of one’s hand. Getting tangible stuff out of the ground may be an integral part of American history, but it’s capital intensive, requires long pay-back times and is, we’re told, not good for the environment.

In these carbon sensitive times, Tech is emission-lite and has the credentials that at least placate environmental activists. The top 10 Tech companies account for 50% of the Fortune 500’s capitalisation, but only 5% of its emissions. Pretty stunning, that.

But energy self sufficiency is now the focus of Europe and the US and much as they would like to surf the low emissionTech wave, for the next few years the tangible stuff that comes out of the ground or Nuclear power plant is going be where investment will focus.

This means that Tech investments will need to demonstrate their worth far more quickly than anyone was expecting. Investors too, will be much more fussy about what’s on offer. The new Tech they’ll be looking for will help get more Black Gold out of the ground or manage its use. Personal Energy Apps will probably become the next hot Tech products.

Other Techs such as Health-AI, Health Tech, FinTech and Tech Apps in general will still obtain finance and grow but gone will be those wild valuations from the era when Tech wrote the History of the world.

For bros on either side of the Pond in their local coffee house, sipping their 17-ingredient Frappuccinos and swapping their latest Wordle challenges; “Zuck Bucks” gossip and other Tech ephemera will become increasingly irrelevant.

In the next few years, energy exploration and management will resume its natural role in world History because for the foreseeable, we need barrels of oil and litres of LPG more than we need Tech.

@DewhurstLeslie
Rust without unsafe would just be another obscure academic language like Haskell. The ability to bypass the type system when the programmer needs to is what makes Rust work.
On the subject of bridge whimsy ... an American (Rpbert P McCulloch) bought London Bridge for $2.46m. The rumour was that he thought he was buying Tower Bridge. This seems to be a debunked theory. however.

https://www.onthisday.com/articles/why-an-american-bought-lo...

https://londonist.com/2013/04/londonbridge
Is also a great way to get the other side to rage quit the "debate" and then you win by forfeit. Also the bullshit wrong thing gets pulled along closer to the truth by standing next to a true fact.
What? The person directly asked how this research might be used by people on the "far right," I was merely responding.

This is lazy reasoning - you're imputing on me arguments that I didn't make and even if I had made them, they wouldn't impact the veracity of the other claim I was making.
The conclusion here should be that gas taxes must be increased, not that we should continue to pump infinite money into the industrial sized furnace that is Amtrak.
I always thought the biggest threat to Ukrainian men during the war was other Ukrainian men (and vindictive women). The Russians are really missing an opportunity to provide safe passage to warzone refugees to neighboring EU countries. Everyone you let evacuate is someone you don’t have to shoot later and can’t be used as a human shield.
Consistency refers to the spread not the mean. For instance, you could have a vaccine performing uniformly poorly relative to a prior infection and that sure would be consistent.
The featured go gtk4 client also seems wip. Doesn't even support e2ee, which fractal does support.
Anyone seen any open source versions with sync and a mobile app? I want one I can contribute to or hack to my own liking, but I need those basics.
Unfortunately, only one phone number is allowed per Apple ID. And I do not have multiple phone numbers to expend for an SMS only 2fa option here.
China also doesn't share our value of craftsmanship. By letting them own a portion of our supply chain, they own a lot more than just the manual labor. They put us in situations where measuring temperature means buying an antique mercury thermometer, buying a $400 nist certified alcohol one, or getting Chinese made garbage that is not accurate within 2°.
I hope this is intentional satire, although I fear it's not. Reversing woke discourse to protect the people you approve of isn't anti-woke, it's just more orthodoxy policing.
I'm not sure it was about criticism of the powerful. Jewish people don't run the world via a cabal. The original statement was arguing that because denying the Holocaust is socially disastrous and often illegal that Jewish people must therefore secretly be in charge of the levers of society.

Biden is currently one of the most powerful people on the entire planet. Yet people happily chant "f--- Joe Biden" in public, put stickers saying this on their cars, and put up signs on their lawns saying this.
As long as you add a trusted phone number you can do Mfa over sms. Not ideal but it is an option.
I am ok with downvoting, if I have the ability to change my settings so that I can view downvoted comments. However, I think that downvoting is a less desirable than individual-centric controls.

I strongly prefer to have have the individual ability to block/mute/suppress any comment or commenter, and I am ok delegating that ability to someone or something else as long as I can withdraw my delegation and undo any changes that were made. To put it differently- I might decide that I trust some organization or individual to build block/filter lists and I might consume those lists (as I do for spam blocking, ad blocking, etc.), as long as I can observe what they're doing and opt out at any time. It seems social media is long overdue for that.

