skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the mechanism that causes nationalized rail to inherently be more expensive?

Hold that question for the next time the MTA gets caught spending stupid amounts of money to get nothing done.

The exact people you are agreeing with now will be happy to provide you a laundry list of ways government dysfunctionalality wastes money and gets taxpayers and riders less for their dollar if you ask in that context.
It's technically pronounced z-ee-n (because it's short for magazine) but lots of people who aren't familiar with the origin and/or learned the word online say z-eye-n and it doesn't do them any harm. Both pronunciations are usually understandable from context.
I don't want images, though. I just want plain text.

I also don't want javascript, as it opens me up to all sorts of javascript vulnerabilities and tracking.

emacs-w3m is just text, no images, and javascript, which is exactly what I want.
Cargo trains are usually quite long, slow to accelerate, and stop infrequently (comparatively, at least). Adding "two or three cars" would mean adding a very small amount of human capacity while forcing the cargo portion of the train to make many slow starts, and transporting people very slowly. While it is possible, it's a lose-lose for both cargo movers and potential passengers.
>when low-tech concentrated solar in the desert can get the job done

Consider West Virginia. (Just for example.) The Senator from there, buoyed by local public opinion, has been an obstacle to climate policy. A look at the state's economy will quickly debunk the idea that coal mining revenues alone drive this opposition.

Instead, West Virginia, like other places where opposition to reform holds fast, has a large manufacturing sector predicated on the ready availability of cheap electricity. Herein lies the real dependence on coal. The mountainous topography makes the widespread deployment of solar panels infeasible, and the cloudy weather and high latitude aren't helping. Wind faces a similar issue. There are no deserts nearby.

Nuclear power is attractive not only because it can support a transition to renewable energy[1], but because it can also be deployed readily to mitigate the economic fallout of carbon emissions reduction. And if the last ten years of political upheaval haven't demonstrated the importance of paying attention to the downsides when championing a policy that works well on average, well, I don't know what will.

1: http://large.stanford.edu/publications/coal/references/docs/...
We will build out storage, and transmission lines, to "get us through the night".
I wonder if you've thought this through properly. I suspect that, if your vision were to be enacted, there would be no more forums. No more Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, niche PHP forums, comment sections, etc, etc. Why? Because they'd devolve into spam and/or people arguing past each other. For example, given your current definition I believe it would be acceptable for someone to write a script to post useless replies to every single Hacker News post and comment, effectively rendering the board useless.

Right now, HN has the right to delete those. If it was a common carrier, it would presumably not. Arguably they're spam, but I cannot imagine a way you can define "spam" that is narrow enough to not be redefined by everyone as "things I disagree with", but broad enough to capture someone posting excessively to a forum. Note that this wouldn't violate the CAN-SPAM act because it's not advertising anything commercial.
What would you estimate to be the Covid vaccination rates in Shanghai?

In many European and American cities the consensus of many people seems to be that Covid 'is over', likely due to high vaccination rates and those that have recovered.
You could probably make the case that any function that might physically destroy your memory is memory unsafe :)
The company was just lazy and/or cheap as MACs aren't even supposed to be randomly assigned or hard to come by. You can get a block of 16,777,216 globally unique MACs for a one time fee, currently just $3,180 dollars or 1/50th a penny per MAC.

Duplicate MACs were (well, still are) a huge problem in places with multiple on prem VM pods with shared networks. It's one of those things that seems automatically handled until you realize it's not ALL automatically handled for you.
Thanks for that. For those who dislike Twitter, here are two alternative links:

https://nitter.net/RealSexyCyborg/status/1512734595485106179

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512734595485106179.html
> This is a commonly made point, but is misleading. The historical usage is for a hypothetical or unknown referent not a specific, known person.

This seems less like a material distinction and more like something that transphobic people would bring up to support their ideology.

> Furthermore, generic he has also been around for hundreds of years. So we should keep using that too, right?

My point was that it isn't new or somehow "a gen Z thing", not "all old things are good"
My old cat loved all those cat games on the iPad with the fish swimming around, etc. My cat was more of a hardcore gamer than me.
A solution to that is to have a fleeting / unfiled notes area where you write notes and to have a separate maintenance process where you file them. OneNote also lets you link to notes internally, so you can have a dummy in one place and a link to the actual note in the dummy.
I wrote that remark, and I was not. I’m not even using w3m right now, and observe that the comment I replied to was more general, relating to all browsing without Javascript.

Extreme positions and interpretations are for nutters.

