skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked on the performance bits of that code base, I always appreciated that the well-performing parts wouldn't have happened without leadership setting explicit performance goals and allocating resources to pay for monitoring and much engineering time to reach said goals.
Don't worry, you and your kids are paying for green subsidies as well.

The math on nuclear power is not a settled matter: some studies say it's convenient, some studies say it's not.

It's hard to say who's right on the matter, but we also spent decades not improving nuclear reactor technology.

Overall I'd say I'm more confident in nuclear energy being the best for generating energy at scale, while renewables are great for reducing or eliminating the dependency on a national grid.
There is an enormous and probably diverse online peanut gallery for Rust. I think the concern is more about the diversity of contributors - many of these people meet in person. So the dogs and purple with orange speckled snails will be found out as such. Making sure people feel safe both online and in meatspace is important.

There is also a huge amount of imposter syndrome kicking about. It's important to garden new contributors of all kinds to make sure the best people can grow. While I have no data, I'd easily believe that dogs and snails have way more and severe imposter syndrome than cis white hetero males. So if we do want to make sure that all kinds of people can break through there's little harm in keeping tabs on the issue.

There are probably other impediments to contributing that I don't even know about. They should also be found and addressed, right?
The Leanpub API
I am not aware of anything specific in the rust community, and don't think I've ever read someone's twitter profile.

But there is a bigger movement around woke/lgbt, especially in the USA, and political parts of ict groups are very much subscribers to this view. I think it's weird for rust to even have stats about it, just like I would think rust to be weird to have stats about who is a coffee/thea/cola/nonternary drinker. It should not be relevant.

Feel free to write about your preferred drink in your Twitter profile. If you personally come over to me, I'll make sure to have that drink in my house, otherwise I'll perform the noble art of not giving a fuck.
Quite a few countries in Europe have the issuing authority scheme (Serbia, for one -- but there's probably a list of countries which do this somewhere). While you could argue it is sometimes useful to know if a car is from out of town, it just helps form stereotypes (drivers from X are awful, etc).
Thanks for that. It would be useful if the original submitters would use those sites first, instead of making us jump through the hoops for them.
Seeing as the tech companies have no interest in censoring based on "viewpoint" I don't see what difference this makes. Their entire existence relies on being the single point where everyone goes.

No Republicans have ever been removed solely for being Republican. People are removed for promoting violence and harassing other users.

The fact that Republicans consider violence to be a "viewpoint", and their viewpoint rather than that of a few extremists who use their name -- that worries me. A lot.
As a free-speech absolutist, the basic problem you should have with this is that as precedent, it would lead right into the legislature being able to force the press to publish certain things because not doing so would be 'censorship'.
This thread reminds me that twitter STILL doesnt offer you false/fake information as a reason when reporting a tweet... basically anyone can lie and post whatever they dream up (like in this case) without any option for recourse.
I'd want there to be a 0% chance of unintended consequences before taking this seriously. And even then when there is no other choice.
The assumption that the internet was working at the time of the original request so that the following font requests (a few milliseconds later) should also go through. There will be a few edge cases missed by this but I think it holds for such a large percentage of cases that they can just assume it.
Pellets in Switzerland are all from local Forrest that are specifically used for this. The manufacturing of pellets requires no additives and if 4 or more homes are sharing a burner (recommended) the burner has to meet very strict emissions and needs to be inspected regularly. Because the resources are local and the burning only produces CO2 which is planted again, it is considered quite sustainable.

If course a geo thermal heat pump and solar would be better but not every one has 100k extra to get that installed.
I feel like Austin residents may be the worst of the worst—Californians who fled to Texas because they didn’t want to pay income taxes.
Context: a couple of days ago the EU voted to keep wood as renewable energy.

https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/19339/eu-vote-allows-bi...

Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/07/world/europe/...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11209335/Historic-U...

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/09/15/251690...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/...
I use a randomly generated passphrase and store it in my password manager (like "correct horse battery staple" but usually 8 words).
Energy is not an EU competency. And to be clear, EU bureaucrats decide basically nothing, the council of ministers makes all EU decisions and they are the elected ministers of the member states.
The linked article is not a hit piece on Kripke.
‘The Most Angrily Incoherent First Amendment Decision’
Me, actually- I've played in the past flash game Taberinos- before I've found out what its title was I've made a similar game for myself - and that's how BOINK! has been made: https://lukaszkups.itch.io/boink
Don’t stand in the way of their hubris.
The entire point is anti-racism. Not anti-poverty. We have oodles of well-funded anti-poverty programs. Money can't cure people's bias. It's not a great solution what the hell else can be done to undo bad attitudes?
> I do use Framer, Proto.io and tons of others. Mostly because each of them is missing something.

