skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Guardianship, which provides essential protection to many frail or incapacitated people, has also been criticized as overly intrusive, and its legal processes as secretive. Claude Pepper, the former chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging, once called it “the most punitive civil penalty that can be levied against an American citizen, with the exception, of course, of the death penalty.”<<

This is true. Here is an article about it (The New Yorker, October 2, 2017):

How The Elderly Lose Their Rights

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderl...

There are many examples of abuse of the elderly, such as this case, "a 90-year-old woman almost lost her house for failing to pay $0.06, six cents, in property taxes, thus making a slogan of the Libertarian Party empirically true, “taxation is theft.”

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-homeowner-nearly-lo...

And cities taking away people's rights and their property are the main culprits, as in these cases:

Left With Nothing (The Washington Post, September 8, 2013)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/l...

A Property Tax Money Machine Crushes Families (Bloomberg, December 20, 2021)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-20/minority-...

I wrote about it in a post titled, "When A House Is A Tragic Character" because I feel, like Claude Pepper did, that this theft is so punitive, abusive, and unethical, yet it keeps happening and nobody in government is doing anything to prevent it, and not enough people know that it could happen to them.
Overcast for iOS added that feature a couple of years ago. Marco Arment (Tumblr cofounder , Instapaper) is the author
Do you have any evidence of this actually working? I’ve seen the copypasta a million times, but never the smallest shred of evidence.
The claim that solar produces more CO2 than nuclear is quite dishonest.

It may produce more right now, with the existing supply chain for materials. But in a fossil-fuel free economy, there is no CO2 from fossil fuel combustion. Where are the CO2 emissions coming from? They could only be from manufacture of cement for concrete (calcination of limestone to calcium oxide and CO2.) PV doesn't have to use any concrete -- it can be mounted to the ground with steel earth anchors. Nuclear uses a lot of concrete.

The near term emissions of CO2 in construction of solar or nuclear are irrelevant, since they are swamped by the CO2 emission avoided as fossil fuels are displaced. Here, what matters is how rapidly the non-fossil alternatives can be rolled out, not what dribble of CO2 they produce directly.

As for levelized cost, the table lists the min/median/max cost of installed utility scale PV as 1700/3200/4300 $/kW. But the cost of utility scale PV in the US is already well below that minimum number. The footnotes give their sources as no later than 2013. PV prices have fallen greatly since that time (module prices per W down by about a factor of 4 in constant dollars.)

The min value for nuclear given is also absurd vs. actual experience with recent nuclear builds. The footnote says the data was from no later than 2013, before the EPR and APR1400 efforts went so disastrously wrong, when the "nuclear renaissance" had not fallen so flatly on its face. It also says (about nuclear):

"Limited recent data and/or original data are available in the published literature. More recent, (grey literature) sources provide investment cost and LCOE estimates
that are considerably higher than the ones shown here (Brandão et al., 2012)."
Every single time something like this pops up nobody seems to care that there are people who don't feel comfortable having other people around listening to their conversation, browsing and whatever is controlled by voice. There is a reason screens are still popular.
when you get to the System Design interview, they'll be expecting a different model of application than your design written here
What kind of cable material do we have that can support its own weight for that many miles vertically?
There was acid2, so merely "almost none" rather than actually none
You guys are port country, direct access to a lot of water and centrally located between trade channels (dead smack in the middle of China and India and other places in the south east). That’s my best guess. Might be a little harder (longer) to ship stuff to and from Pakistan.
>> the system generates huge surpluses of electricity at zero marginal costs for most times of the year, which instead of being curtailed can be harnessed for vast new applications which will transform and enlarge electricity grids (what we call ‘super power’).

Tldr build such a big system that even on cloudy days (or analogs for other approaches) we have enough power for basic demand. To avoid need for batteries just come up with some new applications for the excess power on other days.
My friend, along with his father, are completely ignored by mosquitoes. I've seen him walk through clouds of them as they seek out anyone else and just ignore him.
Germany has tried to move away ftom nuclear and fossil fuels at the same time.
Germany currently has the highest energy prices in the world.

Whatever you think about green energy in the past, one thing has to be certain. It did not work. What is different this time?

Yes, I would prefer if Germany had less coal power plants, this is not the point. I see no evidence that "green" energy can satisfy the energy demands of an industrial nation. The atteps of the last decade was a disaster.
I mean, that's the whole point of communications though, isn't it? If I tell you something, you can do that you like with that information - tell someone else, hand it to a state government, publish it in a paper, or just upload it to the servers of a corporation that I dislike. If you don't trust what other people are doing with your data, you can freely choose not to give them your data - albeit perhaps by giving up some of your communication methods and making your life somewhat more complex.
I think you should. From my understanding, use of DHT is already dead in the eyes of most torrenters
How to Fix the CDC (2021)
I remember going to the Palomar Observatory as a kid on a field trip and they showed us the footage of Shoemaker–Levy 9 colliding with Jupiter. That is probably my earliest memory of my interest in science and space. I also remember thinking it was so cool that they sent Shoemaker's ashes to the moon. The things that will stick with you decades later.
it wasn't a summons, it was a pre-action letter.