In the specific case of Google Drive access, I like the Ruby client.
Iron-air batteries are another potential low-cost option for long-duration storage (e.g. https://formenergy.com/technology/)
Is it? Or all all the false positives from over testing creating a huge problem?
An alternative interpretation of the apparent contradiction about Biden is that the U.S. President isn't actually all that powerful, but more of a figurehead.
While I agree for centralized services. I think In the end all information will be accessible and searchable. Since the beginning of the written word, there’s been an exponential expansion of information. Scrolls, book, news papers, radio, TV, internet, etc.

So in terms of infrastructure, I think a way to tap into and share information regardless of restraint will be the end result. It would need to be cheap, impossible to censor, searchable and able to easily hide access devices / methods. to said system.

I see crypto currencies as the initial stages of this.
Nice, thanks for the link. I‘m the author of AdaptOver, and I‘m in process to release a new version (paper is under submission atm) that removes the range limitations almost entirely by overshadowing the uplink instead of the downlink. It works by coercing the legitimate base station to transmit the attack message as response (i.e., Identity Request, Attach Reject, …).

I‘m interested to see if Radio Sentinel could/will detect the new improved version! Would you be willing to provide us with a test version/device?
I've been thinking of a new way to use my email...

- Only use one email address: hi@example.com

- Always add a filter: hi+hn@example.com

- Send all emails without a filter to SPAM

Since it's not a common strategy, it is much more likely that spammers remove the +hn before sending an email than add one.
Fire and forget.

It actually bothers me to know that I can find links back to my comments. That can only lead to reaction comments due to butthurt. No good.
I am first and foremost interested in consistency, a property that is consistently in short supply with pg.
I think New York has done something unique and positive with the Adirondack Park, but I could see how this strategy would make sense in the mid 60s.

At that time, New York was projecting 30-35M residents by 2000. They were planning for industry expansion in big centers like Buffalo, Utica, Syracuse, etc. They didn’t see the post-Vietnam nadir and the policy changes driving migration of industry to the South and eventually Mexico and China coming.

Making the Central Adirondacks a Federal problem would ease the ability to keep the timber, paper, iron mining and downstream steel industries vital on the periphery. Those industries were the backbone of the Lake Champlain corridor including canals, railroads, etc. (ie lots of jobs) With the hydroelectric potential of the St Lawrence and easy to exploit hydroelectricity in Quebec, there was a lot of potential for development.

Reality wasn’t in alignment with that vision, and ultimately what happened was probably for the better. The Adirondacks are depopulating and becoming a worse place to live, but the natural resources are protected.
> life isn't that miserable

> I'm still working 12 hour days online

> we can only buy food through WeChat

This sounds horrible. You don’t have to live like this you know.
As someone who spends a lot of time in the mountains of western North Carolina, to the southeast of the Great Smokies National Park, I found this discussion on the possibility of creation of an Adirondack national park here really enlightening.

I am very impressed with the achievements of the Adirondack Park Agency..

In WNC, there are many national forests, which serve a lot of recreational activities, but also other uses :

"National forests, on the other hand, emphasize not only resource preservation, but other kinds of use as well. Under this concept of "multiple use," national forests are managed to provide Americans with a wide variety of services and commodities, including lumber, cattle grazing, mineral products and recreation with and without vehicles. The national forests are managed by forest rangers with the US Forest Service (USFS) under the Department of Agriculture."

https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/np-versus-nf.htm

The land that is truly wilderness, as the Adirondack Park Agency has achieved, even though the pressure of NYC is much more than the pressure of Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, etc, is more than in the Great Smokies National Park.
An April Fools Day prank played by Seattle's local satire show, Almost Live, was repeated as actual news. This is despite the gag had "April Fools Day" text overlaying the joke.

https://www.king5.com/article/features/the-april-fools-day-p...

Looks like KING5 removed the video again. Sigh.
How is that "milquetoast"? You believe Naggum has something more to say, but is too timid to?
Now do the math on how much storage would be needed, and how much would it cost, then show your work. Investors have done exactly that, which is why large scale storage is not happening yet.
What I mean is: what keeps our world from completey collapsing is that 99% of trolls are trolls because they lack influence and take out their frustration on the internet as trolls. Whether those people have consistent views or not doesn't really matter, the trolling part is they don't allow a discussion they just lob in a grenade into the discourse and watch it burn.

When someone does that with 100M twitter followers, it has consequences.
> 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.

Solar is dependent on the time of day (as the sister comments pointed out) and also on weather. Plus, you need to get the energy from the desert to wherever it's needed - this is non-trivial for densely populated areas far from the equator. You also need to maintain the solar panels; sand can be quite bad for their efficiency. Lastly, the areas that do have the space and solar power might be politically unstable, which makes the massive investments needed to get this going quite risky.

