skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider the role of any elected form of government to make decisions in accordance with the wishes and choices of the people, subject to the limitations of however those wishes/choices are established.

If we were to ignore the many costs of direct democracy for everything, the best way to fulfill this role would be ... direct democracy (i.e. ask everybody everything all the time).

However, those costs are real, and I consider representative democracy to be an acceptable substitute most of the time. Nevertheless, stacking layers of representative selection on top of themselves reduces the acceptability of this. Choosing the people who will choose the people who will choose the people who will choose the people who will make decisions is, I think, obviously absurd.

So the question is: is there any way in which two layers of representation might be better than one? I can see none. I do not believe that the votes of a state's already elected representatives to pick the people who will in turn represent the state in the US Congress to be superior in any way than having the same people who vote for the state representatives also vote for the US ones.

In general, I view representatives with a wariness roughly inversely proportional to the number of people they represent. My county commissioner? Very low standing, but if they get something good done, great. My state rep? Not a bad person, but vulnerable to local threats. State senator? slightly better, but still very "local". US rep? Now we're talking. US senator? about as good as it gets, in a state-based system.
That's interesting, thanks. I would have assumed Window_server would be a common issue cpu on all platforms, is that not the case? If so do you know if disabling 3d acceleration could help etc?
Never pay the ransom – a cybersecurity CEO explains why
Agreed 100%.

I was recently introduced to Diesel and they are the best in terms of fit and comfort. I particularly love their JoggJeans.

They are a little pricey but so worth it
Local Orthodox church founding a gay club. That would raise lot of questions why.
You mean it's a feckless promotional stunt? Okay, maybe the world needs to learn for the umpteenth time that raising awareness is not the same as advancing your cause. To the extent that I know some dipshit is in the process of ruining a piece of our shared cultural heritage, I guess that raises my attention to the existence of dipshits to world record levels. To the extent that I do not know this person's name, or remember the name of his organization, I would say it's a failure.
It's so weird you are choosing this hill to die on. And you are completely wrong; 7-year-old left-handed me had the empirical experience to know this.
I feel like the reasons for this are:

* Shell scripts force you to think in a more scalable way (data streams)

* Shell scripts compose rich programs rather than simplistic functions

* Shells encourage you to program with a rich, extensible feature set (ad-hoc I/O redirection, files)

The only times I don’t like shell scripts are when dealing with regex and dealing with parallelism
Storage is a factor in supply. The storage is having trouble, so this costs more money, which means it's going to be harder to afford heating even if the gas doesn't run out. That's why smoothing out fluctuations is relevant to people that "only care about having heating".
They are not on trial for manslaughter but sabotage and disobedience to law enforcement, which twelve of them were convicted for⁰

0: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/domen-mot-miljoa...
Literally no one is. Are people really this dense. Do you think anyone will be going to art museums in a +4C world?
In my case, web-based just means "it is a piece of software you access via the web." Web application, website, SAAS, whatever.

And you're right, I should have considered Gambit. Dang, now I have a ternary decision to make.
True, but in the fifty-or-so individuals in a high-trust environment as has been true for most of our evolutionary history, keeping mental tabs on running totals is really no difficulty at all.
I like to imagine at least one of the instances is insurance fraud, and the owners are finding a creative way to cash out. Much easier to convice someone to destroy it under the ploy of climate change than to steal it.
Australian Clinical Labs accused of 'sitting on' hack for 5 months
>Your thumb and fingers of both hands are equally capable of producing both separating and joining force while closing.

What makes you so sure? The ergonomics of the thumb, fingers, and hand are not symmetric. The left-handed people who struggled with right-handed scissors as kids suggest otherwise.
When I was in school, I visited my granddad during summer holidays. This was right before I would have history class for the first time at school, and my granddad showed me a book my dad gave him as a present, which was about the Pyramids in Egypt. I was fascinated by the book, and got to know that this is what history is about, so I got really excited.

