skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kinda look at this on a regular basis. There's a strange inverse curve between computing power, and its effect on organizational efficiency. Back in the 70s a big computer was a clear leverage, today it's a swampy cost point.

I think the answers lies at the anthropological layer, average groups don't know how to work very fast especially on non-linear tasks.

Application were also designed as dumbed down black boxes that people had to use without getting smarter themselves.

Computing also became a trend, lots of reliable, lean, scriptable as400 or win3 era apps were replaced by webapps, with less features (but more portable and cuter to look at).

The only way this improved was by moore's law, every N years users got stronger machines that managed to make a bit of the bloat faster.

As an example I like to tell that at a courthouse, when network failed and printers couldn't print, the productivity doubled. Filling simple templates was done faster by hand by simply chatting with users and writing things down as they come instead of asking for data, walking to your desk, waiting for the apps, typing data (in triplicate some times), waiting for the server to maybe generate the document, document that may still not have the correct data, then print it, then review it with the user.

Also, comfort breeds stupidity..
It makes a compelling argument to just go to a hotel, which are regulated, where you're not expected to clean up yourself, and where there are no (or less) hidden fees. Price-wise they have become competitive with airbnb - mainly because of the issues mentioned of e.g. separate cleaning feeas.
I want you to hear your argument from the outside. Maybe that will help you understand why people seem to be disagreeing with you.

What I'm reading: This is a disaster, but it's not as bad as what some people are saying online. We shouldn't really worry about it, because releasing this small amount of this chemical isn't really as bad of a problem as a nuclear power plant melting down. This disaster isn't special, it's just one of many, and it upsets me that people are treating it like it's special.

That's how your arguments seem to be structured, and to be honest, I don't really understand what you're trying to get at. That would be why the person who you're responding to asked how many accidents like this are acceptable. Because you seem to be hand-waving and saying, this isn't that bad. It's very confusing.
You're overgeneralizing your own experience. Janet claims to be a lisp-like language without lisp-like lists.

> So I think it's worth not representing the language family or the community around it in ways that make it less likely more people will decide to take an interest.

People are not dumb. Tell them what it is, not a marketing label.
You wanted to board before the other passengers, you got to board before the other passengers. You got what you paid for, and it was entirely optional. That's nothing like the mandatory fees from the article.
What about blocking the sound from getting out into the world
Well first off if I was Biden I'd probably mutter something about how playing with trains in the pool with Corn Pop and the ice cream.

But let's not pretend these are two different teams, all of congress is in the same business of screwing the little guy.
How do you define "balancing out"? There's no such thing.

As long as taxes are the same between the two, the market will balance them.

Building is a separate issue.
Teams was horrible before that. What you consider is not a reason for Teams being utterly crap on at least the Intel Macs - which I was talking of only as I have no Apple Silicon Mac to compare to.
Reminds me of 1984
You are bang on. The question comes down to whether or not you can produce something in exchange for fuel, textiles, shelter, food, medicine, law, and the protection of violent men. If you can't, you have to rely on stashed currency. In the current system, stashing currency slows down the market returns of the people who designed and own the system, so every single facet of life is designed to making stashing currency difficult or ineffective.

The only way to care for unproductive populations is to make personal sacrifices and care for them, at a loss/to the detriment of your own possible financial and lifestyle returns.
> There has 100% been a campaign by some group to make this disaster out to be way worse than it is. It's been all over reddit the last few days with scientifically thin, but fear mongering heavy videos/comments.

That’s not a campaign, that’s just Reddit as normal.

Reddit takes something that is directionally correct (chemical spill is bad) and then turns it into a competition for the most extreme and exaggerated takes.

I took a quick glance at the first front page thread I could find on the topic. One of the top threads was a pseudo-scientific explanation that exposure to even trace amounts of the chemical results in death, implying that large swaths of the state were going to be dead soon. It’s amazing how Reddit turned into one giant conspiracy theory website.
I should just use an internet personality user name on my home computer at this point, instead of fighting it.
That's been the case since long before 2010, and democrats still manage to win elections, so I don't think your theory holds outside of certain areas of the country that likely have other systemic reasons for republicans being elected.

Besides which, I can't say we aren't getting what we deserve.
> This is dangerous because people that has no knowledge of the science would blindly trust whatever it summarizes.

This says more about you than the hypothetical "people" you are talking about.
I'm learning a language now. It's tough and embarrassing, and what it takes to keep getting better seems to change as I move along.

