skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear is as clean as clean diesel.

Is it a clusterfuck: yes. Is it ambitious to leave nuclear and fossils behind us: yes. As a wealthy society should we try: yes.

We Germans are a bit idealistic and maybe illusional but at least we try.
> Natgas is being used by the industry and for domestic heating. Nuclear power plants were used for electricity generation.

Yes, and people are saying this is exactly the problem. There is no law of physics (or even economy) that demands industry and domestic heating must use gas. It is the result of 30 years of not building enough power plants.
Remember the class DOS game NOTVIR.EXE? Fun times.
Ok, but doesn't that mean we will be surpassed left and right by nations who don't care (as much) about safety?
I know the BofA acronym for Bank of America, but still i cannot connect it with biyouvet... :( Note: non native English speaker, if that matters...
Does it? It mentions advertising a bit, and I think I could get to what the authors take would be, but it didn’t mention spam as far as I can tell
CDC – Week 48 – U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report
You're probably right, but I wasn't sure if there might be some regional variation even within the US.

In contrast, if you asked where my son is and I replied that "he's in school", I think that'd be fine, wouldn't it? Or "in prison"? (Well, that would be less fine, but not for grammatical reasons...)
You write very similar to chatGPT.
The efficiency of the lasers is awful though and they will have to get at least 100x that energy yield for it to be a net power source. A lot of heat winds up in the laser glass and it takes it a long time to cool between shots so you are doing very good to make a few shots a day. A real power plant is going to need more like 10 shots per second.

Heavy-ion fusion has been talked about since the 1970s and it seems much more practical than lasers for energy production because the efficiency of particle accelerators is pretty good (maybe 30% or more) but it takes a very big machine, the size of a full powerplant, to do do meaningful development. Something like that seems to need about 100 beamlines because otherwise space charge effects prevent you from getting the needed luminosity. Given that you are going to need to protect the wall of the reactor and the beamlines from the blasts and also have a lot of liquid lithium flowing around to absorb neutrons and breed tritium it is hard for me to picture the beam quality being good enough.

There hasn't been much work on it since then. If I had $48 billion to spend I'd think a heavy ion fusion lab would be better than some other things I could buy.
They could not sell licenses. Hell, it wasn't even clear that software had copyright protections at all anyway, with computer programs being added to us code as explicitly copyrightable in the Computer Software Copyright Act of 1980.

They charged their tape copying fee that was a couple hundred dollars or so, but that's the kind of thing even the GPL explicitly says is OK for distribution.

They would later charge a license fee for even the older versions, but they didn't originally.

> In the early 1970s AT&T distributed early versions of Unix at no cost to government and academic researchers, but these versions did not come with permission to redistribute or to distribute modified versions, and were thus not free software in the modern meaning of the phrase. After Unix became more widespread in the early 1980s, AT&T stopped the free distribution and charged for system patches. As it is quite difficult to switch to another architecture, most researchers paid for a commercial license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...
I am sorry, but that sounds like a scam. I doubt that it's an actual ms domain.
> All the rubber contaminating the environment when what you describe is the Electric Train that existed for 60+ years.

A freight train won't be able to deliver something to my house. Nor would it likely be able to transport livestock or grains from a farm to a processing plant.

There are medium- and short-distance trips where a truck makes more sense, and they may have to drive on a highway in that case.

And as someone who lives in Canada, where there are large distances between major metro areas, electrifying all those rail kilometres may not be practical, so even trains may have to stay on fossil fuels in certain situations.
It would work, for like 1 day
I used it briefly in the past 1 year.
I'm kinda like this as well.

I'm not a misanthrope, and still enjoy the company of people. But. I used to status-jockey and be unconsciously and consciously obsessed with all of that, no matter the arena/ context/ subculture, etc. But doing a lot of inner work and unearthing what my core drives/ motives/ needs were, a lot of that status-jockeying and wanting to be in the in-group to feel this existential sense of acceptance and security started to come into focus, and a lot of old friendships became revealed as insecurity/ fear based (on both parties). And trying to introduce new paradigms to old friends became sort of the last-ditch effort to try to salvage relationships that were built on shaky foundation.

It also made me look back on when people tried to speak truth into my beliefs when I was still caught-up in wanting to be relevant and seen as high-status & outwardly respectable, and how I couldn't hear what people were saying.

I still wanna give people a chance, though, but accept them for where they communicate they are at and leave em alone if they're deep in that status-chasing game, and have no desire to explore getting out of that mess. There are still people out there who want to enjoy life and find meaning on other terms than getting validation from an anonymous audience/ jury that they believe has the power to approve or reject them.
Not sure if you read the linked article, but there is a strategy to restart services on boot, using crontab's @reboot feature
I turned my brightness way down, mainly because the floaters I got in my mid 30s started really annoying me. I use dark mode where I can.

