skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Having to support now-obsolete systems is a bane of software. HTTP itself sucks because there are so many standards-breaking systems out there. If you want to write a new custom HTTP server you need to understand all these potential quirks, reading the RFCs isn’t enough.
This guy is knocking EVs because they may draw power from a dirty grid in some parts of the world, therefore we should be selling more PHEVs? What a ridiculous argument. Of course he conveniently leaves out the trajectory we’re heading in, in most places the grid is becoming more green over time. Why not attack the dirty parts of the grid itself and advocate for more green power production there instead of EVs. This guy is just embarrassing himself. Also, Lithium is not rare, it is the first metal in the periodic table. It’s just a matter of scaling up mining/production to meet demand. And you don’t even need cobalt anymore, Tesla’s new 4680s don’t use any. This guy should know all that.

He also talks about range anxiety which was a thing a few years ago but with so many charging stations all over the place and more coming online every day, and cars with higher range and fast charging. it’s not really a concern anymore and will be even less of a concern in the future.
Why should we care about 99% of people? They are people who upload all their personal data to social networks agreeing to "we can do whatever we want" terms, they pay with a card, use Apple's and Microsoft's spyware (which marketing people call "telemetry") ridden operating systems, and install Chrome that sends a signal to Google every time they open a new tab and sends data about every form on every website they visit (which Google developers call "crowdsourcing" in the code [1]).

Make a customizable and privacy-respecting search for us, power users.

Also, I have noticed that Firefox internal search works good for sites you had visited. So when I want to visit a page I have seen earlier, I can go straight to it skipping Google.

Also, you can click on any search box and add it with a prefix, so that you can search MDN or Wikipedia directly, again, without informing Google.

[1] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...
Opposition candidates who might have a chance are not systematically made ineligible on bogus charge of tax evasion or contempt of court like in Singapore.

As an example, John Tan was disqualified for standing as a candidate to the parliament in 2019 because he posted a Facebook post in support of an activist who posted than Malaysian courts were more independent than Singapore ones in trials involving politicians.
Jesus Christ.. Imagine being in jail for selling weed to someone who wanted it, meanwhile everyone that orchestrated this is still relaxing on their yachts. Unbelievable.
I don't feel this way even though I rarely have breakfast or lunch. Pretty sure I am not the norm.

People who tend to get "hangry" kind of make me feel uneasy because such behaviour suggests that if it comes down to that, they will surely try to kill me for food or just to eliminate competition.
TLS can be handled by much, much small devices, too! Most of the cheap Xtensa line of things, like the ESP can handle decoding TLS [0].

[0] https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/...
>To your last point, I don’t quite agree. Google’s incentives are misaligned such that keeping you on Google.com just a little longer is better than not because you are more likely to click on an ad.

I agree, which leads me to the conclusion that subscription is the best way to avoid this conflict of interest. Unfortunately, most of the world won't subscribe to a search engine, and doesn't seem to mind ads - to a degree. With Google looking more and more like AltaVista before its demise (to Google), my conclusion is that Google will strangle itself out of existence and give way for the next "new, streamlined, not-full-of-ads" competitor.
It seems to me that what they usually extract is some junk only vaguely related to the query and often cut apart and reassembled in a way that's just wrong.
It was a troll, re-read his comment.
I'm surprised this didn't touch on some of the other distribution grid ideas that have been piloted. At a past job I helped create software that valued power from DERs based on real-time grid conditions [1]. The idea was that some distributed generation was worth more to the distribution operator because it alleviated other problems in the grid such as congestion.

1. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/opus-one-tests-...
This page doesn't seem to grasp the reasons behind using encrypted connections.
It's not some 'security' blanket statement or 'have something to hide', it's tamper-prevention (including MITM malware injection), privacy, and a little bit of identity verification (not really something people do in the real world).

https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs...

If your problem is some ancient device that cannot speak reasonably recent protocols, the solution is to not allow that device on the main internet directly. That might mean the device itself has to live behind a proxy, or it has to use a remote browser, or it might (as you might guess) simply be a matter of decommissioning the device or only using it on a local network.

Any time the general security of a system is downgraded for some edge case, that same downgrade can be used to attack everyone else.
My guess as to why you're not getting replies because the content of your comment is highly polarizing, contains assertions as absolutes rather than points of debate, and would likely result in camp vs. camp which will play out ad infinitum.
Priorities. Modern medicine can do wonders, but it costs a fortune. Providing everyone with state-of-the-art solutions on time is difficult.
*sudo is redundant
Exactly, came here to say the same.

Even when I know that something matters, there are many other things that also do and choosing between them has been a lifelong challenge.