Real engineering has a good video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o
That requires running a pile of nonfree/intrusive tracking code, and many people block this kind of thing
If it performs similar to a 1060 or 1070 gpu from MVIDIA and has an appropriate price point people who want to create a budget gaming computer would be an appropriate target market.
Nobody wants chaos, especially not corrupt people.

Saudi Arabia is effectively 'fully institutionalized corruption backed by the US Army' and it's almost 'model'.

The Oil Flows, the Leader does whatever he wants with his cut, as long as there is stability and order.

Instability leads to failed contracts, downfall of leaders knocks over dominoes, attracts attention, people are arrested and go public, war etc..

This idea that somehow 'an Oil Company' could actively keep something a bit broken but not fully broken gives way, way too much agency to them. They are not that smart or powerful.

They would all be happy just to pay 'The Guy' his cut in perpetuity.

Arguably, Russia is such a country. Putin et. al. take their cut, the plebes get some scraps, everything is cool.

Everyone was willing to look the other way at his minor intransigence.

Until he crossed the line, and now he has to be dealt with.

All he had to do was take his billions and literally not invade anywhere. He could do anything he wanted in his borders.

As you can see all of Europe is roiling as the result of chaos, nobody wants it - not Putin, not Europe, not any Oil Company.
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Congrats on reinventing the autoencoder!
This is near conspiratorial thinking...

...The US forced RU to attack Ukraine because EU might get a benefit from RU resources...

Let's just ignore Russian media and actions showing they are executing a full on genocide in Ukraine.
Considering how many people were tested a bunch of those could just be false positives. They did like 100m tests or something crazy
I work 12 hour days no matter where I am :D
Personally a big fan of Fluent Python
Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears
Yeah if you don't need mutation after initialization is done, Arc<T> is a good option for sharing. Lazy<T> (https://docs.rs/once_cell/latest/once_cell/sync/struct.Lazy....) is also nice, especially if you want to keep treating it like a global. I believe something like Lazy<T> is eventually going to be included in the standard library.
This is serendipitous. I just now signed up for the 5 day overcoming overthinking challenge by Jon Acuff and when I signed up Apple checkef with me if I wanted to hide my email and this is trending on HN!
Visually, defense puzzles are upside down/mirror-color from attack puzzles, if the attacking side is the opponent.
You do realize we have vaccines now, no?
There is, in fact, no need for desert to site solar arrays.

Reservoirs and pasture are places where siting solar is easy, and provides side benefits of higher operating efficiency and higher agricultural yield.

Resistance to renewables is nowhere technical, and always political. Disinformation is one political tool.
No, you're imagining complications that don't exist. The very boring answer is that if two people (or groups) want to exercise their right to free speech at the same time, the government is charged with fairly apportioning the space to each of them in turn, in such a manner that both will ultimately be able to express themselves. If one of the parties feels the government is unfairly restricting their right to speech, they can take the government to court, and the court will adjudicate the dispute.

What people are describing as "cancel culture" is a totally different phenomenon.
I think the benefit of the name "unsafe" is that it immediately tells newer users that the code inside has deeper magic than they may be comfortable using. Where "trusted" is what the writer attests to the compiler, "unsafe" is what writer warnings to a future reader.
Seems relatively easy to implement by having your "make" step commit to git, then on a compilation error show the diff alone with the error.

Then simply rebase out the intermediate steps before pushing.
> Scripts should ideally be written to only use shell features defined in POSIX, since bash isn't available on every system.

I don't write system scripts that need to run on systems without bash and have not needed to do that for a long, long time.
Notably, handing out pamphlets arguing against a war isn't especially likely to qualify for this law.
All of the parties in your equation are human.

Facebook is run by a collection of humans. Those humans make choices, as humans, that collectively we think of as "Facebook".
My understanding is that one of the big problems is transmission. It reduces the cost competitiveness when you have to factor in running many more high voltage transmission lines across the US. You need them to get the power from the desert to city centers that have the bulk of demand. Building transmission lines in the US is apparently very hard because there is a lot of red tape and politics and NIMBY-ism (to be fair they are ugly).

Nuclear can mostly be built near the centers of demand and reduce the need for elaborate new transmission.
Linus strongly disagreed with your comment, and even took a leave of absence to fix the problem.
This is close to something I'd use/need. I built something similar for my wife and I to do weekly schedules for our kids. It has chores, school work, daily routine stuff, etc. It currently uses Trello and some custom API code. To replace that, I'd need:

* Easily multi-calendar. My wife or I go in, enter things for each of the kids' schedules. So ideally a drop-down or something with each of the calendars.

