skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is it SHOULD be a norm, and trying to push the other direction, as the phrase does, is doing things backwards. We should be "norming" the idea that discrimination is bad. Rather than saying that discrimination is normal and thus everyone should be equally (which isn't really possible) discriminated against.
I bought a 3-pack of Eero 6s for use in a Manhattan apartment where I had been struggling with interference of various kinds, and it works perfectly. Really a 15 minute setup and I haven’t thought about it again.

The most convenient thing is that placing one of the Eeros next to my desktop meant that I could run ethernet to it; I thought that this would be awful because of the wifi hop in between but surprisingly I had very consistent ~20ms ping (iirc).
Something that's really interesting: if you are bilingual read the wikipedia of the non-English language. Especially topics that are more controversial. A lot of the controversies we talk about in the US are very specific to the English language
I don't believe that's true. Several of the smartest people I know are among the most socially-capable and personally engaged. I think a healthy person recognizes value in aspects of a person additional to their intellect.
Why investors are snapping up virtual land in a metaverse ghost town
Same thing with Facebook. They scrape everyone’s website but if you open the console on their website: a big legal disclaimer say it’s their code. The only website I have ever encounter that does that. Even Google doesn’t do it. The hypocrisy is astounding.
Thanks. Never heard of Joplin. Its OpenSource, uses E2E encryption and says that the notes are stored in an open format. Deffo need to do some research
The answer to this is the same as the answer to gaadd33's comment: Distance and density. Europe and the East Coast are densely populated and the distances between the population centers are relatively short. The reasons are even the same: both were laid out largely before the advent of motorized transportation.

So you're right, in places where the density is high and the distances are not too great passenger trains can be competitive. (Especially if the tracks were laid a century ago, or more, eh?)

In the US we have "the largest highway system in the world." (For better or worse.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Highway_System_(Unite...
Kiss: A type-safe, compiled Lisp for Haxe programs
Don’t forget SimpleLogin which is open source and just got bought by ProtonMail last week.
It’s very different from current nuclear plants, though. Thorium molten salt reactors can be designed so that even a complete meltdown results in a safe and contained shutdown.
> Currently you can't get out unless you have a business, student visa or permanent residence permit. The word is that tourist visa holders will be denied exit. Getting in is also very arduous.

As of when? I know some people who left China in December on a tourist visa to another country.
I'm currently thinking of trying to get legislation put before Congress to have all sleeveless shirts labeled as "bras" or "bros", and therefore classified as underwear but I need to do some polling first to see if I have broad public support.
Ha. The one time I found myself in that position (by accident; missed return window for an in-demand item I couldn't afford), I got scammed by the person I resold the item to-- they accused me of sending them a lesser model. PayPal sided with them.
People do not evaluate speech based on its truth, they evaluate it based on its authority, which is a function of many things (including, in eg twitters case, popularity). Fighting battles over whos speech should be afforded the biggest stage makes a huge difference in debate.
If all banks go bankrupt at once, sure, the insurance will also go bankrupt.
It used to call render twice, now it runs effects twice also.
> For me personally, debugging is difficult enough without needing to worry that the compiler is going to maintain state across multiple runs.

Ooh, the idea makes me shudder.

I remember looking at a project's makefile which called a custom build script where the README said to run the buildscript twice-- once to generate some state, and a second time to compile stuff using that state.

Without any comments provided, the makefile called the custom buildscript three times in a row.

I can't even imagine the superstition and cargo culting that would arise from an IDE "helping out" by analyzing who has changed what, when, and in what order they changed it.

Please paste a new empty function named "momo" here before doing a release. Also make sure your blinds are closed before compiling.
I've been using consumer/home WIFI hardware pretty much from the time it was cheap enough that people started using it broadly (2001?). As the "computer guy" I've also dealt with so many brands I can't even remember them. If they are not garbage when you buy them, use it for a year until the warranty expires.

The Eero is the only wireless hardware I've purchased in my life that was easy to setup and doesn't need to be rebooted every month. Plus, all the pieces in the whole mesh are still working well after the warranty period is over.
It is, I have lost tens of hours to this over the last couple years.
I don't disagree, my position here is "yes, and". However one construes "rights" (it's a thorny topic both morally and empirically!), in my view, legal defenses and civil defenses are each necessary, but not sufficient.
Interesting watch, but very USA-specific.
Define - Decentralized. Does it mean my data can stay in anyone’s computer safely? does it use p2p or such for communication? What are the sizing limitations? Where can read more?
SQL Server should have no problem serving hundreds to thousands of queries per second unless the query is really pathological (which it might be!).
At this point, it feels like chipmakers are just eager to find yet another excuse to slow down production.

