skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're making an odd, apples-to-oranges comparison. China doesn't use coal for energy, only free market countries? China burns more coal than the US an their air quality is far worse.

While it's a shame the US doesn't have a decent rail network, thousands of miles of high-speed rail in China are unsupported by ridership and is riddled with safety problems. Similar to their situation with unoccupied apartments: too expensive for most people, and riddled with safety problems (e.g. concrete made from sea sand). China is a great example of how authoritarian countries can produce stats that look good on paper (km of high-speed rail, number of houses), but when you look behind the curtain it's often crap. It's a house of cards to keep that 8% GDP growth on paper. But on the ground there are thousands of high-rise apartments with corroding rebar.
> You're making an odd, apples-to-oranges comparison. China doesn't use coal for energy, only free market countries? China burns more coal than the US an their air quality is far worse.

China is building 150 new nuclear power plants in the next 15 years (more than the entire rest of the world has built in the last 35 years) [1] and is adding solar capacity faster than anyone on earth, going from 0.1GW in 2007 to 307GW in 2021. [2]

> While it's a shame the US doesn't have a decent rail network, thousands of miles of high-speed rail in China are unsupported by ridership and is riddled with safety problems.

For now. Safety problems will be resolved and people will move to live alongside the rail lines, which is a chicken-egg problem the US refuses to solve. It starts to look a whole lot better 10 or 20 years down the line.

[edit] @elosius: They've more than tripled nuclear generation in China since 2014, going from 100TWh/yr to 350TWh/yr - from 1% of power to 5% of power. Also, they've made huge strides in terms of air quality. Stop looking backwards, and start looking forwards. Air quality improvements will follow. [3]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

[3] https://epic.uchicago.edu/news/from-airpocalypse-to-olympic-...
> it feels like the GDP being accurate

This has been my personal gripe for a long time now! Imagine that I needed to borrow £1000 from my mum, she lends me that money, and then I return that much back to her shortly after; therefore generating £2000 in GDP. It excludes the reason why I needed to borrow that money, ie it could be that I am in dire economic situation, and could not pay for essentials, therefore this GDP growth is due to poverty rather than growth!

Additionally, in the US, there is a thing called "imputed GDP", which is essentially GDP that is not realised due to an owned property being lived in and not being rented out. This generally accounts for around 15% of US's GDP https://www.bea.gov/help/faq/488 I guess companies such as Black Rock seem to be doing good for the GDP by buying people's properties and then renting it back to them.

tl;dr I am also not a fan of purely looking at GDP as an accurate metric for the economy.
Or maybe somewhat similar to biological evolution: competition and cooperation.
> Tried very hard to find right people

Specific technical problems best go on the repsective forum, chat or mailing list. Composite problems (you mention architecture) are harder to find people for. Maybe you should shift the problem towards decomposing the issue into a series of more focussed questions, eg. what conceptual architecture (microservices, event sourcing, batch processing?) is the best fit for your problem and then which technologies can you use to realise the conceptual architecture.
Yup, exactly. ("despite being on Twitter 870 hours a week" !!)

Furthermore, this is almost a caricature "clueless USAian that doesn't acknowledge (realize ??) that most of the Internet is not in English, and most of the English content isn't by USAians"...
It's incredible that he would say that, and what is worse is that he apparently also believes that. But self-selection never works out for a company. It is the most talented people who leave -- the least talented will hang onto their lucrative Facebook jobs for as long as possible. When a company needs to shrink, it needs to be pro-active in figuring out who to let go. Merely passively letting it happen is a bad plan.
No, it's word based.

The vocabulary is here: https://huggingface.co/openai/clip-vit-base-patch32/resolve/...

It is contextual though, so words in different orders mean different things.
I gave it a try feeding it with one of my community nicknames. It was rather generic so I did expect some false positives. Color me surprised when it automatically started a second search iteration using my real name!

Turns out that one of the websites I'm registered to uses Gravatar to display profile pictures. I've naively been using the same WP account to set a picture for all my emails, believing that you couldn't get information about my other accounts using a simple picture.

I guess I was wrong, and I'll probably split my Gravatar account this evening.
Huge companies that exploit their workers are themselves being exploited. Sounds like maybe there is a god.
The elephant in the room is that if people want to see updates from friends and family but have to put up with ads or dissimulated ads in 8 out of 10 posts just for you to not be insolvent, then it is clear that you don't have much of a business if you keep this ad business model.
Until you can charge from empty to full in under a few mins and get 700+ real range miles EV's will remain a niche product. It's just not worth the hassle of have to plug your car in any chance you get like an old iphone.

