skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically Orwell warned specifically against this kind of "strength worship"

> The interconnexion between sadism, masochism, success-worship, power-worship, nationalism, and totalitarianism is a huge subject whose edges have barely been scratched, and even to mention it is considered somewhat indelicate. [snip] The truth is, of course, that the countless English intellectuals who kiss the arse of Stalin are not different from the minority who give their allegiance to Hitler or Mussolini, nor from the efficiency experts who preached 'punch', 'drive', 'personality' and 'learn to be a Tiger man' in the nineteen-twenties, nor from that older generation of intellectuals, Carlyle, Creasey and the rest of them, who bowed down before German militarism. All of them are worshipping power and successful cruelty.
Literally nobody is saying "we should only have wind", though.

The point is to have an array of energy sources. If there's no wind, solar can compensate. If there's no sun, nuclear can compensate. If nuclear goes down, then you can tap into natural gas. If there's no natural gas, then go for coal or whatever.
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming
That reminded me of a base4 encoding using these characters: '0' 'O' '1' 'I'

The code looked like:

var O11IOOO1I011 = 1<<1,
II00001OOO1O = 1<<2;
Maybe they thought it looked bad… But it was only 1940 when he wrote the essay, so at that point a lot of Hitler’s crimes would not yet have been known in Britain, and a lot of them were not yet even in full swing. So he’s looking from a very different perspective to us who know about the holocaust and the other shocking things the Nazis did.
This is only sustainable because of subsidies and non-tariff barriers.

Take them away and most intensive cattle operations in the first world wouldn't be able to survive.
It costs money and time to ask literally everyone what they think. If you invested 5 minutes per person and paid $20 an hour including equipment cost it would cost you 563 million dollars per poll.

Also you would still get less than 100% response rate even on your initial poll. After you got in the habit of burning billions of dollars to harass literally every citizen in the US constantly you would find your sample size dropping precipitously as people found ways to block your calls.

To get a statistically valid sample of 338M people you need as little as a few thousand respondents depending on desired accuracy. It makes sense therefore that the chance of a single poll actually calling you personally is very low. In fact 100 polls reaching 100,000 distinct individuals still has only 1 in 3000 chance of someone personally calling you. Small wonder if your phone isn't ringing off the hook.

Despite dodging those and every sort of automated asshole calling my phone and being on the do not call registry I have still received a call. The answer is yes. This still proves nothing. I haven't refuted your position by saying yes as I'm sure you will now agree.
I had discriminator #9999 of a common last name and received death threats (for over a year) and support ticket impersonation "hey I lost access to my account", random friend adds and DMs trying to phish, constantly being sent tokenstealer malware.

This ended in the funniest way possible: being banned for using third party client Ripcord (presumably, no other offenses, happened shortly after trying it out).

My prediction for a system similar to the one parent suggests is that people will continually keep creating accounts until they get something like "Max a0a0a0a" or "Max 000000e" or something by chance, and then that becomes """valuable""" and the same thing happens.
Going back to the topic of eugenics, since you posted a link about eugenics: the Catholic Church has been against eugenics since it first got popular, when the 30 states you mention legalized forced sterilization.

https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/103/2/498/1750...

Whether opposing eugenics is progressive or anti-progressive seems like a confusing topic to me.
I'm not sure, reading the local stats really discouraged me and also made me aware of some stuff I had been recycling that wasn't actually handled so would be redirected to the landfill anyways.

I guess because some is better than none? I think it's a good question though. If people stopped thinking of recycling as effective, would "reduce" and "reuse" get more limelight to the point of being an overall win?
Oh boy, I have. It was the president of the company. I lined up a job and quit so fast
Hotmail: It was really easy to "hack" hotmail during that time. I created mine in 1999 and lost in early 2000. By summer 2000, I happen to talk to a friend of a friend who works at Hotmail. I got him to reset and give me a new Password that worked. I still have my hotmail account and is used to the times when you need a Microsoft Account.

