skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>At least you're being honest about what that freedom can actually mean in practice, rather than telling some fairy tale about the marketplace of ideas or something.

Yes, freedom of expression taken seriously does indeed mean that people, regular oridnary people in all their varieties then have the freedom to peacefully express ideas which might sometimes be abysmally stupid, ignorant or even malevolent. As long as they can't extend these ideas into coercive force against others, this should be fine. The fairytale idea is that by "fighting misinformation" large gatekeepers can somehow forcibly rid the world of bad ideas or make it a better place. These same gatekeepers of media are themselves some of the biggest misinformation culprits out there, and have been for a very long time.
Flagging articles that criticize popular tools seems to be common. Particularly so with Go specifically.
A lot of these VC funded marketing efforts end up being selling dollars for 75 cents. Sure, it might get you tons of growth but that that is really difficult to translate to profit.
This is absolutely incredible. Not only is the project amazing, but glyph has a way of communicating technical stuff that is on another level.
The problem with trains is that you need large signalling blocks and distances between trains and blocks for safety reasons - a fully loaded freight train can have a braking distance of well over 1.000 meters, and accelerating and decelerating them takes a lot of time and energy. Also, shunting carriages between trains takes up lots of space for the yards, a lot of time to couple/uncouple and verify the correct operation of the brakes.

The CST system seems to operate at almost zero distance between carriages, which even with the lower speed of 30 km/h should still have a greater total bandwidth than an equivalent-sized two track railway system. Also, it can operate 24/7 unlike rail systems (because of noise complaints and co-existence with passenger trains), which should further increase the available bandwidth.
Of course - canada only has jurisdiction over canadians-

"Under the subheading Lunar Gateway, the Criminal Code amendment reads: "A Canadian crew member who, during a space flight, commits an act or omission outside Canada that if committed in Canada would constitute an indictable offense is deemed to have committed that act or omission in Canada."

This would include crimes en route to or on the Lunar Gateway station currently in the works to orbit the moon, and also "on the surface of the moon," the document states."
Oh yeah no doubt; I collate trends into reports for rich investors. Lately they have been focused on youth trends, and some numbers are wacky.

<50% believe in God/higher being, down from 80%+ in early 00s.

40% point drop in 16 year olds getting a license since the 80s as urbanization puts people closer to stuff and ride share appeared.

Youth participation in sports, especially full contact sports, had been going down since before covid which just accelerated it, leading to forecasts of a major contraction in commercial sports.

“Essential workers” are pretty fucking pissed millions sat on their ass with no clue how to feed or care for themselves, while being paid minimum wage. They are not showing the same allegiance to shit jobs and moving on.

We engineered away stability for JIT, covid came along and proved to many we live in a Banana Republic exporting memes of exceptionalism, while most people can’t grow a potato for themselves.

Given sentiment nurses, teachers, “essential” workers just experienced from their neighbors during covid, why not tell the so called gritty masses who melted down over hair cuts to find new solutions.

People who are not alive yet have no obligation to carry our sensibilities forward after we die.
It shouldn't ask for location by default, but offer a toggle in the UI to enable local searches, which when enabled would ask for it. This way, it won't annoy the user for their location every time they search in a private window.
Nothing for Rhapsody?
I sure hope so. I think we may be on the cusp of a renaissance in the CPU space. Intel UCIe, RISC-V, ARM, etc, have all been quite exciting lately.

I'm an optimist so I imagine buying made to order CPUs from Intel or TSMC where you can pick and choose features and chiplets that can come from any number of companies.
Someone's gotta support the aging boomers.
Well they certainly know their demographic.

Design looks terrible though, completely encased in plastic like that? They could cut so much weight from it.
Yeah, I have no illusions about the suffering of egg laying chickens. Health complications from being bred to lay eggs daily are terrible. You can see the thin shells and pale yolks of factory raised hens with minimal nutrition. I can only imagine what that is doing to the bodies of those hens. Not to mention the culling of male chicks.

I've found that if I focus on an absolute version of ethics, it becomes impossible to reach that standard. It's just plain depressing because the world contains endless suffering. In the meantime, if I just focus on small achievable changes, I can make some small difference.

I can't save every chicken in the world from non-existent health care and the fact they have been bred to suffer for the sake of egg production. But I can try to help the chickens that lay eggs for myself. Whether they are the ones in my mom's back yard, or the local ones that sell to my grocery store and farm stall.
You're correct but that's not the way that these systems are promoted. I wouldn't have any problem with that particular aspect if the trust issue was framed that way, and there was some kind of real threat modeling going on. The idea of cryptocurrency is still terrible however.
UK tech policy predictions for 2022
The “New Chronology” of Anatoly Fomenko
what happens when something goes wrong (or just needs scheduled maintenance) and they have to send a team down to work on it? are the workers going to need scuba gear to breathe?
One person is not the community
There's two separate things:

1. The "music industry" which is a carefully controlled mafia of an elite few, yet which consumes as much oxygen as possible in popular media.