2030 is around the year I think they will become an intelligent buy.
I really just don't understand the hype over humanoids, I understand the assumption that humanoids can do the same tasks as humans do but at this level of technology it's just too soon to have them do anything useful.

We yet have to achieve proper autonomy for simple tasks using robotic arms like picking items. I still have to prevent my roomba from avoiding socks. Those are machines built specifically for that single purpose and yet they are failing at it.

I just don't see how humanoids can be of any use at this stage apart from generating hype for Tesla or for some sci-fi enthusiast.
Switch to double edge razors and you won’t care about the blades again. They only cost a few cent when they aren’t wrapped in a proprietary plastic holder.
There are a lot of software developers out there better than me, faster than me, more knowledgable than me. I'll never be in the top 10% of software devs.

Sometimes when I look at the posts here, and follow software dev sites and blogs, and about things going on in e.g. the Linux kernel, or compiler development, I wonder if I'll ever be in the top 90% of software devs.⁰

Then I realise it doesn't matter that there are thousands of devs out there better than me. They might be able to do any project I might want to get involved in better than I can - but they can't do all the projects that interest me. No matter how good the top 1% of software devs are, they can't do all the software dev work that desperately needs doing, let alone all the software dev work that is merely "important". There's just too much that could be done.

So I can get on with my own projects in peace. It doesn't matter that other people could do my projects better than me, because they're busy on their own projects instead. I can still work on my stuff, and that's fine.

⁰ I always forget about the existence of thousands of devs who struggle with fizzbuzz, because my brain is mean to me.
And it's done without SCRUM :D
When you read the posts and when you don't rely on titles, you can see the point that the author argues.

2FA does suck, it's not a pleasant experience but it is necessary. If something sucks, it does not mean that you don't have to or should not have to use it. There are things that hinder user experience but are immense for security, like 2FA is.

Making judgment based on title is silly, and if the spirit of HN is to judge without facts - then I apologize. Carry on as you were.

The strawman argument against the author, based on the title that provokes thought, is not a sign of intellectual discussion.
Duh, bottle of Stolichnaya, obviously.
If development is ongoing, the branch is not merged, there is no duplication.
I think this might underrate the value of being nice. But, point taken: Don't overdo nice because you feel external pressure to do so.

Being kind is necessary and often sufficient.
50 years ago is not 500 years ago is not 5000 years ago. In the last 50 years we've had some incremental improvements to our understanding, in 500 you're going to before Newton. 5000 and we were just developing complex farming societies and the first civilisations.

5000 years is before Ozymandias. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Going anywhere where EV couldn't reach would most often require some sort of reservations; hotels, skiing resorts, museums, sight seeing etc all require some sort of planning if you don't want to absolutely burn money buying things ad-hoc, which would go counter the point of saving money with an ICE anyway.

A month or two in advance is just fine, most people can do as much. They do know how many days of vacation they get though, and it's unlikely to change, so any plan you have you keep.
I don't understand it either, but the majority of people seem to understand it and buy it. I think the typical HackerNews person isn't one of those and probably many people on here think like you and me about it. But it is the same on instagram, the typical instagram User doesn't think like us and probably wouldn't understand your comment and how it doesn't matter to you. The difference is Instagram has a bigger platform than e.g. hackernews.
What exactly are you pointing at?

Long-term successful areas did not have authoritarian rule. Take Europe for example. There were all the many states, and even within them lots of struggle for power. Then there was the church (even after splits based on the same faith) as an additional layer parallel to the worldly powers. As far as I an tell it handily beat authoritarian competition.

Sure, there existed plenty of local authoritarian rulers, but how did those places do long-term and not just during there often short rule?

Maybe somebody knowledgeable could talk about China? They sure had plenty of strive and competition, but then they had dynasties and centralized rule. As far as I know, which is very little, European powers were quite successful in direct competition (when the two met) and also indirectly (overall results, not of direct encounters).

This is something for reddit's (heavily moderated) /r/AskHistorians, and I highly doubt the TL;DR of a historian's reply would support the assertion or would boil down to the above "gestures broadly at world history".

Genghis Khan or Alexander and other authoritarian rulers sure were great at conquering, but after that it was already over. And they accomplished it mostly by killing an incredible number of people, so instead of actually competing they just removed the competition altogether. Which only ever works temporarily.

> Human thinking naturally aligns towards authoritarianism

In addition, when we look at ape society and tribal humans, the statement is not true at all. Even the ape society is one of alliances, and brutal rulers are eliminated, for example "Scientists show that chimps will murder and eat their dictators" https://www.inverse.com/article/27141-chimp-murder-kill-cann...