Gmail: A lot of people seem to think email, then "Gmail". I get emails of at-least 4 (or is it 5) people who have used some variation and also exact ID of my Gmail account (created when it came out in beta). I get details of their Credit Card, Bank, Phone, and what not. I just ignore/delete them but someone with time and fun/bad intention can do some serious harm. I have tried sending emails, contacting them few times but to no good result. One got angry that I have access to "his email". From the mail history, I feel really sorry for them. They are definitely not well-off and I feel I should protect this part of their digital identity. :-)
Badly. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/... https://www.aerodefensetech.com/component/content/article/ad... https://www.robkalmeijer.nl/techniek/electronica/radiotechni...

Radio communication under the sea is not an attractive option for experiment by the radio amateur as it requires the use of very low frequencies, large antenna systems and very high powers.

Fresh water lakes and rivers have much lower electrical conductivity than the sea and underwater transmission distances (or depths) up to 30 metres appear feasible using the [then-not-now] lowest frequency amateur band of 1.8 MHz. Even larger distances (or depths) could be achieved if a lower frequency band allocation were made available.

However, that was written in 1987 and from a cursory historical review of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band it seems that exactly around the late 1980s time that article was written, the still earlier-suggested lower frequencies within the ISM bands were popularized and confirmed by various national regulators and there are now commercially available ISM-band transceivers available, eg. https://hoperf.com/modules/rf_transceiver/index.html

You can use directional (high dBi / high gain) antennae at one or both ends of the link, however this adds substantial complexity and generally negatively affects the vessel hydrodynamics.

Let's say a sub delivering critical medicines to peoples in need is supposed to cross an ocean, it probably wants GPS at least sporadically (for inertial navigation error correction) and AIS (to avoid collisions with cargo ships in busy shipping channels) which means it's operating at least near-surface most of the time anyway which means a radio comms tower is likely the best option, and the question is moot.

OTOH, if a sub is launched from a research vessel, it's cheaper and easier to use a tether. If it's just for a hobbyist, then the commercially available ISM transponders are likely adequate. So as per the 1987 comment: it seems in-water long distance comm's is really the domain of the military due to their unique requirement for deep-water stealth and the corresponding need for unlicensed low radio frequencies. For the rest of us, use ISM-band, a towed surface relay (also stealthy anyway), a tether, or just surface for comm's.
Britain did not in fact "win" the Battle of Britain. It ended with a hard-fought draw, where Germany had needed a clear win before invasion.

The hard-fought draw was just hard enough.

By its end, Russia was massing its troops at the border with Germany, by all appearances preparatory to its own invasion. That is why its cities were almost undefended when the German tanks rolled past them, cutting their supply lines.
That's DC power not AC needed to power homes, and even then only 2 minor junction points.

The power plants and substations are still needed to act as a giant DC-to-AC inverter. So if the plants are offline then the grid is effectively down, as it was in the Feb 2021 blizzard.
50 years from now, "Swift, Rust and nodejs" might not exist. For that sort of time period, you either need a language whose compiler & runtime is easy to write (C, Forth, Scheme, etc.) or a language that compiles to standardised bytecode (C#, Java, etc.).
I think that this line of thinking is impossible to decouple from the idea that former colonizers have something to give that developing nations need, and that the latter want it or should take it.

It is very difficult for example to convince a large part of the world to abandon cheap energy sources or industrialization because the economies that used it to industrialize their economies say it's bad, and all the alternatives are too expensive or inaccessible to grow their economies at the same rate. If you listen to what the leaders of these countries say publicly, it's not that they don't want cheap and clean energy or to fight climate change. It's that they don't want to abandon their nations' economic growth for the sake of it, particularly when it's led by states that have made a policy of exploiting them in the not-too-distant past.

