skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d go along with that - the first time i saw the rear suspension on a mazda rx8 - it looked so familiar, a multi-link style setup with the same core components of a contemporary BMW E38 or E39.

One key difference - you can access all the bolts on the Mazda. Replacing rear shocks was a doddle, i’d done the same job on my old e38 and that was multiple days thanks to combining rust with awkward UX. The mazda had the same rust but was easy and safe enough to access with some heat and no need for universal joints which are never great when you’re using an impact driver.
It reads like you don't understand the needs of SF back when that bridge was built. It could also carry rail, but that portion was not completed - because, and here's the shocker, a city's needs change over time. The Wikipedia page about this bridge covers a lot of these details.
> Who's doing the collecting often matters much more than what is actually collected.

Unless something is actually done - then the actor and its properties are of utmost priority in discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852384

Why didn't the Italian government just ban data collection in this form? They want to promote EU / local companies to collect this data rather than international companies.
This is a fun illustration of the sociological argument for social constructivism, that we shape the technology we use into having the social effects that we desire. Interesting to compare it to the other longstanding idea of technological determinism, how we shape our society around the technology produced.

Knowing which side is producing the social effects could go a long way to alleviating the stresses new technology has built onto our societies. I Would be excited to see who would actively work or fund such a project and whether it would actually produce any results.
Sure, of course.
they're not men, but persons... they're corporate individuals.

corporations owned by other corporations. even the men at the top, 'running' this things are following a series of written rules (contracts, standard corporate practices). It's in their 'hands' but they're bound by a bunch of stuff that's written down.

this on decisions pertaining to their business/professional lives. in private, this same people "go out to play".

Maybe such kinds of hideous things is the only place where they can feel as though their individual agency is worth a damn. In the office, well, they do as the rules (the data, the procedures and its algorithms, etc) dictate.

In choose to see these people as sick. They have a sickness but they do not see it like a sickness. Maybe I chose to think they're sick so I can cope with the reality that they're really that evil and powerful.
"I never had any reliable sense of direction and felt safe in urban or rural areas"

Is this an inevitability though? Maybe there really are some people who have barriers about spatial thinking who would never be able to learn to navigate, but I think there's a large group in the middle who tell themselves they "have no sense of direction", and just mindlessly use GPS their entire adult life because they've never put in the bare minimum of effort required to plan and execute a trip without it.
Rather than Excel, I'd rather use Lotus Improv or Quantrix (wish that Flexisheet was in a usable state)

Macromedia Freehand is a tool I've been using since v1 of Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube --- currently running it on Windows, I'll probably give up drawing on the computer and switch to paper and pen and pencil when it no longer runs

Really miss NeXT/OPENstep, and don't find Mac OS X comfortable at all (miss the Unix Expert checkbox). Really miss PenPoint and its intensely notebook-oriented, object-oriented, component-centric UI --- the high-water mark of my user interface experience was the year in college where I used an NCR-3125 running Go Corp.'s PenPoint as a mobile device, and a NeXT Cube w/ a Wacom ArtZ graphics tablet and Microtek ScanMaker 600ZS for input.

These days I'm mostly modeling in 3D using OpenSCAD (which I'd like to find a better tool than --- ideally one which can write out text files as part of 3D modeling), but I'm kind of stuck w/ OpenSCAD 'cause I use BlockSCAD as the front-end.
not quite true, most Western social media companies withdraw from China market in order not be subject to govt request for information
This is older, but it checks out. Thanks for this.
For some months like February (unusual), October (Halloween), or December (New Year's Eve) I remember them.

But for the other months I sing the song. Takes about ten seconds, required monthly at most. I think this is pretty common.
The million-year energy source
Wow that was a good test to run, even if by mistake.
Assume it is illegal, will your average employer care enough to pursue damages for six months of lost wages?

How do you prove the employee wasn’t simply incompetent?
How is it broken? sr.ht? It seems to work for me...
The difference is that there is a non-zero amount of friction in the US.

We also know that many companies in the US say “no” and have the legal ability to do it. For example, when the FBI asked Apple to unlock a phone for them, they said no, and they never did.

In China, your company doesn’t say “no” because the CCP members forcibly installed on your company’s board always vote “yes”.

And in fact, the CCP holds the iCloud keys for all Chinese iCloud users. (As well as the entire data center)
What is broken? Both https://sourcehut.org/ and https://builds.sr.ht/ renders just fine to me.
...Seems you too didn't read what I actually said about the actual age and my caveat. Does the word 'perhaps' mean anying to you?