Something that was formative in my understanding of language was visiting Glasgow years past, and realizing that just an "accent" could easily knock me back to understanding only 20-30% of words. Still, based on context it was possible to get around and after a week I was up to 70-80% comprehension with locals.
They are still using Slack. This is for video conferencing only. I've heard that with regards to video conferencing, it's competitive with zoom.
When I was a teenager, a mechanic tried to charge my dad for the use of "shop towels" for working on his car. What?
I understand that wm4 was probably a pretty difficult person to work with, but he got stuff done well and from the safe distance of my chair he was a rather entertaining fellow. The other mpv devs can't miss him but I kinda do.
These sorts of accidents do not happen that often relative to the quantity of freight that moves. Put any economic system underneath the rail (or trucks) you want, accidents will still happen, as the demand for dangerous goods doesn't just evaporate.

It requires attention to detail combined with political will to improve safety.
For hundreds of years, energy got steadily cheaper. Then in 1973 that progress stopped, and for the next 50 years energy prices have been roughly flat.

This is my hypothesis for the main cause of the great stagnation.

If I'm correct, then we're in for a reversal -- renewable energy has been steadily dropping in price, recently became the lowest cost form of energy and its price looks set to continue dropping.
I concur. This is a limitation of the net model. I've found the net model works well for most cases, with this as a notable exception.

Maybe the play would be a special BP cap setting on the schematic, that binds to a specific part + pin.
In a lot of cases it's to discourage people from switching providers. It exists in my country (NL) for e.g. energy companies - we have a fairly competitive market. People have to pay €125 if they want to break their contract (which is usually in 1, 2 or 3 year periods, sometimes 5).

However, especially with the energy prices having gone up, the energy companies have just offered to pay this fine outright if someone wants to switch to them.
Thanks for sharing this list :)

The beginning of https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/11/hipsters_on_food_sta... seems very promising ...
You might be interested in data-oriented design, nicely described in this talk by Andrew Kelley: https://vimeo.com/649009599

Treating data in code using the same basic layout that databases use is common in game programming. The usual example is structs of arrays as opposed to arrays of structs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design but I suggest watching the above talk first.
While almost everyone seems to be fixated on various housing market minutia in justifiably passionate anger/frustration at the entire situation, very little attention is given to the causational elephant in the room:

The Federal Reserves monetary policy as a whole, but more specifically their authorization by the Federal Open Market Committee to buy Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) directly from the banks. The Fed had ZERO MBS on their balance sheet prior to 01/05/19 (1) and now hold an staggering $2.7 trillion dollars worth, which represents 22% of the entire MBS market in the US (3).

This is the dirty secret in the modern US housing market, we never actually saw the true bottom of the 2008 housing crash due to the FEDs MBS interventions.

(1) - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
(2) - https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/h41.pdf
(3) - https://www.sifma.org/resources/research/us-mortgage-backed-...
This is the dark side of the same impulse that compels big tech companies to follow the GDPR even though they aren't headquartered in Europe: If a big enough market is run by an insane jackass, that insane jackassery will spread through the world on the wings of corporate policy. I really wonder what's going to happen when the India-China rivalry spreads to conflicting laws for tech companies that want to do business in both countries.
So what I'm not hearing is that Elm didn't work. It worked, right?

Evan and co. just wouldn't agree to let you contribute to solve your problems and issues in the way you would have preferred?

(In re: the "harsh" comment you linked to, I don't know what to tell you. It doesn't read as "harsh" to me, if anything it shows admirable restraint. In any event, I'm not interested in "tone policing" Richard Feldman. I know nothing about him.)

- - - -

I'm one of those people who are like, if you don't like what Evan's doing just write your own, eh?

Meaning no disrespect to Evan and co. and what they've achieved, it's not that hard. It just isn't. Elm-style languages are pretty easy to implement (that's kind of the whole point, yeah?)

It divides the complainers into two groups: those who can write their own but instead prefer to leverage Elm devs via what amounts to various forms of emotional and reputational blackmail; and those who can't but still want to leverage Elm devs via what amounts to various forms of emotional and reputational blackmail. Either way, I personally feel comfortable dismissing their complaints without further consideration.

- - - -

Do you have any technical complaints about Elm? Did it ever break in production? What was the most interesting bug you encountered using Elm? That's the discussion I'd like to have.
Text-only posts generally pop up under Ask HN. The Ask HN prefix is a custom, not a requirement, for showing up here. The submitter knows how to submit links correctly (check their history) but chose this option for whatever reason.
Shaded roof? Tight budget? Confused by all the options? There are resources to help all kinds of people access solar power.
Realy? The “You are projecting” replies. That’s cute
Applies to almost everything (bar a few things with physical limitations)

Some people define themselves as someone who "can't draw", but drawing is literally just making a mark, comparing it to what you see, adjusting the mark or making another

It's not easy, but it's very simple
Quality (especially audio) and some other features were a lot better and (crucially) more reliable in the early days, too.