I am NOT ok with anyone (or anything) else doing these for me without my explicit opt-in, especially if I don't have any way to see what decisions they made on my behalf or to reverse those decisions.
Half of that is because it's on a 12nm node.
Actually, Apple allows SMS and recovery keys as a fallback and there is an account recovery option if none of these work.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915

Google on the other hand… I’ve seen two people lose their Gmail accounts even they knew the password because google required verification from a mobile device that no longer existed. :|
So cloudflare?
Some services even accept it to create an account, but not to log in.

One never let me change my email or password when I used the +.
These are creatures that can travel between stars, potentially better galaxies, and back again for research, which implies at the very least FTL travel (and moreover, FTL travel that leaves no emissions or traces that we can detect), yet they let themselves get seen by random Joes who happen to get their cameras out?

And they turn some nukes off, but leave the rest?
CI Chondrite
Is it garbage if it writes better than most of the humans from the developing world that are currently exploited to churn out meaningless blog spam?

Also, it would have worked perfectly for my girl's homework assignment, but she has morals and decided she couldn't ethically submit it. She did use the output for ideas on what to write, though.
Speaking of unique identifiers: when I was like 13, my parents bought new ethernet cards so that all the kids would have their own computer. Two adjacent ones on the shelf that happened to have the same MAC address. Not sure how they figured it out (probably just looking for anything wrong and noticing the MAC addresses were identical), but the network behavior was interesting. Basically if you mashed F5 on a webpage the router would think you were the proper owner of all the network traffic for both computers, and it would disconnect your sibling from whatever they were playing at the time.
Yes, they used suppressed the double logging with the double render, but now in 18 they show the second logging as well, but with dimmed colors:

https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1507750167390400512
https://archive.md/TqhVS
> I'm assuming "real example" means of such unsafe-means-actually-unsafe behaviour in embedded Rust, as opposed to a real example of summoning demons?

That was what I meant, thanks for the answer! Though if you have an example of the other thing I'd be open to that too
> The cancel culture boogeyman generally doesn't destroy lives, which makes one wonder why people like PG feel it so important that they need to write essays decrying it.

I don’t think that’s true as there are many examples of people’s loves being destroyed, mainly through careers ended. For example, Nobel-prize winning scientist Tim Hunt [0]. He’s famous and lost his job, for saying something stupid.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/11/8764901/tim-hunt-sexist-r...
As I understand it, some hydro plants have a second, smaller reservoir downhill from the dam. It absorbs water from surge production, and even allows the water to be pumped back uphill.
> with this scenario generating about 5 Tg (teragrams) of soot as smoke from wildfires and burning buildings entered the atmosphere

It's cool to see them as one of the very few sources that properly use the prefixed metric unit "teragram". The more common equivalent is "million tonne", which is more verbose and uses the non-base unit "tonne" (megagram).
The infra problem is people. Cloud is creating such value and complexity that companies need to start paying SWE millions to keep up. (Top SWE can easily generate 8-9 fig pnl.) But due to lack of social capital it is universally still seen as a code monkey class.
MessagEase is a major reason why I haven't switched to a linux phone yet. I think their patents have recently expired, so maybe someone picks up the task.
Fastmail handles this perfectly.

Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964570
This kind of thing is why I think Google's answers (not search results, the snippets with big bolded answers to questions) are dangerous. They're automatically generated from some pretty naive parsing of text from sources of dubious quality. I have found several pretty serious errors in these snippets when Googling for gardening advice.
I don't understand why you think that's a shitpost. Or rather, if it is, everything else is here so who cares? Look at the rest of the replies in this comment thread. It's true, isn't it? I actually can't read pg articles without looking at them through this lens, they otherwise make no sense to me and there is no other reason for them to be posted here and gain 800 replies when they're also filled with the same baseless posturing you would probably refer to as shitposty. He would just be another anonymous nobody with a blog and a chip on the shoulder. I'm only saying this because these sentiments ("You can't say everything you possibly could ever want to say around persons A and B because they'll get offended and mad and not want to talk to you anymore, isn't that terrible") are so old and tired at this point, but for some reason we seem to be giving them a pass here and I would guess it's only because pg said them and he is a Famous Person. I'm sorry if that seems blunt but is that not what you asked for? I'm saying what I really think.

