skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to argue with you but luckily I checked first :-)

My argument was that Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy (one of the canonical works of precision engineering literature) was published in the early 1900's, but no, it was actually in 1970. (https://pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/15_Mfrs_Publications/M...)

Can't believe that I was that far off! I might have been thinking of Precision Hole Location, but even that wasn't published until the 1940's.
Blank.org is someone's actual (very old) website https://www.blank.org/blankmore.html
That's not an opinion, that's a fact. The only thing that's an opinion in what I said is what the final decision should be, not the fact that it's a mutable argument. Whereas their stance is based on false premises to begin with. If their opinion was "we realize arg0 can be set explicitly but too many people wrongly assume it can't, so we will follow the crowd" that would make their argument more compelling.
What is the recovery story with these 2fa, because it seems to be either but a second that you now also have to secure, or tough luck, have fun with 20+ support teams retaining access if you lose it and it's the first factor for login.
I'm having the same issue
Are you collecting "local" trophies? The quaint lives of indigenous grandmas and blue collar workers? Are they the "real" ones whose wisdom you absorb? Do they stop being real when they enter a chain restuarant?

Some locals (as if they're museum artifacts!) don't live cheaply; or have learned your language; or are overeducated; or buy in bulk; or like to travel too (can a local travel?); Are they not authentic? Not able to teach you something? You've heard from them already, I guess.
The progression was really strange.

There were some folks in the media who reached out to PR people at the airline, some got "don't know" others were told "that's not our policy" ... but nobody updated the official twitter account for a while.

I agree 100%, just a mistaken tweet could have been solved with a timely new tweet.
You're allowed to assume the phone network is not being eavesdropped, you're not allowed to assume that for Internet transmission. Whether that's true or not, that's the accepted position.

If this encryption genuinely allows structural data retrieval - eg common invoice templates or medical reports - then this is absolutely a HIPAA problem, and once a facility is made aware of it they would need to respond.

FWIW, this message encryption is also accepted by UK NHS, in fact it's virtually the standard.

The mitigating factor is that typically the user is fully authenticated before being allowed to access the encrypted data...
If those places are relying on software to keep people from getting killed you should assume they are already dead.

The Therac-25 case study (linked elsewhere in these threads) is an excellent study on why fail-safes should be mechanical in nature and based on well-known physical processes that have very few, well-studied states. Software has an effectively uncountable number of states; there is no way to guarantee that a complex software system won't fail at a critical moment due to it being in an unexpected, untested state.

There are ways to model software to prove the absence of certain bad behaviors - TLA+, proof languages, and whatever software was used to validate seL4 come to mind - but they are impractical to use on large systems.
124 words, and yet, nothing actually said.
And in addition, there are tons of companies who could likely take over maintenance and repair for any particular solar grid if the original company went out of business. The tech is not particularly different when going from manufacturer to manufacturer for panels, inverters, etc., and many parts can be swapped out for new versions, made by a different manufacturer, if they break down and can't be repaired.

In contrast, there is exactly one company that fully understands a particular nuclear reactor design. If that company disappears, it will take a lot of specialized knowledge transfer (likely requiring the continued employment of many of the original designers and builders) to allow another company or the government to take on that maintenance burden.

Still, I'm not convinced solar + wind + storage will come along soon enough at scale to eliminate enough fossil-fuel burning in order to dig us out of our climate change hole without things getting so much worse first. Then again, if it takes 16 years from permit application time to get a nuclear plant project completed in the US, maybe we're screwed either way.
Why do you believe people who like nuclear are right leaning?
> can do a quick calculation and see that $10B of solar and $10B of storage will produce similar continuous base load power as the $20B Vogtle system

Does it? And does this math scale?
I don't see why a language should have support of an image format. Isn't that library territory?
How would electing a non-conservative government help?
Mad dad worked in airplane manufacturing. He once told a story about how every part in for something in a wing was in spec. But it was a foot to long all together. Not even close to fitting on the airplane

That was in 80s.
Whenever I hear someone say "kids today don't want to work", I like to take the opportunity to stroll them down memory lane as to how much they earned THIRTY years ago. I, myself,had a good, paid internship making $10/hr @ 30 hrs/wk (1991 > 1993) & still had to have a roommate to help pay the bills(I did pay most college expenses, as I went). Gasoline has quadrupled, food has tripled, avg rent has tripled/quadrupled and HC insurance has ballooned many more factors since then. Take a look at the non-tech jobs available today, $12-$15/hour is the norm for anything entry-level, with a very low ceiling. I cannot blame anyone for not wanting to break their back to subsist. Something has to change.

Edit: added @ 30 hrs/wk
> I have my doubts on how much remote work will last through this next economic cycle.