But yeah, the light-ish touch installation (which, yeah, because of some bullshit) and single-purpose nature of it made it way less unpleasant to use if someone was like "let's Zoom" and you didn't have it. "We'll call you on Teams" (or any of these other huge do-everything tools) is a much bigger pain in the ass if you don't already have the thing they're going to call you on.
The 1998 movie was remastered in 4K and 3D in 2012 in time for the 100 year anniversary of Titanic's sinking.

This is a re-release of the 2012 remaster in which they have added HDR and some select minor moments in HFR(in the very few theaters that support this).

The original was released in 2.39:1 while the 2012 remaster was released in 1.78:1 (i'm assuming taken from the original cut since it was a remaster)

>(also mildly horrified at describing films that came out in my lifetime as "old", but I guess I'm just miscalibrated there. I've not actually seen Titanic myself purely because of how long it is!)

Well it is now 25 years old so I guess it depends on your definition of old. I guess it is not that old...it is not black and white lol!

Well since you haven't seen it, if you have any interest in it, you might as well see it now on the big screen in a premium format since the opportunity is there(if you can). I have seen it in AMC's Dolby 3D implementation and Cinemark's XD implementation. The Dolby had the HFR but the XD has a slightly larger screen from what I could gather. Both were quite good but I believe the Dolby had the better picture quality.

Keep in mind this film was "supposedly" the highest grossing film of all time and held that title for 12 years. Might make sense to see what all the commotion is about if you are interested in those things. (I say supposedly because it depends on how you count inflation figures of Gone with the Wind. As a result some say Titanic is only the second highest grossing film)
How do the realistic, obvious takes end up getting downvoted to grey? It's a consistent pattern on HN.
AirBnB is in a completely different league of shady fees.

As a consumer it’s hard to differentiate junk fees from mandatory fees imposed by federal, state, county, municipalities fees. As an example I pay different sales taxes for the same internet plan in 2 different states. Another example is my cellphone plan was slightly higher in another city/county than my current residence due to different E911 fees. The difference is usually cents to a dollar.
Shouldn't the content quality be the delineating factor?

Who gives a shit if they want to add some authenticity? It showing they are putting some money into their presence. That means the opposite of what op is trying to get across in 250 words or less.

Our civilization has gotten too far from reason. Too many people disregard viewpoints simply because of who makes them, which "side" they are on, and other frivolous things.
> When I see an account in my feed that subscribes to Twitter Blue, I block it without even looking at the content of the tweet(s).

I can’t follow this line of thinking. I risk saying it’s juvenile.
There are standards for 2FA (OTP) codes... "Google Auth" being one, but the same generators are available inside both LastPass and BitWarden, for contrast. The Microsoft authenticator is another annoying variation imo.

While other techniques and applications might be (somewhat) more secure, the loss of ability to use the same application you already have/use for 2FA is a pretty big annoyance for a lot of people.

I have my 2FA in bitwarden myself... with a pretty long passphrase that I don't use for anything else. It's the master key to the kingdom. There are many sites that I keep with the sms/email codes simply because they either don't offer typical OTP as an option.
The rubber membrane between the spars will not withstand the atmospheric forces.

14 pounds per square inch is a lot of force. A reference example, when planing a nuclear detonation(a grim task to be sure) the 5 pounds per square inch isoline covers the area where all non hardened structures(houses) are assumed destroyed.

https://nukemap.org/nukemap/
GPLv3 vs BSD

If it matters hire a lawyer because there's no GNU Enforcement Agency.

Not that I don't love GPL philosophically, but copy-left is only as strong as the good-will of others and my willingness to lawyer up against people who violate it.

Good luck.
Of course people need to be making money off it.

Nobody would ever rent to tenants if there weren't profit in it. Take away the profit and all the tenants who need to rent are totally out of luck because nobody has any reason to rent to them. :(

Same as mortgages wouldn't exist if banks didn't make a profit off them.
The railroads have recently reported record profits.

I have an idea how to pay for cleanup.
I use built-ins for KiCad when avail, or make manually using DSes otherwise. (Schematic and footprint). You can also download from certain websites, but I've found those are hit+miss; overall had an easier experience doing by hand, even though that sounds bad. I'll usually start by C+Ping a similar one. I have a separate KiCad library with its own Git repo for footprints, and one for schematic parts.
If you're used to be part of the recreationally remote, the idea of not having ample space to yourself feels weird. Some people are used to having a backyard, a garage, and lots of space to spare, however useless it is to them, and unsustainable in general.

The benefits of living in the city are a lot less obvious. Some people perceive it as a cramped space where you're forced to endure the company of strangers.