Yep. I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.:)
What does "proficiency in algorithms"? mean? that's general question
Ban everyone who responds to this situation with anything other than a "meh"
I wouldn't call the dismissal too far off. I mean, compare to something like Vice, where

- facts are regularly presented,

- multiple viewpoints are solicited and presented

SWB strips all that away. I'd go as far as to call it docxploitation, but I suppose "My 600 lb Life" has gotten away with parading the vulnerable around.

This likely isn't really targeted, or about content at its core, and is instead for the express purpose of boosting YouTube's revenue.

YouTube ads are currently more vulgar than this content.
> It is shocking how much vodoo magic there is in a programming language marketed as "easy to learn and use".

But that's exactly what that expression means?

A car with an automatic transmission is "easy to learn and use", but an automatic transmission is way more complicated to construct than a manual one.
The harm is that a corporation would be compelled to host and display speech that they disagree with.

For a fun comparison, you may want to check https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/228/wooley-v-ma... , where the Supreme Court held that the government couldn’t force someone to drive around with the state slogan on their car, because it represented compelling speech.
RFP is Firefox's 'Resist Fingerprinting' setting: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

The guide is meant to go along with the arkenfox user.js from that repo (previously known as ghacks user.js), and I highly recommend checking out the rest of the repo if you are privacy-conscious.
> Would someone mind giving a description of "writing C in C++"?

For starters, write non-idiomatic code which employs (exclusively or not) a subset of features.

Imagine writing Python and only using free functions, while vehemently refusing to use stuff like classes or list comprehension or exceptions or anything at all. Similar to "writing C in C++", this would be "writing shell scripts in Python".

> Like it or not, C++ does have things like raw pointers, null terminated arrays, setjmp/longjmp, and macros. That's part of being a superset of C. Using them in C++ is still C++ if it's compiled by a C++ compiler.

You're missing the whole point.

"Writing C in C++" is synonymous to "not using new C++ features that are safer and faster and better than the old C features".

It's completely irrelevant if the compiler supports raw pointers or preprocessor macros. The whole point is that, say, intentionally using raw pointers when you have smart pointers is hardly justifiable, and you're not doing yourself any favor.
A true genius of the sort that might come around every hundred years. I look forward to his literary estate going through his hundreds of boxes worth of papers and manuscripts and notes and publishing them over the next few decades.
Adobe's UI design app 'Adobe XD' is one of the few Adobe apps to trail behind their competitors: Sketch and Figma.

Figma is also much more than just a UI design tool. You can create virtual whiteboards, brainstorm sessions and virtual classrooms - far ahead in collaboration features compared to Adobe XD and Sketch. Figma is even encroaching on the territory of apps like 'Miro' (a popular online collaborative whiteboard tool).

Adobe also has single Adobe ID sign-on for their products. I assume Adobe ID will integrate into Figma as some time in future. Will they force Figma users to switch to Adobe IDs?

Adobe's plan for Figma shows if you can't beat a rival, you buy the competition.

(An aside: 'Procreate' on the iPad is a digital painting app where, once again, Adobe is chasing the competition with their own digital painting app called 'Fresco'. Adobe's app has failed to dent Procreate's massive popularity.)
I’m not sure it is a good idea to buy longer dated govt bonds when we’re in the middle of the most aggressive rate tightening period in a generation.
You should try to get out of your filter bubble more often.
Pretty much same here, and that's why I don't log on as my much anymore. Most of my active social network is primarily on Instagram. However there is an aspect of growing out of social networks, especially when you have kids.

The more surprising thing is that Facebook still has a lot of current information on me with out me ever logging on with off_facebook_activity. And of course there were a few HN posts on it.

https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/
Open the link below to see your third party data and opt out if you want to.
Older accounts have some sort of "meaning" that I thought of, but for the last couple of years I have been using the username generator in Butwarden.
The hardest thing is finishing, because everything is ever connected to a "perfect" version of itself...

And it's way less fun (for most game dev people) to code the "perfect" version of an input remapping system or leaderboard system :p

Obligatory self-promotion:

I just released my Space Pew-Pew game on Steam in Early Access, complete with original 16bit-neoclassical OST!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/914930/Alcyon_Infinity/

"Destroy hordes of ever-improving enemies and their Mothership. Alcyon Infinity is a fast shooter/bullet hell with dynamic movement and risk management. Up to 4 Co-Op players with Controllers."

I'm doing a stealth release, primarily for my own sanity.
There is something different about having it out for the World to seen rather than working on it for 3 years and giving up in the meantime (happened twice).

The magnitude of the marketing work ahead is kinda daunting, but at least I have some kind of anchoring to realspace for prospective players.