Full remote positions will evaporate if unemployment gets to the point of hundreds of applicants per position.
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I wonder if you included a JS REPL/console in your terminal if you'd hit an interesting enough hybrid.

Something like Puppeteer/Playwright where you can spin up headless Chrome instances from the terminal, interact with them and automate them in JS. Treat the JS as a mini shell script language in your terminal of choice.

I'm almost surprised there isn't yet a terminal that is an intentional JS-hybrid where you can REPL JS and/or directly shell script in it (beyond just Node scripts).

Probably not entirely worth the time to build such Rube Goldberg contraptions, but an interesting thought experiment at least.
Hanoi as off-beaten path in Vietnam? Ok, I see what you did here.
I think the issue is less that half the population supports Donald Trump's lies and more that half the population supports Reagan's lie. We have a full generation of people now in a party with power that lives by the mantra that "big government doesn't work, I'll show you".

They get into power and dismantle projects, don't provide enough funds, etc and then point to how bad the project is and say a private profit driven company should do it instead.
yes except for the browser,
you can use weechat it's a cli irc client but you can link a lot of accunts (slack, fb messenger, etc.)
Take a sabatical. 3-4 months.
I'm not really qualified to judge what is the right feature set for a build system like dub or cargo.
Something similar happened to the cod fishing industry in Newfoundland and other parts of eastern Canada 30 years ago. The reason: overfishing, due in large part to technological advances. Here's what happened:

Canada and NAFO continued to overestimate the abundance of cod in the Atlantic Ocean and therefore continued to set dangerously high [Total Allowable Catches]. This was in large part due to the widespread practice of calculating cod populations from catch rates in the commercial fishery – if fishers filled their quotas with ease, then officials believed the stock size was at adequately high levels. However, fishing technology had become so efficient by the 1970s that commercial catch rates remained high even as the cod population dropped to dangerously low levels. Electronic tracking devices could find fish no matter how small their numbers and trawlers could harvest most species with relative ease. ...

Although overfishing in international waters did tremendous damage to northern cod, Canada also failed to maintain a sustainable fishery within its 200-mile limit. The government ignored warnings from inshore fishers and university scientists that cod stocks were in danger and chose to maintain quotas instead of scaling back the fishery, in large part to prevent economic losses and massive unemployment.

By the early 1990s, after decades of sustained intensive fishing from Canadian and international fleets, the northern cod stocks collapsed. The spawning biomass of northern cod had dropped by about 93 per cent in only 30 years – from 1.6 million tonnes in 1962 to between 72,000 and 110,000 tonnes in 1992. In July of that year, Canada imposed a moratorium on the catching of northern cod and ended an international industry that had endured for close to 500 years.

https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/economy/moratorium.php

They called off the season in 1992 and it never came back. A pillar of the local economy in the Maritimes was wrecked.

As for climate change and its impact on East Coast fishing, I've read that lobster fishing is no longer a viable industry in Long Island and it's declining in southern New England as waters get warmer and the lobsters permanently migrate north.
Agreed; the mess with Russia has revealed how negligent many European countries have been in ensuring the stability of their energy sources.
Bun is amazing. Super early with some quirks but I use it whenever I can. So much nicer than the alternatives even with the early buggy bits.
> That is, Linux churns so much that a given program written today won't work in a year;

Highly inaccurate, hyperbole.
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"During fuel load, nuclear technicians and operators from Westinghouse and Southern Nuclear are scheduled to safely transfer 157 fuel assemblies one-by-one from the Unit 3 spent fuel pool to the Unit 3 reactor core in the coming days. "

Are they recycling fuel in this reactor, or were they just using the spent fuel pool to store the new fuel while waiting approval for install?
The US definitely needs iron clad data privacy laws.

The authors of the Constitution absolutely understood how critical privacy was with respect to personal information. "Papers" is the keyword here, the OG Americans were 100% harassed by the British Gov.

4th Amendment:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
It is 100Hz refresh rate - so 100fps I imagine.
The general rule is: the more affluent the country, the better off you're with paying with CC. The cost of exchanging paper money is proportional to the prices of other things in the country. Especially in big touristy cities in affluent countries like France, you can easily lose 10%+ on currency exchange. So in EU, stick to CC, and maybe just have 50 bucks of emergency cash.

On the other hand, in cheap countries like say Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, exchanging paper currency (especially USD) to a local currency and back to USD is almost free (<~1%)
The overfished. Simple as that. Snow crabs have been becoming smaller and smaller because the biggest ones were not living that long anymore. It happened to cod fisheries in eastern Canada and it is happening everywhere until it's too late.
What is this then: https://engineerscanada.ca/become-an-engineer/examination-sy... ?

You can, but it requires passing their exams. Apparently, that section about misuse is a warning of sorts because the title is very generic in the industry, and employees will be inclined to use it because everyone does so everywhere else.
Hiyo I'm the author xD

Feel free to ask me questions uhhh... How does hacker news work lmao do i get notifications even hmm.

