skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is now policing the images you own. They intend to observe everything you upload to ensure it aligns with local legislation. Some good, a lot of bad.

Beyond that, if someone owns your data they can simply decide what you pay tomorrow and its burn it or pay.
> But according to this, the US is third behind China and Russia on rail ton-miles

That's awesome if you're not interested in carrying people, but whether a network incapable of carrying people is "a decent rail network" is something many would dispute.

Also, Russia has ~44% of population of the US, yet it still outperforms the US in absolute terms? That's quite impressive for Russia in my book. Having said that, they've always been heavily dependent on rail to lower their transportation costs. Trucks and airplanes won't work for them nearly as well. So I'm not surprised if they're placed so high in rail freight ranking.

> The reason I'm skeptical of the numbers is that UP/US DoT reported 2.7T ton-KMs for 2018 [1].

I'm reading 1.7 on that page. Am I looking in the wrong place? It says "In 2018, 1.7 trillion ton-miles of freight (calculated by multiplying shipment weight in tons by the number of miles that it is transported) was shipped by rail, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation."
I will never forgive Dropbox. I spent a decade evangelizing them as the way to do cloud file storage to all the tech-illiterate people in my life and then Dropbox decided to limit free accounts to three devices. The sheer number of pissed-off and/or confused phone calls I got from all of those people was enough to make me wish eternal suffering upon the Dropbox executives.
My Mathematics PhD research workflow: LaTeX notes and instant pdf referencing
I hope we will, the problem currently is that this is not competitive compared to just burning natural gas. This is because the externalities related to global warming are not accounted for when the market determines the price of gas. Electricity will be more expensive either way and this really hasn’t sunk in yet. Were these costs accounted for, nuclear would be quite competitively priced, even with newer more modern reactors vs running the insecure ones from the 70s forever which is what we do now for the most part.

That being said, there is great potential in batteries becoming much denser and cheaper.
Good for you (seriously), that's very reasonable, but far from author's recommendation.
Weight * distance/population we again rank #3 behind both Russia and Canada. It says less about or rail system than our large size and relatively low population density.

In terms of efficiency we rank 31st in terms of miles of electrified track at a paltry 2,000km which significantly increases costs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_tran...

Don’t get me wrong I have heard people say the US has the #1 rail network, but objectively I have never seen anyone actually back it up.
You are going to start racking up all sorts of interesting "apparent contradictions" if you go down this route. One would experience some pretty intense social ostracism if one loudly criticized interracial couples. But I find it hard to believe that interracial couples actually run things. Ditto orphans, the disabled, and yes, Jewish people.

Down this route is the precise conspiracy that the original Nazi who spoke these words was pushing.

The original idea here is that because denying the Holocaust is social suicide and illegal in some nations, Jewish people must secretly actually run the world.
> as such, absent a concrete example or further clarification, I don't see why you should assume that this isn't what the author had in mind.

Because we shouldn't automatically assume the worst in each other?
Personally I'd rather live with periodic dystopian lockdowns like China than in a society where the population gradually gets weaker and weaker from long term heart, lung, and brain damage from Covid. (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...)

Imagine each wave of new Covid variant leaving a percentage of the population a little less strong, with a little more brain fog... that's a way more frightening gradual descent than the inconvenience of a periodic total lockdown.

I don't think perfection is possible, but I also don't think that living with regular exposure is going to work out very well for us. The biggest thing I fear is that we end up with a weakened and lower IQ population while countries like China that do their best to limit exposure will stay stronger overall because they are willing to work with a periodic lockdown. Lockdown supply chain problems can be solved a lot more easily than widespread heart, lung, and brain damage.
Yeah, but todays nazi's have enough nukes to cover every major city on earth.
It's a shame that none of these "critical" reviews actually contain any well-researched criticism.

Confusing the wider shadow radius on windows with the bounds of the screenshot utility? Referring to Mobian as a for-profit company or implying PINE64 is driving libadwaita? Suggesting a library written in cross-platform C "carries code for other platforms"? Claiming GNOME is replacing Terminal with Console, when it has been explicitly communicated that is not the case? Stating a feature has been removed from Tweaks, when it has actually been moved into GNOME Settings?

It's difficult to find anything accurate in this article, other than the screenshots. The author's time would have been better spent researching the subject matter, especially if they are sincere about wanting to provide constructive criticism.
I agree. Anecdotally, a friend of mine's workplace which canceled WFH a few months ago has had many people out sick with Covid over the past three weeks (more than the entire previous year), but luckily none have them have needed to be hospitalized.
I see SimpleLogin mentioned in the replies several times, but I haven't seen anyone mention that you can use your own domain name with them to prevent vendor lock-in.

