skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Luddite was "a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woollen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16)." They weren't anti-technology. They were anti-"having their jobs replaced by machines".
> "Fuck the poor."

You said that, not me.

> "yeah poor people are parasites who deserve to be crushed under my boot"

You said that, not me.

> Be honest and start there next time.

Take your own advice—you seem deeply disturbed.
The Thursday Night Massacre
How does this compare to https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg ?
At some point, I think governments are going to need to break down and start taxing revenue instead of profits.

A 3% tax on total revenue is the same as a 15% tax on the profits of a product with 20% profit margins.
Yes. I do work at Hasura. Why is that relevant?

No. I have not been spamming the same comment. I have made several related comments, which I'm free to do just as anyone else is.

Now, YOU'RE free not to use Hasura Cloud (a fine cloud-managed product by a company I work for) or Supabase (a fine cloud-managed product by a company I don't work for). You're also free to use Hasura CE (a self-hosted OSS Docker image), Supabase (another self-hosted OSS Docker image), or Postgraphile (another self-hosted OSS Docker image) if you don't want Hasura or Supabase to host your application. You're even free to believe these tools work only for simple situations but break down for more complicated ones. The thing is, other people are equally free to make other judgments.
It seems you missed the conclusion in which they state that there is unlikely to be a learning curve beyond the build of the first unit or two as evidenced by France and Japan's build times. They also did a decent job of showing that the average build time should be around 4 years which is equivalent to the build of a coal power plant and that the time it takes in both cases is determined by how long it takes to build the boiler and turbine. The swelling of timelines appears only when large changes in regulation enter the picture.
I like that. It allows the interior cabin to be "open". The Jetsons meet the Waltons.
That implication would be a bad one, but in the specific case of a bland Linux distro (let's say Debian) vs. Windows I haven't ever seen much difference between the number of problems you run into.

The major difference for me is that Linux problems are always theoretically operator-fixable i.e. the information needed to fix your problem is available to you, even if you're not technical enough to understand it. The means to fix Windows problems are frequently not accessible at all, anywhere.

While I've had plenty of Linux evenings, I've had stuff broken on Windows that stretched into weeks until I finally gave up and reinstalled.
Hopefully this will turn out good.

However I am waiting with bated breath for Wool. Cmon Apple release it already!!!
I mean, Ted Cruz wasn't born in the US either.
Probably this is correct. Either way I've really enjoyed building this project even if it goes nowhere.
I honestly don't believe that :)

At Fukushima, the reactor SCRAMed successfully and it was the seawater that took out the generators powering the decay-heat cooling system. If California experienced a wave that could crest Bodega Head's yuge natural seawall then we have bigger problems lol https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/ht-bin/tv_browse.pl?id=96773349539f93...
Legacy Update: Fix Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, 2000
House of the Dragon is absolutely not "new content".
SBF has been officially charged with campaign finance fraud, and this is the list of recipients for those donations and their total amount.

Of course, there may be other donations that haven't been uncovered. But our current assessment of this can no longer be the false equivalence of "he gave to both sides".
For sure. It gives me a sense of what living in the pre-modern era was like. When I'm out with friends and need to consult the Internet, say to figure out where to go to dinner or how to get there, I'll pull out my phone, lift it up, and say, "Let us ask the sky gods!"

I'm joking, but I'm also not. More than most people I have an idea of how it all works, but over the last couple of decades the complexity has gone up so quickly that I can only make hazy guesses as to how some of it works. I'd have a hard time estimating even the number of people I'd need to pull in so that between us we knew. And now with the large AI models, apparently nobody knows how they work.

To help ordinary people deal with that complexity, we're now creating anthropomorphic front ends, so that people's relationship to Alexa and Siri is becoming more akin to their relationship to Athena and Lakshmi. I can't wait to see where it goes.
Ignoring the safety concern on one side, and the emission of greenhouse gases on the other, the way this works is interesting and surprisingly straightforward! https://github.com/Jxck-S/plane-notify/blob/multi/PseudoCode...

If I understand correctly, the plane broadcasts ACARS data which include the registration number, and ADS-B data which includes the 24-bit ICAO address, which hobbyists both record and share in an API that can be queried. Then the code computes departures and arrivals from the distance to the nearest airport at low altitude.

The jet likely changed its ICAO address through PIA, but the set of possible ICAO addresses that could be the right one after it switched ICAO address is small, because the switch happened at a known airport, and because PIA privacy protection has an assigned range of registration numbers and ICAO addresses. Among those, there was only one that matched the departure/arrival pattern of the pre-PIA, known ICAO address associated with the target jet.
But if, as I wrote, the registry for .com does not allow homoglyphs, then an adversary cannot register such names.
Great and if it makes you comfortable by all means keep masking. Just keep folks who do find it annoying and dehumanizing out of it. Thanks.
> Statistically, we do. Sass won the precprocessor wars and nearly every developer prefer SCSS variables over the var(--oh-god) that is CSS syntax.