To me it's like, look, do you really want to go to work with someone who says things like "you are ugly" and "you are stupid" and "your mother is a whore" to everyone every day? I know people who would do that even in professional settings, it's just as bad as you'd think. It's not declaring "heresy" when they get fired because nobody wants to deal with that every day. Pg is of course entitled to his own opinion of what he wants on his startup incubator and forum, which is why there's moderation on this site and why he has kicked people out of YC before for literally just saying things. It's not enacting "heresy" when you ban somebody from YC or hacker news for saying stupid and callous things! So why the double standard? That's why this whole comment thread and article is just absurd to me, I'm so saddened that so many people are actually commenting on this.
I feel like the actual answer really undermines your point more than you think
Well said. It’s similar to automated testing. We all agree it’s a must. Lots of hand waving around how important it is, and everyone agrees!

I’d say that about 50% of the projects that I’ve been on lacked automated testing. For reasons. I’d say documentation is in the same limbo. We as an industry lack maturity and motivation when it comes to delivery.
"Stochastic parrots" -- have you seen, e.g., the examples in the PaLM paper of how it does on "chained inference" tasks? I don't see how you can classify that as mere parroting.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/dog-spies/what-do-dogs-... has some references
> white, Christian nationalism

How could this possibly not be seen as identity politics?
I'm doing the exact same thing. Built a small web app that lets me manage all my email aliases for the domain. Unfortunately there are a couple of websites that do only allow a select list of whitelisted domains meaning I cannot use my own, but for the other 99% it works wonders.
I wish I had had this idea ten years ago, it would have saved me so many headaches.
They might as well teach that Earth is flat - kids are smart, and truth will make its way into their heads regardless. In this day and age, it is hard for it not to.
It seems like they recently changed the message. It was much more aggressive in the past. Something along the lines of reading it could be consider copyright infringement.
Yes, but they invariably draw the line somewhere.
The tracks that Caltrain uses between San Francisco and San Jose are shared with Union Pacific freight trains, and that works.

Does anyone know what kind of freight Union Pacific hauls to/from San Francisco? Mostly late at night?
I’m old enough to remember life before PRC manufacturing, and it was just fine. I’m not that old either.

Besides, cost of living isn’t that cheap in the west anyways.
> It's not as shiny as Apple's thing, but it's 100% selfhosted and I own the domain.

Apple's system is "shiny" because it provides near total anonymity, whereas your setup has all the deliverabilty issues of a self-hosted domain and rather uniquely identifies you...at the domain level?

I'm not sure why you are maintaining a hundreds-of-lines virtual table and a web UI, instead of just using a regex or two to capture phil.*@domain2.com or something along those lines (maybe you want to do one including a year or something to cut down on spam), or blacklisting as needed by having postfix reject during the SMTP session so the email is marked as invalid and is removed from the spammer's database.

Or, I dunno, just use VERP? I don't think I've yet run across anyone smart enough to drop VERP from email addresses.
> I do not at all believe that you'd be fired for a reasonable objection to diversity policy.

That's not an argument. Not even really a reasonable belief. It happens to people on the regular.

Let me introduce you to Jodie Shaw.
https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/02/20/jodi-shaw-resig...
I understand the interest in baseload generation but don't see why there's so much interest in nuclear when low-tech concentrated solar in the desert can get the job done and scaling it up (and ensuring it's 100% safe) isn't a matter of R&D but just basic manufacturing. It strikes me a lot of the nuclear focus is (understandable, if not justifiable) interest in cool new technology.

Ironically, with concentrated solar, going lower tech, even at the expense of efficiency, might decrease costs because the materials would amount to cheap mirrors/collectors and steel pipes. Saul Griffith's classic talk highlighted that there's probably no meaningful manufacturing limit to building concentrated solar with existing industrial infrastructure:

https://longnow.org/seminars/02009/jan/16/climate-change-rec...
Do you think accounts that post nothing but spam content (so, a twitter account that posts an advertisement in response to every public tweet on the platform), or blatant scams, should not be allowed to be restricted in any way (for future speech)?
Given how good PaLM is, this is nothing. I'm sure it could make over $10M/year of profit if it was open to outside use.
I would actually pay a bit just to have fun with text games. I tried with GPT3 but it was a bit too stupid and stopped being fun fast.

As a separate point, this suggests to me that 100x larger models are within the current reach of Google and other megacorps.
Postfix allows defining any character as a VERP separator.

OP also could have just used a regex in the virtual file.
Last year I participated in the advent of code challenges. I remember a puzzle from day 16 [1], which took an afternoon or more .

The idea is really great, however it seems quite hard to solve interesting problems in this short timeframe.

[1]: https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/16