skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases nothing, the OS or applications will naively read it or write what they believe the current state to be.
Yes, the parcels along those streets pay property tax. Municipalities that supply infrastructure to vacant or low-value used are in trouble.
I agree with most of what you've written but I don't think it's correct to think of social power having been "democratized." It seems more accurate to view the transformation we've seen as existing mostly at the top of society. Highly networked, social-media savvy college-educated elites have figured out how exert power on structures which were previously by other highly networked, college-educated elites.
I'm sure Joplin is excellent and I hate to argue one against the other. The markdown files in themselves should be independent. I have used several full featured, rather excellent, note-taking software, where the export is not "open". Obsidian is the only reasonable system I have seen where the software is up to date and it doesn't do anything with the markdown files to lock them in. I speak of this as a single user experience. And no, I don't like the idea of Mac Notes and Windows OneNote either. I'm all for note-taking apps which keeps the data/files independent.
I liked (but was conflicted) Clubhouse enough to end up on a sales call. The person I talked to said much the same, “story” is more or less arbitrary and iirc, there’s no real concept of “bug”. We went with Jira on the end. It’s fine, and we’re not that special.

Plus no way to open up issue tracking to the public.
Your argument sounds like 'these ideas are wrong so yours is wrong too' without contending with the content of my arguments and examples.

I'm totally willing to be kind and treat other people with respect. Never claimed otherwise.

But I also hope people see the errors of their ways, how harmful it can be, and to not try to indulge children and teenagers who get caught up in it. Leave the kids alone.
When was war about something else?
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How many businesses are not government subsidised, if we follow your logic?
Singleton is a trick to get around problems in "everything is an object" languages. It's a hack to store global data, just like the alternatives shown in this article.

If you need globals and your language supports global data or functions, use that. If not, Singleton is a viable alternative.
> The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way.

This is such a great summary on the hypocrisy that went rampant in the past few years in the US media and US politics.
I think it's nice that people have their real email in git commits. Gives it a personal touch when you are looking through commit logs. Some clients even display gravatar profile photos...

I understand and respect that some people may prefer to stay anonymous. But if you are hiding your email just to fight spam, I don't think it's worth it. I prefer being easily reachable and dealing with a few spam emails that get through the filter.
Are you telling us that it was literally violence?
there is no price, there is no power usage, the rated fp32 is roughly on par with a video card that is 6 years old now.

unless it's crazy efficient (at 12nm I doubt it), I wouldnt say it's competing with the giants.
You might have more reliable results with 40 MHz then, or with moving to a DFS channel. The U6-Mesh definitely does run hot, but most UniFi APs do. The U6-Mesh does seems the hottest-running of the dozen plus models I've used though. I know some people have had to RMA them, but it's too early to know if that's a real problem or not.
The difference is that what the teacher says is the actual service the teacher is providing pursuant to his or her employment. The government has every right to decide the content of the material being provided to kids in public schools. It’s not a free speech issue at all. Note that the Florida law applies only to “instruction.”

To use a different example: a public bus driver shouldn’t be fired for an offhand comment. But they have to drive the routes the government tells them to drive. That’s not a “freedom of movement” issue.
> As far as I've heard China hospitalizes everyone even cases that don't need actual care.

That's what I heard too, so it's a catch-22. Similar issues in Sweden in the beginning of the year when they introduced the rule that the whole household has to quarantine if only one person tests positive, suddenly the whole country was on sick leave, including the hospital staff, so they also did a DDoS on their own health care system.
New Scaling Laws for Large Language Models – Chinchilla Scaling Law
I've heard that, but it doesn't apply here... Graham's position doesn't appear to have changed. Indeed, he seems to be retreading old ground like he forgot he wrote the other essay.
it's not like academics and advisors have been saying this for years...

glad industry is catching on even if big govt(s) won't...
I read the essay and I do not believe it is.
> I can't think of a more useless profession than manager.