Human monarchies often (usually?) had religious leaders with independent power rivaling that of the monarchs as far as I know (e.g. ancient Egypt)? For example: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1026/clergy-priests--pr...

> Throughout Egypt's history, the priesthood would serve a vital role in maintaining religious belief and tradition while, at the same time, consistently challenge the authority of the king by amassing wealth and power which at times rivaled that of the crown.

Given that we don't live in a LitRPG or Xinaxia fantasy universe where individuals can gain world destroying god-like powers, and that humans naturally are all about equally powerful and not orders of magnitude different in the abilities of their bodies and brains, authority always is a question of the network and not of just that particular single individual appearing at "the top". Keeping that network in sync and focused seems to be very hard judging by the history of actual usually short-lived (by history standards, it may well last the lifetime of a person) authoritarian rule. So maybe the attempt may be natural, actual success not so much.
> But over time it consistently turns out that democracies are making consistently better decisions than the authoritarians. Similar to how liberty usually gets much better results but high-status people refuse to accept that the plebs can make decisions for themselves.

And still, corporations are mostly authoritarian, with top down decision making and big hierarchical structures. And worse, the majority of people are ok with this even if they champion democracy outside the workplace.

Most of us don't have a lot of influence in current democracies except by electing some representatives, but we do in the workplace, and there is where it's most restricted.
There is no Internet, apart from the technical meaning.

Internet culture is just culture, Internet celebrities are just celebrities.

The author sees the Internet as a place where you can walk in, hang around, and hear about most things that are happening. But replace "Internet" with "Philippines" or any other space which many people share, and it's clearly not possible.

Internet may have started out as a space where people "go", where the culture was distinct, and so on. But as it became more integrated into people's lives, it stopped being a space, and became a mode of life, just like photography is a mode of art, or "homesteading" is a mode of living. You can't possibly hear about everything happening in a mode because once it becomes accessible, it escapes its delimited roots, it's available for anyone in any society, anywhere.

The Internet stopped being a box a long time ago, and the author didn't notice.
When things are structured (or: rigged) to reject external criticism, then the only alternative to being passive is to be annoying. Q.E.D.
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Nice! Thanks for these, excited to read more about Zim Wiki and Ossia.
> What about all the languages that can simply use libsodium directly

Nothing. It's great they do that.

I made a comment that refuted a snarky remark that had no basis, I did not compare languages nor post claims about language's awesomeness or anything else, just that it uses libsodium and that silly remarks centered around trashing PHP are based on lack of knowledge.
I believe, even with all the impressive advances, we do not know as much as we would like to think.
Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 2: multi-threading
I don't understand, what data are exactly collected by satellites? Amount of light at night?
How has no-one replied with the usual quote?

>
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
"Planning to in the next 15 years" doesn't speak to the current reality, the one wherein the US has a much more diversified portfolio of energy production, and far better air quality.
It matters when creating infrastructure for bikes though. If you put down a bike lane and nobody uses it, it's likely that the cyclist feel safer riding in the street.
Beautiful. And a sign that I'm very old. I started in the transition from 2.2 to 2.4 which I remember being a big deal but I don't recall why. Anyway, Linux has been my daily driver ever since. No regrets on that front.
How to use the Bitwarden username generator and why you should
It sounds almost as if he gives managers a green light to push workers out. “self selection” is a euphemism for quitting without severance. i hope facebook employees pay attention to how their “transfers” to other teams or changes in workload are made as to not be intentionally designed to make them quit.
Related... https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-to-use-the-bitwarden-username...
I mean, something has got to give. Of course we can also shift the goalpost by adding safety to any degree (and then we could do the same with the average gas driven cars used in the region you are looking at).

However, the claim merely stated: "EVs are definitely going to remain a first-world item for my lifetime at least". It's pretty safe to say, looking at what we already have and how quickly it scaled in the last years, that this is complete nonsense and will be increasingly so.
They closed my account two years ago because after verifying my identity they figured I was too young when I made it. That must have been over 15 years ago. There are many reports of this happening, including people losing access to the money left in their account.
Electric cars are made of the same metal and plastic that ICE cars are so we'll see. Wireless technology already allowed Africa to leapfrog over some of the mistakes of the west. EV vehicles backed by solar and stationary batteries may let them leapfrog again.
Even in the mid 90s there were more newsgroups than you could meaningfully keep track of, and thousands of messages a day on popular topics.

Sadly message threading has only gotten worse since that time, and now conversations are incredibly shallow, commonly being restricted to a single reply.

