skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone discovered CSS blend modes!
But nuclear or fossil is a false dichotomy: There are also renewables, which of course have their difficulties with intermittency but are often already now the cheapest electricity source.
Plus Ghislaine and Epstein were also messing with political insiders.
The irony with Karl’s blog is that he’s done nearly a 180 on Magic Leap with the debut of their second product. They’ve ironically becciome relevant again, just not in the consumer space at all.
Probably because they are not, despite the money disbursed, maintained.
The reason people associate socialism with taxes and a centrally planned economy is because that's the only popular socialism.

Anarcho-socialism rejects statism (totally agreeable) but doesn't offer a credible alternative. That's why common people don't even think about anarchy when you talk about socialism.

In a centrally planned socialist economy, the people in power can steal resources from the workers (like all the governments of the world do nowadays) and exercise power.

In anarcho socialism the power would be decentralised and distributed among democratic groups of workers. Why would the workers even bother to take all these decisions? They're not gaining power (or very little, due to the rightful decentralised nature of power in anarchy) nor currency.

The assumption is that workers are perfect human beings and don't need incentives do to the right thing, which is a pipe dream.
20 years ago I enjoyed this too. But today I can't imagine burning fuel as a past time activity. It even makes me angry thinking others still do this.
But has she committed an average crime? Seems she did it in an industrial scale, whereas most offenders probably weren't.
Arbitrary != high altitude loitering patterns.

Arbitrary would include, like, your house, your yard, a coal mine, etc. That's a whole lotta autonomy that doesn't exist yet.
> That energy is here now

Is it?

"CO2 emissions per capita in Germany are equivalent to 9.44 tons per person" [0]

"CO2 emissions per capita in France are equivalent to 5.13 tons per person" [1]

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emis... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

[1]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emiss... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
Ah, but back in the day the local newspapers had "classified ads" section (still do, I imagine, but probably wildly useless these days) which many folks read religiously seeking out those small niche business things and local deals and such, and placing a short little text ad there was often literal "pocket change" to run for a day or three.
Modern rockets, such as the Falcon 9, have an extremely low failure rate. Falcon 9 itself has had over 160 launches, with only 1 complete failure.
The way I remember is that RISC is just a class of computer design. The different architectures aren't necessarily close to each other (only that they have a reduced instruction set compared to other systems), so I can't imagine that this helps.
A good number of those don't have mandated return types, so that keyword is their way of copying c(++)'s look, so its "func main()", like "void main()", instead of just "main()", which to a some people may look strange.
The end game of intelligent autonomous weapons are dangerous to everyone. Google slaughterbots. We've been pretty successful in stopping major nation states from using bioweapons so far. Maybe we can do the same for AI. Maybe we can't. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try and the very least we can do is not start a bloody arms race as to who can develop the best autonomous killing machine.
Not a parent so this is a legitimate question: why not try educating your child on these dangers and how to spot them?

These dangers exist to varying degrees in every system involving humans on the planet. This includes ones that are less visible to you than Roblox and come with more implicit trust, for example schools.
If we don't built war machines at parity, we become Ukraine. Toothless. Ripe for bullying at best, hostile takeover at worst.

Everything in nature evolves to consume the energy of other systems. Our unnatural Kumbaya/Disney society just plasters over that fact. Despite the bubble we live in, at the most fundamental level, we're evolved to consume.

Nature is metal. Look at orcas playing with food to teach hunting. Hornets laying larva in live prey. Lions eating out distant relatives alive.
excellent points. Especially regarding the motivation side... there are a lot of misconceptions out there about sales that it's drudgery for technical folk when in reality is that it will probably be the opposite. good call
> Everybody would be better off if they stopped believing what they believe about SOC2, and started believing what I believe about SOC2.

Since the author is a member of the set "everybody", we have a paradox. :)

More seriously, it would not be hard to adjust the language just a little bit by saying, e.g. "Most people would be better off...". Alternatively, the author could adopt a common style used in business communication where the author creates a label for the group that would benefit from the SOC2 knowledge. Perhaps call the combination of "cynics", "customers", and "true believers" the "unwise trifecta" or something. (I admit don't have a catchy term in mind yet.)
Review: Smoking Typewriters (2011)
Are you implying that individual regulations all have some inherent goodness on their own?