If you do know what matters the most undoubtedly, why would you do anything else? The hard part is the knowing.
Ask HN: Are you hiking? How old are you and how many kilometers can you Hike?
I'm in my 40s and never thought about hiking. I never did any sport either during my adult life.

Today, the idea of Hiking came to my mind. I was thinking "How many kilometers could I even do it?"

So I have put about 2 kg of stuff in my backpack and started walking through my city.

I really liked it for about 5 km. Then it was a chore. I did two more km and was very exhausted :)

How much better can I get at it?
Note that everybody wishing to protect the young over the old will be old one day. I assume their attitude will have shifted? Or, will they go willingly into the booth to free up resources?
Ask HN: Easy language/runtime to distribute to desktop users?
I want to distribute an Open Source program to end users that does work via a Rest API. A UI isn't strictly necessary but might be required later.

What's the best language to write something like this in? Python?
I suspect your discounting the amount of effort it takes pypi index maintainers to respond to compromised packages.

In the same way folks can get upset over being required to use 2fa, the package index maintainers likely get upset every time that they lose hours of their life due to someone not using 2fa.

Despite much of this being critical infrastructure, I would be surprised if most people who run the index are doing so as part of their day job instead of volunteering. This is why I always try to show a lot of grace when people make decisions that I don't understand, because they may be facing situations I don't understand.
It would depend on the media you consume, but for me (in Australia) it's always been "flatten the curve" - ie. reduce infections so the health system doesn't get overwhelmed. Once hospitalizations were under control through vaccinations pretty much all restrictions were lifted.
Virtual schools encourage the same without the indoctrination.
For a similar list, see the Public Suffix List: https://publicsuffix.org/

(I suggested 7 years ago that HN should use it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909146#8911044)
Information security and cyber security are real fields. That there are unserious actors out there I don't doubt one minute.

I changed to infosec because of the money.
If the cult ruined his life and he took it out on the first politician he could somehow link to them, the problem is not whether such politician really had such relationship, but the fact that such idea was credible in the first place. Are cults in Japan tolerated a bit too much, leaving them free to ruin's people lives? Are politicians just sitting by, or even enabling such cults? Those should be the questions people have to ask, if the aim is to avoid a repeat. This is particularly true when you look at the fact that such cults were directly responsible for past terrorist activity in Japan.
Good old "Four Stage Strategy"! Works every time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak
My understanding is that it's more like putting two copies of a letter into an envelope, mailing one copy halfway around the world, and then opening the other copy. You now know what they both contain because you know they contain the same thing.

Is this at least somewhat directionally correct? I know that quantum physics principles are very difficult to define without going into the actual math.
"Overshoot

The world will not end when we warm beyond 1.5°C. What will happen is that more people will suffer and die along with countless other species we share the biosphere with. Some tipping elements in the climate system may be activated such as the disintegration of Greenland and Western Antarctic Ice Sheets."

There are other feedback loops which can be activated like the permafrost one. https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/global-carbon-budget-perm...
My wife teaches kindergarten. We have small children.

They absolutely need to be in person at that age. Her School stopped virtual learning early because it just wasn’t working.

We all got Covid because of it. It sucked but was better for kids.
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Oh, strong agreement. I was addressing the comment since it seemed framed independent from the stay-at-home context
Data point: my kids are doing fine. They hated lockdown, but who didn’t? They aren’t behind in either academic or social terms.

However, they had parents who supported them throughout with home learning, extracurricular learning, love and encouragement, and a network of friends and families in similar conditions who worked together to keep up virtual contact and socialisation.

What I worry about are the kids who didn’t have this kind of support. We had the resources to compensate for lockdown. A lot of families didn’t

In the final evaluation, I expect this will result in a deepening rich-poor divide.

This is somewhat ironic considering it was predominantly leftward politicians advocating for more/deeper lockdowns that disproportionately harm the poor, and rightward politicians advocating for relaxing lockdowns and sacrificing the elderly.
It's a very bad strategy, but the silver lining is that it's self-correcting.
So we should stop international travel to properly grieve, and that is not despair?
You seem to have completely missed that NNs run on physical hardware.

A contemporary CPU and/or GPU is 'a bunch of connections that are pre-encoded' - just not in DNA, but in silicon.
Use sand [1] instead of water and you'll be able to store a lot more energy in a limited area. Water can't be heated above 98°C at atmospheric pressure which puts a limit on how much energy can be stored per m³ while sand can be heated above 1000°C without problems. Add enough insulation and you'll be able to store enough heat to warm your house through the long winter. Sand is cheap, non-corrosive and doesn't freeze or boil [2]. The specific heat for sand (830 J/g K) is markedly lower than that for water (4000 J/g K) but the density is ~50% higher. Together with the much higher temperature spectrum this translates to a higher capacity per m³.