This plant closure appears to have been in the works for several years so it is unfathomable that the chipmakers are not prepared for this.
Would be extremely hard, especially given we're not just talking about core APIs like fetch: React code uses closures like crazy, and you couldn't wrap and probably couldn't eval-shadow every single object in scope that might get mutated

You might be able to catch some common cases, but that might give a false sense of security

Enforcing against side-effects in JavaScript is pretty much a lost cause. Even merely accessing a property can cause side-effects, thanks to getters and proxies
I also remember when compilers made more of an effort to fix trivial errors. It was worth it when using a batch system and you could only run a few compilations each day.
The left has already gone too far, in my view.

From a free speech perspective the right seems to be more pro-principle and less identity-based cancellation hysteria, but they do so on the back of white, Christian nationalism and rampant hypocrisy which is a slightly different problem than heresy as per the original article.

Calling me disingenuous a bit of a reach.
>why should your group-of-two be entitled to any more free speech rights than those the two of you possessed before forming a group, and still individually possess after forming the group?

It's not? If I throw my own party I can decide to uninvite the other bad neighbor down the block who always gets drunk and trashes everything. If I form up with my other neighbor and throw a block party, we can also decide to uninvite that same drunk neighbor. Are you saying that because it's a block party and not my personal birthday party, we should be forced to invite this person and have the party trashed, because uninviting them is a person-equivalent right? Or maybe I'm not allowed to do this at a personal birthday party either, because my wife and brother and I all formed a group to plan it? Please help me understand here, maybe this is a bad analogy.
Ask HN: Python Programming Books
I'm looking for a modern Python book, the latest one I have on my shelf is from before the 2/3 split, and I was hoping HN would have some recommendations?
I enjoyed the discussion.
Can anyone tell me where I can track the monthly CB balance sheet numbers for ECB, Japan, US and China?
The Fed does not seem to publish them.
You can export multiple notes at once (PDF or HTML) on macOS.
It is called network effect, which is a significant driver. It incentives entities to join networks where their target audience lives. This does not stop those entities to educate the said audience about topics which are in tension with the network hosting the conversation (e.g., decentralised vs centralised systems).
Yes, but the US is not unique in this respect. Other countries also have governments and central banks that would intervene in the event of a systemic crash.
> I haven't seen yet why China is going into lockdown again. Is there a new variant?

Just the same ones we have everywhere else. The problem is that the new variants are so contagious that their COVID zero practices now can't keep up.
James Hoffmann – How to Turn Your Passion into a Business Without Sacrifice
We live in a world where everyone and their dog (sometimes literally) fights for your attention. If you are trying to advertise something comparable to a blog or magazine creation software, add a screenshot on what to expect at least.
6 teraflops is on par with the NVidia Titan V, from 2017
The point is "proving" something without showing them the proof. E.g. someone Company X trusts looks at the documents or etc and sends a signed confirmation that they confirm X, Y, and Z about Person A.

The point being that Company X does not have a copy of the sensitive information (and neither the liability of losing it) and the Digital Notary would (in theory) have better procedures for properly deleting or storing the data as needed.
That's the thing - it's not very toxic, that's why it's used.

But it's toxic enough that when it builds up it causes problems that are very difficult to detect.

Finding a less toxic alternative isn't easy - it took decades to discover the toxicity of the current chemical, specifically because its toxicity is so low.
gtk apps can be run on the server via broadway.
You shouldn’t ever play “defense”, its just not how you play. You need to actively attack your opponent.

If you are trying to come up with some sort of passive turtle strategy you are going to get crushed.
> can create graphics card that appears to compete with what giants like NVDIA and AMD are offering.

uh ... no. six teraflops is a card from 2017.
I like the sound of “trusted”.
Fibre op engineer (Canadain) here - there are rules, but those are a double edged sword; the proper paperwork to get on a pole is a large part of the total cost to attach. Ever see the mess of cables in a developing country? The laxer rules that lead to those tangles substantially reduces the cost of building out internet.
The entire GPU IP is licensed from Imagination. This is like Google making their Tensor phone chip and claiming it's novel when in reality everything is licensed from someone else and all they had to do was integrate it together.
Gmail used to have send-as feature that verified only with your ability to click on the link that you get from google on that inbox.

Technically you can do the same with SES on AWS as well, they verify just a single email address this way (domain is with dns records), and they have SMTP gateways to connect to a mail client .
https://pythonbooks.org/
Yeah but how do you get people to form a consensus on what's harmful?
This is a really good point.
To be honest in my case I don't like when I write something in Google calendar and after that I have 20 ads about that. Aside from that, being able to have my calendar public is very useful.
I’ve experienced the same with comcast and have contacted their support. They claim there was no data breach or they aren’t selling emails, but that obviously isn’t the case.
Neat project! URL shorteners are always fun to build and think about scaling. The real challenge is dealing with malicious users. I've spent more time building automated malicious url detection then anything else while building https://t.ly/ Url Shortener.
Just because a private bus company canceled a route doesn't mean that the government would (or perhaps should) operate routes that don't meet some metric of popularity.
There were plenty of well-documented plans, mostly by oil companies, to destabilize African countries. The idea is to keep a level of corruption high enough to where you can get lucrative profits through bribes, but not high enough to have an open war zone and where contracts you made are enforced.