I used to think that, but it just means you haven't worked with a good manager. Which isn't surprising since they are rare. But they exist.

A good manager will keep all roadblocks and distractions out of your way so you can be in the zone most of the time and they will play the corporate politics on your behalf so you get interesting projects and promotions.

A most dramatic demonstration of this happened at one company where I had my best manager ever succeeded by my worst manager ever. The worst wasn't a bad person or anything, just incompetent as a manager.

Under the great manager I was convinced this was the best-run company ever. Never any emergencies, never unreasonable requests, could focus all my time on interesting projects in different parts of the company. It was so great.

Then the great manager left for greener pastures and the incompetent one was hired. None of the upper management changed so the company was running the same as before. Suddenly I was inundated with nonsense escalations every day, constantly being pushed to stop working on the interesting projects, unreasonable time demands, etc. None of this was orignating from the incompetent manager directly, it came from the SVPs above.

So turns out the awesome manager was just absorbing all this noise and keeping those in his team shielded away from it so we could happily focus on tech work. The incompetent manager just forwarded everything that came to him.

Less than 6 months after the manager switch, I also left the company.
I've done a little hobby work in Haskell, which I'm now remembering I enjoyed.
whatever happened to the "split keyboard" option on the iPad? I liked that, it really blows that they got rid of it.
Fractal has been rewritten for GTK4
Please, never use a laser pointer to play with dogs. This can cause anxiety, OCD and ultimately lead to serious harm. A frustrated dog may keep searching for the pointer for weeks after. There is a name for the condition, "laser pointer syndrome". Laser pointers are fine with cats but a big no with dogs.
If I want to rent a car, I have to provide my driver's license. Any time I do something that might be risky to the person providing the service, I have to provide evidence that reduces the risk they are assuming. When cars become self-driving, I will no longer have to provide a driver's license, and when the pandemic became endemic, people no longer had to provide proof of vaccination. The fear-mongering about slippery slopes is completely unfounded.
Same. I didn't see a joke. Were Roku devices rebooting? Was it being caused by a Pokemon game? No idea what is going on here.
I think that Mr.Graham is not talking about rights and progress.

curl -sb -H "http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html" | grep "right"
one will be the last.<br><br>There are aggressively conventional-minded people on both the right
come from the left. The next one might come from the right. Imagine
when, like the medieval church, they say "Damn right we're banning
Thanks for the quote. As @tptacek has said, I don’t think his argument is very strong: it seems that he focuses mostly on the reasons for making it, bordering on an ad hominem.

I agree with him in principle; it’s better to use what others have made, than to reinvent (a slight variation of) the wheel. I personally believe that pg’s reasoning was mostly because it was just fun to make, and as someone as active in the startup ecosystem as him, making something new rather than using the status quo makes a lot of sense.

Regardless, I would have found it much more interesting if he gave some concrete examples, and/or focused on facts.

I also don’t know Erik Naggum that well, and I’m wondering if this quote is an accurate representation of his style.
Some people just don’t get jokes. /r/yourjokebutworse has one category but there is also that entire category of comments that go “I hope that’s satire” to what is obviously satirical.
Depends:
If you work remotely, using VS Code Liveshare or IntelliJ CodeTogether (depending on tooling) works a charm.
In office environments, I once worked in a place where each workstation had two sets of mice and keyboards connected.

Main thing about pairing is communication: one person "drives", while both people talk through what they are doing/thinking. The non-typing partner can be a "map reader" of sorts, thinking ahead. It really will be different from person to person.

The benefit of remote setups with two people working the same code in their own editor is one person can run ahead and write the tests, while the other writes the implementation code (and both communicate what they're doing).

What either setup has had in my experience is constant communication between the parties.

This is a decent article as well:
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/06/how-to-pair-program-effec...
Exactly. IMHO, we just need to accept that "public" has extended and changed to encompass publicly-accessible, privately-owned platforms of a sufficient size.
I think that's something that often gets overlooked in the frenzy to tribal defence: this is a sideshow to take the spotlight off of the real important issues of the day.

