skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, but I think the experience of a man who fought in WWI for four years, was wounded seven times, and saw dozens of his friends die is probably more interesting and insightful on the subject than a New Yorker music critic.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, what you say is certainly true from my perspective, but I also appreciate that I am totally ignorant of what the experience of being in WWI was like, and Junger was not. It's easy to moralize from 2023.

I appreciate that gleaning anything meaningful from secondary sources is difficult at best. I don't think they're valuable for more than piquing interest in something - definitely not for learning about it. I'd recommend just reading the man himself. I particularly enjoyed The Marble Cliffs.
They might be possibilities. But, the senate intelligence committee recently passed an amendment to the NDAA 2024 just 3 weeks after Grusch went public to include the following:

> The new UAP language (found in Section 1104 of the bill) would require "any person currently or formerly under contract with the Federal Government that has in their possession material or information provided by or derived from the Federal Government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena that formerly or currently is protected by any form of special access or restricted access" to notify the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) within 60 days of enactment, and to provide within 180 days (six months) "a comprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material" possessed and to make it available to the AARO director for "assessment, analysis, and inspection."

source: https://douglasjohnson.ghost.io/senate-intelligence-bill-giv...

Why would the senate intel committee do that if they didn't believe Grusch's claims?
I'm not trying to explain why he would lie to congress or why senators do things. I was just giving other options that I think are more likely than the dichotomy that you laid out.

If I'm honest your dichotomy reminds me of some evangelists who are like 'either this guy was literally God or so many clergy have been misinformed or lying to an absurdly implausible degree for centuries or millennia, checkmate atheists' I'm not saying you are making that exact argument, but that's how your dichotomy sounds to me.
What parts of the API? I've never used a first party one, but the generic $10 one I got on aliexpress worked fine on an ipad6.
Virtual desktops don't have to be horrible, and in fact can be faster than local if the server is more powerful (at compiling, or video editing, or gaming, or whatever) than your own machine and you're not bandwidth or latency constrained (which really isn't that hard). Some protocols (like RDP) are better than others too because they can send primitive window components instead of compressing raw pixels.

As for gaming, it really only matters for shooters, IMHO. I frequently use GeForce Now and Shadow for gaming and they work great for most genres -- especially GeForce Now, which is honestly as good (and way quieter, cooler, and cheaper) than any bespoke desktop gaming rig I've ever built. I heard good things about Parcel too. Shadow is so so. But yeah, none of them are great for input latency sensitive games like twitch shooters.

Fine for things like Diablo though.
Not much difference, it's just good to see Arduino coming back as decent competition.
Sounds like a wetland to me. You can argue that artificially created wetlands shouldn't qualify for protection but that doesn't seem obvious to me.
Your reported issue is just about the fact that `npx` triggers lifecycle scripts, which is by design.

OP is about the fact that manifest contents of the same package version may differ between package contents and registry and looking at the registry is not sufficient to tell which lifecycle scripts will be triggered for a package.
You could argue that it was the same for roe.
Isn't this why it's claimed that people employed by the government were told to intentionally spread some really wild stories? So that it seems like everybody's got a leak to share, reducing the impact of any other legitimate leaks of that nature?
Have a read about the design intent and architecture to get deeper info on how it's different - but basically, indexes aren't retained locally, which means you've got a MUCH bigger scale (several orders of magnitude) than Prometheus can cope with. You're right that you can't 'scale monoliths horizontally' but Mimir was designed to handle much more data than Prometheus was, on the same compute/memory footprint (obviously storage is a direct function).

Mimir will consume multiple Prometheus with remote_write's and de-dup those series. Because it puts older (default 2h) data out to block storage, costs plummet without impacting performance too savagely - the vast majority of queries are going to be hitting fresh data.

We've been running monolithic (Nomad, docker) but are experimenting with their 'in-between model' which has 3 components - read, write, backend - which should help us scale more easily than juggling the full microservices deployment method you mentioned above.

> If Prometheus supported horizontal scaling ...

Well, yes, precisely so.
> Yes, it is, and it's fine to be honest about that.

No it isn't , it's usually framed that way for politically derived reasons.

Helping one less fortunate person doesn't have to take directly take from another less fortunate person, there are more than just the less fortunate in the game.

it's an often parroted point right now, but if the ultra rich were taxed at the same rate as everyone else ( in whatever region was appropriate ) there would be a large influx of money that could be used to improve public services, support networks, education etc.

I personally don't think it would be used for that in any meaningful way, the system as a whole is broken, but it could in theory.

> I'm not less fortunate.

> I support helping the less fortunate more.

Agreed, same

> And I realize doing so is going to require sacrifice on my part -- I'm going to have to pay more in taxes/redress to fund that help.