This isn't a conspiracy; it's well-documented.

Good book: Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
An electrical provider is typically a government-granted monopoly, and given that, it is not unreasonable to extend the protection of speech against government action to the electrical provider.

Banks are not however, and in fact, banks and the financial system do act against classes of people. Visa and Mastercard frequently pressure their customers in an effort to prevent sex work in the name of preventing sex trafficking. If their customers do not do enough they will cut them off. This most recently happened with OnlyFans. See also PornHub.
Hyper focus is an awesome side of ADHD. Its why I end getting to a decent level at tons of things. Jack of all trades. Of course once boredom sets… game over.
Yes, I don't see why not.
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> It's just as disqualifying as the x-isms from the left, if you care about staying in the good graces of convention on the right

The question isn't "staying in good graces". While people should have friends with whom they disagree, the topic here is heresy. Heresy leads to punishment that goes beyond social consequences.

At this point, it's hard for me to know how to respond to people who remain skeptical of the thesis here. The NYT editorial board has acknowledged the problem. If you're still a holdout, you're probably part of it.
After some ten years of Emacs use, I spent a few hours crafting less insane ways of invoking common functions, to save my wrists.

Later I just stopped typing so much so fast, and even - apostasy - gave up using Emacs altogether.

And so it goes.
Interesting. Do you have a quote of where he said this?
This is nice and all, until your apple account get locked (for no good reason)
Excuse me? Dutchie here, the US have a horrible reputation even among their allies. They are as much criticized as Russia is right now. Maybe even more so considering that we get more imagery from the "exploits" of the US.

Stop with this double standard whataboutism, and maybe find some other circles to hang around in: you'll find the critique you wish for there.
One workaround is that gmail ignores dots in the local part too: so you can use unusual punctuation for marketing: e.mail@gmail.com
I can barely finish a leetcode hard in a few hours, let alone something I would call a project. Still, this is an inspiring approach to tackling day to day work in incremental micro-projects.
They can do that anyway? Hide my email just generates random aliases to your iCloud mailbox which Apple always had access .
Your claim isn't borne out by Hong Kong's case fatality rate
numbers, which are broken down here by age range, vaccine type and # of doses: https://mobile.twitter.com/tripperhead/status/15124203942710....

Note that Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) has consistently been way ahead of any other public health establishment in tracking and responding to COVID; they launched on-arrival rapid testing in March 2020 (!) and realized COVID was airborne, not fomite-transmitted, months before the CDC did. They've also consistently released provably accurate numbers. Hong Kong has had a bad response to COVID recently, but all of it is due to the bureaucrats in charge ignoring the CHP's scientifically-based health advice in favour of mandates handed down from the mainland government.

In any case, the numbers show that while Sinovac isn't as great as Pfizer, it's much better than being unvaccinated. The case fatality rate among 80+ year olds who got covid is 15.68% for unvaccinated people, 3.98% for those with 2 doses of Sinovac and 1.73% for those with 2 doses of Pfizer. For 70-79 year olds it's 5.28%, 0.6% and 0.33% respectively. Note that all of Hong Kong's recent wave was from Omicron.

We forget how lucky as a civilization we were to develop mRNA vaccines in response to COVID, and how much better than expectations they were. We would have been thrilled with the efficacy of Sinovac. So while Sinovac is definitely worse than Pfizer, it's misleading and alarmist to say that it's 'basically worthless.'
BGP by itself is insecure, but an (RPKI) infrastructure has grown up around it so that it can, and should be by now, secure.

Yet BGP injection attacks (ASN or prefix theft) happen regularly. The reason is that not everybody follows the best practice here. It may well take a massively disruptive attack before this gets any better.
The trains on the Tube under London aren't 3 miles long.
No, Xah was a troll. He trolled on groups i read, too - comp.lang.java.programmer or comp.lang.python, or both.
Apparently the International Atomic Energy Agency spends ~10% of its budget on creating and sharing safety standards [0].

Unfortunately, its safety model flows through "and then allow nations to create their own standards."

Ceding standards / regulation to an international-level organization for advanced reactors that meet some criteria (e.g. proliferation-resistant, under a certain power, fail-safe, minimal worst-case scenario) would do wonders for low-carbon energy transitioning.

Imagine a micro-reactor that's deployable in any member country, because it's already been vetted and certified.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_...
"Well, it turns out the fast breeder reactor made out of sticks was a bit of a fiasco."

