skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 years ago Smil was badmouthing EVs and blaming it on Obama of all people.

https://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/36.EVs_.pd...

> The last
thing we need is to push for the rapid
introduction of a source of demand that
would summon even more fossil-fuel-
based electricity generation.

> And even if EVs all ran on renewable
sources of electricity, greenhouse gases
would still be emitted during the produc-
tion of cement and steel for hydroelectric
dams, wind turbines, and photovoltaic
panels, and of course during the manufacture of the cars themselves.

I keep hearing how he's an energy genius but it all feels like when Jordan Peterson was being hyped as an intellectual.

In this interview he can't decide if it's a big catastrophe that we can't avoid or a hoax, while also proposing simple solutions that would have worked if people did them two decades ago. Here's rhetorically all over the place.
>Identifier equality

This is a very surface-level complaint, and it is no surprise that almost everyone who complains about this hasn't actually used the language. I will admit it is indeed a peculiar feature, I wouldn't be able to name another language that did this before, but as it turns out, it has yet to be a problem in practice.

Do you fear some crazy person might mix identifier styles? They could do that in any language, Nim has nothing to do with that. The pro of this feature is that you can write your library in whichever style you prefer, and people can use your library and still use their preferred style, I always hated how in python you often end up having to use libraries written in camelCase for your snake_case project (or vice versa).

Once again, it is a rather peculiar feature, like who asked for this? I don't know, but then again, why not? it did make me raise an eyebrow at first, but in practice, Nim gets it just right. The one valid scenario where it could get in the way is when searching your source files for an identifier, but even then Nim has solutions for that (there's nimgrep, and mainstream editors/IDEs are already nim-aware anyways).
This might give you some insight:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1518767238081171456
Ah got it; hopefully I fall out of that range at this point. Thanks!
MTP is necessary because Android uses ext4 (or maybe some use f2fs now) and so a Windows host would not be able to read the filesystem, as a mass storage device
It's too bad there aren't pictures of the bathrooms (too vulgar in the late 50's?) -- Virginia's private bathroom was supposedly a work of art.
That's really useful, thanks!
The whole system isn’t fit for purpose given how vulnerable it is to this sort of abuse. Even if one accepts patents as a useful construct the practical implementation makes it a net negative Id say

It shouldn’t take millions for someone innocent to defend themselves.
I meant that those are my favourite episodes, not that I see them as poor form. If you can trivially bypass an expensive "high security" lock without even bothering to pick it, that's something potential buyers should know! Too many companies focus on the fancy bling parts and ignore the fundamentals of security.

It's like that 'secrets of physical pen-testers' talk where half the time they can bypass security with a combination of simple low-tech tools (eg. under-door tools) and creative thinking (eg. blowing cigarette smoke through a door to trigger the sensor). The most efficient way to get through security is to not have to break it at all.

This goes for software as well as physical security.
Looks like Amazon's business plan leaked.
This is the some reason I use raycast. I mapped search menu to a global hot key
In an Elon fan's eyes there's nothing he can't do !
> Seeing the source code wouldnt help, you dont know that they are running that code anymore than you know the description was implemented correctly

That would be correct if you talk about something entirely data driven, or based on an ML model. For example you could have an entirely table driven algorithm, where the table is read from some configuration file. You could then refrain from publishing the config file. However I don't think that Musk would pull such a trick. Or more exactly: I hope that this is not his intent.

I hope that he wants to build the twitter brand by establishing trust on the part of twitters end users; a move like this would not establish any trust and would make his acquisition worthless.
(that may be a naive interpretation, don't know)
Where is Escape Velocity?
> In 2007, Sarasota voted to use it in future municipal elections, but the state never certified the necessary software so it couldn't be used.

That's another reason to oppose voting machines: it puts the power into the hands of state officials to selectively withhold approval of machines that enable reforms they don't want.