* Printable with the entire week on a single landscape page neatly.

I've thought about building out my own not using Trello, and still might.
This article just makes me more curious to know what the truth was.
> you seem to be forgetting that the platform also has the right to freedom of association

In the cases I'm mostly referring to in my comment, the "platform" was perfectly fine with the speaker, and invited them (or accepted their money in exchange for use of the venue), so, yes, their freedom of association is /also/ being violated when someone comes in to shout down the speaker.
Yes, though "town square" is a metaphor which typically refers to public space generally, and usually includes things like streetcorners in its definition.
I wish he touched on the point of how public discourse on social media platforms is inevitably doomed to descend into a cesspool of populist rhetoric, and the more masses the platform attracts, the more hierarchical it gets, the more emphasis it puts on vanity metrics, the likelier it would be a breeding ground of populists of all stripes, and that this cancel culture and mass-produced outrage is symptomatic of a greater social problem, and the witch hunts conducted by the vindictive online mob in pursuit of a perverted sense of justice that he so lamented in this essay is just one manifestation of the underlying issue of the infliction of populism that struck the society in our modern times.
The problem with self hosted email is that your domain becomes a unique (or near-unique with a few domains) tracking reference.
Wouldn't Thunderbird be pretty dense ?
I mean that hypothetical argument doesn't really make sense. Are mental illnesses not real ? And shouldn't we try to cure these people, in the most extreme cases by sex change surgery + hormone therapy ? (Or what kind of cure would that be ?)

(Is it more about denying trans people's suffering perhaps ?)

I guess that this dismissal of mental illness (and here also of trans people) also comes from equating "anormal" with "bad". At least I can see where the conservatives are coming from with this, but I have much more trouble to understand it when progressives fall into this trap !
Stratechery by Ben Thompson: https://stratechery.com/
> A lot of these projects seem to utilize append-only data structures. It looks like this one doesn't?

Correct, in Locutus contract state is mutable, with the contract determining whether changes are permitted and how they are applied to the state.

> For example let's say I set of a chat room, and someone spams multiple GBs of data into a channel, can my moderators (in principle) remove those messages without essentially just publishing a new message saying "please ignore all this spam"?

Yes (although such spamming shouldn't be possible in the first place thanks to the reputation system).

> How do you deal with "network splits", that is a smart contract that could have two equally valid states?

It should be very rare, but contract states that get out of sync can always be "merged" to produce a new state, peers will do this automatically as soon as they figure out the mismatch. The small world protocol that determines network topology should make network splits very unlikely.

> You say you use contracts as the key in a key-value store, can you have the same contract with two different data sets? Like two different chat rooms that work the same way but which have different moderators and different message histories?

Yes, a contract consists of web assembly code to specify the contract functionality, and also "parameters" which are arbitrary data that "configures" the contract (chat room name, owner, etc).
the consensus of many people seems to be that Covid 'is over'

Personally, I'll reserve my judgement on that until we're past the normal autumn flu/cold wave. Cases declined last year in the summer too.
No, and I am actively interviewing to leave. I treat interviewing like a chance to “re-level” myself with a sorta-objective third party, and I am getting offers for 10-20%+ higher comp.

The fundamental issue is that optimizing things, paying down tech debt, maintenance, etc just don’t get nearly the same fanfare as new features or product launches. I don’t blame people, because the latter is flashier, and more understood by nontechnical folks in the business.

For people like me who work behind the scenes, you need a trusted manager who understands the importance of your work and will go to bat for you, and/or you need to regularly publicize your accomplishments in a measurable, easily understood way. For me, that means posting a tidbit in Slack whenever I make a noteworthy change.

I wish my sort of work was respected inline with its business impact, but alas, it’s harder to measure or communicate things like “developer time saved” vs “feature X bumped sales by y%.”
empirical meaning new statistical data? which is more data, but does not 'disprove' the old data, whereas perhaps a non-empirical analysis of previous studies could theoretically 'disprove' earlier conclusions, by demonstrating how these conclusions were erroneously reached.

at least i think that's how those terms are used..
The first Wanderwort I learned was when I visited France and someone told me that the windows at the top of a ceiling (from the side) are called "vasistas". The term meanwhile seems to be used only for the round small windows primarily. [1]

So literally at some point a German guy came to France and asked "What's that?" and it made it into being the standard word for it in the language.

There's also a list of German words used in other languages on wikipedia which I found quite interesting. I bet there must be one for all sorts of languages [2]

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/vasistas

[2] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Wörter_in_an...