Holiday was over, school began, first hour of history class began. New book, looked at it, I think the first two pages were on Egypt. The topic took less than a class. I felt like "Wait, we can't go on, there's so much to learn about this" and immediately got disillusioned with history class.

The site is awesome, it is what those first history classes should have been. It almost feels like you're there, thanks to the high resolution textures. And the guided tour feels so personal, as if there's someone with you at your site showing you the place. It really is a gift.

Thank you.
An older version of the documentation calls them the array containment operators:

> The array containment operators (<@ and @>) [...]

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/functions-array.html
I'm an eager and early adopter of Deno. I however look forward to ecosystem improvements, and the interop with npm is helpful. I was working on a side project recently that was a simple CRUD app and I just ended up going with Express on Node after fighting with Oak on Deno for a few days. It was still in the way enough to slow down the rapid fire development process that happens when you're still figuring out an idea.
"To be clear I don't idolize these engs or anything."

That's good. I think I probably have a deep latent jealousy or dislike for how much they make. Maybe that's just midlife regret.
Based on the number of pumped hydro vs solar projects I see approved in the US, I’d say so. We are building LOTS of solar. Not much (any?) pumped hydro.

The US has plenty of land that it could use for pumped storage if it didn’t care about the environment. (See, Hetch Hetchy in CA). AIUI it’s (justified) concern about environmental impact that holds this technology back.
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Because the press would destroy them if they would dare to target art created by a black woman for example.

Not to mention that they would probably be arrested for hate crimes too in that case.
KraftKit – Build and use highly customized and ultra-lightweight unikernel VMs
Its a third party studio doing the remake, CDPR probably won't be diverting many internal resources away from their existing in-house projects for this.

also this is just follow-up to a previous announcement where they announced 5 projects in various stages of development on top of info about the CP2077 expansion: https://ftw.usatoday.com/2022/10/cd-projekt-red-witcher-cybe...
It's not better when it comes at the cost of taking some of those handles away from people that were using them.
I remember them being controversial at the time and expiring without opposition.
> Compile with -threaded, otherwise GHC networking has problems with more than 1024 open connections.
My biggest problem with hydroelectricity is the same problem I have with all dams - you're creating a structure that requires infinite maintenance. A dam does not fail gracefully.
I agree, this generally left me feeling skeptical. I know of Luca Delle Monache on the advisory team, through colleagues who have researched under him at Scripps and they spoke highly of him. But yes, there is a lot left to the imagination here.

With regards to the sfbay specifically I used to work with a fairly high resolution wind model for the bay (this was a more traditional dynamic based simulation) and it worked pretty well overall, but every time a storm blew through it would crash. This ultimately had to do with the relatively steep terrain in the bay specifically (and the physics configurations we were using in the actual model).

Even if they are using DL they still need initial and boundary conditions. As I said there are a ton of weather stations around so I could imagine a DL type approach that looked at terrain elevation, and recent + historical observations to initialize a forecast, but I still imagine that boundary conditions would have to be provided by nesting this in a larger model somehow. Then again, I'm not a DL expert at all so there are probably some newer stuff in this field that I'm just out of date on.

Its really expensive to run your own dynamic forecast model, at a refresh rate acceptable for an actual forecast, at this resolution. That's why I suspected its taking existing weather models and downscaling them with DL techniques, but I can't really know just by looking.
By this narrow definition, we should be happy to contribute to welfare, but never to accept it. Pretty useful for an authoritarian.

If you hate your community and everyone in it so much that you want to hurt and possibly even kill them with the guns you carry, maybe you should find a different community to be in.

If you hate your community and everyone in it so much that you want to hurt and possibly even kill them with the knife you carry, maybe you should find a different community to be in.

If you hate your community and everyone in it so much that you want to hurt and possibly even kill them with the sharps you carry, maybe you should find a different community to be in.