(I'm assuming that if the officials assessed that the reform would help their party, they'd rubberstamp the software without delay, perhaps with an expiry date so they could change their mind later).
Go is a great language and every other language has a thing or two to learn from Go, but this reply sounds like a strawman argument. The article says Go is focused on the software development process, but the means to that goal is mostly nothing to do with the language proper. There are tons of programming languages with strings, hash maps and dynamically sized arrays built-in and the pragmatism doesn't well align with Go team's conservative approach towards new language features (which is great by the way, but shows that Go does not always highly value the pragmatism).

The point of Go is being highly opinionated and not being ashamed about that. Many languages start out of necessity with some degrees of opinion, but they are or will be consequently affected by external opinions in order to survive or to accomodate other needs. Many aspects of Go, either the language proper or other "results" that the article wants to pitch, are not and never unique to Go for that reason. But Go is unique in that such opinion is highly guarded and the Go team has more than enough energy to do so thanks to the main supporter, Google.
‘Vampire devices’ cost UK households £147 a year
iPhone's browser engine barrier is a domination problem, but it (maybe accidentally) helps avoid domination of Chromium.
I don't remember what your views are on any of these topics but I'm pretty sure plenty of HN users express views similar close to yours while remaining within the site guidelines: thoughtful, respectful to others, substantive. You don't need snark, swipes, or putdowns—editing them out makes comments better, not worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Bookface is a private forum, so a link to it doesn't make much sense in a public place like HN.
No it’s be more an act of genius then. I think I meant something like serendipity.
"This Guy Fawkes!"
I other words you can’t actually find anything wrong with what I said.

:sigh: Well a win is a win.
It's something of a misconception that an RDBMS should be used for transactional workloads.

RDBMSs are table stores; in a sense if anything that's a model better suited for analytical than transactional not that that's really a fair conclusion either
Those are just a couple examples that first popped into my head. Seems like maybe a few people could be in a middle ground in threat level and resources between "get a better lock" and "hire a security staff."
I really hope Elon does something financially irrational with Twitter that would benefit everyone. For example, really turn it into a online town square by nationalizing it somehow, so that speech is guaranteed protected like it is out in the real town square. As long as it is run by a company with shareholders, it will never truly manifest into public venue for online speech.
One origin story for April Fool's suggests that it's to do with getting the year wrong.

My understanding was that new years was always January, 1st, but that the year number changed on Lady Day

The UK's tax year still reflects this, starting from April 6, which both accounts (pun intended) for the year changing on Lady Day, and the transition from Julian to Gregorian calendars.
It did the same for Firefox on the desktop (once I enabled javascript), but at least I could right click on the back button and select a previous site to escape.

setting browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction to true seems to have fixed it.
Honestly, I think Apple just forgets people use a mouse. The default trackpad scroll direction matches iPads and touchscreens. Their oversight was coupling trackpad and mouse wheel scroll direction. Until I had a job where I needed both I didn't really care...and I found an open source utility that addressed it[1].

[1] https://github.com/Caldis/Mos
> Saying everyone should go to MIT

Not suggesting that, and it's wrong anyways: the point here is that we, as a society, want people to have a basic floor of an education by the time they reach adulthood. Not necessarily MIT, but not nothing either, and the track I was on for a bit in my childhood was closer to "nothing" than it was to "decent", and it was certainly way off course if I were to shoot for MIT.

For the students that never left that track… I cannot imagine that school did much, if anything, to produce a citizen with a high-school education.
I'm looking for another word, that (ironically) I can't find :)
Something to mean a disposition to think and communicate (perhaps in a
superior way) without recourse to language. Non-linguistic? Illiterate?
(that sounds a bit harsh/critical). But you see the space I'm shooting
for (divorce the idea of illiteracy from "stupidity").

> As in other contexts, accommodating a broad range of ability in
people produces benefits for everyone, including for those who are
more able.