If you really look at it, the left/right dichotomy in US politics seems designed (evolved?) to serve much the same purpose.

When we all calm down on the partisanship, often it's amazing how much shared ground there really is.
At one point I was doing quite a bit of driving between New Orleans and a worksite in Pascagoula (just across the MS/AL state line from Mobile). This wouldn't have been very interesting at all given Pascagoula was very spread out and I absolutely needed a car once I was there. And it's a pretty straightforward ~2.5 hour drive.

Taking the train to NYC by contrast a car is, in general, actively a negative thing once you arrive.
Holiday Project to Draw with a Robot
One of our cats waits when my girlfriend and I are at the dinner table, then leans against the table with two legs, touches my GF arm with one of his paws and sometimes emits a meow incredibly similar to what in a local dialect translates to "hey!" which probably he already heard a thousand times from us. That's his way to tell us he wants some of our food, and he doesn't stop until he gets some.
Not that it counts as a sign of intelligence, anyway I was able to teach the other cat to shake "hands".

To me the sign that cats are definitely intelligent is their ability to make us think so whether they are or not:).
> The fission island Cans requires 700 tons of very high quality graphite, and 800 tons of SUS 316 and 304.

SUS is the typical Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) designation for stainless steel grades. It stands for “steel use stainless.”
Example:
More than 1,500 books have been banned in public schools, and a U.S. House panel asks why
https://coloradonewsline.com/2022/04/09/more-than-1500-books...
I don't see the irony. I don't think anyone is denying PG's his right to speak freely, they're just disagreeing with him.
VTuber fans.
Emacs-w3m is tied with lynx as my favorite browser (with telnet and wget both in second place).

Using emacspeak with it allows me to keep my eyes on the lab table (in case something goes exothermic too quickly) while still having the ability to pull up references. Same about reading [hearing] HN while in sketchy areas.

The other post about invoking w3m from lynx is worth investigating if You are not familiar with such. Look for "EXTERNAL" in your .lynxrc. I especially like having it "git clone" the page or link I'm on. Reality is that I heavily abuse the EXTERNAL stuff.

I've been noodling about the implementation of adding functionality to w3m and lynx so there is a separate fetch-page func but report a different User-Agent header (eg, "Mozilla"). I've encountered many pages that don't allow access until I change the "lynx-*" header (bastards).

Semi-OT: I'm addicted to lynx's multi-bookmarks feature (26 different bookmark files for easing the organization of your links), and about 15 years ago I wrote some elisp so emacs-w3m has the same functionality (and same bookmarks files).
[..] Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.[..] - P.G.Wodehouse.

All of my favourite authors are cat slaves.. notably adore their extensive cat quotes..Heinlein, Mark Twain..and of course, P.G.Wodehouse

and not to forget the illustrator of my namesakes..Edward Gorey

And of course, even Spock approved.
On the design page they describe this as a molten salt reactor with dissolved nuclear fuel. One of the principle difficulties designing this type of reactor is the choice of materials used to conduct the liquid fuel, which is very hot, caustic, and radioactive.

Steel and aluminum are out, as they are both chemically reactive at those temperatures. Other materials such as nickel alloys or certain ceramics may be possible, but the radioactivity of the fuel tends to embrittle materials over time as atoms in the containing material are converted by exposure to the fuel's neutron emissions.

The affected components include not just the reactor vessel, but also pipes, and in some MSR designs also pumps and heat exchangers. If those are subject to regular replacement, the used components are also low-grade nuclear waste and must be properly contained indefinitely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

The other main impediment is regulatory: since we've never had commercial reactors of this type we don't have a legal framework to license these types of reactors to be run (and eventually decommissioned) safely.