I'll uhh... refresh this page once in awhile and see if I can help!

if that don't work prolly just ping me on twitter.
Interestingly both of these nuclear plants (Vogtle 3 and Olkiluoto 3) were built by companies (Westinghouse and Areva) that went bankrupt during the construction.

We sorely need a safe, cost-effective and reproducible blueprint for manufacturing nuclear infrastructure at scale.
I like how much this resembles a GDI power plant in Command and Conquer
>equivalent windfarm (at $1.3M/MW)

Does that include storage costs?

Because a windfarm alone cannot replace a nuclear power plant no matter how cheaper or how much electricity the windturbines generate because on days without wind they generate zero Wh.
Good question; I can't read the author's mind since the quote is made up.

But basic logic dictates that the quote (which is apocryphal) means that we cannot deduce that we are healthy simply because we are well-adjusted to society, if that society is sick. It does not say that psychiatric illness is rooted in societal or social problems. And empirically, proponents of the quote (theosophists and Buddhists) also rarely use it to refer to actual psychiatric illness, but rather to moral compasses, values, and overall behavior.

I doubt you'll find many Buddhists parrot the "I'm only depressed because of how messed up society is" line that you often see on the web, since Buddhism explicitly preaches self-transformation.
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What I mean is even if each of the US's 600,000 domestic law enforcement and law-enforcement-adjacent officers were grossly violating the privileges of their authority to surveil their spouses and SOs in a way that grossly violates their fifth amendment rights... That's a problem directly impacting 0.2% of the population.

It's real, real hard to get the polity at the national level to care about a 0.2%-of-the-population issue. I don't think we can expect a democratic solution to this issue.
Costs of ongoing divorce - ahha, made my day!
There are many many people in the UK living in poverty, but 38K in London is not it. For those of us lucky enough to be on significantly more it might look it, but anyone in real poverty would be very happy to get that salary.

I was looking at zoopla rather than rightmove. Slightly dodgy area, but I was checking places I've lived and it's definitely not the worst.
"Real America" is a narrative to understand the (mostly) White, Christian, blue collar, small town folks.

> Real America is a very old place. The idea that the authentic heart of democracy beats hardest in common people who work with their hands goes back to the 18th century. It was embryonic in the founding creed of equality.

This Atlantic article from last year puts "Real America" into a frame with 3 other narratives: "Smart America", "Just America", and "Free America".

"How America Fractured Into Four Parts" https://archive.ph/r5udO
> If forced, I will find a password manager that provides a simulated WebAuthn device.

I don't think this is a workaround as much as it will be the default use case. Password managers are in a perfect position to keep custody of your private keys across devices, which provides acceptable security for the average person.

Even the password-less-ness of it is not actually entirely free from passwords. Both your iPhone cold booting and your password manager will require a master passphrase/password/pin to unlock your vault (and then use pin/face id for subsequent auth). The difference against a regular pw is that an attacker can replay an intercepted password for session renewal but a public key challenge cannot be replayed. It also means that you need a pw manager integrated all the way into the app/browser, and can't copy paste passwords. This is probably the biggest challenge.
It's not a hack. Virtual address spaces and process isolation were built exactly for misbehaving code.
How would hydrogen fare for big (<-- keyword) trucks vs battery powered?

For ex. I read that you lose a ton of efficiency if you start hauling or carrying a heavy load.
For GUI things, I prefer a nice installer that will place the files in a sensible location (Program Files) and that will give me a shortcut in the Start Menu, I don't need a single file - and I suppose most users are likely to misplace the single executable or keep it in the Downloads folder forever.

Also, what counts as a single file? You can ship a (modern) C# app as a single-file executable. It will be hundreds of megabytes, but to the user, it's just a single file.
I haven't, my grandfather did. He was at Pearl Harbor, many battles in the Pacific (he was a submariner), in the end he was part of the occupation of Japan and earned many medals including the purple heart for almost dying in a sub accident.

Only as an adult have I come to realize the gift he gave me.

When I was a child, I spent a ton of time with him, he had a big hand in raising me. The picture he painted for the young me formed the foundation of my world view. He chose to share with us the Japanese cooking he learned while living there, he taught us how to use chop sticks, one of my most prized possessions is a silk he brought back and gave me in his will. He never once spoke negatively about any group of people, especially those who were "enemies", he stood up for anyone who was being treated negatively and wouldn't stand for it. He harbored no ill will, and therefore didn't put it in me.

It's only as an adult through research into his service that i have realized the full gravity of what he did during this service and the fact that he was a truly happy, blissful, and forgiving man after all that.