Also agreed, in principle, but what you can personally provide pales in insignificance when compared to the sheer grinding machine that modern capitalism has become.

It's similar to "no plastic straws to stop climate change", yes, but also how about the 80+ % of actual climate change caused by the fossil fuel industries.
less of a "whataboutism" and more of a yes, but also fix the bigger fucking problem.
My feed is filled with leftivists who come on every 6 months to post if facebook continues to do x they will boycott. Next issue rinse and repeat. I thought they were boycotting..
we are living in a post-secret world. any actual secret will just drown in the noise. and if not it will be labeled a conspiracy theory. snowden and assange released secrets - the majority neither knows nor cares. mkultra stuff - tell this on a party and 90% will immediately label you a nut case. then you say - well, just read about it on wikipedia. nobody will care about that, they won't bother checking. but you'll be greated next time with "seen any ufos lately? lol"
There's actually a legal reason for tacking on anyone who is plausibly liable. The basic idea is to sue everyone in a single case and let the court sort out actual liability for each party as part of that single case.

Say the lawsuit is originally against just Holman Fleet Leasing and FedEx is the one legally liable (Maybe FedEx is the one that is doing something naughty. Maybe there's some contractual language around Fedex assuming all legal liabilities for the vehicles sold.). You're going to spend a bunch of time in court arguing with Holman about if they're even the right party to sue, and your case is either going to get thrown out or you're going to lose. Meanwhile, the statute of limitations is still ticking, so if it takes a long enough time to adjudicate the case against Holman, you won't even be able to refile the same case with the correct respondent. Oops. but if the statute of limitations miraculously hasn't run out yet, that's not even considering the possibility that the kind of person who would roll back an odometer would also have a punishingly short document retention policy, so all the documents that still existed at the time you filed against Holman have long since been shredded and destroyed, so your discovery in the new case against Fedex is going to be a single email saying "yeah, we don't have anything going back that far. Oops again.

Now consider the lawsuit filed initially against both Holman and Fedex. Assuming your list of respondents is complete, the case isn't going to get thrown out because you sued the wrong person. Liability will still be adjudicated (and the case amended to drop respondents as the proper liability holder gets determined), but now you don't need to worry about the statute of limitations running out as you wait for the determination of liability against the first respondent. And the document retention clock starts with that lawsuit and covers the time where you're just determining who hold liability, so now they can't delete those documents even if they other wise would be. Both of them are now going to be legally required to retain all the stuff you list in discovery for the duration of at least their involvement in the case. Sure, they could destroy those records anyway, but that sort of thing is regularly used to infer guilt of the respondent with the worst possible inferences when it's destroyed in violation of discovery.
They really should but it will be difficult to fund.
Statutes are frequently written in vague terms with the intent of having the executive branch make a reasonable interpretation, e.g. the rule-making body says "The park shall be kept clean and well maintained," and the executive branch comes up with their interpretation.

Problems can arise when people with wealth and money at stake take issue with the executive branch's interpretation. They can do things like take judges on vacations, get into beneficial financial transactions with them, and do expensive favors for them or their family members. Then, when those people end up with cases before the Supreme Court, because there are absolutely no enforceable ethics rules, the justices conveniently discover that there are principles at stake.
Sorry, I don't understand. Everyone on this service is anonymous as no account creation is needed. Upvotes and comments are not tied to users.
So the fatality rate across the B737 family is 0.24 per million flights, the rate for the A320 family is 0.09 per million flights. That's 3 times the risk of death boarding a B737 vs boarding an A320.

If we apply the same logic than people who wanted to mandate covid vaccines for the population not at risk, reducing a minuscule risk by a factor of 3 to another minuscule risk is hugely important and therefore people shouldn't be allowed to fly on those dangerous B737!
The VM is called snarkVM. SnarkOS is just a client utility to interact with the VM and the nodes.
> Watersheds aren't a local resource - they're a regional resource.

I’d go even further than that. Lots of migratory birds and animals use them.

It’s pretty amazing being around when the mega flocks of birds land.
Yes, I think so. Sorry I misunderstood you.
I understand, and I'm trying to explain how your options don't make sense in the context of the senators' recent actions.

I take offense to your edit. I'm not being a religious zealot saying God has to exist. If you understood anything about the US security clearance system, you would know that everyone has to undergo a rigorous psychological evaluation every 5 years to keep their Top Secret SCI clearance. You can not be unwell and be an intelligence officer at the level of Grusch. The likelihood of him being mentally unfit for that job and lying under oath to congress about these claims is extremely low. Also, If he is intentionally lying, he will go to jail.