At least, these are my novice understandings from some skeptical background reading. If someone with actual nuclear industry and/or research experience has a more detailed understanding, feel free to weigh in and correct me.
It's almost like I gave a second example that's not a commuter town for this exact reason.
Is everybody supposed to know it’s a nuclear plant? It took 5 minutes to figure the fuel…
All this talk of visa and Bitcoin always makes me appreciate the marvel that UPI is: Instant free money transfers to any bank account from any bank account.

Unfortunately both Bitcoin and Visa have highly entrenched incumbents who would never allow this kind of thing to happen.
Show HN: URL parser written in pure JavaScript
I think this is the main issue. Compilers have always been trying to do some kind of syntax error recovery, to be able to spot more than one syntax error at a time. However, these heuristics are unfortunately fragile. It often ends up with cascading syntax errors where you're better off ignoring the errors after the first one. Not to mention that many error recovery heuristics tend to skip over some statements, which means they can't be used to "autocorrect" the program.

A while back I looked at how several languages implement this and Pascal was actually one of the better ones. It is a very hard problem...
Not cheap but there are PoE to ethernet+usb-pd splitters. You could set up your PoE & put one of these at the end[1].

The dual band all ask for "15W usb-c" and the tri band all ask for 27W usb-c, which is probably 5V3A and 9V3A respectively. I'd expect that you could _probably_ get by with a much much cheaper non-PD splitter that simply provides the expected voltage.

This feels like a pretty good compromise. USB-C PD is, per watt, often half the price or less, and it's convenience imo cannot be beat since it's such a common power delivery system. Small GaN based adapters with multiple ports are abundant and cheap (<$0.50/watt) versus more specialized, less common gear that's more expensive (often >$1.00/watt).

It does feel great having one and only one cable! Right now PoE is the winner here, especially because it has range. I'd love to see USB try & compete a little more. I'd create a USB long range standard- target 5Gbps (or 2.5Gbps?) but for many meter long runs, with power-delivery. Now that we have (on paper) extended-power USB-C with 48V power, restricting ourselves down to 1A would still be quite useful (48W)!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Compliant-Microsoft-Surface-M...
With a sufficiently high base load provided by renewables the short demand spikes can be served with plants with quicker reaction times like gas plants. With sufficiently high install base of wind and solar power the base can be high enough and the excess stored or things like aluminium plants retooled to use excess energy.
His Elisp tutorials were (and still are) invaluable to me for familiarizing myself with Emacs.
Sometimes unsafe is used differently, for example when setting up a signal handler or a post-fork handler. Process::pre_exec is unsafe to indicate that some safe code may crash or produce UB within this function. Only async-signal safe functions should be used and Rust does not model that in its type system.
"Thanks to Marc Andreessen, Chris Best, Trevor Blackwell, Nicholas Christakis, Daniel Gackle, Jonathan Haidt, Claire Lehmann, Jessica Livingston, Greg Lukianoff, Robert Morris, and Garry Tan for reading drafts of this."

Why so many people?
Oh yeah, the China Tribunal, I dont know if many people ever read the document that was published[1], but it has got several key points, which at the time I didnt quite understand why they were worded the way they were, such as repeating the "holiness" of the people's bodies, or phrases such as "the physical integrity of their beings", which, are just awkward phrases

At the end, when digging a little bit few years ago, it turned out that this "China Tribunal" was itself not a "real group", but a spin off of ETAC[2], which is a small group that is against "End Transplant Abuse in China", itself stacked with Falun Gong practitioners, so ETAC reached out to doctors, lawyers, whom would go and oppose organ harvesting in China and added them as members of the "Tribunal"[A1], then financed/rented the halls which the "China Tribunal" would use to do their decree to oppose the Chinese organ harvesting of Chinese death row inmates, but, most of their pieces are not per-se dedicated to oppose the Chinese organ harvest methods in general, but focused on shedding light of Falun Gong's victims [3]

Then to get the word out of their Tribunal, they invited Reuters Foundation, not Reuters, the NGO politically active foundation of the same name, and then Reuters proper, published a Reuters Foundation article on their website [4]

Now days, we have new Uyghur groups, which will be doing similar schemes such as declaring these tribunals, these Uyghur groups themselves, being funded by the National Endowment For Democracy [5][6]

[1] https://chinatribunal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ChinaTr...

