skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do you really want to trust your personal decisions on health, diet, and entertainment to those elected via a popularity contest?

Yes.

Read the history of Teddy Roosevelt & the Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-history

If you're familiar with the political culture of Australasia, you'll realise it's an overwhelming "nanny state" culture.

Also, you'll realise that Australia/New Zealand have the highest HDI indicators of any nation globally with mean winter temperatures above 10 degree Celsius.

Why?

Because Australia and New Zealand have a particular cultural value others don't.

They trust technocratic experts to know what's best for people. And implement.
Yes, you usually have to bootstrap DoT or DoH with an unencrypted DNS query. If the IP is static you can add the domain to the hosts file or use the IP in place of the domain (as you can get signed tls certs for the IP address). Cloudflare does this with 1.1.1.1
Usage of correlation ids and structured logs is pretty much standard. Don't go down this path.
even if you'd be allowed to vote at 16, doesn't mean that you actually CAN vote at 16 just because voting doesn't occur every year (maybe somewhere, but i disgress). Additionally, we let old people vote who don't have much to gain from it anymore. So where should the balance be? That's up for discussion but my personal opinion is that allowing people to vote at 16 doesn't dent the votes too much. It would be worthwhile if only because kids would talk about it at school and would probably learn in school a little more about it than right now.
If you'd prefer something command-line-based, I'd recommend mkvmerge: https://mkvtoolnix.download/

FFmpeg also works of course (it's what LosslessCut uses internally), but in my experience I've occasionally run into files where FFMpeg doesn't properly cut on keyframes and I end up with a few seconds of no image at the start of the video. No such problems with mkvmerge, and the API is much simpler.
> You seem to be hinting that [..] younger voters have worse decision making abilities

I'm not hinting at it - I'm saying so outright. Have your decision-making abilities not progressed since you were 16?

> How do you get out of the trap of thinking that people who vote in their self-interest or disagree with you are incapable of making good voting decisions?

The majority of people above the age of 21 will vote in ways I disagree with, so I don't see how it is relevant to raising or lowering the voting age.

> Teens who have jobs, pay income tax, teens who buy things pay sales tax

So because a kid can get a part-time job at 13, that should be the new voting age? Unless you put the voting age at 0, for some part of our lives, we all must live in a society whose laws we can't vote on. After that it's no longer a philosophical question of where rights come from, but a pragmatic balancing act between representation and an informed voting body.
Can I play devil's advocate and say it's not black and white, and currently a lot of people make really bad decisions and the worst ones are the ones that affect surrounding people. Vaccines are another hot-button issue where making the wrong choice causes you harm and those around you as does smoking. I lived in Japan for a year and never smoked in my life but probably "smoked" a hundred packs after being in some environments. You can argue to avoid such environments but the logical extreme of that is people being forced to stay inside for fear of unvaccinated people. There is clearly some gray area here IMHO.
And even moreso to their cultural regions.

While someone from (say) Connecticut might not think much of moving to Maine, they would probably feel different about moving to Iowa, Washington, or Alabama.

Here's one of the various maps I've seen of US cultural regions: [0]

It seems to be accurate for the areas I know anything about; I can't speak for it in other places.

[0] https://preview.redd.it/ntsqzyp8uq531.png?auto=webp&s=afb643...
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What are quarks made of?

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/d/d9/Qu...
MySQL Workbench actually carries on the tradition - I get it about twice a week after leaving it running overnight. I still haven't decided which button is best to click but I think they all give the same result... per tradition.
Do we know how much tritium is needed for a city's energy generation? What about a state etc? Reason I ask is the only uses I have seen for tritium is on old watch dials made in the pre-90's. Curious how much of this resource is out there.
I always loved the “Nevermore” poem involving this famous error [0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/midnight.dreary.html
On Linux, my Nvidia 3070 idles at about 100w. While ridiculous, I assumed that was just the state of things. Should I be seeing something much lower?
I see your point and you are both correct and incorrect. It's true that an indie artist who needs to sell, say, 5,000 comics a year doesn't have to care about market share as long as they can support themselves with the sales of 5,000 comics.

But it's also true that if you are the lowest rated comic published by Disney, you'll probably be cancelled regardless of gross sales numbers. If all the other books start outselling you, Disney probably won't consider staying in business with you worth their time.