All of that plus what the senators have recently done, we have a limited set of options for what could be the case.
> Anyway, the original point was that Apple gives less freedom and it’s fine because they sell a social club, not necessarily the ability to compute.

Yes, that’s the claim but it’s glaring how it’s an emotional position presented as a given but completely unsupported by any evidence and bears a striking resemblance to a competitor’s PR campaign. If this was true, it’d be easy to point to things like ads or marketing material disparaging SMS users – not to mention some effort to extend this outside of the United States where apps like WhatsApp are far more popular.

> If they aren't selling a social club, they are doing a poor job at letting people compute.

Here’s the thing: most people don’t buy phones (or computers) to “compute”. If you look at an Apple ad, it’s full of people doing things like creating photos or videos, sharing moments with their friends, traveling, etc. – that’s what they’re selling and the repeat purchase rate suggests most people feel like they are getting what they were promised.

I get it may help you feel more confident about your Android preferences to concoct these weird theories about iOS buyers being brainwashed or part of some weird social club but you might want to consider why you need to justify your preference this way. Most iOS users are buying something which they find useful and you’d be far more successful in your advocacy if you focused on what tangible benefits normal people are missing out on. What you’re doing sounds insecure, not persuasive.
LookingGlass is an alternative.
Mastodon has a strong hipster-like community which views Mastodon cool only if not everyone can have it. Thus they want to keep it niche and not mainstream.

But the future is decentralized protocols for social and this future will happen regardless.

I like Mastodon but the exclusive hipster mentality isn’t great.
First off, you seem to be making claims about the way EDF is run rather than the core discussion we were having, which was about production cost for nuclear power. I'm assuming, since you change topic, that my explanation about cheap legacy nuclear not being related to shady tax funding was clear.

That being said, a few notes on your other points:

> It's relevant because they are making less than what they spend.

It's not necessarily a big issue. A large expense item for 2022 was the work necessary to extend plants' life by 10 years. That is the reason for about 60% of the plants being down last summer. Sure, the timing was unfortunate, but the production loss was offset ahead of time, and the return on that investment should be extremely profitable.

> ARENH exists for a decade now, and whether it's the right thing or not is for the sake of this discussion entirely irrelevant

My link wasn't about the mechanism itself but about its surprise extension. There is a difference between knowing ahead of time that you need to provision 100tWh for your competitors, and learning overnight - at the same time as any market participant - that you need to provide an extra 20 tWh, on short notice, while market prices are already over the roof, while your own production is already sold. The cost to EDF of this one political decision was about €8bn [1].

EDF wasn't doing great before that, but it had a positive EBITDA, which should tell you that its core business is profitable.

> How much will it cost to replace 50+ reactors?

It is no big secret that EDF is under-capitalized. That's expected when your main shareholder raids your coffers [2] and uses you to buy and recapitalize its other companies [3]. As I said previously, the issue here is government decisions, not EDF's electricity pricing.

> you can even find some larger ones at 50kWh per year

That's low, 50kWh per year means the fridge draws 6 watts on average, that's less than a LED. I guess nothing prevents it theoretically, but I suspect that was calculated for a perpetually shut fridge. The numbers I find are around 100-200 kWh per year depending on the rating, more for one with a freezer.

Anyhow, that's interesting numbers. I guess I'll have to recheck my appliances (even though, since I heat on electricity, that's not my main draw).

[1]: https://www.edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journ...
[2]: https://www.bnains.org/archives/action.php?codeISIN=FR001024...
[3]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-areva-idUSKBN1EG2AS
The author was capable of using the word "embrace", but wasn't clueful enough to meaningfully use the phrase "embrace and extend". So I can't accept his essay as "getting it".

A better article would be:
"How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)":
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...
...where the historical example of what happened to XMPP - where Google embraced and extended it - was far more relevant.
I think a lot of people on HN would disagree with your assessment on email. Every other article is how "my startup sent an ad to everyone on HN and now nobody at the company can email Gmail users anymore". That's kind of an extension of RFC8222 that Google made themselves. It's good for end users, but it does make a lot of people mad. Back when there wasn't one central email provider, you could still reach users that had less aggressive spam filtering settings. If you made Hotmail mad, you could still reach Yahoo! With one provider, you screw up once, and you're dead. (As someone who once ran my own mail server on a consumer DSL line, I don't miss this world at all. For incoming mail, I eventually deployed the nuclear option of greylisting and man that broke a lot of stuff. For outgoing mail, all I ever did was send an email, watch it bounce, and then plead my case to the various denylist providers. It mostly all worked though!)

"You use Firefox? Oh. It worked in Chrome." is another similar thing; people have to emit Chrome's version of HTML or users won't be able to use their website. And then fixing your site for Firefox's quirks ends up being pushed down the priority list to zero. The Free browser ends up losing out to the Corporate one, even though they both ostensibly support the same HTML standards. That makes a lot of people feel icky.

