skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stronger men can carrier bigger guns, but no one man is stronger than an army.

The rich still benefit from organization.

Also, an organization may have legal standing where an individual does not, and can then deploy their lawyer-army. Where an individual has to wait for an issue to personally affect them, the organization will almost always have at least one affected member and can therefore keep up the pressure constantly, and eventually perhaps make the internet a better place.
because none of the alternatives even come close in terms of viewers, virality, monetization

15 years later and still nothing even close to a viable YouTube alternative.
There was an actual rise in crime, both perceived and statistical, immediately after he was elected. Hell, Boudin ran on a campaign that people like his terrorist parents should not be prosecuted.

It's a well documented fact that Boudin refused to prosecute pretty much anything besides police officers. Why would police officers arrest anybody in that case?

It's the same story with other Soros-funded prosecutors: Gascon in LA, Kim Foxx in Chicago. To give them credit, they don't hide that their own goal is to protect criminals. People should listen.
If you're looking for that level of granularity, you can implement each method as a class, or as a static method on a class or module. Then it's fairly easy to figure out where things are used.
Tell me how great the “no restrictions“ on oil has worked out. I seem to recall whole oceans being contaminated and set on fire by oil.
Half the articles on the site really feel like it. But, ofc, it seems they want to sell me some book at the end.
Even without demonetization, just getting views as a content creator is really hard. You only see those who succeed.

Nothing against creating content for yourself, or your friends, or future people though. Just don't expect fame or money.
I think you overestimate this pent up demand. The Santa Cruz sells like shit. The Ridgeline is right there by it

New players don’t come into the US truck market with mini-trucks because they simply don’t sell
I'm not aware of that cancer that is probably killing me right now.

There is no valid argument for trusting electronic voting machines.

While they are still closed source like now, it is flatly impossible and not even slightly rational to trust them. If they ever become open and auditable and verifyable, well then you are no longer trusting them.

Talking about "large, coordinated" is an irrelevant distraction. Maybe there have been and maybe there haven't been any such attempted to date, but you have no way to know and so your awareness means nothing, and on top of that, every minute is a new minute.

There is no valid argument for trusting these things as they currently exist.

Whether you think any elections have been changed doesn't even matter.
> the basic problem is that there are no buyers for "no bullshit technology"

The other companies have a plausible path to mind-off self-driving. That's where the value is at.

Comma is developing a product that increases driver's comfort. Waymo is developing a technology that will remove the need for a driver.
Not just more funding, but prosecutors and DAs and judges who want to crack down on bike theft. If your bike is in somebody's house and you have a tracker showing it is, you should be able to get a search warrant. Police should be empowered and willing to help you get it.
https://www.theoceanbird.com/ - are creating a 200m ship, slated for 2026 - with plans for retrofittable products..
Related: Reverse emulating a SNES (on a NES)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
Touchless computing via webcam; no internet connection required
I get an email about once a year claiming I use mongodb and am not paying license fees. It’s really weird because they’ll say stuff like a system I designed is based on mongodb and they have “evidence” from project staff. It’s such a strange claim and I guess they don’t know I made the system.

It’s also strange because they keep demanding license fees and asking to audit and I just deny and tell them to buzz off.

They remind me of Oracle. It also makes me wonder if there’s some legal compulsion that could force them to do discovery. Based on their behavior I would not use mongodb.
Hmm, I'm not sure where I demanded a certainty?
They were supposed to be, in the original KIP, but that changed, I'm unclear as to what drove that change.

So my coworker's solution joins the KRaft quorum as an observer, then publishes metadata changes to a topic you can consume from.
> the reality is bikes do expose you to more danger of getting injured, aren't great in wet weather, and unsuitable for longer distances or when carrying bulky loads.

No I do in fact mean public, because a properly put together pedelec bike is fairly cheap compared to even the cheapest car, and that is the primary driver for a whole lotta people when it comes to transport, especially in urban environments. Its the reason motorcycles are super popular in Europe, where owning a car is more expensive despite the lower danger.

