skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But would you give up all your access to anything modern, for the rest of your life, in order to have the power and influence that Rockefeller had? Primitive medical treatment, limited communications to others that aren't in your vicinity, no modern entertainment?

Example: Last year I went to my doctor, who informed me (based on a readout from a machine that analyzed a blood sample) that I needed to exercise more, lose weight, and change my diet in certain aspects in order to live a bit longer (I had high cholesterol). And this year at my annual checkup I found out my changes worked, and cholesterol is way down. This is something that wouldn't be knowable back in Rockefeller's time.
That’s very much not “the science.” 1.5C is the target. Bad stuff happens after that, but it’s not a “cascade of catastrophic events.” The expected GDP impact of a “do nothing” scenario is about 18% by 2050 (which will be 3.2C).

We are definitely headed to a 3C world because developing nations have zero incentive to risk economic growth rates over the next 30 years on a 18% economic hit 30 years from now. They’ll still be better off using fossil fuels to grow as cheaply as possible.
To add to this point, John Rockefeller's daughter Alice died of dysentery at 13 months old.
> Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by:

"This guy" is Tim Bray, who quit as a VP of AWS over its treatment of employees:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-bray-quit-amazon-web-se...

* https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-A...

> Bray, who was born in Alberta, went to University of Guelph and who worked in Vancouver, was a distinguished engineer, a coveted title large tech companies award to senior technologists. The decision will likely cost him more than $1 million in loss of salary and unvested Amazon stock, “not to mention the best job I ever had,” he said.

* https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/amazon-engin...

Dude co-authored both the XML spec and the JSON spec (RFC 7159/8259):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray

He has principles and he's willing to put himself out there for them.
The link points to a direct quote from Osama bin Laden. That's not "misrepresenting his views":

"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the US Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way: to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden#September_11_a...
I don't know the specific numbers for LA, but the city discretionary budget doesn't seem like an unreasonable choice for the denominator here. That's the budget from which the mayor or city council can either allocate more to the police, or not. The number probably doesn't include the school district budget but in California that's typically not controlled by the same governing body and doesn't necessarily have the same geographic boundaries; it's not just an accounting distinction. And school boards don't even have much say here; school district funding is mostly controlled at the state level.
Maybe some of us have no particular opinion on Musk either way, but rather are shocked by the narrow-mindedness of the response to Twitter opening up and not being so ideologically captured.
Traffic fatalities are up 17% over 2019. That’s thousands of extra deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
they're talking about stroads. the anti-stroads people aren't against cars or roads or streets, they're against stroads in particular, because they combine all the worst things about streets and roads, and kill all their benefits.

i think the anti-stroads people are right but naive: stroads are bad, but how did we get them? and in light of your answer to that, how can we expect them to be fixed? undoing stroads will be a huge expense that will only benefit the overwhelming mass of people. it'll never happen.
A Paradox of Status and Power
"Stroads" as they're called they're not a street or a raod they're both. Too wide for a street but with multiple entries and exits too much access for a road. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad

I'm surprised police wouldn't use something like a Stringer/blast ball to disperse large crowds that are beyond control, a riot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_ball
We knew this was possible and was coming, and probably around a few years. Fascinating from a technology perspective, terrifying from a long-term privacy perspective.
Maybe because IBM connected the 8087's INT output to the 8086's NMI, so the 8087 became a source of NMIs (and with really trivial stuff like underflow/overflow, forced rounding etc., to boot).

Even if you could disable the NMI with external circuitry, that workaround quickly becomes untenable, especially when it's not fully synchronous.
That seems like kind of a strawman, doesn’t it? I’m not convinced anyone really thinks what you are claiming.
This always feels funny to me, like sure Lula’s conviction was thrown out but I’ve never seen any compelling explanation for the apartment he was convicted of accepting as a bribe.
Chicago Flood
There's not that many of them anymore tbh. Some thread titles attract them in strong numbers like this one, in most threads these days they are a heavily downvoted minority
My problem is that paying for the emojis doesn't actually stop them from monetizing your info.
They do have a point though. It’s pretty hard to do donuts in a train!
> What I’m doing · I’m not closing or deleting my account, because Twitter might come back, who knows.

> I’ll still use Twitter to post pointers to ongoing pieces because that benefits me, not Elon.

So not really leaving.

> Are people really leaving Twitter? · Yes. [..] So, suppose I’m right about Twitter…

The evidence is that Mastodon users are increasing, and therefore leaving Twitter. The assumption is that they are not doing exactly what this author is doing, and signing up to both.

> Why Mastodon will succeed

I was just reading how every time jwz posts, they receive a DDoS from other servers loading the content [1]. The problems scale as the users do.