And if you are fired by Disney, you may find yourself in need of a day job.
I changed the title as part of moderating this thread less than we normally would. We moderate HN threads less, not more, when YC or YC startups are part of the story—this has been established practice since the beginning: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

The way we'd normally moderate a thread like this is by downweighting it as a generic riler-upper (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). Posts like the OP are extremely common, because the internet is perpetually noticing something seemingly outrageous, jumping to the most extreme interpretation, exclaiming angrily, and then egging itself on. That's how the medium works. If we didn't downweight such posts, the front page would be be nothing but sensational/indignant material; there'd be no room for anything else. This is a no-brainer as a moderation call, and this practice has also been established on HN since the beginning. However, because the thread mentions YC startups, I haven't touched it or done what we normally would.

Editing sensational/indignant titles to be more neutral and reflect the substance of a story (not that there's really a story here) is another well-established moderation practice on HN, again for what ought to be obvious reasons: if we didn't do it, then the front page would consist of nothing but that. So in this case I limited myself to the minimum viable title edit, while letting the post continue to burn at a much higher rank on the front page than it would ever normally get away with.

For me the real conflict or tradeoff here is: how do we balance the need to not suppress criticisms (even when they are unfair or untrue—because the good will of the community is more important, in fact it's the only asset HN really has), with the need to preserve HN for its intended purpose. The ecosystem is fragile and takes a lot of tending to, and one of the most important forms of tending—which only moderators can really provide—is to not allow garden-variety internet indignation to drown out the quieter, more interesting material that HN is supposed to be for. It should be clear why the rule is "we moderate less when YC is the story", rather than "we moderate not at all"—the latter would be a loophole you could drive a convoy of trucks through.

Therefore, when I asked myself what was the minimum reasonable thing to do, editing the sensational or (to use your word) salacious title to accurate reflect what (little) substance the post actually included, while not downweighting the submission the way we usually would, seemed to me the right tradeoff. This post doesn't deserve the hours on the front page that it's getting, but that's the local price we pay in favor of a global optimization.

Edit: I changed the title again after posting this, in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33973106, which made a fair point.
Freedom is nothing more than the right to do the "wrong" thing.
One of the authors here: What I was going for with the title is that singular read/write switching (the before case) is very slow (for packet sized work), and batching (~ >=64kb) is much faster - it's about amortizing the cost of the transition, as you rightly point out. That's the point the title is making - some interfaces do not provide the ability to amortize that cost, others do!
I too will miss manual transmissions, but I would prefer for manufacturers to lean into the strengths of the new tech, rather than make compromises to emulate the old. this kinda reminds me of how CVTs are often tuned to emulate a conventional automatic. it's always a poor imitation, and it undoes the entire point of a CVT: the ability to maintain optimal rom regardless of wheel speed. if I must drive a vehicle with a CVT, at least let me benefit from its strengths.
I'm beginning to suspect this story is deeper than it looks.
A comprehensive review of the software architect roadmap [video]
>the $40x billion could have probably paid for getting Starship to Mars.

Maybe he doesn't actually believe in Starship.
> I grew up in a household with two smoking parents, and it sucked.

It sounds like you're saying that their freedom to inflict harm on you was more important than your freedom from the harmful health effects of secondhand smoke. Can that be true?
> relativistic iron nuclei

The Martian atmosphere is 1/166th the density of Earth's [1]. At the ISS's altitude, it's something like a trillionth.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Mars
Sorry, I was here to participate in a genuine conversation, if you are here to score cheap points can you instead do it elsewhere?
Just in time! I've been planning a SQLite extension written in Rust for Marmot (https://github.com/maxpert/marmot) for evaluation purposes. I didn't wanted to touch C/C++ because I feel more comfortable with rust tooling. Thank you for doing this!
The cmd + ` is limited to switching with the same application. However, another command, "Move focus to active or next window", by default bound to `Ctrl + F4`, cycles through all applications on the active workspace, which I have started to use extensively. Took me some time to find it out.
Old Valuations Die Hard – when will the downturn end?
Shiiiit... here I was thinking how cool it would be if they could miniaturize this, having somehow forgotten that my pet solution to the Fermi paradox is that a nigh-inevitable wrung on the ladder to interstellar presence involves discovering One Weird Trick to release a whole bunch of energy pretty easily, even on a DIY basis. Instant end of civilization. Even ant-like societies might have mutated members who'd go rogue and misuse the tech, and it wouldn't take many to ruin everything.

Basically it's a twist on the ice-9 solution to the paradox.
But am I wrong in thinking that it’s conceivable that we could see a further doubling in Q-plasma? If that happens, perhaps along with significant-but-plausible improvement in laser efficiency, then things could start to look fairly promising.
Cosmic Rays Are Quantum Computers' Kryptonite
Both of those were created decades ago, and by the British (albeit TBL worked in Switzerland at the time he created HTML). A lot of people in EU countries say Europe when what they mean is EU member states. The EU leadership itself does this all the time and the practice spreads. The author may believe that Britain is not European for the purposes of this essay. For instance he says there's no AI innovation, which ignores DeepMind (the question posed by the article is about innovation not ownership, so the fact that they sold to Google shouldn't matter).