I agree its dumb, but they didn't exactly ask my opinion, did they?
We have nuclear power. We don’t need these absurdly expensive and complex solutions to harvest solar power or wind.

We should use that money to build more nuclear reactors and develop new designs. It’s a proven, reliable and inexhaustible source of energy.
I'm pretty sure he's -only- talking about their bow and arrow skills and not torture skills.
I eat tons of meat and my wife eats mostly vegetables. Mosquitoes never bite me and she gets eaten alive.
You can build it in sections because the wire itself is travelling at orbital speeds. That's actually what makes the whole thing work. Running a curent through that creates an electric field. You would probably encase the whole thing and contain it with a magnetic field. You would then build things on top of that casing.
Beginner's TypeScript
> If I use a service like GitHub, then it’s child’s play to get previous versions.

And they could delete the repository. Even if they had a repository, as the copyright holders they could change the license retroactively. This is not a problem with a technical solution that I can see.
Sorry, but that seems to require that my bank and all my friends adopt some skanky modified DNS resolver. Is that right? How exactly does that benefit them?

And the alternative you're suggesting is that they replace their OS, or adopt some mutant mail client? Few of my friends have ever used a proper email client at all. And which alternative OS implements this? And again, what incentive do my correspondents have to switch OS?

Really, if this is "all I need", it's clearly not a proposal that has much to do with the real world.
Our profession has long been ignorant to the moral ramifications of what it can do, so for once, pumping the brakes seems like the right approach.
This interview was meant to be with a big hero of mine, and later a friend, noted UK computer journalist Guy Kewney.

It was not funny for him. He was watching in the green room, and was furious. It was a major blow to his freelance career.

It's not really funny. It terrified Guy G, and it severely hurt Guy K financially, and his ability to support his family. It was a very rough time for all of us freelance journos; I had to give it up a few years later, go become a TEFL teacher, which led me to moving to Central Europe -- i.e. the former Communist Bloc -- where I could afford to live

Guy K died of bowel cancer a few years later.

So, this is a painful memory, not a funny one, for some of us.
Brexit allowed for the decoupling of reality from policy.

"We can have our cake and eat it too"

"Borrowing 45 billion to finance tax giveaways to the richest will spur growth and make us prosperous"

There's just so much utter shit sold as reality to a populace dumbed down by an extreme press and politicians who have zero qualms to be utterly dishonest if it serves their agenda or pocket book.

In my mind there's no doubt that this separation from reality was accelerated by Brexit.
> What made me switch from Gmail is stories

Yeah, pretty much. Anecdata is the bane of everything big. In a country of 330M people, you'll have a horrific murder every week. You have a billion email users, someone's going to have trouble.

You do realize that, realistically, it's probably more likely that Fastmail will fail, or you'll accidentally lose control of your own domain (or have it stolen) than that Google or Microsoft or Yahoo will "lose your account overnight". There are "stories" about startups failing and domain troubles too.
An advantage here would be people self hosting their own based on this project.
Safari still exists. At the time of grid becoming usable in like 2017, firefox and pre-Chromium Edge also had quite a bit larger market shares than they do today.
Mangled headline
i loved the drive but the speed is offputting.... i mean it only seems to work when i am like 100km, something that autodrive does while i can expect a mountain winding road to be comfortable at 20-50 because of twists and turns?

like there is

1. incline effect on the speed (up turns down speed and going down increases)
2. snow effect on wheels
3. traffic mode
4. like above, speed responsiveness at slower speeds
5. gear shifting

thank you for building a great product
You're right. What I meant is, you don't need a third-party CMS provider. I suck at writing copy.

Some people have been using Outstatic without Vercel, and there's a section in the FAQs about it. But since this is the first version of the library and I haven't tested it with other services, I felt putting Vercel as a requirement would avoid people running into pitfalls with other services.

But oAuth is only setup with Github for now. So unfortunately that's pretty much a requirement.

I plan on adding support for other git providers in the future.
The hesitancy came from a good place. In some senses this is a very disruptive technology stack.

But when morality suddenly is reinforced in an area where the same people espousing it are trying to rapidly earn billions of dollars, I am skeptical.

Transformers are a form of translation and information compression, ultimately.

The morality seems to me at this point a convenient smokescreen to hide the fact that these companies are not actually open source, that they are not there for the public benefit, and that they are not very different to venture-backed businesses that have come before.

What is the risk of open-sourcing the product? Very few individuals could assemble a dataset or train a full competitive model on their own hardware. So not really a competitive risk there. But every big corp could.