I can say to you, having been one of the recipients of the kindness and forgiveness you are showing in your own life now, and sharing in this comment - thank you. This is how the world moves on.
I think it's near impossible to tell the story of "The Real X" -- that's a pretty sensational/trollish way to title something -- but if one is going to make such a rhetorical gesture there should be a lot more to back it up than what is given here.

It's a complete American fantasy that our forces played a major role in the downfall of Germany, or that our blood sacrifice was particularly crucial to the outcome of any aspect of the war as a whole. Certainly U.S. resources like oil and materiel were critical to Allied success, not to mention the atom bomb in the defeat of Japan, and the (severely delayed) opening of a western front in France 1944 helped contain Soviet victories (in other words, impacted the Cold War), but it is pretty insulting to the 20X more USSR trooops who died and the nearly 10x more Chinese forces who perished to say that an account of the "Real War" could possibly exclude them like this.
It would be a fix for global warming, just not other things like ocean acidification.
Can you elaborate? What was wrong with them?
It's definitely true that E smart contracts were conceived to run on a secured server (or in tamperproof hardware), which was known to be feasible, rather than via a decentralized consensus mechanism, which was not. But they've been building smart contracts since last millennium.

Moreover, they didn't just foresee people selling computing services to each other; some of them built what we would call cloud computing platforms where the platform owner sold computation and the platform users could sell services to each other on it, starting in 01968, which was successful for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare

That's the experience that gave rise to the object-capability approach in the first place.

And, as far as I know, the Digital Silk Road paper from Agorics was the first workable proposal for a secure decentralized digital money.
Dwarf Fortress, the most inscrutable game of two decades, is getting a tutorial
It's also notable that it took less than a year after agreeing on a contract for the Chinese to break ground on the Sanmen plant, while Vogtle sat around for 7 years waiting on US regulatory approval.

The pair of reactors at Sanmen also only cost CNY 50.1B (just under US$7B) to build, while it seems costs at Vogtle are at $30B and counting.

(At least if the figures on their respective Wikipedia pages are accurate.)
Re 1 and 2, both sides do it, but I find the whole "false equivalence" and "which side is worse" discussion nauseating and refuse to compare the two on the same scale. I think it suffices to say that neither can be neglected in understanding the current situation.

Stereotypically, right-wing propaganda seems to manipulate through brute force, and left-wing propaganda through selective negligence of cognitive biases. But even this perception is influenced by who does the fact-checking and how.
Am I legally allowed to leave earth?
Isn't identifying flaws an important part of getting things to work?
> There's benefit in not having to understand the underlying intricacies of the code that you're writing

I don't know. All these abstractions eventually leak. We often run into problems that can only be solved by fully understanding the software layers we're building on top of. I think that this cancels out any initial benefits.

> there is something about that knowledge that makes it just so much more engaging

Agreed. It's such a joy to discover the underlying technology. Lots of people don't care about these "already solved problems" but I find them deeply interesting.
If this isn't pronounced Frankenphip I will be disappointed.
Do you have any concrete data for that? Just because urban areas are denser doesn’t mean more number of people let alone it may not be more overall miles travelled
It's easy to forget that 1999 was still firmly in the dial-up modem days. This was as much about practicality as it was about principles: every second spent loading a website would very literally cost you money, so any policy that would let you cut the process of finding worth-while content short, in an even remotely efficient manner, was a sensible thing to do.

Today, almost 25 years later, not even turning your phone or computer on will cost you just as much in ISP monthlies as it costs to load the heaviest, client-side-JS-generated, 4x resolution image websites nonstop all day every day.

We used to have a slightly better reason to prefer lean, content-first web pages than we do today.
The existing programming languages are the evidence. Sorry I thought that was clear. I'm suggesting they take hints from the structured languages that humans actually read and write.
Yes, you can.
I've been in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar (not to mention Thailand) and I always has much better exchange rate for USD cash, than my credit and/or debit card.

Yes, I'm not from USA, and we don't have any cards with real cash-back. Typically exchange rate for all banks in my country is like xe.com + 3-5%. It is terrible.

Only one time I seen really monstrous exchange rate for cash: in Istanbul airport. It was complete rip-off. Exchange booths in Istnabul itself were better than my bank exchange rate.

And typical spread in exchange booth in Myanmar is 0.1%. Yes, 0.1%. Like, 1000/1001 per dollar if you have $100 bills (worse for $50 and lower).
> 9 to 5 at 8 and 4.

Hey we're WFH now, its 10->4 with a few hour long breaks inbetween.
I mean, who can blame any of them, ourselves included. Instead of doing the right thing and setting the little snots straight, they instead hampered our progress all to make things easier for themselves while placating a bunch of children who needed to be taught the reality of the situation, not coddled into thinking they were 'just as capable' (when clearly they weren't).

Quite frankly, I think we all should be banding together to sue our old schools over this stuff.