Yes, I'm all for that, minus the use of "more/less able" (and say so
in my example of "coding without code"). But returning to the OP
essay, there's a problem that the structures of business and politics,
formalisms, records, bureaucracies, project management.. are deeply
rooted in the written (and often tortuously long-form) culture that
mobile technologies, short attention spans and nonlinguistic semiotics
are supplanting.

And to me that also suggests a widening class-gap, or rather a growing
gap between modes of understanding the world that determine who are
deciders or followers. It's more to do with technology use than any
level of education or neuro-atypical "disorder" (the way you use
"dyslexia" in a strictly "medical" way.) I hope that makes sense.
> 1. Why don't you have a pirate parrot as a logo? Sqwoooook

It is apt that this is the number 1 question; because it is a very important one. I want to know this too OP.

As per the rest of your comment to OP; I agree with your premise. It's a good question to ask. I remember when Reddit was still new and Digg was the place to be for some random news. And of course let's not forget the countless forums that still exist today even in some cases. Digg still runs; but it's... not the same anymore. And so your question is quite apt, because the reason why I joined up with Reddit long ago; was because it had everything I wanted from both Twitter and Digg. Sort of. It's closer today than it used to be, but even if the UI is better or anything like that; it doesn't matter if the users are toxic.

And thus I wish to bring my own question into this fray for OP as well.

3. What's to keep your community from devolving into the same toxicity of any other community thus far? It may be sort of a same question different pile; but I think this particular matter needs its own special consideration.

To put it simply. What's to keep your community from becoming the next political soap box? What's keeping it to discussion only in such matters, and not full on agitprop via internet communities?

P.S. "Mods/Admins" as an answer doesn't count, since I think we can all agree that they can be biased.
I expect that GP meant broadly opposed [amongst the population]. You could argue that even with this assumption, it would qualify, as 7 in 10 Americans do think the insurrection was wrong. But I can see the merit in arguing that 3 in 10 supporting it is uncomfortably high.
Yeah, AWS, Azure, and GCP are all shutting down tomorrow. They just decided the cloud isn't that cool any more.
> PowerShell is "Python interactive done right".

Actually PowerShell is "Perl interactive done right" if you read what the designers say about their influences - the automatic variable $_ is straight from Perl and the array creation syntax @(a, b, c) is also a Perl-ism from @arr = (a, b, c). Which is funny as I dislike Perl intensely but really like PowerShell :)

To be fair there's not much Perl in PS, it's as much influenced by KSH, Awk, cmd.exe and VBScript as Perl. Thankfully "influenced by" isn't "a melange of", because a combination of all of those sounds like an abomination lol, and PS is wonderful in being about as consistent and simple as a proper shell can get.
> I noticed window.event which is documented in MDN and is marked as deprecated

The Event API is not deprecated: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Event. In the posted examples the `event` object implements the Event interface.
In addition to the nameless plaque in the Old Cadet Chapel at West Point, there is also a nameless statue to him at the Saratoga National Historical Park. The statue commemorates his leg, which was wounded in the battle there, but doesn't mention who the leg belonged to: https://www.nps.gov/places/boot-monument.htm
I'm not willing to judge Lee or Arnold.

They were products of their times.
> They now do have a remedial kind of class

Sad to hear that. It suggests their admissions process has succumbed. When I attended, it was very rare for the admissions people to admit someone who couldn't do the work. I only knew one who couldn't.
The rates can get grandfathered in, I still pay $14.99 for the family plan (hopefully they don't see this and come after my $3/mo)
Same for me.

Before I would click a video and check downvotes and comments for issues.

With downvotes gone, I stopped opening videos at all. I just don't trust anymore the platform to not waste my time.
Whilst I view Democracy as just mob rule, and Religion as psychological warfare, Royalty was/is ultimate psychopath.

Some of it can be explained by science, like aged wines (red more than white) has a higher histamine content which can increase certain types of IQ, its been used to double the IQ of people with Downs in six months, but one of its personality side effects is it makes people extremely aggressive.