Non-ebikes are slow, and require effort to actually pedal, which is out of reach for a lot of people. Stick a motor on it, and suddenly you can get to work in a reasonable time (sometimes faster due to having the ability to go off-road onto paths), and without putting in effort.
So make it a navy ship.
Also timestamp column.
Absolutely, which must make this all the more frustrating. If you're one of the lucky few to build a large audience and you draw the attention of the trolls, that would drive me insane.
Separate issue but an interesting one, basically revolves around good manners.

a) Don't recall someone's blemishes while their family is grieving because that would be and is (if they see/hear it) unpleasant for them at a difficult time. Especially if the passing was unusually more tragic than "died while still mentally sharp and enjoying things of extreme old age in bed surrounded by loving children and grandchildren." May we all be so lucky.

b) Don't paper over their blemishes, remember them fully and as humans. This is especially relevant for public figures where people try to use (a) to advance some political outcome. Eg X is dead so can't be criticised but was wildly in favour of increasing the military budget which we must now redouble efforts to do with no disparagement. This is obviously only a little hyperbolic.

I note that (b) can also be used. Eg X was a massive jerk so don't let X's death get added publicity for views about resource allocation that are to be opposed. Whether X really was a jerk or not.

I have sympathy for both (a) and (b). Will Tom's family see things here? Is Tom Lord a public figure? OP seems to think so. Are they indulging in a little (b)? I have no idea. I have minimal interest in Berkeley politics.

What I will note is that I've just spent half an hour reading Tom's old posts from 2012 her on HN and he reads very well. He seems knowledgeable, kind, humane, subtle, intelligent and has very interesting things to say. Agree or not he's worth reading. An ideal HN poster from those I read. From what I have seen I would certainly listen to his views on Berkeley politics if I cared about it in any way.
I too was also somewhat surprised here because this is a React alternative, not an SPA alternative. SPA in my usage has always been "don't navigate to a new page in the browser, just update the content with JS requests."

I thought this would be a new experimental browser or such. "An SPA Alternative" vs "An Alternative SPA" - I had a job in 2011 where we were rendering partials in Rails to send down HTML just to replace certain elements on the page to keep things single-page. We later moved to Backbone to do it more client-side on certain parts. Then I had a job in 2012 where we were in the process of rewriting the site to be a Single Page App with JSON, even. React wasn't released at these points. The SPA term was well established even then.
I generally dislike Mongo, but I’ll give an anecdote.

Circa 2013 or so I was working for a regional newspaper group. They decided they wanted a weather section. So we subscribed to, iirc, Accuweather.

I wrote a script that would pull it down at the update interval (Every 15 minutes I think it was)

This was, for the time, for a shoestring outfit with only a few servers, a lot of data.

Something like 50k locations, with around 30 “rows” for each location - current conditions plus hour by hour going out a bit more than a day.

Loading this into our poor little MySQL server was… slow.

So I just setup a small mongo instance, and loaded/read from that. Worked great… we didn’t care about durability so we dodged that whole minefield. Mongo had a way to atomically swap two tables… so the import script would load into a scratch table, then swap that into the one the web server actually read from.

Loaded super fast since we didn’t care about durability, and read performance was more than adequate for the very simple queries we ram against it.

(To give you a feel for the era, this is when MyIASM was the default table store, and didn’t support fks or transactions)
How the ‘Diamond of the Plant World’ Helped Land Plants Evolve
I should add: the aesthetics of the game are also great. It's all water-powered (and sometimes wind-powered) wooden gears and buildings. I'd call it steampunk in looks, but I guess it's more waterpunk (?).