You can also export your setup through their API so you can very easily migrate to a self-hosted instance if ever necessary:

wget --header "Authentication: YOUR_API_KEY" https://app.simplelogin.io/api/export/aliases -o simplelogin-export-$(date +%s).csv

And given the author talks about Have I Been Pwned, I feel I should mention that SimpleLogin has built-in HIBP integration (contributed by me in https://github.com/simple-login/app/pull/472)
the smallest compressor is just the (differentiable) classier itself. The compressed image is just the output class, and the de-compressor generates a random image then back propagates the class error until it gets an image that has the right class. Maybe you toss in a random seed in the format, so the compressor can spend some more time to guarantee the de-compressor will complete in a reasonable amount of time.
Why did you call if Mvidia?

As a proud owner of a 1070ti, I don't think that's the budget gaming computer.
The problem is rights of way. Getting land is a lot more difficult than when the railroads first started and were given free land.

Where lines are constrained they can invest in parallel tracks and increase current capacity. Everybody could win in this way.
Legitimate interest is not vague enough to be relied on.
I think observability has made a lot of strides but still isn't good enough. I get instant reporting of abstruse errors like API failures but actually understanding why to the point of being able to fix it is still really hard.
Yes it is helpful. He’s showing signs of learned helplessness and needs to wake up.
I havent come across service that would reject me, although I use my own domain with AnonAddy.
not the current one. you can check out my portfolio at vannorman.ai :-]
Compression with no plan in sight for decompression... at least it's billed as "silly" first and foremost.
BTW, the original structurally-typed proposal for closures in Java included generic exception specifications (among many other things). Unfortunately, that was killed off in favor of a much simpler take.

http://javac.info/closures-v06a.html
Another Simplenote user here! Tried many but kept coming back. I wish Simplenote had a feature where I could toggle a flag to make a note “read only” and toggle again to edit if needed. That’d be lovely.
>Not possible

Stuff rains down from the sky, stuff enters water, fish start breathing in the stuff that rained down from the sky as more of the same stuff continues to rain down from the sky I don't know, seems possible to me.
I had not heard much about HaXe before.
Given my current experiments in OCaml it was interesting
to learn its importance its development.

I am curious how large the community is?

Nicolas Cannasse having created (and still creating) HaXe
(Which would seem like more of a workload in itself)
He then goes on to write a 2D/3D game engine?

Both achievements seem huge on their own.

Not knowing the history, he seems to be an incredibly productive person?
Mozilla also has Firefox Relay: https://relay.firefox.com/

(Disclosure: I'm on the Relay team.)
I'll put it this way: there are a lot of people, including many here, who are ignorant and insensitive; and in this very conversation, there are quite a few people who are unapologetically so. They don't even know how ignorant or insensitive they are being, because they seem surprised and/or defensive when it is pointed out to them.

And when confronted with this feedback, instead of responding with humility, open-mindedness, and intellectual curiosity, they seek shelter in groups or try to clumsily defend their ignorance through whataboutism, slippery-slope arguments, unrelated grievances, or other forms.

Alternatively, they question the entire premise of social norms or morality, such as what PG has done here. People like him are intelligent enough to know that they cannot attack the truth and defend a lack of respect head-on. Instead, they try to mount a flank attack by publishing pieces such as this that appeal to selfish audiences who care more about their individual freedom than our need to work together to build a better society. It's not super surprising that they do this; after all, controversy and endless argument makes them money.
Amen to "toy" for "you".i would imagine in conversation, for anyone older than 5 years old, "you" is at least 20 times more likely to be the intent than "toy". Why can't their score weighting take that into consideration
There is a big difference between containing 10 gallons and containing 10 tons.

There is also a big difference between containing the product and manufacturing the product.

To be fair, it doesn't sound like 3M was trying very hard to contain this--they mostly seemed to just be dragging their feet and doing business as usual.
Being wrong is not absolute proof that nobody will follow or agree with these wrong beliefs. Climate scientists, for example, have spent a lot of time arguing in public about the merits of climate science and the lies of deniers. That is important work because the deniers do convince some people and denialism causes real harm.
If you are worried about third parties having access to your communications, you shouldn’t be using (unencrypted) email.
In the absence of a more credible theory, many people roll with that explanation. It does kind of make sense.
We've made a point to ride all the lines, but mostly ride Red Line (with a dash of Green), plus the Providence commuter rail line. Our rides tend to be during evenings, so the cars aren't sparkling clean. But, so far, the worst we've experienced are some loose french fries.
> Allowing parents to sue for DJ, or request a special magistrate be appointed, with reimbursement of attorneys' fees, is pretty different.

First, the parents have to work through the school district first. The district has 30 days to address their concerns.

Second, giving ordinary people an actual legal channel to pursue a remedy, without bankrupting them with legal costs, is the sort of thing there should be more of. One of the biggest problems with our legal system in general is that it is unaffordable unless you're a corporation or a wealthy individual.