The problem to solve isn't the lack of empathy or resource sharing from the rich former colonizers. We have enormous amounts of that. What we need are evidence based approaches combined with collaboration led by developing nations' governments and people based on what they say they need. The last part is more important than anything we can do in our governments or societies, because we have no credibility.

Basically don't tell or give people what you think they need. Ask them and listen.
Why California Stopped Building Freeways (1993)
Yep. Sometimes that feels too abrupt, though. Even if you're trying to be pointed.
Your unstated assertion here is that we don't actually need to try to mitigate global warming and that it's merely a moral question, or like some culture war tempest-in-a-teapot. We need to mitigate global warming. That's a need we have to fulfill. It's the "right" thing to do for that very reason. Creating a strawman by saying 'haha, you think we should ignore that because it's the "right" thing to do' suggests that it's the "right thing to do" in the same way that it's the "right" thing to put toilet paper with the free end facing the room rather than facing the wall, rather than a slow-moving catastrophe that will kill billions through crop failures.
Yes, although in The Road to Wigan Pier you really see how socially conservative Orwell was. His complaints about socialists weren't just that many of them were well-off people out of touch with the real problems of the working class (in which he had a point), but also that some of them were vegetarians, some birth-control advocates, some didn't drink alcohol or smoke, and (although Orwell says this indirectly) some of them were gay. Orwell claimed that the working class didn't like these traits, but really, it was Orwell himself who didn't. His imagined working class was basically himself if he had been a factory worker rather than a writer.
I use it without extension, it’s just more effort. You can use either browser or mobile app to create them.
Facebook gave up heing the victim when they removed the optional bit. Once you force yourself into the social graph and 'become the village square' (their own words) then you are no longer entitled to anything.
Yeah I was hoping for a more balanced electorate in Texas so the Republicans had to govern better to maintain control.

But the Democrats swerve to the left has rolled back the gains we were making from the Latino demographic changes.
Those days don’t exist anymore. You shouldn’t feel pity for those kids, you should feel shame in being part of the generation that robbed all of those good experiences away. It’s no joke that a lot of these kids are depressed and have no skills or resources to find entertainment.

Before smart phones many of their parents watched TV for 4+ hours a day. What did you expect the kids to do?
Team sports are the best cooperative activities around, AFAIK.

Primarily within your team.

But also, by both teams playing within the rules, cooperating with the other team in creating a meaningful game.

I know team sports isn't for everyone, but it's a great thing for those suited to it.
Apple have made it clear they don't want games on MacOS. They have not updated the OpenGL for way too long and it's missing any of the modern extensions. There is MoltenVK thankfully but none of that thanks goes to Apple who only push for Metal.
I'm a Democrat in Texas never had any problems voting.
doot DOOT
This is news to most Germans. They dont hear about it, instead they hear Scholz repeatedly lying and they believe him every single time.
Lithium batteries are too widely used in my opinion.

I have the IKEA Eneby Bluetooth speaker. Uses 3 AAA. I can just reuse what rechargeable batteries I have. And I can use the speaker as long as I have batteries so I can charge up as many AAAs as I have. The speaker is no larger than most speakers. You can also recharge the batteries inside the speaker if you want.

So many things would be just fine with normal AA or AAA batteries.
It wasn’t clear, but the edit wasn’t in reference to the parent commenter. But now that you mention it, yes, for them I’m leaning toward “agenda” rather than the alternative of “non-existent professional ethical standards”.
I would be careful with the "." in your username as someone else with `firstnamelastname@gmail.com` would likely get your email. I get the emails that are my ID with the "." in between.
Show HN: A just another Cron alternative but with much more capabilities
I have created a Cron alternative that runs DAGs (Directed acyclic graph) defined in a simple YAML format.

Why not Airflow? Airflow and other similar tools are powerful and valuable, but in most cases, they require writing code to manage workflows.

Our ETL pipeline is already hundreds of thousands of lines of complex code in Perl and shell scripts. Adding another layer of Python on top of this would make it difficult to maintain. Instead, we needed a more lightweight solution.