Now all the citizens are submissive, cannot think for themselves, because they refused to stand up for their rights. Who knows what could have happened if a country stood up for their citizens.
(I'm a tailscale cofounder) I think of Tailscale more like a set of tools that lets you do any architecture you want. Nobody has to use Tailscale ssh console, but if you believe in the future of wasm -> apps -> web console -> ssh, now you can have it.

On the other hand, if you believe in the future of OS private network connectivity -> console -> ssh, then you had that already with native Tailscale and Tailscale ssh.

If you believe in OS private network connectivity -> browser -> javascript console -> ssh, then you can do that too, by installing tailscale in the native OS and then the browser can use it.

I actually agree with you, I'm very suspicious about a world where we just move everything into the web browser. But on the other hand, sometimes it's really handy to have that option.
Sure, if they want to escalate the war. Drawing redlines where there wont be civilian casualties is a bad idea.
>Yeah, I get it, even my bishops have said that vaccination is an act of mercy.
>
>But how many acts of mercy do we owe our brothers and sisters?
>
>Five? A dozen? Per year? Per month?

Except all it is, is a little prick in the arm. Quite literally. Nothing more than that. Unless you are lucky, at which point your arm gets sore, and you have a bit of a temperature and feel under the weather for a day or so, which is evidence that the vaccine is producing an extra-robust immune response from your body, ensuring you are getting the full benefit of the vaccine.

Would I take it monthly, if a formulation was designed for that purpose? Yeah, I would. Why? Because I’m not a sociopath. I CARE about the people in my community. I don’t want to be that Typhoid Mary that causes ANY deaths at all, much less a superspreader event that kills multiple people.

It’s _all about_ putting the community first, and my trivial inconveniences (of getting the vaccine, and its effects) second. Because those inconveniences of the vaccine are truly trivial. It’s a few minutes out of my day, and a little bit of crankiness for a day or two if the immune response was robust.

Against the loss of someone else’s life, or that someone getting hit with Long COVID that cripples them for months or years, I CALL THAT A BARGAIN.

>It was inevitable that the COVID-19 vaccines should require a followup and a booster and there were variants that mutated and then we just had a neverending cycle of vaccine opportunities.

The precedent has already been there for decades. The point being, people who are at risk (the elderly) and those who take care of at-risk people are ALREADY taking yearly shots for the flu. Why? BECAUSE IT WORKS at strongly limiting transmission. They themselves get much less likely to be hit with the current strain, and even if they do get hit, it ends up being less severe and less transmissible. These people protect themselves and those vulnerable people around them by getting the yearly flu booster shots.

>But what's the endgame for that? How many is enough?

Now that - thanks to politics and anti-vaxx paranoia - we have missed the opportunity for broadly-similar herd immunity (there was only a tiny 3-4 month window when the vaccines first came out), it will never end. COVID has gone endemic because we couldn’t vaccinate quickly enough, and completely enough. We can place that outcome squarely at the feet of the anti-vaxxers who refused to get vaccinated, and the politics that made roll-out issues and vaccine wastage such a big problem.

>Who's gonna recommend fewer vaccines? Not the manufacturers. Not the pharmacies

They have no input into the process, nor should they.

>physicians.

If these are the same people who collect and publish data on in-the-wild vaccine effectiveness, then yes. They CAN be the people who show when enough is enough. And all that information is collected and collated through orgs like America’s Center for Disease Control, who then provide that data to people like immunologist (this being his career specialty) Dr. Fauci, who can then craft public policy that aligns with whatever real-world peer-reviewed data they have on hand.
Hey, this second paragraph is really dark. I don't really know how to say it right but I wish you something better, more comfortable, more exciting, and guilt-free.
I keep a Go Note Go by my desk. If I have something to write down, I simply type it in and hit enter.

