skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another overlooked irresponsible move by the Fed in recent times was when Yellen's Fed was very slow to raise rates coming out of the 2008 recession (the Federal reserve held rates near 0 until 2016), which gave certain segments of the market a lot longer to grow with free money than they should have had. That move, in turn, also gave the fed a lot less flexibility during Trump's trade war and the following crisis.

Both of those moves look to me like overreactions inspired/emboldened by Bernanke's actions in 2007-8. Powell saw that slamming rates to 0 had helped to prevent a complete collapse of the financial system in 2008 and went with it. He didn't notice that Bernanke did a whole bunch of other stuff too, and that Bernanke was one of the world's foremost experts on the economics of the Great Depression, which certainly helped in 2008.
>They're in the process of being started for months now

Of course they are, that's how they work. 6 of them came online in last two weeks. But that's not what you were honestly implying there, is it?

> Reliability is a word and it has a meaning. With that in mind nothing beats renewables because the tech just works and they're so decentralized that a glitch of huge proportions would be needed to make them not work as designed. On the other hand a huge power plant can go out unexpectedly and take a massive part of the grid offline just as unexpectedly. That's unreliable and it's in fact what has happened this year.

Whatever meaning "reliability" has (especially in practical terms of you getting your power), it's really not what you wrote in the other sentences. Especially it's not a word that means "ignoring drawbacks of whichever option I like."
> You just kind of handwave the whole problem away.

No, that's what copyright does. It demands we all play the game, then it's totally unprepared for that not working out. Someone used a computer and an internet connection to share data without paying me money? shocked Pikachu face

I'm at least admitting there's a problem. Just because I don't have a solution does not mean I don't understand the problem. Not all problems are that easily solved.

If I did have a solution, I would be implementing it. After all, a solution to that problem would be one of the most valuable contributions to society I can think of. At least one of the most highly valued.

> So basically you're deciding the entire industry of book writing is broken

I didn't decide. I was speaking descriptively, not prescriptively; something the copyright industry seems rather unfamiliar with.

> But until then we should all just be okay with pirating the work of others and thereby robbing them of their means of living, because it has been decided that the old system is beyond functioning.

It's not a matter of being OK with it or not. We can't compel every person to follow the rules. We've been trying that method for 30 years, and it's been blowing up in our faces the entire time.

The reality is that copyright is a false promise. We can't force people to add a monetary transaction to the distribution of information, when information can be distributed anonymously at next to zero cost.

You're so worried about the ethical implications of piracy, but what about the ethical implications of the false promise that is copyright?

We are telling authors every day that they can make money selling books, but that is only true occasionally, by chance. We have no way to guarantee that will happen. We can't attribute every successful book sale to copyright enforcement, because we know copyright enforcement is broadly failing.

It's time to stop treating this like a game of good vs evil, and recognize the failure of the game itself. Even if that means recognizing that we already lost.
> The French reactors were taken offline for scheduled maintenance and repairs. Those hours don't count against reliability metrics because the plants weren't expected to be operating.

That is a lie. A total of 12 reactors are down for unscheduled repairs because of corrosion damage that was found during inspections in October 2021.

Some of the others are down unscheduled because they used river water for cooling, which due to the hot and dry summer threatened the rivers' ecosystem.
I don't think that works - the freedom he's talking about is the freedom of the person who owns the computers, devices and digital records.

In the world of IP and copyright law, the ownership rights that go with owning a piece of media with particular patterns are restricted. You are not allowed to dispose of the patterns on a DVD as you might wish despite supposedly 'owning' it. This is clearly a difference from previously understood models of what ownership was.

> The ordinary subjects of property are well known, and easily
conceived . . . But property, when applied to ideas, or literary and intellectual
compositions, is perfectly new and surprising . . . by far the most comprehensive
denomination of it would be a property in nonsense - Lord Gardenston 1773
> There's no such thing as better writer

If someone hones their craft such that they become more effective at articulating their thoughts, at making their argument more persuasive, at moving their audience, at reaching more people, wouldn’t we say that they’ve become a better writer than they used to be?
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
Fishing and farming is the basis of the food web for cities. Cities aren't closed systems plus fossil fuels/electricity. They are super open systems with an enormity of inputs in the form of everything from wheat, to fish, to chickens that have been fed rando fish that humans won't eat, etc. It's all a big extraction machine that is super unsustainable.
When I was running a half marathon with my Apple Watch 6 ( without a phone) I was getting a 1km notifications within 5-15 meters of the km signs. I was super impressed with the accuracy
> according to California’s state law, if any of the following cases are true, the company/employer will own the IP.

> * If you use the company’s resources

> * Company computer, laptop, or any equipment.