This isn't about which preprocessor is the most popular; it's about the syntax that's going to be used for CSS that we're going to have to live with for a long time.

Look, best practices come and go. Table-based layouts, 960 grid [4], Dreamweaver, special hacks for IE6—we don't do those things any more. With all of the enhancements that have already been added to CSS (CSS Grid, Flexbox, Container Queries, :has() parent selector) and the ones coming—CSS nesting, style queries, conditional, new/better color spaces—using Sass will seem as old-school as including jQuery in every project in a few years.

To quote Denzel Washington's character in the movie Training Day: "We don't roll that way any more." [5]

If you want to go on using Sass, then nothing changes for you; you can even use custom properties in your Sass files. It's not an all or nothing situation.

> How are they more powerful? Does that offset their downside?

Seriously?

There's no functional downside compared to the alternative. The syntax isn't bad once you understand what's going on, but that's subjective anyway. Even if you don't love the syntax, the functionality they enable for developers more than makes up for that.

Sass variables are just static placeholders for values; they're just a step above doing a search and replace in an editor. Very handy when Sass was developed 16 years ago, but very limiting today.

The real question can the dynamic web experiences people come to expect be done only using Sass variables? Are taking full advantage of everything the web platform has to offer by only using Sass variables? The answer is no in both cases.

- they're not part of the DOM and they can't be accessed via JavaScript

- they can't be changed at runtime, such as responding to media queries or other state changes

- can't be used for passing values to and from web components

There are dozens of articles about why custom properties are superior to preprocessor variables:

[1]: https://css-tricks.com/difference-between-types-of-css-varia...

[2]: "Practical Use Cases For CSS Variables"—https://ishadeed.com/article/practical-css-variables/

[3]: "DRY Switching with CSS Variables: The Difference of One Declaration"—https://www.codeinwp.com/blog/css-variables/

[4]: https://960.gs

[5]: https://movie-sounds.org/ghetto-movie-sound-clips/quotes-wit...
Classic Utah
I don't think the government considers it much of an inconvenience to use violence to handle all of those things today.

Automatically issuing court summonses without first using chemical weapons and forced restraints is pretty good actually. If youre trying to make it so the government can't prosecute people for protests, you need to get rid of the idea of an illegal protest

The government can already torture, enslave, and kill you. If you can trust your government to handle those well, then this is no problem because they'll also handle ids responsibly.

If government can't handle those things well, the ids don't make for much of a change wrt to the government

The bigger disadvantages of a national id I think are that it moves ownership away from you, and to the card, like with block chain systems, the card is the owner, and you only have access to the card
First let me dispatch this "existing grid NOW and nuclear provides that" - it's a 7 year average lead time as of 2022; solar is 2. And if you granted all the accelerations you're going to propose to solar or wind as well, it'll still beat nuclear. It's just simpler and cheaper to deploy. It's also expandable and upgradable and you can start producing after the first station is done. Your 2022 nuclear reactor will still be based on 2022 technology in 2072. The solar farm, however, will be current with the times as the parts are swappable.

The predicted end to Moore's law had been anticipated for many years. This took nobody by surprised. The only surprise really is that it went on longer than expected.

From all indications we're in the solar version of the 1980s right now on the Moore's law timeline and in the future we'll see a solar PV equivalent that's as remarkable as say, the 2TB microsd card - imagine cheap, high-efficiency newspaper thin panels that you buy packaged like those plastic ponchos from a 7/11 that you just unfurl onto the ground, plug in and power whatever you feasibly need.

The future of solar will be like telling someone in the 1980s that we live in a time where we give away 32gb of storage for free with company logos stamped on it at trade shows and it is so normalized that nobody takes any notice.
Blazor Server
As much as I’d like to avoid politics myself ;), I’m afraid we just gotta agree to disagree on your premise. my friend.

I hate nobody, but I am bothered greatly by those who seek to weaken their own country by selling its secrets to others — for their own personal profit.

That Trump and members of his administration remain free, despite openly doing just that on numerous occasions, would seem to undermine your belief that the DOJ did anything other than ask Trump “how high?”.

So, Correction: no, they did not :)
Interestingly, traumatic brain injury is responsible for more deaths than influenza. If we all wore helmets it would save a lot of lives.
I actually use my German ID card to communicate with the Elster service of the German tax offices. My old USB signing stick would need to be replaced next year, but using my ID card was the cheaper option.
I recommend Stanisław Lem's Cyberiad. The English translation has amazing prose and it is hilarious. I can't recommend anything else :) I like Charles Stross, good sci-fi with a satirical strike, but he's not as good with words as the authors you mention.
What year did you read it?