Go Note Go is a note-taking system for when you're on the go, with a focus on driving and camping. It's just a headless keyboard (Raspberry Pi 400) -- no monitor, no display at all -- that you can type on (or speak to; it has a microphone). Anything you type will get uploaded to your notes, and if you speak it will get transcribed automatically and uploaded to your notes, all as soon as the device gets an internet connection (so you can use it offline, e.g. when camping).

Being single-purpose is really nice -- no time lost switching apps or waiting for something to load before you can type. And being screenless is nice too: it feels really freeing to not think about typos or wording etc, and to just keep moving forward.

For me, the notes are uploaded to Roam Research, but it supports other note-taking systems too (e.g. email, Notion, RemNote, Ideaflow, Mem, ...).

Links:
https://davidbieber.com/projects/go-note-go/
https://github.com/dbieber/GoNoteGo
These activists certainly manage to keep themselves in the headlines. I'm not convinced that they actually get anyone incrementally interested in the underlying Global Warming issue, much less induce any change.
#c0ffee Is the Color
Building Music Systems with O2 and O2lite
I currently use OSC on ESP32 and ESP8266 microcontrollers to build electromechanical instruments and controllers, but I'm considering switching to this O2 protocol to make my components more open to rearrangement. Just sharing this and curious if anyone else is implementing O2 into their projects.
At this point, the only proprietorship Apple holds onto is out of preserving branding by mediocrity.

Not being able to use my friends Android charger is an absolute nuisance. I absolutely could care less about Lightning bolt, Firefly or whatever the fuck it’s called these days…
Our editor integration is completely editor agnostic. Deno implements the Language Server Protocol [1], which essentially all editors support. Because of this the new inlay hints feature, is supported on all editors that support inlay hints and use our LSP integration. The Jetbrains integration for Deno uses our LSP, but I don't know if they support inlay hints yet.

You can find docs on using Deno LSP with other editors here: https://deno.land/manual/getting_started/setup_your_environm...

[1]: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
I hear you--I think this is limitation is useful for bandwidth/loading time constraints.
You're not wrong.

Apparently activists of this variety tend to be highly narcissistic, with movements that engage in highly ineffective, yet high publicity activities like this being deeply attractive to these types.

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/infantilization-...
Forms: The “boring $16B market that grew 130% in the past 3 years”
I think a big problem with Witcher 1 is that its vision for combat was relatively novel and not well presented. In the lore it's emphasized that fighting is supposed to be a sort of graceful dance and so the combat tries to mimic that. The combat is much more like a bemani (beat/music type game) game than an action RPG, even though it looks nothing like the former and everything like the latter.

Once you 'get' this, everything makes way more sense, the game flows, and it becomes really quite fun. I played it when it first came out. I didn't get it, and quit before beating the first chapter. I later replayed it, got it, and ended up playing through it multiple times on max difficulty.
“Old/weird laptops” sought to help test Linux kernel backlight drivers
Are you familiar with Hitchens's razor?
Why do you feel entitled to a once trademarked brand name of a radio station on a third party system that is provided for free?
> I love the writing feel of E-Ink; the software makes it unusable.

Agreed. It needs specially designed software.

> If anyone reading this is also interested in hacking around on Boox devices, let's talk, maybe: https://gitter.im/boox-users/community

I am.

I recently got a Nova Air C and I'd like to do a few things with it. I'm mostly interested in getting an optimized terminal to use with the rooting feature, to replace the termux frontend by something that'd be better optimized for eink while reusing termux packaged tools.

There seems to be private APIs to do great software, at least on the Sony DPT, Mooink and Fujitsu Quaderno devices from the Sony spinoff Linfiny.

For example, check how this gets faster rewrites on a more limited zone: https://github.com/DPT-RP1/dpt-canvas

A terminal often writes to a small portion of the screen, so everything else could remain static and without ghosting, while this portion of the screen getting new characters would get fast text rewrites, a bit like how you when you write on the notetaking app, it shows immediately yet a bit fuzzy, then it's redrawn later in high quality.