> * Company’s cell phone.

> * Company's office space.

> * Company’s time also.

Until I saw this laid out like this, I never realized how one-sided it is. For an individual to own copyright, you need to own everything involved in creating the work. If a corporation owns even one thing involved, it instead gets the entire ownership of the copyright.

And "company's office space" is particularly awful. If your workday is over, but you stay in the office building for a few minutes to stay out of the rain while waiting for your bus home, your employer shouldn't get to own anything you do on your personal cell phone in that time.
> I understand the appeal. We’re engineers. We like building things. System dynamics lets you construct an argument by building a model. Provocative title aside, I do appreciate this style of argument. Some very thoughtful writing is done this way. It is explicit and engaging; it can even be visual or interactive.

No. You're not engineers, you are software developers.

While both may require a certain amount of skill and expertise, you're throwing around titles casually where it doesn't make sense. In most cases, engineers deal with the physical world and the laws around it, and the product in terms of an engineering solution is normally physical/materiel.

Software development particularly when it does not include a physical component is intrinsically different because the fabrication aspect of the physical world applies a great deal less. For example, if you are at a critical design review of a jet engine, the refabrication and fixes of components may require huge amounts of time. In software development the output is code, and although person hours and work is involved in modifying/changing it, it has inherent plasticity.

This is why more iterative methodologies make a great deal more sense in software than do engineering oriented development processes.
I was on Protonmail before switching to Fastmail. Happy with both, but I do have a couple issues with Protonmail:

1. I remember the webui being really slow. Maybe because it was hosted in Europe? This was a couple years ago. Fastmail has one of the best/fastest web apps I've ever used.

2. I'm still paying Protonmail because their export tool doesn't support Linux and so far I can't be bothered.

3. Not being able to use different clients is a bummer. Obviously it's because of their encryption which is nice but overkill for my needs.
> On further reflection I think maybe reputation for performance matters rather than performance itself

I think that you're vastly overestimating the importance C as an abstract specification and as a community of programmers with a coherent set of shared goals. You're also too focussed on performance. There is a practical sense in which C will tend to perform better for certain tasks, but it doesn't necessarily have all that much to do with the language itself. It's the whole ecosystem. And yes, path dependence matters. It isn't intrinsically true that it has to be this way, a little like how it isn't intrinsically true that we have to use QWERTY keyboards instead of Dvorak keyboards.

It's not that there aren't lots of serious problems with C -- there certainly are. It's that those problems are systemic problems; they're more the result of a huge number of people making a huge number of pragmatic decisions, day after day, year after year -- and the sequence matters. Many of these people are not computer programmers. Many are from hardware vendors that have people that sit on standards bodies for everything from NVMe to RISC-V. These are all people that more or less all look at the world as it actually is today, and build on that incrementally. They build accretions on top of accretions.

There are many glaring contradictions in C. Depending on who you ask, it's either a portable assembler, or a programming language that targets something called the C abstract machine. And neither party seems to want to even address the glaring inconsistency! This is a cabal that seems to have a real problem with staying on message, don't you think?

I make only very modest claims here. I'm not saying that this is good or inevitable; only that it is the best explanation I am aware of. I'm definitely not saying that we can't do better. Only that I believe that the current state of affairs works as well as it does (i.e. barely adequately) because in the end it's very difficult to get an enormous number of people separated by time and space to agree on anything at all. C more or less remains the defacto standard when operating at the hardware/software interface not in spite of its glaring contradictions. It's because of them.

It's all but impossible for me to prove any of this, because I'm describing diffuse, emergent behavior -- what I'm arguing is that things tend to take the path of least resistance, in an environment where companies come and go, and short term business considerations hold sway. I might be willing to put more effort into convincing you of this if I really was the C zealot that you imagine me to be, but I'm not.
As somebody who writes C++ for my job, I don't think the tooling is particularly good so it's funny to me when people talk about that. Languages like Java or Python have good tooling, but C++ is a dumpster fire in terms of tooling.
I don't know what made you think I suggested that this would be painless

FX rates are also the result of twisting the knob, not the cause.

And there's a lot of other factors in inflation, but the wage inflation is the one that has the Fed worried. The Fed knows everything else is cyclical and they weren't worried in the commodities boom and high oil prices in 2010-2014. The reason why they're so worried now is wage inflation. We haven't had wage inflation this high in 30 years and the Fed hasn't thrown on the brakes this hard since I can remember. This isn't the 25bp tightening every meeting of the Greenspan Fed.
Thank you. Taking collective action against you would’ve been… messy. Enjoy the cornfield.
What you're asking is how to get people to work. The world and economics have already provided many alternatives. Pick your poison.
Hmmmm.