> General-purpose (non-affinity-group) instances won’t be free; typical charges will be $5-10/month.

I assume that means either using crypto or a central payment system. People were hesitant to pay $8 for Twitter believing it should be free, how will you get them to pay if they can just move to a free instance?

> They will compete on the quality of their moderation and spam/abuse prevention.

None of them have the resources to do this. Twitter had quite a large moderation team being paid a lot of money to work on this problem full time. You'll either end up in an echo chamber (reducing need for moderation) or there will be little to no moderation.

All that said, this person was likely more suited to a platform of shorter writing, rather than these longer form pieces. It contradicts itself in places.

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/mastodon-stampede/

EDIT: Less inflammatory.
I get keys are better than passwords, but how do you enforce key rotation for non-technical users when they can barely manage to changer their passwords? I much prefer 2FA than keys for non-technical users.
Or the buyer buying hash.
The overall statistics argue that we are meaningfully better: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2020-2021/LExpMort.pdf
> they believe in free trade at all

More than US seeing how PRC has significantly less disputes (normalized for acession time), both as initiator and target per WTO stats and generally abides by WTO disputes ruled against her favour. Even PRC's accession protocol was made extra onerous via US objections who still got outplayed - it isn't/wasn't PRC paying lip service while blocking WTO dispute resolution system. PRC believes in free trade more than US because she's learned to play the game better vs US flipping over the gameboard. Which is fine, globalism no longer in US interest, but lets not pretend US isn't systematically the worst exploiter of free trade even while being the most influential rule writer, and increasinly worse when as those priveleges erode.
I agree, 34ms is unacceptable latency. Let's all use eshell in Emacs instead.
According to the article, the base-spec model Ami has a heater and a “demister” but not A/C.
The problem is not the racial makeup of the LAPD.
By painting car shows as gang activity and by emphasizing the angry neighbors, the article has painted this entire genre of social gathering and an entire circle of enthusiasts as antisocial, and in need of policing.

Instead of thrilling
mass gatherings that push the limits of our car infrastructure and actually do something new and innovative with it (for once), cities will be hollowed out, denuded of their culture, so that sleepy suburbanites can move in and lodge noise complaints. Urban revival will only mean basic bitch breweries and putt putt, instead of mass gatherings of poor workers, with rowdy music and sizzling fajitas.

https://illwill.com/sideshows-and-wayward-lives
Care to elaborate, instead of providing 'headline'?
> I just don't understand the need to announce […]

It's a statement of principles. To bring attention to, and shine light on, what (he thinks) is a problem.

Just like he did went he quit a lucrative job as VP of AWS when Amazon mistreated employees:

* https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-A...
My experience has been the same, I love the threads on the local feed on mathstodon.xyz. and sigmoid.social has many top AI/ML researchers. This is the social media I was promised!
Huh... I just played with "--v 4" and I'm getting the mind-blowing results.

You've changed my mind.
I'm not a fan of American car culture, but this complaint sounds misplaced. Seoul has no shortage of 10-lane streets, sometimes right next to residential areas. I've yet to hear about anyone "taking over" the street.

What America needs is a competent police force that's held accountable for what it's doing (or not doing).
RDFox looks like the best bet for datalog databases, it computes changes incrementally, also with aggregation extensions. Logicblox, Soufflé, datomic, inter4ql, corese are also worth a look. Looks like there's a lot of innovation possible in the space, like distributed logic processing, incremental sorting, adding assert statements, figuring out why specific rules don't match recursively, etc
> Google never said you get to keep your account unless you do something illegal.

The point is that Google should have to say that, just like your water and electricity companies can't arbitrarily decide to stop serving you.
One way to think about it was that lack of access to modern health care, safe drinking water, and timely access to global knowledge (etc), were not moral issues in 1916 because they didn't exist or were not technically feasible. And this is with the acknowledgement that we aren't entirely up to standard in these areas. Wealth could be measured against what any given age considers to be an reasonably achievable quality of life.
EDIT: I'm now playing with "--v 4" parameter in Midjourney, and getting amazing results. I'll have to rescind my wager!
to quote the article:

> Police say they don’t have enough manpower to stop such street takeovers, which have been popularized by the “Fast & Furious” movie franchise. Residents are fed up.

you'd have to be a baby to take that seriously. cops are just lobbying for more money, "manpower." how old is "fast & furious?" 20 years? more?
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Big cities are much more efficient - especially for the single person - than living further away.

Personal vehicles scale up to their passenger count. The single person with a car in the suburbs or rural effectively pays 4x more for the car than the family of four.

How do you get rid of the car? Live somewhere where public transportation or walking is the more efficient means of transportation - larger cities do this better than smaller ones.