> A 1st grade teacher who wants to read "Heather Has Two Mommies" to the class because there's been questions about April's two moms shouldn't face litigation and censure.

First, the teacher won't; the school district will. Nothing in the law makes teachers legally liable. All the liability is on the school district.

Second, the teacher is not the sole judge of what's appropriate in the classroom. Parents have to have a voice.

> This law outlaws this practice of teachers respecting students' preference of what they're called and not telling Dad, unless we meet a relatively high bar of being able to prove that it is likely dangerous.

Where does the law say that?

More generally, whether the student likes it or not, their parents are their parents and are responsible for raising them. The right thing for the teacher to do in this kind of situation would be to bring the parent into the discussion themselves, so the teacher can support the student directly in that discussion, not to help the student to go behind the parent's back.
I'm wondering if this would hold true, if you'd 'overbuild' the existing rights of way with overpass-like structures where it makes sense, instead of for instance doing it all over again from scratch for hypothetical hyperloops, maglevs, etc. and have long distance passenger rail running mostly grade separated over them. This would also give better views! :-)
> This is why it's absolutely insane that the free world followed the Chinese playbook at the beginning of the pandemic, even for a minute.

A stark reminder that Germany was also a communist dictatorship until only 30 years ago, and that Angela Merkel suddenly turned to authoritarian leadership and was impressed with China's strategy is not really that surprising considering that she grew up in and was indoctrinated in a communist dictatorship herself.
Routers work because ISPs require them. ISPs however aren’t fond of supporting the home server use case.

I wish for a world where battery tech wasn’t so limited. Imagine if everyone could just run a full-fledged server 24/7 on their phone, as a simple app, with a reasonable data plan.
In mathematics or other formal systems you can disprove a statement. In empirical studies that's a literally impossible bar to meet, indicating infinite certainty.
That would mean adding a rule to the language. The rule of "you can use 'print' as an statement". A rule that, time after time, has been shot down.

Which leads us to the real issue at hand: if the compiler is going to do anything by itself, that means it is following well defined rules. Therefore, whatever automatic thing the compiled does is part of the language. And, sometimes, the design rules of said language plain and simply do not allow for that.
>If nuclear weapons are such a powerful detterent to a poorly-armed asymmetric insurgency, then why do you think the US didn't decide to use nuclear weapons in Afghanistan/Iraq?

Yes I do think so. Nuclear weapons are a VERY powerful deterrence.

As we see, then instead of a primary name vs primary name war. It's now primary name vs minor, minor, minor, insurgency, minor.

Why did they never use nukes in middle east? Because they ratified the geneva protocol in 75 and can't use them.

Foreign vs Domestic consequences of using nukes is similar but not the same.
Low Code Python Has Arrived
define great
It seems like there is a lot of overlap with some leading edge cryptocurrencies (such as Algorand, which also has Turing complete contracts that control state). Does Locutus have a facility for something like payments?

Also, although web assembly can theoretically be highly optimized by compiling to native code, there are hard limits on scalability especially since many things need to be executed in a specific order. So you have some mechanism for sharding, or are all computations repeated by 100% of the network? Also is there a mechanism for sharding data?

Anyway, I believe that the future of cryptocurrencies, money, and new types of browsers or even normal web applications will all skew heavily towards web assembly.
I skimmed the summary of that UCS report and it seems very thorough and balanced. I would be interested in a rebuttal if an effective one is possible.

I was especially encouraged to see that they didn't advocate the complete dismantling of nuclear, only focusing efforts on improving proven light water reactor designs.
It’s hard to build and you’re competing with big money people. As population drops, basic infrastructure (stores, schools) start to go away.
Which is why a lot of generating capacity is wind, not just solar.

Which is why utilities are focusing on energy storage and grid improvements like upgrading transmission lines to HVDC to make it more practical to 'ship' excess wind/solar to regions that need it.
Response to Heresy
I think we need something like micro payments. Take lichess for example it's the biggest open source chess website completely ad free and runs by donations. If you divide the total monthly costs to run the servers by the number of games and you get a tiny fraction of a dollar cent. I don't remember the exact number, but it has been in the order of 1k chess games equals 1$. If you could charge 0.1 cent per game, then this website could run without any extra donations.

Another idea that comes to mind is that the server side could be somehow run by the connected users. Users have storage + cpu cycles. Similar to torrent as long there's enough users (seeders) the game server will continue to work. Lichess for instance has tens of thousands players online 24/7.
What about poor people or people not on WeChat? I’m inclined to guess that your remote job isn’t representative of many people in the city. The videos of people moaning and screaming from their balconies at night seem… shocking?
People like to bully on the outgroups, now as then. Same as ever.
Forget open source—there never was a simple way for users to self-host web ~servers~ applications that gained any traction whatsoever.