A game you can play and refund is more tangible than a forum with promises...
There are people / companies that will do it for you: registration, office, recruitment.
Imagine the number of people who get this email on a user who left the company five years ago - and how many would just start paying assuming it’s some important part of something somewhere?
My understanding is that when people say Money is speech what they really mean is that it is a human right.

When an authority freezes your bank accounts (like Trudeau/Freeland did to the truckers) they infringe on your other rights (right to property, right to shelter, right to assembly , etc) demonstrating how much of a slave people are under these regimes.

When a payment processor cuts you off without recourse, they also infringe on your rights.

Money that most people know today is a terrible way to store value as it is also a tool for the state to control them.

Ethereum is now another government tool since a great percentage of transactions are validated within the US jurisdiction and are thus subject to the same draconian laws as federal bank issued money.
I think this is a case where "free speech absolutism" is not perfectly aligned with "first amendment absolutism", but either is a logically consistent framework.
A campaign you only launch late on a Friday
> Words are not violence by definition

Of course not, a crowbar isn’t a weapon until it’s used as such. I swear, entire generations have been set back when it comes to making progress on this due to that sticks and stones nonsense. It is ridiculous the idea that words somehow live in some abstract plane of existence unable to affect the real world if you just ignore them and that people don’t use words to achieve real life outcomes that hurt others.

> Also note that it's trivially easy to short-circuit your argument just by someone saying you're being white-phobic or misandric. Well, now you get to explain why _this_ "whateverphobic" statement is "violence" which demands a violent response, but _that_ "whateverphobic" isn't.

This isn’t the gotcha you think it is. Hate speech regardless of its target, including white men, is violence. You’re confusing the “prejudice plus power” definition of institutional racism with hate speech.

> Ultimately you've just defined your beliefs as not violent, and others' as violent.

I have not, in fact my position is entirely belief independent. Picking some generally agreed upon abhorrent views as example — if you want to write a missive about how people of dark skin are genetically inferior, that women are weak and a functioning society requires that they submit themselves to men, your findings that homosexuality is a disease and should be treated as one rather than accepted I’m not going to stop you because the beliefs themselves aren’t hate speech.
VSCode is open source. Its underlying editor is too, it's called Monaco: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/
What I especially appreciate are the recommendations at the end. The Titanic was a disaster, but the good news is that it was carefully analyzed and changes were made to greatly reduce the impacts of problems in the future. For example, laws were changed changed so that there had to be enough lifeboats for everybody on the ship.

Currently software developers are often not learning from previous security disasters. I hope that will change in the future. There are already efforts to start writing up about important problems, and that will be a start.
People can only do single-threaded concurrency, we have absolutely no way at doing true parallelism on a cognitive level+

I really don’t see the parallel you are trying to draw, computers do what they are instructed to do with very very very little chance of a hardware failure. Not wanted operations can happen, but they ultimately boil down to human error.

+ We are otherwise a heavily distributed system which has many autonomous systems interoperating at the same time
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> He is (was?) wrong that somehow Rust makes them not possible, or bad to use, or something.

I think the more meaningful question is whether local arenas are idiomatic enough in Rust. Of course, custom allocators are not the easiest thing to use in C++, either.

And there are other semi-related things, such as allocating and initializing pinned objects in-place, for which Rust is still lacking a good story as the Rust-for-Linux folks have pointed out recently.
To replace just a single nuclear reactor you need so many solar panels that the deaths caused by the transportation will be significant - accidents, pollution + you have to count the damaged roads that need to be replaced - again pollution and accidents. And high-voltage electricity is not exactly safe - you would need so much electrical work that there simply must be a lot of death from accidents too, on this scale we're getting into the area where it's statistics and not really something to simply prevent.

Solar panels need to be replaced after 30 years max, but most probably will be replaced much earlier because the operators want to pocket the improved efficiency of newer panels. Reactors will need maintenance but it is normal to keep them running much longer. Also, what about the human labor? To maintain such large solar array you'd need hundreds of people. A modern nuclear powerplant with 5+ reactors is maintained by few dozens of people.

I'm a huge proponent of solar energy - but on rooftops, not as a replacement of nature or nuclear power. It will never be possible to phase out fossil fuels in transport and industrial uses without nuclear power - solar just doesn't scale this much, it's perfect for individual houses but you just can't power thousands of large container ships with it, nor blast furnaces etc - and definitely not the uncountable amount of trucks and cars on roads.
This is essentially what I have in mind - some kind of queue, with a mediator that starts/stops a spot instance using a custom image that has everything installed and configured to start on boot

With regards to state I just meant the image - wouldn't want to have to install everything at each start. Using something like aws or gcp I don't think this would be an issue, but I was window shopping some providers that specialize in GPU VMs and it wasn't clear if they provided equivalent services. Probably easiest to just use aws.
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1. This is a great PSA. I would absolutely buy this kind of cable not realizing it's dangerous.