May I suggest you provide me with sample text that would make my points unambiguously clear?
I had totally different experience, One i bought with Exynos was Battery hog, Mediatek ones generally have bad performance.
For nuclear to be viable globally, which is necessary to solve climate change, it would mean trusting other, far less developed and unstable countries to build and operate nuclear power plants. That is something that even the US, the USSR and Japan have all occasionally failed to do correctly with significant consequences. The UK has a ton of hot nuclear waste that is still improperly stored due political issues. I don't think there's political appetite for expanding the set of countries with access to fission.

Solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels etc. are imperfect, but it's hard to imagine a scenario where a mistake can make a significant chunk of the earth uninhabitable for hundreds of years.
This was my reaction, too. Anecdotally, I used to bike in a hot and humid environment. My first century ride (100+ miles in one sitting) was on a day that hit above 100 degrees with at least 80% humidity. I was able to train like that, 3-6 hours in the sun, more or less every day of the summer in similar conditions.
Unfortunately regulating tech companies is politically untenable since he was nominated by the previous administration. They will replace him with someone who will toe the line.

> Commissioner Carr was nominated to the FCC by President Trump and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate.

https://www.fcc.gov/about/leadership/brendan-carr

> His term runs from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Carr_(lawyer)
Largest AI model to ever be trained on a single device
I don't think all of this is solely due to "reproductive technology."
I believe a cultural shift in values and mores took place via mass media (TV, music, movies, magazines, newspapers, education[1]) that played a strong role in changing behavior to allow more unwed births and less shotgun marriages.

[1]education as a form of mass media in terms of it's ability to communicate ideas
The "brace position" for a lot of Brits is the Kantian duty ethic and a very visible Standard by which you can compare yourself. That's all gone.. When the thing-in-itself died and we became hyper-conscious instead, the philosophies of the past no longer tread water. It's true the plane has crashed, and that might be the ground-floor reality, but there has to be more.
Actually where I live (EU) the law is pretty forgiving – at least in my opinion.
Me and my two brothers are all out of wedlock births...to two parents who have been happily unmarried for over 30 years.
Could the chimps have learned these behaviors from us? Maybe chimpanzees are bonobos that live too close to humans?
That is great for basically everyone aside from people speculating with housing prices or workers actually building them. But the latter will probably find employment elsewhere easily right now.

Couldn't read the article behind the paywall.
Hypercard was very much a presentation software. It had the best animations at the time, compared to Powerpoint. And it supported features that seem obvious once you hear about them: from any slide (card), you could click on an element of the slide, and it would take you to another slide about that element. Powerpoint is still mostly focused on linear "next slide" all the time.

In other words, with Powerpoint, you are presenting to a passive audience. With Hypercard, you were handing the control of the presentation to the attendee, and they could drive the presentation wherever they wanted.
Can you explain the corruption here?
STEMlab 125-10 – 10bit 125Msps ADC and DAC
So, it seems like there is at least once a week a partial outage on github. For how long ate the CTOs and Engineering managers all around continue to accept this?

Who shouldn't at the very least donate a bit to the various open source CI solutions, as a way to have some kind of hedge?
Looks like it just fixed itself. I wasn't able to see any featured projects & search for any projects for a good 5-10 minutes there.
This is a bad stat. Chernobyl is still radioactive. Coal plants don’t irradiate whole regions
It's only finite in the technical sense. Unless you do something really stupid like seal off "waste" that could still have a bunch more energy easily extracted, we have enough fissile material available for nuclear to be our sole energy source until the Sun blows up (which makes solar "finite" too, btw): https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-...
> Feral ferrets would treat tens of species of endangered animals of California.

They die at temperatures that are a sustained sub-65 degrees or sustained 100+ degrees (which you can demonstrate with a live ferret, although I wouldn't recommend it).

The blackfooted ferret (endangered) is native to California. The claim that domestic sable ferrets would be invasive is ridiculous on it's face.

> Nature is too important to be left to the caprices of pet owners.

The CA fish and game commission is completely ideologically captured as they do not want to engage in any sort of scientific study for the non-existence of existing process (beyond a simple decree) or legal jeopardy that they may become embroiled in, after the fact. They much rather enjoy their salaries mediating the relatively safe cases of licensing and managing bureaucratic rules around existing fish and game.

There's also the uncomfortable truth that people do possess ferrets in CA. Pet stores stock goods for them and vets treat them. People all around CA let their ferrets roam outside and come back in when it gets colder at night (and to get food/water). Young adult/College dorms and apartments are rife with ferret owners. Again, the claims about ferrets being a "potentially" invasive species are specious, at best.
> The modern world can’t run on renewables alone. It’s impossible.

It's not only possible, it's cheaper than many of the alternatives.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrify
Uncertain Futures – Quantum mechanics and entropy as a model for politics
I think part of it is that there are a lot more old Android and iOS apps out there that still use Java/Objective-C. These apps are probably worth maintaining and updating, but not necessarily worth rewriting. (And, you'd still need to know the old language in order to do a decent rewrite.)