The UK does OK but many of the same cultural issues are present. Some are misidentified as European vs American culture when in reality they are more like tech vs non-tech culture, I think. He talks a lot about outsourcing and contractors. Companies created/run by non-programmers often have no intuition for the large range of experience that can be found inside the job class of software developers, nor what can or can't be done with technology, and therefore can't see why you shouldn't just outsource it all to the lowest bidder. I had to face that regularly at my last employer. It was founded by Americans but they came from finance. All the tech work was done in the UK. "Why can't we just ship this all to India/eastern Europe" was a common question from the US management even though the product required fairly complex technical design work. It was the Brits pushing back and arguing for well compensated and equity incentivized devs (who came from all over Europe). There were other cultural differences around hiring as well.

It may seem like this problem is more prevalent in Europe but I think that's just because more companies here are older and therefore not run by developers. If you look at what we mean by tech firm or tech startup, and what defines this, it's hard to come up with a consistent marker beyond "a company founded by engineers or otherwise highly technical people". If you look at US tech firms, every single one is founded by a programmer. Moreover their board of directors may be made up of former developers too! It gives them an intuition for software and how to make it work that you just struggle to get otherwise. It's not impossible - one reason Goldman Sachs is so respected/feared in the finance world is that they managed to do a good job of their internal software platform early on. But it's a bit rarer.

Still, the cultural issues are real. I remember my mother once asking me why I didn't found YouTube. This was many years ago. I replied, "because their business model is insane, you can't pay for that much bandwidth with banner ads". And it was kinda true, but back then I hadn't understood just how plausible selling to a competitor even if you lost money actually was. Also an issue - top question for startup founders from family will be, "when will you be earning your old salary". Creating a company can be seen as almost a self-indulgent wastrel thing to do vs just earning a salary.
Wine on Wayland 2022 update: more games, more apps, more fun
Except, of course, all the forks that have happened, and thus all the "old bitcoin" that no longer trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks
Just reread until you get it.
> most people consider "because it's there" to be a legitimate and relatable answer to your question

I don't think hackers, explorers and founders have ever been most people.
Trump's corporations are indicted and he's banned from running charities in New York. He was also impeached twice, which is the same thing as being indicted (and convicted too).
I have a PhD plasma physics, I think I am qualified to make these statements without this sort of dismissal!
Scientists get first-ever sound recording of dust devils on Mars
>Video Trimmer by Ivan Molodetskikh

https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer
In 2014 the government they elected basically went all in switching to renewables and they actually stopped or delayed a lot of stuff.

That said, well, they stopped building new reactors, most of their reactors were built in 15 years in the 70/80s. Since then they have not done as much as they should have and all those reactors are starting to need more maintenance now.

Because they have not built much new things, they don't have as many people with knowledge as they used to.

But they are managing most of these issues pretty well overall.

I would say France did pretty well having 40 years of green energy.
Worth noting that the milestone achieved was positive Q_plasma (more energy out of the plasma than in).

They are using inefficient lasers because they are cheaper to buy/maintain/modify for research purposes.

Determining the conditions for positive Q_plasma is largely a matter of science/research so the external system doesn't matter as long as the variables are controlled and results are reproducible.

Once positive Q_plasma is well understood/reproducible, achieving positive Q_total (more energy produced than spent running the infrastructure) is just a matter of engineering and potentially waiting for the SOTA for components (like lasers or materials) to catch up.

TLDR: This is the scientists proving the theory. Now it's the scientists' job to refine the theory. Then the engineers get to put it into production.
My tips:

1) Fuck grep, use ripgrep, especially if you have to scour over an entire directory.

2) Get good with regex, seriously, it will shave hours off your searching.

3) For whatever application you are using, get to know how the logging is created. Find the methods used where said logs are made, and understand why such a log line exists.

4) Get good with piping into awk if needed if you need some nice readable output.
Who is this General Failure and why is he trying to read drive A:?

That's how I remember it! I also remember a cartoon of someone calling support telling them that "his computer is not working and makes weird sounds", the support person asks: "Did you backup?" to what the terrified user asks back: "Why? is it going to explode?"
This isn't due to a lack of innovation though - it's because the UK electorate rejected a national identity register a few years back.