They're just rules we make for ourselves. There's nothing special about them. Opinions like that are why we can't fix messes like this.
There's a LoRa model of the Popcorn Pocket P.C. which will have a physical keyboard and run Linux, however they're a couple years behind manufacturing schedule so it's a little doubtful if it'll ever actually be for sale.
It's somewhat automatic, but definitely not cost-free. Spend awhile with uBlock Origin and optionally something like PiHole, and you'll be amazed at how much less exhausting reading online is.
The conflict of interest alone makes this untenable. After this, no one should want to work under Elon Musk knowing his ethical standard.
Same as when you park in the middle of an intersection or when your vehicle is blocking the access towards a burning building. Intent matters.
A lot to unpack but off the top of my head, the US was wide open compared to UK/EU; the biggest mistake initially was the communication from WHO and CDC recommending that masks were not necessary, and subsequent backtrack that eroded public confidence leading to even less compliance; mask mandates were dropped everywhere; and the worst is this insistence of combatting fomite transmission—which is completely false—having hand sanitizers installed everywhere but nowhere do you find improvements to ventilation and air filtration, for instance.

edit: and I agree a lot was done, but certainly not in any unified manner. in this age of hyper-globalized economies, countries cannot effectively act as individual entities when dealing with pandemics.
> If you want something new, then make a new language.

Adding an optional new declaration syntax isn't a new feature, it is a change to the parser.

C's declaration syntax is awful. In fact I'd go so far as to claim that one reason function pointers aren't heavily used in C as compared to modern C++, C#, JavaScript, etc, is purely because the syntax around them is so awful.

(They obviously are used, but no one likes using them)
Check out https://thin.dev/ :) It's similar, supports self-hosting and uses postgres. Quick demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jj19fpkd2c&t=3s

(I'm founder of Thin)
Yes, and interestingly, another excellent HULU show about the opioids - Dopesick - also has the whole thing exposed by WSJ.
It's not about sex. It's about conflict of interest and the lengths an employee might need to go in order to gain their employers favor. This is incredibly invasive -- highly unethical implicit standards were made.
Probably just because the Jacobins got blamed for excesses of the French Revolution. But the Jacobin leadership of the time went down right behind the royals.
The economics change very fast if we disallow fossil fuel from being used in the energy grid. The current combination of using wind when the weather is optimal and natural gas/oil when demand exceed production is a very cost effective strategy, and it is this combination that has enabled energy prices at very low levels.

A large reason why nuclear has recently gain a lot of popularity is that wind + natural gas has quickly became very expensive and political damaging. One can no longer just pay Russia for cheap gas and look the other way.
I am always amazed by these "no-regulation" arguers - how are you doing to resolve disputes?

Suppose I want to sell my product, and find a company willing to buy, a middle manager signs the contract. When the company recieved my product, it refuses to pay, says this person was not authorised to sign the contract on behalf of the company.

Must the company prove the purchase was unauthorised, or must I prove the employee was authorised? Suppose employee was unauthorised, is it my or the company's problem if this guy 'took initiative', who eats the loss?

What if they already used my product and only realised after the bill came due? What if the deal was overpriced like 10x from market average? What if the guy's title says 'Head of procurement' but the company swears their bylaws don't allow him to authorise purchases?
I'm definitely not suggesting her crime was average, rather I was curious to understand how her sentence fits into the statistical distribution of sexual abuse sentences. Because I had no idea whether 20 is crazy high, bang average, crazy low.

Unfortunately, without having the standard deviation of the distribution, it's difficult to draw strong conclusions from these data points. All we can really say is that she received a 25.6%-higher-than-average sentence.

25.6% above the mean could be an "industrial scale" number of standard deviations above the mean, we have no idea.

Knowing HN, I hope it's only a matter of time before someone computes it for us!
There are a lot of dismissive replies to this comment but as a woman who has tried this in "safe" but unfamiliar cities, things can get scary very quickly. Catcalls are inevitable, and only the beginning. A catcall from a passing car that has slowed to swerve towards you is terrifying. Yes, self-defense and being aware of your surroundings help, but don't exactly lend themselves to the state of mind described in this article. I am not speaking from paranoia, but from experience.
Targets: Russian Organizations Increasingly Under Attack by Chinese APTs
It's been explained countless times. The world has come together and numerous societies have agreed to not give money to North Korea. There is no comparable discussion or agreements about restricting communications among individuals. It's asinine to ignore all of the history and turmoil of North Korea, just about as asinine as creating a crypto currency for the espress purpose of funding the Kim regime.
Okay, but why?

If your aim is to make this technology more widely available and, as you claim, "give people the opportunity to access and share web content in their native language, and communicate with anyone, anywhere, regardless of their language preferences", then why make it so that the model essentially can't be used for anything useful? It doesn't really make any sense.

Legally even the use case which you're promoting on your frontpage - the Wikipedia Foundation's Content Translation - is illegal under the non-commercial license in certain jurisdictions! For example, see here: https://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/27/german-court-says-creati...

Even using it for research would be illegal as it's also not exactly "personal use".
> Honest validators see both forks but would built on the honest fork because it has greater weight in the LMD-GHOST fork choice rule.