2. Every other musician and artist.

The best thing you can do is go around the corner and hear a local band. Go to their merch table at the show and buy the cassette or vinyl they have for sale.
There's already a big push in Switzerland (And I thik across the whole of Europe) to get cargo off roads and onto rail. EV trucks still take up room on roads and cause congestion.
https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/en/home/modes-of-transport/rail...
Yeah. Trade it in for a bike.
What would you consider good journalism these days? And is the right wing news industry bigger or smaller than the left wing side of things?
Yes, both Smalltalk and CLOS are imperative.
I will say that playing around with Rust was an enjoyable experience, but it still has some warts where I think it's not quite ready for serious work yet (even though serious work is being done with it).

These days I find myself leaning heavily on either Haskell or Elixir/Erlang's ecosystem (with a preference for the latter). Or JavaScript (there's just an order of magnitude more jobs)...
I relate to this. Looking back, the troubled path always provided the most engaging feedback loops, sadly.
Miniflux lets you import an OPML file from a URL (as well as download/upload), but it doesn't automatically update anything.
Are there nasty divergences between official go and cgo?
It seems counter-intuitive, but a red book audio CD really is more akin to a vinyl record than a CD-ROM. The laser locks onto a groove and throws bits directly at a few chips that perform error correction and convert the signal to analog with an absolutely minuscule amount of buffering. Obfuscation isn’t even on the table, let alone encryption.
This describes how I feel about it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlqnfU2U4Gk
Pensions are all insured in the US
I don't know, really. You may be right but he's smart and very familiar with Twitter practices so despite the apparent no self-restraint, maybe he knows how to stay on the edge?

So I guess we'll see if the tone of his tweets changes when he's really in possession of Twitter. We'll know then for sure.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170815
"Slightly Left" but the only journalist you trust is Rachel Maddow? That is a very interesting take, I have never heard Maddow described as anything remotely resembling slightly left, only as a caricature of the extreme left.
Ask HN: What hobbies can easily be turned into one person business?
I am interested in so many things that I can never dedicate enough time to just one hobby to get really good at it. Only solution I see is that if I dedicate my free time to just one hobby for next few years until I turn it into business. Then I can quit my job and work on other hobbies while earning money from my business.

I don't hate jobs, programming is my hobby too, but I hate deadlines and meetings that I cannot decline.

So I am thinking of turning one of following casual hobbies into serious hobby.

1. Writing fiction

2. Blogging outdoors lifestyle

3. Photography - outdoors, underwater focused

4. Making and remixing music

5. Building webapps - too similar to work but highest likelihood of success

6. ???

What do you think?
write.as and https://writefreely.org/ are what you want, but static and activitypub don't reallllyyyy go together without shims in the middle.
The rest of your post is desperately trying to change the subject away from tobacco, by throwing wild accusations against me with no evidence. I thought to ignore it for the sake of civility, but since you insist...

"I hope you're not in favor of "safe shoot-up sites" for heroin, etc.,"

This is an accusation. Show your evidence or shut the fuck up.
Science reporting is not great but colloquially people use 20W per <job done> as a way of meaning Watt-hours.

If this is correct, they're saying it takes 20 watts (meaning Wh) to deliver a Litre of water, over three and a bit hours. The time is provided just obfuscated by their "we deliver 0.3L/hour" statement, so by saying 20W/L it does sort of make sense within the context.

~6W/hour (if it means we use a total of 6Wh) would be different than claiming the system runs off 0.1 Watts. Given the size of that solar panel, I suspect they're claiming they are using ~6 Watts for a period of one hour to produce 0.3L. Alternately, they're just flat out wrong and they're using 20 watts for one hour to produce 0.3L.

It could be worded better but I think this is what they're trying to say is that they're consuming 6W.
Granted, sports is a topic which we haven't really figured out yet. I'm also thinking about it a lot, how we could shape sports competitions, or if we leave the categorizations as they are etc. I don't have a definitive solution or answer to that.