Many aspects of managing a house are best done with more people. I've got a list of repairs that need at least three hands to do - but get put off because I've only got two. It would be much easier to live in a nice apartment closer to the urban center of the city.
Yes, in a heartbeat. Besides, the man lived to 97, and by 1916 the majority of excess deaths happened by early childhood.

(Also, why do we talk about 1916 like they didn't have instantaneous communication? They'd been telegraphing across the country for nearly 60 years by that point! It certainly isn't text messaging, but I think I'd survive.)
You have a point though it takes reading Herbert Spencer/"Social Darwinism", Gustave Le Bon, Edward Bernays, Walter Lippman etc. to even think on these lines. People forget how these people and their theories gave rise to and defended institutional Racism/Colonialism at the crucial "Dawn of Modern Industrial Society" starting in the 19th century. They put forth the notion that "the general populace are idiots that need to be managed" by a select few.

Bernays says this in his book Propaganda;

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."

The same idea has persisted in different forms into the current "Modern Times".
Tesla is in the business of selling emission credits, not just cars
Thanks, Chuck!
That seems like a similarly organized affair to the takeovers, so I guess it’s doable if you want it badly enough.
I have a lot of respect for Tim Bray as a technologist and have followed him closely over the years. I have also been thinking about Paul Graham's "The Four Quadrants of Conformism" a lot lately. I am curious to hear where other folks who are familiar with both would perceive Tim mapping into this space?
Just because UK found nothing doesn't mean others also found nothing.

> "We have evidence that Huawei has the capability secretly to access sensitive and personal information in systems it maintains and sells around the world," Robert O'Brien, national security adviser, reportedly said.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/us-finds-huawei-has-backdoo...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-officials-say-huawei-can-co...
Too bad this isn't about the OTCA metapixel... https://conwaylife.com/wiki/OTCA_metapixel
The EEVBlog forums, probably. Some of what goes on there is just amazing. I've posted technical questions about electronics before, and in the span of a few hours had EE experts from around the world chiming in to explain $WHATEVER. I've had people give me (really old) test equipment for the cost of shipping.

I've watched ad-hoc distributed teams of people from all over the world collectively hack / reverse engineer oscilloscopes and similar gear to unlock features that were software locked to much more expensive models. I've seen people post where they hacked up interfaces to older test equipment (that didn't support modern protocols like LXI) using an Arduino or RPi. I've seen people post free hardware plans for GPS Disciplined Oscillators, reflow ovens, and FSM knows what else.

And I've laughed my ever loving arse off at some of the insane silliness is that the Test Equipment Anonymous thread. And, yes, at times I've wanted to throat-punch people for being pedantic twits, or for arguing about insane minutia that nobody else gives a fuck about, and so on. No forum / community is perfect. But the EEVBlog forum has an awful lot to offer for anybody who is into electronics.

Other than that... I guess I'd go with the old Hacker's Haven BBS from back in the day.
Also, terms like "fastest-growing" are nearly always maybe statistically true but practically lies. If my pet programming language goes from me being its only user to ten people in a day, then it's the fastest-growing because it grew by 1000%.

We'd need to know the count before, count after, and time period to know for sure whether the Julia claim is true.
Scholar identifies alarming trends among US men
I'm sure that works well for a country the size of the Netherlands (33500km²). The 48 contiguous US states, on the other hand, comprise an area of 8 million km², and people need a way to travel and travel quickly. The alternative to accessible transportation (and affordable housing) is de facto segregation, and I was raised to believe that's a bad thing lol
When you say "...they don’t care about the (mostly black or Latino) residents..." you're trying to say things without saying them.
I would prevent any hobbyist project of mine from making $40 for tax reasons alone, where the difference the to tax authorities between $0 and $40 is basically the same as the difference to a Saleforce non-commercial clause. At $0 I don’t have to do anything about taxes. At $40 it’s immediately in the red due to whatever time I have to spend sorting out taxes for $40 in revenue.
The joke is that UDP doesn't guarantee packet delivery (or order of arrival).

> What joke?
So does it allow you to do things that slicers wouldn't do? Or use tricks that slicers wouldn't use? Like inline assembly is used in programming?

I am confused about how this helps with printing those parts shown on the website.
The use of the word "stroads" is the giveaway. This is a word that is exclusively used by anti-carrists.

The term came from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM
My friend group is pretty economically diverse and also cost-conscious, and most of our social activities are free or nearly-free. We hang out in public parks, get together in each other's homes, and go hiking, camping, or to beaches. Optionally, you can put out some cheese and crackers and a cheap bottle of wine, and now you're all having a nice time together for $20.