In 1988 when I read it, it was pretty amazing. That was a world before iPhones, the internet, etc.

The book was published in 1984, which was 10 years before dialup internet services were offered and 20 years before the iPhone came into existence.
I'd much rather we be spending massive subsidies on nuclear power (and space exploration, and science in general) than on an increasingly-bloated military-industrial complex.
I had considered something similar to BTRON in some ways, where you can put links to any files within any files together with other things, such as headings, diagrams, etc.

The ideas that I had is a bit similar to that and similar to some of the other things mentioned here. Its working is:

- There are no file names and no directory hierarchies (except for a root directory with up to 256 numbered entries, used only for some low-level system-rated stuff).

- A file can contain multiple forks (numbered by a 32-bit number, of which numbers 0 to 255 have a standardized meaning and the rest don't), with their own data. Many forks will use a common file format for many kinds of data (similar idea than the "TRON Application Databus" format, but I think it could be much better designed in many ways). (Also like TRON, I am not using Unicode in my design at all.)

- A file stream can contain, additionally to sequences of bytes, also inherent links to other files. These links can optionally be marked as "immutable contents", which implements copy-on-write, so that files can link to the same data and specify whether or not to be mutable separately for each link. The links can also easily be found by backward searching.

- Queries in other files with links are possible, since they can store data with records and fields that you can specify by yourself.

- Since any file can have links, you can easily arrange them in a virtual space or canvas if desired, or in a text document with headings etc, or in a data table, etc. Multiple links to a file can exist.

- It is a capability-based system and one capability that programs might provide can be a "translator" capability, allowing to access partial data from one file transformed into some other way, without the other program that accesses them needing to know about that. (Capability-based in this way, also allows end users to program it to lie to the system in desired ways, allowing better interoperability to do many things that the original program was not designed to do, as well as allowing security isolation when the end user does not wish to connect them together.)

- It is designed for local use first, so no internet connection is required; however, remote access is also possible with capabilities that provide access to remote files, if desired.

I had written partial specifications for a capability-based operating system of this design, as well as ideas relating to it.
You can't cover up a tail number, for good reasons. Crowdsourced information about plane locations is important OSINT for some investors. This is information collected out in public.

It also looks like nobody was willing to sign their name to a police report regarding the supposed stalking incident. And then in a snit he blocks numerous real journalists reporting on when and whether such an incident occurred.

"Thin skinned narcissist buys criticism factory" is proving to be the most elegant and predictive summation of what's happening.
Ah yeah my bad. Still like 30+ years after it's creation though. And the vast majority of C software out there doesn't use C11 anyway.
I think a lot is being lost in the translation here. I mean, Verily's analysis is a laboratory *determined* COVID-19 incidence rate in the sewersheds right? How is it any different from the laboratory *confirmed* incidence rate they compare to? As far as proportional, I think you are right. When laboratory confirmed goes up, both Verily concentrations also go up. When laboratory confirmed goes down, both Verily concentrations also go down. I doubt there is a constant scale factor operating here unless the laboratory confirmed is using a similar method of normalization (i.e., they all start with copies per gram dry weight).
I'm extremely excited about this news. There was a point where Chris Cunningham was slated to be adapting it which I think would have been amazing, really hope they expand the team listed in the article with the right talent.

Wish they'd adapt Pattern Recognition though.
To add context, the described plant was a weapons programme that predates any civilian nuclear energy. In fact it also predates the hydrogen bomb, so that war planners vastly overestimated the amount of plutonium needed.
Yes by bad I meant bad (but good in the goal of aiming to be bad) until I saw the good one (bad at being bad) but so damn good I can forgive it for that.
I’m well aware.

Yet we’ve been hearing since the beginning of 2021 that they’ve been proven to have been much more efficient by the coalition parliament which has come up with this idea.
Eh, having worked with both systems, I'd say they're roughly equally impenetrable. For sure, the registry sucks. But at least it's uniform and scriptable. Once you know what needs to be changed, you can write a .reg file and be reasonably confident it will at least change the registry in a valid way.

On the other hand, if the solution to a problem on Linux is to change some dotfile controlling some daemon, reliably scripting it can be difficult to impossible. Did the distro put the config file somewhere weird? Is awk good enough here? What if the key I'm looking to update is found in a comment, and what is the commenting structure for this file anyway? What if the daemon rewrites its config file on exit [0]? Or has a config file with an extremely complex format [1]? Or I need to poke several /sys files in a particular order [2]?

Both systems are hard to reason about, especially if you don't know them. But Linux isn't easy to approach for the first time, and there are advantages to the way Windows does things.