So we developed Dagu, which requires no coding, and is easy-to-use and self-contained, making it ideal for smaller projects with fewer people.
"Your Cache" is like "The Common Cold" - it's not actually one thing.
CPU or GPU it’s still commodity hardware.
Dodge City, KS, is ... quite remarkable.

It can be smelled well over 10 miles away.

I've not had the pleasure of travelling near the Texas CAFOs.
You are seriously calling any criticism of a vaccine "antivaxxer"? In your mind there's no such thing as a vaccine that fails?

Are you for real?

The COVID vaccine does kids doesn't work. Period. And saying that doesn't make someone "anti-science".

And I truly can not even begin to wrap my mind around the idea that you would take someone's kids away because they dare question if a vaccine works! What kind of bizarre religion are you part of that requires you never to question vaccines? Or are you required never to question any authority at all?

And you have had a serious failure of education if you think that what you are doing/advocating for is science. I assure you - it's not. What you are advocating for is some kind of perverted worship of science.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0] defines fascism as "dictatorship of monopolistic capital", so OCP fits the bill perfectly.

While this is not "the" definition, but it at least provides insight: what a communist POV on fascism is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Soviet_Encyclopedia
You can just ask for a “small coffee”, you don’t have to turn it into a weird territorial thing. Most places will have normal drip coffee ready to go.

In the rare case somewhere only does made-to-order, you want an Americano. It’ll be fast and good and what you want.
Not just optimizations to blame, MacOS shipped with an extremely outdated OpenGL and Apple refused to update it. This caused many projects to drop support for MacOS entirely.
Not that strange considering Python effectively dropped Int64 support.

In Python 2.7 there was a distinction between when Python would use the "long int" vs the traditional Int64. This distinction was eventually entirely dropped in favor of all ints being "long ints". In case you are unfamiliar python implement ints internally as a list of digits. This is now true no matter the number of digits in the int.

What interesting about this is that there actually are edge cases where performance in Python 2.7 will be superior to Python 3. There's a nice foot note about this in "High Performance Python".
Software rots man. It can be really hard to run some open source software from the 80s and 90s. This is actually one of the big arguments for Open Source: Access to the software is way less interesting than the support/community/ecosystem around it; there's no reason not to open source your software and not doing it actually harms the users.
After seeing way too many photos of people's kids taken from an adult (tall) vantage point, I knew right away to get down on my knees when photographing my young kids.
Has something changed since early 2021 and the ice storms, when similar, false claims were made about renewables having anything to do with the problem?

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-texas-wind-turb...
Why is it growing? BTC is past the point that even asics get you to breakeven right? Eth2 went to proof of stake. What are people mining?
What Orwell wrote about the Communists in Spain would not lead anyone to place him among them.
Political Activism: What's the Point?
No, not in Texas. They just redraw the maps so that they are guaranteed to stay in power, er, not electric power.
CogVideo: Code and Model for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
Maxwell House is truly awful, not to mention Folgers; if you're going to go instant, at least make it something like Nescafe Gold.
I suppose it's different for younger kids, but Minecraft was very productive for me compared to many alternatives. I was playing as a teenager, though. I learned binary logic through the redstone system, server administration (and how to build computers) from server hosting. Met some friends that I've kept for over 10 years and still see in person when we're in the same area.

It's a pretty wholesome game with a lot of skills you can learn without even realizing.
Court orders are obtainable by police from local and state governments. Google is not a criminal defense firm.
Isn't it also the Railroad Commissioner who deals with things like oil wells? I think that came up in an article about old oil wells that were flooding ranchland with salt water in East Texas thanks to the practice of pumping water into oil reserves to boost pressure for active wells.

I'd love to understand how the Railroad Commissioner ended up responsible for energy.
Yes. The recommendations that are pushed to me are wildly different than what my kids see.