Peppa Porcine-Bacon, CEO of Threelittlepigs, LLC in a prepared statement.
The us has the best freight railroad in the world handling much more freight than countries that have nationalized rail.

Freight and passenger rail rail do not mix. Amtrak needs to build their own track instead of complaining
Interesting - I would never knowingly refer to someone by pronouns other than those which correspond with their birth sex, it would violate my conscience to do so. Obviously not a majority position in SV but also not an extremely rare position to hold in the world more largely. I suppose that means you would fire me and others of the same opinion if you had the chance.

I don't know whether this is the kind of example Graham had in mind, but it does seem that the particular zeal that some have to exclude from normalcy even widely-held minority views is relatively unique to our time.
I don't get the email+tag. Spammers can just drop the plus tag and get your real email address?
The political orientation of a thought is orthogonal to an honest evaluation of its accuracy. Call it a broken clock fallacy if you will. The statement was about criticism of the powerful, which is different from ridicule of the relatively weak.

The concept seems facially valid to me although incomplete in that it seems to have an assumption of singular power rather than many different power domains. Taken further, an hallmark of power, prestige, might be defined as those things which seem so natural that criticism would not occur to the larger portion of people.
Next generation nuclear or fusion would be amazing, but looking how things stand today, I would bet on cheap and reliable grid-storage batteries coming first. Pairing renewables with cheap batteries solves energy for 80% of the world. Things like sodium-ion batteries look like they are getting close production, and don't contain hard-to-acquire materials.
I don’t think they’re unrelated. It seems like a lot of aging relates to your cells slowing down and doing a worse job of repairing you. Your skin gets thinner, cuts take longer to heal, bones loose density, etc. At least part of this is because your individual cells start to be less vigorous. Some stop diving altogether, others just start malfunctioning in weird ways. I’m by default pretty skeptical of a simple one size fits even most solution to this. It feels like at the end of the day you’re fighting entropy
This shows the fragility of big cities. People who live in a big city are highly dependent on the government and the economy. Cities don't produce much food themselves so it has to be brought in from other parts of the country every day. Shanghai has 24 million people; it's difficult to conceptualize how much food is required to sustain so many people.

I find big cities terrifying. What if there is a food shortage or some other panic and everyone decides to leave within a short period of time. Will it even be physically possible to leave with millions of people and cars clogging all the streets and booking out all surrounding hotels and accommodation?

If you live in a remote town without too many people, this is not a problem; everyone in those towns easily find ways to sustain themselves from their surroundings; fish, birds, deer, wild fruits, vegetables...
I could copy paste almost verbatim a comment I made a year ago to somebody being equally outraged by plastic packaging and being willing to pay the extra price for bio replacements. The gist of it, you're not the only one who has to pay for your outrage. And more to the point, you're quite likely well above the average income in EU just for being a Swede on HN, so you're not even the one who'd really feel the cost of such policies. Just like how poor people would definitely feel the extra euro paid by supply chain issues created by a full ban of plastic, also poor people will pay the most utility cost of having more expensive heating. Euro, we pay the same, but pain will be concentrated in the lower income levels.

And btw, I strongly dislike having to type this. I'm both a libertarian and a Romanian, and on both counts I shouldn't have to take this position. But those are the facts.

Also I wasn't even talking about total cost, but relative one. People will definitely cut other things before sleeping in 13 degree homes. Hell, they'd take loans if needed. A home is a home, you don't go back there to pitch a tent in the living room, not unless it's a literal war zone. So whatever things we prepare for, imagining 8 degree cuts is just a fantasy. We just have to find other options.
And in case someone wonders, Xyzzy was his cat. Or rather the other way round; he was her human.
> I take it you haven't spend much time on social media in the last decade or so?

less of this please.

> This is what the civil rights movement was built on. It just doesn't happen if there isn't an outside condition to allow activism and protesting in the first place.

> >What you're describing is an activist culture that has writ large given up on convincing people of their correctness, and functions instead via social coercion.

>No, not at all and I'm very confused as to how you managed to connect those dots. I'm describing

If you take the "don't listen to other people because you don't know who to trust" knob and turn it way up, you get to "listen only to people who agree with me", turn it farther "anyone who disagrees with me is an enemy." I _don't_ think this was the dynamic in the mainstream civil rights movement, but even if it was it wasn't the rhetorical tactic outside of the black panther/WUG fringe. I _do_ think it's the dynamic/rhetorical strategy in the current activist milieu which has bled into the broader world.
I'm confused: why are you only counting electrified rail? For example, all of Boston's regional rail is diesel locomotives.

(US transit agencies are unreasonably ignorant of best practices, including electrification and EMUs, but it's still rail.)