Other dietary and lifestyle elements also contribute to personality characteristics which will be seen in upper classes, but modern living is breaking those characteristics so unless wise to it, you could see Royalty die out in a few generations time. Look at Kate before her marriage and after, I'd say the UK Crown is wise to these dietary elements.

I also think technology has caught everyone with their pants down and some jobs are no longer wanted unless they have an extremely extrovert personality.

You might know this bloke!
https://jamescasey.net/images/20210907_192640.jpg
JSON will always be the underlying config. The reason is that it's a 1:1 map to the Go structs. Also, plenty of users appreciate being able to change their config programmatically via the admin API.

We're doing our best with the Caddyfile to cover every usecase. If there's something you're struggling with, open an issue if it's clearly missing, or ask on the forums, and we'll get you sorted.
Denmark suspends national Covid-19 vaccination programme
> I'm not sure why anyone wouldn't just buy YouTube+ or whatever it's called that gives you free streaming music + no ads on YouTube.

For me, it’s because YouTube is clearly going the way of cable TV, and when they finally start showing ads on those fancy paid subscriptions, I’ll have to deal with the hassle of unsubscribing.

I’ll just watch YouTube until it becomes unwatchable, at which point I’ll stop watching.
I know it's considered good form on HN to beat around the bush a bit when it comes to sensitive culture war topics, but I think it's worth pointing for the non-Americans here that the only reason this discussion is even happening is because of the demographics which are observed after the "split" occurs.

Black and Latino students are overrepresented in underperforming math classes, while White and Asian students are overrepresented in the high-performing math class. That's literally the only reason there's any controversy, and if said disparity didn't exist, or if the races were reversed, then we wouldn't be having this discussion whatsoever.

If you approached athletics with the same strategy, you'd end up with a similarly wonky outcome. Consider that Asian students have always been highly underrepresented in high school football.

> “When kids struggle, they immediately say ‘I don’t have a football body,’” Boaler said. “That changes how the body operates.”

Is the equitable conclusion to change the rules of football so Asian students perform better? Surely not, right?
Only a son is worth mourning?
Non-native-speaker: I always thought 'rich' and 'wealthy' had the same meaning - was I mistaken?
Replacing a king is much harder than replacing a prime minister, especially if the old king is still alive and disagrees.

Public officials can be easily replaced against their will – the system is designed for that. A king, on the other hand, remains a king until they die or abdicate. When that happens, the throne passes on according to an established line of succession. Any other king installed by a conqueror would be an illegitimate pretender. The conqueror could in principle force the parliament to alter the line of succession. But because the UK is a common law state without a written constitution, it's far from obvious if the parliament can actually do that under such circumstances without consent from the monarch and their heirs.
On Venus, a day is longer than a year.
I think it's great that they let the content creators decide if they want to include their own ads or not. You can always skip their ads, and some of the better channels have a progress bar for the ad portion.
You are just being intentionally obtuse, and not really providing anything of substance this conversation. I would like you to cite an example of your claim where CA "can, and does, restrict content in ways which the federal government does not"
Global? In "Rubyland?" No. That's just not true. Not at all.
China reports first human case of H3N8 bird flu
I read the course description, although that wasn't necessary. The title gave the game away.

It's like "Flight School for Artists". There's no such thing.
Try this:

git log --oneline --graph

Seeing the --graph output really helps in understanding the branch history. The lack of a view similar to --graph on Github drives me bananas.

I don't like typing "git log --oneline --graph" all the time, so in my profile I have a `git slog` alias which is similar but adds date and author, plus truncates each line at 100 columns so it doesn't wrap:

slog = log --pretty=tformat:'%C(bold blue)%h %C(bold red)%ad %C(bold blue)%aN%C(auto)%d %<|(100,trunc)%s%C(reset)' --date=short --graph

My terminal has a light background. If you prefer a dark background, I suggest changing "bold blue" to "bold green" and "bold red" to "bold yellow":

slog = log --pretty=tformat:'%C(bold green)%h %C(bold yellow)%ad %C(bold green)%aN%C(auto)%d %<|(100,trunc)%s%C(reset)' --date=short --graph
Absolutely.