The morality angle protects the startups from the big six. SD is a product demo. I view it the same way at the highest level as an alpha version of Google translate.
Do you happen to have any actual cases you can point me to? I see this all the time in HN but it's never beyond "a buddy of mine said that he didn't do anything wrong and somehow they got locked out forever with no recourse".

Or it's someone saying that happened to themselves, and then they say they never did anything bad with their gmail. Which may or may not be true?
It is slightly suspicious that so few details are provided, such as target distance, diameter and height of target, type, size and tension of bow, type of arrows, what the previous world record was, and why he stopped at 7 attempts.
For the sake of argument, let's say that all email was hosted on ENS. Let's say that somebody, doesn't matter who, went ahead and forked the chain into ENS'. We now have two disconnected chains, ENS and ENS'. If I were to buy a domain on ENS', i would not also own the domain on ENS, so someone else buys that. Who now receives the mail sent to that domain?

If your choice in any way depends on the configuration of the mail server then your decentralized system has accomplished absolutely nothing, because the mail provider is still the gatekeeper.
Yes because it's mostly used as an excuse and they don't care about such moral issues. And the real reason behind locking it down is either it benefits their business model, or they don't want to receive bad publicity from "woke" or "pruritan" people, or simply media trying to generate controversies because it generates clicks.
Not all products are suited for all market participants. Figure out where you are on the gradient and act accordingly.

Ethereum Name Service was launched in May 2017, there are many name service competitors.

> and there’s been no evidence so far that “web3” is becoming more resilient instead of less resilient.

based on? some frequency of a type of headline you saw? quantified against..... anything?
I think the company demoing/working with those giants was Emrod.

https://emrod.energy/about/
He’s concerned about adding 1 dependency, while you add thousands to your node_modules without the slightest doubt

What a class act
What libraries does curl use?
Thank you! I really appreciate it :)
Nuclear power is 5x more expensive than solar and wind.

Hell, if you used wind turbines to synthesize gas at ~50% efficiency and burn that to generate electricity at ~60% efficiency it would still be about 10-20% cheaper than nuclear power.

https://theecologist.org/2016/feb/17/wind-power-windgas-chea...
I don't quite get what the big deal is with @scope:

What's the benefit to:

@scope(.card) {
header {
}
}

over

.card header {
}

(or ".card > header", the article isn't quite clear which it is). Is it just the sass-style nesting? How does it differ from @nest then?
Serious question: what is the benefit for a journalist to work for a news org vs working solo?
I agree with your comment about "power projection". Yes, nothing compares to US in APAC. That said, I do think the technical prowess of JSDF Navy is under-rated. They have some very advanced equipment and have excellent integration with US forces. However, Mainland China is a serious counter-threat to US regional military dominance. Honestly, it is weird that China is investing so much in aircraft carriers. After the 2005 Swedish HSMS Gotland training incidents with a new US carrier, it was demonstrated that the era of _effective_ invicibility for carrier groups is over. It was already true, but less obvious, during the Falklands War with the Agentine carrier that was kept out of action by the mere _threat_ of highly advanced UK subs. Asymmetric warfare is the future. Mainland China should be investing more in asymmetric warfare (crouching tiger / samurai type of stuff: air/ocean/undersea drones, submarines, hypersonic missiles, etc.)
Exciting! I've happily used elpy [0] for years but it seems to be unsupported now. Might be time to switch!

[0]: https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy
But Brexit has been a massive distraction and point of contention for the party and its governments. When decisions about top posts are made based on stances towards Brexit, it's likely they are not optimal under other criteria. Throwing out MPs over votes, toppling a PM for failing to deliver the stance the hardliners wanted (which wasn't necessarily what the electorate voted for), ... all took energy that could've delivered more useful results.

E.g. I'd be very curious how a scenario went where the Brexit vote went as it did, but you didn't have the ERG et al forcing a hardline course. (Which they still do, if I saw right they were in the media again just now about how they'll not let a new PM weaken the stance on Ireland, despite all the mess that has been).
One speaker segmentation model to rule them all
... in which you'll learn about one of the most popular audio model available on Huggingface hub
Reminded me of World War Z.
It seems like a standalone Siri assistant, I don't know if you can define it as a "smartphone".
Anyway, I don't know precisely why, but I never feel good to use a voice assistant in public
Tribler is an interesting project, but not directly comparable to what the OP is trying to achieve.
what prompted this? I havent come across any The Wire articles in a while and they didn't link nor mention any recent reportings beyond saying that they've been hidden from public view
Who is funding it and why?
Going with what you’re saying, a better use of the tech would be to supply electricity to places that currents rely on generators. There are islands that use diesel generators md burn a mass of fuel where electricity could be beamed in, Rarotonga for example.
There's a list here: https://curl.se/docs/libs.html