Lastly, I just don't code for long stretches anymore. I usually get up to walk around every 60 or 90 minutes, for my knees and my eyes.
In Quebec, people heat issuing electricity.
It's not even this. It's just that for vast majority of 'average' people, they just use whatever OS comes with their devices. "Installing an OS" is an alien concept for most people. So it is automatically either MacOS/iOS or Chromium/Linux (Chromebook), Android or Windows. That's it. And although Linux the kernel features in two of these, that's totally beside the point. The point is people mostly don't even know how to change their preinstalled OS, no matter how irritating it is. If it develops too many issues, they take it to the local tech shop who almost always will reinstall/reset the same OS and give it back.

The only people who use Linux are the tech oriented crowd, including gamers, who naturally tend to be more tech oriented than most. This is still a very small fraction of the world though. And this isn't changing unless a healthy fraction of devices and PCs come with Linux preinstalled. Even then a lot of people will complain and ask for Windows (or whatever) the very next day after purchasing their device.
In this conversation from July 2021 he said he’s going to write his own email server, which I would be very interested in:

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

I’m going to write my own mail server. I was making notes on that even as we were setting up this call. That’s a big problem, and that’s at least as difficult if not more difficult than writing a database engine, but I don’t want to be beholden to Gmail. I don’t want them controlling my destiny. I don’t want them controlling the record of all of my conversations. I want to control that myself, and so I’m going to go through a lot of pain and a lot of work and a lot of effort to come up with some solution that I can control myself. I can go out and lease a virtual machine out there in the cloud and run it myself and not depend on a third party to control my email.
They will prohibit sale of ICE new trucks.

However ICE trucks and cars will continue running for years to come maybe only prohibited in city centers which is fine.

Still the Russia vs Ukraine situation show how europe is vulnerable and dependent of gas from Russia and Africa. This will only give more leverage to external forces to influence european politics.
> For example, between them Google and Microsoft have wrecked email.

How so?
Unpopular in HN and FOSS circles.
GPL 2.0

* https://github.com/codership/galera
Fair enough, I'm just talking about parties in the US, and not dinner parties.
Chrome without ad blocking will quickly drop from the top spot.

As for search: Google has been watering down search for years trying to make it "understand" human speech. This has been a failure and not ChatGPT exists that can actually (apparently) understand english and replies in English too. It's an excellent first pass to get me the information I'm after. The responses from ChatGPT leapfrog me over the first 4-5 rounds of Google searches and right to the point where simple 1-2 word searches on google/bing can get me across the finish line.
Or it's just a miscommunication: The boss was throwing the party with the intention of everyone having a chance to relax and have fun, but everyone else saw it as a career opportunity and "dressed for success".
You are partially right.

It is really hard to write portable C++ code of small projects, because strings are different in nearly all major platforms.

But if You tied to one platform, platform specific strings, usually, are good enough for heavy usage.
I just started listening to your podcast last month, I've been enjoying it a lot!
>For example, chatbots can be programmed to send out large numbers of messages that support a particular political candidate or cause, which can distort public discourse and undermine the integrity of elections.

As opposed to an entire industry doing this, except usually by hiring humans?
Except for all the hills and valleys. True there are no mountains but at a human scale, a 100 foot tall hill is still hard to climb.
It’s not really a problem when it’s a 100% well tested software.
I know a lot of people who use Tablets as their main driver and don't have a PC (or only use it for edge cases). Not even for ideological reasons, it just works for them. It's not universal, but it's not rare, either.
Yes, but once there, it doesn’t have to move again.
Microsoft also used to have 90% market share. It's less impressive now that Mac is a viable competitor and iOS and Android are good enough for 80% of common tasks.
I think it's a capacity problem. Right now, the "system" (legit HN users) have the capacity to deal with dull and inane comments currently provided by dull and inane human commenters. If the dull and inane comments become automated they can arbitrarily increase their number until the system lacks the capacity to deal with them.

If there was one or ten bad comments on this thread - no problem. What if there were ten thousand bad comments?
You may be right though a latest / greatest Ipnone worth $1000 (sporting features I dont give a damn) makes me uneasy to use on public transportation. Here in NYC such things get snatched from peoples hands on the train along with gold jewlery and other expensive gear. I dont want to attract that upon myself, no thanks. $150 phone which works decently could be stolen too but the hole in the budget is an order of magnitude smaller so I can stay relaxed at least.

Yeah, I used to have a rusty roadbike that looked so unattractive I thought it’s like ontouchable and I found the solution to bike theft. Nevertheless, one day a thick chain was cut and the bike was gone. So, yes, anything gets stolen
Why ban GPT when we, as a society, are perfectly fine with humans who generate exactly the same kind kind of worthless content?
Ah. That makes sense. Good point.
To be clear, I meant it as a general phenomenon and wasn't directed at you. I see a lot of the same thing on reddit, etc. Metric vs imperial is an almost-daily comment chain in the Oxygen Not Included subreddit, for example. It just gets a bit tiring to see the same discussion again and again.