The building system is also great. It's modular. You can save space in the narrow canyons by putting a bakery on the ground level, stack a couple of houses on top of it, and then put a roof garden on top. And then a network of stairs and walkways to connect everything. It's much more flexible than the usual city builders and there's some fairly creative ways of building a vertical beaver city that can fit into a narrow box canyon.
This act does not ensure you can get a same-sex marriage in every state[1], it only ensures that if you get a same-sex marriage in a state where it is legal that it will be recognized by other states (and the feds).

Pretty weak tbh.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404...
Sounds similar to the Marshall plan don’t it?
> It's a bit of a weird take when attribute definition in Ruby also uses at signs specifically.

No that’s instance variables.

> Which part do you find ugly?

In Ruby to modify a method you just call a method. I guess I think a second, redundant, way to call methods is not elegant.
Do you mean there might be a 'pip' command in the local directory that might get called by accident, or do you mean the real python pip command might load a python module from the local directory by accident?
It's so true, most apps on mobile are just crappy partial tools that you already have on a PC, but worse to use and with a subscription. It always feels like technology sucks nowadays and it's just getting worse. It is no longer meant to serve us, but someone else who will abuse us for money.

I can't rely on tech or apps to do what I want, how I want it and with any privacy or reliability. It's just no longer the future that's in the cards we all dreamed about. More traps than tools. Selling a fantasy that you can talk to the air and turn a light on or ask a simple question I could type in 2s and get faster info that is more reliable, whoopdee-doo, I only had to pay for a device that spies on me 24/7 to exploit me.

They market a fake dream that makes our life look easier, cooler and more convenient, but it's definitely quite the facade once you take a step back to look at it.
Lena: Short story on mind uploading as wiki article
Same reason people still make IOS apps.
I've ridden the Zephyr multiple times - it really can be a wonderful experience, and you will see scenery that is only available by train. A few pro tips:

- For two people, the roomettes are more confortable than the bedrooms, IMHO. Regardless, get a private room, the privacy and relative silence are well worth it.

- Bring some snacks and cold beverages. Water, coffee, ice are gratis.

- Your sleeping car ticket covers all meals in the dining car. Take full advantage of this.

- These trains almost never run on time. I once rode the Zephyr Reno -> Denver and we arrived 15 hours late on a schedule 29 hour trip - literally the next day.

You can't be in a hurry nor on any kind of schedule. Look out the window and enjoy the ride. Utah in particular is stunning beyond belief.
There are still some smaller commercial cargo sailing ships, it’s somewhat ambiguous when the last major sailing ship stopped but 1949 is one reasonable date.

The less obvious issue is simply manpower and difficulty loading intermodal containers.
could 100k a month be better spent on the infrastructure and tech stacking for a videohosting site?
It's just a troll.
Slofile – Public Slack groups to join
It has a bit about Web caching (and mentions caching proxies), so that's a _form_ of distributed caching. It is a high-level overview, though.
That video deserves its own HN post
After renewables become a large enough fraction of the generating capacity, then it becomes necessary to start adding storage.

It is legitimate to ask whether there will ever be enough lithium battery production capacity to to provide for both cars and utilities, but it is a made-up problem because almost all utility storage will not be lithium batteries, but something cheaper.

California already has quite a lot of pumped hydro capacity in place, and could add more cheaply by adding pumps to existing reservoir penstocks.
I thought so too, until I waded into a post-quantum crypto algorithm paper.

It turns out you need to understand how a quantum computer works in order to design an algorithm resistant to it.
Drag. If you really wanted to do only green shipping, you could have these pads sprinkled across the Atlantic/Pacific, and have boats pull up them to charge up so they can make it to the next pad and hop across the ocean.
The Case for Boredom (2015)
Isn’t Japan already 110V?
Or Youtube could front this money. They have a requirement from the DMCA safe harbor to allow people to make these copyright claims. But that doesn't mean they have to make them easy or cost effective for trolls to abuse the system. Youtube could have a legal fund for creators to get assistance with unfair claims, and not be violating anything in the DMCA safe harbor.
Maybe the blog post title should then be "Why a Ruby dev finds Ruby more readable than Python".