Twitter copied thread forking as re-tweets, and blocklists, but hashtags are too amorphous to be compared to newsgroups. Instead it's like having the latest message from every thread and newsgroup delivered in one thread.
I see the "motivation" but I meant that if they were being genuine they should have attempted better extension install screens.

The current one just lists "Access to all websites" as a normal permission as if it's no big deal.
Adding to that, vehicles with built in solar panels will also add some attractiveness to this for development countries. No need to pay for fuel/electricity.

Sure it might take up to a full day to get 50-100 miles in the battery, but with smaller vehicles (three wheelers, motor bikes etc) it will definitely work out. Certainly considering many development countries are mostly sunny places like south east Asia, Africa, and south America.
Hahaha.

Hiring this guy to serve beer seems to me like it's not a super-competent move. But they did, then they stung him and he's likely going to jail and they get to talk up their success on thwarting "the baddies." Until you read the details and laugh at the idiocy of it. According to you it's because they can't determine who to trust before giving them security clearance. No way to do it. Can't even take a reasonable guess.

Do they still use totally discredited and shown to be utterly ineffective witch-doctor bullshit like "polygraph" machines? Or have they stepped up from throwing bones and reading tea-leaves? Or they've stopped and just give anyone clearance because there's no other way to do it as you seem to be claiming.

Is that your experience of working in security? Please share.
More like tiddlywinks.
Francosphere, so perhaps not so well known in US as in Europe. For context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Maigret

Terrific detective books
I had been using Miniflux for little less than a year. If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there's a hosted option.

https://miniflux.app/
I think you should look into what actually happened with the bank bailouts. In the UK the government took ownership stakes in both RBS and HBOS, in the US the government took equity in AIG. The US government actually made $20Bn profit from that deal in the end. The money the US loaned to banks under TARP actually got paid back with interest, netting the US Gov a profit on that as well. These bailout programmes also came with executive pay restrictions. The regulations on bank stability since then are the reason why lots of banks are struggling to make money (they simply can't make money the ways they used to).

I know that people wanted the bankers to suffer for the damage they caused. And yes, there was a complete failure to actually criminally or civilly pursue the people responsible. Yes that was bad. But the 2008 bailouts were actually incredibly effective, and wiping out shareholders would largely have just robbed pension funds.
Ah yes. Let's forget about the additional load on the grid. All we have to do is run a fancy cord
I stopped reading when I saw "JWT".
Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about.

Manual counting does not work well. I cannot stress this enough.

Manual counting in the past has meant much work, rework, terror, confusion and rampant fraud and miscounting. Brazil is a gigantic country with over 150 million electors spread across an area larger than western Europe and with a population much more diverse than that.

The labour and the complexity involved in producing the machines and auditing is nothing compared to what manual counting was.
Yes, it's very dull to hear repeatedly about breakthrough upon breakthrough, only for nothing to materialise.

Why is there this brick wall here, surely we could do something to improve understanding and health?

Well, imo, of course there is something to do, but not if you are holding to entirely the wrong paradigm(s).

First bad paradigm - that the medical industry is there to help. It's not. It makes money from disease. Lots of disease mean more profits! A protracted illness is great news, diabetes, cancer are a blessing (for profits).

If you can accept that the medical industry is not there to help, and that perhaps it even helps cause illness to ensure a good pipeline for the future, you can then consider what a better paradigm might be.

Second bad paradigm, imo, is that cancer is a disease. Instead of that, perhaps cancer is an inevitable effect of a toxic system, perhaps its your body's way of isolating dangerous elements until it is healthy enough to address them. (German new medicine would be something to look into, if this aligns.)

Anyway, if you are always treating the symptom as if it is the disease, it shouldn't be a surprise that the effectiveness of the proposed cures, aren't that great. Is it really possible to inject health, as the medical industry would have you believe? Can a tablet cure you? Or do you need to give your body the space and time to cure itself?
Unfortunately this technology is likely to be weaponized at some point in the future as radiation-free multi-megaton munition. The project name does tell us that the goal is to redirection not destruction of the asteroid.
A very Intel ACPI hack was ruining AMD Zen performance in some scenarios (up to 1000%). Real-world (non-benchmark) perf has yet to be determined.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/...
Gnvh
Understanding the Iranian Protests (YouTube)
EV sales are going up everywhere, never mind op, its just the age old chauvinist speak.
Thanks for the response. Definitely picking up what you’re putting down.

My choices of words may not be ideal. I guess more soo fundamental good practices than similarly above criticised buzzword-like.

Not sure how you feel about the rest of the post?

Either way; thanks.