(edit) I'm perfectly fine using 8601 in technical contexts, or anywhere really, but describing American cultural practices as "insane" and "bizarre" is exactly what I'm talking about.
Do you have a source for that?

As far as I can tell, in 2020 over 50% of German electricity came from renewable sources. The market share of fossil fuel has also been rapidly dropping over the last few years.
Usually you need a lot of information to justify a warrant and execute a sting, and it often involves more than one law enforcement organization.
My favorite one is "YouTube is censoring me because they demonetized my video!"

Okay, person, so now it's censorship if YouTube broadcasts and hosts your content for free, but fails to give you money for the privilege of doing so?
The person directing them to the ATM said “B of A”, and the person looking for the ATM heard “bi youv ay”, which they thought was a word they hadn’t heard before. “B of A” = “bi yuv ay” = “biyouvet”.
I spoke with someone who worked contemporaneously with you, and who thinks you might just be confused --- your "projects last 2 days and typically consist of 50% documentation" claim would be consistent with you working SARs rather than pentests. What you're describing does sound a lot more like arch review than pentesting. Maybe that's the miscommunication here?

Edit

Somebody else pointed out that if you were mostly working on retests --- that's the project where you take someone else's report and look to see if they fixed all the findings --- you'd also have had a 1-3 day documentation-intensive workload.

Another person pointed out that netpen projects fit this bill too, but of course, you weren't doing back-to-back runs of network penetration tests out of that office.

All I care about is the claim upthread that people spend 50% of their time on pentests documenting things. If you engage a firm to do a software assessment and they spend 50% of their time in doc, fire them.
People blindly click ok in dialogs ,think it will be fine and thus get their setting changed or install unwanted softwares.

And the dialog that nukes your app default pops up in OOBE of every win 11 major update. (To clarify, I don't think the dialog should be there at first place. A dialog that defaults to give user a big problem is just dumb)
Go Time is good (if you like Go, obviously)

(I’d also recommend Security Cryptography Whatever and Signals & Threads, but they’ve already been mentioned)
You can have whatever fantasy world you want, but it’s still fundamentally incompatible with human nature. Even in the absence of material constraints, human beings will still compete for relative status. If you live in the United States today, you are incalculably wealthier than even the aristocrats of old, but this has not managed to alleviate envy.

Also, class difference has been decoupled from material wealth for centuries already. Just like a prosperous burgher from an Italian city-state in the early modern period was never considered the equal of an aristocrat who held a fraction of his wealth, a successful arctic fisherman, electrical lineman, or oil field worker is still in a lower social class than a less wealthy Ivy League graduate.
Great so now I have to follow all 200M people on Twitter? That’s going to be pretty noisy.
Not to take a side, but to answer the question: imbalance. It takes less than thirty seconds for a computer to generate basically any amount of text, faster than anyone else can formulate a response, faster even than anyone can read. It could theoretically swamp a topic.

Is that realistic? No idea. I haven't made up my mind on this topic yet.
The wonder composites that make electric cars possible are all oil. Carbon fiber is hilariously not-green to produce. Make a tube out of oil and burn it over and over. Now make a car out of it with zero chance to recycle and talk about how green it is.

Two things to your post though. Yes, making things out of oil is probably better than burning it. But don’t mistake how much oil is used in the side-processes.

We will burn the oil one way or another. Until there is a better source of energy with better safety and density than hydrocarbons, we’ll use it all. If not in cars, in power plants, if not there in military, if not there in 3rd world, etc.
Meta interferes with some of my vim bindings, though, as well as some readline bindings (`alt-f`, `alt-b`). I like using the system key because it's essentially unused in Alacritty and it provides a clean separation between tools.

And actually, I didn't mention that my VinTmuxNav commands are bound to `alt-j` and the like so that I can still use `ctrl-h` and `ctrl-l` on the command line. [EDIT: ...and then alacritty binds `cmd-j` and friends to the meta version when inside vim]

And yes, can confirm you do need to make Alt be Esc+ in iTerm!
A data-centric introduction to computing
Why does this article fail to praise the platforms that do provide non algorithmic feeds (YouTube and Twitter). If the point is more platforms should provide that experience isn’t that contradicted by the YouTube experience where the subscriptions are rarely used.