But - What you describe doesn't really happen that often and its made a bigger issue than it really is. Yes, it happens. Yes, some do seem to maliciously abuse it. Yes, we should talk about it and really chew it through. As long as you really mean the first word you used, 'Except', then I am fine about your comment. If you use sports as an argument or excuse not to accept trans sexuality or changes to gender roles, norms etc., then I fully disagree.
Consider arm sized, hand sized, fingernail sized, and pinched-fingers "tiny" sized. About 1000, 100, 10, 1 mm. Tray of cookies, hand-sized cookie, chocolate chip, and tiny crumb - yum. Now zoom 1000x, taking tiny sized to arm sized, and they become 1000, 100, 10, 1 um. Call this microview, with microscopic microorganisms measured in micrometers. A grain of salt is sized like a cardboard box, a head hair like a hand-sized pole, your red blood cells like red M&M Minis candies, and bacteria like nonpareil sprinkles. Zoom 1000x a second time for nanoview, with nanotechnology and nanoscale nanoparticles measured in nanometers. Arm, hand, fingernail, tiny, are now 1000, 100, 10, 1 nm. Bacteria are garbage bags and benches, viruses are small sports balls, proteins are chewing gum, and atoms are sand. Beach world, with a grain of salt towering over the city skyline.

Scale/size can seemingly be taught accessibly young... we just don't. Nor use size as an organizational frame to catalyze understanding of the physical world. Asking first-tier medical school graduate students how big red blood cells are... goes surprisingly poorly. But there seems lots of fun to be had.
It seems a little odd to try and reassure me that everything isn't falling apart by referencing the Protestant Reformation as the "we've been through this before and come out of it" example.

The Protestant Reformation was something of a disaster. Everything DID fall apart. It got rebuilt again into something better but the transition period was an era of war and strife and bloodshed. It is not at all reassuring to lean on that as the example. (Ditto broadcast media (radio, TV, film) and its associations with the rise of fascism and bolshevism in the early 20th century.)
As someone who follows gun laws, "compromise" often takes this form:

Lawmakers: "We intend to outlaw all semi-automatic rifles with scary black stocks"

Gun owners: "Please don't do that."

Lawmakers: "Ok, let's compromise, we'll only outlaw scary rifles with collapsing stocks and vertical handgrips on the front."

(time passes)

Lawmakers: "There is a terrible loophole in our gun regulations..."
Home Buying Is Becoming ‘Unaffordable for Most Americans’
Show HN: Global Income Coin – Crypto UBI Project Backed by Gitlab CEO
Im concurring with you and dissenting with lom. Switzerland is very mountainous that trains laid on the surface will actually be a very very stupid proposition, with active gearing and such and with reduced cargo weight to match. Yes, they have indeed perfected trains on rugged slopes, but only because back then tunneling is a very slow and manual operation that it's not economically and technologically feasible. Lom would be right if the mountains are gentler slopes, but I think lom haven't visited the Alps and appreciate the problem. In this case, the tunnels are actually a far better and more economical solution than overground trains.
It is very interesting to see this come up so much here. I, personally, don't feel epistemically equipped to have an opinion on this, but it seems a lot of people do.

My main takeaway from this piece and the fellow comments (but not Haidt's piece, which is just Substack doomerism), is that you could probably roughly approximate salaries based on someone's stance on this, whether they are right or wrong.

So many comments, especially, make this clear, if still under the surface. And that makes sense! If you have a business, a mortgage, or whatever critical long-term investments, you have to be at least somewhat inclined to, 1., think positively about the way things generally work right now, and 2., to feel confident that history is skewing towards progress and good things, however qualified.

This also kind of explains how it seems generational too. Kids and millennials are without a lot of wealth, have little investments, and are most likely just in terminal debt and paying rent month-by-month. There isn't really the sense of a tomorrow for many, much less accumulates ROIs.
> It's possible to implement CSP channels in most languages, but they're not first-class like go.

But does that matter? In all my experience, I can't think of any instances where that wouldn't be a distinction without a difference. (Perhaps I'm missing something, though.)
> Building a successful company has very little to do with tech choices.

This is what Hacker News doesn't want to hear, and so needs to hear.

Like obsessing over the school supply list at the beginning of the year and getting everything perfect; it's not the whole of success, nor is it even really a huge part. But it can be fun.
I don't mind the rate limiting personally. I think it's good for my mental health. I do wish I knew how many posts I had left though so I didn't waste the last one. There have been too many high quality comments on subjects I'm very familiar with and professionally involved in that I've had to throw away.
America is at the end of the neoliberal political/economic cycle, so (somewhat obviously) neoliberal institutions are failing and being reformed by groups with power who want their preferred system to prevail for the next 40-50 years. Radicals want socialism, reactionaries want fascism, and the wealthy on both sides want to consolidate their oligarchy, Its less “falling apart” and more that those interested parties are all happy to pick away at the carcass of the current system in the meantime.
Abusing notation a bit,

var a = new Queue();

var b = new Queue();

a.read(() => some callback);

b.read(() => some callback);

And code continues here without blocking.