[0]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/251797/transmission-daemon-k...
[1]: https://www.sudo.ws/docs/man/1.8.15/sudoers.man/#SUDOERS_FIL...
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-IWMbJXoLM
Many more applications will come in coming years. They are being implemented right now, I think this was sped up by some law that municipalities have to provide those services online by 2026? Not sure. Anyway there is a huge backlog and not enough programmers but one way or another this has to be done.
Hydrogen is produced and used in the hundreds of millions of tons, today.

People say it is mostly produced on demand at the site of use because of the difficulty of storing and transporting it. If it becomes an important part of the energy economy, it will need great care in preventing unavoidable leaks from escaping into the atmosphere.

Of course for most uses, hydrogen will continue to be produced on the spot, by electrolysis instead of from natural gas as today. In places where it is not used immediately (e.g. to synthesize ammonia for transport), it will often be stored deep underground where leakage is less a worry. As aviation transitions to liquid hydrogen fuel, probably after 2040, hydrogen produced at major airports may be stored liquified in underground tanks, at a pressure close to ambient. Hydrogen leakage is minimal at low pressure.

In general, for safety, installations that handle much hydrogen must continually flush air through indoor places with hydrogen plumbing, to prevent buildup of what would be an exceedingly dangerous mixture of hydrogen and air in confined spaces. It might be that sites handling much hydrogen will need to feed such air into an incinerator. A way to recognize significant hydrogen leaks, as we have for methane, probably will be needed.
This is false. Aws builds and operates their own data centers. The design and architecture of their data centers are highly standardized and an enormous amount of the build is fully automated. When they do lease they lease just a basic power and fiber build and they build their data center ontop of the base. Given how much custom equipment they run at the data center level it would be impractical to do anything that was collocated. But most data centers for aws, especially in Virginia, are on Amazon owned land. As far as I am aware the only collocations are in the satellite zones, outposts, and in peering locations.

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/01/18/who-...
That’s what I was referring to.
Beyond the Moment of Invention
Check out Real World OCaml too:

https://dev.realworldocaml.org/
From my point of view, “The Matrix” was it.

But a series could get a lot more of the detail and side characters in it.
It was how the Second Foundation has to come out of hiding, introducing them to the reader. Also by far the most 'filmable' part of the series.
The author blames regulation without weighing any benefits, as if regulation were there for regulation itself. I am willing to listen to an argument that less regulation is needed, but it needs to take the benefits of regulation into consideration as well.
The same thing is true if you use a pencil enough. The question is whether you run into issues significantly more often than the commercial alternatives.
He got the payout of $480m as a settlement for stepping down. But he also got a $1b when Softbank bought out shareholders:

"Neumann led WeWork to a failed attempt at an initial public offering in 2019 and was ousted shortly afterward. As part of the original bailout effort, SoftBank had agreed to buy $3 billion in stock from WeWork investors, including close to $1 billion from Neumann."

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-02-26/softbank-s...
True in theory (and much more so for physical goods) but in practice for services like Netflix, Google and Facebook, from the EU's point of view, who cares.

Giant tech company, pay your 15% based on local advertising revenue from local customers. We all know you'll still be making huge profits regardless of your costs. Your whole business is built on fixed costs and infinite scaling of revenue.

If you really can't afford to pay 15% then leave the market, someone will certainly take your place.
only if the company in question has a legal presence in the country and is actually able to hire you as an employee. barring that, for international remote work, freelance or contracting is the only possible arrangement (aside from using some local service company that hires and then resells your work, or some treaties between the two countries to handle cross-country employment (like all EU countries))
I see no problem with a screenwriter taking inspiration from a book but taking it in a different direction to adapt it for a different media (and perhaps time). Honestly, I find the fans who can't tolerate one deviance from their bible tiresome.
For Facebook I keep my friends list light - less than 50 people, but there are people who I live a far ways away from - my parents for instance are 5 hours away. I don't want to have to drive to them just to prove they should be part of my social network.
Yes, but then you get special accommodation. Accommodations that, y'know, help you manage and deal with getting your work done.
Quite the contrary. They didn't green light part 2 until they saw the numbers for part 1, and they were excellent.

That doesn't mean they'll go all the way to God Emperor, but I don't think we know for sure they won't.
You still need to clarify how having to wear pants and shirts is not an instance of control over you. Because it is, and you only don't mind that control because you agree that you should do it. Use the same principle here.

Btw idk about others but I wear a mask indoors with strangers, like in public transport or shops. I get to see all the faces I want to see and show mine outdoors or when video calling or if they are close friends or cohabitants.

Wearing a mask in public has only one cost for healthy people: a dirty mask can make you sick so you must have a clean mask, and that costs either money or time spent washing (and chance of washing it wrong)
Totally agree that the rare times I need to rent a truck, it's a major hassle. I wonder if there is an opportunity for an Uber/Lyft type of truck share service.