I'm well-off these days, but I still enjoy doing free/cheap stuff, because I'm there to hang out with my friends, and they're the same friends whether we're sitting on a blanket in a park, or eating three michelin stars. I highly recommend suggesting free activities to your friends, if they're currently in the habit of going out to bars and restaurants and other $$$ activities. Just try it! Maybe you'll all like it.
so you're saying this has been a crisis for more than 50 years? that makes it even more of a crisis.
I've listened to John August's Scriptnotes podcast (fantastic and ad-free) but I haven't tried out Highland 2 yet. Will check it out – thanks!
Actually, no, China has over the last year brilliantly demonstrated that they can’t just get sufficient coal from other sources.

They started a trade war with Australia and lost due to not being able to get adequate coal from elsewhere.
I use foot, which has been quite good.
The nature of UDP
"I've skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it's a work of art"
Using artificial intelligence to spot breast cancer
I don't know, but I'll be glad when things are back to normal
This is great.

One funny thing though, while your example says 1.0, for my own account it says 0.99lotsof9s4
Emergent behavior…
https://archive.ph/apaCq
OP mentioned good colour support, which alacritty does not have.
> This is akin to asking if a bike is more reliable than a car.

It's really not. It's a technical question with many technical answers, thankfully they were provided by other commenters before you posted this.

If anything, it's similar to asking if a bike is faster than a car, to which you would reply than a bike might be faster in traffic because of small size but slower over long distances because of propulsion. It is possible to compare apples and oranges over specific axes.
I've spent a lot of time on twitter, and I've never seen it. I have seen a lot of "martyrdom" though.

E.g.: I don't like Elon Musk. According to Fox News, I'm a pinko commie that hates America.

Nothing you have said is anything other than 1980's conservatism.

What I find sad is that back in the 1980's conservatives still tried to ground their beliefs with intellectual arguments.
Yah, that was my thought exactly. Its probably not just the language choice, but the chosen algorithm. I expect a word frequency counting algorithm to run at close to the speed of sequential main memory read speeds. So the bottleneck in real situations is likely how fast the I/O subsystem can get it into RAM.

(a quick glance at the C version tells me all I need to know with the scanf, strdup, etc. This is sorta like those C vs Java benchmarks which boil down to the fact that the default (glibc/etc) C malloc() isn't really optimized for perf, and what your really bench marking is how terrible it is for frequent tiny allocations. I think there _IS_ a diffrence between the code written by someone who lives C in a system programming context, and people who dabble in it from a higher level language.).

PS: Say using a hash to track a words frequency, likely works OKish but the need to keep it small, while still avoiding collisions would cause problems if the algorithm were parallelized in a long running system (rather than batching, where you would just run each thread against its own copy of the frequency tables, and then merge them at the end). But I'm still fairly certain that "your doing it wrong" if the overall algorithm can't run at a significant fraction of main memory bandwidth.
There are other countries with "stroads" (e.g. Canada) that don't have this nonsense. Can you explain that?
Well, it's certainly confusing. But LA County isn't the only source of funding for the police either. The city appears to contribute ~1.9B a year out of a 10.5B budget in discretionary police spending. https://cao.lacity.org/budget20-21/2020-21Budget_Summary.pdf

My understanding is that if you include non-discretionary spending (pensions etc) that number goes up significantly.
That also sounds like the opposite of xenophobia.

And the US befriended China for important strategic reasons starting with Nixon. If they underestimated anything it was the ability of an authoritarian regime to retain power through such a period of economic growth. Middle classes tend to want western products and media. But the economic growth itself was a deliberate goal of US policy.
A few things to read:

https://www.engadget.com/huawei-contractor-pakistan-backdoor...

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-caught-red-handed-The-c...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-30/vodafone-...

Knowing the absolute mess this would cause diplomatically, they still said there was a back door: https://apnews.com/article/a0031b16e3a511e431b1e0a5f20edbf9

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/apt/microsoft-defender-advan...

Etc.
True, true, true. You cannot rely on the VPN always working.
Is there a better way to get a lot of comments on this site than posting any article that says “…people… should do…”?
Rockefeller loved to 97, but his daughter died at 13 months of a disease that doesn’t exist in America or Europe anymore. Childhood mortality was high, and we’ve substantially reduced that in 2022.

I can’t speak for Rockefeller or for you, but the pain of losing a child is worse than anything I can imagine. If I could trade influencing some election for the lives of my children, I will always pick my children.
I'm not the one who framed it as a race issue, am I? The issue is almost certainly one of class; cops are paid well and are likely to live in middle class neighborhoods. The drag-races likely most common in lower income neighborhoods.