[2] https://chinatribunal.com/about-etac/

[3] https://endtransplantabuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Bl...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-china-rights-idUS...

[5] https://endtransplantabuse.org/?s=Tribunal

[6] https://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-searc...

[A1] Note that several of the people involved with this China Tribunal, were themselves involved on the older "Iran Tribunal" dedicated to highlight the crimes of the People's Republic of Iran, that tribunal itself also had several of their members financially benefiting from US National Endowment for Democracy grants and payments, and these same people are highly regarded members of this new "China Tribunal" [7]

[7] https://hopoi.org/?p=2250

Mind you, that this post is not to deny the situation of China harvesting the organs of death row inmates, but rather to shed light on just how murky the funding of all these groups is, and how incestuous they are on the people orchestrating them, note that EndTransplantAbuseInChina (ETAC) doesnt have a "who funds us" page
Excellent point. I can't think of a protocol that supports it either... Likely one exists and I haven't encountered it.
Seems a false equivalency. The majority of the personalized destruction, cancelling, firing, etc, comes from one side.
If you have a 6E / 6GHz capable client, a 6E router will help a lot with interference. The 6GHz band is new enough that its not likely to be crowded.

However, since its so new, you're unlikely to have a 6GHz capable client... There are 6Ghz capable PCIe cards (desktop and M.2 form factors), but I haven't seen any 6Ghz wifi USB adapters.
Right, they should follow the nice democracies like the US which gives a death row convict the option to choose between firing squad and electrocution [1].

I'd take "Put me under and harvest all my organs" before "firing squad or electrocution" any day, but that's just me. Unfortunately for Richard Bernard Moore he doesn't live in an evil dictatorship.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-execute-...
My mom's cat did not do anything super smart but she made me feel dumb.

She would walk over and start talking - almost literally. Her trills and mews vere so varied in pitch and length that it sounded like speech. And she responded when we talked to her.

This made me feel dumb, because I obviously couldn't understand what she'd talk about. Well except that one time she detected a leak in the central heating and alerted me to it.
> It's a hack to store global data

* It's a solution to store, encapsulate and abstract global data
Except it’s three or four generations behind in performance. The article compares it to a 1060 from Nvidia.
Is a scenario where we have to work from home a couple of times a year for a few days due to a mild infection really such a nightmare?

Considering the constant lockdowns we'll need to prevent it, that sounds a lot worse tbh.

Of course it's possible a dangerous strain will emerge but I think it's worth the risk.
PacketStreamer: Distributed packet capture for cloud-native platforms
Everyone always goes straight to outsourced manual labor as a solution. It's a bad solution. If we weren't a nation run by corrupt middle managers trying to inflate their own salaries and sense of purpose we'd have stuck with the tried and true method of innovating on the manufacturing process itself making it more automated and less dependent on human labor. Human labor is always slow, prone to mistakes, and expensive. It's the favorite tool of the incompetent. If you think that's wrong then ask yourself which is better, harvesting a field with 100 workers with hand tools or with 1 farmer and a tractor?
`grep` is not the solution to every problem, friend. Not using exactly the same words does not mean we are not discussing the same topic.
It does not follow that every reaction to injustice is inherently justice. As an exaggerated example, if the punishment for shoplifting was death, I can oppose that punishment without being in favor of shoplifting.

Obviously, those who criticize overreach of responses to injustice, will inevitably find themselves in common cause with reactionaries who do genuinely oppose progress, whether they want to or not. But that's all the more reason to be tolerant of good-faith dissent: the alternative is no one trusts anyone, and good-faith dissent itself becomes coded as a reactionary trick.