[1] https://polarnightenergy.fi/technology

[2] it can boil - silicon boils at 3265°C - but it is hard to see how such a temperature can be reached
I think this is mostly a problem if you are in Google's position, near total market dominance.

This not only means you exert massive selection pressure on the shape of websites. The SEO spammers don't need to be good or know what they are doing, they just need to be lucky once. If they get it right, they float to the top, and can iterate on that design. This effectively is saying that no matter how secret or smart your algorithms are, it doesn't matter if you're in Google's position. The numbers are stacked against you.

To make matters worse, any company with that sort of a market share has serious handcuffs in how heavy handed and "unfair" you can be without risking litigation for anti-competitive practices.

I think the best thing that could happen for Google is ironically serious competition in the search market. This would help both problems at once.
Yup. Todays best and brightest for the most part are working hard to sell ads and track users of smartphones.
Climate was way hotter in the Jurassic period and life survived and thrived. Climate change is much more about impact on our current society than the end of the world. https://sciencing.com/climate-jurassic-era-4932.html
Bushmaster: Concept to Creation
Sure - they may have to import food, but many countries in the world do this already. Moving food importers from Egypt to Russia doesn't need more food production in Russia.
Gmail's spam filter is basically community trained by people clicking spam/not spam (at least, that was what they said many years ago, it might have silently changed). What's different about search?
Intense bike positions require you to statically position the neck at almost 90 degrees to look forward, and keeping the neck maxed out like that is probably not great in the long run.

The articulation to look up/down is maybe +/- 15 degrees, and being dynamic it should be a positive movement that strengthens your neck.

That you have reduced neck flexibility decades later could easily just be age…
Kids have being doing remote learning way before covid, but you need engaged parents and a supportive community

https://www.centralstation.net.au/socialising-and-schooling-...
What about one funded by universities or libraries as a research project?

There have been lots of no ads (for now) attempts. DDG had like one small ad at one point. But people didn’t leave in droves. It’s almost like people are ok with ads.
In any case, the article was very light on citations for the many accusations thrown.
What about families that makes public transit "out of the question"? I haven't been to SFO but it looks like it's the same issue as with IAD, which is that it's smack dab in the middle of the suburbs and has very poor transit connections to the surrounding areas (although it has an actual train line, which IAD still doesn't have!)

North America is really a unique beast in this regard, though, as nowhere else is it common to intentionally make airports so difficult to get to and from. Even in Europe, certainly for remote airports you might not expect lots of train connections, but IAD and SFO don't fit that bill.

I guess you can say that Uber's value prop is that they smooth over the failures of American urban planning in exchange for their cut of flesh.
Is there anything to support this fearmongering?
From all I’ve heard subsequent infections tend to be more benign - which is how the immune system usually works.
100% agree - It's not entirely suprising that when you remove the logos from a logo, along with initially the colour, they look similar.

I bet that those fashion companies have a decent idea of what they are doing in terms of branding and design though, and are making these decisions consciously and intentionally.
As an aside, if OP is the website owner: The font-size here is 10.5, it's really small and consequently hard to read.
> A properly functioning society does not sacrifice the future of its young to protect the old.

Press X to doubt (the point being argued).

Covid has affected and killed enough "younger" people - by which I mean folks younger than 40. And not to forget long covid's disastrous effects on all ages.

I agree that the entire situation could have been better managed (for example it took till December 2020 for the Dutch gov to mandate masks in public areas, the night curfew timings were odd), but I disagree that a proper thorough response wasn't required.
You can do both, it's not an either/or.
I found it very difficult to teach my kids while they weren’t in school. My wife and I had different “shifts” and I was with them in the mornings. Trying to teach two kids at different levels while I had a two year old crying and causing mischief non stop (and also getting them fed, making sure zoom classes were working, homework was done, etc.) was very challenging. Would’ve been so much easier with a single kid (or without a baby).
You might find this interesting - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E2%80%931890_pandemic#Cor...

The COVID-19 pandemic has so far followed a similar trajectory to the 1889 "Russian Flu", which some believe may have been the emergence of human coronavirus OC43 (now one of a number of endemic common-cold-causing coronaviruses).
I think you're mischaracterizing the nature of the problem. Take a look at [1] for example - US total CO2 emissions and CO2 emissions per capita have been dropping for a while now. The same is true for the EU as a whole [2]. So where is the increase in CO2 emissions each year coming from then? The developing world that wants a western world standard of living. Take a look at India for example [3]. It's not sufficient to tell people in western countries that they shouldn't drive SUVs or take long flights, you have to tell people in poorer (populous) countries that they can't have a better standard of living because doing so means more GHG. Would you like to tell people that?