And the post body reads: "Because that's what they're used to." Fin. Roll credits.

Personally, I find Python more readable, because I know Python better than Ruby.

I don't think there's anything inherently more discoverable about @@ to denote a class field. Python instance fields are all prefaced with self, so a bit of cursory Python learning makes it clear.

But yes it feels weird that you can't declare them upfront. (And it gets weirder when using libs like Pydantic where class level fields are used to describe instance fields in (de)serialised objects.)

IMO, Java's static keyword is far more discoverable because it's far easier to google.

As I discovered when trying to figure out what an @ meant in a TS import statement.

But, I'm not writing a blog post about why Java is more readable than Ruby, because that's just, like, my opinion man.
Interact with a Computer Without Touching It [1]

UCL, in collaboration with Intel, Microsoft and IBM, develops UCL MotionInput V3, a software for touchless computing.

- Intel press release, 14 June 2022

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intera...
> you think click bait and trolling have increased dramatically

Assuming "click bait", "trolling" and "dramatically" are all either explicitly defined or implicitly defined by consensus or what have you, this would not be a matter of opinion but of fact, so stating "I think" would either be incorrect or would be an admission of uncertainty about whether the fact is true. If he is correct and honest, he has no reason to add the phrase. If he is dishonest or incorrect, he has reason not to add the phrase.

Additionally, in the context of the full sentence, it would imply that the subject pronoun "this" is causing his thoughts rather than causing the object of his thoughts, but I know what you mean. I think.
It's so ridiculous that if you generate completely pseudorandom white noise and upload it, there will be copyright claims on it.
Only if PATH includes ".", which is why they say not to do that (or use windows. I'm not sure if you can fix that there).
Soft delete has always caused me more trouble than it was worth.

Keeping a deleted recrords table via app code or triggers has always been more trouble than it took to build.
There are Rails gems that can handle this in various ways.

But the easiest way is to deactivate the user account (is_active boolean) and continue to reference the user in internal records.
> will never have a chance against YouTube

I pay for a Vimeo account but almost no one watches my videos compared to YouTube.
You have to go where the audience is at, and Youtube is a huge audience.
Yeah, this seems like a red herring at best.

I understand an argument against continuing to test, even though I find it insufficient, but liability doesn’t make sense here.
Guerrilla viet congs obliterated the powerful United States Army so never underestimate small arms.
Introduction to TCP and Sockets (2001)
In YouTube world, you are guilty until proven innocent, and if you get too many "strikes" you get shut down and lose your voice on one of the biggest platforms for creators. The sad thing is TikTok and FB/Meta are even worse. We live in a world now where large corporations get to decide who can speak and who ceases to exist online. How sad, and how far we've strayed from the early dreams for the open internet.
Then we mine more from whatever is convenient. Lithium is abundant in the earth, and can even be extracted from ocean water. Lithium is one of the easiest elements to acquire.
But they got pizzas!

I agree, I think these things are able to be found at other organizations without everyone doing 15 hour days.
nuclear powered ships seems like a great fit for modern container shipping as it has already been tried on aircraft carriers and submarines.
The earth's crust is 20ppm lithium, and the oceans are 0.17ppm.

A typical EV has ~22lbs of lithium per ~3000 lbs of vehicle weight, which works out to 7333 ppm lithium.

If my math is right, we would have to turn ~1/366th of the earths crust to EVs in order to "run out" of lithium.

Extraction costs are a different issue.
High Output Marketing
Not really. Your options would be implementing one class per method, static methods on a class/module, or making a module you can include in classes that need them.

I tend to go with static methods on modules.
This one is trying to hard sell various real estate investment schemes.
One of nuclear's most important limits is that it is extremely expensive and nearly impossible to construct in modern Western economies.

Ignore all the people complaining about safety. Ignore any waste concerns.