For example, grains are so fundamental to human survival in large part due to the fact that it can be stored over multiple years/seasons. Try doing that with potatoes.
Apple ups its iPhone 13 Pro series orders in light of increased demand
Microsoft Earnings Rose 18% with Demand for Cloud Services
Those are pressurized turboprops. They're turbine-powered and have the same performance as the SF50, including service ceiling, but with more range. The SF50 is what we call a "near jet"—it's technically a jet, but its performance is turboprop performance. It's not at all the same class of airplane as what most people think of when you say "jet." It's what you buy when you want to say you fly a jet but you aren't multi-rated and can't afford a Falcon.
Any chance you can add Meat Gone Bad? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6032-meat-gone-bad
Eh, he tried to sell a military fort (West Point) to the British for what would be about $5M today. I don't care how butthurt he was over a lack of recognition (he was a Major General, FFS), he earned the "traitor" moniker 100%.
I don't really know much about Lee, and I have avoided study of the U.S. Civil War (although I did read most of Grant's memoirs, which likely paint a very biased picture).

However, if Lee was in a state militia, would he not have pledged loyalty to the governor, and not to the president?

This in no way atones for what the Union would see as crime.
Still not convinced cats were domesticated. They just sort of...moved in. I never thought about how they did originate there though. Scorpions are basically cat fodder.
I could see replacing Calculus with Statistics as a goal for High School. It seems more broadly applicable, and both are offered at the AP level. But that doesn't seem to be this.
JSON is way easier to work with for "machines". The Caddyfile is a user-facing layer on top of that. The Caddyfile doesn't map as nicely to something usable at runtime. That was the entire point of the Caddy v2 rewrite; the v1 Caddyfile was inflexible and was turning into spaghetti.

Like Matt said, I don't understand the problem here. Just use the Caddyfile. What problem do you have with it specifically? If there's a feature you're missing or aren't sure how to use, open an issue or ask for help on the forums.
YouTube shows you the parts most users skipped: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9314415 (That link is for creators, but the graph overlay is shown to everyone.) I can't imagine a better tool for doing exactly what you're requesting.
Thanks, I had indeed got my S-companies confused. I must've been thinking of Shopify's nix work, and put them in a mental bucket of "does advanced stuff".
You once called me out on being overly brash once and I appreciated it, since being more careful when I post. Just my 2 cents but it seemed to work for me.
Hmm. Grandfathered? I've had YouTube Premium Family plan for years, since it was called YouTube Red, and I think mine recently went up to $19.99
There may still be time! Canned goods still on the shelves ;)
That sounds like your medical facilities just have shitty developers, unless they use some kind of Chrome-only feature to deliver their services (idk, maybe webusb to read out medical hardware?). A lack of alternatives won't make them any more competent. If they try to redirect you to Chrome now, you're probably getting a broken interface anyway. They can also just show a popup that says "iOS doesn't support our website, open the website on your desktop instead" if they wanted to exclude mobile Safari at the moment.

The stuff I make isn't tested on Safari because there's no free way to test in it (even Microsoft provides free VMs for testing the browser) and there are no cross platform versions of Safari (WebKit and Safari aren't comparable in either usage stats or feature support). Maybe Apple will change their minds once they need to care about mobile browser compatibility, though I doubt it.

Google can already push Chrome on iOS. They have their own little skin over Safari like all the other browser vendors that includes all kinds of Google integrations. There's nothing stopping them from pushing everyone to their browser already. Good luck getting regular users to change the default browser, though.
Yes, like the day after that post on HN, years ago.

You have to realize how painful and annoying it is to see this get brought up every time we have a post here.
Well no, since he/she is not of that company anymore, it is perfectly OK to not say "we".

Edit: repeated myself
Does “never catches on” negate “seems like a good idea”?