By all means, we should be doing better in the west, but it's a lie to tell ourselves that driving an electric car and putting solar panels on the roof is going to solve the problem.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/carb...

[2] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/greenhous...

[3] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/india
What are the prerequisites to handling these books? Would they be good for someone who never took Bio in college or even AP Bio in high school? Or would some remedial work be needed first?
J.P. Morgan Guide to the Markets 3Q 2022 [pdf]
Newer generations batteries in production right now are not using any cobalt
It's not a falsehood, it's a scenario with a probability, a high probability for some places (the equator) and a lower one for others.

We have to consider every scenario, if not we are the one deluding ourselves.
You get automatic name recognition by being the child of a former leader, and that applies even if the former leader was unpopular. The hardest thing in national politics is probably becoming, essentially, known in the first place, so they start with a colossal advantage.
> It does sound like this ultimately stems from having preserved an old design for a long time

Absolutely, this has become a chicken-egg paradox. At some point they need to change the type rating, but if they do so, customers may not buy it. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
They meant habitable by humans.
DietPI is a great distribution, not only is faster and lighter but it has also some useful tool to use/manage the software and OS!
The steps I took were:

1. Go to kagi.com

2. Right-click on the search field and choose "Add a keyword for this search..."

3. Fill in the keyword (e.g. kagi, as I did)

4. Right click in the top url+search field, and choose "Add Kagi search"

Now you can search via keyword, you can change to kagi while typing, and you can set the default search engine to kagi in the preferences.
Lets say a hate crime was committed against Jews. Do you assume it was a Nazi, or an Islamist? This pops up all the time in Europe, usually it is Islamists but sometimes it is Nazis, and that makes a huge difference when interpreting what the crime means.

Or for this case, lets say the perpetrator was of Chinese origin instead of Japanese. Do you think that wouldn't be relevant at all?
I believe there's three or four well accepted ACME providers now, which is why a lot of tools now support or even default to alternative vendors, partly to mitigate this concern. e.g. acme.sh will try ZeroSSL first, Caddy will rotate between ZeroSSL and Let's Encrypt.
Well, this is my fear of TikTok. We've seen how Facebook and Twitter (and certsin news media) polarized/brainwashed Americans in convincing Obama is Muslim and not born in the US through crude algorithms to increase clicks.

Imagine TikTok, who isn't just driven by ad revenue but the need to keep the Chinese government happy.
Do you not have school holidays?
I built something with an API that uses Selenium to image a site. It works on a large percentage of the sites I feed it.

I don't recursively call links found in the pages. I expect the user to give me the URLs to crawl and save.

In order to "find" new content, I let the user specify where they want to search for things the engine hasn't "crawled" yet. So, a search for scooters to buy might end up searching Amazon directly, then lets the user "save" the site by passing the Amazon URL for the scooter they like to the system for imaging.

I use GPT-3 or other ML models to do some of the heavy lifting for adding labels to the pages or documents the user uploads.

This ends up being a "curated" list of documents important to the individual user, not an exhaustive crawl of all things which are important to all users.
> I have it next to my studio display and it honestly does not even compare in terms of clarity.

Could you clarify a bit by what you mean? The studio display has a higher resolution if I'm not mistaken (4500*3000), do you mean the display is more vivid or has a better color space (DCI P3 etc) coverage? Thanks!
> People are still booking international vacations and buying brand new full size SUVs to do groceries.

And an awful lot of people are still acting as though "end users" can materially affect the situation with their personal choices, and implying that they are bad people for making them. I'm sure the American oligarchy and the leaders of China appreciate your efforts.
Consider it a benefit for spending 40+ years working and providing the glue that held society together. Not everybody cashed out big time. You can always turn it down and pay for things yourself.

Or, you can work to turn the us into a place similar to the rest of the world where there is less profit made from people’s health. I would think it useful to be a startup that didn’t have to worry about providing health insurance or for workers to know they don’t face disaster when laid off.
For anyone who doesn’t know, Ted Gioia has published books like West Coast Jazz: 1945-1960, Delta Blues, and How To Listen To Jazz.

I’m still reading through the first two and I can highly recommend them to anyone curious about the historical aspect of jazz / blues.
I think that has been a reasonable possibility (on the order of large asteroid collision) since the invention of the atomic bomb. And it became much more likely after they were actually used in war. And even more likely with the insane proliferation. Now we can add climate denialism and global climate state tipping points into the mix. It's getting worse. An opinion shared by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

"The [doomsday clock]'s original setting in 1947 was seven minutes to midnight. It has since been set backward eight times and forward 16 times for a total of 24, the farthest from midnight being 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest being 100 seconds, from 2020 to the present."

[doomsday clock]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock