skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(It’s not a great article - it is surely quite motivated in a certain direction - but I do not think it should be flagged. Not sure if it’s possible to register a vote against flagging.)

“Energy-source politics” often reminds me of the Condorcet voters paradox. That paradox is where Voter 1 prefers A>B>C, Voter 2 prefers B>C>A, and Voter 3 prefers C>A>B. If A were to be declared the winner, one can point out two voters have “C>A” in their preference and only one voter has “A>C”, so C should be elected - but two voters have “B>C” and only one has “C>B”, so B should be elected - but two voters have “A>B” and only one has “B>A”, so A should be elected…

It’s important to note this paradox is stronger than just “it’s a tie”. The meat of the paradox is that for any chosen winner, the majority actively prefers a different winner.

The three candidates are fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear. Alice prefers fossil fuels > renewables > nuclear (she wants airconditioning at night and watched Chernobyl recently). Bob prefers renewables > nuclear > fossil fuels (he has a live feed of IPCC predictions and updates). Chuck prefers nuclear > fossil fuels > renewables (he is a techno-optimist who runs a Bitcoin mining farm 24/7).

In this situation, if Georgia the governor announces a billion dollar subsidy for fossil fuels, Bob and Chuck (a majority of her constituents) will write her complaint letters suggesting nuclear instead; if she puts that billion towards renewables, Alice and Chuck (again, a majority) oppose her and demand she support fossil fuels instead; if she allocates it to nuclear, Alice and Bob (a majority) vote her out of office in favor of her opponent who will subsidize renewables.

Into this dynamic you put Larry the lobbyist (a stand-in for Robert Bryce, the author of the article). Larry’s motivation is simple: he gets paid for every dollar of government funding he directs to the industry he is employed to lobby for. If he is employed by fossil fuel companies, his best tactic is simply to criticize renewables (as this will activate a majority support for fossil fuels).
Thats not it. If it were, yubikey would be everywhere. Whats more intuitive than inserting a key to unlock your account?
It is against the rules to talk about voting, but anyway.

It is almost a meme here, that, on any mention on C and C++, there will be people contributing comments: 'but Rust ..'.
Up to 4 Years of Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) for RHEL 7
55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)
I really don't know anything about Dr. Who.

All I know is allegedly, according to Google today, in this particular timeline, the Tardis is not supposed to be red.

And I remember this, from the VHS era:
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3913-daleks
Why is this better than just signing it with any private key and sharing the public key? Why do you need to involve a blockchain and I assume transaction fees as well?
Bellard's LibNC library uses flattening structures to lay out tensors.

https://bellard.org/libnc/libnc.html
> Companies care about being profitable, not about being cheap.

You can make huge profits on small margins if your market is huge. This profit vs cheap isn't an adequate explanation of corporate entry to the market (whatever it actually is).
I’ll add one more anecdote while I’m at it.

At a previous job I was aware of a potential vulnerability, voiced it rather loudly, but had a hard time getting the attention it deserved until I recognized it happened to coincide with a really high profile business-critical bug. I only recognized it because some jerks had previously fucked with much less important stuff under my purview, and I wanted very much to understand how they did it, and learned quite a bit by wanting to know.

I used those developed instincts to unfuck what would have otherwise resulted in at least contract terminations, if not lawsuits. And the recognition allowed me to correct almost every compromised datum, which also guarded every contractee from challenges to their license status and ultimately whether they could be subject to wholly different jurisdictional context.

I’m not going to disclose the nature of the vulnerability but the way the bug presented was time deltas based on time zone configuration. Hardly a novel problem, but nearly put a whole industry into peril and or conflict. Definitely was worth the attention.

And when communicating the problem suffered, I did what any self respecting hacker would do: I exploited the damn thing myself and showed how it was done.
> Europeans live longer than Europeans at all income levels.

That isn't what I am claiming though. Specifically, that higher income inequality leads to poorer outcomes on average, not that all income levels would somehow have similar outcomes. In this case, it is the income inequality in the states (with a lack of a social safety net to redistribute much income as in Europe) that causes the worse outcomes, not the income level itself. In Europe, a social safety net provides you with similar healthcare at lower income levels anyways, which isn't true in the US (perhaps we should rename income inequality into wellness inequality?).
Would you mind sharing, what level of programming & mathematical background do I need? I know basic python (read python for data analysis) & currently half way through elements of statistical learning. What else do I need to learn?
> Younger people on here may not realize what a mindbending experience it was to see a GUI for the first time.

Indeed. When the Mac came out, my friend and I went to a local computer store to look at one.

My friend sat there for several minutes, mostly just playing with the menu bar, watching the menus come and go, flickering as he went from one to another with the mouse. He just sat there slack jawed going “Wow!”.

Folks have to appreciate the simple marvel of having that beautiful, crisp display with square pixels. This was not routine.

It was amazing.

We both bought one with the student discount. $1480 for a 128k Mac. Over $4300 inflation adjusted today. At the time a box of floppies were $40. Man did we blow vast amounts of money on computer hardware back then.

And, yes, a 128k, single floppy Mac was borderline useless. We got back alley RAM upgrades and external floppy drives. There went another $800.

But with that we could develop in C on the machine.
don't you just love it when people with "doctoral" degrees meme? this is a really bad paraphrasal of the apocryphal story about hilbert:

"There is a much quoted story about David Hilbert, who one day noticed that a certain student had stopped attending class. When told that the student had decided to drop mathematics to become a poet, Hilbert replied, “Good — he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.”

— Robert Osserman (US mathematician, 1926 – 2011)"
imagine betting against one of the smartest and one of the richest man in the world

yes they make mistakes, but it has been a bloodbath out there for $TSLA shorters in the past 5 years
I think Genius.com stated their mission to annotate the web right when they changed their trademark from Rap Genius. Marc Andressen also weighed in on this as investor, saying that he always wanted an annotation system for the world-wide web.

I haven't seen or heard much about the development or adoption of their web annotation concept since that announcement...
This has nothing to do with how much ETH one has. Metamask is a PKI keystone, you’re just signing something using your public key.
People posting Twitter links to HN ought to also provide the actual content now... Especially in this case, where the entire topic is how people can't read Twitter as easily anymore!
The final proposal didn't involve beaches: it would spread the silt across the floor of the Java Sea. The calculation I kept waiting for, but never saw, was how many square miles of ocean floor this would take up, and what the damage would be to sea life (plus fishing, etc, industries) in the region.

(That's a valid point, however, about the expected hazards to the people running the milling machines. Maybe there are good ways to mitigate that? Maybe wet milling minimizes the problem? The author doesn't say.)

Silt can be incredibly destructive. Before hydraulic (gold) mining in the Sierras, the Sacramento river was navigable all the way to.... um, Sacramento, and the waters of San Francisco Bay were crystal clear, and carpeted with oysters. Silt washed down 150-ish years ago is still gunking up the entire ecosystem.

This is an intriguing idea, and global warming is a planetary emergency - so some degree of localized destruction may be a reasonable trade-off - but the author gets poor marks from me for leaving obvious negative externalities out of the article.
There's also the question of how much dental "care" is really that. I will just throw some random stuff out there.

* It used to be more popular to remove wisdom teeth. Opinions seem to have changed on this over time, I've never had mine removed, in my 40s now and so far so good.

* I had a small crack in one of my molars and saw a dentist who said a crown would be necessary. I was skeptical and got a second opinion. The second dentist immediately said "It's small and I don't think you need a crown for this" and did a filling instead. Eight years later, so far so good!

* Even FLOSSING was removed from the U.S. Department of Health's recommendations several years ago because there is a lack of evidence that it's effective! (I still floss around a couple of teeth every day in places where food likes to get stuck.)

To do a crown the dentist has to grind down your tooth into a stub and irrevocably destroys the enamel in the process. To me an unnecessary crown sounds like borderline malpractice. I wonder how many other unnecessary procedures dentists are doing for the $$$$.
You write tests for your code as it exists to make sure it functions. You cannot write tests for every conceivable change that someone else might make in the future that either mis-uses your code or adds new code inbetween that didn't previously exist. You need the people who add that new code to write new tests. Something that it seems the remaining engineers at Twitter do not have time for.
It’s not. In no way is it better than the alternative, unless the metric is “pointless and harmful introduction of blockchain things”.
Okay. If you shorted it 24 months ago you are still ahead.
According to the bible (https://www.agner.org/optimize/) it's faster to use a loop with length than walking though a pointer so not having a length will make it slower to walk the string whole also making things like simd optimizations harder for the compiler to do.
True, and yet utterly irrelevant. There are tons of houses not available for sale - who cares? What matters is people have a place to live.

Not to mention we're talking about a grand total of 275 houses here.
If shoplifting isn't increasing, what's the justification for the locked cases?

I find locked cases to be extremely annoying. What would have been quick purchase turns into me giving up after not being able to track down an employee to unlock the case.

Yet another way to make in-person shopping less appealing than ordering online. But now there are all kinds of of dodgy online sellers selling the things that used to be on the shelf, along with complaints from buyers who didn't get the thing they ordered.
Considering my reading of the title was Labrador? Like the dog? Since when are dogs in tech?

…

I’m going to guess not particularly great.
Don't know if it's still a good approach but a few years ago I used Preact with htm without any build tools for a project. No compilers, bundling or package managers, on my part. (Preact and htm were, of course, pre-compiled and bundled so that might be a turn-off with this approach.) The Preact devs provided CDN links to add to your app but I decided to just download the two JS files and host them with the app's files. My only gripe back then was that the bundle for the Preact hooks library somehow had a CDN location hard-coded so I had to decide between using the CDN but having hooks or using class-based components but having it all local.
I don't think TSLA will go to the moon soon, the corporate strategy seems to be to attack competitors on margin and go for market share.
Absolutely get a dot com.

Notice that I said to get a dot com.

Several years ago, I had the thought that I might want to start a business someday. I decided to get a dot com right then and hold it.

I found the same situation you did: I was struggling to find any good ones still available.

So I decided to make my own. I went to a random word generator (I think it may have been a gamer username generator, but anything that will generate non-existent words), set it to five letters or less (a short name is better), and started clicking.

It took a while because I would stop and evaluate words that looked good.

Finally, I found one that I loved. I think my reasons for loving it are justifications, but I really did like it.

It was unique in that its first two letters were the last two letters of the alphabet.

It was memorable because I could connect its pronunciation with the awesome evil character Yzma [1].

It rolled off the tongue in a way I didn't expect.

And the dot com was available!

I registered the domain and a few ancillary ones.

And that is how my new business is named Yzena. [2]

Worth it.

The lesson here is this: if the system has problems, think outside the box; get out of the box of existing words and make your own. It works for plenty of companies.

My family has water bottles made by a company called Owala. Google was not a word until it was. Yahoo was a catchphrase of an Italian plumber. And what is up with the name nVidia?

So make it up, and then make it your own. Get the dot com.

[1]: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Yzma

[2]: https://yzena.com/
I've been thinking about buying one of these, they show up on eBay as CPU+mobo+RAM combos as used cloud provider machines. Each CPU is 64C/128T, instead of the 15C exposed in the post's cloud VM. The rackmount cloud machines are dual CPU, for 128C/256T in 2u.

I'd prefer it in a tower case, but cooling (of not only the dual CPUs, but also the VRMs) is tricky.

Example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/195740808551 (a different 128C Epyc, for less than half the current cost of used same-gen Threadripper PRO with half the cores and no RAM..)
Enshittification has three stages:

1. Provide great value to the user while you are weak. Provide them a great deal and a disproportionate amount of the surplus value of the exchange.

2. Provide great value to your corporate partners once you become stronger than your consumers can organise against. Provide your corporate partners a huge amount of the surplus value of the exchange.

3. Take all surplus value for yourself once you're stronger than your corporate partners.

Cloud gaming is at stage 1.

I have seen this too many times at this point of my life to ever trust a good deal like this again.

Investing in things you own is an investment in yourself.

Subscriptions are signing up to be a tenant.
We’ve known for a while now that it was going to happen, right? And that all those countries that are committed to phasing out ICE cars by 2035 are being way too conservative. Isn’t it estimated that within a year or two, you’re going to have to pay a premium just to purchase an ICE car? And that premium is just going to keep growing as battery costs continue to shrink.
No way. BM is like the last vestige of physics as the study of nature in the way ancient Greeks/Aristotle (grandad of much of science, father of biology and all) understood it. To go a-interpretational about physics is a two-millennia long paradigm shift. To me that’s why BM is so interesting. Non-local Hidden variables keep that tradition alive in a recognizable way.

The Greeks set us up for 2500 years of scientific progress in this vein. If probability becomes subjective (MWI) or we detach science from nature by going interpretation-less we have no concise foundation to propel science for years and years.

I’m not saying this is a reason to believe BM, but it’s by far the most conservative and in line with how we made progress before.

QM really really did a number on most physicists. Like Nima-Arkani Hamed says, radical conservatism is the best approach in physics. Anything but BM is just radical when we have the history of science we do.

I don’t think BM is necessarily right like I said, but its role is fascinating in this respect.

Past ways can be over encumbering, as a mitigating factor to BM. But I think physics has yet to require complete paradigm shift that I see in other/non interpretations.
It's going to launch and then be silently killed. The Cybertruck is late to the party, where Ford is delivering actual products normal people can want.

Worse, the Cybertruck is looking less and less useful: the payload capacity is ? The tray size is ? Basically what is a Cybertruck for? Who is buying it compared to another vehicle at this point?

It's a pile of features which no one needs, and very quiet about the ones people do. No one needs "shatter proof windows" in a car. No one needs it to be a boat. What I need is it to carry heavy loads and seat 5 people. Can it do that? Can it do that better then something else?
I can see where you've gone wrong, let me briefly go though your points.

> fs implies we are reading files, how do you use a browser API to read files in the local filesystem? You cannot, you'd use Deno.readTextFile, which is not browser-compatible, so in Deno you have to either make it for Deno or for the browser, not both. The fields main and browser allow you to make a single package compatible with both NodeJS and front-end JS, something not possible with Deno.

Both Deno and browsers have a bunch of APIs facilitating File/FileSystem/Stream, etc...

- In Deno, you can use things like Deno.readTextFile which is written on top of those APIs to read/write files on the server's file system which the server will do if it asks for permission and is granted by the developer.

- In browser, you can still use those APIs to read/write files on a private sandboxed file system, and the client can request permission to read/write between the private sandboxed file system and the client's real file system through things like the file picker API's, drag and drop APIs, etc...

- The only real difference between the two is that the developer can explicitly grant the server access to files/folders up-front before the server asks for permission in the first place.

> Seems like Deno just doesn't support CommonJS, e.g. the vast majority of npm modules, which is a big con and not an advantage: "Current Node.js supports both CommonJS and ES Modules, while Deno only supports ES Modules"

Deno *Does* support CommonJS (see the --compat flag). But you probably want to use ESM over CommonJS anyway.

> [...] Deno will make the pain worse because virtually no one is writing libraries that only supports Deno, so now you'd have all the above issues + Deno-specific ones.

If you write your library to the JS standards, then you have code that supports both browsers and Deno (and possibly Node depending on if Node supports those particular standards and you're web standard code isn't being used by your non-web standard code).
I recently tried to import and old backup which contained a key I thought was obsolete. But didn't have any luck. My up to date authenticator couldn't read the 2 years old export.

I've very hastily made sure that all my backup keys are up to date afterwards...
There's a "surprising twist" on analysis.

The question above is typically posed as (say) a hole of 2 units in length.

That's all you get, the lip to lip length of the hole. Not the radius of the sphere, not the diameter of the hole - just the hole length.

Nothing else (save the implication that it's solvable).

There's a lengthy formula laden proof approach, and there's an Aha!! lighbulb moment solution.
What's the point of some random person "endorsing" an edit?

MediaWiki has a mechanism called Pending Changes, where edits are held from public view until an officially-designated reviewer editor signs off on the edits. This is the sort of endorsement already built-in and in active use on Wikipedia, and it leverages the reputation of a trusted user to "endorse" possibly disruptive edits.

I'm not sure how a wholly external PKI could be any help in "endorsing" edits. A user's ETH wallet has no relation to their reputation or trustworthiness on WMF sites.

Wikipedians also use something called a "Committed Identity" which is a cryptographic proof of their identity, which can be used to recover an account if credentials don't work. Since it's encrypted, it doesn't amount to revealing your real-life identity, it merely provides a mechanism for them to verify it with your cooperation.
You put into words a lot of the feeling I have about Rust.
I'm interested to see an integration of wikis and web-of-trust. This looks to be a step in the right direction.
Uh why? Serial and parallel null modems ("LapLink cables") were commonplace. Data rates were 11.52kB/s over serial and 2-2.5 MB/s over parallel.

Note that Wikipedia attempts to revise history by claiming "LapLink cable" is only a parallel null modem cable when it meant any null modem cable.
they're making them
> Buddhism provides a nirvana/afterlife narrative to justify why people should accept/embrace suffering in the current life so it serves the same purpose as a god.

And now you are making a gross mischaracterisation of nirvana. It is nothing like Heaven (Buddhism has heavens and hells too, or higher and lower planes of existence). And no, nirvana does not 'serve the same purpose as a god'.
Probably because this is a nonsense statement? Every automaker that got a bailout from 2009 has repaid it with interest.

What are you talking about?
I've given up on science being able to do anything other than for mice or create a new subscription service for lifelong meds. I suppose actual cures aren't profitable. I am tired of being cynical but that's the cycle we have all been on.
The 'paging' is implemented in software, not in hardware. This is how databases not using mmap already work, so mmus are already pure overhead for them.
shhhh just go with it
The post they were responding to said “not relying on another country” so pointing out Tesla’s reliance on China is a contrary argument. In fact the supply chain for EVs is even more complex than that. China has a huge hyper-financed chokehold on many processing steps but the raw materials come from across the globe. On the other hand, ICE vehicles have a relatively simple supply chain so it’s a big weakness that EVs currently have and well worth pointing out.
I second @golergka about callbacks.

The BIG pain point for me, though, looking at my 10-year-old JS, is that it's all made of "classes" built up by modifying SomeFunction.prototype, which then get wrapped in a self-invoking anonymous function and returned as an object, just so you can call `new SomeFunction()` ... `SomeFunction.actualFunction()` as if SomeFunction were a class. That and also the lack of arrow notation; modifying Function.prototype itself to use .apply() to bind events to scope (or else just an endless abyss of .bind(this) in event callbacks)...
It's interesting that they both ended in 'poppycock.'

Perhaps that is a common nonsense word that often shows up at the end of describing something nonsensical.