To be honest, I think you could do the same in any (slightly) modern language.
I agree that casinos and crypto are predatory businesses. But I noticed you skipped the stock market -- which was my first and most important example. It would be difficult to argue in the modern world that the stock market is "bad" and we shouldn't have one. Yet it is undeniably a form of gambling -- the most advanced and expensive one, reserved for only the wealthiest gamblers.
Not specifically related, but something that provides about the same functionality and HN users might find interesting:

Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a Distance

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215457339_Bokode_Im...

http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/cubeportfolio/bokode/
I think your summary is obscuring some of the nuance in that data. What it shows is that independent voters self-identify as "lean rep"/"lean dem" based on their approval of the current president, which is low right now. Historically though, self-identified independents lean dem more than they lean rep (data in your link). Consider that the last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular vote was in 2004, and before that was in 1988. It's well known that conservatives tend to vote Republican, and also tend to have much higher voter participation rates than progressives, so if your belief is that there are more Republicans and Democrats, you would expect to see more popular vote wins in elections with generally high participation (relative to other American elections - obviously American voter participation is dismal overall). So what accounts for that discrepancy?
Well, the view that history may be in fact (perhaps not objectively, but to any observer cultured enough to entertain himself with observing it) not a time line into the future but cyclical, with civilizations rising and falling, is not new [1].

Perhaps this time what's different is that due to our information age and accelerated rates of change, cultural history's process of change has been pushed from being viewed closer to evolution (the next step of the change being defined by "environment and chance", that is, stretched out over long periods of time and caused by factors not directly being under human influence) to being much closer to immediate, accountable, man-made history (the next step of the change being defined by "environment and choice", that is, actors making active choices causing outcomes) [2]. And so, because most humans, even humans of influence making the choices altering the life outcomes of populuations not over generations but even within single, half or quarter lifetimes, are terribly selfish and stupid and unwise, the outcomes of bad choices just never seem to stop coming.

I'm no expert, but topics like shifting balances between global powers which are interested in different kinds of change (from hegemonic US in a post-WWII word to a very multi-polar world order to xyz) causing metrics like HDI to even out between global population groups have been "hot" since when? the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s? So sure, things might keep falling apart for one population group but still improving for the other group(s).

Another interesting take on "falling apart narrative" interpretations of current history might be a take on how looming juggernauts like climate change, migration waves and so on play into it. This kind of change may be good for something, but surely not perceived stability in the factors that make up human societies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West

[2] "Environment and change", "environment and choice" --- words borrowed out of recently read "Red Mars" by Kim Robinson.
Looks interesting!
Nit with the sign up flow: password requirements like one uppercase character aren’t that useful and provide unnecessary friction
The ponzi part of it is that current payers pay for current retirees. If the pension worked on a forced investment model where you paid into your own retirement and the money was invested for you that would be different. It would even be viable to say the money from those who died prematurely would be distributed to other users and it's possible to have the system generate more overall money for retirees than just what they put in and gain from investment.

However, the current system is quite far from that. The money you pay in goes nearly immediately to existing retirees with a moderate reserve of capital that is slowly decreasing as more money exits the system than enters it. This system cannot pay current retirees without the investment from new users, and that's what makes it a ponzi.
Chrome has a similar feature when sync is enabled: the "tabs from other devices" section of the History page (Ctrl-H). The context menu for tabs also includes an option to send the tab to another device.
how, when mypy itself has only "type: ignore" as a workaround for many scenarios?

here's a list of 41 issues where either the user or the mypy devs are saying "use type: ignore as a workaround for now":

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3Afa...
We shouldn't rush to trust the numbers from Western nations.

Consider the counting approach used in Toronto, which is Canada's most populous city, and the fourth most populous city in North America.

According to Toronto Public Health:

"Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...

That seems like a fundamentally flawed counting approach to me.

Suppose a person is infected, but he's showing no symptoms, and doesn't even realize he's infected.

He feels just fine, and goes for a long-distance bike ride. Near the end of it, he's hit by a transport truck that runs a red light, and he suffers severe head injuries.

He's taken to the hospital, where he is tested as a precaution, and his test returns a positive result. Due to the severity of his head injuries, he dies a few hours later.

If that happened in Toronto, then he'd apparently be counted as a "COVID-19 death", despite the infection having absolutely nothing to do with his death.

Of course, that's just one of many ways that somebody infected could die in a way that has absolutely nothing to do with an infection.

Any count that includes things completely unrelated to that which are meant to be counted is a count that shouldn't be trusted.