Edit: Summary:

SSL/TLS: OpenSSL, mbed, GnuTLS, NSS TLS, wolfSSL
decompression: zlib
ldap: OpenLDAP LDAP support
kerberos/spnego: heimdal, MIT Kerberos
http2: nghttp2
async dns: c-ares
idn domains: libidn
scp/sftp: libssh2
> actually fix the problems that cause people to turn to violence and crime

These are not mutually exclusive propositions. As I mentioned in my comment, there are two concerns here:

1. Reducing the number of violent antisocial people by reducing the number of people who are exposed to childhood circumstances that tend to produce them. This is complicated and entails dictating to parents how they raise their children to a much higher degree than most people are comfortable, and than our society's values permit.

2. Dealing with the ones who already exist. This is policing and justice.

> the people you label "antisocial" these days are people who have been left behind by society

> It's the economy, stupid

If only it were this simple. I'm referring to people who haven't been correctly socialized in their early childhood. Toddlers are all violent, self centered, assholes by adult standards. They learn not to be through appropriate socialization with their peers, through play. Children who are not given this developmental opportunity past a particular age tend to exhibit traits that strongly correlate with violence in early adulthood. This is exacerbated by numerous domestic factors, most importantly the absence of two parents in the household and the presence of violent antisocial adults in the household (not household income).

We can observe these same traits and behaviours develop in our ape relatives for the same reasons. We're not that different.

> I think those people are a much smaller percentage of people who commit crimes than you think

This just isn't true - this small percentage of people are the serial criminals responsible for most of the real danger in our society - shootings, armed home invasions, armed robberies, etc. These sorts of crimes are largely not committed by people who are "down and out", but by people who are in many ways fundamentally different from the average person. I'm not talking about petty theft here.

This can be most clearly illustrated by the phenomenon of college campus rape. The rapes themselves are committed by a tiny fraction of repeat offenders. "Teach men not to rape" doesn't work on them. They're just not like most people, mostly as a result of some combination of tragic childhood circumstances and poor socialization (again, not household wealth). The best solution is to identify these people and imprison them as efficiently as possible. To enact this solution effectively, the people we entrust with it need power.
Stable pay. No one pays journalists or writers besides a select few.
The idea of "fairly" choosing students is insane on the face of it.

We want the best and brightest to succeed. They should be showered in whatever is necessary in order for us to advance the state of the art.
One example would be the Gigabyte Brix line. These barebones start at around 70€ and you get a 4W Celeron 2C/2T, USB3, GB Lan, WiFi, VGA and HDMI output. You need to add RAM to the bill but you could easily find a matching 4 GB DDR4 stick for under 15€.
You also need storage but thats also needed for the Pi.
So you're starting at 85€ with this mini-pc.
Still you need to figure out if it matches your application needs, like if you need to interface with hw via GPIOs etc.
I don't think it's coming from a place of morality at all. That's just a cover. If anything, society cares less about morality than ever before. It's about competition and not giving up the secret sauce.

Before companies like Amazon became huge, people didn't quite know just how much value was to be found in software. Now everyone knows it, and the space has become ultra competitive.
Elon Musk Twitter saga could draw to end as deadline looms
That bit caught my eye as well. I read it as a backhanded swipe at Mozilla, which given the news is unnecessary. But then he goes further and strokes his buds at Google with statements of questionable validity?

Why?

Why go so far as to distract from his news? Why not mention how being OSS should ideally mean improvements in sec and privacy?

It just seems weird.
Is there a causal link between skeletal muscle mass loss and cognitive decline?
To be fair, is there any other way around while working with node?

Everything in the ecosystem is a dependency.
Interesting, I've been using "the other one": lsp-mode, and have been quite happy with the results. Will see how eglot has progressed and if I can slim my config a bit.
Still trying to spin the story, as if it hasn’t been crystal clear for days now that they got played.
I’ve been wanting to learn Emacs for 20 years. Is now finally the time?
As a consumer, I also usually prefer an email address, because then I have a record of what I sent, when. This is helpful if I am sending similar messages to a few companies, seeking a quote (eg for some work on my home). I can look back and be sure that I haven't gotten a reply from a company because they never responded, rather than because I never contacted them.
Our pets are part of the climate problem
Same as any other line of work: they only have to focus on writing, not on all the other aspects of running a sole proprietorship (health insurance, taxes, etc.)

There’s also a built-in, base audience.

In some cases, there’s prestige that comes with working for certain publications.
I couldn't read the article, but I presume it talks about transmitting power from space to the ground. My perennial question: what technology could transmit massive amounts of power that couldn't easily be converted to a weapon? And if these solar stations could become space weapons, why would one major country allow another to launch and control them?
That has so many misunderstandings about how internet protocols and cryptography works, I don't even know where to start responding.