It's reasonable to think that any sort of federated system that gets popular will have rules, restrictions, and quirks put in place that the original creators didn't really think about or care about. I think that's where the comment is coming from, but I also think it's inevitable either way. Right now, people say "Let's use ActivityPub because it's cool", but if it becomes too cool, then it will be "Let's use ActivityPub so that we can reach the 3 billion Facebook users". And then you'll only test your code against Facebook, and will be sad when they block you for spamming. Just like email, just like browsers. It's the way of the Universe.

But, that means the only alternative is "let's never become too cool" and that doesn't really work either. You can die in obscurity, or you can become beholden to a behemoth. I guess it's possible that decentralization eats the world and Facebook fades into irrelevance. It's already doing that anyway, as people discover "cooler" centralized platforms. To appeal to the masses, there will always have to be something that appeals to them and "I can self host it!" or "My provider can't be subpoenaed by the FBI" are probably not the sort of features that are making ordinary people beat a path to your door.
Hey, if you're not willing to put in the effort of becoming the National Median Renter, then why would you expect the same outcome? :P

From the deeper-source:

> In contrast, rents in populous northeastern metros such as New York, NY (6.8%), Pittsburgh, PA (3.8%), and Boston, MA (3.3%) continued to experience faster growth.

[0] https://www.realtor.com/research/may-2023-rent/
My first reaction on seeing the fokker stats was 'well, yeah, it's heavily used in the Alps and Himalayas, of course it's had a lot of incidents'

Ironically, the 727s numbers are probably skewed in the opposite way to the 747 - there were loads of passenger incidents with the 727, but it's been somewhat of a workhorse for freight in the developing world over the last 40 years.
If a protocol can be "effectively owned" that quickly by an outside corporation, it's not a very good protocol especially if one of its core tenets is decentralizing access to social content.
> "I'd prefer to use Facebook if they supported ActivityPub"

This seems a very unlikely thing. The relatively few people on Earth who might say that seem unlikely to say it.
I'm trying to understand if the people saying "congress can just fix this" every time the supreme court makes a ruling,

a) Don't agree that congress is blocked and is never going to pass anything.

b) Care more about the legalities than the issues themselves, and so don't really care about whether there is a plausible way through congress.

c) Are making a cry for help for everyone to come together to fix congress. Hoping that if things get bad enough, people will finally wake up and get congress working again.

d) Trust that the supreme court will vote in their favour, and are just concern trolling / trying to distract their political opponents by referring to congress.

Let me know if I missed any other options.
It's true, but what's the political solution to this short of ignoring what your demos wants? Where do you draw the line as far as overriding what the votes are telling you? It's one thing when there's an autocratic central planner thinking 100 years into the future (with all of the dangers or a wise benevolent dictator), and another when society moves one electoral cycle at a time.
How do you test drive a car for an online dealer? Do they drive to your home and let you take it for a spin?
The hypothetical aliens don't need to be mortal biological creatures. An advanced probe "crewed" by artificial intelligence could take thousands of years to send copies of itself from one star to the next using propulsion concepts from the 1960s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...

They could have have arrived in the solar system 100 million years ago, just running maintenance routines and sending observations back home ever since. They don't need to know anything about human culture to stay largely unobserved, any more than human bird watchers need to know bird culture.

I don't think that this is particularly likely but known physics permits alien visitors if you assume that they are stealthy (not acquisitive) and very patient.
> alias tab='open . -a iterm'

But if you just open a new tab, you'll be in the same $CWD in the new tab? Am I missing some trick here?
Wasn't Ford, unlike GM and Chrysler, NOT a recipient of bailout "too big to fail" federal money?
The architecture has diverged significantly from the Appsmith project (Apache 2.0 licensed) since forking the frontend canvas and evaluation code more than 2 years ago. Most of Superblocks is built from the ground up to optimize for performance, scalability and extensibility.

In terms of ChatGPT, Superblocks's goal is to develop a simple visual interface for creators to integrate AI into their workflow to build applications quickly. The platform makes it easy to verify, deploy, and monitor your changes, which would be difficult to do with just a chat interface.
You are correct. Maybe I'm missing the point, but everything you mentioned is still applicable even when the data is encrypted.
At first glance I read that as Wayward Homes. Heck of a start for a sales pitch.....
I never understood why "The main reason we can not use system clocks is that system clocks across servers are not guaranteed to be synchronized." is considered True even with working NTP synchronization?
David Hume could out-consume, so he ought to know.

Seriously, though, yes--I often think that our political arguments would be less divisive if we kept that is/ought distinction in mind.