In would require talking to these APIs (so maybe with different modes for different brands like Linfiny/Boox/Remarkable/Kindle) + maintaining a simple map of the terminal screen to do invalidation/refresh as needed.
I am a fan of provisional patent applications. If you are facing the possibility of a commercial dispute right now they can give you a lot of intimidation power at very low cost.
If an average Netflix viewer watches Netflix 70 hours per month - they will spend 6 of those hours watching ads - to save $3. It's a sucker's deal. Sure, some extreme savers will be so blinded by the promise of CHEAPER that they will probably go for it.
Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library
In terms of 'getting exposure' these are very effective. If we're comparing costs it's a way better value than the gentleman that self-immolated in front of the supreme court back in april.

You see 10,000 ads a day and this is the one that stood out to you.
Now waiting for 3.3.1 as 3.3 seems very buggy!
Mondrian image has been hanging upside down for decades
The Elephant in the Brain
The CMSIS-DAP adapter referenced in the tutorial is discontinued. Can one of you hardware pros point me to a suitable replacement?

Also asked the author here: https://mobile.twitter.com/kaycebasques/status/1585708384531...
You Can’t Trust Cpuid
The square-root scaling law means quadrupling the water storage only doubles the length of the perimeter dike. It is a good thing.

Dikes are as mature as any technology still in use: they predate writing. We don't need to guess what they cost. We have, similarly, well beyond a century of experience with penstocks and kinetic waterwheels. Pumps have been in use for some time, too.
sure anyone can do it, but it takes a lot of computers to do it at a reasonable refresh rate. HRRR is 3km and available for free. no super computers required by the end user. then you can apply what ever AI/statistical downscaling you want without having to try and run a better/more reliable forecast than the NWS
Yes! You're right!

Like I said, I haven't touched Windows in over a decade.
Not weather, sun, sun, sun, sun, sun!
As a long-time Pushbullet user, I would like to thank the developer for their efforts in creating it and in keeping the app available to us!
There used to be an AWS marketplace where you could create your own "app" on top of AWS.

I remember that you could have an add-on for EC2 instances where Amazon would call back your service with EC2 usage data.

The biggest issue was that you had to pass spreadsheets around to get set up, but that was 6+ years ago when Amazon just introduced the feature.
So the Marquis de Lafayette isn't democratic patriot in two countries because he was born into the aristocracy?

Statistics part literally doesn't matter. You judge the person by their actions.
whoever is funding this, i would say their approach is ineffective at best and almost certainly counterproductive to their cause.
From the article:

> In videos from the Dutch museum posted online on Thursday, one of the men says:

> "How do you feel when you see something beautiful and priceless being apparently destroyed before your very eyes?"

> "That is that same feeling when you see the planet being destroyed," he adds.

Many people still don't acknowledge that climate change leads to /destruction/ of important ecosystems and human settlements. And that this destruction can and must be stopped. And for some reason this is a very difficult message to get across.
In France electricity price to consumers hasn't changed much, there's a state fixed price "tarif bleu" 0.1740 EUR/kWh flat rate (all taxes included).
Hi Mihai! Great work! I would love to see where this goes!

Forgive my ignorance but is there any sort of native client besides the browser running in the background to help with websocket to tcp? Or a tunnel to a cloud service to help there?
Data Feel: Exploring Visual Effects in Video Games to Support Sensemaking Tasks
So beside patent trolls, do you have any example of software patent case where a big company blocked a startup based on patent? (recent example, after elis).

In general I would buy patent insurance.
What's wrong with storing it on a ship? Anchor it and pay a skeleton crew to keep it operational.
I don't want to get my hopes up, but already know they can have my money.
I've wondered for a while if we couldn't build a pipeline between the ocean and the Salton Sea in SoCal and store quite a bit of energy that way. The Salton Sea is already kind of a wasteland so at least use it for something.
Put visitors in an exoskeleton that guides them through the exposition in a preprogrammed way.