2. What is wrong with our regulatory bodies that there hasn't been heat turned up on these marketplaces? Imagine going to CVS and searching for OTC ADHD supplements and getting results for research chemicals from XYZChems in Cambodia. I might buy them assuming that CVS would be more responsible than that.

Maybe someone can explain to me why my analogy doesn't track.
That "smooth learning curve" applies when you are learning the language, use it by yourself or work in the ML/Data science industry.

Once you get thrown in a big project that makes heavy use of type hinting (plus the whole environment of it, mypy et all), Object Oriented design and all those hidden things...you realize how much you really don't know.

And that 10% is way too small. To be productive in Python, you need to know at least 50%, or you will be reinventing a lot of existing things. Poorly.
Looks and feels great.

My instinct was to scroll my trackpad to go prev/next page, but scrolling seems to iterate pages as fast as the app can possibly load them.

Speaking of language learning, I was hoping to use macOS built-in dictionary when highlighting a word but I see that you've offered your own popover. I don't know if there's a solution that offers both built-in OS stuff and custom functions when you highlight content.

Just trying to think of feedback. The UX is really polished and fast. And I generally like the minimal VS Code style.
Steal your money? No. Steal the banks money, using your account details to defraud a bank, possibly createing a headache for you? Maybe.
On the one hand this clearly violates the 1st amendment. On the other hand, the 1st amendment is already out the window when the FBI is leaning on social media platforms to censor news stories that turn out to be true.
Apologies for the late reply. If the retro rockets make the deceleration take twice or three times as long, then the acceleration is only half or a third of the impact without braking. That's most likely quite an improvement.

I do not know any details about the retro rockets of Blue Origin's capsule or Soyuz but here is some information about the system that SpaceX uses for their launch escape system. The Crew Dragon capsule has eight SuperDraco [0] engines meant to push it away from a failing rocket. These engines have 71kN thrust (16000 lbf) each and reach full thrust a mere 100ms after ignition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDraco
The question of whether or not this type of intervention will be necessary comes down to the specifics of various climate tipping points.

There's evidence that we've already crossed a tipping point with regards to methane release (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-28989-z). The loss of arctic sea ice is another important one, as the albedo of the earth decreases as the reflective ice turns into water.

It seems likely to me that some amount of solar geoengineering will be needed to bridge the gap from now until we achieve a carbon drawdown.
> Mark is on some weird white savior bullshit

What does Mark's race has to do with it? Would it be ok if he was black?
It’s not default but Rails has Devise and it’s lovely.
As the recipient of designs on the engineering side, I've never liked Figma. I don't have a touchpad or a scrollwheel on my mouse, so the scroll UX is hostile. I think there's definitely still room to find a middle ground between Figma and Invision.
cool project, reminds me a bit of arangoDB, but here even more logic can be built into SQL, allowing to develop (almost) the whole backend logic into the DB. The main problem with this kind of technology is that you move logic from established programming languages (java, C#, go, ...) to something more exotic which only a few programmers know. The other problem is lock-in, if the project dies you have to rewrite all your backend.

I wish you success though, to the point where those issues I mentioned are no longer true.
Sorry to nitpick, but that is the same city with a different name.

Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam… ;)
Is that even feasible? Could you resurrect Fortran or COBOL by bolting on modern features to those languages? Herb’s the genius that we don’t deserve but I have to think his generational talents are going to waste by plugging a sinking ship rather than designing the successor to C++ (rather than the Carbon devs who seem incapable of recognizing good design).
Yinz be trippin'.
that's not so easy... there are some national bubbles which the internet used to be good as igonring, but not once it became the mainstream internet.

now the national barriers exist online too, in addition to the pre-existing language barriers. i.e. the information technology has been deployed as an extra tool to apply national-linguistic barriers between peoples.
> loved universally by designers and software engineers

Not really. I’m an engineer and worked closely with designers for the bulk of my career. I’ve been spoiled with much better communication processes and mediums. I’ve shipped UI widgets to core libraries of Amazon and Google, none of it needed Figma.

The Figma product itself is slow, and has usability issues, which is ironic. The CSS box model, for example, is a 90% approximation. It is an improvement over Sketch, but these tools when viewed as a designer/engineer communication medium is not a necessity. Designers would also be fine in not web adapted tools. I’ve found Storybook to be a much better protocol to match impedance between design and engineering, but that requires an org with UX developers (a designer who can produce working CSS and HTML).
Would it be better if he didn't?