I don't understand this part. Is an "honest" validator someone who follows the rules, or someone who is purely profit-motivated? If the latter, what specifically incentivizes them to obey this LMD-GHOST rule?
Is anything know about the power consumption of the Starlink antenna? Does the maritime version use less power than the conventional unit?

The fixed-location version of Starlink consumes around 60 to 100 W constantly which is problem if you want to e.g. use solar panels on a sail boat to supply the device.
In the corporate world, this is completely untenable, unethical behavior because of the conflict of interest that Musk has with her as a subordinate.
I think there is an argument being made that the drone technology enables a distancing of “the person doing the killing” from the action. That being 200 miles, or 2000, from the person being killed lets one take the decision to kill more lightly. Drone operation becomes like a video game.

The worry is that such distancing increases the risk of collateral damage, or simply mistaking of targets. There were accusations during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the US were bombing weddings and civilian homes.
The simple gradients used give it an "artificial" or "color-overexposed" look.

Check out perceptually uniform color maps:

https://colorcet.com/
To be fair it could be me who’s in those strange circles :)
Well, I never used the word "simple", mostly intentionally. Except to describe next's backend API stuff, which is pretty simple (just a node server at the end of the day).

Is react/next complex? Sure. Everything is far more complex than it initially seems, HTML is complex, React is even more complex if for no other reason than it builds on top of HTML.

But websites are also complex. I've found that I can very quickly reach a website complexity where I feel more productive in React than bare HTML; very quickly indeed. And next is really, mostly, just nothing on top of that; its dev tooling, yeah you sometimes have to think about where the state is (server/client) and where the rendering is happen (if you use next export: its just always on the client, done). Experientially, these are small problems; and would potentially be intractable for a website that has attained the complexity to need to solve them, built on bare HTML.

There are a few new techs that I want to try, to see if they can capture the simplicity of HTML, with the good parts of react. Vue is definitely one, but I've been following Astro for a bit and it also seems interesting; granting the ability to just go basic HTML, or bridge into React, Svelte, anything.

[1] https://astro.build/
Yea, requiring an online account to use a head mounted display makes as much sense as requiring an online account to use a monitor.

Sure, require an account to do purchases through their online store, that makes sense. But why on earth do you need an account to use an unconnected piece of hardware? I don't need to log in to an account to use my monitor, mouse, keyboard, or joystick.

EDIT, answering my own question:

The only reason these accounts are required is that Facebook wants to pretend Oculus is not just the HMD but also the whole "ecosystem" including the store, their toxic social media properties, and their ridiculous metaverse. I don't buy into this fantasy of theirs, and will never buy another Oculus until they are treated as dumb displays.
Pretty much all hierarchies run into this kind of perverse self-selection bias. Power hungry individuals are more motivated to climb the rungs of politics than anyone else. The work involved aquiring the kinds of fortunes that make you able to effect change weeds out anybody who doesn't just care about money. Popularity based positions get dominated by narcissists.

Bad actors are just more dedicated than the good ones. It's a hard situation to fix barring the complete elimination of privileged positions.
Great writeup. Dude is totally right about the importance of compliance and its implications.

There are other ones as well.

* ISO 13485 for medical software
* ISO 2700x for process, security, and change management
* ISO 55000 for asset management

Your eyes might glaze over, but they can really help a startup graduate from "move fast and break things, cowboy shit" to a mature and respectable engineering organization.

Congrats on the SOC2 and finding a good spin on the story. It is also an important number of checkboxes you might need to get those juicy Enterprise and Government deals.
It’s probably just an editing mistake. In a different part of the document, it says the same person works for Enforcement and Removal Operations in Minneapolis, which could also be abbreviated to ERO.
It was two years ago, so maybe things have changed a bit. I don't think the game works well without the in-game chat stream. If that can be disabled then perhaps some of the risk is gone. It is still a creepy place with a lot of 'dating' in the game. My daughter was also introduced to the concept of a furry very young. She though it was more innocent than it actually was.

Roblox is disabled on the firewall. It will never be accessed again. She still plays games that are fairly locked down on xbox, and I trust the parental controls of Microsoft more than Roblox. I also put in a gryphon router to help take some of the load of us, as parents, policing everything.
I think given your (evident—correct me if I'm wrong) view on how political positions must be supported in order not to be invalidated by contradiction, you're going to find a lot of "contradictions" everywhere, and little agreement that you're helping anything with those discoveries.

We're at the inevitable stage of this extended HN discussion of politics where I recommend a thorough reading of book I of Plato's Republic. In particular the attempt to nail down a definition of justice. TL;DR simple, set principles tend to run into trouble when confronted with circumstances and outcomes. You have to take those into account rather than blindly following moral guidelines, or you'll have a bad time.