OK. I guess.

This is not any standard definition of "architecture" that I recognise, but I think I see what you are getting at.
Good job releasing this source code.

This will ensure it's preserved properly. It might even spawn new work fixing bugs or adding features.

Much better than letting the media with the sources rot somewhere, eventually lost.
Clearly, you don't understand the .com boom.
What if the policy is to lock accounts when data integrity errors are detected...

"We have always had better storage durability than Europa."

Note, I am not arguing that this is necessarily what happens. The thread full of contrary views on cloud storage just tickled this cynical take loose from wherever it was lodged.
A lot of Linux is built by people on salaries from big tech.
Please don't upvote this garbage just because it purposely ticks all the stereotypical boxes for a successful, yet unsourced HN post that would only result in hundreds of meaningless comments making none of us any wiser.
Data shows similar growth to USA.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2...

edit: updated link to last 15 years
Ngl that looks awesome. Thanks for the pointer. I’m trying it too
Not really. The NTSB (or FBI, or CIA) is not compelled to release any particular piece of material, especially not if all already public material sufficiently explains what happens.

I don’t particularly trust the FBI or CIA, but that alone is not good enough, nor is circumstantial evidence that is adequately accounted for.
MD5 still has no known preimage attacks. Neither does MD4, for which collisions are absolutely trivial to generate.
Uh, like, yeah, I have one. And over a hundred peer-reviewed publications. You?
You are conflating Russia with the USSR. But besides that, how do you reconcile the fact that Russia is having difficulties defeating Ukraine but yet it would be a meaningful threat not to just one but to 10 or more states (baltic states, V4 states, Romania, Bulgary, Finland etc) which are also NATO members?
This is far outside the Overton window, but I think it will be what wins out in the end. All information deserves to be free.

The society that used it will grow with the value of the information. That value can then be captured through increased land rents. Those land rents can then be used to pay back the creator through either a lump sum or a residual process.

Since all information released in this process is free-to-use, new information will flourish just like the eco-system behind stable diffusion is flouring faster than OpenAI.
" I can get a laptop and run that script giving me a full working station in about 10 minutes"

I even made my own manjaro (arch linux) version. So I have a USB stick with all my setup and programms, I can plugin and go hacking on any computer.
Or directly install it. Takes only 3 minutes ;)

Of course that is freaking awesome.
I can highly recommend mailbox.org. I have been using their service for multiple years with my own domain and never had any problems sending or recieving mails from the big providers. They also take the privacy of their users data really seriously.
Yes, and that what's I'm arguing. There should be a distinction whenever a title such as "read this to become better" is presented, especially for writing.

There's no consideration for the absolute basic level of entry to writing, and it imposes on the person an unrealistic perspective which may lead that person on a meaningless journey on "becoming" something that they are inherently not able to become.

Hence me mentioning higher education. I'm well aware of people who are absolute artists with words, but that same story can be said/explained in practical ways.

Perhaps I should have made that clearer.
This is the CORE of the energy debate..

People throw out whatever nonsense they like to support their position.

"Nuclear costs 3-5x" and as you point out, compared to what?

The cost of sitting around for 20 years debating this and not taking any action at all has lead to much worse problems - power shortages.

These "anti-nuclear" types fail to apply logic to their debate.

I asked how much power is produced by solar during the long winter months, i suspect they will not respond as it is against their view - solar is NOT viable in cold-weather climates. You need a reliable "base" system and nuclear is very well suited for this. Our plants (CANDU) can be refuelled while producing near-full power greatly reducing the need to shut them down.

The reason the temperatures fall below zero during the winter where i live is obvious.. The energy we receive from the sun has been greatly reduced.

How would solar power address the reduction in available solar energy, and the increased demand for energy for heating?
When the Covid hoarding panic set in someone bought all yeast in my local super market. Couldn't get any for weeks becouse people started hoarding when it hit the shelves.

I guess some of your neighbours have years worth of coal ... and toilet paper, of course.
It won't be a mistake. The Fed will raise interest rates to tame inflation and will create unemployment by doing so. That will also cause a financial crisis, though. Every time the tide goes out we find out who was swimming around naked. This time isn't going to be any different.
> I find this kind of inconsistent, as you already have HTML in your JS, so it's not just JS.

You don’t write HTML in React. You write JSX that gets compiled down to function calls which at runtime becomes HTML. JSX is a nicer syntax to make function calls look like HTML. I know this sounds pedantic, but this is the exact thing that differentiates React from others.
Frankly my pet hate is that page takes 7 seconds to load on a 500Mb WiFi connection on a high end android device.
You can also write “Charge higher rates for essential” as “Offer cheaper electricity that has lower quality of service guarantees”.