Mine are mostly DIY fix-your-shit videos and boring science stuff I assume it puts there because I'm old and boring.

Most of my kids' recs are the cult-of-personality YouTubers who gain popularity with innocuous unboxing videos and game streaming that attract underage audiences attracted to colors and theatrics, and over time devolve into progressively toxic "lolcow" or sexually-predatory behavior that makes the denizens of 8chan look tame.

That much, in addition to the sometimes-fatal "challenges" these clowns try to promote (though that's a TikTok thing too) and the "accidents" involving exposing audiences of children to incidental pornography.

These people used to be kept in check by ratings boards and the stations held liable by the FCC for what they broadcast to audiences. YouTube has no accountability whatsoever; you are entrusting your children's television programming to self-publishing internet trolls.
I thought that gmail ignored the period, and would not allow registering one of those accounts if the other one already existed.
Ask HN: How do I find the right crate?
I started with swiftUI and wrote some apps which really improved my life, I taste the sweet of programming and I find Rust such a pain-killer being a tool.

However, looking for the right crate might take days, feeling like holding sand.

swift were simple and straightfoward, come boy, here is swiftUI, write an ios app and leave.

rust is great, how can I take a bite?
On MacOS Mojave before Catalina ended support for 32 bit binaries I was surprised how many Steam titles were downloadable as Mac native. I'd say almost 20% of my library was downloadable for MacOS which impressed me a lot. Steam was the best thing for MacOS gaming, Catalina was the worst. Now that Apple are moving to ARM expect the library to shrink further.
An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)
Texas is one of the fasting growing states in the union, so the idiots running things must be doing something right.
The GP is pointing out that storing an uncompressed film isn't useful if it can't be played back. Playing back an uncompressed 4K film is nearly 600MBps. That's a data rate you're not going to get out of any consumer HDDs.
Wow, I should have read this before cadence-per-cadence making the exact same comment!

I have no idea why nobody uses bookmarks and everybody keeps hundreds of tabs open. When did that start? Who even has the RAM for that? How do you even click on them when they’re that tiny? So many things just don’t make sense.
I would expect a similar result if someone had a record of the "The Price Is Right" theme music.
Huh. I have no idea what to do with this bit of information, but I did ask for it, so thanks.
True, but this greatly expands the name space for people who are content to be an account on someone else’s server.

The name space of domains is also a lot larger now that we have tons of TLDs.
That’s analogous to saying that “vaccination isn’t a great strategy from the perspective of those with adverse reactions.” In another thread, you did not accept that line of reasoning. Why is it valid in this case?
I was in Midland next to an oil well (what else is there in Midland) where it was 24mph winds and 104 on the thermometer. When is it not windy and hot in Midland?
Texas House investigative committee releases Uvalde school shooting report
Not a map, but trending of terrestrial vertebrate biomass from 10,000 BCE to (projected) 2050:

https://peakoilbarrel.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Terrest...

I've seen another image which shows cubes indicating total biomass inclusive of plants and invertebrates. Humans aren't quite so prominant on that, though as a measure of all animal biomass, still a large fraction.

This ... is close though not quite what I had in mind:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o3xAu8m8XK4

And NB, that's not the xkcd "Land Mammals" one, though that's also impressive: https://xkcd.com/1338/
there already are but unless you have the CPP forcing its use no one will use it as the apps arent there. googles now go the smae vendor lock in that MS does wit windows. no one will wan to pay for all their apps again on another platform.
The common interface is dependencies and dependents, but the problem with existing build systems is that they make assumptions about those two things. They also place other restrictions.

For example, the Go build system assumes you set up the project according to the Go standard. Cargo sets things up a certain way too.

They also assume certain build tools, like the Go compiler and `rustc`.

Restrictions for ease of implementation are the reasons why every build system sucks. Figure out how to remove the restrictions and implement that, and you will have a universal build system.

Source: I am building such a build system, so whether I'm right will only become clear over time.