For iOS where I work, we use primarily Objective-C, with only a tiny bit of Swift. We actually have more Rust code than we do Swift. (The Rust code is for our cross-platform logic that's shared between Android and iOS.)

I think the Android side is all Java with no Kotlin at all.
Yes indeed, I got ASWebGLue (WebGL bindings for AssemblyScript) running in Node.js this way, with bindings to the webgl-raub package.
Sometimes to make a project work you need all types of work, not only high visibility, high impact work that gets management attention and raises.

Good example is promo process at a particular large tech company - you win promo by picking a project that is high visiblity, appears difficult, standalone piece with "ownership". Maybe 25% of work that needs to be done meets this criteria.

It's hard to get promoted for "product excellence". They tried to do a push a few years ago, when I was there. You won't get promoted for fixing an issue that annoys millions of users or maintaining a succesfull product, unless you really build a case around that with data, case studies, etc. You would spend more than half of your effort on proving that your work is valuable.
Title says "now resolved" but the link says the incident is ongoing and they "are actively working on a mitigation."
> I've yet to see a Keynote deck that cannot be replicated in Powerpoint;

Almost every deck I've ever made in Keynote cannot be replicated in PowerPoint. It doesn't have the same support for transitions that Keynote does. Good transitions (not flashy ones) are what make a good presentation great.
Yes, you can certainly be both.

Climate change is an immediate existential threat as you say yourself. Seeing nuclear as the solution to that threat is very shortsighted IMHO.

Many commenters mention the threat of accidents like Chernobyl or Fukushima. That is one aspect, yes. However, on the grand scale it seems as if humanity has limited the risk for these kind of accidents.

The much bigger problem with nuclear energy is that humanity has not yet figured out how to handle the waste on the short term. Let alone on a time scale that is beyond human comprehension.

I was quite impressed by the thorough analysis in this article:

https://bostonreview.net/articles/is-nuclear-power-our-best-...

Piling more nuclear waste on to the already unmanageable heap is irresponsible. That is why being against nuclear energy as the stop gap solution for climate change is not only reasonable but also responsible.
At the very least allow people to kill cats when they're on your property.

Instead you can face a year in jail if you put down the cat that's been hunting your rabbits and chickens
Irata.online: a Plato recreation with clients (including 8-bit)
Imagine saying there is too much food/water/gas/energy with a straight face to someone.

Also that site is utterly horrendous with its popups, solely seems to exist for headlines and twitter retweets rather than content.
How do you draw the line between grouping it under 'old age' VS the actual proximate cause?
There was also a ruling last week explicitly overturning certain gun regulation laws. See: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen [0], which overturns a law that has stood since 1911 in New York State. Based on Gallup data [1], 52% of Americans want stricter gun laws, and only 11% want less strict gun laws. The decision makes it much harder to impose additional restrictions, and will require some states to lessen restrictions.
0: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf 1: https://news.gallup.com/poll/1645/guns.aspx
I would like to think it may be a fundamental truth of the human condition, formalized/written in different times and places. The Stoics had it too, and that's pre-Christian. I suspect some Christians during the first two millenia of Christianity had it too, I don't think it's incompatible with Christianity (or "faith"!) of all historical sorts, but don't know enough about the history to say.

(Update: Googling, some suggest Jesuit spirituality as being a Christian philosophy focused on non-attachment... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatian_spirituality)
French here, and father of kids in primary school.

Never heard of it.

We are using the knuckles version.
Migration services exist today. Almost any of the ASIC backend service companies would take a contract to do a fab port. (Won't be cheap, though)

But these are services, not products. There's no one-size-fits-all way to move design Z from process X to process Y, for arbitrary values of X, Y and Z, nor is there ever likely to be.

And even once it's done, there are still costs to verify and test the results, which isn't cheap either.
I think you should focus on what an attacker gains by your app leaking account existence. Is that knowledge valuable or revealing? If not, then probably not necessary to overcomplicate it.

E.g. in the Shopify case, you learn that an email address has a Shopify account. That should be fine as long as they have some rate-limiting in place on their auth endpoint and enforce good passwords.

YMMV, I'm not a security expert, etc.
interesting, can you point me to a source?
True. As long as a person has a few very specific tendencies, or perhaps a lack of certain resistances/indoctrinations/beliefs he can push forward much more than the average person and thus he can become a CEO etc... and still be fallible, but he will also succeed merely due to the state of his mind.
The latency for doing what? Shifting from reverse to drive? The ZF transmissions in BMWs are very fast shifting even though they are torque converters and there are paddle shifters on the wheel.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima, for example.

Or the fact that we don't really know where to store 'normal' nuclear waste safely.