"Government surveillance is bad"—OK, what about criminal investigations? National security? Both ripe for abuse but—can we actually just ditch those tools on principle and be OK? Probably not, so... they're good when they're good, and bad when they're bad, and we can't make a sweeping pronouncement that covers all those cases. No contradiction, just messy reality.

"Killing people must be illegal"—but self defense and war? "OK smartass, murder should be illegal" well sure if you use a word that means "bad killing" of course it's going to encompass the kinds of killing you think are bad—you've conceded the point!

"Government dictating what you can do with your body is bad"—the draft? Polio vaccination requirements for school kids? I'm for those while being against, say, forced sterilization. Somewhere in between is the point at which I can start to apply the principle that "government dictating what you do with your body is bad"

Strictly principle-based approaches to policy do not hold up. There's always a "but..." and never admitting nuance, exceptions, et c., does not work. Setting principles aside when the in-actual-fact cost/benefit ratio gets sufficiently wonky isn't (necessarily!) hypocrisy. This is frustrating if you want ethics and political philosophy to look like math, but that's simply not how things are. It's frustrating if you take the statement "my body, my choice" to be 100% iron-clad absolute intended by the speaker to apply to every circumstance forever—but it's not, because, again, this ain't math, it's human communication, and you must not take it that way unless you're trying to misunderstand someone.

Any coherent and satisfying-in-practice approach to policy is going to have a lot of judgement calls going on.

If we lay out the circumstances, scope, and cost/benefit of these policies, it's plain you're not even close to comparing like to like. The source of contradiction is entirely your own atypical and unworkable approach, not the stances of your opponents.
secound, espeicaly together with elm street for generating code from Haskell
Also, uh, "flanieren": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flanieren
Should I Read Papers?
Ask HN: Do you run anything in a VM just for fun?
You probably would not run it 24x7 on a boat.
I did not understand the banner until I read your comment.

I read the banner and thought "of course this is user created content; that's typical of a wiki. I wonder what separates their 'official' wiki pages."
> Do you think it’s a risk that more authoritarian and belligerent states develop them first?

It does not require the development and realization of a technology to create a defense against that technology. We don't fight bombers with bombers, nor do we fight ICBMs with ICBMs, nor nukes with nukes (OK, perhaps not the best example, but only because MAD is a political deterrant against rational actors (which one can argue Putin is not)).

> Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons, that did not bring them peace. Arguably if they had nukes, they would not be at war.

Only if they were depraved enough to use them. At which point they have to concede that they too will be annihilated. The threat of nukes alone does not prevent a country from being attacked - especially by madmen.
>If you owned an oil well you could exhaust in 5 years, you'd do it, not sip at it for the next 50.

a) why when you can hold back and affect the price
b) this logic had better change soon or we are all screwed with climate
Hey, I totally accept people have views other than my own. I just disagree with them.

It seems extremely weird that you’d want to publish content, but then get mad that people are using the thing that you published. But you do you.
Jacobin is equally, if not more, stupid than Breitbart. The only advantage it has is that it's less hateful.
Why tough? For looks or for ergonomics?
I think the point is that WSJ and Fox are owned by News Corp (Owner: Murdoch) not that WSJ is the one breaking the story.
"proof of work" is the computationally expensive thing... a block-chain is simply a data structure with many uses outside of cryptocurrencies.
I've never met a company that gave SOC 2 out without an NDA. In fact, I'd consider it a negative indicator of maturity to not require it.
These things aren't mutually exclusive. It isn't the case that money saved on weapons research would necessarily be spent on something positive, like cancer or green energy research.

I do value nature and human rights, and sometimes that means preparing to fight those who don't value nature or human rights.
I tried out programming in DOS using tools of the period, and I found edlin surprisingly easy to use; easier to get into than ed. It did have a few quirks. It uses the ASCII SUB character, ^Z, to separate the fields of a substitution command. That does eliminate escaping issues at least.
Yeah, going to the Bootstrap examples, “view page source”, and seeing how the elements are put together is what made simple front-ends for internal tools so easy for me. Lots of examples and minimal pages to start from.

Some team members have actually been suspicious that I was adding in React or something since if you use the right components it can look really interactive.

Especially on the corporate VPN with just Flask doing a little bit of templating the latency is very low. A button redirecting to a new page is almost as fast as something all in the client side.
Google Fi has been really good, no extra apps that cannot be uninstalled (beyond a few Google ones, but nothing extra over what you likely already have). You also get to be on the newer androids, other vendors have always lagged behind and added their own bloatware

I remember when I had to have the Amazon & NFL apps 5+ years ago...