If their lifestyle wasn't subsidized by city dwellers, and causing all sorts of negative externalities, I'd say "to each their own".
> Our media barely report, and then under report the seriousness

The national media isn't very good at representing issues outside of major cities. Events like this are largely unimportant to people living in the places they sell their stories to. In a way, you're not asking the media to change, you're asking Americans to care about those areas at all.
> C# ( net core ) has telemetry, as well as Java

Which Java distribution? Maybe the Oracle JDK/JRE? I highly doubt the Oracle JDK/JRE has serious usage numbers because of it's (quite commercial) license.
Your NTP client is probably systemd-timesyncd if you're using the systemd NTP client: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-timesyncd

It'll use either the server you (or your distro) configures in the config, the NTP server provisioned by your network configuration, or the fallback servers in the source code.

Debian ships systemd with a config file that has their servers pre-filled, but commented out, free for you to use. The systemd source says they use the Google NTP pool by default as a hard coded fallback, though Debian may have altered that.

I think the Debian project assumes that you're okay with communicating to Debian in some fashions if you choose to use their software. After all, if you run their code at the highest privilege, you're already putting a lot of trust in them.
Fully automated freight rail is not possible with the infrastructure and technology we currently have unless the rail companies accept insane risk.

For example, if one of the locomotive engines stops working and the train must stop, you need to keep the brake lines pressurized. For some archaic reason they fail open instead of closed, so you have to keep the engines running at all times. Otherwise, you need to send a guy out to manually apply the emergency brakes. This was part of the cause of the Lac-Mégantic disaster.

So it's not impossible, but there's zero chance that NS or CSX would ever invest $MM to upgrade the brakes on all their trains to let them run automated. But the real crux of it is that they'd be responsible for any disaster, and their go-to strategy is to just blame whoever happened to be in the cab that night.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
Not a leap. The conversation jumped to the broader conversation of GDPR and PII a few comments up.

Running a service that might serve an EU citizen quickly escalates to involving lawyers and performing risk analysis in relation to being sued in a court across the ocean.
Nice, Wolfram handles that well
Nice!! congrats on the launch!
Anyone can read the tweet and decide for themselves. To me the intended reference is clear. The “Go maintainers” are accused of doing various things in the first paragraph and are then referred to in the second paragraph as ‘lads’; no salient subset is introduced as a potential discourse referent. In any case, my comment was obviously based on my own understanding of what was said.

> the Go maintainers are now claiming that objectors to Google's opt-out telemetry proposal on the Go compiler - yes, really - are arguing in bad faith and violating the Code of Conduct, and their comments are getting hidden.

> well done lads, you just keep doing that as hard as possible. i'm sure it'll work out great.
Without the opportunity to live in the real world, these LLMs have no ground-truth. They can only guess at truth by following consensus.
There are literally zillions of programming language for that task.

Give the actual language, here used, some credit, instead of trying to needlessly advertize Lisp.
It is kind of interesting that the media seems to be softballing this. Usually their MO for this kind of disaster is hype, hype, hype, and sensationalism. Under most models of how the media works, this ought to be front page day & night, and if anything should be getting overestimated rather than under. Any internal mental model of how the media works that fails to integrate this should be getting challenged, and I'm still not sure how to do it myself. I can just see there's definitely a strong data point here.
Sounds interesting do you have a page
You're assuming, not projecting.
Most of this junk fee stuff is about pricing transparency and the way it complicates consumer comparisons; the bottom line is going to stay the same.

I have some sympathy with businesses that want to break out government surcharges into a separate line item; but as the article indicates most stuff isn't in that category.
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In this instance, the risks to be worried about is far more than just cancer. And it isn't exactly comparable to a career in a vinyl chloride factory because factories don't typically have these production chemicals ablaze and mixed with whatever else was in the train wreckage, seeping into the surrounding earth, water and air. Before even speculating on the undetermined adverse health effects of this event in the long term, the immediate impact of this environmental disaster should warrant a mandatory evacuation and corporate accountability.
> Sabine is certainly not external, for example, and somebody who hasn't studied the field can't make this assessment.

The argument she lays out in this video is exactly such an assessment. She is an external agent because she's not working in particle physics. Plenty of other physicists are in the same position and can impartially evaluate the state of particle physics and where funding for basic science research should go.

What are the objective reasons to justify the expense of yet larger particle accelerators at this point? It's literally just for the hell of it, all the low hanging fruit has long since been plucked. There are no theoretical reasons to expect to find anything. Empirically, we haven't found anything surprising in numerous previous accelerators. The Higgs was expected and justified the LHC. If the Higgs had not been found, then there would have been a decent argument for a larger accelerator, but that's not the world we live in.

The colossal funds that would go towards a larger accelerator could fund literally thousands of scientific experiments that aren't suffering from diminishing returns. We'd be better off funneling that money towards wakefield accelerators, for instance.
Did you have a gigabit wired connection to the server?