Opera gave it a go more than a decade ago with Opera Unite, but that went nowhere. Like a sibling comment mentioned, Sandstorm was a push in the right direction, but it also eventually failed. Docker and current container solutions are still way too complicated for the average user.

The fact web founders focused so much on making the consumption of web content easy rather than producing/serving it is partly the reason why the web is so centralized today.
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I realized I left that open ended but I’ll touch on a few points that I think are relevant here;

* There’s a language which is like Haskell/Elm/PureScript in terms of being purely functional and statically typed. But with syntax that looks more like Excel.

* Purity gets us fearless recalculation.

* Static types let us build UI elements automatically based on the inferred types of code.

* It’s content-addressable like Unison. That means every expression and “cell” has a unique SHA512 hash of it which refers to only that expression.

* Content addressability makes cache invalidation of results trivial.

* It also makes it easy to say “I want exactly this version of that person’s cell and for all time.” Makes it impossible to break someone else’s code once it’s working.

* It also lets you fearlessly federate, if ever needed.

* Content addressed also means you can write tests against code and have them run on every change. Only the tests whose dependencies changed will be rerun. That’s not normal in Python or Haskell, but in a spreadsheet it is.

There are other design choices related to your comment but I don’t want to ramble on.
Disinformation is not welcome here

There is absolutely no need for deserts, or for single-use solar farms anywhere. Solar coexists with roofs, parking lots, reservoirs and canals, and pasture, improving each.
I figure it is on account of the desirable situation you describe in your other post not obtaining: in order to satisfy the goals of the IDE, it attempts to go beyond where the compiler parser would stop, as the compiler is more of a batch than a responsive one, and sometimes the IDE gets it wrong. As you say, batch to responsive is the difficult way to go.

In addition, I suppose that there are people hard at work applying ML in tools to help understand incomplete code and mitigate the false positive problem of traditional static analysis. I can imagine probabilistic parsing being useful in this case, but not so much in compiling.
Made a very similar thing, since before apple did it actually:-) mine's called https://ent.re
This reminded me of a weird idea that I had several years ago (which is kind of opposite of this):

What if there was a format that doesn't encode pixels but generates a "description" of the images using AI, of simple shapes to higher-level objects, and saves that in its own format, with a "decoder" that takes this input description format and constructs an image similar to the original, at least to some extent.

Of course this would have many drawbacks like encoding micro details and expressions of people, but still, I'd love to see how far the idea can go.
I've been using Gen1 eeros since they were first released in around 2016. They're still getting software updates and they're still rock solid.

I'll be first in line to purchase a new set if they offer a model that supports PoE here in Europe.

Disclaimer: I've done a bunch of work with the Eero team from 2015/2016 til present day. Their team has an extremely high concentration of very smart and talented people, they are great to work with.
No need to do the math: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211...

It's ultimately inevitable.
> Compared to working on something mechanical or electrical, you can get from "fuzzy idea" to "workable-ish code" with incredibly low cost in time and money.

That’s very true but I think the fact that my day job is in software development has pushed me to work on more physical projects on weekends.
Shanghai Has Recorded More Than 130k Covid Cases–and No Deaths
> wow it’s so awesome here I could totally live here!!

“It’s because they have walkable space and public transportation.”

— https://imgur.com/gallery/cuRG7lx
The report you're linking to starts from Dec 31, when Delta was still widely circulating (and which had much higher fatality rates, further compounding issues with a raw measurement of "case fatality" for COVID-19). It doesn't attempt to isolate performance against specific strains, unlike the Yale research, which does. It's also a biased sample, since the Pfizer vaccine ("Comirnaty") isn't approved in China, so the people who have it are likely significantly different in many respects from those who got Sinovac ("CoronaVac"). The unvaccinated groups are also likely a biased sample. It's a raw data dump: useful if you have nothing else, but we have peer reviewed research that does attempt to correct for those kinds of flaws on exactly this topic.

If you think I'm being "misleading," here's a direct quote from Yale statement:
"However, those [Sinovac] vaccinations alone are of no help against the widely circulating omicron variant, shows a new study by researchers at Yale and the Dominican Republic. The results are published in the journal Nature Medicine.

An analysis of blood serum from 101 individuals from the Dominican Republic showed that omicron infection produced no neutralizing antibodies among those who received the standard two-shot regimen of the Sinovac vaccine.

...

But when researchers compared these samples with blood serum samples stored at Yale, they found that even those who had received two Sinovac shots and a booster had antibody levels that were only about the same as those who’d received two shots of the mRNA vaccines but no booster shot."

That's pretty much exactly what I posted! So no, I don't think I'm being misleading.

Regardless, even if you suppose the entire HK dataset is 100% Omicron cases, and ignore the sample biases, it's still pretty poor compared to Pfizer; the OP claimed they were roughly the same, which I was refuting.