If seen that way, you wouldn’t pay more; you would have to he choice to get cheaper electricity.

I foresee high demand for electronics that seamlessly switch from the lower quality of service feed to the ‘essential’ one when that cheaper feed stops working, though.
Yes it was a thought experiment. People should allow crazy ideas to at least enter their brains. I know this community is sometimes narrow minded and I lost some points but it's ok :)
Would you still work in an organisation if they gave you more money but they still didn't help you with:

- Work hours / shifts

- Holidays

- Micromanagement of your workload

- Having orders given down but taking full responsibility if it goes wrong?

- Miscommunication and resources not being available or sent to the wrong place?
Lots of people can't "give it a shot" because it is so different from everything else. That's also why it has no foothold in any corporate environment. Even the amount of small businesses that use Nix for development is so small it's insignificant (but is exists).

The main issue (I think) is that it boils down to "a worse shell script" shaped in a LISP kind of wrapper. Plenty of people know about LISP too but will simply not even look at it because it is too different. Even if you take away the functional paradigm it just doesn't look like anything that can map to an existing knowledge base. This is also why C-esque languages (and I'm talking about the non-edge-cases here) are so prevalent and successful; they don't have to be 'the best' or even 'good', they just have to be easy to map to existing knowledge to be useful. And Nix doesn't do that.
> This presentation seems to show the compatibility between most recent releases is not very good.

Half of the "features" shown in the presentation are exceedingly niche. It's just that a 20 million LOC (or however many Chrome has right now) code base is almost guaranteed to exercise every niche feature somewhere.

Having helped with C++ standard transitions of a code base half an order of magnitude smaller, the amount of issues requiring code changes was minuscule so far. You tend to have much more boring problems, like:

- "We can't use newer C++ because C++/CLI doesn't support it"

- "We can't use newer C++ in these headers because they end up included in CUDA code, and that compiler only supports C++14"

- "We have to wait for a new version of <tool> before we can lint/sanitize/profile/format our code"

- "This third-party code has the compiler up in arms now because it does questionable things"
Please see the adjacent response: part of the fuselage almost certainly ascended before its final descent. That’s the part that I am not confident I would be able to distinguish.
There are some weird news coming from Iran in recent past.
I think you're misstating it a bit. To my understanding, California law doesn't say that if any of those conditions are met, the employer automatically owns the IP. Rather, it says that if none of those conditions are met, any contractual provision which would otherwise cause the employer to own the IP is invalid. If one or more of the conditions are met, the contract (and other laws, such as work for hire) govern, and the IP may or may not belong to the employer.
As for <chrono>, the link you provided also has a (short) justification behind the decision:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/styleg...

Regarding smart pointers, not sure if you also found this:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/base/m...
There are other ways to get pay out (e.g. Tinyseed)
These are very weak arguments. Uranium is plentiful all over the world, it just isn't currently mined in the West because it's so cheap to buy. And Nuclear reactors can be designed to work without large supplies of fresh water.

Even if they were good arguments, Nuclear isn't just slightly better than solar/wind, so some problems don't change the conclusion.
qBittorrent can handle at least 1500 torrents fine, try that. Source? My desktop instance seeding right now.
O’Reilly offers this for a huge proportion of technical and business books. Amazon has a sort of offering for fiction, but it seems to offer only the back-catalogues, not current best-sellers.
You can buy direct from Sony
If the units don't match, changing the user's base font size will only affect one of them. Part of why we stopped using rem.

Why are we even setting a font-size on root of we want to base the width on the "default?"

Why are we even setting a max-width? Just split text into columns to maintain a legible line length.
Is this argument saying authors should get a payment from land owners based on the value provided by their books?

How do you measure the value of Harry Potter’s impact on society?
It would make sense to have say your stage 1 heating that could keep your house livable but rather cold on essential, and your stage 2 heating which made things comfortable on the less available feed. I'd also put refrigerators and minimal lighting on essential.

The alternative as presented was some sort of compliance program hoping people wouldn't just run everything off the 'essential' feed regardless of need, or rolling blackouts as currently practiced.

It seems you agree that 'essential' loads have much more value to you and others, but you're not willing to pay the value?
Ya, that's right, but there are cryptographically secure forms of plausible deniability, commonly known as "deniable encryption": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
I'd call those people marketers.
You're moving the goalposts here. Parent specified hiking above the treeline, not merely hiking. Yes, light hiking can be done with ordinary clothing, but above the treeline, that is foolish, irresponsible behavior that leads to SAR pickups. That's not gatekeeping.
That pirate ship has sailed.