And the fact that it takes ages to build a nuclear plant.

And they are always late, and over budget.

And that solar power and wind power apparently are cheaper.
The Phoenix pay system is something crafted by the previous government (under Harper) with the idea of creating a "Shared Government Services" department so that each department would not have its own pay system, its own email, etc. The only redundant systems permitted were those related to national security (and AIUI, that was grudgingly given).

It’s completely unsurprising that a top-down mandating of shared services requiring a rewrite / reimplementation of pretty much everything that government departments use would go bad very quickly and have lingering effects. It’s also understandable that it was impossible to reverse the course once started, because institutional knowledge was lost (people who knew how the old systems worked retired out or quit, etc.). This, of course, has led to throwing more money at a money pit.

Fortunately, it looks like they’ve finally filled it—but that doesn’t do anything for the thousands of people who were broken by this boondoggle.
Perhaps they are, but they don't want to.
> incredibly safe in comparison

I assume you mean this empirically, not based on the actual risk profile.

The cost, in lives, of a major nuclear containment failure is easily in the millions to tens of millions. The cost, in lives, of a major coal disaster is at worst maybe in the hundreds, even in principle.

So it comes down to a belief in whether we have properly contained the risk. My priors on this shifted tremendously after Fukushima.
The potential benefits of this may vary though depending on how the OS exposes things.

For example, exposing this as a ram disk while possibly useful is not really optimal. Treating it more like NUMA ram, that simply lacks any cores where the memory is "local", could be more viable. The OS could be programmed to shuffle out memory that is not frequently used over to there, as a faster alternative to paging to disk, etc. Some new madvise calls to let apps mark regions as not latency critical giving the OS permission to move the memory over even if it is frequently accessed could also be interesting.
Google is on nobody’s “side” but their own. They’re an amoral bureaucracy trying to make money. Nothing more or less.
Modern PCIe uses a complicated transceiver design that does pre-emphasis/de-emphasis on the signal. The actual signal swing is differential, and on the order of +/-200mV (with a relatively low voltage common mode, on the order of 300mV) after all the attenuation.

What the actual digital IO voltage that the chip that does PCIe driver is driven from is almost unrelated.
This is really great. Lots of the images were really striking! I'd love to see something like this scaled up, maybe pulling headlines from multiple sources to generate different images for the same story?

Regardless, awesome work David!
Sorry about that and thank you for bringing it to our attention. As you might imagine we spend a lot of time on that site and did not notice the option to reject is not available. We will action this very soon.
A brief history of green opposition to nuclear power will show the following points, which should not be handwaved away:

- nuclear weapons. This is where Greenpeace actually got their start and where the "peace" comes from in their name. Most uranium designs require enrichment to some level and can also be used to produce plutonium. This is not a dead consideration; see Iraq's controversial civilian nuclear programme, and the ongoing war between a very large nuclear-armed rogue state and the proxy forces of the nuclear-armed West. Are you comfortable with a nuclear power plant in every country?

- terrorist and other attacks. The Ukraine war has seen fighting around Chernobyl, and actual shelling of Zaporizhzhia. https://theconversation.com/russian-shelling-caused-a-fire-a...

- nuclear waste. Again a big issue for Greenpeace in the 80s; admittedly this has massively improved. Note that there is both "high level" waste which can be reused as fuel, "high level" waste which cannot be used as fuel, and a much larger amount of contaminated normal materials. Some of which are less radioactive than naturally occurring rocks.

- choose your poison: CO2 is a slowly rising problem. Nuclear power plants are a "black swan" distribution; mostly perfectly safe, but the disasters that have happened have affected huge areas.

An additional practical consideration:

- cost and time overruns. Hinkley Point C is projected to have a 50% cost overrun and to be completed 17 years from its initial announcement. Even if we were to decide to roll out nuclear power, we must keep up the rate of renewables buildout (now considerably cheaper) because it will take decades for the plants to actually be built.

I do think the SMR concept is worth giving another go. nuclear powered submarines and aircraft carriers are already small modular reactors with great safety records. We must not bet on it alone.

Thorium seems to be a nerd trap; nobody seems to be trying this commercially, and since it can't be used for weapons there's no government subsidy as there was for the original buildout of uranium based plants.

Molten salt has unsolvable materials science / plumbing issues: it's too corrosive.
Isn't there also a live action troll hunter movie by him that has nothing to do with the Arcadia series?
Then fire Von der Leyen, as she can't be scrutinized. One out of a number of reasons, which also include spectacular incompetence.
Correct, and as expected. Thanks for the backup.
I am not a mathematician but yeah the pages I’m talking about are all math-adjacent. Totally fair.
He could switch to Delphi, but that wouldn't stop him from considering JetBrains' prices expensive.