Taking those off the table, nuclear looks incredibly undesirable, due to the uncertainty in ability to construct the project, inability to meet budgets. And the capex heavy, super long life, nature of nuclear which makes both the construction time and budget risks all the worse.

If you're a technologist/capitalist/industrialist without any hippy dippy concerns, nuclear is a damned nightmare.
>You are thinking federalism vs anti-federalism.

Nope. At least not exclusively. The party's change over the years but we have essentially always had one party pushing for more direct democracy, and one party pulling against. A rose by any other name is still rose, but the philosophical idea of Republic government vs Democrat government is always there. And it's the key difference in the two parties.

>I don't see any evidence of this in modern politics. Which democrat has mentioned implementing a direct democracy?

The entire State of California is constantly riddled with ballot propositions, which is direct democracy in many case overturning the work done by their own representative legislature. And California is essentially a one party state so there is no one else to share the blame.

Federally, I can't go a week without reading about yet another proposal to eliminate the Electoral College and use a popular vote for President.

So if you're not seeing any evidence of it, where are you looking?
It's an exciting time for cloud-native databases. I'm especially curious how various emulation layer approaches will shake out, for example, between CRDB and Neon which do pgsql wire protocol emulation vs block device emulation, respectively.
DALL-E 2 appears to be adding words to prompts to promote diversity
The fact that you got downvoted means that you are spot it.
You don’t say why (last paragraph).
I think that is probably a big part, but a bigger part is 90% of people in first world countries (who have money to pay and are valuable to advertisers) have never known how to use a computer (too complicated/scary) and now they all have one in their pockets they are addicted to. And since they never used computers they aren't as immune to being scammed, ripped off and fooled with fake dreams as us who lived through it all for years.
Google will happily share full details of the claimant .. if requested by lawyer.
Because on Linux, those are the only ways to make another process execute a syscall. (Note that the technique I'm using wouldn't work on Windows, since there, you could use VirtualAllocEx to allocate new pages in other processes.)
every court case requiring a copyright troll to defend itself, is one less case allowing a troll to attack someone unable to fend it off.

tortuous interference with a business is a good angle to start from.

malignant process or malfeasance may be possible as well.
"Chrome reskin by Apple" - what does this refer to?
Having lived in California for 25 years that has a initiative system I would disagree. The amount of trivial and/or damaging constitutional amendments passed by that system that cannot be easily removed is quite disappointing. Special interest pay to gather signatures for all kinds of bad ideas.
And yet the majority of Republicans were still unwilling to pass it.
House passes bill to codify marriage equality with large bipartisan support
Wow really? That is hard to believe given half the US drains through it. I can't find anything on Google on the subject though maybe I am using the wrong search terms.
Yeah its been described as a virtual lisp machine as well. I use emacs for everything personally, aside from Firefox (which I launch within emacs/exwm). Its hard to go back once you get used to consistent keybindings and commands across your OS. I sure wish RSS was more popular, too. I wouldnt even really need Firefox if that were the case.
> Part of the reason for the push for mobile is that a big chunk of the tech industry nowadays competes with power users

It really doesn't. It's playing in a different league - tailoring their solutions to the mass market of those who have zero time for that power-user level of technical sophistication. It could market power-user friendly versions of its products and services, but it's way too busy pushing them for uber-inflated prices in the "enterprise" market - where power-user friendliness is just one more box to tick, hoping to make a sale.
This happens a lot mathematicians might have their favourite object they study like Category theory and then get hung up on categories of categories but might forget that many simple things aren't categories like the prime numbers under addition because 2 + 2 = 4 and that is not prime.

Not just programming or math, in physiology you have entire research groups worked up about a molecule that causes dementia and after decades of research realise that the story was a lot more complicated than that.

You can almost recognise a healthy mind by the lack of such dogma, just don't make it a rule that would defeat its purpose.
Housing is hardly an inelastic, emergency scenario like a ruptured spleen.