Without a national ID system it's much harder to create corresponding e-identity tools.

Edit: I'd said "explicitly rejected" but that would incorrectly imply a referendum or somesuch so I amended.
A real transmission, whether manual or auto, would be useful for the same reason it is in an ice. (man it was hard not to say ice engine)

Lack of transmission is the main reason so many ev's have stupid 600+ hp ratings, it's required to brute force those times when what you really need is a low gear.

Especially hideous to think about is suv's and trucks crawling slowly up steep hills. That is just pouring unholy tonnes of current through the windings just to hold the vehicle almost still, and inch it forward against a totally inappropriate gearing.

And more every day, just every random acceleration like from a stop, with any load or tow load. Those are brief so I don't worry about cooking motors, but they are frequent and still need ridiculous overkill in the motor to emulate the normal functionality of any other vehicle when it comes to getting going from a stop.

That all is just to say that a transmission of any sort would be useful, and then the choice between manual and traditional hydralic auto and cvt is still the same choice as with an ice. The autos are more convenient and potentially more efficient through superior scavenging/shifting keeping the engine always in it's optimum, but the manual is more efficient through less loss in the train which robs overhead every second of operation, and fewer simpler parts cheaper to make and requiring less maintenance over time (even with needing a clutch once in a great while)

Except maybe not the same question as ice. An EV might actually be the one application where a cvt might not be terrible, because an ev can be programmed to strictly never exceed whatever threshhold will wear the band and pulleys too fast, and then you can actually get the value from the magic cvt infinite gears.
IIRC, this is why birds can undergo parthenogenesis in rare cases.
if they can be that small then they might find unexpected use in long range spacecrafts or lunar colonies. you'd still have to build and lift the reactor out of earths gravity well.
Not volatile? The point of stablecoins is they’re supposed to match the USD in value. By definition they are more volatile than usd as they are pegged to it and vary in price
One thing to note about the charges: a number of these charges are "conspiracy" charges, meaning that there will be more people indicted. Most likely, his ex, who has probably already been talking to the feds in exchange for leniency, and possibly also including his one or both of his parents (see Count 7).

Also interesting to note that Count 8 relates to campaign finance violations (for exceeding contribution thresholds and fraud related to making or reporting contributions). PACs don't have donation thresholds, so this appears to be related to the alleged "dark money" contributions he claimed to make in the summer (rather than the donations to the Democratic PACs in the primaries). It's not clear if this charge is based solely on his claims or if there is actual evidence of improper contributions.
> I like how over 60 years after the nuclear boom, it somehow just happened to happen today. Just when the world is ready to transition to electric vehicles on a global scale, just when oil companies aren't able to make as much money from oil as they used to, just when one of the major suppliers of fossil fuels (Russia) is at war with the West, it has somehow magically happened. What a coinky-dink.

It would be coincidental timing, if the most breathless headlines were actually true. But in reality we're still decades away from commercially viable fusion power generation. A fusion energy gain factor of Q=1 is little more than a psychological hurdle. Imagine you have a process that consumes 1 gigawatt of power and produces 1 gigawatt + one additional watt of power; that's Q=1. And it's certainly not commercially viable.
Vine died (or was killed) before TikTok started. It was more outcompeted by Instagram and Snapchat iirc.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-t...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
Honestly, I made pretty good decisions at 16. I have few regrets from that time period other than perhaps some social faux pas, but no, nothing that would have impacted my voting decisions. I'm curious what life experiences you have had in the intervening years that have impacted your ability to make voting decisions. That probably says more about you than it does about other people.
No thanks.

I get that people are emotional about this, but it’s important to treat science with a critical eye.

The claim is that more energy came out than was put in. This is false.

It’s not just me saying it. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVP5Pmg/

There is no “context” to understand. Yes, it’s an impressive feat. Yes, other laser designs might fix the huge ignition costs. But that hasn’t happened yet, and until it does, it’s completely fair to point that out.

Will it win me any friends? Probably not. It’s like showing up to a party and saying the reason for the party is mistaken. Very few people care.

But scientists should, and I am one. Doubly so for incorrect reporting to laymen. We have a responsibility to convey what was actually achieved, not what we wish was achieved.
The SEC's job has never been to encourage nor discourage any particular investment, but rather, to enforce safety. That's why there an entire industry of securities analysts.
I'm asking why this somewhat arbitrary line being crossed is something I should care about. It doesn't imply fusion will reach a state of practical application. Why is this more exciting that achieving a ratio of .1, or .5, or 2, or 10? It seems entirely arbirary to me, and smells of an argument that somehow this has made the end goal significantly more attainable.