I think the most interesting point is that maybe if similar investments had gone into tools to curate your own feed it would be of similar quality, but it’s hard to compete with quality and interest signals like people who watch the stuff I watched like this, and as soon as you add that signs you’ve at best built a standard evil recommendation engine with extra levers for the user to control and we all know customization is a great way to ballon the maintenance cost of a feature
Not really sure this makes sense? We know exactly why light behaves the way it does- the emergent properties of a simpler system. It's weird that particles aren't like this so far! I think your critique here is leveled at QFT (which is fair, it's a practical theory with plenty of compromises), but the "why the hell are particles" issue holds in practically every flavor of QM
Perhaps dressing poorly (very common) and not being in shape (bimodal distribution, there are many in very good shape and many in very bad shape, few in between) started out as a counter-signal, but today it is just sloppiness, or convenience, like it is more convenient to order fast food instead of grilling chicken.

I work in the tech industry, and although I don't usually wear a suit, I often show up in a spezzato, a pair of pants and a jacket of a different fabric/color. Nothing too flashy, but well put together. And I think that's the counter signal nowadays: show up looking good, feeling good, being what we want to be.
As others have said, you can add blue light filter either based on app or monitor configs.

If you were eyeglasses, it's worthwhile to pay an extra bit - usually on the order of $50-$100 - to get a blue light filter built directly into your glasses.

Further, my optometrist specifically recommended that I use slightly underpowered prescription. I'm at about 90% of what my glasses prescription could be but he tells me that this means my eyes will strain less. It has seemed to work for me since after a few years of having to increase prescription every 1.5 years or so, it's starting to slow down. Could be anecdotal or caused by aging but something to bring up with your own optometrist if you have one.
> outside fairly basic [...] vehicles in their base trim without options

Nothing wrong with basic vehicles "in their base trim without options", we have two parked outside the house right now, and the vehicle we owned before them was similar.
I dunno. We recently bought a house where the kitchen had been recently renovated. I don't know if our appliances are super high end but they are definitely on that side, and it makes the kitchen feel great. We probably wouldn't spend as much time in it otherwise. So let's say that kitchen cost 40k (I have no idea)...but lasts us 20 years. That's 2k a year for a very enjoyable part of our house, probably the most used space by far.

On the contrary, if we had spent an additional 40k on our car, how much of a game changer would that have been and how long would it have lasted?
It seems equally helpful as USD then.
> your coworkers have told stories about it, and I'm not sure you want the conversation you're asking to have. It is not the same story you tell.

I hereby give you permission to lay out the full story, full-stop. Don't hold back. I know it's usually not a classy move, but you're hereby absolved of that.

> I don't know why you're shocked at the number of times I "showed up" at the NCC Chicago office.

I wasn't shocked. It was to point out that you weren't in the field anymore. We were.

> Wally was, at the time, your line manager at NCC. You get what a line manager is, right? Nobody was seriously asking Wally for the rights to anything, but I have no trouble believing you have trouble interpreting a joke.

No doubt. But that raises the question of why you met with Wally privately. That's a bit at odds with your immediate previous claim that there's no reason to show up to your ex-employer's office. But this is just a distraction.

> You just claimed, a comment earlier, that NCC engagements were "a week, max". I stand by my previous comment. I have better information, and you have weird information. If your personal experience of NCC was a back-to-back sequence of 2-day projects, you were put in some strange back-bench situation.

Pop quiz: If I worked there for a full year -- 52 weeks -- then how did I complete over 40 engagements?

> I'm just sitting here thinking about this and your claim about documentation is even more risible than I had realized. By the time you were working at NCC, documentation was almost fully automated; we had the whole team working with Litany of Failure, our docgen system. Litany became such a big deal after I left that a year ago, at someone's going-away party, Erin and I got pins, which they'd made for everyone who worked on it. You were sure as shit using it in 2014.

Yes, we used Litany exclusively for our docgen. That's the templating system that creates the PDFs. It's quite a nice system; thanks for making it.

It doesn't change the fact that you have to actually fill it out with words.

> 50% of your time. Give me a break.

We did.

So, let's hear those stories. I imagine it'll go something like this: "That Shawn was such a slacker that we couldn't figure out what to do with him. He spent most of his time fooling around on the computer. At one point he went to the bathroom for a full half hour."

My work spoke for itself. Pentesting was a necessary part of the job, but the product is the report. The report is what the client sees, and (in some cases) what they pay several hundred thousand dollars for. Is it any surprise that a huge amount of time is spent preparing this extremely-valuable product for consumption? This isn't even a particularly strange claim; Damien was the one who pointed out to me that the PDF is what clients are paying for.

I'd be interested to compare notes. What did you have in mind?
It was. I remember people doing it.
TortoiseHg is still maintained and works both on windows (no direct experience) and linux.

The development happens on its mailing list, but there is also an Heptapod (a gitlab fork modified to also support mercurial) instance here: https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg

Interesting enough, almost all my work nowadays consists of interacion with git remotes. But my local clone has always been mercurial via hg-git.